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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. Lorenzo Avatar
    Lorenzo

    Mariposa you sound like a drowning woman catching at straws.After all your big talk about all this momentum Mr Reifer had he got his ass kicked comprehensively.Let this sink in MR REIFER LOST BY MORE VOTES THAN HE GOT AND EVEN LOST IN HIS HOMETOWN NOT WINNING A SINGLE BOX.Lesdon the people ain, t forget the dems lacklustre performance over the lost decade of Mr Thompson and Mr Stuart even if you have.The other lesson is to find a leader as the political nightwatchman ain , t cutting it.Therefore go dry your tears and reel and come again in 2023.

  2. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    Lorenzo
    People like u having your bread buttered on both sides working and collecting a salary or maybe NIS cannot comprehend the dangerous path on which Barbados is being placed
    OSA said barbados is being managed by a shadow govt
    Those words he said right after Mia became leader and lay in bed with the IMF
    Unions cannot be part of the IMF designs because unions are seen as roadblocks to the IMF purpose of micro-managing a weak and unstable economy and their policies to implement austerity
    This fast tracked SGN election has given clues to why Gline Clarke was hastily remove and Toni Moore a Union head of the largest Union was handpicked by Mia to replace him
    So funny that when Stuart said the hands of Esau and the voice of jacob very few understood what he meant
    Well the puzzle is fitting together like hand in glove

  3. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Well, for sure, Professor Shillary may have really gotten the SHOCK OF HIS LIFE in the reveal that unless resources are STOLEN OUT OF AFRICA, he can’t get a dime of any 50 Billion dollars or whatever denomination he was seeking in reparations, it’s been brought to my attention while interacting with some very savvy scholars, some are professors in linguistics…who have interacted with some of the greatest scholars produced by Africa and the Diaspora, most no longer with us….who themselves were not even aware of nor did they connect the two events….am sure some knew but may have dismissed it based on the fact that UK and Europe had stolen so much out of Africa already and advertise themselves as the wealthiest people in the world, great super powers and la de da…..the greatest violin acts…

    but to bridge the two together as scholars……it would have taken certain events that have since occurred and which most people completely missed..

    which in turn would have SHOCKED THE SHIT out of the minority cockroaches in Barbados..waiting in the corner to TIEF IT…the reparations…….so they can start telling off and threatening their haunted house negros about suing them if they ..sully their already dirty characters…because who needs useless negros anyway….they already stole everything and the only thing left is DEBT TO PAY BACK….and the thieves sure as shit don’t plan to help unless they can tief even more money for themselves..

    i think it all ended rather well…..🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  4. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Yall are very welcome…Mia and Shillary could have used that trick for years by just tweaking it a little and totally messed with the peope’s minds even more through lies and misdirection…..because how else will they explain not getting anything outside of what the universities and entitites like Lloyds who benefitted from slavery and are willing to put programs in place for current and future generations……they would’ve have had to put all the blame on UK/Europe to EXPLAIN THEIR GINORMOUS COLOSSAL COCKUP………….

    i haven’t laughed this much in years, but had to CONFIRM that they may not have known what they were stepping into, so busy were there for 20 years trying to get billions of dollars in reparations to elevate and promote themselves and the minority thieves on the island….and impress them and everyone else with their supidity…

    🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
    now they got REAL WORK TO DO for the first time in their wicked lives, massive debts to pay, degraded infrastuture to rebuild….no more 50 billion dollar reparations cushion to lounge, mooch off and rack back on….

    they cut themselves off from the monarchy, what an international SPLASH and they timed it to perfection….., so it’s unlikely they got the nerve to go abegging……or reengaging outside of the Commonwealty slave crap…

  5. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    Three points
    Peter Wickham
    I was once using a sigle burner on my stove and it flared up for a moment. My wife passing by generated the following headlines
    Kitchen defective
    Stove is no good
    I didn’t have the heart to tell her. It is just a single burner, we should not say the kitchen is lost
    I fear, too much extrapolation was done.

    Ezra Alleyn,
    I put it down to my prejudice and a mental block.
    To me, he always fail to make his argument.
    Like a hurricane at start and disappearing afterwards

    @Hal
    1/1. .
    “I think this is a natural outcome of learning by rote, that answers are binary, yes or no, right or wrong. This came home to me with the still unsolved CXC crisis when it was revealed that 16 yr olds, taking CSEC exams, were given multiple choice questions.”

