Two news items in today's daily Nation newspaper (3 April 2024) drew the attention of the blogmaster. Rodney Wilkinson, bagman for for the late Prime Minister Owen Arthur, was finally ruled to face a jury trial to defend 41 counts of fraud, TEN years after he was charged.
While our esteemed globe trotting Prime Minister has been accumulating the accolades in the international arena, a not fit for purpose governance model continues to expose Barbados. Exposed because it forces political parties, including the DLP, to become more dependent than already is the case on donors in the private sector to finance political operations.
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One has to refer the firing of Liz Thompson and George Payne by late Prime Minister Owen Arthur to get a sense that a minister was jettisoned from a Barbados Cabinet for lack of performance.