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The recently constructed Boardwalk on the South coast which stretches from Accra Beach for about half mile towards Bridgetown has been well received by locals and tourists alike. This week it was reported in the news that the Segway Scooters donated to the Royal Barbados Police Force have been withdrawn from patrolling the Boardwalk. If we can read between the lines from the press report, a policeman was injured while negotiating the Boardwalk but may not have been covered adequately by insurance.

The biggest negative feedback to date about the Boardwalk has been the lack of lighting which makes strolling the Boardwalk in the late evening somewhat of a risk. We thought it was the biggest negative feedback until we viewed the video above. The Internet can be our friend but it can be our enemy.

The relevant government agency needs to get in gear and remember that if we don’t care for our own, we are a tourist country for Godsakes!

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593 responses to “Down By The Boardwalk”

  1. Bimbro Avatar
    Bimbro

    Adrian Hinds // July 20, 2009 at 9:29 pm

    The British are such sad people. A people searching for relevance. As most things wrong in this world they have had a hand in creating it.

    ***********

    Adrian, I’m not sure I’d agree with u, prior to Tony Blair, without examples however, you now have the prospect of him becoming the first Prsident of a United States of Europe and all the power which that will bestow upon him! How scary is that!

  2. RN Avatar
    RN

    Hopi

    Europe’s present-day economic power and (you would call it dubious) prestige is the direct result of centuries of exploitation of the people and resources of large parts of sub-Saharan Africa.

    Europe’s industrial revolution(mentioned by a previous poster) and the concomittant rise of capitalism couldn’t have happened without the infrastructural wealth provided in large part by the Atlantic slave trade.

    All this is historical fact (accepted by all reputable historians, whether they’re black or white), and one reason why the notion of reparations is unquestionably morally (if not necessarily practically) valid.

    Of course, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that Europe’s elite class carved up black Africa: they’d had hundred of years of experience in oppressing and exploiting their own (white) masses.

    A bit like today’s African elite class exploiting their own (black) masses.

    And I guess this is my question to you:

    Don’t you think the key issue isn’t so much colour/race, but class? And that
    powerful entrenched hegemonies – black, white or brown – will always try and exploit the less powerful?

    Incidentally, yes – I know of the 15th/16th century kingdoms of Ife and Benin.

    Apologies if I haven’t addressed all your points. It’s late, I’m knackered.

  3. RN Avatar
    RN

    Adrian Hinds // July 20, 2009 at 9:29 pm

    The British are such sad people.

    ===========================

    Facile generalizations like this are worthless.

    You might as well say that Bajans are such fat people…

  4. livinginbarbados Avatar
    livinginbarbados

    Though I do not take Wikipedia as the centre of all knowledge, I attach the following, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djenne.org, so that the history tour does not get stalled too early. Ironically, yesterday, a German archeologist, who was living in Barbados for a few years until recently and doing some research in the Caribbean while his wife did some other things like finding funding for local projects here, has just returned to west Africa and sent me some of his pictures from Djenne, in Mali. I hope you know your history back a couple of thousand years, and don’t let the new imperialists make you believe that they invented how to rule.

  5. livinginbarbados Avatar
    livinginbarbados

    The link was garbled in posting (cannot handle foreign accent signs), try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djenne. If not better, just head to Wikipedia.

  6. Hopi Avatar
    Hopi

    @RN……”Don’t you think the key issue isn’t so much colour/race, but class?”

    NO! NO!

    You see Class usually discriminates along economic lines whereas discrimination by Race/Colour runs the whole gamut and Race/Colour discrimination has wasted far more lives than class discrimination.

  7. Livinginbarbados Avatar
    Livinginbarbados

    @Hopi
    “Race/Colour discrimination has wasted far more lives than class discrimination” [Give us the facts on this. I’d like to believe what you say, but no conjecture, please.]

  8. Save Mullins Bay Avatar
    Save Mullins Bay

    “Catching Sprats To Hunt Bigger Game” – http://shar.es/l63d –

  9. Avatar
    Anonymous

    LIB

    It hurts that you cannot ever deny that YOUR KIND brutalised Africa.

    Facts shite!

    Facts stare us in the face every day fooollll!

  10. Adrian Hinds Avatar
    Adrian Hinds

    RN // July 21, 2009 at 2:37 am

    Adrian Hinds // July 20, 2009 at 9:29 pm

    The British are such sad people.

