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First the strategy was smoke and mirrors, then it was detract and deflect now it is “nothing to see here” (NTSH)

The Prime Minister announces a willingness to pay $48 for vaccines which cost $12. NTSH

A permanent secretary signs off on a $10 million dollar agreement without their own Minister’s knowledge. NTSH

The biggest Cabinet of ministers and Ministers of State most of which we hardly hear or see, along with consultants, committees and advisers left, right, center and underneath. NTSH

20 months of Covid, millions spent, a depressed economy, extra salaries and largesse for a few but no budget or expense reporting to inform us. NTSH

Marches up and down about sewage tax and NSRL, but, cost of living is now the highest in decades with purchasing power at its lowest. NTSH

An entire law created to get TWO Deputy Commissioners of Police, yet finding ONE who was NOT a Deputy was akin to pulling teeth. NTSH

Houses imported from China, contractors left in the dark, only a “promised few” will be able to install and erect them. NTSH

A Republic is being forced down throats at break neck speed but yet we promote the gospel of consulting and engaging stakeholders. NTSH

Four sitting MPs retire, two sitting MPs castigate their boss in parliament and gag orders seem to be the order of the day. NTSH

A Minister and a Chief says online learning is going well. A million Frenchmen know otherwise. NTSH

On Moe minister takes 8 months off with full pay and no repercussions. NTSH

In December we said tourists must come, in January we said one death is too much, in October it’s we have to live with it. NTSH

Visitor protocols changed overnight without consultation. BAMP in the dark. 300+ cases and deaths continue daily. NTSH

The best candidate to market a Barbadian product is actually a German-Canadian. NTSH

Once upon a time MAM proclaimed MM as horrible, corrupt and deserving of jail. My how things change. NTSH

A candidate is publicly chosen and endorsed, then the branch is told you now have to decide if it is O-Kay. NTSH

We should all get a dollar when a Minister lies to our faces and says “I am not aware of that, I will have to look into it, I don’t know what you are talking about.” NTSH

Oh and before I forget….the decades old Kingsland Estates matter is adjudicated with half billion dollars going to the plaintiff while implicating local “power players” in fraud, deceit and corruption over many many years. But hey! Clearly, there’s nothing to see here.

Anyhow, don’t think about it too long folks. Pretend you didn’t read this because after all…no matter how bad it gets, how many lies are told, how many mistakes are made, and how much we are made to look like fools…THERE IS NOTHING TO SEE HERE!

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230 responses to “Nothing to See Here (NTSH)”

  1. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    A screaming ambulance is going north.

  2. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    Perhaps Court Cases against Government can fix things

  3. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    The system cannot (will not) be fixed.
    Those who are reaping the sweets now will not fix it.
    Those who are in the desert waiting for their turn at the trough will not fix it.
    Those on the sidelines wishing for better do not have the power to fix anything.

  4. angela cox Avatar
    angela cox

    There is nothing wrong with the systems but the politics of interference who tries to manipulate and control and change the rules which directs the system
    The Consitution is very clear on how the system must work

  5. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    seems like the only effort for work that the politicians do is during election cycles

    and they use the political rope-a-dope soft shoe shuffle trick

  6. David Avatar
    David

    The Constitution of a country spells out ‘fundamental’ rights a country wants to follow BUT it does not list the many procedures required. It is always about execution of detail and interpretation of what the framers envisaged.

  7. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    angela cox October 31, 2021 9:02 PM

    [a]: “I find it rather amusing that a yardfowl would jump off the fence using a defensive tactic to suggest that the continuous abuse of the system happen before. So any criticism is unwarranted.”

    [b]: “It is noteworthy that when past govt paid out large fees for services the same people cried loud and hard. Now it serves their purpose to defend govt actions by using political diversions.”

    You’ve essentially REPEATED what I ‘said,’ and CONTRADICTED yourself in the process.

    All one has to do is read YOUR contributions between the period January 15, 2008 and May 24, 2018, when the former DLP administration ‘was in power,’ and he/she would realize “it served YOUR purpose to DEFEND govt actions by using POLITICAL DIVERSIONS,” when you……..

    …….. stoutly DEFENDED issues such as, for example, the CAHILL scam; ‘government’s handling of the CLICO scam; Clearwater Bay scam; Michael Carrington illegally with-holding wheel chair bound, senior citizen John Griffiths’ funds; Richard Byer charging Caves of Barbados $766,855 for providing a similar service another lawyer previously provided for $17,000;
    Mark Maloney and ‘The Villages at Coverley,’ ‘Hard Rock Cement,’ the NHC ‘Grotto’ Housing Project and Hyatt Hotel.
    Remember, this is the SAME Mark Maloney you’re now calling an ‘OUTLAW,’ for conducting business under the BLP SIMILARLY as he did under Freundel, Verla and DEM.

