<Name of UN Delegate>
RE: Address to the UN General Assembly by Barbados Prime Minister David Thompson, September 23, 2008, 3pm
Your Excellency,
Tomorrow afternoon, Tuesday, September 23, 2008, the Prime Minister of Barbados, David Thompson, will address the 63rd General Assembly of the United Nations.
I am writing this letter to inform you that Barbados has no laws to limit corrupt practices by government officials, and that the David Thompson government failed to adopt the integrity laws and Ministerial code that they promised would become effective immediately upon their election in January of 2008.
As was the situation under the previous Owen Arthur led Barbados Government, it is still legal for elected or appointed Barbados government officials to receive gifts from the same companies that they award government contracts to. Prime Minister Thompson’s government has not stopped this practice or made it illegal.
There is also no oversight or public accountability into the manner in which the Government of Barbados spends funds that are received from outside agencies including the United Nations and the European Union. For instance, in 2007 the EU provided some $5.83 million dollars to assist with the “restructuring” of Barbados’ sugar industry, but most of this money has apparently disappeared with no visible results or betterment for Barbados.
Prime Minister David Thompson was recently quoted in the Barbados news media as saying that government officials under the previous administration “bizarrely spent millions and millions of dollars” that is now stashed away in foreign bank accounts, however the Thompson government failed to pass the laws to stop this abuse.
It is also true that recent banking and corporate scandals involving ENRON, AIG and others were all facilitated by a lack of effective government oversight of Barbados-based small banks and offshore reinsurance corporations.
When you are asked to provide United Nations funding to Barbados, please consider the lack of anti-corruption laws and poor oversight in Barbados and how millions of dollars intended to benefit the people of Barbados ends up in secret foreign bank accounts. If the United Nations does advance funding to Barbados, I urge you to support an external system of accountability, goal reporting and audits to ensure the monies are used for their intended purposes.
Yours faithfully,
K. Davis per Keltruth Corp.
c/o United States Corporation Agents, Inc.
320 S. Flamingo Road #347
Pembroke Pines, FL 33027
Details and links to references can be found on the Keltruth Corp. website: www.keltruth.com
- Barbados Nation SECRET ACCOUNTS - alternative link - Quote: “PRIME MINISTER
DAVID THOMPSON is convinced that millions of dollars “bizarrely spent” during the previous Barbados Labour Party (BLP) Administration are now stashed in foreign bank accounts.” - Barbados Nation ‘Prove it’ - Mottley rebuts Thompson
- Barbados Nation 1/18/07 $5m sugar boost
- ENRON meltdown. Barbados-registered offshore companies were involved in a big way.
- AIG is now in the news. Two Bajan companies were involved there too - Richmond and Union Excess
- Enron, AIG, PricewaterhouseCoopers and today’s Barbados Offshore Companies
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I doubt that this writer of this letter has even lived in the United States. If you had or had any dealing with a major corp. or bank here on an administrative level you would know that this letter is not realistic. This is a domestic issue and attempting to embarass the present Prime Minister about something that has been going on for year under the prior admistration would not work in this environment.
I doubt that the writer of this letter has even lived in the United States. If you had or had any dealings with a major corp. or bank here on an administrative level you would know that this letter is not realistic. This is a domestic issue and attempting to embarass the present Prime Minister about something that has been going on for years under the prior administration would not work in this environment. The money traded on Wall Street and the current financial woes and other corruption here in the United States exceeded any that small loses that occur in the entire Caribbean.
A single raindrop cannot wet a mountain, but enough raindrops will cause a landslide.
The single most telling “fact” in the letter is the disappearance of the EU sugar money. It that is true it isn’t something that Barbados wants “every UN delegate” to know.
Kelruth, it’s at times like this that I’m induced to think you and BFP, so silly!! Don’t u think any sensible, delegate will look at ur letter but once they realise how short a time the DLP have been in power will throw it right in the bin!! ‘Knowledgeable’, BFP banned me but I have to wonder who’s the greater loser, they or me! Somehow, I don’t think it’s me!!
Woweee!!! Well done, Keltruth. Bravo. The UN will, of course, accept this letter as a burning issue coming from you, a discredited fraudster - or the mouthpiece of one. Oh yes siree. You have finally made it. Ah, but we are FILLED with admiration. Keep it up. PLEASE keep it up. You have no idea how it helps the case you are involved in.
