The dent to reputation suffered suffered by Barbados when former Minister Donville Inniss was jailed in the USA for money laundering should make for interesting commentary. To be expected a gullible population continues to focus on the obvious. Why was a former minister charged over a measly USD36,000.00?
What Barbadians should be more concerned about is the incarceration of Inniss should bring into focus how business gets done in Barbados. We have so many examples whether Cahill under the former administration or the Radical vaccine scam under the current administration to finger only two.
White collar corruption and malfeasance is always hard to ringfence in any country because the gatekeepers of justice are the powerful in society. Unfortunately in island states like Barbados, it becomes more difficult because of the incestuous nature of the beast resulting in incompetent watchdog agencies as a result of nepotism.
The following insightful comment was posted by Northern Observer. We need to lift our game as citizens in a democracy showing fissures.
@David I cannot comment on AT (Alex Tasker), I don’t know the person. What can be observed is the senior management at ICBL did not appreciate the finer points of what they were doing. What none of know is the inner workings.
Did BF&M have other issues with IRS/DOJ?
What was the relationship between the CEO-CFO at BF&M, and that CFO/others and ICBL personnel.
I mean, even after discovery, it did not have to be disclosed. Who actually found it? It was two relatively small amounts…somebody could have created paperwork after the fact. Yet, somebody also decided that wasn’t going to happen.
Imagine somebody at BF&M was upset they didn’t get the ICBL CEO job. Let’s face it, II (Ingrid Innes) wasn’t particularly well qualified, and an outsider at BF&M. The decision to disclose may have been to sink her. In the myopic Bajan view it was to get DI (Donville Inniss). But the intent may have been to get II fired, and it ends there. Maybe they were after AT. Sometimes when you don’t appreciate the ‘big picture’ a decision is made, which has ramifications one didn’t foresee.
Northern Observer
If there is a challenge by bloggers here in understanding the difference between forgiving, rehabilitating and loving a reformed criminal; an unfortunately challenged individual; or even a mass murderer…
…and allowing that deviant’s story and their foray into criminality or anti-social behavior to be used as a role model for impressionable young minds…
Then you may as well close the damn blog David.
If it is not OBVIOUS that we should inspire our bright young people with POSITIVE, SUCCESSFUL, UPLIFTING role models that they can be inspired to emulate….
RATHER than with tainted miscreants who represent SYSTEM FAILURES, and who, instead, should be projected as examples of the society’s patience, love and forgiveness…
Well then it is no wonder we are resigned to brassbowlery and failure at the national (and global) levels….
“Wisdom has been withdrawn from the world’s brass bowls – who have rejected the Creator.
Instead, they are consumed with idiotic, self-destructive, demonic philosophies that lead to the very results we are seeing,,,”
Bush Tea July22
@Bush Tea
Can we have an Amen?
“If there is a challenge by bloggers here in understanding the difference between forgiving, rehabilitating and loving a reformed criminal; an unfortunately challenged individual; or even a mass murderer…
…and allowing that deviant’s story and their foray into criminality or anti-social behavior to be used as a role model for impressionable young minds…”
the issue is the corruption of Government bidding process which is granted favours for companies to win contracts by bribing ministers so money is transferred to personal accounts. Some say it is not robbery as the money business pay is recovered from the money they earn in multimillion dollar contracts. But the more enlightened opinion is public is shortchanged as contracted businesses provide substandard work to cut costs and the better value bids are not chosen. The dodgy practices need to be removed.
“If it is not OBVIOUS that we should inspire our bright young people with POSITIVE, SUCCESSFUL, UPLIFTING role models that they can be inspired to emulate….”
what ya got in the parliament is SHIT…no role models…except of the CORRUPT VARIETY…
what are you doing about those…they should in NO WAY be influencing our young people, given their various criminal histories of the LAST HUNDRED YEARS…
right now Donville is NOT THE THREAT…and anything he writes, easily DEBUNKED…
the problem is INSIDE THE PARLIAMENT…
Bushie
Shiite! Who would be these so-called role models?
For years your bible reading people assumed that role.
And for millennia they have been bulling little boys.
There have been never nuh genuine role model structures in the West. Not even some parent.
Parents.
@ Pacha
Don’t waste time arguing with Bushie … NOT INTERESTED!!!
Feel free to stay with your position. Illogical as it obviously is.
Bushie is PERSONALLY aware of HUNDREDS of EXCELLENT role models who have inspired EXCELLENCE in THOUSANDS of Bajan youths over the past decades…. Many in the school system of the past…
TOO many names to call…
Not one shiite to do with any church (which seems to be something stuck FIRMLY up your craw)
You should REALLY try to get over it…
Why the hell should felons and freaks become role models, when we have COMMUNITY BUILDERS, COOPERATIVE leaders, Sports GIANTS and (YES) some Church leaders who have EXEMPLIFIED societal excellence?
Your irrational, wholesale, hatred of the Bible and Church is your Achilles heel….
Get some boots…. and you will shine…
“And for millennia they have been bulling little boys.”
raping little girls and SETTING UP KIDNAPPINGS..
“Why the hell should felons and freaks become role models, when we have COMMUNITY BUILDERS, COOPERATIVE leaders, Sports GIANTS and (YES) some Church leaders who have EXEMPLIFIED societal excellence?
so WHY have they done NOTHING to remove the CORRUPTION, misleading and CRIMINALIZING OF YOUNG AFRIKAN PEOPLE…
why have they NOT OUTED the corrupt politicians…
why have SO M ANY young people lost TO THE NASTINESS that passes for governance…
SILENCE IS VIOLENCE…
SILENCE IS ACCEPTANCE…
those are no role models i want in CHARGE OF MY GRAND CHILDREN”S lives…if they can;t stand AND BEAT DOWN THE CORRUPT….
Bushie
Hatred of lies and wickedness whether in the church or bible is central for us.
Role models constructs are from the very albinos oft decried.
Our young people are best served by getting to know their Afrikan ancestors. There are no more mighty than them.
Have you not seen that all your White man’s decency models fuck us up?
