Rihanna wins Best Rap/Sung Collaboration (For a Rap/Sung collaborative performance by artists who do not normally perform together. Singles or Tracks only.
Congratulations from the BU household!!!!!
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Our friend Superlative1 has all the lowdown happening at the Grammy’s this weekend. Can Rihanna bring home the bacon for Barbados? What ever the final result Rihanna would have done well to have been nominated 5 times.
Congrats Rihanna!
I am so nervous just waiting.
Best of luck to my Super Bajan Ambassador – Rihanna. Show the world that you have what it takes to be at ‘the top of the class.
Don’t worry DAVID she will be the first Bajan to bring home Grammys.
I know that you are do not like Rihanna, but thanks for the post DAVID.
Also check out her new Umbrella line from Totes.
http://www.gabbybabble.com/2008/02/rhianna-launches-umbrella-line.html
she has been doing such a great job and I am pleased to report that she STILL acts quite regular when she is here on holiday! Best wishes Rihanna
It’s about time the the Barbadian Government embrace the ‘jewel in hand’ in the person of Rihanna. Jamaica realise that Reggae with the super star, the late Bob Marley, placed that country in international market. Jamaica did not spend one cent to market its island since the presence of Bob or his records turned out to be blank cheques for the Tourist Industry for the island, and tourism ministers only have to fill in the amount yearly.
We in Barbados have a unique opportunity to do likewise, but if we continue to procrastinate, possibly, Guyana the birth of her maternal parent might hold out the olive branch to this gem of a performer. Minister Sealy, this is where you come in, look at monitoring our new found “Music Tourism” by acknowledging the fame bestowed on this “Bajan Superstar”. We have millions of dollars in over-runs, please take one million of our taxpayers dollars and present a beautiful home to ‘our star’ to show that she is “one of us” and you acknowledge her feat. You have to start the ‘damage control started by envious bajans who hate to see someone progress”
I rest my case. The ball is in your hands.
Whatever makes you think we don’t like Rihanna?
Because we have to criticize her sometimes?
If you have a child don’t you discipline that child sometimes?
Does that mean you hate the child?
Never though that I would ever agree with Frankolgy. We need to use Rihanna more to promote Barbados
We agree with the suggestion that we should use Rihanna some more to market our tourist product. It is interesting to note that Lewis Hamilton is being used by Grenada to direct some publicity to that island this weekend.
Two points Minister Richard Sealy should note 1) the shelf life of Rihanna will be relatively short so they need to act now 2) Rihanna is very popular in many of the non traditional markets which our current Minister seems to want to penetrate.
No DAVID.
I must say, since she has taken more control of her music and of her image, she has taken off. For two weeks in a row her song Don’t Stop the Music has been the Airplay Gainer on the Billboard Hot 100 and may very well be another number one for the young songstress.
I have to stick a pin here though- people especially in Barbados need to realise that the outfits she wears on stage are COSTUMES. When you see paparazzi images of her walking the street or coming out of clothing stores, or at dinner what have you, she is always well clad, often in a baggy shirt and shorts or long jeans and a small top, keeping in line with what she said at the start of her career, if she’s wearing something short she’ll keep the top covered and if the top is revealing, the legs are getting covered. Please, better yourselves before crying down others who are doing a credit to your own country. Better yet, let he (or she) who is without sin, cast the first stone.
the tear down mentality cultivated during the days of slavery are in effect whenever the name of rihanna is mentioned to some people
we pretend to be so prim and proper and scrutinise so hard whenever our people do well. we want them to write a bible if they write songs. we want them to sing a philosophical anthem if they sing a song. we want to score a century everytime they take up a bat . we want them to take 10 wickets in a match if they decide to bowl a ball and even after they will still cuss yuh.this is something that we need to investigate and deal with as soon as possible
The People’s Democratic Congress (PDC) joins thousands upon thousands of lovers of Pop/R&B music in Barbados and across the region, and millions upon millions of adoring fans of these music genres across the globe in wishing Barbados-born international Pop/R&B super-star, Rihanna, her music label, and her managers and associates, every success at tonight’s 50th Annual Grammy Awards at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California.
Certainly, we have observed how, Rihanna, her Island Def Jam Music label, and her managers and associates like Jay-Z, Evan Rogers, Carl Sturken, have helped and continue to help bring to Barbados, the region and the world, some of the best and richest in Pop/R&B music since 2005. From her first album, Music in the Sun, to her second album, A Girl Like Me, to her last one, Good Girl Gone Bad, this extraordinary talent Rihanna and her superb team of collaborators and associates in the global music and entertainment industry have done us and the world and history and culture of music, proud.
Therefore, and in so short of space of time, we in PDC have very much marvelled at the many platinum hit singles like “Pon the Replay”, “SOS”, “Unfaithful”, and the monster hit, “Umbrella”, that they and the relevant music lovers and consumers of this world have helped to get chart-topper status on world music charts like the Billboard Hot 100 and the UK Singles Chart. Moreover, in addition to scoring big in terms of commercial and discographical success, and in helping Rihanna to land enormous endorsement deals with global corporate enterprises like Nike and Cover Girl Magazine, as well as helping to bring star power to our own music diva, these songs have also made sure that Rihanna and her “music partners and associates” have received several well deserved music awards across the globe including the prestigous American Music Awards, People’s Choice Awards, World Music Awards, and our own Barbados Music Awards.
Now, the time has come for Rihanna and her “music partners and asociates” to celebrate her stellar and breathtaking music success by taking on the competition at the the creme de la creme of world music awards – the Grammy Awards – tonight, at the said Staples Center in Los Angeles, and at the same time capturing some Grammy Awards. There is no doubt it, Rihanna WILL win and win properly some Grammy Awards tonight, and make millions of her very ardent fans worldwide, including thousands of die-hard and patriotic fans and supporters in Barbados, very happy and thrilled indeed. A Barbadian patriot herself, she is simply awesome and unstoppable at the moment!!
