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Karma is real
Retribution is real
and in extreme cases, they tend to work together…
Miller….Abihah Holder and his mother….only a vicious, spiritless, evil beast would use a deceased child and his grieving mother to lie and deceive the public to win an election..
.then allow the real demon maloney who caused the child’s death to escape accountability…
.then have the mother arrested,
then try to push the criminal down the population’s throat after saying he is corrupt, a criminal and should be in prison…
Karma is real…so is Retribution.
“And dis is gine over two years dat dis t’ing hay gine on……….” REFERS TO WHAT?
The situation at the old Fairchild Street market………..
………….or when construction of the market facilities began?
Here is what David said
DavidJuly 5, 2021 2:44 AM
Here is another example of your lies, you have been shown evidence many times – and it is available if you are interested in the truth – that construction of phase 1 of 3 phases bagan in 2020, you persist in posting it has been 2 years. Are you challenged with arithmetic? Are you comfortable with being a liar? Make you point but do it with integrity for crissakes
Xxxxxxxx
I think the vendor should know best
What the vendor said has nothing to do with when the construction of the stalls commenced. The vendor is obviously referring to when the old Fairchild Street market was demolished because it had become a health hazard.
“The vendor should know best” about what?
The guy’s comments were vague, as he did not make a SPECIFIC reference to ANYTHING.
But, David IS CORRECT. Your arguments were, construction of the new market facilities was ongoing for 2 years, over $2M spent, not one stall finished and the AudG expressed concerns about the project in his 2020 report.
ALL LIES!
Anyhow, this discussion has gone as far as it could possibly go. So, let’s ‘agree to disagree’…… and move on.
Nuff respect for the fishermen taking care of their business.
“Extra precautions were taken. The fishermen from Oistins brought their boats down here and we put extra tyres and tied up the boats properly to the iron bars,” he said
https://www.nationnews.com/2021/07/05/fishermen-relieved-boats-spared/
Good to know that Mia Mottley has been guiding us through the crisis since 2018 (national debt, volcanic ash and hurricane). Imagine how we would suffer under Big Sink, the Don from New York, Low and Eastwitch!
Time to proclaim a new national heroine and put her in Admiral Nelson’s place.
A personal note.
As a parent, I have often told my son that people are not foolish.
Some of the stories he gave me were so outlandish, that I felt it necessary to warm him about insulting the intelligence of others; he had to raise his game and not believe others had no game. His ‘weak story’ could be an easy win for others; I would be supporting him, but my heart would not be in the cause.
Yes, I will give him my full support but he knows I want to be on the winning team and not supporting a lost cause. I believe the young man listened
There is enough out there to work with. ‘Creativity’ is not needed.
Theo
Finish your story and tell her straight what you telling her
Uh-oh! Power gone again! Tomorrow I will buy a generator. Promised never to be caught again.
Solar panels in the near future.
My son needs electricity to work.
@David, there is one thing about political pimps that never changes … they are always loyal to their ‘Knight’!
Oh, a bit of messed up metaphors there … that was the ‘Pips and Gladys Knight” … but you get the point😎
As @Artax suggests this particular pimp is uber faithful to any and all songs by their leader and will subvert reality completely to try to change history or attack the other leader.
Its annoyingly ridiculous … and I am amazed that s/he does not realize how totally absurd their remarks are at times.
But then again the ‘Emperor has no clothes’ is a tale written almost 200 years ago, so this type of egotistical, absurd lying in the face of all reality is nothing new.
In modern chat, the higher this monkey climbs, clearly way too much of his/her unattractive backsde is exposed!
The time frame of the video speaks to a recent taping of Mar 2021
The man cannot be saying two years ago if he was just speaking of the demolition
He was quick to point out that the pandemic had nothing to do with the project
He said he saw ongoing work being done during the pandemic
Two years and not one stall finished in a complete manner for the vendors to be housed
This is the hurricane seasons
The vendors are still without a finished stall
Govt remedy is to move the vendors in an outside space in meanwhile hoping for a two year project to be finished in four to five months
My observation bodes well to say head not brains
The metal frame was being taken down in nov 2019
Therefore construction could not have been started for two years .
