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62 year old Diane Davies the day after her alleged attack

When one of the leading daily newspapers in the UK run a story penned by a leading journalist, it translates to ‘widely read’. When the story is about a 62 year old who claims she was raped in Barbados while on vacation, it translates into bad news for Barbados. Right at the start of the main tourist season to boot, this does us absolutely no favours at all if the allegations are correct; if true Barbados is seriously at fault.

Barbadians are left to wonder this morning what the hell is going on? Why are we playing boo peep with our number one foreign exchange earner? Why have the authorities i.e. Attorney General, Barbados Police Force and by extension the government not given this matter the attention it merits? Why do we allow bureaucracy and officialdom  perhaps pride to ferment this matter?

BU has blogged too many times about the need to revamp our court system to ensure justice is seen to be done and also for the Police Complaints Authority to do its damn job. How can we be serious about tourism and continue to retreat behind statistics. Barbadians on the ground know that serious crime is trending upwards and to be honest the business as usual approach by the authorities is not cutting it.

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188 responses to “Rising Crime + Tourism = Bad News”

  1. ac Avatar
    ac

    Sentiments would not cut it ! But CERTAINLY Bashing won’t either. If that is the case next time NBC coming knocking on our doors tell them that Sentiments would not cut it. WE prefer to have our problems highlited instead.Like crabs in a barrell we intent on pulling our selves down . WE certainly don”t need others to do it. We do a very good job ourselves.

  2. Yardbroom Avatar
    Yardbroom

    I waited until I had read the Mail article before commenting.

    What happens in New York, Hawaii or the UK is irrelevant to this article, we have a tourist product to sell and spend millions of dollars doing so. The reality is – like it or not – if no tourists from the Caribbean go to America or England the impact would be negligible. If no tourists from America or England came to Barbados…I will leave it at that.

    Tourists who travel to Barbados from the UK – our main market – can choose to holiday anywhere, as travel distance alone dictates it is not cheap. It is not a question of treating white people or tourists special, it is about behaviour, compassion, decency and understanding “truth” so we can learn from mistakes made.

    Some Barbadian workers have a problem with what they do in the service sector and the need for them in that position to interact with tourists. The gruff attitude adopted by some Officials is because they do not know better and use that behaviour as a mechanism to cope with awkward situations…there is a dire need for proper training.

    A few comments on this tread do not make me angry, just sad. To the lady who was so terribly violated, if you happen to hear of or read this thread, as difficult as it is just ignore some of the comments they do not represent the “whole” Barbados.

    I am sorry for what happened to you and hope that the “real” perpetrator will be brought to justice and in time there will be healing of your suffering; I extend to you my deepest sympathy.

  3. David Avatar
    David

    @ac

    You can have the last word.

    None is so blind than he who cannot see.

  4. David Avatar
    David

    Some time ago there was an initiative by the government to separate product and marketing at the BTA, what has become of it?

  5. ac Avatar
    ac

    Same to you too David Not lets talk about solutions . Instead of Downloading the anti Bajan sentiment. I already did my part to curve some of it ., This anti Bajan sentiment has yet to offer meaningful solutions enough crap already.

  6. Amused Avatar
    Amused

    @ Yardbroom | November 28, 2011 at 7:15 AM. Beautifully said, as I would expect from you.

    @ac. Islandgal has said it very well. The UK, USA, Canada, Germany don’t give a damn if they don’t get tourists from Barbados. However, as pointed out, the reverse is ruinous to us. I also have a big problem with you trying to intimate that this is Barbados-bashing for the sake of Barbados-bashing. That you impute negative motives, instead of alerting Bajans to what is going on so that something can be done about it and it never happens again. If all you want to do is to sweep mistakes under the rug, you have a very perverted sense of patriotism and one which, in the international market place, will not serve at all.

    Now, put yourselves into the shoes of Mrs Davies. You go to the United Kingdom and you get violently assaulted and raped. Instead of the Police treating you with respect and dignity, they visit on you the indignities suffered by Mrs Davies. And you complain to the Police Complaints Commission UK. And you get what is in effect the brush off. However, a major news outlet comes to you and offers to publicise your story. You have not got any justice or consideration from the UK authorities, so just how long do you think it would take you to give your story to the press so as to at least achieve some measure of redress from a system and country that has seriously let you down? Once you have answered that, explain to me in simple terms why you think that Mrs Davies ought not to have done what I am quite sure you would have done had the boot been on the other foot.

