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Countdown to the End of Barbados’ IMF Program

Government will be forced to decide the fate of Barbados very soon as the decision to enter into another International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme will be publicly known in some days ahead. In my analysis the Prime Minister may seek to table the proposed changes in legislation before September 30th 2022. In the press conference…

by Kemar J.D Stuart – Economist and Director Business Development , Finance and Investment Stuart & Perkins Caribbean

Government will be forced to decide the fate of Barbados very soon as the decision to enter into another International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme will be publicly known in some days ahead. In my analysis the Prime Minister may seek to table the proposed changes in legislation before September 30th 2022. In the press conference hosted by the PM she indicated that the NIS is not in crisis really but we must act now to save it. The rush to amend pension is the government following the dictates and timelines imposed by the BERT plan endorsed by the IMF.

Prime Minister Mia Mottley on May 13th 2022 told reporters at Ilaro Court that the current programme would end on September 30 , 2022 and discussions would begin once the mission report “passes the board” at the end of June.Mr. van Selm said Barbados had reached a staff level agreement with the EFF, following its latest review and once approved by the IMF Board in June, the country would have access to US $23 million in funding.

From the recent NIS political showcase with Actuary Derek Osbourne which caused serious civil & societal discomfort across the country . The GOB is going ahead to alter pension to meet the draconian proposals agreed to by signing the IMF program back in 2018. Pension reform is one of the major agreements the government agreed to enact and to date the government has not lived up to it’s end of the bargain with the iMF as the current IMF program winds up in 23 days and pension reform is still due.

The odd timing chosen by the Prime Minister to raise the NIS and pension reform conversation was not to sensitize the public about the NIS which she categorically stated is not in crisis but we must act now to save it was but a cliche is to hide the force and pressure being applied against Barbados to live up the agreement made with the IMF within the specific dictates and timelines imposed. This is why Bajans may have to work to 72 through no fault of their own.

My prediction is that the government may move swiftly to amend the pension before September 30th to avoid running over into the end of the IMF program. If no decision is made by then this will be an indication of the government’s intent to indeed enter into another IMF program come September 30th and pension reform will be a high priority requirement for the government to enact in the next program. The next program will be more difficult than the first including more cuts to jobs, deeper cuts to pensions especially non-contributory , cuts to SOEs, increased taxes and levies on government services, cuts in budgets to all ministries and to also privatize more government assets such as the GAIA airport which being leased out to an unknown we speak for 40 years and the water authority which is undergoing serious changes to it’s operations as we speak .

Prime Minister Mottley said that “From July, we will start discussing. Will we have a successor programme? If so, what type of successor programme? Will we go it on our own or is it time or is it right to go on your own when interest rates are rising globally? Or do you stay in the comfort of concessional interest rates by having a programme or working closely with the other regional development banks and international financial institutions . July and August passed and no discourse took place

The Prime Minister of Barbados mentioned the possibility of a roadshow in September to start to tell our story to the capital markets pointing out “whether we go back into an IMF Programme or not, we believe that our story, which is a credible story, has to be told, in order to be able to…get our way back to investment grade. Barbados was barred from capital markets because of the voluntary international debt default by the Mottley government in 2018 and in 23 days September comes to an end therefore the public should monitor social media over the next 23 days starting september 7th for comments from the Prime Minister surrounding Barbados’ fate in regards to signing another IMF program and proposed NIS reform.

