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West Coast Rape Continues Unabashed

November 1, 2008 · 56 Comments

Click below to check out the high priced condominiums at Maynards Point which have stalled since the financial meltdown.

MAYNARDS POINT

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  • Nostradamus // November 1, 2008 at 9:00 am

    Where can we see the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment Study?

  • CENTIPEDE // November 1, 2008 at 10:11 am

    BU ~ I wouldn’t know nor, frankly, do I care. Any development has it’s “good” and “bad” features. This is obviously a legitimate Development, meaning all the legal formalities are seemingly in place.

    If you don’t like it, why don’t you attack the appropriate Government departments? The ‘developers’ have done nothing wrong – why are you seeking to denigrate them?

  • Anonymous // November 1, 2008 at 10:22 am

    @ CENTIPEDE

    BU ~ I wouldn’t know nor, frankly, do I care. Any development has it’s “good” and “bad” features. This is obviously a legitimate Development, meaning all the legal formalities are seemingly in place.

    If you don’t like it, why don’t you attack the appropriate Government departments? The ‘developers’ have done nothing wrong – why are you seeking to denigrate them?
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    This is precisely the kind of attitude that will lead to the recolonization of Barbados.

    When a similar onslaught started in Tobago 20 years ago, the government of Trinidad changed the laws. Only last week a Swedish couple was slaughtered in Tobago. Make the connections.

    You cannot disrupt a way of life, no matter how simplistic it may appear, all in the name of so-called development.

    What development will this marina bring?
    Land value and taxes will be artificially inflated. The villagers and our way of life will be disrupted to accommodate and influx of people who care little about our culture.

    And the list goes on.

    Just remember CENTIPEDE, that after slavery we as black bajans were sent to live on these seaside villages because the land wasnt fertile enough.
    Now the seaside villages that were too rocky are considered the new gold or the new platinum and we are being pushed back inland because the dirt on the plantation no longer has a value.

    Where will they push us next.

    Maybe they will start to listen when we kill the Swede that occupy the marinas in their yachts.

    A word to the wise is enough.

  • Anonymous // November 1, 2008 at 10:30 am

    It’s amazing that David Thompson will stop the flyoevers to gain political mileage but his hands are tied on this project.

    WTF.

    Then again, it was he who okayed the Westmoorland project.

    And somebody say that blacks rule bim.
    Who are we really fooling?

  • David // November 1, 2008 at 10:45 am

    @CENTIPEDE

    As individuals we are all personally responsible for our actions. We hope that by highlighting the main actors in the desecration of our coastline it might act as a two-edged argument. We have lambasted the previous government and we continue to be concern that the incumbent is playing the same tune.

  • CENTIPEDE // November 1, 2008 at 12:23 pm

    David … what do you mean by ‘desecration?’ There can be no ‘development’ if there is no ‘desecration.’

    I would agree it is repugnant to find the ‘windows to the sea’ shutting, one after the other … however who’s ‘fault’ is it? ALL ‘DEVELOPMENTS’ MUST TAKE PLACE WITHIN THE STATUTES OF THE LAW.

    One is left to wonder… if the ‘developers’ were ‘black’ would there be the same venom expressed?

    I suggest you start coming down on the policy makers, on the people who “make the laws” -THESE ARE THE ONES to censure … not the persons who operate within the law.

  • Wishing In Vain // November 1, 2008 at 12:39 pm

    I would think that we all will agree that in these difficult economic times we WILL need projects such as big development ones to carry the work force thru the lean period.

    To this end I commend the gov’t for having the wisdom and foresight to embark upon the awarding of contracts to erect office buildings in Warrens, if by extension the phase 2 of the Marina is approved it is a sign of the times that we need to keep the money rolling over and the efforts of the gov’t to faciliate this process are positive and forward thinking.

