Debate about the commitment of the two political parties honouring promises outlined in glossy manifestos aside, the documents serve a useful reference for citizens to hold political parties accountable.
All agree the last twenty years in particular have gotten progressively challenging for Barbados and Barbadians. The outgoing government with its bevy of financial consultants have focused mainly on executing macroeconomic arrangements. However, the harsh economic condition of the last decade and a half has meant less disposal income and some destruction of wealth for the middle and upper class. Of equal concern to the blogmaster is the lack of investment opportunity for wealth generation available to Barbadians, especially after the domestic debt restructure.
What does a check of the manifestos share with the public by the two main parties – Democratic Labour Party (DLP) and Barbados Labour Party (BLP) on plans to address the lack of investment opportunities?
The DLP makes no direct reference in the manifesto about a plan to create or facilitate opportunities for Barbadians to invest. It is embedded in general and vague language. The BLP’s message is more direct – see page below.
This is important because it is no secret the economic pie is disproportionately owned by minority groups in Barbados, comprised of less than 10% of the population. Why would majority Black political parties not prioritize implementing policy to afford mainly Black Barbadians greater opportunity to invest? Some will dismiss the manifestos as fluff, BUT, what else does the citizen have to hold the parties accountable?
There is little doubt in the mind of the blogmaster who added to the coffers in the last 20 years.
There is little doubt in the mind of the blogmaster who added debt.
Source: Nation
The former Senator knew this AFTER she was fired from Cabinet?
Source: Nation
Q The former Senator knew this AFTER she was fired from Cabinet?
HAS IT OCCURRED TO YOU EVEN WITH YOUR VERY LIMITED CAPACITY TO UNDERSTAND, THAT SHE MIGHT HAVE BEEN FIRED FROM CABI NET BECAUSE SHE EXPRESSED THE VIEW THAT MIA MUGABE MUTTLEY WAS A DICTATOR LIKE ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANES IV, ND THE ONE HE FIGURES?
The minorities are RIGHT TO LAUGH.
Mia was WARNED to put her people first, there is not a minority on earth that would put HER before their own people, they should be drinking champagne every day off the self-hating clowns determined to make sure their people ARE LAST in every social and financial RANKING and watch them sink deeper and deeper into poverty and degradation….
why would it make sense to enrich others and LEAVE YOUR PEOPLE in bondage, suffering, killing and injuring each other out of frustration because there are NO OPPORTUNITIES, no hope or access to their money for them, and you feel PROUD OF YOURSELF….it’s the PEOPLE’S TURN NOW..
‘Take away your vote and watch her’
by Ras Simba Akoma
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“All I want to say is that they don’t really care about us”.
That was one of the mantras being chanted by the nurses of Barbados as they marched in protest of being poorly treated by this Government.
Like a lot of Barbadians today, I personally have many grouses with this Government and its treatment of Barbadians across the board.
Many of my articles speak to why the Rastafari community should not support the re-election campaign of this Government, so I will not touch that matter in this article.
This article is being written in support of the marching nurses, and the “unfaired”, in Barbados.
I was unable to attend the march, but I am fully in support of the nurses, who after being some of the first on the frontline to address the COVID-19 situation, are now being treated in a manner unbecoming of any Government that truly cares.
It would seem that the slogan used by the Government in the last election, “Mia Cares”, is the same slogan that will be used as a yardstick to judge her and her party in the court of the people’s opinion.
Many Barbadians are waking up to the reality about this Government. I have had conversations with a Minister in her Government who prior to the calling of the elections was fed up and disgusted with his party’s handling of several affairs including those of Rastafari.
This is a person who when convenient was thrown under the bus by the Prime Minister, whispered a little about internal infelicities in the party, was given a hush-position, and now is on the road running again for his party, who he knows fails the people in many ways.
Picture this: You are responsible for hosting a very important race in which you will partake. You start the race when you have a head start.
Due to your delayed announcement of the race, it has put the other runners at a disadvantage. If this were the case we would be quick to say that was unfair, even if it was within the rules of the race to do so.
Being legal does not make something right or even ethical.
This is what Mia and her Mottley crew have done as it pertains to the blitz attack, calling of this election. The calling of this election was done at a time when COVID positive cases were sure to be on the drastic rise.
After the Old Year’s Night celebration as expected there was a notable increase in COVID-19 cases, and the Government took that opportunity to announce COVID-19 positive people will be denied their right to vote; just another right that this government is taking away from the people without a second thought. Is this the type of Government Barbados wants? Is this the type of politics Barbados wants? As I drive about Barbados now, all I can see are the government’s posters all over the place. If I were a visitor to the island I would think only one party was in this election.
This will go down in the history of Barbados as the most unfair election of all time. Is all fair in love and war? Can Barbados afford to give a Government that does not care about the will of the people a second term in office? Can Barbados afford to give a Government which has no qualms about letting Barbados know how stupid its masses are when they question a national medical procedure that is being imposed on them? Can Rastafari in Barbados afford to support a Government that has without a second thought, denied them their freedom from cannabis persecution, and therein an opportunity to truly develop and empower themselves? Can parents support a Government that had little to say about the call to pit children against parents as it pertains to the experimental COVID 19 vaccine? Can Barbados afford a government which cannot get anti-corruption/integrity legislation passed but can advance a number of other bills and superficial initiatives? Barbados clearly needs an administration that truly represents the wishes of the majority of its citizens. It needs a government with some sort of political scruples.
Barbados needs a Government that respects the rights of its people.
This is the perfect opportunity for Barbados to hold its representatives accountable, and to show successive Governments what will be their fate should they disrespect and disobey the will of the masses.
Take away your vote and watch her.
Ras Simba Akoma is president and founder of the African Heritage Foundation.”
“I became afraid . . . because of all that was happening. Everybody deals with power differently and as hard as this is to say, I am still somewhat afraid of her . . . . As I watch what is transpiring in Barbados it gives me that cause for concern.”
this is definitely not good, those two were very close and if she says she is AFRAID…the people should be even MORE AFRAID of what can happen to them next under this FALSE POWER…this temporary immunity and TAKE AWAY THOSE DIPLOMATIC PASSPORTS before they are MISUSED TO REALLY DESTROY BLACK LIVES EVEN MORE…than they are already succeeding to demote. reduce, box in and TRAP into new age SLAVERY……and wo knows what else their CRIMINAL MINORITY FRIENDS got planned for Black lives with THEIR BLESSINGS and PERMISSION..
i have been hearing these types of things for YEARS AND YEARS…but was willing to watch it play out, just in case it was rumor, but if the people DON’T LEARN AND ACT NOW…they never will and it will be THEIR FUNERAL…literally..