346 responses to “Countdown to the End of Barbados’ IMF Program”

  1. David Avatar
    David

    PM: Cheapest money in town
    By Colville Mounsey
    colvillemounsey@nationnews.com
    With Barbados due to officially end its programme with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) at the end of this month, the Mia Amor Mottley-led administration has taken the decision to seek another arrangement with the Washington-based facility.
    Details on this latest development, which puts to rest weeks of speculation, were disclosed by Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley during a press conference hosted at the official residence Ilaro Court yesterday.
    The Prime Minister said that Barbados would be seeking a three-year Extended Fund Facility (EFF), with an aim to borrow US$340 million. She explained that under the EFF, Barbados is expected to unlock US$130 million in funding as well as US$210 million under the IMF’s Resilience and Sustainability Trust.
    “When I did the Budget in March, I promised a few things and I indicated and repeated that along the way. One of them was that we would consult and that we would come back to the country with a clear decision as to where we go given that the programme with the International Monetary Fund comes to an end formerly at the end of this month.
    “We have had those consultations, which started as early as June with the Social Partners, private sector and the labour movement. We have met with other smaller and larger groups. The Cabinet yesterday
    (Thursday) agreed that we would formerly approach the International Monetary Fund again with a letter I propose to sign this afternoon (Friday) to the managing director [of the IMF] asking for the discussions and negotiations to resume,” said Mottley.
    Flanked by Minister in the Ministry of Finance Ryan Straughn and Director of Finance and Economic Affairs, Ian Carrington, Mottley explained that the decision was predicated largely on the need to secure adequate finances that would ensure the country could navigate the current global “uncertainties”.
    ‘Uncertain times’ “We are living in very difficult and uncertain times and in a world where a number of countries are on the verge of debt crisis. We are conscious that between that and the monetary stance that has been taken by most central banks to be able to control inflation has led to the increase in the cost of borrowing. We are of the view that the cheapest money in town is still at the International Monetary Fund. In addition to that, it also unlocks other development funds that would be made available to us as a nation,” she said.
    Concerning the conditionalities under which the IMF would provide further funding to Barbados, Mottley said those details were not yet known, but noted that given the fund’s track record under the Barbados Economic Recovery and Transformation (BERT) programme, she did not foresee stipulations beyond the scope of what Government had already committed to of its own volition. She also contended that IMF assistance was not just about funding, but also technical aid, such as what has been provided in the reform of the Customs and Excise Department.
    “I want us to get out of the narrative [of an austere IMF] because that has not been Barbados’ experience. We could easily go to the [international lending] market but I don’t want to go to the market when interest rates are being increased. We can go to the IMF and pay a fraction of what the market will ask us to pay… We know the reality that outside is overcast globally and there is a possibility of not just some showers but some hurricanes, some earthquakes and other things that are destabilising countries. All we are saying is that we are playing inside of the crease; we are going to step outside of the crease to play a few shots when we can,” she said.

    Source: Nation

  2. David Avatar
    David

    Public sector wage talks soon
    On the heels of repeated loud calls from the trade union movement for an increase in salaries to cope with the rising cost of living, Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley announced yesterday that public sector wage talks will begin by the end of this month.
    Mottley, who was speaking during a press conference at Ilaro Court, said both labour and the Government will have an opportunity to assess the current state of affairs, enabling them to determine a fair point from which to begin negotiations.
    “I gave the commitment back in March for wages, salaries, and allowances negotiations to start. I have given instruction that this should happen before the end of September, and I am
    hoping therefore that we can see that process put properly on the table,” she said.
    “Persons on behalf of the labour unions and those on behalf of Government can sit down and appropriately assess where we are and what the future is.
    Process
    “I am not going to prejudice those discussions by making any comments on it, other than to say that the process must start and must start before the end of September.”
    Mottley added: “As you know, we have done the five per cent increase when we came to office in 2018. The Government had no increase in wages in the nine years before then.”
    The Prime Minister also
    revealed that Government’s measures to ease the cost of living, some of which were in conjunction with the private sector, have begun to pay dividends.
    “We are monitoring closely what is happening – the measures that we have put in place for the cost of living. I expect that the Department of Commerce should be soon publishing an example of some of the prices that they have been tracking,” she said.
    “The majority of persons are working with the prices that have been recommended. There are two or three instances in some commodities where people are still charging more.” ( CLM)

    Source: Nation

  3. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    I did not love or respect the Queen of England at ANY TIME IN MY LIFE.