Again, it shows that in these so-called developing countries like Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, etc, how really and truly we have the talents, skills and characteristics in given areas, that can, with the best and greatest and most genuine training, support and exposure possible, esp. as coming from other persons and entities in many other countries, allow us – Barbadians and relevant others of this so-called developing world – not only to greater than ever before possess the opportunity to compete on the world stage and be successful at what we are doing, but that can also allow us to have the greatest opportunities available to foster and achieve a spirit of social and cultural cooperation and development at the international level. Of course, very intrinsically bound up in such afore mentioned circumstances are possibilities for us – again, Barbadians and relevant others in the so-called developing world- properly achieving and actually achieving themselves the financial fruits of such activites on a truly substantial scale. Altogether, the above is essentailly Rihanna’s musical entertainment journey so far!!
I do not have a problem with Rihanna promoting lip gloss for Cover Girl Cosmetics, sneakers for Nike, or umbrellas for Totes. I do, however, have a big problem with Rihanna promoting Barbados. It is very risky for a country to stake its reputation on an individual. Right now I am thinking about Marion Jones, the Olympic sprinter and the wife of Obadele Thompson. When she first started winning international races, she ran with both the United States flag and the flag of Belize, the country of her mother’s birth. At first, I am sure the Belizeans thought they had struck gold having an international star give them free publicity. However, Marion Jones has now been found guilty of check fraud, running on steroids, and lying to US federal agents. She has been stripped of her Olympic medals. I don’t think the Belizeans counted on getting that kind of publicity.
The Barbados Ministry of Tourism put Rihanna in an ad when she first became famous. After appearing in the ad, Rihanna went on to tell foreign reporters that Bajans “talk sh*t” about her and that they don’t like to see each other get ahead, among many other things. When she made the comments, Rihanna knew that she appears in an ad for Barbados and was serving as an unofficial ambassador for the country. Her judgment is so poor and her character so low, that she did not have enough sense to know not to bad mouth the country in public knowing she appears in an ad for it.
If Rihanna were to badmouth products made by Cover Girl, Nike, or Totes, her contract with the company would be swiftly scrapped. Why should the Barbados Ministry of Tourism be any different from the aforementioned companies? They are selling a product (Barbados). Rihanna badmouthed their product. They would be foolish to use her again to promote Barbados.
One last thing. In the past, I used to read a tourism newspaper that the Ministry of Tourism use to have available at the airport and at various sites around the country. There used to be a statement in the paper that cautioned tourists about dressing inappropriately in Barbados. I think it used to actually state that the tourists needed to leave their bikinis at the beach. How can the ministry of tourism tell tourists to dress appropriately and then use someone like Rihanna, who often appears scantily clad at public events, in their ads?
It is predictable what will happen now. Rihanna supporters will say I am jealous. I am awaiting your responses. The Barbados Ministry of Tourism needs to keep doing what it is doing, i.e. promoting Barbados as a high end destination that still has some standards. Hundreds of thousands of Barbadians over the centuries have worked hard to make Barbados the wonderful place it is now. Let’s not give one individual the opportunity to destroy its image. We don’t know Rihanna well enough to be confident that she won’t some day have a Britney Spears or Marion Jones moment and embarrass us.
David what did I tell you?
WOW people, Barbados received its first ever GRAMMY award, thanks to Rihanna. Go Girl, I for one is proud of you.
It is predictable what will happen now. Rihanna supporters will say I am jealous.
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You are simply pathetic Bajan Girl. You’re possibly speaking with ‘tongue in cheek’ we believe your jealous statement.
Congratulations must go out to Rihanna on receiving her 1st Grammy. She made sure that she reminded everyone that she is from Barbados. She is certainly a confident individual.
Bajan Girl: Are you are around 19 years?
agreed
Rihanna won – Best Rap/Sung Collaboration, featuring Jay-z
Congratulations to Rihanna for putting Barbados on the map yet again. Does anybody know how many millions it would have costed when Rihanna gave a big hail to BARBADOS during her acceptance speech?
This is FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Minister Sealy, what wunna gonna do. Guyana might rush and give her accreditation for her accomplishment if we fail to act. Ah dunn talk.
“I LOVE YOU BARBADOS!!”
That’s what she cried out, for literally tens of millions of potential tourists around the world to hear.
Bajan Girl, you must have a face like a squeezed lemon all like now.
Face it: Rihanna is a winner. You, on the other hand – well we all know what you are…
We are not sure if some Barbadians understand what winning a Grammy represent. This is a fantastic achievement.
What Rihanna said was “Hello Barbados, we got one!” I am glad for her. I thought it would have been for song of the year. Having said that, there is much truth in what Bajan Girl has said above. To speak the truth, in a rational and analytical way is not jealousy neither is it envy. It is business. When Rihanna matures and/or her handlers are more cautious about throwing her to the press holus bolus, then and only then would a business person put his money on her.
Dont forget that when the tourists come to Bim they will be interacting with the locals. Bad press for the island’s people is bad press for tourism. I worked in Small Business and Tourism in Canada and we are very careful when it comes to marketing.
Hearty Congratulations to International Diva – Rhianna on your GRAMMY win !
We in BARBADOS remain VERY proud of you.
I look forward to my ESTEEMED Gov’t lead by His Most Honorable , PM David Thompson to fully reward and recognise Rihanna’s feat.
Hip Hip…………. HOORAY !
Hip Hip…………. HOORAY !
Hip Hip…………. HOORAY !
I’ve long, said and hopefully, Barbadians will now recognise that Rihanna is ‘the best’!!!!
Hope our girl is n’t losing weight!! She was fine as she was, before!!!!
Winehouse wins a slew of awards at the Grammys – I just know the intro to just ONE, of her songs!!!!
Rihanna obtains one award – I know and love the full version of every, single track on her latest CD!!
Guess what I think of the Grammys!! There’re ******ng ***t!!!!
We hear the argument so often that if Rihanna is used by the Barbados Tourism Authority and she turns to a bad girl it would hurt our tourism.
We don’t agree!
We think that this is a very conservative position to take. The world tourist market has become very competitive and any characteristic about our product which has world appeal should be incorporated in our product.
