Submitted by BAFBFP
It is so great to have been afforded the opportunity to make some kind of contribution to this blog; a blog that somehow has been able to attract an enviable variety of publicly respected opinion, and me, so often considered to be a lunatic fringe maniac, to have been given this opportunity to at least belch in your presence. I am humbled..! I am humbled..!
Two days ago in the Barbados Today on-line newspaper (I dun buying hard copies, too lazy) I came across a very likkle likkle article (Reuters generated of course) on the outcome of a case brought against the GOUSA involving claims by workers about ailments brought on by clearing the WTC (which stands for the now defunct World Trade Centre) site after the Sep 2001 media event…! Ladies and Gentlemen over nine thousand men and women won this case against the GOUSA… for working on ONE construction site….! Now I have no idea what ailments had been thrown up (talk to GP, he seems to know every damned thing ‘bout here), but of course I have to assume that they were not the usual broken hands and necks that one would expect on a construction site…! Again I implore that you see me as a lunatic, my accustomed disposition.
Now what originally concerned me was the lack of focus (by Starcom Network of course) on the fact that these people were actually taking the GOUSA to court on a winnable case that involved Human Rights… and were able to win… easily!
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The question of course is … how is it that one construction site could result in so many plaintiffs (over nine grand..)? The second question of course is how is it that this court case (over seven years) could have escaped the attention of the Starcom network group of companies, the oldest representative of the electronic Fourth Estate in Barbados?
Now here is the thing. There has always been opposition to this labelled “War on Terror” that has been primarily based on its lack of substance; the biggest protection against any alignment to impropriety has been as always, a resorting to national security considerations. Now for the first time there is an example broadcast to the public (albeit small) that all is not what as it was supposed to be. Nine thousand people have taken the GOUSA to court for working on a single construction site that is no bigger than greater Bridgetown… and won, for conditions of work that they should have been made aware of before the clean up effort commenced..!
Commend the Jurist all you want, but the case for justice has a lot more to do with TRUTH than judicial competence. These people must have complained about the affects nuclear fallout. Thanks to the wire press I cannot say this with any certainty, but following is/are links that will allow you to make your minds up on what this secretive case was all about.
Thank you David for this opportunity to help establish that this blog is for ordinary folk as well.
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