Barbadians may not have paid attention when people like Pol Pot, Benito Mussolini, Adolph Hitler, Idi Amin, Slobodan Milosevic, Charles Taylor Osama Bin Laden, Chemical Ali were terrorizing and slaughtering innocent people. But since January 15, 2008 (with the help of Clico’s millions) Barbadians would have been monitoring the rise of a Dictator.

They would have seen David Thompson of Barbados and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Ali Khamenei of Iran, in action

BTW,Does anyone know where I may get a copy of the current Barbados immigration rules as it relates to the implemented managed migration policy.

One of the most striking things about all the populist demagoguery surrounding this issue is that Bajan “reporters” and “journalists” are largely reduced to reporting what is said in the foreign press. It’s breathtaking.
In any other country with a “free” media, the local press would have been all over this story like a cheap suit. Every politician and civil servant with some connection to the immigration issue would be plagued by reporters wanting to know some actual facts. How many illegal immigrants are in the country? How many are employed and therefore contributing to the local economy? How many are destitute and therefore a drain on resources? What is a sudden upward pressure on wages likely to do to business confidence? Will the jobs left vacant by deported immigrants be filled by Bajans?
Given the facts, other journalists would be estimating the likely economic impact on Barbados of a sudden exodus of immigrants. Unless they’re growing all their own food, making all their own clothes, living on the street and walking everywhere, immigrants are contributing to this economy simply by buying goods and services. It might be the case that their contribution is offset by other factors (are they swamping the schools and the doctors’ offices, for example?) but in the absence of reliable data the whole discussion is moot. Or rather, it ceases to be any kind of cost-benefit analysis and degenerates into the kind of “Guyanese-are-smelly” infantile bigotry that infects some of the discussion on this very thread.
As far as I can see, Bajan “reporters” are people who go to press conferences, keep their mouths shut and write down what the guy in the suit says. Or they re-write corporate press releases and then publish them as news stories. On any realistic ranking of priorities, at the moment it really isn’t important to know what was said at the graduation ceremony of every single school on this island. Bajan “reporters” aren’t journalists. They’re typists.

It is clear that like Pol Pot and Hiller did with the Jews – the DLP is targeting Indo-Guyanese.

But while the decent people in our society is saying “yes” to a Guest Worker programme; respect for the laws of Barbados and managed Migration – they are saying a loud “no” to Thompson’s cruel and inhumane treatment of Guyanese, in particular.

But, even before Thompson spoke, several Guyanese had already complained that their permits were not being renewed even though they kept checking with the immigration department.

Notice that “Thompson the Terrible” – made absolutely no reference to the number of Guyanese his administration deported, as part of its clampdown – who had merely gone in to the Immigration Department for a renewal, but were ambushed.

Thompson just does not get it!

Does he understand that Guyanese are being ambushed in the dead of the night, as they are asleep?

Here is what inspired the DLP’s Inhumane Deportation Policy:
1. Guyanese and people from the OECS are not philanthropists, hence Thompson will not have any use for them.
2. Guyanese and people from the OECS form part of a distraction tactic – so Barbadians would not focus on the economy, but would incorrectly blame Guyanese ( and not the DLP) for the hardship they (Barbadians) now endure.
3. Rounding up Guyanese and OECS nationals and deporting them is the DLP’s idea of a job creation strategy – hence the DLP’s public statement that Barbados is for Barbadians first and Thompson’s threat to the local private sector, not to employ people from CARICOM.
Who says history does not repeat itself: “Pol Pot, Benito Mussolini, Adolph Hitler, Idi Amin, Slobodan Milosevic, Charles Taylor Osama Bin Laden, Chemical Ali, David Thompson of Barbados and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Ali Khamenei of Iran.”

David Thompson hates Guyanese as much as Hitler hated the Jews.

Yeah right. Day Watcher and his ilk are guilt tripping Bajans into ethnic suicide.

Racism and Genocide against Africoids In West Papua and Melanesia
Posted: Monday, December 24, 2001

By Nubiyang

After Africa, Asia has the largest population of people of African descent. That number is about 500,000,000 (five hundred million people) who belong to the two branches of the Black race. One branch is the Negroid Branch composed of Africans, Americas-Africans, Afro-Europeans, Melanesians, Papuans, Agta of the Philipines, Fijians-New Caledonians and other Melanesians.

The other group are also of the Negroid African race and consist of the Black Dalit and Black Tribals of India (see http://dalitstan.org ), as well as Australian Aboriginals. In the case of Australian Aboriginals, studies show their origins to be in the Sahara and East Africa, where people who look exactly like them, such as the Tibbou, still exist.

