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The following was posted as a comment to the Kay McConney, Corey Lane jettisoned blog by Northern Observer.

There was that now infamous press conference on August 25, 2023 when the PM told the nation, from Larboard to Starboard, at least from the time she was a little girl, there always had those two car parks there. Now of course she was referring to Savvy lands. But being older than her, I know the Holetown Police [Station], and associated public use structures have been there just as long? And that I could park my car behind that area and go for a sea bath, the same way persons use Browns Beach. I did so up to my last visit in 2024.

Also recall, the PM told us, those two gentlemen, Ministers Marshall and Duguid, two of the newer sect of Senior Ministers, ‘you have a timeline on these negotiations (with Kinch of Savvy), and if they are not concluded within the next few weeks, there must be a full Ministerial statement to the Parliament‘. You heard one yet? So short of calling the PM a liar, one can definitely conclude she doesn’t keep her word. And somehow, views land on Bay St, differently from land in Holetown?  In fact, there are progressively fewer “paths’, cause that is what most are, north of of Holders Hill to access the beach.

Rather than telling the nation about this St.James property, why not talk about Paradise. That is one big ass piece of land, which got bigger when Clearwater Bay Ltd (CBL) bailed out developers, and those to whom they owed money, and added lands previously owned by Esso. Tell us about the court proceedings and who owns the land. You might begin with the missing Reports for CBL, as Barbados is ‘a country of laws’ and the GoB is breaking those laws, by failing to provide Reports as required by law.

End of February and still no Auditor General Report?

This PM laughing at wunna.


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72 responses to “PM Mottley ‘laughing’ at we”


  1. What we need is for traditional media to deliver more consistently on its mandate to inform citizens, in this case by exposing when Prime Minister Mottley makes empty promises. You cannot claim to be a trusted media source and willingly bend the knee to Mottley.


  2. Reshuffle not so clear

    THERE ARE SOME troubling aspects to Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley’s Cabinet reshuffle on Tuesday.

    They relate to the casual mention of BERT 3.0, the confusion for some members of the public surrounding the number of ministers in the “education ministry”, and the departure of former Government Senator Dr Crystal Haynes, which to many was soon after her criticism of the Government over the controversial proposed relocation of the Holetown Civic Centre.

    Based on the timing of the announcements, it would seem that Mottley took the opportunity of the request by Minister of State Corey Lane to be relieved of his duties, and Minister of Industry, Innovation, Science and Technology Marsha Caddle’s resignation, to address other pressing matters in the hope of dealing with what could be regarded as public relations nightmares all at once.

    The result is that members of the public may be left confused by the developments that have created a 22-member Cabinet.

    Bewilderment

    There appears to be bewilderment over what was the former Ministry of Education, Technological and Vocational Training headed by Kay McConney.

    There is now the Ministry of Educational Transformation headed by Senator Chad Blackman and the Ministry of Training and Tertiary Education headed by Member of Parliament Sandra Husbands.

    While the public has been calling for the head of McConney over her leadership of the former ministry that kindled the wrath of some parents, students and interest groups, she has been shifted to become Minister of Economic Affairs and Investment.

    “This will allow her to undertake these hefty responsibilities, particularly as we move to a BERT 3.0 programme, Barbados Economic Recovery Transformation, as we come to the end of our IMF [International Monetary Fund] programme at the end of June,” Mottley said in the four-minute video.

    Up to this point, Barbadians were unfamiliar with the term BERT 3.0 and are without a clear understanding of what this latest programme entails, even though the casual manner in which it was mentioned would give the impression that it had been expanded on prior.

    On another issue, Lane, who was responsible for the sensitive area of crime prevention in the Attorney General’s Office, was relieved of the portfolio – at his request, according to the Prime Minister – after speculation following his hours-long questioning by police last week.

    He went straight back into his ministerial duties without a word to the public, but has now determined that he wants more time to spend “with his family and to be able to give the Government the opportunity to be able to ensure that it is in no way affected by anything related to charges”, as Mottley stated.

