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Congrats Barbados PM

 
Chrissy 2020-01-20 23:12:06 

Proud of yah. The Barbadian Foreign Minister will be not be meeting with Pompeo in Kingston.
Do not accept divide and rule.

 
nick2020 2020-01-20 23:23:02 

In reply to Chrissy

Now watch a travel advisory pop up on CNN.

 
Emir 2020-01-21 01:18:53 

In reply to Chrissy

Great news and real prod of Bim

 
nitro 2020-01-21 01:39:29 

In reply to Chrissy

Hope she can build prosperity for her people without the support of Uncle Sam.

 
bravos 2020-01-21 01:45:40 

In reply to Chrissy

cool cool cool cool

 
Ewart 2020-01-21 03:02:25 

In reply to Chrissy

Big woman dat! What a turnaround for Barbados...


//

 
sudden 2020-01-21 12:18:47 

In reply to Ewart

What a turnaround for Barbados..


in the context of the lead post what does that mean?

 
Emir 2020-01-21 13:07:58 

In reply to bravos

I read today how Trinidad opposition senator slammed Rowley for not sending someone.

It is why TT opposition is unfit to govern big grin

 
VIX 2020-01-21 13:51:31 

yeah while the backroom is obsessed with pedo Trump, the Bim PM gives a lesson in leadership!

 
Gun_Play 2020-01-21 14:02:43 

The rest will go like the good sheep they are.

 
bravos 2020-01-21 14:10:14 

In reply to Emir

Mad and unfit !

Familiar ?

 
Chrissy 2020-01-21 15:57:01 

Rowley agreed with PM Mia Mottley - not sending anyone either.
You do not divide and rule CARICOM.

 
Chrissy 2020-01-21 15:57:31 

In reply to Emir

You mean di suck up posse wink

 
Chrissy 2020-01-21 15:59:33 

In reply to nitro

KYS! Sometimes a likkle dignity is better than racist crumbs.

No one should have attended - you cannot lock up children of our hemisphere in cages and then tell us a damned thing about shared values.-----
You are shameless and lack both pride and human dignity.
Allyuh will do anything fi trinkets.

 
Chrissy 2020-01-21 16:00:21 

In reply to Ewart

The Chairperson of CARICOM had to do that or CARICOM would have no meaning.

 
Emir 2020-01-21 16:10:27 

In reply to bravos

big grin

 
bravos 2020-01-21 16:18:07 

In reply to Emir Chrissy et

The Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Min­istry re­lease, which was is­sued af­ter Charles spoke, quot­ed Row­ley as say­ing: “Prime Min­is­ter Mot­t­ley has the full sup­port of the Gov­ern­ment and the peo­ple of Trinidad and To­ba­go in out­lin­ing our prin­ci­ples and vi­sion of Caribbean uni­ty. In the ex­pec­ta­tion of Caribbean uni­ty, the Prime Min­is­ter of Bar­ba­dos speaks for Trinidad and To­ba­go.


Full article.

 
Chrissy 2020-01-21 16:39:38 

In reply to bravos

Thanks

 
sudden 2020-01-21 16:41:52 

Jamaica and bahamas have always been sell outs

 
Chrissy 2020-01-21 16:44:00 

In reply to sudden

Post-Manley Jamaica

 
sudden 2020-01-21 16:46:12 

In reply to Chrissy

the federation?

 
Chrissy 2020-01-21 16:50:39 

In reply to sudden

That's true.
Bet you don't know my dad was a Federal Minister wink

 
sudden 2020-01-21 16:58:42 

In reply to Chrissy

didnt know Guyana was in the Federation?

 
Chrissy 2020-01-21 17:03:19 

In reply to sudden

Then BG and BH had observer status

 
sudden 2020-01-21 17:05:02 

In reply to Chrissy

interesting. did he say whether it could have worked?

 
nitro 2020-01-21 17:57:29 

Romanticsm about the failed socialism system and lightweight Caribbean unity still abound with the highly educated but street smart dunce intellectuals.

 
Chrissy 2020-01-21 17:57:39 

In reply to sudden

He was pro-Federation

 
sudden 2020-01-21 18:09:31 

In reply to nitro

is the USA govt a federal system?

 
Ewart 2020-01-22 02:45:06 

In reply to sudden

Re Sell-out:

the federation?



Dat was the Doctor: One from 10 leave naught!


Not Jamaica who eastern peeps wanted to pay more than half the cost of the Federation with less than half the seats. (It is called no federation without representation).

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sgtdjones 2020-01-22 03:09:49 

Op­po­si­tion MP Rod­ney Charles said the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) had un­con­firmed re­ports that T&T wasn’t in­vit­ed to the meet­ing. Gov­ern­ment sources said this coun­try “like­ly wasn’t in­vit­ed due to our po­si­tion on Venezuela”

The Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Min­istry re­lease, which was is­sued af­ter Charles spoke, quot­ed Row­ley as say­ing: “Prime Min­is­ter Mot­t­ley has the full sup­port of the Gov­ern­ment and the peo­ple of Trinidad and To­ba­go in out­lin­ing our prin­ci­ples and vi­sion of Caribbean uni­ty. In the ex­pec­ta­tion of Caribbean uni­ty, the Prime Min­is­ter of Bar­ba­dos speaks for Trinidad and To­ba­go.