    I think you provided too simplistic a picture of multiple choice question
    (1) By having more than two responses, examiners can reduce the “expected” number of correct answers to 1/3, 1/4 or 1/5
    (2) Question can be created so that they require a sound knowledge to get the correct answer
    (3) You can explore a larger section of the syllabus by having several multiple choice question
    However, I agree that multiple choice should not be sole component of a test. There should also some word questions where student must show their power of reasoning and how they obtained their answers.

  6. TheOgazerts Avatar
    TheOgazerts

    But wait… Is this CXC thing over?
    Has the five minutes that we allotted to the story passed?
    What is the final outcome??
    Am I the only person interested in the final outcome.
    Was I right?
    The more reasoned responses were just essays. Take the facts and write an essay, nothing more; no real opinion offered; no position stated or taken.
    .

  7. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Theo…CXC refuses to budge and many are getting the same grades that CXC manufactured for them as opposed to what they EARNED, many are still not getting any grades at all….so the scam to disenfranchise the region’s children continues….and everyone is mute…including and especially Sir Slave Title Shillary on the subject of reparations or the lack of… as well.

  8. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    @ Theo

    The CXC is an example of the incompetence of which I often speak. In Wales and England they are already talking about the 2021 and 2022 exams. 2020 is now history.
    It is always a good trick when someone attacks your competence you go for the jugular and accuse them of being whatever refocus the argument. How many children took the exams?
    The other weakness exposed once again by this delay is the short attention span of locals. They have moved on to something else; not even the newspapers are interested in the CXC outcomes.
    The president knows this and that is why when there is a row (Black Lives Matter?) all she does is keeps her head down and move on. It will end in tears.

  9. Walter Blackman Avatar
    Walter Blackman

    David
    November 14, 2020 11:42 PM

    “@Walter
    Your time is better spent on BU bringing your considerable insight to issues of the day affecting Barbados. You will not be able to enlighten some people here.”

    David,
    For years, I have not responded to anything that ac or Mariposa wrote. We are all human beings, and despite our best efforts, we make mistakes.
    I concede that responding to Mariposa yesterday was a mistake on my part, and for that I apologize to you and BU readers.
    I promise you that it will never happen again.

  10. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    WB now that i have embarrassed u and u gladly could not refute what i said in regards to your disgusting comments where u refernced your eyeballing of teenage girls botsys as trembling botys
    You back off
    Without refuting what i said as a lie
    Hope you see the error of your holier than thou stance while policing BU
    Putting one self high on a totem pole can at times be one downfall
    Better to stay back and let freedom of information flow than use pretense as a guide
    Yes leave it alone take care of your problems
    Mind your own business and before u decide to take up a big stick to wack people on their heads think about others who might have a bigger stick than yours to whack you across your big head
    Go in peace Pervert
    I have nothing more to say to you expect to say stay clear of young girls wouldnt want u near my teenage grans

  11. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    Ezra Alleyne should have written his column and then burned it. Why? it shows that the BLP hasn’t changed its strategy when it comes to certain candidates in almost 50 years and all the talk about “debates” was a sham to prove that a candidate “can’t talk”. The circumstances are almost identical two sportsmen with limited public speaking experience versus female opponents who were well versed in the art of public speaking and Ezra (twisting himself into a pretzel patting himself on the back about his contribution to the charade) let the cat out of the bag. It makes one wonder whether the “any idiot can play cricket” was a mistake by an over exuberant Bradshaw or a calculated insult aimed directly at Reifer.

    Bajans have always have this fascination about those who can “talk” especially politicians and would turn up at political meetings because the slate of speakers included someone who could “talk” even if the politician never did anything meaningful while he/she had access to power. Young men were ridiculed because they were not endowed with the “talk’ gene when they tried to woo young women and were even said to “eat soap” (I am told that bit came from thieves who allegedly when stealing pigs would feed them a bar of soap which would make the pig unable to squeal and alert the owner)

    The BLP was always going to win the by-election whether or not the candidate from the principal opposition party could “talk” or sing. We can now look forward to a raised level of debate in the H of A ( as I was informed) by the addition of the winning candidate even if that raised level comes from reading a prepared answer to a question from a friendly colleague who would have previously given a “heads up” to the responder.

    Talk is cheap.

  12. David Avatar
    David

    It was an easy win for pundits, it makes one think why the PM felt to leave nothing to chance. It says a lot for strategy on the part of the BLP.