    The other concern coming from the Prime Minister’s statement is the stepping down of Haynes to accommodate Jonathan Reid’s appointment to the Senate in order for him to assume the role of Minister of Industry, Innovation, Science and Technology previously held by Caddle.

    The timing of the development with Haynes, so soon after she delivered what is arguably her most outspoken speech when she criticised the Government over the proposed relocation of the Holetown Civic Centre, raised many eyebrows.

    Haynes, for a long time, had been toeing the party line in her speeches.

    The Mottley administration is usually quite polished with its public relations, but this latest attempt has created more questions than answers and does little to give the impression that things are under control within the Barbados Labour Party.

    Source: Nation


  3. Budget Day March 10

    BUDGET DAY is March 10.

    Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley announced this yesterday, also revealing that the Financial Statement and Budgetary Proposals will be delivered by Minister in the Ministry of Finance Ryan Straughn.

    She was speaking at the swearing-in ceremony for Minister of Innovation, Industry, Science and Technology, Jonathan Reid, at State House.

    Explaining the decision to have Straughn presenting the Budget, Mottley said: “Because everybody deserves a chance. I am still there. Under the rules of Parliament, I get to speak longer than most so I still would have my opportunity. But I think it is important to build capacity across the country and that’s what I’m trying to do.” (JRN)


  4. What else could have been expected.

    Is Mottley any different to fascists Donald Drumpf who with South Afrikan Boer Elon Musk are bringing an ax to the so-called administrative state.

    This means finally rolling back all the New Deal ideas of Franklyn Delano Roosevelt of the 1930s and 1940s even as the moneyed classes were trying to since then. Firing workers by the tens of thousands under the guise of budgetary concerns instead of taxing billionaires like Elon Musk. Defunding universities and the like.

    It’s a class struggle where Mottley is on the side of the foreign investors and big business classes like Drumpf, Musk and Mottley are.

    As the American regime attempts to save capitalism he is indeed doing all those things which assure its sooner demise.

    And as Mottley fecklessly cast every window to the sea into the maw of hoteliers she’s displaying a cruelty, like Drumpf, which will hastened this country collapse.

    Even as it demonstrates her own failure to give the country an alternative to the low hanging fruit of tourism.

    Both the dictator Mottley and the fascist Drumpf are no different to Adolf Hitler.

    Within these straight lines between Drumpf, Musk and Mottley there’ll still be a majority here still wedded to the specious idea that that these actions are somehow disconnected. That Mottley actions could be properly understood absent everything else.

    As the state is blended into the corporates, the central aim of fascism, the mass of people will have to suffer what they must as the rich take what they want, as the Romans used to say.


  5. @ Northern

    What is clear to me now is that the Barbadian and their wishes come second to the tourism sector and its desires. The Holetown issue speaks to way more than just a piece of land being taken from us, but more so to a dictatorial approach to governance which I for one find offensive.

    As for the Savvy issue that was business as usual for this party. In other words blow some smoke and long talk to keep the natives happy and they will forget the issue and move to the next seven day wonder. That of course will work for ninety five percent of us but thankfully not all of us.

    The land grab by this party did not however start with Holetown. If you recall it started when Government got involved with a private sector sale and acquired the land on Bay Street from Mrs Ram for Maloney to build his hotel. Again a precident was set there where the state flexed its muscle to “assist ” another hotel to be built by a private investor.

    Back now to Holetown where the people of this island have sent a clear message to this government that they DO NOT WANT THAT AREA DEVELOPED. I for now will wait and see if this party overrides the wishes of the electorate in favour of someone making money off our backs, so that a hotel can be built to give a few said Bajans jobs as maids and barmen.

    Finally I ask who is the potential buyer? Is it Maloney again who was deemed pre elections as a unsavory individual by this party? The said person who is now their golden boy proving once again that money can buy favour? I am watching a development here in our history that concerns me. One savior is that like you, I have lived the bulk of my like already. This however does not mean I want to see the island turned into a country that places its citizens in the second class, while ensuring that the greedy few slowly take over OUR beach front. To take up one of the few public beach front areas on the west coast to give to a hotel, will confirm to me that this is how we are viewed by this government. In other words these fields and hills and beaches we speak of in our anthem are now all for sale.

