Laurie King, Chief Education Officer (l) Ronald Jones, Minister of Education (r)
Mona Robinson, the general secretary of the BSTU wrote to the Chief Education Officer, Mr King, by letter dated Sunday 02 September 2012. The letter was received 03 September 2012. The subject of the letter purports to be in order to clarify matters relating to Alexandra School.
BU notes that this letter was copied to the Permanent Secretary in the MoE, among others. BU also notes with considerable surprise that the letter is NOT copied to BSTU’s counsel, Mr Hal Gollop. May we therefore infer that BSTU has written and sent this letter without having taken competent legal advice?
Ms Robinson, referencing comments made by Mr King on 31 August 2012 states that there are no assurances given in respect of comments on Jeff Broomes and demands that BSTU be supplied with answers in writing to the list of 10 points.
These points include, but are not limited to:
@Miller etc.
2008 was supposed to be the watershed in good governance. Let’s start with that as the new beginning or promised template from which we judge all actions
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What a disingenuous response! Owen and his merry band aided and abetted the promotion of a man who was clearly out of his depth, when the proverbial shit hit the fan, they stood silent hoping that it would go away like a Baccoo during crop season. Instead the sore festered and became a “life sore” on the body where amputation is the only option.
The new Sheriff decides to air all the dirty laundry in public and for that he has been pilloried by folks with axes to grind. I have long come to the conclusion that in Barbados there is ½ a degree of separation, so many connections that you can’t tell which side the players are on.
There is a reason why line dances are so popular in Barbados: a lot of motion and the participants end up in the same place; so too will be the fate of these public inquiries.
Does anyone know whether the teachers ever repaid salary collected for the period during which they were on strike? If not, will it ever be deducted? If they go on strike again will it be business as usual with respect to receiving salaries? A great example for students and other teachers.
Blame Owen Arthur for everything Sargeant
Go ahead , you sound like the typical feeble minded who seeks someone to blame for everything that happens to them instead of they recognising their responsibilty to themselves to get get up of their backsides and seek for themselves —it is mendicant attitude that we need to lose.
Why not wait until Monday?
David;
Short term yes but having a COI was a waste of money anyway, with NO term with a return of any kind. Just saying that we could have saved the money by taking the alternate route …. Unless of course you actually believe that something will actually come of this charade …!
A few questions for you JUST ASKING….
Whom do you feel we should blame for the fact that we have come to this sad point?….. BUSH TEA?
Did Bush Tea waste 10 years leading CSME? and burn millions of Barbados dollars supporting that nonsense?
Did Bush Tea appoint HUNDREDS of square pegs into round (wrong) positions? …and F up the public service?
Did Bush Tea allow cohorts to give million dollar contracts to unqualified/ incompetent/ crooked people ( barrack /3S/ VECO/bannister etc ?
Was Bush Tea responsible for GREENLAND? IMMIGRATION? The (feed maker) supervisor of Insurance? Would Bush Tea allow Greenverbes or Onions to controll BILLIONS of dollars of people’s money? ….at all!
DId Bush Tea appoiint the Chief Justice? And preside over the appointment of the current incompetent Jokers running our legal system?
Did Bushie appoint the current Police Commissioner or the Chief of Staff of the problem plagued defence force?
Did the Bushman release a DRUG DEALER and give him a free airconditioned house with his own security detail? ….because he did not like the Dodds food…?
We know that you only ASK questions, so if the Bushman is responsible for these things them let us all apologize to O$A for his major role in cooking our goose- and to FROON for his growing contributions….to the sauce.
…um is a good thing he does take long to move, otherwise we would have been a in an IMF program long time….
In short, Bushie is JUST ASKING you and Miller to cut the crap about people blaming ARTHUR. HE ran the damn place for 15 years – even if Fruendel was competent it would have been a challenge to save our butts….
Caswell is our last hope – and he just playing the 4$$.
After having to spend $600,000 to convene a COI because of the inaction of officials in the Ministry of Education with ties to individual(s) at the centre of the controversy, the government a week after the COI ends appoints the head of the Barbados Union of Teachers to be a Deputy Chief Education Officer. SMFH
@miller etc “You are a damned liar if you are not scared of death as you have been programmed to do…Are you an old sexually castrated bull or a woman who has seen her days in the sun”
Neither. Not a castrato. And as Adonijah sings “I still got a little something left in the bottle”
But I am a little more highly evolved than you are.