  13. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    “Your time is better spent on BU bringing your considerable insight to issues of the day affecting Barbados.”

    Very sound advice. Play to your frigging strength and avoid these silly skirmishes.

    I was and I am still a big fan. But one ‘complaint’ I have is that you often feel the need to return fire.

    If you were like I am then I could understand, but if you have any greater ambition then “when they go low, you have to go high” or ignore them.

    Following them into the gutter will bite your ass in the future. I think I tried to tell you this before. You are nullifying your value.

  14. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    Keep talking s.hit about a PM strategy and debates and victories
    The bigger picture shows the Unions head being cut off
    All the theatrics leading into this election was window dressing
    Govt delivered what the IMF wanted
    Meanwhile political experts and pundits talking about strategy whilst people suffer in silence
    Couldn’t make this s.hit up

  15. Enuff Avatar
    Enuff

    Milluh
    ‘You ought to stop comparing Barbados with the UK as a way of rebutting the seemingly outlandish claims of Hal Austin aka “showing shade on Barbados”.’

    You obviously miss the point; but wuh you know bout wuh I am familiar or unfamiliar with?

  16. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    @Sarge
    “The BLP was always going to win the by-election whether or not the candidate from the principal opposition party could “talk” or sing. We can now look forward to a raised level of debate in the H of A ( as I was informed) by the addition of the winning candidate even if that raised level comes from reading a prepared answer to a question from a friendly colleague who would have previously given a “heads up” to the responder.

    Talk is cheap.”

    I am really enjoying the level of your analysis. A clever dissection of the gobbledygook that is often deposited here.

  17. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    @ Mariposa

    I am confused. Almost every post by you is about politics, BLP v DLP or about the US. Yet almost every attack on you is personal, even from those who boast of having been to Cave Hill and did courses in the introduction to government and politics. Maybe they were absent for the ethics courses.
    Some go as far as try to unravel everything you say like French philosophers deconstructing an ideological rival. You must be getting under their skin.

  18. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    “Mottley said even though the members, George Connelly and Rodney Grant, had joined weeks prior, she did not see it fit to make the announcement in a huge way on the campaign platform.”

    Conspiracy theory time.
    “weeks prior”
    Did these two operative held their tongue or did they communicate DLP strategies?

    Was the Reifer campaign sabotaged from inside or by leaked plans?

    These gentlemen should have waited until after the elections to approach Mia or announce their switch the moment they decided to switch

    TheO analysis: Mia is runnings rings around her opponents. When they are making plans, she already has her plans in place and is getting a look at theirs.
    On strategy she is unequalled.

  19. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    https://barbadostoday.bb/2020/11/14/st-lucy-flood-victim-identified-as-yohance-johnson-21/

    RIP.
    —-x—–
    I am a St. Lucy man.

    🙂 I think we have soundly established that the smartest man in the room is from St Lucy, and two more in the top five. 🙂

    The last time I was in Barbados I was surprised at the state of the roads in St Lucy.

    It was like travelling back in time and finding yourself on cart roads. In my mind, I was expecting natives to rush out and look in amazement at the steel donkey I was travelling in .

    Ni parish should be that far behind the others.

  20. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    What a column from Ezra Alleyne. Basically, it says that Bajan voters are easily manipulated.

    WURA,

    I am well-grounded in reality. The lawyers do what they are allowed to do.

    “High wind know where old house live.”

    I have acquaintances whom the lawyers are making a mess of because they are like deer in headlights. I find it mind boggling. They just let it happen.

  21. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    A nation that cannot even keep its basic infrastructure up to date has not failed? Tell that to the residents in St Lucy.
    On a more serious note, Barbados had its last major flood in 1949; recently I said on BU, on the basis of a one in a hundred probability, we ought to be planning for such an event.
    What is also interesting is that the Constitution river has been tampered with (by the 1961 Barrow government) and is now the ZR stand, and the area around the old Globe cinema has been built over, right through the gully to Bridge Road.
    Drainage is poor, gutters are blocked with rubbish, some wells have also been blocked off, there is an absence of good pavements and many of the old plantations, such as Neil’s, have become middle class ghettos.
    We cannot keep saying when major environmental events take place we were not prepared for them. Condolences to the family of the dead man.

  22. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    @ TheOGazerts who wrote ” was expecting natives to rush out ”

    Last time I went to St.Lucy I found some soldier crabs behind a sheep pen.

