est. 2007

Barbados Underground

Bringing News and Opinions to the People

,

Remove Kothdiwala from Commission

Submitted by D.Douglas Smith A concerned group of citizens, as well as myself, continue to be shocked by the public comments of one Khaleel Kothdiwala, the individual who the prime minister tried to appoint to the senate, even though the constitution did not allow it. Most recently he has hitched himself to the debacle at…

Submitted by D.Douglas Smith

A concerned group of citizens, as well as myself, continue to be shocked by the public comments of one Khaleel Kothdiwala, the individual who the prime minister tried to appoint to the senate, even though the constitution did not allow it.

Most recently he has hitched himself to the debacle at the ministry of education with the outrageous survey conducted in the schools. He claims to be a youth advocate, so how could he seek to defend the disgraceful survey? How can he be a youth advocate, while at the same time being totally blinded by his loyalty to the ruling regime? Who gave him that title? How could his judgement be so poor that he can support this terrible survey?

He has used his column in one of the local newspapers to peddle propaganda on behalf of the regime. He has defended the activities at Four Seasons raised by the Auditor-General, he voiced support for the regime’s agenda of debt, debt and more debt, and he has called for the interests of tourists to be put ahead of local people, while wanting locals to keep wearing their masks like good servants. Check his columns and you will notice a clear dislike for the majority of Barbadians and a complete blind loyalty to the regime and his hatred for the DLP and the other opposition.

Therefore, how can Barbadians feel comfortable that he is sitting on the committee to review the constitution? What are his qualifications to sit on that committee anyway? He has shown that his first interest is the regime, so how will the public feel that their concerns will be taken seriously by this young man, if those concerns do not line up with his regime’s agenda? What will happen to information collected by the committee? The Prime Minister must explain to the country why Kothdiwala is there, among other people who are generally well-qualified. What was the purpose of putting him there?

We demand that Kothdiwala be removed with immediate effect from the constitutional reform commission, in the interest of fairness. We call on Barbadians to boycott the commission until Kothdiwala is removed. They are asking the public to email them recommendations, we ask Barbadians to refrain from doing that until he is removed. If they ever get around to townhall meetings, we call on Barbadians to refuse to attend those events. He cannot stay.

The public demands that Kothdiwala must go!

On behalf of concerned Barbadians,

D. Douglas Smith

138 responses to “Remove Kothdiwala from Commission”

  1. David Avatar
    David

    @John A

    Newest comments first.

  2. John A Avatar
    John A

    @ Norris

    And so they will continue to do as there is no opposition, no press and no one else to question them.

    Where there is an opportunity to question or pressure them, any attempt so to do breaks into a B and D argument after 30 comments.

    If I was a politican based on the above lack of pressure for accountability I would make we shite! LOL

  3. John A Avatar
    John A

    @ David

    Cool you need to now move the comment box to the top as well so people don’t have to scroll pages to comment. This you will find adds to more fluid conversations and keeps the blog current to persons returning to comment.

    Again just a suggestion.

  4. David Avatar
    David

    Thanks John A, will investigate if it can be supported in the code.

  5. Tony Avatar
    Tony

    @ Douglas Smith.

    “Kk leads the Bajan Hajj into the 30th century..”

    Theo !

  6. John A Avatar
    John A

    @ David

    Your welcome it should not be too difficult to move as it’s going to be a location prompt, which should be able to be moved from last to zero comment or a pre comment prompt. Not sure what you running but should be qute easy to do.

  7. Enuff Avatar
    Enuff

    Former AG under the DLP, former President of Senate under the DLP and a current government Senator are all on the Commission. Some people seem very scared of a teenager.🤐

  8. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    If The O is Doug Smith that would explain everything
    He thinks his son is an angel and KK is a demon devil
    They should both be renamed ignorance personified
    What a nasty piece of work even by Bajan standards

    Nonverbal Communication II
    You Don’t Know This About Me (Arthur Baker Instrumental Remix)

    You Don’t Know This About Me (Arthur Baker Vocal Remix)

  9. Tony Avatar
    Tony

    This TWIT continues to reference Barbados 🇧🇧 as a 2 x 3. BU Chancellor stands @ the cross roads and allow collisions/machete justice?

    I see him as a North Vietnamese 1968 DaNang.

    I refute his comment.

  10. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    Two Worlds Collide 🌍🌎
    Live Tomorrow You Go Down

    The Milky Way Is Our Playground

  11. Norris Avatar
    Norris

    @ Norris

    And so they will continue to do as there is no opposition, no press and no one else to question them.

