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Today is the scheduled NIS Town Hall for a concerned public to share feedback to the revelation our National Insurance Fund (NIF) needs another lifeline. In recent days the buzz is a concern the eligibility age for NIS pension will be extended to 72 years old.

The blogmaster is willing to bet Prime Minister Mottley being the political animal she is anticipated that NIS reform currently being contemplated will significantly deflate her popularity, she needs the time to implement reform and win back favour BEFORE the next general election, the perfect political gamble. Especially if she is serious about demitting office at that time. Therefore one of the reasons for an early general election call.

Follow the NIS town hall at Combermere School, Waterford at 6PM.

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413 responses to “NIS Town Hall – The Golden Chip”

  1. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    So what came first
    the dub riddim or the vocal version
    it is another chicken and egg conundrum

    Operation Radication

    Wackies Act 3 – 09 Dubmatic (Operation Radication riddim)

  2. John2 Avatar
    John2

    Artax

    Are you saying that gov should not have restructured All the debt ?
    If You do then we are not In agreement
    ………………
    John A is alway pushing for gov to Cut it expenses un order ti balance the budget
    Now with the covid hit how much would have NIS lost if giv had sent Home workers and did not support the keep on of the hotel / tourism workers ?
    ……….

    Near term solution to close the 300k gap is to g’et some of the 50m owed by business to start coming in

  3. John A Avatar
    John A

    @ David
    Yes you are correct the only solution is a billion dollar cash injection. Good news is it does not have to be in a lump sum, but can be $81M a year for roughly 12 years.

    This should also not be paid by the insured either as they did not decide to burn $1billion of the NIS FUND. To therefore increase contributions from the working public to fill a gap caused by a political decision, would be at the very least an immoral act and a case of double dipping.

  4. David Avatar
    David

    @Dee Word

    Note the paragraph highlighted.

    Police to help recover pensions

    Government has called in the Barbados Police Service to help recover the $3.9 million that was paid to 34 dead pensioners.
    This was revealed in the Ministry of Finance’s report to Parliament in response to concerns raised in the Auditor General’s Report for 2021.
    The response, submitted by Director of Finance and Economic Affairs Ian Carrington, said that so far the Treasury Department has recovered more than $1/2 million of the money, some of which was paid out for more than ten years.
    However, with some members of the public involved being uncooperative, lawmen were contacted to help.
    “As at August 11, 2022, the sum of $651 778.97 has been collected from 20 accounts. The Treasury has contacted the Barbados Police Service to further assist in retrieving outstanding funds from account holders who have so far shown no inclination to voluntarily repay,” the Treasury Department said in its updated response.
    “The Death Register was received from the Registration Department in May 2022 and reviewed. The pensioners’ register has been updated, a process that will now continue monthly. To facilitate this, a memo has been sent to the Registrar of the Supreme Court requesting monthly electronic access to the Death Register,” it added.
    Auditor General Leigh Trotman had flagged the overpayment of pensions as an area of concern following an audit of Government’s financial
    statements for 2021.
    “A review of the pension payroll revealed that payments totalling $3.9 million were being made in the names of deceased persons. In some instances these payments were being made for over ten years. These payments were in respect of 34 former pensioners,” he said.
    ‘Review controls’ “Information from the Registration Department confirmed that these former pensioners were deceased. The controls for the payment of pensions need to be reviewed and a stop order should be placed on any additional payments. Efforts should be made to recover the outstanding amounts.”
    The Accountant General had explained in his initial response published in the Auditor General’s Report that the payment of pensions to dead people was being investigated, and that “the accounts of those former pensioners have been inactivated in the system in order to stop any further payments to them”.
    “Stop payment orders have also been issued to the commercial banks for payments that were in transit in relation to the former pensioners. Efforts are being made to recover the amounts deposited to the relevant accounts subsequent to the death of those former pensioners,” the official added.
    The Accountant General had also explained that the Treasury Department’s inability to access Death Register information was part of the problem.
    “Over the years, the Treasury Department was unable to access the Death Register information. After discovering that the information from the Death Register was recently made available to the Auditor General’s Office, the Registration
    Department was requested to provide the Treasury Department with access to information from the Death Register,” the Accountant General said. (SC)

    Source: Nation

  5. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    Last night I looked at Barbados today and was overwhelmed. Government efforts can be described as a man looking under his sofa cushions for money that fell out of his pockets.

