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John Nurse
Superintendent John Nurse

I for one believe, if the government of Barbados has something to do concerning the workers of the public service they should do so for the with full transparency, and not this cloak and dagger style we have become accustomed to. I for one do not know which set of workers are next but the Barbados Prison Service is first out of de box as it seems to be.

Today the 23rd of July a meeting was held at H.M.P Doods for 158 temporary workers who were employed between 2005-2009. They were told they all have to re-apply for the post of prison officer by the 9th of August, mind you they are at least two bank holidays before that deadline. They were informed that they are 37 appointments, 47 temporary positions and all the rest would have to be subs; when did goverment know this?

At the end of the meeting people had to seek medical attention, the shock was too much to bear for some when told by the superintendent and his deputy that they could not fight for them. If this plan is to bear fruit we could see a grossly undermanned H.M.P and a breach of security seeing that it takes X amount of staff to efficiently run H.M.P. It can be said as times get harder for Bim that the prison population is expected to rise, can the days of an understaffed Glendairy be seen to be about to happen at Dodds?

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128 responses to “Barbados Prison Officers Under Fire!”

  1. Prodigal Son Avatar
    Prodigal Son

    @LOOK | July 24, 2013 at 5:01 PM |

    Prodigal Son

    Not long ago, you were a member of that inept corrupt government (BLP). Remember? Do you remember? They bumped you for Dale Marshall. Remember? Do you remember? Must have done something they didn’t like. You for some reason have remained a loyal die hard BLP fan.
    “””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””‘

    You are assuming very wrongly that I am someone you dreamed up…..a figment of your imagination.

    Look, I have never depended on the BLP for a thing. support the party because I know it is the BETTER party. I have said repeatedly on BU that all I want from a government is to govern in a way that would create the environment for the economy to grow and thrive which can generate jobs for its people, good roads, good police force for its people’s security and a proper health service. I have never or will never be a sucker like you in the fatted calf.

    You want to talk about how the BLP treat somebody? Look at how the DLP treated Leroy McClean and he is till a loyal Dem to this day!

  2. ac Avatar
    ac

    David you trying too hard

  3. ac Avatar
    ac

    BTW what happened to loveridge .yesterday we had a nice little conversation going when out of the clear blue sky he attacked the Civil servants…i was indeed speechless …Adrien you have some explaining to do here. stop hiding….

  4. LOOK Avatar
    LOOK

    Prodigal Son

    You said “support the party [BLP] because I know it is the BETTER party”. You, Prodigal son have not yet realized that Barbados is seriously ill, this is due in large part to fourteen years of BLP rule. Both parties are tainted with mess mountains. The BLP mess mountains though are more immense and much more embarrassing. Both parties entertained with greed and corruption. Ohhhhhhhh, Prodigal Son, did you know this, Owen Arthur stepped down in CLICO mud as did David Thompson. Arthur took CLICO money, just a lot less than Thompson. The DLP house is not clean, they know this; they entertained friends but the wrong ones, Leroy Parris and Lawrence Dupre. The BLP, though, spits on its foe party as if its house IS clean or cleaner, its not.

    The United States government just recently persecuted and convicted Jessie Jackson Jr., wife Sandi too. Their homes in Chicago, Illinois (USA) and Washington, DC will be confiscated also ALL monies invested in their Individual Retirement Account (IRA). Jessie Jackson Jr. after completing his prison sentence must pay restitution, 750,000 for looting his campaign fund.
    All should be persecuted and convicted: Owen Arthur, Mia Mottley, Dale Marshall, George Payne and Gline Clark; their properties (homes, cars, banking accounts, etc) should be conficated. David Thompson is now decease; his estate should be conficated; a righteous and honorable Prime Minister would do that. A righteous and honorable Prime Minister would also surrender its people transparency, not just because it’s needed, mostly because it was promised. The DLP promised Integrity Legislation, they also promised Transparency.

    Barbados is still THIRD WORLD, still too far behind.

  5. alvin cummins Avatar
    alvin cummins

    @David,
    This is the last word. Nuff said.

  6. LOOK Avatar
    LOOK

    @ Prodigal Son

    Owen Arthur forwarded letter to Prime Minister Stewart, asked him to take Mottley off his hand. You know this already, Right?

  7. Prodigal Son Avatar
    Prodigal Son

    Oh my dear, Look, what happened? Were you promised a place at the table with the fatted calf and was shut out? You seem very bitter. I am so out of this exchange with you!

  8. LOOK Avatar
    LOOK

    @ Prodigal Son

    I’m not bitter, not at all just examplifying FACTS so that in the future you will not approach me knowing before hand you will be embarassed and not do it again.

    Don’t support either party, not Bajan either.

