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Emerging Crime Trend: Freedom of Movement Under the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas Needs to be Revised

The revelation by the Acting Commissioner of Police Tyrone Griffith that there appears to be a “cultural factor” which threads recent domestic abuse cases is interesting if not surprising. We have to give credit to the police force that they have a sound basis for reaching the conclusion that the cause behind some recent domestic…

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Acting Commissioner of Police Tyrone Griffith suggests there is a cultural factor behind recent domestic mu
Acting Commissioner of Police Tyrone Griffith suggests there is a cultural factor behind recent domestic murders.

The revelation by the Acting Commissioner of Police Tyrone Griffith that there appears to be a “cultural factor” which threads recent domestic abuse cases is interesting if not surprising. We have to give credit to the police force that they have a sound basis for reaching the conclusion that the cause behind some recent domestic disputes is linked to non nationals. Of course many Bajans will be compelled to intervene in the interest of demonstrating ‘balance’ by suggesting the obvious,  that is, Bajans are equally committing crime and therefore why blame non nationals. Of course non nationals cannot be blamed for all the crime BUT it does not mean we should play ostrich if there is a trend which has emerged which will add to our crime woes and wider societal challenges. Comprehension is a wonderful thing.

A few years ago when BU led the national discussion about possible sociological repercussions as a consequence of the unbridled immigration policy practiced by the former BLP government under the guise of freedom of movement, we were ridiculed by many. Why is it the ideologues like Peter Wickham, Rickey Sigh, BLP opportunists and others have refused to this day to appreciate that our fragile economies which are mainly service based, owning limited resources to protect borders, an possessing undermanned police forces means that any system which allows the unskilled and ignorant to move about freely across the Caribbean must be carefully ‘managed’? Instead they label such concerns by shouting xenophobia. Have we become do intellectually impotent not to understand that issues will emerge from having unchallenged freedom of movement?

BU will not rehash old arguments except to say, for every thoughtless action there will be an exponential reaction. Despite the landmark Shanique Myrie decision by the CCJ, BU has taken note of how other Caricom countries continue to retain the right of entry to their shores. It is a right which any sovereign should NOT relinquish. Recent developments have exposed the ideals of the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas.

176 responses to “Emerging Crime Trend: Freedom of Movement Under the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas Needs to be Revised”

  1. bahamared Avatar
    bahamared

    @balance

    where did you go three years ago? From your comment about the Bahamas needing more ‘development’ it sounds like you either were stranded on one of the Exuma cays with some Haitian migrants or spent your time here in the detention centre.

  2. balance Avatar
    balance

    ‘That is $400 MILLION dollar airport, of course”
    is that the real value? because you all might still be suffering from Pindlingania given your penchant for squandermania at the highest levels which we have not yet reached.We always had a decent airport so you way behind time.

  3. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    And those of us who were fortunate/unfortunate to have lived especially in the UK, would know that this rhetoric is very familiar to that which for years has been the standard fare in the UK. During the height of the Blame -A-Wog period, I recall one Magistrate informing the police prosecutors, that when they place a charge sheet in front of him , he does not want to see written in brackets “Jamaican,” which in those days was the blanket nationality of all West Indians living in England.
    Barbados does not need the help of non-nationals to demonstrate to them how to beat their women.Our own has perfected this art for umpteen years.

  4. bahamared Avatar
    bahamared

    “is that the real value? because you all might still be suffering from Pindlingania given your penchant for squandermania at the highest levels which we have not yet reached.We always had a decent airport so you way behind time.”

    It is difficult to imagine you are being serious with the things you say. Just don’t repeat them around anyone you want to maintain credibility with.

    Pindling was a squanderer? Is that why:

    1. UNLIKE barbados, the Bahamas has never had any kind of relationship with the IMF
    2. UNLIKE Barbados, the Bahamas has never had high debt to GDP ratio (in fact, it is in a category all of its own in this region, according to the IMF)
    3. UNLIKE Barbados, we have maintained 1 to 1 parity with the US dollar??????

    I think it is probably Barrow and Adams you have in mind when you mention squandermania, it could NOT be a Bahamian Prime Minister of any stripe.