Today, Blacks in East Timor, SE Asia, West Papua, Australia and Melanesia as well as the Indian Ocean Islands are being systematically oppressed and exterminated or wiped out. THE ATROCITIES COMMITTED AGAINST AFRICOIDS IN MELANESIA IS PART OF A POLICY CALLED THE “ASIANIZATION PROGRAM,” WHERE ALL BLACKS AND EVENTUALLY AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND WHITES, CHINESE AND OTHERS LIVING IN PLACES LIKE INDONESIA ARE TO BE ELIMINATED AND THE LANDS OF BLACKS TAKEN OVER BY THE MALAYS OF INDONESIA ( see http://www.westpapua.net ) http://www.koteka.net http://www.gn.apc.org/tapol

Nubiyang

Anonymous says:

“The Prime Minister presented some facts that showed that no plane loads of Guyanese are being deported.
Mr. Prime Minister Barbadians have your back on this immigration policy”.

Americans had Bush back on the war in Iraq to. But now they got his head.

You see, I understand what Thompson is doing. It is as pellucid as day. Thompson has failed to deliver the “change” that he promised in his campaign. He has failed to manage the economy and deliver the social goods for Barbadians.

Unemployment is skyrocketing, foreign reserves are falling rapidly, poverty is on the rise in Barbados again, businesses are in trouble, and tourism arrivals are on the decline, with a $7 million cut in welfare support the vulnerable groups in Barbados are suffering. In fact the Guyanese humanitarian amongst us, Dame Olga Seales is hard at work again trying to feed our children and comfort our adults. She has done more work to uplift this country than our present English Prime Minister and his St. Lucian wife and for that Thompson wants to lick up this country.

But I blame Barrow for all the mess we are in now. Had he not written into our constitution provisions that to allow the likes of this red little missy boy Thompson to become a Barbadian, we would not now be faced with this problem. We would have been living happily with our Caribbean brothers and sisters not like sheep and goats the way the English lives.

Thompson does not care how many families he destroys with his hate policies, after all he did not come from a happy himself. His father and brother both when to prison, and, well I need not say anymore as it relates to his mother and sister.

The only word for Barbadians at this time is to hold on. In a couple years we will rectify this problem. Peter Wickham has already warned Thompson and the DLP that this DLP will be a one term government. Mia Mottley is our only hope. She is a young dynamic, brilliant woman. She has all the characteristics of a future leader of this country and Barbadians must give her a chance to prove herself. She understands economics, she is sincere, and she is industrious and worked hard for all she owns. These things cannot be said for Thompson. He is lazy, dose not have a clue about economic, never worked for anything in life and lives on the easy side of life.

His law practice was given to him, his political life was given to him, his wealth was given to him by Clico even the recent QC status was given to him. With all this free living how can he ever take life seriously? He will always see politics and life in general as a blood sport

Ruel Daniels

Why don’t you do more regular posts at Sarbroek and give us some support there,same as you are doing here?

Your guyanese kin folk are really going too far and are turning off many bajans.
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Stabroeknews began censoring my posts a while back. My comments are too vocal about the marginalization of black people in Guyana. There are no black owned newspaper in Guyana, and very few black blogs.

If I was Barbadian, I would not care a rat’s ass what people write in a newspaper in a different country. What do you expect, and who do you think is writing that shit under black sounding names? Why even make an attempt to defend yourself in an arena where the judge, jury and prosecutor are all biased. Pick your turf to fight, and pick one where you are offered the best footing to wage war.

The fact of the matter is that the President of Guyana and his racist administration are driving people out of the country. On top of that, he expects Barbados to foot the bill while they scurry off with the national loot in Guyana. Read the editorial from the Stabroek News which point out that the auditor general of Guyana claims that billions of dollars from lottery and other places is not being deposited in the national treasury. This money could have been used for developmental projects that would keep Guyanese at home.

This is not a immigration issue, unless that is how you wish to argue it. This is an issue about the administration in a large and resource rich nation that has resulted in its citizens fleeing into and becoming a burden on the limitted resources of a nation that is a mere fraction in size of the abuser. This is about direliction of its obligation by a regime in Guyana that took 168 million dollars from a pension fund to give to an Indian Businessman who was under indictment for fuel smuggling at the time. Barbadian activists need begin framing this debate in a manner that gets to the source of the problem, rather than playing defensively to hostile bowlings down one particular line of the pitch.

@Themis

Your last point is valid and could have been avoided if the previous administration had shown some leadership on the matter of a relevant immigration policy. Now many in the region admit there is a problem but Thompson for showing guts is being used as the poster boy. People need to address the bigger issue. Why are Guyanese of all hue leaving one of the most resource laden countries in this region?

