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I saw on the Toronto CP 24 News last night, the Barbados Fire Chief accepting a donation from the Toronto Fire Service of used fire-fighter protective clothing and equipment. As a proud Barbadian who has always considered us as a leader among the Caribbean nations; could not help but think. “Is this what we have come to”?Don’t get me wrong, it is good to see the recycling of good equipment that otherwise might have just been dumped, but I could not help but feel that, have we reached the stage that we have to go with hat in hand looking for hand-me-downs to supply our fire service. Most Barbadians do not consider themselves as Third World yet why does our government let one our most important public service branches be treated as such.?

Maybe I am just a little too PROUD of our PROUD little nation.

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The information was posted over at Barbados Forum. For some reason the message by the poster, who appears to be a Barbadian living in Canada, conveyed sadness. BU has interpreted the last sentence of the post which the poster highlighted in the colors of Barbados to mean that his pride as a Barbadian was dented after watching the broadcast. To be honest in the BU we feel the same way in the BU household. Barbados Fire Chief Mayers, if you have to accept the old equipment then do it away from the public glare.

 

What is the message which our leaders are sending? We spend millions on a multiplicity of project but we have to accept “hand-me-downs to supply our service.”

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888 responses to “Poster on Barbados Forum Says That The Barbados Fire Service Accepted "Hand-me Downs" From The Toronto Fire Service”

  1. Fire Rasta Avatar
    Fire Rasta

    http://www.youtube.com/user/FIREFROMJAH

  2. Anonymous Avatar
    Anonymous

    I don’t believe what I am hearing ! We have some decision gurus in BFS who do not make decisions in the best interest of the Barbados public.

    Dear readers
    Two of our fire appliances went to Kensington oval for cricket leaving Hq with one appliance and 9 men on the station with this one truck. Let us just “what if” for a while, what if, HQ had an emergency we would turnout the only appliance with five or six officers leaving the other 3 or 4 on the stn to do absolutely nothing.
    To the administrators, you guys never cease to amaze me . I think you need an award at the end of the year for the dumbest and most stupid decision making public servants in the world. I really wish someone high in government can read this blog, carry out an investigation to unearth the foolishness that these departmental tarantulas implementing for our tax payers money. The BFS and HQ just becoming one big comedy festival. Anyway now that we into comedy, as Daffy Duck once told Edmer J. Fudd from tinytoons “so long sucker”

  3. Socialist Avatar
    Socialist

    Its time to get get radical. The punishment being unleashed on the operational staff at HQ stn is a sign of the IT dictators flexing their muscles. Not a surprise to me though. Unless we have dialogue with Heads of government about the nonsense going on in this sad and abused BFS the dictators will continue to flex their muscles in the harsh Gistapo way. These type of people do not vary far from the thinking of Kim Jung Il the most feared North Korea president. I strongly believe
    Mr. Il is mentoring some of these departmental arachnids.

  4. Anonymous Avatar
    Anonymous

    Why is it, that the training unit training transport board personnel for free [so they say] and we cant put things in place to have BFS members transported from parade rehearsals?
    The BFS members had to squeeze up themselves on the back of UT1 like sardines.Does this type of behavior looks like a group of professionals ? Hell no! And ILLEGALLY being transported at the back of a UT like live stock? These thinkers used WT 4 to transport the guys also . However , a call for a double turnout came through and left the guys on that watch scrambling for another fire appliance. So here we have a situation where we have two firefighting crews and one fire appliance. I think at this time we do not have a bus we should make a deal to benefit [departmentally] with the transport board instead of training them for a ‘thank you’ . On another note , we have NCOs who just cannot say no to gazetted who does not have the public at heart? Wait, we BFS people aint learn from ‘campus trends’ yet?

  5. Fire Rasta Avatar
    Fire Rasta

    http://www.youtube.com/user/bajanfari#p/u/5/w2ai8sM0lYE

  6. Fire Rasta Avatar
    Fire Rasta

    I done smoking weed. I drinking it as a tea, a little expensive but I getting high de same way plus marijuana and lemon grass tea good for colds and fever. Herb is de healing of de nation. A quarter pound of weed could give you two pints of tea and all you need is a small brandy glass a day. You can drink it hot or cold.