Demolition (first) followed by the start of and continued construction could have been going on for two years
I posted this info already
https://gisbarbados.gov.bb/blog/redevelopment-of-fairchild-street-market/
https://gisbarbados.gov.bb/blog/redevelopment-of-fairchild-street-market/
We have to over this matter? Let us move on.
How many years does it take to complete a stall
All the distraction and noises does not take away that up to present not one stall is complete from a project that started two years ago
Within a promised time line by govt to have 44 stalls completed with one year of the starting project
This is now 2021 given that govt excuse is the pandemic
I refuse to belive that one stall could not have been completed
I have seen larger projects within my traveling experience completely finished
Those projects started as well during the pandemic and finished in a timely fashion
Here in Barbados transparency and holding those accountable is as far removed as day is from night
THE disruption caused by Hurricane Elsa could have some implications for the local economy going forward.
A local official said he has to await more information on what transpired and did not want to be too dramatic.
However, he believed that with losses in agriculture, this can set back farmers while construction activity, which is poised to take off, could also be delayed somewhat.
https://www.barbadosadvocate.com/business/business-monday-challenging-times-ahead
DavidJuly 5, 2021 4:37 PM
We have to over this matter? Let us move on
As a taxpayer I am within my rights
Also I want to know if any damages occured on the site in respect to the building of the stalls
Govt must be held accountable
Two years and 6 mths and counting for this ongoing project deserves all and any answers
Not so?
Wassa dan dat!
Elsa move in and show up the derelict state of Barbados infrastructure
Roads totally destroyed within hours of a cat 1 hurricane
God forbide if Elsa had stayed on the island for much later
Too much patch work and band aid politics involved
Couple months ago there was flooding on the island and the water damage on street left cracks and holes in areas where govt spend on maintenance had already done repairs or resurfacing of the roads
Examples of gross neglect and inferior accountability
This should not be happening some one should be lock up
@angela cox July 5, 2021 4:44 PM “Here in Barbadoa…holding those accountable is as far removed as day is from night.”
But angela cox, we Bajans held those accountable on May 24, 2018.
You forget that 30-0 cut tail already?
Lol
@ John2
During November and December 2019, the metal frame of the old market was dismantled and removed, while the buildings on the perimeter that were used as toilet facilities were demolished and the area was excavated, cleared of rubble and garbage before being enclosed by wire fencing.
Vendors occupying the outer environs of the old market compound refused to adhere to notices requiring them to move.
Golden Square vendors were informed the market would be closed on Friday, February 14, 2020 and demolished on Monday, February 17, 2020 along with the Fire Service Headquarters and the old NIS building.
The island went on ‘lock down’ due to COVID-19 restrictions from March until July 2020.
Construction of Phase 1 of the new market facilities commenced in September 2020.
This is information that cannot be refuted.
The food & beverage vendors displaced by the demolition of Golden Square were allocated their stalls during a recently held meeting with market officials and at which they were able to view and inspect the stalls. They are scheduled to fully ocupy them by month end.
The lady’s aim is to presistently spread unthruths hoping she would “frustrate the living daylights out of people.”
Another thing, the idiot has never visited the site and is engaging in a discussion about a situation she doesn’t know anything about, and spewing shiite as truth.
We should take the blogmaster’s advice and move on.
@angela cox July 5, 2021 5:09 PM “…some one should be lock up”
Someone, the don will be locked up soon, soon. Let us give thanks to our American friends for that one.
@ac
You are correct. Spot on.
Accountability is non-existent.
As a taxpayer like you, I would like to know how the GoB could end up spending $124M via Clearwater Bay. (That could built several thousand vendor stalls).
How could a respectful government ‘guarantee loans’ and end up having to foot the bill for nearly every effing one? And not one Shiite in terms of completed construction to show for it?? The guarantees were to restart the FS project.
A boondoggle. As you might say, even a blind person on a trotting horse saw this coming.
Any country that can give up that much relative to it’s overall output, must be thriving.
SPOT THE DIFFERENCE.
YOU
“There is much to work with. Creativity is not needed.” Or something like that.
ME
“There is plenty to criticise without making stuff up!”
I see no difference. So….. what was the dust up about????????
