Happy New Year David

YOu know David while i agree with you on (a) the inadequacy of the quantum levied for illegal dumping (b) the fact that with the big up IT courses that the Sir Hilary at UWI does tout dat we ent got no resident capacity to do any of de simplistic software fuh dimwit Lowe et al to use across all we government departments and (c) de concern we all should have that, if it is true, dat your subordinate staff contrling implementation of your directives i would wish to put forward another perspective. (Man i like i start dis year wid alot uh perspectives LOL)

But before i lef out de UWI angle i may have to retract my suggestion about dem using dem bright ass students to assist Lowe en ting,

Using Dem people pun de hill might not be de bes-sest ting, cause dem got deom own problems too causing de group befo Sir Hilary (de former radical) import Banner to do all de UWI courses and web collaboration and enrolment and ting at great cost and it still ent wukking, si it might not be too wise to employ dem given the limited vision of dodo birds Gibbs and Moseley.

Meanwhile back at the ranch….

You evah did own a dog or a cat David?

Well let me give you dis profound bit uh Confucian wisdom. Did you know that a cat nor a dog DONT SHIT WHERE IT DOES SLEEP?

Even a dog doan do what we bajans does do!!

We bajans are a nasty bunch of animals David. We take no pride in our surroundings and behave worse than the cat and dog!

I doan point no finger at Donville nor Lowe whu afta all you got to giv ovah a pinch uh salt to dem fellows, it is we who is to blame.

If the DLP as part of the outgoing actions of this administration would get marston to enforce community sentences, while wearing big, oversized orange jumper suits for offenders, post applying a $5000 fine, did illegal dumping would stop.

But then again Marston ent going administer no community sentence pun he fren dat does drive dat Mercedes Compressor dat does come every friday en dump he stuff pun de spot goin up by WIRL

You know, funny this should come up> I spoke to a gentleman last year, no names necessary-it involved an onion drying machine donated to bim years ago by I believe, he said the Canadians. Now mind you, this machine was worth millions donated to the BAMC?? I think at that time. However, through the same petty squabbling the machine was never used and sat out in the rain rusting for a good five years while they squabbled. Eventually, after feeling heartsick, one gentleman as an agriculturalist, requested a meeting to offer to either rent or lease this onion drying machine so bajans would not have to forever be importing onions, as he told it, they took months to have a meeting to decide whether to allow this, at the end he was told no, he could not rent or lease the machine and the onion drying machine stayed in the rain and rusted away for more years while the recipient of the island’s tax dollars bickered, and squabbled and argued about who should have control. The onion drying machine was never used, now we know why Canada got fed up of trying. Do you think the outcome will be any different with this bunch????? Barbados stii has regular onion shortages and still import onions, I believe the gentleman said it happened at least 30 years ago, as we can see, nothing has changed.

A few miscreants with their filthy habits of littering, makes a mockery of what clean up campaigns such as Clean Up Barbados seeks to achieve.
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” A few” ? sir. Should that not be a ‘ a few hundred thousands ?”
But who is listening? Certainly not those in charge, and those who litter.

The lack of feedback on this topic says it all doesn’t it?

Here is the link to that pissture,
http://www.flickr.com/photos/83717797@N04/8333771253/

Colonel Buggy wrote “And here is a popular and disgusting form of dumping”

At least the material being dumped is biodegradable.

To be fair old men have to pee often and there are very few public toilets in Barbados.He could have been more discrete maybe?

What is a Freighters Waste Certification System?

Buggy
Don’t knock ’till you’ve tried it. There is nothing like pissing in the wild … HA HA HA. Its a stress reliever … tek it from me …!

Well Well | January 1, 2013 at 3:27 PM |
When people continue to hear, see and smell the same thing over a period of time they become desensitized. If any of you have ever lived in cities like NY you will understand what i mean. It just does not bother you anymore.
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And that is why we are campaigning to remove these unwanted sights, sounds and smells, if not for ourselves who have become “desensitised’ , then for our next generation, who will have a head start on keeping their surroundings clean and tidy.
I wish you had not gone down that line about New York.
I have not lived or visited New York, preferred other cities like the one below,where I spent a number of years
http://www.muenster.de/stadt/livcom/index218.htm

Another issue which we as a tourist oriented place need to tackle is commercial houses, especially in Bridgetown, putting their garbage on the sidewalks and side roads to compete with pedestrians and vagrants. Better needs to be done!

@BAffy

A good place to check is the corner of the building which houses Nelson Arms on Broad Street. On the outskirts of town check by the Elcourt Pharmacy off Belmont Roundabout.