    I care not if she rests in peace. Many encepeople her institution touched are in PIECES and unable TO REST.

    If I signed the condolence book, they would have to rip out the page.

    I have no intention of getting locked up unneccessarily.
    r
    Besides which, I told her what I thought of her in 1976.

    We must not allow this whitewashing of history as pushed by the despicable Tucker Carlson since her death.

    In his story, the Afrikans were better off under British rule because “Idi Amin was a cannibal”.

    These “white” brutes continue to dehumanise us daily.

    And a third of Americans LAPS IT UP! Not to mention a few Barbadians!

    I agree with William, despite his childish obsessive/compulsive remark dropping, that to bestow our nation’s highest honour on one who continues to profit from our ancestors’ enslavement, to be mind boggling.

    Again, he receives honours by virtue of birth, rather than merit.

    We are totally messed up! Cannot think straight!

  4. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Which, of course, will not help us to get ourselves out of an ecomomic pit.

    I have always maintained that if we free our minds, the rest will follow. (as the song says).

    Otherwise, it’s around and around we will go….and where we will stop, nobody knows!

    We keeping putting the cart before the horse and expecting to go somewhere.

    When are we going to have national conversations about why we are as messed up as we are?

  5. John2 Avatar
    John2

    Pacha

    I called for a raise for public workers i never Said anything about krepning up with inflation. I left the number crunching to the Drs

    But if u want to talk about krepning up with inflation
    In the five blp years the salaries would have increase 1% Per year. How is that keeping up with inflation ?

    In the Last 15 years salaries increase would be 0.33% What was the inflation?
    ———————

    I Call for an increase Never put a number to it and the gloom and boomers jumped on me Well Well. What a ting doah

    Most of us knew we Were going back to the imf. The tea leaves told me an increase was coming. Dr greenidge was the one flying the kite that we are not ready yet for an increase while no such mentioned came from MIa

  6. Lawson Avatar
    Lawson

    You should save some of your vitriol for your relatives in Benin who were selling and catching slaves maybe they owe you something. In this day and age it is nice to see someone who led an exemplary life even when those around her didn’t. That’s why she will be remembered and you and your fish and chip shop will be forgotten

  7. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @Lawson September 9, 2022 9:00 PM “…she never said the word cunt till four years ago.”

    And you know this how?

    And did someone wash out her mouth with blue soap?

  8. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Instead, we put our efforts into calling for reparations which, though morally due to us, would do us no lasting good.

    There is a rather nice fellow in my area who won over $400,000 in the Barbados lottery. I was happy for him and expected to see his prospects improve in a big way. That was several years ago. As I look across at where he still lives with a sibling, in the house which his parents built, I see cement blocks put there to keep the roof on during Hurricane Thomas. The SUV he purchased is parked on blocks. He does his barbering in a sweltering, galvanised sheet “garage”.

    A few years after the huge windfall, he approached my family for a loan.

    Money only solves financial problems if you are capable of financial prudence.

    He banked his money with the hairy purse. The hairy purse no longer does business with him.

    Barbados needs to reckon with what it is that ails us. Anything else is simply tinkering.

    I maintain that regardless of exogenous impacts, we could do better than we are doing if we put our minds to it.

    But those minds first need a cleansing.

  9. Lawson Avatar
    Lawson

    Lol Cudhear that was me speculating. But if she had blue soap would have been in order

  10. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    I think it’s time the PM rids herself of these consultants. What purpose are they serving if they are just reviving “ junk” economic policies from the 40s/50s.
    While intellectual honesty will admit that COVID came along and we had to deal with some economic eruptions, it’s a known fact that we reneged on paying our bills ( debt. default ) and headed to the IMF before COVID.
    The administration has failed to present any alternative plan and it appears that we will have none in what is now , hopefully not prematurely, being labeled the post COVID economy.
    What therefore is the purpose of making the taxpayers pay consultants who are apparently incapable of giving the PM advice on how we can actually move forward from a one sector ( Tourism) economy.
    Fire them , Mia time to move on.
    Peace.

