The Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Amor Mottley has called on Ghanaians to mark 7th September as Africa-Caricom Day.
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Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Mottley was invited to participate in Ghana’s 65th Independence anniversary. To be expected she delivered a speech that has provoked discussion.
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Government was forced to shut down its entire information technology (IT) platform yesterday after ransomware found its way through several vulnerable holes in the system.
https://www.nationnews.com/2022/03/11/government-boosting-system-breach/
John2March 11, 2022 9:06 AM
Cruise ships casinos only operate in international waters
Xxxx
Is that so
Go get a look at the largest cruise ship
Wonder of the seas and see where they are operating their casinos
BTW yuh think that small.islands can enforce that policy when the ships docked
The cruise Industry bottom line is about money and pleasing the customer
Small island govts would be for ever small fish trying to swim in big ponds amongst sharks
It is amazing that the only two new sectors proposed in this debate is prostitution and gambling. Do these reflect who we are? Our national motto is pride and Industry. Have these been redefined. Disappointing more so as these are critics of both parties policies. . They obviously never had a clue to the proper management and development of the Barbados society. Shame on you. You are the secret enemies of the people. We need no external ones.
By the way,the goals should not be growth per se ,nor recouping losses, what ever that means; but to restore the quality of life to which we have become accustomed.
First we need to communicate that we know what is really happening. Cliche mantras just will not cut it. We are here and now. What do you see.? Please describe it so that we can all be on the same page.
@Vincent
We live during a time where lines are blurred regarding a focus on economic indices. This is the speak from the talking heads the establishment promotes. How do we flip the script by focusing on developmental activities. These are the kinds of initiatives that impact quality of living.
@Sargeant
It was a ‘tongue-in-cheek’ comment as we are sure yours is.
@ David BU
I hope that The Private Sector Organisation has clearly described the state of that sector and what THEY propose to do to make it prosper in the new economic paradigm that is unfolding before our eyes.. I hope it is not a mendicant begging bowl not to contribute to the costs of their enjoyment of publicly provided goods and services. In other words a shift from Corporate taxes, which they recently received,,to personal income tax and indirect tax on goods and services by the low income groups.
@Vincent
You are aware that Barbados private sector is driven by retail, distribution and construction. What about the export sector? The export sector is one we need to incentivize.
Statistics Canada says more than 335,000 new jobs were created last month, more than experts had predicted.
https://toronto.citynews.ca/2022/03/11/canada-employment-rates-february/
@ David Bu at 10:04 AM
Which sector is responsible for flipping the script on development activities? And to have initiatives that impact economic growth and employment.? Are these the new roles of Central Government? How did you arrive at this opinion? Time to change the voice in your head. This is 2022 CE. Interdependence or retrograde to slash and burn?
@Vincent
We have to focus some more on export led initiatives/projects. At the same time we have to educate citizens the importance of supporting local and support Bajans by making development and venture financing available.
“First we need to communicate that we know what is really happening. Cliche mantras just will not cut it. We are here and now. What do you see.? Please describe it so that we can all be on the same page.”
I really like that. A simple prescription.
@ David BU at 10: 30 AM
You are repeating the same mantra I have been hearing for the last 50 years. Who will be entering the new export sectors? Talk? A litany of New Exports ? Or the private sector investing time , money and effort in these “export sectors”? Do you really think the GOB should use loans and tax revenues to enrich private individuals?
David BU
I have been hinting that you are not making contact with the social and economic realities at this point in time in Barbados. If these old tired policies have been around for 50 years and are not now effective, does that not suggest that they are inappropriate and unfit for purpose?
@Vincent
Do you deny successive governments have failed to facilitate the environment required to diversify revenue streams?
@ Vincent Codrington
Obviously you need to explain this wonderful standard of living to which the poor unemployed has become accustomed . They have been grappling with poor wages and unemployment for fifty years!
Are you seriously ignorant to the fact that there are people working for less than three hundred dollars a week. Please tell me what the economic policy and fancy talk , have provided for their upward economic mobility.
