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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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@John2
We need new faces, new ideas to capture the attention of a fast food generation.
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@Dee Word
Concur.
Guy was the closest to a person with the delivery compete. This is not to say he is the finished product but he has something.
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SOME OF YOU BEHAVE AS IF BRAINDEAD.
MIA IS AN EXPERT ON: THE FOLLOWING:
BEGGING BEGGING BEGGING
BORROWING BORROWING BORROWING
YET YOU ACT IF SHE WAS TO DIE TODAY THE 2×3 ISLAND WOULD NO LONGER CEASED TO EXIST.
SMFH.
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The simple fact is the only time Barbados had glory years were in the 50’s and 60’s and they were based on Sugar which was in turn based on the demand and lack of supply during and after WWII. We also got a special price from Britain for our sugar as it could easily have gone to the US which had the same issue with sugar supply as did Britain.
World prices have been rising so really all we have to do is a cost benefit analysis remembering that when our land is in good husbandry, it redounds to the not only the benefit of tourism but also to food production.
It is an economic and not a financial analysis we need to do.
Sugar whether we like to admit it or not is a crucial product and no doubt was behind Russia underwriting Cuba and its million tons of sugar output during the 60’s and 70’s.
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“YET YOU ACT IF SHE WAS TO DIE TODAY THE 2×3 ISLAND WOULD NO LONGER CEASED TO EXIST.”
Big shout out to
lesser-known predecessors
Shackles have been removed
Babylon removed the chains
but they still use their brains
Liberation of the minds
Many have gone before
and many will followIs Mia the Rosa Parks of Barbados
Before Rosa Parks, there was Claudette Colvin
Part of the reason we haven’t heard much about Colvin is because of her age and status at her refusal, according to NPR. A teenager at the time, Black organizations felt having an adult like Parks as the movement’s icon would gain greater traction as opposed to a young girl. -
“The simple fact is the only time Barbados had glory years were in the 50’s and 60’s ”
free labor from Black people to enrich the lazy and greedy is over John….get over it and move on…or, replace Black labor with minority labor if you want to relive those glory days….time to switch up the people dynamic anyway, enslavement of Black people is over…
Europe has gradually moved away from sugar and can get it much cheaper from other places anyway…to mix with beet root sugar and they grow it themselves too….so it’s obvious these liars got new slave masters planning to reboot the sugar industry with Black people as the Slaves…
everything has changed, if you want to start fresh you have to reboot with new slaves…fresh faces…nonblack..
“The European Union is the world’s leading producer of beet sugar, with around 50% of the total amount. However, beet sugar represents only 20% of the world’s sugar production, with the other 80% produced from sugar cane. Most of the EU’s sugar beet is grown in the northern half of Europe, where the climate is more suitable. The most competitive producing areas are in northern France, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and Poland.”
“How much sugar is produced in the UK each year?
In 2017/18 the UK produced over 300,000 tonnes of sugar for export to Europe and places in the rest of the world. Sugar beet is sourced from local farms in the East of England and it is cultivated, on average, 28 miles from the UK’s four British Sugar plc factories.” -
I am sick and tired of the hypocrisy displayed in Barbados. Chris Sinckler has been demonized by Mia Mottley and the BLP for the period they called the lost decade. He was the person targeted with economic ruin of Barbados. He is now nominated by the said Mia Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados for a top World Bank post. Some of the BLP followers said he could not leave Barbados that he would be arrested by the US. Where is he going now? Our educational system has failed when persons can believe anything they hear without giving it rational thought.
Now Hartley Henry who no doubt would have had a hand in getting the Prime Minister to rehabilitate Chris to the BLP supporters by putting him on an economic council. He was not curse since by BLP supporters.
Now Hartley is saying the DLP is out of sync with the Barbadian public because they do not have a woman or the four contenders are not leadership material. They had a woman and she was rejected by woman and men in St. Lucy. She was called weak and then Chris knowing his role came in on the eve of the election and totally dismissed her in favour of PM Mottley.
We have educated all of the persons seeking leadership for the DLP but as usual the influencers are back at it again confusing the minds of Barbadians that there is only one person in Barbados who can be a leader.
Now I am here who are the alternate leaders in the BLP? The Deputy PM failed miserably in Education and proved she is not a good leader. Maybe the person who should be leader in the DLP now Chris Sinckler will return to Barbados for the next election as the leader of the BLP. -
African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights ReservedApril 14, 2022 3:12 PM
“How much sugar is produced in the UK each year?