    So, by all means, let us continue to bury our heads in our fine coral sand that tourists so admire now. For when we take those heads out of the sand, we will discover not a tourist in sight. We will see closed and shuttered and disintegrating hotels and find members of the tourist industry attempting (with all the rest of the population) to claim social benefits because they cannot get work, from a bankrupt state. The airport will have become a squatters paradise, because of the lack of planes flying in and there will be no public services, like a hospital, because we cannot pay for it. Anyone who can will have left the island to ac and his fellow ostriches. But there is an alternative. We can ACCEPT our faults, publicize them, apologise and work to make sure that THEY NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN! But of course that would be the mature way of doing things and, rather than invoking the censure of the rest of the world, it might have the extreme danger of invoking its admiration – even envy.

  7. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ ac | November 28, 2011 at 6:43 AM |
    “However I refuse to join hands with those who see intent on destroying our reputation worldwide we have our problems and what we need are solutions not anarchy.”

    ac | November 28, 2011 at 7:38 AM |
    “This anti Bajan sentiment has yet to offer meaningful solutions enough crap already.”

    So you want us to offer meaningful solutions?
    Well, before any solutions can be effective-as said before- we must accept, like an alcoholic who is about to take the first step to recovery, that we have a growing problem with crime against visitors (and locals too, but the focus here is on visitors). Not only crime but serious harassment by vagrants and other opportunists whether peddling stuff or offering services.
    We must stop burying our heads in the sand and deal head on with these burgeoning issues. There is a list of recent incidents that need to be borne in mind when some people try to make this look like a one off incident. These incidents involving robberies and grievous bodily harm will not be repeated here unless disputed by apologists. But a few problems that are within our competence to sort out can be identified, for examples:

    Fist impressions count. Let the airport be the first point of contact to welcome the visitors in such a pleasant manner as to leave little doubt of what is in store for them during their stay. A hassle-free and courteous and relaxing approach from Immigration & Customs and other players in the welcoming party should be the order of the day unless a specific individual is identified as warranting further enquiry. A small token of appreciation representative of the friendliness of Barbados can be given to the visitors. The cost of these locally made gifts of appreciation can be funded by the private sector along with the BTA and other stakeholders in the industry.
    The Shannique Myrie accusations of improper treatment at the airport and its attendant souring of relations between the people of the two countries should be a lesson well learnt.

    Daily harassment of visitors in Bridgetown. The level of harassment by vagrants is unacceptable and getting really out of hand. If one currently takes a stroll down the Pierhead Lane one would be confronted by a foul-mouth street urchin who willfully harasses people with verbal abuse and threats of physical harm if money is not forthcoming. The authorities refuse to remove this potentially dangerous threat.
    There is a growing nuisance of begging and harassment of visitors taking place at the Oistins Bay Gardens. This needs to be curtailed for the coming winter season and onwards.

    A more festive and welcoming atmosphere needs to be created inside and outside the Bridgetown port. BTW, this port, now it is grown up, should be in line of a “christening” or renaming/rebranding after some great Bajan. Every effort should be made to create the stretch from the port to inner Bridgetown a greener place with slower travelling traffic, proper pavements for the “tourists-on-foot”. A type of promenade setting with locally made craft and paintings, local food and fruit drinks, local artistes performing can be on offer so as to extract as much spending money from the visitors in the form of souvenir purchases and refreshment of body and cultural soul.

  8. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    Who brought up the subject of Barbadians tourists not going to the UK? As far as I can tell that position was never advocated by anyone so it is a total red herring to mention it. Everyone is ignoring the basic problem which is lack of training or empathy by the Police to her situation which the victim has alleged. From the bruises on the photograph it seems pretty clear that the woman was violated but if individuals are not well versed on how to handle these situations how do you expect them to react?

