Isn’t it ironic two of our finest are emblazoned on the from page of the Nation newspaper today. Miss Myrie must be chucking to herself. Nothing like earned media to make a case stronger in the court of public opinion.

If there was any semblance of pride, responsibility, national self-respect, there would be no need to fire anyone…. THE COMMISSIONER OF POLICE and the DPP would BOTH accept responsibility for the embarrassing failures and RESIGN.

…but such logic does not apply in banana republics.

The public who are considered nobodies accept abuse from those in any kind of authority. Many accept this a part of life in this country. When these nobodies become a somebody they see themselves as dictators and relish in delivering the very same abuse they experienced as a nobody. We have a really sick society.

We also do not understand the word shame, Barbados is being humiliated on the world stage by the actions of COP and the DPP. Yet there is no shame and expediency to solve this embarrassing situation. No one wants to operate the guillotine, if it were up to me I am willing to be the operator.

Bushie I am on the same page with you today.

@millertheanunnaki | December 12, 2012 at 1:03 PM |

Should read: ” As displayed by chiefs of the Police Forces in the UK AND CROWN PROSECUTION OFFICERS IN THE UK after which our system is patterned”.

@ Miller
…If he is on his way out it should be so much the easier to do the right thing and RETIRE NOW. It is not like this is the first such embarrassment….
The DPP fellow ….. is this the same chap who BFP accused of using a COP to assisted him in rent collection?….

Which brings us to the PM….
Now if these fellows are having difficulties in seeing the need to do the right thing and leave office, it is clearly the role of the PM to protect the country’s image by helping them to see clearly.
Ultimately, when a complete system fails as we are seeing, the REAL problem is somewhere floating at or near to the top…

Caswell will now advise about the CPO, the ASPCO, the MPHCC and all other kinds of civil servants, whose roles are specified in some obscure 19th century rules, to deal with this matter

BALONEY!

As Bushie had recommended with AX- as soon as national interests are threatened, the PM has a DUTY to step in and make MACRO CHANGES (like fire two ministers and retire three public officers), not get involved with mad women and petty details….

Same nonsense here.
Bushie would have a 5 minute public statement advising of the retirement of the COP and DPP and that the new appointees had three months to have the situation fully corrected and ventilated….or else…

‘If there was any semblance of pride, responsibility, national self-respect, there would be no need to fire anyone…. THE COMMISSIONER OF POLICE and the DPP would BOTH accept responsibility for the embarrassing failures and RESIGN.

…but such logic does not apply in banana republics”

WHY SHOULD THEY? THESE EMBARRASING SITUATIONS WITH RESPECT TO THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE HAVE BEEN GOING ON FROM TIME IMMEMORIAL AND NO ONE HAS BEEN ASKED TO RESIGN BEFORE. SO WHY NOW? THE POLICE AND MEMBERS OF THE JUDICIARY AIDED AND ABETTED BY THE SYSTEM AND PUBLIC COMPLIANCE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN ABOVE THE LAW.

The majority of these charges leveled at the RBPF has come about in the last 4/5 years, irrespective of the fact that we have a brilliant lawyer/ex AG, now as Prime Minister, and two hotshots foreign trained persons as Attorney General and Chief Justice respectively.
Perhaps Barbados should follow ex IMF boss Strauss Kahn, and reach an out of courts settlement with Ms Myrie, to save this country any further embarrassment.
Barbados in a relatively short space of time has buggered its credibility.

Discuss politics or religion and we get opinions from everyone. This issue, who cares.

Insolence and incompetence from the Public Service is NOT a police only matter, but becomes a big deal when it makes the BBC press and tourism is affected.

Campus Trends, two idiotic teenagers are sent to prison and those entrusted with building code enforcement, those entrusted with the responsibility of entering dangerous environments and saving lives, and those who are expected to catch the perpetrators after a similar event took place only weeks earlier get to walk away scott free …!

African snails are now a national Infestation and NO one gets the boot …

I have NO sympathy for the police, none … the arrogance shown in their treatment of civilians overshadows every good that they can claim responsibility for, but they are just the tip of the iceberg.

THE COMMISSIONER, THE POLICE and THE DPP: They have singlehandedly been responsible for erasing a large proportion of our tourism business, principally from the UK, due, among other things over years of total inadequacy, to:
AMUSED, DO YOU REALLY BELIEVE THAT?

