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Danny Gill is a member of the NUPW
Danny Gill is a member of the NUPW

I am responding to the attention grabbing headline carried on the front page of the Thursday, April 17, 2014 Nation Newspaper :- “CLARKE HITS OUT”. In that piece, which was accompanied with the additional headline No Solidarity on page 3, the General Secretary of the NUPW has been reported to say that the appointed and assumed “safe” members in the NUPW showed little or no interest in caring about their fellow comrades who were sent home or being sent home in the recent retrenchment exercise. He went on further to indicate that even when the prospect or discussion about striking to support their fellow comrades was put on the table or introduced, many of the appointed and “safe” civil servants hid beneath the burden of having a “mortgage”. I must take strong exception to this story. For the most part, it appears to be some sort of “public relations” face saving gimmick for the General Secretary Dennis Clarke. It also could be an attempt by him to explain away his failure to effectively lead the union in a time of crisis. It is an affront to all members to be “scape goated” for Mr. Clarke’s considerable failings.

I have been on the National Council of the NUPW for more than four years. The National Council is the NUPW’s highest decision making body outside of its Annual Conference. During my tenure, there has been no discussion or even a hint at striking against the current administration.

The only instance at the NUPW when this talk of taking striking action came up was at the meeting with the first batch of retrenched temporary workers, and the General Secretary Dennis Clarke played down the entire idea much to the chagrin of the participants of that forum.

At the meetings of the National Council when the prospect of the retrenchment exercise was predicted by the General Secretary, all of the members of the Council were very concerned, as most of them would have experienced the trauma of the 1991 exercise. Meeting after meeting the National Council would have supported the many “fool hardy “ measures concocted by the General Secretary because all of us thought they could have saved some of the temporary workers from going home.

Contrary to what most people think, Dennis Clarke cannot call any strike action on behalf of the NUPW. His role is to announce that the National Council has taken a decision to “call its members out on strike”. He has no authority to call for any strike action whatsoever. Furthermore, I continue to remind Dennis that he is employed by the membership of the NUPW, not the other way around.

At a time when the other union leader is seeking an apology, it would be appropriate for Dennis to tender one to the entire union’s membership for casting them in a very poor light and also casting aspersions on the characters of the entire “appointed” public service. At this time, the NUPW needs to rebuild its image as a vibrant champion for all public workers. However, I believe that it would be well-nigh impossible to do so with the current General Secretary as its head.

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170 responses to “Oh NO, Dennis Clarke!”

  1. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    @ David
    Seems like the licks the BU crew recently put in Vivian-Anne Gittens has met a response in today’s Sunday Sun. Are they seeking to burnish her reputation, as it is, with more propaganda? LOL

  2. Lemuel Avatar
    Lemuel

    For sometime I was seeing Dennis Clarke just talking all over his face and nobody responding. I thought he had the members of the NUPW so under his thumb that they dared not say a thing. Mr. Gill’s article hits the nail on the head. Dennis Clarke and the current executive he elected last elections must go.

  3. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    But David, the central story of workers’ organizations, not only in Barbados, but throughout the world, for the last 60 years, has been the wholesale sell out of the hard won social compact. Now, we don’t have anything to teach you about the human condition. However, in circumstances where their organizations have long lost their moral underpinnings, it is just a matter of time before the rats on the deck seek cover. Divide and rule has been long operating. Not only against Unions but inside and between trade unions. Only capital and governments were to benefit from this state of affairs. It therefore should surprise no one that there has been no unity in unions for decades. When you have ‘the’ union leader receiving a knighthood and is still able to lead, something is wrong. When you have unions making the monumental error of aligning themselves with capital to remove a labour government, we were in trouble. When you have unions joining with capital in some social partnership, we have trouble. Nearly everywhere in the world union membership is down. For example, in the USA union penetration is now less that 8 percent as opposed to over 25 percent in the ’50’s and ’60’s. Caswell will know the numbers for Barbados. This is just one part of the determination to reverse all the gains made by ordinary working people everywhere. So we should expect more rats looking after their own interests. These are unions in name only. More leaders cozying with big business and abandoning working people like the lackey politicians have long done. Don’t let us be shy. We are living at the time of the end of trade unionism, as we have known it.

  4. David Avatar
    David

    @Pacha

    Any trade union which is unable to attract 10% of its membership to vote for officers should cause Barbadians and its members to engage in meaningful introspection.

