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It says a lot about some commenters on the blog that the blogmaster has to defend a position which says – Barbadians are too docile and in the process ceded key responsibilities in our democracy to the political elite.

In any political science 101 class the student learns that along with basic responsibilities of citizens to obey laws, pay taxes etc, there are other weighty responsibilities for the democracy to function successfully. There is relevance in the expressions a people get the government it deserves and the price of democracy is eternal vigilance.

Elected officials in our system of government are suppose to be servants of the people. Anyone living in Barbados knows that citizens have allowed politicians to do as they like for too long. Consequently, we have seen the duopoly become entrenched with citizens voting for B or D based on the prevailing level of frustration when elections become due.

The blogmaster is sufficiently aware that Barbadians have been promised enactment of transparency laws to include; integrity and freedom of information legislation by the duopoly. Believe it or not the promise goes back to the administration of the late Prime Minister Tom Adams, more than 40 plus years ago. The blogmaster is sure we have had more public debate about a 20% increase in the excise tax on sweet drinks than the refusal by the duopoly to enact transparency laws to enhance our system of governance.  

Barbadians have allowed malfeasance to go unpunished by public servants. We have allowed the NIS to come under the microscope. We have tolerated moribund working committees of parliament established in our democracy to provide checks and balances. What have we done to demonstrate our disgust besides going to the polling booth in dwindling numbers every 5 years or something 3?

The blogmaster’s unfavourable appraisal of citizen participation in our democracy includes the media and other NGOs in civil society that are mandated to ACTIVELY represent the interest of citizenry. Barbadians cannot be satisfied with electing a government and remain passive until the next general election is called. The people we elect as well as we the citizens have clear responsibilities to ensure the a healthy democracy.

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230 responses to “Barbadians Asleep at the Wheel”

  1. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @Donna April 6, 2022 8:30 AM “Wait! I AM SUPPOSED TO BE DRIVING?????? FROM THE BACK SEAT?…we pay a Prime Driver, Four Senior Drivers and several other drivers and yet we are expected to drive? Many of us have OTHER JOBS and cannot stay awake for our UNPAID gig….I stated before that the ONUS is on those who applied for the job based on a manifesto, who TOOK AN OATH AND TAKE A SALARY [and a pension] for the privilege of driving. The only reason we should have even to be watching the road from the back seat is if THEY are asleep at the wheel….If we must prod them awake it is THEIR FAILING FIRST AND FOREMOST… David is putting the wrong driver behind the wheel and like a racist policeman, writing the ticket to the poor black man in the back seat.”

    My response: Why do you always have to be so sensible?

  2. Wuraola Avatar
    Wuraola

    You should check out the FINCEN files TLSN on the same page at the bottom…under investigations…….some years ago they said the island was involved in at least 50, if i remember, “questionable transactions”……

    don’t have as much time to read as i used to…

  3. African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved Avatar
    African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved

    And don’t expect any explanations either..they get handled with kids gloves…no one wants to ask hard pertinent questions…..they reserve that for each other and let those they pay a salary to get a pass….when they should not ever….

    but apparently BU will change that….they said they will do what is necessary, so we wait…someone gotta take the first step and set the pace….of holding the arrogant accountable…

  4. de pedantic Dribbler Avatar
    de pedantic Dribbler

    @Skinner, respectfully bro but you are operating in nice world of pretty semantics. How can you opine that the ”The NDP did not fail or was not rejected by the people”?? … By WHAT measure do you define success of a political party, sir? How can you tell us that ”The NDP was quietly euthanized” [because] the ‘supreme’ leader could no longer achieve his ambitions with a straight face after saying it did NOT fail. … Political party success is the IMPACT with voters to be ELECTED to implement plans and establish a sustainable partnership with said voters!

    Senor Skinner … come on brother. Get REAL please…. Unless you can come to grips with the reality of Dr. Haynes ‘narcissistic’ type A persona and how that would have contributed to the FAILURE of the NDP team to win only one seat when they faced the electorate and can offer a reasoned and practical perspective on difficulties YOU and others faced and which caused you not to reenter the political fray then you are playing word games.

    Of course, I get your purposeful condemnation that our political class needs to and should do much better and yes the BLP and DLP are quite identical on ideology but good grief that’s obviously because the PEOPLE who elected them want it so.

