Where and to Whom in Barbados can a Barbadian Black man from the blue collar working class (now an old age pensioner) complain to and seek redress from, pertaining to illegal actions by a White British ex-pat who in 2002 created a private road across, within and along a watercourse bed. Even if such actions were carried-out with permission from
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Mr. Mark Cummins Permanent Secretary Ministry Of Transport, Works and Maintenance The Pine St. Michael May 22, 2019 Dear Mr. Cummins Please accept this 5th letter only by email Sir, With no acknowledgement from you to date, from my 4 previous email letters to your official email address at MTW&M, and due to the facts that as a victim of
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Prime Minister Hon Ms. Mia Amor Mottley QC MP. Government Headquarters Bay Street, St. Michael May 14, 2019 Dear Hon. Prime Minister ‘ Please accept this 2nd letter only by email Hon. Prime Minister, With no responses to date I am again requesting your intervention in obtaining an urgent remedy pertaining to an illegally placed private road across,
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Dr. The Hon. William F. Duguid, J.P., M.P Ministry of Transport Works and Maintenance The Pine, St. Michael May 6, 2019 Dear. Hon. Minister Duguid Please accept this 2nd letter only by email Dr. The Hon. William F. Duguid, J.P., M.P this is my second request to you seeking rectification, to an illegally built private road across, within, and along
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Mr. Mark Cummins Permanent Secretary Ministry Of Transport, Works And Maintenance The Pine St. Michael April 10,2019. Please Accept 3rd letter Only By Email Dear Mr. Cummins This email is to inform the Ministry of Transport, Works and Maintenance, through you, that unless I get a response I will be seeking recourse from the Law Courts of Barbados. I
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27 March 2019. Hon. Mia Mottley, QC., M.P Prime Minister Minister of Finance, Economic Affairs and Investment Government Headquarters Bay St, St. Michael Dear, Hon. Prime Minister I have refrained in the past years from seeking a political intervention at the highest. But must do so now. Hon. Prime Minister, I am requesting your intervention for an urgent rectification
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Submitted by SSS Alden Blackman has been pleading for 15 years for help involving flooding in his native home village in Barbados known as Clarke’s Gap. The story can be found on Barbados Underground, where Mr Blackman has provided a detail account of the events leading up to the floods that threatens his property. What should be of interest to
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Submitted by Alden Blackman Why would Grenville Phillips, a Qualified Engineer contradicts a facts as to the Dangerous situation posed by a Watercourse in Clarke’s Road St. James? I received a message from Mr Phillips Monday – he stated, “I am aware of the situation, and investigated the problem. The main problem is that someone constructed a masonry wall inside
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One comment posted to the Nation newspaper Online edition (see below) summarizes the plight of Arden Blackman from Clark’s Road, St. James. The story of Arden Blackman has been ventilated on Barbados Underground, Facebook and there was a piece done by Roy Morris before he was fired by the Nation newspaper. It boggles the mind that a government elected to
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Submitted by Alden Blackman Sir, this is the second time in the past 15 years the BLP is the Government of Barbados and you as a Minister and MP for St. James Central. Yet with the knowledge of and repeated promises, you have failed to obtain a correction to the dangerous situation of an “illegal encroachment” by an Ex-pat White land
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The actions by MTW officials affiliated with a DLP Minister has allowed a reportedly wealthy and WHITE landowner by the name of PAT BRAYSHAW of Palm Paradise Guest House and Apartment in Chapel Gap, Paynes Bay, St. James to make an illegal pathway across a known watercourse located between Chapel Gap and Clarke’s Road, St. James. Boulders were utilized
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Minister of Drainage Denis Lowe needs to go. There has been no improvement in the task to alleviate flooding in Barbados since his appointment. In fact, it has gotten worse. Surely it is time for commonsense to prevail and for the Prime Minister to give the opportunity to another person to bring a fresh approach to the job? Unfortunately we
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Submitted by Alden Blackman February 15, 2016 Mr. Frank Thornhill Chief Technical Officer (CTO) Ministry Of Transport and Works (MTW) After months of leaving several messages, I finally got the opportunity to have a conversation with you on Wednesday 3rd February 2016, during which you acknowledge there is an illegal private road obstructing the watercourse at Clarke’s Road, Derricks, St.
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The following letter dispatched to Minister of Drainage Denis Lowe – AldenBlackman_Lowe 05/08/2015 Dr. the Hon. Denis Lowe, M.P.[…]
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