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John A “if you check back on BU Hansard I said about a year ago we were going to end up with a billion dollar defict if we continued on this path. The faithfuls at the time accused me of being negative. Well we have arrived even with record levels.of income the said deficit.” ############## Government’s fiscal position also improved in the first three quarters of fiscal year 2024-2025, including an overall surplus of $224.8 million, compared to a deficit of $7.7 million in the previous period. The Central Bank’s outlook is for the economy to grow by three per cent this year, which “hinges on continued investments by both the public and private sectors, as well as ongoing improvements in productivity and competitiveness”. Source: Nation XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXX Mr GLOOM AND DOOM You pompousetting cause you think something bad that u predicted is happening. Please break down for this faithful and the blog what expenditure the government took on in the current quarter that it is going from a 225M surplus in 3Qs to over 1B deficit for the financial year?
12.3.2025 21:24Comment on Minister Ryan Straughn to deliver budget by John2Coghhhh blemeh! It should be illegal for a preponderance of assholes to be saying anything from a book of fools, as unprovable though they all are, in any public place, especially when paid from the public’s purse. Why should the rest of us be subjected the murmurings of idiots. From within that house of inequity from whence one cannot even quote a newspaper article, the author of which is a known, living, breathing human, but the fanciful tales as concocted by imposters must be ringing in our ears day and night, as told by a motley group of gangsters, as unwitting mind control agents of the White people for whom a demonic book was to legitimize. These tales as merely another part of the political aims of politicians who conveniently act as part time preachers or pseudo/intellectuals or psychologists or all three. Pacha is immune to their bulllshiiiite! Violently oppose their presume right to preach in any public place. There should be a law against this injustice.
12.3.2025 20:58Comment on NO Ryan Straughn! by PachamamaIt is true! We’ll judge that RAT has been fashioned within the cauldron of a Bajan conservatism. And as much radical poetry and literature he’s familiar with, RAT intends to die on the political right of this writer. Elements of his conservative bent include the maintenance of the eleven plus exam. And his attendance at HC is another pillar within such a social construction. A socialization which makes a poor boy from Grazettes, a defender of the very system which has oppressed him. However, in politics there’re no perfect vessels. And while this writer’s instincts would be to scrap it all together, it must also be time for us to move beyond the century’s old canard of whether or not. This debate has always been for its own sake. It certainly must be past time to stop subjecting our children to this type of institutional classism as a proxy for racism, colonialism, and more equatable distribute all human and material resources within the education system evenly. Giving the poorest students the best teachers. The promotion of competitive standards amongst teachers, by equalizing public school standards with what the private schools offer, etc The establishment of sixth forms at a broader range of high schools could be seen as a step in that direction. Certainly not enough to avoid the radical transformations required for genuine national development.
12.3.2025 19:11Comment on NO Ryan Straughn! by Pachamama@ BUSH TEA AS A FORMER NATIONAL ATHLETE AND 4 YEAR ATHELITIC SCHOLARSHIP AWARDEE TO COLLEGE IN SOUTH CAROLINA WHAT YOU ARE OBSERVING HAS ALWAYS BEEN THERE THROUGHOUT THE YEARS ONLY MORESO BECAUSE OF WIDER EXPOSURE. BACK IN THE DAY SINGER RAS IILEY AS A SCHOOL BOY AT LODGE SCHOOL WAS KNOWN TO SMOKE WEED/GANGA BEFORE THE 1500 METERS AT INTERSCHOOL SPORTS THEN THE 6 OLDER BOY SCHOOLS AT THE TIME. NO ONE COULD TOUCH HIM MAYBE BECAUSE HE WAS ON A "HIGHER" LEVEL DURING THE EVENT. WE AS ATLETES WHO WERE WELL KNOWN AS TEENAGERS HAD MORE THAN ENOUGH SEX AND ATTENTION WHILST IN HIGH SCHOO ON THE 2 X 3 ISLAND. THIS WAS PRIMARILY THE TRACK ATHLETES AND FOOTBALLERS. LET US NOT PRETEND THE DECAY ONLY STARTED RECENTLY IT WAS ALWAYS THERE. NOTE I LIKED YOUR COMMENT. HOWEVER NOT LET US BURY OUR HEADS IN THE SAND WHILST PRETENDING YEARS GONE BY THE STANDARDS WERE ANY HIGHER BACK THEN AS IT IS NOW WITH EXCEPTION FOR THE HIGH RISE IN ANNUAL MURDER TOTAL. THE ROT HAS ALWAYS BEEN THERE HOWEVER THE SORES WHICH WERE FESTERING ARE NOW OPEN WOUNDS GANGRENE INFESTED.