    There are PRACTICAL reasons why all third parties have failed. You saw it first hand so please let’s stop these funny word games. …

    1.There are no significant differentiating factors that energise Bajans to follow another leader/party 2.Having a 3rd party means that one of the other two parties will be CANNABALIZED for membership support as three parties are NOT sustainable in small democracies like ours. 3. A 3rd party invariably is formed when an uber ambitious politician sees his/her path to the top blocked in an existing party or s/he has radically different views and sets out to propagate them under a new banner.

    We did #2 and #3… but the NDP is no longer here and were relevant for really only one iteration of our Parliament … and that was achieved when they were DLP members and crossed the floor to originate the party. When it faced the electorate directly …poof…. It effectively ceased to be a factor in parliament and then it your words was ‘euthanized’! Sorry brother but that’s political failure spelled with an ‘E’!

    Consider that since then… there has been NO other 3rd party of that stature. Yet we continue this daily dance of political this and political that re a duopoly when it’s clear there is no viable other alternative.

    Get real brother.

  5. Kammie Holder Avatar
    Kammie Holder

    @David, we like it so. Those who are uncompromised and willing to speak out are also condemned by many who are asleep and do not even know they are asleep. Only the millennials will save Barbados for the BabyBoomers have all sold out and have mortgages to pay.

    #Hypocrisy #Nepotism have all replaced meritocracy in Barbados. Friends, family, the compromised have all become watchmen in poor adulterated governance not only in Barbados but the whole earth.

    The outspoken must however remain steadfast irrespective of illegal wiretapping, name calling and bad mouthing. Who ever throws stones at empty mango trees?

  6. de pedantic Dribbler Avatar
    de pedantic Dribbler

    @Donna, I may be in a minority group of ONE but for all practical purposes I am quite convinced that Bajans are empowered, aware and are not political victims to any party or person.

    Are there Bajans who are indifferent to the pressing issues in our land and will adopt a partisan perspective on issues? Of course. Are there Bajans who disregard clear evidence of infelicities and simply embrace politicians and their shenanigans? Absolutely.

    NONE of that means we are so lacking in civics knowledge that we can’t understand the duties of the PAC or appreciate the nuances of the current Senate brouhaha or can’t grasp the serious problems highlighted in the Auditor General’s report annually for the last umpteen years. Nope!

    So there is no singular act or acts needed to empower those who behave supposedly like an ostrich … It is well known that if you stick your head in sand for too long you surely will asphyxiate. So I do not share this ‘victimology’ sentimentality … most will never place their head in the sand as that’s madness; those who do will remove it on their own volition when they so decide or they will die like the fools they are!

    Are Bajans fools … I think not. They act as they choose.

    So this is a sorta valid discourse that begs serious questions of why we act as we do given the knowledge we have but for whatever reason there is NO acceptance that this is essentially the best we can do at this time and it is what the people want!

  7. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    @ DPD
    The NDP has been the most successful third party since independence. You see failure in a very one dimensional sense.
    I understand your position because like others , you simply measure success by one factor: it did not win an election and therefore it failed. I guess that in your book the DLP is now a failure and when the the BLP gets “ rejected “ it would become a failure.
    I give you how the NDP left the political scene and why it left , in my view. It’s like saying that every black business person who had a business that did not last into two or three generations was or is a failure.
    The NDP failed on two occasions to win the government. The DLP did the same : is it a failure ? You will now claim the DLP has won elections . So, by your reasoning they were successful up to the point when they lost.
    My dear brother it’s not semantics. In the post independence political history of Barbados up to today,the NDP has been the most successful political third party.
    If that means failure to you it does not mean failure to me.
    You need to redefine and refine your concept of failure and success in all areas of human/ organizational endeavor. If BU is euthanized by its owners and put to rest would you call it a failure? It would have been still one of the most successful blogs we have had to date.
    Peace.

  8. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    William Skinner April 6, 2022 4:05 PM

    And, with all due respect, sir, I’m forced to remind you when your ‘comrades in the fight’ were on BU calling people from ‘wild baking dogs, wild beasts and savages that should be in the jungle to hyenas and slimy pigs,’ while being prosecutorial and “playing they are psychiatrists……. having some divine right to call others mentally unstable, cyberbullies, cyberstalkers, that they need psychiatric help,
    diagnosing them with the ‘Bajan Condition,’ and were encouraged to do so” ……

    ………. “I did not expect you to tell them don’t go there” EITHER.

