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Election Day in St. George North

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Today the electorate of St. George North will vote for a member of parliament to fill the vacancy created by the ‘retirement’ of Gline Clarke. The blogmaster’s assessment is that it will be a straight contest between Floyd Reifer (DLP) and Toni Moore (BLP). Of the so-called third parties Grenville Phillips should retain third option in the number count. We can debate if Barbadians are ready for a third party or is this a case of the quality of the options presented. The blogmaster respectfully suggest the latter.

The result of the election will answer a few questions for political pundits.

  • Has the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) regain its standing as the credible alternative in the eyes of voters?
  • Despite managing the affairs of state in the most challenging period post independence, will the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) be able to convince the SGN electorate that it is the most competent to govern at this time?
  • Will Grenville Phillips increase his penetration of support in the constituency to forge the way for third parties in the future?
  • How large will the protest vote be which has been fomenting in a climate of austerity for the last 3 years?
  • Has the last 90 days of campaigning confirm the urgent need for electoral reform in Barbados?

So far by-election activities has been largely peaceful in keeping with Bajan tradition. Let us continue to make the country proud by delivering an uneventful event. The blogmaster’s vote will be cast for David Walrond, the agriculturist and community practitioner.

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895 responses to “Election Day in St. George North”

  1. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    I saw this video days ago and was too disturbed to post it anywhere..

    takes a lot to disturb me.

  2. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Actually, i saw the child’s face in a body bag from a photo days ago, the way he was mutilated and clearly tortured with his face ripped open on one side and all you see is teeth and bone, he was very badly beaten, sounds familiar right…..memories of Emmitt Till…the dude at Africa Diaspora could not even show the photo in this video, too disturbing..

    keep playing with racists/white supremacists and feeling proud..

  3. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    @ Walter

    Thanks for introducing me to the game of Combermere rugby. First I have heard of it. I once played for a very short period rugby union and was no good at it.
    You said the blogmaster is not the root of my problem, and you are right. No one on BU is my problem. I may comment on certain forms of behaviours, but I sleep comfortably at night.
    I will take your three observations as one: Fir st , Barbados as a failed st ate. It is. Look at any of our key institutions of democracy and tell me which functions as it should.
    The most important of these is the criminal and civil justice systems. Do they function to your satisfaction? Are you happy that some cases get trapped in the civil courts for 20 years or more?
    Are you happy with the criminal justice system, when innocent people can be remanded for ten years or more? Or big businessmen can be arrested on drug smuggling charges then be released without facing a jury? Or a serving police can shoot hie neighbour and years later be still on ‘bail’ and the public is still not informed if he is on full pay, if the guns used was his or a service weapon?
    Those, I offer, are examples of failed states and all form part of our most important institutions. I labelled a nation with such dysfunctional institutions as a failed state. Barbados is a failed state and for that I offer not a single apology.
    As to the Barbados Condition, I am referring to a numb er of social and cultural responses to a given situation, which, to a large extent, are predictable. From sucking your teeth to drifting from discussing issues to being abusive as a form of attack. Like you I live and worked in a society in which this form of behaviour is not the everyday forms of social interaction but, in many instances, are condemned. I call that the Barbados (Bajan) Condition, and again for making that cultural observations I make no apology. Not a single one.
    They run from the very top of Barbadian society, the lawyers and doctors and politicians and businesspeople, to the man on the street, such as Ninja man. Education and professional status are not differentiators.
    As to saying that this dysfunction will end in tears. With respect, it is the weakest of your charges. CoVid is only speeding up what is inevitable unless we have radical changes and so far, after two and a half years, and after ten years of gross incompetence by Stuart, there is no light at the end of the tunnel.
    In May 2018, like most Barbadians I wanted change. I thought no government could be more incompetent than the Stuart government. Then we got Mottley. Have you ever seen worst policy-making than the Mottley government?
    Like you I read and get the various reports in the press of how decent working people cannot feed their children. This is what I mean by ending in tears – it does for those families. Again, I offer not a single apology. If people feel aggrieved, so be it. I am not a social worker or Dr Phil.
    About being born and raised in the Ivy, it is also where my heart is. I love the people and the culture and some of the people I grew up with remain my closest friends.