Is An African Style 🌍
Long Time Ago (Original Mix) Amine Edge & DANCE
“Our young people are best served by getting to know their Afrikan ancestors. There are no more mighty than them.”
we keep REPEATING IT…..they keep IGNORING IT..
my grands REJECT ALL THING MANMADE..
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The bottom line is that you have a backward understanding of the criminal justice system. And that backwardness is being deployed using one man as the sacrificial lamb for systemic and historic national failures. The current failures of Mia Mottley
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It would be interesting to see if that same lamb which was sacrificed to Uncle Sam is charged for corruption on his imminent deportation to his homeland.
If, as has been pointed out by our Northern Observer, a ‘criminal’ law had to be broken in order for the money to become dirty before laundering in the USA, isn’t that, ipso facto, sufficient grounds for DI to face prosecution in Barbados, the domicile where the crime of M/L originated?
We will watch the actions of the authorities to see if there will be a need for a complainant to come forward.
Now who could that “complainant” be in order for the monkey criminal justice system in Barbados to work?
Tasker? The AG?
Or that man C H who sold D I the sacrificial lamb down the river while shouting ‘Lock he up! Lock he to hell up!’
The former CoP said there was no complaint made in Barbados in the Donville matter, althoug the US proved by using the 1929 Barbados law that a crime was INDEED committed locally…
…they carried out a CHARADE where the current AG claims he is the complainant and the CoP said he could do nothing…
the FRAUD PARADE..
Miller…Donville’s writing a commentary article for local media that don’t have the BALLS to use journalistical ethics, morals and courage to prosecute the corrupt in the parliament and in the minority crimunity….WILL NOT BE THE LATEST BU DISTRACTION..
Chill Jazz Lyrics in the House
07:08 Miles Davis
Miles was able to make something that was wrong into something that was right
The issue is the corruption of Government bidding process which is granted favours for companies to win contracts by bribing ministers so money is transferred to personal accounts. Some say it is not robbery as the money business pay is recovered from the money they earn in multimillion dollar contracts. But the more enlightened opinion is public is shortchanged as contracted businesses provide substandard work to cut costs and the better value bids are not chosen. The dodgy practices need to be removed.
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@David
When will you learn the USofA is THE enemy. And then anyone or anything which can be linked to that is a close’ish second.
Once you get that, all becomes logical.
Did you know Cuba was officially an atheist state for years. In fact, Catholics couldn’t be a CPC member for eons. The people are to listen to you, and for those who refuse to conform, they’ll meet one of your several military arms, who are very familiar with the dispensation of justice. No competition from any fictional God is desired, you are their God ( even if they don’t know it).
#getwiththeprogram 😂
@NO
#funny
The former CoP said there was no complaint made in Barbados in the Donville matter, althoug the US proved by using the 1929 Barbados law that a crime was INDEED committed locally…
…they carried out a CHARADE where the current AG claims he is the complainant and the CoP said he could do nothing…
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This Donville Inniss issue has been debated on BU…… ad nauseam, yet you continue to mislead the forum.
Unfortunately, rather than have a rational ‘discussion’ on how your comments are misleading, you prefer to ‘make things about you.’
ya come back to make yaself look STUPID AGAIN…
there is VIDEO of the charade…….where the AG and CoP were discussing the matter…
don’t you have anything else better to do..
and no, i don’t have to post shit….go look for it..
@The BushMan Griot, well said above re embracing and supporting a ‘rehabilitated’ murderer (in ‘some’ cases, not all 🙏🏿IMHO) as contrasted with the folly of making their story one of idolatry and acclaim!
The other tangential point related to that is the obfuscation on Oppo leader Barrow in Belize. That type of hop scotch is amusing generally but when it’s done at a supposedly high level of intellectual discourse it’s disturbingly shameful.
That gent committed his criminal act as a young man in a TOTALLY different sphere to his current operations … not passing ANY judgement on how his past acts may be an indicator of his character and political behaviours BUT that was then and here he is now!
Inniss committed his crime as a sitting Minister … there can be NO possible equivocation about HIS CHARACTER and corrupt actions as a representative of the people!
But anyhow @the Blogmaster, you really can’t expect to have your cake and then ‘defecate’ pon it too!
YOU framed the blog around “Donville Inniss’ arrest and subsequent conviction in the USA” and what it revealed about government officials influencing the affairs of SOE …
You did NOT lead with @Northern’s observations nor highlight other named individuals … so good sir the subsequent broadsides and misalignment to your main thrust about the “culture of corruption” is on you. Just saying!.
Inniss is an ‘outlier’ ONLY as a Bajan story. Recently of course there was a similar US indictment for the BVI Premier and for years there have been similar cases. Buuut … lets cast our minds back to the bobol corruption of the TnT govts and Minister John O’Halloran over 40 years ago … he of running to Canada fame with his ill gotten funds.
My simple point is to reinforce YOUR point that this “mismanagement and corruption” has been endemic across ALL the islands and surely is NOT “unique to Barbados”.
And to your underlying point and that of the BushMan and others … it is WE the people who condone and authorize these behaviours over and over … cause we all want some too, it seems!
BTW, which poll was it that gave you the assurance that most Bajans believe ainniss did nothing wrong?? Since when is tekking bribes copecetate !
I gone.
@Dee Word
Prosecuting these types of matters oftentimes call for a multi prong message approach to achieve multiple objectives. The blogmaster accepts the approach is missed by many on the blog given the narrow prisms utilized.
@ African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved July 20, 2022 10:08 AM
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the FRAUD PARADE..
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Indeed, just another case of the passing fraud parade in Barbados.
Just like how the MoF is trying to convince the stupid people of Barbados that the reason for the writing off of the VAT is that it was deemed “UNCOLLECTIBLE”.
What a farce!
How can VAT be uncollectible when it was paid into the consumers to the businesses who acted as mere tax collecting agents of the Crown?
VAT is an imposition on the final consumers and which they have dutifully settled to the Crown.
VAT is NOT a financial imposition on the businesses!
Maybe an administrative burden; but certainly not a tax on their profits.
It is nothing but downright fraud which has gone unpunished because of the political connections in the failing nepotistic and growingly despotic state called Barbados heading for its Waterloo in a Sri Lanka pointing cul-de-sac.