We are not experts but there are ways to do it that would not make the effort a risk reward scenario for Barbados. Minister Richard Sealy is a young and intelligent man, there is a way!
David // February 11, 2008 at 12:31 am
We are not sure if some Barbadians understand what winning a Grammy represent. This is a fantastic achievement.
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I don’t understand what it means. How is a grammy won anyway?
Bimbro // February 11, 2008 at 6:39 am
Winehouse wins a slew of awards at the Grammys – I just know the intro to just ONE, of her songs!!!!
Rihanna obtains one award – I know and love the full version of every, single track on her latest CD!!
Guess what I think of the Grammys!! There’re ******ng ***t!!!!
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Is this Winehouse person a known drug addict? Was she at last night party? I heard that she couldn’t get a visa to enter the US, is this true? Did she win any grammys? if she did can someone tell me the real value to her of a grammy? Maybe she can sell her grammy for a fix.
hey congrats Rihanna, u brought home the bacon, the continued success of the Waterford crowd forget the haters remember the line UP AND ON
The People’s Democratic Congress heartily congratulates Rihanna, Jay-Z, and their team for having won Rihanna and Barbados their first Grammy Award and and for having won it themselves, last night at the Grammy Awards Ceremony, held at the Staples Center, Los Angeles.
Eternal gratitude must also go to ALL of those, including her parents – who have helped to nurture and guide Rihanna along the way into becoming an international Pop/R&B super star, and one that remains so wonderfully patriotic, indeed.
So, to Rihanna and her music team, we say thanks on the behalf of the masses and middle classes of people of Barbados.
PDC
please…do you think that Tourists are not able to separate Rihanna the individual from Barbados , from Barbados the country???
Why are we so scared that she will falter? Life is about taking risks… we have so much to gain from her exposure so if she ultimately falters so what??????
BTW Amy winhouse had a great album…very original BUT she is a dope addict ( trashy low class girl from Camden town in London). The British are still very happy this morning with her success!
I worked in Small Business and Tourism in Canada and we are very careful when it comes to marketing.
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Pat: Your statement regarding Rihanna is pure nonsense. First of all, you have to define ‘marketing’.
I am so happy for Rihanna. She makes me proud to be a Barbadian woman.
http://www.cafepress.com/day_earth/4563204
Adrian, I must agree with you. I still see the selection of candidates for a Grammy award have a prejudicial block where ‘Third World Country” finds it difficult to cop a major award. Who the hell is this Amy Winehouse?
Let’s delve into these awards.
Record of the year: Umbrella created a major stir on the majority of radio stations, internet and TV stations throughout the world. We never saw any ratings about this ‘Amy’ but looka what happen. Maybe, if Rihanna sang “Jenkins”, she might have won.
Song of the Year and Best New Artist should have been awarded to Rihanna due to her assault on the International Music scene.
But, we have to remember, we have to check the composition of winners. I am not uttering ‘race’ here. I am looking at “Fair Play”
People. Amy Winehouse is probably the most talented singer / songwriter out there. Its unfortunate that she has a major drug problem. But in terms of raw, all-round talent, no one even comes close.
Ok enough of Rihanna and her success in the fake world of Hollywood. They are all entertainers for crying out loud, they were once called “court jesters” 😀
BU do you realize that Mottley is under going a make-over or is it a remake of her image? This would be a great story, which i don’t have the time to write. Ok go back to the Harold Hoyte article that argued for a make-over of David Thompson in order for him to win. Before this comment we saw right before our own eyes the re-make of Owen Arthur from the adulterous man to that of husband, father, christian man who suddenly abhor the basement culture. Then we had Mia down in the farm last month during election berating Thompson for always being in church, always having someone praying for him, stating that she loves the bashment culture that she is who she is. Now and probably as a result of coming to terms with the up hill battle she faces in having her aspiration of becoming PM turn into reality, She seems to be the second so called mighty political strategist that will need to under go a make-over to Battle Thompson. Oh how the mighty have fallen. From attempting to decriminalize buggery, to openly declaring I AM WHO I AM, to now being a servant of God. Buyer beware, there are wolves in sheep’s clothing, they are those bearing false witness to have come to know God, when they may not in good faith so do. 😀
This is a big story is it not? Two BLP leaders seek God to repair their images and to prepare them to win the hearts and minds of the Barbadian people away from Thompson. One had failed on Jan 15 will this latest camelion like action work? is it real? :d
me // February 11, 2008 at 10:08 am
please…do you think that Tourists are not able to separate Rihanna the individual from Barbados , from Barbados the country???
Why are we so scared that she will falter? Life is about taking risks… we have so much to gain from her exposure so if she ultimately falters so what??????
BTW Amy winhouse had a great album…very original BUT she is a dope addict ( trashy low class girl from Camden town in London).
*****The British are still very happy this morning with her success!******
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ha ha ha ha that isn’t saying much. This made the Brits happy too.
dominating their charts for a very long time. 😀
This is a big story is it not? Two BLP leaders seek God to repair their images and to prepare them to win the hearts and minds of the Barbadian people away from Thompson.
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I am sick of all your constant political sick syndrome. Here we are talking about Rihanna and you condemning someone for going to church. Is that a problem with you?
Regardless to mouthing, Barbadians is still primarily a ‘church going nation’, like it or not. Even you would have encouraged your offspring to head for a church.
Inkwell made this submission:
“What you think going happen to all the plantations in St John Clico bought up years ago and up to now produced little other than bush? You know which minister of finance approved the sale of those plantations to Clico? I am sure Duprey and Parris did not buy them to grow bush. That may well be the real payday for all concerned and the joke will be on Barbados”.
Adrian, please answer, or “Shut up and drive”
Adrian Hinds, I hope you get deported back to Barbados so that you have to deal with homosexuals on a regular basis…. my bad you already live in Boston so this should be nothing new Or is it just the bajan homsexual that you do not like… You doth protest to much for a supposedly str8 man!
frankology // February 11, 2008 at 2:05 pm
I am sick of all your constant political sick syndrome.
Here we are talking about Rihanna and you condemning someone for going to church. Is that a problem with you?