    @ William

    Thanks for your advice, but as I have said, I am not going to let anonymous cyber thugs throw stones from the sidelines and get away with it, because they disagree with what I say.
    What I will like is a civilised discussion on the issues, exploring our differences. But I realise that the venom is a reactive response to an inability to debate the issues. It reveals their ignorance.
    What I do find more embarrassing are the number of juvenile attacks some people make, such as calling me a Roman Catholic as a form of insult; a polymath; an intellectual demigod; a know it all; a financial adviser who might have been an insurance agent/salesman instead of dealing with the substantive issues – and those are the repeatable ones. That is the Bajan way.
    If the Barbadian Condition leads them to being offensive like autistic children, then i will react to it. It is an old trick, forcing people to back away while they hide behind their masks and obscenities, which they repulsively regard as part of the Bajan conversation. Not for me.
    There is a reason for that hiding: if their neighbours and relatives knew what they got up to they will be too embarrassed. Tell them if they are proud of what they are saying put their real names to their submissions as you do.

  4. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    Hal well said
    Just ignore the BU police some will show up late at the party and will tell u everything that happen at the party
    That too is a bajan condition

  5. Enuff Avatar
    Enuff

    Donna
    That’s the role of the 70% that did not think Moore would win.

  6. Enuff Avatar
    Enuff

    ” This is what I mean by ending in tears”

    Then they try to gaslight you. Dishonest as RH.

  7. David Avatar
    David

    BWU ‘LOSS’
    Franklyn: Workers defecting to my union after by-election result
    By Colville Mounsey Trade union leader Caswell Franklyn is claiming that Wednesday’s St George North by-election victory for Barbados Workers’ Union (BWU) general secretary Toni Moore has resulted in some workers defecting from the BWU and joining his Unity Workers Union.
    According to him, in one fell swoop, 43 BWU members from one West Coast hotel have chosen Franklyn’s union in preference to BWU less than 24 hours after Moore was elected to join the ruling Barbados Labour Party’s parliamentary team.
    However, the BWU has said it is seeing no such loss in membership reflected in its books, pointing out that workers could hold membership in multiple unions should they so desire.
    Franklyn said the development had now put his union in pole position for majority membership at that establishment, a position he attributed to a slide in confidence in the BWU leadership, which he added was now deemed to be hand in glove with the Government. He charged that more of the 110 workers were likely to come on board over the next few days, while inquiries into membership from four other prominent hotels had been very high.
    “Yesterday [Thursday] morning at about 11:30 a.m., I received a WhatsApp message telling me that there are some people at this particular hotel who wanted to join my union because they can no longer trust [the BWU leadership]. I went there to pass out and collect forms, but I never expected that I would have gotten 43 persons signing up one time.
    “Apparently, these persons were collecting forms and filling them out for a little while, but they were just waiting on the elections to see what would have happened. So it is clear that the spin-off effect of the St George North by-election is adverse for the BWU, but for me it has been a bonus,” said Franklyn.
    However, BWU deputy general secretary Dwaine Paul told the Saturday Sun that he had not heard anything from the union’s administration about loss of membership.
    “I don’t know anything about what Franklyn is talking about and I am not aware of anyone from the [hotel in question] sending any withdrawal of membership to us or any such information,” said Paul, who is the BWU’s point man on industrial relations matters within the hotel sector.
    Franklyn, who is a Senator of the Opposition People’s Party for Democracy and Development, disclosed that prior to Moore’s elevation to Parliament, he had only six members from the hotel in question. He said workers there had been complaining about several labour rights infractions, including late payment and racial discrimination.
    “Within hours of her [Toni Moore] winning, people were bailing out of the union and now I have 49 persons in all from that hotel. I had six members before, and I understand that the only reason that I don’t yet have the 51 per cent majority was because some of the people who were supposed to hand in their forms were off yesterday.
    “The workers are complaining that they are being mistreated, they are complaining of racism and that they are not being paid on time. They told me that they
    have brought these issues to the BWU before but got little to no redress. They are concerned that efforts on the part of the BWU leadership to deal with their concerns are going to be even less now,” he said.
    “Last week, a number of them from other hotels were here at my office collecting forms. I have not heard back from them yet, but they have collected forms and they have indicated serious interest. So, it is not a one-off thing,” he said.

    Nation

  8. Enuff Avatar
    Enuff

    “Destitution is widespread amongst those with No Recourse To Public Funds. Housing insecurity and homelessness have grown considerably. The number of emergency food parcels given by the Trussell Trust has mushroomed: from 346,992 in 2012/13 to 1.9 million in 2019/20. Some children are moving onto a subsistence diet as a result of COVID-19 and increasingly difficult decisions are being made between heating and eating.”