    The problem is real.

    But I will never understand the GoB. One minute multi-million or billion dollars deals and the , the next minute scrambling to recover pocket change. Harassing the small man and the big sharks go untouched.

    Not impressed. Recovering money is a good PR story, but the untouchables may escape the effort.

  6. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    What a bunch of jokers!!
    No wonder there are no annual reports produced… it would be too embarrassing.

    So who are the police going to prosecute?

    SURELY the incompetent jokers who failed to to the jobs they are paid to do…
    ..and NOT those unemployed, COVID-bashed, dispossessed citizens who ‘miraculously’ received money from the NIS during the worse times of their lives.

    When the people in charge are incompetent idiots, there is NO hope for ANYONE.

    Even if the wisest people on earth were on the Titanic, and the captain is incompetent, ALL the wise people’s donkeys would STILL be doomed.

  7. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    Two ideas to save money

    1) Since we looking under cushions, here is a next $750K that should be easy to recover.

    “It is alleged that we forked out approximately US $375,000 (BDS$750,000) for the tag line “Little Island, Big Barbados.”

    2) Ask the guy running the National ID scam to give us the cost

    3) I forgot what the hell EWSB was doing. Where did they go?

    4) Get people out of procuring monkey pox vaccines

    5) Keeping people past 67 to 70 may mean some will have their hand in the till for 3 more years.

  8. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    BRASS BOWL!!!!

    “Government to set us Audit Department”

    This MUST be a mistake David!!

    There is NO WAY that, with an annual $8 Billion operation, spread across dozens of loose Ministries, SOEs and other RADICAL arrangements, there could POSSIBLY be NO internal audit operation in place…. No way!! NONE!!

    So this ‘announcement’ from the Director of Fine Ants HAS to be a typo…..

    IT HAS TO BE…..

    …otherwise Bushie will lose ALL hope…

    LOL
    WAIT!!!!
    The bushman lost that two YEARS ago when the whacker get tek way….

  9. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    Things real bad.

    Suddenly we have town halls, zoom meetings and meetings in some constituencies.

    When fellows that think you too stupid to know anything start running to you for ideas, when they want to add your hands to ‘many hands’, when they want you to be unpaid cuntsultants and make use of your pea-brain power, then you know that things are real bad.

    The big joke is that if they solve this problem they will go back to their old ways and pull out the sad songs again in 2035.
    https://youtu.be/pJMJmop-Gik

  10. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    Would have love too see ‘the little train that could’, the ball buster, the nut cracker, the pit-bull of BU sinking its teeth in these stories.

    BU’s loss.
    I know ‘The A guy’ misses her😃

  11. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ David
    If you wanted to FULLY grasp the concept of ‘brassbowlery’, you simply would have to reflect on the FACT, (as CLEARLY seen here on BU,) that while OUR OWN ship is sinking rapidly into the Caribbean Sea of debt, unemployment, graft, crime, hopelessness, despair and chaos … we are MUCH more focussed on, concerned about, knowledgeable of, and worried about …. the imminent sinking of the albino-centric ‘Titanic’ that has captured out minds so completely.

    It seems to bother us MUCH more, that the USA/Europe is about to sink into catastrophic chaos, than that Barbados is actually preceding them to that destination.

    With such chained minds, it is no wonder that we have resigned ourselves to accept such mediocrity, and have convinced ourselves that, if these ‘role models’ can do no better, then woe unto our donkeys…

    Called the “Stockholm Syndrome”, this is a well researched phenomenon.
    So here we have the victims of centuries of abuse, so identifying with their abusers, that we are HAPPY to suffer WITH them, the consequences of THEIR abuse….