  23. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Such accidents also take place in so-called First World countries. Indeed the USA has 56 unreliable bridges currently in use. Is everything in the UK in pristine condition????

    Steupse. Barbados has problems. USA got problems. Canada got problems. The UK GOT PROBLEMS.

    Indeed I hear that some black people are worried they will be left in the corridors to die if they ever catch COVID!

    Meanwhile Bajans soldier on, grounded in the reality that this is not heaven but it sure ent hell!

    But of course we are so ignorant that we need people who don’t live here to tell us how hellish our lives are.

    The Overseas Bajan Condition.

  24. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    Hal i comfortable in my own self
    Care absolutely about these higher and holier than thou opinions
    So comfortable that if the economy sputters for another year i would not suffer
    However my interest in barbados goes beyond party politics but looks at a loopsided and top heavy pathway away from good governance
    Speaking on such issues would always invoke attacks and criticism
    But i speak my peace anyway
    The last joker who attacked me has been around BU before but disappeared when a focus was placed on his character
    He returns as a Moses wanting to free people from their immoral indiscretions forgetting that he once exposed his for the BU audience to glare at with drop jaw disgust

  25. Walter Blackman Avatar
    Walter Blackman

    TheOGazerts,

    Yes, you did tell me this many times before but it did not sink into my thick skull.

    At the personal level, life is a journey for all of us. We have our strengths, weaknesses, and natural inclinations. We shall never overcome all of our imperfections, but by committing mistakes and acknowledging and correcting them, we will improve.

    “Hard ears you won’t hear, own way you will feel” and “You can take a cow to water, but you cannot make it drink” are Bajan sayings about people who refuse to take good advice and suffered as a result.

    If you wrestle with a pig, there is no way to avoid the fecal mud that will splash on you. This is a simple lesson that many of us learn the hard way.
    It might have taken me some time to learn and appreciate the value of your counsel, but I have finally embraced the wisdom embedded in it.

    Thanks for caring.

  26. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    WB words coming from a hard back man speaks volumes
    Lol
    What a ting doah
    The smut police speaks of pigs and mud
    Makes for wonder what he was thinking of when looking and then enthusiastically speaking about young girls botsys
    Mud or smut or neither
    All the advice u take now cant take void or excuse your dirty behaviour
    What u need to do is apologize to me for jumping on the bandwagon of those who call me a liar

  27. Miller Avatar
    Miller

    @ Enuff November 15, 2020 12:33 PM
    “You obviously miss the point; but wuh you know bout wuh I am familiar or unfamiliar with?”
    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    You know very little, if anything, about the UK.

    Case in point: your comparison of the staffing, operational and remuneration policies of the London Metropolitan Police (having a few million people under its policing ambit including terrorists) with the Bajan Bobby Force chasing mainly unemployed boys on the blocks and small-time drug pushers.

    If you had used Bermuda or the Bahamas you would not have made yourself look like a big branded jackass.

    What we do know is that you are quite adept at being a political yardfowl of the pure red pedigree with no thinking capacity of your own.

    It’s time you stop debasing your self and learn to think for yourself outside the red fowl coop you are currently caged.

    We know you can do much better than that. You would make the ‘MIA’ Bush Tea man proud.

    You mean not even a knighthood you are demanding in return for lifelong services rendered to the red monarchy!

    You better make sure you don’t end up like Cardinal Wosley:

    ‘If I (Enuff) should serve my God with half the zeal I am serving my red party, I (Enuff) would not be ending up on the fiery rocks in political hell.’

  28. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    Barbadian defense is always to compare large international failures to theirs
    Another bajan condition taking them down a rabbit hole towards a cul de sac
    Here in lies the problem to not finding solutions
    Mindboggling

  29. Enuff Avatar
    Enuff

    “Drainage is poor, gutters are blocked with rubbish, some wells have also been blocked off..”

    When last you checked the gutters, drainage and wells? You need to write based on evidence not what supports your narrative.

    https://gisbarbados.gov.bb/blog/constitution-river-project-phase-3-to-alleviate-flooding/

    http://www.loopnewsbarbados.com/content/west-coast-project-brings-flood-relief

    Always uninformed but speaking with such authority.