In 2017/18 the UK produced over 300,000 tonnes of sugar for export to Europe and places in the rest of the world. Sugar beet is sourced from local farms in the East of England and it is cultivated, on average, 28 miles from the UK’s four British Sugar plc factories.”++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
In our glory days, we were able to produce 200,000 tons of sugar a year.
… about one ton per head of population!!!
That is damn good.
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Donville will return and save the party.
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African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights ReservedApril 14, 2022 3:12 PM
“The simple fact is the only time Barbados had glory years were in the 50’s and 60’s ”
free labor from Black people to enrich the lazy and greedy is over John….get over it and move on…or, replace Black labor with minority labor if you want to relive those glory days….time to switch up the people dynamic anyway, enslavement of Black people is over…
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That thinking will never allow sensible, pragmatic and long term thinking to prevail.
There is miniscule need for free labour or black labour or minority labour.
Sugar cane is mostly planted and harvested by machine with just a few people employed.
Your thinking and you belong in the past.
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Here’s to the people who harvest the cane!!
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Why should Harley Henry care to express a view on the matter if it will benefit his client?
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The Australian sugar industry produces around 4 million tonnes of raw sugar annually of which 85% is exported to countries including South Korea, Japan and Indonesia where it is refined to produce white, food-grade sugar.
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@ John April 14, 2022 3:51 PM
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That thinking will never allow sensible, pragmatic and long term thinking to prevail.
There is miniscule need for free labour or black labour or minority labour.
Sugar cane is mostly planted and harvested by machine with just a few people employed.
Your thinking and you belong in the past.
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+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Some good points you made there, Sir John of the Bajan manor aka plantation!
So explain, if sugar is so valuable to Barbadoes, why sugar production has dropped below 10,000 tonnes with the majority of molasses and sugar used locally imported from Brazil Guyana and other places?
What went wrong? The colour of the management of the industry?
The Bajan sugar industry is about to be interred. And you, Sir Johnny, know that full well!
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“Your thinking and you belong in the past”
that is not what those from the parliament said, they were looking for labor…that’s what they requested and trying reel in people…and should never get from the majority population for any cane field work…there is only one sugar factory in production right now, so there must be plans for more output of plantations that they are trying to sweeten their lies to catch the unaware…
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Miller…these don’t even want to pay those who worked the cane fields for decades their pensions, they are dragging them out in a court case where they was already a decision to give them interim payments handed down by a judge and they refuse to acknowledge the judgement…….no Black people should have anything to do with the plantations on the island…there are better professions availabe, and more coming daily than to enrich the greedy and lazy…
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MillerApril 14, 2022 4:14 PM
@ John April 14, 2022 3:51 PM
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That thinking will never allow sensible, pragmatic and long term thinking to prevail.
There is miniscule need for free labour or black labour or minority labour.
Sugar cane is mostly planted and harvested by machine with just a few people employed.
Your thinking and you belong in the past.
(Unquote).
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Some good points you made there, Sir John of the Bajan manor aka plantation!
So explain, if sugar is so valuable to Barbadoes, why sugar production has dropped below 10,000 tonnes with the majority of molasses and sugar used locally imported from Brazil Guyana and other places?
What went wrong? The colour of the management of the industry?
The Bajan sugar industry is about to be interred. And you, Sir Johnny, know that full well!
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Agricultural land sold for 10 cents a square foot.
Land for “development” sold for $5.00 per square foot.
That was back in the 1980’s.
Greed with no long term plan for the country.
Remember SBG and 2,400 acres to be converted into golf courses?
I realized from then it was a con as by then I realized there was no water!!
So, my family and I went on an odyssey through the courts.
Enjoyed every minute of it, learnt alot and still learning.
One of these days please God, I will write a book or hire somebody to do an autobiography.
I’ll send you the first copy.
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The sugar industry in Barbados and the Caribbean was adversely affected with the removal of preferential treatment under the Lome Agreement between EU and ACP countries, no secret. It is a crop that is produced in South America and is heavily mechanized also benefiting from economies of scale.
In Barbados the crop is heavily subsidized re: cost per ton.
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You can read about it in this article written 20 year ago..
Use Alternative Access and login using Google.
My uncle even gets a mention.
Explains alot and answers your question pretty well.