    Here is what the ‘Messenger’ (Luciano) had to say about this phenomenon… check the lyrics…

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    “With such chained minds, it is no wonder that we have resigned ourselves to accept such mediocrity, and have convinced ourselves that, if these ‘role models’ can do no better, then woe unto our donkeys…

    Called the “Stockholm Syndrome”, this is a well researched phenomenon.
    So here we have the victims of centuries of abuse, so identifying with their abusers, that we are HAPPY to suffer WITH them, the consequences of THEIR abuse….”

    SERVES THEM RIGHT…i have no sympathy, they had too much slave minded lip for us on here…..they are only getting what they deserved and what they sowed..

    “When fellows that think you too stupid to know anything start running to you for ideas, when they want to add your hands to ‘many hands’, when they want you to be unpaid cuntsultants and make use of your pea-brain power, then you know that things are real bad.

    The big joke is that if they solve this problem they will go back to their old ways and pull out the sad songs again in 2035.”

    then TIEF YA IDEAS and SOLUTIONS and run up and down the world stage LYING that it’s theirs and still looking for slave m asters to trap the people in bondage and oppression…..and treating the Afrikan population like they don’t matter…

    i won’t give those FRAUDS the time of day…

    “There is NO WAY that, with an annual $8 Billion operation, spread across dozens of loose Ministries, SOEs and other RADICAL arrangements, there could POSSIBLY be NO internal audit operation in place…. No way!! NONE!!”

    have you not noticed ever so often they jump into the media to say they are FINALLY putting this and that in place after over half century of the same in place in larger jurisdictions AND other islands….these are half century behind in everything, only now TALKING about putting in place workplace sexual harrasment and assault…you have BACKWARD GOVERNMENTS only suitable for CORRUPTION…

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    African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved

    Now if ya can get them to ANALYZE the criminals they got in the parliament and minority crimunity….and offer up solutions for all the crimes committed AGAINST THEM, pursue the crooks to repay all that was STOLEN …..as they are so EXPERT at unraveling what goes on in US, have all types of solutions for that…. and what they think should happen without living there…..but seemingly CANNOT OPEN their mouths to deal with what is going on in Barbados or come to the conclusion that their politicians SHOULD ALL BE IN PRISON…

    if only they could get to THAT PLACE……they may stand a chance of not being ROBBED AGAIN…by parliament THIEVES…and LIARS…in their own little hole..

  14. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    “The Accountant General had also explained that the Treasury Department’s inability to access Death Register information was part of the problem.”
    BU always provides a good morning chuckle.
    And ‘we’ like to give the operators a pass. How de RH?

  15. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    I am trying to get my mind around a change from 67 to 70 years.

    I am no actuary but I wonder if this is not kicking the can three years down the road.

    My analysis is rather simple.
    People should would come knocking in 2033, 2034, and 2035 will come knocking in 36, 37 and 38. What would hit the fan in 35 hits the fan in 38.

    So if Ali Mottley and her 30 are out in 2032, then the crisis in 38 will have some talking of the lost six years.

    Let me see what else was proposed. Can we stop the sky from falling?
    https://youtu.be/oa2o0uageb0

  16. David Avatar
    David

    @Bush Tea

    Minister Straughn promised in the 2019 Financial Management Act the late submissions of financials would have been a thing of f the past. Enough stated. We are tired of these layers of bureaucracy where the outcomes are already known.

  17. David Avatar
    David

    The meetings are not about getting ideas from the public, it is about socializing the issues to prepare for what has already been decided. We have to be more discerning.

  18. David Avatar
    David

    @Bush Tea

    The old people have a saying a little learning is a dangerous thing. Where it has landed us is that opinions are everywhere, we have become very polarized on many fronts, political, religious etc. Apply a lack of leadership to the mix and it should explain so much.

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    African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved

    “And ‘we’ like to give the operators a pass. How de RH?”

    Northern….some years ago a relative of mine was in school offshore and needed this document…had to go to the registry….you would not believe the HELL THEY GAVE ME…..

    i simply asked them….why WAS THE REGISTRY not CONNECTED to the other departments making access to certain information MUCH EASIER….

