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Cable & Wireless International Responds To Death Threats To Adrian Loveridge In The Barbados Blogosphere

  After many months of death threats to regular contributor to the blogs Adrian Loveridge and his wife, there seems to be light at the end of the tunnel. Adrian Loveridge recently received communication from a representative of C&W International! We would have been more comfortable getting a response from C&W Barbados but maybe this…

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 Cable & Wireless

After many months of death threats to regular contributor to the blogs Adrian Loveridge and his wife, there seems to be light at the end of the tunnel. Adrian Loveridge recently received communication from a representative of C&W International! We would have been more comfortable getting a response from C&W Barbados but maybe this is the way this saga needs to play-out.

Adrian/Margaret,

I have recently read the post you placed on “Barbados Free Press” and was very concerned by what had been written, I’m not sure of the legal position or the requirement’s in the region but I have asked our team to advise and get back to me and I also raised a case within the UK our Ref : ADV01290999 to see if we can pursue this for you to identify the people involved in these threats, if you have raised this locally already with CWC please advise and I will close our case here and let the local teams progress also if this is logged with the local police can you advise the police reference number in case our team request this.

Regards

Mr Stuart B McGinney
Service Desk Specialist
Cable & Wireless
Europe, Asia and USA
Direct Dial : +44(161)266 8682
Internal short dial: or comnet 755 8682
Switchboard: 01612668997
www.cw.com

BU can confirm that Adrian L has submitted a formal complaint to the Commissioner of Police Darwin Dottin and we now wait for a response from this quarter. We have written previous articles which highlighted the power of the Blogosphere. However, some people in high places in Barbados, who should know better, continue to operate in the old way of doing things. Some of us do what we do at great sacrifice to self and family but we do it because we feel the education which was afforded us by our forefathers post-independence creates the obligation for us to perform our civic duty, i.e. to fully participate in our great democracy. In the case of Adrian Loveridge and his wife, the contribution which they continue to make to Barbados is even more laudable given that they are naturalized citizens. Remember that we don’t have to agree with the man but in a democracy he has a right to voice his opinions provided he does so within the Laws of Barbados. The fact that the traditional media has refused to pick-up this story is an indictment of the serious kind. We do not intend to be overly dramatic but if something bad were to happen to Adrian L and his wife, we know that it would make headline news on VOB, CBC and the other media outlets. Shame on Vic Fernandez and Anthony Audain, shame on Anthony Bryan at the Advocate and shame on the government of Barbados which owns the Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation.
Let us try to do the right thing as human beings are expected to do.

50 responses to “Cable & Wireless International Responds To Death Threats To Adrian Loveridge In The Barbados Blogosphere”

  1. Cable & Wireless International Responds To Death Threats To Adrian …

    […] Cable & Wireless International Responds To Death Threats To Adrian … After many months of death threats to regular contributor to the blogs Adrian Loveridge and his wife there seems to be light at the end of the tunnel. Adrian Loveridge recently received communication from a representative of C&W … […]

  2. Yardbroom Avatar
    Yardbroom

    I have never commented on this blog before, but there are times when one must speak out, regardless of the colour of the victim, and this is one of those times.

    I do not know the politics of Adrian Loveridge – which is of no concern to me – what he and his wife have been subjected to is unjust, and as a Barbadian, I have no hesitation in saying so.

  3. Sister Baby Avatar
    Sister Baby

    And can you please tell me which country Adrian Loveridge and his lovely wife hail from, because there are thousands and thousands of Guyanese who have made significant contributions to Barbados, but you just continue to say inkind things about us and our country. Don’t forget it’s Guyana that gav eyou Banks Beer, so that in itself speaks volumnes about us. Happy New Year.

  4. Adrian Hinds Avatar
    Adrian Hinds

    I wouldn’t celebrate just yet. This is a standard response from a customer service desk, a company that operate in a competitive market and that have professional appreciation and understanding for what it takes to build and retain customer loyalty.

  5. Adrian Hinds Avatar
    Adrian Hinds

    Sister Baby // January 2, 2008 at 8:53 am

    And can you please tell me which country Adrian Loveridge and his lovely wife hail from, because there are thousands and thousands of Guyanese who have made significant contributions to Barbados, but you just continue to say inkind things about us and our country. Don’t forget it’s Guyana that gav eyou Banks Beer, so that in itself speaks volumnes about us. Happy New Year.
    =============================

    I get my perspective of Guyana from Guyana’s news papers. Which i refer to as the Guyana death pages. This perspective is further strengthen by the divide amongst in-do and Afro Guyanese in the North American Diaspora.

    “Banks” is only the name, the brewing and the results of a fine beer are uniquely Bajan.

  6. Adrian Hinds Avatar
    Adrian Hinds

    Can somebody tell me why Owen Arthur wants to be PM? If Mascoll is so important and is the now “CO LEADER”

    ha ha ha ha ha just musing. Yesterday was another druken episode of “flip flops” and “misspeak” from Owen Arthur. It is becoming very clear that alcohol gives him the comfort he needs to face the public and that if is becoming a liability as well. A perfect catch 22.