  7. VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER(BALTIMORE U.S.A) Avatar
    VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER(BALTIMORE U.S.A)

    Fire Rasta you is a real prickle head.R u really a fireman?We have no room for crack heads,you contribute nothing to this blog,so why you do us all a favor.GO SMOKE YOUR STINKING WEED IN FRONT DISTRICT A POLICE STATION AND CALL 211 THE SAME TIME IDIOT.

  8. Pragmaist Avatar
    Pragmaist

    IiT DOES NOT MEAN THAT HE WOULD GET ARRESTED

  9. Fire Rasta Avatar
    Fire Rasta

    @VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER(BALTIMORE U.S.A) when these promotions come out you gonna come begging me for weed to smoke because 136, 01, 106, 10 and maybe 130 gonna supersede your sad useless musty ass you loser.

  10. Fire Rasta Avatar
    Fire Rasta

    And ya know what I want too? For the admin to put one of them in charge of you so you can relieve me in CR you idiot.

  11. Pharoah Avatar
    Pharoah

    I agree wid the volunteer fire fighter, you contribute nothing and you want locking up you parrow

  12. Fire Rasta Avatar
    Fire Rasta

    None of you have nothing to offer either ,same thing over and over, gossip, lambasting khaki men and gasbag so I could as well talk bout herb . You pharoah is a deceitful nasty bitch, my memory aint short cause I remember when you first came here and talk about 60 and 130. Now you play you are a saint, cause dis time you get what you want from the BFS. 60 is a good man and he dont speak bad of no one, he talks to every one which mean that you does pass like the rest of us and smile up and laugh up in he face. I hope the day when your stinking identification is revealed i gun push 60 or 130 to put your stinking ass in court. Mek you prove what you wrote . You talking foolishness bout people and hiding behind a name you idiot, I hiding behind fire rasta for security reasons but you hiding behind dat name to attack people character.

  13. Anonymous Avatar
    Anonymous

    Why don’t wunna find time to talk about the non use of computers and several other things from at work, talk about issues and who causing them. Stop talking people names. Later i do not want to be late.

  14. Socialist Avatar
    Socialist

    I see nothing wrong with this years budget. The blog is open for comments. The only negative comments I am going to get is from the BLP ‘die hards’ they do not think for Barbadians as a whole they think only party. loyal Party politics degrading our society ,that is why we need to transform this country into a one party state.

  15. Agent Blue Avatar
    Agent Blue

    I posting Attorney-General & Minister of Home Affairs, Hon. Adriel D. Brathwaite contact information here, cause wunna gine need it jus now.

    (246) 431-7700 W
    (246) 423-6880 H
    (246) 231-9197 M
    E-mail: adriel@sunbeach.net

  16. Anonymous Avatar
    Anonymous

    I use to work on a minibus some years ago when I met this fireman lets call him Mr.X. We got involved sexually ,he tell me I sweeter than his girlfriend then he became very jealous and started beating me when he see me talking to a woman or a man. I buy expensive gifts for him and and the thanks I got was 3 cracked ribs because he always accusing me of another man. I was given this blog link by a friend, an judging from what I read so far you guys are real aggressive and war-like. Mr. X started out nice when he was at probyn street station,he called me everyday, I could never call there or shout him because he didnt want the collegues to know he involve with a man . He want to remain in the closet but he hit me anywhere and in front of anyone. I think he is a sick person who needs counceling

  17. Anonymous Avatar
    Anonymous

    Why wanna went investigating ?and now de man get vex and come here lastnight and cuff me in my face saying i threatening he character and tell me i gun end up in de hospital again. I do not care where i end up because i feel all used up and less than a human.

  18. Anonymous Avatar
    Anonymous

    If wanna malicious firemen and firewomen looking for a name i am sorry cause i also got a character with a girlfriend to protect. Dealing with that fireman Mr.X was just one of my bad habits and we all have them.

  19. Socialist Avatar
    Socialist

    @ anonymous Nov 30th .. Congratulations for successfully running me off this blog. This is my last post, de nasty bullers coming and I going. Cant comment on the same page as these gay freaks.

