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Prime Minister of Barbados Hon David Thompson
Prime Minister of Barbados Hon David Thompson

Prime Minister David Thompson issued a ministerial statement in parliament today regarding the immigration issue. For some time now it has been apparent to sensible Barbadians that the national security of Barbados had become breached given the large undocumented number of immigrants living in Barbados. It was an election campaign issue and on assuming office Prime Minister David Thompson appointed a sub-committee of Cabinet of which he was Chairman to investigate and make recommendations to government to relieve the problem.

Barbados will deport illegal immigrants who do not seek to regularize their status under a new policy – see CANA Report.

BU agrees with the measured and humane manner which the Thompson led government has approached this issue. While it is easy to lobby to deport all illegal immigrants, there is an understanding that many of the illegal immigrants have been living in Barbados for so long that it would be inhuman to uproot those people summarily.

But here are a few BU concerns:

The proposed shake-up at the immigration Department i.e. the officers responsible for enforcing the immigration laws of Barbados MUST be implemented in a transparent manner. It is known around Barbados that many of our current officers now maintain harems given their godlike powers to determine if an illegal immigrant is ‘fingered’ or not. We should not forget those who use their influence to satisfy the rich and powerful by prostituting themselves for the almighty dollar.

The law must deal harshly with those corrupt immigration officers who use their powers for personal gain. Equally those employers all across our country who employ illegal immigrants should be made to feel the full weight of the law as well.

While the Prime Minister has made a step in the right direction as always the devil will be in the detail.

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267 responses to “Government Of Barbados Addresses The Illegal Immigrant Issue”

  1. Wright B.Astard Avatar
    Wright B.Astard

    Has it ever occurred to you that the communist/Russian trained President’s objective is to destabilise the Caribbean,Cuba excluded, by swamping these countries with live bodies.

  2. Rip Tide Avatar
    Rip Tide

    I can’t help noticing that BU has not removed BFP from their Blogroll. You are truly a BIG man, David, and a decent man – nothing petty and spiteful about you!

    I also see that Juris and Straight Talk put some good licks in PiedPiper, (who called us all on here “racist swine”) for calling Anonymous bloggers cowards. Can anyone imagine the audacity of that?! Yet the said PP, using one of his other names (Sargeant) put in an appearance among said “racist swine” on here yesterday. Boy, that PP sure is one mixed up, sick individual.

  3. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    @RipTide or whatever alias you are using

    Next time I’m in Barbados I promise to give you a loonie so you can buy a clue

  4. The Scout Avatar
    The Scout

    David
    You said Peter Wickham is entitled to his own opinion. That is true but what is his own opinion? On the one hand he is agreeing with the P.M against what he was saying all along on the call-in show while on the other station. However as an employee of the CBC, he is makingf an about turn but on the call-in programme on Monday he seems to forget which station he was on and once more he was critical of the P.M and his immigration policy. Simply said, the man is a weather cock, he has no credibility.

  5. PiedPiper Avatar
    PiedPiper

    “Rip Tide”, do you really think that we are not aware that YOU are in fact “Straight Talk”? You use many, many aliases both here on BU and on BFP. The reason you were banned over at BFP is because you were caught red-handed by BFP, using multiple handles and conducting coversations with yourself in order to give the appearance of having many supporters of your pursuit of and obsession with an individual by the name of Patrick Porter. One has to question the sanity of an individual who is so devious as to have at least 10 aliases, used between two blogs, in order to feed some kind of sick, compulsive desire pursue an individual that stopped coming to the blogs, due to ill health, over a year ago.
    Both myself and Sargeant have asked you on numerous occassions to give a clue as to why you think 1) he and I are one and the same person and 2) why you think we are Patrick Porter. Not once have you responded to the that request. Are we to assume that you have developed this obsession because shortening my internet handle would give us the initials “PP”?? Wow, how very primitive your brain is. Either put up or shut up. P. S. Are you Juris as well? 😉