People are upset that Keltruth printed the letter but I don’t hear anyone saying the contents are not true!
It is easy to think that big ambassadors will toss it in the trash, but what we don’t know is if a letter like this will somehow suit some ambassador’s purpose. There is no telling how this will be received at the UN or whether it might be talked about by some even if viewed as a joke.
Only an observation from afar.
The letter is a good start but you will have to do lots more to have any effect. You should write the IMF and World Bank too if you want to bring attention to the situation in Barbados.
I am ashamed as a Barbadian that someone who would drag Barbados’name through the mud to further their personal agenda.
You mean like Thompson announcing in Canada that millions have been stolen from Barbados and the money is sitting in offshore banks? How dare he drag the name of Barbados through the mud!
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Good for you Keltruth
As for dragging Barbados’ name in the mud, I am sick and tired of hearing that. Barbados is long past being in the mud. I would not choose to use the type of graphic language to describe where it is.
What really upsets me is the COVER UP. The majority of the country continues to cover up the truth for the sake of the Almighy Dollar.
Don’t you all know that the truth will eventually come out? How long in this technological era can you continue this mass pretense and propaganda. Any person with any modicum of common sense can get a feel for the pulse of the island in a very short period of time.
You can fool the tourists for now but how long?
Washing Dirty Linen in Public
In some households and communities this is one of the most grievous “sins”. However, how many women are abused physically and mentally? Children abused by relatives, sexually and physically? How many abuses must one suffer before it becomes too high a price to pay for the “sacrosanct” name of the family, the community and the nation?
In a certain book it says he who judges himself is not judged. This did not have to happen if Bajans were judging themselves rightly. This matter could have been justly settled within Barbados to the honour of all concerned, including Barbados, with no parties feeling aggrieved, necessitating taking their “linen” to other sources.
How long before we set aside this “slave mentality” that who up top is right: Might is right and who at bottom must catch as catch can?
Does not the constitution of Barbados enshrine the rights of ALL Barbadians that they will be protected? If so, does not every elected or taxpayer paid official in Barbados have a responsibility to protect the rights of the smallest Bajan and not to take advantage of their position however achieved to advance themselves to the disadvantage of everybody else? Is this Justice?
I hope Prime Minister Thompson knew about this letter when he was talking to the United Nations.
His staff must have known.
Do you suppose they told him, or waited until after? LOL
I see that some people are saying the Nation aritcle is wrong and thompson doesn’t speak until friday.
I can’t find him on the schedule for today. I can’t find any schedule for friday.
http://www.un.org/ga/63/generaldebate/
Thanks.
“On Friday, September 26, Prime Minister Thompson will deliver Barbados’ address to the UNGA. He will be the 10th speaker at the afternoon session which be held from 3:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.”
http://www.barbados.gov.bb/ViewNews.asp?ID=7003&Dat=9/12/2008
Dear Keltruth Admin
Please be aware that the character “bimbro” is a legend in his own mind, he has been banned from the following -
* Barbados Forum
* BFP
* Bds Underground
* Bajan Reporter
S/he has as much taste and sensitivity as a rhino in a Swarovski display, rather like the flea on attempting to mount a buffalo asking the creature to let him know if the entry is painful, sigh!
do you really think those fellas you sent the letter to aint doing the said same thing thats being done in Barbados lol
oh well worth a try i guess.
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I think Kelruth’s interested in my opinion, not my reputation!! Go back to your kindergarten!!
don’t you people know that the amount of properganda that you have been spreading about the last government for the longest while has already made barbados look bad in the international world.where is the holier than thow attitude coming from now. it seems to me that you’ll had no problem painting members of the last government as corrupt without proof.
There is a great deal of compelling evidence. The courts will have to make the decision if it is “proof”.
It is worth noting that at least two of the top judges from the Barbados courts have been closely involved with Kingsland.
