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George C. Brathwaite, founder and interim president of BAJE
George C. Brathwaite, founder and interim president of BAJE

Given the political issues, crises, machinations and shenanigans impacting on Barbados over the last three years, and especially with the types of defences made by and for PM Stuart and his, the two poorest
performing Cabinets in living memory, several observers have concluded that the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) is superior to the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) regarding the use of shaded innuendo, political ‘spin’ and crass propaganda.

Noam Chomsky presents the view that “even though people have the freedom to make their own decisions, they must guard themselves against powerful influences that intend to direct what they think and do in an attempt to maintain power.” Barbadians have to be very mindful of the indistinguishable moles and figurative mules that are antithetical to the interests of working class Barbadians and their offspring.

David Thompson speaking at the first DLP annual conference after he  became prime minister in 2008, reminded a DLP audience still basking in its long-awaited electoral victory that “we are a family and we have a duty to look out one for the other.” As if that was insufficient, David Thompson coached his followers directing them to understand that in no uncertain terms should they shy away from commitment to the DLP because, “your duty is to play your part in maintaining the honour and dignity of this institution, especially now when it forms the government.”

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109 responses to “DLP Propaganda, Indoctrination, Control: Moles Hiding, Mules Executing Poisonous Arrows”

  1. Vincent Haynes Avatar
    Vincent Haynes

    Chuckle…..I wonder does anybody real want to run this country and even more pertinent does any body have a vision for the future of this country to sell to the populace?

  2. PLANTATION DEEDS FROM 1926-2013 AND SEE MASSIVE FRAUD ,LAND TAX BILLS AND NO DEEDS Avatar
    PLANTATION DEEDS FROM 1926-2013 AND SEE MASSIVE FRAUD ,LAND TAX BILLS AND NO DEEDS

    Vincent Haynes @ YES

  3. Vincent Haynes Avatar
    Vincent Haynes

    I and the majority of Bim are willing to listen to a coherent exposition on this vision…..so bring it on…..hopefully all forms of religion will be excluded as well as the failed western concepts…..would love to hear something novel…nothing wrong with looking at the concepts of previous ancient empires of rough geographic areas found in places such as Africa,China,India,South America and Rome of more modern vintage.
    Their is nothing new under the sun….so be creative and produce an amalgam of proven concepts of the past that will carry our dearly beloved country forward,after all we are highly educated kudos to UWI.

  4. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    You want a vision of Barbados’ future….?
    Try Jamaica and Guyana….
    …except that those people are NOT brass bowls. They have been able to face hardships and rise up with pride.

    Visualize economic ruin happening among proud, lazy, useless, brass bowl Bajans…whose best assets are our abilities to pick at each other based on which political pack of nitwits we choose to worship…(.not picking on this particular PhD candidate…. 🙂 )

    …not a pretty picture….perhaps its best not to visualize Vincent.

  5. Vincent Haynes Avatar
    Vincent Haynes

    Chuckle…..sad to say,you are not wrong BT…..but hope springs eternal….
    I believe we are of the same vintage and when I recall the vision we had in the 60’s….and when I see where we are today……and the lack of any coherence in our leadership…..we shall await the child to lead us..

  6. ac Avatar
    ac

    George brathwaite most of title applies most appropriately to you fitting like a glove,,

  7. balance Avatar
    balance

    Bush Tea | September 11, 2013 at 10:38 PM |

    “You want a vision of Barbados’ future….?
    Try Jamaica and Guyana….
    …except that those people are NOT brass bowls. They have been able to face hardships and rise up with pride”
    You really think we are heading in that direction bushie? May the good Lord forbid. Having grown so comfortable with masking our sores with plaster for some time now; Do we have the requisite resilience as a people to combat and withstand those devastating societal and economic challenges which tested the fortitude of the peoples of Jamaica and Guyana.

  8. ac Avatar
    ac

    with all the economic hardships over the last five years and previous years when Barbadians had to face similar challenges of high unemployment and soaring food prices ,Bajans have been able to demonstrate that above all odds the will survive yet the bush T’s have continue to underestimate the will and the strength of a people and a nation despite the partisan politics hunkers down and pulls together when push comes to shove,

  9. El Kabong Avatar
    El Kabong

    HA HA HA …man fool dem once twice, why not three times?…..computer lay offs nah..wid help from Rosie and Baloney….we got them Down Pack…they won’t know what kick them…call me Pinocchio I doan give a FCKU….

  10. Carson C. Cadogan Avatar
    Carson C. Cadogan

    Sorry, don’t have the time to read all of this foolishness, and people thought PDC was bad!!!!!