This is all Artax and I were trying to say from the very beginning. It is irresponsible to cheer on someone when she is obviously misleading the blog. Artax does a brilliant job of proving that to all but the genuinely foolish or stubbornly foolish.
Unlike you, I have backed down on occasion – when I realised I was wrong, as we all will be on occasion. I do not consider it to be a sign of weakness but rather of strength. I wear it as a badge of honour.
I shall say no more on the matter.
He who has ears and brain, and professes his love for Barbados, let him hear!
It is only THE TRUTH that can set us free!
1/1
It is not my intention to tell others what their response to any blogger should be.
On my part, if there is truth in what AC says I will support her.
If she is wrong then a dozen will criticize her. There is no need for
me to join the circle of condemnation. I was never one for clubs and will not be joining the scarlet letter club.
I am self contained. I do not buy or sell anything. I contribute only when I want to do so.
One thing is certain … Foolish or not, here I come.
On Barbados
You will not find me questioning the love of others, but I will profess my own (if/when I choose to do so).
There is no desire to match or outdo others. So, I leave the comparison and judging to others as I lack the required tools.
Barbados, have a great day.
“As a taxpayer like you, I would like to know how the GoB could end up spending $124M via Clearwater Bay. (That could built several thousand vendor stalls).”
they assign Black people’s money to others based on skin color….if your skin is too dark EVEN IF IT’S YOUR MONEY…it’s too good for you//build you some ghetto looking 2×3 slave-like hut for a house or business place…. and….they have to pick up the YOUR BILLIONS and give it away to minorities under the GUISE OF ANYTHING….dependency tourism is their favorite deceitful dialogue….
.this is what they are paying for right now, not wanting Black people to have what is rightfully theirs…and they will continue to PAY until they learn….which is likely to be never, but they will be gone at the end of it…
And to hear people called me all kinds of derogatory names attaching me to party likes is laughable
The govt tardiness to response to those things which are helpful to improving the quality of life for the small business man is deplorable
Reason why I stomp kick and rightfully criticize govt lack lustre efforts
PR and long talk does not add up to any thing
Not one stall completed not having it
Almost three years and the same voices crying for help are those of the black majority
Don’t see or hear the minority white establishment crying for water or standing on long lines waiting and begging for the severance pay ( as a matter of fact they thumb noses at govt with an attitude of avoidance to pay )
The minority white establishment has been given much financial help and relief in tax waivers and write offs
Even the big cruise industry got to suck off the nipples of govt after given financial relief to sit in Carlisle back
Meanwhile the blacks beg and are told to wait and see and not one stall completed in two years
Not having it
Source: Nation
“It is irresponsible to cheer on someone WHEN SHE IS OBVIOUSLY MISLEADING THE BLOG.”
“Only the TRUTH can set us free.”
Stubbornly foolish. Definitely.
Thanks Elsa have done an excellent job in exposing the weakness in govt policies
Policies geared to shelter the white business establishment
While the low and poor left exposed to the elements of nature’s power
Oh I forget for the poor it comes to down to phases
While the big business establishment it comes down to power and demands
“It is irresponsible to cheer on someone WHEN SHE IS OBVIOUSLY MISLEADING THE BLOG.”
“Only the TRUTH can set us free.”
@ Donna
Apparently not.
After all, we were ‘told,’………..”I like the fact that she is running seven or eight of you ragged. All I can say is “You, go girl”.”
Or, according to her, “The truth lies in govt hiding the truth” and “frustrating the living daylights out of them.”
If they believe continually misrepresenting the truth to purposely mislead the blog achieves those objectives, then ‘truth’ and ‘responsibility’ becomes secondary.
David,
This Category One Elsa sprinted through Barbados like Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce. “Nothing to see here,” she said as she slipped on by.
A permaclad sheet on the roof of one of my SHEDS lifted in the final hour of the hurricane. It lifted and flapped but it did not come off.
When my cousin went to fix it, he found no nail holes in the portion of the sheet that had first lifted. There was space for two more nails. It is obvious that two more nails would have stood up against Elsa. But even without them, she failed to blow it off.
A stone’s throw away, an entire house occupied by two cousins of mine was flattened.
Two adult siblings occupying what used to be the best house in that area when their mother built it, flattened.