    However under a different economic condition I would agree that maybe the Marina could be shelved but I feel strongly that under these present conditions and where we have private investors coming forward to commit their funds towards keeping Barbadians employed and off the streets we need to press ahead with ANY PROJECT THAT CREATES JOBS FOR BARBADIANS.

  • Anonymous // November 1, 2008 at 12:42 pm

    @ CENTIPEDE

    You obviously dont understand how power works or the nature of elites?

    To say it’s done within the statutes of the law doesnt make it right.
    Laws can be challenged.

    But herein lies the irony, 600o Bajans have signed a petition to protect Graeme Hall Swamp and this is quite admirable. Yet the vast majority of us remain silent on issues like this marina.

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    “There can be no ‘development’ if there is no ‘desecration.’ ”

    If you really believe this then this is a very scary proposition.

  • Nostradamus // November 1, 2008 at 1:01 pm

    @WIV
    Where can we see the EIA?

  • Wishing In Vain // November 1, 2008 at 1:06 pm

    Nostradamus relax you died many years ago, we are now in 2008.

    I can assure nothing will or can be done without all the approvals being in correct order, so do not get your knickers in a twist over this.

    More imporatnly is for all of us to attempt to attract major investment into the island at this time, you go play your part to please.

  • David // November 1, 2008 at 1:14 pm

    @WIV

    We are not that simple to not understand that we require development and that we need to welcome foreign investment. But a drive along the West Coast should be evidence enough that enough is enough! There are also enough reports to support the destruction of the coral and the reefs by boats in and out of marinas. We continue to be concerned that a marina caters to a select view and expands the tourist model which from the Prime Minister’s own lips this week he has concerns about carving Barbados up for the tourism actors.

    We also have concerns about the lack of transparency about how these projects are unravelling an if what you say is true then it supports the business as usual perception which is growing currency in some quarters. The ground is being cleared away for godsakes!

    We join in asking for the EIS which we understand is a prerequisite for such projects.

    @CENTIPEDE

    Drive along the West Coast when you have a chance. It is the most depressing thing a Barbadian who loves Barbados can do.

  • xenophobe chick // November 1, 2008 at 1:32 pm

    This Six Mens Marina is the second case of scandalous rape in the same district.

    Directly above, overlooking the illegal marina is a development calling itself “Maynard’s Point.”

    When construction started it advertised itself as “48 Luxury Apartments and Condos in a New lifestyle development overlooking the Caribbean Sea.”

    The companies involved? PIMENTO, BAJAN SERVICES & KNIGHT FRANK.

    Some months ago when the money ran out – or the banks pulled the plug – all work stopped.

    Now there are 48 half-finished ruins in a state of decay, littering the island.

    In it’s present state it’s ideal for homeless squatters prepared to rough it a bit and with a bit of creativity the government could complete it cheaply to help to alleviate the island’s current housing shortage.

  • The Scout // November 1, 2008 at 1:34 pm

    When I drive on the west coast now, I feel as though I’m trespassing on Upmarket property. I really feel sorry for those nice people in Six Mens. Where will the road go now?

  • Technician // November 1, 2008 at 1:37 pm

    Wishing In Vain // November 1, 2008 at 1:06 pm

    Nostradamus relax you died many years ago, we are now in 2008.

    I can assure nothing will or can be done without all the approvals being in correct order, so do not get your knickers in a twist over this.

    More imporatnly is for all of us to attempt to attract major investment into the island at this time, you go play your part to please.
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    If I didn’t know better, I would think WIV is a BLP supporter. You sure sound like them a few years ago……guess it is your party’s turn to feed at the ‘trough’ now.

  • CENTIPEDE // November 1, 2008 at 1:46 pm

    Anonymous— perhaps we are not in accord with the sematics of the word ‘desecration.’ I’m sorry if I dint make myself clear enough.

    You could not have a new Hilton Hotel unless you demolished (desecrated) the old one. You could not build the highway as it was… unless the Government acquired and tore down (desecrated) my house … which they did.

