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It is official, four candidates vying to lead the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) have been announced. The BU Voting Booth will be open for 24 hours to accept voting from the BU family.
273 responses to “Vote for DLP President”
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I would like to join DLP as a mole and vote for Eastwitch. Just to make sure that the DLP perishes.
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None of them look particularly appealing!!
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Good chance one will win 30 – 0.
Same principle at work as in the General Elections.
Very few people will vote.
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So, is Francis de Pizza any relation to Verla de Pizza?
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I’m amazed that anyone would vote for “Bulldog”. Mind you, that is one way to lower the image of the party even further. This is fantasy, but just picture him as leader of the party and because of some debt Barbados owes the devil, there is an election and he became the Prime Minister. Can you see him at the United Nations representing us? Can you picture him meeting with the Prime Minister of Canada, the USA, Great Britain, the World Bank? Come on, let’s really go for the gold, him interviewed by the BBC, CNN, MSNBC, ABC? Phew, I just experienced a shiver as if someone walked on my grave. Let’s go local. Would you want him taking us through the Covid pandemic? Ronnie all the way.
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Her brother.
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So Philip Greaves is Uncle.
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Yes. He ran in 2008.
Barbados General Election Results 2008
http://www.caribbeanelections.com/bb/elections/bb_results_2008.asp
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No Stoppin Toppin beat him by 120 votes.
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Why does DLP need a leader.
They have been excused from Parliament.
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And he ran in Uncle Phil’s old riding.
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David where is the option to vote none.
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@Fearplay, Ronnie is too churchy and conservative….do you think he would throw blows. He will be just a seat warmer to pull the party together
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#RyanWalters does not have the charisma nor command presence to woo. He should stick to frying chips.
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David “ Bulldog” Estwick needs to disconnect from the bulldog moniker. He is intelligent and does have a grapevine. He just needs to stop the childish barking.
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@Francis, you do not have the command presence nor charisma to inspire nor motive DLPites far less investors to support the party. Just stick to conveyances
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What happened to the pastor that was so interested in the position a few months ago? No election around the corner so he not interested now?
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“What happened to the pastor that was so interested in the position a few months ago? No election around the corner so he not interested now?”
DLP were warming up to a 2023 Election campaign and had social media on lock down
but an early election call in late 2021 had them on the back foot and it was game over in January 2022 -
The biggest challenge for the new DLP leader will be having to establish a power base and at the same time lock horns with Mia. Interesting times ahead. It looks like Ronnie at this stage.
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How will not presenting a woman as a candidate hurt the DLP? It is a party accused of not including women in the mix.
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These four are just not worth the time!!
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We can’t find something better to natter about?
… more uplifting?
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The DLP needs another DePeiza leading it like it needs a hole in the head, as for Estwick the less said the better but the foghorn could be used calling the action at the old climbing the greasy pole feature at country fairs.
Let Ronnie and Ryan fight it out.
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DEM. In a deep dark hole without a voice in parliament. At least in the past when both parties hit Rock bottom they had safe seats to depend on, strong voices in parliament (2 and 3) and KNOWN potential leadership in the parties while working on their build back
These DEMs got 0 + 0 +0
A long road to travel
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Dems’ shortlist under scrutiny
By Colville Mounsey
colvillemounsey@nationnews. com
Political strategist Hartley Henry says he is deeply concerned about the future of the Democratic Labour Party (DLP), arguing that the recently announced shortlist for presidency has “yet again shown the party to be out of sync with the demands of the Barbadian electorate”.
Yesterday it was reported that UWI law lecturer Ronnie Yearwood, business executive Ryan Walters, former Government minister Dr David Estwick, and attorney at law Francis De Peiza have thrown their hats in the ring for the leadership of the party.
Henry, who is a former candidate of the DLP, but served in the last two campaigns of the ruling Barbados Labour Party, said none of the four fit the billing of a political leader that could be presented to the electorate as an alternative to Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley.