    …….. CRITICISED the Auditor General’s annual reports in which financial improprieties occurring under your administration were highlighted.
    The SAME AudG, Mr. Trotman, SUDDENLY became known to be a ‘man of INTEGRITY’ and his reports CREDIBLE, after he highlighted financial improprieties occurring under this current BLP administration.

    Your actions CLEARLY INDICATED you BELIEVED “any criticism was UNWARRANTED” at that time.

    RE: “At to present Atherly hasn’t produce a pin but has been promoted receiving another salary.”

    Wouldn’t you ‘saying,’ “all those people whether we agree or disagree with the price paid provided a service,” be EQUALLY APPLICABLE in this situation?

    RE: “Well if these similar actions were stamped wrong in the past the same applies now.”

    And, that is EXACTLY what I’m ‘SAYING.’ But, the FACT you’re PURPOSELY IGNORING and perhaps want BU to FORGET is……..

    ……..YOU STAMPED “those similar actions RIGHT in the PAST.”

    Yuh see, the problem with yard-fowls such as you is, they always look for differences that, in their opinion, separate both their political parties from each other.

    You have to ACCEPT the REALITY that there aren’t any political, philosophical or ideological differences between the BLP and DLP.

    BOTH the BLP and DLP indulge in similar activities to ENRICH their members, financiers, relatives and friends, at the EXPENSE of taxpayers…….. a FACT THAT CANNOT BE REFUTED.

  8. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    “The natives appear to care for little else but their church, chicken, pork, fetting, liming and their petty domestic local internecine politics: a clash of two colours and two letters in the alphabet.”

    don’t waste too much energy on it, it’s coming to a boil……i have observed how many of them have acted on here, unfocused and tunnel visioned…i have more or less stepped away and like Pacha and quite a few writers i know, FOCUS ONLY ON MY WRITING…
    .

    https://scontent.fbgi1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.15752-9/251101640_249156540570619_2144474320339862692_n.jpg?_nc_cat=104&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=ae9488&_nc_ohc=HTTKTqUmbKQAX_B9518&_nc_oc=AQmdS1KMfUdR8mRB-sb96oPEA8LnCCCza9UST7qn1xB7Bt6VicHclttEmHglmU0N08Y&_nc_ht=scontent.fbgi1-1.fna&oh=f56d10e22a39476583e9468f85d7b15f&oe=61A71C0B

    Someone said the red glove has an evil significance associated with slavery.., i don’t know about that, in medieval times a glove meant loyalty…although in the tiny polluted minds of sell out politicians, ya never know…

  9. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    OR, they could just be avoiding catching covid from the dude, protecting the hand… and Scotland is cold now like most of Europe, still giving the benefit of the doubt, but would NEVER trust a parliament niga.

  10. angela cox Avatar
    angela cox

    DavidNovember 1, 2021 12:24 AM

    The Constitution of a country spells out ‘fundamental’ rights a country wants to follow BUT it does not list the many procedures required. It is always about execution of detail and interpretation of what the framers envisaged.
    Xxxxxxx
    There are laws within the Barbados Constitution that gives clear directives towards good governance
    What it takes is a moral and ethical compass to implement them
    A govt dolling out millions of dollars to buy business school supplies is an unethical and immoral
    especially when a govt closes eyes or is in slow in resolving socioeconomic issues that impact the people daily well being
    Govt recently bailed out the hotel industry at over three million dollars
    Yet govt could not implement a decent stimulus pkg for the people but instead handed them gift baskets
    One shouldn’t have to read a law to understand that giving to those whose hands have been fed from the govt treasury for years and handing out gift baskets to the poor and the most vulnerable needs should need an interpreter of law to underscore a moral and ethical stance
    Govt have more often than not pursue unethical paths to appease a few along with throwing and ignoring the laws the laws of good governance

  11. David Avatar
    David

    Steuspe

    Are there laws for the Speaker of the House to be fired if he or she is found to have witheld client’s money?

  12. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    TheO could hush up because he is yet to renounce her as his “hero”. He may play the fool but I KNOW that he recognises the ring of truth. Am I to take his advice to ignore as an admission that there is no case to answer here on my part? Weak response!

