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This is the incontrovertible evidence of “Pamela's Palace” and as you read you will see how Pamela CokeHamilton achieved this incredulous feat. For the Bible harping supporters who are quick to invoke thepunishment of the Lord on anyone who speaks out about Pamela’s theft, their answers will be seen inthe written word, I am not referring to the 'Bible'. Her deceit will be shown it the written words of CE’sAuditors & its Board of Management. These will provide the evidence on how Pamela, and CEManagement, have carefully appropriated Caribbean Export EU/CARIFORUM taxpayers funds as theirown.Unfortunately, the documents will also show how the 15 CARIFORUM Member States, the EU, thedesignated Council of Ministers, the Director General of CARIFORUM have not even attempted to regaincontrol of this runaway train and seem to be party to this absolute lawlessness.Here is a little teaser for you readers to salivate on until those confidential documents that confirm thistrilogy is released. (There may be a part four too now that the 2015 Board Meeting Minutes havearrived.)Imagine that you are applying for a job at Furniture Limited, as the night watchman. Your contract is for2 years. And, Furniture Limited Contracts CANNOT BE CHANGED by the managers hiring you, you got togo the top person, Miss Ram.I want you to wrap your minds around this. Imagine the following1. You, the Night watchman, gets your appointment contract changed from 2 years to 3 years.2. 2 years later, when one of the managers who hired you, (he would be your boss, would he? If hehad balls), asks you for an report of your guard duties at Furniture Limited, you, the nightwatchman, refuse to give any such report AND the other managers who were there, refuse tosupport that manager3. You, the night watchman then say that you want to change the rules by which the managerswho hired you operate, so that none of them serve any longer than one year4. You then go on to say that “items being purchased by Furniture Limited, using Mrs Ram’s andother shareholders money, to run Mrs Rams’ Furniture Limited business, ARE NO LONGER to bedecided on by the people who hired you, OR Mrs Ram!” “You the night watchman decide!Readers, when they see these written remarks (in the Board Minutes), are going to swear that thesedocuments from Braddy are falsified! Many will ask “How is it possible that, in the face of these writtenrecords, these authorities have refused to act, or take the appropriate action and terminate the nightwatchman - Pamela Coke Hamilton and her renegade management band at Pamela's Palace”?No reader is going to believe that this information has been literally under management’s nose all thistime. Simply Pamela’s tactic is called misdirection, “Misdirection is a form of deception in which theattention of an audience is focused on one thing in order to distract its attention from another.Managing the audience's attention is the aim of all theatrical magic”. Pamela is such a magician.Coke Hamilton continues to (i) produce glossy publications (Caribbean Export Outlook - since its launchin 2014 no other issue/volume has been produced), (ii) host elaborate and expensive seminars/eventse,g, London 2012, (iii) frequently appear in local media - The Advocate and Nation as part of thismisdirection.

