Prime Minister Mottley on her return from overseas after taking a few days off as well as attending COP27 in Egypt, Rwanda and South Africa called a press conference on her return to Barbados to brief the nation. There is criticism Mottley’s time could have been better spend on island given the precarious state of the economy and rising crime situation. DLP spokesman Paul Gibson has been scathing in criticism levelled at Mottley, questioning cost of trips overseas and size of delegations.
The blogmaster has cautioned many times in this space that managing the optics in any situation is important, however, Mottley has demonstrated with the appointment of a bloated Cabinet she intends to do it her – she has an aggressive style – even if it is obvious the configuration of the Cabinet is about political considerations and not about many hands making light of the work. Some of us are not fools although we understand the games politicians play at the expense of the masses.
It seems we have shifted from an administration led by the recluse Freundel Stuart who preferred to slumber away from the masses on Mount Olympus to be awaken at election times to Mottley who is building a reputation in the international arena that requires her to travel frequently.
This is a no win situation for Mottley it seems. She is often accused of being a micro manager but when she leaves her ministers to do the job there is a clamour for her presence by all and sundry. Mottley will take comfort from the fact she (not the Barbados Labour Party) received unprecedented mandates from the electorate in 2018 and 2022. If her plan is to vacate the prime minister’s seat next time around there is opportunity for a relevant political opposition.
Notwithstanding the above, the report on her recent trips overseas on the surface seem to be warranted and promise to add value to a depleted economic space. Given our implementation deficit culture culture and an inability to follow through one must live in hope. The blogmaster understands the Prime Minister’s frustration at the incessant nuisance criticism given wings by the ubiquitous social media fuelled by a polarised world – Barbados is no exception. She must however understand that it is the political class that feeds the culture she is criticising given the immature politics practised. A case of “being bitten by the hand that feeds you”.
See the full press conference.
Say hello to one of our powerful ancestors, remember him, the one yall lured to the island, robbed him his ideas and used it against the Afrikan population, exiled his supporters when ya were done tiefing everything, demonized him and then blocked him from the island….yes, that one….
.the journey to ancestral connection is a very long and personal one, NO SHORTCUTS for the desperate…so wunna better get started, many millions across the region and Barbados are already there, nuhbody int waiting for wunnah….wunna int got nutten we want.
“We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery because
whilst others might free the body, none but ourselves can free the
mind. Mind is your only ruler, sovereign. The man who is not able to
develop and use his mind is bound to be the slave of the other man
who uses his mind.” ― Marcus Mosiah Garvey
then all the years these the little imps, fowls and pimps on here were sent and spent all their time terrorizing, attacking and stalking me and everything i posted were thoroughly wasted, gone, can’t be retrieved…that was the time available to be used RECONNECTING TO ANCESTORS AND ANCESTRY…not focusing on me and others already well connected to our source.
my WP site is being upgraded to specs but useable, Webflow is also useable, and Kush Quarterly Magazines are still readable, with a 6th issue due for January.
dah is wunna business.
Hail to the one
Who never look back in the race
My music is the make people understand music
My music don’t worry yourself music
My music there is no negative people music
Rasta Reasoning
Mo’ Rasta Lyrics
Burning Spear
Winston Rodney
Taught me long long ago
Marcus is Prophet Moses
Jah Is Real
Stick to the Plan
We stared from
We should come up with a plan
to get started on
A slave mind is a terrible thing, and shines a powerful spotlight on the ignorance that shines with such prominence.
don’t know how those who are DETERMINED to keep a slave society status quo intact,that’s born from colonialism and slavery, can even look at themselves in a mirror, but the good news, wunna in the MINORITY, the majority have since moved on.
we were very successful in that regard.
In the meantime, the scamsters think they got the wool pulled over evabody eye, wrong, it’s only your supporters, promoters, endorsers, voters, sheep, fowls, imps, pimps and slaves are THUS HANDICAPPED.
Body language
TO SIRS, WITH LOVE
It was a proud night for two of the island’s legal luminaries, former Attorney General and Parliamentarian Sir Henry Forde and former Chief Justice Sir David Simmons, as the old Supreme Court Complex was officially opened and renamed in their honour.
