Archive for April, 2008
Adrian Loveridge is a rasshole idiot
The stupidity of this foreign idiot called Adrian Loveridge is amazing. Following on the heels of his idiotic statement about 25 hotels in Barbados closing over the past 15 years, he now comes out with the following crap posted by the shallow-minded cretins at Barbados Free Press and Barbados Underground:
Problems With Barbados Hotel Registry and Tourism Statistics – Adrian Loveridge
Barbados Hotel Room Stock
While visiting the offices of the Barbados Tourism Authority recently, I collected a copy of what I assume is the latest list of all registered accommodation on Barbados.
The brochure is entitled Rates – Hotels, Guest Houses and Apartments – Winter 2007 -2008 December 16th 2007-2008 To April 15th 2008 and Summer 2008 April 16th, 2008 to December 15th, 2008.
Adrian Loveridge you are a brainless foreign white idiot. Why should you ASSUME that the brochure is a list of ALL registered accommodation in Barbados when the brochure itself makes no such claim?
You mean that you can’t even UNDERSTAND a simple title?
You rasshole idiot!
BFPE
3 comments Monday, 28 April 2008, 11:40 am
Aimé Césaire, Martinique poet, has died
The sun has set on the life of a great Caribbean man.
Aimé Césaire was a true Caribbean son. May he rest in peace.
BFPE
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/04/17/europe/EU-GEN-France-Obit-Cesaire.php
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Aimé Césaire, Martinique poet, has died
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PARIS: The esteemed Martinique poet and politician Aimé Césaire, a leading figure in the movement for black consciousness, died Thursday, the French president’s office and a hospital said. He was 94.
Césaire died in Fort-de-France on the French Caribbean island of Martinique, the hospital that was treating him said.
Césaire was involved in the fight for French West Indian rights, and he also served as a lawmaker in the lower house of France’s parliament for nearly 50 years. French President Nicolas Sarkozy successfully led a campaign last year to change the name of Martinique’s airport in honor of Césaire.
Sarkozy on Thursday praised Césaire as “a great poet” and a “great humanist.”
“As a free and independent spirit, throughout his whole life he embodied the fight for the recognition of his identity and the richness of his African roots,” Sarkozy said. “Through his universal call for the respect of human dignity, consciousness and responsibility, he will remain a symbol of hope for all oppressed peoples.”
Césaire’s 1950 “Discourse on Colonialism” has become a classic of French political literature and helped develop the concept of negritude, which urges blacks to cultivate pride in their heritage.
Born June 26, 1913, in Basse-Pointe, Martinique, Césaire moved to mainland France for high school and university studies, and finished one of the country’s most elite institutes, the Ecole Normale Superieure.
He and Senegal’s Leopold Sedar Senghor founded the journal “Black Student” in the 1930s, which gave birth to the idea of negritude.
Césaire returned to Martinique during World War II and taught at a high school in Fort-de-France.
Césaire served as mayor of Fort-de-France from 1945 to his retirement in 2001, except for a blip in 1983-84.
“I accomplished the work I had to do,” Césaire said in his surprise announcement in 2000 that that he wouldn’t seek another mayoral term.
Césaire’s essays included “Negro I am, Negro I Will Remain.” His poems, written in French, included “Notes From a Return to the Native Land.” He also wrote plays.
4 comments Thursday, 17 April 2008, 8:52 pm
Blog Reader KK attacks Barbados Free Press
Blog reader KK submitted these comments to us in response to an article posted by the deranged idiot at BFP, who obviously can’t stand criticism and blocked him from posting them on the BFP blog.
BFPE
This article was obviously written by an intoxicated idiot.
You don’t establish credibility on these blogs by quoting what someone says and adding your own grotesquely twisted version of what you would have wanted them to say.
“political class” means exactly that… people in the school (or profession) of politics.
Uneducated morons like you need to avail yourselves of free education and basic common sense.
Idiots like you are not mobilising anything. You are simply swell-headed and misguided fools who believe that you can control political power simply by hiding like cowards behind an internet blog. You fail to realise that you only produce words for your own meagre consumption. Barbados Free Press remains a fringe element even among Barbadians who use the internet for political and national discussions… and for the vast majority of Barbadians who fall outside that class, Barbados Free Press is a non-entity.
Add comment Thursday, 17 April 2008, 7:08 am
Barbados Free Press LIES about ABC News interview request
This is another LIE from Barbados Free Press.
http://barbadosfreepress.wordpress.com/2008/04/09/dear-abc-news/
ABC News did NOT make any request to interview Barbados Free Press.
BFPE
1 comment Wednesday, 9 April 2008, 7:25 pm
Carlos Chase makes mincemeat of stupid Adrian Loveridge
Closed Barbados Hotels
Mr Carlos Chase doesn’t seem to believe me, so perhaps you could post the list.