12.3.2025 18:22Comment on How the youth get so? by BAJEI forgot (in a comedic mood), RAT was a back bencher for how many years? Did we hear him complaining about the management and disclosures by the NIS. Or much else for that matter.
His seemingly new found opinions appear as a matter of convenience. Remember the issues with the NIS go back to the waning years of the OSA administration. Neither OSA, Thompson, Froon or Mottley have changed anything. The pact amongst the elected is to bury it. I wouldn't be surprised to go down Westbury and find a headstone with the words NIS on it. Mother of the NISSS,
Shite given my mood I could write an obituary
Pacha If the edges, and beats in the opening overs, were not indicative of the stroke play to come, then I missed some sport. My mind went to imagining Peta Alleyne mimicking the LoO, and how his contortions and speech tones were mere fodder for a comic. And with the male presenters wearing corsages, and not boutonnières, seeing Peta with a full on multi stem floral arrangement..... Much of a sameness, politicians. But since both RAT and MAM are skilled orators, they will overshadow others within the Chamber. I just shudder when they echo, or maybe it just creates an echo in my head, words about transparency, accountability, openness. Words they potentially understand the meaning of, but are completely lost in their actual implementation. To besides RiRi had a new product launch at some big house in Payne's Bay and that was capturing many of the online eyes. I hear the beach today is still strewn with influencers and wannabees.
12.3.2025 17:15Comment on NO Ryan Straughn! by NorthernObserverRe: The Daily Snark FYI God provides the Holy Herb and Spirituality comes from a higher mind as per the moral of the story of Moses and the burning bush in the biblical and Quranic narrative, the burning bush is the location at which Moses was appointed by God to lead the Israelites out of Egypt and into Canaan. The Burning Bush Exodus 3:4 states, “And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush and said, 'Moses, Moses. ' And Moses said, 'Here am I. ' ” When God revealed himself to Moses out of the burning bush, He told Moses to draw near so that He might speak to him. But when he came to it, he was called from the bush in the sacred ground to the right side of the valley: “O Moses! It is truly I. I am Allah—the Lord of all worlds. I A Field Marshall, I & I Are The Chosen One, Dub To Africa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXxJakG-UPU
12.3.2025 16:25Comment on How the youth get so? by 555dubstreetI don't know exactly how de yute get so. I only know how mine en get so. It wasn't by my being perfect, by the way. It was by acknowledging my imperfections and not being a hypocrite. Children today always rebel against hypocrisy.
12.3.2025 15:45Comment on How the youth get so? by DonnaWhat the Eleven plus hype tends to do, is write off those who don't perform well as failures by implying that the academically inclined (only in Maths and English, by the way) are the cream and "the others" ( as I heard it described at my son's graduation by the principal) are just the dregs. Two things can be true at the same time. The performance of our educational system can be poor and the Eleven plus can be counterproductive. Until we can find a way to acknowledge different intelligences equally, we will be stuck in the Lawyer/ Doctor Syndrome. (You may add engineer and accountant as recent entries.)
12.3.2025 15:37Comment on NO Ryan Straughn! by DonnaI agree with Bush Tea (although I have always agreed with much of what the learned sage opines on), just as with Justice Cumberbatch, Onionbags and Bonny Peppa. People of clear insight. There is nothing wrong with the 11 Plus. The problem lies with what the 11 Plus highlights. That there is a dearth of real education at both primary and secondary level. How can we have a significant proportion of children leaving school after ten or more years and cannot even raise three Basic CXC's? That clears demonstrates that the problem is one of teaching and instructional methods, not just the exam. The problem of changing a system in such a state, is that the real issue may be masked, rather than addressed. Changing the system may solve the issue, if it were the system that was at fault. But cuhdear, summuch education and no learning? Sumting wrong. And it is not the exam.