    Where there is an opportunity to question or pressure them, any attempt so to do breaks into a B and D argument after 30 comments.

    If I was a politican based on the above lack of pressure for accountability I would make we shite! LOL

    xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

    Every 5 years black Bajans numbering over 100,000 are misled by politicians for their votes.

    Less than 12 individuals who contribute daily on BU makes no difference.

    BU has been around for I believe about 14 years.

    The one’s that has benefit used their real names on BU mostly contributing whilst written articles and used as a vehicle for personal gain only. Commissong etc.

    They are now silenced as a lamb having got what they wanted whilst the island is no better off..

    Deal with reality and not you want in an ideal world which does not match what goes on locally.

  12. John A Avatar
    John A

    @ Norris

    Sadly what you say is true but we must still use whatever format we can find to remind them they are our employees and not our masters.

    I do agree with you though that Bajans are some of the most complacent persons on the planet.

  13. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    Seems like the DLP Pussy Posse are in their Powerdress but they are still ugly black hos
    Torture (Pirate Jams instrumental)

    Powerdress – Torture (Linier Remix)

  14. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    DLP lowlife scum masqueraders are desperate fuckwits on a hiding to nothing
    what kind of loser black party reverts to racism populism politics tricks like white cunts
    racist blacks is something else but they must know their place at the bottom of the pile of shit
    it looks like they will never win a seat ever again and they are doomed to bitching like bitches
    Divine Nature (Dub Mix)

    Divine Nature

  15. BimLady Avatar
    BimLady

    ‘sergeant not only in Canada but here also, I hope bajan take note, he will be taking her place soon I gone

  16. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    Whip them Jah
    How much traction can blacks hating muslims in a land of coconuts get
    a bunch if browns on the outside and white on the inside slaves without roots
    bad fruits with diseased branches and leaves in the dead tree of DLP

  17. David Avatar
    David

    @John A

    The contributions by some make you laugh. BU is one outlet to add to the many, talk shows, traditional media etc.

    #crabsinabarrel
    #amazing

  18. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ Enuff
    Former AG under the DLP, former President of Senate under the DLP and a current government Senator are all on the Commission. Some people seem very scared of a teenager.🤐
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    Perhaps they are scared of the kind of leadership that would select an obvious juvenile upstart and push them ( even illegally) towards such critical roles at the most vulnerable point in national life.

    Perhaps they are coming to realize that selection for leadership appears to be more about ‘pliability’ and ‘conformity to the supreme narrative’, ….. RATHER than about ability.

    Perhaps it is becoming obvious that we are shooting our own donkeys…..

    Perhaps without YOUR red blinkers, YOUR donkey would be braying loud too….

  19. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    “If The O is Doug Smith that would explain everything”
    More likely AC.
    To reference Four Seasons, which was a tag team effort by both parties to defraud the taxpayers, and to mention debt, which the Froon group took to new levels, and the current group have no qualms adding to after defaulting to find ‘fiscal space’, is the style for which AC was infamous.
    Since the remarks by KK on the current MoE guffah were neither quoted nor linked, an unsubstantiated dig is another AC specialty.

  20. David Avatar
    David

    @NO

    It is the first question the blogmaster asked- what KK said is captured on a talk show where he, Ronnie YEARWOOD and Jeff Broome participated last Friday.

  21. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    Evil is a feeling like the the Black Ops Psyops Black The O
    hate in full effect is a now memory taking over

  22. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    I see that the blogmaster is caught up on the correct way to hang toilet paper on the roll.

    In the West it is usually the custom to read from top to bottom and It is frustrating to be responding down here to a comment that is way up there. When the fresh commentare at the bottom, you can see them as you respond…

    Hopefully, you can be persuaded to go back to the old way and to not put the comment box at the top.

  23. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    🙂
    haha.
    I have not made any comments about KK and I am still getting a flogging.
    I find that funny as hell.

  24. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    Black The O is as guilty as shit

  25. TheOGazerts@yahoo.com Avatar
    TheOGazerts@yahoo.com

    @555
    You are losing it…
    Once I saw you refer to me as The 0 (and it was actually a zero)

  26. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    I have not and will not say anything about KK.
    Perhaps 555 is Doug Smith trying to set a trap for me 🙂
    But enuff of that.

