Since the 1970s both Barbados Labour Party (BLP) and Democratic Labour Party (DLP) have been promising Barbadians that integrity legislation. Fifty years later Barbadians fully appreciate the adage a promise is comfort for a fool.
Can the BU intelligentsia explain to this blogmaster why the Integrity in Public Life Bill 2020 failed to pass the Upper House today?
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It is you that’s blaming Owen, not Enuff. He quote your post of August 7, 2020 at 8:04 AM.
So who gives a shit what fowl Enuff brought, i posted it already and never asked Blogmaster to remove it, it’s still sitting there, so what’s the fowl slave’s point…
just to bring some reality into alyuh delusional lives, ya see what the years of corruption, incompetence and neglect caused in Lebanon, because of wicked uncaring leaders….yall are not far behind, a ton of them are now under house arrest.
that is what negligence, incompetence and corruption breeds..
last time i checked, i never once presented myself to any electorate and told them barrels of lies to be elected.
As a matter of fact, ah nearly forgot, someone sent me a whatsapp video circulating since about 4 am this morning, starring Mia….and outlining nothing but lies….yall should check it out…ya may have to wade through quite a few, i don’t even bother to open most of them anymore.
@Hal,
of course you cant legislate honesty and integrity but that is hardly the point, is it? the point is there must be legislation that capture the behaviours of those who dont live up to such lofty standards.
NO
Thanks. i follow anything that will make me some greenbacks.
Puts i stary away from. I tried them out to learn. I sell a call instead of buying a put – u get the same results (profit on the down) but is but less risk if you know what you are doing .
WURA
I was demonstrating how you vacillate in less than a few hours.
@ Greene
At the FT people work in a multi-trillion pound industry. However, reporters must register if they have any shares in companies they write about; if they are invited out to lunch, or even the pub by any of their contacts; and, an improper offers. The system works.
If someone wants to be dishonest no laws, registers, spying, nothing will stop them.
And i proved that a fowl slave is full of shit…i clearly explained what happened, maybe instead of trying to shift any blame to a dead man ya can vacillate and tell me who was deputy PM under Owen when the affair with Straughn and the FBI investigation happened..
@August 7, 2020 6:31 AM “Independent senators worry about their finances being known.”
Our political class so rich then that they worry about people seeing their finances? Stupssseee!!!! I was under the distinct impression that some of them don’t have a po to piss in nor a window to throw it thru.
We know that some of them end up in the almshouse if their final illness lasts for more than 6 months.
I heard a Senator worrying about having to declare the $3 or so her toddler has in the credit union. My question to her is why would you object to declaring your minor children’s assets. We know that toddlers don’t work nowhere, so “yes” if they have $3 or $3 million “yes” we the people want to know where it come from:
Granny, godmother, who?
If it has come from a GODFATHER we would be really, really worried.
Sigh! I give up….you carry on.
Cuhdear
Or she could just resign from the Senate.🤣🤣
Ah did not hear that Fowl Enuff, maybe the post got lost, so i will make it easier in case ya forgot who was deputy PM under Owen, so who was Attorney General before Dale Teets put in his all teeth appearance then…before Glendairy Prison mysteriously burnt down…..ah gotta tell ya though, that fire like it ain’t so mysterious anymore yuh.
Should Barbadian parliamentarians have dual nationality? Is this an integrity issue?
@Hal,
that is carrying a joke too far, banna. many Bim politicians have duel and sometimes triple passports i myself have 4 but i only used 1 consistently and sometimes another one depending on where i am travelling. please dont conflate issues.
@Hal Austin August 7, 2020 4:39 PM “Should Barbadian parliamentarians have dual nationality? Is this an integrity issue?”
One of my grandchildren is a citizen of 4 countries by birth or descent. The toddler who may well become Prime Minister [in order to keep him safe, likely long after Hal is dead though, lol!] did not ask for any of the citizenships.
Alas none of us get to chose our parents, nor our grandparents, nor our place of birth
Should this be an integrity issue?
Which citizenship to discard?
The place of birth?
Mummy’s place of birth
Daddy’s place of birth?
