morals-ethicsIt was just over one year when the ascension of a Democratic Labour Party (DLP)  to the government was heralded in the fanfare of song, dance and religious ceremony at the newly built Kensington Oval. All of those who were in attendance or viewed it on TV witnessed the religious flavoured ceremony, the spiritual upliftment was felt and welcomed by many.  There was much back slapping and relaxing of frowns caused by a growing belief that there was rampant moral ineptitude overrunning our small Christian society.

Not since the disestablishment of Church and State in Barbados had a government been so bold as to bridge the gap between the two. Prime Minister David Thompson many felt wanted to send a clear signal to all that the time for moral atonement had come. His government would be giving priority to increasing the moral reservoir of the country.

It seems ironic that 1 year and some later the country has become embroiled in debate about whether we have become a country of too much feting especially during Lent, the number one Christian season!

Barbados is accepted as a Christian country.

For those who align with the view that government has no place legislating morals, BU agrees. For those who believe the decision rest with the individual, we disagree. The government, corporate community, NGOs, they ALL have a responsibility to shape a wholesome society which will lead to sustainability. Given the proclivity nowadays of our people to gravitate to what is popular and then embrace it as the standard has led to the orderly society which Barbados has become renown disintegrating. The fact that our society in the last ten years has transform to a pluralistic one has only compounded the problem.

At the recent 42 Independence Celebrations held at the Garrison the BU household observed with horror that there was no Scout troop on parade. A few minutes later the commentator alerted listeners that the Girl Guides was the largest group on parade. We have heard the statistic that 60+% of the student population at the University of the West Indies is comprised of females. What does all this translate to? The destabilization of the traditional family, the pivot of all successful societies is now under threat. Rude Boy DJs are being unleashed on an impressionable public by licensed radio stations. The chaos on our roads created by PSVs and private vehicles alike, a symptom of the moral vacuum in our society.

Minister of Family and Social Care Esther Byer-Suckoo has been given the task of creating initiatives to stem and shift the moral flow in the country. One year late we have not discern any change on the moral compass.

Can you see the weeds in the lawn?


  1. ARE HOMOSEXUALS GUILTY OF INTOLERANCE?

    David/BU

    Looking at american cable and network news this morning I was shocked to discover that this week in the Miss USA beauty pageant Ms Californis was denied the crown because she stood up for her beliefs.

    It appears that Hilton perez a homosexual blogger and gossip columnist who was one of the judges of Ms USA Pageant, asked Ms California how would she define ‘Marriage?’

    Ms California who is a practising christian said she acknowledges that people will make their individual choices but respectfully she thinks that marriage is between a man and a woman.

    Well who tell she to say that?

    This homosexual judge was demonstrably offended and marked her down so low that she ended up the first runner up instead of Miss USA.
    He sees nothing wrong with that action and has been on all the network and cable channels defending why he thinks she should be ‘more tolerant’.

    Now for the gay activists and so called politically correct crowd who will try like peter wickham does to throw in red herrings to distract the argument – this is not about whether we should be having beauty pageants,or whether the women are exploited or whether pageants are merely there to excite men etc etc.

    The elephant in the room really is :

    THE INTOLERANCE OF MEMBERS OF THE GAY COMMUNITY.

    All over america we are seeing activist judges from Conneticut to Iowa and legislatures force homosexuality and same sex marriage down the throats of the citizens of America.

    Whenever the people of america have been asked to vote on it,every state without exception,and yes even the great state of California rejected the concept of same sea marriage.

    So state by state the people’s decisions have been over- ridden.

    Such is the power of the Gay lobby.

    Only last week CNN showed a poll which stated that a majority of americans were against homosexuality and same sex marriage.

    We here in barbados and around the world are not immune from the tentacles of the gay lobby;for you only have to turn on your television set and you and your innocent young children are bombarded with explicit images and suggestions about’normal’ relationships between a man and a man or a woman and a woman.Television shows increasingly are being shown on our lone T.V. government- owned station -CBC.