    Goodbye

  20. Fire Rasta Avatar
    Fire Rasta

    @ anonymous 2010-11- 30 I burning real fire pun you because de two of wanna cud have kept wanna dirtiness amongst wanna selves. Well like the socialist I cant suscribe to this abomination so I out ah hey

  21. Fire Rasta Avatar
    Fire Rasta

    I miss you German, may you rest in peace until I see you in de afterlife …. sniff sniff

  22. Wright B. Astard Avatar
    Wright B. Astard

    A happy ,safe and prosperous New Year to all Firemen an Women out there.

  23. KISSMYA Avatar
    KISSMYA

    It is amazing that this thread is still running. Absolutely amazing.

  24. MAGNIFY Avatar
    MAGNIFY

    I wonder why the chief and his team decided to take de firemen up in that filthy place call prison,i heard so much rats and vermim up there,and de lighting poor poor,my comrades you ask for change but trust me HINDS wouldve never accept that place,well i at de newest station and enjoying it,i will invite de AG there to see de conditions along with CBC.

  25. Panty Man Avatar
    Panty Man

    @ MAGNIFY. You are right Pah Hinds wud never accept such foolishness from de administration. Boy just wait till elections come round again Bynoe and he pimping YES crowd need to go. Dem is a bunch of sell outs.

  26. MAGNIFY Avatar
    MAGNIFY

    de assoc seell out de men that @ de prison,marshall and he boys know that they can cut a deal with bynoe so dont expect he to grumble @ de conditions there,why de chief and he boys dont get some of de cells clean out for them offices.bynoe ask that question for muh?

  27. Mr Mention Avatar
    Mr Mention

    What mirror image do firefighters have of themselves, imagine people who are suppose to be professionals have accepted the former prison as a place to work. Granted Probyn Street had to be fixed, but think about it better arrangements could have been made. The Fire Service has now become a place fill with yes men and ass kissers, no other public officer would have gone there to work. Higher standards need to be set, it is not okay to say that you are alright because there are no gazzetted men around, and wifi is available. The authorities do not take you seriously.

  28. Socialist Avatar
    Socialist

    Egypt Today Caribbean Tomorrow … By Member of the Clement Payne movement

    The crisis in Egypt that has caused millions of Egyptians – led by the educated youth – to engage in nine days of mass demonstrations, was ‘made ’ in the United States of America (USA) and Europe, and is coming to us right here in Barbados and the Caribbean!

    The best way to conceptualize the situation in Egypt is to refer back to the labour rebellion that rocked the English-speaking Caribbean in the 1930’s . In Barbados, for example , the masses of people found themselves contending with an oppressive, autocratic planter/merchant oligarchy that was reinforced and propped up by the power of imperialist “Great Britain” . And the critical spark was applied to this tinder box of social conditions when the international capitalist system plunged into a profound depression which inflicted the additional penalties of unemployment, scarcity, hunger and hopelessness on the already suffering people.

    The result was an explosion of pent up revolutionary anger and energy that shook the very foundation of the quasi-feudal colonial order – not only in Barbados , but throughout the region.

    Well, the Egyptian people are facing an almost identical scenario! For thirty long years they have suffered under the oppressive, autocratic rule of an oligarchy led by Hosni Mubarak, and propped up and financed by the imperialistic USA with billions of dollars in so-called “aid” every year.

    But this alone does not explain the hundred of thousands out on the streets of Cairo and Alexandria! The other critical contributing factor is the fundamental breakdown in the system of international capitalism that has manifested itself since the 2007.

    The reality is that the “vampires” of finance capitalism in the USA and Western Europe engaged in such an excessive , prolonged and parasitical plundering of the resources of the world that by 2007 it had become clear that they had caused fundamental damage to the world economic system.

    Compelling evidence of their greed and parasitism is reflected in the fact that they created a quantity of largely fictitious financial derivatives that is equivalent to ten times the “Gross Domestic Product” of all the countries of the world combined ! And , particularly since 2007 , they have been forcing national governments to save and bail out these fraudulent financial instruments at the expense of the welfare of their own people.

    Egypt has not been spared the ravages of this international capitalist crisis, and the Egyptian people have been rocked by steeply rising levels of youth unemployment and a hyper-inflationary increase in food prices . Indeed , the price of simple bread in Egypt has increased by 10 per cent each month since last year, motivating the demonstrators to coin the slogan -“Bread ,Freedom, Dignity”.