About 150,000 children were taken from their homes. Many were subjected to physical and sexual abuse in what Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 2015 called “cultural genocide.
Last/last
RE: “ya come back to make yaself look STUPID AGAIN…”
My friend, you CONTINUE to make yourself LOOK STUPID on BU on a DAILY BASIS.
Today, you ‘said,’ “the US proved by using the 1929 Barbados law that a crime was INDEED committed locally, which is a DEVIATION from your INITIAL ARGUMENT that the USA Justice Department charged and incarcerated Inniss using Barbados 1929 laws.
RE: “there is VIDEO of the charade…….where the AG and CoP were discussing the matter…”
Yes, the AG and former CoP discussed the issue, but Marshall NEVER mentioned anything you are ACCUSING him of mentioning.
RE: “don’t you have anything else better to do..”
Unlike you, I contribute to topics on which I have knowledge.
If YOU had “anything else better TO DO,” you wouldn’t be on BU from EARLY MORNING to LATE in the evening, posting modified versions of the same contribution to ‘EVERY SINGLE’ ARTICLE posted to this forum for discussion.
What person in ‘their right mind’ would do that?
For an individual who claims to be writing books and magazines, conducting research and managing several websites, you SPEND an INORDINATE AMOUNT of TIME on BU.
YOU ARE A VERY UNSTABLE AND ABUSIVE person.
NO
Please. Not only Amerikkka. Your entire White world. Including your fascist Japanese vassals.
“And then anyone or anything which can be linked to that is a close’ish second”
I couldn’t list them all, but am sure you can specify as required.
@ NO
“The people are to listen to you, and for those who refuse to conform, they’ll meet one of your several military arms, who are very familiar with the dispensation of justice.”
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How was this fundamentally different to, (or even any way CLOSE to) what the FBI and CIA ROUTINELY did / do on a GLOBAL scale?
There is a COMMON spiritual driver of this kind of thinking and behavior. However, those that are adapted NATURALLY to the philosophy of such wickedness are easily identified by their material success in the system of greed, selfishness and spite.
The ‘follow-pattern’ brass bowls who have foolishly ADOPTED this albigno-centric philosophy (when their NATURAL disposition is completely different) have ALSO done shiite, but you can easily see from the third world results that they reap …of debt, default, chaos and serfdom…. that they are mere copiers….
Many youths would like to shoot someone.
Who is more corrupt the convicted ministers or the gunmen.
Miller, correct. Appropriation of Vat by any other party than the Treasury is theft, plain and simple.
In other words, those not paying it over need to be prosecuted.
@Crusoe
What about in cases the government owes the business?
“but you can easily see from the third world results that they reap …of debt, default, chaos and serfdom…. that they are mere copiers…”
that’s all they are COPIERS and PARROTS….and want everyone else to be JUST LIKE THEM…FRAUDS..
hopefully no one else comes up with another throw away phrase like Kofi Annan did or THAT’S ALL WE WILL HEAR ABOUT FOR THE NEXT 50 YEARS….puke worthy…not an orginal thought between them..
“Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 2015 called “cultural genocide.”
Hants…the Canadian government finally agreed to pay out a bunch in reparations…..but that can never heal those wounds, when it’s divided up, there is not really much to go around..
“Indeed, just another case of the passing fraud parade in Barbados.
Just like how the MoF is trying to convince the stupid people of Barbados that the reason for the writing off of the VAT is that it was deemed “UNCOLLECTIBLE”.
What a farce!
How can VAT be uncollectible when it was paid into the consumers to the businesses who acted as mere tax collecting agents of the Crown?”
re the VAT…they ALLOWED it to be STOLEN for their CUT…since then another 6 milllion in VAT is unaccounted for…
re the FRAUD PARADE in the Donville case, where corrupt governments cannot prosecute corrupt fellow members……..ALL of us on BU sat and watched that video…they are fooling NO ONE..
ARTAX
RE Unfortunately, rather than have a rational ‘discussion’ on how your comments are misleading, you prefer to ‘make things about you.’
WHY DO YOU BOTHER WITH THAT IDIOT, SIR? CANT YOU SEE THAT THE WOMAN IS A SELF SEEKING WANNABEE?
THIS IS A WOMAN THAT PREACHES HERE DAILY ABOUT HOW WHITE PEOPLE FIGURATIVELY SCREWED PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT AND TAUGHT PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT TO FIGURATIVELY SCREW PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT SUCH THAT IS ALL THAT COUNTS, BUT YET…………..YOU KNOW THE REST OF MY POINT. LOL
SHE CAN NOT SHOW BY ILLUSTRATING VIA A PUNETT SQUARE HOW TWO BLACK PEOPLE GAVE RISE TO THE WHITE FOLK OR ANY ETHIC GROUP TO SUPPORT HER RUBBISH ABOUT THE BLACK ORIGINS OF ANY ONE BUT DEFAECATES DAILY ON BU FROM THE ECTOPIC COUMNAR EPITHELIA IN HER CRANIUM
SHE DOES NOT KNOW THAT ABRAHAM THE FATHER CAME FROM OVER OR ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER (TIGRIS OR EUPHRATES) WHICH IS ESSENTIALLY WHAT THE WORD HEBREW LITERALLY MEANS, BUT CLAIMS THAT ISRAELIS CAME FROM THE BLACK RACES, (SOME FOLK WILL NOW SAY BUT GP THERE ARE BLACK JEWS……FORCING ME TO TELL THEM WHY, AND OFFER PUNETT SQUARES IN EXPLANATION OF THEIR IDIOTIC CHALLENGE).
CAN YOU NOW SEE WHY I CONSIDER COMING HERE WHEN BORED, IS THE CARTOON SECTION FOR MY DAILY READING
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@BT
There is little difference.
They are “special”. Special forces, Special Ops, Special Task Forces, Special Missions,… sometime you can substitute Elite, or they have both special and elite 😆
Whenever the is no explanation for public consumption, they are “special”.
Most nations have them.