    You CHOSE to REMAIN SILENT, simply because they were MEMBERS of your GROUP of comrades.
    You said, you could not tell them what to say because they are ‘big men,’……. a courtesy that you’re NOW conveniently UNWILLING to extend to others……and likewise recognize the people you’re referring to are ‘big men and women’ also.

    “But, that’s your right. Hopefully I will now be given the same respect” as well.

    Remember, you’re always reminding the forum that no one could “proscribe or prescribe what you have to say,” which I believe should be APPLICABLE TO EVERYONE and not you alone.

  9. African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved Avatar
    African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved

    William….BU does serve its purpose of bringing social issues to the fore that other conventional media ignore or just gloss over for various reasons….but the most successful blog that ever went after politicians, lawyers etc and had them running for cover was BFP.

    ..accurate information is still available on their sites exposing all the rot in the system, parliament, judiciary, etc that still makes them all nervous……and then Keltruth Blog did the same, they too still have useful info for those who need it to fight whatever battles they have going on in the system…if you need info, that’s where it’s found..

    ..they came before BU and really gave the corrupt/uncaring a run for their money…the upside to a blog, it can stay online indefinitely..

    BU now has a unique opportunity to get the ball rolling to hold the reckless accountable..

  10. David Avatar
    David

    @Kammie

    Continue to fight the good fight.

  11. de pedantic Dribbler Avatar
    de pedantic Dribbler

    @Skinner, you are being playful surely. I expressed ‘failure’ of the NDP clearly within context of your repeated denunciation of the ‘duopoloy’. I clearly gave the NDP credit by noting it’s the only third party of stature in our political history. But any reflective long-term view of the party and it being ‘euthanized’ must bluntly acknowledge that it failed to be a sustained political entity. How can you practically say otherwise.

    What the NDP achieved was monumental and can be written as an excellent success in building a party and deploying an effective political machine to fully contest two general elections … Absolutely awesome. … But brother, the party NEVER got past that and it is in THAT context and your duopoly harangue that failure is noted. As importantly I also said that there must be valid reasons why no 3rd party has gained traction in Bim since then.

    To simply respond otherwise…
    *_”I guess that in your book the DLP is now a failure and when the the BLP gets “ rejected “ it would become a failure._” …. Both parties are now 50 plus years old but the DLP is definitely on the verge of failure as a political entity. What they have done before now will remain forever marked in our history’s pages but if they were to be ‘euthanized’ or whatever then surely history’s pages will also note that they ‘failed’ as a party following the 2018 elections. That’s just plain factual English.

    Losing an election itself does not make you a FAILED political party … becoming OBSOLTE does.

    You live in the southern US .. is the Whig party still around? Unlike the NDP they actually won a government but they imploded too and are now obsolete thus for all practical purposes it’s a failed party @Skinner. That does NOT deny what it achieved during it’s year of currency but it is no longer in existence. On the political reality meter that’s a fail. But anyhow let’s NOT play words.

    My question to you was WHY no other 3rd party has ever gained traction and I used the background collapse of the NDP as a point of relevance.

    Stay safe.

  12. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    Mottley, Trudeau to co-chair Sustainable Development Goals Advocates group

    https://www.nationnews.com/2022/04/06/mottley-trudeau-co-chair-sustainable-development-goals-advocates-group/

  13. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    @ DPD
    The NDP was formed with sitting MPs. It was led by Haynes, who many thought would have succeeded Barrow. It is actually unfair to compare the NDP with other third parties. To put it straight: it had a lot going for it.
    The major problem with the third parties that came later is the failure to realise the hard work involved.. Like I said, I notice Atherley is trying he needs plenty help.
    Peace

  14. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    Wide awake on skates

  15. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    @ WURA
    Good luck with that. I made a personal decision almost or over a year ago, not to get involved or make any suggestions regarding the direction. BU takes.
    Nuff respect to David but been there done dat