    Yesterday clearly drunk Owen Arthur said the following in Deacons.

    CLYDE MASCOLL was identified by Prime Minister Owen Arthur yesterday as “CO-LEADERS” of the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) “when we begin our fourth term”.

    Arthur said: “We started this term as leaders of two different political parties and this is a unique moment that must be captured for history because, for the first time in the history of Barbadian politics, two people who started as leaders on opposite sides have ended a term and are about to start a new term as firm CO-LEADERS of the greatest institution in Barbados.”

    ———————IN THE SAME DRUNKEN SPEECH——————-

    To more applause he told Mascoll: “Clyde, welcome home because the Barbados Labour Party is living proof that no matter where you come from this great party will give you a chance to rise to the top. You are now an important part of MY TEAM. You have already taken a load off me and you have made me look younger than I should look.”

    Arthur urged the constituents to VOTE FOR MASCOLL SINCE HE HAD IMPORTANT WORK FOR HIM TO DO.

  7. I wish Avatar
    I wish

    Please……
    I am a proud Black Barbadian and I don’t care what your political persuasion is which is by the way, of little or no importance to the scheme of things . I take it as an annoucement of your lack of self respect , decency, intelligence ,etc for you to refer to prime minister Owen Arthur as “drunk Arthur’.
    As a popular TV personality will say…Are you mad or what ..you are out of order.
    As I said previously…do not pull down my country and its leader because you disagree with something he says, or because you want to see a change of government.

    Lets change the government if we want to, but please , lets keep our dignity and self respect.

    AFter Owen Arthur goes..Barbados remains. When David Thompson comes..Barbados remains. If Owen Arthur stays….Barbados remains. If David thomspon does not come..Barbados remains..

    The constant here is this great country called Barbados.

    Whoever you are…stop denigrating and insulting my country..I would have to assume that you are not a Barbadian,
    Its not your right to denigrate my country.

  8. Adrian Hinds Avatar
    Adrian Hinds

    Owen Arthur is not Barbados, and with parliament at an end i cannot speak to or of him as the Prime Minister, and further more i am not duty bound to repect an office that i as a citizen not living in St.Peter nor St.John will have absolutely no say in who fills that office.

    ……..Owen Arthur is a known drunk, he is the Patron saint of all 1000+ rumshop dotting the Barbadian landscape. He is the face to alcoholism in our country. If he was “UP BEAT” yesterday as the news paper suggested, and from the audio clipping on VOB that i heard, he was indeed drunk. How else can you explain that in one sentence he utters the words CO-LEADERS in reference to Mascoll and in the same speech and directed towards the same man Welcome’s him as an important part of HIS TEAM? not OUR TEAM but HIS team. How do you explain this? I say he was drunk, what says you? 😀

  9. Adrian Hinds Avatar
    Adrian Hinds

    I wish // January 2, 2008 at 10:04 am

    Please……
    I am a proud Black Barbadian and I don’t care what your political persuasion is which is by the way, of little or no importance to the scheme of things
    ===========================

    I wish,… may i respectfully say that if you feel at cause to declare your pride and skin colour in defence of Arthur from the truth of who he is, then it may seem to me that this a foolish use of your declaration. Some may even go further to suggest that if you feel the need to declare your proud blackness, that you maynot be so proud after all. 😀

  10. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    If Owen Arthur drinks heavily and gets drunk HE IS A DRUNKARD!

    If he is indeed a DRUNKARD then anyone who has seen him in such a state or heard him speak in such a state commits no sin or crime by calling him a DRUNKARD.

    Let us remember that drunkeness of the leaders has always been one of the forerunners of the demise of the great civilisations.

    HOW CAN A DRUNKARD CONTINUE TO LEAD BARBADOS?

    Or will the co-leaders push out Arthur after the elections.

    Perhaps in his drunken state Arthur is declaring that about which he is worried, or that with which he hasd been threatened by his fellow party members.

    IS ARTHUR JUMPING AND TAKING HIS SHIP DOWN WITH HIM STEALTHILY?

  11. 4dr14n H1nd5 Avatar
    4dr14n H1nd5

    CO-LEADERS, does this mean that Thompson will have to debate Owen and Mascoll together? or will Owen send Mascoll in his newly minted title as CO-LEADER? ha ha ha ha ha ha ha boy this silly season is really getting silly. 😀

  12. Andrew Avatar
    Andrew

    Adrian Hinds

    I Wonder what Mia has to say about all this co-leader talk???????????

  13. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    Anonymous
    Re http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22471189/

    Are you suggesting that folk who engage in unusual sexual relations should not be engaged in Bajan politics also?

    LOL WE CONCUR

    no fighting no biting

  14. I wish Avatar
    I wish

    I obviously made a mistake. I thought I ws talking to dispassionate , erudite, sensibly people. i was wrong.

    All the things which you lot have said are gospel, as you obviously think that as long as you write it , it is correct.

    Really, how could I be so stupid? I apologise.
    Have your fun at your level..I am unable to reach the heights which you guys are.