Why?
The mother died several years ago. Two working siblings, one with neither chick nor child and the other, having grown offspring, if any, not wanting to spend money on a house that benefits the other.
That’s how I figure it.
There are many households where the same frame of mind exists among siblings who occupy their family home. I could name you several off the top of my head.
The problem this time was not in the design of the house but in the lack of maintenance.
There are some genuinely poor people who can do no better. And there are others who cut off their nose to spoil their own features.
Donna is not giving one damn cent to any rebuilding effort unless a means test is done and those who can are made to pay back.
My first order of business is the strengthening and maintenance of my house and the payment of my insurance. I am not paying for mine and theirs voluntarily.
Grenville says it is no more expensive than a damn cell phone to secure one’s roof. A man said he lost his roof and two damn flat screen tvs.
First things first.
“Thanks Elsa have done an excellent job in exposing the weakness in govt policies”
that is one set of political spin from a known extremist troll agent …
… the counter spin is it exposed scavenger bionic rats like Angela “Bukkake” “Gangbang” Cox with the hurricane porn pretending to care about ghetto sufferahs to score political points
Harold Hal Austin would be proud of level of dishonest rightwing news spin bullshit a la racist australian murdoch empire standards of misinformation and lying by his prodigy
Artax,
Apparently cheering on someone who is deliberately misleading the blog simply because she has seven or eight of us asking her to speak the truth will help Barbados to do better.
Sometimes Angela Cox hits on a good point. When she does so, I too agree with her.
Reasoned and truthful discourse is what it takes to whip a government into shape. Pure partisan poop will be dismissed and responded to in kind.
Political pimping and yardfowlism is what got us into this mess. I guess in some people’s stubbornly foolish minds, it will get us out of it.
Logic is your strong point. Logic is my strong point.
Some people…. not so much.
Keep on allowing the lies to run you ragged! lol. I will be there with you.
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124 million hone Haywire
Now 3.8million about to be blown out the back door and no one must say nothing
No. No-one must TELL LIES.
Perhaps you no longer know the difference between saying something and telling lies.
If so, you have my sympathy on the death of your conscience.
3.8 million that you can see work being done. Some poor black men still making a living if they were working on the project for two years and eventually the vendors will be brought in out of the elements
How many or who beniffited from the 124m ?
“Perhaps you no longer know the difference between saying something and telling lies. If so, you have my sympathy on the death of your conscience.”
Political lies serve agendas and are the foundation for misinformation and untruths that people want to hear for scripted arguments.
Did you know that black people are an heathenish, brutish and an uncertain, dangerous kind of people was a preamble that allowed slaves’ owners to do entirely as they wished to their slaves, including mutilating them and burning them alive, without fear of reprisal. For example, if an African person acted violently against an English person the law stipulated that they should be severely whipped, have his or her nose slit and shall be burnt in the face, while the next offence shall be punished by death. This terror kept people who were labelled slaves in their place. I’m not sure if it applied to the white slaves though.
There is a woman ranting and raving on Brasstacks.
Dennis Johnson just let her talk uninterrupted.
Elsa WAS here. What now.
It should never be about me.
Ac is an adult who can do/write as she pleases. She is not my child.
She does not submit her comments to me for my approval. If she is right, I will support her. If she is wrong, there are others who will let her know she is incorrect.
If further action is required, then take it to those who manages the blog.
I have refused to become personal with anyone (unlike the Englishman). Yet, at some stage, I expect to hear “Ban he. He supporting she. She telling lies”. It is the last tool in the toolbox.