Many Thanks
Adrian Loveridge
A List of Closed Barbados Hotels
1. Tropicana Beach Hotel
2. Kings Beach
3. The Regent
4. Glitter Bay
5. Paradise Beach
6. Sierra Beach
7. Apple Experience
8. Oasis
9. St. Lawrence Apartments
10. Eastry House
11. Sam Lords
12. Windsurf Beach
13. Club Rockley
14. Caribbee
15. Inn of the Beach
16. Coconut Creek
17. Little Paradise
18. Sunshine Beach Hotel
19. Fairholme Apartments
20. Sunhaven Beach Hotel
21. Ginger Bay
22. Smugglers Cove
23. Villa Nova
24. Rainbow Beach
25. Ocean View Hotel
26. Saltash Apartments
27. Long Beach Club
28. Sandridge Beach Hotel (later this year)
7 Comments
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A friend of mine who is a senior manager in one of the largest tour operators serving the Caribbean says the closure of so many hotels in Barbados over the years is presenting them with big headaches as they cannot sell packages without hotels. It is also logistically impossible to sell packages using condos or apartments as they would have to deal with many owners in the same development or complex, who each have furnished their units to their own style and to different levels of quality.
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More tricks and gimmickry from Adrian Loveridge.That is merely a list of the NAMES. I asked you for much more information than that. You only want to present a skewed picture to suit your political motives. Below are the four key questions I asked you, along with a few additional ones. You know very well that any time you and I engage, it is always you who runs away.
1. What were the NAMES of each of those hotels, the locations and the room stock?
2. What was the total number of hotels and rooms in Barbados 15 years ago and what are the numbers today?
3. What were the total number of visitor arrivals to Barbados 15 years ago and what are the numbers today?
4. And why have you singled out only the past 15 years?
NEW QUESTIONS
5. What is the total number of new hotels and room stock OPENED in Barbados over the past 15 years?
6. What is the total number of hotels and room stock in operation in Barbados at the end of each year over the past 15 years?
7. If you dare, take the politics out of it, forget the past 15 years and present everything from 1966 to 2008?
I am 100% confident that you Adrian Loveridge will NEVER answer those questions!
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Bajanboy,“A friend of mine who is a senior manager in one of the largest tour operators serving the Caribbean says the closure of so many hotels in Barbados over the years is presenting them with big headaches as they cannot sell packages without hotels. It is also logistically impossible to sell packages using condos or apartments as they would have to deal with many owners in the same development or complex, who each have furnished their units to their own style and to different levels of quality.”
Nonsense.
Why do tourists keep coming here in even greater numbers then?
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Carlos Chase said,
“Why do tourists keep coming here in even greater numbers then?”A question for you.
Where did you get the tourist arrival figures on which you based this question? Do you include the one day cruise passengers?This has already been covered on this very blog.
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Why does Mr Chase expect Mr Loveridge to provide him with these statistics? Should not the Government Tourism Authority, or Minister of Tourism have these numbers at hand?..What is his next request of Mr Loveridge, the names of the Guests that stayed at those closed Hotels? The names and national insurance numbers of the ex employees of those Hotels? When does it stop?And if Mr Chase is trying to make a case …let him go to the trouble of digging up the stats he wants.
The list of Hotels closed during that time frame is quite an eye opener and nothing Mr Chase can present will deny that they are gone. Gone! -
Adrian Loveridge should know that tourism is about more than just hotels.Here is the list of 87 hotels listed in the Cable and Wireless Barbados Yellow Pages 2007-2008.