    The young educated Egyptians who are driving these demonstrations are acting out of frustration and anxiety about their future ! They are seeing signs of a civilizational collapse all around them and are deeply concerned about their rapidly diminishing future prospects. It is not simply about Mubarak – it is much deeper and wider than any one leader, no matter how powerful or autocratic he might be!

    The truth is that an economic and political system is dying , and if nations and leaders do not recognise this reality and take concrete steps to distance themselves from the effects of the death throes , they will be dragged down as well!
    The Barbados and Caribbean governments need to wake up! If they simply continue to do what they are doing now their young people will soon come to sense that their future prospects are diminishing rapidly, and they too will eventually take matters into their own hands – in the streets of Bridgetown and every other Caribbean capital!

  29. Socialist Avatar
    Socialist

    The Wikileaks Effect
    [col. writ. 1/27/11] (c) ’11 Mumia Abu-Jamal

    As these words are being scribbled, U.S. ‘allies’ in the Middle East are trembling.
    From the streets of Tunis, to Alexandria, to Cairo, tens of thousands are demanding not only democracy, but an end to their dictatorships –dictatorships, by the way, armed and supported by the U.S. Empire.
    What drove these people into the streets were the sickening revelations of the puppetry, corruption and abject servility of their leaders to U.S. and Western interests.
    Many of these leaders, who’ve led for lifetimes, have amassed enormous fortunes while generations of youth pass through their lives jobless, unfulfilled and brutally bullied by the dictator’s internal police forces, usually composed of people trained, equipped (or both) by U.S. agencies.
    Wikileaks revealed American diplomatic cables reflecting U.S. knowledge of and acquiescence to their puppet states corruption, torture and brutality. They didn’t care how cruel or corrupt these countries were, as long as they served U.S. interests — i.e., “stability’ — or quiet in the face of U.S., Western or Israeli aggression in the region.
    Egypt receives billions of U.S bucks every year, to buttress its dictatorship.
    This spate of rebellions in Muslim states is especially important given the recent news that many leaders were privately urging the U.S. to attack Iran, for this shows well that few spoke for their people. They spoke for a narrow, parasitical ruling clique.
    If change comes to the region it won’t be because of U.S. efforts, but in spite of them.

    –(c) ’11 maj

  30. Socialist Avatar
    Socialist

    By Mike Whitney
    January 04, 2011 – counterpunch.org

    In late November, Venezuela was hammered by torrential rains and flooding that left 35 people dead and roughly 130,000 homeless. If George Bush had been president, instead of Hugo Chavez, the displaced people would have been shunted off at gunpoint to makeshift prison camps–like the Superdome–as they were following Hurricane Katrina. But that’s not the way that Chavez works. The Venezuelan president quickly passed “enabling laws” which gave him special powers to provide emergency aid and housing to flood victims. Chavez then cleared out the presidential palace and turned it into living quarters for 60 people, which is the equivalent of turning the White House into a homeless shelter. The disaster victims are now being fed and taken care of by the state until they can get back on their feet and return to work.

    The details of Chavez’s efforts have been largely omitted in the US media where he is regularly demonized as a “leftist strongman” or a dictator. The media refuses to acknowledge that Chavez has narrowed the income gap, eliminated illiteracy, provided health care for all Venezuelans, reduced inequality, and raised living standards across he board. While Bush and Obama were expanding their foreign wars and pushing through tax cuts for the rich, Chavez was busy improving the lives of the poor and needy while fending off the latest wave of US aggression.

    Washington despises Chavez because he is unwilling to hand over Venezuela’s vast resources to corporate elites and bankers. That’s why the Bush administration tried to depose Chavez in a failed coup attempt in 2002, and that’s why the smooth-talking Obama continues to launch covert attacks on Chavez today. Washington wants regime change so it can install a puppet who will hand over Venezuela’s reserves to big oil while making life hell for working people.

    Recently released documents from Wikileaks show that the Obama administration has stepped up its meddling in Venezuela’s internal affairs. Here’s an excerpt from a recent post by attorney and author, Eva Golinger:

    “In a secret document authored by current Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Craig Kelly, and sent by the US Embassy in Santiago in June 2007 to the Secretary of State, CIA and Southern Command of the Pentagon, along with a series of other US embassies in the region, Kelly proposed “six main areas of action for the US government (USG) to limit Chavez’s influence” and “reassert US leadership in the region”.