Steuspe
The third individual who have openly spoken about Mia dictatorial style of leadership
First it was Maria Agard
Then OSA
Now Her best friend from childhood Lucille Moe
What more can be said
Xxx
Nice hearing Sinckler thoughts on politics after three years of silence
Interesting enough he said he took time away from being involved in politics
However gives an analysis of what is problematic in the Dlp party regarding leadership
Makes for wonder who are his sources
“Everybody deals with power differently and as hard as this is to say, I am still somewhat afraid of her . . . . “
I don’t think she has gone crazy from power and her feet are firmly planted on solid ground,
hubris is defined as overweening presumption that leads a person to disregard the divinely fixed limits on human action in an ordered cosmos and this election will show if her gamble for 5 more years paid off
So far no comment posted making contact with the blog. The blogmaster kindly to make a comment and move on. There is no need to bombard every blog with the same.
“Sinckler said Barbadians had a choice between “two different styles, two different approaches, two different levels of experiences”, adding they are both very well qualified and intelligent people.”
pure nonsense, they all went to the same schools, are in the SAME CABAL and carry the same BACKWARD COLONIZED MENTALITY and accused of the SAME THINGS AS LAWYERS, where their people are ALWAYS LAST in EVERY SOCIAL STANDING even when the MONEY IS THEIRS.
..besides, saw Mrs. Maloney’s husband and DLP opposition pretending to have a fight in the newspapers a while back with him threatening lawsuit, does that sound familiar, when Mrs.Maloney was castigating DLP for enriching her husband on VIDEO, hundreds of millions of dollars to A BILLION DOLLARS worth IN LAND and other UNDESERVED enrichment….at the PEOPLE’S EXPENSE…did not hear the same opposition leader COMPLAIN or EXPOSE ANY OF IT as a then senator…WHILE IT WAS HAPPENING..
..next thing you know, government changes and Mrs. Maloney’s husband was the government agent bypassing AstraZeneca pharmaceuticals to source vaccines from an entertainment company and the treasury would have taken at least a 48 MILLION DOLLAR HIT if he had not been ROBBED (according to him) still waiting to here if the case is still in a Florida court…….. the game players…let’s see how it plays out…..let’s see if the fake disagreement does not turn into another VACCINE-LIKE SCAM…
how could any sane person TRUST any of these is beyond me….it would mean they are NOT SANE AT ALL..
We need to ask the Blogmaster..
.HOW LONG has he been BEGGING FOR TRANSFORMATION?
Is he any CLOSER TO GETTING IT?
Has he been GIVEN A TIMELINE FOR IT?
Does he believe he will SEE IT IN HIS LIFETIME?
Does he believe it will EVER HAPPEN even after we ARE ALL GONE?
i could go on but it will take up too much blog space for something that will NEVER HAPPEN UNDER COLONIZED MINDS…
and that is what he is NOT GETTING.
Heard Mascoll being forced to be transparent on brass tacks
The numbers given in the collection of taxes is mind-boggling and begs to ask why these numbers were not told to the people
The call for a Budget was met with all kind of political answers
Bajans deserves better
One would hear about buses and garbage trucks bought
But when questions are asked about money spent and taxes collected govt is silent
On Wednesday night you will be put out of your misery.
Once again. I’m going to draw you back to a video link I placed earlier this week dated back from 2017. It’s a debate on Barbados’ economy.
https://youtu.be/IifuJ6QPT88
Here is a final comment to some of yoy, if you do not like the way this blogmaster is managing the blog, go where you are welcome.
DavidJanuary 16, 2022 7:29 AM
On Wednesday night you will be put out of your misery
Xxxxc
Your kind of mentality is a sorry tell tale sign as to why Barbados social and economic problems are in a poor state
What misery!
Did you read what your idol from the former DLP government had to say on the front page?
“this was spoken by marcus garvey in early 20th century”
yes it was, but not widely known….because Black people have this fear of READING TO EXPAND THEIR KNOWLEDGE BASE, as i told one on here when i realized she had reached her intellectual limit….
…but it was not made popular until Bob sang it.
MANY PEOPLE were able to use it to FREE THEIR MINDS…but most did not… and that’s why Nana Garvey’s genius is still in play to save fools…most of whom DO NOT WANT TO BE SAVED…
more outlined details of Moe statement about Mia
Read ePaper Barbados today
Home / Local News / ‘I’m afraid!’, Moe says power has changed PM Mottley
‘I’m afraid!’, Moe says power has changed PM Mottley – by Barbados Today January 16, 2022
By Wade Gibbons
and Kimberley Cummins
Former Government Senator Lucille Moe has expressed fears about Prime Minister Mia Mottley being given another mandate to run Barbados’ political affairs.
Moe, who served as Minister of Information, Broadcasting and Public Affairs in Mottley’s administration up to July 2020, told Barbados TODAY she has known the Barbados Labour Party leader for over 50 years, considered her a “little sister” and had been very protective of her over the years. However, the daughter of late former Barbados attorney general and Chief Justice of Belize, George Moe, said she had no choice but to disassociate herself from her erstwhile friend. Moe said she believes in democracy and that power had changed the Mottley she knew.
“I’ve been in politics for the better part of my life, in my early life when I was at secondary school my father was a politician. And I’ve watched all, I know all of them, Errol Barrow coming right through, what is the difference to me with Mia, is Mia has changed, she’s got real power because the power of the prime minister is great under the Parliamentary democracies we have in these Caribbean islands. And regrettably Mia has changed; she is not handling the power like you thought she would have.
“I mean I was so excited three and a half years ago when she won, but she has become, to such a point, dictatorial in her style of politics. She is autocratic and she does not allow anyone to have any kind of view or opinion; everybody must be in the Mia Mottley choir. Or it is problem for you. And it got to the point I could not take it anymore,” she said.
Moe, who has worked with Mottley as a strategist, campaign manager and confidante in every general election since 1991, admitted that she and others had grown afraid of the St Michael North East representative.
“It has gotten so bad to be honest, regrettably, I have become afraid of Mia Mottley. I am afraid of her. I am afraid of someone I used to think of as my little sister. It is not just me that is afraid of her, a lot of others are too, but they are so frighten to talk because they are afraid of what will happen to them. I know doing what I do, I have sealed my fate and she will come after me and I know exactly what is going to happen and that is fine. I have decided somebody has to speak out, and let it be me,” Moe explained.