    This is 2011 and crimes happen in even the most pristine communities, it is how the communities respond that makes the difference. We will never eliminate crime but what we can do is try to ensure that the people who respond to victims of crime are properly trained. All I hear is the usual bashing of the Police, Judiciary etc. the Police and Judiciary and Gov’t for that matter are a reflection of the community they come from, they are not an occupying force, they are your brothers,sisters,husbands,fathers, wives. aunts and uncles. The readers of the Daily Mail and other publications are not going to blame the Police etc. they will blame the citizens of Barbados, if there are problems it is up to you to fix it on an ongoing basis not as a shrill response to bad news after it becomes fodder in the International news cycle.

    Much of the local criticism come across not as an attempt to fix the problems but as an opportunity to grind some axes until the next topic comes up. Why don’t the folks who are so passionate about this subject form a committee and present some proposals for better policing to the Police Adminsitration? Wasn’t there some effort to bring some change to the Credit Union through some petitions?

    It is your country and you live there it is up to you to make it livable for all

  9. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Amused | November 28, 2011 at 8:25 AM |

    In total sync with you!

    Lemuel, and to some extent, ac are typical of the bajan hypocritical and cover up psyche. Keep your disabled children behind closed door away from neigbours. Or put the under-aged pregnant child in big clothes to conceal the bump until the time is ready when she is sent away to Auntie to raise the child fathered by another family member or close friend of the family. Deny the existence of prostitution and homosexuality and hoping these moral deviations will disappear by keeping backward discriminatory laws on the books even though the same tourists come from countries where these human activities are accepted and regulated.
    We need to deal head on with this growing threat to our major bread and butter winner especially now that the financial services and international business sector is on its way out after a short stay of big spending which has eventually ended up in China & Japan.

  10. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    Nationnews is publishing the story online.

    Hopefully this will help to persuade “Government” to make a statement that will show some empathy for the victim.

  11. Negroman Avatar
    Negroman

    “Negroman’s comment has breached good taste and international criminal race equality legislation. BU apologises to anyone who may have been offended and upset by it.”

  12. oneil Avatar
    oneil

    its time Barbados look for airlift outside of uk …THE AGENDA OF THE UK ,is to stop tourist leaving and choosing local ,hence the increasing tax and the propaganda…do not put all your eggs in one basket …diversify ,look for industries ,commerce,open the economy and let it fend for itself,give every man an equal opportunity ,not just rich Europeans .. ,

  13. David Avatar
    David

    @Sargeant

    How do you know this matter is not being lobbied in the highest places?

    How do you know the effort to publicize this matter will not go a long way to bring urgency to this matter?

  14. ac Avatar
    ac

    Unlike you miller who have seized upon every opportunity to bash barbados i have forwarded my thoughts abnd concerns to the proper authorities.wghat have you done other done .i will continue to speak out against those whose sole intent is to tarnish the image of barbados and not be a cheer leader for those whose intentions are highly suspect

  15. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ac | November 28, 2011 at 10:35 AM |

    I have done the same but not even a word of acknowledgment.

    Listen, mate I have brought more foreign exchange and visitors to the country than you will ever do in a 1,000 years.
    So don’t go there. Leave it be!

  16. Amused Avatar
    Amused

    @Sargeant | November 28, 2011 at 9:35 AM. You say, “From the bruises on the photograph it seems pretty clear that the woman was violated but if individuals are not well versed on how to handle these situations how do you expect them to react?” And that basically is the crux of your argument. So, let us examine it:

    If anyone, man or woman, came to you with bruises like on the photograph that made it clear to you that this person had been violated, would your common humanity kick in, or would you require to receive training on how to react? Would you sit them down and question then for 5 ½ hours, without even offering a cup of tea and a biscuit? If they protested at the length of time your questioning was taking and stated that they were in pain and needed a pain killer, would you counter by telling them that you still had work to do once they had left? Would you leave them sitting in your car to be gawped at by passers-by? Would you to them to the hospital and, while they were waiting after having been battered and raped and with a fractured shoulder, instead of offering them comfort, leave them alone and go and chat with your friends? And once the questioning for 5 ½ hours was concluded, with them in pain and needing relief, would you delay that relief for a further half hour while you stopped to shop for a T shirt? OR, would you try to make things as easy and comfortable for them as you possibly could?

