Hey – Don’t Forget About The E.U. Sugar Subsidy Either!
What a joke… The government’s BLP Blog is featuring a story about how the Government of Barbados no longer begs for foreign aid as it did under the DLP 20 years ago.
That’s the BLP Blog story. (link here)
I guess nobody told that to Senior Minister Billie Miller and other government members who are prattling on and on in the latest Nation News about how Barbados deserves some of that United Nations’ loot to fight drug trafficking and HIV/AIDS.
And let’s not forget the EU Sugar Subsidy blowup last year or all those government press releases about how wonderful the Chinese are to give Barbados such “gifts” as police and military equipment.
We have always been a beggar nation and it isn’t going to get any better with the debt load from all those mega-projects of the last ten years.
That, my friends, is reality.
Story link…
The Nation News: More Help In Drug Fight Likely
7 Comments
August 6, 2007 at 4:16 pm
This Government
(any government, in any country,for that matter)
is not beyond begging,
or getting into bed with The Right Person,
as long as The Price Is Right.
Errol Walton Barrow once described this his nation as a nation of MENDICANTS.
Pay attention, y’all!
August 6, 2007 at 11:13 pm
BFP
The BLP blog is not worth reading. It would be better to quote what was said on the blog. Check for yourself and see that hardly a comment is ever made on that site.
And when one is made it is by the resident scribe one “Jay”.
And you want us to view the link? What for? Nothing written there is enlightening in any way.
Sorry, BFP.
August 6, 2007 at 11:30 pm
The BLP and DLP blogs are like their columns in the newspapers. People just gloss over them. To be quite honest I find myself reading the PEP column because at least they attempt to tackle the issues.
August 7, 2007 at 12:37 am
Roger Rabbitt
Jay used to comment here. Think we ran him/her if it is the same Jay.
August 7, 2007 at 3:51 pm
The PM finds himself between a rock and a hard place with his timing of the elections, early thoughts of calling one right after CWC got blown out of the water with a dreadful hosting of CWC but this should not have prevented him from making the call as his senior minister Noless Lynch said that it was our finest hour obviously Lynch and Owing are not seeing eye to eye on the success as Lynch would state or utter failure as Owing would state CWC was.
Then we have the issues with corruption and stealing and moraless behaviour of those within his cabinet where he maybe waiting for scandals to fade away before carrying them into an election with so many scandals fresh in the memory of the electorate such as GEMS / JAWS, $ 300 million prison, the mega costing bath, the slot machine deal with Owing and Nicholls,the change of use of lands for a fee to Owing and company, the Glyne Clarke land use issue, the issue of non nationals taking control of our island and erecting barriers to our free movement, the issue of non national breaking the law and employing Chinese workers but not being fined as most others would have been done, like the paid arrangement between Owing and Pemberton for favours to be granted at a price but the public got charged up on the issue and set the cat among the pigeons, or the non national who breaks the law by erecting a chain across the road but then gets selected as our counsel to Gremany none other than Mrs Sixt from Queens Fort drive, the flyovers and many many others.
I have news for him, did he not get the message of cropover this year not a singlel Calypso said a single good word about he, Mottley, Lynch, Clarke, Marshall, Wood, Eastmond not one of them in his cabinet got away without attack in calypso, if this alone is any indication as to extent of peoples anger at this adminstration they will be lucky to return even a single seat in the house, people are so annoyed and hurt by this bunch for raping this country that they want the opportunity to rebel and speak with their X.
Never before have a group of politicians willfully set about to rape the treasury to this extent as these bastards have done and they have the gall to tell people they need another 5 years, to do what rape more ?
It seems to me any number can play but his worry ought not to be the timing but moreso cleaning out the evidence of his stealing from his office draws.
The timing is no longer an issue here the result will be the same, defeat now or six months down the line the outcome will be the same, so realistically lets have him call the elections and return this nation to a real and working democracy free of this level of corruption
August 7, 2007 at 6:03 pm
Listen, they had a band from St. Peter headed by Mackie Holder’s (PM’s no 2 bag man) daughter , called Wednesday 2000 which was supposedly portraying Barbadian character traits – liars, horners etc. Someone looked amongst those in the section entitled Liars and asked where was the Barbados cabinet?
August 7, 2007 at 8:06 pm
Cat Eyes, Liars, Drunks and Gay and Lesbian they would have represented the cabinet well.
Mackie Holder is a distant second to Nicholls in relation to holding the money bag.