  30. Enuff Avatar
    Enuff

    Miller
    The salient point with reference to the Met was not about size, but about structure. Nearer to home, Jamaica has 4 deputies, with one in charge of Administration and Support. If it were only about size, the same Hal Austin wouldn’t be constantly comparing the UK to Barbados. He just inferred that the death of the young man in St.Lucy was due to poor infrastructure and therefore validates his thesis that B’dos is a failed state. I recall reading in the news earlier this year a train derailing and killing three people in the UK. Cause of derailment–landslides from flooding. Is the UK therefore a failed state? You should really hush because you know nothing about me.🤫

  31. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    @ Mariposa

    It is called whataboutism. It is an escape when convenient. When it suits them they rush to the new technology and Google information about the rest of the world; when others do the same about Barbados they call them ‘overseas’.
    When people talk to relatives and friends about conditions in Barbados, they claim those people are misinformed; when ‘Overseas’ Bajans visit the island and see things for themselves they are told they misunderstand. What is texting and FACEBOOK all about?
    By the way, these are the very people who claim I failed to ask questions at a town hall meeting hen I was miles away. But they were told so by their friends, and they believed them. Funny that.
    If you read books, they try to insult you for reading, call you a know it all, or someone who thinks he is a polymath, or an intellectual demigod; if you reference where ideas come from they accuse you of name-dropping white Europeans; if you try to correct them (ie that the Daily Mail and the Mailonnline are two different publications) they tell you you are nit-picking.
    It is the Barbados Condition. It is deeply cultural. All they have to do is discuss the issues, and stop throwing stones. For this I may be called a Roman Catholic as a form of abuse, or worst.
    But what else do you expect when a black Bajan working in New York in a marketing firm and is one of two black people working in the organisation (the other is a lowly graphic designer), and instead of raising serious questions with his bosses, comes on a blog to brag about it.
    Or when so-called educated men and women find the description of Barbados as a failed state, which it is, (if 40 per cent is not a symptom of failed economic policy, especially when 50 per cent of the working population are employed by the state, then what is?). Or that that failed social and economic policy will end in tears becomes more offensive than people compulsively using endless obscenities, is not part of a society that has lost its moral anchor, then what is?
    Talk about a mental illness.

  32. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    I seem to remember a very serious flood in October 1970. People died, many people were left homeless and it also caused a lot of damage.

  33. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    I am a St Lucy man.
    It is not fair to take every comment as an attack on Barbados. Perhaps a comment is based on the knowledge that we can and should do better.

    St Lucy has been a DLP stronghold for ages. When I visited the DLP were in power. How can you watch your world fall apart and vote the same way election after election.

    I was very disappointed with the state to which the roads had deteriorated. It should not have happened.

    Let me add this. At times people rely too much on the government… A little initiative by some citizens may lessen/prevent (not solve) some problems.

  34. Enuff Avatar
    Enuff

    Looka more evidence of the government’s approach to mitigating flooding i.e. being proactive. Yardfowls spin, obfuscate and deflect. I post facts from the newspapers:
    https://www.nationnews.com/2020/07/24/mottley-tours-flood-prone-areas/
    Hal Austin just feels that because he lives in the UK he knows everything about everything and Bajans in the dark ages.

  35. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    Not going to get into the ‘Bajan condition’ or ‘failed state’ but let me tell you about ‘my condition’.

    A bridge next to my mother in Florida and one next to a relative in St Lucy are two of the most important bridges in the world.

    The great GWB is nearby, but it has little relevance or importance when I think of the wellbeing of my relatives.

    We may not express ourselves well at times, but we do care as deeply as others. After all, navel string and family are there.

  36. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    Hal Austin just feels that because he lives in the UK he knows everything about everything and Bajans in the dark ages….(Quote)

    ??????????

  37. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    Hal ease up if not the BU brigade gonna come after u like an american firing squad
    But your words summarizes the way many of them think
    Reason why some can endorse Bradshaw words of calling SGN people idiots
    The so called intellectuals are quick to tossed out ideas or alternative solutions
    There is this so called intellectual class who would argue with Jesus steupse and call him a fool or idiot if he step into there presence and offered advice
    A bajan condition which boggles the mind
    I leave them to their own ignorance

  38. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    Not going to get into a bassa bassa .
    Hopefully mitigation is more than a tour.

  39. BAJE Avatar
    BAJE

    If you wrestle with a pig, there is no way to avoid the fecal mud that will splash on you. This is a simple lesson that many of us learn the hard way.
    It might have taken me some time to learn and appreciate the value of your counsel, but I have finally embraced the wisdom embedded in it.

    Xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

    @ W,alter Blackman

    IS THIS THE REASON WHY YOU WERE TIED TO THE FORMER DLP PIG CROOKS WHILST LOOKING FOR A PREVIOUS POSITION IN POLITICS TO EAT FROM SAME PIG STY.

    GET YOUR CROOKED DLP MATES THAT YOU WERE PART OF TO GIVE 10 PERCENT OF THE MANY Taxpayers MILLIONS MISAPPROPRIATED FROM THE TREASURY FOR 10 YEARS.

    LOCAL BLACK BAJANS COULD SURE USE IT NOW.

    YOU WANT TO ATTACK OTHERS AND HAVE NO MORE CREDIBILITY THAN JEPTER INCE OR CHRIS SINCLAIR.

    NEXT WE WILL HEAR THAT YOU HAVE JOINED THE BLP BANDWAGON.

    ANYONE WHO WAS OR IS IN BED WITH EITHER DLP FORMER POLITICIANS OR BLP HAS NO DAMN CREDIBILITY TO TELL ANYONE ANYTHING IRREGARDLESS OF SUBJECT MATTER.

  40. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    All Mottley gonna do is tour
    Next day call Cow Williams ask Cow what he can do
    Cow moos then scratch his head thinks about his plan of action
    Couple days later call Mia tells her the cost of about three million to fill a pot hole
    Mia agrees and says no problem
    The pot hole takes less than an hour to fix
    3 million goes into Cow pockets with a guarantee from Cow that with the next heavy down pour the material used would be washed away
    But who is watching
    No opposition

  41. Miller Avatar
    Miller

    @ Enuff November 15, 2020 3:09 PM

    You can continue to attack the melodramatic man Austin as much as you like but you cannot refute many of his ‘harsh’ observations.

    Hal Austin has been proposing for years a major makeover of the ‘greater’ Bridgetown area especially in the area of housing; if any sort of urban regeneration is to be achieved.

    Wouldn’t you consider such a failure to be a massive letdown in governance over the years?

    What ever happened to the funds from the IADB or some other funding agency to upgrade the housing stock across the ‘City’?

    A country can be judged by the standards it employs to upkeep its Capital since it represents the face of the country.

    Now how would you rate Barbados on that score? As beautiful?

    It’s time to look into the mirror and take stock.

  42. Walter Blackman Avatar
    Walter Blackman

    Miller
    November 14, 2020 9:26 PM

    “No wonder you have taken flight just like Hal making up the two peas in the emigration pod.
    For each one has failed to make any difference to the governance model of Bim.”

    Miller,
    At the end of the Apprenticeship System (1838), some of the freed male slaves in Barbados determined that the level of wages being paid for labour by the white plantation owners was too low. Consequently, their enterprising spirits enabled them to emigrate to British Guiana and Trinidad where they worked for higher wages and sent back money to their families in Barbados.

    The combination of tough conditions in Barbados and the enterprising spirit of some of its citizens eventually led to Barbadians working and settling throughout the Caribbean, Panama, Cuba, North America, and Europe. Wherever they worked and settled, they sent back money, food, and other items to their families and friends in Barbados. They never cared who was “in power” in Barbados and they never cared what the governance model was. They cared about helping their families to survive and progress, and their sometimes under-appreciated efforts certainly helped Barbados to develop. Another important factor going hand-in-hand with Barbadians living and working overseas was the reputation they developed for being industrious and law abiding.

    For every single day of my life spent living in the USA, I have remained mindful of the trail which has been blazed by the Barbadians who went before me. Similar to the vast majority of Barbadians living abroad today, I try, “by my living, to do credit to my nation wherever I go.”
    You might try to trivialize or downplay the role that overseas Barbadians play in the development of Barbados, but I know that the remittances from abroad have a significant impact upon our national development.

    Finally, I instinctively sense that some Barbadians at home are relying on a Moses (groomed at home or abroad) to come to their rescue. That is a fool’s dream. It is going to take a strident, prolonged, collective effort on the part of Barbadians at home to carve out the type of society they want to live in.

  43. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    @ Mariposa

    I am not an intellectual, but have been around enough of them for years to recognise one. I am yet to meet these Bajan intellectuals. Where are they hiding?