    As for your having always had a nice airport, we have always had MANY nice international airports, 17 in fact. Freeport Airport, which is itself busier than yours, was always nice.

  5. Boy Blue Avatar
    Boy Blue

    balance | December 4, 2013 at 4:30 PM |
    I gave a Guyanese night worker a lift one night and she pleaded with me not put her off in front of the club because the officer waiting there gun want fronts and money too.
    ………………………………………………………..
    And being the balance person that you are, you , unilaterally took the side of a whore. (probably after taking the front)

  6. bahamared Avatar
    bahamared

    @balance

    Please go and look up the respective ‘squandering’ (debt) of the Bahamas and Barbados before you continue making an idiot of yourself.

    The Bahamas is the only country in the region that finds it very easy to borrow on good terms because it has never ever had runaway spending of the kind that recently led to Barbados’ downgrade and the failure of its international bond.

    We spend more than you simply because we are wealthier than you. But we do NOT spend beyond our means, as everyone knows (or so I thought before you gave us that insight into your ignorance).

    You would make a good comedian.

  7. islandgal246 Avatar
    islandgal246

    Boy Blue you are one vile piece. What is wrong with someone assisting someone without judging them or what they do for a living? Do you really know who is a whore? Look around you. Look in the mirror. Whoring isn’t only about selling your body. How many times have you sold or compromised your beliefs for a few pieces of silver? How many times have you bought something for a girl friend / loved one in exchange for some puss? I would give a lady of the night a lift in a time of need and have no problems with that. Please don’t come here ridiculing people who have done something humane.

  8. islandgal246 Avatar
    islandgal246

    BTW if you think Balance took the front then you took the back!

  9. balance Avatar
    balance

    “And being the balance person that you are, you , unilaterally took the side of a whore. (probably ”
    I knew the lady and she asked me for a lift to work as I was driving through Carrington village and so that my living would not be in vain i helped her as i passed along. I didn’t question her as to her line of night work

  10. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    “My airport is better that you airport” . ” My economy is in better shape than your economy.” etc etc.
    Wasn’t it the same Barrow who made the ” Who will buy my white sand and who will buy my grey sand “speech in relation to Caricom?

  11. balance Avatar
    balance

    In recent press reports Mr. Perry Christie (PLP), Prime Minister of The Bahamas chose to add invective into the discussion surrounding the introduction of a Value Added Tax (VAT) as a means of increasing government revenue to pay for their ever increasing deficits and debt levels

  12. bahamared Avatar
    bahamared

    @Colonel Buggy

    It was balance, not I, who started the childish back and forth. If any of his comments were anything other than wildly delusional (like saying the Bahamas squanders) I would not have taken them up. But I can’t let that level of ignorance fly without reply.

  13. David Avatar
    David

    What is this topic about again?

    No wonder!

  14. bahamared Avatar
    bahamared

    “In recent press reports Mr. Perry Christie (PLP), Prime Minister of The Bahamas chose to add invective into the discussion surrounding the introduction of a Value Added Tax (VAT) as a means of increasing government revenue to pay for their ever increasing deficits and debt levels”

    Yes, Balance, EVERYWHERE has ever increasing deficits and falling revenue during a recession. But EVERYTHING IS RELATIVE, do you genuinely not know that? You cannot compare the Bahamas to the Caribbean when you speak of its deficits or debt. There is simply no comparison. You guys are at 80 or 100 percent. Ours is 40 percent and the deficits are already shrinking. That is why we are still rated in an entirely different category.

    Besides, your allusion was to the Pindling era, when we DEFINITELY had no kind of deficits or high debt, especially compared to the Caribbean, including Barbados.

    VAT simply makes sense. It is a sensible tax compared to the present import duties and will bring in much more revenues. We still, remember, do not have any kind of income tax.