  5. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    It must be about time we stop fooling ourselves with fictitious organizations. Organizations that barely have names, and names alone. We need a collective dose of realism. Globalization and the relentless march of corporatism have us near the conditions which our grand parents resisted. We are talking about serfdom or a neo-slavery condition. We see advance manifestations of this creeping neo-feudalism, neo-slavery, neo–fascism on the rise in the USA and elsewhere. And these forces will not relent until all workers, everywhere, say ‘uncle’. Wages in the USA, in real terms, are at 1978 levels. Could you imagine this? This is what a most perverse form of capitalism, as supported by trade unions like BWU and the NUPW, has brought to us all.

  6. Lemuel Avatar
    Lemuel

    Pachamama:

    What then becomes of the poor , inarticulate worker who cannot face management or capital for themselves. Are we to leave them to be eaten up by the capitalist sharks? Yes, I agree that unions are reeling from their past glory, but what is more sad is that they are paying staff to be their eyes and ears and these same staff are selling the membership down the drain.

    Remember, it was the capitalist plan around the 1980s where in every course at the college level in the US, students were taught how to break unions. In Barbados, it seems that it was a piece of organized cake.

  7. Undaunted Avatar
    Undaunted

    OKkkkk now I see why the workers from the Drainage Division were treated like ‘yard fowls” that you just chase out yo yard!!!! It appears that the Government of the day has strong tentacles in every aspect of business in this country. But they are appearing as innocent wolves while using a lot of psychology ….inverse, perverse and reverse….ha ha ha! Four years soon come….time is fleeting fast dese days! BARBADOS RISE UP AND MAKE YOUR VOTE COUNT!

  8. David Avatar
    David

    Taxpayers must remember government subsidizes union subscriptions.

    On Sunday, 20 April 2014, Barbados Underground wrote:

    >

  9. Lemuel Avatar
    Lemuel

    David:

    I do not know about the subsidizing subscriptions. However, I do know that government gives the NUPW $100, 000 each year and although the Auditor General has the right to audit what is done with that money, he is yet to look at it. I understand that salaries, loans for the execeutive members and trips come from this money. But the money is given to support the union’s EDUCATION ACTIVITIES.

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

    To Danny Gill, former Independent candidate for the City.

    We know that you are among the many people who have been following and still continue to follow the PDC on this network and elsewhere.

    So, you would also have been reading our positions on trade unionism and trade unions in Barbados – and if you were to take these principled and philosophical positions, and extrapolate them to other parts of the world, you would therefore know what our essential positions would be on trade unionism and trade unions in those parts of the world.

    Danny, the fact is that trade unions in Barbados have served their time!

    They did make much sense from the late 1930s to the 1970s.

    Furthermore, they have not made any sense being in existence since the 1980s.

    These trade unions, like the intellectually and politically bankrupt and discredited BLP and the DLP, should have – since the 80s – gone from the political landscape of this country.

    It is fundamentally these ramshackled ramgoat disorganizations that have been taken over by a few foolish jack o lanterns to mainly satisfy and serve their own egos, their own narrow personal, social, political, financial, familial, cronistic interest, rather than to allow the fundamental logic dialectic of the upward social political dynamic of the social masses and middle classes to take its revolutionary transformational course, that have been bringing about much of the national material financial dedevelopment stagnation and ruin that the PDC is seeing right now in Barbados.

    For goodness sake, do not you realize that trade unions also have been getting between the broad masses and middle classes of this country and what the material financial rewards riches they ought to have been truly getting? Can’t you see that? Or are you prepared to forlornly look to the future at some ignus fatuus illusory aim of the “NUPW rebuilding its image as some vibrant champion of all public workers”.

    Harking back to a by gone nostalgic sentimental past is absolutely unnecessary, especially when it is patently clear that the social political material financial fundamentals of our country have seriously inexorably changed in nature, extent and effects, and that therefore there must be evolved by the most ideologically politically progressive, conscious and advanced of our people here in this country, new and serious people centered political organizations of various types to help lift the country and its people to higher and greater levels of existence.

    So there you go.

    PDC

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

    Inadvertence,

    In the middle of the above PDC post, use was made of adverb, “furthermore”. Instead, the adverb “however” should have been used.

    Our apologies.

    PDC

  12. Danny Gill Avatar
    Danny Gill

    PDC:

    How can you in your fervor to be relevant justly broadly dismiss the work of unionism in Barbados since the food riots of 1937. Without the unions many of us would still be in the cane fields heading canes this crop; many of the disenfranchised would not have had a voice.

