Then, I realised that I have learned a new word this day.

Eponymous. Like de eponymous Green Monkey Golf Course?

But I have never played, with a club or without, on an eponymous gold course.

Then, researching the word further, I see this extract on political eponyms ”In Ancient Rome, one of the two formal ways of indicating a year was to cite the two annual consuls who served in that year. For example, the year we know as 59 BCE would have been described as “the consulship of Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus and Gaius Julius Caesar”

I knew neither that Calpurnius was Bibulus (of the Bible?), nor that Julius Caesar was ‘Gaius’.

Then I read that places can also have eponyms, such as the place Prince Albert, Saskatchewan.

Does this mean that Sweet Bottom is indeed indicative of a young lady who may have been a resident of that area, in some era?

I know a place, in another land, called Six Mile Bottom! What an eponym!

Really, ask your fren’, ‘199′ , whether he knows the place. Maybe it is named after one of his lovely conquests dat ‘e does boas’ bout pon here.

Den, there are enponyms that represent particular Government styles, named after certain leaders, such as Arthurism, Sandiism, Thompsonism.

So, my eponym, that you bring attention to, seems to be in good comp’ny.

Thanks for the word ST.

Have a g’night.

Again, as your fren’ ‘199′ would say:

Laaaaaddddd!!!!

It will soon be evident that CL Financial is even more bent than your eponymous dick.

Lol. Effin I had munny, whichin I do not, I wudna put it in summa dese cumpnies, dat is de trute.

I wud want tuh see ful real audited statements, lisitng of alla de assets too, telling me where dem is.

Alla de liabiltys too. Deng I still wudna not be sure to buhlieve wuh dey.

Any change of use of agricultural land in this country under DLP Rule – will be to facilitate Clico, as regards its Statutory Fund deficit.

I am watching to see what David Thompson who is the Minister responsible for Town Planning – will say and do about this.

Your concern is noted.

We wanted to put things in perspective for the BU family to understand this land business is serious business, millions at stake.

We previously indicated that Om Prakash was behind the housing development in St. Davids, Priya is his faithful wife. Not sure about this Boolani.

Stephen Farmer is our famous cricketer and veteran lawyer of long standing along with David Gittens, we believe they are part of the same law firm formerly Evelyn Gittens and Farmer. Their firm amalgamated with the late Alfred Clarkes law firm some time ago. Either lawyers make good money or they are fronting for the real real shareholders.

we couldn”t find anything on the others.

However what we as a Nation want to ensure is that the letter of the law and proper procedure is followed in relation to the 3 applications now before Town Planning for the change of use for the 136 acres of Category 1 agricultural land at Staple Grove for 900 residential lots and miscellaneous commercial. All three of the applications are over 10 hectares.

According to the corporate registry P.D.F. Inc is the owner of Staple Grove. Directors are Peter Defreitas and Cheyub Investments Ltd. The directors are not the applicants for the development, at least according to the EIA.

The notes in the financials of P.D.F.Inc say that an expenditure of $120,350.00 was part of professional fees incurred in planning of a 500 unit low income residential housing development and that planning permission was denied.

Now it seems that in 2008 some other applicants feel that they can be successful and have decided to nearly double the number of residential lots from 500 to 900 and add some commercial etc.

What has emboldened them to think they will be successful where the last applicant was not?

Information sent to me and taken from the EIA says the applicants are:

BDS Hygiene Products Ltd. Corporate Registry says Directors are:
Om Prakash (Businessman/ Director)
Ram Boolani (Engineer/ Director)
Priya Prakash (Secretary/Director)

H & J Project Services
John Henderson Jackman, building construction and project management

P.D.S. Inc
Stephen Wilfred Farmer (Attorney/Director)
Peter Richard Packer Evelyn (Attorney/Director)
Theodore David Gittens (Attorney/Director)

Based on the EIA, it seems these are the players.

I wouldn’t be too sure about that.
Snip below from the article “Eating Fossil Fuels.”

It takes 500 years to replace 1 inch of topsoil.(21) In a natural environment, topsoil is built up by decaying plant matter and weathering rock, and it is protected from erosion by growing plants. In soil made susceptible by agriculture, erosion is reducing productivity up to 65% each year.(22) Former prairie lands, which constitute the bread basket of the United States, have lost one half of their topsoil after farming for about 100 years. This soil is eroding 30 times faster than the natural formation rate.(23) Food crops are much hungrier than the natural grasses that once covered the Great Plains. As a result, the remaining topsoil is increasingly depleted of nutrients. Soil erosion and mineral depletion removes about $20 billion worth of plant nutrients from U.S. agricultural soils every year.(24) Much of the soil in the Great Plains is little more than a sponge into which we must pour hydrocarbon-based fertilizers in order to produce crops.