You are defending economic policies that have taken us to the IMF at least three times in the last thirty of forty years.
You are trying to convince yourself that there is a creative and innovative private sector. There is none.
I have called , for five years now, that at least $100 000 000 to be invested in budding entrepreneurs . Instead we gave three hundred million to the same almost dead tourism industry.
I am not going to waste my time with nonsense,; the poor people need real jobs and our cultural industry workers can’t depend on Crop Over. They have been starving for almost three years. Explain to me the economic policy that will save them.
Poor people need jobs that don’t only cover bus fare.
Prostitution and gambling circulate millions in the economy but it does not reach the treasury.
Let’s have a real debate about this dead economy and the worn out cliches and pseudo economic balarney Tustin only enriched the privileged and turn the so-called middle class into nothing but living from pay check to pay check in debt. You can’t open the economy wm with pretty talk. The country is technically bankrupt.
Get in the real world.
@ Vincent Codrington
I see poor black people scrunting daily to make ends meet. I see a pandemic that has exposed the lies and deception of a bankrupt and lost political managerial class. I see the only hospital in a deplorable state. I see poor black children who could not afford a tablet missing out on their education ……….
What do you see ?
@ David Bu at 11:01 AM
Yes I do.
GoB have done all in their power to facilitate; to the point of developing industries that are Private Sector responsibilities and handing them over, dirt cheap ,to the private sector, who then financialise them. Please search your memory bank. You have mentioned a number of them from the time I came on BU. Are you now too suffering from cognitive bias?
@Vincent
This is the point, have we had policies to support an aggressive export thrust post independence?
@William SkinnerMarch 11, 2022 11:09 AM
What crisis? What is a crisis? Champagne is still available for purchase at the Massa supermarket. You’re living in the wrong environment. Where I live in Barbados, there are only happy natives who praise our Supreme Leader every day.
If you like, I can arrange an appointment with Lord Altman for you. He certainly has some villas for the middle class on offer.
@Vincent
Remind the blogmaster sone if the industries handed over dirt cheap.
Let us point to six state agencies or economic activities ,that we have given over to private enterprise ,that have been successfully managed or developed, for the benefit of the country since independence.
I await the response.
“Statistics Canada says more than 335,000 new jobs were created last month, ”
in a population of at least 37 million
335K jobs…thousands more than the population size of Barbados..
..and the lying deceitful local talking heads can’t create 20K jobs let alone 70K outside of the tourism trap..or diversify the economy, in over 50 YEARS,,,,,then they will look ya straight in ya face and tell ya how great they are…only the extremely weak and fowls of course would be accepting of and satisfied with any of that.
wuh i see US presidents come and go every 4-8 years and EVERYONE of them were able to create diverse jobs outside of tourism in a population of over 300 million….and telling ya they added 70, 0000 to 100K jobs within ONE month each and every time……..despite the bigger country having even bigger problems with joblessness, poverty and homelessness etc……
wuh they may as well let US or EU run things for them, these people actually get things done, no matter what anyone thinks about them….
.ya go nowhere leaders have had half century and still found a way to do very little to nothing for the Black Afrikan population who pay their salaries…,,,,imagine how they would degrade things even further if left to their own devices,…in another 10-20 years,,,how many more chances weak fools are willing to give them..
ah tell yall the island want tekking way from dem..
@ David @ Vincent Codrington
Still waiting to learn of at least six projects since 1966( Independence) that government and private sector partnered . And evidence that they benefitted the country and the disadvantaged citizens.
All of these lies and bogus propaganda need to be exposed.
Where are these partnerships ? Where are the real benefits?
Identify them or hush up !!!
BTW
Why no comment on the PM’s Chief of Staff. What is this office costing the taxpayers?
What is the salary of Senior Ministers when compared with ordinary ministers?
How long will these consultants remain on the payroll ?
What are the salaries of the consultants ?