ALL of us on BU sat and watched that video of the AG and CoP discoursing on the Donville matter……they are fooling NO ONE.
but as i said…am hoping there are at least 50 UNSEALED INDICTMENTS by now…
“In other words, those not paying it over need to be prosecuted.”
how are you going to prosecute your CO-CONSPIRATOR in stealing BILLIONS OF DOLLARS in VAT and money from the treasury and pension fund..
are yall forgetting so QUICKLY mrs. maloney’s husband part in the vaccine scam….so who was going to prosecute 48 million dollars SKIMMED from the treasury…..
.what a breeze, a CAKEWALK…..if not for those dudes in the entertainment company…being slick and tiefing the down payment…lol
so who wuddah get prosecute….
On January 1st, 1997, the initial VAT threshold was $60,000 per annum.
The threshold was subsequently increased to $80,000 per annum, on January 1st, 2010.
Those rates would obviously include small businesses such as village shops, mini-marts, boutiques, water-sports, house and apartment rentals etc.
So, bear in mind owners of these businesses would’ve benefited from the VAT write-offs as well.
@ Crusoe July 20, 2022 1:10 PM
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Miller, correct. Appropriation of Vat by any other party than the Treasury is theft, plain and simple.
In other words, those not paying it over need to be prosecuted.
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There are (genuine) cases where and when VAT can be written off.
These apply mainly to situations where goods and services are sold on credit but the merchants/suppliers are unable to recoup the receivable for whatever reason.
But there is already adequate provision in the legislation (and on the VAT returns) to cover such cases.
It is blindingly obvious that the writing off of such large sums of VAT under the instruction of the MoF can only be ‘justified’ through the lens of a politically-approved quid pro quo between the present administration and those who might have contributed handsomely to the coffers of the political party’s electoral campaign(s).
But what can the taxpayers expect from a government which believes the Auditor General is a cu**nt to be politically screwed and dismissed year-in-year out and his reports thrown away like a used Johnny?
@Miller
You are correct the minister under the Act has the authority to waive/write off various fees/penalties. Isn’t it true to also say that there should be accountability built in as well where the rationale must be disclosed and supported by the technocrats in the finance ministry? This way the minister’s decision can be audited?
“There are (genuine) cases where and when VAT can be written off.”
but these got the gonads to attempt to justify, explain away and LIE ABOUT THE THEFT OF 1 BILLION DOLLARS IN VAT……and then IGNORE the Auditor General when he brings up the thefts and DISAPPEARANCE of money from VAT, TREASURY and PENSION fund…..if those those dirty traitors could blame the thefts on the people, they would..
that can only be a cult that the little frauds for groupie fowls gotta run out on the blog and attack people to COVER UP THOSE CRIMES….they should see themselves..
David,
The net amount should be paid over by the relevant party. Either way.
Miller…i saw an article yesterday where i think it was chartered accounts say…that IGNORING the Auditor General will RETURN TO BITE THEM…EVENTUALLY..
..because the international community don’t take kindly TO BEGGARS…can’t account for BILLIONS OF MISSING DOLLARS…but can appear in front of them WITH BEGGING BOWLS IN HAND..
a lot of people are WEIGHING IN…and what they are saying…means…these are UNDER A MICROSCOPE…no matter how they PRETEND OTHERWISE..
Donville will serve his time and could be deported or not.
Ingrid Innes could stay in Canada and is unlikely to be extradited to the US If she has good Canadian lawyers.
Alex Tasker could be another ” fall guy ” but get a ” plea deal “.
Buh doan mine me. I distracted by Crop Over soca videos.
Blogmaster:
To get back to the Inniss case, how can an extradition order against Tasker be successful when there is no case to be answered for any criminal activity relating to the aiding and abetting of M/L in the USA?
What Bajan laws did he break, allegedly, by aiding and abetting in the washing of dirty money?
Maybe he needs to heed the advice of the previous PM and get a ‘proper’ lawyer to represent his interest and prevent him from going to Sing Sing in NY.
@Miller
Tasker and Inness were charged with conspiracy to launder which probably has to do with the wire transfer to the dental company.
In the meantime we are moving to make it more difficult for citizens to be involved in rate case hearings against entities such as the Light and Power.
Oh what a tangle web we weave, when first we seek to deceive.( destruct)
Not a banana republic yet but………………….
Should be distract not destruct.
@ David July 20, 2022 4:41 PM
For there to be a conspiracy to launder there must be “dirty” money involved.
Where is the evidence that the money was dirty in order to be laundered?
What piece (s) of criminal legislation was breached to cause the money/wire transfer (that is proceeds of alleged criminal activity) to become dirty?
Why are there no local criminal charges being brought against any of the parties involved?
The source was masked when the wire transgress down. This would have been part of the BF&M information sharing no doubt.
Looka the usual hypocrites. Not stinking me to borrow from a fellow BUer.
@ David July 20, 2022 4:56 PM
So what is stopping the Bajan law enforcement authorities from invoking the relevant legislation (the Prevention of Corruption in Public Office or however it is so titled) to bring charges against the parties involved (excluding, of course, the whistleblower Millar)?
Political nepotism still rampant among the corrupt cabal making up the duopoly?
@Miller
The retired COP and former AG tried to make a case that a complaint would have to be initiated to trigger an investigation. The blogmaster does not buy it. As NO opined this action was triggered by BF&M and local authorities went along for the ride because there is no appetite to investigate the matter – it would disrupt the local establishment.
David
Remember, according to the indictment, Innes and Tasker were alleged to have used two ‘false invoices’ for consultancy services rendered, to facilitate the wire transfer of US$16,536.73 from BF&M’s bank account in Bermuda, to a bank account of a bank in Elmont, New York, in the name of Inniss’ friend’s dental practice.
And, BF&M, as the then parent company of ICBL, co-operated with the US Justice Department.
That is correct Artax. There are several actors in the BF&M shop who the blogmaster suspects were in the ‘loop’.
@ David July 20, 2022 5:31 PM
Confession at last is good for the Bajan hoity-toity’ soul.
William Skinner should be proud of you.
That is why the CoP at that time was put between a most politically pressured rock and a professionally compromised hard place.