It was a 7 year old who helped me along the path to the truth and the light. On observing the death of another child the seven year told me “I know that he was not ready to die, but he did, and now I know that we will all die whether we are ready or not”… and at that point I saw the light…a little child indeed led me.
Neither Church, nor government, nor army nor lodge, was able to explain this truth as clearly as this little child did.. And once I acknowledged this childish truth no man, nor man made institution, not even a white Bajan man with a gun has since had any power over me. Because what can they do me? Kill me? Well they are going to die too, and so will thier children, and their children’s children.
We will all die, and we will all die whether we are ready or not. And no Bush Tea I am not in despair, in fact I am joyful, joyful every day, I enjoy every day as though it is my last best day, because someday it will be.
Death is the price we pay for having had the joy of living.
Enjoy.
And listen to the children when they speak. They will tell you the truth.
@ Bush Tea
CSME too high for you.
@Transparency, please…..
Surely you can comprehend this blog is more than being about a possible strike by AX teachers?
@ Enuff
You are probably correct.
….like bullshit and brains you mean?
@Just Asking
Go ahead , you sound like the typical feeble minded
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Very good, you are very discerning but leave the hero worship to the fans of Hollywood celebrities it is so passé for serious adults.
Bush Tea | September 8, 2012 at 10:05 PM. Very good.
To the point | September 8, 2012 at 6:56 PM. “Yes the Deputy Principal should be dealt with if she lied under oath . she should be demoted as a punishment and that is allowed under the general Orders.” In most countries, people with criminal records are not allowed in jobs dealing with children. If the deputy principal is charged with and convicted of perjury, I would argue that she must be fired.
@Willy
they were paid
@Bushie
dem dere a darn lotta questions! Are you trying to rename him “Just Answering”?
@Amused
“If the deputy principal is charged”
Time will tell. Thing is, if this report is fully true then that means she set out to willfully perpetrate a perjury with concocted evidence in an effort to oust, discredit and maliciously destroy Broome…and thus can easily now be seen (along with Mrs. Greaves) as the locus of the confusion.
She should have asked Jeff for lying and acting lessons. I notice that Mr. Greaves no longer has his “acting pick” any more.
Things will get more interesting sooner rather than later. I wonder how much respect the 800 plus students have for the teachers who testified…
just observing
Barbados political situation is so OUT OF CONTROL even an invasion by the USA could no better than it’s done in Afghanistan.
Observing;
I have been following the new revelations on the AX matter by BU and Amused. But I have not been commenting because I’ve been very busy lately and also because you have essentially followed a line of comments in this matter that are similar to the line that I would have taken.
I think the DLP politicians might be misguided, poorly led and running scared but I do not think they are fools. If the recent revelations are true and have stood up to scrutiny by the Commissioner (assuming that his report will be impartial) and that the matter of Broomes’ claim that he sent a letter to the Min. of Education on the Greaves matter is essentially unprovable since so much mail gets lost in Government Ministries, Broomes is unlikely to be reasonably charged with misconduct. However, the person that might reasonably be so charged might be the deputy.
This would turn the whole commission of inquiry on its face. It was not set up to have such an outturn, but only seemingly to provide grounds for Broomes’ separation.
The political ramifications of the above merit some thought, if only before the COI report comes out, and I sense that you have already given some thought to possible outcomes.
So far, the rumours and actual reported initial outcomes at the school suggest that the status quo ante appears to be in essence the likely overall outcome. Would that be good for FS and his leadership? Would a separation of Broomes only and some patches to the Education Act and perhaps a new teaching commission be adequate for the PM to declare that he has won this battle?
In addition, the choice of Dr Estwick as acting PM for the duration of FS’ current overseas trip is so interesting politically that I do not understand why the usual BU gang has not been thoroughly dissecting the ramifications of that story. I have a suspicion that there are a lot of other interconnected happenings (like the current IMF statements and counter claims), just below the radar, that are going to result in serious political outcomes in the next few days or weeks and might even lead to early elections, though the smart money and FS’ track record still suggest that that date will be as late as possible.
Very interesting times!
@ Simple Simon | September 8, 2012 at 10:08 PM |
“It was a 7 year old who helped me along the path to the truth and the light.”