A few days ago BL& P spokesman said that 70 % of Barbadian households had electricity restored
Now I am hearing via a press conference that only 1368 persons have electricity and presently 20thousand are without lights
Another reason why I do not take much believability in the utterances said during these press conferences
Which takes my mind back to what have been said by govt officials in reference to the Fairchild Street project
There are observers on the ground who says differently those are who I belive
Get it
https://www.facebook.com/270969375988/posts/10157787654485989/?sfnsn=mo
Gallery’s don’t hurt you head wrestling with them
They have their truth and I have mine
For them if govt say it is so it is so and that is the end of the story
For me if govt say so I dig a bit deeper and look a lot longer
Time is longer than twine
angela coxJuly 6, 2021 4:06 PM
Theo Gazzerts don’t hurt you head wrestling with them
They have their truth and I have mine
For them if govt say it is so it is so and that is the end of the story
For me if govt say so I dig a bit deeper and look a lot longer
Time is longer than twine
I remember when Mia reference the good name of Barbados as being worst than Haiti
Sadly she might have got her wish
Sometimes a person utterances can return to bite them in the arse
This I must say Mia might have received a double serving of bites by an unknown pit bullcall Elsa
GOVERNMENT’S INCLUSION of natural disaster clauses in its restructured bonds could now provide some elbow room as the country increases spending to repair Hurricane Elsa’s damage.
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Did govt take full use of the clause now that Barbados has been hammered by Elsa
Or is this another case of wait and see topped off by numerous phases which can last as long as finishing the Fairchild street project
Lol
Barbados is probably the least prepared of all the islands within the region to cater for a category one hurricane. Equally worrying, the geography of the island is relatively flat and benign; and ripe for devastation should a stronger hurricane then Elsa decides to pay a visit to the island.
TLSNJuly 6, 2021 5:07 PM
Barbados is probably the least prepared of all the islands within the region to cater for a category one hurricane. Equally worrying, the geography of the island is relatively flat and benign; and ripe for devastation should a stronger hurricane then Elsa decides to pay a visit to the island.
Cxcccccc
They can always pretend to be resilient when or if another one pass over the island
Yuh now it is amazing to the level of dumbfounding how barbadians sit back with an nonchalant attitude while hell breaks loose around them
So here is some good news absent of transparency
https://www.facebook.com/270969375988/posts/10157787772595989/?sfnsn=mo
From another media outlet
https://www.facebook.com/246784233190/posts/10158650809668191/
https://www.nationnews.com/2021/07/06/update-post-hurricane-elsa/
2 372 – problems reported.
1 333 – reports of roof damage.
326 – other house damage.
533 – households need assistance in terms of accommodation.
Damage reports and socio-economic assessments being undertaken.
Thanks Hants.
Uh wonder if Mia planning to plant a million trees
Uh promise is uh promise
If politics is about bullshit
then AC is an accomplished bullshitter
not even DLP can bullshit like her and get away with it
Come on, there isn’t any comparison between you and the pompous, uncouth limey. Unlike him, you seem to be decent guy.
I’m not a member of the ‘banning crew.’
@angela cox July 6, 2021 4:03 PM “A few days ago BL& P spokesman said that 70 % of Barbadian households had electricity restored. Now I am hearing via a press conference that only 1368 persons have electricity.”
And from the Light and Power link which you posted is written 1368 customers restored today.
Which interpreted means that an ADDITIONAL 1368 customers were restored today. Typically there is more that one person in a household or business. So thousands more people had their electricity restored today, up to 80% of customers have had their power restored.
Not that I am a spokesperson for Light and Power. And not that I am happy with how long the restorations are taking.
But the truth is the truth man! Most businesses and homes NOT 1368 persons have had their power restored
@angela cox July 6, 2021 4:03 PM “I am hearing via a press conference that only 1368 persons have electricity and presently 20thousand are without lights”
Using your math am I to believe that 1,368 + 20,000=21,368 people live in Barbados?
Somebody must be paying you to write lies/spread disinformation. Nobody would tell so many lies/sin their souls for nothing.
https://barbadostoday.bb/2021/07/06/forde-issues-an-appeal-for-housing-accommodation/
Interested landlords can call the Ministry of People Empowerment and Elder Affairs at 536-4673 (536-HOPE) with details of the location of their property.
The Ministry looks forward to your assistance in this national effort, as it seeks to assist our brothers and sisters in their time of need.
@ Cuhdear Bajan
“Don’t hurt your head wrestling with her.”
Perhaps she isn’t being “paid to write lies/spread disinformation.”
REMEMBER, “she has HER TRUTH and we have ours.”
She probably mistook BL&P for BLP, and, you know “for her, if govt said, via a press conference that only 1368 persons have electricity, she dug a bit deeper and looked a lot longer” to give us HER VERSION of the truth.
