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Savvy on the Beach launches Barbados Fairness & Truth website.

Allan Kinch
Allan Kinch of Savvy on the Beach

The level of public distrust is at an all time low and with a Mia Mottley government that has mastered the art of sanitizing public disclosures – who to trust?

The Savvy on the Beach story has generated significant interest in recent months, it is a classic case of the rich and political elite mixing it up. In fact many observers conclude it is an example of how the business class and government interact oftentimes skirting the regulations to solidify economic power.

Against the foregoing Barbados Underground is happy to broadcast that parties concerned have launched a website to capture all the pertinent details about Savvy on the Beach.

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181 responses to “Savvy on the Beach launches website”

  1. David Avatar
    David

    It appears Kinch is preparing for a long game.

  2. Bimlady Avatar
    Bimlady

    Mr. Kinch we are behind you all the ways with our prayers and support, we are ready to demonstrate when you are ready God Bless

  3. Fairness&Truth Avatar
    Fairness&Truth

    A Long “Game” Is not good for Barbados because it will cost taxpayers MILLIONS. I understand why you refer to it as a “Game” but it really is NO game.
    Mr Kinch also holds a British passport so this may well end up in Courts also outside Barbados.

  4. Sarah Taylor Avatar
    Sarah Taylor

    I want to make something abundantly clear. Mr Kinch is NOT trying to milk the situation for all he can get. He simply wants for the government to be fair. This could cost Barbados tens of millions and as Bajans we know our country does not need that. This is why we have worked so hard to find a compromise. All we want is for the government to be reasonable.

    Please go to 47 minutes of this video and listen…. I think Mr Kinch is due the same courtesy https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2838&v=9wmqVedTLCY&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.barbadosfairnessandtruth.com%2F&embeds_referring_origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.barbadosfairnessandtruth.com&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE&feature=emb_title

  5. David Avatar
    David

    In the circumstances Mr. Kinch will NOT get satisfaction.

  6. Sarah Taylor Avatar
    Sarah Taylor

    Then the Courts even if they have to be international courts will see to it that he does.

  7. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    If he can expose corrupt practises, I am behind him. We know how things are done in this country. Perhaps he has the means to fight what some others can’t.

    It just appears to me that approval or denial of a project should not take as long as it has.

    People don’t buy property like that without an expectation of a timely return on their investment. No government should force them to forego such for an inordinate length of time.

    Kinch seems to have tried to restore a eyesore and a health hazard in keeping with what was required, even without having the official approval. No harm has been done, as far as I can tell.

    He has beautified the area and provided opportunities for people to earn a decent and honest living for themselves and their children. If there is no permanent structure, no harm has been done, as far as I can tell.

    It seems as though he has tried to compromise, earn some income, while not being completely dismissive of requirements under the regulations.

    Did we ever get a reasonable answer as to why a damn minister was required to remove a few lovely trees?

    It would also be troubling if government is indeed proposing to reacquire the land, by essentially cancelling the purchase, offering only to return what was paid. I don’t see this as conventional. This should be considered a new transaction, subject to fair market value.

    AND….if it is indeed the case that a carpark is to be constructed where before it was considered a waste of land, then we would need to know what has changed.

    I admit to being baffled by the goings on.

  8. David Avatar
    David

    What can international courts do? Where is the precedent?

  9. Bimlady Avatar
    Bimlady

    Sarah Taylor. I agree with you , government need to be fair.. yes international courts will see that justice is serve…Barbados government they is a God who sit high and look low, he is watching you all. and he is not a bajan

  10. Sarah Taylor Avatar
    Sarah Taylor

    There are presidents and there are laws that allow for this however I will say this…. even if they were not why should that stop us fighting for justice? Would you suggest we continue to let these things continue in Barbados? Should we as Barbadians just crumble to the fool and give in. Should the Ukrainian’s give into Russia. Are you saying the examples our national heroes set are wrong?

  11. Bimlady Avatar
    Bimlady

    I agree Then we need know what has changed

  12. John A Avatar
    John A

    @ David

    As I understand it our highest court of appeal now is the CCJ.