File: Senator Lucille Moe formerly served as Minister of Information, Broadcasting and Public Affairs.
She added: “So I am speaking for myself and all the other people who are afraid of Mia Mottley because if I am and if I have known her for over 50 years, a woman that I thought of as my little sister, read a lesson at my father’s funeral and I can sit here and tell you that I am afraid of her, I know how other Barbadians and other people she is around feel. And that is why I knew I had to go and try to get democracy back in this country. This can’t be 30 seats and one woman as a dictator, that is what it has become and I am not comfortable with that, that is not the Barbados I know.”
Moe said she was going public with her reasons for leaving the Barbados Labour Party to dismiss all the rumours that were being circulated about her leaving the “comfort” of the BLP for the Democratic Labour Party (DLP).
“We cannot have this 30-love situation, it is ridiculous because all we end up with is what we have now. I don’t want to go into detail about things that have been done to other people, I’m not going there, I can talk about myself. So, I speak with authority when I’m speaking about myself. This is not any hearsay, what she did to other people and all of that, all of that is there and anyone who has ever had to interact with her, because they said something she didn’t like, they would know the exact behaviour to expect. And that is now going three and a half years into a term. Can you imagine another 30 -love, what that would do to this country and what she would be like?
“So I knew that for me, for my own ability to sleep at night, my own ability to be comfortable in my own country, I know we must restore democracy in this country. And that is why I felt I needed to leave the comfort out there in the Barbados Labour Party and go to the Democratic Labour Party, because we need democracy,” she said.
Moe said it was wrong of Mottley to call a general election while Barbados was experiencing a spike in Covid-19 cases.
“This election has shown me that there are no holds barred to what will be done in order to be able to hold onto power. Why would you have an election in the middle of a pandemic with a spike? COVID is here to stay, so you will end up having an election with COVID but not when the numbers are climbing. So, when the numbers are climbing and you can see what is happening at these meetings and gatherings, just to work in the campaign, everything is bringing people together, they are all super spreaders.
“When you go into a campaign office with 15 people trying to hustle ‘bout and do labels to send out, circulars to people and all of that- all super spreaders. I don’t care how many masks you put on. People handling envelopes and passing it to you and you putting on stickers and all that- get real. In the middle of a surge, the numbers would have to be a lot flatter. What was the urgency? Power. That is what it was, hold on to power- that’s all it is. Everybody knows that if they are honest but the problem is a lot of people are afraid to say it. They are saying it quietly behind closed doors,” she stated.
Asked if Mottley was forced to call the early general election because of rumoured moves by her parliamentary colleagues to oust her as Prime Minister, Moe responded: “I will not comment because anything I say on that would be hearsay because I am not in the Cabinet and I was not on island to be participant to any effort to remove her. I heard the rumours, but for me there were rumours because I wasn’t there.”
Moe said there was a need for reform in Barbados’ general election procedures.
“The way in which political campaigns in Barbados are run, you really need reform. Reform in all kinds of ways. You need boundary realignment; a lot of these boundaries are not in step with what is required by law. No one has made any effort to do that and gone back to another election without having done that. There should be a 50 per cent differential between one seat, and that’s the maximum you can have, and we have constituencies that are out of step, they have been out of step and no one has done anything about it and gone into another election.
“We need campaign finance reform. The methodology used to finance campaigns is part of the reason why you even have the one about integrity legislation. That is one of the things you should worry about, not about when you get into office and who may get into some type of skullduggery on government contracts. You got to worry about the way in which they get there in the first place and then because of the way in which it is structured, there are no real limits to your ability to raise money for a campaign, what the limit is or what you can spend on a voter, even that is ridiculous,” she said.
Moe also noted that taxpayers needed to ask questions about the role director of communications and social media, Charles Jong, was playing in Barbados at the expense of the public purse. She noted that reference to Dominica and St Kitts could provide them with answers. (WG/KC)
The above statement by Moe is much in alignment of what has been said over the past three years about Mia
Such a damming indictment of Mia characteristics that begs for the electorate to make a correction on Jan 19th 2022
A message of absolute power not to be condone must be sent by the dlp and other opposition parties
David did you read what Moe said about your Supreme Leader
MiA
Those charges are frightening aren’t there ?
Pakistan passes IMF-backed mid-year budget to raise $1.93 bln
https://www.reuters.com/markets/rates-bonds/pakistan-passes-imf-backed-mid-year-budget-raise-193-bln-2022-01-13/
The blogmaster read Chris Sinckler’s article. You should ask yourself if it is strange coincidence both articles conveniently appear in the weekend paper before the election. We like to be played.
“It is not just me that is afraid of her, a lot of others are too, but they are so frighten to talk because they are afraid of what will happen to them.”
bunch of balless wonders….salary sucking frauds….it says more about them than it says about MIa, whom we know none of this is any secret and has circulated on the island for YEARS AND YEARS, exactly what she is capable of and MORE and WORSE…..so it’s known what to expect from her…
.but when these nine day wonder wusses are willing to condone and enable it so they can SUCK ON THE TREASURY nonstop for YEARS ON END…..what does that say about them..
this juvenile idea that because someone does not say what YOU WANT TO HEAR even if it’s TRUE, is reason for retaliation…is prehistoric and has no place in a 21st century TRANSFORMATION….
William…we can only say WOW!!..
Piece said it…hope all is well with him….Owen said it…..many, many others warned and warned, people spoke behind their hands IN FEAR for years…..
How many BLP voters will cross over to DLP
0 None
or more than 0 None
WOW!!!!!!
When a friend of more than 50 years makes such a statement about a fellow female….and our Prime Minister; good God!!!!!
One word
Frightening
How many Mia’ s are thre wrapped up in her mind
So frightening are Moe’s words that a correction is necessary come Jan 19th 2022
To think that people would read that statement and still not understand the consequences will be are bone chilling
@ David January 16, 2022 5:08 AM
(Quote):
Wednesday’s General Election will come down to one basic issue – that of leadership.
That’s according to former Minister of Finance and parliamentarian [ ????], in an exclusive interview with the Sunday Sun yesterday.
(Unquote).
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Is this the same loud-mouth who obsequiously subjected himself for 8 years to the ‘worst’ kind of leadership ever seen in the political history of Barbados under the great King Fumble?
Wasn’t he the very MoF who waived the duties and taxes on a Merc to be driven around Barbados by a ghost of a Sales Director working at an imaginary erection called the Hyatt Mausoleum?
