@ Clone
“……why he cannot be the man that Bush Tea wants to run the country”
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Man clone, if Amused had not spurned Bushie’s request for legal representation, ..all like now you would be in deep legal doo doo….
Bush Tea NEVER advocated for Caswell to run no country….Wuh Bushie mad?
Bush Tea advocates for Caswell to become Chairman of the National Supervisory Committee.
..In other words, to be the head man responsible for KEEPING AN EYE on those selected to run the country….

BIG DIFFERENCE….!!!

Bush Tea

I feel I ready to run de Country. The first thing I would do is put the Defense Force to work and invade and conquer St. Vincent. And after I have taken care of any insurgencies I would next move to Grenada and onto Tobago, all within five years …! I would make Barbadians proud to be the master race, and change the “broken” trident to a new “rising” sun …!

@ BAFBFP | March 27, 2013 at 4:06 AM |
“and change the “broken” trident to a new “rising” sun …!”

Both the flag and anthem are in need of a makeover to reflect modern realities and aspirations for a new, braver and brighter future.
The updated flag should reflect a receding broken trident way in the background and in the foreground a rising sun as reflected in the song Welcome the Morning Sun by Vern “el veron del congo” Best and with a revised colour spectrum to include a tinge of red and black for good measure.

There is an upcoming event at which Bajans need to take the opportunity to make a clean break with its monarchical past and its continuing love-hate irrelevant relationship with a governance system totally out of place in a 21st Century meritocratic social ideal.

@ BAF

We are surprised that our brother is being indoctrinated by the likes of the Carnegies. Don’t you know who these people REALLY are?

@ BAFBFP | March 27, 2013 at 8:31 AM |

No sweat, BAF!
Sorry, but your superhero spaceman like Superman was low on Krypton today and could not save you from the grinding you got on Brasstacks today.
You found yourself caught between two radio heavy grinders; your intellectual alter ego DJ and your perennial enemy Ellis the joker of Batman fame.

The only consolation that can be offered is that the majority of listeners with a modicum of commonsense could have seen the point you were trying to drive home between those two thick planks ready to beat you into pulp to feed the massive ego of David E.
Maybe the recent video with the woman beating her child with a 2×3 plank could have acted as a fillip to David the masochist turn the screws on you.

Never mind that BAF, you made your point and those knuckleheads know it. Just watch what VOB does next as part of its Public Outreach programme embedded in the licence requirements.

The problem with baffy is that his bedside manner needs some work. You could have the greatest idea BUT if you cannot communicate and thus enthuse others by that idea it is all to nought.

@ Dennis Johnson | March 27, 2013 at 6:34 PM |

Sorry you found yourself caught between two warring factions. D E on one arrogant side and BAF the anti-American caller on the other just as arrogant side.

It was pure radio theatre today. Enjoyed it immensely.

But you know whenever DE is on BAF flies into a raging mood like a bull seeing a cow in heat and “red” in the way.

Only your ‘diplomatic’ ego stroking reaction to BAF when you are alone carrying the show seems to act as a cooling balm of influence to neutralize the raging BAF in his quest to ‘perfect’ this defective world. Even BAF himself realizes the hill of beans he is up against in this capitalist system.

But seriously though, BAF does have a point about the role of the media in this whole environmental movement in this small very ecologically vulnerable island with an extremely materialistically focused population.

The station needs to offer more help -as you personally have been doing for sometime now- to save these environmental dummies from themselves. Even if only your personal contribution is like the Dutch boy with his finger stuck in the hole of the dyke.

The miller looks forward to the day when you, Baffy, Bushie and the young Cyprian Jr. can sit around the radio table and tell it like it is once more to the breach.

yes miller education is a good thing to have but knoweldge can deliver a dangerous blow depending from the mouths of those its is being emitted. thinking of bushie extolling his vitriol for discipline by radio give me the heebeegibbies all i can think of is bushie explaining the right of parents to bushwacked their children gangstastyle..

Sorry Hants; that was discontinued with the merger [?] of Gospel and VOB. Programmes are to be uploaded to website, but [as you have observed] the podcasts are [as they say] “lagging”

Interesting concept that could work in Barbados.

http://www.rcto.ca/Program/RCTech_RENEW/default.aspx?gclid=CLKP37GWnrYCFciiPAodthkAIg#

US education badly in need of reform

Nearly half of the public schools in the US do not meet the standards set by the federal government.

“The dominant form has been multiple choice question..[which] is an over-emphasis on memorisation and [finding] a wanted answer rather than really thinking, and regurgitation.”

– Monty Neil, National Center for Fair & Open Testing

Recent studies show that US students are average or below average in reading, and science and mathematics, when compared to other nations.

Around 25 per cent of Americans who start high school do not graduate, and that is below the rate of most other developed nations.
Despite all of this, education has not been a key issue in presidential campaign speeches.
What little the Republicans say is focused on getting the federal government out of public education
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/insidestoryus2012/2012/03/20123298118691716.html

@ ac | March 28, 2013 at 9:39 AM |

If you want to see a turn around of that doctor/lawyer mindset why not tell your DLP administration to immediately cease the awarding of scholarships to study these things? Why not award them to young people who want to engage in the areas you so whimsically speak about not knowing your husband is in earshot of you putting down his profession in which telling lies is the test of success. Hypocrite, you are!