  44. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    Hal they only show up on BU platform
    Anywhere else there utterances are punished with laughter

  45. Enuff Avatar
    Enuff

    Milluh
    Stupse! Since OSA there was a regeneration plan for Btown, Oistins, Speightstown and St.Lawrence Gap. What you think the BTI does? What you think the constitution river upgrade, independence square etc came from? What do you think the IADB money was for? Didn’t the DLP acquire land on Mason Hall Street for housing? The plan continues now with the Pierhead and the government has come up with some new ideas to capture money to fund sicial infrastructure. The problem is that regeneration relies heavily on private sector funding and the right framework for engendering private developers’ involvement. The same expert Hal Austin cuss the acquisition of Ram musty warehouse to facilitate regeneration. He even argued UR is not a public good. Living in the UK does not make him an expert.

  46. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    I have planned not to respond to this freak of nature, but he cannot help himself lying. I have said that the compulsory acquisition of private property on behalf of a private property developer is wrong and in any decent society where the legal system works, would have been outlawed.
    That is not urban development nor is it a public good. It is robbery. A public good is development in the interest of the ENTIRE society, not just of one man and a dog.
    I try to correct these lies because, over time, they become the accepted BU ‘truths’. like being a financial adviser or Roman Catholic or not asking questions at a town hall meeting when I was miles away.
    Anonymous BU vandals have no regard for truth-telling. Cheap laughs are more important. It is like being proud of the fact of being the only black man in an office, in a city full of black people.
    The one good thing about Ms Ram’s experience is that, if ever I was in a position to buy a peanut tray, I certainly will not do it in Barbados.

  47. Miller Avatar
    Miller

    @ Walter Blackman November 15, 2020 4:07 PM
    “You might try to trivialize or downplay the role that overseas Barbadians play in the development of Barbados, but I know that the remittances from abroad have a significant impact upon our national development.”
    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    Trivialize? Downplay?

    It was those same remittances which propelled the building of the so-called Bajan black middleclass; both through access to State-funded education and to ‘decent’ housing stock in the abandoned cane fields now called the “Heights” and “Terraces”.

    By making such a fact-based assertion you and Hal Austin are singing from the same hymn sheet -if not in the same church- when it comes to a definition of the “Bajan Condition”.

    For it is those same stay-at-home Bajans who perceive those potential ‘returning nationals’ (like you) primarily as financial milch cows and economic sugar daddies.

    The Bajan limeys (like Hal) have taken most of that ‘Bajan Condition’ flack with many being called mad for working their asses off in the ‘wet’ cold in order to send back ‘home’ a few pounds to help support their relatives left behind or to stimulate the sluggish Bajan economy through the building of large houses hoping to occupy after retirement.

    With thousands unemployed Barbados’s economic salvation lies in Bajans emigrating and earning foreign money. Not in the ‘importation’ of 80,000 to do what Bajans have been doing since the early days of their economic odysseys to Panama, BG et al.

  48. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    If every comment is exaggerated and makes Barbados seem like a hellhole and my existence pitiful I will take it as I see fit.

    Wuhnuh could talk wuhnuh ignorant talk and I will talk mine.

    Right now I am eating a 123 on a Sunday afternoon because I am tired of meat. I have everything I need and plenty of what I want and I have no problem that I cannot solve.

    There is a Nina Simone song that is used in an advertisement that is stuck in my head. I sing it all day and it somehow fits.

    Feeling good!

    Barbados is very little different from most countries. There is the good, the bad and the ugly.

    I chose to live here. I am happy here. So is my son.

    The question is – are you guys happy where you are?

    Sometimes I wonder. Too much negativity.

  49. Miller Avatar
    Miller

    @ Enuff November 15, 2020 4:31 PM

    Are you implying that the BTII is the agency which is ‘funding’ the acquisition and demolition of the Ram’s rat pen to make way for the Hyatt erection?

    That means the Government, through its hotel investment agency (BTII), would be a major shareholder of the Hyatt hotel, not so?

    Haven’t the taxpayers been robbed mercilessly over the years by the many studies, consultancies and plans concocted around the Bridgetown Pierhead like the marina and the imaginary Sugar Point Cruise ship terminal?

  50. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    And Mariposa, you shameless fowl, the closest Barbados came to being a failed state was between 2008 and 2018 when those you support were running the government.

    Imagine you are talking about clogged drains when your government thought clogged sewage lines were no problem.

    For your information, shit kills too and in an even more unpleasant manner.

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