    And as for certain others who shall remain nameless, why…..they actually have the absolute gall TO BERATE ME for defending myself against what I obviously KNOW to be a barrage of lies! And there is yet another who lurks in the shadows during our exchanges only jumping out in support when I call her what I OBVIOUSLY WOULD KNOW she is and I know he recognises the truth. Just like Elsie Payne recognised the ring of truth EVERY TIME I was sent to her office and believed ME over Daphne Joseph-Hackett and her white English teacher, Miss Welland. I spoke only once each time. There were no follow up questions. No attempts to interrogate. She heard and she believed.

    This woman WURA has no regard for the truth! That MUST count against her. Or else….what are we really doing here?

    Your teller of truth to power has no regard for truth WHEN IT SUITS HER????

    This, THIS is your champion????

    She who cannot be trusted in small things cannot be trusted in matters of greater import!

    Translation… she lies on and smears a private citizen on a blog; she will lie on and smear public figures in government.

    A liar is a liar is a liar is a liar is a liar is a liar…..

  13. angela cox Avatar
    angela cox

    DavidNovember 1, 2021 5:18 AM

    Steuspe

    Are there laws for the Speaker of the House to be fired if he or she is found to have witheld client’s money?
    Xx

    Xxxxx
    Steupse back to u
    Now go back on your political fence too early to be protesting and portraying yourself as a political yardfowl

  14. David Avatar
    David

    You are a YARDFOWL of the highest degree. Nothing you post will change it. Now go back to your yellow corner.

    #havethelastword

  15. angela cox Avatar
    angela cox

    Artax @ac

    You have to ACCEPT the REALITY that there aren’t any political, philosophical or ideological differences between the BLP and DLP.
    Xxxxx
    There are laws to guide and direct
    That is what have to be accepted
    Don’t worry uh head about teaching me Anything

  16. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    And you are STILL A PLAGIARIST….wading into an archive dumpster to steal my comments and REWORD THEM, pretend they are yours, will follow you to your GRAVE…

  17. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    other than that….peace and love, ya need it in ya life..

  18. angela cox Avatar
    angela cox

    DavidNovember 1, 2021 5:26 AM

    You are a YARDFOWL of the highest degree. Nothing you post will change it. Now go back to your yellow corner.

    #havethelastword
    xxxxxxx

    Now look at that I speak of laws and good governance and irate foot soldiers speckled fence jumps off the fence and attacks my good sense of moral and ethical reasoning
    What more can I say
    Lawd have merci
    David u ought to be ashamed of self
    Btw my favourite color is 🟣
    Get uh facts right yuh hear

  19. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    The “natives” – dear me! Now where did I hear that used before?

    I remember now! It was the white colonisers who used it to create a narrative of inferior, simple creatures not quite human, more akin to the apes!

    But wait! That is precisely what you are doing!

    But…..there are people in Barbados who fit that description. There are people in England who fit that description. There are people in Canada who fit that description. There are people in the USA who fit that description.

    And in each of those places, there are people who don’t!

  20. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Wipe the pee from your legs before you point out the pee on mine!

    Your governments are just as corrupt! What are you doing to fight that?

    And now, the usual suspects will offer the usual crap that will do nothing to refute what cannot be refuted.

    A few people down the political ladder does get lock up. But the big corruption continues unabated!

  21. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    I support ACwhen she is right and when she is wrong (in my opinion)then I give her a gentle nudge.

    On matters of corruption, I like the message of Wura.

    I have found you to be ‘honest’, highly sensible and practical.

    Anyone who has been here for any length of time probably has an opinion on various bloggers and picks and chooses/rejects parts of their message; filtering is done.

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

    As long as she is not sowing seeds of DIVISION and HATRED between those NATIVES = INDIGENOUS living on the island and those doing their best in the diaspora….the pettiness can be ignored..

    “na·tive
    /ˈnādiv/
    noun

    1.
    a person born in a specified place or associated with a place by birth, whether subsequently resident there or not:
    “a native of Montreal”
    adjective

    1.
    associated with the place or circumstances of a person’s birth:
    “he’s a native New Yorker”
    Similar
    mothervernacular
    2.
    (of a plant or animal) of indigenous origin or growth:
    “these plants are native to North America”

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

    New Yorkers of ALL HUE pride themselves on being called NATIVE NEW YORKERS….lol

  24. David Avatar
    David

    Here we go again.The same people calling for change…

  25. TLSN Avatar
    TLSN

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JpQ6NtbZxiE

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

    Native..