    Kelly, who played a primary role as “mediator” during last year’s coup d’etat in Honduras against President Manuel Zelaya, classifies President Hugo Chavez as an “enemy” in his report.

    “Know the enemy: We have to better understand how Chavez thinks and what he intends…To effectively counter the threat he represents, we need to know better his objectives and how he intends to pursue them. This requires better intelligence in all of our countries”. Further on in the memo, Kelly confesses that President Chavez is a “formidable foe”, but, he adds, “he certainly can be taken”. (Wikileaks: Documents Confirm US Plans Against Venezuela, Eva Golinger, Postcards from the Revolution)

    The State Department cables show that Washington has been funding anti-Chavez groups in Venezuela through non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that pretend to be working for civil liberties, human rights or democracy promotion. These groups hide behind a facade of legitimacy, but their real purpose is to topple the democratically elected Chavez government. Obama supports this type of subversion just as enthusiastically as did Bush. The only difference is the Obama team is more discreet. Here’s another clip from Golinger with some of the details on the money-trail:

    “In Venezuela, the US has been supporting anti-Chavez groups for over 8 years, including those that executed the coup d’etat against President Chavez in April 2002. Since then, the funding has increased substantially. A May 2010 report evaluating foreign assistance to political groups in Venezuela, commissioned by the National Endowment for Democracy, revealed that more than $40 million USD annually is channeled to anti-Chavez groups, the majority from US agencies….

    Venezuela stands out as the Latin American nation where NED has most invested funding in opposition groups during 2009, with $1,818,473 USD, more than double from the year before….Allen Weinstein, one of NED’s original founders, revealed once to the Washington Post, “What we do today was done clandestinely 25 years ago by the CIA…” (America’s Covert “Civil Society Operations”: US Interference in Venezuela Keeps Growing”, Eva Golinger, Global Research)

    On Monday, the Obama administration revoked the visa of Venezuela’s ambassador to Washington in retaliation for Chávez’s rejection of nominee Larry Palmer as American ambassador in Caracas. Palmer has been openly critical of Chavez saying there were clear ties between members of the Chavez administration and leftist guerrillas in neighboring Colombia. It’s a roundabout way of accusing Chavez of terrorism. Even worse, Palmer’s background and personal history suggest that his appointment might pose a threat to Venezuela’s national security. Consider the comments of James Suggett of Venezuelanalysis on Axis of Logic:

    “Take a look at Palmer’s history, working with the U.S.-backed oligarchs in the Dominican Republic, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Sierra Leone, South Korea, Honduras, “promoting the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).” Just as the U.S. ruling class appointed an African-American, Barack Obama to replace George W. Bush with everything else intact, Obama in turn, appoints Palmer to replace Patrick Duddy who was involved in the attempted coup against President Chávez in 2002 and an enemy of Venezuelans throughout his term as U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela.”

    Venezuela is already crawling with US spies and saboteurs. They don’t need any help from agents working inside the embassy. Chavez did the right thing by giving Palmer the thumbs down. Besides, Chavez disproved Palmer’s spurious accusations just last week when he extradited ELN commander Nilson Albian Teran Ferreira, alias “Tulio” to Colombia, “the first extradition of a Colombian guerrilla to his home country.” (Colombia Reports) The story appeared NOWHERE in the western media. (because it proves that Chavez is not supporting paramilitary groups operating in Colombia.)

    The Palmer nomination is just “more of the same”; more interference, more subversion, more trouble-making. The State Dept was largely responsible for all of the so-called color-coded revolutions in Ukraine, Lebanon, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan etc; all of which were cookie cutter, made-for-TV events that pitted the interests of wealthy capitalists against those of the elected government. Now Hillary’s throng want to try the same strategy in Venezuela. It’s up to Chavez to stop them, which is why he’s pushed through laws that “regulate, control or prohibit foreign funding for political activities”. Cracking down on NGOs is the only way he can defend against US meddling and protect Venezuelan sovereignty.

