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The funny thing about ya’ll Bajans is this: you have a problem when police beat confessions of of criminals, but it is okay for educators to beat education into innocent children.
Please give me a break. A distressing sight (and sound), but I saw nothing there I did not have occasion to see when I was in secondary school 40years ago.
Steve are you related to Lawrence Greenidge the Ex-mounted police?
He was called Juices as well!
I wonder where the security guards that are employed in the Terminal were when this dispute was going on. I’m wondering at what time this was. Morning or evening. When I watch this video it makes me sad to wonder about the future of my country
@Steve Grrenidhe
Forty years ago what is portrayed on the video did not happen in the bus terminals.
Children were fighting and cursing in the bus-stand way back when I was knee high to a grasshopper and Adam was a lad. Except back then there was nobody recording it with a cell phone, and there was no internet on which to publish it.
That said now that the parents and the schools can identify the little offenders, the parents and the schools should deal with them And I don’t mean beat them, because these children have probably been regularly beaten already, and they have successfully learned to beat others.
So they must be punished without the use of violence.
But I am not shocked.
Human beings have ALWAYS been violent.
@MR.C September 19, 2014 at 1:30 AM “Barbados seem to be becoming just as violent as the USA”
Barbados has ALWAYS been a more violent society than the USA.
I notice that nobody has suggested that we beat Leroy Parris or Rodney Wilkinson.
Nobody has suggested that we send the Barbados Defense Force for them.
And some fool is suggesting that we send soldiers for naughty children?
No wonder our children have lost all respect for us.
We think that we are fooling our children.
But they se through us…ALL the way through us.
@Code Name Octopussy September 19, 2014 at 7:49 AM “Barbados needs a good dose of correction. Maybe ISIS through their local agents can introduce Sharia Law and make Barbados a shining example of a true Muslim state . Can you imagine ISIS operating in Barbados…Quickly the place would be subdued”
The British colonial masters used extreme violence in Barbados from 1627 to 1838 and beyond…and that violence did not produce a subdued people. It produced a sneaky people..a people who in private, in the road, and in schools beat their women their children and each other.
The violence of ISIS is nothing compared to the violence used by the British colonial masters. There are still women alive in Kenya who in my lifetime had bottles full of hot water inserted in their vaginas by the British colonial masters, and men who had their testicles cut off..and if the British did that to a free people living in their own country..imagine what they did to an enslaved people living thousands of miles away from home.
You think the British sweet?
@Artaxerxes September 19, 2014 at 10:34 AM ” which brings to memory the stink which some of these parents threw when matthew farley tried to implement a decorum of decency by way of school attire in the school.”
So when Matthew Farley was trying implement…decency was he also trying ti implement it on himself?
Let us ask his wife-ex-wife-wife?
@David September 19, 2014 at 11:36 AM . “How does this reconcile with the MoF’s revelation that there was a serious national security consideration which influenced the decision to implement free bus fare.”
David: Has anybody verified whether the Minister was speaking the truth or NOT.
. There are still women alive in Kenya who in my lifetime had bottles full of hot water inserted in their vaginas by the British colonial masters, and men who had their testicles cut off..and if the British did that to a free people living in their own country..imagine what they did to an enslaved people living thousands of miles away from home.
You think the British sweet?
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And as far I know , some of our own Bajan women needed no encouragement from the British (sailors) to self inflict themselves,in a similar manner , at places like Harry’s Nitery.
lawson | September 19, 2014 at 4:12 PM |
Colonel if you are having anal sex and eating pussy at the same time….it sounds like the circus has come to town.
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Not a Circus, just a 3-Sum.
How come that we hardly ever hear or see students from such schools as Al Fatah, Codrington, St Winifred’s , Ursuline Convent, St Patrick’s,St Gabriel’s et al getting on like scrubbers , fishermen and gangsters on the buses and in public place. IOr is the media just highlighting the poor black kids?
