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Businessman Frustrated by Government

In June 2020 the then Minister of the Environment Trevor Prescod led a team from government on a mission which uprooted 20 trees planted by owner Allan Kinch on beach land located along Carlisle Bay, Bay Street, St Michael. It was captured by Nation News. An interesting action by this government who launched “We Plantin”…

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In June 2020 the then Minister of the Environment Trevor Prescod led a team from government on a mission which uprooted 20 trees planted by owner Allan Kinch on beach land located along Carlisle Bay, Bay Street, St Michael. It was captured by Nation News. An interesting action by this government who launched “We Plantin” project in 2020 to plant ONE Million trees.

Minister of Environment and National Beautification, Trevor Prescod, planting a tree at Hope Plantation, St. Lucy, to mark the start of We Plantin’ More Than A Million National Tree Planting Project yesterday. (S.Forde-Craigg/BGIS)

https://fb.watch/e3lX9Lanej/

What the blogmaster does not understand is why the government seems ultra aggressive against developer Allan Kinch developing the property he purchased. Was it not known at the time of sale what was planned? There are usually several sides to a story but the blogmaster is yet to hear why Mr. Kinch is being frustrated in his quest to develop the property he legitimately purchased. It seems he is not even allowed to put out deck chairs other businesses in the area are allowed.

Instead we have an eyesore for an open space.

There is a lot more the blogmaster can and will post but reserves further comment for the moment.

181 responses to “Businessman Frustrated by Government”

  1. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    @JohnA
    “A government entity requested a valuation on a property which came in at $10m USD”
    Where did this info come from?
    Did the parties, Ram and GoB ever arrive at a price for the Liquidation Centre? That they lick down the building doesn’t mean any money has changed hands.

  2. BAJAN Avatar
    BAJAN

    @John A

    Where did you get this information that the government got a valuation in 2015 saying the land was worth US$10,000,000 ?
    If they did why didn’t they use that in the sale? and why did they sell it for so much less?
    Also how is that Mr Kinches responsibility?
    If you go in Massy tomorrow and buy a Carton of Milk for 50 cents that should be selling for $5 is it your fault? Should you be made to suffer?

    In March 2019 the PM in the budget so each said
    of an agreement with Sandals
    “For us not to have honoured a contractual arrangement made by a previous executive would have destroyed our reputation as a country that follows the rule of law. And that we accepted that we were bound by the terms of the agreement signed by the last administration with respect to the Sandals and with respect to the Order under the Duties Taxes and other Payments Act Chapter 67B,” she explained.

    “In other words Sir, the damage to our government and our country to fulfill this obligation would be large but measureable, but if we failed to honour the obligation, the damage would be immeasurable and affect the integrity of our reputation as a place where the rule of law obtains or where business is conducted. So we agreed that we would honour it,” she said.

    https://barbadostoday.bb/2019/03/21/sandals-demands-rejected/

    So what are we saying???? Do foreigners have more rights than Bajans ?

  3. John2 Avatar
    John2

    The listing for $ 10US is from April 2022

    That is the seller price for 22 and not 7 yrs ago

    Scroll to the bottoms of the link provided by NO.

    Property Type: Land
    Land Area: 129,373sq. ft
    Listed: 14 Apr 2022

  4. John Avatar
    John

    BAJANJuly 5, 2022 10:39 PM

    If you go in Massy tomorrow and buy a Carton of Milk for 50 cents that should be selling for $5 is it your fault? Should you be made to suffer?

    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fraud

    Definition of fraud
    1a: DECEIT, TRICKERY
    specifically : intentional perversion of truth in order to induce another to part with something of value or to surrender a legal right was accused of credit card fraud
    b: an act of deceiving or misrepresenting : TRICK
    automobile insurance frauds

    2a: a person who is not what he or she pretends to be : IMPOSTOR
    He claimed to be a licensed psychologist, but he turned out to be a fraud.
    also : one who defrauds : CHEAT
    b: one that is not what it seems or is represented to be
    The UFO picture was proved to be a fraud.

    http://104.238.85.55/en/ShowPdf/211.pdf

  5. Bajan Avatar
    Bajan

    @Jhon

    Oh hp so you want to accuse Mr Kinch of Fraud even though he like others submitted and offer for a sealed legal tender that was advertised on the newspaper and his was the highest so he bought the land…… …. So I guess you are saying everyone committed fraud

    AGAIN THE $10,000,0000 is a advertised asking price IN 2022 it not the same as in 2015
    Anybody could put any value on anything that don’t mean it is what it is unless you decide you willing to pay it.