  11. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    Oh ac shut up fuh once nuh!
    What pull together what? ..you and George? Steupssss!!

    Can you imagine we have a situation where we DO NOT HAVE THE MONEY to maintain the nonsense of paying people (mostly to do nothing), and yet we have people on the BLP side goading the government about layoffs….
    WUH UM IS ONLY OBVIOUS….either Stewart lay them off or wait two months and let the damn white people from the IMF come and lay us all off…..

    Any reasonable brass bowl would listen to Checkit-out and let us ALL come together and take a COLLECTIVE pay cut so that the smaller cake can be evenly distributed and we are able to meet our obligations….BUT NO!!!
    …a lotta shiite talk from a set of UNREASONABLE brass bowls.

    We prefer to wait and let the IMF come and give us the pay cut through a devaluation by 50%…..

    Wunna could imagine the BLP pass a law to REMOVE that option of pay cuts from a government? Is that not the HEIGHT of brass bowlery?

    Wunna could imagine that the DLP want to cut expenditure but keep on all staff at the same pay? Is THAT not even higher brass bowlery?

    …and apart from Checkit-out none of the rest of wunna bowls don’t seem to see the shiite being played on us all…..

    SORRY Mr. balance, but we are totally fcuked….as Islandgal would have put it….

  12. El Kabong Avatar
    El Kabong

    @Bushie
    Why the B rASS they doan get rid of some of those ministries FIRST ! FIRE Surkeroo,Kellyman, Haf-dead denis,and lil boi Lashes.Wasted money and bare crass I dare say. Jobs that draining down $17,000 each month. Instead we hearing bout maids and a messenger, $1,367 salary a month. Doan mind Baloney and S,fcuked indeed I say !

    They get what they VOTED for and I GLAD!

  13. David Avatar
    David

    @Bush Tea

    As you know very early in the post 2008 period BU was on board calling for what the Americans refer to as a bipartisan approach to tackling the challenging issues which confront the country. It seems local politicians have bought into the view of political scientist that the Whitehall system is by design adversarial. The conclusion by you and others is probably correct but let us hope.

  14. El Kabong Avatar
    El Kabong

    PS Harry Husbands roaming all bout gine to schools and taking bare shiite, Denis pun Brasstacks again, Wait he aint got nuh work to do? PS Edison allyne walking about like a lap dog lookin fa meat, PS Blondey Iren gine to eva cock fight free free and airing she mout bout barrells. Bare nabodies just drawing and drawing from the money pot. FIRE OFF SUMA DEM BRASSBOWLS FIRST, I dare say. Ps ‘s and asstn PS’s tell me that aint a bucket of doo?

  15. David Avatar
    David

    This is part of the problem, BLP yardfowls and their sharpening of the long knives. Is there any thing the DLP is doing that the BLP likely would not be doing the same?

  16. ac Avatar
    ac

    U bush T have been pushing the same agenda using Jamaica as example of theway things supposed to happen for the past years. Yet i am stilling awaiting for u prophesy to conme true. given all that Barbados has experienced in the last twenty years the streets should have been over flowing with riots accordingv to your predictions .however Bajans have looked at those countries and realised that the alternative is not an option. realising that constructive and not destructive solutions is the answer

  17. David Avatar
    David

    @ac

    If you read books the Tipping Point should be of some enlightenment to you.

  18. David Avatar
    David

    Interesting comment by the PM concerning government actively concerning reworking transparency legislation.

  19. The People's Democratic Congress Avatar
    The People’s Democratic Congress

    Again, this is the opportune time for the broad masses and middle classes of Barbados to continue the process of permanently removing both DLP and BLP from the political governmental landscape of this country.

    To rid the country of the DLP and BLP is the correct way to once and for all remove the extant vast majority of DLP and BLP political governmental material social and other problems in this country.

    Remove the Damned DLP and the Blasted BLP!

    PDC

  20. checkit-out Avatar
    checkit-out

    Bush Tea

    Forgive balance. He, by that post, is showing that he is hiding his head in the sand and cannot face the reality of where we are and, given our past soft living and inability to take pressure, cannot even bring ourselves to contemplate where we are surely headed.

    It really saddens me that even some otherwise sensible posters, don’t get the point and cannot see the true situation we are in. If they can’t, could we expect the politicians who all have a safety net and golden lifeboats to do so. It really saddens me that the only realistic way of dealing with this situation is relegated to the dustbin because we realize the total stupidity of our politicians (all of them) and would prefer to invite the IMF to do, with maximum violence, what we could do ourselves with less.