  15. balance Avatar
    balance

    Corruption[edit]

    In 1966-67, on the urging of concerned Bahamians, the British government sent a Royal Commission of Inquiry to Nassau to investigate charges of widespread corruption in the Bahamian political system. The four-man commission was headed by Sir Ranulph Bacon, who had recently retired as deputy commander of Scotland Yard. The commission reported that the United Bahamian Party, previously in government, had been a front for mob-affiliated American casino interests, and that former Prime Minister Roland Symonette and influential Tourism Minister Sir Stafford Sands, and some others, all received large payments from the casino and resort businesses they had permitted to operate. The commission also found, however, that Lynden Pindling, during his campaign, had been funded and aided by U.S. casino operator Michael McLaney in the expectation that Pindling would permit McLaney to operate in the islands. Because of the report, Pindling broke his link with McLaney, but was not himself prosecuted. Certain prominent mob figures, including Dino Cellini, were exiled from Bahamas, but the casino operations continued.[1] Pindling told the commission that U.S. interests had first approached him with evidence to implicate the UBP in corruption, which led to the royal commission.

    In 1973, during a U.S. Senate subcommittee investigation of corrupt offshore finances, Mob elements accused Mike McLaney and his associate Elliott Roosevelt of having offered a contract to kill Pindling for reneging on the deal. This plot was discredited, but new elements of the control of the Miami Beach based, Meyer Lansky led syndicate over Bahamian business and politics emerged, as well as details of Mr. McLaney’s dealings with Pindling, which included cash, aircraft, boats, and a campaign headquarters on Bay Street.[2]

    In 1983, a report entitled “The Bahamas: A Nation For Sale” by investigative television journalist Brian Ross was aired on NBC in the United States. The report claimed Pindling and his government accepted bribes from Colombian drug smugglers, particularly the notorious Carlos Lehder, co-founder of the Medellín Cartel, in exchange for allowing the smugglers to use the Bahamas as a transshipment point to smuggle Colombian cocaine into the US. Through murder and extortion, Lehder had gained complete control over the Norman’s Cay in Exuma, which became the chief base for smuggling cocaine into the United States.

    Lehder boasted to the Colombian media about his involvement in drug trafficking at Norman’s Cay and about giving hundreds of thousands of dollars in payoffs to the ruling Progressive Liberal Party, but Pindling vigorously denied the accusations, and made a testy appearance on NBC to rebut them. However, the public outcry led to the creation in 1984 of a new Commission of Inquiry to investigate the drug trade and official corruption in the Bahamas.

    A review of Pindling’s personal finances by the Commission found that he had spent eight times his reported total earnings from 1977 to 1984. According to the Inquiry: “The prime minister and Lady Pindling have received at least $57.3 million in cash. Explanations for some of these deposits were given… but could not be verified.”

    It is an indication of the level of Pindling’s popularity in the Bahamas at the time that, despite the scandalous claims made against him in the US media, he never felt the need to resign or call an early election. Even with the commission’s report fresh in voters’ minds, he led his party to another election victory in 1987.

    However, in 1992 the opposition Free National Movement (formed by anti-Pindling factions in 1970) bested the PLP in the General Election, even though Pindling retained his South Andros seat. The FNM was formed in 1971 by a union of the so-called “Free-PLP” and the United Bahamian Party. The Free-PLP were a breakaway group of eight MPs from the then governing Progressive Liberal Party. This group, which was known as the “Dissident Eight,” led by the popular Sir Cecil Wallace-Whitfield, was on the center-right of the PLP and unhappy with what it saw as creeping dictatorial tendencies within the PLP Government.

    After Pindling’s defeat in the August 1992 elections, new Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham “strongly rejected the idea that Sir Lynden or any member of his Government should be extradited to the United States to face possible charges. Witnesses in the trials of both Carlos Lehder, a founder of the Medellin drug cartel in Colombia, and Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega, the deposed Panamanian dictator, testified to payoffs to Sir Lynden, and some United States officials have long recommended that he be indicted on drug-trafficking charges

  16. bahamared Avatar
    bahamared

    Now that I have educated Mr. Balance, I agree with David that this thread should revert to its original topic!!!

  17. bahamared Avatar
    bahamared

    wow, this dude Balance is bizarre. Now he is dragging up old press reports about scandals under the PLP and even the 1960’s UBP. Every time you expose his ignorance he flips onto something else.

    Is there a moderator who can prod this person back onto the topic at hand????