    Even before Covid, “the proportion of people living in poverty who are in a working family has hit a record high, according to a report that shows rising levels of employment have failed to translate into higher living standards.”

    Familiarity with “tears”?

  9. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    To say that the Dlp did not expect Moore to Win is political hog wash
    The dlp made a decision with several objectives in mind and goal which were meant to challenge the issues in SGN
    Also a goal in mind that Floyd a homegrown resident would have enough insight on the issues of SGN and have enough standing power in the constituency to put up a good fight
    Both objectives were handle admirably..
    His only failure was that of being unable to fight the machinery of the blp party and SGN people to distance themselves away from the blp party
    Floyd issues were well presented sufficiently so as working against their better interest was presented
    also the national issues which have been talked about both did not matter to SGN
    It was voting for party only
    SGN said openly that there minds were already made ahead of voting
    A clue that now makes sense seeing the results

  10. David Avatar
    David

    The Reifer name was exploited by the BLP. It was confirmed that with Reifer away on cricket duty he did not have a full grasp of all the issues in the constituency. Hopefully those doing the analysis in the DLP camp do a better job than you.

  11. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    The election dun, time to speculate on what Ministry Toni will get, will a new Ministry be invented for her or will pieces of existing ministries be surgically excised to keep her happy? Mia wouldn’t have gone to that trouble and the BLP used up so much capital to just have her warm the back bench. Some Ministers should be looking over their shoulders wondering if they will be keeping company with G W Payne.

    30 love still has a nice ring.

  12. Lorenzo Avatar
    Lorenzo

    Mariposa how you know what the thinking was in the DLP camp? I thought you said you werr not a member of the Dems and have never been in Goerge Street.This tells me as we all know THAT YOU ARE A DAMN LIAR.Mr Reifer good coach that he is is not a politician.Observing him he is a weak debater depending on written scripts.How the hell will he survive in parliament against Ms Mottley and others? That is why they hid him from the debate.This is why he got his ass kicked even in his hometown.Videos, shop crawls and red herrings do not win elections.Those are the facts you can spin it all you like as i know you are extremely hurt by the result deny it all you want but expect more of the same in 2023 once the economy rebo7nds in my view.

  13. Vincent Codrington Avatar
    Vincent Codrington

    Mariposa at 9 :40 AM
    You are correct in stating that the SGN electors had made up their minds far ahead of Polling Day. I think it would be more useful if the DLP and you would analyse what is really happening on the ground in order to put up a better effort in 2023.

  14. Vincent Codrington Avatar
    Vincent Codrington

    Sargeant at 9 :59 AM

    The fishing season is clearly not at an end for you. Where did you get the notion that Toni Moore is seeking a Ministry or has been offered one? The question of heading a union and holding a Ministry was settled in the mid 1950s.

  15. David Avatar
    David

    @Vincent

    Models of operating may require change to ‘fit for purpose’? Are we living in such a time?

  16. Vincent Codrington Avatar
    Vincent Codrington

    @ David BU 10 ;33 AM

    You need to expose your “models of operating” and your “purpose”,before I can determine their fitness. But generally the right model must fit the problem at hand .

  17. David Avatar
    David

    @Vincent

    As one consideration, if we have a social partnership that has been promoted by this government of its relevance why was it necessary to pull Moore into the fold? Was it possible for her to have delivered her nuggets of wisdom from within the existing apparatus? Especially considering the government holds a commanding majority in parliament?

  18. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    “It was confirmed that with Reifer away on cricket duty he did not have a full grasp of all the issues in the constituency”.

    Some phrases sound good, but when put under the microscope,they are like a subway loaf, mostly air separated by a few bits of flour.

    St George is 17 sq miles. Let’s say St George North is 8 sq miles.How long would it take someone to get a grasp of what’s new in a 4×2 area? It’s not like he did not have friends and family living there.

    What ‘developments’ would he miss that others could not inform him of?

    They said the last incumbent did little or nothing, so what exactly is there that is difficult to grasp?

    But then again, this is a man who peddles words like pedigree and ‘high color’. He is more out of touch than Reifer.

    Steupse

  19. David Avatar
    David

    This is a position offered by the DLP why he needed to canvas the constituency instead of spending time preparing for a TV debate.

    Steuspe indeed.