Still waiting to hear or “ see”
@William
The blogmaster is waiting also.
Shelly Williams is new chair of BTMI Board
https://www.nationnews.com/2022/03/11/shelly-williams-new-chair-btmi-board/
Ahead of the presentation of the national budget next Monday, the Alliance Party for Progress (APP) insists Government must tackle the high cost of living head on, through a reduction in Value Added Tax (VAT), among other measures.
Click the link to read the full story in the latest e-paper edition: https://bit.ly/37gk11z
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High expectation coming from Atherley
But of interest would be those of seeing if the PM would extend offerings to the public in somewhat similar manner as she has done towards the private sector over the past three years
Noted govt swiftness in taking up losses which the business community shouted about on their purchases of school.uniforms
Gasoline is all but out of reach for many households
Electric bills on the rise
Not to.mention food prices
Question going forward to be asked of PM how will Bajan households make ends meet
Bajans were promised that money would be placed in their pockets
Yes COVID made it’s presence known
Yet govt was able to extend benevolence towards the hotel and cruise industry
Noted the hundred of dollars in breaching fees handed to the cruise line industry
Noted the millions of dollars handed to taxpayers to repair the damaged reefs while big cruise sailed off holding a life raft
Noted the 300 millions handed to the tourism industry plus waivers and tax breaks
All this benevolence handed out with a pray and smile
Meanwhile Bajan households suffering in silence were handed food hampers and told to hold strain
Then we have some noted intellectual stating that govt doesn’t need an.opposition
Listen up govt needs an opposing voice a voice that would stand up for fair and justice for the people
Pass time that this runaway cat be bell
This budget thing plus senator thing plus opposition thing has me all confused. Looks as if figuring it out or not figuring it out is an issue. Mock sport can continue.
So, I am not going to ask about the progress/disposition of the court case as some will tell me how complicated this case is; how the judge must study every nuance, be deliberate and render the judgment of a Solomon.
If there is no resolution by April 1, I will ask.
Cost of living major concern
By Tre Greaves
tregreaves@nationnews.com
A cap on fuel prices, and a reduction in value added tax (VAT) are some of the measures Barbadians want to see included in the upcoming Budget.
A number of shoppers in Warrens, St Michael, told the Saturday Sun yesterday the rising cost of living was their main concern. They want Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Mia Amor Mottley to address it in the package she presents in the House of Assembly on Monday evening.
“We want cheaper gas and if they can, we want to see lower prices in the supermarkets because the cost of living is way too high. There are a lot of people who are barely making ends meet and by the time they pay bills and groceries, they don’t have any money to spend on themselves,” Shemiele Balgobin said.
A single mother who only gave her name as Kerry agreed with Balgobin, and spoke of how challenging it was supporting two of her three children who still attend school.
She also wants to see an increase in salaries.
“I’m a single parent and I have to do for my children and it is hard. When you working for $400-something and you still have to buy items, pay your bills, rent, how are the children going to survive? Now that school has restarted you have to give the children bus fare and lunch money.
“So stop raising everything else and increase the salary; that’s what I want to see. If you keep raising everything else, we will still live in poverty,” she said.
Another shopper, Menique, had a similar lament.
“I would also like to see a rise in salary for Government workers and the private sector because as gas goes up, everything else is going to go up as well and more than likely it may not come back down.
“The Government stated on June 19 last year that the gas prices would be capped so I would like to see that happen,” Menique said.
She also wanted to see a reduction in the VAT.
“I would like VAT to go back down to 15 per cent as well because this is eight-plus years that we are waiting for it to go back down.”
During a press conference last June, Mottley said Government would place a cap on the tax charged on the cost of fuel if oil prices continued to increase. In 2010, former Minister of Finance Chris Sinckler said that the VAT increase of 2.5 per cent to 17.5 per cent was to be a temporary measure for 18 months.
Other Barbadians want the Mottley administration to allocate more resources to improve National Insurance and care for the elderly.