    How this issue plays out will speak to alot more than the Holetown issue. I truest that ALL Bajans both B and D pay close attention to what is happening to our country and by extension the wishes and future of our people.


  6. @John A

    You are correct that it is business as usual because the same rampant land grabs and development of our coastline happened under the previous governments.


  7. Geminology the study of twins
    I like to think that Mottley as an opponent of Trump and Musk in the fight against fascism. If Barbados was a superpower like USA it would be a good fight to see as she has got big balls to speak out against the US bully instead of kneeling down and begging for mercy like those other pathetic world leaders.

    Who would most likely win WWIII?
    The five countries most likely to win World War III

    1 China. Soldiers: 7.054.000.
    2 The USA. Soldiers: 2.291.910. …
    3 Russia. Soldiers: 3.250.000. Aviation: 1.900 planes, 1.655 helicopters. …
    4 India. Soldiers: 4.768.407. Aviation: 1.080 planes and 140 helicopters. …
    5 Great Britain. Soldiers: 387.570. Aviation: 222 airplanes, 153 helicopters. …


  8. I was born in Holetown in 1952. Our chattel house was one of 5 on the south side of the watercourse.
    We were forced to move to make way for the Civic centre to be built.
    I thought of writing a short story of the first 19 years of my life but I won’t.


  9. Dub!

    What about nuclear weapons. They will surely have something to say.
    Barring which the US will not be in the rankings at all.
    For the science of warfare has so changed that very few now know how to fight “all arms combined warfare”.
    The British bulldogs are jokers! Can’t wait to bark dem!
    Of course, none of the commentaries here, except you, would see the ever threat of war as it affects all equations, even those constructed on prestine beaches of golden sand.


  10. How was your family forced to move Hants?


  11. Inner Exploration

    The final battle will be a matter of spiritual warfare where the righteous peacemakers will defeat the wicked as any good fairy tale will teach you.
    You do not fight evil you resist it.

    Modern science is proving that the whole existence is just a reverberation, where there is a reverberation there is bound to be a sound so the whole existence is sound.

    If you consider yourself to be a mechanism, you have a body and a mind, you may have a great body and a great mind, but what you call grace is the lubrication. Without the necessary lubrication you get stuck at every point.

    Any number of people are here on this planet, intelligent, capable, but at every corner in their life they get stuck because there is no lubrication, So it is important for every human being to have an element of grace in their life, opening a window so they become receptive to grace.


  12. @ David,

    We were tenants on land rented from Lascelles plantation.

    Fortunately for me we moved the house to Paynes Bay.


  13. @ David

    You also have to understand that the climate for doing what you feel like for the party is perfect. We have no real opposition party and the Media is basically only good for advertising fetes and printing death notices. Add to this the fact that most Bajans have no real interest in local issues unless ” em affect dem” and you have the perfect conditions for anything to happen.

    In other words after all the Savvy talk what has happened ? Not one dam thing. Why then should Holetown be any different? The government feels that after everybody huff and puff about Holetown in the end what? They will deal with it as they did with Savvy. In other words push on with business as usual.

    They say disappointment can only exist when ones expectations are set too high. Thankfully for me I view politics as six of one and half dozen of the next, so no political party be it D or B has ever been able to disappoint me.


  14. @Hants

    You should write your story. I love a good story.

    I am of two minds about the Holetown business. The buildings are not that old so if they go that it will not a historic or architectural loss. I use the library from time to time and I may be wrong, but I am not aware that it has an elevator. I know that it has a steep outer staircase; nt wheelchair or stroller friendly. The library would be nice opposite the St. James secondary school, and should maintain a regular collection, but also special collections appealing to children 11 to 18, and it should be wheelchair accessible. I love the idea of a public library opposite to a secondary school. I like that there is police station on a heavily used public beach. It gives a feeling of safety. I use that beach from time to time. By the way what does Coastal Zone Management think about this proposal. Has anybody heard from them. Does anybody want to hear from them?