    You cannot have expansion of a particular project unless the area of the news expansion is cleared, ‘desecrated’ … etc. etc/

    I think any primary school girl or boy can understand this.

    BTW – that many Barbadians have signed on to protect Graeme Hall and none on the Marina simply means: they do not think it such a bad idea.

    ———————————————–

    To David… I’m glad you’re catching on, at last, that it’s the policy makers who write the laws — and the people at T & C — who should be guardians of our heritage.

  • Anonymous // November 1, 2008 at 2:02 pm

    @ CENTIPEDE

    If that’s your definition of desecration then I rest my case.

    Cant debate wid you if you change de meaning of words. But hey, language is a dynamic thing, so what if u desecrate it?

  • CENTIPEDE // November 1, 2008 at 2:22 pm

    Yes, I’m sorry Anonymous… it did not use the word ‘desecrate’ in it’s proper connoctation. I apologize.

  • NO MORE MARINAS EVER AGAIN // November 1, 2008 at 2:36 pm

    A top Barbadian banker told me Maynard’s Point went bankrupt because of the British economic collapse.

    People who signed-up to buy withdrew for lack of cash.

    Unless the government steps in to protect a beautiful nature zone as well as the people living peacefully in the charming little fishing village of Six Mens can we hope the West Coast rapists will think twice about building a marina that will go bankrupt half-way through for lack of solvent buyers.

    @ The Scout

    The plunderers are already getting ready to close the bridge. Be warned my friends.

  • Anonymous // November 1, 2008 at 6:15 pm

    Where Maynard’s Point is?

  • Krzysztof Skubiszewski // November 1, 2008 at 7:04 pm

    Bajans continue to believe through some divine intervention the island will be spared the ravages of the current Force 10 Global Economic Hurricane.

    Maynards Point is evidence to the contrary. And if you go to the website linked above although they don’t tell you you’ll see all the other Pimento projects in Barbados are “suspended.”

    They are not the only ones desperately strapped for cash.

    In case you haven’t been reading the British Press recently not only are millions of people there worth less than their property – otherwise known as “Deep in Debt!” – but overseas holidays this winter are 30% down on 2008 and many travel agents are shutting down for lack of business.

    If you don’t believe me ask Bajan hoteliers and the airlines serving the island.

    Not everything is gloomy however. This recession gives Barbados time to start a new strategy.

    Return the island to its original beauty.

    Invest in public works to plant more trees, preserve nature swamps, open accesses to the sea, dump sand to revitalise beaches, ban any building over two floors high within a mile of the water’s edge, etc. etc.

    And when British and American people are once again worth more than their property Barbados can advertise, “Like you we thought the boom would never end. We almost ruined our island jewel but we’ve learned our lesson and now we’re more beautiful than ever before.”

    Adding, “We won’t let t happen again.”

  • xenophobe chick // November 1, 2008 at 7:10 pm

    @ Anonymous – take the road from Mile and A Quarter to Highway 1 and you can’t miss it. While you’re there check-out the Six Mens Marina too.

  • Anonymous // November 1, 2008 at 7:48 pm

    Ok…

  • Anonymous // November 1, 2008 at 7:55 pm

    Seems like the Pimento group got a hot pimento up their ass.

    Well no one likes to lose money in business and I cannot advocate wallowing in the demise of business but the speculation of real estate in Barbados must come to an end.

    The negatives far outweigh the positives. If these same investors were to invest in affordable middle and low income housing projects and give bajans modernized communities that are in sync with our culture and protective of the environment, they’d find that their investments would be equally rewarding.

    But easy comes easy goes.

    “Not everything is gloomy however. This recession gives Barbados time to start a new strategy.”

    One couldnt agree with this statement more.

    Any smart Caribbean government would use this opportunity to push a different developmental agenda.