  16. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    @Artax
    You have to be kidding . You are mixing oranges with mangoes ! Have I ever told you or anybody else :”not to go there” . Have I ever told you what to write ? Please produce the evidence. I may critique or agree but never say what to write. I don’t tell you where to go. But I do know when the pot is calling the kettle black and I say so. Wunnuh can go there until the cows come home , it is really comedy for me.
    Don’t try to twist things here. I told you before and I will say it again, I am not on any tag team. I am not any blog police and while I enjoy robust debate or discussion , I don’t prosecute anybody. I have been cussed on this blog and not once did anybody found it to be their business. The only person that ever assessed me honestly on this blog is @Donna, when she said that my main mission was the politically destruction of the both the BLP and DLP.
    I have a lot of genuine respect for you and there are no buts in that. The Comrades can insult whomever they like. You can do the same.
    You have established yourself and some seem to believe that you are the only person on BU who is fair and “balanced”. In this case you are far from. BTW, to even suggest that I encouraged anybody to insult others is pure nonsense. I simply saw it as par for the course. When @David was calling me a Jackass and RH almost daily, I dont recall anybody being bothered. And even Comrade Pacha put a fair amount of cussing in my backside and again , I never saw anybody rushing to reprimand him. And as far as calling people insulting names it’s just another case of the pot calling the kettle black. I may not be fair and balanced but I can read and BU got archives. Now all I have written here may be Jobby/Jobbie.
    Respect due you my Brother but you dont get to tell me where to go. And I have never told you where to go. To suggest that I try to prescribe or proscribe what others write is extremely laughable.
    Peace

  17. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    @ Mr. Skinner

    Last/last

    I NEVER “suggested that you encouraged anybody to insult others is pure nonsense. Please RE-READ my comments.

    Similarly, “I have been cussed, insulted and lies told on me on this blog by a particular individual and not once did anybody found it to be their business.”
    I was insulted for making a comment about economic growth by someone who made the ‘exact same comment,’ five minutes later.
    He/she went as far as to ‘tell’ me, “those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad.“

    So what? As you correctly mentioned “it’s par for the course.”

    The fact remains I do not share any personal, professional or casual relationship with any contributor to BU.
    So, they could “talk’ shiite ’till the cows come home.’

    ‘Anyhow,’ I also respect you and your opinions, especially those related to politics, the cultural, tourism and manufacturing industries.

    Salām.

  18. African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved Avatar
    African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved

    “@ WURA
    Good luck with that. I made a personal decision almost or over a year ago, not to get involved or make any suggestions regarding the direction. BU takes.”

    William blogmaster will be the one showing up himself as a hypocrite, who can blame the Black population for not engaging in rotten, dirty colonial politics or hold crooked, dangerous criminals politicians and their business sidekicks responsible for their crimes against people and country, when he KNOWS they do not have the knowledge, weapons or resources to fight back adequately. i remember well when we both told him he should consider taking another route, i remember his reaction.

    but can’t use the blog to show up and hold the same people who have brought the country to its KNEES and PAUPERIZED/terrorized with thefts, corruption and every social ill available, more than a quarter of the Black population for decades, but can have his commenters attacking those who expose the criminality of the same traitors and their corrupt minority bribers…as everyone has watched for a long time, he goes so far as to allow the promotion of these same thieves and racists..

    so who do you think will look foolish in the end when he can’t produce anything useful after claiming that he would….it will say a lot more about him, than who are attacked for speaking out……am not holding my breath, would be pleasantly surprised if the blog is used to EDUCATE the Black population and simultaneously hold the traitors responsible…but i do not expect any miracles….because the anti-Black/Afrikan narrative has been persistent for years on BU….from those who live in their contrived colonial world..

    ..him distributing my book to BU members is a first step to redeeming himself for not being as strong as he could with the vehicle he has available…and only happened because he is BLAMING the people who all these crimes are directed at from the parliament and the minority.business community…when we both know as others do that he IS WRONG and out of line for misleading everyone with that narrative, which will do more social/psychological harm than good if allowed to spread…..i was especially pissed because i knew he had my book in his possession that could disprove what he was trying to sell….even worse, if he read it and now claiming he did not…

    ..don’t know when it became acceptable, decades now, to blame the victims, when the site could be used to point at, name and shame those who are really responsible….no one is asking him to put them in handcuffs where they belong, there are others with information in their possession that can make that to happen if they choose, just get the info to the appropriate agencies

    ……if he did not pull that stunt, no one would have said anything about the direction his blog should go, but we cannot have it used as another WEAPON against the Black population, when there are already so many IN USE against us out there..