    The result?

    The USA is now seeing children as young as 9 years old telling their parents and teachers that they think they are Gay.This at a time when children are now exploring and finding out who they are and all the other confusion that is part of the teenage years.

    But it goes further Governments now,especiallly the U.K. led by Mandelson homosexual and senior advisor to the british government,as well as other international agencies are now tying the giving of Donation/AID (Food,Money etc) to the abolition of legislation against Sodomy.

    In all of the british dependencies in the caribbeanBritain has imposed this measure.

    Now we are seeing in barbados a greater push by persons of influence in our society.

    Mia mottley pushing to legalise homosexuality,peter wickham every day on the airwaves pushing homosexuality,the Bishop of Barbados giving very unclear positions on the issues and as a result pesons calling themselves ‘gay christians’ have been advertising boldly in our newspaper.

    What bothers me most of all is the fact that this group of people who demand tolerance for their ‘lifestyle’ does not in fact allow for another view or persons rejecting or speaking out against their behaviour.
    It really a case of;’my way is the only way’.

    Would barbadians who have strong views against legalisation of homosexuality and same sex marriage take the same bold step as Ms California.

    David can you do an article?


  2. Rock Solid you sick person..! I am tired of Christians; I am tired of xenophobes; I am tired of people who get off on accusing others of doing exactly what they are guilty of doing.

  3. DK not Drift Kid Avatar
    DK not Drift Kid

    In the Nation Newspaper of October 29, 2007, David Thompson said that a democratic Labour Party administration will, within six months of assuming office, appoint all qualified public officers who have been in temporary positions for two or more years.

    Those were the words from Opposition Leader David Thompson, who on told a packed gathering of Barbadians living in Toronto, Canada, that the state needed to “regularise the lives of these individuals, so they can begin to plan for their future and that of their children”.

    Thompson said the public service of Barbados was not likely to become any smaller in the years to come and therefore there was no need “to have so many people dangling on a string”.

    Pension study

    He said also that a DLP government would immediately commission an actuarial study into the return of the dual pension system, whereby people who joined the service after 1974 would become eligible once again for both a government employment and National Insurance pension.

    @ Anonymous,

    Six month ain’t gone yet?

    I can’t ask hartley “the Known henry, a.k.a, Wishing In Vain – he can only count money.

    Talk about broken promises, lies and deception and would you believe that these people said that the DLP will not lie; the DLP will not cheat or they will not steal.

    As George Bush would say: Did we “misunderestimate” the DLP?


  4. @ BAFBFP // April 21, 2009 at 12:06 pm

    My friend:

    You have hit upon the precise strategy of these provocateurs for “change”!

    They hog the media, the airwaves and every meaningful discussion group not to convince or convict of the rightness of their cause but to exhaust and vex any expression differing from theirs.

    The fabric of our nation in which there has always been an element of homosexuality and tolerance to them is being shredded by the mere volume of the noise that that opinion is generating. No real change is being achieved.

    “Tolerance is the last virtue of a dying society” ………. Aristotle.

  5. DK not Drift Kid Avatar
    DK not Drift Kid

    Somebody needs to urgently explain Chapter 210 Section 5. of the laws of Barbados to that highly paid fool, Leroy Parris.

    Every joker in Barbados is aware of the MOU between CL Financial and the Government of T&T as well as the Court Order which estopped CL Financial from engaging in further fire side sale of assets.

    Given the refusal the Minister of Finance in Barbados to abide by the Insurance Act of Barbados even after being advised by the Supervisor of Insurance that Clico has a Statutory Fund deficit of some $93 million (mysteriously revalued) the government of T&T could sell any asset of Clico Holding in Barbados to finance any shortfall in T&T.

    The real point is that Clico is being allowed to break the law: it does not have the $93 million the law says it should have.

    Now this has to be un-christian!

