DEAR EDITOR:
By holding fuel prices constant in Barbados until January, 2023, Prime Minister Mia Mottley is sending a subtle message to Prime Minister Gaston Browne of Antigua and Barbuda. The message is that the Mia Mottley Government in Barbados is willing to cry shame on the Antigua and Barbuda Government for not placing a cap on fuel prices in the twin island state. CLICK HERE TO JOIN OUR WHATSAPP GROUP FOR NEWS UPDATES.
Beyond that, Prime Minister Mia Mottley is giving an indication that she is not prepared to stand idly by and see Prime Minister Gaston Browne win another Electoral Term in Antigua and Barbuda. Don’t forget that Mr. Harold Lovell, Miss Mia Mottley and former Prime Minister of St. Lucia, Mr. Kenny Anthony were called to the bar together in the United Kingdom (UK): the trio were obviously soulmates in the UK. Also, remember that it was Mr. Harold Lovell, while being Finance Minister in the last United Progressive Party (UPP) Government, who allowed Barbados to obtain the majority shareholding in LIAT.
On top of the above outlined machinations, Barbados sent soldiers into the Commonwealth of Dominica during the last election campaign season there to tame political unrest on that island. Now, it is Antigua and Barbuda’s turn; this time, to replace our current political leadership with a soulmate of Prime Minister Mia Mottley.
My Dear People, it has become my humble duty to disclose to you that Eastern Caribbean leaders have been engaging in dark thoughts – or maybe enlightening ones – and a recolonization process has commenced in the sub-region: now that Barbados has freed itself from the United Kingdom’s (UK) monarchy, and is now a republic, it’s political leadership is now full of ambitious thoughts.
Barbados is no longer content to be a single island. But, is intent on expanding its control over other Eastern Caribbean territories. I can’t say this is a bad thing, because I always thought, since my days at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, that Barbados’ destiny is to be part of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS).
Barbados becoming a part of the OECS could not be a bad thing: because Barbados is geographically strategically located just east of the chain of OECS islands; Barbados could expand its manufacturing capabilities to supply the OECS islands and vice versa; the OECS islands could adopt the Barbados Dollar as their currency, or Barbados could help create a new Eastern Caribbean Dollar valued on the basis of the current Barbados Dollar.
In conclusion of the above, I welcome Barbadian designs on the OECS territories. Somebody needs to unite these islands, and I think Barbados could. On the contrary, it’s not attractive nor feasible to embark on a trust toward Caribbean wide political union at this time, nor in the foreseeable future. Welcome to Barbados into the OECS family. Or maybe we can call it the Greater Barbados family. Whatever we call it, it will be a great thing to see Barbados and the OECS become part of the same family, this time being some kind of political union.
Roy R Jackson
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Everybody sugarcoat shit because they have their own agenda… I’m sooooo tired of politics home and abroad…
Troy Allen please use one useful idiot name Fitzroy sounds better, your leader the top dawg will love you more like Boboy. Bruce Goodwin couldn’t have said it better a set of dunce elements.
Knight in shining armor,
Don’t give Troy so much credit. Troy falsify document to say he have degree. It takes one crook to know the other. Remember, birds of a feather flock together. If you know Gaston footstools, they all have crooked tendencies. They will do whatever it takes to get what they want.
Why are we afraid of the work and challenges we would have to face?
Don’t we have more foresight?
We have one life to live (for most less than 100 years).
MAKE HISTORY!!!
@ ROY JACKSON: Is this part of the strategy of the BIG RED MACHINE.P
Pitiful! Really Pitiful!
In fact laughable.
Keep trying, ROY, FITZROY, NOMAD, TRUE DAVIS, YOUTH
Both of them are World Economic Forum people. They both need to go.
Why would Mia Mottley care about the governance of another country when she is dealing with her own s**t?
Mia Mottley is drinking HER water and minding HER OWN business! Geez…what are we going to come up with next? Lemme guess….all of them who were called to the bar together want to form a superhero’s league? What will they call it? Make Caribbean Great Again MCGA????
On the day that you wrote this, did you just wake up and decide that this is the day to show my delusional side?