  11. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    @Wily
    Have you ever wondered how hundreds of Chinese workers toiled daily at Four Seasons and yet, according to the various tranches of monies, were never mentioned once?

  12. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    @SS
    Or should we call you the Queen of Corelle, I think she used the blue soap in her hair.

  13. Wily Coyote Avatar
    Wily Coyote

    NorthernObserver September 10, 2022 9:21 AM

    The YELLOW Giant RULES, 2022 Slavery under a new master, however the BASIC rules remain the same with some new frightening additions. All the third world countries are ripe for the picking. It’s the Bajans that should be asking the question as they are the ignorant and cannot see the forest for the trees.

  14. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    It would appear the IMF has been neutered. Member states can now announce ahead of time, the terms of forthcoming agreements which are as yet to be agreed upon.
    Debt is collapsing so many nations, Bim is merely a dot on the IMF landscape.

  15. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Lawson

    Yes, but HOW will she be remembered? You should come out of your shite man’s skin and listen to some of the conversations that are happening among those of darker hue.

    I would much rather be forgotten than to be remembered in that way.

    There was slavery, and there was the TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE. ONLY A SHITE MAN DOESN’T UNDERSTAND THE DIFFERENCE.

    AND THERE IS THE SOFT SLAVERY (BETTER KNOWN AS RACISM and RACIST SYSTEMS, ECONOMIC AND OTHERWISE) THE SHITE MAN STILL PRACTISES TODAY!

    THAT IS WHY WE FORGIVE THEM NOT.

    Today, most human beings have come to a new understanding of slavery and colonialism.

    BRITONS STILL SING RULE BRITANNIA.

    AND THE SHITE MAN STILL ROBS AND PILLAGES THROUGH UNFAIR GLOBAL PRACTICES.

    And the poor mentally enslaved black man will do little to help himself because he has bought into their mindset.

    Do try to be more picky when it comes to describing what constitutes an “exemplary” life!

    Sticks and stones is what breaks bones. The use of the word “cunt” has done negligible damage when compared to what the monarchies of the world have done.

    I am thankful NOT to have been a part of such decadence.

    May Donna live on in the heart and mind of her son. Thank heavens he is not a nasty son of a bitch like Andrew!

    Everybody else can forget I was ever here. I will die with my conscience clear.

    And what could be better, as I disappear!

  16. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    @Wily
    What is frightening?
    That they use western created loan rules to protect themselves.
    It wasn’t China who created the idea Sovereign Debt should be ‘sans collateral’, because the Sovereign had the ability to tax it’s population?
    And their global loan programs have forced the hand of the various UN agencies, IMF-World Bank etc, to increase drastically the money available to be loaned. Much of which gets spent on Chinese products and services.
    Can you imagine the USA loaning Barbados $100M and then sending their professionals and labour to execute the project on Barbadian soil?
    And having the project asset as collateral.
    All shit would hit the fan.

  17. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    I was recently thinking about Queen Elisa’s upcoming death and the privileged life she led before she kicked the bucket. It was probably due to the ceremonial swearing in of the new PM (on Mon or Tues) where she looked frail and should retire from duties.
    Truss now has to swear in another new oath of allegiance to King Charles already.

    Blue Sunday

  18. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    Confession: Getting in over my head on this IMF thingy, but as it is not stopping other, I am not going to let it stop me..

    https://barbadostoday.bb/2022/09/10/pm-says-imf-agreement-will-last-three-years-and-will-unlock-extra-funding/

    From BT
    “The Prime Minister indicated that while pension reform was a part of the last programme, it would not be included in the new one being pursued, as she insisted that the $4 billion National Insurance Scheme (NIS), which experts predict could be depleted in as little as 12 years if not reformed, was not in crisis.