“I think the elderly in Barbados are being neglected by everybody. After working so hard and paying contributions to this country, you should not see elderly people on the streets in a bad state. Put more money into looking out for poor people and find them housing,” one elderly woman said.
Philmore Springer, 72, complained that although he worked in Barbados for years before travelling overseas, he was not receiving a local pension.
“I was working from the time I was 16. I left here at 29 and I came back but there is nothing for me and they told me I didn’t put in enough time. That is not good
because I know people who didn’t put in as much time and they are collecting.
“I did so much hard physical work but now I’m not getting anything. I worked hard in the fields, helped build the hospital . . . so I need them to deal with that. I hope some type of provision is in the Budget for that,” Springer said.
Yesterday on Starcom Network’s Down To Brasstacks radio call-in programme, economist Jeremy Stephen said he did not believe the Budget will be aggressive.
“We are still in defensive mode. We lost a lot during COVID and we would expect recovery now, but there is the uncertainty attached to this war, the sophistication and complexity of food prices and our reserves are earmarked to purchase energy through the importation of petroleum products.
“The main thing is being able to ensure that the sectors do not collapse, similar to what we witnessed during the pandemic. So, no matter what is done I don’t see the Government being overly aggressive in this Budget in terms of promoting growth at the expense of fiscal surplus,” Stephen said.
In yesterday’s Weekend Nation,
chairman of the Barbados Private Sector Association, Trisha Tannis, said they had submitted proposals to Government ahead of the Budget.
“We have to get the cost of business down within the context of rising prices as a result of the Ukraine crisis. We have a couple of proposals that could put more disposable income into the hands of the average Barbadian. This would include several tax allowances that would have fallen off before this Government came to office,” she said.
Source: Nation
The supermarket prices is ridiculous, even for those who can afford it, so give a thought to those who can’t, not at any time.
they lost even more when 5-6 BILLION DOLLARS was stolen from the economy…stop blaming covid for everything…..and DON’T YALL DARE….blame the Russia/Ukraine for anything more than it will cause….yall too love scapegoats to blame for ya own corruption and incompetence.
UWU nurses upset at plan to bring more nurses from Ghana
General Secretary of the Unity Workers Union (UWU) Caswell Franklyn says the announcement that more Ghanaian nurses will be coming to Barbados soon is not sitting well with some nurses.
He said those attached to his union, some of whom have been on a 23-week strike demanding an audience with Director General of the Public Service Gail Atkins to discuss ongoing grievances, were surprised at the imminent arrival of additional nurses from the African country.
He said they were upset that the Mia Mottley-led administration was bringing nurses from overseas to work at a time when there are issues regarding payment of Barbadian nurses.
“A lot of them are very angry. They are disappointed. When you hear nurses crying out that they are not getting paid and you bring people from overseas and pay them . . . . The Ghanaian nurses have never missed a pay day, but the Bajan nurses have missed several.
“The nurses in Barbados are being made fools of, even the ones that were not on strike.
They want to just fill the place with nurses,” Franklyn charged.
In July 2020, 95 Ghanaian nurses came to Barbados to work. Speaking to the Ghanaian people during their 65th Anniversary of Independence celebrations last weekend, Prime Minister Mottley announced that approximately 200 additional Ghanaian nurses have been interviewed and are expected to begin working in Barbados in the future.
However, Franklyn said nurses being represented by his union are of the view that the recruitment of the Ghanaian nurses appears to be the Government’s solution to their protest action which began in November 2021.
“The Government should have allowed the processes in the public service to work . .
. . This is not good for the nurses and this is not good for international relations because the Ghanaian government doesn’t know what is going on in Barbados and they are sending nurses down here.
“But Ghana should not be intervening in a strike in Barbados. They should allow their nurses to come to Barbados when there is industrial peace. Ghana should not get involved in our internal matters and that is what they are doing,” the union leader charged.
