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The following articles were submitted to the local press for publication. To date, three of these articles have been published. There are status statements at the end of those articles that have been published.
Pursuing The Immigration Matter
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Negroman ans Scout,
I thin you all have to be sensible. There are Barbadians living and working in other Caribbean islands. The Prime Minister of our island walks a tight-rope in relation to these issues.
What the CARICOM Prime Ministers agreed to in relation to the CSME is distinctly different from dealing with those who are here in Barbados illegally and how they are treated.
Other than offering to set up a Committee and investigate complaints – none of which have so far been documented by either side – what is being changed?
David Thompson said they will be removed. That has not changed.
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Listen to that comment by a guyanese writing in the starbroek news doing a feature piece.
Do you see why a lot of guyanese felt that they were the persons responsible for keeping barbados business afloat and for keeping us housed.
Mia told guyanese in georgetown that’the business sector was built upon the enterprise of guyanese migrants’.
When you had no other person than that fat,immoral slob;mia mottley telling the guyanese this no wonder they keep saying that they did so much for us and we are ungrateful.
Boy,I hate that man-woman mia mottley.
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truth be told the treatment of our people in Barbados has much to do with the fact that some, not all but some of them, are seen as economic and/or political refugees and that is why the Barbadians are inclined to make the altogether demeaning remark that our people place a strain on the social services. Place a strain on social services my grandfather’s glass eye! If there is one thing that can be said about Guyanese it is that wherever we go we are almost always prepared to work hard to earn our livelihoods.
I know of a Guyanese building contractor, who, having traveled to Barbados and having been subjected to the customary shabby immigration treatment reserved for arriving Guyanese, curtly told the offending Immigration Officer that he was there to build houses for Barbadians because they did not have the skills to build those houses for themselves. That may have been an exaggeration but the truth is that the success of the Bajan construction industry is due in large measure to that country’s importation of Guyanese expertise. In other ways too the Bajans are indebted to us. Just last year, the former Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley acknowledged to an audience here in Georgetown that the Barbados business sector was, to a considerable extent, built on the pioneering entrepreneurship of Guyanese migrants.
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You think Jagan would have been so bold as to call Errol Barrow a liar?
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Eric Williams lambasted Errol Barrow and called him worse things than a liar in 1976 over the BWIA affair! Remember what Eugenia Charles said about him being a senile old man?
None of this is new to Caribbean politics!
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Veritas
I know you are close to the prime minister ,so please carry back this advice to him for me please.
‘Tell him, if he does not reverse that position he has recently taken with allowing maids freedom to move,and if he does not ensure that he gets these illegal guyanese out quick-fast;he will soon find himself more hated than owen arthur.’
Tell him,please don’t take the people for granted,and don’t take them for fools.
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Negroman said:
I think in England and I hope Jay could clarify this for me that if an individual is ask to leave or is deported from England that individual has to wait for at least ten (10) years before that individual is allow back into England.I believe something like that should be part of our new immigration policy.
—————————————If I’m not mistaken Uk policy only bans someone for 10 years automatically if they have lied on their immigration applications & 5 years if they have overstayed their time.Barbados currently seems to be practicing something like this with 1 year bans if a work permit is not renewed or someone is removed.US Immigration policy is much more harsh.If you overstay by 6 months there is a 3 year ban,but if it is 1 year it is a 10 year ban from re-entry.The interesting thing is if ANY Non-US citizen claims to be a US citizen it is a permanent ban.
However,since the Prime Minister has recanted on the removals they can actually be allowed back now.I completely agree with you that this whole idea surrounding free-movement of domestic workers is a complete farce.It is quite clear that Barbados should withdraw from CSME since even Jagdeo mentioned that domestic immigration policies actually counter anything the CSME treaty stands for.The reality is that a referendum of getting out of the CSME project would suffice & be legally binding. We all know most Bajans would definitely vote yes at this point.
I also think the security enhancements at Grantley Adams should include fingerprints or Iris scans on entry.It would definitely cut down on those who keep trying to re-enter Barbados illegally after being deported by just changing their names.Expanding the Immigration Department’s enforcement team dramatically while hitting employer’s with the maximum fine allowed by law would also seriously dent the ILLEGAL immigrants now residing within Barbados.
It is absolutely ridiculous that the Prime Minister has soften his stance when the country he is Prime Minister of is facing a huge ILLEGAL immigration problem.I can’t believe one summit basically changed his stance just like that,it is ridiculous.Maybe it is time to give the Immigration matter SOLELY to someone who maybe more capable such Ms. McClean or Mr. Freudal Stuart.
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