Is he singing for his political supper hoping for a ministerial rebirth to replace Lucille or Lyn in the new Senate or the Bajan brand of Knighthood from the non-dick-tator HRH MAM?
Why didn’t he put his competencies where his proactive big mouth was through the implementation of that same structural adjustment programme outlined in his own ministerial statement of December 2013?
Wouldn’t he have been credited for the outcome of his actions (by the same MAM administration) to save Barbados from the same economic conditions prevailing today just as the true leader Sir Lloyd had to administer the bitter medicine from which the spindrift OSA benefited tremendously?
Bajans shall soon see the true leadership qualities of MAM when the rubber of financial adjustments will be forced to hit the economic road.
Unlike you, Mr. Stinkliar,Verla d. P is not a patented bullshitter or the charismatic clown and clearly knows not only her Ps & Qs but also ‘basic’ arithmetic like converting a complex percentage into a simple decimal by knowing the difference in fiscal impact from a rate of 0.7% and 0.07 when it comes to matters of taxation.
@Miller
As you know they are all friends.
DavidJanuary 16, 2022 8:45 AM
The blogmaster read Chris Sinckler’s article. You should ask yourself if it is strange coincidence both articles conveniently appear in the weekend paper before the election. We live to be played
Xxxxx
What u ought to be doing as a media practitioner is receiving both informations with an unbaised analytical eye instead of a political eye
BTW what are your thoughts on Moe comments about Mottley as well as what Sinckler stated
David BU @ 6:34 A.M
You need to go on a sabbatical.
Moe public disclosures have clearly thrown you into a state of insanity !
Why are you so disenchanted with – free speech and – fair comment from BU commenters ?
Bun…..your dictatorial behaviour !
Leave such to MAM !
@Fractured BLP
Not really, been here done this you know it.
Recall when your man Hartley Henry- coincidentally a political strategist like Moe- landed himself in hot water with Carol Martindale?
What is Lucille Moe role in the DLP campaign team
DLP are fighting for their salary and additional income perks
I actually had questions about the Moe move, colonial politics which none of them invented is a NASTY dirty low class no class game, but the truth is the truth, “we” can put away “our” political spectacles and DEAL WITH THE TRUTH as delivered….
colonial politics makes IDIOTS of colonized minds….makes them believe they have more power THAN THEY ACTUALLY HAVE…
.one of these days yall ,may meet REAL POWER and understand much better what it REALLY IS and SIGNIFIES…
.you will never find it under a colonial system, all ya will get is wannabe dictatoral attitudes at different levels….from mild to severe…that’s all they will ever be capable of…don’t say ya weren’t warned..
If DLP win, will corruption investigations against them be squashed
“colonial system”
there can be a distinction between World’s Systems of Government
and the colonial systems of Babylon from Romans to Roman Britain
Barbados Government systems such as Parliament, Justice Legal Court Systems will be reviewed in Constitutional amendments tabled
This episode reminds me of the period when Thatcher reigned supreme. It led to the forced resignation of several of her top ranked ministers, one of them being Sir Geoffrey Howe.
His resignation speech was so withering that it led to her been forced out of office.
For Mia, read Thatcher; for Moe, read Howe. Oh were art though Mr Austin?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-34944238
@David,
Sorry, I sent the wrong video link.
https://youtu.be/Aw1pcAzjRnc
Am sure Hal is trying not to pass out from laughing..
Where is Lorenzoand Enuff
Eagerly awaiting their response
What a black eye level against Mia Right eye
I heard the price of Epsom salt increased when the news of trouble in Paradise hit the international media
“What a black eye level against Mia Right eye”
In the victories of the mind
will this be your only consolation cum the hump day of this week
do you predict a DLP win or loss feeling in your bone marrow
There is a huge argument on a platform about which has been the most wicked government in the last half century, so is that what it has finally reached to….who has outdone the other in wickedness against the Black population…so it was a competition to see who could outdo the other in reducing the people to nothing, really..
…how did it reach to this, why weren’t they paying attention and LISTENING TO WARNINGS….years worth of warnings…now the whole world gets to see what was so successfully covered up for DECADES….
i am telling others, stop trying to cover any of this up…it’s everywhere now…
@ WURA
I said months ago on this blog that the Duopoly is cannibalistic and will eventually eat itself. This is no “WOW” moment for me this is the impending destruction of our country by the political evil that exists called the Duopoly.
However what is even more profoundly laughable of some is that they are comparing the mouthing of a failed Minister of Finance, who is saying that one party may change its leader (DLP) ; to a former cabinet Minister(BLP) and “ best friend” who is openly referring to the Prime Minister of Barbados as a tyrant , who destroys those who disagree. with her.
Let them eat themselves. I hope all the comedians who come here daily protecting the status quo, will now wake up and realise that those whom they choose to cuss for the BLPDLP , are not in the least surprised of what the whole country is reading this morning.
The best thing to do is sit back and read what the : apologists, obstructionists and propagandists, will offer.
Political clowns and cannibals. A dangerous mix. Like crocodiles they cry while they eat you.
Enjoy your tea/ coffee. Watch the political bloodbath.
Peace.
Not a political cannibal
Don’t rice at no.politician house or look for any financial piece meal pocket book financial help from any party
However in a democracy are free to say whatever I feel
Good thread David.
Exposes the challenges we face to empowering a new generation adn promoting true entrepreneurship.
The status quo seems the be the same throughout and with labour weakened I am not sure how minorities will “rise up”
You also mentioned “it is strange coincidence both articles conveniently appear in the weekend paper before the election. We like to be played.”
That hit the nail on the head perfectly.
Just observing
@Observing
We get the governments we deserve.
“The best thing to do is sit back and read what the : apologists, obstructionists and propagandists, will offer.”
U and War U keep repeating same points
which seems to somewhat reduce their validity to absurdity
repeating things daily should always be a new awakening
of awareness and consciousness
otherwise Bajans have an inferiority complex
Barbados must diversify now or face doom.
Barbados’ Debt Crisis:
The Effects of Colonialism and Neoliberalism
“Barbados’s tourism industry has grown rapidly over the past fifty years. Even
though the industry employs almost ten percent of the population, the debt incurred from
establishing and maintaining the tourism industry in Barbados only adds to this crisis( debt crisis). Barbados’
debt that was initially $25.7 million dollars in 1965, rose to $1 billion in 1992, and then to $7.92
billion dollars in 2017. This significant increase of the country’s debt has caused Bajans to pay
higher revenue taxes, which is being used as payments on the debt. It is impossible for over
7.92 billion dollars to not be re-structured, and paid by a declining population where 9.2% is
unemployed.