    ===========================

    Facile generalizations like this are worthless.

    You might as well say that Bajans are such fat people…
    ————————————————-

    This would not be lie. Former Minister of Health, Dr. Hoyos, and others have pointed out at various time in the last 5 years that there is obesity epdemic, or that a very high percentage of women over 40 yrs are obese, or that that we are eating ourselves to death. Indeed Barbados is a very fat country. Check Vic Fernandes, Mia Mottley or any of the current ministers of goverment and note to weight they have put on.

  11. Adrian Hinds Avatar
    Adrian Hinds

    Somehow everybody figured out a way to live together in relative peace and calm and build the country we have today
    ————————————————

    Is that really true John? Everybody? Why would everybody agree to the restrictions that place on certain people “hawking”. Was Bussa part of this everybody? how about those that riot and those that died in 1937?

  12. RN Avatar
    RN

    Adrian Hinds, I like you man, you’re a funny guy…

  13. Adrian Hinds Avatar
    Adrian Hinds

    @LIB

    Could you explain the following, are they your words, thoughts and beliefs?

    [Anyway, it helped me discover that the greatest threat to Barbados is not from illegal Guyanese running rampant and getting all the lack of service from the QEH that was on offer and living 40,000 to a room and sending all of their money back to Georgetung. The real threat is from the hordes of half naked, or strangely clad, lily white, English tourists walking freely on the island’s streets or lolling around on the beaches, flaunting all too clearly their disdain for our more refined ways. They also have deep pocket–with a few holes since the recession, mind you. So, if Bimlanders are concerned that rental homes for the average man are being grabbed up by the chapati munchers, then those Brits who are wining and dining at Sandy Lane and all places westward are buying up land so that nothing might ever be affordable by the same Bimlanders. I also pointed out that the British (and Europeans in general) have a sorry history when it comes to their effects on lands that they colonize (in an imperial or touristic sense). They bring diseases and local life dies off very quickly.Think I am joshing you. Look at Mauritius: where is the Dodo? Look at the Caribbean: where are the Arawaks and Caribs. Look at Latin America: where are the Incas and Mayans? Think I’m joking? Look at the spread of Swine Flu and see who it is that is having the highest incidence and where testing is going to be standard (see today’s Mirror): Britain’s Chief Medical Officer said “Swine flu poses the biggest challenge for the NHS in a generation.” When you see those BA flights, think “Beware. Assassins.” I warn you!]

    …..and what is the purpose of this picture on your website? indeed what story does it tell?

    http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qwRt0R0vmw0/Sma6MaGhO5I/AAAAAAAACp4/YvkwkMhKq5I/s1600-h/420-Brit-Nuns-420×0.jpg

  14. livinginbarbados Avatar
    livinginbarbados

    @Anonymous // July 22, 2009 at 1:59 pm
    “It hurts that you cannot ever deny that YOUR KIND brutalised Africa.
    Facts shite!
    Facts stare us in the face every day fooollll! ” [This is a tricky one. I am not sure who or what ‘my kind’ are. I am guessing, so may need help. Do you mean ancestors of African slaves? Do you mean black men? Do you mean fathers of girls? Do you mean Caribbean people who lived and worked in Africa? Do you mean people who migrated from the region? There are a lot of other categories that I am, so I just need a little clarity. If anyone else is ‘my kind’ and feels that they are wiser, please do help me out. I was not an associate of the president of the said African country who assassinated many of his countrymen who opposed his regime (I was only a few years old and still in Jamaica). I don’t think my parents were involved either, but I will check. Once we have the ‘your kind’ matter straight I can decide if I need to interpret better the subsequent short but hard to understand statements you offered.]

  15. livinginbarbados Avatar
    livinginbarbados

    @Adrian
    I am always glad to have readers on my blog, not least because when I try to write it is with me and my thoughts in mind, but sometimes my thoughts strike a chord with others.

    The first part that you cite is of course satirical, given its exaggerations, but the grains of allegations are there.

    The second part you recall was spurred by a facetious assertion I made, which on further reflection has more import to it, I think. Namely, the concerns for this country when it comes to inflows of foreigners cannot simply be those from elsewhere in the region, but should be seen as a broader group, who have both numerial and financial strength that is considerable. Though I did not mention it before, some of them are actually kith and kin to some Bajans. Clyde Mascoll has also touched on this in a recent Nation column. My wider historical assertion–that Europeans through colonization have done much to destroy host populations, I will stand by unless someone tells me (people and animals) not to believe the history books.