The simple miller is still in his inchoate stage of metaphysical evolution.
So I will take your child like explanation and advice about death and the path to truth and light.
So please, in a short and simple way, tell us what is this LIGHT you are referring to?
Yours simply,
A miller’s child living in darkness.
This is life.
Before the sexual act of our parents we do not exist. Don’t let the religious people fool you.
After our hearts and brains shut down we no longer exist. Don’t let the religious people fool you.
This is life.
This is it.
If the universe is infinitely old, we get to experience the universe for a day or 2, or like 114 year old Mr. Sissnett for 100 years or more. And then as we were before the sexual act of our parents we cease to exist.
Which is why life is so sweet, because compared to that age of the universe our time here is so very short.
Short, but sweet, sweet, enjoy it.
Of course if like me you have sweet wonderful, children and grandchildren, and great grand children then some of your DNA will continue to exist in them, which is why grandchildren, and great grand children are so sweet. If you doubt me ask Richard Hoad.
Because the grandchildren, and great grandchildren are our “eternity” Especially the granddaughters, and great granddaughters, as the mitochondrial DNA has existed through the female line for ever and will continue to exist through the female line forever. Or as forever as the earth lasts (as long as the war loving men don’t fcuk the earth up)
But I thought that you would have been taught all these things at Harrison College or at the lodge meetings with the ole boys.
I can’t believe that a simpleton like me who only went to school at the pipe have to teach an old man like you these things
That is what JC meant when he said “except ye become as a little child ye shall not enter the kingdom of heaven”
Ya’ll fellas like things too complex.
Life is really, really simple.
Simon.
@Amused at 12:54 a.m. “If the deputy principal is charged with and convicted of perjury, I would argue that she must be fired.”
Ad what are the chances that she would be convicted by a jury of her peers?
@miller etc “You are a damned liar if you are not scared of death as you have been programmed to do
Dear Miller etc. I faget ta ask you, who was it again that was supposed to have programmed me?
I hope you ain’t the programmer.
I hope you ain’t fall down on that job (or any others)
@Observing “I wonder how much respect the 800 plus students have for the teachers who testified”
Do you really think that the children were waiting for the Commission of Inquiry in order to learn the truth.
I tell you the children knew the truth every long time since.
Children are very perceptive.
Why is it that we feel that we can fool children?
Our children are not fooled. They are just pretending in order not to hurt our feelings.
But they know us.
@Wily Coyote | September 9, 2012 at 10:28 AM…”Barbados political situation is so OUT OF CONTROL even an invasion by the USA could no better than it’s done in Afghanistan:
Dear Willy: Be a nice boy and run along boy, and come back once you’ve learned how to write a sentence.
@Simple Simon | September 9, 2012 at 1:21 PM. If my information is correct, we are about to find out.
@Checkit-Out | September 9, 2012 at 12:03 PM. Agree in essence. BUT, don’t think that it would be wise to seperate Broomes. His union would strike, with cause, unlike BSTU that did so without cause. Also, Broomes would sue and win and there would be a judicial inquiry into the COI the results of which would be catastrophic. But I agree that the COI had a preordained purpose and Broomes and his counsel have upset all their carefully laid plans. But it is typical of Barbados and our political servants (who think they are masters). It is always a half-assed job, without considering that the other side might have a case and checking to see what that case might be, before the go and make blasted idiots of themselves.
I also hear that the perjury of Neblett-Lashley will indeed be pursued. So now we wait to see whether we are governed by men of honour, or disease-riddled rats scared of any pirate “union”. I have supported Freundel, because I have always thought he was a man of honour. I now wait to see if I was right or not. And if I was wrong, I will take it as a very personal insult and react accordingly
trying to put the deputy principal in the hot seat not going to erase the numerous allegations and infractions and illegalities against broomes ! what next racism”i clearly recall the deputy has no desire to work with Broomes ! broomes suing not going to scared anybody from since the outburst and tensions within the walls of AX he has managed to hogtied and wiped those who have dutifully supported him in his actions with threats of litigation. it w. in any event his presence at AX would in no way help or enhanced stability or performance as broomes would be forever be known as the “PRINCIPLE FROM HELL”
@check it out and amused
We should share a cyber beverage sometime. I’ve purposely left out the political shakes and implications from the COI and generally because they’ll need a whole new thread. Rest assured though, the current under the surface is swirling intensely. Re AX I’ll wait and observe
A) BSTU’s actions between now and the 21st
B) the report on the 21st
C) the outcome of the neblett-lashley farce
It is unbelievable but the “gang” have actually placed Jeff on more solid long term ground while making that of their members more shaky. We shall observe!