    Indicating that there have been extensive consultations over the past several weeks on the issue, Mottley said between the end of this month and early October, the Board of the NIS should be in a position to make its recommendations to Cabinet. She said that will be followed by a public announcement.”

    I read that as “NIS thingy done. Money going, but we got de fix”.

    I knew rocket science wasn’t needed .. consultations, public meetings, recommendations, final announcement, problem solved.

    One down. next…

  19. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    Not much here, but I could not let it pass
    https://barbadostoday.bb/2022/09/10/a-new-look/
    Was the paper trying to be funny? Of course, it is a new look (if it is a look), but he is looking with his hands. The blind guy is feeling his way to the exit.

  20. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    Well, I give up. Are they recycling the same blocks every 15 years?

    (I should add that for 2022, the GoB of the RoB has been active in pursuing oil exploration 👍), but still …

    9/10/2022
    https://barbadostoday.bb/2022/09/09/barbados-to-offer-22-blocks-to-oil-companies/
    06/01/2022
    https://barbadostoday.bb/2022/06/21/oil-exploration-switches-to-woodside-energy/
    From BT
    As far back as 2007, the then Government of Barbados formally launched the Barbados Offshore Petroleum Programme as part of its strategy to promote the island’s oil and gas potential and attract investment.

    Under this programme, Barbados subdivided its offshore acreage into 26 license blocks and developed a suite of legislation – the Barbados Offshore Petroleum Legislation – to govern all exploration, production, and development activities offshore.

    Barbados launched its inaugural licensing in late 2007, issuing a formal call for the submission of bids and offering 24 of the 26 blocks for competitive bidding. This process led to the award of the Carlisle Bay and Bimshire blocks to BHP Group (BHP).

  21. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    So Willy Coyote what else do you expect a propaganda arm of the USA. government to say? China and the USA are economic/political/military competitors and the USA’s propaganda arm will say what it has to say. Just as the Chinese government propaganda arm will say what it has to say. Countries as geograpically small and as demographically small as Barbados have ZERO influence on China or the USA.

    I would bet you anything that Radio Free Europe is FORBIDDEN from broadcasting in the USA, and that the Chinese government has blocked its transmissions into China. So neither the American people nor the Chinese people listen to Radio Free Europe, so why should we?

    Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is a United States government funded organization that broadcasts and reports news, information, and analysis to countries in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Caucasus, and the Middle East where it says that “the free flow of information is either banned by government authorities or not fully developed”. RFE/RL is a private, non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation supervised by the U.S. Agency for Global Media, an independent government agency overseeing all U.S. federal government international broadcasting services.Daisy Sindelar is the vice president and editor-in-chief of RFE.

  22. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    I like GoB of the The RoB but that is a bit too long. Shortened to GoRoB.
    It is not an acronym; it is a command/action plan.

    I hear some ‘joker” talking of firing the consultants, but we need a couple of consultants to have “Mama Mia and her forty thieves”. Know your childhood stories.

  23. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    I heard the queen died.

  24. TLSN Avatar
    TLSN

    Charles is a man ahead of his time claimed Mia. This lady is never short of words. All words; no action.

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/sep/10/prime-minister-of-barbados-says-king-charles-is-a-man-ahead-of-his-time

  25. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Which queen? lol

  26. David Avatar
    David

    @NO

    In the same way the MOTTLEY government was quick to restructure debt and enter an IMF program days after taking office- what makes you think the renewal did not follow that script of pre-engagement with the imf?

  27. Tron Avatar
    Tron

    As predicted, Barbados is now entering the fifth IMF programme.

    Only the very naïve Aborigines now believe that Barbados actually achieved independence in 1966. We are a de facto colony of international capitalism, the taxpayers are the de facto slaves.

    Of course, a sixth, seventh and eighth IMF programme will follow sooner or later.

    The fact is that the rampant violent crime, widely accepted by the masses as their “cultural heritage”, the compulsion to wear masks in public, as well as the race riots in August 2020 directed against whites and thus also against tourists, are severely damaging our tourism as the only remaining industry. Given these cirumstances, even the best government like ours will be able to do little about the catastrophic state of the state’s finances.