  • The Scout // November 1, 2008 at 9:17 pm

    The locals were run from the inland by the wealthy to use the land for agriculture. After that became unprofitable, they are now running us from of the beach but they are not releasing the inland, they are building golf courses. Tell Me , where will my offspring live?

    Can I make a suggestion? Will one or more of these filthy rich investor/owners, please give ALL working bajans a tax free year as repperation for what is stolen so far and then leave the rest of the land for us are our children.

  • The Scout // November 1, 2008 at 9:22 pm

    Can I make a suggestion? Will one or more of these filthy rich investor/owners, please give ALL working bajans a tax free year as repperation for what is stolen so far and then leave the rest of the land for us are our children.

  • David // November 1, 2008 at 11:03 pm

    Back in September we wrote the blog Wall Street Meltdown May Affect Barbados West Coast Real Estate Out Of Control Development. At the time it seemed an obvious link to make but we were challenge by some and told that our analysis was weak. Maybe we did not do a good job of connecting the dots of our analysis but if we are to judge what is happening as at today we feel vindicated. Why do our government surrender to this type of investment which does not feed sustainable development? Cuba in the 50’s, Jamaica and of recent times Spain are examples. Why don’t we learn? There was a public cry when former minister Lynch started to aggressively convert hotel room stock and other properties to condos.
    The development of our industries must be guided by a Master plan which must balance how our resources are distributed for the good of ALL

  • Tourism Monkey // November 1, 2008 at 11:50 pm

    I’ve spoken to quite a few property managers of these condos and townhouses well before the economic crisis and most of them already thought that they did not have a great chance.

    Can you believe that?

    Here we have people, who are working for entities that have removed our beautiful windows to the sea and taken our views of these fields and hills beyond recall and made them their own, that by their own admission know that their condos may never all sell or command the top dollar.

    The 1st question I’ve always asked after was “Why not?” and each time, the answer was the same, “Because there is too much competition.” i.e. too much other condos and townhouses.

    When will it all end?

    When will we finally wake up and realise that one of us has to get up and lead the charge to get back our lands, preferably legally?

    When will we start to come together and support a cause which allows the rest of Barbados to understand the folly that we have allowed for too long?

    When will we start to give a damn about our homeland?

    Hopefully….

    …before it’s too late.

  • no name // November 2, 2008 at 7:10 am

    Tourism Monkey,

    It is already too late.

    As I said before, the average Bajan is too complacent. There is no team effort. The horse has bolted.

  • Bush tea // November 2, 2008 at 9:50 am

    You can usually identify a people by their national motto. In the USA they profess that ‘In God we trust….’ when we all know their trust is in their dollar.

    In Barbados, ours is about ‘Pride and industry…’

    What Pride and Industry what?!?

    What mirror image can a people have, who would sell off their very birth rights of their best lands and their way of life to strangers who happen to be rich?

    What mirror image can Bajans have when we defer to Chinese and Guyanese to become our ‘national builders?

    What kind of pride depends on the favours of rich foreigners to ‘bring development?

    After 14 years of being pissed of by Owen Arthur’s selling us like prostitutes to the highest bidder, some of us had hoped for a new vision and a new sense of PRIDE from the DLP. ,,,but may be this is too much to expect when so many of us cannot see any other way -besides our bending over for rich folks – to be nationally successful.

    …there can be no worse curse for a nation- than to loose its self respect…. and in our case here in Barbados, we seem to take the cake in this regard.

  • The People's Democratic Congress // November 2, 2008 at 10:09 am

    Every where we in PDC go – Bolton Lane, Swan Street, Independence Square, Sheraton Centre, Oistins, Dears Land, Husbands New Development, Dayrell’s Road, Carters, on this blog, on the telephone ( and more is to come soon), we are spreading the word around – that the time for DLP and BLP Governments being elected in this country must come to an end – and hundreds upon hundreds of people in those and other places and in those exchanges are accepting such and are thinking that there is a need for other parties to rise to the occasion and be elected into government.