    Yes, I would agree that unionism in Barbados has been hijacked for political purposes. For at one time we had nearly the entire top staff from the BWU sitting in the House of Parliament, and to what end!!

    I am grateful that someone has remembered that I was the only and most probably shall remain the only civil servant to run in a general election to attempt to make a difference.

  13. Sunshine Sunny Shine Avatar
    Sunshine Sunny Shine

    The NUPW just lost 3000 x 20 dollars. If the remaining public servants decide to stop their subscription by another 10000 x 20 dollars, then the union will go of life support and the little bribe money and perks they get from their puppet masters will not be enough to keep them a float. It would make sense to put pressure in the union crutch because the showboating that Dennis Clarke has been doing to appear onto men to be doing something is well intended for an outcome of nothing. Dennis ya really is a menace..

  14. Lemuel Avatar
    Lemuel

    Any body read Caswell’s column yet. From what Caswell is saying, Leroy Trotman is a boss fraud. He has done so much damage to the BWU now that the poor little miss Toni Moore shall have no union to run or run away from.

  15. David Avatar
    David

    Caswell’s view:

    Weapon of last resort

    Weapon of last resort

    By Caswell Franklyn | Sun, April 20, 2014 – 12:00 AM

    All of my training and experience has taught me that a strike is the weapon of last resort in the arsenal of a trade union. It should be used when all else has failed to persuade an employer to do the right thing.

    However, there are times when the conduct of the employer is so egregious that the trade union would be forced to take immediate strike action in order to protect workers’ rights or their dignity, without going through the customary steps.

    If you listen to the general secretary of the Barbados Workers’ Union (BWU), you would get the impression that the sugar industry strike was necessary because the employer, the Barbados Agricultural Management Company (BAMC), has breached our time honoured labour relations practices. Relying on my training and years of experience, my perception does not coincide with the impressions that have been allowed to go abroad and take root.

    Traditionally, trade unionists in Barbados either support the industrial action called by other unions or they keep quiet, rather than be critical of their colleagues. Over the years, the BWU has been a major beneficiary of this unwritten code of practice. But I believe that the time is ripe for someone to speak out for the greater good of the country. I am therefore venturing into uncharted territory by calling on the BWU to give cogent reasons for this latest escapade.

    http://www.nationnews.com/articles/view/weapon-of-last-resort/

  16. erice Avatar
    erice

    Mr Gill you have taken the right move the NUPW under Dennis Clarke and Walter Maloney has sold out the workers of this country –I recall recently hearing and reading Dennis Clarke admitting in the media that he had sold out the workers by not asking for wage increases hoping that that would have stop the Government from releasing the workers but when he got the great betrayal ,he then states that he would be asking for increases for them .
    Now tell us is this the same union that has told this Government to increase its taxes on the workers that it should be representing –the tax on GAS -who pays this tax ,not the commercial business their business have vehicles that operates by Diesel
    But Dennis received his duty free car and cares nothing of the wor kers ,where as Walter Maloney has been given a promotion although he has no qualifications ,
    we have been reading the Auditor General Reports but has wed that he has never Audited the NUPW or CTUSAB where we would be very surprise at how the training funds has been used.
    Mr Clarke can you tell the worker about how the Medicare Scheme has been place at the foot of ICBL.
    can you tell us how many members has left NUPW .the during the last year , can you tell us the staff salaries and allowance . and can you tell us if Walter Maloney has paid that $6000 cell phone bill and also the recent $18000, cell phone bill .
    We also understand that the union received a bill for the repairs of the THAT car that Dennis Clarke drives yet the car was never off the road -may be there is a similar car some where in St George .

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

    To Danny Gill,

    Who has broadly dismissed the work of unionism in this country since 1937?

    If you read our post carefully you would have seen that it is said that trade unions “did make much sense from the late 1930s to the 1970s”.

    What we would say though is that the efforts of trade unions have been and have amounted to very little over the years in terms of the national DEVELOPMENT of this country.

    You said: “Without the unions many of us would still be in the cane fields heading canes this crop. Many of the disenfranchised would not have had a voice”.

    The coming about and maintenance of trade unions did not stop many individuals from remaining in the sugar cane fields/factories – persons whom we have tremendous respect for nevertheless, for many reasons.