    All the T&T Government needs to do is register the T&T judgement in Barbados.

    Here is how:

    Registration of Judgments Act (Barbados)

    5. (1) No judgment obtained or confessed in, the High Court shall affect any lands, tenements or hereditaments at law or in equity as to purchasers, mortgagees or judgment creditors unless and until such a memorandum or minute as is mentioned in section 2 is registered with the Registrar, any notice of any such judgment to any such purchaser, mortgagee or judgment creditor
    in anywise notwithstanding.

    (2) Notice of any judgment not duly re-registered shall not avail at law or in equity against purchasers, mortgagees or judgment creditors as to lands, tenements or hereditaments.

    That must be taken with Section 2., which provides:

    2. (1) No judgment obtained or confessed in the High Court shall affect any lands, tenements or hereditaments as to purchasers, mortgagees or judgment creditors unless and until

    (a) a memorandum or minute in the form mentioned in the mentioned in the Schedule, containing the names of the persons in whose favour and against whom judgment is entered up or given, the date of such judgment and the amount of the debt, damages, costs or money thereby recovered or secured is registered with the Registrar; and

    (b) a copy of such memorandum or minute referred to in paragraph (a) certified as such by the Registrar is lodged with the Registrar of Titles who shall issue a receipt, in such form as he may determine, in respect of each memorandum or minute received.

    It is up to T&T to register that T&T Court order in Barbados.

    David Thompson will never go the route of Judicial Management as section 57 of our Insurance Act provides.

    To do such would mean too much nastiness on the DLP would come out.

    Furthermore Barbados would have to build a bigger prison.

    You know how many DLP Ministers and big ups get “million dollar mortgages” and car loans from Clico – all on the backs of poor people?

    Is this Christian behaviour?


  6. BAFBFP

    And your point is?

    Who cares if you are sick of christians or bloggers like me?

    I certainly don’t.

    Once you don’t inhabit the privacy of my space,you can carry on enjoying your little rant.

    Pea brain.


  7. Pea brain? Oh no… not that…!


  8. “DK” aka Henderson Bovell, why don’t you ask Mia to let you go to Law School so that you can find something constructive for the sawdust between your ears?


  9. @ David April 20, 2009 at 5:18pm

    There are those who believe in nothing, they want unbridled freedom to do as they please, freedom without responsibility, they are not satisfied with this unbridled freedom they wish to “bend” the majority to their view of the world.

    It should be resisted at all cost.

    In reference to Christian ideals and the Church in Barbados, the Church has not failed, a “few” individuals have failed their churches, and the wider Christian community. They have brought disgrace to those who believed in the word of God, by their licentiousness. They fail to realize it matters little how often they enter church – but what you do when you are not there – or the commodious size of the building, or the beautiful robes in which you are adorned, neither is it important the size of the multitude that stand before you…I simply ask what is the “example” set by the life you lead.

    Into this void honest citizens must stand up for what they believe in, a belief free of favours, corruption and the feel good factor some derive from doing harm to others…we should wait not for others to save us but save ourselves by constantly asking ourselves..is what I am doing “honest?”


  10. The DLP is as stupid as it is wild.

    It said that former BLP operatives have millions stashed in foreign Bank accounts.

    All that is necessary – is for the BLP to bring a class action suit agains david thompson who uttered those words.

    Clico is in no position to help, it needs to find $93 million for itself.

    I suppose I will hear that Anonymous and Dark Knight is the blind economists next.

    Keep going! I hear there are over 10,000 people in the BLP.

    I would have thought that BLP operatives would be relaxing spending their alleged millions – instead of commenting on a blog.

    But being silly is not learn, it is in the blood. Ask hartley henry.


  11. Dark Knight you was once a DLP but sorry no inclusion for you so stop cryiny over your lost. It seems you are hell bent to see CLICO fail,but it will not it has soiled finacial backing. By the way be carefull what you wish for you keep calling for theDPP to take some action on the millions that were misuse under the guise of cost over runs and the senior citizens games funds, its coming very soon dont run some of that prison may be for you.