And, don’t forget, to ask or challenge anything she presents to this forum, according to the limey snob, means we’re “cyber stalking bullies in need of psychiatric help.”
So, be very careful and ‘tread lightly.”
Source: Nation
Artax,
Decent guy for sure but stubbornly foolish and unable to back down.
Neither you nor I have ever called for ANYONE to be banned. That is mostly Lorenzo. Can’t recall who else.
I don’t know where this idea of more than one truth originated from but it makes no sense to me. One can interpret truth differently depending on one’s perspective but there is only one truth.
This idea that I believe whatever this administration tells me is ridiculous. I didn’t even believe everything my mother said, my teacher said, my textbooks said, my doctor said, the priest said, the bible said…… not since I was a pre-teen. I question EVERYTHING and EVERYONE.
Angela Cox digs deeper, she says, meaning she digs deeper down every White Rabbit hole some Facebooker starts for her and ends up in Wonderland with the Mad Hatter.
ALMOST EVERYBODY HAS BACK THEIR ELECTRICITY!
Are the planting of a million trees still one of Mia great proposals
That idea was laid out by Mia about two years ago
Haven’t heard much about it since
Btw what business is that of anyone in this forum as to who shows any level of support towards any individual or individuals
Some of wunna arrogant as RH Stupse
Bl&P sending restoration PR messages
What about the incompetence on their part
The various stories of rotten poles which came about because of aging and termite infestation should be on concern of the PR dept of BL&P
Five days without electricity is unacceptable
People being thrown into darkness after a cat 1 is unacceptable because of the internal handlings and preference level concerns bl& p gave to the managing of their infrastructure
Many have lost all perishable
Bl&p should be held accountable for some of these people looses
After all … months before the hurricane many have laid complaints to bl&p management in the manner and way many poles were vulnerable to nature’s wrath if a hurricane struck the island
Any situation, at any time, some people always have something negative to say about it. They are hellbent on constantly looking for the in every positive situation, just to give themselves something to complain about or criticize, because it is politically expedient for them to do so.
Those persons are ‘damp clouds walking over every sunshine situation,’ hoping to drench other people with their miserable, distorted comments.
Because they have a disagreeable inclination to stress faults and raise petty objections, I believe ‘captious critics’ or ‘miserable curmudgeons’ appropriately describes them.
Artax
Time we hit the ignore button
Some people seem to be lonely and find solace in social media.
Negativity is getting our attention and that’s is the sole intention to stroke ego
As from today I am ignoring the ignorant attention seeking one.
That is not it, it is how some people remain relevant on the blog. You have been told many time yet you feel happy following.
@ John2
I agree.
BU should be a forum where we could seriously discuss ideas and opinions rationally and reasonably.
At one stage, BU was becoming a very toxic environment with all the insults, person abuse and derogatory remarks. Now, it’s becoming a political playground for idiots who prefer to misrepresent the truth.
I was a bit more interested in seeking the truth and placing issues in their proper perspective……. while probably ignoring contributors are quite capable of separating ‘fact from fiction.’
You are correct. Perhaps the time has come to “ignore the ignorant attention seeking one.”
In all the PR “good messages” yet to hear a set policy on price gouging
However I did hear govt had place soldiers across Barbados to stop criminality involving looters
Meanwhile the uppity business class is left alone to gouge out the people’s eyes
Now, there ìs one thing I have to say about B L & P. They obviously do not maintain their poles. Some of them had to be rotten. They also do not trim the trees besieged by wires as promised.. That I know because after numerous calls and promises, I ended up paying somebody to trim mine. He said he knew what he was doing but I was still afraid. Eventually, I cut the whole damn thing down to ensure it did not slip by me again. Planted a tree elsewhere to replace it
David
Not even you took your own advice
The bligmaster has license based on his judgement. Commenters have the opportunity add value to the blog by dissecting issues. Where is the value trying to debate a person being deliberately malicious?
Interesting but never heard anythIng about the outcome of the investigation
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Man falls to his death after being electrocuted – by Barbados Today July 11, 2020
Police are investigating the unnatural death of a 21-year-old man from Baywoods, St James.