  15. Yes, Mia is mocking we. Every puppet requires the assistance of a puppet master. Our Prime Minister has a leash attached to her neck and ankles. I hope that domestic Bajans are making their preparations to become perpetual slaves. This is where the country is heading to under Auntie Mia.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6wkQnxbNfnM


  16. Who would have believed that a virgin Republic
    would hasten the disposal of the country’s Crown jewels.


  17. 555dubstreet
    February 27, 2025 at 8:50 am
    2 Votes

    Who would most likely win WWIII?
    The five countries most likely to win World War III

    1 China. Soldiers: 7.054.000.
    2 The USA. Soldiers: 2.291.910. …
    3 Russia. Soldiers: 3.250.000. Aviation: 1.900 planes, 1.655 helicopters. …
    4 India. Soldiers: 4.768.407. Aviation: 1.080 planes and 140 helicopters. …
    5 Great Britain. Soldiers: 387.570. Aviation: 222 airplanes, 153 helicopters. …

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

    You are forgetting Israel and the God of Abraham.


  18. I recall seeing in the press somewhere that a multi floor, 6 if I remember right, planned for Paynes Bay was shelved because building it required piles being driven 150 feet to support its weight over the voids in the limestone.

    Can’t find the reference now, anyone remember that event from sometime in 2006?

    What do Paynes Bay, Holetown, Freshwater Bay and Carlisle Bay have in common?

    …. apart from the intended multi floor hotels and condominiums?

    Karst geology.

    As we speak the underground freshwater outflow with its slightly acidic content is reacting with the Calcium Carbonate to form Calcium Bicarbonate.

    Caves are being eaten into the limestone by the freshwater lens.

    What’s the big deal about that?

    Construction costs and the potential for collapse.

    Remember the VAT building and Barak, or the BS&T “Astro” Dome collapse during construction at Warrens?

    Increasingly, my eyes are telling me that the possibility exists that construction at Four Seasons was halted because of this and the kind of $$$ needed to rectify the problem was just too prohibitively high.

    It will probably never be restarted.

    All of its other problems reek of a money laundering scheme that went south and was unable to supply the funds to fill the bottomless pit.

    Carlisle Bay is probably the worst site to build multi floor hotels because the volume of freshwater underground is multiple times higher than at any other coastal site!!

    … but Holetown and other coastal sites are not too far behind.


  19. Wonder what will happen at Sam Lord’s Castle? Hopefully the Chinese conxtructed monstrosity will stand the test of time.

    https://barbadosbydrone.com/drones/sam-lords/


  20. Remember this?


  21. Learning from other’s


  22. Central Bank still standing. Wonder how much it has sunk since it was built?

    Diocesan House had to be abandoned.


  23. Angel investor’ with Bajan links

    By Maria Bradshaw mariabradshaw@nationnews.com

    A wealthy Canadian businessman with substantial expertise in the Airbnb luxury business is the new owner of the Holetown Civic Centre in St James.

    Joe Poulin, the man who bought the majority shares in the Insurance Corporation of Barbados Ltd (ICBL) in 2020 from the Bermuda company BF& M Ltd, is partnering with Government in building the new civic centre at Trents, St James, while he is also slated to build a 80-room hotel at a cost of US$172 million on the present site at Holetown.

    Poulin, a Canadian entrepreneur, was vice president of Airbnb’s global luxury business from 2017 to 2019. Prior to that, he served as the president and chief executive officer of Luxury Retreats International Holdings, Inc., which he founded in 1999.

    He is the ICBL’s chairman and founder and chairman of JPK Capital Holdings (Barbados) Inc., his family office, which is headquartered here and has six investments.

    Poulin is described as an “Angel Investor” – someone who invests personal money into promising companies, typically in exchange for equity.

    Amidst repeated calls for Government to reveal the new owner, a Government official told the Weekend Nation yesterday that it was no “mystery” as Kerrie Symmonds, Minister of Foreign Affairs had stated in Parliament on January 17 that the new owner was ICBL.