    William…..so it’s no one’s intention to tell him what to do with his blog, but he will not be allowed to USE IT AGAINST US…

  19. African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved Avatar
    African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved

    Was trying to remember how many people who had serious issues with the judiciary or crimes committed against them by those in the parliament and minority community and exposed them on BU ever got successful results,…i don’t want to say no one, but only one person to date said they won certain parts of their case, but they work behind the scenes and only visit BU periodically to update the blog with useful information…

    i can say outright my case was NOT won because of BU, that is why there was very little info shared on here through the years because of push back, although i was able to use the site, and other platforms, to tear the perpetrators who thought of me as just another victim, to shreds………but then had to use other radical means to win, which people would cry out at the methods, with their hypocrisy…but would not cry out if it was lost, would snicker with pleasure, had that been the case..

    so William….do you see the problem we have amongst us in all its ugly, gory details..

    so it’s no one’s intention to tell him what to do with his blog, but he will not be allowed to USE IT AGAINST US…..when it’s so much easier to use it against the REAL ENEMIES that has confronted, robbed and oppressed the population for decades, and it seems it will never end until we end it before it envelopes another generation…

  20. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    To suggest that Bajans are ‘asleep at the wheel” is to imply that there is a wheel, and that some kind of awakening is possible.
    The ‘wheel’ (systems of control) have long been handed over to NON-Bajans, who happen to see the value of buying 246-slaves.
    Canadian and Trini banks
    Irish telecoms
    Cayman Insurance
    Trini Supermarkets, LAND agencies, pharmacies, sweet drink makers, news agencies
    Canadian electricity, Chinese builders, English travel agencies..
    etc etc etc
    Finally, we have now handed our asses to the IMF in order to borrow money to pay our various ‘wheel holders’. The IMF recently tested, and proved that their’ wheel’ is wukking by shutting down the whole place for two years and making all brass bowls accept an experimental RNA therapy …WITH boosters and unknown consequences.

    We are not ‘asleep’ at any damn wheel.
    We are DEAD IN THE WATER …without access to ANY working wheel , …in the storm of the century..

    our ONLY hope now is to stock up on vaseline.
    Perhaps this is Petra Wicky’s role on VOB. To demonstrate how we are destined to relate to our adopted masters.
    ….talk nuff shiite during the days and then lay down and take poll at nights.

  21. African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved Avatar
    African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved

    That’s why am now making time to finish Book 2 Bushman…our young generation is NOT to be destined for these crimes of the century perpetrated by black faces and their masters…against Black descendants

    i can’t for the life of me understand WHY any of this would be ok for our children and for those who came before and no one else, only Afrikans….although i write about it every day and disassemble it in a literary sense ….it still seems like a sick mystery wrapped up in a nightmare…

    well, i suppose the people will have to BRACE and prepare for the middle eastern version as well coming soon and perpetrated by the punching above their weight brigade of jackasses….

    …we have not even mentioned them YET…and these are by far the most brutal of all…

  22. TLSN Avatar
    TLSN

    I was checking the names on the list of Mia’s current cabinet and was gob-smacked with the portfolio of our Prime Minister. It stated that Mia was both Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer! Civilised and democratic EU countries do not allow for the mixing of these two posts. The reason for this is evident. If you are both Prime Minister and Chancellor you have a license to print money and to profit from your unique role. Mia should be advised to step down from one of these roles. The Chancellor of the Exchequer is the second highest office in government. Successful Chancellors often become Prime Ministers.

