It reminds me of that saying (perhaps, very pertinent!) which I used to hear in Bim, as a kid, of ‘skinning yuh teet’!! Don’t know if it’s still current, but it always reminds me of a billy-goat, just raising part of its lip to display its pearly-teeth and then putting its head back down and getting on with just chewing grass!! I.e. ‘nothing’s changed so, why bother’!!

I suspect that as with ‘R*d L*gs’, and other issues, that’s what’ll happen with this subject, too!!

If BAJ really want the respect of barbadians, they would mandate that both Peres and the Nation newpaper respect us. On the other hand, we can look at boycotting the Nation newspaper for a week in the first case to show them the client is their most important tool not Peres. By the way, what happened to the case with Roy Morris? Tell Peres to write about that. Investigative journalism at its best. Go Peres, I just gave you material

Technician, u giving me work to do!! Don’t u know I tired!! Look, I say d man should be kick out!! Dat’s enough, surely!!

Lord!! 🙂

That man is a idiot, he tries to come off as funny but he is just a f**** idiot, out of the island u clown!

Your articles are boring just like you, and please stop writing with so much hate and anger what is the matter with you, someone pointed me to his article in the nation the other day, what has journalism gone to at the nation???

Anyhow the nation paper belong to trini now so i will expect more to come.

Hold on.

You have youth unemployment growing, government doing f**k all to help poor people, nepotism and classism, rising cost of living – what the HELL do you people think lead to crime and violence? The author speaks the truth and if you are too stupid to see it because he is Trinidadian, wait for it to happen in the years to come.

Yardbroom,

Is it the content of Pires’ articles that bothers you or the presumption that he is paid for them?

I don’t share you concern over the article. To be quite honest, were it not for your post and link, I would not have even read it… I far prefer reading BU and your usually insightful and provocative posts.

Pires comments pale in comparison to the repulsive and irresponsible remarks I sometimes see here on the immigration issue from some bloggers. Even then, I believe they should be allowed to express their opinions… although I often wish that David would ‘edit out’ remarks that portray specific ethnicities in a degrading or disparaging manner, e.g. “scoundrels & humbugs”, “swine”, “scums”, “rat catchers” “thieves & criminals” etc.

Bare commesse! Pires right. You wasting time talking bout Nelson, and then trying to frighten Trini and Guyanese out de island. All Coo-coo and no Callaloo? Yuh all feel you is badjohn?

@ David
I don’t recall advocating censure of B.C Pires what I am advocating is “responsible behaviour” and that behaviour is not only for feature writers…although they have a duty to impart wisdom and common sense in a National Newspaper.

When a visitor to our house starts to tell us how we should behave, you would have thought his house was in order and he was bringing his wealth of experience of how things should be done to assist. When that is not the case you must question his judgment.

Particularly when that criticism is not constructive, but suggest that Barbadians are lacking in the necessary cognitive skills to take appropriate decisive action as required.

I am as serious about regionalism as any Caribbean brother, the problem we have had over the years is about size. That is “one” of the reasons why the last Federation of The West Indies failed. Some islands felt that little Barbados despite having Sir Grantley Adams should not lead. Barbados’ size will not change, so even if that is not “said” it presents a problem.

On a general note, my fear is that ultimately Barbadians will be the workers and not the decision makers in our own country, and that does not bode well for the future.

When someone writes that “guns are more expressive” of course they are, because they are often used with force and violence attached. It takes longer to get peace without the “expressive guns” but it is a more durable peace.

Every issue seems to have a political angle here when that is not the case.

@ Anon the issues to which you refer have they only become manifest in the last year?

The issues to which I speak are getting worse year by year and NOTHING is being done to fix them. Pires is absolutely right – in Barbados there is always ‘dialogue’, ‘discussion’, ‘processes’ that lead to nowhere. I can tell you, I am a young person with two degrees and middle class and the things I see here would make even ME want to kill a few people in the civil service to get sh!t done so I shudder to think what people less off than me would consider doing, especially when it comes to paying bills and living ‘the bajan life’ that these tourists and expats live while we suffer.