Regardless to mouthing, Barbadians is still primarily a ‘church going nation’, like it or not. Even you would have encouraged your offspring to head for a church.
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Do i detect an attempt to tell me what to do? Are you attempting to make me care about what makes you sick?
On the placque Mottley received was inscribe the words of Isaiah which prompted here to convenienently reflect on words that supposedly gives her inspiration. Isaiah Chapter 40.
They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up on wings of an eagle . . ..
Well they are no eagles in Barbados to make such dreaming a reality, Only black birds, Mia on a black bird. 😀
I think Mottley should focus on the teachings contained in the New Testament. Here is one that she might want to ponder.
Matthew 23:27
King James Bible
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness
Bible in Basic English
A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you are like the resting-places of the dead, which are made white, and seem beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead men’s bones and of all unclean things.
Maybe she can sell her grammy for a fix.
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Adrian, she’s a well known druggie up here in the UK. God knows why people make such a fuss of her. I’d much rather listen to Rihanna, any day, not to mention she looks a freak!!!!
Will post a link for you!!
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/article785347.ece
Interesting footnote: alleged romantic link with Jay Z, mentioned farther in article!!!!
Rihanna babe, if u read this; it’s most inadvisable to mix business with romance! Dump the ****** Jay Z. You’ve much more natural talent than he has. God knows what junk he was rapping at the front of your Umbrella record but heaven knows that it did n’t add a thing to the song!!! YOU made that song which achieved a lot for you!!!!
FAIRNESS IN BLOGGING: This was posted at BFP and is on hold.
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What makes you unable to read the comment moderation tab at the top? ARE YOU STUPID?
It was 3 minutes between you posting the comment and us approving it.
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I REPLIED: You might be able to fool people some time, but you can’t fool people all the time, especially this writer.
Prior to the election, the other blog deliberately refused to post any comments by me; and that’s a fact. I submitted over 12 posts and NOT ONE SINGLE reached the blog. I copied the same information that was submitted to you and post it at BU and it appeared without any problems. But again, you admit your allegiance.
Now, tell the blogging fraternity why you refused my comments; and don’t talk nonsense of ‘spam’ or in moderation or no one was at the control. Let the guilty one(s) plead ‘guilty as charged.
Frankology you are not important, and even if you where it would not matter, to anybody here.
….So, was George Payne and Owen Arthur absent from Mia’s Thanksgiving service? I didn’t see them in the pic or their names listed as attended. If so who might we reasonably say was the focus of Wesley C. Dear’s advise to Mia when he said……
OPPOSITION LEADER Mia Mottley has been advised to surround herself with positive people and fire all those who are not with her as she sits at the head of the Barbados Labour Party.
Who me? ha ha ha ha 😀
Frankology you are not important, and even if you where it would not matter, to anybody here
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I ain’t or will never be. I believe in being a simpleton. If ever I needed fame, I would have removed Nelson and stand in his position morning, noon and night.
To the subject at hand, it look as though you was in attendance, thus your concern of who attend or not.
The last words in your above statement “to anybody here”, as I stated time and again, it seems that all of you work in a office set up specifically for propaganda purposes. I ain’t start the admittance, it is you and you alone. I rest my case. Next case.
I know you wouldn’t refuse an opportunity to put me in my place, so since you are reluctant to do so with my musing of Owen’s and George Payne assumed absence from Mia Thanksgiving, i gine believe um until otherwise.
Wait you want me to set up a camera you can see were i am at?
……. I find it very revealing that since this defeat which does not compare to the one they suffered in 86 (24-3) all i have been hearing is words of assurance that the BLP will survive, and emphasizing the 70 year history during which they have been down cycles and defeats. Why all the hand wringing with this defeat (20-10) there must be something more in de mortor besides de pestal.
“What you think going happen to all the plantations in St John Clico bought up years ago and up to now produced little other than bush? You know which minister of finance approved the sale of those plantations to Clico? I am sure Duprey and Parris did not buy them to grow bush. That may well be the real payday for all concerned and the joke will be on Barbados”.
Adrian, please answer, or “Shut up and drive”
Frankology You are the one who should “shut up” unless you can speak to truth. Let me say with no dought, or fear of contradiction, the Plantations to witch you speak are in 70% Sugar production, and 20% ground food production Yams Patatos etc… so unless, and until, you have the facts Frankology, you know what to do SHUT UP!
In todays Nation Pastor Wesley C. Dear made mention of his trials and tribulation after purschasing land for 1 million dollars an then being prevented from building because the land was in zone 1.
Pastor Wesley C. Dear may yet have to tell the rest of us what is the approach he use to get the land on which his church sits to be changed from ZONE 1 designation. There was a Land owner in Sandylane that could not get such a rezoning without selling an option in his land to persons with connection. Share de wealth of inside knowledge Wesley. 😀
And here I was thinking this was the thread to congratulate Rihanna.
Adrian Hinds
Frankology
Freedom Lover
You all should at least have some manners and apologise for hijacking this thread for your petty senseless arguments.
I am sure David has a thread for you kids to play in.
Technician so far your only contribution to the thread hasn’t been to congratulate Rihanna, so i hope you can lead the way with apologizing. 😀
Rihanna is reported to have exclaimed “Barbados we have one”
I ask What can Barbados do with a grammy???
Frankology,
I was trying to think of a word to describe you. You came up with it. The word is simpleton. Your poor grammar and the non intellectual statements that you routinely post make it very clear to most people that you are indeed a simpleton.
Unfortunately, the least educated Barbadians are the ones who do the most posting on this and other blogs. You do not realize how bad you make yourselves look. With every misspelled word and grammatical error, you expose your ignorance.
Adrian Hinds:
Sorry but my annoyance with what you and company did to the thread just made me stop.
You are right and I apologise for not doing it then so here it is …I would like to take this time to congratulate Rihanna on her latest achievement, a Grammy award.
As to what Barbados can do with a Grammy ….I really dont know but to see a young talented Bajan realise her dreams, is satisfaction for me.There is still hope for our youth.
Your turn.