    ..a one-stop operation that does not require waiting in line for 4 HOURS or returning 2 and 3 weeks later….there is internet connectivity so WHAT’S THE DAMN PROBLEM..

    they all looked at me like i was from Mars…..and of course ya will hear…dah is how we does do tings…and if you doan like um……cahn come bout here and change nutten….

    backward, ignorant and non-progressive….but the best schooled in the Caribbean…

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    African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved

    How can you NOT CONCEIVE of better, different or more manageable, easily accessible….these are basic requirements to institute PROGRESS…….

  21. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    “The meetings are not about getting ideas from the public, it is about socializing the issues to prepare for what has already been decided. We have to be more discerning.”

    I admire your desire for want us to be accurate in what we say. Perhaps we do not write for the same purpose/audience.

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    African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved

    “Perhaps we do not write for the same purpose/audience.”

    keep telling them no one is trying to convince them of anything, the messages and warnings have a SPECIFIC target audience….who know who they are, have received such for YEARS, understand all of it, as they were meant to, and have already worked on their transition…

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

    I clearly saw in the newpapers that ideas are BEING SOUGHT from the public……

    i won’t give them the TIME OF DAY…

  24. John2 Avatar
    John2

    TheO

    David is writibg the trurh and u propaganda?

    The meeting are political
    You Think those “ big” Boyd reslly need advice from the general public ?

    @. Artax

    My bad. It sinked In later

  25. David Avatar
    David

    @John2

    The blogmaster has seen this political manipulation of public opinion before. We are too gullible a people.

  26. John2 Avatar
    John2

    Where is the article wher the age is to moved from 65 to 67 ?

    You maybe missing something (deliberately?)
    Remember the over 60 that Were forces to retiré ?

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    “The meeting are political
    You Think those “ big” Boyd reslly need advice from the general public ?”

    since they have ALL THE ANSWERS why are they IN THE HOLE for a BILLION DOLLARS OR MORE….from about EVERY GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT….that utilizes that amount…

    the meetings should be to TELL THE PUBLIC WHERE the MONEY GONE….and WHEN will it be RETURNED…

    accountability is not a word to use ONLY WHEN YA WANT TO BLAME THE PUBLIC for not holding lying corrupt politicians accountable…

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    Theo…don’t blink or ya will see comments that justify why the people SHOULD NOT KNOW….what they did with all those billions…..and shortly after that will see comments saying the PEOPLE HAVE NO RIGHT TO KNOW ….because it int none of their business….

    i have seen this replay so many times before..

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

    “question, who are the people that has to pay back this money, is it the poor man?, when will the police be called in to collect all the other billions that is not accounted for?”

    this is what the people want to KNOW about THEIR MONEY..

  30. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    @J2
    ‘Where is the article where the age is to move from 65 to 67 ?”

    You have made my point.
    I am quite certain that you saw mention of an increase in age. Here you would want me to write the age up to 4 decimal places (64.9375), but I am interested in the change from just one number to another. That level of accuracy is not needed.

    “The blogmaster has seen this political manipulation of public opinion before.”

    Correction
    The blogmaster has seen/ attempted this political manipulation of public opinion before. He brought the hammer on our leading and most focused political pundit, and then distracted us with a Trump article. Even the ‘tek dung’ guy is going easy on him because of that article.

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    African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved

    dey int got me to use as a distraction no more and one less person on the site to bully, so they are seen very clearly in ALL THEIR GLORY…

  32. John2 Avatar
    John2

    TheO

    No i do not want u to do anything with the age . I thought u had Seen an article that had moved it 65 to 67 or that could have passed as a concrete proposal .
    That why told u that u May be missing something…………..

    The gov workers w’er forced to retiré at 60
    David ellis ( private sector) had to retiré at 60

    I am now 100% sure what it is that You missing – someone pointed it out before .

  33. David Avatar
    David

    Who to blame, politicians, public servants, both? Around and around we go, NIS now BRA.