    Speaking during debate on the compulsory acquisition of the land at Trents, St James, Symmonds, in reponse to calls from Opposition Leader Ralph Thorne to say who had bought the property, told the House of Assembly: “The Insurance Corporation of Barbados Limited is going to be in a joint venture with BTII (Barbados Tourism Investment Inc.) on this project.

    He said BTII would remain owners of the land at Holetown while ICBL would finance the new civic centre at a cost of $40 million as part of the deal.

    “And so just to make sure that we are comfortable, the new civic centre is expected to cost $40 million and that will be financed by the Insurance Corporation of Barbados Limited, as I understand it and in association with the BTII, that build-out will take place, and there will, as I said, be a continued interest on the part of the BTII as we go forward with respect to preparing the new site, at which point then there will be a sale of that site to the new owner.

    Barbadian company

    “So that, Mr Speaker, the parties at this point are the Insurance Corporation of Barbados Limited, which, obviously, is a Barbadian company . . . but the fact of the matter is that the company in question is the Insurance Corporation of Barbados Limited and so this is not a matter about foreigners and foreign people and all of you know, the usual bogeyman which is raised by the Democratic Labour Party when it is convenient to them to do so.

    “The land remains owned by BTII, which is Barbados Tourism Investment Inc., so that the beachfront property that we speak about is going to be a project which will see itself generated into an investment of approximately US$172 million and an 80-room hotel on the 3.6-acre site which is now housing the civic centre as we know it.”

    The Weekend Nation reached out to Poulin but up to press time no response was forthcoming.

    Government’s announcement about the sale of the Civic Centre at Holetown has been met with anger from both Barbadians and tourists. The civic centre is home to a police station, court, Barbados Revenue Authority, post office, a library and other services.

    Last Sunday, there was a gathering at the St James site for what was called a “Roadside Parliament” and attendees demanded that Government halt its proposal to sell the property.

    Source: Nation


  24. Address citizens’ concerns

    The recent furore over the proposed dismantling and inland relocation of the Civic Centre at Holetown, St James, to make way for construction of a high-rise hotel has provoked the ire of many Barbadians and visitors. However, it appears Government doesn’t intend to yield.

    The monument at Holetown commemorates the first landing of Englishmen from the vessel Olive Blossom near that spot on or about July 1605. However much some may despise colonial history, for whatever it is worth, it is part of our history.

    Much was made of the designation of Historic Bridgetown and its Garrison as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2011. Yet last year, many of the buildings forming part of that Bridgetown heritage were demolished, including the Baggage Warehouse and the buildings around the Careenage and the Wharf.

    So what? some might ask. It was pointed out that the Holetown area is prone to flooding and that Barbados has to attract investments to meet the expectation of people seeking jobs in tourism. Many letter writers to this newspaper and some prominent historians have condemned this proposed action.

    Last Monday night at the St Peter Ideas Forum, Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley said the “buildings at the site in Holetown are not historic. It is the site that is historic”.

    Semantics aside, the same could apply to the Nelson statue that was once in the heart of The City where history collided with the contemporary.

    Was the Nelson statue historic or the site in Bridgetown?

    The answer may be blowing in the wind.

    Government, however, is clearly determined to proceed with its Holetown proposal on the premise that the hotel plant is ageing and cannot sustain our quality of life.

    This argument does not hold water when we look around at the recent upgrades made by many properties on the South and West Coasts after COVID-19, and the recent completion of the Wyndham Grand Barbados Sam Lord’s Castle in St Philip.

    It should be noted that construction has also started at the nearby Discovery, and both Colony Club and Tamarind Cove hotels in St James are undergoing major renovations. So there is already considerable investment in hotel construction.

    If we add the proposed construction projects at the Pierhead, Bridgetown and Bay Street, together with the recently announced plans for Sandals at Heywoods, St Peter, later this year, there will be no let-up in building activity over the next few years. In addition, there is the prospective development by Afreximbank at Jemmotts Lane, St Michael.

    The question is whether the island has the carrying capacity to build out these projects simultaneously in terms of provision of cement and the labour force. Recently, the HOPE project at Chancery Lane informed homeowners that it was experiencing a shortage of workers, which delayed completion of houses.