However, political scientist Peter Wickham is of the view that there is hope for the DLP’s resurgence should the party members select from either of the two new-guard candidates, Walters and Yearwood.
On the other hand, fellow political scientist Dr George Belle said that the country has to wait and see which candidate the party elects and how that individual responds to the task of leadership before any judgement on suitability can be made.
Henry contends that the DLP needs to make an amendment to the party constitution, allowing for a political leader to be separate from the presidency, thereby allowing for someone to emerge that the entire party can rally behind. “We just went through four years of this same scenario of having a president without having a political leader and we saw the end-result of it. To tell me that having lost an election 30-0, you are going to come back on that same path and commit the same error tells me that you are challenging the intelligence of the electorate of Barbados. The Democratic Labour Party does not need a president, it needs a leader – going this route is a futile exercise. The elders of the party should not at this stage have allowed four persons, none of whom will capture the attention of the party’s base, as an alternative leader of the country,” Henry told the Weekend Nation.
None in foreseeable future
“What are you asking people to choose from with regards to the four names that have been put there? There is no one there whom you can look to as a leader of Barbados in the foreseeable future… What you are seeing here are four basic candidates who can hope to be interim presidents at best. I have never seen people so competitive for a bronze medal because the gold medal is certainly not at stake,” he further argued.
Wickham anticipates that the party’s internal elections would come down to a two-man race between Walters and Yearwood. He contends that the DLP has made it clear on multiple occasions that it is going the route of new blood and therefore the two fit the bill. He queried the entry of Francis De Peiza, who is the brother of former president Verla De Peiza, noting that his candidacy is strange, having been out of the political limelight for a number of years.
“Ryan is a hard-working
constituency man while Ronnie seems to have been more recently converted to the DLP philosophy, but his CV is impressive. So I would say that the party has two good options to choose from. My sense is that it would come down to those two; I do not believe that the others will generate a whole lot of interest,” Wickham said.
Responding to the question about whether the candidates have what it takes to take the DLP out of the political doldrums, Wickham said that much would depend on the direction that they will take the party as well as their willingness to take advice.
A not so optimistic Henry, on the other hand, said that he believes that DLP’s place as the second in a two-party political system is now open to challenge.
“What this tells me is that if Barbados is to have an Opposition it is going to have to look beyond the Democratic Labour Party. The DLP on its current track will not emerge as the viable alternative to the Barbados Labour Party anytime soon. This is a death knell that the current powers that be have now dealt the DLP,” he said.Source: Nation
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The main problem isn’t the choice of candidates. It’s the DLP itself!!!
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Good comment Observing. The blogmaster has been a lone voice suggesting change must come within. This will occur if the party is infused with new blood prepared to challenge the ‘establishment.
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@ observing
“The main problem isn’t the choice of candidates. It’s the DLP itself!!!”
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That is a LARGER problem, not the MAIN one.An even more massive problem is the predisposition of our political system to attract LAWYERS who are all averse to having their CLIENTS accounts audited.
Cuh dear Observing…
If we encourage people who routinely steal clients’ funds to manage our NATIONAL treasury …how the HELL can we be surprised that the Auditors Report is as embarrassing as it is EVERY damn year?So therefore, an even MORE MASSIVE problem is our collective IDIOCY (AKA brass bowlery).
Solve THAT… and we gone clear.
Your proposed ’Solution’ of fines sounds like you trying to protect some friends and acquaintances…
Bushie is 100% behind Pacha’s SIMPLE solution…A sharp Guillotine installed in Parliament Yard, and mandated for use AT LEAST monthly.
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@Bush Tea
Next post come with workable solutions. Leave the hyperbolic view for when you are having a few rounds this weekend.
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What is preventing actors in the other professions/self employed from stepping up to do public service?
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@Bushie
“an even MORE MASSIVE problem is our collective IDIOCY (AKA brass bowlery).”