On 1 January 2013 21:24, Barbados Underground

In today’s Nation once a again the Minister of Health is threatening /promising to deal with those back yard garbage burners. With election around the corner, a promise is a great comfort to us suffering fools.
Not to quote Mr Duguid.

One day I stopped behind a yellow mini bus at a traffic light. Some one in the back of the bus threw out some garbage, I blew my horn. As soon as the lights changed and the bus pulled off, the jackass litterbug pushed his body through the window and threw out a Cheffette box, a pet bottle, a cup and paper napkins. I could not believe that a grown man could be so stupid.

This is the kind of uncivilised behaviour being manifested by stupid people who do not know or care about our environment. I happen to have a corner lot and I am forever picking other people’s thrash they drop. Bajans just do not care about the environment or Barbados for that matter.

I sometimes wonder if a clean up campaign would bring any lasting results. Maybe I can still dream!

@Prodigal Son
I sometimes wonder if a clean up campaign would bring any lasting results. Maybe I can still dream!
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“Lasting” on this matter mean until sundown,or when no one is around, which ever come first. Jack-in-the box gully,and the Belle Gully are typical examples why a clean up campaign is meaningless, without the necessary follow up policing.These are two of the many sites which have been cleaned up time after time,over the years , just to revert to their stinking conditions a a short while later. Bajans on the whole think that they are being smart when they dump without being caught,even when that dumping threatens our water supply. Check out the Belle area near the Water Works pumping station.

A Freighters Waste Certification System sounds like something complicated which has been borrowed from another country where they have the resources to run and manage such a system. What exactly would it be intended to do for us and how would it be managed?
I suggest that all we need is a ramping-up of current practice and law. Mount a proper advertising campaign to tell people that dumping is unacceptable – and continue it long-term.
Reinforce that by making examples of people who dump. Don’t just put the pictures of a few lone dumpers in the paper; take them all to court and fine them – on make sure it happens on a regular basis when you catch them.
People dump their rubbish because they don’t feel it is important to do otherwise. Consistency of message and application of law is the only thing that will change that.
As an aside, what happened to the photocopier dumped on the highway? The Minister said he would make that a priority to address. It should be easy to track down ownership. What happened to that?

My dear mother always told me not to shake hands with men, that men pee all about the place and then don’t wash their hands afterwards.

I fear she was right.

Simple Simon | January 1, 2013 at 11:15 PM |
If the public toilets in Bridgetown were a plentiful as clean, and as well supplied with soap, paper and warm water I am sure that it would cut down on public peeing in Bridgetown.
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Shortly after coming back home some 30 plus years ago, I had cause to use a public convenience in Bridgetown. That was my first and last time,in Bridgetown and Barbados for that matter. I could not believe my eyes, not to mention my nose, when I walked into that shit house, there is no other name for it, which was located just east of Mrs Ram. No description is necessary here, and it has taught me ,and my family to do our business before coming into Bridgetown.
And yes many of the same people who are p& s -ing in the back alleys of Bridgetown are the very people who forced the authorities to closed down these health hazards.
Perhaps we need to install in Bridgetown, some of those urinals we see in Amsterdam and Paris.
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How have they managed to deal with this problem in Singapore …? Ahum … ahum …

Baffy dem ent got nuh black people dey!

Welcome to Barbados, where clearly alot of people dont see anything wrong with alot that is practiced and is WRONG there. Hopefully, education will one day sink in.

islandgal246 | January 2, 2013 at 7:34 AM |
Colonel your links not working can you repost?
I know I wouldn’t be touching or shaking any man’s hand in Barbados AT ALL! Especially in Bridgetown.
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Bajan men may have the monopoly on the open peeing thing, but certainly not on the failure to wash hands their hands afterwards. Recently the operators of a cruise liner out of a UK port, on which many passengers went down with a virus, blamed it squarely on the failure of many passenger to wash their hands after using the toilets.
So be careful also how you shake hands in Paris, London, New York and Bush Hill.

Here is a way that the Russians supplement their toilet facilities at weekends and at large gatherings. These bus- like vehicles are temporarily connected to the existing sewerage system.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/83717797@N04/8339876436/

The vidoe though seems funny presents a case of where an uneducated public is unawre of the severe health hazard that pissing can contribute in open areas to the enviroment. not to mention the creation of superbugs which can easily be created in such an enviroment in tropical countriies due in part to the bacterial content derived by the piss and the conditions for rapid germination which then gets into the atmosphere by way of wind , water , and other natural sources