More on the politics later
Man ac, I thought that you had taken the fifth.
You sure you ain’t take a fifth.
@observing
Agree with you, interesting next three weeks. The AX Story got a whole lot bigger than Broomes a long time ago. Stay tuned.
simple simon look here a bunch of conspiracy theories have been thrown out on bu against sealy and lashley that hasn’t worked so now it is perjury no! NO! NO! sh..t like that not allow to fly unchallenged even if pigs grew wings,.some here are up to their theatrics and sending out signals to affect the outcome of the COI via public opinion. however the questions still remains and one that must be answered did HE or did HE not authorised and falsified transcripts and the evidence so far points in that direction. albeit that some doctoring of facts might have been altered and that can go either way, all depends on which one is most believable and from giving evidence Broomes testimony has been compromised on many occasions . going as far back as to where the Board gave himrecommendations which he said he would follow and which he didn’t to withholding information or blocking full investigation of an alleged molestation by a student.
@ac
“Stability and performance with broomes presence”
From 2002 til 2012 the school has improved in sporting and academic results along with teacher professional development opportunities. You may want to rephrase your comment(s) to reflect accuracy. After all, this isn’t a kangaroo court of public opinion.
Just observing.
@ Amused | September 9, 2012 at 1:57 PM |
“I have supported Freundel, because I have always thought he was a man of honour. I now wait to see if I was right or not. And if I was wrong, I will take it as a very personal insult and react accordingly”
Although you might find it amusing along the way there will come a time when Confession is good for the soul if it is to reach ‘Nirvāṇa’. Fortunately the monks in orders will not turn you back on your journey but direct you to the Abbot who would guide you to the sanctum where the first of the lessons in honesty, integrity and wisdom starts with the axiom: Never trust a man who has not earned it.
A tree (man) will be known by the fruits it bears not by the amount of noise made in the wind.
Let your friend in the desert prove his mettle by doing the following:
Instruct his AG to institute criminal charges against those accused of corruption and personally but illegally benefited from the abuse of the public purse. They would be deemed as robbing me and you and since we do not want to take the law into our own hands we leave it up to the State.
Advance the CLICO Inquiry report to the next level to ensure Justice prevails.
Although you missed a golden opportunity to call elections in 2011 or even January 2012 you need to demand your own mandate in order to leave an indelible mark on the political landscape of this country by being the first PM to not only talk about Honesty & Integrity in public office and serving the interests of the people but to back it up with Legislation and with deeds and action.
If Done, then Job done! Hurray, FS for next ‘real real’ PM!!
“Albeit that some doctoring of the facts might have been altered”
Rotfl.
Ac, you take the award for “Most …… blogger.” I leave you to fill in the blanks. Thanks for a good Sunday evening laugh.
@david
Indeed! Couple AX, with imf, with clico, with barack, with the upcoming central bank report and tourist numbers, with inaction on the integrity legislation front, with Estwick as Acting PM (despite still being under parliamentary investigation) with…hold on….I’m running out of breath…..
But you get the picture…
The deck is stacked and all hands are full….let’s see what the dealer lays on the table and who will have to fold.
Just observing
@Observing (…) | September 9, 2012 at 2:34 PM. Cyber-beverage sounds good to me.
I knew you would have an excellent idea as to what was going on. And yes, I gathered that there was a lot of stirring in the jungle. The vibrations have been noticed. Just look at the panicked reaction of our friend ac, who has not been able to crow for quite a while and is now resorting to giving legal advice which, if her husband is indeed an attorney, must have the poor man covering his head in shame and seriously thinking of repossessing his testicles.
@David. What are we going to do about the “fourth estate” that apparently cannot even find their backsides, far less a major news story? You have given them the lead and you would think that at least one of them would have the contacts to be able to follow up…….but apparently not.
“Albeit that some doctoring of the facts might have been altered”
ac
btw . take that as against broomes as in falsifying transcripts.
The COI has opened up a bees’ nest, no pun intended.
