SWIMMING UPSTREAM: Brass Tacks, BWA, Crops, and MTW

By Kammie Holder | Fri, July 09, 2010 - 12:00 AM

Negativity, stupidity, red tape, common sense and ignorance in pure Barbados style. The aforementioned adjectives are observations of pervasive descriptives within Barbados.
Why, is it that it that the once popular Brass Tacks talk show now seems to be the embryo for negativity in Barbados. Should not moderators put aside their bull and bias, to inform and educate listeners as opinion leaders?
I heard recently that experts on water authority don’t believe that Barbados is a water scarce country. Is this the same Barbados where taps run dry? Was I dreaming when I saw a Barbados Water Authority truck pumping water into a gully to make soil soft for a motor sport during CBC TV Wednesday evening sports news? Seem to me this is classic Barbados stupidity?
Our existing fresh water resources are under heavy threat from overexploitation, pollution, and global warming. Twenty litres are deemed to be the minimum daily requirement for drinking, washing, cooking and sanitation. Such unsustainable consumption levels have led to water scarcity and significantly altered freshwater ecosystems.
Consider also this: Have you ever tried to pay a cashier at 2:30 p.m. within a private company and the cashier booth was closed? In the year 2010 Government revenue collection agencies cashiers stop taking cash at 2:30 pm, whose idea it is to continue this tradition, surely not the unions. Can’t be, because aren’t these the same unions who seek increases for workers in recessionary times? Is this a case of being hung by red tape?
Mr Ronald Jones, the acting Prime Minister must be commended for showing great common sense with regards to supporting the need for increased agriculture production. Sir, your pronouncements were bold and only when we get our Ministry of Agriculture personnel to show greater leadership, will we have food security and a decreased food import bill. Have we been defeated by an army of gastropods masquerading as giant Africans.
Ignorance should be attributed to those at MTW who appear not to possess the knowledge that the rainy season starts in July. What would it have cost if Joes River Bridge was worked on 24 hours, seven days a week? What is it costing for the building and reinforcement of the temporary road via Joes River Forest? How much more is it costing the Transport Board? People it’s slippery when wet !

• Kammie Holder the boy from the village is studying the personality of the erratic but is a determined Salmon swimming up stream!

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Posted by Salena Spice 1 year, 7 months ago: I am in total agreement with the article - I myself tired talking bout these same things!

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Posted by Raquel Gilkes 1 year, 7 months ago

Very interesting. I await a response from the Barbados Water Authority.

I have had occasion to reflect on the posture of unions in Barbados for some time now, and have been harbouring skepticism on the notion of their continued relevance in the changing global dispensation.

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Posted by John Chapman 1 year, 7 months ago: The Bell issue is a serious issue because if nitrates coming in the water. I having live in ST George for a year had the problem of my cook food spoiling to quick in the same day. I now live in West Terrace where the water is a mix of Desalinated water and Bell water, my cook food can be left out over night and still be good. This need to be seriously address. Every time I pass the bell area i still see people building houses and the law does not do anything about it. Even a water filter is not helping. Before some thing seriously happen , deal with it. Also we the people deserve better service from the BWA. WE the tax payers pay then double, by a bill and they are subsidies with taxes. We deserve to be treated like kings and queens when we pay our bills

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Posted by Rawle E. Maughn 1 year, 7 months ago: There was a water truck used at the first challenge in Maynards, where the hill that we exited the ‘gully’ from was thoroughly soaked. It was not a BWA truck which was used, nor was it water from anyone’s tap. The water used was water caught in a private water tank from the previous rains of the week. The water tank was actually so full it was overflowing even long after the truck started taking some.