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FRIENDS of a deceased man were shocked to learn that a big dispute had arisen over his burial rites. Apparently the dispute took place between family members and the man’s long-time girlfriend over the type of burial each wanted for him.

Pudding & Souse understands that the matter even ended up before a judge and the body was handed over to the girlfriend who was able to produce proof indicating the man’s wishes. Friends are hurt that the matter reached that stage without the two parties being able to compromise.

They said this would not have been the type of behaviour the man would have expected from each side. They are hoping the funeral can proceed without any further dispute and that this dear man’s soul and mind could rest in peace.

Source: Nation


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The BU family would have realized after one year that we have a ‘beef’ with the media in Barbados. They are very critical of the blogs because they feel we disseminate information which is mainly unsubstantiated. Of course it matters little to them that the Nation newspaper which has the label as the leading daily in Barbados publishes a gossip column which they call Pudding & Souse and rivals the popularity of Lowdown Hoad’s column. If we go by the on the ground reports, it is one of their most popular columns. The timid Nation management hides behind this column which uses veil inferences to release news which they are scared shitless to plainly publish.

Take for example the quote above.

We are puzzled why the Nation newspaper would not mention the names of the actors involved in this bassa bassa. Is it because of who the players are i.e. middle-class Barbadians who are known to have connections? We are disappointed that a man who died so tragically and who spent many years of his life counsellings people would now have to witness from his death-bed the fight which is taking place over his material possessions and burial arrangements.

It is advisable that we should all prepare for death, even though many of us neglect to make wills or prepare scripts detailing what arrangements are preferred when we inevitable must pass to the great beyond. In the case of Dr. Albert Selby we would have assumed that a man of his background would have recognized the benefit of having his last requests properly executed to preempt the bassa bassa which has erupted at his passing. Let us all learn from this unfortunate incident which we believe is ongoing.

We extend our sympathy to grieving family and friends of the decease.

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62 responses to “Albert Selby, May You Rest In Peace”

  1. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    And we haven’t even looked yet at the customs of those Bajans who in obedience to their religion have more than one marriage partner.

    If the state forbids these marriages are we then infringing on the Constitutional right of some Bajans to religious freedom?

  2. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    Neither the church, nor the state invented marriage.

    Marriage was created by and sustained for hundreds of thousands of years by the people.

    So we can go for narrow legal definitions, or we can acknowledge this eternal truth.

  3. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    Another area of family law needs to be looked at as well.

    If a child is born to one mother and is raised entirely by another mother, with our without a formal adoption, who is the mother of this child?

    Does this child have one mother?

    Does this child have two mothers?

    And who decides?

    The state?

    The DNA mother?

    The social mother?

    The child?

    The adult child?

  4. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    And what if both mothers participate in the raising of the child, as many of us were jointly raised by the women in our families, those women variously called mother and grandmother and auntie.

    i am sure that we all know some people who call their biological grandmothers “ma” and their biological mother by her given name.

    Who is the mother? How is motherhood defined, and by whom?

  5. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    A good friend of mine, who is nearly 80 did not know that her biological mother was her mother, until she was an adult with children of her own.

    She was born to a 17 year old mother and in what the family believed was a necessary act of deference to the their [upper] social class and the [Anglican] church, the infant was given to the biological grandparents to raise and the 17 year old mother was sent over in away. Everybody kept quiet for more than 25 years.

    So who is the mother?

    What defines mother?

  6. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    @Bush Tea March 7, 2017 at 7:38 AM “They therefore come up with such ‘outrageous’ things as multiple wives, easy divorces, and taking in a brother’s widow.”

    If ya say one, ya have to say two. You will notice that over-in-away, the son of Joe Biden the most recent Vice President of the U.S.A. [the place from which we draw so many examples] appears to have taken in the widow of his brother:

    http://hollywoodlife.com/2017/03/06/hallie-hunter-biden-still-together-proof-kathleen-biden-prostitute-accusations-photos/

  7. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    And don’t we have cases where people right here in Barbados have had long lasting legal marriages to their brother’s divorced wife?

  8. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    And neither the state, nor the churches have a problem with such marriages.

  9. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    What would Jesus do?

  10. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    We don’t have to wonder what would Jesus do. Here is what he did.

    Jesus and the woman taken in adultery is a famous passage found in the Gospel of John 7:53-8:11. In this episode, after Jesus has sat down in the temple to teach some of the people, after he spent the previous night at the Mount of Olives, a group of scribes and Pharisees confront Jesus, interrupting his teaching session. They bring in an adulteress, and invite Jesus to pass judgment upon her: should she be stoned, as Moses taught, or not? Jesus first ignores the interruption, and writes on the ground as though he does not hear them. But after the religious leaders continue their challenge, he states that the one who is without sin is the one who should cast the first stone.

    Gospel of John 7:53-8:11
    Now early in the morning He came again into the temple, and all the people came to Him; and He sat down and taught them. Then the scribes and Pharisees brought to Him a woman caught in adultery. And when they had set her in the midst, they said to Him, “Teacher, this woman was caught in adultery, in the very act. Now Moses, in the law, commanded us that such should be stoned. But what do You say?” This they said, testing Him, that they might have something of which to accuse Him. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with His finger, as though He did not hear.

    So when they continued asking Him, He raised Himself up and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first.” And again He stooped down and wrote on the ground. Then those who heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning with the oldest even to the last. And Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. When Jesus had raised Himself up and saw no one but the woman, He said to her, “Woman, where are those accusers of yours? Has no one condemned you?”

    She said, “No one, Lord.”

    And Jesus said to her, “Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more.”

  11. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    “Teacher, this woman was caught in adultery, in the very act.”

    I’ve always wondered since she was caught in the VERY ACT, and since it is impossible for a woman to commit adultery without the active participation of a man…

    Where was the man?

    Why did the Scribes and Pharisees not bring him for judgement also?

  12. David Avatar
    David

    A win for the common law relationship.

    https://www.barbadostoday.bb/2017/09/02/katrina-smith-was-selbys-spouse-ccj-rules/

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