    As for the picture. Though my own set of photos is wide, I searched Google for British tourists and silly clothing, and this was one of the better (or to me, really funny) ones and reminded me of a great comedy film with Eric Idle and Robbie Coltrane (Nuns on the run, see http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100280/). Honestly, I would have preferred to use something from the local newspaper archives but as you know that is really hard to do with either the Nation or Advocate.

    I had a good life in the UK and I owe it much for the upbringing it offered me and the livelihood my parents were able to get there. I do not share the view of some that they are rabid racists searching for Jamaicans or Jamaican-look-a-likes. The British are odd in many ways, and their origins tell you a lot about how many races and groups come together over a long period of time and then manage to see themselves as common. The British Isles, before its natives became creators or empires, were also the target of previous imperialists (the Romans, no less). I’m not sure if that means that one day the Caribbean will sprout a band of imperialists. But history is never over. So, who knows?

    Finally, now that an old mate, Linford Christie’s [another dastardly Jamaican], daughter has become the first black Miss UK, I have to take another look at the immigrant experience in the old Motherland.

  16. Avatar
    Anonymous

    Your parents and you were involved directly and indirectly. Look in the way that you try to come to our shores and TALK DOWN to us. Since only you know what is best for us!

    I just wanted you to know that we know the truth and accept it BUT WITH DISGUST!

    I will not respond to you anymore since you know everything. Just wanted you to know that there are some people who are not as stupid as you think!

  17. livinginbarbados Avatar
    livinginbarbados

    Anonymous // July 22, 2009 at 3:54 pm
    “Your parents and you were involved directly and indirectly. Look in the way that you try to come to our shores and TALK DOWN to us. Since only you know what is best for us!

    I just wanted you to know that we know the truth and accept it BUT WITH DISGUST!

    I will not respond to you anymore since you know everything. Just wanted you to know that there are some people who are not as stupid as you think!” [The way I speak is testimony to the 11 plus system and where it placed me in a school. Accidents and accents. You may not realise how hard the Jamaican accent is to comprehend for those who are not from the Caribbean. This whole business about assimilation can get tricky. Damned if you do, damned if you dont. But you know what. Let me dispense with the Queen’s English for an instant. Bredrin, cum an meet me an to rhatid we a go get inna sum cussin an mi nah dra back cos wen yu a insult fimi madda an fadda iz war yu a start. Better?

    If you think that my opinions (1 voice out of 280,000 people–let’s forget the tourists–are so strong and that they represent a talking down, then I apologize. You are free to ignore them, of course.

    But, I would suggest that you think again, and answer honestly if you feel that those migrants from Barbados who went a similar route to my parents in the early 1960s to England are in the ‘your kind’ category. You need not ‘speak’ to me, but I think you should speak to the Barbadians.

    I honestly do not understand your second sentence. If you have experiences of Africa to share, again, I think you should not hold those back. If you are conjecturing then say so.]

  18. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    LIB

    You may not realise how hard the Jamaican accent is to comprehend for those who are not from the Caribbean.
    *************************************

    Even for some of us from the Caribbean. A long time ago when I had hair I used to visit a Jamaican Barber shop where I was sometimes included in the exchange that flowed around the shop. Most of the time I would smile and nod ( not sure what they thought of me) but I couldn’t follow the conversation.

    Another time at a friend’s home ( I do have Jamaican friends) he brought out a bottle of Wray & Nephew- I can’t handle the stuff- and another person said he didn’t want any because it was “Junka Rum”. When I asked for a translation I was told that he meant “John Crow Rum”.

    I am getting better.

  19. livinginbarbados Avatar
    livinginbarbados

    @Sargeant
    There is a lot about the Anonymous comments that bother me, not least what it may imply about migrants from these shores. I recall several things about the 1960s, one was that our economies could not support our people and they fled in droves to what they thought were better economic and social opportunities. The parallel with the discussion on migration within the region is very evident. Our weak economies needed to improve to reduce the pressure on people to leave and go to the UK, USA and Canada.