  13. John A Avatar
    John A

    @ David

    As I understand it the highest court we can go to now is the CCJ.

  14. Fairness&TTruth Avatar
    Fairness&TTruth

    Not if you hold an international passport and the matter applies to a treaty…..

  15. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    One notes that a lot of publicly owned prime real estate is now finding itself under the agency responsible for tourism. This is something that needs very serious oversight. It seems that tourism is the only game in town.

  16. David Avatar
    David

    @Fairnesd&Truth

    Good luck!

  17. FearPlay Avatar
    FearPlay

    I don’t know how many of you have visited Savvy On The Beach. I and my family did so yesterday afternoon (Saturday) and did I get the surprise of my life. It must be one of the coolest and most innovative hospitality ideas to land on these shores, EVER! There is, in my opinion, nothing like it anywhere in Barbados and it is not (yet?) the exclusive playground of the rich and infamous. Prices are affordable at this time. What a way to spend some time at the beach, in the open air, having a drink and relaxing.

    Make it a point to visit Savvy On The Beach and you will get a pretty good idea of why the gluttons of financial dealings now want to get their greedy little hands on this Magnificant piece of treasure.

  18. Old Timer Avatar
    Old Timer

    In the words of Ludwig Wittgenstein

    ” A pen poorly managed can do its owner more damage than a knife, as ink once dried can not be forgotten.”

  19. Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. Avatar
    Yolande Grant – African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved.

    It’s a good thing international civil courts are NOTHING like the island’s backward corrupt court system

  20. David Avatar
    David

    @Fearplay

    It is a wonderful spot BUT the incumbent government will remind you Kinch does not have permissions.

  21. Old Timer Avatar
    Old Timer

    I have been reading the comments and it seems that this matter has degenerated to the point where instead of addressing the issues, personal attacks are being launched and mud, or in this case excrement is being flung.

    If there is a problem can one not discuss the issue instead of bring other parties into the discussion? I see Ms Taylor said that another business broke the law too next door and built with out approvals, but as an experienced person I can’t see that as a defence.

    If you are caught speeding would you say ” yes but Tom speeds too so why report me?” Maybe I am too old to understand the ” new” laws that exist.

  22. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    Tourism is the only game they know how to play.

    Bushie has long explained that tourism (as we know it) is just a euphemism for national prostitution…

    Pick sense from that…

    @ David
    For an optimist, you sound much more like a beaten down BB who has resigned himself to the taste and smell of jobby.

    “…Good luck?
    It can’t work
    What can the court do…?”

    shiite man, you sound like Walter Blackman on brass tacks…whose mantra is ‘We can’t do anything about it’.

    You know of course that this is the “slave chant”….

    With bushmen, ALL things are possible….

  23. Sarah Taylor Avatar
    Sarah Taylor

    Nor can words spoken and video recorded for all time

  24. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    Only thing worse is a COUNTRY poorly managed….

  25. David Avatar
    David

    @Old Timer

    It is the Internet, imagine you are the highways of Barbados, you will encounter lunatics.

  26. David Avatar
    David

    @Bush Tea

    Not really but he who walks it knows it better than most:

  27. Sarah Taylor Avatar
    Sarah Taylor

    As my mum used to always tell me growing up. Two wrongs don’t make a right…. The problem is that there are times in life that one must stand up against injustice and sometimes some of the rules do get broken. Dis Bussa obey the rules of the salve masters, did Sarah Anne Gill crumple and accept the what she was faced with or did Clement Payne…. Did our PM when she had her all white march?

    I agree with you Old Timer but sadly sometimes when your back is to the wall you just fight to survive… What is happening now is NOT what we wanted it is NOT our desire. It is beyond stressful but as Irish philosopher and statesman Edmund Burke.

    “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing,”

    Shall we then now do nothing and leave this mess for another generation to clean up and to face even worse because we presented no opposition?