    Try and go to Simpson motors for to buy a swift and tell them you paying the same thing for a swift that it was selling for 7 years ago

    Strange how you would accuse kinch of fraud but not the government

  6. David Avatar
    David

    @John A

    Is it Kinch’s fault the government of the day let go the land for a dirt price? Should he now sell it for dirt as well?

    This is the offer to Ms. Ram for Liquidation Centre?

    Bds $12,000,000

    80247 sqfeet

    $149.12 per square foot

  7. John Avatar
    John

    I’m not accusing Mr. Kinch or the GOB of fraud.

    I am dealing with the specific instance of the Carton of Milk at Massey!!

    I suppose you could say I was accusing Massey of fraud over the imaginary carton of milk.

  8. John Avatar
    John

    … and if you have evidence of this, there are four bodies under the Fab Four to which you can take your evidence.

  9. John Avatar
    John

    Do the company links for Geoffrey Allan Kinch and you may get a surprise!!

    May even find there is milk in the pestle too!!

  10. John Avatar
    John

    The various allegations I am getting is that whatever the commotion is with Allan Kinch, it is being hushed up!!

    … and it is in court.

  11. David Avatar
    David

    @Dee Word

    If it was a sealed tender it makes you wonder?

  12. David Avatar
    David

    @John A

    A tender committee is permitted to accept the best offer?

  13. David Avatar
    David

    The lot in question was owned by CLICO years ago?

  14. John Avatar
    John

    How did it get to CLICO??

  15. David Avatar
    David

    @John A

    You didn’t want to discuss this matter but …

    We can blame Kinch, Ms. Ram, government but you must be able to discern a common theme with these types of transactions?

  16. David Avatar
    David

    There is something we do well in Barbados, we play the man and not the issues. We have to do better to ensure transactions especially involving public assets can withstand the rigour of public scrutiny.

  17. David Avatar
    David

    This is the only way Mottley can build a true legacy for herself as prime minister. If she fails she will go down and another Prime Minister who tried and fell short.

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

    “The various allegations I am getting is that whatever the commotion is with Allan Kinch, it is being hushed up!!

    … and it is in court.”

    much more in the mortar huh!!

  19. John Avatar
    John

    DavidJuly 6, 2022 7:37 AM

    There is something we do well in Barbados, we play the man and not the issues. We have to do better to ensure transactions especially involving public assets can withstand the rigour of public scrutiny.

    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    Not only public assets, private ones too if only because private transactions attract public taxes!!

  20. John Avatar
    John

    DavidJuly 6, 2022 7:39 AM

    This is the only way Mottley can build a true legacy for herself as prime minister. If she fails she will go down and another Prime Minister who tried and fell short.

    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    Ms. Mockley has already built a legacy for herself.

    She has two terms of an unconstitutional parliament/government.

    She will go down in history.

  21. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Above my pay grade for sure! Never was really interested in these matters but this is piquing my curiosity.

    Good job!

  22. John A Avatar
    John A

    @ David

    No understand what i am saying. The board in a case like this is not obligated to accept ANY offer.

    So lets say Massy for instance put a piece of land up for sale by seal bid. They would of had the land valued before opening the bids. Now while some flexibility would be present, that board could not dare go to its shareholders and say we sold the land for 20 cents on the dollar. In other words for them to sell an asset way below market value would of made no sense. The shareholders would of said keep that asset it aint going no where.

    As i said whether is kinch or Trump i care not. My bone of contention is that this deal needs looking into. As i said if it was a private sale that is one thing, but when it comes to a prime piece of beach land that includes a car park used by bajans thats another matter.

    This government therefore has every right to look into the matter so as to satisfy themselves on their concerns. I for one also have a major concern as to what will be provided for us as a public acccess to the beach. That carpark for decades has been used by us to access there. Have you ever seen how congested the car park further up Bay Street is on a weekend?

    Sorry for who this offends but I really beileve this needs to be reviewed and I support this government in doing it.

    Also the building is listed as a heritage building with the national trust where is their voice in this matter? If he was a black bajan they would have nuff to say i am sure!

  23. David Avatar
    David

    @John A

    Understand your point, do you equally understand the point this is how business is done in Barbados? Why do certain people get the big contracts all the time? We have to attack these issues at the root and stop looking at skin colour or the man. This an others expose a weak governance framework.