  15. 4dr14n H1nd5 Avatar
    4dr14n H1nd5

    I wish // January 2, 2008 at 1:56 pm

    I obviously made a mistake. I thought I ws talking to dispassionate , erudite, sensibly people. i was wrong.

    All the things which you lot have said are gospel, as you obviously think that as long as you write it , it is correct.

    Really, how could I be so stupid? I apologise.
    Have your fun at your level..I am unable to reach the heights which you guys are.
    ==============================

    Of course you are. You were thinking correctly then, but i am questioning your the thought process that you use to conclude that to say less than charitable things about Owen Arthur is to at the same time be saying less than charitable things about Barbados. I have laid two points to the contrary, and to refresh your memory let me repeat and define a little further.

    1: Owen Arthur is not Barbados, one man cannot be truthfully and honestly use to define a society of several hundred thousand.

    2: That Owen has often said we can deal with him personally, but we must respect the office of prime minister and with parliament paroge, how can i be addressing the Prime Minister at this time?

    You are yet to detail how you arrived at your conclusion that Barbados and Owen are one and the same, and therefore to, as you say “denigrate” and to “insult” Owen is to equally and simultaneously do the same to the entire Country of Barbados. How so is all i ask.

    I have also brought incidents of conflicting comments made by Owen and that he uttered with a slurred tone and voice that to me suggest a heighten level of inbibing, and i have more evidence, that can, I think, prove my case. What have you brought to say otherwise except your doubt, disbelieve, and foolish display of black pride? Is black pride now so cheapen that you would flash it in defense of a man who makes conflicting comments that cannot be true, while intoxicated?

    There can be no concept of a CO-LEADER of either the BLP or of our Parliament, both institutions have rules and precessess that make this declaration unexplainable other than they where the comments of a drunken man, and so it shall be, unless you prefer that he be seen and known as a lier.

  16. Avatar
    Anonymous

    Georgie Porgie // January 2, 2008 at 1:32 pm

    Anonymous
    Re http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22471189/

    Are you suggesting that folk who engage in unusual sexual relations should not be engaged in Bajan politics also?

    LOL WE CONCUR

    no fighting no biting

    **************************************

    I wonder when Owen Arthur’s DVD of his
    ” exploits ‘” gets into the public domain…..let’s wait & see how he gine deal with it !

    Shame Owen…SHAME !

  17. I wish Avatar
    I wish

    Listen my friend:

    Like you i am very sure of what I say and who I am.

    I am not a political yard fowl of anykind. i have never thought that Owen, Errol, Grantley, David, Bree of any of that elk held my destiny in their hands…. hence my pride.

    I am amused that at this time of our existence, when to have proof that a prime minister or ex prime minister or member of parliament is drunk or any such thing is a major discovery.

    to spend my time trying to explain my thought process will obviously be an exercise in futility.

    You see, as i said in one of my earlier writtings, i am very sure that neither David or Owen are the power brokers in this country, as in any other black country.

    They are mere pawns , and the real power people allow us some let every five years or so to fool ourselves.

    i am more interested in changing that system, as opposed to getting stripes from either the BLP or DLP, so I am clearly in the wrong boat at the wrong time so you are free to vent your feelings and facts about the sobriety of Owen Arthur or whoever, if that gives you a good feeling and a reason to be sure that the not drunk David will be leading this country as of January 15 all power to you and David.

    i have not the ability to engage in this type of exchange so this will be last salvo on this.

    As i said,

  18. Avatar
    Anonymous

    ha ha ha correction in order Sir, ….that was YOUR last salvo, and certainly not THE last salvo on this. You don’t get to decide on such without my input. 😀
    ————————————————-

    As individual men even when in the Office of Prime Minister they did not hold your destiny in their hands. The executive (cabinet) is a subcommittee of our parliament and this cabinet has always been a indeed a parliamentary cabinet and not a prime minister’s cabinet,….Sandiford found out the hard way in 1993. So your destiny when those men where in parliament was the collective responsibility of the Parliament. You can probably make the argument today that the last cabinet in the just recently concluded parliament was by its share size (16 or 18) members out a possible 30, was a Prime Ministers cabinet and thereby as any number of situations will tell, it was not accountable to parliament. You could have said then that the PM in that cabinet being first amongst his equals and by his willingness and ability to dish out placement, and pensions, via patronage/corruption did indeed have our destiny in his hands. and So it is still proven to me that he is a drunkard, and if you agree as you seems to do, Did you not have any concerns about the size, and unaccountability of this cabinet to parliament and the alcoholism of it’s Leader? He would have drink and drive i hope why should be allowed to drink and lead? 😀

    Now do not forget that yes while i highlighted the many the drunken occurrences of Owen, you sought to attach a level of seriousness to it that i had never intended. It became a matter of black pride for you, remember? and it begs the question that if the PM office holder is as you say a mere pawn (i doubt that) in the grand schemes of centralize power in Barbados why did you flare up as you did with fear and loathing about someone denigrating and insulting Barbados, when all they where doing is poking fun at a drunkard? Are you now realizing the error of your position? 😀

    So what are you approaches on changing the system? indeed How do you go about making changes to the system? Do you even understand the system? If you do what are some of it’s strengths and some of it’s weaknesses?