From left, Sir David Simmons, Prime Minister Mia Mottley, Sir Henry Forde, Chief Justice Patterson Cheltenham KC and Attorney General Dale Marshall at Friday’s event.
https://epaper.barbadostoday.bb/html5/reader/production/default.aspx?pubname=&pubid=87ad6005-1972-4d63-92b0-8927eda53c7a
@Hants
The Republic is overrun with “Sirs”.
It might be noted the building name was “Henry Forde and David Simmons” (no Sirs), BUT the commemorative plaque, had three ‘the Honourable’ (what happened to Most Honourable’) incl the CJ who is listed as ‘The Honourable Sir’.
My guess is those in whose honour the building was named requested the ‘Sir’ not be used?
@NO
Isn’t it protocol to drop the honourary prefix when naming?
David
You maybe correct.
I recall a few years back in T&T attending a meeting held at the “Sir Frank Worrell Development Centre”.
But it is the Garfield Sobers Gymnasium. And I recall a Frank Worrell Hall at UWI.
So possibly it is Barbadian protocol vs Caribbean protocol?
Here comes a discordant note.
It bother me that with legal luminaries and constitutional scholars that we cannot get justice in the courts and don’t yet have a Republic constitution.
Giants that cast a small shadow.
Don’t believe the hype.
ah want to see how a switch over from Satan’s world is going to go.
I maybe can get a whole book outta dah one dey…..
“Interpol reportedly issues warrant for daughter of former Angolan president Dos Santos, according to Lusa”
@ Sargeant,
there was a lot of space between PM MIA and Sir David. Uh wonder why ?
Maybe it was unintentional. lol
@Hants
Aren’t they related? The Tappins and the Simmons are kin so perhaps the photographer snapped his photo a bit early.
Many moons ago I worked in that building for a few months before I decamped to private industry. It was one of my first jobs after high school, the Registrar was CA Rocheford and although the stint was short I learned some stuff that remains with me to this day.
PM MIA inspiring the youth.
As i have said repeatedly for months now, none of this just started and has been ongoing for thousands of years..
“Infantino said: “We have been taught many lessons from Europeans and the Western world. I am European. For what we have been doing for 3,000 years around the world, we should be apologising for the next 3,000 years before giving moral lessons.”
All a decades long smoke and mirrors SCREEN, ask those who have actually been fighting for DECADES to get the industrialized countries to admit what they have done for 100 years let alone PAY FOR IT…
so slick talking frauds will never get to see Afrika ripped off of 2.8 trillion dollars so they can get a cut, it’s a very SHORT LIVED, emphysis on SHORT….pipe dream, a delusion, a fairytale, a fantasy…that can now be permanently put to rest.
“November 19, 2022
SOURCE: AP — Negotiators early Sunday approved a historic deal that would create a fund for compensating poor nations that are victims of extreme weather worsened by rich countries’ carbon pollution, but an overall larger agreement still was up in the air because of a fight over emission reduction efforts.
Talks on the overall agreement were put on hold while delegates were given time to read what they were going to vote on besides the compensation fund they approved to their own applause.
The decision establishes a fund for what negotiators call loss and damage. It is a big win for poorer nations which have long called for cash – sometimes viewed as reparations – because they are often the victims of climate disasters despite having contributed little to the pollution that heats up the globe.
“This is how a 30-year-old journey of ours has finally, we hope, found fruition today,” said Pakistan Climate Minister Sherry Rehman, who often took the lead for the world’s poorest nations. One-third of her nation was submerged this summer by a devastating flood and she and other officials used the motto: “What went on in Pakistan will not stay in Pakistan.”
Maldives Environment Minister Aminath Shauna told The AP Saturday “that means for countries like ours we will have the mosaic of solutions that we have been advocating for.”
It’s a reflection of what can be done when the poorest nations remain unified, said Alex Scott, a climate diplomacy expert at the think tank E3G.