Bajan Girl,
You are a brave soul! But you going get bare licks for your comments about grammar. You’ll send these people into fits of apoplexy because they have enormous chips on their shoulders over the bad grammar thing. Know what they will tell you? “IT ISN’T ABOUT THE GRAMMAR, IT’S ABOUT GETTING A POINT ACROSS!” Good luck, girl!
Thistle // February 11, 2008 at 7:52 pm
Bajan Girl,
You are a brave soul! But you going get bare licks for your comments about grammar. You’ll send these people into fits of apoplexy because they have enormous chips on their shoulders over the bad grammar thing. Know what they will tell you? ****“IT ISN’T ABOUT THE GRAMMAR, IT’S ABOUT GETTING A POINT ACROSS!”**** Good luck, girl!
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Is that not the truth? It is hardly a chip on someone’s shoulder, when they respond to the self appointed language mavens who continue to point out grammar and spelling errors made by others, not out of any need to better understand opinions that are otherwise unclear due to said errors, but clearly to demean, to put down, and too shut up. I will never be a party to this behaviour and as such I am rising to Frankology’s defense, as it is pellucid in Bajangirls comments that she intends to be blatantly offensive, …..and i am defending Frankology, even if i believe that he had earlier sought to be a language maven to win an argument with me.
See what I mean, Bajan Girl?!!
me // February 11, 2008 at 2:32 pm
Adrian Hinds, I hope you get deported back to Barbados so that you have to deal with homosexuals on a regular basis…. my bad you already live in Boston so this should be nothing new Or is it just the bajan homsexual that you do not like… You doth protest to much for a supposedly str8 man!
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On de deporting ting: It is not likely to occur. Unlike Barbados the US is truly a nation of laws, and given my status and the fact that said status was attain to the letter of the law and can withstand the toughest scrutiny, I can give this assurance.
I am a gem of a person, I really am, 😀 and i get along well with everyone and their personal preferences is never an issue for me, unless there is an attempt to involve me in someway. Now I am a little mystified as to your comments about homosexuality regarding anything i have said so far in this thread.
Thistle // February 11, 2008 at 8:59 pm
See what I mean, Bajan Girl?!!
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What i said isn’t what you attempted to convey by way of your upper case lettered end statement. In my response I clearly laid out my grevience, such that the those who often times highlight grammar and spelling mistakes usually do so out of malice and little else, while your contention was that one would object to good grammar and spelling solely on the basis that such is not needed to get a point across. Don’t you see the difference?
What you told Bajan girl was not proven by my response.
IT ISN’T ABOUT THE GRAMMAR, IT’S ABOUT GETTING A POINT ACROSS!”**** Good luck, girl!
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Who ever you are bajan girl, I will state without being offensive that you will take hours to come up with an idea to write about. You might be sitting with all types of dictionaries around you so that you might look good. But let me tell you something Miss Grammatical correct, blogs are not English tests, but geared for speed to get your point across within a time limit. We bloggers take no more than 2 minutes to reply to comments with facts, sometimes we are replying to over 10 comments on different subjects from different blogs, we are blessed with a library of information that surpass your lousy, personal and jealous attack on Rihanna. As a matter of fact, you wrote a hold lot of crap without logic and probably, you might be a selfish UWI scholar.
By the way, I have School Leaving, ‘O’ levels, Dale Carnegie and BIMAP qualifications. I was MC at various graduations and I know my English. Tell the public how many articles to submitted to these blogs. Probably, you might be writing another article to meet March your deadline.
Go back to your facebook and talk about who got who, and who is a druggy, these blogs are for the lower class with the wizardry of any Economist, Health expert, Environmental knowledge, Social issues and the ability to differentiate right from wrong.
Clearly, my posting that link and comments about the Grammy, were a waste of time!!
Sorry!!!!
tell maureen bryant at kings count hospital what she has to say now her father was there and her dress was nice so say no more eat your heart out negative maureen
tell maureen bryant at kings count hospital what she has to say now her father was there and her dress was nice so say no more eat your heart out negative maureen
Did you use the word ‘malice’, Adrian Hinds? Well not everyone is like you. You are well acquainted with malice and spite, and anyone reading old BLP blogs (2005/2006) would know that.
We are loathed to intervene here guys but just to give you a heads-up that this article is being read by people ALL over the world. You might consider taking your sparring to one of the other topics. We are asking nicely, OK?
David
For once I have to agree with Bimbro………..geez!
About friggin’ time David!!
Imagine someone looking at this thread hoping to read something about Rihanna …….only to come across this ‘battle of egos’.
Thistle // February 12, 2008 at 6:47 am
Did you use the word ‘malice’, Adrian Hinds? Well not everyone is like you. You are well acquainted with malice and spite, and anyone reading old BLP blogs (2005/2006) would know that.
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David just so you know, I will not have a problem if you see it fit to delete my post from this thread. I agree with Technician, I was having way to much fun with this. I am no fan of Rihanna or the entertainment culture as a whole, however it is still wrong for me to contribute to the destruction of the thread. Seriously please clean it up.
Thistle : I get the impression that you have something to tell me. I am not above joining with someone to look at my actions to see if what they are contending has merit and is in need of correction, explanation, or an apology. I am very willing to hear your concerns about anything i have said. If you like you can join me on any forum of your choice so that we can talk about your concerns of my actions. What specific post of mine on the BLP blog has you concern? Who was it that my “malice” on the BLP blogs was directed at?
Frankology,
You say you love Rihanna, but you, along with Adrian Hinds and the other semiliterates who post on a regular basis, hijacked this thread to talk about a comment you sent to BFP and to argue about something that has absolutely nothing to do with Rihanna.
You are a phony. You post just to see your elementary school level rantings in print. At least I was on topic when I discussed Rihanna. Educated people are capable of looking at things from more than one angle, analyzing things, and disagreeing with people without resorting to name calling.
People like you and Samizdat, who posted above, have to resort to name calling. If you disagreed with me, you could have simply said you disagreed with me and then wrote your opinions. Instead you both resorted to personal attacks. That is what uneducated, immature people do.
