Adrian Loveridge is a rasshole idiot

The stupidity of this foreign idiot called Adrian Loveridge is amazing. Following on the heels of his idiotic statement about 25 hotels in Barbados closing over the past 15 years, he now comes out with the following crap posted by the shallow-minded cretins at Barbados Free Press and Barbados Underground:

Problems With Barbados Hotel Registry and Tourism Statistics – Adrian Loveridge

Barbados Hotel Room Stock

While visiting the offices of the Barbados Tourism Authority recently, I collected a copy of what I assume is the latest list of all registered accommodation on Barbados.

The brochure is entitled Rates – Hotels, Guest Houses and Apartments – Winter 2007 -2008 December 16th 2007-2008 To April 15th 2008 and Summer 2008 April 16th, 2008 to December 15th, 2008.

Adrian Loveridge you are a brainless foreign white idiot. Why should you ASSUME that the brochure is a list of ALL registered accommodation in Barbados when the brochure itself makes no such claim?

You mean that you can’t even UNDERSTAND a simple title?

You rasshole idiot!

Cat Piss

Mia Mottley on first 100 days: DLP has not kept a single promise!

I agree with Mia Mottley. This useless DLP government has not kept a single one of its promises of what it would do in the first 100 days of coming to power.

Cat Piss

http://www.nationnews.com/story/326099964326301.php

ALL GAS
Published on: 4/27/08.

NOT A SINGLE PROMISE kept!

That’s the charge from Opposition Leader Mia Mottley as she accused the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) yesterday of unrealistic promises during the heat of the January election campaign.

The DLP Government marked 100 days in office last Wednesday.

Those promises were made “purely for the sake of winning that election”, according to Mottley in a statement issued to the Press yesterday.

“The major achievements of the Government in its first 100 days in office are the increase in the cost of living and an increase in apathy and cynicism among the voting population,” Mottley said.

She said the making of unrealistic promises during the campaign were in its simplest form “irresponsible, and reckless when taken to extremes”.

“For the Democratic Labour Party to have raised public expectation by setting a 100-day benchmark as the agents of change, is either a mark of incompetence, recklessness or both. Having created a false framework on which to build their policies, their performance for the remainder of this parliamentary term will indicate which one it was,” she said.

Mottley said the DLP was a party with considerable experience in Government, and thus could not claim ignorance of the complexities of Government or of the international situation.

In their own manifesto, she said, the DLP stated: “The price of crude oil consistently hovers around [US] $100 per barrel. Reliable forecasts suggest that oil prices are likely to remain in this range for the foreseeable future.”

“Oil is now at [US] $115 a barrel and their most recent action of passing on the full weight of the increase to Barbadians is only one example of the Government availing itself of options that do not allow it to appropriately protect the average consumer in Barbados.”

The Opposition Leader said Barbadians were still waiting for the Government to do some real work that would have a positive impact on their lives.

In a statement last night Prime Minister David Thompson said his new Government was grappling with the challenging realities it inherited and those that surfaced thereafter.

“We are supremely confident that with the continued trust, cooperation and reasoned thinking of the people of Barbados, we will deliver meaningfully to the people of Barbados, notwithstanding the deteriorating global energy and food supply environment,”
he said.

He said since the January 15 election, he and his team of ministers and support staff have been working assiduously to move the process of development of Barbados forward.

Chicken Gone Up! … David Thompson Idiot!

Chicken gone up!

“Time for change”?

“Cost overruns”?

David Thompson is a real idiot!

All he has left to do is advise Bajans to start growing kitchen gardens.

Cat Piss

Thompson’s Folly and Prescod’s Wisdom

Cat Piss agrees with Trevor Prescod that the right time to investigate the Ghanaian affair is NOW, while the Africans are still here in Barbados. David Thompson has blundered and exposed his own folly when he stated that an investigation would be done AFTER the Africans were sent home. The best time to do it is when the trail is hot, not after it has gone cold.

Cat Piss

http://www.nationnews.com/story/322858782014318.php

OPEN DOOR

Published on: 4/20/08.

After being housed at the Barbados Defence Force’s Paragon military base for over a week, some of the Africans breathed a sigh of relief yesterday when they were granted conditional release from the compound. Second from left is John Howell of Global African Congress.