    The fact is that now is the apppropriate time for the majority of adult citizens to recognize too that the stupid and backward acts/omissions by DLP and BLP Governments – like the allowing for elite thugs – locals and foreigners – to be outlandishly wilfully destroying the way of life of citizens in many places – like Six Mens, and to be mindlessly destroying portions of the natural topography environment of the island – e.g. Batts Rock – just for commercial reasons – CAN ONLY ONCE AND FOR ALL COME TO AN END, with the utter dismissal of the idea and practice of these pro-elite pro-rich DLP and BLP Governments.

    The masses and middle classes MUST realize that – now more than ever – at this time of vicious recession, deprivation and dreadness in Barbados – is the right time to be using ALL legal means at our disposal to begin ridding this country of these DLP and BLP Governmental malevolents.

    This is indeed the right time!!For, who in their right senses could have somtime ago given instructions to destroy that old “slave” hut in Rock Hall, St. Thomas, and, indeed, who in their right senses could have recently gone and substantially destroyed it. Which government department is it that had NOT for the legal swiftness of lawyer/politician Mr. Douglas Trotman and the determination of the Woodroffe family would have gone in Speightstown some time ago and destroyed the former home of the late Roland Edwards?

    But, NOT a word publicly – at least for us in PDC to hear – on these outrages from the fairly forgetful Minister responsible for Town and Country PLANNING, who prefers to talk in vague meaningless indirect language sometimes on land redistribution and development issues – (paraphrasing him) – “NOT EVERY INCH OF LAND ON THE WEST COAST WILL BE FOR TOURISM DEVELOPMENT” (huh?); “THE LEAST FERTILE, DRY, LAND SLIPPING EAST COAST WILL HOWEVER REMAIN THE PATRIMONY OF BARBADIANS” – even as the inconsistency/contradiction is being given rise to by him that private local and foreign developer can PLUNDER – only up to an inch – in regard of the west coast, and can plunder as much as the south coast for tourism/-related purposes! What more trash with regard to this government’s policy on tourism/land development, having moved from that joker – Owen Arthur’s insensate government policy that land should fetch its highest economic value!!??

    This time is really and truly the right time to STOP electing DLP and BLP Giovernments in this country.

    PDC

  • The People's Democratic Congress // November 2, 2008 at 10:19 am

    Inadvertence – paragraph 2, second last line, insert “electing” between “of” and “these”.

    PDC

  • Nostradamus // November 2, 2008 at 10:25 am

    WIV

    Nostradamus lives!

    I respect you as a one who knows and sees all so please tell us:

    Was an Environmental and Social Impact Assessment Study (EIA) required?

    Was it done?

    If it was where can it be viewed?

    Your party came to office on a platform of open and transparent government.

  • David // November 2, 2008 at 10:44 am

    Many political analysts in the USA now say that presidential hopeful McCain made a huge mistake when he suspended his political campaign to go to Washington in the post Wall Street meltdown which is still with us. He made that unprecedented decision to agree with the status quo some say.

    Now it seems the legacy of President Bush is firmly wrapped around McCain’s neck because he is being perceived as the one to perpetuate Bush’s policies.

    The not too subtle parallel we wish to make is that the new DLP government has the opportunity\mandate to be the driver to a new order. It is with interest we read the Sunday Sun back page and was not surprise to read Ambassador Dennis Kelman’s summary of some of the problems being caused by the open door immigration policy being by the former government. Peter Wickham et al should be very aware of how his liberal ideas can lead to destruction of the brand which Barbadians have laboured to build.

    The BU family warned Barbados about the fallout to the immigration problem and we will add another warning to the new government

    Beware the emasculation of the Bajan pride.

  • Partial // November 2, 2008 at 11:15 am

    Welcome back, Bush Tea.

    I missed you.

