Revirginated Attorney General David Simmons became Chief Justice. Now promises to reveal SHOCKING DETAILS!!!
Last April, former Barbados Chief Justice SIR Davie-boy Simmons promised to reveal “SHOCKING DETAILS of the Government’s refusal to extend his tenure as the island’s top judicial officer two years ago.”
Okay, we’re ready SIR Davie… let ‘er rip. We’re waiting. Give us the SHOCKING DETAILS…
Hey… you promised!
Barbados Free Press 
The “shocking details” were to be published in his autobiography. It was not then completed, let alone published.
Maybe when elections are called?
There is nothing shocking about not having your tenure extended, especially when you are a poltical hack and appointee from a party out of power.
Perhaps, outrageous dress allowances for extra large sizes could have broken the country’s treasury and government officials at the Ministry of Finance under the DLP refused to process them?
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As Attorney General and then Chief Justice, Sir David only focused on the physical court. He pushed for a new building and he got that but he didn’t seem to understand that the problems in the system are many and varied. He spent millions on a new building but devoted no money to implementing modern administrative systems. He also failed to recognize that the legal profession needs the type of discipline that only judges can provide, otherwise the lawyers delay delay and delay for profit and as a strategy to win cases.
It is unconscionable that a child rape should take ten years to come to trial, or that a real estate dispute should take 21 years. Good Lord! That’s not justice that’s comedy.
Simmons is another plonker
@ Never again
“That’s not justice that’s comedy.”
It may seem comical to those looking on but is unimaginable suffering for those who are being oppressed.
@ Anon42
On ‘oppression’: yes, most certainly, if we mean those remand prisoners who are ‘oppressed’ by the misuse of the Bail Act by blinkered magistrates and police prosecutors who after months and months still haven’t got their act together. These things ARE something which can be remedied even in my lifetime.
And then of course there’s Raul Garcia………………….
Barbados is becoming a place I don’t recognise anymore. The changes in the last five or ten years seem exponential and I’m not only talking the physical changes and building projects. I’m talking about the attitudes of people everywhere. There is a gloom and a resentment like we’ve been cheated of something but we’re not sure what or how. It happened when we weren’t looking is all I can say. Someone else can probably express what I feel with more eloquence.
@ A time for pause
You expressed it very well but be mindful that many people have been cheated of something and do know what and how.
I am not thrilled at the prospect of losing all the money I have faithfully contributed to National Insurance all my working life, 36 years. I still have too many years before I qualify for NIS pension. How many thousands of people are in this same position? Are we confident that the fund is being administered well?
I feel for those people affected by the CLICO Ponzi scheme which will not only affect them but their families also, for a long time to come. We are told that this is 30,000 people plus their families.
How well managed are the other major insurance companies and financial institutions? How many thousands of people have religiously saved for the future with these companies? Do you trust that the audited financial statements are accurate? How many of these companies share the same auditor as CLICO?
How about the 3,000 cases backlogged in court? There have to be at least 2 parties in most of these matters. Many of us will be gone if the 19 year backlog takes another 19 years to get up to date. So what is the point?
We have not begun to talk about the businesses/people waiting for VAT legitimate refunds.
I say there is hope but we have to get our heads together to figure out what each of us can do about our situation OR we can get up every morning and be bitter, gloomy and resentful, blame everybody for everything, pull people down, do nothing and change nothing.
Anything we do may not pay off in our lifetime and we may not see any benefit but it will pay off. Just look at history, we are making history now.
Ross, Magpie all of you…here’s a scary thought…extrapolate the status quo of our largely failed Court/legal system, the thieving lawyers who are a unique social demographic (you see, no other class gets to fold, spindle, bend and mutilate the mechanisms of society …aka the Law…like lawyers)…by 10 years in the future and consider the status quo then. It will make today look like a happy day at the bitch.
SIR CROOK