    It is clear to me how I ended up from laughing at a drunkard to supposedly engaging in discussion on our system of governance. People who change the goal post of a debate or argument are usually persons who have been unable to defend their original positions. 😀 but wherever you feel to place that goal post i gine still play. 😀

  19. Adrian Hinds Avatar
    Adrian Hinds

    That Anon above is/was me. Uh fuhgot tuh sign muh name.

    But I wish, I don’t think you are so certain of who you are. “I WISH” is not a conventional name, and i would make a wager that it is not your real name, so are you sure of who you are? If others are to care and be sure of who you are, you have to demonstrate such, first. Few can love another better than themselves. 😀

  20. frankology Avatar
    frankology

    On the 16th of January, if the Dems becomes the Government. Local politics will be surpassed by International “damage-control’ politics if we keep up the degrading of our country. Let’s object wisely but stop the degrading of our people.

  21. frankology Avatar
    frankology

    That Anon above is/was me. Uh fuhgot tuh sign muh name
    …………………………………………………………………..
    How can a mistake be made when “Name” and Email address” is filled already. Maybe you is “He” and “He” is “You”, or maybe, ‘You” is on “He” computer and you forget to move “He” and place “You” before typing on “He” computer.

  22. Anybody but Loveridge Avatar
    Anybody but Loveridge

    frankology // January 2, 2008 at 4:54 pm

    On the 16th of January, if the Dems becomes the Government. Local politics will be surpassed by International “damage-control’ politics if we keep up the degrading of our country. Let’s object wisely but stop the degrading of our people.

    ****

    Well said on your part.

    There are many fools here who would pull down Barbados in order to please that foreign white idiot Adrian Loveridge.

    I hear that he called Brass Tacks today and instantly became the laughing-stock of Barbados.

    Read Below…

    http://barbadosfreepress.wordpress.com/2008/01/02/death-threats-in-barbados-adrian-loveridge-files-written-complaint-with-police/#comment-201747

    #
    Anonymous
    January 2, 2008 at 4:48 pm

    Today on Down To Brasstacks – those on the panel,particularly clyde mascoll were downright disrespectful to Adrian Loveridge.

    First when Adrian started to ask his question – mascoll responded by saying ‘da is loveridge?’

    Then when the question was asked by adrian – re hotels conversion to condos and its impact – Mascoll rudely said – you answer it ‘ and David ellis and harold hoyte laughed out loud along with mascoll.

    Instead of david ellis treating adrian with respect – he allowed a display of rude behaviour by mascoll – and then without the question being answered – he cut off adrian and turned to another caller.

    I expected better of david ellis as moderator – if that was a BLP politician he would be fawning and scraping all over them.

    Sickening,real sickening.

  23. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    In this article I seek to debunk the bovine excrement purveyed in an article entitled Has the DLP Lost Its Way? posted on the BLP website on Wednesday, 02 Jan 2008 at http://blp.org.bb/news/297

    Serious scholars of West Indian History now recognize that since the late CLR James was neither the Lord or one of his appointed prophets, that CLR James was wrong! What Barrow did was form another group to focus on and bring about more effectively the social revolution that Sir Grantley began. It is now time for this work to be resumed. IT IS TIME FOR CHANGE.

    All right thinking Bajans know too that the Poverty Alleviation Bureau, the Urban Development Commission and the Rural Development Commission have all been abject failures. All right thinking Bajans know too that the BLP continues to be the party of corporate Barbados, because this was ably demonstrated most especially in this last term of office of the BLP, when price gouging was rampant and when the cost of living escalated out of control!.

    It cannot be denied that Arthur has a penchant for recognizing talent wherever it is found. However, unlike the Biblical injunction in Titus 1:8, though a discerner of good men, he does this only to silence them, like he silenced Commissiong, TaFari, Mascoll, Mia and others. The author of this article really thinks that he can fool folk with words. Let him know that we too read widely from Sheridan, Shelley and the Scriptures..

    Arthur’s willingness to welcome Clyde Mascoll into the bosom of his party speaks volumes about the blurring of Arthur’s vision as a political leader, and the fact that Arthur was tiring from the job of running with the dead weight of the incompetents in his party. When he looked around for help there was no one. None could rise to the challenge. He found that his dream team was just that – a dream. Mascoll was conscripted to lower his burden, and because he wanted to demote Mia, the heir apparent, and because of his distrust for the others- would bees. But Clyde of Harwood fame, and shame, let him down. Mascoll the econtomist turned out to be a diotrophetic dunce, and a cause for revelation of the divisions in the party!
    The author of this piece of pithy prose notes that Arthur opened several doors for children who were born in the gaps and footpaths across Barbados. This is as if doors had not opened for him by Henry Forde, and as though doors were not opened by Barrow to so many as a result of free education and other policies of the 6o’s. As though it is not true as it is written in the Proverbs, that A MAN’S WORK WILL MAKE FOR HIM AND BRING HIM BEFORE GREAT MEN.

    If indeed Arthur really “embraced intellectuals whose social origins had excluded them from making any meaningful contribution to the development of the country” we are yet to see the result of such collaboration.