    The formation and maintenance of trades unions did not stop many persons from remaining in the other areas of agriculture (cotton, yams, potatoes, etc.) as field workers.

    The existence of trades unions did not stop persons from workers from working in the construction, agricultural, tourism, the government sectors over the years until now.

    We know of no cases where trade unions in Barbados have determined that persons individually – who were once sugar cane sugar factory workers, and, by extension, lower status agricultural workers, construction, manufacturing, tourism workers in this country, etc have been able – as a result of the what you have called the work of trade unions, to move from being such lower ranked workers to become highly trained qualified doctors, lawyers, architects, engineers, in the sense of which you appear to be assuming presupposing that many persons more now than in the 50s, 60s, and 70s, many filling the ranks of these other professions, and that such is indicative of progress development significantly contributed to by trade unions.

    In spite of trade unions having been organizations that have functioned to better the working and wages and salary and other conditions of workers, trade unions have been essentially politically exploitative and financially parasitic organizations; parasitic of the same unionized workers that they claim to be oriented around.

    Very outlandishly appallingly, trade unions are NOT even owned by the said unionized workers.

    We are wondering whether or not they were not formed to as much as possible detract from, and to as much as possible thwart too, the achievement of otherwise far far greater levels than are the case of the social political material and financial progress development well being – and too of the pace, direction and scale of those things – of the broad masses and middle classes of people of this country.

    We are not sure you are using the term disenfranchisement in its right context, so we are not going to really respond to that statement, principally because there was no universal adult suffrage until 1950/51. And even after such has come about, only a few including prisoners are really disenfranchised from voting.

    So there was no TAKING AWAY by any government of the day, or by any other group of persons of any right of any persons to vote before or after universal adult suffrage – in the sense of which you implied.

    PDC

  18. Danny Gill Avatar
    Danny Gill

    PDC

    I understand that you may wish to jump on your soap box and bellow in the wind. But do not not show up yourself so badly. The word disenfranchise has to do with taking away all rights not voting rights only.

    The doctors and other professional class that you are so boastful about; are they not children of these workers from the cane fields. There was a time that regardless of how bright a child might have been, its only future job was picking pond grass. Even as you so eloquently write, you would have been a picker of pond grass without the work of unionism.

    Yes, argue that the professional classes later formed their own organizations to run far from the agricultural workers in the BWU, and I could support you. Please do let the great faith you have in your own scholarship make you indulge in too much hubris.

  19. Lemuel Avatar
    Lemuel

    Someone just called and informed me that Dennis Clarke only keeping noise about the retrenched workers now that his daughter was sent home.

  20. David Avatar
    David

    @Lemuel

    Someone just called and informed me that Dennis Clarke only keeping noise about the retrenched workers now that his daughter was sent home.

    Tell us more, was she appointed? What irony!

  21. Prodigal Son Avatar
    Prodigal Son

    If that is true, is this what he got for selling his soul? He has now learnt his lesson, you cannot trust these wild boys.

    No wonder the two Garrison boys can laugh at them in a public place for people to hear them………..they outsmarted the union guys! What a thing!

  22. Caswell Franklyn Avatar
    Caswell Franklyn

    Lemuel & David

    I could not understand Clarke’s uncharacteristically strong condemnation of the Government, but Lemuel’s revelation has clarified things. He did not care about retrenched temporary workers until the job losses hit home. I am truly sorry that she lost her job. All I can say is that it is the wrong Clarke.

  23. Lemuel Avatar
    Lemuel

    David;

    Clarke’s daughter was temporary.

    Someone also mentioned that Cedric Murrel had retired. How can he continue to head the CTUSAB? Is he like Trotman expecting a diplomatic pick?

  24. David Avatar
    David

    @Lemuel

    Believe Murrell retires officially in June or July.

    If Clarke’s daughter was temporary why should Clarke be upset.

  25. Lemuel Avatar
    Lemuel

    David:

    From what I am gathering by the talk on the ground, Clarke thought if he delivered his daughter would be safe. He has a son at the Cement Plant and only the candidates he and his staff backed in the last election got into see the employees at the Cement Plant.

    It is said by members of his staff that when he goes certain places on union business he takes along no one. Hence, when he is not around nobody knows what is going on.

