I though that one of a qualifications of being a Prime Minister is that one had to be a woman or wife beater.

…anyway building on my premise that the GoB sees fighting “economic weakness” as the direction to go, and the Oppostions sees “fighting inflation” as the better way to go, and that the former is the approach of the US FEDS while the latter is the approach of the Europeans. Here is a report for you to decide

“Europe’s Economy Takes a Hit
By Marcus Walker in Berlin, Joellen Perry in Frankfurt and Jonathan House in Madrid
Word Count: 1,428 | Companies Featured in This Article: Martinsa-Fadesa, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group
Just a few weeks ago, Europe thought it could escape the worst of the global slowdown. Now it looks like the euro zone, the world’s second-largest economy, is headed for a hard landing and perhaps recession, compounding growth troubles around the world.

On Tuesday, Spain suffered its largest-ever business failure as construction group Martinsa-Fadesa SA, a company with assets of €10.8 billion, or about $17.17 billion, filed for bankruptcy protection, making it the biggest victim so far of Europe’s bursting real-estate bubbles. That same day, the euro, boosted by the central bank’s inflation-fighting efforts and fears of financial-sector fragility in …”

Is Mia wrong and David right? only time will tell.

they should be monitoring this blog in any case

if they are talking about wire tapping and all of that, they are monitoring this blog.

this blog is a source of information so dont put it past the police. they are some very intelligent policemen

ADRIAN HINDS !

ROBOT does not lie unless what was fed to the ROBOT is a lie

ROBOT -DOES -NOT- LIE
ROBOT -is correct-about the men on the block and what was said
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So Robot which is more importanct to you?

to be a patriotic law abiding Barbadian?
or to be a partisan political diehard?

Will you inform the police about the intent of the guys on the block ?
Or will you ignore hoping it has the effect of destablizing the Gob?

The Term pass would allow them unlimited bus rides (including the weekend even if they aren’t in school clothes). This would mean that the Transport Board would still be making money while the parents have a more affordable means of travel for the children to and from school.

What about bus passes for adults. Charge a fixed rate for bus passes also allowing unlimited rides for 1 month. I think that alot more people would catch the Transport Board than minibuses as they would be getting more for their. Money.

THE VAT is supposed to take care of taxation and bring all those who were left out before vat , into the tax net and that is why Owen did not impose those silly taxes such as a bicycle tax as thompson has done now.

you all are too damn partisan and if this foolishness continue it is going to end in physical violence much like what happens in other countries: people refusing to be objective because they support a certain political party much like how one would support a sports team.
this is ignorance pure and simple and it bothers me. a

already in the last election we saw the emergence of the party colour awareness and with t-h-om-p-$ON’S OLD SCHOOL style politics of vitimisation and villification this situation can get worse.

we need to show some maturity
a bicycle tax ?
next time it will be dog licences because he seem to have forgotten them so the dogs barely get away but even the dogs t-h-om-p-$ON will tax in his future mugget

what with all the negative things happening in barbados: homosexuals, minibus foolishness, high prices, uncalled for taxes, immigration matters (guyanese) etc
what is going to become of sweet little bim ?

ROBOT does not lie unless what was fed to the ROBOT is a lie

ROBOT -DOES -NOT- LIE
ROBOT -is correct-about the men on the block and what was said

you cant seriously think that $2500 per professional will affect a firms bottom line especially when the average professional bills hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees a year.

do you understand that a professional accounting firm charges around $135 to $170 a day for an auditing assistant and around $300 to $450 a day for a new professional accountant.

Do you understand that for a simple non-problematic survey lasting half a day an independent surveyor will charge $800 – 1000 while a firm charges more and this is for a small one-lot survey.

do you know that engineers bill a percentage of the building cost; so imagine the fees on a 4450,000 house or a 1 million apartment building or a 20 million office complex.

Professionals are guaranteed an exclusive monopoly over certain services. There are certain functions which are mandated through legislation by government and companies and persons have to pay these professionals to perform these functions. there is therefore always a high level of demand for their services.

furthermore in the true way of man lots of professionals dont report income for the under the table jobs and some even avoid reporting income for over the table jobs.
I have a social conscience and I am a young professional from humble origins. WE CAN AFFRORD TO PAY $2000 MORE A YEAR IN FEES.

I think that they should call George Payne and Dale Marshall..the long and short of it LOL!!

Wuh wunna tink!!!

Anyway, if you all are relaxed with the increases in taxes that is your fundamental rights. But me. I damn vexed. I have nothing else to say.

Any professional coming out of Uwi can get a licence without working experience.

So any surveyor, doctor, engineer cant get a licence without working and obtaining the relevant experience.

Accountants even worse since they have to do and pass professional exams and get work experience before getting a designation. And then in order to get a practising license they then have to spend a certain amount of time in a recognised Big 4 accounting firm before they qualify. So you talking ish bout coming out of UWI and being burdened with paying for a license right away.

Secondly almost all firms which employ professionals pay their license fees for them. So most likely if you are paying yourself you are running a practice and if you are running a practice you can afford to pay $2500 a month.

finally i dont agree with you at all. What i am saying is that if you make the point of the road tax increases being too much too soon you may have a well reasoned point but it comes down to a matter of approach. u may prefer to increase the tax incrementally over 2 or 3 years until it reaches the $400 while another person may decide to increase it at once because it was too low; had not been adjusted in recent times, and was a good way to raise government revenue

The blp is worried that they going only get 4 seats next election ,Eastmond, Hammie, Payne, Clarke and even Arthur in bare trouble.