    Rather than challenging the writer to identify another Prime Minister of Barbados who appointed a known Pan-Africanist or a member of the Rastafarian community to head a government department in an island which is known for its conservatism, and thereby .
    arousing the ire of monarchists and individuals who would want to deny our sordid colonial past of slavery and the dehumanisation of the black population, we are quick to ask what has been the results of these appointments, except for removing the humbug of the criticisms from Tafari and Commissiong to himself. NO less a person that Auntie Olga is stating that she is observing more poverty in Barbados in her work on behalf of the poor than ever before. We are steadfast in pointing out that the sale of our land to the highest bidder and the concomitant raising of the price of a spot of land beyond the reach of the average Bajan has taken the populace farther back to our sordid colonial past of slavery and the dehumanisation of the black population.
    .
    On the question of rising to the top, the ex PM is guilty of speaking bovine excrement. The average Bajan does not want to be PM, if he perceives that to be the top. My sons, for example want to be the head of their OWN little busyness, and they seek to be facilitated in doing so. They don’t want to be in politics. If Arthur considers being at the top being PM of Barbados, he is a bigger joker than I thought.

    What Arthur has forgotten is that it was the DLP by providing free education created a society where the children of poor people could rise to high office in several spheres of endeavor. What Arthur and friends will soon see, is that the recipients of this free education since 1962 , because they can reason and discern poor logic and argument will brush him out of office on January 15th..

    Where ever I go in the world I love to boast that education is FREE IN BARBADOS FROM THE CRADLE TO THE GRAVE.

    During Tuesday’s whistle stop tour of the St Michael North West constituency Arthur like a pitbull without teeth presented the non sequitur that the DLP posited that “ Mascoll’s unceremonious removal from the office of the Leader of the Opposition was a clear case of the repudiation of Barrow’s legacy.” Is Arthur saying that the DLP did not have the right to vote Mascoll out from the leadership of the DLP if they choose to?. Does he mean that if the BLP should be returned to office, and MIA be chosen by the parliamentary group to lead the BLP that the legacy of Grantley Adams would be repudiated also?

    Arthur there is something you need to understand. Like Samson of old, you wist not that, in your case, the mantle of leadership has been removed from you. Like King Saul you will be replaced by King David. If Thompson wins the election he will be the country’s leader. If the BLP wins the parliamentary group will choose Mia. Prepare to drink yourself to an ethanol dependent grave.

    How asinine is the question posed by the author when je says “the question must be asked: ” What role will the DLP play on the local political landscape now that it has denied the son of working class parents access to one of the highest political offices in the country?” As currently composed, as it has always been the DLP is composed of sons and daughters of working class parents. I reiterate very few persons in Barbados are so power hungry and ravished by the sickness of delusions of grandeur that they wish to grasp and hold on to, or determine who should hold “ the highest political offices in the country?”

    Finally, let me state that is a lie that “Arthur continues to honor Adams’ legacy with the warm welcome he has extended to the sons and daughters of working class Barbadians who seek to realize their fullest potential” I for one was removed from all the little jobs that I did on behalf of the nation that paid for my education.

  24. Adrian Hinds Avatar
    Adrian Hinds

    frankology // January 2, 2008 at 4:54 pm

    On the 16th of January, if the Dems becomes the Government. Local politics will be surpassed by International “damage-control’ politics if we keep up the degrading of our country. Let’s object wisely but stop the degrading of our people.
    =============================

    ha hahha ha ha ha I wouldn’t even listen to Jippy Doyle, and you are not a prophet. The PM of Barbados endures a level of criticisms that pale in comparison to what a former PM of Britain and the Current President of the USA had and has to contend with.

    Must people explain everything to you? have you not an ounce of curiosity left?

    How the accidental Anon occurred for me. I went to the Labour party blog to post. It only allows to post as 4dr14n H1nd5. After making such a change and you go to post on any other WordPress blog it auto populates with the last name you used or even attempted to use (de labour party has finally gotten around to banning my name modification above. So after posting here a couple of time with my modified name i decided to delete it and before entering my real name i started to respond to “I wish and forgot afterwards to do so, and when ever you post without a populated name it will accept the comment with than Anon.

    There that should explain it. 😀

    So again Owen Arthur is not a country.

  25. PonDeReplay Avatar
    PonDeReplay

    “I Wish” I like where you are coming from. You sound like you are familiar with the term critical thinking as opposed to mob mentality or hive (not a jab at the Bees) mentality. Keep on Keeping on bro. We need more of that kind of discussion in this country.

  26. Sister Baby Avatar
    Sister Baby

    Adrian, I am surprised at your response to me, for I really thought you were erudite up until you said you get your perspective on Guyana from newspapers. I read the Guyanese newspapers and watch Guyana TV and I certainly do not get a perspective of racial strife plaguing our country. I have invited all of you to come to Guyana since we are only 45 minutes from BGI on Caribbean Airlines and you will see Africans and East Indians and the rest working hard to make Guyana a wonderful place. Oh, you can ask DPM Mia Mottley, and His Excellency PM Owen Arthur about their experiences in Guyana, for they were on state visits last year. And by the way the Guyanse love His Excellency and DPM Mia Mottley. and by the way you never ansered my question as to which country do the Loveridge’s hail from. I am sure it’s a country that is 7 hours by jet form BGI, but here we are, your family 45 mintes down the road and we are causing all the problems in the Land of the Flying Fish. Sounds racist to me, like the bad Guyanese behaving in North America.