  27. Lorenzo Avatar
    Lorenzo

    David Bu perhaps instead of DDouglas Smith the author should be Douglas Leopold Phillips since he comes over as a dem lackey.He really should speak for the dems and himself.As for Bush Tea i wonder if you felt the same way when the dems were trying to promote Mr Thompson as some political guru when all he was at that time in my view was a swert talker with nothing of substance.I remember when the dems wanted to see the back of Sir Lloyd / Mr Sandiford he was adamant that If he stepped down, Mr Thompson had to replace him.Imagine a political neophyte at the time leading Mr Greaves, Mr Taittor Dr Haynes.You had any problems back then? I doubt it, therefore what is your problem with khaleel now?

  28. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    Black The 0 is pure darkness evil
    There is nothing new under the sun
    1 cxnt is reconciled with the next as same
    Its a Universal Spiritual Law
    Constellations

  29. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    An American expression … “If it isn’t broke don’t fix it.”.

  30. BAJE Avatar
    BAJE

    Perhaps they are scared of the kind of leadership that would select an obvious juvenile upstart and push them ( even illegally) towards such critical roles at the most vulnerable point in national life.

    Perhaps they are coming to realize that selection for leadership appears to be more about ‘pliability’ and ‘conformity to the supreme narrative’, ….. RATHER than about ability.

    Perhaps it is becoming obvious that we are shooting our own donkeys…..

    Perhaps without YOUR red blinkers, YOUR donkey would be braying loud too….

    xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

    HMMM

    SOME DON’T LIKE WHEN THE TRUTH IS TOLD.

    THEY LIKE LIVING IN WARPED REALITY

  31. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    I had a good laugh. Will go and buy lottery tickets.
    Perhaps I will win.
    In that case I would bribe the blogmaster.
    Get the ID of 555, visit him and beat him as if he was a rented mule.
    —xx—-
    This is not a bread and butter issue.
    It is one man’s opinion.
    I continue to wish KK well, but i f KK ventures on BU singing for his supper then I will make an effort to spoil his song.

  32. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    Lets burn the DLP Lab down to the ground
    Black The O with it
    Matter of Time (Nightshift Remix)

  33. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    Sometime in the future….KKK…..Counsel

  34. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    I watched that famous first outting of David Thompson in recent years. I think people were more bamboozled by voice, look and manner that brought back memories of Tom Adams. I remember the rumour started circulating that he was Tom’s son. That was before the rumour started circulating that he was Errol Barrow’s son.

    I doubt it had anything to do with the substance of what he said…..because there was little of that.

    But Thompson went from hero to zero, didn’t he?

    Khaleel will prove himself worthy or unworthy eventually. Right now there is nothing to disqualify him from the appointment however much some may disagree with his political preferences.

    Frankly, I would have chosen the Krystal young lady whose last name I cannot remember. The one who is accountant and artist, logical and meticulous, yet creative and free-thinking. Great combination for the job at hand!

  35. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    David,

    Is the last name Hoyte, perhaps? There was a video posted to BU once of an interview she did. Was it with that Morressy fellow?

    Boy, too much crazy news for this aging brain to retain! The last six years of happenings have taken their toll.

  36. David Avatar
    David

    Donna you probably mean Krystal Howell. She built her reputation on attacking governance matters re Auditor General reports. Governments will be bearish about appointing her to important committees. How would it look?

  37. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    I thought this might interest you.
    It’s really nonsense but it illustrates how a country gets mentioned without really being a part of the story.

    https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/national/american-airlines-flight-makes-emergency-landing-after-passengers-get-sick

  38. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    Woke up this morning and there is not a single thought in my brain.

    I turned my computer upside down but that did not solve the problem of reading from bottom to the top. You see, I like to follow the sequential order of things.

    Yesterday, I thought I was hacked when 555 commented on a post (whistleblower) I made and the I scrolled down and saw the post. I was going to activate my vpn, use ccleaner to wipe out my history and then use norton to scan for viruses.

    Then, I thought BU was hacked and whipped off a short note to the blogmaster. It was then I learnt that the order of the comments was changed so that we now had to read from the bottom to the top. I guess, I will have to live with it, but reading posts starting at the right and going to the left is a no-no.
    (I can hear Donna and cuhdear saying “these old men know how to nag when they don’t get their way).

    Now, what can I write about KK. Still drawing a blank.
    Message to KK: KK you had enough Kool-Aid to send a post to BU…

    555, you up yet?

    Have a great day y’all

  39. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    David,

    Yes! Howell is the name.

    How would it look? It would look as though they are not afraid of scrutiny.

    Good look!