  • permres // November 2, 2008 at 11:45 am

    I thought I would bring this to everyone’s attention here. There are already two good comments, I tried but do not seem to be able to get registered with Times Online.

    I wanted to ask if these named wealthy owners would also say the term “private beach” is incorrect, and say to us all to come there and enjoy the beaches, and provide easy access for doing so.

    http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/construction_and_property/article5063201.ece

  • J // November 2, 2008 at 1:40 pm

    “An enclave of Brazilians in testing insular Japan” Interesting immigration story from today’s New York Times

    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/world/asia/02japan.html

  • Tourism Monkey // November 2, 2008 at 1:48 pm

    I always have this argument with my friends whenever we bring up the topics touched on here:

    “Suppose ’someone’ came to your house one day and offered you 15 times what you knew your property was worth, what would you think?”

    Next question:
    “What would you do?”

  • David // November 2, 2008 at 1:55 pm

    @Tourism Monkey

    Relevant but unfair questions. We are unaware that we practice an unbridled free market approach in Barbados. Our country has been built on a more socialist approach and the government remains committed to this approach approach based on PM Thompson’s utterance at his most recent press conference.

    The government if it is committed to a socialist approach must be prepared to intervened in the scenario you just described.

  • Tourism Monkey // November 2, 2008 at 2:16 pm

    But how can it?

    Like I said, suppose a “realtor” comes to you and says we’d like to offer you way more than market value for your property.

    You think, well I always wanted that other piece of land out by X. You say, “Why not?” and sell. How can anyone, including government, come and stop you from selling this land?

    Truth is, as you would know from all my other posts, I hate it just as much as anyone else but individual people, making individual decisions, put us in the situation that we are in now.

  • Whistling Duck // November 2, 2008 at 3:13 pm

    The marina is obviously not for local fishing boats. Who is it for?

    Unless you are an intrepid sailor, where can you easily sail to and from Barbados?

    Perhaps it will be a docking station for St Vincent speed boats!

  • ru4real // November 2, 2008 at 3:25 pm

    WIV

    What a pooch licker!

  • sarahpalin // November 2, 2008 at 3:40 pm

    @ Tourism Monkey

    The problem isn’t how much people are prepared to pay for your property. It’s what the government allows the buyer to build on it.

    In many beloved tourist destinations all over the world the rules for building along shorelines are close to drastic.

    No buildings more than 2 storeys tall, no buildings larger than 50% of the ground space available. They even dictate the appearance of new buildings to make them fit-in with the surroundings. Etc.

    Incidentally, if someone offered you a stolen 2009 Mercedes in exchange for your 1997 Toyota Corolla would you take it?

  • Bush tea // November 2, 2008 at 3:59 pm

    Tourism Monkey,

    ….ease up a bit and consider, before you launch your ‘Bajan logic’….

    If you are saying that anything that you have is for sale to a high enough bidder, then I hope that you do NOT have a cute daughter or wife – you could have a problem….

    Barbados is not a collection of independent individuals, it is a family of concerned interest. Just as your daughter’s choices affects your whole family, your land choices also affect the rest of us dwellers of this rock.

    This is why we elect a government to seek to coordinate interest and conceptualize a common vision. (just what you would do if you were a real man in your house)

    The fact that individuals can sell off family treasures for short term gains says that our ‘parents’ are either asleep, dead, or stupid. (…we got rid of drunk)

    …as to what can be done about it – that is so SIMPLE that any Ossie Moore can see it….

    HUGE TAXES on all such deals such that they DO NOT PAY!!!

    …instead, the idiots are taxing poor simple Bajans who try to put a small home over their heads….

    …Thank God it will all end so soon….

  • Tourism Monkey // November 2, 2008 at 8:33 pm

    Incidentally, if someone offered you a stolen 2009 Mercedes in exchange for your 1997 Toyota Corolla would you take it?
    ___________________
    Finally I’ve stirred up the hornets!!