I resorted to name calling above, because I have come to the conclusion that there are few educated people to converse with on this blog and the only way to deal with semiliterates like you is to stoop to your level, at least temporarily.
By the way, I do not use a dictionary while typing my responses. I attended decent schools and learned how to write properly and think analytically. I do not become star struck by people like Rihanna, because I grew up around people who did more important things than sing.
I am not a follower. People like you would like everyone to jump on the Rihanna bandwagon and sing her praises without looking at some of the negative things she has done, but I won’t do that. I can think for myself.
For every one tourist Rihanna attracts to Barbados by mentioning Barbados on a TV show, two or three will be turned off by the many negative comments she has made about Barbadians that will stay on the internet for years to come. You are too stupid to realize that.
I won’t post anything else until a reasonably intelligent person posts something I feel strongly about. I know I will be waiting a long time for an intelligent person to post on this blog.
Do you wonder that I find so many Barbadians, frankly, weird!!!!
David,
If you really wanted this to end, I am sure you would have ended it long ago. I am sure you have the capability to keep off topic postings off of threads.
Someone who runs the BFP blog recently said that, essentially, even negative postings that contain popular names like Rihanna will cause people around the world who key in the name to stumble upon the BFP site, thereby increasing the number of visits to the site.
You, David, are a part of this game.
Every day the same small band of narrow minded people post. You need to try to ecourage more intelligent people to post on the site. As long as you allow the likes of Frankology and Adrian Hinds to hijack the threads, we will all be subjected to the low level discourse that we have been getting.
Soon, most people will simply stop visiting this site.
Bajan girl, you can with the same free access to wordpress blogs, demonstrate to BU and BFP how to capture the eye of “intelligent” people. I am assuming you are one of them.
….I will only agree to refrain from “hijacking” the thread,… however, I will not be deterred by the constraints of my “narrow mind”, from responding to anything that i see fit to so do.
…..Your penchant for attempting to win the argument (it is nakedly apparent) by focusing on grammar and spelling is a childish tactic, as is your name calling and prophecy of future poor visitation to this site. In your anger you seem not aware that the strength of these blogs is not in the comment section, but in the articles which are read by the vast majority of visitors, as they would a Newspaper. Most readers of the articles are not concern with what is said here or they themselves do not care to past a comment, as they are probably looking for news only. So your poorly stated belief that it is bad grammar or hijacking of threads that results in the same crowd repeatedly posting is at this point unfounded. In fact i would argue that were it not for the usual “too few” consistently posting that the comment section would be boring and give persons like you the impression that the blogs have poor attendance.
There is a blog for the righteous, intelligent, self important commentators. Try notesfromthemargin.wordpress.com 😀
I am sure you will be miss. 😀
You are simply pathetic Bajan Girl. You’re possibly speaking with ‘tongue in cheek’ we believe your jealous statement.
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Ms (educated) Bajan Girl, do tell the public where is the name calling. I asked if you were nineteen, to find out if you were around the same age as Rihanna, thus your criticism. But alas, you start off talking about grammar.
Since you are that educated and ‘tring to be grammatically correct’ why the hell fail to post information on the blogs. Or you can only deal with one subject per year.
Your whole article on Rihanna is lined with prejudice, egotistical, narcissistic, anger due to you not able to achieve such goals, thus the reason for your anger.
Commenters on these blogs are highly qualified people who use this forum to debate topical issues. These people deal with Politics including Governance, Economics, Social Issues etc. Some others deal with Race, Education, Sports, Religion and the list goes on.
Now, to your statement of “educated and intelligent people’. Commenters on these blogs are Lawyers, politicians, doctors, teachers, CEO’s, Marketing experts, artisans,
along with the man-in-the-street. Regardless of grammar or ‘fake’ intellectual like you, these people play an important part in raising and debating issues even before the main stream media; and even before our politicians.
So Ms Intelligent, Grammatical correct, you can go and start your own Blog for the Intellects and leave we the ‘uneducated’ posters.
I am glad that the Government of Barbados, especially our Prime Minister, acknowledged the feat of this International Songster, we as a people should be elated with our own getting on the world stage, in front millions of viewers and acknowledging her country. Rihanna is still a growing lady and she might say something that will offend somebody, buy what the heck, statesmen and stateswomen do utter statements that offend others but we must move on, and Rihanna is moving on. Her statements are coming over more mature as she grows. But we must take down our defenses and the negativity and accept the lady for who she is, and stop the comparison of others who were stars and fell from grace. She might be the difference. Hail our Grammy winner, Rihanna, I rest my case.
I assume that bajan girl is around 19. She has the know-it-all-ness of someone of that age. Let her be as she will find out sooner or later that she has issues. Rihanna is a young person who of course has made and will make mistakes. She will have to remember when to say “no comment.” She will learn who she can trust to publish accurate interviews/articles about her. All the negative things that you claim she has said were true and reflected someone who was hurt by Barbadians reactions to her success. I think in hindsight she probably regrets making those statements but she clearly loves Barbados and I think the majority of people following her career can see this unlike you Bajangirl!
You need to let go of your insecurities dear!
10 posts since David intervened……………same topic being discussed.
Oh well ……..that’s life.
Oh my goodness. You people need to relax.
1)She is proud to be Barbadian despite your best efforts to make her and everyone who supports her feel cautious or weary of her pride.
2)If she had gone on that stage and NOT mentioned Barbados, wait, if she had NEVER acknowledged Barbados in anything she did, you all would be all over her, not that she owes Barbados much!
3)She is a GRAMMY WINNER! Most of you might only win most annoying internet user if we had a JackA** awards. If she becomes a ‘bad girl’ it won’t make people say “Oh, she’s from Barbados, let’s not got here” to think that is asinine and impractical. What anything she does will in effect do is keep Barbados in the mouths of reporters and the minds of potential tourists.
On another note check out: http://harshlife.wordpress.com/
Bimbro // February 12, 2008 at 7:53 am
Do you wonder that I find so many Barbadians, frankly, weird!!!!
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Do you wonder that we find so many English, frankly, mad!!!