  24. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    @John July 6, 2022 7:04 AM
    There was little surprise?. Most were links to ex BS&T operations. I am guessing his wife (ex wife?…they were in court in ’20) was related to the family assoc with M.E.R Bourne, those were a few directorships. And then entities with his brother, who is well known in the finance field elsewhere.
    I ‘believe’ Allan K may have been associated with Jolly Roger and Pirates Cove. For years he had a bar/restaurant on Hastings Rd in the complex where Nadu/Salt are.

  25. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    What really is the real purpose of the Town and Country planning Department.
    Right now I understand that the PM is the minister responsible but it is being monitored/ managed by a senior minister, who has been assigned to the PM’s office.
    We have all of this nonsensical over and under lapping but we will come here and berate public servants.
    The colonial masters left us so damn confused and bewildered that we can’t even make decisions about the proper use of our own land and we are underwriting people getting degrees.
    What a pity !!!

  26. John A Avatar
    John A

    @ David

    Well I for one feel that car park should be acquired by the state. Pay him for the cost of the land at what he paid for it and if he cant make a viable venture out of what is left let him sell it. The historic building needs also to be preseved as well. It is not an old warehouse this time.

    I for one am tired of this foolishness. I am beginning to feel like a foreigner in my own land.

  27. Bajan Avatar
    Bajan

    Question: What are so many concerned with the fact that Mr Kinch legally bought land and now when he seeks legal permission to put as David say Lounge Chairs on his land that he is denied…

    Why is there no concern about the adjacent property and how that was allowed to build without permission without parking spaces and put in pipes to drain water onto someone else’s land to create a health hazard???????

    Something smelling funny indeed even with some of the comments

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

    “I for one am tired of this foolishness. I am beginning to feel like a foreigner in my own land.”

    that’s how people who are FORCED into a 3rd CLASS CITIZEN position in their ANCESTOR BUILT COUNTRY are made to feel.

    ..pity it took over half century for the people to find out….

  29. David Avatar
    David

    @John A

    The government has to pay based on fair market value.

  30. David Avatar
    David

    @John A

    Is it Kinch’s fault the tenders committee accepted a bid way below?

  31. Miller Avatar
    Miller

    @ John July 6, 2022 7:54 AM
    “Ms. Mockley has already built a legacy for herself.
    She has two terms of an unconstitutional parliament/government.
    She will go down in history.”
    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    She will go down in Bajan history, alright! And she will be seen as the G.O.A.T of the Bajan PMs; but only if she can get LIAT to rise like a phoenix and take to the East Caribbean skies under the name Caricom Airways (2023) Ltd.

    How can the politicians talk sh**t about regional integration and deepening trade when travel and transportation links are almost like those that existed pre-Columbus?

    As the country’s debt situation stands (and according to the likes of our BU Johnny No. 2) money is No problem and those IMF loans that make up those large foreign reserves can be used to back the recapitalization of the regional carrier to compete with the promised ferry service being peddled by Persuad the investment guru with the tract record of being able to sell the Four Seasons of ice to the Eskimos.

    However, the ‘burning’ question is who will be paying for the fuel. Guyana?

    Or would those jet planes be powered by solar energy supplied by Williams Solar?

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

    so is that a trend……Blue Horizon…valued at 11 MILLION DOLLARS, and OFFER WAS MADE FOR THAT AMOUNT……but…..got sold to the usual SUSPECTS for approx, if i remember correctly, 5 THOUSAND DOLLARS…less than half the value…

    why are state/taxpayer’s ASSETS literally given away…

  33. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Not easy to forget about the colour. Hard to have any sympathy for rich “whites” in Barbados.

    But the issue of corruption is real. Thing is though, he may yet get his matter resolved while others of a different hue remain dispossessed.

  34. Miller Avatar
    Miller

    @ David July 6, 2022 9:09 AM

    Maybe the answer to your query ‘lies’ in that Big Red Bag which has been stolen by Maloney before your very eyes.

  35. David Avatar
    David

    @Miller

     

    Note the blogmaster’s highlight if we want to tackle the root issues.