TRUTH@David
“What is preventing actors in the other professions/self employed from stepping up to do public service”
Fear of victimisation. Balls and conviction are in short supply. -
@Observing
What did Rosa Parks, MLK and many of that ilk had that we do not? Acting out the courage of one’s conviction. A significant contributor to where we find ourselves is the fear that comes with being a member of the middleclass, it means there is a over reliance on third parties to provide basics – food, clothes and shelter. This situation is not helped when we become addicted to conspicuous consumption. We have discussed these matters many times in this space. It seems we will allows the global financial crisis to go to waste, and the same is happening with the pandemic.
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DavidApril 14, 2022 7:57 AM
Good comment Observing. The blogmaster has been a lone voice suggesting change must come within. This will occur if the party is infused with new blood prepared to challenge the ‘establishment.
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The basic problem is the DLP has thousands of people who voted for its candidates who do not have a voice in the House of Assembly.
These four are a distraction from the basic problem the whole of Barbados has.
Neither DLP nor BLP are of any use.
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Next post come with workable solutions.
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What did you NOT understand about the Guillotine David?Of course we can always wait for a Rosa Parks, but somehow Bushie did not get the impression that SHE was a brass Bowl sheep.
We can EITHER face an SOLVE the root problem … OR we can continue to talk shiite about how we cannot change our BB habits.
Bushie is resigned to the latter so no sweat…. But the bushman will STILL call a spade a spade… -
@Bush Tea
You realise the decision taken by Rosa Parks was resignation that after years of struggle in a system of discrimination she was prepared to accept the consequences of her action? Are we there yet?
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“These DEMs got 0 + 0 +0
A long road to travel”
This thing called life
is not about the destination it is more about the journey
we are where we are for a reason
DLP Leadership in these times is an oxymoron a next DLP leader should be selected down the line in a faraway future out of the pool of Candidates who won a seatHere is en excellent hiking meditation video
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The difference between Hilary Beckles and Geoffrey Cave is that Geoffrey Cave is playing the long game, Hilary Beckles wants results now, which of course we all know is impossible, any idiot knows that.
To learn the long game you have to be educated by those who came before you and who have played it well.
That’s why generations of Quaker families were so successful.
Going to UWI or any other university to get book learning is a waste if you don’t get the experience passed down to you through work attachments.
You just become an empty vessel and empty vessels make the most noise … but are still empty.
Sugar Cane takes 11 months in India to harvest after planting.
Here, usually, we plant first crop in November and give it 14 months to harvest.
After harvest ratoons appear and are then harvested in about a year.
Often you will get as many of 5 years of output from one planting, weeds are controlled and the mulch from the harvest will prevent evaporation from the soil.
The ultimate long game in field agriculture is sugar cane production.
Costs are kept to a minimum and succeeding crops give acceptable although falling yields.
Farmers usually do little talking but alot of thinking, planning and doing, like anyone involved in a long game.
That’s the difference between Geoffrey Cave, the son and Hilary Beckles.
You hardly hear either of the first two speaking, but you get a barrage of hot air from Hilary Beckles so you know he is another empty vessel.
The first two advertise their results through others who see the clear improvements and growth, Hilary Beckles is a fog horn for himself and only knows how to pull down.
I do little talking myself unless it is on a subject I know but I have learnt over time how to write which is also a long game.
The writing skill is not taught, it is learnt but you have to know what you are writing about or your writing will expose you as an empty vessel and leave a permanent paper trail for anyone to see.
Check this video on growing sugar cane.
Years ago after cutting the thousands of cane plants they were soaked in water for a few days and then planted.
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The other difference between Geoffrey Cave and the son and Hilary Beckles is we all know and can see what the game is that the first two are playing and we all want in.
What game is Hilary Beckles playing?
After all the invective and hot air, we have emptiness.
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Reality Time
Proper Authors will have lots of books available on AmazonSir Hilary McDonald Beckles
is a Barbadian historian. He is the current vice-chancellor of the University of the West Indies and chairman of the CARICOM Reparations Commission -
555dubstreetApril 14, 2022 9:41 AM
Reality Time
Proper Authors will have lots of books available on Amazon++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Where do they rate?