    BRA’s systems beset by tech problems
    The Barbados Revenue Authority’s (BRA) electronic tax systems have been plagued with technological problems.
    This left the Government agency unsure about the reliability of estimated millions of dollars in refunds and receivables due to and from taxpayers, says BRA revenue commissioner Louisa Lewis-Ward in response to several concerns raised by Auditor General Leigh Trotman.
    He had flagged several issues in his 2021 report related to monies due to the BRA and amounts it had to refund taxpayers. This was after he conducted an audit of the BRA for the financial year ended March 31, 2021.
    He raised questions about $567 million in “other receivables” representing amounts due from the Treasury to honour outstanding tax refunds and to cover the financial charges associated with banking transactions, $316 million for income tax and $419 million for corporation tax representing receivables prior to 2013, and about $47 million in corporation tax penalties and interest due.
    However, in written responses submitted to the Ministry of Finance, Lewis-Ward said the Barbados Audit Office was aware of the technological challenges facing the BRA.
    She said the organisation’s legacy systems, including ETAX and VETAS, “were plagued with technological challenges [and] as a result, limited reliance is placed on these systems’ balances unless they are verified at the individual level”.
    BRA introduce its new Tax Administration Management Information System (TAMIS) in 2018 to replace ETAX and VETAS systems and “provide an integrated platform”.
    The revenue commissioner said, however, that “TAMIS balances are also in question as a result of the various systems errors and adjustments made during the various filing periods”.
    Responding to the Auditor General’s concerns about the $567 million related to outstanding tax refunds and financial charges associated with banking transactions, Lewis-Ward said internal project teams “were established to review and verify all legacy systems balances with a view to arriving at a reliable estimate of refunds and receivables due to and due from taxpayers.
    “The team is performing an ongoing review of the individual balances with a view to confirming the amounts due to taxpayers. The amounts referred to are related to refunds payable which is also recorded on the statement of financial position,” she said.
    Lewis-Ward said the team’s verification of the outstanding refunds was completed in March and “the necessary adjustment will be made to the financial statement for the fiscal period ended March 2023”.
    Regarding the Auditor General’s reported inability to verify the accuracy of $47 million in corporation tax due, the BRA response stated: “As indicated in prior years to the Barbados Audit Office, the balances in respect of penalties and interest recorded in ETAX and TAMIS are subject to technological issues and this may render them inaccurate unless reviewed on a case by case basis. As such, we found it prudent not to accrue the penalties and interest of $46 991 044.”
    Another concern of Trotman was that interest and penalties related to personal
    income tax accounts for the tax period 2018 were not recorded.
    “This is noted. Numerous extensions of filing deadlines in the past (at the behest of the Ministry of Finance) have resulted in numerous changes to the on/off status of the penalties and interest function within TAMIS. The TAMIS System was switched off in 2019 to address the incorrect application of penalties and interest to taxpayer accounts,” Lewis-Ward explained.
    “The Authority has written to the Ministry of Finance identifying the issues which have arisen, and a request has been made to write off penalties and interest with a view to cleaning up the TAMIS System. The penalties and interest function has been reinstated and applicable charges are currently being applied to taxpayer accounts.”
    She said it was proposed that the ETAX and VETAS systems be retired, adding that “discussions are ongoing to determine a systems replacement for TAMIS”. (SC)

    Source: Nation

  34. Dullard Avatar
    Dullard

    “The blogmaster has seen this political manipulation of public opinion before. We are too gullible a people.”

    ++++++++
    Lol. What the brass bowl!!!

    Oh the irony!!!

  35. Dullard Avatar
    Dullard

    It seems to bother us MUCH more, that the USA/Europe is about to sink into catastrophic chaos, than that Barbados is actually preceding them to that destination.
    ++++++

    Stop being a drama queen BT. Stop throwing shade. You trying to mek de gubbamint look bad or wha?

    BU is definitely a microcosm of the general psyche on the 2×3. A bunch of unthinking sheep.