But the DPP has that Constitutionally-enshrined authority to investigate any matter smelling of criminal perfume.
The question is why NO action until Uncle Sam had to ring the bell in order to make an example of a greedy talkative buffoon whose petty stealing of taxpayers’ monies started way back at the QEH as the MoH.
BTW, what has ever become of that legal luminary called “Greene” of such strong DLP persuasion who incessantly argued that there is No way the Don called Inniss could ever be charged and convicted for corruption, bribery or Money Laundering in Barbados? At least he has been proven to be “Spot on”!
Thank God for Uncle Sam! Please forgive the miller, Dear Pachamama (and GP).
Please direct the forum to any information that indicates “the DPP has that Constitutionally-enshrined authority to investigate any matter smelling of criminal perfume?”
I ‘believe’ there were TWO transfers to the dental operation? Some months apart.
This is ‘supposedly’ what led BF&M to question these two payments.
During the trial, Ms Millar described the back and forth on how to make payment.
The ⁉️⁉️ is, why couldn’t ICBL obtain $US in Bdos and wire them? Why go through H/O?
Ms Millar testimony+ what was actually done, makes me think a deal was cut, but the deal makers had not a clue how to execute it.
For JC sake, you don’t ask your CFO to ‘creat an invoice’ she knows is false?
Posted too early ……con’t
The LAST person you wish to know of any such deal is the CFO!!!
Get the damn invoice, think it through, have it approved, and it ends up in A/P for payment.
If it gets questioned, and it may, have a story ready, that backs up the invoice.
You don’t tell your CFO to go ask the VP Marketing how the invoice should read.
Simple incompetence.
I doubt somehow that AT will be invited to the Dons next Old Years Nite affair
@NO
It is New Years affair, his birthday.
Sorry I was a day off lol
ALEX TASKER HOPE YOU ARE READING THIS.
HE WHO LAUGHS FIRST CRIES LAST.
NEVER FORGOT WHAT YOU TOLD ME AT A LOCAL DIGICEL SPONSORED GOLF TOURNAMENT.
YOUR ASS IS UNCLE SAM’S NOW BUDDY.
NorthernObserver
Yes, there were two wire transfers, in the amounts of $16,536.73 and $20,000, respectively.
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Please direct the forum to any information that indicates “the DPP has that Constitutionally-enshrined authority to investigate any matter smelling of criminal perfume?”
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It is assumed that the old ‘Crown’ Constitution still applies to the fast ripening banana republic:
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79. (1) There shall be a Director of Public Prosecutions whose office shall be a public office.
(2) The Director of Public Prosecutions shall, subject to section 79A, have power in any case in which he considers it desirable so to do:
(a) to institute and undertake criminal proceedings against any person before any court other than a court-martial in respect of any offence against the law of Barbados;
(b) to take over and continue any such criminal proceedings that may have been instituted by any other person or authority;
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ARTAX
WHAT YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT SUCH DEVILS ONLY COME OUT WITH MUCH PRAYER AND FASTING
DO LIKE ME
GO LOOK AT SOME GOOD LOOKING WOMEN AT THE WORLD ATHLETIC CHAMPIONSHIP
THIS IDIOT IS TOO FLIPPING UGLY
“It is assumed that the old ‘Crown’ Constitution still applies to the fast ripening banana republic….”
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The information in Sections 79: 1; 2 (a), (b) is self explanatory and there isn’t anything therein that explicitly states the “DPP has that Constitutionally-enshrined AUTHORITY to INVESTIGATE ANY MATTER….”
What has been presented from Barbados’ Constitution, is included in the Constitutions of countries whose legal system includes a DPP.
The DPP does not have any investigative functions.
The DPP simply decides whether or not there is sufficient evidence to prosecute an individual for committing summary or indictable offences.
@ac
Where are you?
You are a modern day John the Baptist crying in the wilderness of BU. Your cry of ‘Repent’ fall on deaf ears but yet you persist.
Please come and bring bread to the table; this lunch of recycled hot air is tiring.
Lock them up this kind of unfair business practice has been going on for years
The excuse of COVID does not ring true
Lock them up
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$40 million debt
THAT’S HOW MUCH HOTELIERS OWE THE STRUGGLING SMALL HOTEL INVESTMENT FUND
By Marlon Madden
Small hotel operators in Barbados have been unable to meet their debt obligation to the now struggling Small Hotel Investment Fund (SHIF), which was established to provide financing for the optimization of their properties.
Mahmood Patel, Chairman of the Intimate Hotels of Barbados (IHB), which represents just over 40 small hotels, disclosed that some members owed some $40 million to the SHIF, which is managed by the Enterprise Growth Fund Ltd. (EGFL).
He made the revelation on Wednesday in his annual report to the IHB’s annual general meeting at the Island Inn Hotel.
Patel suggested that the COVID-19 pandemic had impacted the ability of the small hotel operators to make good on their debt obligation.
“IHB hoteliers are indebted approximately $40 million to the SHIF fund. Unfortunately, the fund has not performed as well, as overall payments have been tardy. When you mine down that information though, and I do not want to go into details, but it is one or two members that might even pay a cent and that has created a case of ‘Peter paying for Paul’,” he said.
“IHB needs to find a way to have a conversation with the state [about] how do we fix this, how do we reinvent the fund or recapitalise the fund because the majority of the members were paying before COVID. That is something I would like to throw out there – how do we sit down and fix this problem for IHB members. We need to recapitalise, we need to reinvent our inventory, our plant. We have to find a constructive and creative way to get out of this hole,” said Patel.
He said the IHB was currently engaging the EGFL in an “economic analysis” relating to the SHIF and once completed there would be a conversation between the IHB, EGFL and the Ministry of Finance to maybe find a “fiscal space” for IHB in the BEST [Barbados Employment and Sustainable Transformation] programme and then to constructively look at the debt challenges.
He said the hope was to come up with a debt restructuring plan for the sector.
“I would like to suggest that maybe we also look for other sources of funding like equity or sovereign funding, but we have to find space to renovate and modernise.”
At the same time, Patel urged small hotel operators to take advantage of the Energy Smart Fund, which is also managed by the EGFL but to provide financial and technical support for renewable energy and energy efficiency projects.