About 10:26 a.m. on Saturday, police in Holetown received a report that a man had fallen from a tree whilst he was picking breadfruits. He was described as seriously injured at the time. On arrival police were informed by ambulance personnel who were on the scene that there was no sign of life. He was later pronounced dead at the scene by a medical doctor.
A tender from the Barbados Fire Service also responded to put out a fire, which was coming from the tree.
It is alleged that the young man was picking breadfruit with a rod, which came in contact with power lines. He was shocked and fell from the tree to the ground
Here is another truth I found to be of interest
Not my truth nonetheless a truth all by itself
Sad especially at a time when people have no jobs
I had my first price gouging experience to day. Six weeks ago i bought some plastic jars. Went back for some more price gone up! I wickedly asked if the price went up.
Response this is what i seeing in the system.
My response. I know the price gone up
When i took the commodity to the person i bough them for, I asked what was the last price again. Our price matched and hence a sizable increase!
How sad. Naturally the small business owner cannot absorb such cost. Where do we go from here.
In one of Govt PR conferences I heard auntie Mia saying as a reference that in the good ole USA when there is a hurricane some parts of areas affected have no electricity for weeks
Although some truth is in that statement
The cat of hurricane to do that much devastation would have been one on the level of a cat 5 where there was multiple tornado activity
Example hurricane David in fla and Katrina because of heavy flooding
Those comparison gives a right of understanding the damage that would be done during a cat 4 or 5
The comparison of a cat 1 hurricane with 75 miles per hour wind does not fit into the same category as one which can do the same catastrophic damage as a cat 5
My mind tells me that auntie Mia rather than placed some kind of responsibility towards bl& p prefer to send a message of comfort looking past the hurt and pain people felt from the loss of electricty
A cat 4 or 5 hurricane can un leash multiple damage bringing wide spread damage in many areas with out any exception
Elsa a Cat 1 which was expected to cross fla would in know way do the kind of damage to fla infrastructure and electrical service as was seen in Barbados
The truth of the matter as Elsa cross the West Coast of Fla upward into the Eastern Seaboard would only serve to exposed the bl& p incompetence and its selfish PR messages distancing itself from responsibility
Whereby a low grade hurricane Elsa had very little devastating impact on Fla electric Service as happened in barbados
Hmm
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Direction & Policy Formulation Services
Contingencies
Programme 040:
Sub-Programme 0022:
Account Code 230: Contingencies – $22,153,875
SUMMARY OF ASHFALL EXPENDITURE BY MINISTRIES
MINISTRIES/DEPARTMENTS
AMOUNTS
528,955 PM office
1,113,781. MINISTRY of tourism and international Transport
495,836 Attorney General office
41,830Ministry of Innovation Science and Smart Technology
15,000 Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade
71,971.Ministry of Home Affairs information and Public Affairs
52,880 Ministry of Finance Economic Affaiirs and Investment
134,699 Ministry of People Empowerment and Elder Affairs
464,294 Ministry of International Business and Industry
99,238 Ministry of Maritime Affairs and the blue economy
40,256 Post office
13,278,978 Ministry of Transport works and water resources
915,645 Ministry of Environment and National Beautification
255,860 Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security
327,409 Ministry of health and Wellness
3,688,648 Ministry of Education Technology and vocational Training
200,135 Ministry of Youth Sports and Community Empowerment
428,460 Ministry of Housing Landa and Maintenance
22,153,875
The sum of $22,153,875 is to reimburse Ministries, Departments and State-owned Enterprises for expenditure incurred from the clean-up process resulting from the ash deposited on Barbados.