    Chavez is also using his new powers to reform the financial sector. Here’s an excerpt from an article titled “Venezuelan National Assembly Passes Law Making Banking a “Public Service”:

    “Venezuela’s National Assembly on Friday approved new legislation that defines banking as an industry “of public service,” requiring banks in Venezuela to contribute more to social programs, housing construction efforts, and other social needs while making government intervention easier when banks fail to comply with national priorities.”…

    The new law protects bank customers’ assets in the event of irregularities on the part of owners… and stipulates that the Superintendent of Banking Institutions take into account the best interest of bank customers – and not only stockholders… when making any decisions that affect a bank’s operations.”

    So why isn’t Obama doing the same thing? Is he too afraid of real change or is he just Wall Street’s lackey? Here’s more from the same article:

    “In an attempt to control speculation, the law limits the amount of credit that can be made available to individuals or private entities by making 20% the maximum amount of capital a bank can have out as credit. The law also limits the formation of financial groups and prohibits banks from having an interest in brokerage firms and insurance companies.

    The law also stipulates that 5% of pre-tax profits of all banks be dedicated solely to projects elaborated by communal councils. 10% of a bank´s capital must also be put into a fund to pay for wages and pensions in case of bankruptcy.

    According to 2009 figures provided by Softline Consultores, 5% of pre-tax profits in Venezuela’s banking industry last year would have meant an additional 314 million bolivars, or $73.1 million dollars, for social programs to attend the needs of Venezuela’s poor majority.”

    “Control speculation”? Now there’s a novel idea. Naturally, opposition leaders are calling the new laws “an attack on economic liberty”, but that’s pure baloney. Chavez is merely protecting the public from the predatory practices of bloodthirsty bankers. Most Americans wish that Obama would do the same thing.

    According to the Wall Street Journal, “Chávez has threatened to expropriate large banks in the past if they don’t increase loans to small-business owners and prospective home buyers, this time he is increasing the pressure publicly to show his concern for the lack of sufficient housing for Venezuela’s 28 million people.”

    Caracas suffers from a massive housing shortage that’s gotten much worse because of the flooding. Tens of thousands of people need shelter now, which is why Chavez is putting pressure on the banks to lend a hand. Of course, the banks don’t want to help so they’ve slipped into crybaby mode. But Chavez has shrugged off their whining and put them “on notice”. In fact, on Tuesday, he issued this terse warning:

    “Any bank that slips up…I’m going to expropriate it, whether it’s Banco Provincial, or Banesco or Banco Nacional de Crédito.”

    Bravo, Hugo. In Chavez’s Venezuela the basic needs of ordinary working people take precedent over the profiteering of cutthroat banksters. Is it any wonder why Washington hates him?

    Mike Whitney’s economics blog can be found at Grasping at Straws

  31. Fire Rasta Avatar
    Fire Rasta

    http://www.youtube.com/user/bajanfari#p/u/5/HRkBEoQdR2A

  32. Anonymous Avatar
    Anonymous

    For Administration, check the different levels of thinking and respect that is offered to our department as opposed to others. Black Rock Police Station has to go under renovations, Check and see where they are going. CERTAINLY NOT AT ANY BURNT OUT PLACE. Respect is due to those who earns it.

  33. Socialist Avatar
    Socialist

    PEOPLES EMPOWERMENT PARTY

    PRESS RELEASE

    THE ROAD TO STRENGTH AND

    PROSPERITY RUNS THROUGH AFRICA

    The once colonised, repressed and subordinate people of China and India have made substantial break-aways from European and North American hegemony, and are well on the way to establishing strong and autonomous Pan-Chinese and Pan-Indian civilizations! And, as a result, people of Indian and Chinese descent all over the world now hold their heads high and exhibit a self-assurance and dignity that would have been hard to imagine thirty years ago.

    Well, what about the African and African-descended people of this world? What are we – the people of continental Africa and the Caribbean, the African-Americans and the Afro-Latinos – doing to establish our Pan-African civilization and to enhance our prospects of leading lives of dignity, psychological freedom and material wellbeing? What are we doing with our 12 million square mile African continent and its vast reservoir of mineral resources; our impressive chain of Caribbean islands; and the billions of dollars that annually pass through the hands of our African-American and Afro-Latino populations?

    Clearly, not nearly enough is being done, but there are a few points of light that need to be acknowledged and highlighted. One such “point of light” is the effort that is currently being made by the African Union (AU) – the CARICOM of continental Africa – to reach out to and to deepen the relationship between Africa and the people and nations of the African Diaspora.

