@ Bushtea
It has to be in the region of $10 million per year, and this does not include other grants etc from government and overseas.
Someone should really explain how, with no less that $100m available in the last 10 years, we do not have a decent stadium, the football field is incomplete, the hockey field is down, netball is in a dump …..
You can be sure taxpayers don’t know this amount of finance goes to the BOA run by Stoute and his henchmen. Your questions are valid. Leigh Trotman the Auditor General is duty bound to investigate and give the country a report on what is done with this large sum of money. The Auditor general reported on BRA’s failure to collect $1 million in bounce cheques that’s chicken feed compared to the funds you claim BOA collects. The Minister of Sport instead of harassing the private sector ought to ask for the BOA’s balance sheet to see if the stadium can be built from that account..
@ Sports fan
Bushie was thinking that the $10M per year went to all the beneficiaries. According to the Lottery web site, “Part proceeds from The Barbados Lottery’s operations support the following Beneficiary Organizations – The Barbados Olympic Association, The Barbados Turf Club, The Barbados Cricket Association and The National Sports Club”
….perhaps the national sports club means the various sports clubs in the island.
One wonders why this kind of information is not readily available.
FIFA just fired another high official who was found to have been paying himself millions of dollars illegally. This was possible because of all the secrecy that prevailed there for years.
Of course such things never happen in Barbados…. do they?
Interestingly, Bushie has been unable to find any level of financial reporting on the Lottery website, as is also the case for most of the sports Bodies with websites….
Why the secrecy?
This sounds like a case for Due Dilligence….. 🙂
Dwayne Smith continues to earn his keep in the IPL.
DR Smith c Kohli b Chahal 73 (41b 5×4 6×6) SR: 178.04
Yes, Hants…. I agree, but would have preferred if he had not played at that ball.
@ David,
Monaco track wet. Should be an exciting race.
@Hants
A difficult track to overtake on. LH will need some luck.
Lewis got the luck and drove a brilliant race. Red Bull made a huge mistake in the pits and it cost them the race.
@Hants
Yes he got the luck for a change. Ricardo was a very disappointed man on the podium.
4 Test matches and none at Kensington Oval.
@ David,
Wha happen?????
Look’s like the Champ is facing his last bout. I’m feeling melancholy that one of the heroes of my youth is very ill in hospital. Fight the good fight Muhammad Ali.
Muhammad Ali ‘on life support and barely breathing’ as family gathers at bedside
He survived a long time given the blows received from Frazier, a legend by any definition.
Muhammad Ali ‘on life support and barely breathing’ as family gathers at bedside
WEST INDIES WIN!!!!
POLLARD AND NARINE…….Awesome!!!
The greatest is gone, sometime in the next few days I’ll retrieve my copy of “When we were Kings” and watch as a parting tribute.
Ali Bomaye!
http://www.sportsnet.ca/more/boxing-legend-muhammad-ali-dead-age-74/
I stopped watching boxing after Ali. It became too boring.
Pollard has usually, when the opportunity arises for him to come in with some overs to spare, given a good account of himself. We haven’t used him correctly over the years. Though he is not yet thirty years old he has had some serious injuries so I hope we can still get a few more years out of him in ODIs. Narine was very good even though he’s still not comfortable with his new action. If our administration could just get it’s act together so that we could have our best players together playing without heavy hearts we could at least put on a good show sometimes and rebuild hope and consequently interest. All it really takes is a little hope.
Rest in Peace Muhammad Ali
Ali and Sobers… irrefutable exemplars of African greatness.
David, this picture should be on BU’s front page until November 30, to remind us what is possible and what really matters.
“The Greatest”
Awesome pic, Mr Blogmaster. Two lions in their prime in a moment of a wonderful simple buddy relaxation.
Who knew Ali knew anything about our bat & ball…lovely.
May he now rest peacefully with his Lord.
Muhammad Ali: A god who walked among us.
The King of the Ring, one of my three sporting heroes, finally took off the fighting gloves of Life and has ascended to that great mountain in the Sky.
Sir Garfield and Edson Arantes do Nascimento (Pelé) are still with us. May the Light keep them with us for a while yet!
That’s what it means to be “Royal Black”.
I admired Muhammad Ali’s courage to speak his mind.
He epitomized a True Black man. He was proud of his Blackness. A man to idolize.
Those 2 vids posted by Ping Pong shows his brilliant mind dissecting the dirty, inferior pyschological mindset of the Cracker and his filthy system.
“I don’t serve Negroes”….Ali’s brilliant response “I don’t eat Negroes”
“I want my children to look like me” “I want my Black American Woman”
He wasn’t only a beauty on his feet he was also brilliant in the mind.
I question that Parkinson Disease Prognosis…I think his Great mind was silenced. He kept company with another brilliant mind El-Haaj Malik El Shabazz.
Travel safely Great Elder and join all the other Great Black Ancestors.
Natalie Cole started this journey at the beginning of the year and she has taken many a souls with her. Year 2016 a #9 year. A year when many cycles will be completed.
re I question that Parkinson Disease Prognosis
What bull shit!
Parkinsons is RATS
R.board like rigidity
Akinesia
T- Resting tremor …..
Shuffling or festinating gait
ALL of these symptoms which are PATHOGNOMONIC OF PARKINSON’s DISEASE were very well exhibited by Ali
re Who knew Ali knew anything about our bat & ball…lovely.
In the summer of 1966 when Sobers was rampaging over England with bat and ball Ali went there to fight Henry Cooper. Ali requested an audience with the greatest cricketer of whom he heard and read so much. He was allowed entrance to Lords to meet Sobers and his conquering team.
It is awesome the recognition world media is giving to the Ali story.