  20. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    @VC

    The question of heading a union and holding a Ministry was settled in the mid 1950s.
    +++++++++++++++
    As a debater I make a poor fisherman and I am one that would fish with a net as opposed to a single line as I would be sure to catch something even if it was unpalatable.

    Was that 50’s reference before or after Janet?

  21. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    The most the dlp can do is to keep chipping away at govt policies that are hurting the people also Mia leadership which hinges on shades of dictatorship
    Floyd talking about home grown issues which has affected the people of SGN was an execution which attached itself to national issue and which people outside of that parish connected to
    The party politics of SGN can become unhinged if Refier continues to advocate the problems of SGN on a national level bringing home a message. which connects to people and country

  22. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Tief not, want not…the one billion dollars written off in STOLEN VAT…could have built a new hospital, refurbished the current one AND build a brand new stadium…..the 500K taxes written off for family and friends COULD HAVE HELPED BLACK PEOPLE…the billions missing from the treasury….COULD HAVE HELPED THE PEOPLE NOW……the hundreds of millions missing from the pension fund…COULD HAVE DONE SAME…no one wants to hear any further lies and crocodile tears…tief not, want not…

    QEH is in a deplorable state, i was ashamed to show someone the exterior….the slimy ministers of health…ALL OF THEM sold out that place to the highest bidder, to get 3% shares in private hospitals and clinics and to set up their friends with private hospitals at taxpayer’s expense….SELL OUTS….

    “Not enough money to build a new hospital – by Barbados Today Traffic November 13, 2020
    by Randy Bennett

    While it would be ideal, there simply is not enough money available to build a new hospital.

    That means that the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) will have to do for now.

    The position was made clear by the hospital’s Executive Chairman Juliette Bynoe-Sutherland and its Director of Medical Services Dr Clyde Cave Thursday evening, during the QEH’s 6th Annual Public Accountability meeting”

  23. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Then we would not have to listen to a bunch of racists talking about they are giving 1.5 million measly dollars to help the “needy” so they can continue pretending to be superior to black people on the island….and practing their common class nastiness.

  24. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Yall ain’t got no shame…..none of you.

    “In his recent Economic Letter for the month of November, former Governor of the Central Bank Dr Delisle Worrell suggested that the QEH lacked the electronic infrastructure required by a modern hospital and called for it to be replaced.

    But in response to a question regarding the need for another hospital on the island, Dr Cave said in a “perfect world” the construction of another health care facility to ease the QEH’s burden would be ideal.

    However, he said, it was just not practical at this time.”

  25. Vincent Codrington Avatar
    Vincent Codrington

    @ David BU at10 :51 AM

    Your intervention cited above has no relevance to the issue of political representation. That is a non issue that was already ventilated here and other blogs. In a Democracy members are free to offer themselves for political offices and Political Parties are free to select them as candidates and vice versa. Clearly Toni Moore has the gift of articulating issues and an analytical mind that could enhanced the level of debates in the HoA.

  26. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Then the dumb fowls always have to ask why i continually tell them about their wicked leaders/jailers on a daily basis…it’s because SOMETHING HAS TO GIVE AND CHANGE…not even Mia could be that foolish to believe that any of what has gone on for over 50 years, particularly the last 30 years, is anywhere near sustainable without radical reformation.

    this retrograde idea coming from stupid governments….that as long as the minority thieves and racists are happy living off black people’s backs…then things can stay as is because politicians can pad their bank accounts and that’s all that matters to them, since there is nothing black people can do to them to usher in the requisite changes without a backlash from shite ministers…that mental stupidity gotta end.

    or ya can keep it and see a new age backlash…your circus, your monkeys.

  27. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Yall are really impressed by a bunch of shite….she, don’t know what she is, new senator, new minister, whatever, wasn’t paying much attention, could not convince me of anything…steupppss..not one of them could, ya will have to be a really weak mind to be so easily convinced by crooked politicians who have spent decades destroying black people and their children’s lives, future, wellbeing, mental health etc…including the island’s infrastructure….

    there are always complaints about discrimination and racism in the hotel industry, and in the stores, restaurants too, for decades and not one of those jokers in the worker’s union could ever do anything to end it, so what’s there to be impressed about….

    and all of it would’ve continued for many more decades UNEXPOSED, and UNADDRESSED if the racists at sandy lane had not outdone themselves with Tinie Tempah..