Every year in the U.S., more than 2 million acres of cropland are lost to erosion, salinization and water logging. On top of this, urbanization, road building, and industry claim another 1 million acres annually from farmland.(24)Approximately three-quarters of the land area in the United States is devoted to agriculture and commercial forestry.(25) The expanding human population is putting increasing pressure on land availability. Incidentally, only a small portion of U.S. land area remains available for the solar energy technologies necessary to support a solar energy-based economy. The land area for harvesting biomass is likewise limited. For this reason, the development of solar energy or biomass must be at the expense of agriculture.

Modern agriculture also places a strain on our water resources. Agriculture consumes fully 85% of all U.S. freshwater resources.(26) Overdraft is occurring from many surface water resources, especially in the west and south. The typical example is the Colorado River, which is diverted to a trickle by the time it reaches the Pacific. Yet surface water only supplies 60% of the water used in irrigation. The remainder, and in some places the majority of water for irrigation, comes from ground water aquifers. Ground water is recharged slowly by the percolation of rainwater through the earth’s crust. Less than 0.1% of the stored ground water mined annually is replaced by rainfall.(27) The great Ogallala aquifer that supplies agriculture, industry and home use in much of the southern and central plains states has an annual overdraft up to 160% above its recharge rate. The Ogallala aquifer will become unproductive in a matter of decades.(28)

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Considering a growth rate of 1.1% per year, the U.S. population is projected to double by 2050. As the population expands, an estimated one acre of land will be lost for every person added to the U.S. population. Currently, there are 1.8 acres of farmland available to grow food for each U.S. citizen. By 2050, this will decrease to 0.6 acres. 1.2 acres per person is required in order to maintain current dietary standards.(40)

Presently, only two nations on the planet are major exporters of grain: the United States and Canada.(41) By 2025, it is expected that the U.S. will cease to be a food exporter due to domestic demand. The impact on the U.S. economy could be devastating, as food exports earn $40 billion for the U.S. annually. More importantly, millions of people around the world could starve to death without U.S. food exports.(42)

http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/100303_eating_oil.html

What the shite you telling me atall doh!

You have forced some members of the BU household to do some research. BTW former Chief Town Planner telephone number is in the book. We have it up online as we type.

The question regarding Staple Groove Plantation and the fact that some of the most fertile land in Barbados is being surrendered to concrete by a government who has preached that it will be more responsible when compared to the former government may have come exposed.

In the case of lands of Staple Grove Plantation, planning permissions were given to them in about 1992 when they were a part of the SBG deal,  remember that SBG had agreed to purchase the lands of Kingsland, Staple Grove and Ridge. The deal fell through in the early 90s we believe.

This is where we need a little help from the BU family, if there were any excavations at that time, the permissions given by the Town planning will continue in perpetuity, so development of that area is probably being carried out under some old permissions.

Here is the bad news, the time to object is probably long gone.

This like immigration is a matter of national import and must be removed from the political realm. For those who will say that the approval by TP to SBG was done under the DLP all those in the know are aware that the project was endorsed by the BLP.

And the majority of these people have had the benefit of free primary, secondary and tertiary/university education courtesy of the same taxpayers.

Mr. Leonard St. Hill is one of the few professionals who has made wide contribution on a variety of subjects.

Perhaps someone can ask him for his opinion on the process now required to be be followed with applications for the conversion of over 10 hectares of land from agriculture to residential/commercial.

We have several lawyers who read the blog, we shall see what we can do.

@Green Monkey

While what you post about California’s expected problems maybe true the USA has an abundance eof arable land which exist in many of the other states.

California’s Water Woes Threaten the Entire Country’s Food Supply

Nearly a third of the country’s food supply comes from California, but drought there may be a catastrophe for farmers — and the rest of us.

SNIP

Here are some not-so-fun facts: California’s agricultural sector grows approximately one-third of the nation’s food supply and is nourished by diverted rivers and streams filled yearly by runoff from its prodigious Sierra Nevada snowpack, as well as groundwater pumping and other less-reliable methods. That snowpack — which once sparked the first, but not the last, water war that helped transform a semi-arid Los Angeles into an unsustainable oasis less populous than only New York City — is disappearing fast. Hence Chu’s worrisome prediction.

To make matters worse, a crushing drought, now well into its third year, has made simply everything problematic. In California’s central valley, home to a majority of the state’s agricultural output, farmers are leaving hundreds of thousands of acres fallow, and the resultant economic depression is having a domino effect that could cost California $1 billion to start and is causing residents of a one-time food powerhouse to go hungry.

In April, a series of spring showers and storms upped the snowpack to 80 percent of normal. At the beginning of May, it stumbled to 66 percent, compared to 72 percent the year before. Complicating that are recent federal directives mandating reductions of water deliveries to California farmers and urban users by 5 to 7 percent in hopes of preserving the Pacific Coast’s salmon fishery, which is hovering, like the state’s snowpack, on the brink of extinction.

http://www.alternet.org/water/140487/california%27s_water_woes_threaten_the_entire_country%27s_food_supply/?page=entire

Since the developers and planners are intent in turning our remaining agricultural land into concrete and pavement, maybe it’s time for our local cooks and chefs to develop recipes for us using concrete, sand and rockstone for the day when food imports are unavailable or unaffordable.