West Indian
Your statement of P.M Thompson being the worse P.M this country has ever known is noted. However, worse is just a relative comparison, to me he will go down in history as one of the leading P.M not only in Barbados but in the modern region. Many other P.M’s in the region owes great gratitude to P.M Thompson for being strong enough to bring this vexing matter of illegal migration to the fore. Now some of these P.M’s are lining up behind our P.M to have this matter resolved but my P.M is bold enough to talk the bullets because he is supported by the vast majority of Bajans. Therefore let’s sit back and watch this matter unfold. POWER to our GREAT PRIME MINISTER.

Comments attributed to Shridath Ramphal :
“He maintained that ‘The knock on the door at night’ is not within our regional culture; still less are intimations of ‘ethnic cleansing’”.

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Indeed indo-Guyanese are not native to Barbados in the context and history of our sovereign state, and I use “indo” interchangeably with INDICS as used and defined by Professor Allsopp. I am also checking for recent incidents that were both define as “ethnic cleansing” by reputable sources, Shridath not included, and that was marked by deportation to another country, which viewed the deportees as they own.

If Shridath truly believe that ethnic cleansing is not indicative of our deepest nature, why would he enter any thoughts of such into the debate?

Maybe he does not see the Prime Minister of Barbados, as the leader of Barbados, for the article continues with Shridath saying
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““No Caribbean leader would countenance such departures from our norms and values; but all must not only believe, but also act as if they believe, that we forget our oneness at our peril; whether the ‘otherness’ that displaces it is an accidental place of regional birth, or otherness of any kind.”
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When will Shridath, and Ricky Singh speak to Trini and Guyanese Indic leaders about the history of Apanjaat? Why did he and others not take Peter Wickham to task for his labored views as contained in his two articles Accident by Birth? Where he highlighted the depths of the divided between the two ethnic groups. Can Shridath honestly recall why he chose to live in Barbados rather than returned to Guyana? Professor Allsopp told us why he chose to live and die in Barbados, tell us Shridath why you would continue to live in a country that seemly display “intimations of ethnic cleansing”

What oneness could he be musing about that exist in and with Guyana today? Certainly if I happen to run into Shridath I will seek an explanation from him as to what he really means. Any respect I might have had for him (as I do all older people nothing more nothing less) is now lost and must be earned anew.

“No Caribbean leader would countenance such departures from our norms and values; but all must not only believe, but also act as if they believe, that we forget our oneness at our peril; whether the ‘otherness’ that displaces it is an accidental place of regional birth, or otherness of any kind.”

If Shridath truly believe that ethnic cleansing is not indicative of our deepest nature, why would he enter any thoughts of such into the debate?

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Why don’t Ramphall speak of the ethnic cleansing of blacks from the public and civil service in Guyana. He choose to live in Barbados under a black Government, but heaps criticisms on it while ignoring the hurt the Indian party in Guyana is causing blacks. That is why it is so galling to listen to white black people criticizing Barbados. It is no wonder the blackman is still at the back of the bus. The “massa we sick” syndrome has become a pervasive facet of the personality of too many of us.

Why are people from a family that live in a big house loeaving that house to go seek help from a family that live in House that is a fraction the size of their home. These John Steinbeck’s Lennies have to be the most miserable black people since the house slaves who sold their brothers down the drain. Here you have an ethnocracy in Guyana that orchestrated the lynching of hundreds of black people criticizing a small nation like Barbados because it attempts to avert the experiences of Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago and Fiji. And a whole bunch of stepping fletch negros jitturburging and shuffling obsequiously before the replacement massas abd lamenting “we sick” What a bunch of…………

Can someone tell me why is Stetson Babb still being used as a moderator/talk show host?

Whenever a caller ask him for a comment – he usually mumbles – I am listening to you.

He never has an opinion on anything.

So what is his real purpose?

On tonight’s Caribbean News, Antigua P.M admitted that what P.M David Thompson is doing is a step in the right direction as his country is also being over-runned by illegals. This vindicates my P.M for taking a bold step that all the other cowards were scared to make. I think you would find that many regional leaders will fall-in behind Mr Thompson next week at the summit meeting.

In the interest of regional integration and a restoration of Errol Barrow’s legacy, which is in danger of being vandalised by Thompson – the only decision that Regional Heads should take at this Summit – should be a reshuffle of the Quasi-CARICOM Cabinet.

Until a change of government in Barbados and the re-election of the BLP – Thompson should be replaced by either Manning or the Guyana President, and strip from having lead responsibility for the CSME.

Dear Anonymous you asked “I too want to know why Sir Ramphal lives in Barbados.”

He lives in Barbados because Barbados is a good place to live.

David

Could you highlight the article and do a story around it?

Thanks.