The nurses began striking to press the Government to deliver better working conditions, increased pay, and health environment, among other issues.
Franklyn said several of them have returned to work due to financial constraints and obligations. However, he indicated that, though frustrated, several of the health professionals are insisting that they will not be returning to work until their industrial matters and longstanding grievances are addressed.
When questioned about the next step for the nurses, the veteran trade unionist said he was not able to say at this time.
“That will be a secret,” he said. (AH)
@ David Bu
@ William Skinner
I will treat your questions as if they are rhetorical. I know that you know the answers . I am not here to score Brownie points with you. My training does not permit it.
“The Ghanaian nurses have never missed a pay day, but the Bajan nurses have missed several.
“The nurses in Barbados are being made fools of, even the ones that were not on strike.”
Caswell should know that he must facilitiate the local nurses going further afield, all they will be seen as by these usless breathers are Slaves to mistreat…..they cannot do that to any of the nurses being brought to the island..
@Vincent, your training and well earned experience does permit you to ‘continuously educate’ and ‘better inform’ your audience, however. Regardless of what they are supposed to know already, not so!!!
Just saying, bro.
But what is dumfounding that in the health care profession English is mandatory
However these foreign nurses can jump hurdles be placed in the forefront of nurses within the Carribbean that speak English
Why hasn’t Caswell bring that issue as a discriminatory factor against nurses in Barbados and as well in the entire region
Such as well can be an issued of impotance levied against govt whose interest is to undermine the interest of nurses at home as well as give reason or cause to asked how will Barbadians correspond in regards to their health concerns with nurses who does not speak fluent English
Such issues have been brought within the public sphere to the Cuban nurses and the language barrier
SO THE SO CALLED SUPREME LEADER HAS DELIVERED MORE NURSES FROM GHANA
IN TYPICAL DICTATOR STYLE LIKE THE PRECURSOR OF THE ANTICHRIST IN DANIEL 8, WHO TURNED OUT TO BE ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANES IV, SHE CIRCUMVENTED TREATING LOCAL NURSES PROPERLY AFTER CALLING AN UNCESSARY ELECTION TO GET RID OF CASWELL FRANKLYN FROM THE SENATE.
THIS BEING THE CASE WE ARE TOLD THAT SHE “DELIVERED IN GHANA”
JESUS DELIVERED US FROM THE POWER OF SELF SIN SATAN AND THE ASSOCIATED SHAME THESE THREE LEAD US TO
TO DO THIS HE DIED..
PERHAPS HE WILL DELIVER US AGAIN
RE health concerns with nurses who does not speak fluent English
EDUCATED FOLK IN THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH SPEAK GOOD ENGLISH —INCLUDING GHANIANS.
FUNNY ENOUGH SOMETIMES IT IS HARD TO UNDERSTAND WHEN THE ENGLISH SPEAK ENGLISH, A LIE?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrIIW_pKLBA
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GPMarch 12, 2022 12:33 PM
RE health concerns with nurses who does not speak fluent English
EDUCATED FOLK IN THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH SPEAK GOOD ENGLISH —INCLUDING GHANIANS.
FUNNY ENOUGH SOMETIMES IT IS HARD TO UNDERSTAND WHEN THE ENGLISH SPEAK ENGLISH, A LIE
Xxxx
English must not only be spoken but must be understood to the ears of the receiptients especially in area where a person’s health is of uttermost importance
Ah lie
AC
RE English must not only be spoken but must be understood to the ears of the receiptients especially in area where a person’s health is of uttermost importance
Ah lie
YES YA LIE DAMN FOOL!
YOU CONTINUE TO BE AN ASS ON BU
WHEN I GO TO CHURCH ON SUNDAYS AT CERTAIN TIMES OF THE YEAR …THERE SITTING IS A GROUP OF LOVELY BLACK GIRLS FROM VARIOUS PARTS OF AFRICA .