  26. PLANTATION DEEDS FROM 1926 TO 2014 , MASSIVE FRAUD ,LAND TAX BILLS AND NO DEEDS OF BARBADOS, BLPand DLP=Massive Fruad Avatar
    PLANTATION DEEDS FROM 1926 TO 2014 , MASSIVE FRAUD ,LAND TAX BILLS AND NO DEEDS OF BARBADOS, BLPand DLP=Massive Fruad

    Undaunted | April 20, 2014 at 9:10 AM | @ YOU GOT IT ,REMEMBER WHEN TIME TO VOTE,

    Caswell Franklyn | April 20, 2014 at 4:18 PM |@ Dennis Clarke more then wrong , He is DEAD WRONG, scumbag

    G . Dennis Clarke QC, seem to be the same blood line,their is a white Clarke and a black Clarke

  27. Lemuel Avatar
    Lemuel

    Deeds
    Ya lost me wid dat one dey so.

  28. watchman Avatar
    watchman

    @ deeds
    I like this BU blog ,please get to 2014 and stop the 1926 @#%$^&*()_+

  29. PLANTATION DEEDS FROM 1926 TO 2014 , MASSIVE FRAUD ,LAND TAX BILLS AND NO DEEDS OF BARBADOS, BLPand DLP=Massive Fruad Avatar
    PLANTATION DEEDS FROM 1926 TO 2014 , MASSIVE FRAUD ,LAND TAX BILLS AND NO DEEDS OF BARBADOS, BLPand DLP=Massive Fruad

    Lemuel | April 20, 2014 at 7:50 PM |

    Deeds
    Ya lost me wid dat one dey so.@ Sorry

    There are 2 Persons named Dennis Clarke So-called black-man , Union man
    The other goes by G.Dennis Clarke QC So-called white-man lawyer, This lawyer YEARWOOD&BOYCE is to have Beatrice Henry Ledger with all her things , Most of the deeds we look for are not recorded at the land registry, Seem they sold and held the deeds in their office , To keep them OUT OF SIGHT , This lawyer is a nice talking man, Never will you ever see him as a crook, liar and scumbag ,He even gave us misleading information,But we found the truth about him and his family , We even fond where he lived and paid him a visit , Lying come comes so easy and smooth to him , like drinking a glass of nice cold Brita water.
    The White Clarke and his family seem to be the same family as H.W Clarke land and Son Steven Clarke? that died a few years ago, After being in the QEH for 2 day.He said his family work for Beatrice Henry for over 50 years surveying land and 3 generations , Yes white-man G.Dennis Clarke QC said Beatrice Henry in her 93 years living and buying in Barbados from 1926-to 1980 buy his records only deal with 9 properties ,
    Caswell found 17 in 2002, As the years goes by the land land reduce them even more, As people sit in land tax With Mr Forde shopping for her lands to transfer the land tax numbers,
    To must to list , but i hope that help you.

  30. PLANTATION DEEDS FROM 1926 TO 2014 , MASSIVE FRAUD ,LAND TAX BILLS AND NO DEEDS OF BARBADOS, BLPand DLP=Massive Fruad Avatar
    PLANTATION DEEDS FROM 1926 TO 2014 , MASSIVE FRAUD ,LAND TAX BILLS AND NO DEEDS OF BARBADOS, BLPand DLP=Massive Fruad

    watchman | April 20, 2014 at 8:06 PM |

    @ deeds
    I like this BU blog ,please get to 2014 and stop the 1926 @#%$^&*()_+@@

    watchman , Beatrice was born 1892. So 1926 is what we found from when she start to buy land, They maybe some before then,

    You want 2014 , here we go,
    JUST WATCHMAN ALL THE POSTINGS ON BU, they are the result of this Massive Fraud, Take a little time to think and see how deep this goes in you everyday lives,
    as a result of the fraud and free land for the crown and the pimp title crook making all the money for them and their family, We the people are cut out , Now none want to give back not tell the truth , to save BARBADOS,
    SO WATCHMAN , they will VAT AND TAX YOU TILL DEATH AND BLAME THE WORLD RECESSION , When the blame lies in the massive Land Fraud ,When CLICO case came up that was the company to launder the land and plantations, Study it Well , to the banks, insurance companies, credit unions all got a part of the and the pimp title holders,, Watch it well

  31. Smooth Chocolate Avatar
    Smooth Chocolate

    dennis clarke is a liar… infact at a particular meeting, the public servants were told that the NUPW wanted to put to the PM the suggestion that civil servants volunteer to have one day a month off. this would and, they would not be paid. the public servants asked if they volunteer for a salary cut, if that would prevent the temps from going home, they were informed that it would not since govt intended to send home people anyway, the members asked then what would be the point of that happening if govt still intended to send home workers. never the less, the NUPW said they could only put it to the PM. nothing more was said or heard about at that until that liar get on the radio and uttered rubbish. when i heard this i was fully convince that he was desperate and aware that most members know that they are not being honestly represented by the union. if i have a union to join, it would have to be Caswell Franklyn’s.