    At present, the AU is immersed in planning an historic “African Diaspora Summit” scheduled to be held in South Africa in the year 2012, and two of the Pan-Africanists who have been drafted unto the AU’s ‘Technical Committee of Experts’ to assist in the planning of the Summit are Mr Buddy Larrier and Mr David Comissiong, the President of the Peoples Empowerment Party (PEP).

    Indeed, Mr Comissiong returned to Barbados last Friday, after having attended a two day meeting of the ‘Technical Committee of Experts’ in Pretoria, South Africa, and has reported that arrangements for the 2012 Summit are advancing smoothly.

    In giving an over-view of this important meeting, Mr Comissiong was able to report that he contributed the following seven ideas or proposals for consideration by the AU’s heads of government:-
    (1) The 2012 African Diaspora Summit should be conceived of – among other things – as a germination exercise for the establishment of a ‘Pan-African League or Bloc of Nations’, comprising the countries of Africa and the Caribbean, as well as those Latin American nations that possess large populations of African descent.

    (2) The heads of Government of all the Caribbean and “Afro-Latin American nations” should be invited to the Summit.

    (3) The AU should move with haste to propose the establishment of an Economic Partnership Agreement’ (EPA) with CARICOM – an EPA that will establish Africa/ CARICOM relations at a much deeper level than our relations with the European Union.

    (4) The AU should collaborate with CARICOM and other Diaspora nations in creating a common Pan-African studies course (and accompanying educational materials) to be instituted in all of the Primary and Secondary schools of Africa, the Caribbean and other regions of the Diaspora.

    (5) The AU should revive, adopt and carry on the impressive work started by its predecessor, the O.A.U, on the issue of Reparations, including the revival of the ‘Group of Emminent Persons on Reparations’, and the establishment of an AU Reparations Commission.

    (6) The AU should propose to CARICOM that both organisations should adopt a principle that would oblige all African nations to ensure the presence and participation of Caribbean artistes and intellectuals in their national events and festivals, and all CARICOM nations to include continental African artistes and intellectuals in their events and festivals.

    (7) There should be a removal of visa requirements between the member nations of the AU and CARICOM.
    Mr Comissiong also reported that the Political Cooperation Commission of the Technical Committee of Experts acknowledged the importance and historical significance of Barbados’ Commission For Pan-African Affairs, and that it adopted the following resolution:-
    “We urge all Caribbean nations and other predominantly African nations of the Diaspora to establish as a component of the structure of Government a department or agency devoted to developing projects, linkages and relationships with the countries of Africa and the African Diaspora similar to the best practice established by the Government of Barbados’ ‘Commission For Pan-African Affairs’.
    　
    　
    　
    DAVID A. COMISSIONG
    President

  34. Pharoah Avatar
    Pharoah

    @ Gasbag ! I heard you love to victimize people at St. John stn. But let me tell you and the world wide web that I think you are an unstable person. You need serious psychiatric treatment or an exorcist. A man of your academic achievements, why do you frequent Nelson Street and gambling houses? I even heard that one night you want a particular LADY OF THE NIGHT but she was unavailable so you did the next best thing substituted her by sexing a young boy. A young boy ? Are you aware that you are now being labeled as a bisexual right? Don’t you have a young able bodied wife ? Are you actually considering the fact that your nasty bulling ways can make her sick ? Boy you want help !

  35. Socialist Avatar
    Socialist

    You people starting to disappoint me day by day. I love the people in this department but they dont love themselves. I can go places and hear people discussing pharoah and his latest comment but I never heard none of you discussing nothing that was commented by me. There are a lot of serious issues out there affecting our department and our country. Are you guys so overwhelmed by the hunger for gossip and name calling?