  6. Rip Tide Avatar
    Rip Tide

    David/BU: My apologies, but I would appreciate it if you would kindly inform Sargeant/Pied Piper that I am NOT Straight Talk, or Juris (would that I could be blessed with their intelligence). You would be able to verify this from the different IP addresses, and I would be grateful if both Straight Talk and Juris would also inform this idiot that they are NOT Rip Tide. Furthermore, I have NEVER been banned (like YOU) from either BU or BFP (using ANY of my aliases) – that is an unmitigated lie. I may have been “exposed”, but definitely not BANNED. I believe that both BFP and BU can confirm that I use Anonymouse.org to post my comments, for my own personal reasons, and I don’t pretend otherwise because I am not a pathological liar/con artist like you.

    You want a clue? O.k., here it is: I wish you would stop jamming up the Inbox of a family member of mine in St. Peter with your links, attachments and scary weather reports, as if he does not have the intelligence to surf the web and find the articles for himself. You are truly a sick person. Get well soon, hear? OVER AND OUT.

  7. Hog Squeal Avatar
    Hog Squeal

    Here is what the Barbados Advocate is reporting in its editorial today:

    “Teamwork needed at the top

    5/26/2009

    WE return yet again to the topic of “Team Barbados” introduced by Prime Minister David Thompson during his 2009 Financial Statements and Budgetary Proposals.

    For while this may seem like a concept that would be supported by anyone with this country’s best interests at heart, those of us who would have followed last week’s debate in the House of Parliament may have been left wondering if it is really being embraced at all levels of the society.

    The Prime Minister humbled himself by saying that he does not have all of the answers, and therefore “Team Barbados” is more important now than ever.

    Without this, the future of the country could be in jeopardy.

    Without this, what is left to be governed may not be desired by either party.”

    http://www.barbadosadvocate.com/newsitem.asp?more=editorial&NewsID=3853

    ********************************

    “A Team Barbados Approach” is nothing Owen Arthur’s: Politics of Inclusion, which Obama is now copying and Thompson is now trying to steal, having promised to slaughter the fatted calf for dems only.

    Since everyone knows that the DLP does not have any answers (as made clear by the Advocate) but accept that the BLP does – then call elections.

    Elections and the superior economic skills of the BLP – is the solution to Barbados’ problems and the economic mess Thompson and the DLP have created and continues to create.

    I thank the Barbados Advocate for pointing out that we must rescue Barbados so that the BLP can put it back on track.

  8. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    @Rip Tide aka Diggit;Canada Goose etc.

    You want a clue? O.k., here it is: I wish you would stop jamming up the Inbox of a family member of mine in St. Peter with your links
    *********************************************************
    Since I was the one who thinks you were clueless, here’s a challenge: Publish the name or email address of the individual who is “jamming up the Inbox” of your family member. Someone will surely recognize him or her and expose them.

    Somehow I don’t think that you can do it; it seems like you have an overactive imagination but there is help, my advice: see your family physician before your condition deteriorates.

  9. Rip Tide Avatar
    Rip Tide

    Good Lord, you’re so sick you don’t even remember which one you are – Sargeant or PP! My last comment was in response to PIEDPIPER! But, as I said, OVER AND OUT. I do not think David, nor the “racist swine” on here appreciate feuding bloggers, so crawl back over to BFP where you won’t find “racist swine”. OVER AND OUT. DONE WID DAT.

  10. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    OK Diggit

    Did you read my statement….. the one I said about clueless? You included my handle in your response what do you expect me to do? Sit idly by while you besmirch my name? OK I know it is an anonymous blog but some people may think you are correct when you said that I post under different names. For the last time I post under SARGEANT…. no other name(s).

    Next time I’m in Barbados I’ll take that loonie and buy some fishcakes from Leacock stand on Miami (Enterprise) beach.