    Similar = domestic, homegrown, homemade, home, local , indigenous, endemic

    opposite = imported

    so when are yall going to STOP speaking the colonizer language which is NOT INDIGENOUS OR NATIVE TO AFRIKA…. and REVERT to ancestral language, if your adopted colonizer language is starting to be hated…
    . Afrikan language courses are now available for everyone….am sure i posted about it on here a couple weeks ago, it would be refreshing to hear another language besides colonizer rubic spoken. on BU…that is if we are looking for REAL CHANGE..

  27. David Avatar
    David

    Is it fair to confirm at this juncture the DLP and BLP will go to the next general election uncontested from socalled third parties?

  28. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    TheO,

    An HONEST thief and plagiarist!

    Murdaaaaah!

    Thanks for your assessment. It brought the smile back to my lips. Your advice is now accepted.

    Ignore button located….changing channels……

  29. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    it would be refreshing to hear another language besides colonizer LEXICON spoken. on BU…

    had something else going on in my head…

  30. TLSN Avatar
    TLSN

    @David,
    Let’s cut the hate out of BU and focus on those groups who are oppressing and limiting the life chances of my beautiful Bajan African people.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H-Jks6rIhMY

  31. David Avatar
    David

    @TLSN

    BU is a microcosm of the wider community where the good bad and ugly can be found.

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

    Lawson was right, always crawling around looking for cake….as soon as a piece is given, they are gone….

    self-HATRED …hand in hand with corruption, social dimution of the population, the backward trajectory associated with ignorant, dark ages politicans and their sidekicks has the island in a quandary and what do we get on a blog from those who cannot see……an add-on and pile-on of hatred…..to their own detriment..

    TLSN…what some don’t realize is that these topics are THOROUGLY analyzed and scrutinized.. BEFORE HAND..

  33. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    social and FINANCIAL diminution of the Black population

    the payment for these years of opening eyes = at least 70% of the population HAVE WOKEN UP…

    i consider that not one year wasted…

  34. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    imagine that…just occured to me, they are still struggling to get 70% of the population to take the vaccine during a deadly pandemic…but we managed to get approx that amount AWOKEN after CENTURIES in my case, within 9 YEARS…hell of a feat.

  35. 555 Dub Street Avatar
    555 Dub Street

    Most people look outwards not inwards at those around them and not within themselves
    and they learn slowly about differences in colour by the way they are treated by others

    Colin Kaepernick was a mixed race black footballer Quarterback and skilled baseball pitcher
    who was adopted by white parents and lived in a white town in Wisconsin
    Colin in Black & White on Nettflix is about his formative years navigating race, class and culture
    he needed white peoples approval for their selection for scholarships
    but was deemed a thug for his hairstyle such as braided corn rows
    and an afro and was forced to cut his hair to be in a team
    he became an activist which ended his NFL career

    Trump is a native New Yorker with a racist mind who calls black protestors thugs
    and supports far right white protestors saying he understands their frustrations

    KK is a mixed race black asian who looks black but has an asian name
    and is resented by mixed race blacks who have white blood from slave breeding and rape

  36. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    Good ideas are put out and accepted and adopted by others
    I was the first to put out thoughts about powerful energies of next generations youths
    now everyone and his or her dog are using on it both sides of the fence
    I won’t call them copycats I will say that they are thinking right now

    Blacks/Whites/Browns/yellows/Reds/BUers are slowly catching up

  37. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    To claim you and pacha are the only original radical higher thinkers changing people is either deluded dishonest or both

    everyone knows weed frees your mind

  38. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    Anger with the system is a good motivator for inspirational writings

    I written some outstanding Court Statements in one go free flow with big words and shit battering down sentence

  39. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    So who claimed that…

    i said myself and Pacha and OTHERS (writers) WHOM I KNOW….can only speak for what i know, Pacha is on even less them me, i manage to use time not otherwise in use to post…there are others on here also trying their best AND STILL GET RIDICULED….and HATRED thrown at them by those seeking to have bits of cake thrown at them to massage and MASK their deficencies and lack of anything useful……

    always said, i never came here to make friends who are really enemies, have met some nice bloggers over the years, some no longer with us…can still attest to that….

  40. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    Well cut it out then and don’t say it ever again
    bad and wrong shit must be nipped in the bud

  41. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    don’t be telling me what to say….it fits people well, as long as they showcase and project themselves as such….when they stop, so WILL I…

    so what are you doing to stop any of it….or clean up the nasty racist shit that your group is perpetraing on OUR continent…

    and since DAMAGED GOODS Donna….has been confirmed as an agent…..she too will be called by the ddescription she PROJECTS…..Damaged Goods Donna the Hater…

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

    yes…i do have ways of finding out these things…..and will make her life a living hell if she continues…..because it’s clear that stopping me is a challenge and YET…..mentally stunted.