  27. Avatar
    Anonymous

    but the Guyanese are behaving bad in North America, they are literally running people out of the borough of Queens.

    They are termed the undesirables.

  28. Adrian Hinds Avatar
    Adrian Hinds

    PonDeReplay // January 2, 2008 at 6:01 pm

    “I Wish” I like where you are coming from. You sound like you are familiar with the term critical thinking as opposed to mob mentality or hive (not a jab at the Bees) mentality. Keep on Keeping on bro. We need more of that kind of discussion in this country.
    ==============================

    haha ha ha since “I wish” has seemly run away under the false pretense that it is a futile endevour to explain what he hasn’t been able to thus far, and since you seem to get where he is coming from, can you help me indentify the critical points of his first and subsequent post in this thread?

    I wish if the format of this blog does not suite your taste for detail explanations of your thinking we can meet at any number of bajan free forums out there. like

    http://www.breadfruitlime.freeforums.org
    http://www.talkyahtalk.freeforums.org
    http://www.barbadosforums.com

    leh me know if you interested, I never turn down an opportunity to learn something.

  29. frankology Avatar
    frankology

    Must people explain everything to you? have you not an ounce of curiosity left?
    ……………………………………………………………………
    Good night by friend, sorry for being so picky with what I see, but I told you and others that I am going to be a hawk on questionable submissions. I have increase my curiosity input about three folds to accommodate political rhetoric during this silly season.

    Adrian, I am putting to you that David have everything in his favour to win this election. He is challenging a party that have three terms, thus, a time for change is eminent.
    He is privileged to a better advertising campaign, minus the full page “Court of Opinion” which I find is a waste of time. Voters prefer to see pictorial influences instead of the ‘lotta long talk”. The money spent on these whole page ads could be better spent on two (2) half pages per day, using one candidate per ad spelling out the charges. The 15th will be the day the voters will then place an “X”.

    Another aspect of poor judgment is the massive “FREE” party. One band would have been enough to command a crowd, going to the extend of such a large entertainment package defeat the real focus of the night. Was it a Free Concert or was a Presentation of Candidates?. My answer was the first, that mean the real focus was overshadowed by the entertainers. I am putting to you that more than 60% don’t give a hoot about politics, but was just waiting for Luciano.

    If you place the entertainers within the first two hours and then bring your presentation of candidates after, I am putting to you that you might only have about 30% remaining.

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    Adrian Hinds

    Sister Baby // January 2, 2008 at 8:36 pm

    Adrian, I am surprised at your response to me, for I really thought you were erudite up until you said you get your perspective on Guyana from newspapers. I read the Guyanese newspapers and watch Guyana TV and I certainly do not get a perspective of racial strife plaguing our country. I have invited all of you to come to Guyana since we are only 45 minutes from BGI on Caribbean Airlines and you will see Africans and East Indians and the rest working hard to make Guyana a wonderful place. Oh, you can ask DPM Mia Mottley, and His Excellency PM Owen Arthur about their experiences in Guyana, for they were on state visits last year. And by the way the Guyanse love His Excellency and DPM Mia Mottley. and by the way you never ansered my question as to which country do the Loveridge’s hail from. I am sure it’s a country that is 7 hours by jet form BGI, but here we are, your family 45 mintes down the road and we are causing all the problems in the Land of the Flying Fish. Sounds racist to me, like the bad Guyanese behaving in North America.
    ==============================

    Wuh erudite mean??? 😀 Guyana is a failed state, There is a significant racial divide in Guyana, and your denial doesn’t even begin to remove it’s glaring existance. What Mia and Owen experience in your country doesn’t bode the same for me, I have no reason to find myself in Guyana for anything. I have been living in the USA for 17 years and there isn’t anyone that can successfully lay a case against my citizenship here. I swore allegiance to the US to become a permanent residence, once again to Join the US ARMY and a third time to become a natuaralize US citizen. Adrian Loverage has been living in Barbados for 20+ years and i need not say anymore,the man has earned his place, and stay. So pleas don’t asked me to choose between a man providing jobs and a set a people who are encouraged to leave their country to come to Barbados to undercut bajan labour. Guyana and it’s leadership needs to be encourage by Mia and Owen to work steadfastly to provide jobs in GUYANA FOR GUYANESE, rather than invited them up here to upstage bajan labour in exchange for their vote on Jan 15 as commonwealth citizens.

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    Adrian Hinds

    Frankie why are you bothering me about who attended the Dems show and why they did? I don’t care who went to a show, I will care how many people go out and exercise their franchize on Jan 15th which reminds me that i have nothing to discuss with you and others who think that voting is something to withhold will nilly, please address your percentages and what not to those who care, i don’t.