  36. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    Ronnie Obama has learnt something that GP2 never did. He does not proclaim how great Mia is but instead highlight the obvious weakness in her various proposal.
    Good job, Ronnie
    Here is post the “little train that can” would have brought to your attention.
    https://barbadostoday.bb/2022/08/21/yearwood-welcomes-proposed-internal-audit-department-has-questions/

  37. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    This give a good description of who is to blame civil servant or politicians
    https://barbadostoday.bb/2022/08/20/tighten-nis-controls/

    From BT
    Barbadian Anthony Barrow took to the floor and expressed his concern at the way current and previous governments used the scheme’s savings for capital projects and other ventures which ran counter to the purpose of the scheme.

    He suggested that tighter control mechanisms should be implemented going forward.

    “How much power and control do you have if a Minister of Finance, if a government decides, ‘I want this amount of money from here’… It might be good for them at the time, but down the road you are depleting a fund which is really the people’s money.

    “So I believe that controls need to be put in place for a fund like this that a politician cannot just wake up one morning and decide that we need some money to carry out a project, and this is where we need to turn,” he said
    [quote]

    And apologists are found everywhere, even outside of BU
    From BT
    “Deputy Chairman of the scheme, Rawdon Adams, however quickly responded and stressed that the troubles NIS were currently facing had nothing to do with interference, but rather a depleted workforce and in turn, contributors.

    “The fund has returned a steady six per cent on average since inception, but this growing difference between retirees and the benefits that they are paid, and the financing by the working population is what is pulling the fund down.”

    Note to self” Each time you mention Rawdon Adam or KK it twists somebody knickers. Will this pre-emptive strike keep their knickers straight. Watch it.
    (A ploy of the great Hal Austin (who did not know what ‘have the last word’ meant) was to sneak in the last word after some time had passed).

  38. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    You probably should not read what I write, for I am a lightweight on these matters.

    But being a lightweight has an advantage, it allows me to recognize lightweight solutions as soon as I see them floated out by others. When a government first response is to throw out all of the lightweight solutions to the public and ask for ideas then you know that we are in real trouble.

    These invitations to town hall, zoom are other meetings are really an invitation to come closer to the fan after the shit has already hit it. They next step will be to point it fingers at all of us and say “you are not so clean’, you have shit on you”. These braniacs don’t want their ideas, the want to blame you for thing falling apart.

    It is quite possible that a combination of these lightweight answers may actually save solve the problem
    Raise the age to 80
    Increase the deductions to a mandatory 80%
    Import 80,000 new subjects.
    but at this time, I believe that our government is just swiping blindly. Clueless and no solutions.

    But as I said, I am a lightweight. Go listen to your heavyweight but I have informed you that “they are punching well below their weight”

  39. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    I told you I was overwhelmed when reading Barbadostoday one evening.

    Suddenly money that disappeared started to magically appear. Six million went missing one day and six million appeared the next day. Unlike some of you who live on conspiracy theories, I believe this missing money would have been put to good use. This phantom six million would have helped paid for the phantom vaccines.

    You go, Mia.

    https://barbadostoday.bb/2022/08/20/missing-millions-located/

  40. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    Adhering to the blogmaster suggestion of sticking to the poic.
    —xxx—
    Mia bowls one ball and take two wickets. Possibly the greatest bowler never to play for WI team.

    https://barbadostoday.bb/2022/08/20/government-to-set-up-audit-department/

    From BT
    ““Provision was made, with the passing of the Public Finance Management Act, 2019, for the establishment of an Internal Audit Department that would enhance transparency, accountability and good governance with respect to the utilisation of the people of Barbados’ resources.”

    Mia has done the double here by appearing to embrace the work of the AG and at the same time sticking a knife in his back. Our guy Ronnie Obama dissected this ‘wicked’ promise, but i feel that he did not take it as far as he should as he would be accused of playing politics. It is a sad thing when presenting hard cold facts can be described as playing politics.

    Mia found a clever way to further castrate our AG by creating what I consider will be a fraudulent competing Audit department and at the same time not giving the AG the resources that he needs. This agency will either be a rubber stamp or almost inactive.

