Wow how time flies! It has been more than two years since the news broke of a cyber piracy ring which implicated the respected media practitioner Linda Waldron. Ms. Waldron was employed at the Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) at the time. There was a statement issued by the US authorities which indicated that they would be seeking the extradition of Ms. Waldron to appear before a US Grand Jury. We would appreciate if someone out there in the blogosphere can enlighten the BU family.
What is funny, we did a search using keywords Linda Waldron’ of the Nation’s Archives and came up with zilch.
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Now that Jippy Doyle is safely where he belongs at the Dodds facility for raping a 13 year old girl what about Roy Morris? How long will the case of the former Editor of the Nation newspaper languish in the system? Whether he is guilty or not as the saying goes justice delayed is justice denied. We see that the Chief Justice is about to get a spanking new building on Whitepark. What would Jippy say about pouring new wine in old skins? – “Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.” –Matthew 9:17
Will our Judges in 2009 have to record evidence in long hand? Will there continue to be a backlog in cases in the traffic court? When our Court System is moved to the new Judicial Centre will the fRoy Morris file go missing at the Registrar’s Office?
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Last month we highlighted that the Barbados Light & Power Company had an improved net income in 2008 of 48% or 58 million dollars. Now it is the turn of Cable & Wireless, we read today that C&W achieved a 14% growth but importantly performance in its broadband platform increases by 43%. We are not questioning the profit which C&W continues to make or should we? We prefer to question the fact that it has been several years since deregulation in the telecommunications sector and Barbadians may not yet be benefiting from the change. Many households in Barbados continue to receive separate monthly bills from C&W for fixed line, ADSL, Netspeak and, if you have a cellphone you can add that to the stack of bills.
Should the Barbadian who has contracted the full suit of C&W services not be able to benefit from a good price which is linked to a more efficient C&W billing system that rewards loyalty? So what is the role of the Fair Trading Commission?
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West Coast Blog has reported the rumour that Russian Roman Abramovich may have purchased The Sands. For those of you who do not know the gentleman, he is said to be the world’s 15th richest man. Barbados is rapidly becoming the play ground of the rich and famous. While we welcome foreign investment we are forced to ask, where is the balance?
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