    BLP COLUMN: Fairness and truth

    Article by
    rhondathompson, rhondathompson@nationnews.com

    Fairness and truth were a formidable tag team at the Barbados Labour Party’s well-attended meeting in Heroes Square last Sunday night.Mia Mottley delivered a surgical prosecution of Michael Lashley’s response to his sacked chairman, Marilyn Rice-Bowen, and to his performance as Minister of Housing.Truth discovered that Lashley never answered the charge laid by Rice-Bowen that there was no contract in place with the contractor for the building of houses at Constant in St George.Truth was not fooled by Lashley’s attempt to hoodwink the Members of Parliament and Bajans into believing that a term sheet for a loan with CLICO International General Insurance was any sort of contract, finance or otherwise.Truth was found in the minutes of the National Housing Corporation (NHC), presented by Mia, that expressed both the general manager and the board’s alarm that despite repeated efforts, the contractor had not signed a contract.Truth and the crowd concluded that Michael Lashley had been grossly economical with the truth. Fairness determined that it was unjust to acquire a man’s land for development when he had applied to develop the same land for the same purpose.Fairness ruled that there was no equity in the award of NHC building contracts with one large contractor getting 75 per cent of the work.Fairness considered it a backward step in the empowerment of small contractors that they had now been reduced to the role of sub-contractors and not given the opportunity to grow their businesses.Fairness was flabbergasted that 220 000 square feet of our land should be “rented” to a big contractor for 99 years at the peppercorn rent of $100 a year!Fairness questioned why the NHC had not insisted on a rent-sharing agreement for the commercial buildings to be built on the land.Fairness took a dim view of the haste with which the planning permission had been granted for Coverley when other developers just down the road at Searles had been waiting for six years on their permissions.Truth and fairness both agreed that Michael Lashley should resign his Cabinet appointment and, if he failed to do so, that Acting Prime Minister Freundel Stuart should fire him. After all, this blue-eyed boy had come to office on the ideals of transparency, accountability and good governance. Bruised and battered, black and blue by fairness and truth, he is being defended by some of his Cabinet colleagues as a paragon of virtue. He was systematically disrobed by speaker after speaker on the BLP’s platform. When all the layers of public relations had been stripped away, we saw a man who had overstepped the boundaries of his authority with the NHC board; a man who failed to admit to the truth of the charges laid against him by his former chairman; a man who practically gave away the Government’s land to a wealthy contractor; a man who had not lived up to the promise of his party’s manifesto to give work to the small man.The Dems’ defence for such behaviour is that he is getting the job done. We disagree. He has fallen far short of their promise to provide 2 000 houses a year.And even so we cannot condone his behaviour for the sake of expediency. If his Cabinet colleagues are so blinded by the light of this 40-watt bulb that they cannot rein him in, then they deserve to fall with him. Errol Barrow backed fairness and truth when he dismissed popular Minister of Housing Joy Edwards. What will it take for Freundel to follow Barrow’s example?

     

     

     

  36. David Avatar
    David

    @Miller

    These kinds of issues you will not hear talk show hosts and media practitioners addressing. They prefer to audition for higher calling. Our governance framework is weak and the local media continues to fail in its mandate to be a guardian of our democracy. Instead the citizenry prefers to allow themselves to be manipulated for the proverbial handout of a tin of corn beef and pack of eclipse.

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

    This pappyshow AGAIN….so WHAT HAPPENED SINCE THEN…

    “Fairness ruled that there was no equity in the award of NHC building contracts with one large contractor getting 75 per cent of the work.Fairness considered it a backward step in the empowerment of small contractors that they had now been reduced to the role of sub-contractors and not given the opportunity to grow their businesses.Fairness was flabbergasted that 220 000 square feet of our land should be “rented” to a big contractor for 99 years at the peppercorn rent of $100 a year!Fairness questioned why the NHC had not insisted on a rent-sharing agreement for the commercial buildings to be built on the land.Fairness took a dim view of the haste with which the planning permission had been granted for Coverley when other developers just down the road at Searles had been waiting for six years on their permissions.Truth and fairness both agreed that Michael Lashley should resign his Cabinet appointment………………….”

  38. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    @ David,

    No pain No gain. No real change.

    There is always a lot of steel in the foundations of these mega projects.

    my spelling is not too good this morning fo feel free to correct.

  39. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    @David
    You are politely dancing around the issue?
    For whatever reasons, the insinuation is there is ‘bad blood’ between owner(s) and the current GoB.
    So what are those roots?
    I found it odd when the act of planting and removing a few coke-nut trees attracted attention. And a Minister got involved, while the press referenced “ownership issues”, the Minister said “planting permission issues”.
    I suspect you know more about the “roots” than you are stating 😆

  40. John Avatar
    John

    DavidJuly 6, 2022 8:42 AM

    @John A

    Understand your point, do you equally understand the point this is how business is done in Barbados? Why do certain people get the big contracts all the time? We have to attack these issues at the root and stop looking at skin colour or the man. This an others expose a weak governance framework.