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John…you are acting as though Barbados has upgraded to anything. You are confusing the new equipment you saw for sugar harvesting in Europe and other progressive countries via videos, to the 1940s system still in use on the island…
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The MOA mentioned last week plans are advanced to privatize the sector with government playing a sleeping role. The sugar industry in Barbados is on deaths bed.
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DavidApril 14, 2022 4:32 PM
The sugar industry in Barbados and the Caribbean was adversely affected with the removal of preferential treatment under the Lome Agreement between EU and ACP countries, no secret. It is a crop that is produced in South America and is heavily mechanized also benefiting from economies of scale.
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So, why are the clowns in the various countries calling for reparations if Britain gave preferential price treatment to Barbados?
After WWII, no country had sugar as they did prior to WWII because half the production capacity had been destroyed.
Market forces of supply and demand meant Barbados could get any price for its sugar and it did not matter how much it produced.
Britain needed it bad, the US needed it bad and Russia needed it bad.
Go look at this film, it will explain why our glory years were in the 1940’s, 50’s and 60’s.
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Have better things to do with my time.
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Looking to the future you seem to believe that Mr Sinckler has been exonerated because of this latest pick.I know they say bajans got short memories but not all.Let me remind you that bajans suffered over 20 downgrades under Mr Sinckler to junk bond status.In other words we could not borrow a cent.Under Mr Barrow , Mr Adams or Mr Arthur i have no doubt he would hsve been fired but he surbived under in my view a poor leader in Mr Stuart.Thetfore Mr Sinckler was correctly condemned for his performance or lack thereof pver most of the lost decade.However i still wish him well in his new job.I gone.
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The DLP is reported to have commissioned a survey to gather feedback about the 4 candidates. This is puzzling to the blogmaster.
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I am not voting
Ryan walters would have been my choice he was there or about for the new DEMs and is very close to winning his seat. 4-5 yrs as leader may be enuff to push him over the edge if he can consistently show he has leadership potential
OA. Was probably #3 of the 3 blind mice for leader of the blp. After the other 2 let him lead ……….
Pit bull should drop out
Beside Ryan he and lashley are the closest to becoming opposition / party leader is they can win their seats during the national elections . He should now do like force and Simmons for the betterment of the partyRonnie can’t seem to eat over Sandra hill in st James
De pizza ………..unknown ( is enuff)
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How is it possible to compare OSA elevation to leader to what is happening in the DLP?
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There is a presidential debate planned as well?
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LorenzoApril 14, 2022 4:51 PM
Looking to the future you seem to believe that Mr Sinckler has been exonerated because of this latest pick.I know they say bajans got short memories but not all.Let me remind you that bajans suffered over 20 downgrades under Mr Sinckler to junk bond status.In other words we could not borrow a cent.Under Mr Barrow , Mr Adams or Mr Arthur i have no doubt he would hsve been fired but he surbived under in my view a poor leader in Mr Stuart.Thetfore Mr Sinckler was correctly condemned for his performance or lack thereof pver most of the lost decade.However i still wish him well in his new job.I
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Even your Supreme Leader had confidence in the man Sinckler she called the worst MOF
How is that for lies and deception
Now from being called worst he finds his way sitting amongst some of the world’s top economist who makes economic decisions for the world
Even Mia must be thinking why did she ever utter a bad word about Sinckler
But then again she has no shame in all that she had said about Sinckler pick him to be on an economic committee as advisor
One of her worst performances as being a Liar while languishing in the wilderness for 10 tens years
Now off to the World Bank Sinckler goes the man known as the worst MOF Barbados ever had -
All you partisans should take note how easily members of the political class close ranks.
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Lorenzo pray tell how Mia as MOF is better in solving Barbados economic problems
One of Mias claim to fame be that of truck load of debt fueled by persistent borrowing
Not even the parks and beautification can generate revenue
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@ Looking to the future April 14, 2022 3:39 PM
I really don’t know why you are so upset about Big Sinck. Personally, I could well imagine hiring Big Sinck as a cook or as a gardener.
Firstly, he is a useful idiot in the hands of our great puppeteer, our Supreme Leader.
Secondly, he has ruined our economy and thus sold the black masses into economic slavery to our white businessmen and to our foreign investors. I know many mansion owners in our country who applaud Big Sinck for this.
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@ David April 14, 2022 5:52 PM
As long as our politicians sell the masses to the Lords of this island, there is nothing wrong with it. LOL.