    But then, perhaps the BBE master plan is for the Island to go through the coming fires to forge a younger generation of stronger tried and tested Barbadians with hearts of steel and the proven ability to take, adapt and ride on whatever visiscitudes are placed in our path and who would have certainly got rid of the politicians and political systems that got us in this position.

  21. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ David | September 12, 2013 at 8:38 AM |

    Are you referring to the piece of IL passed last year that has been sent to the GG for proclamation?
    Is this the probable reason for the rubber stamping procrastination?

  22. ac Avatar
    ac

    If bajans had your kind of mentality by now the country instead of teetering would have collapsed and a dictator would have taken full control given your view of how mentally retared and lazy, and hand to mout. bajans are. no political system is perfect and striving to do what is right is all that matters and the people have always made a choice when voting. no matter the imperfections barbados is still standing.

  23. El Kabong Avatar
    El Kabong

    Look ac
    Hush do you giving me an instant belly ache.Men pissed off and U talking shhh? What still standing you talking bout? Barbie wid -a-dos guts all but spewed out and you in here wid ur rot? Bet come 2018 you would even bother to be associated with vacationing this rock. Not even Carson and his shenanigans as they will have sucked OUT all ! .

  24. The People's Democratic Congress Avatar
    The People’s Democratic Congress

    More and more Prime Minister Stuart is showing why he must go!!

    A CBC 94.7 FM news story this morning encapsulates that Stuart has said that BARBADOS MUST DETERMINE whether it wants the Prevention of Corruption Act or the Integrity in Public Life Act – as it was reported in the same news story – that his view was that they overlapped somewhat.

    What rubbish!!

    Barbados CANNOT DETERMINE anything!!

    It is the DAMNED DLP Government that has got the blasted political capacity to do as the DLP had pledged in its blasted 2008 Manifesto, to get proclaimed anti-corruption legislation that it said it would bring into existence in the country, – which is the integrity in Public Life legislation.

    So, if it is that some of their DLP members have many problems with the Integrity in Public Act, then the Prime Minister must say so.

    He must leave the generic Barbados out of his do and must not attempt to make it seem that this is the people’s responsibility when it is clearly the Damned DLP government’s responsibility to do whatsoever with those two pieces of legislation.

    What piss poor intellectual political leadership, again, from the Prime Minister of Barbados.

    Remove the Damned DLP and the Blasted BLP do!!

    PDC

  25. Yagga Rowe Avatar
    Yagga Rowe

    PDC
    kicking serious ass
    kicking up rumpus
    Keep it up PDC

  26. Adrian Hinds Avatar
    Adrian Hinds

    A simple problem (overlapping components in two seperate pieces of legislation) is being presented as an issue? Well then I want the the ” Prevention of curruption and Integrity legislation act. Chupse!

  27. David Avatar
    David

    @Adrain

    You know that is not the issue. The issue is that after 6 years we are here.

  28. lighthouse Avatar
    lighthouse

    wunnah bajans real sick. De real problem is dat nuff nuff of wunnah live here, work here and doan want to pay nuh taxes. Wunnah send school pickneys, tek de bus, guh tuh de polyclinic and hospitals fuh free, get welfare, got nuh health insurance, irresponsible, drink nuff rum and smoke weed, pick nuff fares, buy nuff remy hair, refuse to eat what we grow, drive de biggest gas guzzlers and tief summuch. It is only the lil monies of the civil servants and them in companies paying taxes. De rest uh wunnah are leeches. Fishermen, self employed, carpenters, masons, electricians, plumbers, well diggers, driving instructors, etc. Get de picture? How wunnah expec dat summuch cud eat out de pot and lil pay. De place did bound to collapse. An de got a nex set uh wufless brutes called sperm throwers with reckless willies dat wont support de lil chrilren. dem want castrating. Stop washing wunnah mout pun de guvment and play yuh part. Dem politicians B nor D cant tell wunnah this so I doinig it fuh dum. Dat is why Owen bring de vat tuh get some money from wunnah so but it still aint enuf fuh de tings wunnah calling fuh fuh free

  29. Enuff Avatar
    Enuff

    @ George
    Your thesis is obvious for all to see. I call it Politics of Collusion.I wish all my fellow Barbadians well. It seems the Dems can do anything and it is right. Just read ac.

    @ David
    What bipartisanship you talking about? The US system is set up to facilitate that type of government…unless you planning to reform government. The current government clearly hiding a lot of info, imagine what a ‘bipartisan’ approach would reveal. Bajans wanted Dems again let them suffer from Demitis. Hard ears yuh doan hear, own way yuh does feel.