    The other thing that disturbs me is what may be implied about returning residents (a difficult transition at the best of times) and what if anything positive they are seen to bring. I recall the reception I got when I left university and applied for jobs in Jamaica. Bottom line: no offers, so I went back to England. Ironically, the paths were such that those who found no space for me later found me on the other side of discussions when they were going cap in hand for money.

    The final point is not rare to Barbados, but revolves around what reaction ‘those who do not sound like us’ get. We are a bit schizophrenic? The tourist is loved or hated? The regional migrant is loved or hated? The national who oppresses, opposes, cheats, steals etc, but is ‘like us’ is loved or hated?
    I am not concluding my thoughts, merely reflecting.

  20. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    Suffice to say that the blog is an Anonymous entity. Everyone has an opinion but they won’t be heard at The Nation or the Advocate so blogs are the next best thing.

    Like it or not these are the conversations that are happening at the “grass roots” and even other levels a bit removed.

    For my part I don’t think there is a bias in Barbados against immigrants per se but there is an uneasiness/distrust against those immigrants who are unable to get along with those of other races in their homeland; but will migrate to Barbados and claim that they can live in harmony with Bajan residents who belong to the same race as those that they are unable to get along with in the first place.

    The logic escapes me

  21. livinginbarbados Avatar
    livinginbarbados

    @Sargeant
    A blog is less anonymous that people think but let it have the facade of some anonymity.

    I hear ‘conversations’ too as I move around. Not the same subjects surface, but some of the same sentiments I have heard.

    As a foreigner, I sense unease and distrust far more than I expected, but Bajans have tried to explain that as more in character regarding outsiders, and I have taken it as general. I have written about this in terms of whether ‘neighbourliness’ is something that is commonly experienced. (I’m no pollster, and anecdotes can only take you so far.)

    The logic of discontent not necessarily following a group is not that odd. It depends if the base of the discontent ‘at home’ is racial or if race is an incidental (not meaning to make it trivial). There is competition, but the rivalry need not transcend borders. It’s hard to generalise, but one cannot assume carry over. India and Pakistan split, yet descendents from that area are not in the same rivalry in Guyana as exists in the Indian subcontinent. ‘Abroad’ one faces new adversaries and ‘outsiders’ may need to see they face common problems. Irish people migrating from Ulster and the Republic did not bring sectarian violence with them to mainland Britain. (As an adjunct to that, Blacks and Irish immigrants in England often gravitated to the same ‘reception’ neighbourhoods, and animosity toward them by the English was of course not based on race but on foreignness and differentness.)

    Your barbershop story referred to Jancro/John Crow. Yesterday I used ‘craven’ in a post, which in Jamaican has a very different meaning than in standard English (see http://www.speakjamaican.com/jamaican-slang-glossary.html#j). The two words are often not far apart in Jamaican parlance.

    It’s late. My brain is tired.

  22. Sir Bentwood Dick Avatar
    Sir Bentwood Dick

    AH wrote ‘The British are such sad people. A people searching for relevance. As most things wrong in this world they have had a hand in creating it.’

    Bollocks. The British are quite happy with who and what they are, better believe it.

    They are (generalising) a bit eccentric, but with that comes openmindedness, joy of life and philosophy that puts most to shame, while being balanced by an uncanny pragmatism.

    Ask your friend 199.

    There are some bigots, as there are in any country.

    As for relevance? London is still, with New York, the main financial centre in the world, that for a small island nation!

  23. Sir Bentwood Dick Avatar
    Sir Bentwood Dick

    And now, for Adrian Hinds rendition of ‘God Save The Queen’……..

    Good ting me not say ‘Opi rendition!

    LOL.

    Adrian, you did nuse to line up longside de road when de Queen did visit?

    Dem days wuz relevant?

    Nex time yuh in Engurland, yuh should make an appointment with 199, for ‘im tuh carry yuh tuh tuh visit the Palace tuh see de Guard change.

    Me gotta feelin’ dat yuh wud like dat sorta ting.

    Cha Man.

  24. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    LIB

    I think that you are mistaken in your view of rivalry not transcending borders. One only has to look at the enmity/distrust between the Tamil and Sinhalese population in Toronto. The bulk of the IRA financing came from the Irish community in North America despite America’s close ties with Britain and I don’t want to be trite but having worked in an area with a sizable Greek population I know how to start a disturbance at a Greek gathering – tell anyone within earshot that Alexander the Great was Macedonian instead of Greek-.how long has he been dead again?