THEY ARE NURSES IMPORTED TO WORK IN THE USA
THEY APPARENTLY LIVE NEARBY WHERE THEY ARE BEING INSTRUCTED IN THE AMERICAN WAYS—BEFORE BEING DEPLOYED TO THE AREA WHERE THEY WILL WORK, AND THEY VISIT THE NEAREST CHURCH.
ALL OF THESE NURSES SPEAK VERY GOOD ENGLISH AND DO SO VERY FLUENTLY
AND IN MY OPINION ——HAVING DEALT WITH MANY NURSES SINCE 1976- . ALL OF THESE NURSES INCLUDING THOSE FROM GHANA, OUGHT TO BE ABLE TO SPEAK AND BE UNDERSTOOD BY OTHER BAJANS.
AND SO YOUR NON POINT EXPRESSED ABOVE IS ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THE PROLIFIC BULL SHIT THAT YOU SPEW ON BU DAILY, AND HAVE SO DONE SINCE 2008.
Sir
Your words does not speak well to be one of teaching and quoting the Bible
Uh lie
Now continue to expose your hypocrisy on BU
BTW I don’t care how many girls sit in your Bible class
Not all people are alike or understand at the same level
I say and will say that English is not an easy language to understand
Hence those working in the medical field outside of their country in their ability to speak their native language should be proficient in English when dealing with patients
Now be gone cuss all yuh want
@ WURA
I have supported Caswell all along . However ,the Mottley strategy of isolating and ignoring him , seems to be paying off.
In other words, the nurses are giving into being broke not necessarily being broken.
As, is the case, in most struggles, it came down to : money in pocket; feeding the children and paying bills.
Brother Caswell , has absolutely nothing to be ashamed of. Even if, in the eyes of the partisans, he has lost the battle.
I assure you that he will win the war.
Venceremos !!
@William
You were warned how the matter with Caswell would end up. It is not that the blogmaster does not support the nurses, it is that the politics of the situation requires Caswell to be squashed.
“As, is the case, in most struggles, it came down to : money in pocket; feeding the children and paying bills.
Brother Caswell , has absolutely nothing to be ashamed of. Even if, in the eyes of the partisans, he has lost the battle.
I assure you that he will win the war.
Venceremos !!”
some would be proud of what they accomplished, but most see it for what it is…..and…..these things have a way of returning to BITE in the form of BLOWBACK…just time, no hurry…
I AM NOT CUSSING AC
I AM JUST TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT YOU
RE Your words does not speak well to be one of teaching and quoting the Bible
Uh lie
YES YUH LIE
RECALL BOTH MOSES AND KING DAVID ACTUUALLY MURDERED OR HAD PERSONS MURDERED
RE BTW I don’t care how many girls sit in your Bible class
I DONT HOLD ANY BIBLE CLASSES ANYWHERE BUT I HAVE MET MANY MATURED NURSES FROM GHANA AND ELSEWHERE IN AFRICA WHO SPEAK FLUENT ENGLISH
AND MY TEACHER IN ORTHOPAEDICS AT UWI AND HIS WIFE SPEAK ENGLISH VERY WELL, THE PATIENTS AT QEH UNDERSTOOD HIM VERY WELL, BEFORE HE PRACTICED MEDICINE IN BARBADOS FOR ABOUT 40 YEARS
RE Not all people are alike or understand at the same level I say and will say that English is not an easy language to understand
DEALING WITH YOU ILLUSTRATES THAT POINT VERY WELL AC, UH LIE
RE Hence those working in the medical field outside of their country in their ability to speak their native language should be proficient in English when dealing with patients
MOST CERTAINLY ,
WHICH EXPLAINS WHY THOSE WHO DID THE INTERVIEWING OF NURSES IN GHANA FOR THE BARBADOS GOVERNMENT, AND THOSE WHO DID THE SAME FOR THE RECRUITERS FOR THE SEVERAL AMERICAN HOSPITALS WHO RECRUIT NURSES FROM GHANA WERE SATISFIED WITH THE ENGLISH OF THE NURSES THEY HAVE RECRUITED
SEEMS THAT THEY WERE SATISFIED, UH LIE?
