Wade Gibbons
The following was extracted from Wade Gibbons’ Facebook Page. He is a reporter for Barbados Today and is a former policeman.
Some excellent administrative and proactive moves by acting Commissioner of Police Tyrone Griffith. He is going to make a terrific leader of the RBPF, a position he should have held a long time ago.
The phones of innocent law-abiding Barbadians could not have been tapped by Dimwit Dottin without the knowledge and participation of some in the Special Branch which Dottin once headed. It was an ongoing criminal act by Dottin, deserving of imprisonment and not pension, and as such the hierarchy of that specialised department should have squealed on the thug and not be drawn into his criminality. No commissioner of police – an incompetent one at that – can compel a police officer to commit a crime.
If the force is to be purged of Dottin’s criminal presence, then of necessity some house-cleaning has to be done in departments such as the Special Branch. One transferred from that department is as close to me as a brother and I love him as such but wrong is wrong. Now that the Dottin cancer has been removed the organs of the body should gradually start to heal and return to a state of normalcy. Full praise to Commissioner Griffith. May God guide your every move.
These are very serious allegations, so why isn’t he locked behind prison walls as of yet? It really makes one question the validity of these allegations, doesn’t it? But what do I know…?
A libelous and nasty piece of writing. And IF Dottin was tapping phones, don’t you think there IS a reason? THAT would be interesting.
Why not ask the Interpol THEIR opinion on the issue.
And who is to say phones are not now being tapped.
Seems some are very sensitive about their phones being tapped.
I could not care less, I have nothing to HIDE.
Did anybody observe this matter was mentioned carried in the Flying Fish & Coucou section yesterday?
Crusoe, I would not go as far as to say that there has been an unfair, as well as an ineffective representation of the facts in this case, but there is some cause for alarm in my estimation. Nevertheless, one thing that is certain in this case and that is, evidence is always subject to interpretation by fallible people who do not possess all of the information.
Crusoe, one important point I ought to have made regarging Police Commissioner Dottin’s actions, with respect to phonetapping in Barbados.
Now, you called the statement about libelous, and I am quite sure you have your legitimate reasons for arriving at such a conclusion.
But, I think that the entire statement above premise solely upon the issue of whether or not Police Commissioner Dottin, had within his state delegated powers. The justificable cause under the laws governing phonetapping in Barbados, to pursue such course of action.
It would be of great interest to ascertain from some of the legal minds here, as to whether or not Barbados has what is known as a State Security Doctrine? If it does… then perhaps, this should shed a comprehensive light on the Commissioner’s course of action.
Quite frankly, if there is such a doctrine in placed in Barbados. It would give the Commissioner the kind of latitude that is needed to phonetapp whomever he deeds a thread to the vital interest of the island of Barbados. Private citizens, police judges, lawyers, etc; it doesn’t matter… Such doctrine gives the Commissioner the unilateral authority to prosecute such actions (!) But, I stand to be corrected on this matter, because it is beyond my scope of knowledge.
The Bush Administration used the Patriot Act to wiretap those persons who were thought to have been a threat to the national security interest of the United States of America. (And it was done with the consent of the Congress of course!) So with that being said: if the Attorney General of Barbados as well as the Commissioner of Police, acted on this same premise. Who are you or I to question the legitimacy of their actions?
Furthermore, the Attorney General of Barbados as well as the Commissioner of Police, can present a defense in court predicated upon the fact that the national security interest of Barbados was being threaten. And it was therefore necessary to wiretap those persons who were thought to have been a threat to the vital interest of the country. To legitimized their course of action with respect to these allegations.
Now on the other hand, if the Commissioner of Police acted out of political / personal motive predicated upon a pathological hatred. Then there is cause for serious concern in this case….
I am relieved that this whole unpleasant episode is over but there are two questions I ought ask: did Mr. GIbbons acted with a seditious libel or with the general criticism that threaten to diminish respect for a government official?
I am relieved that this whole unpleasant episode is over but there are two questions I ought ask: did Mr. GIbbons acted with a seditious libel or with the general criticism that threaten to diminish respect for a government official?
Can you further elaborate? of what episode do you speak ?
Perhaps, I am wrong…, but I thought Anderson Invader Bowen had died, and the Commissioner of Police Dottin had been replaced? So in my estimation, that obviously brought this unpleasant episode to an end right? Unless, there is more to this case that hasn’t as yet reached the public eye?
“Perhaps, I am wrong…, but I thought Anderson Invader Bowen had died, and the Commissioner of Police Dottin had been replaced? So in my estimation, that obviously brought this unpleasant episode to an end right? Unless, there is more to this case that hasn’t as yet reached the public eye?”
Perhaps I am wrong as well but as far as I am aware Mr Darwin Dottin has been sent on administrative leave whatever that is and Mr Tyrone Griffith who did not even apply for the vacant post of Deputy Commissioner when the applications for the vacant post were advertised has been installed as Acting Commissioner. O n second thought, however I spin it, he was replaced until the courts decide if the replacement is fair and just and permanent.
Balance, I’ve gathered from your last statement that there is something very troubling about Mr. Dottin’s removal from office?
@ Balance
I am not afraid to state unambigiously, that I do not possess all of the facts as it relates to this case. But, I am beginning to suspect that Police Commissioner Dottin is a PAWN in the grand scheme of things. Now, is there any plausibility to my interpretive extrapolation of what you have written thus far?
This entire affair seems more like an ideological struggle between the movers and shakers and power – brokers in Bridgetown.
@ mark Fenty
We are all beginning to suspect that don’t have much to do….
Since you admit to NOT having the facts, don’t you think that anything that you may be “beginning to suspect” should be of NO IMPORT to intelligent onlookers..(.as dictionary would have put it.)..?
Bush Tea, let me say this much: I believe that evidence is always subject to interpretation by fallible people who do not possess all of the information. Do you agree? Well, that is what I meant to convey… when I expressed that fact that I did not possess all of the facts as it relates to this case. Now, I am quite sure you’ve heard the perennial – dictum that states, ” There are three sides to a story: your side, my side, and the right side.”
Bush Tea any intelligent observer ought to speculate in this case because the facts are not as cooked and curried there ought to be. Unless, you’re willing to accepted Mr. Gibbons side of the story without care deliberation?
Bush Tea any intelligent observer ought to speculate in this case, because the facts are not as cooked and curried as there ought to be. Unless, you’re willing to accepted Mr. Gibbons perspective without careful deliberation.
@ Fenty
Steupssss 🙂
Mr. Gibbons, I felt that you did a excellent Job with the instrument of the pen. When you endeavored to exposed what you obviously thought were wrong doings on the of the Institution of the Royal Barbados Police Force. But it certainly striked me as odd that the person who had made such damaging allegations; hadn’t the testicular fortitude to defend some of the allegations leveled at him by the BU readership.
Mr. Gibbons, I felt that you did a excellent Job with the instrument of the pen. When you endeavored to exposed what you obviously thought were wrong doings on the part of the Institution of the Royal Barbados Police Force. But it certainly striked me as odd that the person who had made such damaging allegations; hadn’t the testicular fortitude to defend some of the allegations leveled at him by the BU readership.
I felt that you did “an” excellent job: sorry for that grammatical mistake…..
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