    As to your premise that people brought from the Indian subcontinent to the Caribbean as indentured servants did not bring their rivalry with them; perhaps their commonality was stronger than their rivalry and they bonded together to face another displaced people. In any event their departure was long before the establishment of India and Pakistan.

    Finally can you explain what happened in Fiji?

  25. Sir Bentwood Dick Avatar
    Sir Bentwood Dick

    Bimbro ‘United States of Europe’?

    Sorry but no..!

    Yuh really tink de Germans or French will allow a Brit to order dem bout?

    LOL!

    Tell me another!

  26. Sir Bentwood Dick Avatar
    Sir Bentwood Dick

    Sargeant ‘what happened in Fiji’?

    Well, there was this young lady in Fiji
    The Europeans used to call her Gigi
    If a young man had any luck
    And if he asked nicely,

    I forgot the rest.

    😉

  27. livinginbarbados Avatar
    livinginbarbados

    @Sargeant
    No disagreement on IRA financing, but I thought we were discussing the enmity following: it did not go to the US, as far as I understand.

    On India/Pakistan/indentured labour, my reading of the history is that the British had brought together a lot of provinces to make British India in the 19th century, and they had papered over age old rivalries as colonial masters. The fact that partition did not take place till the mid 1940s was an acknowledgement of that.

    But, again, mentioning Greeks, I lived in north London in area of Cypriots and the Turkish-Greek rivalry of the island they fled, had not surfaced in London. I’m no sociologist, but it could be that those who flee wish to escape some of the enmity.

    Likewise, Ethiopians and Eritreans who seem to coexist well in the US (where they are notable in the Washington DC area).

    I also lived in Southall (including during the time of the Blair Peach incident), which became home for a lot of Ugandan Asians, but more a place for people of the Indian subcontinent generally. The Sikhs, Hindus, Muslims and others did not appear to have any particular tensions that came with them. The animosity of English whites to them was something else, and in the end most of them chose to leave.

    From Greeks I know, I too am aware of the Macedonia matter, but one could view centuries old territorial disputes in a certain way. To support your view, we have seen how Serbs and Croats have taken their conflicts with them (even to the Australian Open).

    My point is that the transfer of hostilities is not a given.

  28. Bimbro Avatar
    Bimbro

    Hi Sir Bentwood, I’ve reverted to my original moniker of ‘Bimbro’ which BFP, wid dere fastniss went and changed to ‘199’!! lol!!

    I’m not certain where ur living at the moment Dick but, there’s a great deal of suppressed-discontent and resentment in Britain over immigrants, preferential tratment for immigrants, the muslims, etc!! It’s not allowed to reach the surface because open discussion of it is virtually banned by the evil Blair/Brown govt. therefore people show their resentment in other ways! At least here, with David’s help, we’re able to openly and freely express our opinion on any subject, for which he has my huge respect, even more than I have for the official Barbadian authorities who, I gather from our friends at BFP and here, have been keen, at least in the past, to supress the free expression of opinion!!

  29. Bimbro Avatar
    Bimbro

    Can anybody tell me wha shite dah LIB talking?!!

    LIB, go an ponitficate tuh d Jamaicans!! day need it more than we do, at least from u!!

  30. Bimbro Avatar
    Bimbro

    Sorry, should have said ‘to d Jamaiccans, DEM’!!

    Laaaddddddddddddd!!

  31. Bimbro Avatar
    Bimbro

    Oh, Sir Dick, forgot to say: did the ‘changing of the guard’ thing, during my youth!! The Mall is n’t likely to see me again, for that purpose, except possibly, during my cortege!! 🙂

  32. Bimbro Avatar
    Bimbro

    except possibly, during my cortege!!

    **********

    NORMALLY, reserved for the elite such as Princess Di, Prince Charles, Her/His Majesty!! 🙂

  33. Avatar
    Anonymous

    @61 + 67 + 71 aka Bimbro
    No matta ow ard mi did luk mi cyan see wich o de white bway dem is yu.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laxntam51ws. Elp di peeple, nuh.