The places of birth on any of the 4 grandparents?
Help we here nuh!
P.S. Actually maybe 5 citizenships since one granddad was born in a non English speaking, non Commonwealth country.
In our family, we like marrying out, just like Hal has.
Lol!!!
The 4 grandparents were born in 4 different countries.
@Enuff August 7, 2020 3:23 PM “Cuhdear. Or she could just resign from the Senate.🤣”
Nah.
No resignation required by me.
I just wanta know how much money li’l willie has in the bank.
That’s all.
After all WE pay mummy’s salary. Right?
I suspect dual citizenship may have been the cause of Donville’s fall.
Life in the USA did not turn out as expected.
asset declarations will be known only to the Integrity Commission unless there is a court matter necessitating release of such info
he United States on Thursday issued a Level 3 Travel Advisory for Barbados.
The advisory asked US citizens to reconsider travel to Barbados due to “health and safety measures and COVID-related conditions”.
“Barbados has lifted stay at home orders, and resumed some transportation options, and businesses operations. Visit the Embassy’s COVID-19 page for more information on COVID-19 in Barbados,” the advisory said.
The advisory was posted on the website of the US State Department. Level 4 is the highest advisory.
Theo…Donville had said he had US residency only, not a dual.
Jamaica got the same advisory from US as Barbados….Mariposa
@TheOGazerts August 7, 2020 6:19 PM “I suspect dual citizenship may have been the cause of Donville’s fall.
Life in the USA did not turn out as expected.”
With all due respect, TheOGazerts your statement is complete nonsense.
Donville’s downfall is entirely Donville’s responsibility. It has nothing to do with his citizenship(s). After all he did not commit treason against Barbados for the United States.
Nobody, including nobody in the United States sent him to do what he has been convicted of doing. If he held solely Barbados citizenship he could have done the exact same deeds and been arrested, tried and convicted when he went to the United States on business or holiday or to attend a graduation, wedding or funeral there. Also nobody sent him to the United States. Going to the United States was entirely his own VOLUNTARY action.
@WURA-War-on-U August 7, 2020 6:57 PM “Theo…Donville had said he had US residency only, not a dual.”
Furthermore, now that he has “earned” himself a criminal conviction it is unlikely that he will ever get the “opportunity” to become a U.S> citizen, since the U.S. like most countries typicaly refuse to grant citizenship to convicts.
So once the Americans are finished with him, it is home sweet home for him, since home is the place where when you go, they HAVE to take you in.
But Barbados int a bad place to live, once you have a bit of change, although I know that Tron would like to deport all of us whose navel strings are buried here. Mine under a banana tree in a copse of banana trees on family land.
Three more nurses tested positive for the virus today
Sorry to be the messenger of bad news
Cant help but remember how Mia insulted bajans in her news conference who dare crticized govt policy that allowed the Ghana nurses on barbados soil without proper health procedures done or knowing about their health history
Her insane utterances was as horrible as not doing due diligence on behalf of these nurses before they left Ghana
Words to the effect as saying if they nurses were European nothing would have been said
Now watching the dominoes effect from the testing of these nurses and the results makes for wonder what is she thinking
For some people you have to dot the i’s and cross the t’s.
Perhaps as a citizen/permanent resident, Donville thought he could spend some post-election time in the US. The outcome would have been different if he stayed in Barbados,
Is that a little clearer?
@ Enuff August 7, 2020 7:14 AM
“So do what, let it die with the end of the parliamentary session? No one can accuse the government of not attempting to implement IL. Rev. Rogers stayed after Cummins joined and abstained. Go listen to his contribution.”
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Despite the political game of “Little Bo-peep”, this is one ‘G.O.A.T’ of a Bill which will have to be resurrected in any ‘new’ Parliament.
Don’t forget that the EU, OED and FATF have you guys on the radar.
After the confessions in the Donville affair No proper “IL” legislation and its implementation will mean, automatically, no removal from their blacklisting.
The international financial regulators are quite aware of the clear-cut recommendations contained in the Auditor General’s recent report into the ‘alleged’ financial infelicities at the BWA.