  28. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @Tron September 10, 2022 12:51 PM “The fact is that the rampant violent crime…”

    My response: Sitting here with my door wide open reading Tron’s lies again.

    @Tron September 10, 2022 12:51 PM “…the race riots in August 2020 directed against whites…”

    My response: A big fat Tron lie again. There were no race riots. Tron is a notorious LIAR.c

  29. Lawson Avatar
    Lawson

    Theo ……Don Lemmons dead??????

  30. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @Lawson September 10, 2022 8:07 AM “…someone who led an exemplary life…”

    And you know this how?

    If for example she had shop lifted or terminated multiple pregnancies, or horned another woman do you think that the palace would have shared that information with you?

    The palace didn’t even tell you that she was dying. They told you that “she had been ordered by her doctors to rest.”

    I would bet anything that when you were being told that, the truth was that she was unable to get out of bed. Even with the assistance of her many servants.

  31. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @NorthernObserver September 10, 2022 9:27 AM “SS Or should we call you the Queen of Corelle”

    Shhhh!!!

    We are not supposed to advertise on David’s blog

  32. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @Donna at 7:53 AM “We must not allow this whitewashing of history as pushed by the despicable Tucker Carlson since her death.”

    We mustn’t assume that because Tucker Carson has a big mouth that he also has a big brain.

  33. Lawson Avatar
    Lawson

    Cudhear stop buying weed from Dub, its too strong I was talking about the california royalty.

  34. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @Donna at 7:53 AM “ “And a third of Americans LAPS IT UP!”

    1/3 of Americans are idiots.

    Actually 1/3 of Bajans too.

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

    “Charles receives the Order of Freedom of Barbados at the republic declaration ceremony.”

    TLSN…….all we can say is he got his freedom, although we don’t get yet why he needed it , but Charles can RECIPROCATE by telling these parliament dwellers to FREE the AFRIKAN POPULATIONS ACROSS THE REGION and particularly in Barbados from the oppression, suppression, racism, DISENFRANCHISEMENT, thefts of the vat, taxes and pension fund, thefts of their estates and BANK ACCOUNTS… that is an every day OCCURENCE AND REALITY….perpetrated UNFAIRLY in their lives and have been for the past 100 YEARS…

    am sure they will listen to him..

    then i will actually begin to take all the oral accolades showered on him, very seriously…

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

    TLSN……ya done know that it’s the GREED and DROOLING to get their hands on REPARATIONS off our enslaved ancestor’s horror, terror, murder, rape, enslavement and MISERY, to do SHITE got them talking. that high level RUBBISH…….right…

    as i said, the best gift that Charles can give AFRIKAN DESCENTS on pauperized islands, since he seems so “touched” and horrified by what happened ….is to FREE THE AFRIKAN PEOPLE FROM THE GRASP OF NEOCOLONIALISM, RACISM AND CORRUPT POLITICIANS…..

  37. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @Lawson September 10, 2022 3:18 PM “Cudhear stop buying weed from Dub,”

    You know that I garden, right??

    I can get anything to grow.

    Including weed if I feel like it.

    So neither you nor Dub getting any weed money from me anytime soon.

    If I feel like weed I will grow my own.

    You know that weed also grows wild here don’t you. Wild like cotton and sour grass and river tamarind…if you know where to look

  38. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    Lawson is the expert on what others might be smoking
    don’t listen to smart ass white boys snarks
    Alcohol suppresses thinking and inhibitions
    weed expands the complexity of the mind
    Avoid white people and the bad wine and spirits

    Herb is the healing of the nation alcohol is it’s destruction

  39. Fractured BLP Avatar
    Fractured BLP

    Well at long last Mia gine discuss salary / wage increases for public workers.

    David (BU) must be please as punch !!