  40. 🌍 Magnificent a.k.a Magno – Yu Heard Formula: C₂₁H₃₀O₂ IUPAC ID: (−)-(6aR,10aR)-6,6,9-trimethyl- 3-pentyl-6a,7,8,10a-tetrahydro- 6H-benzo[c]chromen-1-ol [[[ONE LOVE ONE WORLD ♡ ♥ 💕 ❤ 😘 🌍]]] Avatar
    🌍 Magnificent a.k.a Magno – Yu Heard Formula: C₂₁H₃₀O₂ IUPAC ID: (−)-(6aR,10aR)-6,6,9-trimethyl- 3-pentyl-6a,7,8,10a-tetrahydro- 6H-benzo[c]chromen-1-ol [[[ONE LOVE ONE WORLD ♡ ♥ 💕 ❤ 😘 🌍]]]

    I Smell a Rat 🐀👃
    D.Douglas Smith is obviously a prejudiced slimy black cxnt
    Black The O is the most prejudiced slimy black cxnt we know on Bu

    Snap!
    a pair of slimy black cxnts
    🐀
    🐀

    key
    x=u

    I Hear You Thinkin’

  41. Enuff Avatar
    Enuff

    BushTea
    Perhaps, you perhaps too much. You call it blinkered, I call it factual, logical and unafraid of being unpopular on BU. Fence sitting is the easiest thing to do.

  42. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    David,

    Or maybe you’re thinking it would look as though she has been bought.

    Wouldn’t look so if she continued her critiques as usual.

  43. David Avatar
    David

    @Donna

    Yes, idealistic.

  44. David Avatar
    David

    @Donna

    To your last comment, the issue is that an independent commentator seems to become compromised once they accept a post sponsored by government.

  45. Enuff Avatar
    Enuff

    Wasn’t Krystal Howell on the Thorne Commission https://barbados.loopnews.com/content/success-peoples-assembly-average-barbadian-says-thorne ?

  46. David Avatar
    David

    @Enuff

    What was the outcome of the Thorne Commission?

  47. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    Independent commentators would only be compromised when it becomes obvious that they have lost their independence.
    You are only independent when you become intellectually dishonest. Truly independent voices , in our society, are often marginalised because we expect them to compromise their deeply held ideologies and philosophies , to be part of the herd.
    In short, our society , really has no place for truly independent voices.
    More to come.
    Peace

  48. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    “You are only independent when you become intellectually dishonest. “
    That should have been
    You are only independent when you remain intellectually honest.
    My apologies.

  49. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    O Lord have mercy the duopoly man has got another brand new trope he is running with like it’s going out of style (a situation in which two suppliers dominate the market for a commodity or service).

    Intellectual Honesty Vs. Intellectual Dishonesty
    Someone who makes arguments they know to be lies or fallacious or deceptive is intellectually dishonest. A dishonest partisan.
    Intentionally committed fallacies in debates and reasoning are called intellectual dishonesty.
    Intellectual dishonesty is advocacy of a position using arguments or data known to be fallacious (e.g. using straw man arguments, circular logic, guilt by association, appealing to fear, ridicule, or emotion instead of reason, etc.).
    ONE OF THE MOST common ways to be intellectually dishonest in a debate is to dodge questions while pretending you’re answering them. You’re not telling a lie, …
    Intellectual dishonesty is a failure to apply standards of rational evaluation that one is aware of, usually in a self-serving fashion

    St. James Infirmary/I’ll Take Care of You

    St. James Infirmary Blues

  50. de pedantic Dribbler Avatar
    de pedantic Dribbler

    Both are true and that’s our problem in life today. There is limited interest in a rational, middle ground or reasonable compromise.

    @David, the key word is highlighted in your remark that “… the issue is that an independent commentator seems to become compromised once they accept a post sponsored by government.”

    Thus when @William responded “You are only independent when you remain intellectually honest” that too SEEMS almost impossible to achieve as NO ONE perceives that you have remained true to your convictions AFTER accepting a gov’t committee appointment!

    If I come here and agree with anything Mia says than automatically I am a BLP yardfowl despite my shouted independence of belief …. and of course to harshly criticize the folly of the former admin marks you as the opposite!

    To criticize FPOTUS on absurd lawlessness has the same effect … regardless of what critiques you give of Hunter Biden’s disgusting self-serving grift and too lawlessness!

    It’s really unfortunate but there is no room again for honestly saying that crap is crap regardless of who does it!

Older Comments
1 2 3
Newer Comments

Leave a Reply to 555dubstreetCancel reply

Trending

Discover more from Barbados Underground

Subscribe now to keep reading and get access to the full archive.

Continue reading