Sorry…….couldn’t resist 🙂
Adrian and Frankology,
I am not angry. I find both of you and some of the others comical. I know I said I would not post again until someone intelligent said something, but I could not resist the following:
Adrian,
Today, I taught six year olds to put “ed” on the end of words to form the past tense. You obviously never learned that grammar rule. Instead of saying “You will be miss,” you should have said, “You will be missed.” Instead of saying, “Most readers of the articles are not concern…,” You should have said, “Most readers of the articles are not concerned…”
Frankology,
You should have said I wrote a “whole” lot of crap, not “hold” lot of crap. You should have said “grammatically correct,” not “grammatical” correct.
In the future, you can both avoid this ongoing nonsense if you would just post your opinions and let everybody else post their opinions without attacking them. You can’t expect everybody to agree with you.
I now rest my case.
I forgot to type Bajan Girl in the name space for the posting addressing Adrian Hinds and Frankology above.
I dont care too much for Rihanna’s music, but I am proud a Bajan girl has done well and pleased for her. I also think she holds her own well.
Do we want more Rihanna’s (yes from me) and if so, how what can we do, if anything, about it?
David can we get enough of this already?
First we have Adrian and Frankology going at it .
Now we have the primary school teacher correcting our posts…dotting our i’s and crossing our t’s, as if we are at school writing compositions.
Bajan girl ….please, get with it.’We are blogging not writing a paper.Have you ever been to other blogs?
you type fast, shorten ur words etc.
The fact that you understood what these guys were telling you, proves the point.Nobody(‘xcept may be u) proof reads their comments totally before hitting that submit button.
You would be surprised if you knew Frankology’s true profession my dear, so please ease up on the teacher bit ok.
Dont get me wrong, I commend you for what you say and what you are alluding to but this is the blog sphere dear….just thank God for spellcheck….imagine that added to bad grammar 🙂
Go teach your six year old, we will continue to educate people regarding problems that affect our livelihood.
You really have a chip on your shoulder when it comes to Rihanna. Six postings and you fail to acknowledge Rihanna winning a Grammy.
Hope you did not poison the young ones with diabolical tripe. Possibly, these kids were harping about Rihanna’s win, thus your behaviour.
The truth is between everything that we do time is very precious and we don’t want to waste it on the minutia matters at play here. Can we just move on? If the comment is not abusive and we can ignore, we will. If people want to engage in frivolous banter so be it. Knock yourselves out.
We are off to dinner!
Adrian said:
Your penchant for attempting to win the argument (it is nakedly apparent) by focusing on grammar and spelling is a CHILDISH TACTIC,
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…without any attempt to be prophetic, it is very evident that the children you teach influences you more than you them.
You wouldn’t happen to be a single and childless nuh? one would have to wonder what influence 14 year old boys would have on you.
Bajan Girl
I think you’ve misunderstood why so many people have trashed you and your comments above.
I suspect it’s not what you said so much as when you chose to say it: namely, at the very moment Rihanna had just won what is indisputably a major international award.
Now, even that might have been ok (albeit a bit of a downer) if your observations had been couched in the form of a good-humoured caveat, urging us to be cautious even while we celebrate, etc. etc.
But no. Virtually all of us here could tell that your analysis – far from being calm, judicious and detached – simply reeked of your extreme animosity towards this young woman; and not merely towards her personally, but towards everything she stands for.
Here are a couple of examples of what I mean:
“Her judgment is so poor and her character so low”.
“How can the ministry of tourism tell tourists to dress appropriately and then use someone like Rihanna, who often appears scantily clad at public events, in their ads?”
“Let’s not give one individual the opportunity to destroy its image. We don’t know Rihanna well enough to be confident that she won’t some day have a Britney Spears or Marion Jones moment and embarrass us”
In the first two comments you merely sound unpleasantly judgemental, although so sour you can almost taste it. But in the third comment you convey a nasty impression of actual maleficence (just like the fabled wicked witch at the feast, in fact) – as if you hoped your dire predictions about Rihanna would come true.
To sum up: most of us were reacting to the vindictive tone of what you wrote about Rihanna, not the substance of your argument (though that also seemed to me banal, narrow-minded and logically flawed).
Contributors here may or may not be fans of hers. But you, transparently, are a hater.
And there is (as someone else has already pointed out) something pathetic about that.
One last thing: if you’re going to be so absurdly critical of other people’s writing, it’s probably a good idea to make sure your own is impeccable. Otherwise, along with everything else, you’ll sound like a fool:
“In the past, I used to read a tourism newspaper that the Ministry of Tourism use to have available at the airport”
See folks? She left off a “d” 🙂
Samizdat
“People like you and Samizdat, who posted above, have to resort to name calling. If you disagreed with me, you could have simply said you disagreed with me and then wrote your opinions. ”
Yikes, I’m being compared to frankology now?! Next thing it’ll be Bimbro, and then I’ll have to go and kill myself…:)
Actually, though, I’m only quoting Bajan Girl to point out (ahem) an elementary grammatical error.
In her final (past conditional) sentence above, “wrote” (preterite) is incorrect and sounds illiterate. It should be “have written” (pluperfect).
How embarrassing.
A D- for you, teacher…
Sam
Do you wonder that we find so many English, frankly, mad!!!
Technician // February 12, 2008 at 4:46 pm
Sorry…….couldn’t resist
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That’s ok, Technician, so do I!!!! However, I’m not English!!!!
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You lot, to Adrian: “You should have said this and you should have said, that”!!
Look, please lef de man alone!!!! We all knows what he means!! We is all Bajans!!!!
Laaaaaaaaaaaaaaadddddddddddddddd!!!! 🙂
(I know I gun get my backside cut now!!!!) Laaad 🙂
Anonymous, now that you’ve ‘rested your case’ how about resting your brain & shutting-up?!!!!
Where’s that ‘Bajan Girl’ from????
Doan worry darling – u gun go to heaven!!!! Laaaaaaaaaaaaadddd 🙂
Technician, u tell she!!!! Laaaaaaaaaddddd 🙂
‘Please don’t stop the music’ – turn up the volume!!!!!!