    The mixing of the two roles is unethical and is an open door to absolute corrupt practices.

    https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/latestnews/Barbados_PM_unveils_new_Cabinet

  23. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    @ WURA
    It’s very unfortunate that we still have those defending the same establishment they accuse of perpetrating crimes against the people.
    Here is the problem:
    When we attack the black political managerial class, we are only attacking the inferior management of the country. However, once we go deeper, we have to also attack the real problem- the unfair distribution and control of the economy by whites and other minorities. That’s what we are afraid of. It’s not only BU it’s the entire media.
    Now , we can March against Sinckler, Mottley or any black leader.
    However, we had Ralph Johnson (Harris Paints) C O W Williams both calling black workers lazy. Not a word or condemnation by the so-called ‘ we love Barbados more than you do” crowd.
    Bet, after I post this somebody may say : Skinner hates whites and Indians.
    Note how you have been painted a racist and other negatives.
    Peace

  24. Enuff Avatar
    Enuff

    Enjoying watching hypocrites struggle to defend their hypocrisy. Wunna killing the blog with one pony trickism.

  25. BAJE Avatar
    BAJE

    Enjoying watching hypocrites struggle to defend their hypocrisy. Wunna killing the blog with one pony trickism.

    xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

    THIS IS COMING FROM A BLP STOOL PIGEON.

    IGNORANCE HAS NO BOUNDS.

  26. David Avatar
    David

    The crabs in a barrel mindset continues.

  27. Enuff Avatar
    Enuff

    They keep proving me right! I guess Barbados is full of BLP stool pigeons. #twice30-0

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    African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved

    “However, once we go deeper, we have to also attack the real problem- the unfair distribution and control of the economy by whites and other minorities. That’s what we are afraid of. It’s not only BU it’s the entire media.”

    they are cowardly, don’t represent Afrikanness, but bend and break easily to the same criminals……yard boys and girls..

    “Note how you have been painted a racist and other negatives.”

    yep….in one breath they called me racist, for years, in the next breath they tell me all about sucking up to whites and all the white men, in rotation…

    the mixed up, confused loser brigade….expect nothing else…but not one of them can stand up to minority criminals without COWERING like Slaves…

    can’t take them seriously, especially since they missed the WHOLE PLAY that was right in front of them, they can read all about it in my next book…no giveaways this time…

  29. David Avatar
    David

    Steuspe

  30. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    LOL @ David
    LOL ha ha murda!!
    …understand ‘Dead in the water’ now…?
    …or are you still trusting your unquenchable optimism?

  31. African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved Avatar
    African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved

    Should have swerved, then would not have come face to face with an unmovable brick and iron wall……controlled by those who know the real meaning to KILL IT BEFORE IT GROWS…

  32. Miller Avatar
    Miller

    (Quote):
    They keep proving me right! I guess Barbados is full of BLP stool pigeons. #twice30-0
    (Unquote).
    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    Aren’t you concerned that those same unemployed Bajan “stool pigeons” are also waiting with ba(i)ted breath for the long-promised big erection called the Hyatt skyscraper to provide them with the much needed hundreds of jobs in construction and hotel operations?

    Now what is really holding up the fulfilment of the dreams of those same stool pigeons?

    Lack of approval of the Hyatt Mirage by the ‘new’ Town Planning & Development minister?

    If the Freedom Park can be completed during a pandemic (and presumably well patronized by the locals) why can’t the Bridgetown brand of Hotel California get off the ground in order for the eagerly-waiting foreign guests to check in and to rescue the Capital from its comatose state?

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    African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved

    Pathetic aren’t they.

    still with the “we win 30-0”) spiel…in a buy election…DNA filled with fraud…

  34. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    @ WURA
    They give these great speeches about revitalizing Bridgetown. However, the PM, let the real cat out of the bag recently , when she said an expatriate, former Chairman/ President of Coca Colo, had purchased two of the buildings and was eager to get his projects going.
    Nothing is being preserved or saved for indigenous black business persons. Bridgetown is on the auction block.
    Peace.

  35. Enuff Avatar
    Enuff

    And like day follows night, out jumps Milluh on Hyatt as if I have any connection.🤣🤣 Boss you really need help. #queensgate

  36. African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved Avatar
    African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved

    “Nothing is being preserved or saved for indigenous black business persons.”

    and only mentioned it because the stakeholder turned up on the island….wait until the others that is still a secret also turn up…

    ..if the majority population don’t understand that they have been sold again to the highest bidder while still talking bout “we island” ……..when they actually have none, they never will.

    but wait, did Barrow not tell them that…..lol

  37. African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved Avatar
    African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved

    William….dog eat their dinner….

    it’s a good thing some of us could see, and already made appropriate arrangements or ours would have gotten EATEN TOO…

  38. Miller Avatar
    Miller

    @ Enuff April 7, 2022 10:18 AM
    (Unquote):
    And like day follows night, out jumps Milluh on Hyatt as if I have any connection.
    Boss you really need help. #queensgate..
    (Unquote)
    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    Yes indeed, the miller like the poor people of Buybadus are badly in need of H.E.L.P!