    It is not a question of training, but of humanity, empathy and Christianity. And it has to be of considerable concern to us all that the RBPF is hiring people who demonstrably lack all three. Do we really want sub-humans on our police force who need to be trained like dogs? And to we really expect to attract visitors when they think that if there is trouble, they will not be dealing with human beings, but with animals?

    The training you are talking about ought to have taken place at home and, if it was not, then these people ought not to have been hired as police officers to protect us and our visitors in the first place. We can offer training for a lot of things, but common decency is not one of them.

  17. Fortyacres and a mule Avatar
    Fortyacres and a mule

    I wished some of us had given the same sympathetic response when that Jamaican lady alleges that she was raped in Barbados by employees of the state. Instead some of us went on a war path and bashing of Jamaicans. Just saying. Who are we trying to fool?

  18. David Avatar
    David

    @40 acres

    Don’t even go there.

  19. The Scout Avatar
    The Scout

    The attitude of the police and indeed some of the bloggers, just mirrors what this society is degenerating into. Not only visitors to this country but locals are scared to travel certain roads, plus the attitude of some sex starved men is such that women are afraid even to go into B’town alone, even during the day. There are too many men who for one reason or the other have lost their respect for women, whether, black, white, indian or anyother race. To some extent women, have caused this on themselves, because of their attitude towards men, but we men must set the example and let our sons know they must respect women. I’ve heard at UWI boys calling their girlfriends “bitch” and they are answering, when I ask why, I was told this comes from BET. Our police Force is made up of officers who are only officers when in uniform but outside of that behaves in the same manner as their friend on the street, therefore how can they relate to misbehaviour for these collegues when on duty. Policing for many of them is JUST ANOTHER JOB>

  20. Amused Avatar
    Amused

    @Scout. Generally agree. However, “bitch” has another meaning these days, I am told. Babe In Total Control of Herself. Now, I am not saying these UWI students do not say it in derrogation, but equally it may be a compliment.

  21. The Scout Avatar
    The Scout

    Amused
    That is exactly what I’m saying, like GAY used to mean HAPPY, today GAY means HOMOSEXUAL. I would want a boy to be calling my daughter a BITCH, then what will I call my female dog? The whole society is degenerating quickly and the powers that be are doing nothing to arrest the problem. Take the PSV’s for instance, the administration seems helpless in curbing the problem so they are looking for excuses why the problem remains, thus passing the buck. Years ago one had to reach a certain level of deportment to become a police officer, today the administration is going around begging boys and girls to join the force, therefore you take what you get. Today we see young men harrassing both locals and tourists and police officers turning a blind eye to these things. I was at a show one noght when a fight broke out, I was at the time speaking to a police officer, he just disappeared. When everything settled back down, he reappeared, I asked him where he went, his response was simple, “when this show is over I want to get home, I have no time to carry anyone down to trhe station and write up charge sheets this time at night.”

  22. The Scout Avatar
    The Scout

    I heard of a local woman who was raped, the officer who was assigned to the case, when on sick leave the week after and when he returned was put on a murder case. To this day many years after nothing else was done, when he asked, he was told the case was not closed, yet, no-one could tell him anything about the continued investigation. I’m sure since then many other persons were treated similarly. Only if the victim or one of the relatives take matters in their own hands, will the police respond, yet one can see them taking their wives and/or girlfiends and children to work or school daily in one of the many police vehicles on the road. I’ve even seen one taking his wife/girlfriend shopping.

  23. Fortyacres and a mule Avatar
    Fortyacres and a mule

    @David. Oh yes, I am going there.We must not forget that 30% of our industry is from intra-regional visitors. I am just wondering if some of us would have reacted the same if say a visitor from St. Lucia had experience the same horrible tragedy and the St. Lucia Star had it has front page news.? In this age of relative morality and given our small vs big island mentality in the region I daresay the response would have been drastically different.

  24. Fortyacres and a mule Avatar
    Fortyacres and a mule

    If anything, this should be a wake- up call for us to seriously start to think beyond tourism.This one dimensional type of economic thinking and model is suicidal.Size doesn’t matter. Singapore shows us that. We could start by developing the resource in our vast Exclusive Economic Zone. Up you mighty people!