There are almost a million different books that sell better than this book of his on Amazon.
You need to get down to the specific subject area, “History of Barbados” for his book to get into double digits but what the ranking is not telling you is if he in #29 in books on Barbados History, it might be out of 30 authors, or worser, maybe even 29.
For example,
Ranking in Amazon’s bestsellers: #856,648 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
#29 in History of Barbados
#295 in History of the Caribbean and the West Indies (Kindle Store)
#488 in History of Central America (Kindle Store) -
Read an excerpt from the book.
“Barbados, the beautiful Caribbean island known for its social amiability and political civility, was the site of the first ‘black slave society’
This of course is patently untrue if you subscribe to the 1619 project which places the first black slave society in Virginia.
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David
How many candidates outside the duopoly are/ were lawyers ?Time for SB to merge with joe and Lynette
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555dubstreetApril 14, 2022 9:41 AM
Reality Time
Proper Authors will have lots of books available on Amazon++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
How many people on here have actually read a book by Hilary Beckles, … or even read any book?
Did you know you can write and publish a book on Amazon?
Hilary Beckles needs to take lessons from this lady.
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“You need to get down to the specific subject area, “History of Barbados” for his book to get into double digits but what the ranking is not telling you is if he in #29 in books on Barbados History, it might be out of 30 authors, or worser, maybe even 29.”
In Barbados you can sell 1 copy of 1 book to make it into the tops sellers list
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@ David
“You realise the decision taken by Rosa Parks was resignation that after years of struggle in a system of discrimination she was prepared to accept the consequences of her action? Are we there yet?”
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Point taken.
After all it has ONLY been 500 years. -
“Of course we can always wait for a Rosa Parks, but somehow Bushie did not get the impression that SHE was a brass Bowl sheep.
don’t wait for Harriett Tubman either…..in these new beginnings and because there were AMPLE WARNINGS for years…..ya will just get STEPPED OVER…and everyone will keep it moving, those with commonsense anyway….
….i told someone recently, if the information is available to me, won’t even tell them when the 21st century shackles and chains are ready and available to wrap around them…no one has time for ready-made idiots presenting as experts and will certainly not go down with them…
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@David, you are a complex ‘provocateur’ (which is how u often describe ur comments intended to generate debate). But we seem to be talking around in circle.
As suggested by many there can be absolutely NO COMPARISON between Mia Mottley and any of the DLP characters vying for recognition, yet we still are making them. This goes directly to Henry’s argument that the DLP needs a political leader and not a president per se.
His assertion painfully begs the argument that currently the skillset of effervescent, rousing populist political prattle and party control management does NOT reside within any of these candidates and as he said “To tell me that having lost an election 30-0, you are going to come back on that same path and commit the same error tells me that you are challenging the intelligence of the electorate of Barbados.”_
What is NOT said there but should be obvious is that we Bajans are so accustomed to the Mia, Arthur or Barrow and indeed Eric Williams, Michael Manley, Bunham et al effective maximum leader type that we seem to automatically presume that must be a natural occurring phenomena. Alas, none of that type have risen to the forefront of the DLP in recent times. So we absolutely DO NEED to reset our expectations of that party (and frankly any others) for the foreseeable future until magic happens again or we must reset to a newer normal of the type expressed by Henry (it is NOT uncommon as any student of political science would know; in fact quite the opposite other than here in the region)
Thus if we agree that subsequent those dual 30-0 thrashing that the ““…main problem isn’t the choice of candidates. It’s the DLP itself!!!”” then what is there to get excited re this DLP leadership tussle particularly when we are adopting those stuck-in-the-past traditional Bajan leadership mentalities. There is no evident awesome MAXIMUM leader among any of the candidates capable of matching Motley in any battle. That type of combustible, epic battle of verbal and party control skills is now in the past – surely we will enjoin same again but definitely not here at this moment.
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@David, there was a bit more I wanted to take you up on re your ‘provocateur’ label particularly that Rosa Parks remarks but will have to do that later if I can.
Peace out.
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