We wait to see if your administration will act as the ‘necessary’ complainant and, armed with the requisite evidence contained in your Queen Bee’s red portmanteau, ‘demand’ that investigations be conducted in the BWA’s financial reservoir contaminated and corrupted by a DLP cesspool of managerial vice.
The question remains on the table. Why vote on the BILL if the amended BILL had to be sent back to the Lower House for validation and knowing parliament will be prorogued which means the legislation dies. What are we missing Leader of Government Business Jerome Walcott?
Dat apology was disgraceful. Cummins had no business apologizing. Very disappointed! Ms Mottley is wrong pun dis one. Dat was ball less and cowardly. Uh cahn support yu pun dis one Mia. Lisa did nuttin wrong. Not one RH wrong. How could she give a “win” to those dastardly traitors Caswell Twitter and de rest uh dem fools. I am so angry right now.
David
Wuh difference it mek? It woulda die anyhow when Parliament get prorogue. De guvment just get a chance to show de country de nature uh dese traitors who din vote fuh de bill.
Why blame Lisa Cummins, did she issue hersel a medical certificate?
@ Miller At 7:24 PM
Is that a red herring you are trying to introduce? Do you not recognize that it is about tax avoidance; not about corruption. No IL will remove the black listing. We need to remove corruption from Public life because it causes an unnecessary high costs of managing public services. As Hal would say cut out the optics. Let us deal with the real issues.
@ Vincent Codrington August 7, 2020 7:38 PM
But Bim already had legislation to deal with corruption in “Public life”. Was it ever enforced?
This anti-corruption baby has been too long in the legislative womb of implementation.
Didn’t the previous administration get full Parliamentary approval for their version of the anti-corruption child?
Didn’t that child- which could neither walk nor talk- die from a diet of starvation called implementation deficit disorder (IDD)?
This is just the current administration’s way of trying to deal with the fallout from the Donvillegate affair.
At least the new ‘onerous’ legislation might keep away a few crooks with intentions of making a career out of politics.
BTW, what would you suggest the current administration do about the Auditor General’s recommendation that legal action be taken against those “public” officials involved in the BWA’s financial infelicities?
@ Silversleeves August 7, 2020 7:29 PM
Poor SS, you are getting your red political knickers in a twist just because a few termites have disturbed the hive.
You took the same bull-headed attitude when the AG had to apologize for the ‘legal’ oversight in the two DCoPs cock-up.
The up-and-coming ‘new’ deputy queen bee has a ‘red’ bright electoral future.
Why follow your ‘black’ counsel and sully her chances?
The miller is making a ‘front-loaded’ apology to you, SS!
“An apology is a good way to have the last word.”
@David August 7, 2020 7:31 PM “Why blame Lisa Cummins, did she issue hersel a medical certificate?”
No.
But did she a Cabinet Minister request one from a civil servant?
In our system are Cabinet Ministers powerful?
I am only a simpleton so I do not know the answers to to these questions.
@David August 7, 2020 7:27 PM “parliament will be prorogued”
My question is “why prorogue Parliament now?”
Why not tomorrow, or next week or next month, or October?
@Vincent Codrington August 7, 2020 7:38 PM. “We need to remove corruption from Public life because it causes an unnecessary high costs of managing public services. As Hal would say cut out the optics. Let us deal with the real issues.”
Thanks Vincent for being clear as day, for getting straight to the point.
We the people HATE paying unnecessarily high taxes, while pols, their families, friends, party members school mates and lodge buddies live high on the hog, spending OUR money as though it is theirs.
It is OUR money.
@Silversleeves August 7, 2020 7:29 PM “Dat apology was disgraceful. Cummins had no business apologizing.”
She may at some time in the future wish to run for political office.
So…
Barbardos is a third class banana republic. In a first-class banana republic, the government would simply have bribed the opposition in the Senate to vote for the bill. Because at present, corruption is virtually unpunished. So government could have openly offered any senator $10,000 as a bonus.