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    frankology

    You are getting on the same way like David Thompson. Only men stand up and deal with issues.
    The problem is simple. You and your partisan lot hate to be confronted with facts and timely submissions. Once people are no towing the line and join your choir, anger shows. Is this the way you all plan to run a Government. When the outside world oppose your statements. Are you going to snatch up your bags and say you are going home? Are you going to stop speaking to your Caricom neighbours because of an opposing view? Are you going to tell you cabinet ministers not to speak or shake hands with your opponents?

    Boy oh Boy, I can see problems even before you win the Government. You criticise the Moderators when questions are asked about Integrity Legislation, or why the Opposition refuse to comment on issues like the Flyovers, Veco etc. We just do not want skimmerish answer, we want in depth reasoning from you. We would have preferred a No-Confidence with funds that can sink my country.

    That is the reason you all prefer to hide away from me by using silly excuse of my “NOT VOTING”. Buddies, that is my Constitutional and Democratic rights. It is about time to all of you get into real debate of how the DLP will improve the State of the Economy, Improve our various sectors and make this place a better place to live. Remember, this is a Service Economy and our only resources is “Our People”.

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    Undertaker

    Adrian, to you care to give us you numbers for the elections what you think the final tally will be? Oh I was out all day so I miss all this action tonight. frankology, you are correct the dems, can win this election (not too sure if they will)I still think it will be a close one though. A year ago the bees had it hands down. But a lot has happened since then.

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    Sister Baby

    Annoymous, Well, the message boards on the internet posted by Queens Guyanese are just atrocious, so I have no reason to doubt you when you say that Queens Guyanese are behaving badly. I think their bahaviour is related to their ancestral culture, for I read about the people from their ancestral homeland also behaving badly in North America.

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    Sister Baby

    Well listen here, if the Guyanese are running people out of Queens, in the great snowy North then BGI is well on the perilous road to becoming a failed state. Adrian, Please, yuh know some much but failed state, how come yuh nah know but ERUDITE.
    E–equality in BGI for all
    R–Racism must go
    U–Unite under the BLP
    D–Detest from calling Guyana a failed state
    I–Integrate BGI with GEO/CARICOM
    T–Together we face a bright future
    E–Educate all to love and respect
    There you have ERUDITE a highly learned person.

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    Adrian Hinds

    Undertaker // January 2, 2008 at 11:23 pm

    Adrian, to you care to give us you numbers for the elections what you think the final tally will be? Oh I was out all day so I miss all this action tonight. frankology, you are correct the dems, can win this election (not too sure if they will)I still think it will be a close one though. A year ago the bees had it hands down. But a lot has happened since then.
    ==============================

    Undertaker, Although i just saw a defeated BLP on Bay street, 😀 I have never had any luck wid forcasting elections. However I think the Guyanese commonwealth citizens that are in Barbados illegally and that were called to a secret meeting at solidarity house last year by Norman Faria will be called out by the BLP to vote for them as payment for being smuggle into Barbados to undercut Bajan workers. so you see it will difficult even for cadres to capture this occurance 😀
    It is known that i have cast my support to the opposition in this election, and that i more likely in future elections to favour the opposition at the polls as i do not trust our system of governance. 😀 that said i hope that the BLP gets a sound trashing this time around, and that David thompson attempts to lockup Owen Arthur and others, and that Mia and William Duguid will take the break from feeding at the public trough to visit the Garrison on a daily basis in an attempt to lose some weight. 😀

    …At any rate i am not too concern with who wins unless there is serious attempt to reform government as the people so stated in the last consitutional and parliamentary reform review would have stated. After Jan 15 my focus would switch back to sensitizing Americans on that need to quit focusing on the presidential elections as source for change in there daily lives and help them recaputure the teaching of their high school civics course that would have demonstrated that real change in US governance is to had with a clean out of the lifers in their federal and state legislatures. These are the insitutions that past the laws that makes thier live miserable, Not the white house. 😀

    …….sorry what was your original queation???? 😀

  37. Adrian Hinds Avatar
    Adrian Hinds

    Oh wait, some time in the past i would have suggested that the BLP’s arrogance in not speaking to the people about all the things the Owen finally got aroung to speaking about tonight that they (BLP) will be hard press to win a seat. So since i am a stickler for consistency, i sticking wid my very early forecast, The BLP although capturing about 42-44% of the popular vote will not win a seat come Jan 15. 😀

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    Adrian Hinds

    Sister Baby // January 2, 2008 at 11:57 pm

    Well listen here, if the Guyanese are running people out of Queens, in the great snowy North then BGI is well on the perilous road to becoming a failed state. Adrian, Please, yuh know some much but failed state, how come yuh nah know but ERUDITE.
    E–equality in BGI for all
    R–Racism must go
    U–Unite under the BLP
    D–Detest from calling Guyana a failed state
    I–Integrate BGI with GEO/CARICOM
    T–Together we face a bright future
    E–Educate all to love and respect
    There you have ERUDITE a highly learned person.
    ============================

    N

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    Undertaker

    Tomorrow I will post some number, you evaded that like Mascoll would.