  43. Enuff Avatar
    Enuff

    Donna
    She’s a liar of the highest order and shameless too. I said so a long time ago but many here condone it. So I say again to ignore her. Dah Afrikan lineage she’s touting we can’t match.🤣🤣
    As for Theogas, nothing but a hypocrite. This is a man that loves to call me, Lorenzo etc yardfowls but obviously takes communion with ac/mariposa/angelacox in George Street, even admitting to being her biggest stan. A woman who repeatedly posts half-truths, lies and plenty misinformation, which he supports. The lady recently claimed that the government had not laid the constitutionally required Budget, an exercise completed since March. Ask her what is the purpose of the Poverty Fund (which her party used to pay mortgages etc) that she’s trying to make an issue? See his comments on the Fitts Village story, and his agenda or unfamiliarity with the process is obvious. How does one champion overseas voting but always comes across as so misinformed? Or is it simply a case of a closeted kool aid drinker hiding behind a see thru glass door?

  44. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    Your views and mind are often contentious extreme and racist and not positive or uplifting vibrations which is why they are not accepted by many. People know where you are coming from and ignore it but what is disconcerting is when others agree with you.

    My peer group are the rasta brethren who I sit down and reason with and sip a cup of the boom chronic herb we call Kiki

    Donna is a nice person who expresses herself on the BU not sure why the two of you are in a cat fight pulling out each others braids using razor blades to cut up faces

  45. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    “So I say again to ignore her. Dah Afrikan lineage she’s touting we can’t match.🤣🤣”

    fowl shit is NOT A LINEAGE…

    “The lady recently claimed that the government had not laid the constitutionally required Budget, ”

    i have NEVER SPOKEN ABOUT ANY BUDGET ON BU in 9 years,,,,i saw you discoursing with AC on that you LIAR….it’s well know i do not like or get involved in politics, only speak about the corruption, because i was reeled into yall evil…..if they corrupt had done what they were supposed to 6 years ago instead of viewing me as another victim…I WON’T EVEN BE ON BU…but they can continue to play games with me and don’t do what is necessary…am sure outside of circumstances I CAN FIND ANOTHER 9 YEARS TO SPARE….fowl shit lineage.

    “Your views and mind are often contentious extreme and racist and not positive or uplifting vibrations which is why they are not accepted by many.”.

    who gives a shit who accepts what YOU ARE A MINORITY…again go clean up ya fellow minorities and their evil racist shit CRIMINAL SHIT against OUR people on OUR continent and then come and have this discourse with me again….hypocrite…

  46. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    this one is TOO SWEET gotta make the corrections….🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    “The lady recently claimed that the government had not laid the constitutionally required Budget, ”

    i have NEVER SPOKEN ABOUT ANY BUDGET ON BU in 9 years,,,,i saw you discoursing with AC = ANGELA on that you LIAR….it’s well known i do not like or get involved in politics, in any country regardless which,

    only speak about the corruption IN BARBADOS, because i was reeled into yall evil…11 YEARS AGO….through no fault of my own……..if the corrupt had done what they were supposed to 6 years ago instead of viewing me as another victim…I WON’T EVEN BE ON BU…but they can continue to play games with me and don’t do what is necessary…am sure outside of circumstances I CAN FIND ANOTHER 9 YEARS TO SPARE….fowl shit lineage.

    all i spoke about was the republc constitution …THAT NEVER WAS….mark ya calendar….there will be a republic WITHOUT a republic constitution.

  47. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    “who gives a shit who accepts what YOU ARE A MINORITY…”

    No one is a minority or a majority and everyone is blessed by their heavenly father and mother to do his their works in these times

    You have not been blessed with a pretty face which if you read intuitively like a Tarot card would explain your anger and bitterness

    gut instinct and first impressions are usually right and subliminal subconscious warnings

  48. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Show me your face…let me be the judge and confirm that it does not look like someone’s HORSE’S ASS…

    at least i can show mine..

  49. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    There has NEVER been a better time for those who bellow the loudest on BU to SHOW THEIR FACES……see if yall got the balls or will give me MORE FUEL FOR MY FIRE…

    starting with Damaged Goods Donna, kiki the clown and all the other fowl shit lineage.

  50. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

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