Balance said… “not true. the pele scandal , the stokes scandal, the barbarees hill scandal, the doctor rat scandal, the ricky singh sons’ drug scandal all happened over thirty years ago.it is not fair to highlight the last four to five years only.”

Balance did these scandals make it to the UK tabloids? The internet wasn’t around 30 years ago, news today takes seconds to reach millions. People have a forum to vent and the UK tabloids are always looking for a story to tell. Get real, the internet is like a microscope and if you don’t realize the power of it you are really out of it and unbalanced.

IN BARBADOS NO OFFICIAL IS HELD TO ACCOUNT FOR ANYTHING!
Don’t you get it?

So am i to assumed that the CJ silence in this issue could be that he is tainted by the system for which he is to give guidance and direction when all else fails

@ balance | December 13, 2012 at 5:47 AM |
“AMUSED, DO YOU REALLY BELIEVE THAT?”

So what’s so hard to believe about what Amused is claiming?
It shall soon come to fruition when tourists arrivals from the UK drop further by about 20-30% starting this winter season. Barbados is no longer being pushed as a preferred Caribbean destination.
Don’t be fooled by those BA arrivals. They are primarily destined to cruise ship connections. Take a visit to the GAIA and you will see what is really happening with those arrivals.

Barbados has done this tourism harm to itself. Not the UK market. Just check out Cuba and Jamaica and you will see to where the erstwhile Barbados traffic has been diverted.

When A nation reputation is/at stake everything else takes/abackseat and it is incumbent that the those under attack does or say something to combat the negative fallout. COURT! hiding behind that cloak is not the answer.

Fire who ? Fire you , Fire Me
Not me
but you
yes you
couldn’t be ?
then who
Not me !

@ David:

Is it today that the DPP has to give his opinion about this matter (Crawford charge on rape) proceeding in further in the Court?
If he is indeed not guilty then this man has suffered untold damage to his reputation and psyche.

If the case is dismissed, Mr. Crawford ought to sue the government for a tidy sum but after Myrie has been awarded her mighty windfall without pole dancing and the lawyers their millions.

This case would make very good ‘ingredients’ for a movie or TV drama called a “Farcical Rendition of the Case of Mistaken Penile Identity”.

Can’t some local dramatist get cracking and copyright the damn ‘tragi-comedy’.
Where is our cultural initiative? Or do we only see culture as music and “wukking up” to make the likes of Harry callihan take the mickey out of poor Bajans?

Miller,
according to two BBC News reports today, charges against Mr. Crawford have been dismissed and there was no DNA edidence to link him to the rapes.

And to think that something as obvious as this needed procedure to complete. Stupse, Andrew Pilgrim now gotta get pay, so to the Judge and Lord knows who else, because procedure had to followed. I would luv to gather up all these people in the Legal and Law enforcement fraternities, put them in a ::::::::, light a ::::::::::::, and ::::::::::: them all ta shit up …!

‘Police have told him (Andrew Pilgrim) they have not yet got back DNA evidence in relation to Mrs. Davies’ attack’

Not got it back after 20 MONTHS!

Just think about the damage this has done to our tourism industry and now the taxpayer will be faced with hefty compensation payment to Mr. Crawford.

@ Amused,
as happened in St Lucia to which the UK tourists that are staying away from Barbados have repaired instead.

They better be careful in St. Lucia at last count something like half dozen tourists were murdered there this year already. Killers in St. Lucia recently murdered a 72 yr old tourist who was there researching hereitage connections. Adrian Loveridge never comments on the regular murder of tourists in St. Lucia when he boasting on their arrivals. He like you Amused he quick to villify Bdos without the facts.

LOL @ BAFBFP

I would luv to gather up all these people in the Legal and Law enforcement fraternities, put them in a ::::::::, light a ::::::::::::, and ::::::::::: them all ta shit up …!

@BAF

Were this a man of means he would NOT have spent 18 months in jail. Deal with it!

In light of what has been happening in recent times, where members of our “finest”, have been accused of rapes and assaults, perhaps the CID and the COP, should start looking at their own, now that Mr Crawford has been completely cleared, thanks to the victims.

Will someone PLEASE fire Dotty, if only to shot him the f*** up. He and his merry bunch of goons and that goon Leacock have cost this country hundreds of millions of dollars in tourism dollars. Dotty and Leacock HAVE to go! Without pensions. Let them get jobs as computer salesmen – that is FAR more within their competence. Amd take the Registrar with them.