    By the way I see the BLP edging home again (though barely)

    And to all those people who said they don’t vote well blacks fought to hard for the right to vote, so I MUST exercise my rights, else what they did not have been in vain. After all the PAST, dictates, the PRESENT, dictates the FUTURE. (some pople still remember the days of Sandi, so they will not vote DLP so to each their own) Lets keep it heated but voilent free

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    Undertaker

    Sister Baby – think that i am falling for you, love you style of writing don’t always agree with you but I like your honesty when you said the some guyanese had tricked you as well maid etc. I think that a few too many were tricked, so now they are a littel scared. Between the returning nationals, and the guyanese the voilence in Barbados has reached a new level though. Until we hang, some people though that will not change, (and that may never happen here again) They robbed Sir Richard Haynes, so they are indeed bold (in Tom Adams days they would have been fixed up, those were the good ole days)

    I don’t like criminals, I have nothing against guyanese once they plan to live here and make an honest dollar.

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  42. Sister Baby Avatar
    Sister Baby

    Undertaker, The only time I want an undertaker falling for me is when the Lyken Funeral Parlour undertaker, Georgetown, Guyana comes to take me to dress me for my final showing and service at St. Peter AME Church New Garden St. Georgetown Guyana, and for my final resting place in the Le Repentir Cemetary also in Georgetown. Of course even in death I am subjected to thiefery and vandalism, so I will be going out with just the bare essentials. As you already know we are the most enterprising people on God’s good earth. Guyanese will vote if you pay them, even though they are not a citizen of the country. Why even dead people can vote in Guyana, so why not living Guyanese voting all over the world. I had a girl that helped my sick mother years ago. She told me she was a nurse in French Guiana, (rumour had it she was a lady of the night at the space centre at Kourou) but she came back to Guyana because she was homesick. I asked her if she had any intentions of going back to French Guiana and she replied, no, but stated, I am going to Barbados shortly, because yesterday she had visited an obeah woman and the obeah woman broke and egg in a glass of water and the egg took the shape of the map of Barbados, so the obeah woman said to the girl that she can expect to travel soon to Barbados. The girl left us high and dry and I always wondered if she ever made it to Barbados. I can see how the Bajan and Guyanese can clash and the Americans and Guyanese also, because we are so different. Here is a Guyanese story, a lady had a daughter who went to UG and graduated to become a school teacher, the daughter married another school teacher, but dies in child birth, but the girl’s mother laid blame for her daughter’s death on the husband. The day of the funeral, the mother tied up 8 chickens, and placed them under running water and gave them rum to to drink, by the time of the funeral the chickens were drunk. The mother placed the names of her son-in-law and his family on each chicken, went over to the funeral home and placed them in the coffin under her dead daughter’s feet. Well the funeral party is about to move away for the final service at St. Sidwell’s Anglican Church when the mourners noticed something moving under the deceased covered feet, you see the chickens were coming out of their drunken state, and everybody in the funeral parlour started srcreaming and running dead girl coming back to life. You see had the chickens with names attached to them been buried with the girl, shortly there after those people would have died

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    Sister Baby

    Undertaker, I was in shock when I heard that PM Tom Adams had passed. Oh my! Were you the undertaker for the former PM? And of course our leader too passed in 1985, the late PM LFS Burnham, Prime Minister of Guyana from 1964 to 1985. Dr. Eric Williams passed in 1985 also, the same time as PM LFSB, but PM Burnham’s passing made the headlines around the world. Trinis were mad because they said, LFSB passing overhadowed their leader getting world attention.

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    Undertaker

    Sister Baby

    Necrophilia is not my style, so I would have to get you in life not death 😉

    I love the chicken though, wonder what they had brown or white? After the election stuff you must give us more of these stories.

  45. degap Avatar
    degap

    “Mad dogs and lunch bucket Englishmen”

    Doesn’t this man have anything else to do? This man, like most of his ilk, is a man of “supreme arrogance”! After inundating every newspaper and blog in the Caribbean with his incessant whining, two negative responses are posted to a blog, and he’s having a nervous breakdown! Get over it! Sir Grantley when PM of the federation went to England and couldn’t get an audience with the colonial sectary, but this foreign adventurer would presume to dispatch letters to the PM with demands no less, outrageous!

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    Anonymous

    Lie ,yuh hear lie?

    Teacher Percy say if you tell a lie you going to hell as soon as you die.

    Lie,dat is lie.

    Boy sister baby could tell lies.

    One minute she living in washington,then new york now guyana.

    Lie,yuh hear lie – DAT IS LIE.

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    Wishing in Vain

    It is indeed a very sad state of affairs when the Prime Minister, Owing Arthur and the Commissioner of Police, Darwin Dottin do not find it fit to have the decency to reply to Mr Loveridge’s letters but then again we have recently learnt that Mr Dottin was fast tracked to the post ahead of Mr Corbin and he was installed in that position by mottley to carry out her illegal wishes.

    He is the one overseeing the exercise of phone tapping and the Internet interception of communications, have you gotten the point as yet??

    He is there to carry out the illegal actions of this present admistration.

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