  36. MAGNIFY Avatar
    MAGNIFY

    Iis amazing that a N.C.O at the airport that use to give so much trouble in the younger years,giving so much trouble on green watch,”he aint riding up front”who the hell he think he is.He feel because he just married that woman that she family vex as hell wid ahe that he is still a slut.I wonder how much money he had to pay that woman in arch hall that he use to bring at arch hall station to sleep around 2005-2005,de same woman that he throw acid on and had to pay way big money to settle it.He does not deserve respect,he forget de young girl from de rocks the was under age and she mother ask for $5000.00 not to go to the police since he was caught in the act in his white pickup..100 you got to be hard up,how you can look in he face on mornings,i mean youre not a rhianna but.gosh

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    Sad

    @ Magnify. GO AND LEARN TO SPELL AND WRITE YA DUNCY UNEDUCATED SLUT. OUT OF EVERY 20 WORDS YOU WRITE 18 1/2 SPELL WRONG OR OUT OF CONTEXT. YOU WENT STAND PIPE HIGH ?

  38. Socialist Avatar
    Socialist

    The capitalist regime shall continue to spread lies and propaganda about us to brain wash the gullible ones . They shall twist the arm and bully Mr.Ban Ki-moon into bombing our cities.

    Out of the ashes will rise someone who stands up for what is right and stand for equal distribution among people. A life as a socialist will always be targeted like a centipede spotted crossing a floor by a crowd of people ” Look he deh, kill he ! ” Its no walk in the park or “they live happily ever after” as quoted by the story books. They can keep attacking and slandering us but they can never break us. Long live the revolution and I must clearly say that they are more to the story of what the USA telling us about the BULLYING and the VICTIMIZATION of Muammar Gaddafi by the coalition forces. Why is it that the UN and the USA went about ‘helping’ the protesters in Libya with such vigor and on the other hand turned a blind eye on the Rwanda genocide when approx. 1.2 million blacks were slaughtered in 4 months back in 1994? Think about that my gullible critics .

    Now I am leaving you with this note and this goes out to that clown who loves to eat stake fish and salad . Yes you know who you are, I just letting you know that your solidarity speech on 2011-03-23 dont move me one bit. Take my advice, in life you must stand up for something or lay down for everything you pimp.

  39. Socialist Avatar
    Socialist

  40. Socialist Avatar
    Socialist

    Look at the equipment. Wow I am so jealous.

  41. Socialist Avatar
    Socialist

  42. Socialist Avatar
    Socialist

    TEAM WORK is the key

  43. island Avatar
    island

    I want to congratulate all firefighters for a job well done in barbados,i know the media does not highlight all the work that take place internally and externally,kudos to all of you for keeping barbados safe.

  44. Anonymous Tip Avatar
    Anonymous Tip

    Dat one Gaskin doing de most shite in this department by dictating when to eat etc. That musty, black, untidy, stinking bull-frog chief Marshall aint doing nothing bout anything. And i actually thought POW Mayers was the worst. Marshall doing nothing and all he doing is just swelling out like a frog and drawing salary, he reminds me of our PM. This Gov’t is de worst because them mashing up BFS. The DLP never did anything positive for the BFS

  45. island Avatar
    island

    anonymous tip you is a real political yard fowl,take yuh pilitics elsewhere,yuh nuisance

  46. Tina Roach Avatar
    Tina Roach

    Barbados Fire Service have problems ??

    The Firemen have problems ? well well well. ( talking about wells) one time firemen used to have to go into wells

    Have not read all but what problems could Firemen have. I have always admired Firemen and the way they go about their jobs

    Kudos to all Firemen in Barbados
    May you have all your problems resolved.
    We cant have the Firemen having problems. They appear to such an admirable group of people

    I love them !

  47. Darion Avatar
    Darion

    Lol……..

  48. Socialist Avatar
    Socialist

    We must join hands in support of a great leader. Let us wish him a full recovery. Hugo Chavez our last hope for freedom … Long live the revolution

  49. Socialist Avatar
    Socialist

    Check out this online hazmat book
    http://books.google.com/books?id=GR0Yh3WcbpAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=hazardous+materials&hl=en&ei=qdwlTuqAI8Lr0QGVzITXBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&sqi=2&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=true

  50. Anonymous Avatar
    Anonymous

    Ya see you socialist, why dont u stop bigging up communist leaders and attack we CFO who clearly cant run dis department because he is a dumpsy political fat pig. You cant lambass him cause wanna is friends. Yeah i remember that wanna went way to grenada to enjoy a weekend so you never attack him. You dont attack marshall, gaskin , lowe and the list goes on with your corrupt nasty friends. I watching you because I feel you corrupt too. You never attack people because these very people may have dirty linen on you. I think you also need to see a dietician

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