  18. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    And in today’s Nation we read of a feral gang of youths,one of them an escapee for the Junior Dodds prisons, who are terrorising a community at nights, starting at times around 10.30 pm
    I do hope that the reporter made an error in quoting the police spokesperson,who has been quoted as saying, “They are hard to catch as they operate late at nights.” (or words to that effect)

  19. Mark Fenty Avatar
    Mark Fenty

    We have to seriously ask ourselves in complete honesty: what do we really stand for as a people? And what are the values that governs our national conscience? Now, there is hardly any debate regarding the values and ideals which governs the psychological apparatus of the American people. But, I am still puzzled as to the values which dictates the collective conscience of the Barbadian people. In other words, what are the forces which drives the Engine of the collective Barbadian organism? And are they driven in the spirit of the common- good?

  20. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    In other words, what are the forces which drives the Engine of the collective Barbadian organism? And are they driven in the spirit of the common- good?
    ……………………………………………………………….
    Engine is the correct word. We like jumping on the band wagon. Our minds and thought are blank,.until someone come along , who we perceive sounds like if he knows what he’s talking about , and start to spout his/her agenda.

  21. Mark Fenty Avatar
    Mark Fenty

    Now, that I’ve petition myself from the Barbadian cultural ethos. I’ve come to realized that ours is a culture that is enveloped in the: school of national reputation, esoteric – associations, occupation – specialization, divisive- classism and xenophobia .

  22. Mark Fenty Avatar
    Mark Fenty

    I hope that the values the drives our National Conscience is intricately interwoven with the Spirit of the Common Good Colonel.

  23. Mark Fenty Avatar
    Mark Fenty

    Barbadians are a group of Bigots. You can count on one hand the number of foreign nationals in our institutions of government Colonel.

  24. enuff Avatar
    enuff

    Ignorance is a bliss. Carry on smartly Tyrone Griffith, Bajans love a scapegoat so CSME and foreigners are the reasons for our depressed situation. Ask all the anti-CSME mouttas to tell you what integration is and they don’t have a clue. Stupse imagine an island boasting about 97% literacy could have an acting Commissioner of Police that proud to talk rubbish. Jesus take the wheel!

  25. Cyprian La Touché Avatar
    Cyprian La Touché

    @everybody
    “Leave me alone! Please leave me alone.”
    That is the first thing a child says when they want to throw a tantrum and avoid taking responsibility for whatever is going wrong and they KNOW that it is their fault.

    We aren’t children anymore and need to stop behaving as such. We live in a world where we at once can’t have the privilege of being alone yet are fortunate enough not to be alone.
    The challenging is in figuring ourself out. Once you KNOW who you are then its easy to figure out your appropriate relationships with others.

    The credo for building America was – Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free. – along with the good WILL come some bad. Not everybody is going to be pretty and light black. Not everybody is going to want to eat souse on Saturday and be in church on Sunday.

    Immigration is NOT about bringing in people like “US”. It IS about bringing in people who want what we want and are willing to WORK for it.

    It is about strengthening the gene pool. There are conditions and diseases running rampant on this rock continually being reinforced through generations of undocumented (and undocumentible) relationships.
    It is about adding ability and flexibility to a society. It is about introducing new ideas, new approches and ways of looking at the same things.

    It is all about that thing we fear most. Change.
    It is about driving and maintaining and ultimately growing an economy. 90% of the legal immigrants come in to WORK ( and don’t let’s even add work HARD.). 95% of them have to pay rent somewhere. 100% of them have to eat. What percentage of monies earned leave as remittances? I would put my head on a block that is is nowhere as significant or as unbalanced as people think. Especially not if the immigrant is planning to live or build a family and future here.

    We love to talk about the Singapore model but fail to recognize that it takes a LOT of people to drive that economy. The only way to get there in any reasonable time frame. Immigration.
    Growing only through local births has the problem that for at least the next 16 years plus that child represents a drain on the societies resources. They have to be watered, fed, clothed, sheltered, educated AND trained and don’t even talk about all the hospital bills bail when they get into trouble!