  28. David Avatar
    David

    @Vincent

    We have rights under law then there is the morality attached to such rights political or other wise. We can respectfully disagree.

  29. David Avatar
    David

    By all means continue to chip away – in the reactive mode. Continue to be part of the problem. A new way of doing things; leadership for a new tomorrow will require much more.

  30. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    @VC
    Clearly Toni Moore has the gift of articulating issues and an analytical mind that could enhanced the level of debates in the HoA.
    ++++++++++++++++
    Wuhloss! Saturday morning comedy! Toni was recruited to raise the level of debate in the H of A. The by election debate was only a dry run? The folks elected to the H of A were either tongue tied or have been eating soap all along? Couldn’t Mia have enrolled her people in a local Toastmasters group?

    Riddle me this who is Toni going to debate against?

  31. David Avatar
    David

    The PM stated publicly she has some heavy lifting that needs to be done and she sees Moore as a key resource to achieve the objective.

  32. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    don’t know if it will show up, but someone posted the gruesome photo of the murdered child to another site, he was last seen in the car of a Mzungu white trash and her son, whom he apparently knew..

    https://www.blaqsbi.com/social/file/file/view/guid/f4092c93-ee61-45b3-a271-4caad2a52948/tstamp/1605358065/suffix/pi_712x712.jpg

  33. Walter Blackman Avatar
    Walter Blackman

    Walter Blackman
    November 13, 2020 2:25 PM

    “You have accused the blogmaster of refusing to curb the crudeness on BU because of “utterly selfish political reasons”. I must admit that you have lost me there. Hopefully, you can provide an example or two to support that allegation, and raise my level of understanding.”

    William Skinner
    November 13, 2020 10:22 PM

    “@ Walter
    I have been called on numerous occasions a RH and JA by the Blogmaster because I disagreed with him.”

    William,
    Thanks for your answer. However, after reading your response, I am unable to detect the “utterly selfish political reasons” of which you spoke.

    Alas, the level of my understanding related to this issue, instead of being raised, remains limp and flaccid.

  34. Walter Blackman Avatar
    Walter Blackman

    Hal Austin
    November 14, 2020 5:49 AM

    “@ Walter
    Barbados is a failed state and for that I offer not a single apology.”

    Hal,
    In Barbados, we have the following three branches of government: The Executive, the Legislature, and the Judiciary.

    I agree with you that we are currently experiencing some problems with respect to the Judiciary. However, it is our responsibility, as civic-minded citizens, to persistently insist that these problems and challenges be attended to and fixed.
    The mere existence of these problems and challenges does not make Barbados a failed state.

    Barbados is NOT a failed state and for that I offer not a single apology.

  35. David Avatar
    David

    @Walter

    It is refreshing to read your comments because it hurts when people who are confessed to be Barbadians continually throw shade at Barbados grounded in irrational positions. It hurts. It is destructive.

  36. Walter Blackman Avatar
    Walter Blackman

    NorthernObserver
    November 14, 2020 2:24 AM

    “@WB
    Obviously it must have been limited to students below the ???? form….hard to see black polish on dark grey pants?”

    NorthernObserver,
    You are correct. Generally, it was played by students below the 4th form. The khaki pants and shirts worn by the “lower school” were able to “bear insult” and sweat much better than the white shirts worn by the “upper school”.

  37. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    @Walter

    If you have a motor vehicle and the engine does not work, you do not have a vehicle. You have a shell. The Executive has failed because in theory it is meant to be a Cabinet government, in reality it is prime ministerial; the legislature has failed because with a 29/1 parliament there are no checks and balances, no holding the Executive to scrutiny; and the judiciary we agree is a mess.
    Sir, of the many institutions of the state (the civil service, the military, etc) these are the most important. They have failed, so, ipso facto, the state has failed. I will even offer a reason.
    Our state has failed because of the incompetence of the people managing the system, who foolishly believe that qualifications equal competence. Have you ever had to deal with any of the jokers?
    Let us agree to disagree on the competence of our institutions. What saddens me is that the many people who cannot escape the brutality of our incompetent leadership will suffer.
    Every year, on my visit to Barbados, I see men and women who I know had they escaped when young would have done wonders for themselves, their families and the good name of Barbados.
    I think in particular of one guy, who walked around the Ivy barefooted and usually unemployed, he came to Britain got a job (I won’t say doing what), got promotion, and is now retired. But I would see him smartly dressed in his suits and brief cases and smile to myself. He was a credit. A decent, middle class man now retired, no doubt, on a decent pension – and at his peak earned more than the equivalent of the Bds$150000 earned by our permanent secretaries..
    A state fails when it cannot maximise the talents of its citizens. We have 40 per cent unemployment and the nation and media remain silent; the US I believe is under five percent and about the same in the UK.
    How then can voters in St George North return a government that has created such a mess, has no idea how to overcome it and arrogantly believes it has the answers?