  30. Ronnie Yearwood Avatar
    Ronnie Yearwood

    Let me tell you something you don’t know.
    White women are so fascinated by black men.

    They love to do the oral to Black men because …
    They think that when they drink our Sperm,

    They getting Nourishment,
    Like how you drink milk from

    The cow.

    [The cow, cow cow]

    So, knowing this,
    There are some white men

    Who recruit white girls especially,
    Anywhere from 14 yrs
    And up. To 20.

    [14 … 14 … 14]

    These men solicit
    The better off black men
    To pay them to come to the resort

    In droves.

    [Droves!]

    For these girls who do nothing but suck
    These black men for the duration

    Of their vacations.

    [Suck, suck, suck]

    Right now, I know of

    At least three tours going on in the Caribbean;
    I mean in progress
    As I write.

    [I write, write, write]

    These girls so hungry that
    They doing it free …

    For those who giggling,
    I like Sparrow,
    Never had a white meat
    Yet …

    When they get back home,
    They are going to be
    Flooding me with pics and
    Videos of themselves etc.,

    Which incidentally I never save
    To my computer,
    So police don’t come;
    I have no evidence
    For you …

    Let me tell you
    How sick these women are …

  31. David Avatar
    David

    @Ronnie Yearwood

    Ok Chris!

  32. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ lighthouse | September 12, 2013 at 4:45 PM |

    Lighthouse Baje you have some very good points there.
    But you have omitted the Constituency Councils handouts and football tournaments, free bus rides and summer camps. Or are you scared to go there?

    So Lighthouse Baje would you agree with privatizing some of these free services provided by the government and let the parasitic Bajans who don’t pay taxes pay directly for them?
    Just asking ya here!

  33. David Avatar
    David

    @enuff

    We are suppose to be intelligent people. No system should be so sacrosanct that we ignore the need to analyze and change if necessary. It seems many of us (especially the politically partisans) are unwilling to even entertain the idea. It makes sense that if we are ‘intelligent’ we must examine the need to change to improve how we manage ourselves. We have to find a way to break the stranglehold which these two parties have on Barbados. The system must be changed to encourage more participation. As it is now a significant % of the population has become disillusioned. What it means it that we really don’t have a democracy.

  34. ac Avatar
    ac

    what is is there tto read a self serving article which points the finger in one direction, somehow omitting or purposefully forgetting that under the fourteen years of the BLP reign all that was Barbadian became Trinidadian, George Brathwaite should be ashamed to even sit down and put pen to paper and come up with this partisian hogwash and presented it as informative, . very entertainting i must admit

  35. lighthouse Avatar
    lighthouse

    Guys
    Remember OSA was de onliest man dat tell it like it Is lately. He did real bold. He say dat nuff ah we want tuh guh tuh heaven but nun ent want tuh die. Fellows, I doan play politics. Leff out me and dat. I feel dat dem social services necessary and ting fuh good standard of living but de adults —– all able bodied souls got to tek responsibility. In big Amurca and Britun ef yuh doan pay taxes look out, some prison coming. Even if yuh live abroad from dem countries. Look at dem scandanavian countries, nuf social services and high standard of living wid high happy index but dem folk responsible is citizens. Get wid it people build your country. Guh down town and see dem reckless brutes on fridy and satday. Liming, cussing, robbing, shoplifting, sellin weed, drinking rum, giving de family money to wufless women and dem pickney hungry. Wunnah get real and see where we are yuh. This got non to do with b or d

  36. The People's Democratic Congress Avatar
    The People’s Democratic Congress

    Yagga Rowe,

    Your response is duly acknowledged.

    PDC

  37. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ ac | September 12, 2013 at 7:00 PM |
    “..somehow omitting or purposefully forgetting that under the fourteen years of the BLP reign all that was Barbadian became Trinidadian,”

    You are a blasted liar in keeping with your pathological make-up.

    When did Neal & Massy take over BS&T? Was it during 2003 to 2007?

    When were the shares in the BL&P sold to Emera?

    When was the remainder of the shares sold in the BNB to make it a clean sweep to Republic Bank?

    Go and jerk yourself off, liar?

  38. ac Avatar
    ac

    who start the process rolling. lets put the blame where it all started and who were the conspirators………..