The print media releases are nothing more than a hoax and when you read these articles carefully(something which many readers DON’T DO) you will see that there are no clear quantitative metrics tovalidate or support her fairy tale programmes.For example, as you will see in the minutes of the Board of Management meeting, there is somethingcalled the Market Intelligence Portal, now re-christened “Geographical Indicators”. If you don't believeme, google “the Market Intelligence Portal, Health and Wellness Cartfund project, the launch ofCreative Industries and Special assistance Food Safety programme.” All hog wash that secured, and stillsecures, the slush fund from additional “simple minded” (Pam;s words) development agencies.“Why after all, it is the Caribbean Development agency, isn’t it? We the international agencies, still haveto seem to be doing something in the region, don’t we? Let us give the money to Dr. Coke H, as if we areon coke the cocaine (not Coke the doctor - no pun intended as Chambers and McNair might be inclinedto interpret) Their rational being “at least Pamela will hire our friends and buy our wife’s paintings!”So why aren’t the authorities acting to correct this daylight robbery? Why is it that persons who are sounethical and downright thieving, allowed to continue to run Pamela's Palace?Misdirection. As mentioned above in the Miss Ram anecdote, the way that Pamela achieved this was byemasculating the CE regulatory structure. She systematically destroyed the mechanism by which theCouncil of Ministers, The Board, DRAO, EU, Director General CARICOM, Director General CARIFORUM,and its decision-makers, effectively policed the CE.It was genius really, she simply changed how the agency operated, specifically the length of tenure ofthe Chairman and Board Members, to ensure her longevity as Caribbean Export’s Executive Director.That is a clear violation of Article 5.2 of The Agreement Establishing Caribbean Export but Pamela wasaided, and abetted, by former Chairman, Collin Murdoch (Antigua & Barbuda Member) who specificallyconspired to change her contract. Such was the conspiracy that the subsequent Chairman ChristopherLewis - (Trinidad & Tobago) and that BoD came, and inherited, a situation where his Board would wereof the opinion that Pamela’s contract had been officially increased from 2 to 3 years!As a lawyer, Pamela Coke Hamilton, sorry, Dr. Coke Hamilton, should have known better and a carefulread of Article 5.5.3 of The Agreement Establishing Caribbean Export by the first, and subsequentboards, would have made them aware that they erred badly since it states “The term of office of theExecutive Director shall be two (2) years. He/she may be reappointed for consecutive terms of two gal instruments/agreement caribbean export.jspSeeAgain, that Pamela Coke Hamilton was able to secure a change in the legal agreement of the CEAgreement, without the matter being referred to CARICOM, is itself evidence of this misdirectionpracticed, AND CONDONED at the highest level. Dr. Coke Hamilton pursued her own self interest andused cronyism and various wiles which I will not mention here, to sway the normally clear sighted?Collin Murdoch (bless his poor testosterone deficient self).

Of course Pamela’s supporters, of whom they are many, will rush in to say this is a 'witch hunt' for theirJoan of Arc and “Pamela is hated for her PhD from the University of the West Indies” and will seekfurther to invalidate these written records that confirm her unethical, misappropriation of CE resourcesaided by her loyal band of management misfits.Even now, in 2016 Pamela and “the loyalists” keep having out of office meetings to identify the sourceof these “information leaks”. They have installed video cameras and now log employees arrival anddeparture from the office, installed key-logging software on employees machines to record allcorrespondence, with “screen snaps”, monitor telephone calls and emails to find out “how these reportcontinue to be in the public domain”. AND they have warned current employees not to fraternize orcommunicate with former employees. Thanks Braddie (Bradshaw).AND, in an act of desperation, Pamela and Christopher got their Project Assistants to contact privateinvestigators “to track and follow current and former staff members, to catch “the collaborator” and“traitor” in the act.”We should mention that Pamela and Christopher, in that ongoing misdirection effort, made it theirbusiness to declare to their bilateral agency counterparts that it was “former disgruntled employeeswho were contriving these lies” with the unfounded? hope, that this would deflect the EU (Brusselsinvestigation) that has been commenced to investigate “Pamela's Place” (Caribbean Export).We can only pray that there are “loyalists to the Caribbean” among the authorities who decide whathappens at Caribbean Export and maybe they will ensure that “Pamela's Place” will be revoked for thebenefit of the region and CARIFORUM shareholders may see a true 'Caribbean Export' again.Certainly that effort should be undertaken expeditiously given the funds scheduled to be awarded bythe EU for the 11th EDF programme which was authorized and signed by the EU, June 2015. Given theblatant disregard and misuse of 28.3M EU tax payers monies under the current 10th EDF RPSDPprogramme we can only wait and see how this EU 134M will be similarly doled out to Pamela’s friendsshould the EU do nothing, after their current CE investigations.Inside sources have revealed that CE's accounts, are “on shaky grounds” and there is now a concertedeffort to redirect funds from one the approved budgeted interventions for grant funds to another lineitem so as to make it seem that “CE disbursements during the period increased”. Disbursements is thebasis upon which CE justifies its existence with other grant agencies, If they spend money, it is the beliefthat “they spent it properly, and they need more.” but, what is missing in that myopic reasoning, is thefact that the money is not being disbursed on the basis of need, but under personal cronyism policiesIt is also to be noted that improper management of this EDF programme AND the unsound selectionsof non-qualified Caribbean firms means that bilateral funders and stakeholders will be shafted royallygiven that their objectives of being able to achieve stated outputs wont be met.There will be two “rogerings” since (i) qualified beneficiaries will not get the much needed funding toenhance their company's exporting capabilities and (ii) when independent M&E is done by the agencies(should they be provided the correct supporting documents) they will realize that CE has been wastingtheir resources and that will lead to the contracting of further grant funding.