Yardbroom do like your namesake and sweep chicken shite! Bajans like you represent most of what is wrong with this country. You prefer not to see Barbados’ problems and are up in faux patriotic angst when someone from outside points them out. You haven’t touched on the substantive issues that Pires raises and it appears that nobody CARES to engage in the discourse on the problems that young black people face in Barbados in jobs and opportunities.

Shame on BU, BFP, the Nation and all the media for sweeping this under the carpet but mark my words, BC Pires may soon be seen as a prophet if all this inaction continues from everyone.

Meanwhile, to hell with the DLP! What a sham that Youth Manifesto was! One year…and what?

What have me amused and at the same time concerned, it how Norman Faria and Ricky Singh from Guyana and B.C.Peres from T & T, two countries that have serious problems, could want to tell us bajans what is wrong with our country and they are dumb when it comes to matters about theirs. I thought home drum beats first or like the Good Book says ” take the big rock out of your eye before you tell me about the pebble in mine.”Bajan interpretation

It would be nice for Anon to realise that the world is made up of persons with different abillities and careers. Therefore if there were all professionals or all persons with two or three degrees, some of them would still have to work on the “garbage truck” or “dig graves.” We have to respect each others occupation and thank God that you were gifted with academic learning and do your duty to uplift others to continue in your field of work. Never see yourself more than your brother/sister. Most of all NEVER forget those friends you had before your progress who are lesss fortunate than you. A old man once told me ” speak to your friends on the way UP, because you might have to say hello to them on the way back DOWN.” That’s one of the rules I live by, that’s why I make it my business to return to the little village i came from and mingle freely with everyone there, both them a nd I enjoy that very much.

ha ha ha ha why wunnuh letting de “PLIERS” man upset wunnuh? Peter Simmons says it all and speaks to my life long approach to “naysayers” when he asked of Pires……”Did he flee the 550 murders in 2008, horrendous kidnappings, extreme street violence, road rage and pervasive corruption in civilized Trinidad to tutor uncivilized Bajans?”

I look forward to Pires’s commentary, and I am never phased by his criticism, because I qualify people to make statements or hold position that I can take seriously by looking at things and circumstance to which they are connected. So when I read Trini News, which I do, and then read Pires Nationnews column, being fully aware that he is a Trinidadian he is disqualified by me, from being a person that I can take legitimate criticism from. He is therefore, but a jester, and Ricky Singh is treated to the same process.

Yuh all may be too young to remember this. It was a normal thing for each village to have at least one woman who made it her business to attend every wedding at the local church to criticize the apparel of all who attend. This woman of course was never seen dressed-up to suggest that she is an authority on fashion. I am not saying that Pires is a woman, or that women do criticize a lot! ha ha ha ha ha ha

Equity // January 26, 2009 at 2:55 pm

I don’t understand your logic, AH. So who from where is qualified to criticise Barbados?
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Aristotle’s logic.
A mode of reasoning: By his criticsm, he must be from a country that proves his critique of Barbados, or in the least give us one.

The relationship between elements and between an element and the whole in a set of objects, individuals, principles, or events:

There’s a certain requirement for proof and consistency if you are going to be critical of an entire society? What country is Pires holding up to be an example of all the things he is critical of Barbadians for?

Jason // January 26, 2009 at 9:39 pm

Hi BU.

Black Woman Who Reads has been outed at BFP. Some actor Iain Deane. The story has been up for 4 days at KT and David you haven’t commented on it.

Diapers full?
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Who cares? this kingsland story will never be that important to average Bajans as it is tuh wunnuh. David I never understood the facination you had for this convoluted story. Whether we like it or not BFP attracts a certain kind of Bajan and BU another kind. Sorry most stories at BFP don’t interest me, They don’t seem “colourful”enough for me, am i alone?

BWWR “Black Woman Who Reads” is WHITE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HE is a MAN!!!!!

Nothing to say, Barbados Underground?