  34. Avatar
    Anonymous

    @61 + 67 + 71 aka Bimbro
    Iz wha de Hurban Dikshinary a tell we, http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bimbro?
    Bimbro: a bro who’s also a boy bimbo (aka a himbo); y’know – kinda pretty, kinda dumb, kinda bro-ish

    Hinna di Karrybean dem de kine a sinting cyan get u inna nuff trubble.

  35. Sir Bentwood Dick Avatar
    Sir Bentwood Dick

    Bimbro,

    To be fair, West Indians came to England at invitation and meshed right into the culture, not only contributing to but actually sustaining many infrastructural entities including Bristish Rail, postal services etc.

    The willingness to embed themselves in the British way assisted enormously, albeit despite some bigotry surely.

    However, if I may, modern day immigrants are more interested in purely financial and lifestyle advancement considerations, without considering embracing British culture as their new homeland.

    Therein lies the problem.

    Agreed?

  36. Sir Bentwood Dick Avatar
    Sir Bentwood Dick

    Looka dis do. Bimbro going eventually get a cortege?

    ‘E is royl’ty.

    I did always know you did big up.

    So, yuh REALLY embed yuhself in English culture, besides some Jamaican here and there!

  37. livinginbarbados Avatar
    livinginbarbados

    @Adrian Hinds
    Thanks for the comments on my blog. I welcome all visitors and only have a few restrictions regarding comments. Though it is not stated there, I will not publish profane comments, but usually take any observations, pithy, substantive, and especially humourous. Anyone you wish to invite is welcome to offer their observations on my writing.

  38. livinginbarbados Avatar
    livinginbarbados

    @Sir Bentwood Dick
    “West Indians came to England at invitation and meshed right into the culture, not only contributing to but actually sustaining many infrastructural entities including Bristish Rail, postal services etc.

    The willingness to embed themselves in the British way assisted enormously, albeit despite some bigotry surely.

    However, if I may, modern day immigrants are more interested in purely financial and lifestyle advancement considerations, without considering embracing British culture as their new homeland” [West Indians, Indians, Pakistanis, who migrated to the UK came from a situation where British culture had long been a part of their lives, not least as ex-colonies. Therefore, weather and food aside, the assimilation to the British way of life would have been less difficult–not easy necessarily. However, the ‘modern day immigrants’, coming from central and eastern Europe, and places like Somalia and Sudan, have less or none of this Britishness in their background.

    I don’t think that it’s right that the main difference is “purely financial and lifestyle advancement considerations”. I also do not believe that West Indians went to Britain with the prime aim of building its infrastructure. Many left good homes, professions and trades,but got lesser accommodation and were often obliged to take whatever work was available in the public sector, and as general labourers. If you take a look at the manifest of say The Windrush you’ll see that many migrants left these shores with trades (maybe not certified qualifications) that they did not continue formally in good old Blighty.]

  39. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    LIB

    I didn’t even mention transplanted Sikhs blowing up the Air India flight over the Irish sea

  40. livinginbarbados Avatar
    livinginbarbados

    @Sargeant
    “I didn’t even mention transplanted Sikhs blowing up the Air India flight over the Irish sea” [I would not have expected you to. I hope we are not going to take extremists as the benchmark? Except where we may be able to talk about state -sponsored terrorism (as with Libya) then these are outliers. I’m not going to take the rampaging English soccer fan as representative of a general national/ethnic threat…though some do/would.]

  41. Negroman Avatar
    Negroman

    Living In Barbados

    Do not challenge Anonymous come & challenge this Negroman.

    Living In Barbados, you are the most “intelligent” person on this blog why don’t you take your “intelligent back to your blighted country of Jamaica and be the special advisor on the economic,financial & social problems affecting that benign state.Living in Barbados it seems that you have all the answers & solutions to all of Barbados problems please share that knowledge with your country of birth that is Jamaica.

  42. livinginbarbados Avatar
    livinginbarbados

    @Negroman
    What an extraordinarily angry person you are. Is such lovability something that has always been a part of your character? Dare I say that by saying that I know everything, you imply that you know more. I don’t recall seeing any ranking that would have scored me highest in intelligence. Can you share that with me, so that I can share my some of my associates?

    Could you fill the blanks for me at least? English has a lot of options to make the gap sensible. My guess is ..roc.. I hope I am correct. If it’s not an English word, then I am going to have to ask for even more help. Thanks.