Wait… Bajan Girl sounds familiar… It only just hit me that she sounds a lot like a young lady who called in to Brass Tacks Sunday when Senator Griffith, Corey Layne and Mrs. Monroe-Knight were in studio making a nuisance of herself. If it is indeed her, “girl, wuh you saying? Been too long. Got anymore petitions against people, I could sign a couple you know!”
Adrian,
Today, I taught six year olds to put “ed” on the end of words to form the past tense. You obviously never learned that grammar rule. Instead of saying “You will be miss,” you should have said, “You will be missed.” Instead of saying, “Most readers of the articles are not concern…,” You should have said, “Most readers of the articles are not concerned…”
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Actually i “Learnt” and not “Learned” it being a student of British grammar as oppose to currently writing and speaking using the more liberal American grammar rules. I will argue with anyone, legitimate language maven or not that adding “ed” to “miss” in my statement only serves the purpose of “sounding” correct and does not infringe on any “past tense” rule as my intent (real) is to demonstrate that “missing” you has not occured (past) will not occur (future) that there is “statis”, a nothingness to that situation. :d As for my use of “concern” without the “ed” thE same thing applies, it is an ongoing condition neither specific to the “past” the present or the future actions of Readers. This is what they do. 😀
Bimbro,
I told you previously on another blog that you have lost credibility because of inconsistencies in your postings. Remember you once criticized Rihanna and then, under the same thread, you attacked someone else for criticizing her and actually went on to sing her praises?
Well, I want to point out another example of your phony, hypocritical behavior. Above, you try to give the impression that you think it is ridiculous that I am correcting spelling and grammar on this site.
Read what you typed on July 15, 2007 under the heading BARBADIANS ARE AFRAID OF THE LARGE INFLUX OF GUYANESE INTO BARBADOS.
“Listen guys and girls, I’ve been reading all of these contributions this morning from the begining and most of them are most interesting and informative but I do wish that so many of you would just take your time and re-read your items before posting because, so often, they contain so many spelling and other mistakes as to make the whole process far more tedious than it needs to be!”
I copied what you typed. The misspelling of the word beginning is your error.
Stop attacking others for doing things you do.
Superlative 1,
Who still listens to VOB? Not I. You didn’t hear me on VOB.
Samizdat,
Thank you for the entertainment. Thistle told me you would all have fits when I brought up the issue of grammar. I am very tough. I can handle you folks.
I normally just submit serious posts, but I got thrown off on this site because of the lack of activity. As I mentioned previously, only a small band of narrow minded people have been posting lately. I don’t have any more time to waste with you, so don’t waste your time responding to this.
Bajan Girl we have read you comments with a little interest. A couple of observations which we have. We asked nicely in an earlier comment for people like yourself to comment on the topic at hand. We are not into censoring anyone and that explains why we have not removed any of the comments. Adrian H we acknowledge your comment.
Back to Bajan Girl, you appear to be so full of carrying the ‘standard’ yet you compromise that ‘standard’ by engaging in tangential behaviour?
A blog represents the opinions of the blog owner. If readers want to comment they are free to do so but it is not obligatory. Our experience is that people who contribute to BU change their writings deliberately to distort writing styles, cadence etc. Barbados is a small place and some very ‘important’ people make contributions from time time to time.
Here is our advice to you Bajan Girl. We are open as you would have seen to publishing interesting articles submitted by members of the BU family. Tis is not the Huffington Post Blog. Make a difference an submit something for publish. We have no doubt that it would pass mustor as far as the grammar acid test is concerned. If you read our articles you must have observed that we believe in doing and not talking.
In a nutshell put up or shut up!
Hello Bajan Girl!
Yes, I did warn you that if you comment on the bad grammar/spelling on this blog it would send some bloggers into fits of apoplexy, and I was right. The ones who use good grammar appear to be a bunch of wimps, for not coming to your rescue. I had experienced the same vicious attacks when I had once mentioned bad grammar. I stopped blogging on here for a while because I have never felt particularly welcomed , but temptation got the better of me. (It won’t again, and I admire your courage).
Apart from the fact that many of the bloggers here are University-educated Know-It-Alls (a friend of mine calls them Educated Asses) there is also a very distinct flavour of chauvinism, and a strong dislike for female bloggers (why aren’t they at home cooking/knitting/doing housework? How dare they be such upstarts as to think they have intelligence and can compete with all-powerful males in a blogging world?). So I’m afraid you don’t stand a chance on here. However, there are some wonderful International blog sites that I read and contribute to and have made some worthwhile friends – both male and female (and the grammar/spelling is top class).
David has rudely asked you to “put up or shut up”. I don’t know about you, but I’m outta here FOR GOOD, before I get told to put up or shut up.
All good wishes, Bajan Girl.
Bajan Girl, even I speak in Bajan from time to time for a laugh!!!!
I’m just saying, “relax a little!!”, that’all!!!! 🙂
Now the rancour’s out the way, how about a date?!!! 🙂
I told you previously on another blog that you have lost credibility because of inconsistencies in your postings.
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I would like to know the articles you post, the subject and the blog; and don’t tell me that you cannot find an intelligent topic to display your grammatical skills.
If you disagreed with me, you could have simply said you disagreed with me and then wrote your opinions.
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Miss Bajan Girl, How about the word “write” or maybe “…with me and ‘you could have written’ your opinions”
But again, we the bloggers are uneducated. So please, go to the intellectual blogs and leave us to correct the same intellects who make fundamental mistakes. By the way, we still love Rihanna regardless of her previous statements, but again, we are all human. Ah gone.
Bajans… cheupse.
Behaving like crabs in a barrel. Now, hands in the air – how many of you are living vicariously through Miss Fenty?
Why are you not petitioning the government to build the “Rihanna Centre for the Performing Arts”, instead of politely cussing each other out?
Look at all the entertainment to be had from international artists including Rihanna herself. Imagine not having to fly to New York or anywhere, for a Broadway Play, a good opera, the Viennese Boys Choir, or whatever. Please people, stop the in-fighting or the Indians gun tek over.
Like Bajan Girl, I was a teacher.