  28. Old Timer Avatar
    Old Timer

    @ David

    Well I am only a Stand Pipe Lawyer. So if Mrs Brathwaite dog get out and kill Miss Smith prize fowl, I use to try and make peace, but never once did I tell Mrs Bathwaite that it was OK for her dog to attack Miss Smith fowl, cause Miss Smith had a few head of she lettuce for free!

    What Internet what! I never Miss nothing and I come from the days of the black dial phone and Redifusion! LOL

  29. David Avatar
    David

    The true test if a democracy is for all stakeholders in civil society to be able to practice the tenets in the Constitution and guiding principles. What we have is what is written on a parchment but in many instances we compromise on invoking meaning. Caswell refers to it as a parody of the Westminster system.

  30. David Avatar
    David

    Well Old Timer you need to fast forward, Barbados landscape has changed. It is why you are an old timer.

  31. Old Timer Avatar
    Old Timer

    @ Ms Taylor

    Yes dear I understand you frustrated but you seem like a smart young lady. Don’t go into the gutter with nobody. Discuss the facts and you will be heard. Don’t worry about what you neighbour do and get away with, as we used to say “cat luck ain’t dog luck”. You deal with your facts and argue your point. I only now hearing bout all this cause my young niece that studying law introduce me to this underground thing.

  32. Sarah Taylor Avatar
    Sarah Taylor

    @Ol Timer

    I assure you we tried in every way not to have to go this route. We tried from 2018 to get this administration to resolve the concerns.. Emails, text, whatsapp, calls, begging, and submitting options to try to meet all their request but the submissions go unresponded to.. We still seek peace and seek what is best for all Bajans but we can no longer stand the big rocks being thrown at us so now we will stand and speak the truth for all to know and pray that somehow reason will win out.

  33. David Avatar
    David

    It is obvious the government has a bigger plan for that coast line. No mystery here at all.

  34. Sarah Taylor Avatar
    Sarah Taylor

    @Old Timer

    I respect your statement a lot, I really don’t take it lightly but unfortunately these folks made it their business to get involved in our matter first and much has happened that the public do not know. Honestly all I want is for the government to be fair and reasonable and let us stop all this mess.
    You are quite correct cat luck aint dog luck and this I know but I also know at the end of this life we walk I will have to stand in front of our great Creator and when He ask me “What did you do with what I gave you” “What did you do where I placed you” I know that I have to make sure it honours Him and my grandmother and that I do that which is right. I must stand up for what is right.

  35. John A Avatar
    John A

    @ David

    If that is the case then they need to share it with us. In the meantime we can only discuss what we are privy too and know to be factual.

  36. Interloper Avatar
    Interloper

    Arrogance shall be their downfall… it is evident in many government departments.

  37. David Avatar
    David

    @John A

    There is the saying nature abhors a vacuum. The blogmaster will not give the government it TP any benefit of the doubt given decisions made in the past.

  38. Tony Avatar
    Tony

    @ Johnny

    Caribbean Court of Justice can only make recommendations on this matter.

    Savvy On The Bay is now prime real estate property in BARBADOS for BIG investors (WinStar World Casino and Resorts?).
    No International court can twist our Government arm on this one. The matter has to be resolved locally.

    It’s all business..

  39. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    Nonsense
    Any ‘Real Real’ court can direct that the LAW be followed… Even our courts. …Just that they will take 30 years….

    Bushie is amazed at the extent to which our ‘sheep mentality’ has permeated a society where almost everyone claims to have a damn degree…
    Sir Cave should hang his head in shame…

  40. David Avatar
    David

    @Bush Tea

    How does a degree address a person’s integrity or civic responsibility?

  41. PegLegArgghh Avatar
    PegLegArgghh

    @Interloper

    Or the arrogance of Kinch and Taylor

    The threats she is throwing around, take care it’s not the downfall of them

    Old Timer was right to warn her. They give themselves too much liberty…..