    The idea that rich people alone can push a country is folly. Do you think they will keep the mini bus men employed? Will they patronize the small corner shops? Will they buy the cheap clothes and watches that the street men sell? Will they fill Swan Street or Oistins? I doubt it very much.
    The fears we have are to me not really about the “wrongs” a very few immigrants will bring with them, but rather the demonstrated lack of confidence and inability in ourselves to rise to the challenge and deal with the new world ahead.

    Cyprian

  26. islandgal246 Avatar
    islandgal246

    The COP statement about the nationalities of domestic abusers is very misleading. Why doesn’t he come out and say how has the force responded to reports of domestic violence and what was the response time? How many reports have they received for the year and what has been their response.

    We all know that domestic violence is taken very lightly without any serious investigation. It is time we women arm ourselves and when our spouses or partners threaten our lives by blowing their fcuking brains out before they kill. DO NOT TAKE THIS LIGHTLY! If the ex man following you fix him for good!

    The men who are domestic abusers are emotionally stunted. Men have to be taught that we are not chattel and must respect the decision when a relationship has ended. There must be some kind of relationship classes available for couples or potential couples.

  27. islandgal246 Avatar
    islandgal246

    “It is about strengthening the gene pool. There are conditions and diseases running rampant on this rock continually being reinforced through generations of undocumented (and undocumentible) relationships.”

    Cyprian I totally agree. I have also stated the same and got a bunch of ignorant people attacking that statement. Our gene pool is exhausted and too close for comfort! Just look at the piss poor leadership on both sides of the fence! Take a look at the cases of non communicable diseases on this island. Many are hereditary and genetic. People like Bush Tea and those Xenophobic posters don’t want to hear reason.

    I once asked if they believe that from a population of 20000 slaves to a population of 275000 people if that happened by laying eggs in the grass. There has been too much interbreeding. The ignorant ones say that Black people don’t sleep with their kin and only the Whites and Indians do that. Hello go into the children’s ward at the QEH and see some of the results of incestuous relationships. I know dem doan look like Indians nor White people.

  28. robert ross Avatar
    robert ross

    I am shocked that supposedly intelligent people like Jeff C and Islandgal, yeh and Miller, and of course Balance, and Colonel and a host of others don’t see the point – which is this…..

    It is unarguable that Bajans

    Are more intelligent than thou
    Are more prosperous than thou
    Are better educated than thou
    Are healthier than thou
    Are more cultured than thou
    Are more favoured by sun than thou
    Experience less hurricanes than thou
    Are more peaceful than thou
    Are more musical than thou
    Are better parents than thou
    Are more religious than thou
    Are better spouses than thou
    Are better beggars than thou
    Are more black than thou
    Go to church more often than thou
    Are more thrifty than thou
    Are less insular than thou
    Are more honest than thou
    Are more hard-working than thou
    Have a better system of governance than thou
    Have fewer card carrying disabled people than thou
    Are more law abiding than thou
    Are most definitely holier than thou………….

    And God knows how many other things…..the list goes on and on and on

    So look prime slimes…..wise up.

  29. David Avatar
    David

    Now that we have released some steam perhaps we can come back to the matter at hand. Remember it is all about using decent comprehension skills.

    How do we manage our borders and take other relevant decisions to ensure all the riff and raff are not able to enter our little service based island with threat or hinder. It is such a simple objective for any sovereign to have.

    On 4 December 2013 23:00, Barbados Underground

  30. robert ross Avatar
    robert ross

    I just saw the news…

    Have a better PM than thou.

  31. islandgal246 Avatar
    islandgal246

    ROSS so tell me why we are in this mess? LOLL You didn’t mention COMMON SENSE!

  32. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ islandgal246 | December 4, 2013 at 6:32 PM |
    “Many are hereditary and genetic. People like Bush Tea and those Xenophobic posters don’t want to hear reason.”

    One only has to take a look at the local Closed Brethren sect and see the congenitally destructive effects ‘in-breeding’ (repetitive dipping in the same gene pool) can have on a people who seek to socially isolate themselves through some religious or cultural dogma like xenophobia.

    Nature is about variation. Since human beings (unlike other mammals) are not inclined biologically and anthropologically to select only the fittest and brightest (smartest) to reproduce miscegenation and its related phenomenon sexual mixing by immigration are alternative methods employed to refresh gene pools and keep them healthy.