    The answer to that question depends on if I knew it was stolen. :) (But would most likely be no as I know there’s no such thing as a free lunch!)

    I agree with what you’re saying because I feel that way too. Places like St. Lucia have got it right. Let the people lease the land with some stipulations.
    __________________________
    Next:
    If you are saying that anything that you have is for sale to a high enough bidder, then I hope that you do NOT have a cute daughter or wife – you could have a problem….

    Barbados is not a collection of independent individuals, it is a family of concerned interest. Just as your daughter’s choices affects your whole family, your land choices also affect the rest of us dwellers of this rock.
    ______________________

    First off, I was not talking about me. I do have a cute daughter AND wife and they’re mine with no exceptions.

    The problem I spoke of comes from other people who have had the thought process I spoke about. I’ve had family friends whose parents sold off their beachfront land so that they could retire in another country.

    They weren’t thinking about Barbados then.

    I’ve seen countless people get offered money for their land, or sometimes the option of moving to a better neighbourhood. And you know what? They take it.

    They weren’t thinking about Barbados then.

    The Barbados you speak about is merely a fable these days. If David Thompson was serious about half the things he said, he would limit the spread of the deadly “Bajan Condovirus”.

  • Tourism Monkey // November 2, 2008 at 8:37 pm

    Just as your daughter’s choices affects your whole family, your land choices also affect the rest of us dwellers of this rock.
    _________________________

    Good point but still a little flawed.

    Playing devil’s advocate here:

    Suppose your son (I don’t know if you have a son, it’s just metaphorical) came home and said he was full blown gay and wanted the opportunity to take part in a Drag Queen Pageant and you were a minister…

    Yes, his choice would affect you and the general public’s view of you but he would still be free to make that choice, wouldn’t he?

  • Bush tea // November 2, 2008 at 9:01 pm

    TM

    Like you, I was speaking generally and not about you in particular.
    Clearly your heart is in the right place but you – like many of us – take ‘freedom’ to mean that everyone can do exactly as they wish, whenever they wish, and for as long as they wish.

    Freedom can ONLY mean free to operate WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED framework.
    Your neighbor is NOT free to do as he wants on his own land because it may also affect you or me.

    It therefore behoves our leaders to establish ground rules which outline the limits of our ‘freedom’…. and to censor any temptations to stray outside those boundaries.

    THAT is what ‘community’ is all about.

    Such limits include… how fast we drive; what taxes we must pay; how we relate to each other (no voilence / robbery etc) AND they should include how FAMILY assets are disposed to OUTSIDERS…. (and the conditions under which external assets come into the family)

    With respect to my son (which I do have), should he choose to ingore your cute daughter- and suggest that he wants to be a drag queen…… even though I am nowhere near to being a minister…..
    I, Bush Tea would curse my luck, my son’s @#s, and declare myself henceforth childless….
    …But then again, that is an unwritten but well understood family rule.

  • Tourism Monkey // November 2, 2008 at 11:31 pm

    When this is paraphrased it doesn’t seem so impossible now does it?

    With respect to my country (which I do love), should its individual landowners choose to ignore its local residents and suggest that they want to sell to those who are willing……

    I, Bush Tea would curse my luck, my countrymen’s @#ses, and declare myself henceforth neighbourless….
    …But then again, that is an unwritten but well understood family rule.

  • sarahpalin // November 3, 2008 at 12:07 am

    @ Bush tea

    “With respect to my son……..and declare myself henceforth childless….”

    I pity you. No, I pity your son.

  • permres // November 3, 2008 at 8:39 am

    This is good to hear. Now we would like to hear the same from the owners who have bought villas.

    http://www.nationnews.com/story/357189697384190.php

  • Bush tea // November 3, 2008 at 8:31 pm

    @ sarahpalin
    …you sound like the real thing. why would you pity two grown men who have it all?
    Young Bushlet is a model citizen who unfortunately has had a life of enduring a silver spoon in his mouth.
    He suffered through the best of everything available, and then had his choice of university anywhere he decided.
    …the poor sap is currently working at his dream job while waiting to complete some exotic masters degree….
    ..worst of all, he is tall and handsome, just like the bigger Bushman….
    I pity him too..
    …ever heard of allegory? look it up.