“I think this is huge to have governments coming together to actually work out at least the first step of … how to deal with the issue of loss and damage,” Scott said. But like all climate financials, it is one thing to create a fund, it’s another to get money flowing in and out, she said. The developed world still has not kept its 2009 pledge to spend $100 billion a year in other climate aid – designed to help poor nations develop green energy and adapt to future warming.”
The above Article by
Barbados Today
https://barbadostoday.bb/2022/11/19/btcolumn-bioethics-in-a-barbadian-pharmaceutical-industry/ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
This is must read for all of BU.
Here Dr Melissa Goddard links the flawed IDB survey and the development of a pharmaceutical company. She goes on to mention the hurdles/complexity of developing a pharmaceutical industry. This is the kind of voice that needs to be at the table. Voices full of constructive comments (labeled as criticism by the yes crowd).
I must add the MG is more optimistic about this issue than I am.
It goes without saying that they are OUT OF THEIR DEPTH re pharmaceutical manufacturing, production and distribution, look how they screwed up their own vaccine scam….and everything they have touched in the last 60 years…
Their best bet is to le the Afrikans handle it, the whole aspect, they have much more experience and a track record of creating pharmaceuticals including vaccines, they have very experienced scientists, world class that are grabbed by every industrialized country.
that way they can be assured of success.
Theo….it’s still NOT GOING AWAY..
…the 9-day wonder that their disciples had hoped for is now a pipe dream…just like all the current and future ones…lol
“A group of parents is pressing ahead with legal action against the Government and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) over the controversial IDB-administered survey that collected sensitive information from hundreds of secondary school students without parental consent.
Reporting that many parents have come forward seeking representation, Dujon declared there would be no turning back from their position that the Government and IDB should pay for breaches of the rights of parents/guardians.”
At times we underestimate Mia. We have seen that the offer of a ‘big job’ can silence any lawyer in Barbados. Legal action could be stalled out.
Some payback for frequent travel by the PM?
Source: Barbados Today
Eye gut a name fer de farmer cu tical comepany… Bitt Farmercutical
(My impression of Lorenzo trying to play that he isn’t too bright)
Theo…they should have listened to Bushman when he was warning for YEARS about that monument to Satan they embedded at the Garrison, they laughed at him, they ridiculed him, they cussed him, but look now all their evil shit is unraveling at the speed of light……faster than ya can say enuff.
btw…whatever happened to that little fowl, who claimed it was traumatized on BU after terrorizing evabody…and disappeared shortly after that…
https://barbadostoday.bb/2022/11/22/more-than-meds/
“Damian Cohall has suggested the proposed pharmaceutical industry for Barbados should be expanded into a health and wellness industry.”
Train going off the track.
Man, I am keeping quiet, but it looks as if they will be selling bush teas and medical mumbo-jumbo. But I know I am biased. Will wait and see.
So i take it there will be no FAUX political scientists (what the hell are those, even the name sounds like FRAUD) and their rain maker sidekicks in Dominica’s uncontested election earning tons of money this election and manipulating the votes to disenfranchise Dominicans once again…….all evil things must come to an end…people enuff must be crying in their tea.
“By Peter W Wickham
The reality of an uncontested election in Dominica was manifested on nomination day when only a few independent candidates presented themselves, with both the UWP and DFP holding to their proposed boycott of the December 6th election. The boycott and its implications for the legitimacy of the next government will emerge over the next few years; however, this analysis can be assisted by a reflection on one of the previous occasions when an election was boycotted in the Caribbean. “
https://barbadostoday.bb/2022/06/18/pm-says-committee-set-up-to-find-ways-to-give-households-an-ease/
This is the way this administration handles a screw-up. Appoint a committee ( a group that they can blame for the screw-up). So you think I does complain because ‘I gotta mout’. What about this?
https://barbadostoday.bb/2022/09/24/unnecessary-committee-says-ctusab/
The easiest thing to do is appoint a committee, how many do we have? I seem to have lost count maybe we can get the Constitution Committee to do double duty. This must be more of the “light hands” fallacy 30 parliamentarians and they can’t come up with a coherent policy on how to celebrate November 30th .
November 30th. Independence day Republic night
As wunna dun know. Day does run till night catch it.lol