@ ac | March 28, 2013 at 10:51 AM |

So why doesn’t your administration get on with the “re-branding and re-imaging” as you are doing with the school renaming exercise (some of them are untouchable)?

Why not start with the lawyers and called them “Legal Practitioners of Terminological Inexactitudes”. And Doctors as “Glorified Witchdoctors with Western Gadgets”.

Poor Adam was a farmer who along with his wife got tricked by a snake oil lawyer posing as a doctor wrapped around a caduceus political double dealing pole of lies and deceit. Now you see the reason for Bim’s downfall.

If you educate the very young, that their only means of survival and a healthy existence is to grow their own food the backward, ignorant stigma attached to farming in Bim, will disappear. I have an example where I saw with my own eyes teachers from a primary school visiting with their charges removing these children from a rack of live seedlings when they showed interest, instead of explaining to them how the yams, potatoes and other food items they take for granted started as seedlings. I am still so angry at that image, that I could easily resort to violence because of the ignorance currently displayed in Barbados under the guise of development. One of my grandsons who was born in NY, on seeing seedlings in Bim was not aware that food was grown, he thought it all came from the store. When will people in Barbados see that they have been led down the primrose path to destruction by inadequate leadership.

@ Well Well | March 28, 2013 at 11:11 AM |
“THEY WILL STARVE, AND THEY SHOULD STARVE…………………obviously education has done absolutely nothing for the island’s population.”

So if you feel so strong about the state of farming and food security in Bim why didn’t you support ex-Senator Dr. Frances Chandler when she made bitingly sharp comments a few months back in the Senate debating the same issue of the high food import bill and the sorry state of agriculture?
Why was she treated so shabbily and called a white shadow and a colonial relic who looks down on black people?
Did you see how see was ungraciously removed as a mouthpiece for agriculture without a suitable voice replacement?

Miller……………….I earlier acknowledged that Chandlers obvious (to everyone except the black led governments) were on point with regards to the state of agriculture in Barbados and her very factual assessment that to ignore agriculture was to later have to deal with starvation on the island………..I never said anything otherwise. However, the way she speaks to and look down on others who she thinks are her inferior, I will not accept………………that has nothing to do with the fact that she is and continues to be right about the lack of interest in agriculture and the successive black governments who continue to ignore the fact that their people should grow their own food and not import garbage in the billions of dollars. Two entirely different subjects, the Miller……………..I have a lot of resentment for the governments who have neglected this vital industry, their attacks on Chandler were for all the wrong reasons and was only to hide their selfish, greedy and inept actions. .

By the way Miller……………..Chandler has been making those biting statements to the leaders of Bim for many decades, not just a few months ago……………….none cared, none would listen and do you see any of them listening now…………including blowhard Estwick.

@ac wrote ” When one truly assess the whole picture in reality no one wants to be called a “farmer”.

You do realise that farmers OWN their farms.

What are you all going to do if Canada destroys the Barbados low tax haven and concurrently there is a further drop in Tourists arrivals.

Beg the UN for food relief?

The DLP has been presented with a glorious opportunity to make Agriculture a priority in providing food security and decreasing the food currently being imported.

Unless the Harper government changes, Canada will kill the tax havens in the Caribbean.
I hope they have a change of heart given the dire consequences for Barbados but the threat gives the Barbados government a clear mandate to respond to this threat.

If you want to waste time and money on a study trying to decide what the new name should be for farming while people starve…………by all means, feel free……………..but don’t try to initiate your stupidity on the world, it will only work in Bim.

I personally know PHD holders throughout the world who are giants at farming, some have given up the degrees just to farm. I personally love farming and plan to set up a green house in North America and proudly market myself as a farmer………..where have the leaders gone wrong in Bim, this is unbelievable.

Well it is what it is.People are conditioned to beieve what they see ! hear!!and do and after a period of time acceptance. the fact is that the educational system has and is geared to deliver what is the staus quo and people have always agreed to that in principle and the system delivered.Such thinking is where we are in the sense thatwe have reached a dead end and the areas of professionalism is not enough to sustain an economy

@ ac | March 28, 2013 at 3:53 PM |

After taking such heavy blows from Well, Well the miller’s foot in your mouth would be like a lollipop in the mouth of a 7 year old; just pure heavenly delight.

But you need to come clean and accept you made a cardinal error of the 8th dimension.
What’s wrong with being called a farmer? That’s a name worn like a badge of honour by many people like Mr. & Mrs. Farmer.

For you information to restart your brain stuck in a quagmire of asymmetrical ignorance and confusion FARMING is mankind’s first and foremost activity. Without farmers there is no mankind. The animals would survive but not modern man in his billions. Until the scientists find a pill of eternal sustenance man will always be a farmer.

So shut up and admit to Well, Well you called it wrong, big time. Even farmers make mistakes. Ask Hants or even Adam!

@ ac | March 28, 2013 at 5:57 PM |
“As far as i am concerned i have no quarrells with the word “farmer” as i know and understand the importance but not everybody does.”

So who do you think you are? If an idiot like you can understand the meaning of the word “farmer” and can appreciate the vital role played by the farmer why can’t any educated Tom Mohammed and Harriette Fatima understand the importance of farming?

What is required, ac? A bout of starvation or 2 years of persistent drought in a period of not being able to earn foreign exchange? 2013 might just be the beginning of a 7 year period of real hardship, right ac?

@Miller

Don’t worry, our artificial inflated lifestyles will force us to accept in the future many things we scorn at the moment.