Popular electronic outlets for citizens to air their views like call-in programmes and Internet blogs ought to have a “framework of accountability. That’s according to Deputy Prime Minister Mia Mottley, who called for support systems, including researchers and expert …
Popular electronic outlets for citizens to air their views like call-in programmes and Internet blogs ought to have a “framework of accountability. That’s according to Deputy Prime Minister Mia Mottley, who called for support systems, including researchers and expert advice, for Parliament, failing which the unregulated new technologies could marginalise that institution.
– Nation Newspaper (7/19/06)
When Mia Mottley issued the above position several years ago it was interpreted by many as an intimidatory tactic from a ‘powerful’ member of the government frontbench. A few years later to BU’s pleasant surprise Mia Mottley is reported to have made the following statement in a local newspaper – former Opposition Leader Mia Mottley, is suggesting that Barbadians use social media as an avenue to bring about change. She made the call during a social media seminar put on by Flying Fish Studios Inc. at the Sir Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre yesterday….
Mia Mottley has been unusually mute in recent weeks after being sacked from the job as opposition leader. BU would have expected her to issue a clear the air statement on the Marston Gibson matter to acknowledge whether she was consulted by late Prime Minister David Thompson as the law demands. Her silence is an obvious sign she is playing a waiting game. BU believes Mottley is attempting to reinvent herself as the leader of the Barbados Labour Party in waiting.
One stark difference between Mottley’s dispensation as opposition leader and Arthur’s had been her willingness to use social media, including the blogs nome de plumes and all, to communicate with people who feel more comfortable in the virtual world. What has made the social media an effective tool is the extent to which blogs have now integrated with Facebook and Twitter to form an effective tool to help shape agendas. At the press of a button on a computer keyboard tens of thousands of Barbadians can read a message if it goes ‘viral’. The Arthur camp seems happy to use the traditional approach. It was surprising to listen to BLP Jerome Walcott knocking the need to use non traditional approaches in the St. John by-election. Yes it was a slam dunk DLP Mara Thompson would have won the seat but there was the opportunity to communicate to a national audience with a general election constitutionally due very soon.
Mia Mottley’s appeal to Barbadians to use social media demonstrates she recognizes the power of this medium and she intends to leverage it to win support for her positions in the coming months. It is a smart move by her given the position she now finds herself, a far distant from when she was Deputy Prime Minister in 2006. Now she is happy to eat crow to satisfy political expediency.
The coming weeks will be very interesting for the Barbados Labour Party and Mia Mottley to see how they are able to mend fences to create the public perception of a united party going into a general election. Unlike the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) when they had the Thompson Mascoll feud, Mascoll became the ointment for the bruise when de decided to cross the floor.
The internet bans and censors talk about slavery due the violence gore and hate
but it is a positive vibration to speak and sing about this crime against humanity
Next “they” will remove music and conscious lyrics as it is a ‘Positive Vibration’:
“A positive vibration generates
Spiritual elevation to the mind
Sweet reggae music,
My vaccination
Yeh, mi tek it fi every situation
It keep me alive…”
reggae music keeps rolling out stinging lyrics like a money machine:
“Mi waan war fi cease
Violence fi decrease
Put a stop to the killing
Mek wi increase the peace
And Mr, mek dis yah rhyme register
Protect wi little brother and wi little sister…”
The Scold’s bridle was used to shut up Slave women from talking back to their Slave masters..
.. so they shook them with a stone cold look that would kill them devil dead
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Pachamama
We always seem to be surprised by contradictions given by políticos.
As fascism gains traction, as capitalism fails, as empire is lost, as wokeism is an abnormal normalcy, everywhere governments are locking up sicalled free speech, like is Jullian Assange.
There was a thinking that the universality of the internet could have located a non-bot anywhere, as if an astral traveller.
Now, like America; this regime seeks an extraterritoriality which goes against commonsense and will fail to achieve its aims.
Meaning, that if Pacha is alledged to have broken their fascist laws in Timbuktu that somehow Bajan law could have something to say.
Only America pretends to exert such universal reach.
These represent the product of two 30-loves. An over reach by a government which believes it has the power to do as it wishes.
The OSA and his regime felt that way too, at the height of his prowess. Now who remembers him?
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Sir Frank Dickwood Esq
Sadly the BLP and DLP as corporate capitalist run organizations doing the bidding of their self serving financiers.
Carsicot under the DLP with Warrick Franklyn
3S Highway scandal with Glyne Clarke who always travelled with a bag of money in his burgundy Mercedes
Veco Dodds Prison scandal and Dale Marshall who enjoys hosting his friends on his well deserved yacht
Cahill epic scandal with men like Keith Simmons and other lawyers getting million of legal fees with Denis Lowe getting fees to help his chronic debt problems
David Thompson, help Leroy Parris launder Clico funds
700% Price Scandal of Covid Vaccines where Mia and Mark Maloney were connected through discussions
4 Seasons where Chris as MOF, Mia as lawyer, Avinash as bag man got nuff fees for brokering finance with $60M of NIS money lost but GOB ain’t own de property
To liken politicians to prostitutes rogues and vagabonds would be unfair.
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Sir Frank Dickwood Esq
My equerry brought to my intention the strategic move of the Barbados government of paying the native police officers some much desired back money in April so they would happily crack heads on behalf of the government
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Enuff
The fact that you believe this bill is about politicians is disappointing. You ought to do some reading about cyberbullying and how even truth is used to do exactly what the bill deems an offence. A lotta wunna ain’t ready.
The BLP and DLP have scheduled meetings this evening at 4:30pm. The DLP will be in St.John and BLP at St. Christopher. Hopefully there will be some unpicking of teeth on the issue gaining currency in the country.
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Sir Frank Dickwood
Dear Auntie Mia, I love you but you allowing the AG your chief legal advisor to make you look bad. Auntie, I really believe Smilee wanted to make you look bad with the cyber bill…Fire his RH and let he sail away with young his skittles on he yacth
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