  43. livinginbarbados Avatar
    livinginbarbados

    @Negroman
    It’s never good to leave someone without offering them solace. May I suggest a reading of Disiderata, especially nice on this rainy morning?

    Go placidly amid the noise and the haste,
    and remember what peace there may be in silence.

    As far as possible, without surrender,
    be on good terms with all persons.
    Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
    and listen to others,
    even to the dull and the ignorant;
    they too have their story.
    Avoid loud and aggressive persons;
    they are vexatious to the spirit.

    If you compare yourself with others,
    you may become vain or bitter,
    for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
    Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
    Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
    it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

    Exercise caution in your business affairs,
    for the world is full of trickery.
    But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
    many persons strive for high ideals,
    and everywhere life is full of heroism.
    Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection.
    Neither be cynical about love,
    for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment,
    it is as perennial as the grass.

    Take kindly the counsel of the years,
    gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
    Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
    But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
    Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

    Beyond a wholesome discipline,
    be gentle with yourself.
    You are a child of the universe
    no less than the trees and the stars;
    you have a right to be here.
    And whether or not it is clear to you,
    no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

    Therefore be at peace with God,
    whatever you conceive Him to be.
    And whatever your labors and aspirations,
    in the noisy confusion of life,
    keep peace in your soul.

    With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
    it is still a beautiful world.
    Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

  44. David Avatar
    David

    Agree with Sargeant. Engage LIB because if what he is saying is so in left field it should be easy to challenge his arguments. BU does not always agree with LIB but we respect his views which have resulted from a unique perspective of being a world traveller.

    @Negroman please watch the insults. Your previous comment was edited.

  45. Bimbro Avatar
    Bimbro

    Sir Dick, I agree with u but, only to an extent! U make it sound too perfect! For example, I recall a friend of mine who while training to be a train driver, his white instructor took him on a ride on the train but absolutely refused to say a word to him!!

    I recall also, the several riots we’ve had here!! Unfortunately, and this is where Barbadians traditionally choose to turn a blind-eye so I can’t normally be bothered to say it any more , there’s a group of West Indians who absolutely refuse to integrate and all they can think about, talk about and behave like is as if they were still back there, in their home country! I’ve said this too many times before and can’t even be bothered to mention their name, thus I absolutely refuse to speak to the one of them malingering hay!!

    As a consequence, 60 years later, and for a very long time now, the name West Indian in this country has been equivalent to shit, including among Africans! In consequence, in this country, an African or anybody else, would never voluntarily speak to a West Indian, unless they absolutely could n’t do better!

    I could say much more but doan inten tuh waise my precious time pun dem man!! One insis on talking tuh me pun d train dis mornin an all I was hopin was dat he would jus drop ded but d ***tard, would n’t!!

  46. Bimbro Avatar
    Bimbro

    That’s the true state of affairs today in Blighty, Dick!! vis. our people! thanks to ‘your friends’!!

  47. Bimbro Avatar
    Bimbro

    Dick, vis. the cortege, I can’t b certain, but I’m hoping!!

    Lord!! Doan mention dem udda people to me boa!!

    I see he mek a comment!! I in read it ’cause, to me, all he does do is talk a lot uh shite from morning till nite!!

    Steupse!!

    David, as far as I can c, he tour d worle an still in lern nutten!!

    Lord! How hard a cranium is dat?!! A bit like dere ‘sugar (coconut-chunk) -cakes’ More like feeding to d animals!!

    Say no more!!

  48. Bimbro Avatar
    Bimbro

    My teeth have never been able to manage one of dum an start to pratest at d mere thought of dum!! – dere so called ‘sugar cakes’!!

    Lor!! Sugar cakes?!! Doan mek me laugh!!

    Steupse!!

  49. livinginbarbados Avatar
    livinginbarbados

    @Bimbro
    So that your theses can be better understood, could you help your fellow Barbadians understand what Carol Thatcher was considering with her “golliwog” remark (was the tennis player concerned mistaken for a Jamaican, perchance?), http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article5645419.ece.

    What of Prince Harry’s reference to his friend as a “little Paki”, http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/123700/Watch-Prince-Harrys-racist-outbursts-on-video.html.

    These remarks and views may not be generalised but help those of us no longer in the UK understand how you understand them.

  50. Negroman Avatar
    Negroman

    David
    Fair enough I have overstep the boundary of decenccy and I apologize.

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