  9. Yagga Rowe Avatar
    Yagga Rowe

    ou, Prodigal son have not yet realized that Barbados is seriously ill, this is due in large part to fourteen years of BLP rule.

    ——————————————————
    Liar
    How you could tell lie so ?
    country did well in 14 years
    How yuh could tell lie so
    They said the Emperor had on new clothes
    he was actually nekkid (naked)
    –yuh emperor !

    Yaggaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa !

  10. Yagga Rowe Avatar
    Yagga Rowe

    The government is in a pickle at the moment and as Sir Frank suggested a couple weeks ago the government (PM) needs to lead a meaningful conversation with Barbadians. A government is not some pie in the sky standalone configuration. It is an embodiment of the people in what it intends to achieve.
    —————————————–
    Time therefore for all to come together
    regardless of party
    crisis bring people together
    well crisis hit

  11. Carson C. Cadogan Avatar
    Carson C. Cadogan

    The first person who should be laid off at the Prison ought to be the Superintendent.

    Another square peg in a round hole. He, like the former COP, was pitch forked into that position by MAM simply because he is a BLP supporter. He was placed in front of qualified, trained, individuals more deserving of the honour of leading the Prison. He having no training in running a fowl coop furthermore a Prison.

    Under his distinguish stewardship one of the oldest prisons in the Caribbean was destroyed by fire. Yet he kept his job. In most places he would have been fired.

    Again under his leadership we had a terrible outbreak of a very serious disease at the Prison when it was transferred to St. Lucy. Again he kept his job when he ought to have been fired.

    It is past due for him to go home.

  12. LOOK Avatar
    LOOK

    The supertindent at that prison was put there by Mottley huh. The ex-police chief, Darwin Dottin I hear got his position from Mottley too. Sure would like to know his IQ, Darwin Dottin.

  13. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Carson C. Cadogan | July 25, 2013 at 4:58 PM |

    Glad to see you are back from your much deserved (although not long enough) hiatus from your usual racial hate and vile malevolence.

    Here you are once again being vindictively witch-hunting for senior public officers appointed prior to this wickedly evil DLP dispensation but in the same breath asking people not to promote gloom and doom about the mismanaged economy.

    Why don’t you advise A G to fire John Nurse the same way he orchestrated the removal of the CoP Dotitn?

    Let him try to “dottin” Nurse by sending him on interminable leave.
    What about abolishing the post of Superintendent of Prisons and replace it with “Director of Prison Services” with your chosen DLP man in place?

    PS: While you were on leave did you manage to tap into the reserves of your empty think tank to come up with the solution of cutting $64 million (exclusive of the Opposition’s salaries and perks) from the government’s payroll? What about considering the motto “home drums beat first” and clean out the useless unproductively lazy fat Cabinet with all of its deadwood only good for a “fire” (if you can fathom the pun)?

  14. Well Well. Avatar
    Well Well.

    Miller……..you know Carson is praying all of that goes away by the time he wakes up tomorrow, he thinks it’s over, more delusion.

  15. robert ross Avatar
    robert ross

    Well Well

    I am so glad you are ‘leaving me some space’. It must be very difficult for you.

  16. robert ross Avatar
    robert ross

    Yagga Rowe

    I’m glad that the poetry idea is catching on. It might just make people think before they scribble….and it does make a change.

    AC might try it since you don’t need conventional punctuation. Well Well too – in the name of verbal control when ‘substance’ is left to the imaginative intellect. It would be a wonderful medium for Bush Tea in his role as seer and oracle. BAF too of course -in the name of ‘Art’. Also Amused – to enable him to write ‘axed’ whenever he likes.

    Indeed, we might even get something published to show what serious, generous and authentic people we really are and so far above the ordinary round of ordinary folk.

  17. Well Well. Avatar
    Well Well.

    Ross………..did not even notice you were still around, totally irrelevant.

  18. LOOK Avatar
    LOOK

    http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57595711/house-ethics-investigating-michele-bachmann/

    United States House of Representative, Republican, Michelle Bachmann (Minnesota) like the Barbados ex-prime minister, Owen Arthur says she had done nothing wrong. Alike Arthur, Bachmann says she will not seek re-election. The United State House Ethics Committee, never-the-less is continuing an investigation of Bachman.

    It’s a wonderful life in Barbados. Corrupt lawyers and politicians are not investigated, persecuted or convicted.

  19. LOOK Avatar
    LOOK

    Minister of Finance, Chris Sinckler in September 2012 commissioned a special audit at the Barbados Water Authority (BWA). Auditing at the Town & County Development Planning Office, the National Housing Corporation (NHC) and the Barbados Water Authority BWA should be continuous. Massive theft and corruption in Barbados has going on far too long. Time to stop the music.