    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    Competition.

    Only the strong/favoured survived.

    Rayside is gone, hollowed out from inside.

    How many companies can credibly take on large contracts now?

  41. John Avatar
    John

    NorthernObserverJuly 6, 2022 8:44 AM

    @John July 6, 2022 7:04 AM
    There was little surprise?. Most were links to ex BS&T operations. I am guessing his wife (ex wife?…they were in court in ’20) was related to the family assoc with M.E.R Bourne, those were a few directorships. And then entities with his brother, who is well known in the finance field elsewhere.
    I ‘believe’ Allan K may have been associated with Jolly Roger and Pirates Cove. For years he had a bar/restaurant on Hastings Rd in the complex where Nadu/Salt are.

    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/nodes/110016976

    https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/nodes/110016976

  42. John Avatar
    John

    Here’s another one!!

    https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/nodes/100115957

    … or two!!

    https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/nodes/100319006

  43. John Avatar
    John

    This one too

    https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/nodes/100327464

    … and this one tooo

    https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/nodes/100325950

  44. John Avatar
    John

    Connections!!

    https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/nodes/100328053?e=true

  45. Bajan Avatar
    Bajan

    Ok Mr John so you like showing connections …… past connections. Like it is a crime to be a businessman in Barbados
    Why no mention that it was he who saved Bajan shareholders millions in the Massy takeover…. Continue to question and try to make a innocent man look guilty but the truths that come out about others you may not like

    ….. how about how other things connect. Do you think you or those reading this blog are ready to see how things truly connect in Barbados????

  46. de pedantic Dribbler Avatar
    de pedantic Dribbler

    @David, there is some truth to your remark that “These kinds of issues you will not hear talk show hosts and media practitioners addressing. They prefer to audition for higher calling” but a fair assessment would note that media houses have to be very careful when they “address’ those type of matters.

    These matters can get one into legal quicksand real fast …surely we all recall how a certain Minister who was actually olympian caliber fast himself cashed out wirh damages in court when onr of his actions were so ‘addressed’ by a journalist at VOB!

    And it’s quite comedic to hear that Rayside gone … so wait COW ain’t gone too … the maguffies will come and go as our mortal coil must flicker out BUT the bobol shenanigans NEVER die!

    Lata.

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

    “….. how about how other things connect. Do you think you or those reading this blog are ready to see how things truly connect in Barbados????”

    we do appreciate you and would love to know..

    Wuh blogmaster doing though….evabody and dey mama now in on it….and not one article….

    “Rishi Sunak is pushing ahead with a new law that will pave the way for everyday cryptocurrency payments despite fears at the Bank of England about the financial stability of the technology.

    Rishi Sunak Treasury – PETER NICHOLLS/REUTERS© PETER NICHOLLS/REUTERS Rishi Sunak Treasury – PETER NICHOLLS/REUTERS
    The Treasury confirmed it will bring forward new legislation that will recognise so-called stablecoins as a legal form of payment as part of the Government’s efforts to make Britain a “crypto hub”.”

  48. de pedantic Dribbler Avatar
    de pedantic Dribbler

    Ok Lordie ..@Mr Blogmaster it looks as if you riled up a lil hornets nest here … the cross talk from some bloggers is quite …ahhh intriguing, one can say !

    Unkindly, one can also say ‘seems no love lost among scalliwags’ 😎😇 but no wags here!

    So gents …let things out do … what more connections are important ??? and YES ‘those reading this blog are ready to see how things truly connect in Barbados??’.

    After all these years you don’t know that every one of WE here love some ‘sousie’ gossip!

    Speak people, speak.

    And @Northern that’s you too … you does play it real shrewd and close to the ‘portfolio’ (to coin a phrase for this financial bobol) but we dun know you got some SERIOUS connections and background info too! 😎

    I’ll be back much later … let this BU Net Series roll! 🙏🏿

  49. Bajan Avatar
    Bajan

    By the way Mr John

    Best you check all those Allan Kinch’s are the same because a few of those you put links to like the Energy one and The Nee Era Hones are not him…. Sorry to burst your bubble

  50. David Avatar
    David

    @NO

    You place too much store in a lowly blogmaster. A question for you- what has been the role of PM MOTTLEY and her minions today in furthering the frustration of this businessman?

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