  39. Enuff Avatar
    Enuff

    @ David
    The majority disillusioned because they are lazy not because of the system. The system is there for people to contribute, don’t fall for that get out of jail card!!! Aren’t there political parties in existence in Barbados? Even in the ‘bipartisan’ system that you are promoting POLITICAL PARTIES and MEMBERS exist. Where are the THIRD SECTOR bodies working to help? Too many talkers and no actors. That is why I give MPs and those that faced the electorate (even the clueless ones) some kudos for at least having the guts to step up to the plate.

  40. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ ac | September 12, 2013 at 7:52 PM |
    ” who were the conspirators……….”

    The current DLP.
    Even to this day they are ready to sell out not only the West, South, North and East Coast but also citizenship to the highest paying crook and tax evader.

    Why would decent honourable law abiding rich people be prepared to buy citizenship in some small backwater republic unless there are involved in nefarious activities?
    Why not make your money honestly and openly and retire to the islands as many have done in the past like Ian Fleming, Noel Coward, Oliver Messel, Claudette Colbert, Cliff Richard and the other many rich and famous who have made Barbados and other Caribbean islands their retirement home.

  41. David Avatar
    David

    @enuff

    Understand your argument but the Westminster System as we practice it has been bastardized beyond recognition. We need our own system which is not so easily penetrated by the influence of money.

  42. David Avatar
    David

    One of the ironies we are witnessing is that in the 1990s the public service was trimmed to 21,000 (8% cut and 3000+ sent packing). Twenty years later we are back to square one with 30,000 not stated to make up the public service. At this point the Ds will blame Bs and vice versa.

  43. enuff Avatar
    enuff

    David even in America money gets to talk easily. It is the PEOPLE more than the system. We need good candidates first and foremost.

  44. David Avatar
    David

    @enuff

    You have created a chicken and egg argument. We should be satisfied by now that the system as currently designedt will NOT attract the change agents it/WE need. If this is happening then we have to respond intelligently to change the system to influence the “rules of engagement”. It is not the ideal position but we can’t remain ideal while we are bulled by a few.

  45. Alvin Cummins Avatar
    Alvin Cummins

    @David,Why is it that because the DLP won the last election there is all this talk of changing the system? There is provision in the system for the formation of as many paarties as the citizens want. st the moment we have three registered political parties; the BLP. The DLP and the People’s Empoerment Party. We had Independents contesting the last election. You never mention the PEP Why? You never mention the National Democratic Party which once formed the official opposition party.
    Are you also saying that there is no influence of money in other countries (Democracies) like Canada, which has the Westminister System, The United States which has their own system and so many others?

  46. Alvin Cummins Avatar
    Alvin Cummins

    @Miller “…Why would decent honourable law abiding rich people be prepared to buy citizenship”? Ask the Americans and Canadians this question for they both offer this type of citizenship. This blog also shows what you think of the citizens who you profess to care about. “Is Barbados really a “backwater Republic?

  47. Alvin Cummins Avatar
    Alvin Cummins

    @Miller and those BLP critics of the “free Busfares” work it out: A “poor” woman has three children going to secondary school. Bus fare (Pre free bus fares) $12.00per dayor &60.00 per week =&240.00 per month or &2,800 per year. With the free bus fares she now has this money to spend on other things (money in her pocket) multiply this by three thousand and see how much money becomes available for other things than bus fares. Why can’t you people look at the big picture/ You are all so small minded. Or is it because you are so well off that you can afford to only talk about the “poor”people instead of doing anything for them. More to follow.

  48. Alvin Cummins Avatar
    Alvin Cummins

    @Miller
    Correction to the above $2680/00 per annum.

  49. Gabriel Avatar
    Gabriel

    Nothing short of a change of Government will satisfy investors in this country called Barbados.The lack of confidence in the Cabinet and the Judiciary and the failure of the Government to remove restrictive legislation which gives Employees all the rights and the Employer no rights,not even to make a profit,
    will militate against a return to a safe,secure and prosperous Barbados.Any new Government must as the first order of business,reduce the Cabinet to no more than 10 ministers,cut out all unnecessary freenesses including the large pensions certain MP’s voted themselves,privitise or return to Central Government all major Statutory Corporations,confront and reduce the perceived power of trade unions in Barbados by introducing an Essential Services Act,make it illegal to make promises to the electorate and then refuse to make good on those promises,legislate against corrupt citizens and entities,
    implement the penalties in the Act covering General Elections,prevent the Chinese from using their money to demand the right to live and open businesses in Barbados …..to be continued

  50. JUST ASKING Avatar
    JUST ASKING

    With proper Zoning, the bus fare argument is null and void, Mr. Alvin Cunnings
    Proper Zoning -Zoning is the key . Barbados needs to stop the crap and wise up

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