1. Accra Beach Hotel
2. Allamanda Beach Hotel
3. Almond Beach Village
4. Almond Casuarina Resort
5. Amaryllis Beach Resort
6. Anthurium Suites
7. Atlantis Hotel
8. Barbados Beach Club
9. Blue Horizon Hotel
10. Blue Orchids Beach Hotel
11. Bougainvillea Beach Resort
12. Broome’s Vacation Home
13. Butterfly Beach Hotel
14. Casa Grande Airport Hotel
15. Cobblers Cove Hotel
16. Coconut Court Beach Hotel
17. Colony Club Hotel
18. Coral Lane Beach Apartments
19. Coral Mist Beach Hotel
20. Coral Reef Club
21. Coral Sands Beach Resort
22. The Crane Resort
23. Crystal Cove Hotel
24. Discovery Bay Beach Hotel
25. Divi Southwinds Beach Resort
26. Dover Beach Hotel
27. Escape At The Gap
28. Fairmont Hotel
29. Fairmont Royal Pavilion
30. Gems Of Barbados
31. Golden Sands Apartment Hotel
32. Grand Barbados Beach Resort
33. Hilton Barbados
34. Island Inn Hotel
35. Kings Beach Village
36. Little Arches Hotel
37. Little Bay Hotel
38. Little Good Harbour
39. Long Beach Club Hotel
40. Lush Life Nature Resort
41. Mango Bay
42. Melbourne Apartments
43. Melbourne Inn
44. Melrose Beach Apartments
45. Meridian Inn
46. Monteray Apartment Hotel
47. Montrowe Apartments
48. Nautilus Beach Apartments
49. The Newedgewater Hotel
50. Ocen 11 Hotel Apartments
51. Osterley Vacation Home
52. Palm Garden Apartment Hotel
53. Peach And Quiet Hotel
54. Pirate’s Inn
55. Pommarine Hotel
56. Port St. Charles
57. Regency Cove Hotels
58. Rostrevor Apartment Hotel
59. St. James Apartment Hotel
60. The Sandpiper
61. Sandridge Beach Hotel
62. Sandy Bay Beach Club
63. Sandy Ground Holiday Accommodation
64. Sandy Lane Hotel
65. Santosha Retreat
66. The Savannah Hotel
67. Sea Breeze Beach Hotel
68. Settlers Beach Villa Hotel
69. Shonlan Airport Hotel
70. Silver Point Hotel
71. Silver Sands Resort
72. South Beach Resort
73. South Gap Hotel
74. Southern Palms Beach Club
75. Southern Surf Beach Apartment
76. Sugar Cane Club Hotel
77. Sunshine Beach Apartments
78. Sunswept Beach Hotel
79. Tamarind Beach Hotel
80. The House
81. Time Out At The Gap
82. Treasure Beach Hotel
83. Tropical Escape Hotel
84. Tropical Winds Hotel
85. Turtle Beach Resort
86. Worthing Court Apartment Hotel
87. Yellow Bird Apartment Hotel
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27 (or 28) hotels closing over a period of 15 years is an average of less than 2 hotels per year.Hotels, like any other business, will have to face competition and several other factors affecting their operation.
Old businesses close and new businesses open all the time, whether it is supermarkets, airlines or fruit vendors on Swan St.
Adrian Loveridge is a FOOL!
6 comments Friday, 4 April 2008, 9:26 am
BFP Idiot Says: Sale Of Holetown Chefette For “$40 Million Plus” Highlights The Killing Impact Of Condos Upon Tourism And Local Businesses
The idiot at Barbados Free Press says: Sale Of Holetown Chefette For “$40 Million Plus” Highlights The Killing Impact Of Condos Upon Tourism And Local Businesses
BFPE says…
Once again we have a typical idiotic and brainless response from the clueless and naive moron at Barbados Free Press who could never in his life start, manage or operate either a chain of fast food restaurants or a block of condominiums.
Condominiums do not kill tourism and neither do they kill local businesses. Anyone who makes that claim is spouting nonsense. Both are businesses. Condominiums require the services of construction, maintenance, cleaning and utility companies just as restaurants and other businesses do. Condominium owners have to pay taxes just like restaurant owners do. They both generate direct and indirect employment. Visitors to our island (and locals too) require food just as much as shelter.
And then there is his foolish remark “Are we content to have our coastal views and beach access blocked by walls of foreign-owned concrete?”Anyone with a working brain will tell you that Chefette’s restaurants are not 100% see through. Swapping a restaurant for a condominium block has practically no impact whatsoever on any “window to the sea” in Barbados. Our beaches are all public and according to our laws anyone who wants to see the sea can go to the beach to do so… including ordinary black Bajans living at Inch Marlowe, Christ Church whose beach access is blocked by walls of foreign-owned concrete erected by one Adrian Loveridge.
BFPE
What is a condominium?
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-condominium.htm
A condominium arrangement is not the best option for every potential homeowner. There can be a noticeable lack of privacy in the common areas–the pool must be shared with every other condominium owner, for example. Those who would prefer to own all of their amenities and maintain their own lawn and garden may want to pursue single home ownership options instead of a condominium. It can also be more difficult to sell a condominium unit as opposed to a home with acreage. Condo owners only own their units, not the ground beneath them.
Those who may benefit the most from condominium living are veteran apartment renters who don’t mind having close neighbors. Others may not want to be bothered with external maintenance or the responsibility of lawn care. The overall price of a condominium townhouse may be much lower than an equivalent single-unit home. Buying a condominium does allow equity to build, unlike paying monthly rent in an apartment complex.
One thing to be aware of when living in a condominium setting is the political reality of an owners’ association. Decisions may be made in monthly meetings which will cost individual owners more money, but not necessarily deliver equal benefits for all. It can be nearly impossible to avoid being affected by at least one condo board decision, so active participation in meetings and discussions may be more compulsory than you might expect. Condominium living may be more advantageous financially than apartment rentals, but it does require more active participation in community events.
4 comments Wednesday, 2 April 2008, 7:52 pm
Operation Backdoor has been launched
Operation Backdoor has been launched.
Status: Phase One In Progress
B~F~P~E
1 comment Wednesday, 2 April 2008, 12:00 am
April 4, 2008 at 12:32 pm