Ha ha ha ha ha!

I have never read one posting on that Kingsland matter. It yust doesn’t appeal to me, so you are not alone. Maybe if you see the names of the bloggers that respond repeatedly, then you would know who is intersted in it.

Very well said, Anonymous. How true. Let me tell you, not only do BFP have a pro-white bent, but I can assure you that at least ONE of them (and I’m inclined to wonder if there are more than one) is definitely a foreigner, possibly Canadian or English. I have carefully studied their use of certain words (they use “on” Barbados, while we say “in” Barbados), and many other “foreign” words and phrases. There is nothing whatsoever humble about them (when compared to David of BU) and they never admit to being wrong, nor do they ever apologise when caught out. They are gunning for David Thompson and the DLP, and NEVER give him/them credit for ANYTHING they do. They are now attempting to scare people by making up lies about development at Graeme Hall.
Your last sentence is very relevant – it is indeed sad that they are like that because we certainly need these blogs. BU may have been wrong about BWWR, but they’re getting more hits than BFP on a daily basis, so they must be doing something right!

David, your above is like an Obama response to a Palin attack.

Keep up the good work. 🙂

For some time, BFP bragged about the number of visits they get. I once owned a forum which I never advertised yet the number of “Hits” I received total in the hundreds of thousands. What is more telling to me about BFP’s claim and the likelihood of it being highly exaggerated is the dwindling responses to their articles. When was the last time they had fifty contributions to one of their articles?

A long time ago I said on this blog that BWWR is neither black nor female.

BWWR cursed me out.

I know a lot, a lot, of black women and NONE of them is as miserable and boring as BWWR.

That is how I knew that BWWR was neither black nor female.

Black women do NOT behave like that.

I always though that BWWR was one of the Deanes.

Who else would be so interested in that boring, interminable case?

The rest of us have nothing to gain in the outcome of that case.

Win or lose in that case a Deane wins.

And what a Deane wins a Deane will keep.

When has any Deane done anything for any of us?

Truly most of us don’t give a s**t about that case.

Now to Barbados Fre Press.

Barbados Free Press likes to PLAY THE VICTIM.

They like to write as though white Bajans are an historically oppressed minority.

White Bajans are indeed a minority.

But they are NOT AN OPPRESSED MINORITY, and the have NEVER been an appresswed minority.

But BFP wants the rest of the world that does not know any better to believe that white Bajans are being oppresssed by black Bajans. That is a LIE and BFP know that it is a LIE.

And certainly none BFP is Canadian.

I know a lot of Canadians too, I spent many, many years living there, and in none of those years did I ever experience the sort of MEAN SPIRITEDNESS that is regularly displayed on Barabdos Free Press.

I have not been able to visit BU as regularly as I used to. Close to two years now I switched from reading BFP and checking only on BU to keep my finger on the pulse of the nation whether on or off island.

I have found that BU’s articles have been thought provoking and the posters passionate about the points.

BFP went into a mode of sensorship for God knows what ever reason, yet BU has not been that strict and the blog has leveled out to some measure of civility.

Of course you have a few characters like Technician, J, who always throw spanners in the works. But what the hey! :))

Carry on smartly BU

Well, yeah, Warrior, BFP went into a mode of censorship because they were getting threats against someone, and also they got this madman posting insults to people he disagrees with and writing a lot of filth and chatting with himself under different names (check it out now). I know who the person is because I am an OLD LODGE BOY! But BFP got double standards because they say they have banned someone and after a while they let them back on under a new name. BU is doing a good job, especially with the illegal Guyanese issue.

Thanks for the shout out Warrior, hope all is well with you.

Warrior wrote “Of course you have a few characters like J, who always throw spanners in the works. But what the hey! :))

Heee!!!, heeee!!!, heeee!! heeee!!!

BFP used to have some real nice bloggers who done with them big time.

People like Pandora,John,Chase,a bajan girl living in england (I think kathy was her name)even rumpletskin and others.

Only Hants still there sucking up to them every 5 minutes.