Please, keep in mind this grants delivery target requirement and how it is the basis upon which CE canjustify getting more . Now here is what is happening on the ground that, under current incompetentmanagement, is causing CE to start crumble from within.Even with the inclusion of falsifying DAGS recipients and getting friends to submit proposals, CE isunable to meet pre-agreed targets for grants to companies. Worse still CE is now dogged by lawsuitsregarding reimbursements.Understand this - NO reimbursements, no drawdowns, no drawdowns, no justifications for increases INFUTURE FUNDING IN FACT, that puts the anticipated 11th EDF level of funding at risk of being decreased!So to cover those tracks, CE Management has taken to erroneously stating that the problem is that“firms are not providing the correct documentation to be reimbursed.” Mr. Chris McNair. But this issimply not true. The real problem is not insufficient documentation but (i) CE NOT HONOURINGreimbursements that comply with the contracts and (ii) the use of untrained personnel (competitivenessand Innovation officers) to review the documents required under the contract. CE needs to remove theinterference by CE’s legal adviser Ms. Gollop who now determines “if payment should be made to grantrecipients”.This two-bit show leaves us to wonder if the CARICOM Member States, and their representatives, willact since it is now clear that, unlike former Executive Directors, Pamela and her entourage are incapableof (a) managing the disbursements process effectively and )b) securing enough funding to ensure thecontinuity of this very critical regional agency. If Caribbean Export were a private sector company,Pamela, Chris and my buddy Braddie and the rest of her unskilled neophytes, would have been asked tovacate the building.It should now be clearer to all concerned parties, (even to Pamela’s die hard supporters), that sheshould go simply because:1. Her ongoing actions have put millions of EU and other aid development dollars, at risk, moniesand technical assistance, that have been secured to support regional trade (and not her 75,000birthday bashes, 25,000 salaries for McNair and croney compensation for friends)2. Her actions have tarnished the image and integrity of Caribbean Export and has also put theintegrity of the governments of its 15 CARIFORUM countries, including Barbados, at stake3. She and her current management are professionally unfit, exhibit totally unethical behavioursand lack the principles to run CE. In fact her principles and those of her crew are more inkeeping with extortionists Allan Stanford and Madoff and other thieves currently domiciled atany of our region’s penal institutions, and4. the current performance of the CE entity under her management shows that it is incapable ofdoing the job that this institution requires. (bring back David Gomez)An excerpt from a press statement of the Council Of the European Union Joint Caribbean-EU PartnershipStrategy follows:“The Council underlines the importance of the Caribbean in the EU’s external action, in the framework ofthe partnership established in the Cotonou Agreement, taking duly into account the specificities of theregion”

Unless we wish one megalomaniac CE and her band of incompetents, destroy this partnership with theEU remains to be seen.There is only one choice here.end the contracts of Pamela Cole Hamilton, Chris McNair and even theperson who provided these confidential documents my buddy Braddie.Then revamp and rebuild the institution and bring competent, and HONEST, employees, people capableof managing CE and meeting the needs of regional trade and satisfying the stakeholders.Appoint people who, having been paid a salary commensurate with their skills, will not be seduced tosteal money that is not theirs from the EU and other donor agency coffers under the guise of 75,000birthday bashes, unmerited salary increases, willy nilly staff hirings, false invoices, DAGS contracts thatare collusions with companies that were incorporated by friends 2 months previously and similardisreputable activities.

Things Fall Apart Pt. III - The Establishment of Pamela's Palace In the earlier published articles I & II, while making reference to the novel “Things Fall Apart', a parallel . (Caribbean Export) and the fact that it was on the verge of falling apart due to misman