While tourism brought in over $262 million USD in 2014, the majority of the money did
not stay in the island. The majority of tourism profits are funneled out of the island through a
process called leakage where, “the real economic benefits of tourism to a country are not
revealed by gross foreign-exchange earnings but by what is left over after deducting the amount
that stays or returns overseas.”40 In the case of Sandals, they have been exempt from paying
import duties and taxes on all necessities for business for the next 19 years. While Sandals is
enjoying the benefits of being a tax-free corporation for the next nineteen years, they are also
taking their profit overseas. This concept of leakage is not only applicable to hotels, but also
when considering the importation of food and other luxury items for the purposes of accommodating tourists…”
“Many environmental issues in the island are caused by hotels and cruise ships. For
example, along the southern coast of the island last year (2018), there was an emergence of raw
sewage. This sewage contaminated the beaches along the south coast leaving an awful smell in
the air. While many officials in the Barbados Water Authority have claimed it was due to an
internal sewage plant problem, I argue the massive influx of cruise ships also contributed to the
pollution. For instance, a “3,000-person cruise ship generates 210,000 gallons of sewage
weekly.”
“Many environmental issues in the island are caused by hotels and cruise ships. For
example, along the southern coast of the island last year (2018), there was an emergence of raw
sewage. This sewage contaminated the beaches along the south coast leaving an awful smell in
the air. While many officials in the Barbados Water Authority have claimed it was due to an
internal sewage plant problem, I argue the massive influx of cruise ships also contributed to the
pollution. For instance, a “3,000-person cruise ship generates 210,000 gallons of sewage
weekly.”
Environmental impact of Tourism:
World news
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Cruise ships are choking Europe’s port cities with the biggest cruise company, Carnival Corporation, emitting 10 times more sulphur oxides (SOx) than all of Europe’s 260 million cars, new research shows. Royal Caribbean Cruises, the world’s second largest cruise operator, emits four times the SOx of the European car fleet.
Five Things You Need to Know About Cruise Ship Pollution
More than 30,000 gallons of treated human waste (or blackwater) are flushed into the sea every day, causing bacterial growths and contaminating fisheries.
Waste generated by laundries, showers, sinks and dishwashers (graywater) is the biggest pollutant created by the industry; roughly 225,000 gallons of gray water are treated and dumped into the ocean every day.
Roughly 75 to 80 percent of the trash generated aboard ships—including glass, plastic bottles, cans, paper, cardboard and food waste, or about two pounds of solid waste per passenger every day—is incinerated on board, the ash dumped into the sea. The rest is taken back to port, but often overwhelms local landfills… so it ends up dumped into the ocean.
A variety of toxic “Many environmental issues in the island are caused by hotels and cruise ships. For
example, along the southern coast of the island last year (2018), there was an emergence of raw
sewage. This sewage contaminated the beaches along the south coast leaving an awful smell in
the air. While many officials in the Barbados Water Authority have claimed it was due to an
internal sewage plant problem, I argue the massive influx of cruise ships also contributed to the
pollution. For instance, a “3,000-person cruise ship generates 210,000 gallons of sewage
weekly.” are generated onboard, ranging from photo processing to dry cleaning chemicals. In a perfect world, these chemicals would be dumped only when the ships are docked. Unfortunately, it’s definitely an imperfect world.
Bilge water is a mix of seawater and oil from routine maintenance, which ends up collecting at the bottom of the ship. An average ship generates eight tons of the oily combo every day. While it is supposed to be stored and dumped onshore, a number of cruisers have been caught dumping it at sea.
One cruise ship emits as much exhaust gases as 5,000,000 cars!
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Hi
Bajan politicians must master the art of saying nothing when they have nothing bad to say.
In 2018 we will be negative against a person; in 2022 we will heap faint praise on the same person, and at a later date that same person will be severely castigated by us.
Let’s admit it. Our politics is nothing more than a game. Some may have core beliefs, but the key players do not.
They are going to say and do what keeps money flowing into their pocket. Yesterday’s villains are today’s heroes and tomorrow we may decide to change or keep them in the same category.
@ David Bu
Thank God they are all friends otherwise, we are welcoming the makings of a Haiti.
Rickross33 ? m m lol
Calling and Lorenzo and Enuff to come out of hiding to say something any thing about Moe’s lambasting in the most critical way of their Supreme leader
The night watchman must be watching these unfolding in a moment of contentment even if there is a lost on her said a record of indictment by Moe laid against Mia her best friend stands forever
What are your views Enuff and Lorenzo
Confession – if I turn on my television and Maury is on I do not change the channel.
I am still amazed at how a couple can be together for many years and when the lady hits the Maury show she discover her lover of many years has a small penis.
The above was not meant to imply anything about the sexuality of anyone. It is just that I do not understand slow learners.
William…ways have to be found to MOVE ON and AWAY FROM this, BUT never going to happen with the present state of overly COLONIZED MINDS…no matter what nonsense some spout….it will only lead to MORE DEVASTATION and DESTRUCTION….
but it has started bit by bit, people see that this is a road to ARMEGEDDON…and are removing themselves slowly…
tourism will KILLTHEM FOR SURE….it is unsustainable seeing that most of the money STAYS OFFSHORE and don’t benefit the workers who will always be seen and treated as Slaves only deserving of the lowest salaries, no salaries at all and NO BENEFITS as we see how they were ROBBED by tourism thieves condoned by who they voted for..
“I am not sure how minorities will “rise up””
exacxtly who are these “minorities”
you have a BLACK MAJORITY of over 260, 000 whom the minorities of a population of LESS THEN 8,000…of which over 1000 … are allowed to STEP ON the majority population BY 2 TRAITOR GOVERNMENTS for the last HALF CENTURY……so how much more do these “minorities” need to rise….THEY ALL NEED TO BE TAKEN DOWN..and permanently DISCARDED..
the Black population are not minorities…they are THE MAJORITY….been fighting this battle on BU for years…in US, UK, Canada, across Europe etc Blacks are the minority population IN NUMBERS..
..in the Caribbean and AFRIKA we are the MAJORITY NUMBERING NEARLY 1.7 BILLION in total, some say much more than that but am going with the official count.., making us the majority to every other group at this point, by 2050 we would have exceeded 3 BILLION in numbers worldwide….and many see this is as a threat to them,..
How many of the politicians running in this election have donated money to help the nurses that are on strike ?