What the……..?
Look ANR thank you for giving all and sundry a voice to be heard. For the week this one takes the cake.
By the way did I hear on the disturber this morning that there are concerns regarding the investments their NIS is making? Guess they have also copied Antigua in investing in hard assets which regrettably is the wrong choice I may say.
Because that’s who Mia is, she cares. And I so agree, that all Caribbean islands should come together as one. Check out the Chinese, man them people support they own to the fullest. Imagine you coming from Barbados to reside here instead of going to the states or canada and the hell of problems you face as a Caribbean national. That’s crazy.. Black people to like to crucify they own.
All of a sudden we need a United Caribbean… Load a crap… When it was suggested by VC Bird all dem moons ago, nonebady min warn’t arwe, because we small and dependent… Now all pan a sudden it’s “whence camest thou”… Give me a damn break… Everybody flocking here… It’s funny how we continue to bring down our own country and others come and a mek life… Politics is really dirty… All the politicians say what they think we want to hear and we gravitate to our party and not to our country’s needs… Anyways good, bad or indifferent it’s my Antigua and I vote accordingly… Land of the sund and sea and home of the free… Antigua to the WORLD… To hell wid de ress…
A gallon of gasoline in Antigua & Barbuda is currently $16.57 EC Dollars
For the next five months, a gallon of gasoline in Barbados will be $27.22 EC Dollars
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(CMC) – Barbadian consumers will be paying less for gasoline and diesel come Friday, as Prime Minister Mia Mottley announced that the price of fuel at the pump will be capped for the next five months.
Gasoline will cost BDS$4.48 (US$2.24) per litre, while diesel will be BDS$4.03 (US$2.01) until January 31, 2023.
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1 gallon = 4.5 litres
1 USD = 2.7 EC Dollars
For the next five months, a Gallon of Gasoline in Barbados will cost US$2.24 x 4.5 Litres= US$10.08.
US$10.08 x 2.7 = $27.22 EC Dollars
A gallon on gasoline in Antigua & Barbuda is currently $16.57 EC Dollars
Roy do you really think the A&B public would like the idea of GB fixing gas prices at 10.18 usd per gallon or 27.66 EC per gallon? This is what the 2.24 per liter (Mia Motley’s ceiling and floor) equates to. This is the problem with your grass is always greener.. argument
Yeah Mia is capping gas at a higher level than we pay in Antigua and she is throwing shades at Gaston. The nonsense sometimes is unbelievable. This has to be one of those “tongue in cheek” letter writers.
So, Mia places a cap on fuel price for only six months. Yet the cap is higher than the price of fuel in Antigua and Barbuda. Yet the writer thinks this is a subtle message to Gaston. When our country has for years do not increase nor decreased the price of fuel based on a formula that saw the government take the short and windfall as they come. It gives the economy and therefore every driver an ease of mind when it comes to budgeting for fuel. Were it not for these higher-than-normal fuel prices, which caused economic instability and market stress all over the world, Antiguans and Barbudans would have never felt this at all. Our system is superior to that of most in our region. You know what it is like to wake up one morning and find out without prior notice that fuel price has gone up. You did not budget for that. And you do not know when it will go down again. We in Antigua have been protected from that for years. We have stability in the price of fuel. Just like the protection that we enjoy with the ECCB pegging the EC$ to the US$ at $2.7169. We have no clue what the real exchange rate is for many many years. Therefore, we live a very stable financial and economic life too. if the US$ were to fluctuate we would be one day going to the supermarket and pay $xxx.xx for goods and the next shipment we will pay another. Cause the importers would have pass through the cost in their products to the consumers. We perhaps have gotten accustomed to this and do not appreciate it at all. But know that other countries do not have that mechanism in place and therefore the people suffer from foreign exchange differences daily. The present world economic condition is putting these policies under great pressure. Will the ECCB discontinue this pegging and will the government stop absorbing most of the fuel price increases and thereby leave the people to fight for themselves. As the saying goes, “every men/women for themselves and God for us ALL”. In time to come we will find out. The pressure is mounting. Our people live a very sheltered life. And they don’t know and don’t appreciate it either.
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