  33. Cyprian La Touché Avatar
    Cyprian La Touché

    @David
    You know David, this is my problem. Riff and Raff are usually the ones who can afford to buy passports that you and others want to target and bring in before the honest poor and hardworking people who are prepared to invest THEMSELVES in this country.
    Cyprian

  34. robert ross Avatar
    robert ross

    Island

    Sorry, you are right

    More commonsense than thou…but as I said the list goes on and on.

  35. David Avatar
    David

    @Cyprian

    As you stated in an earlier comment, we need to hear more from the authorities about the ‘cultural factor’ statement.

    We must continue to locate the debate to the fact that a sovereign has an unshakable right to protect its borders and its citizens FIRST.

  36. robert ross Avatar
    robert ross

    The domestic situation has always witnessed more crimes of violence than any other area and the defence of provocation on a murder charge has mostly been developed as a consequence of spousal violence. So much for ‘traditional’ values and the God given state of marriage.

    BTW…..back to the disabled. How do we determine that someone is ‘Riff Raff’? And who decides?

    Is there a developed concept of ‘love’ which we all understand in domestic relationships? If not, what is there?

  37. jeff Cumberbatch Avatar
    jeff Cumberbatch

    David, you keep going on about this sovereign t’ing. But a sovereign has only as much power as he has not conceded to others. We have conceded our “sovereign” right [as a sovereign might] to determine in our untrammeled discretion the bases on which CARICOM nationals may enter our island as visitors. We can’t have that right back now unless we are prepared to renege on our “sovereign” undertaking or else have the regional political clout to do so as sovereigns.

    We remain sovereign. Why, for example, is it that we do we not require visitors’ visas from US or Australian citizens? Because it is our sovereign right.

    Reminds me though of the fellow who came home to find his wife in bed with another man. And he blew out the lamp in the man’s face…because he was the man in the house!

  38. islandgal246 Avatar
    islandgal246

    Who are the Riff Raff and where do they come from? To buy a ticket to Barbados from the USA and Canada is cheaper than from the islands to Barbados. So that means that it is a lot easier for those coming in from the USA and Canada to purchase tickets to Barbados arrive and with very little scrutiny are able to enter our shores. Those who are coming from the region are scrutinized under microscopic conditions. Yet there are quite a few illegal British people on this island. Many are working illegally or have small businesses. Many come and are automatically given three months then they go and get an extension and remain for six months working. How come they are seldom caught and deported?

  39. David Avatar
    David

    @Jeff

    We need to fix it, it is not working.

    On 4 December 2013 23:51, Barbados Underground

  40. bahamared Avatar
    bahamared

    Put together, the countries of Caricom have an economy and population the same as Ecuador. At present, as small, open economies, they are free to sell their goods and services to a market that comprises the entire world. Furthermore, they are generally not complimentary, but competing producers of similar services and goods. So can anyone please tell me what is the economic case for CSME?. There is none. The real motivation comes from two places. Firstly, small minded, vainglorious politicians who are seeking to enhance their relevance by operating in a larger, more visible forum. And secondly, people in places like Jamaica who are looking for places to migrate for work as traditional destinations tighten up.

  41. David Avatar
    David

    @Bahamred

    Then you add our fragmented foreign policy, the one China policy or NOT given those who fraternize with Taiwan.

    What about PetroCaribe?

    On 4 December 2013 23:59, Barbados Underground

  42. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ islandgal246 | December 4, 2013 at 7:51 PM |
    “Yet there are quite a few illegal British people on this island. Many are working illegally or have small businesses. Many come and are automatically given three months then they go and get an extension and remain for six months working. How come they are seldom caught and deported?”

    Not a man jack can ‘answer that, answer that’! No even Bushie- with his anti-Caricom venom poisoned with hypocrisy- can address that one.

    Bajans are some of the biggest haters of people of their own racial background manifesting an inferiority complex surpassed only by their own self-flagellation.

  43. bahamared Avatar
    bahamared

    @David,

    I agree. Those examples you give are examples of members following what are deemed “real” economic interests. Which causes them to fall out of line with CSME, underlining my point.