@Amused
“To allow her resentment to fester and contaminate the classroom and for her to become the Queen Bee is a hive of hate and resistance to the head was poor management on the part of the school’s management board and of the ministry”.
Just a little info on Mrs Neblett-Lashley, she did apply for the post of principal of Foundation when the post became vacant at the retirement of Major Barker about in 2000. She did not get the position nor did the then deputy, Mr Perkins who eventually was appointed to the St Michael School and has made that school the most sought after now.
What a difference between these two deputies!
@enuff
The question is how do we use the information which the COI has dumped in the public space to improve the system.
The biggest losers in all this are the students who now have to go to school in a toxic environment of unresolved issues and animosity between the Principal and half the teachers.
A whole summer vacation wasted on a COI that does not remove the uncertainty for the students when school starts.
“In addition, the choice of Dr Estwick as acting PM for the duration of FS’ current overseas trip is so interesting politically that I do not understand why the usual BU gang has not been thoroughly dissecting the ramifications of that story. I have a suspicion that there are a lot of other interconnected happenings”……………..
Check-it-out…..Maybe it is because people have become so disillusioned that nothing this government does now bothers them! Ronald Jones is in the island, why was he not asked to act? Has the PM fallen out with Richard Sealy too or is he on honeymoon? Estwick was in the gang of 11, so why is Freundel punishing Ronald Jones? Freundel comes over as a spiteful person!
And he wont call the elections!
Good to read this morning that the BSTU and BUT have been forced to make a position public that they will await the findings of the Waterman Report before further strike action is contemplated. What is interesting is that the report is not ‘actionable’ therefore one wonders how the Waterman Report can be the basis of industrial action anyway. Interesting times ahead.
Before taking industrial action the BSTU – and all other trade unions – should be compelled by law to ballot all its members for majorityy support for the proposed action. Officers should not have the right to call industrial action without members’ authority.
This is a weakness in the law.
“May we therefore infer that BSTU has written and sent this letter without having taken competent legal advice?”
Am i to understand that all Union correpondence advising of or seeking redress on perceived membership grievances should be addressed to the other party under the threat of litigation and are you aware that legal advice on industrial matters is extremely costly and in addition, advice received is not always of the best not because of the incompetence of the legal luminary charged with the responsibility of giving the advice but because of the peculiarities of industrial relations practices.
David
you claimed in a “report” (based on the word from “sources”) that the BSTU “demands that Broomes be sent on immediate statutory or other leave, failing which the BSTU members of the Alexandra school will consider strike action at once.”
In today’s Nation newspaper, the First Vice President explicitly dispels that claim. Your report further stated, based on this claim, that the BSTU did not have the well-being of students at heart.
Unless you can reproduce, in its original format, the correspondence to the Ministry of Education from the BSTU which makes an explicit threat to strike on Monday (today) if Broomes is not sent on leave, I can only assume that your mission was to cause mischief.
http://www.nationnews.com/articles/view/time-to-teach/
@David
“Ping Pong” has laid out a challenge, what say ye?
Yeah Doc…..that is a Four Star General gauntlet thrown if any…..show us some underwear or beep…beep (road runner)
Do n,t expect much of a response from David in his infamous stlye the word “pedantic” would suffice. so far he is being goaded and lead along by the gorillA tactics of amused who can,t seem to decide which kind of defense would be good enough to clear Broomes of any or all allegations level against him trying feverourishly to throw the elderly ladies under the bus to protect the misdeeds of his buddy who but all admitted to having knoweldge of the transcript with his finger prints planted on it
@Ping Pong, sargeant, onions and ac
actually, neither the newspaper report nor the statements of Padmore “explicitly” dispell the claim in the report…
read “failing which the BSTU members of the Alexandra school will consider strike action at once”
” will consider “
Keep it up David!
I won’t bother to enlighten these three as to why the BSTU realised it had no choice but to abandon this madness and return to work forthwith.
Just observing
@ac. Your see-through tactics of trying to accuse others of what you yourself practice is amusing. You accuse me of gorilla tactics when all during the process of the COI, I refused to take any position, until I had heard the evidence. Not so you who extolled the perfections of each and every witness for your side, even those who are now shown to be perjurers. I well remember your fanfare for the appearance of Almaida Greaves – the great anti-Broomes weapon – after all, since she could refuse to teach for a period of time and refuse to have a student in her class, she would be perceived, by the witless, to be a person of power. I got news for you. In the private sector, she wouldn’t even be a footnote – she would have been fired and done with that.