How many of the politicians running in this election does have to ketch bus or ZRs ?
How many of the politicians running in this election ( fill in the blanks ) ?
Going to disappear, but want to make one point before I go.
I noticed a few were throwing shade at the blogmaster.
No picking on the blogmaster. Despite his many apparent flaws 😀, I remain highly appreciative of his giving this venue to voice our opinion
👍Go David👍
If 3 days before an election my chief political strategist comes to the press and claims to be fearful of the current PM and warns voters about a 30-0 again, I’d be worried.🤐
“No picking on the blogmaster. ”
totally agree…it’s difficult hosting a blog, don’t want all that confusion in my life..
people like to listen to music but don’t digest the words…
https://youtu.be/Hjv_Aj4_ojM
“people like to listen to music but don’t digest the words…”
Rastas want dub version
“His Name, Keith Hudson. Born in Kingston, Jamaica. Hail by Brethren as Mr. Rhythm…” ‘Flesh Of My Skin’
Faithful Fowl…..has it occured to you that there MAY BE MUCH MORE DAMNING AND DAMAGING info to come out at the 11th HOUR…
Don’t know how things just took such an EYE OPENING TURN…but on other platforms ya even getting Tales from the Grave they are calling it, videos we did not even know existed..
@Miller
As you know they are all friends.
Xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
MIA MOTTLEY SHOULD KNOW SINCE SHE ACCUSED MARK MALONEY AND THE DLP OF CORRUPTION AND ROBBING THE TREASURY THROUGH CONTRACTS WHILST THREATENING PROSECUTION UPON BEING ELECTED.
UPON BEING ELECTED THE SAME TWO FACED MIA MOTTLEY HAS GIVEN MINORITY MARK MALONEY MAJOR GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS WORTH MANY MILLIONS AND A BACK DOOR VACCINE SCAM WHICH IF HAD SUCCEEDED WOULD HAVE COST THE MAJORITY BLACK TAX PAYERS CATCHING HELL TO PAY THEIR BILLS MILLIONS OF DOLLARS MORE.
THE EMPRESS HAS ON NO CLOTHES.
@David, you need to change your narrative re “We get the governments we deserve.” …. Of course we do, as does every other nation … Bajans are not unique!
But you surely did hit the jackpot that we are being played …
Moe’s mea culpa was very distressing for me because as @Enuff noted: how and why is she saying that less than a week before the election!!! BS.
And I did a double take when I read Sinckler saying (to paraphrase) that the senior DLP maguffies deliberately did NOT identify DePeiza on the platform as ‘the next PM’ because … well … she won’t be …EVEN IF THE DLP WON!
WTF … the reasoning he gave was more nuanced of course but it was pure cowdung as far as PR goes.
That prattle from the former DLP minister was an awful disservice to his party … so you are quite right: he certainly is playing us but more importantly playing to get himself selected onto one of MAM’s team upcoming.
So bro … is it that we deserve this… we condone it … what is it! Surely most of it we were CLEARLY WARNED about by the debacles under Educatech; illegalities as AG with telephone tapping; a former PM directly citing the megalomaniacal tendencies.
Our concerns Mr Blogmaster are NOT her character issues per se … it is whether she can be brought to heel before she explodes her superiority complex to enable the type of violence seen in Jamaica under Manley and Seaga…
I pray that’s a far fetched hair brained thought … but if she saw fit to pull this election boondoggle because of internal pressures (which CLEARLY Moe’s current statements shows has been brewing for a while surely) then what will she do in a few months if she is unable to control MORE serious dissension !!!
I thus further pray that she plans to live a long PEACEFUL retirement in a non-violent, tranquil Barbados … after she dun wid her awesome political games!
I gone.
@Dee Word
Aren’t we saying the same thing?
David,
From the one who has “reached her intellectual limit” according to the one who has not yet reached her LYING limit. (Uh cyan even manage to lol. I no longer find such amusing.)
All I can manage today is a steupse. BU is becoming extremely boring.
One thing though, I too thought Lucille’s comments to be uncomfortably convenient. But then I too considered that she could have been fired for expressing these concerns to her friend
(probably more tactfully) as true friends feel obligated to do.
What else could have broken that fifty year old friendship?
THAT is the question!
I suspect answers will be forthcoming.
Which shall we believe?
DO TRY TO HAVE A GOOD DAY WHILE BEING PUMMELLED BY THE EXTREMISTS!
“What else could have broken that fifty year old friendship?”
I have explained experiential wisdom knowledge and understanding of the phenomena that is going on
Bitches will keep on Bitching and Bitches are Bitches
I am not referring of you or Waru as the Bitches but specifically Lucille as the Bitch in this instance
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RDeiW690OtM
“but specifically Lucille as the Bitch in this instance”
there is much more in that mortar than the pistle…it apparently has never been a secret.
The truth always have a way of finding the exit door, no matter how long they try to keep it on lockdown. This is one of those occasions….let’s see what the next less than 72 hours bring…even the word stage is watching this unfold, as told to me by a journalist earlier.
“….let’s see what the next less than 72 hours bring…”
we can speculate
I speculate that this DLP campaign release of Sunday Morning gossip is as deep as it gets
@ MINORITIES LAUGHING.
Top up!!
Digicel and Flow got de last laugh 😹
Dem gun eat.
My larder empty.
I gun call Mr. Borrow and get piece ah Change…
I took that Literally
These people are thisclose in one form or another, they only appear separated during the COMPETITION to get access to the treasury and pension fund…in effect they create MISCHIEF, SOW SEEDS OF DIVISIVENESS between koolaid drinkers…so ya will get all kinds of things coming out until one outdoes the other…then they are all friends again after the foolish voters swallowing all the koolaid poisons themselves with the lies…
remember they were supposed to arrest the crooks they claimed robbed the treasury with Mrs. Maloney’s husband via questionable contracts, but it NEVER HAPPENED IN 3 YEARS… now ya hearing the same old promise to lock up DLP players again, “if ya would only elect me again I will do it, I PROMISE”….maybe they found the red bag or evidence…but who is dumb enuff to believe any of it, deserves the koolaid fully LOADED..
My evening going to be very busy
Waiting for Mia response
Ghee difficult choices tonight on the campaign trail
A definite tossed up of the coin in my decision making as to my campaign meeting attending
???????
“Our concerns Mr Blogmaster are NOT her character issues per se … it is whether she can be brought to heel before she explodes her superiority complex to enable the type of violence seen in Jamaica under Manley and Seaga…”
Xxxxxxx
Somewhat hallucinogenic. We are not insurrectionist. It doesn’t fit…
Barbadian political leaders are puppets for international financial organisation (e.g IMF). Foreign interest must be served first.