How­ev­er, Charles claimed that T&T had “sur­ren­dered re­gion­al lead­er­ship and is no longer in­vit­ed to ma­jor re­gion­al meet­ings.” He added: “Ms Mot­t­ley’s po­si­tion high­lights Trinidad and To­ba­go’s diplo­mat­ic iso­la­tion, the sur­ren­der of our lead­er­ship role with­in Cari­com and the need for coun­tries such as Bar­ba­dos to pur­sue our in­ter­ests in the glob­al are­na. We’re lit­er­al­ly on Cari­com’s B Team, with Bar­ba­dos, Ja­maica, Guyana and even St Vin­cent.

“It’s an ax­iom of diplo­ma­cy that once a coun­try isn’t seat­ed at the ta­ble par­tic­i­pat­ing in dis­cus­sions then it may very well find it­self on the menu. Hap­less Kei­th Row­ley and his woe­ful­ly in­com­pe­tent For­eign Min­is­ter Den­nis Moses and a to­tal­ly de­mor­alised For­eign Min­istry aren’t up to the task of pro­mot­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go’s in­ter­ests glob­al­ly.”


Link Text

 
bravos 2020-01-22 14:36:01 

T&T 'not invited'.



Bim doesn't go...ok we go take dat... lol


Idiots....

 
powen001 2020-01-22 15:56:32 

In reply to sudden

in the context of the lead post what does that mean?


you so funny ....I almost spit my coffee onto my keyboard when you asked for clarity here


See...I been quiet..I aint brag and I aint rubbing in what Leadership looks like...


I am observing the excuses and explanations to make it look like nothing important

But it is.

We all know this...

I am saddened by the attempt at indifference by JA...a land that I love dearly.

but as always...these things speak to leadership

 
powen001 2020-01-22 15:59:04 

The Topics alone...about discussing relations with the USA and CARICOM kind of puts the lie to the statement that its about Individual pursuits only.


The divide is real...and it ought not to be so.

 
TriniStar 2020-01-22 16:02:52 

we go do more business with China! fack Trump evil

 
powen001 2020-01-22 16:35:55 

In reply to TriniStar

I have it on good authority that this is part of the "reasoning"

Our Region has increasingly been doing more and more business with China.


Pompeo says no divide intended and that all are invited...

suuuuuuuuuurrrreeeeeeee

 
Gun_Play 2020-01-22 16:39:42 

In reply to powen001

Isn't that funny... lol

They're not trying to divide yet some weren't invited. Now, he says all were invited.

Straight out of the Trump administration play book. big grin

 
Chrissy 2020-01-22 17:04:13 

Too sad!

 
sudden 2020-01-22 17:07:32 

In reply to powen001

to varying degrees of lip service all Bim PMs (except Tom) have been solid on the"a friend of all a satellite of none" Barrow foreign policy

 
sgtdjones 2020-01-22 17:10:27 

Watch these clown Premiers bawl if Spanky
cuts the 500 million in aid to the Caribbean
that is given yearly..

They are big fishes in a small pond.

Oh, they are toughies to one another.

lol lol lol

 
FuzzyWuzzy 2020-01-22 17:16:38 

In reply to sgtdjones

You are missing the point. Because you are small and poor you must allow yourself to be a doormat?

 
bravos 2020-01-22 17:25:02 

In reply to Chrissy

fix link..

 
sgtdjones 2020-01-22 17:29:42 

In reply to FuzzyWuzzy

I am not missing anything when the Caribbean
owes American Banks over a trillion dollars,
you stay humble.

We have an unstable genius in the White House, tread softly, till a change occurs.

Think about what happened when England stop buying sugar and bananas from the Caribbean, the results, based on joining the European nations.

 
FuzzyWuzzy 2020-01-22 17:41:17 

In reply to sgtdjones

What do we export to the states?

 
camos 2020-01-22 17:46:42 

In reply to sgtdjonesI

am not missing anything when the Caribbean
owes American Banks over a trillion dollars


where you get that figure, Caribbean does not owe half a trillion dollars and that include non American entities!

 
bravos 2020-01-22 17:48:40 

In reply to camos

don't even bother bro.. redface

 
nitro 2020-01-22 17:59:42 

In reply to FuzzyWuzzy

Tourism.

 
FuzzyWuzzy 2020-01-22 18:11:16 

In reply to nitro

True but not exclusively. Barbados for example do better in Europe and Canada

 
sgtdjones 2020-01-22 18:20:44 

In reply to camos

I just called the US embassy to get the latest numbers. They faxed me the below with no link.

The financial sector in the Caribbean is large relative to the economic size and
is dominated by banks. Total assets of the financial systems in the region averaged
320 percent of GDP, with 149 percent of GDP held by banks. However, limited access to
credit and high interest rates still stifle private sector business expansion in some
countries.