JUST AS IN MY HUMBLE OPINION THE NURSES TO WHOM I HAVE SPOKEN FROM GHANA SPOKE VERY GOOD ENGLISH AND WERE SUITABLE FOR RECRUITMENT.
QUESTION: WERE YOU PRESENT WHEN THE GHANIAN NURSES WHO HAVE BEEN RECRUITED TO WORK IN BARBADOS WERE INTERVIEWED ?
YOU MAY CONTINUE TO BRAY.
AND THANKS FOR TRYING TO TEACH ME WHAT I HAVE EXPERIENCED SINCE 1976
WILLIAM
ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANES IV DID NOT COME TO A PLEASANT END
NOR HAVE THE MANY WHOM HE PREFIGURED, AND WHO HAVE COME AND GONE SINCE HIM.
HISTORY HAS RECORDED THESE THINGS
HISTORY WILL ALSO RECORD THE END OF MIA MUGABE MUTTLEY
IT IS WRITTEN ….GOD IS NOT MOCKED FOR WHAT EVER A MAN SOWS THAT HE SHAL ALSO REAP……ALL IN ITS TIME……….WHEN THE FULNESS OF TIME IS COME (PLEROMA EN CHRONOS)
@ David
Changing the norms of an essentially corrupt so-called two party democracy is never easy.
We have been into who wins elections and not policy , ever since 1976, when Tom Adams proved that Barrow could be beaten!
The country has been in permanent election mode since then and we , some of the most vociferous here on BU, have encouraged it to the max.
The recent decision by Mottley to go to the polls, on the blatant lie, that the country was “ divided” is perhaps the zenith of such stupidity.
Mottley ruthlessly used a weak opposition and a country in crisis, to guarantee an extension of two years on her personal political life. She created a lie and the country fell for it :hook , line and sinker.
There was not one major topic in that election ;it was all about proving that she could win another election. Not one major national issue was up for discussion , on the campaign trail.
It is now obvious, that Mottley saw Caswell as the biggest threat to her leadership. He won every major legal battle against the worst AG in the post Independence era.
Mottley was confronted with a number of dangerous issues that never stuck: the phone call by a person known to the courts;embracing Maloney after widespread denunciation of him; going above the head of the Minister of Health ,committing the country to a very shady vaccine deal and housing agreements with the private sector that were never fully explained.
Immediately ,on winning elections , she appointed three ministers in her office and a Chief of Staff that we know very little of what are the terms of or conditions of his or her appointment.
Mottley now reigns supreme and has even made the President look weak and vulnerable with the senate appointments fiasco.
I am still waiting to hear or “ see” which divisions in the country were healed after she won the election.
To put it mildly, she has taken Duopoly politics and governance to a completely new level and her minions absolutely love it!
LikeI said it’s no longer about governance and policy, it’s about winning elections . Even the do-called decision to reform the educational system is buried in secrecy.
We shall all hear or “ see” where the country is heading very shortly.
Caswell is still trusted more by the people than any of the thirty in Parliament.
@William
Agree with some of what you wrote but this support for maximum and populist leader has become a normal local and global. It is now a culture. It will be very difficult to incite change by articulating policy. We live in a fast food age and the blogmaster doesn’t mean food.
AC
There we 95 nurses from Ghana in bim already The hospital director gave them an excellent report. I have not read /heard about any problem until now you trying to create one for political reasons
Also I understand most Africans when the speak English than I do some Jamaicans
Yes. Almost all Africans I meet speak English and their own language
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Why is caswell and nurses still not marching? U want to claim it’s not political but can have two marches is the few weeks before elections and nothing it the nearly two months after ?
The nurses are not marching because Caswell himself admitted many have returned to work because they have bills to pay.
LMAO at the cabal struggling for relevance. So hard to stomach the hoghwash. Sigh!
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