    No one ever questioned you expertise in contributing to the Hyatt’s environmentally-appealing design.

    How come you are ‘fully’ au fait with every project in your red administration’s portfolio of projects in the 5-year long pipeline but now want to jump off the bandwagon filled with hotel projects like the Hyatt for All Seasons?

    Why no such enthusiasm for dilapidated Bridgetown whose residents have been used, abused and now in the process of being discarded?

    Oh, btw Bee-Liar, how are those US$ Billion projects going in your patch of the foreign metropolitan woods?
    Or have they all been put on hold because of the pandemic, too?

  39. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    Everyone KNOWS a Chancellor of the Exchequer has NEVER EXISTED within the Government of Barbados.

    Therefore, any information stating Mottley is “both Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer,” would OBVIOUSLY be INCORRECT.

    Mottley is Prime Minister and Minister of Finance.

    Isn’t the Chancellor in the UK also referred to as the Minister of Finance?

    If this is true, and the source of the information is British, then perhaps an assumption was made that our MoF is also called the Chancellor.

    Rather than dismiss the information as a mistake, we chose to ‘say,’ “Mia should be advised to step down from one of these roles,” while mentioning some nonsense about “civilised societies,” clearly suggesting Barbados is not civilised.

    To comment on false information as it is truth, clearly indicates the lengths some people are willing to go to support their agenda of criticising just for the sake of being critical.

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    African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved

    Miller…this attempt to mask and blind the populace to what is really happening TO THEM and then blame them for not doing anything about the crimes committed against them is what’s so vexatious to the spirit….

    don’t understand how anyone could in good conscience perpetrate that maneuver of pure deception and treachery and expect to get away with it….like if we are not only too stupid, but too dumb to see and understand…

    nothing angers me more than insulting my intelligence….ya can cuss me all day long, but insult my intelligence and you have to run…

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    African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved

    William/TLSN…now they are acting surprised that if anything goes wrong with the USD,,,they can take a very nasty and PERMANENT stumble/crash/fall..

    ..they never used to worry before and had all this ….big, fake punching above weight talk…now they seem worried, when for months there were warnings on many platforms……

    always focused on the WRONG things, as i said for years…

  42. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    @WS
    I was surprised at your opposition to the thread topic. Then again it pitted the duopoly against the black-white divide, which given the French distilleries, Belgian beverage juggernaut, Canadian oil (they bought Sol) to add to @BT list above has become black Barbados (majority population) vs the Rest of the world.
    [and we haven’t touched Hotels yet]
    And yet, Accountability, only means an explanation for actions.
    Lack of accountability means no explanation.
    It is your favourite duopoly who have been responsible for public expenditures for years. For 15+ yrs not a single official Annual Report for the #NIS. Is it the non-black or non-Barbadian persons who benefit most from the NIS?
    How many of the same “non” group, benefit from public service pensions? The AudGen tells us BDD$124 was expensed by CBL but he has no explanation. No supporting documents, just a number. An expense against the same Consolidated Fund cohobblepot which funds public pensions. But no outcry? No demand to know details. Why were the taxpayers and public pension recipients to fund this massive expense?
    I have no expectation followers will suddenly become leaders. Yet the followers need persons who are willing to push for accountability. They will tag along, albeit meekly.
    Yet, Barbados has a history of seeking to silence those speakers. Former Sen CF, being a recent example.
    The Bajan community has never liked agitators or opposers, unless they can draw a direct duopoly link, or if the skin tone card is in play.
    What has become clear…if someone doesn’t stand up (lead) to seek explanation (accountability); it will occur on a very selective basis, and many times, not at all.
    But if we don’t approve, every 5 years we can vote their ass out, and pat ourselves on the back, we the people have the power!!!

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    African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved

    “I have no expectation followers will suddenly become leaders. Yet the followers need persons who are willing to push for accountability. They will tag along, albeit meekly.
    Yet, Barbados has a history of seeking to silence those speakers. Former Sen CF, being a recent example.”

