49 years of Independence: 49 reasons to strike…
by John Bajan
• Late payment to mothers of child support money
• Inability to get Four season start
• Poor bus service
• Lowest sugar crop first time ever
• Poor road conditions
• Speaker of the house issue
• Laying off of public workers
• Raping of the NIS
• No solution to CLICO
• No charges to CLICO directors
• Tuition fees at UWI
• Poor parliamentary representation
• Down grading of Barbados
• No new investments
• Approving an unnecessary and expensive sugar factory
• High unemployment
• Unprecedented job losses
• Promise of $5 dollar house spots not fulfilled
• Agriculture output dwindling
• Largest ever food import bill
• Poor health care
• Non -payment of pharmacist
• No integrity legislation
• Printing of money
• Central bank losing money
• Buying of votes
• Tardiness of town planning approvals
• Credit union tax
• Withdrawal of tax and entertainment allowances
• Increase in VAT
• Non- payment of income tax refund
• Reduction of quality of school meals
• Our people leaving for greener pastures overseas
• Lack of confidence from our people and investors
• The reversal of 10 years of our growth, prosperity and pride
• Our fall of our standard of living
• The perishing of our dreams, ambitions and hopes
• Increase in crime
• No accountability from statutory boards
• No increase in salaries for 7 years
• Judiciary congestion
• Ministers travel aboard and no public knowledge of reasons for travel
• Increase in nursery fees
• Increase in one statutory agency salaries
• Ministers lack of empathy
• Dumping tax when we should be recycling
• Trade Unions lack of purpose and direction
• Reduction in welfare allotment
• Municipal waste tax
Barbados Free Press 
STRIKE!! WHAT IS NEEDED IS A REVOULOUTION AND DEMONSTRATON BY THOSE STEPPED ON INCLUDING THE YOUTH. TIENNEMAN SQUARE, BROOKLY ,BALTIME AND FURGERSON ARE PRIME EXAMPLES OF HOW THE POWER STRUCTURE RESPONDS WHEN THEY ARE EMBARRASED ON THE WORLD STAGE. NYC BTI TOURISM EMPLOYEES WERE TERMINATED AND FINANCILALY SHAFTED AND THROWN TO THE CURB. NOTHING IN THE PAST HAS WORKED AND MANY IN BGI HAS LET THE RUM AND SEA BLIND MANY INTO A STUPOR.. EVERY ONE WHO THEN ARE BUYING MILLION DOLLAR CONDOS WILL THINK AGAIN BECAUSE LIVING IN LITTLE ENGLAND IS NOW A MYTH AND SIMULAR TO THE WAY BIG us CITIES TREAT THE VOICLESS.
The price we pay for land fraud,
This is what Independence did for us, can you imagine what it will be like when we become a Republic ?
Non payment of unemployment money, people still waiting since last year.
Until Bajans wake up to what is happening in this 2X4 country we will all perish. Hurricane season starts next month, maybe we will get a RED FLAG. What a sorry lot of Politicians in have here !!!!!!!! No where else in the world citizens are treated like this unless we have a communist state, maybe that’s where we are heading !!!!! , and no word from the opposition.
the opposition trying to solve the ongoing mess created when their wicking boss not happy with having her own drug cartel teef BDS$2 million from she ex-boss which fark up the party unity and harmony coz he vex!!
Fumbles the sleeping giant thinks all is well.
Wunna questioning the sleeping giant?
Wunna want the BRA to audit Wunna ass?