  44. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ bahamared | December 4, 2013 at 7:59 PM |

    Can you expand your argument in order to shed some light on the implied suggestion that project CSME (and by extension Caricom) be disbanded and every man should break for himself?

    Why should a person, and by comparative analysis, a country remain in a relationship that is not beneficial to them? Remember the famous “one from ten” divorce?
    Nothing wrong in calling an end to an ‘abusive and exploitative’ love affair if that is the way it is perceived by any party involved. Just remember there is more in a relationship than just the sex!

    Barbados can signal its intent to terminate its commitment to the Treaty of Chaguaramas. Then we will see how she (once dubbed the Singular Isle) survives “alone” in these modern times.

  45. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ Bahamared
    Well said…but you will come to understand the futility of presenting such logic to brass bowls… It is like throwing pearls to swine….
    But not to worry…they will soon be able to see the folly of their position….when the shit collides with the fan.
    Imagine arguing that we should throw open our doors to all and sundry and HOPE that the riff raff gangster criminals will somehow agree not to come and inflict their violence on us….only a BB…

    @ Miller
    Do you read your posts? Are you deliberately trying to sound stupid?
    Where does Bushie support white people being allowed to come and overstay their welcome here? Steupssss…
    Who is against FREE travel among the Carribean countries?…not Bushie – who travels regularly to practically ALL of them…..
    All that sensible posters are calling for, are clear guidelines and strict enforcement. Persons without means of support; people who lie about their travels; criminals; invalids etc SHOULD be turned back.

    @ balance
    Skippa, stop embarrassing yourself with Bahamared nuh!
    We are not in their league.
    They do everything that YOU aspire for us to do – better than we do…
    You need to concentrate on erice’s questions….

    In Bushie’s book they are just as misguided as we are in the big picture, but they ARE CERTAINLY NOT BBs….they saw through the folly of CSME from early…..wasted NO time or money on that shiite….

  46. santana Dhatman Avatar
    santana Dhatman

    Barbados is probably the most corrupted Island in the Caribbean , but don’t tell that to some of the local bajans who have never lived overseas in big countries like the USA , England , Canada , etc etc.
    Bajans will criticize all of the other Islands like Guyana, Trinidad, Jamaica St. Lucia and others , but they never say anything bad about Barbados . . the best country in the world. Bajans are throwing stones not realizing that they are living in glass houses

    I find that local bajans are very much more naive that FOREIGN Bajans , local bajans seem to believe everything that they see on the evening news . . . . on the Government owned Television station and also everything that they read in the newspapers.

    For instance , the B’dos economy is in shambles yet still the Bajan media is allowing the Politicians to tell bajans that the Island has the best economy in the world

    Standards & Poor’s down grades the credit rating of the island then a few days later the Nation Newspaper does a front page hypocritical spread about how many rich people live on the Island .

    Yes ,the rich people are living and buying up the 166 Sq.miles 1 acre at a time leaving the Bajans no place to live or walk . . . and the bajans living in B’dos can’t even see that.

    The Acting Chief of Police goes on the Government owned television station ( the only Television station in the Island ) a couple of days ago and says that crime is down but murders are up . . . how stupid can a Chief of Police be ?

    But Bajans are the happiest people in the word because they’ve got Rhianna so forget about crime, corruption and the economy.
    Just keep plastering pictures of a half naked , drug using woman on television and in the newspapers and tell bajans about how many awards she is winning everyday , and let the B’dos tourist Board use her as an Ambassador . . . and the bajans will have no worries whatsoever.

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    iabingy

    just wait till the Russian mafia come in.seems to me you already have let in all the English gangs with their dirty money.Russians would be good for barbados .

  48. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    @bahamared

    Bahamared…”be-off”

    Who invite you?

  49. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    @bahamared December 4, 2013 at 2:44 PM “the case of that Jamaican lady of the night being awarded money against your country should have convinced yinna”

    It int yinna ya poppet.

    It is wunna.

    You foreigner, get offa we blog.

    Nabody ain’t invite you.

  50. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    We have more common sense that you.

    We are better looking that you.

    Our children are smarter than your children

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