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Funding for TB remained high but would have been much higher without the NEW buses
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John2April 14, 2022 7:20 PM
Funding for TB remained high but would have been much higher without the NEW buses
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But what about revenue generating after years of massive losses
The new buses and increased in bus fares should have put a necessary dent enough for the TB to stand on its own
Why wasn’t there enough revenue to keep the Tb from being in the Red
New buses according to govt saved the TB money increased in bus fares should also generate more revenue
All in all when all the financial begotten are put together govt hasn’t saved much of anything with the new buses if the TB still shows it cannot hold its own financially
Be that as it make the main focus is on a PM who bodily stood bare faced and called on the past MOF to be held accountable for Barbados failures meanwhile under her guidance as MOF the debt level in Barbados continues to soar and all one can see are buses parks and gardens
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What happened to ridership
U had increase in fares Yes. How long the island was shut down / people working from home?
More revenue should be coming in now thing back to near normal
Watch next budget TB will need less input from government if any at allU only see buses parks and gardens because that’s what ur blinkers allow you to see
Don’t even start me up about not one complaint from the sewage plants.
No complaints bout garbage pick up.
People In St. John Joseph etc ain’t complain for water yet and this is April .
I went home and drove over new roads in a few areas I used to avoid .
When last u heard about a sick government building? School start back without some having to shutdown/ relocate for repairs to be done ?
And all that wid covid/ first hurricane in ( how many year)? The freak storm and ash fall.At least the borrowed money is being used
Look don’t start me up on
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I was watching the cane cutters in Australia.
They cut like machines.
No Bajan could ever cut like that.
No wonder we rarely beat Australia at Cricket and they always seemed to have the wood on us.
We are bare pussies compared with those guys.
No Bajan woman (except for one I knew from Fruitful Hill at Intel) could survive in that field environment.
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“The DLP is reported to have commissioned a survey to gather feedback about the 4 candidates. This is puzzling to the blogmaster.” @ David why are you puzzled.
*1.On the facetious upside …. a bit of polling metrics can’t hurt and it makes matters look so professional and ting anyhow, not so. Not to mention that a commission means some consultant will get some coin … keeps the business churn going!
After being shellacked as they have been do you perceive that they can tell their arses for their noses. They appear absolutely clueless: as they have no idea what they represent to Bajans generally so not shocking in the least that they have no freaking idea what their potential leaders represent either!
*2.But just as importantly this is the same party leadership that invited Freundel Stuart to stand atop the recent election campaign to announce the wonderfulness of the last years of his administration.
Why should you be puzzled about anything they attempt politically?
One can only wish them well!
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@ Lorenzo
You only wish Sinckler well because Mottley was instrumental in picking him for the job.
Why would any PM now back a man, she called the worst MOF the country ever had.
Do you also wish Mark Maloney well these days after cussing him for years.?
That’s what your party leaders do to people like you. They could make wunnuh so eat cake or shit. If they vomit you all die hards , go down on your knees and eat it.
Now you wish him well. You have no choice because he was chosen by your party to sit on fancy committees after he economically ruin this country and took it into a lost decade.
Sinckler should be in prison for committing economic crimes against the state. At least that’s what I heard on a platform in 2018.
Instead your two mouthed PM has given him a golden parachute.
You really have no shame.
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@ David
The sugar industry started to die when slavery was abolished. The sugar industry flourished when labor was free.
Stop believing the nonsense they taught people like you and me in school.
In other words it was not built on fancy cliches and that kind of bull shit. It was built by slavery. -
William SkinnerApril 15, 2022 12:39 AM
@ David
The sugar industry started to die when slavery was abolished. The sugar industry flourished when labor was free.
Stop believing the nonsense they taught people like you and me in school. In other words it was not built on fancy cliches and that kind of bull shit. It was built by slavery.++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Funny thing is I was led to believe that rubbish in school and listening to the politicians talk!!
Here are the facts.
Between 1680 and 1834 sugar output in Barbados was constant with some fluctuations around 10,000 tons..
In this period the slave population doubled.
Two simple irrefutable facts.
The output throughout slavery was 1/20th of the output after WWII which was as high as 200,000 tons.
Simple irrefutable fact.
The sugar output grew with the advent of steam because more tons of cane could be milled.
Conclusion: Sugar output during slavery was negligible when compared with the output a century later as would be expected with the advent of steam, farm machinery and technology.
Sugar during slavery and until the beginning of the 20th century was not the principal reason for the existence of Barbados, trade was.