12.3.2025 15:24Comment on NO Ryan Straughn! by HorsemeatI do not live there at this time but I could see this outcome boring down like a freight train. Barbados is TOO small for this trend to continue. New Leaders with integrity and vision are needed desperately or Barbados will be lost. People need to STOP and look back to the old paths. All of this music I see paraded on this blog - I don't even play it - I can well imagine is not the solution. The solution is a return to the old values that made Barbados a highly respected nation. Not so now. Time for a MASSIVE change and not the one that has been going on for decades: BLP/DLP - One Bird - Two Wings. Einstein said: Trying the same thing over and over again and getting the same result is INSANITY. Critical thinkers - COME OUT OF THE MATRIX and start thinking for yourself.
12.3.2025 15:19Comment on How the youth get so? by BAJAN IN EXILEA point well raised and made Wayne. And coming from such as yourself, the authorities should pay heed. One cannot reach for the stars by digging.
12.3.2025 15:18Comment on How the youth get so? by HorsemeatIn reply to <a href="https://barbadosunderground.net/2025/03/11/no-ryan-straughn/comment-page-1/#comment-2151022">William Skinner</a>. @Bush Tea Great Defender of the 11+ Is this the same exam that was largely abolished in the mother country many decades ago?
12.3.2025 15:12Comment on NO Ryan Straughn! by David"How the youth get so?" This is the wrong question. How we get so? Now that is the $300 question. They Squander Millions Wrote off Billions Delayed Pensions But after the proclamation Great is the Celebration Amongst the long suffering minions Three full bags of onions. Long Live The Revolution Oops.. Wrong country Long Live The Republic
12.3.2025 14:50Comment on How the youth get so? by Hare Rabbit@ Bush Tea Well , you are within your rights to say there is nothing wrong with it but we have a completely different opinion . The Eleven Plus has served its purpose but if we are going to transform education and maintain an exam that sends hundreds of students into an exam room knowing full well they cannot pass and then fooling the public they have by sending them to schools without even mastering the basics , is nothing more than a form of genocide. Elitism has never served the masses.
12.3.2025 14:50Comment on NO Ryan Straughn! by William SkinnerI am convinced when people get the opportunity to present or reply to a budget they believe the longer they speak the more effective it will be. Actually quite the opposite is true. I listened to Mr. Straughn's marathon presentation of a budget he cleary did not write, followed by Mr. Thornes similarly lengthy return and here is what my view. First let me say I did not listen to the full presentation from either of them. It is inhumane to expect a human to sit for 4 hours and listen to 1 hour of presentation with 3 hours of harang thrown in for the sake of political fan fare. In future both you gentleman would benefit from a presentation lasting no more than 90 minutes but filled with facts and supporting data. Where were the tourism spend figures for January and February compared to last year for example? Why did Mr.Thorne not pick apart the debt? My personal view is ease up on the time used guys and deliver the facts and numbers to us instead. After all wunna educated us for free so give us the benefit of doubt please.
12.3.2025 14:45Comment on NO Ryan Straughn! by John A@ Kiki "A school event for Children should play the sounds that Children listen to..” ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Should they provide the same herbs that the children like to smoke too...? You get your ‘wisdom' from Yellow man..? LOL ha ha ha
12.3.2025 14:17Comment on How the youth get so? by Bush TeaWell said @Pacha. (except of course for your trademark Bible paranoia...) @ William Not one shiite is wrong with the 11+ per se.. The problem is with those who are UNSATISFIED with the talents with which they have been blessed, and who aspire to be ‘academics' instead. The actual test itself may need to be refined and upgraded... ..but the CONCEPT of identifying children’s various talents and then channeling them appropriately ...makes CONSUMATE sense. Which is why it has been IMPOSSIBLE to replace it.... everything else is worse. On the Budget, ..EXACTLY like the Governor of the CBB, Straughn pontificated with the usual economic jargon that is designed to hide the SIMPLE COMMONSENSE of good housekeeping. WE ARE COMMITTED TO SPENDING MORE THAN WE EARN. However you put THAT FACT, in whatever fancy terms, and by whatever measures, WE ARE DOING SHIITE that will catch up on us... So if you are impressed with his grasp of the many economics terms, and his ability to call a spade a rock, ..then say so... BUT a country, company, family or person ...who CANNOT SPEND LESS THAN THEY EARN (far less put a little aside for when Trump comes) is called a PARRO ...and is destined for life on the streets - begging and being humiliated. What a blindness!! What a curse! What a Ponzi type of thinking...