France continues to plunder Africa’s wealth and plots to kill African leaders who oppose her.
CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY:
Crimes Against Humanity: The British Empire
02/07/2017 BY PAUL GREGOIRE
Crimes against humanity
“It was the largest empire ever to have existed. And as the saying used to go, the sun never sets on the British Empire. At its height in 1922, the colonial power was lording it over a fifth of the world’s population and for many of them, the sun never rose again.
Under the policies of British colonialism, people around the globe were subjected to mass famines, atrocious conditions in concentration camps, and brutal massacres at the hands of imperialist troops. The Brits also played an integral role in the transatlantic slave trade.
Although the atrocities of the British Empire are well documented, the myth of the noble colonising power continued into recent decades.”
Barbadian brain dead/ suffering from amnesia.
Just had some wonderful news….many are seeing the light….and connecting accordingly, it was bound to happen…..
that was always the plan, get people finally connecting to REALITY, it’s the right time after years of trying….RA!!!
Here is one example via social.media platform as to how Mia diehard supporters are responding to Moe’s Statements
Drum roll please
Would be easier to take her seriously if her convictions had led her to quit vs speaking out after she was fired by Mottley
Xx
These die hard heads is so deeply buried up the PM behind that it is also so frightening that they rather overlook the truthfulness of the message and attack the messenger
Can’t hear a pint from Lorenzo
Cut bite the tongue
If the shoe was on Stuart foot she would have plenty to say
Lol 😆
Source: Nation
I want to know why people are hallucinating about some nonexistent insurrection…people on the island would not know HOW TO START ONE or keep it going…they would have to be guided by someone from one of the other islands or the wider diaspora..
.. it was IMPOSSIBLE BEFORE and unnecessary now, what was started YEARS AGO, is NOW producing results…and it will pick up steam and flow JUST AS IT SHOULD, just as designed……and NO ONE CAN STOP IT…because they simply HAVE NO CLUE what is going on….and no one will trust them enuff to tell them anything but the basics.
i think some people are having a mental lapse and seeing aberrations, they need to take a break before they are put in striaght jackets…for that level of crazy…
Fractured BLPJanuary 16, 2022 8:51 AM
David BU @ 6:34 A.M
You need to go on a sabbatical.
Why are you so disenchanted with – free speech and – fair comment from BU commenters ?
Bun…..your dictatorial behaviour !
F I SAID THE SAME THING MY POST WOULD GET TEK DONG AND I WOULD BE ACCUSED OF TRYING TO DERAIL THE BLOG. HILARIOUS
GLAD TO SEE THAT THERE IS AT LEAST ANOTHER ONE HERE WHO HAS A FUNCTIONING OPTIC NERVE/CRANIAL NERVE ONE THAT WORKS ALONG WITH THE ABIITY TO CEREBRATE
So is it true that 1,2 MILLION US was spent on entourage, wardrobe, dinner, security and a twenty minute meeting with Kamala Harris….and NOTHING WAS ACHIEVED…
“Foot cumin fah de asssssss”
Dirt 🥁dirt 🪘dirt 🎹 & more dirt 🎼🎤
Lucille Moe ain’t de babydoll attire Lady. One more awaits de Supreme Leaders boot…We ain’t sweeping them out.
It’s big foot big boot outttttttt!!!
Davie 🎺Davie 🎷Davie 🎸 Morderhhhhhh Lordie Lordie😹😂🤣😜😝😹🤣
“Our concerns Mr Blogmaster are NOT her character issues per se … it is whether she can be brought to heel before she explodes her superiority complex to enable the type of violence seen in Jamaica under Manley and Seaga…”
PNP Vs JLP
Seaga’s JLP thugs gang violence was backed by CIA and Washington
It’s War
“So is it true that 1,2 MILLION US was spent on entourage, wardrobe, dinner, security and a twenty minute meeting with Kamala Harris….and NOTHING WAS ACHIEVED…”
Xxxxxxx
WURA-War-on-Our ASS
De Babydoll heffer gots to go. She ain’t Loyal 🎺she ain’t 🔪 Loyal 🎶
We are in the Era of the Big Lie.
We follow in lockstep with the US in almost everything we do. Check the Covid-19 response.
Our politicians of both stripes have not been known to be a truthful lot.
So what do we expect them to do in the era of the Big Lie?
Follow the pattern, thats what.
Lucille Moe used the big lie and will try to make it even bigger before Wednesday. Her comfortable future might depend on it.
Chris Sinckler used the big lie and will try to make it even bigger before Wednesday. He has evidently made the calculation that Mia will win and he would not like another term out of power, however tangentially.
Which party’s performance in the last government and current potential to properly run the Government, deserves to win? You know in your heart of hearts.
✔ the Constitution has received a beating under this govt
Can’t be right to sit back and let this continue regardless of what Moe said reference to her fall out with the PM
From day one the most conscientious citizen have been watching the maverick style politics Mia has unleashed on the Constitution
Her brazen unleashing political style of power have left many jaw dropping moments which questions her purpose and intent
If DLP are the God Nuts
They are taking it one step at a time
closer to Hell
Fuck it what have they got to lose
by cheating to win
@ WURA
“I said months ago on this blog that the Duopoly is cannibalistic and will eventually eat itself. This is no “WOW” moment for me this is the impending destruction of our country by the political evil that exists called the Duopoly.
However what is even more profoundly laughable of some is that they are comparing the mouthing of a failed Minister of Finance, who is saying that one party may change its leader (DLP) ; to a former cabinet Minister(BLP) and “ best friend” who is openly referring to the Prime Minister of Barbados as a tyrant , who destroys those who disagree. with her.”
Ccccccc
Strength out of William Shakespeare’s embouchure or William Tell ???????
@African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2021. All Rights Reserved January 16, 2022 7:56 AM
“because Black people have this fear of READING TO EXPAND THEIR KNOWLEDGE BASE.”
That is how I know you are NOT a black person. You too like to propagate racist tropes.
@Ras Simba Akoma
Dear Ras Simba:
Have you taken your Covid19 vaccine yet?
@African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2021. All Rights Reserved January 16, 2022 8:40 AM
“exactly what she is capable of and MORE and WORSE…so it’s known what to expect from her…”
So exactly what do you mean?
Talking of fear, I have a friend you is deathly afraid of BUTTERFLIES, but that does not mean that butterflies are scary.