    The net result will, of course, be an increase in the price of labour and construction costs. The ripple effect will be a likely hike in the price of housing and, with the growing demand, the cost of cement and construction materials.

    So while we understand the dilemma facing Government in terms of providing jobs, it still has a duty to address the real concerns of its citizens.

    Nation Editorial


  25. “So that, Mr Speaker, the parties at this point are the Insurance Corporation of Barbados Limited, which, obviously, is a Barbadian company . . .”
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    What an idiot!!
    How does a company, now owned and controlled by a Canadian, get to be a ‘Barbadian’ company?
    …except in the eyes of a joker – who also pontificated in folly on renewable energy – until he had to be moved out of the way of his ignorance.

    Steupsss..
    No doubt ‘Republic’ is a Barbadian bank, C&W, Digicel, Parkland, Massey, Banks, Sagicor, and all the damned Hotels are also ‘Barbadian’.. ???

    If we are being led by such idiots, it is no wonder that the REAL albino-centrics of this world are decending on Brassbados like the vultures that they are…

    Isaiah 3 EXACTLY details the plight of Brassbados as we speak…

    Vs. 12 for example, is SO current and accurate that it SHOULD be instructive…
    “Youths oppress my people, and women rule over them. My people, your leaders mislead you; they confuse the direction of your paths.”

    …and vs 11
    “ Woe to the wicked!
    Disaster is upon them!
    They will be paid back
    for what their hands have done..”

    But BEST of all, is vs 10…
    “Tell the righteous it will be well with them,
    for they will enjoy the fruit of their deeds.”

    What a time to be around…!!


  26. What the developers need to do is provide an EIA in which the geological challenges have been explored and the ways of mitigating them are laid out.


  27. 1950s and 60s. The Holetown monument had a sweet lime fence around it.

    There was a flamboyant tree on the north side.


  28. So wait the sale gone through already then? Cause based on the wording it appears the sale has occured.

    Can anyone confirm the status of this transaction factually?


  29. Re: Forgetting the God of Abraham
    Abrahamic religions are Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Rastafari

    [Data on wwwiii was grabbed from the net but nobody wins, everyone loses with mass destruction and/or radioactive fallout]

    Tribulation Time Revelation Time
    No bother with the fuss or fight
    Let us all unite in Jah Jah sight


  30. @Bush Tea

    Isn’t ICBL a PRIVATE company owned by a non Barbadian?


  31. @Hants

    Was there a protest when the lime fence and flamboyant tree were removed?


  32. Well if what I am hearing here is already unfolding in terms of a sale, we as a country have a much bigger problem than the Holetown issue. We have seen the state move on Mrs Ram’s land to facilitate a private investor’s wishes and now the sacrifice of one of the last pieces of west coast beach front state land for another ” friend of our country.” What more wunna need to see happen so as to understand the future plans for OUR island?

    As Barrow said “you will wake up one day and find you living in someone elses country.” These words were spoken well over 40 years ago by him and at the time many laughed and called him an alarmist.


  33. World war 3 ? No Deal!!!Trump just kick Zelensky out of the white house.


  34. Well, if Mottley laughs, we’ll wonder what the Americans are doing.

    Are we even worthy of laughts?

    Today, Drumpf threw Zelenski out of the White House after a bar fight reminiscent of Drumpf’s appearance on WRF.

    Why are so many sleeping comfortably, sleep walking even, when at the centre of empire the shiiite is hitting the fan, has hit the fan!

  35. NorthernObserver Avatar

    David
    You must be poking?
    ICBL is a public company, traded on the BSE, with Poulin the controlling majority owner +/-58%. Memory says after buying his share, he attempted to buy out the minority shareholders, and it failed. I think the NIS is one of the larger minority holders.


  36. Why not sell off government headquarters on Bay Street too, certainly has a pristine view of the Caribbean Sea. While we’re at it, why not move the road too. Put this road under the sea, or in the air, make cars fly as is an innovation LOL


  37. Thanks NO, ignorant about these things.

  38. NorthernObserver Avatar

    The Nation ‘Editorial’ above, is about as questioning as it gets in the local press.
    They forgot the new dental centre in St.Lucy, which from memory also had a hotel. And isn’t the. group building at Six Men’s where Niki was, not said to be building at Paradise.