by TIM SLINGER

THIRTY-ODD AFRICANS who have been housed at the Barbados Defence Force’s (BDF) military base at Paragon, Christ Church, for the past week were granted conditional freedom yesterday, as they strolled out with broad smiles. The visitors from Ghana and Nigeria who were left stranded after a Ghana Airways charter flight did not return to take them back last February 15, will be allowed to leave the military base between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. daily. The latest development followed a request to the Government by the People’s Empowerment Party (PEP) and the Barbados’ chapter of the Global African Congress (GAC) to grant the Africans temporary release. In a letter to Prime Minister David Thompson last Thursday, PEP’s president David Comissiong wrote: “The PEP would like our guests to be permitted to return to their temporary Barbadian homes while they await a flight to Ghana, but your Minister of Immigration has made it clear that your Government is not prepared to allow this to happen.” It added: “We are therefore now requesting that you at least allow these West African residents of Paragon to be permitted to leave the base during the day and to return by a stipulated hour at night.” The temporary release of the Africans will continue until a flight is found to take them home. Report to BDF Additionally, all of them, including those now being housed by Barbadian families, were asked to report to the immigration for resettlement at Paragon. Minister of State (Immigration) Senator Maxine McClean has confirmed that arrangements were now in place to allow the Africans to leave the army compound daily for the eight-hour period. McClean said permission would be granted during which time the Government would try to get a flight to take the Africans home. “I have given instructions to immigration until we can get a flight,” she told the SUNDAY SUN yesterday evening. It was close to midday that a bus load of the West Africans were reunited with some of their friends who were living with Barbadian families. There were visible signs of emotion as they hugged each other and relived the ordeal of being stranded in Barbados for the past two months. “We don’t want to be pitied. All we just want is to get back home and re-start our lives,” spokesman Caesar Ikeme said. He said when the truth of their misfortune was told, those in authority would regret the action taken against them. “We have done nothing wrong. We have not committed a crime. It is just the misinformed minority, because when they come to know the truth, they would know we should not be treated as such,” he added. Ikeme also said there was nothing sinister about their visit to the Caribbean. He said most of them were only interested in setting up trade ties, or familiarising themselves with their “brothers and sisters in Barbados”. Former Government minister and president of the Israel Lovell Foundation, Trevor Prescod, has urged Government to immediately begin the investigation into the circumstances surrounding the Africans’ plight. “The Prime Minister indicated he would make a call for an investigation, as soon as all of these brothers and sisters depart for Africa. “I, as well as members of the GAC, are fully supportive of the investigation, but what we are asking is to start the investgation now with the brothers and sisters [Africans] so they can tell their story,” he said. Prescod also appealed to the remaining Africans who had not turned themselves into immigration authorities to do so immediately and avoid the likelihood of deportation. The Immigration Department has also issued a call for them to get in touch with their offices no later than tomorrow. The group of Africans arrived in Barbados on February 1 for a two-week holiday. Please see also Page 11A.

100 Days of Failure

Only 13 more days to go.

Well, Cat Piss never voted for those DLP liars, so David Thompson can take his 100 days promises and stick them up his red ass.

Cat Piss

http://www.nationnews.com/editorial/319109878692286.php

First 100 days almost up
Published on: 4/12/08.

WHAT CAN BE ACHIEVED in 12 days?

That’s the big question many Barbadians are asking as the clock ticks down on the first 100 days since the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) won the January 15 general election.

The DLP was swept to power on a platform of change and promised, among other things, to tackle the high cost of living and the lack of affordable housing in the lower- and middle-income brackets.

In his maiden speech in Parliament back in February, Minister of Foreign Affairs Chris Sinckler promised the DLP Government would live up to its manifesto promise of making certain changes within its first 100 days of office, and could live up to its word.

“There will be no stepping back from the 100-day policy. Forward ever, backward never,” Sinckler declared.

He noted that Government fully intended to implement all the policies in the manifesto circulated prior to the January 15 general election.

“We will deliver on the promise to have housing delivered to Barbadians,” Sinckler stressed.

Government, he added, had already commissioned a special unit under Senator Maxine McClean, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office, to “shepherd” the 100-day plan to a “successful conclusion”, and a blueprint would soon be completed.

Realistically though, what can Barbadians reasonably expect the Thompson Government to report?

On the issue of rising food prices, it is clear that Government has been unable to contain this in spite of its best efforts. It is a global problem, and has always been one despite the rhetoric during the election campaign.

As for housing, the $60 million Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) loan which was negotiated by the Owen Arthur Administration, but approved by the IDB two days after the January 15 general election, will ensure the aims of the DLP’s housing programme can be realised.

Prime Minister David Thompson, on signing the loan agreement this week in Miami, pointed out the funds would be used to boost affordable housing for at least 2 000 Bajan families, mostly first-time owners or low-income workers. At the same time, some of the loan funds would be used to help reduce poverty and improve housing and land management.

With this money his regime’s pledge to provide 500 lots of land within five months at $5 per square foot for first-time homeowners is distinctly plausible.

But the reality is, even if Government does not have much to report, the fact that it has stuck its necks out to address issues with some degree of urgency is commendable.

What Barbadians must realise is that there is a big difference between talking about what you will do when you win Government, and being able to achieve those goals when you actually have power. This is the reality with which the DLP is battling.

Barbados Prison Art, Online

An interesting online display of prison art from Barbados, though the viewing size is a bit “restricted”. From all indications the inmates were based at Harrison’s Point at the time of these submissions. Hopefully the facilities at Dodds will also lend themselves to the continued expression of creative talent.

http://casafrela.gourdom.com/gallery/BPS

Cat Piss