He said it was necessary for the sector to be “repurposed” to become more relevant in the changing tourism market.
He noted that in the previous iteration of the Energy Smart Fund, which is recapitalised by the Inter-American Development Bank and the European Union under the Sustainable Energy Investment Programme, only about five per cent of the IHB group applied for funding to carry out photovoltaic projects.
This fund provides loans, grants and rebates for green projects.
“I would like to implore all members to take up this offer. Interest rates are 3.75 per cent and I know, at least from my experience, energy is the second highest cost for my small hotel,” said Patel.
Minister of Tourism and International Transport Senator Lisa Cummins meanwhile, admitted that the SHIF was in need of a revamp, but urged the tourism industry operators to pay up what they owed.
She said the SHIF had been under review over the last few months and admitted that it was “not the best performing fund” of the EGFL, which manages several funds.
“It was perhaps one of the two worse performing funds in the arsenal of dedicated funds, and largely because of repayments,” said Cummins.
“I think if this moment in time has taught us anything it is that change is required of all of us and even if the Government were to find the fiscal space to capitalise new funds including the SHIF, there has to also be a responsibility to come from everyone to repay the funds that are made available so that we are not only benefiting ourselves, but we are allowing and creating space for others who will come behind in those five and seven years intervals or new entrants into the market to also access those funds,” she said.
“It is simply not acceptable to be able to benefit from funds like SHIF and not repay those funds because you are damaging the sector that we represent. So that is going to be an important responsibility and I am going to call on the leadership of the IHB to ensure that you play a role in policing, along with the Government, the obligations that go along with the rights or access that Government will make available to the sector,” said Cummins.
During his presentation, Patel also reported that the IHB was inching closer to establishing a solar photovoltaic farm and a co-operative.
He also spoke of the need for more marketing and public relations financing while pointing out that the $50,000 received from the Barbados Tourism Marketing Inc. (BTMI) for the period 2016 to 2018 was simply not enough.
“It is very little, and we will be coming to the BTMI hopefully to increase that budget to do very specific actions for our group,” he said. marlonmadden@barbadostoday.bb
The Fix Is In
GP and his White Jews bunkum
The Wandering Jew
12 Tribes of Israel
Ten Lost Tribes of Israel
Lost Tribes were located “beyond the rivers of Abyssinia” (which is Ethiopia)
The 10 tribes were gradually assimilated by other peoples and thus disappeared from history
Romans were White and Jews were Brown
Some Jews migrated to Europe with Romans for work and intermarried with Europeans some Romans converted to Judaism
The origin of Eastern European Jews revealed by autosomal, sex chromosomal and mtDNA polymorphisms
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2964539/
Six Jewish populations: EEJ, Moroccan Jews, Iraqi Jews. Iranian Jews, Yemenite Jews and Ethiopian Jews, which have been studied for all the autosomal markers used in this study, are included in the analysis. EEJ are defined on the basis of history as those Jews originating from the areas of the Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom and their descendants in bordering regions, encompassing the territories of Russia, Poland, the Baltic States, Belarus, Moldavia, Moldova (the north-eastern part of Romania) and the Ukraine. The Data on the non-autosomal markers were also available for other Jewish populations: Bulgarian Jews (X, mtDNA), Turkish Jews (X, mtDNA), Tunisian Jews (mtDNA), Libyan Jews (Y, mtDNA) and Djerban Jews (Y).
https://mlexmarketinsight.com/news-hub/editors-picks/area-of-expertise/anti-bribery-and-corruption/ex-barbados-official-rails-against-us-anticorruption-prosecution-but-finds-little-sympathy
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The DPP does not have any investigative functions.
The DPP simply decides whether or not there is sufficient evidence to prosecute an individual for committing summary or indictable offences.
(Unquote).
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It was never argued that the Office of the DPP had an investigative function or the capacity/resources to perform such.
What is known that the DPP can at any time issue an “Order” to the BPS for such an investigation to be performed in order to collect evidence to support the prosecution of any case against any person ‘suspected’ of breaking the Law.
Doesn’t the law give the DPP and AG to consult on matters and have the parliament validate in an Order?
RE: “It was never argued that the Office of the DPP had an investigative function or the capacity/resources to perform such.”
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July 20, 2022 6:29 PM#: “But the DPP has that Constitutionally-enshrined AUTHORITY to INVESTIGATE ANY MATTER smelling of criminal perfume.”
NOT MY words.
I simply ‘ASKED:’
Please DIRECT the FORUM to any INFORMATION that INDICATES “the DPP has that Constitutionally-enshrined AUTHORITY to INVESTIGATE ANY MATTER smelling of criminal perfume?”
RESPONSE: July 20, 2022 9:08 PM #: excerpts from the Constitution relative to Sections 79: 1; 2 (a), (b).
RE: “What is known that the DPP can at any time issue an “Order” to the BPS for such an investigation to be performed in order to collect evidence to support the prosecution of any case against any person ‘suspected’ of breaking the Law.”
Completely DIFFERENT argument.
Perhaps you may want to provide the forum with information that states the DPP has the authority to order investigations or direct investigators to take action.
“What is known is that,” upon request, the DPP provides ‘pre-charge’ or legal advice to the police during a criminal investigation, relative to the sufficiency of evidence and the appropriateness of charges in accordance with his/her decision whether to prosecute or not.
Anyhow enough of that.
@MTA
As soon as @Artax posed the question, I realized the issue was “investigation”.
As initiate and undertake are essentially the same thing? Begin.
But the same DPP charged your ‘buddy’ C H and later (upon the results of further investigation by others?) withdrew the charges
BTW whatever happened to the case against the other 2 on that boat?
“What is known that the DPP can at any time issue an “Order” to the BPS ”
the office of the DPP has TOO MUCH power to COVER FOR and reverse indictments/charges for the criminals within their orbit and social grouping..
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Perhaps you may want to provide the forum with information that states the DPP has the authority to order investigations or direct investigators to take action.
(Unquote).
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General duties of the Force
19.