  25. Amused Avatar
    Amused

    @Scout. “I would want a boy to be calling my daughter a BITCH, then what will I call my female dog?”

    By its name, presumably. Spot, Rover, Lady…….whatever its name. However, do not prevent, if you want a quiet life, some boy from calling your daughter B.I.T.C.H. unless she objects. Do you have daughter? I suspect not, otherwise you would know this basic infexible rule for fathers of daughters. If they want a quiet life, that is.

  26. Amused Avatar
    Amused

    @40 acre mule. All victims of violence on our shores should be treated exactly the same – with courtesy, consideration, humanity and empathy. Actually, all people, whether resident or tourist, on out shores should be treated like that. Regardless whether, or even if, they can generate any sort of press report, negative or positive. If that was done, we would not be facing a negative report in a very influential newspaper with many millions of readers that will be reported on the WWW so that many tens of millions more can read about it.

  27. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Fortyacres and a mule | November 28, 2011 at 12:58 PM |
    “We could start by developing the resource in our vast Exclusive Economic Zone. Up you mighty people!”

    Your statement is not being criticized or dismissed. But what are these resources? If you are referring to the Atlantic Ocean fish stocks these are already exploited by the Koreans & SE Asian fishing industrialists. How can we deal with this raping of our resources? Even the Caribbean zone is not free to exploit unless an agreement is struck with T&T. Check the News and see what our fisher folks have to go through. But as long as there is hydrocarbons off Barbados capable of exploitation T&T will never allow Bim that freedom from reliance on imported finished petroleum products made in T&T. Remember that Barbados represents an important share of the export petroleum market. If commercially exploitable oil reserves are found offshore we will have to establish an alliance with some larger country- Canada or GB to protect us from the possible take over by our neigbour. Bermuda has such protection. But would Barbados be prepared to subsume its “political Independence” to a greater requirement of economic prosperity with assured protection from invasion as was done in the past.

  28. The Scout Avatar
    The Scout

    Amused
    Yes I do have more than one daughter, once they have reached the age of maturity and they live away from my house, they can accept any name they are called. However, if they live at me, no man can come at my house and call any of my daughters BITCH, I would politely ask him to leave and don’t come back. I would be very angry if any of my daughters stoop to that level to be called BITCH

  29. Barspecs Avatar
    Barspecs

    Seems as though she sold this story to People newspaper in March this year, and it has now been on-sold to the Daily Mail. http://www.cash4yourstory.co.uk/raped-horror-abroad-the-people-newspaper-exclusive-crime-story-march-2011-story1126.html

  30. Amused Avatar
    Amused

    @Barspecs | November 28, 2011 at 2:29 PM. Police must be vexed cause she made the money off the story and not them.

  31. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ bajantodebone | November 28, 2011 at 3:25 PM |

    Here comes the IMF, duna, duna!
    Here comes the IMF, Laughing!
    Modern Bajans like sweet life’ not sucking salt. Unless they plan to go back to the land and end pollution of their environment they cannot survive without tourists from white people lands. Soon from now, based on your views, Bajans’ backs will soon be to de bones!
    Please consider the gravamen of your statements! Unless you can see the end game next year Dec 21, 2012.

  32. Fortyacres and a mule Avatar
    Fortyacres and a mule

    @Millertheannuaki. Exactly my point. We should look off-shore to diversify our economy. Why should we be selling fishing permits to outsiders. Not to mention the poaching that goes in our water . We should get this industry going by investing in trawlers. Don’t mind T&T, we need to start get serious about gas and oil exploration. There got to be some commercial hydrocarbons resource in our off- shore zones. Last but not least, our food security and agriculture potential. Again size does not matter. The Netherland is the third largest exporter of agriculture products in the world. They export mostly fresh produce ( flowers, vegetables, fruits and dairy). And guess what Holland is a little less than the the size of the Dominica Republic.How they did it? Investment in R&D and technology.Eg. Green house farming, hydroponics and growing value added agriculture commodities.