  20. Caswell Franklyn Avatar
    Caswell Franklyn

    Peripheral

  21. LOOK Avatar
    LOOK

    http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130725/METRO01/307250041?fb_comment_id=fbc_177290269117760_353822_177474495766004#f35bb0395a774e8

    Changes need to be made on that dot down there in the Caribbean (Barbados). It, Barbados is still THIRD WORLD, still too far behind. All should be persecuted and convicted: Owen Arthur, Mia Mottley, Dale Marshall, George Payne, Gline Clark, Sir Richard Cheltenham, Sir Charles O. Williams, Mark Cummings, Samantha Cummings, Leroy Parris too. Their properties (homes, cars, banking accounts, etc) should be confiscated. David Thompson is now deceased. His estate, never-the-less should be confiscated.

  22. robert ross Avatar
    robert ross

    Well Well

    You are a hoot. When you started on this blog no one gave you any mind and indeed you were told to be respectful. Now you are, as you suppose, ‘in’ – and this by cowtowing the standard views on this and that. What happened? Are you so desperate to be liked?

  23. pieceuhderockyeahright!!! Avatar
    pieceuhderockyeahright!!!

    Adriel Brathwaite, the current Attorney General, is not the brightest tool in the shed.

    In fact some have sworn that the position of “dumbest of the AGs Barbados ever had” is tied between him, Fumble and Dale Smiley Teets Marshall. and he looking like the first of de last.

    But “Slit Eyes Adriel” during a visit to our church, was fascinated by the sermon t Pastor *** give, some weeks ago, about Haman and the gallows.

    That story for those of you who doan go church nor read de Bible, speaks of a man who builds a gallows for his enemies but in the end he is hung on the very gallows that he built. We Pastor is a very powerful man with The Word and people did notice dat during the question session, slit eyes was asking alot of questiona and did pensive and ting.

    Well i get to hear dat all this hullabuloo about the prison officers under fire aint bout nuh layoffs, but in the fact that the obeah woman that Sincliar hire (and that Sealy also does use) speak to Adriel one night at at 8:18 pm some time las month.

    After she did trow some salt in boiling water, and it all dissolve, all two uh them idiots amazement (apparently de salt was supposed to mex a pattern and spell some words uh power) but de salt disappear and de woman say dat it mean “tings to come and people getting into hot water and disappearing”.

    Well Adriel BadWits get a epiphany and deduce dat, since it was 8:18 when dis ting happen, becausing he did a cadet at school, convert de time to military time, which mek it 2018.

    Battywits den come to de (incredible) conclusion dat “de hot water” de obeah umman vision is de trouble dat he (en de res uh dem gine be in) when dem term dun in 2018.

    He “oversight” dat de Integrity Legislation dat he gine pass in Parliament gine cause he to get “loss way” in prison (wid de rest uh dem idjits) like Haman and dat is why he did so tek up wid de gallows sermon de Pastor preach bout.

    So Adriel decide dat, de bessest ting fuh he to do is, to mek sure and choose de Prison guards correctly so dat dem would (a) treat he good when he in he call and doan let nuhbody “unfair” he (if you get my drift) (b) gi he liberties to lef de prison pun a night like dem Winston Hall used to do and (c) gi he mo food dan Buffalo Sinckliar and Fumble when Mia and Smiley teeth lock dem up in 2018.

    Please share dis article wid dem officers and let dem know dat Adriel Badwits did get a revelation en he acting pun it and dat he doan mean nuffing by axing dem to reapply fuh de positions

    Sis Headley tell my Madam dis story and what my madam tell me is de onliest truff dere is

    She sleeping now en i gine and get a few winks muself.

  24. LOOK Avatar
    LOOK

    @ Piece

    Adriel Braithwaite you say is not the brightest tool in the shed. Mottley, though is not the best flower pick in the BLP flower garden. Owen Arthur sensed this, offered her to the DLP.

  25. Well Well. Avatar
    Well Well.

    Ross…………you have become such a waste of space i nearly missed that dumb comment…………….if you have noticed on this blog, everyone who deserves it takes a hit from me including you, if you were not so puffed up with lawyerly dishonest arrogance you would have noticed, i am like this on any blog, any part of the world.

  26. robert ross Avatar
    robert ross

    LOL – sunshine you are swelling, toad like, with self-importance. I can’t imagine that anyone actually cares very much how you are or where you are. But if it gives you comfort to imagine it otherwise – rest in peace.

  27. David Avatar
    David

    @Alvin

    You did not want to give credence to the BU blog on this matter of course you should now that the Nation has published the story:

    http://www.nationnews.com/index.php/articles/view/unease/

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