12.3.2025 14:06Comment on NO Ryan Straughn! by Bush TeaNO Well, the RAT was certainly more interesting that the mumbling, fumbling, second string, greasy gloved, wicket keeper from the prior day. It's a pity you were't up to hear him indict Mottley and the government on their positions on the Ukraine War, the Palestinian genocide, though our position thereon would likely not be dissimilar to the government's we'll presume, or the pending Caricom fight with America viz a viz Cuba, the tariff wars looming, etc You might have even agreed with his conclusions about the state of the NISSS. For certainty, when you hear a Bajan politician start to infer that the Collective West is dead you must know that it's already a fait accompli. RAT has always been the type of batsman with a healthy appitite for the vicious cut, the tempestuous hook, the scintillating drive, not unlike Freddo! We dare say that that kind of an extended innings was well displayed as within the classical short man stylie. On the church business which is obviously a central part of his political life now, will always be seen by Pacha as the wanderings of that sheep which is still lost. For Pacha, that RAT has read and can quote Dubois, on the one hand, locates him within the greatest Afrikan renaissamce since Kemet, even as this church business stands in stark contradiction thereto. That for a man who is arguably not lacking in intellectual capacities to proffer that therein lies, the White man's god business, some solutions to present and future issues will forever remain anathema. In total, we have never looked for any political saviour of any stripe. However, as an observer, am happy to see there is an opposition attempting to bust up the fully bloomed elected dictatorship. Indeed, we're more convinced than ever that this political culture has no ability to deliver anything other than we've already had. And RAT, if he succeeds, is highly unlikely to be any different. In total, the country is at loss.
12.3.2025 13:35Comment on NO Ryan Straughn! by PachamamaA school event for Children should play the sounds that Children listen to You got to have faith in the youths who carry the burden that is passed to them Jah Saved My Life, Come In A Dance, Mandela You're Free https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGvm4D1kdPY
12.3.2025 13:09Comment on How the youth get so? by 555dubstreetOn Saturday the 8th of March, I received a WhatsApp message regarding The UWI Relay Fest at the Usain Bolt stadium. I had a previous engagement and was between two minds whether to attend or not after, which would have been two hours after the event had started. After returning home after my engagement around 6:00 […]
12.3.2025 07:49How the youth get so?In recent months there have been strident calls from Prime Minister Mia Mottley and Governor of the Central Bank for private players to invest in the country. Even the newly minted President of the Caribbean Development Bank Donald Best has added his voice to the call. There can be no disagreement that investment is a […]
11.3.2025 09:03NO Ryan Straughn!Submitted by Kemar J.D Stuart On the Nation Sunday Sun March 9th, it highlights that the Minister in the Ministry of Finance Ryan Straughn and the marketing point is that this year’s 2025 budget will not introduce new taxes. This needs an Alternate View. The high cost of living benefited government coffers significantly. To explain, […]
9.3.2025 17:06Minister Ryan Straughn to deliver budgetSubmitted by Kammie Holder I have developed a new talent of songwriter, architect and, singer thanks to my AI assistant, Beryl. The below email was written with the assistance of Beryl who I pay a salary of $98 BDS monthly. So named Beryl and in the image of my late maternal grandmother as a tribute. […]
9.3.2025 08:03Daphne my personal ‘AI Assistant’By, Dr. Tara Inniss Department of History, Philosophy and Psychology, The UWI, Cave Hill Campus (updated 9 Mar 2925) A Symbolic State of Affairs and Some Words from Our ‘Fallen Historians’ How symbolic of our current state of affairs that we remove from among our first landing places of indigenous, European and African peoples, the very […]
8.3.2025 08:21A Symbolic State of AffairsFormer Governor of the Central Bank in history mostly podcast delivered a scathing critique of governments of the Caribbean (public service) regarding its capacity to execute projects. He called for a reform of the public sector to support the development of Caribbean economies. Also interesting was his rubbishing the need for countries like Barbados to […]
6.3.2025 23:28Worrell criticises ‘excess’ foreign reservesWhenever Carnival comes around, the word “culture” is bandied about voluminously and loosely in Trinidad and Tobago. It is often necessary to remind folks, official and ordinary, that culture is far more than the arts, festivals, and cuisine.