  33. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Fortyacres and a mule | November 28, 2011 at 4:00 PM |
    “… Not to mention the poaching that goes in our water”

    Then would you agree that we need to focus our marine law enforcement resources to put a stop this blatant rape of our resources. Imagine taking away our fish stocks and turning around (with the help of the processed food importing parasites) sell us chemically preserved offal in a can parading as mackerel and tuna. But to get this kind of support will be very difficult if not impossible. We need to monitor those boats from St. Vincent which have not paid their dues. I am willing to bet that a fully equipped trawler fleet can save this country millions in food imports and provide us with the opportunity to process and export “exotic” and highly prized and priced fish to other markets. Flying fish melts and roes are becoming a delicacy to even rival the disappearing sturgeon. But who is listening even when these opportunities are brought to the attention of the powers- that- be.
    As far as hydrocarbons are concerned I don’t think we currently have the political will to go against the vested interests involved in the importation of finished petroleum products from T&T. Don’t forget Barbados is a commercial dependant and offshore market of T&T.

    PS: On a lighter note: Size does indeed matter! A 4×2 boring tool can’t be as powerful as a 8×5 drill when drilling for oil in or off Barbados (LOL!!!)

  34. Wily Coyote Avatar
    Wily Coyote

    @ ac

    Well ac lets see you do some constructive action to remedy the problems, these are not new problems but they are definitely getting worse. In action by individuals like yourselves, just rolling over and playing DEAD will not rectify the problems.

  35. ac Avatar
    ac

    Wild cayote

    i have already done some unlike you and others i did not use the forum to run away the tourists. also i made some meaninful phone calls to those in charge. now it is your turn.!

  36. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    ac | November 28, 2011 at 5:19 PM |
    “also i made some meaninful phone calls to those in charge. now it is your turn.!”

    Phone calls to whom? The Daily Mail in the UK or the HC in the UK?

    Certainly the local guys are just pathologists where this matter is concerned.

    Perhaps BTA need to get in contact Rihanna to design a PR strategy to counter this potential tourism “black” eye.

  37. ac Avatar
    ac

    Amused : Put myself in that woman shoes”
    One thing for sure i would take legal means to have the problem rectified and not villified a nation and its people in a tabloid newspaper.

  38. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ ac | November 28, 2011 at 5:32 PM |
    Good point!
    But which legal maverick? A local one or one from the UK whose attempts for justice would be entwined in the web of legal gymnastics fully described and criticised in a recent blog. Look what is going on with the CLICO crap. Legal vacillation over the clear and morally appropriate course of action regarding the mis-selling of insurance policies!

  39. islandgal246 Avatar
    islandgal246

    AC said “One thing for sure i would take legal means to have the problem rectified and not villified a nation and its people in a tabloid newspaper”

    Good for you that you have the means to take legal action. It is the victim’s right to do whatever she sees fit to get her story out there. You have the same IGNORANT attitude like the Police officers described by the victim. If that were me I would do the same if I had been treated that way. As they say, day does run till night catch it and it is catching up with us.

  40. islandgal246 Avatar
    islandgal246

    AC November 28, 2011 at 5:19 PM |
    “also i made some meaninful phone calls to those in charge. now it is your turn.!”

    Whopeee you have some high connections and you are letting us know how well connected you are. Well darling if it takes someone important like you to call and make meaningful complaints and suggestions then there is no need for anyone else to make that call. After all I do not keep such high company.

  41. ac Avatar
    ac

    @island girl

    Excuse me! what so ignorant about seeking legal recourse. I guess the correct thing would be to lam bast the country and let the whole world know what kinda a people live in Barbados and make it sound real ugly where it can damage the Tourism market ! What a way to go! i think i will do that when my turn comes!
    BTW how do you know if the story about the police is true! it would have been nice if she had mentioned the names easy to get them of the badge!

  42. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ ac | November 28, 2011 at 6:07 PM |
    “BTW how do you know if the story about the police is true! it would have been nice if she had mentioned the names easy to get them of the badge!”
    Should we suppose that after your calls to your well-heeled contacts we can expect to hear a plausible rebuttal of the British lady’s accusations? Meanwhile, back at the ranch, while the grass growing the horse (tourism) is suffering.

  43. islandgal246 Avatar
    islandgal246

    AC ….you have forgotten that the woman has the right to do so. It is her RIGHT if she wants to tell her story to the world! The more we cover up crimes like these the more the world will hear about it. Didn’t the police learn from the first victim? They obviously didn’t learn anything at all.