““because Black people have this fear of READING TO EXPAND THEIR KNOWLEDGE BASE.””
So called self labelled Black radicals do not treat other blacks as inferior and hijack messages from civil rights era to try and sound intellectual and hate minorities in the same way white racists do, but there can be some low life blacks as proven when they get carried away with their repeated nonsense
Cuddear…really..i put my photo out there for everyone to see and you took a good long hard look at it and claim am not a Black person..,,whatever ya been smoking ah want some…
so if MOST don’t like to read material that can BROADEN THEIR KNOWLEDGE BASE, you WANT ME TO SAY THE OPPOSITE, right, it’s not only peculiar to the Caribbean if that makes ya feel better……it’s part of the social engineering..
Dirt Farmer…the scandals evolving are truly FRIGHTENING….Moe’s fear has NOTHING ON THEM…I don’t even want to touch any of it because whether true or not, alleged moneylaundering, bigamy and QEH contracts is way outta my league….don’t want any splatter landing anywhere near me…
@David January 16, 2022 8:45 AM “ask yourself if it is strange coincidence both articles conveniently appear in the weekend paper before the election.”
No it is not a coincidence. It is deliberate strategy.
@William “a tyrant , who destroys those who disagree. with her.”
Who has been destroyed?
And what was the manner of this destruction?
So Lucille is no longer a Cabinet Minister. Is that destruction? If so, how so? Is anybody owed a Cabinet ministry? Have you ever been a cabinet minister? Have I ever been a cabinet minister? Have any of us on this blog ever been a cabinet minister? Are political “picks” the ultimate of success? If so why is this so? If so is this practice a good thing? How about if we all EARNED “picks” by merit?
@African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2021. All Rights Reserved January 16, 2022 8:22 PM ”
Cuddear…really..i put my photo out there for everyone to see”
Stupssseee. Ya tink I born yesterday?
How do I know the photo is of you?
I can put up a photo of our dear Rihanna [or Donald Trump] and claim that it is me. That does not make it ugly ole me.
Lolll!!!
@TLSN
Why you fullin’ up we blog with stories of dead white men [Howe] and dead white women [Thatcher]???
@TheOGazerts January 16, 2022 10:39 AM “I am still amazed at how a couple can be together for many years and when the lady hits the Maury show she discover her lover of many years has a small penis.”
Here is the answer to what puzzles you.
The lovers are Victorians, and they do “IT” in complete darkness, and mostly fully clothed.
@Donna January 16, 2022 1:29 PM “…the one who has not yet reached her LYING limit…”
There is no limit to WARU’s lying.
Soon after the election was called she was on about the voters list being much too large, and that it needed to be cut in half, that it hadn’t been revised for 30 years. When I pointed out to her the FACTS she cussed you, but did not admit that she was WRONG, and that I was right.
Cuhdear Bajan HOt Hot Like Fire 🔥
Fire Fire In Me Wire!!!!
I heard a bawling, like somebody crying
I could imagem what was happening
I saw this old lady running
Calling out to she neighbour Ramsingh
Neightbour neighbour, come o lord
My house on fire
And if yuh hear she
Fire Fire!
In meh wire papa
Ay ya yeye
O yo yoye
Fire Fire
“Spanish”
Heat for so
Ah jump out me bed
Start holding me head
Well ah say tonight lord
somebody dead
Because this old lady
She ent living with nobody
So ah jump from meh house
And ah start bawling like ah crazy mouse
and if yuh hear me
Fire Fire!
In she wire papa
Ay ya yeye
O yo yoye
Fire Fire
“Spanish”
Heat for so
When me neighbour Ramsingh
He came running
He thought it was a joke
Because he didnt see no smoke
She bawling come over Ramsingh
Where is the ladder
Unreel the house
And let go the water
To out the fire
and if yuh hear she
Fire Fire!
In she wire papa
Ay ya yeye
O yo yoye
Fire Fire
“Spanish”
Heat for so
Fire Fire!
In she wire papa
Ay ya yeye
O yo yoye
Fire Fire
“Spanish”
Heat for so
Davie, Fire in She Wire 🔥
@ Cuhdear Bajan
I was merely quoting what was said or implied by Ms. Moe.
I don’t know who was destroyed or not. Politely , I don’t care. They can do whatever they choose to do to each other. I don’t have a dog in the fight.
My only interest is that our country looks after the poor and those who are the most vulnerable.
Peace.
@ Skins
How is your Shoulder and Left Wrist doing these days, my Brother?
Nuff Respect to de principal..🎓
@ Dirt Farmer
Doing ok , thanks my brother. Hope all is well with you and yours.
@ African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2021. All Rights Reserved January 16, 2022 4:49 PM
“So is it true that 1,2 MILLION US was spent on entourage, wardrobe, dinner…”
So the USA Vice President “goes Dutch”/demands that her guests to pay for their own dinner, when she invites heads of government to dine with her?
Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley.
Significant 7 In de eyes of her people:
1) Quick to make decisions, preferring intuition over heavy analysis or lengthy process.
2) Tends to be rational, principled, and judicial. Mia usually has a desire for justice and equality and is motivated by a strong sense of right and wrong.
3) Mia is charismatic, direct, and logical. She enjoys taking charge, working to achieve goals, and encouraging growth from others.
4) Mia is comfortable functioning as the primary speaker in a group
5) Mia feels comfortable making decisions with limited information.
6) Mia makes a decision more quickly than most people. She’s not a procrastinator.
7) Mia will always Love and Support de people of Barbados 🇧🇧 to de end..
You Go Sinckler
Pressure does bust pipes
A bird in the hand is worth a thousand in the bush
All and sundry does not forget that you were called the worst Finance minister of Barbados
Funny enough how your opinion counts on economic matters in 2022
He gave the government a B+?
i will not be REELED INTO A SEA OF IGNORANCE, especially on an anonymous blog
ya TINPOT leaders are ROBBING YALL BLIND at every turn….that’s what yall should be checking for but don’t tell me i know…”the fella/.gals gotta get a little someting for dey selves too ya know they gotta live too, we don’t mind if dey take some,.”.only problem is dey TIEFING IT by the BILLIONS and leaving yall in poverty………..sea of IGNORANCE…
William…the situation is really, really bad tongues are wagging everywhwere,,…even on the world stage…
stand clear…..you want none of this landing on you…
“My only interest is that our country looks after the poor and those who are the most vulnerable.”
as noble as your intentions are….THEY ARE NEVER GOING TO…sorry William..
Source: Nation