  32. Lemuel Avatar
    Lemuel

    Smooth
    At another meeting, I was told that when the workers wanted to take some sort of industrial action to show solidarity with the temporary workers, Dennis Clarke said “I would go home first”. We did not know then how tied his poor hands were from the various deals he made.

    When the last NUPW election finished and all were laughing and dumping on the losers to Maloney, I predicted that public workers would sent home without a struggle. I saw it come to pass.

  33. Lemuel Avatar
    Lemuel

    Deeds
    So many hands have been part of removing Beatrice’ lands that it shall impossible to find any. What is also sad is that many were the political lawyers that exist in Barbados.

  34. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ David
    Some shiite gotta be real wrong bout here though!!!
    Even if we dismiss PLANTATION DEEDS as paranoid, …how the hell is it possible for so many BIG UP people’s name to be so pointedly called in this – and NOT A SINGLE FELLA can come out and say “Not me bozzie” …I ain’t in that….?

    What ever became of the question of the ownership of Kensington? Was that not a big public issue and a legal matter…?
    Where is it now?
    Who EXACTLY is holding it up…?
    Why is it not being resolved?
    How can government talk of merging it with the Gym when it’s very ownership is unclear…
    Why can’t one of these matters be carried to the CCJ…since our courts seem to be infested with the guilty…?
    ….Wuh if they can find time to look into how we check potential drug mules coming into Barbados, you would think that they can look into something like the ownership of Kensington ….

    Bushie is smelling a big rat somewhere…..

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

    Mr Danny Gill,

    We said we are NOT sure you are using the term disenfranchisement in its right context.

    Since you have – in your last response – defined what you meant by the WORD, disenfranchise, can you indicate the disenfranchised to whom you refer? (can you define that too?) – who amounted to be those people who hitherto had all these political legal rights of which you allude – and who were later seen ( by whom?) to have had those rights, or even some, taken away from them?

    Can you tell the PDC too what were these rights that were taken away from them and where and when they were taken away?

    Can you contextualized what you said (about many of these disenfranchised who would not have had a voice) given that that is such a huge assertion or claim?

    PDC

  36. David Avatar
    David

    @Bush Tea

    The ball is in Deeds Court now, he is the one on whose back the onus is to take it to the next step. If he has a case t His accusers will not be the ones to make the first mve.

    On Monday, 21 April 2014, Barbados Underground wrote:

    >

  37. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ David
    Your position on the PLANTATION DEEDS affair is flawed.

    Our world is made up of all types of personalities and abilities….we have the GP and Hants types who are bright enough and talented enough to run away from injustices and make a success of their lives….

    We have the Moneybrain types who make a killing here and then ease away to live in tranquility in Canada…and crack nuff jokes…

    We have the ac and Dompey types who don’t have the faintest clue about anything….but feel like experts…

    …and of course we have a few Bushie types …of whom it can be said…”touch not BBE’s anointed”… 🙂

    Bushie believes that Plantation has been doing 100% within his capacity to have this injustice addressed, and brought to the public’s attention. It would appear that he has tried ALL of the accepted approaches such as….
    – finding and paying a lawyer
    – going to the crooked local courts
    – going to politicians (everyone of them it seems…)
    .. Going to public officials
    …going to the local press

    Shiite man…he even went to Caswell…

    SO FAR, NO ONE HAS BEEN ABLE TO CLARIFY THE SITUATION EITHER TO DISMISS HIS CLAIM, OR TO ADDRESS HIS CONCERN.

    This matter is now therefore a matter of PUBLIC CONCERN. It can no longer be a matter for PLANTATION to deal with alone. When does it become OUR problem then?

    What happens when the crooked authorities decide to come down on a citizen such as Caswell or Loverage who speak out about shiite bout here? …will we leave it for them alone to deal with…?