    Its one statement will be ” The AG is wrong. We looked at that and there were no issues”. Then we will have Lorenzo saying “see what I told you, the AG is a secret D”

  41. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    Bare lies . I was talking to somebody who lives on the rock and they said the garbage is collected everyday on time. This is just doom and gloom from people who don’t live ‘ bout dey’ and who want to pull down Mottley government. Wuh de hell dey know ‘ bout buses and garbage.
    A bundle of conspiracy theories trying to impress their clique.
    There isn’t one problem with the trucks either. Dem trucks work perfectly.
    Carry wunnuh gloom and doom somewhere else ; furthermore people up in Englan’ and Amurca freezing yo death from the cold and dey garbage don’ even get collect.
    Damn liars.
    Look , I gone !

  42. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    I was going to leave and leave this alone, but it provides an opportunity to give a lesson.
    https://barbadostoday.bb/2022/08/20/four-seasons-loan-guarantee-not-properly-appropriated/

    Gather around me, boys and girls.
    This illustrates the problem of having rubber stamps or yes men. A nod or a whisper is seen as a call to immediate action by the yes men. The rubber stamp is applied and tasks are completed as processes and systems are bypassed.

    Now we reach the action part of the lesson.
    Repeat after me .. No! NO! NO! HELL NO! I AM GOING TO DO IT CORRECTLY.

  43. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    @TheoG
    Suddenly money that disappeared started to magically appear. Six million went missing one day and six million appeared the next day.
    +++++++++
    Is the revelation by Carrington a swipe at the AG? “Enuff” couldn’t have scripted it better imagine the AG wrote about missing millions and presto they turned up elsewhere almost as if the AG only looked at one area of the operation.

    BTW tek it easy on Lorenzo he is BU’s maguffy, he campaigned against HA and he campaigned against AC, now they are sitting in limbo.

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    “Wuh de hell dey know ‘ bout buses and garbage.
    A bundle of conspiracy theories trying to impress their clique.
    There isn’t one problem with the trucks either. Dem trucks work perfectly.”

    Lorenza the LIAR>>.

    “They next step will be to point it fingers at all of us and say “you are not so clean’, you have shit on you”. These braniacs don’t want their ideas, the want to blame you for thing falling apart.”

    another set up by generational crooks….. 100-year-old modus…

  45. David Avatar
    David

    @Sargeant

    It is a pity you didn’t chime in when the two you mentioned were abusive to the blogmaster. Honesty is the best policy you should have been thought.

  46. Dullard Avatar
    Dullard

    BTW tek it easy on Lorenzo he is BU’s maguffy, he campaigned against HA and he campaigned against AC, now they are sitting in limbo.

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

    Maybe it is because:
    “The blogmaster has seen political manipulation of public opinion before. [And needs to protect the public since] we are too gullible a people”

    Lol. Murdah. Bare laff n sport in de rum shop man.

  47. David Avatar
    David

    @Dullard

    Hope you are successful in your deliverables to those actuaries on contract/

  48. David Avatar
    David

    https://barbadosunderground.files.wordpress.com/2022/08/actuary_caribbean.png

  49. TheOGazerts_Jnr Avatar
    TheOGazerts_Jnr

    Oh Lawd.
    The blogmaster nearly gimmuh a stroke
    3 years ago- 2051
    Today – 2036
    2028-2028
    I see why Mia had such a quick and unneeded election. She gets in her two terms and leaves before the fan gets overwhelmed with dirty stuff. The regular schedule 18-23, 23-28 would have been messy, but here she give herself one year to escape and the DLP gets the blame.
    To the DLP, a next 30-0 may be a blessing.

    –xx–
    The brains of that woman. Deliciously wicked. I have a weakness for smart women.
    By now, you should have figured out that I think I am clever, but I admit that I am four steps behind Mia.
    What brains. Hot, hot, hot …

  50. TheOGazerts_Jnr Avatar
    TheOGazerts_Jnr

    I think the blogmaster is trolling me.
    Every time I go to leave, he throws in some chum
    And like the fool I am, I bite.

    Oops… this is Theo Jnr. I told that silly old man to post whatever he writes. Now some of you would believe that I am Theo.

The blogmaster invites you to join the discussion.

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