If it had been me and not these amateurs in government, all the senators would have voted for the bill. Whoever has 30:0 votes in parliament and still fails, secretly doesn’t want anti-corruption legislation or is just plain stupid. From my perspective, both alternatives are equally possible.
“In the last Sunday Sun a Judge made this comment: “More recently, Parliament instituted a six-month time frame for judgements to be delivered. The failure to observe the six-month deadline exposes a judge to the possibility of disciplinary action.”
We need not continue to misinform and conflate.”
hope this one don’t return to bite the fowl, with me doing the BITING….we have always known what is supposed to happen…..let’s hope that recent implemented procedure works, or yall will certainly hear about it and so will THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD.
@ Greene
Are you curating passports? I said parliamentarians. You cannot be responsible for passing legislation in one jurisdiction when you are a citizen of another, maybe even a benefiting one. That is basic conflict of interest. On this the US is right as far as the presidency is concerned.
I was always confused as to how a Brit of Guyanese heritage could become prime minister of Barbados, simply on the basis of his grandfather being a panboiler at Buckley.
@Hal,
nonsense Hal. there is nothing in the history of Bim to suggest that those with multiple passports have been disloyal to Bim or more so than those who hold only a Bim passport / citizenship. the USA is full of shiite. this is just another example of that.
@Simple Simon
Hope you are not suggesting that a rookie Minister made the decision all by her lonesome to request a medical certificate from the Acting Chief Medical Officer?
ALL of you are full of shite…the systems of passports are colonial in design, the US, UK etc who contributed to their OWN DESIGNS can do as they like, it’s all THEIR DESIGNS, their systems, yall are yet to design anything for yourselves, ya too busy pimping and gossiping like Robert..to create anything for yourselves..
.again…ya live in SOMEONE ELSE’S SYSTEM, just like your ancestors did post-Africa…and ya STILL don’t have a system of your own…
..ah told yall old brainwashed negros to sit ya asses down, ya may learn something just by reading and comprehending.
@SilversleevesAugust 7, 2020 7:29 PM
Senator Commings is not the brightest. She is a typical child of Barbadian insular education where mediocrity reigns.
Our leader Mia Mottley should fire her.
Pimping and gossiping, nuh?
Wuh, WARU, you is the BIGGEST PIMP and GOSSIP on BU. Yuh know that in every village they does got a malicious woman that like spreading news? If BU was a village, YOU would be the malicious woman. And yuh know malicious people does tell lies? And you ADMIT on BU that you does TELL LIES.
You is the one that always all over social media PIMPING for news and spreading gossip, lies and conspiracy theories on BU. As long as you go on social media and read something that maligning somebody character, you does run to BU with it. You don’t care if it true or not, once it sound juicy, you gine spread it.
Yuh remember when yuh come here gossiping bout how Caswell Franklyn got OFFSHORE BANK ACCOUNTS and he CORRUPT?
I tell you already that I compiling all yuh lies and gine post them on yuh friend the nails woman facebook page to expose yuh. I sorry that Naked Departure done, because I find out what name yuh uses to use on that site and I would of post yuh lies there too.
@ Greene
(I did not mention anything about loyalty or disloyalty. I talked about conflicts of interests. There is a difference.
Lisa apologized because in hindsight she felt she should have not show up to work.
I waiting to see when Franklin going to apologize for his new highlight grabbing temper tantrum and walking off the job.
With a negative test (and even without ) all that was needed was for all to be masked up and “fisical” distancing
“I tell you already that I compiling all yuh lies and gine post them on yuh friend the nails woman facebook page to expose yuh.”
wuh that is the job i created for gossipy little bitch boys on BU…lol..ya only doing what i want you to do and ya putting what your “nails woman” said on the right page, she will deal with you….pure entertainment for me..
Caswell is nowhere near as dumb as you…
@ WARU
Caswell is nowhere near as dumb as you.
No he is not…because he knows what i post…and what i dont….he knows who my targets are and why.
only a dummy like you will claim i said anything derogatory about Caswell, when that mess started you were not around so you have no clue what happened earlier…Bushman was still around then….so there you go being an abject failure AGAIN…
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