  38. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    @ Walter
    @Northern Observer

    Must have been a generational game. Unheard of in my time and those I have spoken to today never heard of it. I must ask my younger cousins.
    In my time we played cricket, lots of cricket, football, hockey, and basketball. @Bajan in New York, have you ever heard of Combermere ‘rugby’ as described by @Walter Blackman?
    Certainly it did not appeal to us. I can still remember punching you through the covers and flicking you when at your best, but never ‘rugby’ as described.

  39. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    For ten years David allowed blp operatives to piss all over a country called Barbados
    It got so low that Barbados was mirrored as an image like Haiti by Mia and the operatives
    The operatives never let up
    Never mind that much of the 2008 global effect had hit barbados economy real hard
    Never a day went by without David letting the blp operatives drag barbados name in the mud
    The icing on the cake came when the south coast sewage plant had a melt down
    The noises of doom and gloom were loud and ferocious barbados was falling of a cliff
    Households were begging for bread and on and one all kinds of negative utterances were being said
    Fast forward to 2018 and present nothing cannot be said about barbados which does not line up with the blog master and blp operatives way of thinking
    If said is done the attacks become relentless with the blog master going as far as releasing the critic personnel information
    Hal saying barbados is a failed state is true
    A country that touts its people of having higher education in the region has not produce anything worthwhile to protect its economy from the realities of a global meltdown
    A country still running with cup in hand to the IMF
    Those two factors alone has the signs of a failed country
    A country that cannot support itself in times of crisis is indeed a failed country
    Some people in their way of chastising only sees half a loaf but near never searches for the other half
    Barbados is a failed state the other side of the coin is crime playing a significant role in barbados failure a place once known to be a peaceful law abiding country
    Get real the writing is on the wall
    Those who have ears to hear and eyes to see knows of what they see and hear

  40. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    “and the Judiciary.”

    there is no functioning judiciary…when one does appeaer, i will be the first to let you know….that’s how i am…the elderly which is 60 YEARS OLD AND OVER…no matter what the clowns in the parliament say, making up their own age limits which is very wrong, cannot get a judge’s decision handed down WITHIN A 6 MONTH PERIOD as MANDATED, in a personal injury case…10 months later, STILL NO DECISION…like they are all waiting for the elderly to die and themselves included….it’s worst for land dispute cases…

    you have NO FUNCTIONING JUDICIARY….no use being delusional about it, the whole wide world already knows, how come you don’t Walter…i have met people in North America who know, some from Western Europe who know about the nonfunctioning judiciary…

  41. Walter Blackman Avatar
    Walter Blackman

    November 14, 2020 1:30 PM

    “@Walter
    It hurts when people who are confessed to be Barbadians continually throw shade at Barbados grounded in irrational positions. It hurts. It is destructive.”

    David,
    I understand and feel your pain. I am sure other readers on BU feel it too.

    As the Bajans would say: “Doan get tie up”. There are many persons in the wider society who are only too eager to put Barbados down, given the slightest opportunity. I suspect these persons are in the minority.

    Hal gives these persons a voice on BU, and maybe we ought to thank him for bringing this destructive, counterproductive way of seeing Barbados to our attention. We now know that we have our work cut out for us.

    There is another important point, worthy of note. Hal believes strongly in what he writes, and as you have seen, he is willing to fiercely and defiantly justify his various positions. That is his right, and it is indeed good for a functioning democracy. In a failed state, he would have run the risk of being dragged out of his house at midnight, to be never seen or heard again.,

  42. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    i would really hate to know that Black people really don’t care about each other’s well being on the island or quality of life, but are just interested in keeping up a FALSE IMAGE..that doesn’t exist, but then complain about all the ills on the island…without WANTING TO SEE ANYTHING FIXED or made better…tell me it ain’t so..