13 PRIME MINISTER’S OFFICE
27 MINISTRY OF TOURISM AND INTERNATIONAL TRANSPORT
30 ATTORNEY GENERAL
31 MINISTRY OF INNOVATION, SCIENCE AND SMART TECHNOLOGY
32 MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND FOREIGN TRADE
33 MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS, INFORMATION AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS 34 MINISTRY OF FINANCE, ECONOMIC AFFAIRS AND INVESTMENT
35 MINISTRY OF PEOPLE EMPOWERMENT AND ELDER AFFAIRS
39 MINISTRY OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY
46 MINISTRY OF MARITIME AFFAIRS AND THE BLUE ECONOMY
50 POST OFFICE
81 MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT, WORKS AND WATER RESOURCES
82 MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT AND NATIONAL BEAUTIFICATION
83 MNISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SECURITY
86 MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND WELLNESS
87 MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, TECHNOLOGY AND VOCATIONAL TRAINING
91 MINISTRY OF YOUTH, SPORTS AND COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT
93 MINISTRY OF HOUSING, LANDS AND MAINTENANCE
TOTAL22,153,875
ELSA passed through Fla and everybody has electricity
Not so in Barbados almost a week later and people do not have electricity
The restoration begun in the East coast of fla and electricity restored to most homes in a day
Up until two days ago bl&p said that 20 thousand homes was without power
Now u are not trying to compare bl & p long process which started almost a week ago and still not finished to a day and a half worth of completion of work to what has been done in Jacksonville to restoring electricity to about 12thousand homes
No contest bl& p efforts made it easy for Elsa to exposed its incompetence
Some how it feels real good being the lone man standing on the burning deck
David flush out the ignoramuses real good
Just rolling on the floor with laughter 🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣😂🤣🤣🤣
Strap it !
https://brcwestindies.com/products/hurricane-straps/
https://www.myhandb.bb/hardware/construction-hardware/hurricane-straps.html
I have had those for years.
My friend after six days got back electricity today
All perishables gone like real.money down the drain
Yuh think govt of Barbados gonna help those who have lost some of their food supplies because of nature’s pounding
The elderly at least
11thousand in Barbados still without lights
Bl&p says it might be a week longer before restoration
Every hurricane season we are reminded not to fill our fridge with perishables. We are also reminded to turn our fridge to maximum before the storm. I took care to follow both of these and my meat was frozen after three days. The meat can last for another day or so chilled. And you can also prolong its life in a cooler with ice. So… you do the above and then you cook the meat and use it up. Nobody should be losing a whole lot.
Having said that, BL&P have probably run out of transformers. They said 45 needed replacing. Probably weren’t expecting a hit. Not ready for it.
I was searching for a post by GP2 where he gave some very useful information on home construction.
Unable to find it and surprise that no one provided a link to this valuable infornation.
That should be a word
infornation — information on fornication
Sometimes I am astonished how bajans view most of every facet of life in a singular lens
Many barbadians especially the elderly does a weekly or monthly shopping preferring to by in bulk items like canned foods and meat
There are many reasons which can contribute to people buying more of one product than the other
Maybe a convient way of saving when prices go on sale
Another maybe lack of everyday personnel transportation as might be with the elderly
And maybe relying on a monthly check to do their monthly shopping
The gall and nerve of insensitivity towards those who might have lost their perishables is downright nasty and speaks of a don’t carish attitude towards bajans struggling to make ends meet being thrown into immediate devastation by Elsa
Phew
https://fb.watch/v/3tBoflgjM/
Govt needs to put in place a committee to look into the truthfulness of bl&p information regarding outages that happen because of down rotten poles
messages sent to BL&p by concerned citizens on the concerns of leaning and rotten poles before the hurricane occured should be contacted
Bl& p should bare some of the responsibility
A week is too long for people to go with out electrify in a COVID environment
One can always find somebody in every damn neighbourhood willing to buy you a chicken when necessary.
I myself, the uncaring one, once volunteered to assist the lady who undertook such at the church I attended.
I also planned and executed many programmes in my role as member of the League of Friends of one district hospital. Also executed one such programme with my workplace that lasted after my departure.
So much for don’t carish, nuh!
Piss off, you pox-filled plague of a political pimp!
When Angela Cox has stood for two minutes with a youth group of teenagers, next to a previously unnoticed ball of shite and sung carols to the elderly patients of a district hospital, she can talk to me of don’t carishness!
Only one young person couldn’t stay the carol’s course. She ran outside for air. The rest remained and sang with straight faces.
Meanwhile, Donna has identified one elderly woman worthy of her assistance who lost her house in the hurricane.
She passed me in my garden yesterday on the way to shout a relative before work.
Not giving to people who refuse to help themselves. Not giving to government to help them.
And I forgot… really poor people cannot buy meat in bulk no matter the price.