    Yawn 🥱

  42. Bush tea Avatar
    Bush tea

    How does a degree address a person’s integrity or civic responsibility?
    ~~~~~~~~~
    EXACTLY!!
    so why the HELL do we spend hundreds of millions each year in pursuit of them…?
    Are we idiots?

  43. Tony Avatar
    Tony

    Hundreds of jobs for local Bajans Vs a dozen or two.

    Don’t isolate the variables.

  44. You can google conversions Avatar
    You can google conversions

    @Rabbit (John) 🐰
    I must call on that great brain of yours to tell me how to convert square meters to square feet.
    In the document I see the following:
    1. Land Area: 1828.6 square metres (13,997 square feet)
    2. Land Area: 1260.19 square metres (13,565 square feet)
    3. Land Area: 2470.2 square metres (19,3 I 9 square feet)
    I thpought it would be a simple multiplication or division but the numbers above puzzle me. No 2. was the only number that appears to be converted correctly.

    Formula: multiply the area ((sq m)value by 10.764 (to get sq ft)

    –xx–
    I fear Mr Kinch may not have clear sailing with his argument,
    The size of the plots that he bought may be disputed. I would suggest that he stick with square meters and discard the aquare feet.

    Help me Rabbit🐰

  45. Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. Avatar
    Yolande Grant – African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved.

    Those of us who actually understand the dynamics know you never listen to degreed regurgitators and rote learners without doing your own research…they ARE NOT naturally gifted….it never comes to them naturally….they are pretenders..

    .if they dont read it in some text book SOMEONE ELSE wrote, they dont know it, most times they regurgitate untruths…

  46. Sarah Taylor Avatar
    Sarah Taylor

    Sea Front land is a funny thing. It changes as the sea and sand come and go. The owners land can shrink or increase. For this reason a current high water mark must be determined before a sale is completed.

    BTII in its advertisement stated Beach Front lands and in its tender document stated the boundaries to the sea. It accepted Mr Kinch’s Plans. It advised in its agreement that they would provided new surveyors plans to high water mark and they conveyed on those plans and the government has been charging Mr Kinch land tax on the full amount of land conveyed for the last 3 years and he has paid it.

    The agreement also states
    The Property is believed to be correctly described as to quantity and otherwise and no immaterial error or omission or misdescription contained in the contract shall annul the sale but shall be subject to compensation in favour of the Purchaser only.

    They lead Mr Kinch to believe they were selling to the High water in all their documents. They arranged the vacant possession down to such and conveyed down to such.

  47. Conversion 101 department Avatar
    Conversion 101 department

    In the first year of my administration, I will provide every Barbadian with a pocket calculator.
    1. Mental calculations will be illegal.
    2. Any calcutation ending with more than two digits must be double-checked; more than five digits must be triple-checked; those with more than seven digits must be sent to my desk.
    3. A ‘conversion” committee will be formed to convert feet to inches and ounces to pounds or vice versa.
    4. A metric teams will also be created. This team will perform any conversion in which a metric quamtity is involved.
    5. One of the great brains of Barbados will head the conversion department

  48. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    I understand your reasoning.
    However, this complexity is not needed.
    If a person is selling you one foot of rope then he should give you 12 inches.
    I he is selling you two feet of rope then he should give you 24 inches.
    Allow me to be facetious and add…. the conversion factor for feet to inches should be the same if he is selling you the rope in Broad Street or at the beach in low tide.

    But I fully understand your point about low and high tide variation.

  49. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    The Property is believed to be correctly described as to quantity and otherwise and no immaterial error or omission or misdescription contained in the contract shall annul the sale but shall be subject to compensation in favour of the Purchaser only.

    It appears that Mr Kinch had a good/smaret lawyer.

  50. A legal degree, calculator and pen for everyone Avatar
    A legal degree, calculator and pen for everyone

    @Old Timer
    ” A pen poorly managed can do its owner more damage than a knife, as ink once dried can not be forgotten.”

    Please add this to your collec tion of sayings
    Mario Puzo — ‘One lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns …’

    –x–
    And we have ’30’ lawyers with pens plotting and planning in one building.

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