Bimbro? UM, ur opinion/reputation’s showing, quick! Before the Challenor School let’s you back in… If BFP & Keltruth were “smart” and not “silly” as you deem, then they’d lock up and go home - but it’s always you who gets locked out, poor baby! :p Toddle along and take your drool with you, ok?
many bajans earn the wrath and offence of their fellow caribbean neighbours, when they take up the “superior” attitude that some who comment on this blog have displayed as only a bajan can. what makes barbados so high and mighty that when things go wrong that you cant fix from the inside, you cant try to fix it from the outside? this letter may achieve nothing, but it was still a step in a direction. barbados is like cuba under fidel, but leaning more along the lines of capitalism. no one in bim knows true freedom.
St. Lucia is perceived as being the least corrupt country within the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), according to a survey released by the German-based Transparency International (TI) on Tuesday.
The organisation polled 180 countries for its 2008 Corruption Perception Index (CPI), which ranks countries according to the degree to which politicians and public officials are perceived to be corrupt by senior resident business leaders and non-resident analysts. It scores countries on a scale of 0-10, with 0 being the most corrupt and 10 being the least.
St. Lucia took the number 21 spot with a total of 7.1, followed by Barbados at 22 with 7.0. St. Vincent and the Grenadines was at number 28 with a score of 6.5, while Dominica had a score of 6.0 to be number 33 on the list.
Trinidad and Tobago and Suriname tied for the 72nd place with a score of 3.6, while Jamaica’s 96 position was a result of its score of 3.1. Belize was 109 with a score of 2.9, while Guyana placed 126 due to its rating of 2.6.
Haiti, the least developed CARICOM country and one of the poorest in the world, ranked 177 with a rating of 1.4.
“In the poorest countries, corruption levels can mean the difference between life and death when money for hospitals or clean water is in play,” said Huguette Labelle, Chair of Transparency International.
“The continuing high levels of corruption and poverty plaguing many of the world’s societies amount to an ongoing humanitarian disaster and cannot be tolerated. But even in more privileged countries, with enforcement disturbingly uneven, a tougher approach to tackling corruption is needed.”
The other CARICOM countries - Grenada, Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Montserrat and St. Kitts and Nevis - were not included in the CPI this year.
Transparency International placed Denmark, Sweden and New Zealand at the top of the list of developing and developed countries with scores of 9.3 out of 10.
CMC/pr/dmb/08
All these bodies such as CPI, Global or internal, can be bought.
Don’t believe a word they say. They are part of the establishment.
If a true study of Barbados were done, all things being equal, you may find Bim attaining 20/100.
All that glitters is not gold. Barbados offers a glitzy facade but is rotten to the core underneath.
I had to voluntarily leave my native country with my “shirt on my back” having my business persecuted and harassed to such a degree by “governmental officials” that I had no choice but to shut it down.
The business I was operating was in the BEST interests of NEEDY Bajans (it was not a tourist business but a much needed service), however it showed up the indifference and unwillingness of the Ministry in question to do what should be done. They COULD not tolerate that.
‘Word2dWise’, I’m not entering a ‘popularity contest’ here! I express my opinion, if u or others don’t like them then too, bad!! U know what to do with yourselves!!
Upon reading all of these posts and insults and childish behavior it strikes me that none of you really care about the image of Barbados or the corruptness that is apparent(regardless of which goverment is in power).
There are so many problems with barbados that I am saddened to seethis, You would think that we could leave the political vindictiveness behind and look towards what we are creating as a place for our kids, Barbados has become a safe haven for off shore companies, we can all agree on that NOW we have to look at what needs to be done to correct it, regardless of how long some one has been in power, when you ask to be elected you made promises and they have not been kep.
A man is only as good as his word and if your word was to solve this problem it should be the first thing on teh agenda not raising taxation on other things (as if Barbados is not taxed enough as it was)
The basic human blessing is that we have teh ability to disagree and when we exceptthat not everyone will see things our way the better off we are no one says that by trying to open everyones eyes to a problem is ever easy or pretty but it is a necesity when you look at how far the people of Barbados have fallen.
The attitudes displayed here on this blog only goes to support the fact that we are not adult enough to look at facts and question the people in power to be accountable for the situations,
If I remember right a promise is a promise and you have to follow through, I amy be behind on many things happeninig in Barbados but since my return I am truly saddened at the sights i have seen
I hope the frequent visitors and posters on this blog can prove me wrong and use their united efforts to bring Barbados back into dececncy and fairness for ALL!
But any possibility of gradually infecting the human race with unwanted latent mutations ought to be a matter of concern to the community. ,
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