  40. Lawson Avatar
    Lawson

    I kind of get it…you used to smoke weed….still do….but you used to smoke weed too……….now I understand your thought process.

  41. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    @David
    It is highly likely your version is accurate.
    Nor does it alter the reality the IMF has been neutered to be of service to its stake holders.
    It has become a ‘no fail’ environment. Their reports consist of several cut and paste comments, which frequently are so ‘correct’ as to say nothing.

  42. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    ± 33.3333333 years ago

  43. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    Diggin’ in the Crates
    Big Tune for X-Slave People Properties Economies Pure Worries in the Dance ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬ ♭ ♮ ♯ 🎼 🎵 🎶

    A Big Tune called Police in Helicopter Search for marijuana

  44. Wily Coyote Avatar
    Wily Coyote

    NEUTERED

    The only thing being NEUTERED is the country of Barbados. As Tron says we’re now going for BAILOUT #5 in 65 years of what some call INDEPENDENCE., averaging a default every 13 years.,wow what a proud record, batting above our weight.
    Even the late QEII, dispiized by Donna has lived through the whole 65 year episode, she must be wondering how a country could have F’d up independence so royally.

  45. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Make that RIGHTLY despised by Donna.

    The records now show that the queen’s visit was in 1975 and not 1976.

    So I was actually a year younger when I made my protest.

    Yesterday was my best friend’s birthday. The three protesters met and had a wonderful time reminiscing on our protest and other matters. The birthday girl did a demonstration for her 80 year old mother. She thought it was just fine and did not administer a belated ass whipping.

    When she turned on the television, we also had a WURA party on our political leaders as they appeared on the news.

    Some of them our schoolmates.

    I doubt they would have had the mind to protest as we did in 1975.

    Not judging from their performances.

    Recently handing out our highest national honours to Charles whereas Lil Donna choked on the Girl Guide’s pledge to the queen and had to drop out more than forty years ago.

    Rushing to knight her father just a few years ago when Donna thought the sight of Sobers kneeling before the queen was unbearable so many years ago.

    Who in their right mind would feel honoured by a SHITEHOOD?

    At least I don’t have to listen to them pledge allegiance to the queen during their MP swearing in ceremony.

    Our brains are tangled. We need to have national conversations.

    Otherwise….around and around we will go, and where we will stop, nobody knows…….Or perhaps the Chinese have an idea.

    Hmmmmmm….

  46. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Today the self-inflicted wound of September 11, 2001 becomes an adult.

    This self-flagelation opened the viens for blood-letting in seven Middle Eastern countries.

    Yet this predermination for a country to go to such extreme measures has not been properly studied.

    Even less are the global conditions which green lights the shedding of the blood of the peoples of that sub-region for this twenty one years.

    As this imperial crime becomes a “man” he is far more brutal, far more militaristic, far more determined that the whole world is his personal property, given by a “dog” to do as he wishes.

  47. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Bring the end to neoliberalism

  48. Lawson Avatar
    Lawson

    Donna XI sent profound condolences Putin sent them All around the world heart felt sorry was felt . You are welcome to your opinions and are free to voice them because of the british system that has evolved over the centuries. . You remind me of the barbados military parade as the soldiers walked by one lady turned to the other and said look…….your David is the only one in step. You not think Mia isnt trying to get into abby , what a buffet.

  49. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    21 years back
    We are still waiting for classified secrets to be unclassified but Bush and Bush have got executive privilege to keep them sealed, one day truth shall reveal about drones small nukes cia assets black eagle trust black op funds from Iran Contra guns for drugs cleared for settlement inside jobs that led to 20+ years illegal continuous 21st century war scams by the wicked white man

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    African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved

    Pacha……..chickens have to roost…..remember the COPIED arrogance shown by parliament rats over the decades….where are they now, no further alons and moving backward daily….no forward progression for the DEAD shitstem…….

    the coversations are REAL….the worldwide RESISTANCE active and in progress…

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