It shall be the duty of all members of the Force
(a)
to preserve the peace and prevent and detect crime and other contraventions of the law;
(b)
to apprehend and bring before a magistrate persons found committing any offence rendering them liable to arrest without a warrant or whom they may reasonably suspect of having committed any such offence or who may be charged by any person with having committed any such offence;
(c)
to charge or cause to be charged before a magistrate and to prosecute persons reasonably suspected of having committed offences in the following cases
(i)
in all cases of offences where it is in the opinion of a gazetted police officer desirable in the public interest that the prosecution should be undertaken by the Force; and
(ii)
in any other case where an order to that effect is made by the Director of Public Prosecutions or the Commissioner;
I take note that whenever( say about 3 times )I have posted an article which goes to heart of Barbados losing the amount of 40 million dollars to Hoteliers via loans the article is not posted
In my mind 40 million is an excessive amount of money which Barbados treasury cannot afford to lose and the receivers of those loans should be punished by way of holding whatever assets they owned or handed jail time
Theft is theft
Did you read the article? Do you understand why 40 million is outstanding? Who borrowed the money?
We always make the cardinal error of either separating the office holder from the office or the office from the office holder.
Director of Public Prosecutions.
What does the word director mean.
Certainly the mere title indicates the wide powers of the office of the DPP.
DavidJuly 21, 2022 9:14 AM
Did you read the article? Do you understand why 40 million is outstanding? Who borrowed the money
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Do.u understand what 40million in revenue lost means to.the economy
40million in outstanding debt now buffered on Covid excuses $40 million debt
THAT’S HOW MUCH HOTELIERS OWE THE STRUGGLING SMALL HOTEL INVESTMENT FUND
By Marlon Madden
Small hotel operators in Barbados have been unable to meet their debt obligation to the now struggling Small Hotel Investment Fund (SHIF), which was established to provide financing for the optimization of their properties.
Mahmood Patel, Chairman of the Intimate Hotels of Barbados (IHB), which represents just over 40 small hotels, disclosed that some members owed some $40 million to the SHIF, which is managed by the Enterprise Growth Fund Ltd. (EGFL).
He made the revelation on Wednesday in his annual report to the IHB’s annual general meeting at the Island Inn Hotel.
Patel suggested that the COVID-19 pandemic had impacted the ability of the small hotel operators to make good on their debt obligation.
“IHB hoteliers are indebted approximately $40 million to the SHIF fund. Unfortunately, the fund has not performed as well, as overall payments have been tardy. When you mine down that information though, and I do not want to go into details, but it is one or two members that might even pay a cent and that has created a case of ‘Peter paying for Paul’,” he said.
“IHB needs to find a way to have a conversation with the state [about] how do we fix this, how do we reinvent the fund or recapitalise the fund because the majority of the members were paying before COVID. That is something I would like to throw out there – how do we sit down and fix this problem for IHB members. We need to recapitalise, we need to reinvent our inventory, our plant. We have to find a constructive and creative way to get out of this hole,” said Patel.
He said the IHB was currently engaging the EGFL in an “economic analysis” relating to the SHIF and once completed there would be a conversation between the IHB, EGFL and the Ministry of Finance to maybe find a “fiscal space” for IHB in the BEST [Barbados Employment and Sustainable Transformation] programme and then to constructively look at the debt challenges.
He said the hope was to come up with a debt restructuring plan for the sector.
“I would like to suggest that maybe we also look for other sources of funding like equity or sovereign funding, but we have to find space to renovate and modernise.”
At the same time, Patel urged small hotel operators to take advantage of the Energy Smart Fund, which is also managed by the EGFL but to provide financial and technical support for renewable energy and energy efficiency projects.
He said it was necessary for the sector to be “repurposed” to become more relevant in the changing tourism market.
He noted that in the previous iteration of the Energy Smart Fund, which is recapitalised by the Inter-American Development Bank and the European Union under the Sustainable Energy Investment Programme, only about five per cent of the IHB group applied for funding to carry out photovoltaic projects.
This fund provides loans, grants and rebates for green projects.
“I would like to implore all members to take up this offer. Interest rates are 3.75 per cent and I know, at least from my experience, energy is the second highest cost for my small hotel,” said Patel.
Minister of Tourism and International Transport Senator Lisa Cummins meanwhile, admitted that the SHIF was in need of a revamp, but urged the tourism industry operators to pay up what they owed.
She said the SHIF had been under review over the last few months and admitted that it was “not the best performing fund” of the EGFL, which manages several funds.
“It was perhaps one of the two worse performing funds in the arsenal of dedicated funds, and largely because of repayments,” said Cummins.
“I think if this moment in time has taught us anything it is that change is required of all of us and even if the Government were to find the fiscal space to capitalise new funds including the SHIF, there has to also be a responsibility to come from everyone to repay the funds that are made available so that we are not only benefiting ourselves, but we are allowing and creating space for others who will come behind in those five and seven years intervals or new entrants into the market to also access those funds,” she said.
“It is simply not acceptable to be able to benefit from funds like SHIF and not repay those funds because you are damaging the sector that we represent. So that is going to be an important responsibility and I am going to call on the leadership of the IHB to ensure that you play a role in policing, along with the Government, the obligations that go along with the rights or access that Government will make available to the sector,” said Cummins.
During his presentation, Patel also reported that the IHB was inching closer to establishing a solar photovoltaic farm and a co-operative.
He also spoke of the need for more marketing and public relations financing while pointing out that the $50,000 received from the Barbados Tourism Marketing Inc. (BTMI) for the period 2016 to 2018 was simply not enough.
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Where in the article is it indicated that 40 million was a loss? Carry on with your yardfowl agenda.
Last/last
My friend, it’s clear you don’t have any idea what you’re ‘talking’ about.
According to Stuart, ‘you’re in a dark room looking for a black cat.’
Remember, you ‘said:’
“the DPP can at any time ISSUE an “Order” to the BPS for such an INVESTIGATION to be PERFORMED in ORDER to COLLECT EVIDENCE to support the prosecution of any case against any person ‘suspected’ of breaking the Law.”
“…… in any other case where an order to that effect (i.e. it is desirable in the public interest that the prosecution should be undertaken by the Force) is made by the DPP or the Commissioner of Police.”