    Apparently, BU forgot what was done to Caswell and THE OPPRESSED NURSES…..they do need to rise up as a COLLECTIVE and stop being SELECTIVE about what they think is worth complaining about…..and put immense pressure on the liars in the parliament and their pimps and fowls….

    ….if 60 THOUSAND PEOPLE shout loudly EVERY DAY…expose them EVERYWHERE ….fright will set in, they will not think that their fake ass titles and temporary immunity, they begged, lied and stole to obtain, is a shield to protect them, there will be a difference in their nasty attitudes, but judging from what we see on BU….5 people will expose something that endangers the wellbeing, social and financial of the majority and 10 people from the same damn group will oppose them…although they are impacted too…

    with that mentality, the only trajectory is DOWN…exactly the one they are on now…

  44. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    WARNING
    https://www.nationnews.com/2022/04/07/brace-for-pain/

  45. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    My Prime Ministers.
    https://barbadostoday.bb/2022/04/07/pm-mottley-chosen-to-chair-sdg-advocacy-group/

  46. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    Mind Reset
    Instead of treating things that happen as good and bad just treat them as things that happen, bad things are lessons to learn, people who emotionally sensationalize good will also emotionally sensationalize bad

    Positive Propaganda / Mariam The Believer

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C5mgkGZqqk
    Ooh oh
    Oh oh oh oh oooh oh
    Ooh oh
    Oh oh oh oh oooh oh

    Believe it
    It is coming
    I am waiting
    Right here
    The sky’s lit
    With all old souls
    Let us here have no fear

    Trust it
    What Im giving
    If you do you give me back
    Like a garden
    Full of flowers
    Come the rain
    Now prepare then act
    When we need the rain now more than ever
    When we need the rain now more than ever
    Peace
    I’ll leave you with it
    We come & go
    Come & go
    Release
    I’ll leave you with it
    We come & go
    Come & go
    Oh we need the courage more than ever
    Oh we need the courage more than ever
    Forgive them
    For not seeing
    Hate can blind just anyone
    Do remember
    It is coming
    Out of fear of the unknown
    Of being alone
    Oh we need each other more than ever
    Oh we need each other more than ever
    Du-dum-dum-dum-…
    Trust it the giving
    The way you’re living
    Has an effect on everyone
    Animals & plants
    So take your neighbors hand
    Couse in this we’re not alone
    Like single feathers
    But strong together
    Aiming towards the unknown

    (Peace & vibrations, love & sensations
    Positive Propaganda
    Peace & vibrations, love & sensations
    Positive Propaganda)

  47. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    Repeat Until Death

    Mariam The Believer – Love Makes Us Better

  48. David Avatar
    David

    @Hants

    Well done eh?

  49. TLSN Avatar
    TLSN

    In the Westminster model of British government the Minister of Finance has always been given the title: the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Minister of Finance has always been seen as a counterweight to the Prime Minister. Historically the relationship between the two has always been testing.

    British Prime Ministers do not want to fallout with their Minister of Finance as they are powerful figures who dictate how much and where finances are allocated within an economy. The downfall of the Thatcher government was due to her falling out with one too many of her Ministers of Finance.

    The checks and balance of the Westminster system ensured that the post of Prime Minister and the post of Minister of Finance should remain separate and could never be run by one individual. It does not take an Einstein to see the dangers of having a Prime Minister been given the additional role of Minister of Finance. This is a recipe for absolute corruption.

    The Minister of Finance is generally seen in the UK as the Prime Minister in waiting.

    I would urge Mia to step down from one of these roles for the good of the country.

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    African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved

    “It does not take an Einstein to see the dangers of having a Prime Minister been given the additional role of Minister of Finance. This is a recipe for absolute corruption.”

    they have run that conflict of interest now for a quite few decades…..is it not surprising that corruption has SOARED and destroyed the very structures of the financial andsocial environment….

    and they will not want it any other way, will fight tooth and nail to keep it alive and well….so save your breath…

    don’t you remember the boast….’nah big wurks cahn happen widout me”…..that’s the image they project, feeling big, large and in charge, then could not run and hide when the vaccine scam blew up…lol

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