Amused

Also you have just highlighted the “very high” level of “service” which Bajans have to endure in establishments in Barbados. Your comment indicate that this “high” level of “service” is deliberate.

And you seem quite happy with it.

Then you wonder why all and sundry complain about our “service”!! No wonder so many of Barbados Underground consider you Lawyers as bottom feeders.

David I have been critical of these journalistic frauds that manhandle and manipulate the fourth estate in Barbados from as early as my last days at school.Anyone that has doubts needs only to write a letter to any editor that seeks to challenge any issue of the status quo and watch the way it is chopped up,if published at all.Big up to BU everytime.

OFF TOPIC

Forgive me for interrupting your little HATE FESTIVAL but this is interesting>>>>>>>>>>>

“Done in by $10…The Guyana-Barbados human trafficking case

May 7, 2013

A BDS$10 dispute over a sex fee ignited an argument, resulting in the customer reporting the brothel to police. That report led to the bust of the Barbados-Guyana human trafficking ring.

Now three people are locked up in Barbados and face a total of three dozen charges; five Guyanese girls are stashed away in a safe house giving evidence, and Guyana’s hapless police arrested and released a female organiser of the ring, giving their usual reason of there’s not enough evidence to lay charges.
Barbados police, on April 18, raided a bar in downtown Nelson Street and found the five girls clad only in bathing suits, purportedly working as prostitutes. The barman and proprietrix were arrested and slapped with 30 charges relating to human trafficking and false imprisonment. At the time police seized a quantity of passports, some said to be forged. The two will return to court on May 22.
The police swoop on the Bridgetown bar, fronting for an illegal brothel, was triggered by that customer’s complaint.
Eyewitnesses who frequent the bar said the fare for intercourse with any of the girls was $10 (US$1 = 50 Barbados cents), and is paid to the barman prior to entering one of the make-shift rooms for delivery.
This customer however, requested anal intercourse, causing the young woman in question to emerge from the room protesting. Management told the man that such an experience requires a higher premium. He refused further payment and demanded a refund, which he was denied. Irate, he left the establishment and reported the sour transaction to police.
It is understood that the accumulated intake from those standard $10 fares did not go to the girls, and $150 was deducted from each week’s total earnings for rent for the youngsters who shared their make-shift rooms of business. Though paying $150 per week each, they were made to bunk together on the small work-bed provided, when toiling was done.
Following the arrest of the barman and business proprietrix, information has been flowing, and that has so far led to the arrest of a 76-year-old woman, who sources say posed as a grandmother of young recruits from Guyana. She faces six charges, including that of human trafficking, and was scheduled to re-appear in court yesterday, May 6.
The pregnant proprietrix, initially bailed at $30,000, is now behind bars with the barman who was never offered bail. Guyanese sources resident in Barbados, and Barbadians, all who do not want to be named, indicated that the woman was taken in by police last week after she allegedly began tampering with witnesses and uttering threats.
She in turn has reportedly leveled allegations to police about a Guyanese-Barbadian counterpart who functions as a recruiter of girls for prostitution, and is now in Guyana. That information led to the Guyanese-Barbadian woman being arrested by Guyana police, but subsequently released.”

http://cavehill.uwi.edu/fst/news/climate-change-seminar–live-stream.aspx

Sorry…………the above quote and comment to Caswell can be attributed to the one and only Bush Tea………………..i forgot the quotation marks.

The remainder of the article>>>>>>>>>>>>

“Sources indicate that human trafficking between Guyana and Barbados for prostitution has been ongoing for years, and went unearthed by law enforcement because the girls held under bondage were kept on a tight leash. These women, including the five currently in a police safe house, were not allowed friends. Their conversation in the bar with prospective clients, were interrupted within minutes. Shopping expeditions into Bridgetown for clothes were allowed only if they were accompanied by the women now behind bars, or other controllers.
With travel documents of the women taken away upon their arrival in Barbados, they are made to prostitute their bodies until the operator is satisfied that the investment has paid off, or patrons no longer request their services. Then they are put on a flight back to Guyana with whatever the business owner declares as surplus income.

“A young girl get send home just last month [April] with $200. She work for $5,900 but all was bills,” a Guyanese said to Kaieteur News. Apparently that bonded servant’s offence was becoming too close to a young male patron who had taken a liking to her and wanted the woman out of bondage. The younger the girls, the greater the demand.
An observer spoke of seeing the 17-year-old now under police protection, on one occasion emerging from her room only to immediately fall asleep in a bar chair, tired after taking a high number of fares.
The three persons arrested in Barbados so far are Amelia Allison Joseph, 36, Keenon Tristan Chase, 22, and Joan Fernandez, 76.”

@Well Well
How you know so much bout this human trafficking matter and de fact that dem ent even skim de surface. You really overseas? Or you in BIM?

Oilman………………….if i tell ya, i will have to kill ya………..

@Well Well
and lawson

Yup, you can rest assured that some big up body always got a hand in these illegal money making schemes in BIM. But you know what? De system of lodge membership etc does protect dem!

The problem is those who control the judiciary and police are also lodge members.

@Carson
Good point. And knowing we police, them would not even mek sure first that de young man is not involved. You know how dem does operate. Brek down , come in and hold everybody.

One of the campaigner who worked with me in the run up to the last general elections as we took the fight to the Barbados Labour Party and I must say that our candidate won his seat against the Barbados Labour Party candidate, was shot last night by an unknown gunman.

He is currently in the Intensive Care Unit of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital fighting for his life.

I hope so as well.

CCC Hopefully the hospital takes good care of your friend

Carson, You should tell your deliquent government do something about the crime situation

If CUL merits concessions to the magnitude expressed in the document linked in this blog why can’t Subway be allowed 20% tariff on importing its processed meat to keep 30 people employed?

The folly of it all.

From all reports from the BAS and I agree with them,why should you allow a small fast food outlet to import their chicken at the cost of workers jobs in the poultry industry.

Then Kentucky and Chefette will want the same treatment.

Heard James Paul on the News this morning laying out the arguments against importation and I have to agree with him.

What is it with the business sector that they want to ‘suck at government bubbies’ all day every day till they make the nipples sore.;whether it is Tourism,Manufacture,retail,you name it.

David you repeating dont make ir right. Subway’s foreign exchange investment in Bdos cannot match Cost U Less. For starters Cost U Less employs at least three times more people than Subway. The massive construction of COL building ran into milllions and so on. We would love Subway to stay but the blackmailing of GoB by some of these two bit businessmen local and foreign has to end. I’m on James Paul’s side here. He ‘s been hinting for awhile that Subway does not support local agriculture as much as it could. One gets the impression he knows what he is talking about.

Caswell Franklyn | May 10, 2013 at 8:46 AM |

“Did Subway put anything in the kitty to merit tax concessions?”

Am I correct in assuming that “kitty” means “party coffers”

@Not taken
the next question is did they put anything in the BLP party coffers? I wonder if Caswell will reply to this with “you starting to understand” too ?

The PM is heading in the right direction to curb the buying of votes. The question must be asked though with only 60% to 62% of the electorate casting votes in elections for the past two decades or more do the voters bought really vote??

They love making he taxpayers pay, some have of a warped sense of madness lurking in their diseased brains that the black majority on the island owes them something, yet they take their own money and bank it all over Europe and North America, that is why i will be extremely happy for them when it all gets frozen.

Invest Barbados.

InvesTT

which came first. The chicken or the egg?lol

Hon. James Paul stting the record straight.

http://landing.newsinc.com/shared/video.html?freewheel=90640&sitesection=nationnewslocal&VID=24812548