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Leader of the Opposition Owen Arthur says the Bees are ready.
Time we face up to facts. Too often now, plasters are to quick to be offered for every sore. Like Mathew Farley the said megalomaniac. Though some can see the truth behind the unfortunate situation, they would rather cower to a defensive stance and represent like a pit bull, giving all to their cause. Oh how we love not to face up to the truth and call a spade a spade. It has become contagious now. It is as if by some strange complexion, we would rather be blinded, than to take the path to truth.
So what is so wrong with looking at a shovel and saying its another word for a spade? Why must we take the round about route with mundane discourse? For those who are accustomed playing dominoes, if the board calls for sixes and duces, fours or threes cannot play. It just won’t be right. If by accident, a mismatch, the result will be chaos when coming to near end of the game. A six is a six and a duce a duce. There can be no substitute.
Why then in life’s situations we are tempted to play the wrong cards? A three for a four…..a blank for an ess? Why do we attempt to do such hubris and sabotage or cause problems to life’s domino game? Why can’t we be honest with ourselves sometimes when we know of the obvious error? Why continue to throw good time and money after bad? Like The Four Seasons. $400 millions now sunk and irrelevant past cost to any future decision making. Sometimes we know different but blinded by the folly of our error, continue to hold tether, hoping for change.
No one in their right minds would disagree, given the state of affairs in Barbados today, we are headed on the wrong path. Excuses don’t cut it, nor believing, given another term, some miraculous change. Simply we drew a bad hand this game. A spade must be called a spade. Finding all kinds of faults in a polls for instance, that has been proven correct 100% time with 90% accuracy, is just another plaster. Because it does not suit one’s betterment, must we find fault rather than face the truth? Minister Donville Innis deserves full kudos here, being man enough to accept the results of the polls and seeing how best to manoeuvre, however bitter the pill. For other professionals and politicos to speak of skew and bias is playing a six for a five, and complicates the game. Rather than face up to the present situation, they would rather lament later.
Time we learn life is like a domino game, sometimes we draw a good hand, other times a loser. We must learn to play the hand we draw (this game )and hope for a better one. So when asked next time to ‘wash the rice’ and reshuffle, make sure we sit up and draw, reaching prudently, pulling those ivories, hoping not to find one’s self with bare blanks again, when the board demands for aces. Remember blind men don’t play dominoes, this coming elections, we got to try and pull a proper hand or face the consequences.
welll caswell it is all about PERCEPTION or isn’t it?
I predict the the DLP will harm itself immeasurably if it pursues Carson’s and ac’s racist line on the issue of Mr. Serrao being the BLP’s campaign manager. They would be well-advised to stay clear of it.
On the whole, Bajans are afraid of overt race talk. They like whispers about “white shadows” and things of the sort, but would abhor a direct confrontation on the issue.
More readily acceptable would be a line about propriety. Nothing may be wrong with the former ECB Chairman running the campaign, but the false perception would tickle our fancy.
DavidB
The advice that can be readily dismiss is the advicee that comes from one’s enemies!
@DavidB
Your assessment is correct, most Barbadians and especially independents are politically fatigue already. They want to hear issues i.e how are the parties planning to make things better.
@ Carson C. Cadogan | October 24, 2012 at 6:41 AM |
Both you and ac are racist bigots with two empty shells between your ears. No better than harry callihan!
Why don’t you tell members of your party in ministerial positions to stop being on the jada payroll? Who own that outfit ? Niggers?
barbadians have for some time now been paying indirectly if not fully for education and for certain services at the hospital as well
balance | October 24, 2012 at 7:27 AM
Therefore it is now the intention of the Barbados Labour Party to make every Tom, Dick and Harry pay for all things Health and education.
Under any Barbados Labour Party regime all Bajans can expect to pay for even Ambulance services.
what next the Barbados Labour Party intend to make Bajans pay for?
Police services? fire services?
If your house is burning the Fire Service not leaving the Station unless they have the assurance that you have money in your pocket to pay to put out the fire?
……..and these are the same Barbados Labour Party begging Bajans for their vote?
The WHITE CAMPAIGN manager advised the Barbados Labour Party to take this course of action?
Is that why he is always of BU talking about selling this and selling that, privatize this and privatize that?
“OK, here’s a question for you. Imagine you’re on holiday in a country whose language you don’t speak.
You’re walking through a market and someone commits a crime – steals a handbag, say – near where you are standing.
The police turn up and arrest you by mistake. Then they take you to the police station, and talk loudly at you in their language which you don’t understand. And then they lock you up.
Sound a bit Kafka? A bit post-Soviet? Well, it’s exactly what interpreters and legal campaigners say has been happening throughout this year in Britain.
Why? Because at the end of last year the government here decided to privatise – outsource – the courts’ interpretation service.
The rationale is straightforward enough: the old system was a bit clunky, bureaucratic, they said.
Courts were hiring interpreters themselves, there was no centralised billing system, it was expensive.
Cheaper, leaner system
A privatised system would be cheaper, leaner, easier to account for.
That’s fair enough, maybe. But what happened was that the company that won the contract – Applied Language Solutions (ALS) – failed to provide an interpreter to a third of all the court hearings it was supposed to in the first month of its contract.
Since then, courts all over the country have been reporting that trials have had to be suspended, at great cost, because translators simply haven’t turned up.
It has also been claimed repeatedly that, in any number of cases, the translators that ALS did provide were utterly clueless, couldn’t speak the correct language, and failed to translate to the defendant, who was left not understanding what was happening to them.
It’s not difficult to imagine if it was you – stuck in a court in another country being talked about in a language you don’t know – just how frightening that might be. And just how great is the potential for a miscarriage of justice.”
This happens when a country privatises everything.
@ Carson C. Cadogan | October 24, 2012 at 8:23 PM
What’s your point?
That’s a failure of the regulatory or State supervising agency.
Remember CLICO and the SOI?
What about the women that were finger F**k at the airport and sexually molested in police custody? What about the recent liquidation of a rogue in a certain centre?
Were these committed by privatized law enforcers?
STFU, CCC!
don’t mind miller he wants to hand little barbados to the corporate world who helped in bringing the worldto economic dooms day and saw walk street scrambling on its knees and millions of people worldwide losing what little money they had invested in the stock market all private companies lead by greed and corruption,
@ ac | October 24, 2012 at 8:54 PM |
“.. millions of people worldwide losing what little money they had invested in the stock market all private companies ..”
According to you world of economics they should have invested their money in government bonds instead of the stock market and private companies and their world would have been prosperous and perfect like the Soviet Union.
yes yuh idjiot, !
remember hurricane katrina with all the problems govt encountered in dealing with the crisis including slow response to the citizens not one person called for the privatisation of govt agencies like water and transport and seaport and air all these agencies remain in tact as part of the workforce of govt, ,reason being that the in times of crisis govt outnumbers the private sector in labour especially in the military field who is better prepared at handling catastrophic situations than the private sector in areas of law and order
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Time we learn life is like a domino game, sometimes we draw a good hand, other times a loser. We must learn to play the hand we draw (this game )and hope for a better one. So when asked next time to ‘wash the rice’ and reshuffle, make sure we sit up and draw, reaching prudently, pulling those ivories, hoping not to find one’s self with bare blanks again, when the board demands for aces. Remember blind men don’t play dominoes, this coming elections, we got to try and pull a proper hand or face the consequences.