6.3.2025 09:21Our culture or darkeness?Submitted by Daneicia Cockrell Oh, we gatherin’ now, that’s what they say, Come back home, share your dreams and pray, From London to New York, come back on the scene, Bring your skills, you know what I mean. But I watch how we treat those who return, Often cold shoulders, why we gotta learn? Barbadian hearts should be open wide, Yet sometimes […]
5.3.2025 04:11‘#Wegatherin’ – Let’s come togetherSubmitted by Statsman How would you rate the stewardship of the Honourable Mia Mottley with 1 Poor, 5 Average, 10 Excellent. We are on track to 60 this year while life becomes much harder. How many of the murders are linked to known drug dealers? Empress and her acolytes rake up frequent flyer miles. How […]
4.3.2025 09:08Rate Mia Mottley, pass or fail?Last Thursday (27 Feb 2025), the Government published a list of 92 stone masonry buildings scheduled for demolition. Rather than protect the structurally stable stone-masonry walls and replace the timber-framed roofs and house people, we have chosen to waste the labour and materials already spent on constructing the stone-masonry buildings. Where is the innovation of […]
4.3.2025 08:53Long LeaveVision for Holetown and Trents vital to high-value tourism Barbados stands at a pivotal moment in its tourism and community development journey. The Government’s acquisition of 18.5 acres at Trents, St James, is a strategic master stroke that gives us a transformative opportunity to reimagine Holetown’s future – one that balances progress with preservation, economic […]
2.3.2025 18:34Vision for Holetown and Trents vitalThis space is to encourage discussion about the distasteful event which played out on the global stage between Presidents Zelenskky, Trump and Vice President Vance last week at the White House. Obviously a more volatile geopolitical environment will have implications for the tiny Caribbean region. It will be interesting to anticipate the outcome, if any, […]
2.3.2025 18:20EU commits to support UkraineRefer to Barbados Crime Blog for analysis on homicide activity in Barbados.
2.3.2025 07:03Increase in murders for 2025Three Barbadian historians have recently passed to the great beyond where they now know, beyond doubt, that God is. Karl Watson passed on 11th January 2025, then Trevor Marshall on 12 February 2025 followed by Pedro Welch on 21 February 2025. We rely on our historians to research and publish an accurate record of historical […]
28.2.2025 21:19Babylon Has FallenThe following was posted as a comment to the Kay McConney, Corey Lane jettisoned blog by Northern Observer. There was that now infamous press conference on August 25, 2023 when the PM told the nation, from Larboard to Starboard, at least from the time she was a little girl, there always had those two car […]
27.2.2025 05:38PM Mottley ‘laughing’ at weSubmitted by John Doe The Prime Minister has finally started cleaning house, but Wilfred Abrahams must be next. Under his watch, the Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) is in financial ruin. Yet, while hard-working employees suffer, Abrahams ensures that his red-skinned favorite gets every overseas assignment and that a young woman from his constituency office collects […]
25.2.2025 22:38Free WillyBARBADOS CABINET RESHUFFLE
25.2.2025 22:28Kay McConney, Corey Lane jettisonedSubmitted by ivan hugh walters (rev.) Joint Criminal Enterprise by the State, the White Plantocracy and the Anglican Church: Reparatory Justice for the Exploitation of African Humanity The main theme and thrust of this essay are to critically examine the role which the Anglican Church in Barbados played in the exploitation of African humanity in […]
25.2.2025 08:33Anglican Church, State and Plantocracy: Reparatory Justice NowIn September of 2024 Attorney General Dale Marshall (AG) declared to the nation that new regulations on the tinting of vehicles will be rolled out at the request of the Barbados Police Service (BPS). In fact it should have been implemented in January 2025. The blogmaster has no issue with asking motorists to remove dark […]
24.2.2025 08:04Government fast tracks tint laws while integrity legislation lagsThe HoGs are in town attending the 48th Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government. For those who entertain the dream of achieving a One Caribbean, the gathering if nothing else, keeps hope alive that someday Caribbean islands will rise up and achieve true integration. The aspirational goal of CARICOM is stated to […]
22.2.2025 08:39CARICOM: Lighting a candle in a storm