@ David,
We are getting wall-to-wall coverage of the great man’s passing. I have never witnessed so much coverage of one man’s passing. No surprise, as Ali was revered as being deity in the UK. This country was his second home.
When i was growing up in the UK the airwaves were saturated by this Negro man who strode the world stage like a colossus. We treated him like royalty in the country of my birth.
During the seventies and the eighties he was interviewed by one of the UK’s most popular TV presenter, Michael Parkinson, who dueled with him memorably during four live interviews. It was box office.
Ali’s legacy is one that we Negros should be proud of. He stood his ground and was never prepared to sell out his black people. What a man.
@Exlaimer
This is man who used his success in his sport to change the world. The same cant be said for a few of our other Black icons.
Boy, that Ali had a mouth! Great!
Ali was not perfect (nobody is) but “what a man”! He really epitomized the warrior mind. Face your battles, give it your all, give no quarter and accept the consequences of your actions. The most pleasant memories of my youth are of the moments spent with my father watching, cheering and marveling at the genius of Sobers (and the West Indies cricket team), Pele and Ali. I remember my father waking me up to watch the “rumble in the jungle”. When Ali knocked out Foreman, the neighbors would have called the Police to complain about the noise except they were making more noise!
Every Bajan schoolboy wanted to box like Ali, play football like Pele and play cricket like Sobers. The future was ours or so it seemed.
Muhammed Ali and ‘Sir’ Garfield Sobers…….Two Black Men, both reached the Pinnacle in their Sport….And it all ends here. Muhammed Ali transcended Boxing. He stood for something more honourable than Boxing or Cricket.
@ Ping Pong June 4, 2016 at 6:27 PM
“Ali was not perfect (nobody is) but “what a man”! ”
Agree Ali was not perfect. But neither is Mother Nature nor your Yahweh.
If Muhammad Ali had walked this planet 2,000 years ago maybe your friend Jesus would just be an insignificant footnote in Western history of rebellious characters.
Let us agree Ali was an incarnation of the same enlightening magnetic spirit destined to appear again sometime when.
@ David,
Right on queue. Here is an article in Sunday’s Guardian newspaper.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jun/04/how-the-british-took-muhammad-ali-to-their-hearts
In the UK we could not get enough of Ali back in the days. Check out his Parkinson’s interview on the same page.
“Ali brought Brixton to a standstill in 1974”
He came in the Morning like the Butterfly and the Bee
At Noon he entertained us with his poetry and his mastery at his Artistry
He “Danced like Butterfly and Stung like a Bee”
Sadly, the things we admired him for; his ‘Speech’ and his ‘dancing Feet’
Deserted him in the Evening of Life.
AllahuAkbar.
Viewed from the UK. Here are the headlines news.
The world’s Greatest boxer BUT a man who suffered a tremendous Inferiority Complex in spite of his ‘Black Power rants and raves. He was constantly pleading to the white-man to acknowledge him and except him…he was like a fish out of water in the presence of “his” black people BUT he was always vibrant and alive in the presence of Whites
A lot of revisionist history has been written about Muhammad Ali, there are many who claimed to have loved him but actually hated him. This was true even of some of my friends some younger some older who grew up with me in the sixties. One older friend used to say “Why did he refuse induction in the Army, he wouldn’t be sent to Vietnam instead they would make him into a “goodwill” ambassador” a la Joe Louis in WW11. Another friend hated him for his braggadocio and lived for the day that he would be pummeled in the ring. If this was true of Black Bajans imagined what it was for “white” Americans in the Vietnam era, Martin Luther King and Civil rights. Those who became “Draft dodgers” were reviled and considered unpatriotic Americans, the bulk of that war was fought by those at the bottom of society’s rungs. Those who were well to do or had other means largely escaped being drafted, GW Bush spent his time in the Texas Air National Guard and Dick Cheney had five deferments.
The hatred of Ali intensified after he declared himself a Muslim and follower of Elijah Muhammad, if Ali the boxer was unbearable, Ali the “Black Muslim” and associate of the likes of Malcolm X was toxic to a large portion of American society. Ali’s saving grace was that the majority of Black people in the USA never lost faith in him and saw him as an underdog fighting against the US Establishment. A group of Black athletes led by Jim brown held a Summit and questioned Ali about his beliefs and came to the conclusion that he was sincere and the rest of society slowly followed as they came to despise the Vietnam War.
The US always uses Sports as a seminal point in its history, from Jim Thorpe to Jesse Owens to Jackie Robinson, now Muhammad Ali joins that illustrious cast of “non white” sports figures who would have contributed to the country’s evolution.
” Little over a tenth of a second separated the top three cars in Saturday’s qualifying session
for the Formula 1 Grand Prix du Canada 2016, with pole going to Mercedes’ Lewis
Hamilton from team mate Nico Rosberg and Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel.”
The race tomorrow should be exciting.
“Hants
Are you traveling to the *Villeneuve* track? A little rain will give LH the edge.
On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 6:23 PM, Barbados Underground wrote:
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@ David I will watch the race on TV.
Can’t afford the luxury of spending a weekend in Montreal.
@ David,
Lewis wins again.Great race.
@Hants
Good race although Rosberg might not agree😎
Rosberg seems to expect Lewis to make it easy for him. Lewis is a pure racer and will not back down. Its racing at its best.
@Hants
You heard what LH said and the jig he did when he got out of the silver arrow?
#thegreatest
Yes David. He showed a lot of admiration and respect for Ali.
Lewis certainly stung Nico in the first corner and floated away. lol
Australia 265/7 (50 ov)
West Indies 266/6 (45.4 ov)
West Indies WON by 4 wickets (with 26 balls remaining)
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