As politically incorrect as is what I have written above is, it is the plain irrefutable truth.
Here is the sugar output once again.
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@William
Agree but the point about preferential arrangements re Lome is that it was being subsidized, when that arrangement was removed it was a challenge for our small islands.
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We witnessed the decline with plantations being heavily indebted to banks. You may recall it was one of the considerations for reorganizing BNB.
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@ John
You are assuming that it died from one ailment. Any industry will survive with free labour.
I said and repeat: it started to die when slavery was abolished. Operative word here : started.
Now, for your information,, it would not have lived if the Labour wasn’t so cheap after slavery was abolished.
You seem to forget the conditions under which black people were exploited as plantation workers right here in our country.
Our women were toiling from every frigging day while the owners were wining and dining at the yacht club and establishing Belleville and Strathclyde.
The sugar industry was never anything but slavery and the only reason it barely surviving today is that ignorant , spineless black governments subsidized it.
The same plantation owners systematically destroyed agriculture and poured all their money into other industry areas.
And let us move forward a bit. The offspring of the white plantocracy had no real interest in developing agriculture all they wanted was a “ good” cane crop. They controlled all the damn land. They invested in night clubs and other forms of tourist related entertainment.
Finally nobody with a social conscience or an ounce of humanity could ever believe that “ sugar made us free”.
Sugar was pure death for the black race. -
John2
” when last u heard”
Wouldn’t expect and don’t expect to hear anything much negative coming from a one state govt who has almost complete controll of messaging
There is no longer an opposition to prey into govt affairs
What the people gonna see and hear going forward would be totally controlled by this govt outside of the many murders which fall in plain sight of the people eyes
The political land scape of this country would be defined by govt smoke and mirrors and plenty symbolic gesture
Meanwhile the truth about poverty and its impact on the daily lives of people would be hushed and tone down
Recently CTUSAB raised a stink about public workers needing an increased and guess what govt comes out swinging with a push back story concerning two teachers being involved in political activism
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@ John 2
angela cox is essentially ‘saying’ new buses and an increase in bus fare, should result in Transport Board “holding its own financially.”
Nonsense!!!
There are two important factors she did not take into consideration.
(1). Transport Board requires approximately 280 or more buses to adequately service all routes. Since 2006, the state owned agency has been unable to achieve that objective. In 2017, after recruiting a Trinidadian mechanic at a salary of $22,000 per month, bus availability drastically decreased from ‘around’ 125 units per day to 35.
The 70 or 80 new electric buses cannot fill the void that was created as a result. They only served to replace 70 or 80 decommissioned units…. and, ‘we’re back to square one.’(2). We cannot reasonably expect TB to generate profits, while operating with a standardized, island wide bus fare of $3.50, and an inadequate availability of units per day.
Additionally, we must also take into consideration the fact that, COVID-19 protocols, lockdowns and curfews created unforeseen effects in public transport, which resulted in a significant decrease in ridership.
But, successive BLP and DLP administrations ‘f-up’ the Transport Board.
But, we all know Ms. Cox suffers from convenient amnesia.
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Future outcomes can sometimes be preordained not to succeed and only a brave or stupid person would want to lead a party that is doomed to fail and only a skillful strategiser will, can or may prevail if lucky and blessed.
Backward populism (pseudo) religious conservative jingoism cut throat capitalism (exploitation) can work with racist whites but not in Barbados.
DLP will need to be more social minded and progressive than BLP which will be tough as they have already taken that route. -
Skinner poor cella ypy dermed to wrongly believe you hsve the right to have an opinion.What the hell me wishing Mr Sinvkler well as a human being hss to do with Ms Mottley?I stated that we suffered over 20 downgrades under Mr Sinckler
THAT IS A FACT. I also stated under certain lesders he would have been fired..However he still hss a family and hence has to survive and other those circumstances i wish the man well.What is your problem with that? For someone who claims he is not politically aligned you seem to place politics in every thing. I gone. -
LorenzoApril 15, 2022 6:11 AM
I stated that we suffered over 20 downgrades under Mr Sinckler
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Yes Barbados economy faced several downgrades
Sinckler refused the draconian measures which the IMF would have placed on the backs of barbadians
Mia made such a decision one in terms and realities that have downgrades most Barbadian households to a knee high in deep poverty called burdensome taxes
How quickly govt tries to send a message of glorious endings for Barbados economy when the realities speaks of pressure and ongoing high levels of poverty which no one wants to speak about
Sad
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