  12. DK, I don’t know where you learnt your law but what you cited above was totally off point. Your leader does not know any better either, she thought the injunction applied to Barbados even without registration. Registering a judgement for it to have local application is not a simple process


  13. Hello the one who has most to protect, purporting to be Elombe2

    I suppose then that your last post is something that the Regional Financial Service Agreement could settle.

    Remember, more regulation needed!

    Still, the persons to push the process might be “David Thompson” and the St. Vincent PM – who I believe has responsibility for law.

    Perhaps such trademark tardiness on Thompson’s part – explains why Prof. Norman Girvan and Dr. Joesph – are so unhappy and feel strongly that there should be a reshuffle of the quasi-Caricom Cabinet.

    Perhaps Thompson’s tardiness also explains why Regional Head have selected the Guyana President to lead discussion with President Obama – despite it being clear that the issues to be discussed are those necessary to drive the CSME forward and for which Thompson has responsibility.

    Talk about no confidence and Barbados now being the New Banana Republic of the Caribbean!!!

    D’Valued!!!!!!!!!!


  14. The day we allowed our culture to be denuded by the foreign influences of American, Jamaican, Trinidadian and Guyanese deviant behaviours, was the beginning of the end for the uniquely bajan moral ethics in this country. It has nothing to do with religion or religious practices.

    What many do not realise is that it has gotten to a stage where children accept this aberrant lifestyle as something normal and regard any attempts to stamp it out as an attack on their right to self-determination.


  15. @ Truthseeker

    Despite you sarcasm, Prof. Girvan and Dr. Joseph are still well respected as among the brightest in the Caribbean and are paid by the highest regional educational institution to teach this regions’ children.


  16. This being the case, we as a nation need to reconsider our priorities with respect to what we envisage our children’s futures to be. Professor Girvan and Dr. Joseph may be regarded a “luminaries” by some but the ultimate responibility in any child’s development lies squarely on the shoulders of the parents or primary care givers.

    For too long Barbadian parents have succumbed to societal pressures, oftentimes adopting a posture of impotence with regard to keeping their charges on track.

    You bring a child into this messed up world, you should be responsible for their guidance until they reach adulthood, never mind Girvan, Joseph and their ilk.


  17. Regional Heads Passed a No-Confidence Motion Against David Thompson:

    United States President Barack Obama has invited Caribbean Community leaders to meet him in Washington to bolster closer ties with the region advanced at the just-concluded Summit of the Americas in Trinidad and Tobago.

    But, here is the twist!

    Even though Prime Minister Thompson of Barbados “had” lead responsibility for the CSME, in a vote of supreme confidence – President Bharrat Jagdeo of Guyana was picked by his colleagues to present Caricom’s position on a wide range of issues to Obama.

    The Guyana-based secretariat said discussions with President Obama will centre on issues of the global crisis, the offshore financial services sector, trade, energy (including renewable energy), security and climate change.

    These are all issues which are critical to the CSME for which Thompson HAD lead responsibility.

    It was only recently that Professor Norman Girvan and Dr. Joseph- two of the regions most respected intellectuals, essentially warned the region that David Thompson is “intellectually weak” and does not have nothing meaningful to contribute to the CSMe process and to CARICOM in general.

    Such an accurate assessment seems to be consistent with a very popular view held for some time – by respected regional journalist, Ricky Singh and now agreed to by regional heads.

    We can safely conclude that under “DLP RULE,” Barbadis is now considered a lightweight within CARICOM.

    It was pittiful for example – to see David Thompson reading for three hours when the present the Estimates earlier this year (something Barbadians have never ever seen a Minister of Finance, before do.)

    In contrast, the brightest people in Barbados and within the region are describing it as: “a breath of fresh air” and: “pure natural brilliance,” when Opposition Leader Mia Mottley responded “without a note.”

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