It is now more than twenty hours since Barbados Underground and Barbados Free Press broke the story concerning the questionable position of Jonathon Danos, President of 3S and the company he represents. It’s the company responsible for building the flyovers in Barbados. We are disappointed that the local media houses did not pick up this important story. Our sadness weighs very heavy. An examine of previous BU articles confirms our initial thought. We have defended David Ellis in his stormy interview with Minister Barney Lynch; we defended Timothy Slinger and the CBC photographer when they clashed with the police on the Queen Elizabeth Hospital complex. Despite the pro media position of BFP, and BU in our short existence, the media has elected to maintain a wall of silence regarding our existence. It is interesting to note that it was a blogger who first released the news about United States Senator Larry Craig, who was recently forced to resign last week because of misconduct in a sting operation in a public bathroom in the USA. What will happen when our story is picked-up by the regional and international press? Of course, our lackey media houses will then be forced to carry the story.
Many of our commenters have correctly posted to BU that it was an easy story to compile because all we have done is to report based on facts. For example, the case brought against Danos is registered in a United Kingdom court and the summary is available for the world to see. We uncovered the lie which has been told to Barbadians by the government of Barbados that 3S built the flyovers in Panama; a simple call to Mabey’s head office, or an email confirmation (see a copy of Adrian Loveridge email below) can confirm the truth.
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From: “Robert Capurro” <R.Capurro@mabey.co.uk>
To: <re-discover@caribsurf.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 16:50:37 +0100
Subject: Steel Flyovers in Panama
Dear Sir,Thank you for your enquiry.
Mabey & Johnson has supplied a number of steel flyovers to Panama since 1997.
As far as we are aware no other company has supplied and completed such steel flyovers in that country.Kind regards,
Robert Capurro
Director of Sales Latin America & Caribbean
Mabey & Johnson Ltd.
Tel: (44) 0118 940 3921
Fax: (44) 0118 940 3941
Mob: 07747 535 772
e-mail: r.capurro@mabey.co.uk
As each hour passes, the failure of our media houses to break this story confirms what many individuals already know about them. They are dogs who must be fed by their masters. Where are the strident voiced of Dennis Johnson, Tony Marshall and David Ellis? What about the voices of outspoken and leading talk show hosts Maxine McClean and Peter Wickham? It is inconceivable that they would be ignorant of this story.
Who are their masters you ask?
- In the case of Voice of Barbados, (VOB) Williams Industries, a company owned by Bizzy Williams is a heavy sponsor of many of their prime time periods.
- Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) is a government owned station.
- Let us not forget the Advocate which is privately owned by the Black Jesus and Barbados Labour Party lackey, Anthony Bryan.
- The Nation would no doubt be influenced by the government connected and politically correct Vivian-Anne Gittens, Publisher.
We have bad news for Barbadians, our press is happy to lap from the trough!
At this point, we will not mention the role the Democratic Labour Party through its leader David Thomson should be playing. We are prepared to give them a few more hours to come-up with a strategy. We expect that by tomorrow David Thompson should be prepared to move forward on this issue. We read a comment by one of our contributors and will be concern if the Democratic Labour Party elects to waffle on this issue:
It is interesting that my call for the opposition to take this matter public doesn’t get any support from the DLP contributors here. Do they fear the rising demand for integrity and freedom of information legislation?
Source: Inkwell comments on BU
If another day passes and there is no report in the traditional media, we intend to take the cause internationally. We will write to the international media and international press watchdog agencies. Even if we have to take off our gloves to write about the clandestine activities by some of our media personnel we will do so. It would surprise many Barbadians what we know about some of our prominent personnel in the media who use the media to portray what they are not. The time for “kiddy gloves” is done. Our tax dollars have paid to educate many of those who claim the title media practitioners; yet they continue to fail our society by compromising their integrity by being lackey dogs. This is just another example.
The public has been supportive of the media in its recent skirmishes with the Police, they don’t deserve this neglect from our media.
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