GDP of Latin America and the Caribbean.....5,722 US (Billions)
Average debt owed .....71 %

The January 2009 collapse of the Trinidad and Tobago-based CL Financial Group was a major financial shock to the Caribbean region. The collapse reflected a weak insurance regulatory
environment and the rapid deterioration in the global economy and left a hole of about
3½ percent of GDP on average across Caribbean countries, but as high as 12 percent in Trinidad and Tobago and 10 percent of GDP in ECCU countries.

Don't let bobolee do the math for you, you can calculate the above by yourself.

 
camos 2020-01-22 18:30:49 

In reply to sgtdjones

GDP of the Caribbean.....5,722 US Billion


in 2017 the Caribbean GDP was less than $70 billion US dollars?

 
sgtdjones 2020-01-22 18:32:37 

In reply to FuzzyWuzzy

The US stats mix us with Latin America...
The region exported $1.08 trillion last year.
Mexico and the Caribbean region were above-average in regional export

The main exports from the Caribbean to the EU and USA are fuel and mining products, notably petroleum gas and oils, bananas, sugar and rum, minerals (notably gold, corundum, aluminium oxide and hydroxide), iron ore products, and fertilisers.

Imports from US aprox 2 billion ...last figures 2017

 
sgtdjones 2020-01-22 18:34:03 

In reply to camos

The number includes Latin America...my error

The US doesn't have stats for the Caribbean islands only.I don't know why?

 
problemjay 2020-01-23 01:57:39 

In reply to TriniStar

Yes we will! Link Text

America still feel they are needed lol I see so much Chinese investment in T&T now let Pompeo hush he ass

 
bravos 2020-01-23 02:17:10 

In reply to camos

It have no shame,copy and paste everything,even misinfo...

bout embassy fax he...steups...

He talking GDP now...and he more wrong,he don't even know T&T's..and it alone far exceeds that 5 billion plus he quoting, by about 4 of times ! He should've known that 'by heart'.



And we dont run on US aid and our debt ratios are not bad,our debts are very well serviced ..

 
camos 2020-01-23 02:46:42 

In reply to sgtdjones

The US stats mix us with Latin America..



If you go into the CIA website you will find individual countries GDP,you can then aggregate those to get a regional picture.

 
sgtdjones 2020-01-23 03:16:08 

In reply to bravos

He talking GDP now...and he more wrong,he don't even know T&T's..and it alone far exceeds that 5 billion plus he quoting, by about 4 of times ! He should've known that 'by heart'.


The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in Trinidad and Tobago was worth 23.41 billion US dollars in 2018.

GDP of Latin America and the Caribbean.....5,722 US (Billions)


(5,722 x 1 US Billion)...not 5 billion as you state... razz razz

I see why people laugh at you when you make math calculations.... do you know what the above means boboolee?

You are really this stupid.

 
sgtdjones 2020-01-23 03:17:11 

In reply to camos

CIA website is not accurate, I prefer to get such info from The Central banks.

 
sgtdjones 2020-01-23 03:25:34 

In reply to bravos


And we dont run on US aid



US Aid to Trinidad and Tobago in millions

2013 167

2014 179

2015 308

2016 325

2017 343

2018 360


You get the above aid.

Its fun making you look stupid.

razz razz razz

 
powen001 2020-01-23 14:05:28 

In reply to sudden

I stand vindicated on my premise that this was about China.

POMPEO WARNS Caribbean states to be careful in accepting EASY MONEY from CHINA


The marble sized balls on these jokers is infuriating

 
Chrissy 2020-01-23 14:16:58 

In reply to problemjay

Chinese Embassy responded to Pompeo's comment about teking easy money from China. I did laugh

 
Chrissy 2020-01-23 14:20:47 

In reply to FuzzyWuzzy

You are missing the point. Because you are small and poor you must allow yourself to be a doormat?
Nuff licky licky people in this region

 
sudden 2020-01-23 15:07:35 

In reply to powen001

we are in agreement, and yes, MAM's balls are bigger than a lot of men's

 
problemjay 2020-01-23 22:19:51 

Most Holness can do in these talks is talk about trade and relations between
Jamaica and the US but the issue is Holness is trying to pose as some representative of the Caribbean in this meeting and Pompeo is feeding his ego with useless rhetoric. So in the end this meeting really just come down to talk with no substance. He (Holness) has no power of any kind, NO regional CARICOM appointment, NO economical Jamaica regional power to represent CARICOM on ANY issue, Jamaica has No market power, No buying power, Not one shit.. and now given the tension he cannot sway any of the significant countries on any issue Pompeo will want the region to side with the US.

So what does that mean? Rest of the region will keep their same non-intervention stance on Venezuela which America hates = America and Jamaica made no gains from this meeting, rest of the region will continue doing more business with China which America hates = America and Jamaica made no gains from this meeting. So in the end, no real gains made on any significant issue but real gains made with division between Caribbean head of states that will carry on to months and years to come.