    …we does make a lotta shiite sport bout here, but Bushie is telling you that this PLANTATIONS matter is a final test of our national brass bowlery…

  38. Lemuel Avatar
    Lemuel

    Bushie:

    Beatrice lands and the “looking in to it” was even in the hands of the current leader of the opposition. This looking in to it has paased so many legal hands that somewhere along the line attrition set in and wah loss some land gone.

    Government would tell you that they have “acquired” the lands on which Kensington oval sits, end of story; another piece gone.

    Like all Caribbean look in tos nothing shall happen; no Dodds.

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

    Mr Danny Gill,

    We want you to get two very fundamental points that we were making in the PDC’s second last post to you before this one, and it is these: that the coming about and maintenance of trade unions in Barbados did not stop thousands of individuals from becoming or remaining workers – and the coming about and maintenance of trade unions did not create the work for the workers.

    Those points stated, it must be stated that, in a context where work and the work system in Barbados have been and continue to be so degrading demeaning and degradating of almost every human being that is a worker here, it has to be entirely morally politically ridiculous, repugnant and regressive that there are still these trade unions that not only have been and are contributing to the deepening and intensifying of this vicious and obscene work system in many circumstances of industry and commerce in this country, but that are also themselves continuing to severely exploit thousands of continually seriously exploited marginalized workers in this country (look at the vulgarity and idiocy for a recent BWU strike at BAMC).

    A modernizing Barbados has no place for such backward exploitative political organizations and their often immature useless activity.

    Imagine that the unionized workers themselves do not even own the trade unions that they THINK (sic) they are part of.

    Of such, there must be involved a moral and political crisis of identity, belongingness, and responsibility of epic proportions involving those who lead these unions and the workers involved in these particular trade unions.

    Moreover, it is morally and politically obscene that – at this very critical juncture in the history of Barbados – the majority of people in Barbados are still observing old backward trade unions claiming to REPRESENT (sic) workers, and in a context where as many citizens and people as possible of this country – ought to be proceeding onwards and upwards towards higher states of social community corporate financial existences – via the relevant greater education and enlightenment; via the appropriate greater civic political empowerment and actualization, and via the rightful greater social material production and distribution.

    PDC

  40. David Avatar
    David

    @Bush Tea

    Except reblogging earlier blogs what van BU do that we have not done before.

  41. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    Lemuel
    The willingness /resignation to accept injustice is the main ingredient in the recipe for the destruction of a society.
    PLANTATION DEEDS, by promoting this blatant injustice which seems to involve ALL the leaders, institutions and functionaries in our society, is publicly and openly condemning our whole society to its inevitable (and deserved) fate.

    A word to the wise is enough, but a whole essay to a brass bowl is just so much shiite….. (LOL …Bushie just mek dat up..)

  42. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ David
    What re-blog what?!?
    The chap is clearly not an articulate writer…..no point in that.
    Does that negate his rights to justice…?

    This in no longer about PLANTATIONS. It is about how it is possible for AUTHORITIES IN BARBADOS to sweep such an issue under the carpet….

    As a start, as a public official in opposition, MIA should be called to say PUBLICLY what she knows about it. Bushie don’t want to hear one shiite from her about anything else until she clears this up.
    So should Arthur as past PM.

    Similarly, the current PM should be pressured to make a clear statement on the current situation….if we can get him to read about it…

    What is the point of having a CHIEF JUSTICE? …to go to Foundation School speech day every year bragging about his unexpected success?

    Lotta shiite!!!

  43. Lemuel Avatar
    Lemuel

    Bushie:

    Man I now am sure you smoking something for the Easter season. We have or will have no justice in Barbados. white man shot child; whiteman left Bim, and only came back when Americans brought him back. White left again legally not to be heard from again. That happen right in front you and me.

    Once a Sandy Lane resident said something that most of us heard but did not take to heart. He said that with a couple parties he was able to have to power to make a phone call and get any thing done in Barbados.

    Bushie, we Bajans too hand to mout! You see what Deeds up against. And it does not stop there. There are groups in Bim we have determined to decide who runs any thing in Bim. This why you can not get your “group” with Caswell off the ground. Their eyes are upon you Bushie!

  44. Danny Gill Avatar
    Danny Gill

    PDC

    Stop jumping all over the place. Our discussion previously dealt with emerging social issues. You have now put a developmental issue on the table. The issue of Barbadians working for themselves and not as employees of others.