  11. PiedPiper Avatar
    PiedPiper

    Rip Tide aka Diggit, please stop trying to fool others and yourself by using that tired worn-out story about using “Anonymouse.org” as though this somehow proves that you are not a complete charlaton. The whole purpose of Anonymouse.org is to change and mask a person’s IP so as not to be detected or traced. Are you really so dense that you do not realize that by constantly mentioning your use of Anonymouse.org, you, in fact, are revealing that you have a great deal to hide? As Sargeant has suggested, please reveal the e-mail address that is bombarding your relatives inbox in St. Peter. I need a good laugh as I do not exchange e-mails with anyone in Barbados and don’t even know anyone who resides in St. Peter. As I have already requested, put up or shut up.

  12. Rumplestilskin Avatar
    Rumplestilskin

    Hogsqueal said ”Elections and the superior economic skills of the BLP – is the solution to Barbados’ problems and the economic mess Thompson and the DLP have created and continues to create”

    Oh. I had not realised that it was the DLP that spent 250 million, by debt financing, on the White Elephant down Kensington, which will not even be used during the upcoming tours by Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

    I did not realised, that it was the DLP that committed huge debt burden, right before the world recession, in building the highway extension.

    We were saved in the nick of time in not spending even more on flyovers, they would only have been useful to jump off when our debt burden got even higher.

    Both of the above expenditures, despite the previous administration being warned on another blog of the impending recession, warned over three and a half to four years ago!

    But no, they went ahead anyway.

    And yet, I see rubbish such as you just posted!

    Pity in their brilliant economic wisdom, they did not fix the hospital, they did not ever publish the financial statements of GEMS (thanks, reminds me that I now need to follow this up on the blogs), did not in 14 years improve our water system which the Thompson administration now has to do.

    Golly, I have always refrained from descriptive assessment of other bloggers, but you do bring me close.

    Have a happy time in your ‘personal happy land’.

    Peace

  13. Rumplestilskin Avatar
    Rumplestilskin

    By the way, just to enlighten you about PM Thompson’s offer to the other former leaders.

    Although I am not a DLP member, I, simple as I am, can easily see that this is a political move, aimed to insure against the expected downturn in the economy, so that your good leaders cannot say, ‘but he never asked our opinions in how to go about doing things’.

    He opened a door, which your people shut…to their detriment.

    If I was advising the Opposition, I would have advised acceptance, in order to bring Opposition words to the table, publicly.

    Instead, now the PM has his insurance policy, he got what he wanted.

  14. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    Hogsqueal can you please explain this?

    In the attached story about the Auditor General report on cost overruns associated with the construction of the Crab Hill Police station the writer states “Jose Y Jose Construction Company began work on the building in 2005”…… Some time ago when I was in Bimshire one of my friends told me that the lead investor in Jose Y Jose was a leading politician now safely ensconced on the Opposition benches. How did Jose Y Jose get the job? Was it an open process? Did the politician put in a “good word” for Jose Y Jose or did the politician award the contract to Jose Y Jose?

    Oh for the good old days when politicians declared their assets

    http://www.nationnews.com/news/local/Crab-hill-query-FRONT-PAGE-OTHER

  15. Avatar
    Anonymous

    Multiple aliases?

    Lord have mercy, some of you people need to get a life nuh!

    I still like BU, despite the fact that whenever I pay a visit it seems to be the same tiny little band of nutjobs frothing at the mouth.

    There are exceptions, of course: Bush Tea, for example, seems like a sane, thoughtful fellow.

    But most of you sound so weak and so powerless, desperately sounding off here because you have no influence in the real world.

    No offence, but you always remind me of that line in Shakespeare: you’re full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

  16. David Avatar
    David

    @Rumplestilskin

    This is the point we continue to make that some of us get bog down in what is political strategy versus what is. The same can be said of the 100 days issue, like Obama, Thompson has struggled to deliver on all promises made in the campaign.

    @Hog Squeal

    We have advised you to engage the BU family if you want to get discussion. If you feel that your rote statements are accomplishing anything carry along smartly.

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