  43. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    I saw a video with someone’s car that fell into a huge crater that apparently opened up somewhere in St. Philip while they were driving, am sure everyone will want to pretend it didn’t happen without caring if the driver and passengers were injured…because of SHODDY, careless road work……

    but that cannot be covered up, hell no, not from what am seeing..

  44. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Was the unemployment rate 40% before COVID???

    The problem is that we are too dependent on tourism. That is what we need to address.

    P.S. From reading the daily newspapers it appears the dysfunctional injustice system in being rapidly addressed. And just last week Carlisle Greaves attempted to drag the police into the tecnological era by throwing them and their confession based case out of his court. These allegations of forced confessions will soon be a thing of the past. The simple solution will be implemented soon, I am sure. Interrogations will be recorded.

    Progress will be made. Bajans are becoming more inclined to protest.

  45. Walter Blackman Avatar
    Walter Blackman

    Hal Austin
    November 14, 2020 1:39 PM

    “@Walter
    If you have a motor vehicle and the engine does not work, you do not have a vehicle. You have a shell.”

    Hal,
    Maybe in England, you guys would view that as a “failed vehicle” and dump it.
    Most Barbadians would turn to a mechanic, get the engine fixed, and have that vehicle back on the road and running again.

  46. TheOgazerts Avatar
    TheOgazerts

    Bruise was the great equalizer. Fast feet though an asset were not really required.

    All that was required was to come into contact with the ball when it was in a relatively clear area; even the mouse could venture a kick if he thought he would get away with it.

    The ball became the great Leader as dozen of boys rushed madly after it. Some boys would kick the ball and then want to fight if they were bruised. Some guys could get in several kicks without being touched.

    I can hardly remember much about my school days, but I can remember some games of bruises…

    Those were the games, my friend.

  47. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    WB
    U don’t come here trying to school people on good and bad behaviour
    Check yuhself first .to a the time when an issue arose between yourself and Piece when he called you out for referencing school age girls backsides as trembling botsies
    After which u departed the blog
    Now u return with a stick chastising the critics of a barbados govt whose criticism serves well to be a catalyst for meaningful change towards a suffering people
    Physician heal thy self

  48. Walter Blackman Avatar
    Walter Blackman

    Hal Austin
    November 14, 2020 1:39 PM

    “@Walter
    The Executive has failed because in theory it is meant to be a Cabinet government, in reality it is prime ministerial; the legislature has failed because with a 29/1 parliament there are no checks and balances, no holding the Executive to scrutiny; “

    Hal,
    In Barbados, we have a Cabinet government (shared responsibility) led by a Prime Minister who is to be viewed as “first among equals” (primus inter pares). The Executive is not supposed to be hamstrung by checks and balances coming from the legislature. In fact, the system has been deliberately designed for the Executive to have its wishes granted via its electoral majority in the Lower House, and its built-in nominated majority in the Upper House (the Senate).

  49. BAJE Avatar
    BAJE

    WB

    Spot on About offensive to all bajans

    Enuff is to Nice to him IMOi

    Xxxxxxx

    FROM THE LIPS OF ANOTHER BLP CUNT.

    WHY WOULD I ENTERTAIN BULLSHIT FROM ENUFF OR WALTER BLACKMAN A DLP OF ANOTHER SIDE OF THE COIN.

    I MAKE NO APOLOGIES.

    WHEN YOU TALK SHITE YOU RECEIVE A PIECE OF YOUR OWN MEDICINE.

    I AM NOT THE ONE LAUGHING AT THE STUPID BAJANS WHO VOTE FOR SHIT THINKING THEY WILL GET CHOCOLATE.

    NEVER JOINED A PARTY, NEVER TRIED TO BE A POLITICIAN OR KISS ANYONE’S ASS FOR FAVOR OR A PICK.

    WILL ALWAYS CALL A SPADE A SPADE.

    FOR SURE NOT LIVING A LIFE OF DELUSIONS LIKE MANY DO ON BU.

  50. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    “Was the unemployment rate 40% before COVID???

    The problem is that we are too dependent on tourism. That is what we need to address.”

    they have always LIED about the unemployment rate in Barbados, they leave it as a 12% when in reality it’s about 30%……total mirage, even with the downgrades and tons of layoffs….they lie, but Covid will not allow them to lie this time…

    and none of them will want to address the over dependency on tourism for over 40 years, they prefer hide all the wickedness perpetrated against their people that occurs on those hotel slave plantations first…..but Covid and the racists becoming too damn emboldened….coverups won’t be allowed anymore either..

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