  39. @ Pachamama

    You may be warmer that you think with regard to government head quarters. After all that beach is hot property now with new condos going up on the south end of the beach and Maloney allegedly building a Hotel to the North end. Why doesnt the party take up the land where the espenade is and see if they cant find another “friend of the island” to build there? After all if you selling off all state owned beach front land why stop at Holetown?


  40. John A

    Our joint and underlying argument is that what this government is doing is just another permentation of what OSA did, selling everything to pay bills as he said.

    This determination is at least irrational, unsustainable and ignorant. Shows clearly, that we’ve not even developed, mentally, beyond the 1960s given that we have no national idea for the future, absent tourism. As a result we have decided to eat the cultural feedstock by selling everything.

    Is this what we had to give Mottley the vote and watch her doing? We’ve always seen this, nothing new here!


  41. Wunna ain’t realize yet that these people do not possess the CAPACITY to do any better than to sell our birthrights in order to get a bowl of food (and a BMW) today..?

    It is exactly like a brothel, where the boss is convinced that selling the bodies of those there is a great achievement – ‘cause they are hungry ..and they gotta eat..’.

    The idea of going out and planting they OWN food looks ridiculous to them – because they have NEVER done any such things themselves ….., and because they have champaign taste even with their mauby pockets. So they need EASY ‘BIG WORKS’, …BIG WORLD STAGES, …and MULTI Million dollar ‘solutions’ to satisfy their egos.

    So even where some of the brothel inhabitants may have talents to grow their own food, and even to build a little donkey cart, the conceited powers-that-be can be relied on to crush such efforts – in favor of deals with the various ‘Devils’ – such as the IMF / IDB/ WHO, the wealthy invaders – such as ICBL, SAGICOR, and Massey, and the local ‘Judas – handelers’ – such as the “$6Million per year pensioner”…

    The uptick in murders, crime, poverty, and hopelessness is merely a CONSEQUENCE of such lack of vision in high places…. and of the youth now doing as they SEE, and not as they are expected to do…

    If THIS is not a state of SOCIETAL DEATH… then tell Bushie what could be worse.

    What a place !!


  42. @ Pachamama

    What I find most insulting is that we are told dont worry about losing the Holetown site cause ” we going left a little track so you could still get to the beach.” So we as Bajans must get a little path to our beach while the foreigner looks down at us from his grand structure and laughs? Is that what we are to call political representation in 2025? So wait who the hell wunna serving, clearly not the Bajan public that elected you and pays your salary every month!

    Barbados it seems can now make the claim to being the first country in the caribbean to have an elected dictatorship form of governance. Congrats Bim you are now truly punching above your weight!


  43. @ John A
    One thing you have to say about the PM…

    She knows who to turn to …when they need to Doo Shiite….


  44. Listened to Minister of Tourism Ian Gooding-Edhill in a recent interview poo poing the uncertainty created by Trump 2.0. His claim is that Barbados has a contingency plan if there is fallout in travel from N. American market. What exactly does he mean? It is interesting to register his confidence although others in the international arena are not as confident.

    https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20250224-how-trumps-new-policies-could-change-travel


  45. John A

    Of course, Mottley is batting on a wicked long prepared by Jack Dear.

    Recall, in the seventies it was Dear, as tourism board official, who sought to institutionalize this practice of removing publics to elsewhere.

    It was Gabby who had to then had to push him back.

    Of course, now both Gabby and the people, by their voting of recent, are both wholly owned subsidiaries of the Mia Mottley machinery of an elected dictatorship.

    The spectre is that all future Barbados governments will continue these anti-revolutionary, class collaborations.

    There is no social space remainding, absent a violent revolution.


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    William Skinner

    There have been hints about removing government headquarters for some time. The reason for removing the geriatric hospital , is to transform that entire area stretching back to Chelsea Road So, we will have to wait and see if this plan will go forward.


  48. @William

    And relocating the Barbados Defence Force.

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