    @Tourism Monkey
    You apparently understand the situation with my allegorical son and I like the way that you have turned the argument. But you are right!! The actions of those who sell off family (Bajan) assets to strangers who then build fortresses and block our prized views and import their strange customs DEFINITELY tempts me to curse my luck (to be part of such a ‘family’ so lacking in pride), to curse my fellow citizens for their selfishness and to declare myself henceforth neighborless (which is EXACTLY how I am make to feel whenever I need to trespass near to these imported rich strangers and their fortresses.

    Do you not agree that as a country, we (led by government) need to come up with some rules and regulations?

    What prevents Bill Gates, or even the chaps from Sandy Lane, from buying every available lot of land at $100 per sq foot and crowding the rest of us into Belle gully?

    I would suggest …NOTHING…. you good with that?

  • sarahpalin // November 3, 2008 at 11:17 pm

    @ Bush tea

    If we’re suggesting words to look-up…

    Go to homophobic.

  • ru4real // November 4, 2008 at 9:24 am

    It’s amazing that David Thompson will stop the flyoevers to gain political mileage but his hands are tied on this project.
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    Yea after all the flyovers will benefit the travelling public how many people will another marina actually benefit?

  • Tourism Monkey // November 4, 2008 at 7:32 pm

    (1)Do you not agree that as a country, we (led by government) need to come up with some rules and regulations?

    (2)What prevents Bill Gates, or even the chaps from Sandy Lane, from buying every available lot of land at $100 per sq foot and crowding the rest of us into Belle gully?

    (3)I would suggest …NOTHING…. you good with that?
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    (1)I most wholeheartedly agree with this because if we continue to sell the country to non-nationals at the rate we are doing so, my grandchildren wouldn’t be able to own their own piece of it.

    (2)The sad thing is, legally, nothing. Realistically, if the populace were to rise up against it then it may force the government to put a stop too it, for their own good. However, as an older and much wiser man (in my opinion) once said, “Bajans are all sheep. We complain bout how bad de grass taste but don’t think to nudge de shepherd across de field to de sweet grass. Dah’s why we would always suffer!”

    (3) I am in no way good with that. If I could, I would disinvite nuff people from their land and houses that they’ve bought here. It’s not that I don’t like them, I don’t like what their purchase represents.

  • Rum Pig // November 6, 2008 at 11:30 pm

    My Poor Island in the SUN!!!It saddens me to read what is happening to the lovely island which gave me such an ideal childhood.
    When will it all stop. Bring back BIM of the fifties and sixties.To hell with development——-i want my BIM back.

  • Save Mullins Bay // May 16, 2009 at 2:38 pm

    Headsup – Nationnews.com article on #Mullins beach erosion issue coming tomorrow 5/17/09 – http://bit.ly/Qh7yR – #Barbados #Speightstown

  • David // May 17, 2009 at 9:35 am

    We are not impressed with the Nation front page. When Barbadians and the blogs were shouting bloody murder at the carnage being wrenched on our coastline over the last 10 years are so the media was too silent with only token reporting if we can call it that, now we read this report on the front page. The Nation especially will be judged very harshly on this matter because they could have done more.

    BU has reported on of the meeting required by the Town Planning regarding land development i.e. Environmental Impact Assessment discussions. Surely the media in Barbados could have sent reporters to these meetings and report to the PEOPLE as well as ask questions on behalf of the people.

    Oh no Ms. Roxanne Gibbs you have failed miserably at your job. Why not recall Harold Hoyte? With one eye open and half a brain he can do a better job than the dynamic duo of Gittens and Gibbs.

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