    No Black people in the 1960s or 70s could talk about being owners of businesses. The was no business environment to facilitate such a dastardly thought by black people. Yes, trade unionism was not that forward thinking to provide that enabling environment. However, your middle class children because of the work of the unions would now be in a position to talk about being owners of businesses.

    PDC, you are behaving like some Bajans who seem to think Barbados only started with independence and the work of the Colonial or British was not important. Barrow found a school system; he did not invent one; a educational system that would have educated him and others like him.

    So when you and your ilk wave around your UWI degrees, you are standing on the backs of each sugar worker from the time of slavery.

    By the way, we are not in any intellectual “pissing” competition.

  45. David Avatar
    David

    @Bush Tea

    See Lemuel’s response, if this Deeds business is as deep rooted do you think these hoodlums will admit to anything?

    On Monday, 21 April 2014, Barbados Underground wrote:

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  46. Well Well Avatar
    Well Well

    Lemuel said:
    “Once a Sandy Lane resident said something that most of us heard but did not take to heart. He said that with a couple parties he was able to have to power to make a phone call and get any thing done in Barbados”

    A now deceased foreign Port Charles resident admitted the same thing to me….not one involved politician, lawyer etc can admit to anything in Barbados because they are in way too deep, land laundering is still be done and their names can still be called, no one will dare admit to anything…….some have lived to see lawyers be arrested in Barbados finally after many decades of arrogantly believing they are untouchable, hopefully we will not have to wait too soon to see politicians and their ‘corporate’ friends arrested….as soon as we can get the DPP assuming his role as a PUBLIC PROSECUTOR and investigate these goings on that have not stopped,and not only continue to gorge on his delight at arresting only poor, black people..BUT that would mean the AG will also have to do his job and insist that the DPP start investigating this level of corruption and then as usual his name or that of his soul mate might have to be called……it’s a mess, not one of them have the balls.

  47. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ David and Lemuel
    Well shiite then…let us just worry about the small fry that we can manage – like whether Dompey is REALLY so foolish or if he is actually deliberately seeking to look so…. 🙂
    Cool wid Bushie Boss…..

    As to those with their “eyes on Bushie…” That is nothing new…. This is a way of life for bushmen. …Think um is only bout here that Bushie mouth big….?

    When the time is ripe they will probably crucify Bushie’s ass too, but until then, they shall go the way of all before – who dared to touch BBE’s anointed… 🙂

  48. David Avatar
    David

    @Bush Tea

    BU is open to share any views received which sheds light on the Deeds matter.

    Would be interested to get views from others how Deeds should more constructively pursue his cause to complement what we are doing in social media and the odd article in traditional media.

    On Monday, 21 April 2014, Barbados Underground wrote:

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  49. Well Well Avatar
    Well Well

    I told Plantations to check out options under international law since someone in a rather similar position told me that the CCJ would not have jurisdiction in land matters in Barbados, though they are still making absolutely sure about this information, personally, knowing all the names involved, I would make absolutely sure the New York TImes, Daily Mail London, newspapers in Canada and law agencies all around the world have the names of the culprits so they would be watched worldwide by international agencies, shrink their world so that Barbados becomes their prison, they must make a mistake at some point, they are greedy and money is the centre of their universe.

  50. PLANTATION DEEDS FROM 1926 TO 2014 , MASSIVE FRAUD ,LAND TAX BILLS AND NO DEEDS OF BARBADOS, BLPand DLP=Massive Fruad Avatar
    PLANTATION DEEDS FROM 1926 TO 2014 , MASSIVE FRAUD ,LAND TAX BILLS AND NO DEEDS OF BARBADOS, BLPand DLP=Massive Fruad

    Lemuel | April 21, 2014 at 4:40 AM |
    Deeds
    So many hands have been part of removing Beatrice’ lands that it shall impossible to find any. What is also sad is that many were the political lawyers that exist in Barbados.@

    Lemuel@ It is not hard to find , We still have our copies of the deed with full descriptions of the plantations ,200to 300 of 396 listed .We also have deeds that dont even show up in any books or archives,As count for now we have 5 so far,added to to the 396 with now bring us to 400. At one point there were 491 in the history of Barbados.Nothing has moved just renamed and not mention by Sir Hillary at UWI he to know more than me.

    The lawyers made a way ,and a way to block out others who want to be lawyers that were not a part of their crooked plot.
    They even refuse to let Caswell go to law school , for Caswell would do what the law says and not want the other crooks wanted. Well before they said they were no room at UWI for him , Well there will be plenty room now
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