@robert

BU plays a role of many that is required in exposing and hatching ideas for those in the mainstream. To bring pressure it will call for a full press yes but we are playing our part.

On the matter of commenting anonymously: has anyone every logged on to the BBC, CNN, Huffington Post and others to read the comments? Hello? Most use handles. We need to understand that if a civil servant feels compel to share a concern on BU to use a real name means he couldn’t do it.

Let continue with the discourse and expose ish whenever it shows itself. The Internet is recording our story and when more and more out there ‘google’ decisions are being influenced little by little.

but to be honest the Internet can not do the hands on job required on a day to day basis to do the monitoring and investigation necessary as that with manpower . seriously lets admit that bajans are not proactive in such areas but rely on word of mouth and takes a lackadaisical attitude of waiting and see what happens .having a “watchdog committee ” made up of John Q pUBLIC works well in the public favour and also keep the politicians on the straight and narrow as the main stream media only seem to act as a lightning rod to divide and conquer

I am a citizen of Barbados and I was never forced to pledge allegiance to Elizabeth Mountbatten Windsor. That has and will never happen. How odd that I am already a citizen of a commonwealth state, but if I were to seek citizenship of another I would have to swear allegiance to a White woman …

If in the future by some amazing fluke in events I am elected to “serve”, I will NOT be permitted to enter Parliament

@ Enuff

Because then you get ‘sucked in’ to the system. You have to observe the standard loyalties or be branded a traitor and ostracised. Joe Public then feeds off the offal.

@ BAF

‘Elizabeth Mountbatten Windsor’…oh you are a one!

@ Observer at April 13 , 2012 at 5.29 pm
IT IS NOT I , neither do I share the sentiments of this OBSERVER . LOL..
@ Checkit-out.
How would you say that the Myrie affair may potentially embarrass ” several ministers ” especially the Prime Minister ? The issue at stake in this matter before the CCJ IN ITS ORIGINAL JURISDICTION is the limitation on travel placed upon nationals of member states . Miss Myrie is claimeng that her right to move freely in Barbados in accordance with the Treaty was breached by Barbados , a signatory to the Treaty . Peace .

@Caswell

By what yardstick have you evaluated the goodly gentleman?

An Observer; Thanks for clarifying what the Myrie case is all about and, concomitantly, the limitations on the issues it can address. My mistake. However, I still think that the case has the potential to provide negative publicity, even if obliquely, on the lack of dispatch of the PM in handling the original matter with dispaatch as well as the attempts by other ministers to gloss over the seriousness of the issue. I suspect wrongheaded action or inaction led to this CCJ matter. It could have been handled differently.

@ David…of Caswell

By video…can only mean one person…how interesting….I have heard whispers from the stratosphere that even the gods are dissatisfied….You ask by what yardstick of Caswell…please read my blogs (well I know you have) but….well, Caswell, over to you….

Ross

You still new, but in the early days so many, SO MANY ideas and solutions were thrown out by so many people some of whom are still here. Bush Tea still preaches a bit, but for the likes of me, other than for printing the t-shirts and panphlets, I runnin’ my Mout’ … and if as a result of some virtually impossible set of circumstances I end up runnin’ fah a seat, It gun be my Mout’ that I gun run on …. ha ha ha

BTW
BFP fah White people hear ..

@ BAF

Well beloved BAF, I understand, I think, everything you say. Yes, I’m new to this and there are all sorts of psychodelic nuances, flashing lights, voices off, dark alleys where even the most spotless might be dismembered, that I’m only just beginning to understand – and so keep my meat cleaver, my mouth too, by me at all times.
And yet in my own life I suppose I’ve always tried to create and build – even castles in the air fit only to pin dreams to. And it may be that your own experience is directed now to the now – here. But if you’ve really printed the T shirts and the leaflets then I know we are not so very far apart – and that too with or without T shirts.
Someone said somewhile ago that we shouldn’t forget the ‘third force’. Well, I haven’t; the poet, priest, philosopher, praetor in me won’t let me. Well, I know you understand………..though for some sleepful ones this will be a one star job. Lol.

How much does the Barbados taxpayer have to pay to defend this Myrie/CCJ matter? How often can disgruntled Caricom Citizens force the Barbados government to defend itself before the CCJ and at what costs? Are our treaty obligations under the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramos worth the potential costs?