All Past And Present Attorneys General And Ministers Of Transport And Works Have Blood On Their Hands
14 responses to “All Past And Present Attorneys General And Ministers Of Transport And Works Have Blood On Their Hands”
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I could not agree with you more!Have they done anything with Joes River yet?What about coconut grove and all the other breck neck areas? The more things change, the more things remain the same.Penalties should be imposed on the powers that be.
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Now me and my family be afraid… not because of some cliff or other but because you in this isolated part of the world could pretend that your people could respond to a picture without some kind of wordiology (The English is not good)
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BAFBFFP
Some people in the East say a picture is worth a thousand words!
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Point taken, but I will play devil’s advocate on this one.
The slogan says ‘drivers’ respect life.
Thus, it is drivers that have blood on their hands. Drivers are the everyday bajan.
Those with blood on their hands are the ones who drive selfishly, as though they need to get somewhere yesterday, shoving through roundabouts, as thoguntheir car makes them invincible, racing along the roads, blowing horns at pedestrians and cyclists as if they have no right on the road, cursing one another, as if the road is their alone, as if getting to their own location is paramount.
Yes, it is Barbadian values that have declined and that is what the slogan tells me.
Courtesy is gone, ‘Western’ pushiness is here.
After all, that is what NICE was all about too, the decline of respect, courtesy and by extension, service.
Eight hundred police cannot police us all. But, we are no longer our brother’s keeper.
Surely the popular saying should go, not ‘we is we’, but is ‘ me is me’?
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@Crusoe
Yes drivers are responsible but by your admission we have developed a group of selfish drivers who have become enamoured by the horse power under their hoods. We regret to comment this is a runaway issue. That being the case who will protect the pedestrian and cyclists?
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TAKEN FROM BARBADOSFREEPRESS
“July 13,2010 11.56 am”
“I was there yesterday. It was a horrible accident. I did not actually see when he was struck but a fisherman who he was talking to told me that they were talking and he told him that he was going home. As he started walking across the highway, someone on the beach side called out to him and he looked back at the person taking his eye off the oncoming traffic. That is when the car hit him. He was badly cut up by the car. His bowels and liver was hanging out, and a part of his pancreas was in the road. He lost most of his blood and there was a lot of his stool on the front windshield and the trunk of the car. I watched as the paramedics and a doctor worked feverishly on him. But I knew that he was not going to make it. When the paramedics loaded him into the Ambulance they were talking to him and he was responding but I could see that his injures were too severe for him to survive. I told someone that he is not going to make it alive to the Hospital. He did not.
I think that you all are focusing on the wrong thing. That Spring Garden highway is one of the most dangerous pieces of highway in Barbados and no one is doing anything about it. How many more Barbadians will have to die on that road before something is done. Overpass, underpass , something. I overheard a Police Sargent at the accident scene saying that the Spring Garden highway is the worst highway in Barbados and I agree with him.”
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But its not all down to the driver.The authorities must take much of the blame. Over the years we have allowed pedestrians and bicyclist to do all sorts of foolishness on our highways and byways with impunity. These walkers and riders have now become motorcyclists/ motorists/truckers and dreaded public service vehicle drivers. How dare you now try to discipline them when you turned a blind eye to their growing infractions all along?
How could we be serious about road safety ,when we allow bicycles on the 80Kph ABC Highway and other roads at night with only a token light or none at all. We must be the only country in the world where bicycles have priority, like ambulances. No stopping at major road junctions/traffic lights/ .Ride on sidewalks and any side of the road.
There is an old saying,”Bend the tree whilst it is young” and another which says, “Old habits die hard”. Take your pick. -
Is that an outlet road being joined to the ABC Highway between Lowlands and the Airport from the Villages Housing Development.
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@David I saw it yesterday , and certainly cannot believe that Town and Country Planning would have given permission to the developers to construct a junction on this stretch of the highway.It looks this way since the grass verge has been excavated. But strange things happen in this country.There was a time when the only person allowed to cross the highway other than at a roundabout was the people at Friendship plantation. Stuart’s Engineering was asked to removed an advertising sign from the side of the ABC highway. Hinds Transport, who sponsored the upkeep of the Graeme Hall roundabout was criticised and had to removed a palm tree from that site. Just down from the Ballantyne/Newton junction going toward the Deighton Griffith school, MTW has just erected guard rails and fencing on a section of the highway where residents and other used to make unauthorised turn-off and entries.
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@David I saw it yesterday , and certainly cannot believe that Town and Country Planning would have given permission to the developers to construct a junction on this stretch of the highway.But It looks this way since the grass verge has been excavated. Strange things happen in this country.There was a time when the only person allowed to cross the ABC Highway other than at a roundabout was the people at Friendship plantation,remember that FARM VEHICLE CROSSING sign? Stuart’s Engineering was asked to removed an advertising sign from the side of the ABC highway. Hinds Transport, who sponsored the upkeep of the Graeme Hall roundabout was criticised and had to removed a palm tree from that site. Just down from the Ballantyne/Newton junction going toward the Deighton Griffith school, MTW has just erected guard rails and fencing on a section of the highway where residents and other used to make unauthorised turn-off and entries.
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Governments and government departments are allowed to break laws, because citizens allow such. Where are the Rosa Parks, Where are the Marcus Garveys among us? Who in Barbados among our parliamentarians or the heirachy of the RBPF are willing to be bold enough to make a difference. Why the hell the police asking for more men when them have a blimp lying in storage, a waste of money.
Can someone tell the Commissioner of Police, 100 IP cameras around the island equals 100 men by two shifts. This use of camera technology supported by legislation, would facilitate better use of manpower. People the cost of these cameras, are less than a $1million Bds to set up. It is very stupid to have a policeman in the hot sun, with a radar gun trying to catch traffic violators, its madness.
We need a new breed of thinkers if we are to continue to exist as a progressive country. We are slipping!
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You must know it is Attorneys General and not Attorney Generals cud dear!
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Some of them think that they are Generals anyway.
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