But, you are missing the point as it now stands. You are living in the past. You and trying to propose the outdated idea that Broomes has a need to defend himself against what have turned out to be fraudulent “allegations”. But this is no longer the case. The boot is on the other foot. It is the Union and the Deputy Principal who need to come up with a defense, in the case of the DP, a criminal one.
@Observing. My own views exactly. The letter was written when? Sunday 2nd September? And received when? Monday 3rd September? And school was starting when? Today? And the letter was calling for an answer when? “The Union therefore asks formally that it be supplied in writing, and without delay, answers to the following questions…….”
Upon what compulsion does the Union do this? “The Union reiterates that it reserves its position……” And the final little bit of interest, after asking its questions requiring immediate responses, or else……..
“The Union takes this opportunity to state, NOTWITHSTANDING ANY ANSWERS YOU MAY OFFER TO THE ABOVE QUESTIONS, its view that there should be an immediate exercise of the statutory authority to send Mr Jeffrey Broomes, Principal of Alexandra School, on leave with immediate effect……”
And replace him, no doubt, with a perjurer.
As can be seen, I have had the advantage of seeing this letter upon which, and without apparently having seen it, the “press” is commenting in accordance with their repective political instructions. The letter, by the way, is going the rounds of the legal fraternity. Clearly Observing has also caught sight of it – and why does that not surprise me. And Observing is RIGHT. Take the time lines and the contents of the letter and add the together and apply the test of the reasonable man and it is very clear that it is a threat of strike action.
@Observing. Time for that cyber drink.
@Ping Pong
The letter will be posted within then hour.
look observing that last part of the letter did not give time or date of strike action as perceived by david the statement was “conditional in the likelihood the grievances by the teachers and BSTU were not resolved but not as david purpose to mean that the strike action would commence on the beginning of the school term which is of TODaY.the word “failing” meaning unable !not done ! unsatisfactory! irreconcilable! failure to meet ones term or agreements. ! at which time strike action would be deemed necessary that is what the BSTU statement and last paragraph says nothing remote close to what david concluded.mr. padmore statement was clear and precise as to what will happen at todays opening of school and does not shows or goes into any further detail as to or if strike action would happen tomorrow next week or in the coming Weeks as far in conclusion it said “SCHOOL will happen” NO STRIKE ACTION;far different story from what david had spouted and he needs to apologise sounds like he is beginning to show signs of the NATION in his editorial .
@ AMUSED!
YEAH YEAH YEAH! on what grounds are you and observing going to charge the eldery and distinguished ladies with perjury and conspiracy. i read that affidavit that BRoomes attorney sent to the commission and now as you guys suggested to the AG and if i received such nonsense from two legal beagles i would throw it in the garbage . you guys are grabbing at twigs to defend Broomes who said and has locked himself into admitting that his fingerprints did the writing of the letter presenting in the evidence. another thing how many lawyers are juries we the jurist might not be highly skilled in the theatrics of lawyers but we know when we are being hoodwinked.
@ac. The implied threat in the letter is “immediate”, i.e., to use the BSTU’s own terms “without delay” and “immediate exercise”. The whole tone of the letter speaks to “immediate” or “at once” and “OR ELSE”.
But, ac, once again you try to twist it back upon itself by suggesting that David apologise instead of the Vice Prinicpal (for perjury) and the Union (for calling a strike that has cost the taxpayer well in excess of $600,000. Also, for having put into evidence fraudulent and conspiracy evidence. But will ac call upon the BSTU and its VP to apologise for wasting the time and money of the Bajan people? Hell no. She will try to spin it (inexpertly) so that everyone, starting with BU, apologises to the perjurer and the union that is trying to hold the education of our youth and the whole country to ransom.
BUT, has everyone noticed that ac has seen the letter? She has, you know. She has seen that letter. Why has ac not provided BU with a copy of this letter that she has so clearly seen, instead of demanding an apology sight unseen?
Never mind, ac, David seems also to have a copy of the letter and so we will also be able to enjoy the intimidatory skills of Ms Robinson. I will tell you one thing. Unless Hal is losing his touch which I sincerely doubt, that letter was never written with either the assistance or input of counsel.
Continue to post comments HEREE.