Two COMPLETELY DIFFERENT things.
David
Forgive the lady. As I’ve ‘told’ her on several occasions, she reads, yet she does not understand what she read.
Doesn’t have anything at all to with the economy.
In simple terms, the SHIF is short of $40M as a result of hoteliers’ delinquency…… they failed to repay their outstanding debt to the fund.
It may eventually be a loss to the fund, especially if the EGFL does not implement measures to recover the outstanding amount……
…… or the debt is subsequently written off.
And, after reading Patel’s remarks, it seems as though that’s the direction in which he seems ‘to be heading.’
@ Artax July 21, 2022 7:59 AM
Sorry Artax, maybe the verbose miller is losing it and becoming as silly as your dear friend Austin.
What an arrogant appallingly ignorant person he is turning into!
But at last, in spite of all the powerless of both the DPP to investigate ‘alleged’ criminal matters in Barbados, Donville is where he belongs, thanks to Uncle Sam.
Maybe you can explain to us how small businesses can benefit from VAT write-offs as a result in the increase of the VAT threshold when those very businesses were neither registered for VAT nor charged and collected VAT from consumers.
Barbados’ small hotels owe Government’s Small Hotels Investment Fund around $40 million, says Chairman of Intimate Hotels of Barbados, Mahmood Patel and Minister of Tourism and International Transport Senator Lisa Cummins has appealed to defaulters to pay up.
“IHB hoteliers are indebted approximately $40 million to the SHIF fund. Unfortunately, the fund has not performed as well, as overall payments have been tardy. When you mine down that information though, and I do not want to go into details, but it is one or two members that might even pay a cent and that has created a case of ‘Peter paying for Paul’,”
appealing and begging thieves to pay up….like the 1 billion in VAT disappeared…
so what happened to sending them SUMMONS TO APPEAR for defaulting on payments…court is too good for them but not for the majority population..
so the 300 million given to them during the height of Covid…..was that free money, and if they can’t repay 40 million how will they repay 300 million…
all frauds and thieves from top to bottom….
The gall that anyone can figure excuses for these undercover bandits to borrow and have no real mean for repayment
Is Mind-boggling
Never mind that those 40 millions if not recovered would be a payment handed over to the taxpayer in one form or another
Wrong is wrong
Good you have started to use the word IF. Bear in mind it is small hoteliers who have been the borrowers, many black.
and they will STILL BE ALLOWED TO TIEF MORE…with no accountability…..once some usual suspect can see a CUT..
was the 300 million dollars to them a loan…it was the most IDIOTIC give away in a time of crisis where the TAXPAYERS were SUFFERING daily…will they have to repay….seeing as dependency tourism is going the way of THE DODO BIRD……
,”Maybe you can explain to us how small businesses can benefit from VAT write-offs as a result in the increase of the VAT threshold when those very businesses were neither registered for VAT nor charged and collected VAT from consumers.”
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Miller
I cannot explain your above comments. They do not make any sense.
Firstly, to ask “how small businesses can benefit from VAT write-offs as a result in the increase of the VAT threshold,” doesn’t make sense 🤔.
Secondly, HOW could VAT write-offs be applicable to “those very businesses (that) were neither registered for VAT nor charged and collected VAT from consumers?”
My friend, perhaps it goes to your preconceived definition of a small business.
Based on MY experience, small businesses were in the ‘loop,’ when the initial threshold was $60,000 per annum, simply because there were a variety of sole proprietors who earned over $5,ooo per month in sales revenue and were encouraged to REGISTER for VAT.
So too when the threshold was increased to $80,000 per annum ($6,667 per month).
I completed and filed VAT returns for several VAT REGISTERED SMALL BUSINESSES, including village shops, restaurants, mini-marts, freighters, car rentals, boutique owners, water-sports, landlords etc.
Fortunately, for them, they are no longer VAT registered since the threshold was increased to $200,000 per annum.
But, the ‘deregistration’ process is very difficult.
DavidJuly 21, 2022 12:03 PM
Good you have started to use the word IF. Bear in mind it is small hoteliers who have been the borrowers, many black
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Now see who is the yardfowl here
Yuh look at Baxter rd and Nelson Street
Yuh got to be a barefaced red fowl to think that a majority of that 40million is owed by black hoteliers
Bet some of them already closed and gone heading for greener pasture those mostly white
How many small black owned hotels are there in Barbados ?
David wants all to belive that the 40 million in loans not repaid is constitutes small black owned hotels
You are hopeless.
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Small hotel operators in Barbados have been unable to meet their debt obligation to the now struggling Small Hotel Investment Fund (SHIF), which was established to provide financing for the optimization of their properties.
Mahmood Patel, Chairman of the Intimate Hotels of Barbados (IHB), which represents just over 40 small hotels, disclosed that some members owed some $40 million to the SHIF, which is managed by the Enterprise Growth Fund Ltd. (EGFL).
The bottomline, it’s all unraveling, crash and burn as it should..
Question
How many small.black owned managed hotels are their in Barbados
I was hoping David could produce a list for reference
Since he was the individual who stated that the monies owed which were borrowed from the fund would have consist of Black owned hoteliers not repaying
David you are one of a kind red dotted speckled fowl
Just to think that rather than pursue truth you throw in our version as to owes the fund 40 million in unpaid loans
This govt needs to be thoroughly investigated as to the millions it has given away to the most wealthy in Barbados
A detail account to who and why under the goverance of accountability and transparency
Big business has used an escape valve called Covid to made calculated financial calls from govt amounting to.millions of govt revenue which must be paid back as govt had required much of its financial help from Borrowing
Hence monies derived from financial lenders would be expected of from govt to repay
As of present big business are the only beneficiaries of much of that money
Meanwhile on the other side of society that is the working stiff
Govt has handed out a few goodie baskets a vat free shopping list with foods than can clog arteries like a pig tail and for good measure electric buses and garbage trucks the last two which would at some point and time require the public a measure of financial share for repayment
oh Canada
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/royal-bank-cra-bahamas-offshore-court-1.6533070
Source: Nation