  44. uneducated Avatar
    uneducated

    @Yardbroom

    Each county’s pull factors for tourist visiting are differenct, Barbados’ distinct competiveness will be different to England, America etc. Hence I can take your logic and reason if European or Afircan or Caribbean tourists dont visit America they will suffer similarly. A lot of countires rely on the tourist dollar, that goes for developed as well as developing countires.

  45. Bajan To De Bone Avatar
    Bajan To De Bone

    Let me tell you how SICK these women are … Ya got ma bawlin … I nearly crucify de bitch.

    PS. I have run out of room on google online albums and I am looking for alternative free storage. Any recommendations?

    Aw is you wid ma, honey chile. Er, lol.

  46. David Avatar
    David

    For us to sit where we are and rationalize how this lady who was violated and raped should behave is a nonsense.

    It is her right to make decisions in her best interest.

  47. ac Avatar
    ac

    Island can you point to me where i said that the lady should not speak ou! I think you guys have foggy vision.

    If my memory serves me correct ‘ I think some one asked me a question as to how i would respond if i was the lady and i answered speaking for myself .Never once have i criticsed the woman for responding in any way shape or manner!but then again this is another red Herring being thrown out,But i am also ready for that too. So go sharpen yuh knives.

  48. Sayed Avatar
    Sayed

    A lot of arguing here. I guess Police Officers, particularly the individual officers themselves do not have the right to due process.

    I know you have a right to speculate and postulate and hypothesize, but a lot of the comments on here are just emotive and serve no purpose. Judge and jury you are. The very same people(police), whom the majority we agree are good, are not to be given due process when a complaint has been made.

    But according to one poster, they should summarily be fired. I am grateful for due process, for without it, the pitch fork wielding folk such as yourselves would hang countless innocent people. Step back, take a breath, analyze and discuss like the sensible people you claim to be to yourselves.

    You want to hold other human beings to high standards, then hold yourself, check yourself. Can you imagine if our Police Officers acted as you do? Without thinking, on impulse, ready to ‘kill kill kill’ every time they heard some one did something? Or saw some one do something?

    I for one find it strange she is now coming forward about this complaint after all of this time. I also find it strange that she would be treated with anything other than a red carpet, because tourists always receive red carpet treatment and we have always complained that the Police treat tourists better than locals. So which is it? Out the door with that theory?

    A Prime Minister of this country once said that he believed that based on the attitudes of Barbadians, if Barbados was invaded, Barbadians would side with the invaders.

    Tbh this allegation isn’t worth discussing, because your just throwing around unfounded criticisms back and forth. Nothing sensible can even come of it.

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    @Sayed

    You are missing the point.

    This story has been and will continue to be read by millions.

    How is the government of Barbados to respond?

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    @ ac | November 28, 2011 at 5:32 PM | I think you are answered by millertheanunnaki | November 28, 2011 at 5:48 PM. By the way, I have not run the tourists away. BU has not run the tourists away. Our public officials (read Police) have provided Mrs Davies and the Daily Mail the means (which they have accepted) to run the tourists away. All we are doing with the help of BU, is to ask why our public officials ran the tourists away and to try to ensure that it doesn’t happen again. By the way, in saying “public officials” I mean people whose wages we are paying.

    @ Sayed | November 28, 2011 at 8:53 PM. If you are the best spin doctor they can come up with, some people are in deep trouble. While you do the usual Bajan civil service thing of “investigate” (over a year later) and “interview” the Police who are going to lie through their teeth and have a “commission of enquiry” where people are going to lie through their teeth, Mrs Davies, seeing the tactic, has exacted her revenge. So you go ahead and do your thing and meanwhile Barbados is impoverished to the tune of some hundreds of millions of tourist dollars. Better still, go and join ac with your head stuck firmly in our lovely coral sand. Can you not get it through your head that the horse has bolted and is LONG gone and it is way too late to try to close the stable door. Can you not see that the only way of ensuring it does not happen again is to publicise it, discuss it and embarrass the people responsible into doing their jobs properly? By the way, it was I who said that the officers should be fired. I stand by that.

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