@Colonel Buggy “Al Fatah, Codrington, St Winifred’s , Ursuline Convent, St Patrick’s,St Gabriel’s”
Because the students of these schools are picked up immediately after school by their housewife/part-time worker/self employed mommies, or by their drivers, or the special charter bus which comes straight into their schoolyards. They do not have to wait for hours in a crowded bus-stand. They have not been abandoned by their daddies, their mommies are not working 12 hour shifts as security guards.
But if socio-economic circumstances of the Al Fatah, Codrington, St Winifred’s , Ursuline Convent, St Patrick’s,St Gabriel’s students were changed you would get the EXACT SAME behaviour as you now see in the bus-stands.
That’s why.
But if socio-economic circumstances of the Al Fatah, Codrington, St Winifred’s , Ursuline Convent, St Patrick’s,St Gabriel’s students were changed you would get the EXACT SAME behaviour as you now see in the bus-stands.
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There was a time when the term Loco Parentis ,not only applied to Teachers, but to Bus drivers, Bus Conductors, Bus Inspectors Security Guards, policemen . Today there is an air of mutual disrespect.
But there are tens of thousands of school children,all across Barbados who are not as fortunate as their counterparts in the above schools, who have the privilege of a daddy or mummy drop off and pick up, or a door- to -door chartered bus,and who have to wait in the bus stand for hours, but whose behaviour is nevertheless ,exemplary.
@Watchman
Yup that I am. You see I have no time for a lot of long analytical bullshit talk when the writing is already on the wall.The environment of work and the implementation of programmes that seeks to enhance proper social development and foster a greater sense of community is serious lacking in Bimshire. Free education without a proper guidance programme and other proper developmental programmes has made free education a mere mockery. Most have left the island and gone to bigger and better. And those who remain are basically developing their interests.
What we have done successfully, therefore, is establish a consortium of lies with liars, greed with selfish thinking and finding all sorts of excuses to justify why this and that cannot be done but why that particular thing has to be undertaken at this time. That particular thing does not necessarily improve the quality of life for community but more so for a few individuals. Look at the government system. Utter crappy with no transparency, no accountability; hardly any enforcement of rules but high degree of pilfering. So much for free education nah!
You hypocrites will have a lot to say concerning this behaviour and not realize that such displays dominate the adult mentality of so many bajans. From the highest to the lowest. The only difference is that this was an open show for recording. So watchman thank you for the compliments. Hope I can get on here more often to receive more compliments from the likes of you. Later love
Artaxerxes | September 19, 2014 at 10:34 AM @ AC……..| which brings to memory the stink which some of these parents threw when matthew farley tried to implement a decorum of decency by way of school attire in the school
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ass…terexes
are u a billy goat or something……can’t u not understand anything without attaching a political slant,,,,
what the hell does Ronald jones response have to do with my reply to this article,.u are one mess up dude and further more the contrary tripe u added about cell phones,,,you got to be tripping all over the place on this one,,man stop trying so hard to be a political dic head after a while that becomes boring. look man tek the bushman advice just ignore ac,,,
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i made a simple response in my comment pointing out that some parents behaviour or lack thereof is stymied by the fact they some parents are poor role models and their behave does not send a positive message or examples that they children can learn from and as an example i use the matthew farley reaction from parents on the school attire ..then comes along one ass,,terexes with his knee jerk reaction lunging forward with in his usual long winded political diatribe citing Ronald jones cell phones and measuring sticks lawd hav merci,,, dude you lost me on this one,,,tek it easy bozie .
If the minister can’t implement a rule on cellphones i.e. to enforce how can they effectively manage school discipline? How will the children perceive and react to the ministry’s inability to enforce? The politician is a stakeholder, not the only one, in the process.
Simple Simon
Do me a big favor and stop blaming children for what amounts to an abdication as well as a renouncation, on the part of adults to take responsibility for the failures of our children. How can you in complete honesty, blame a child who hasn’t the mental as well as the intellectual infrastructure, coupled with the life skills, to make the valued choices? I believe that it is up to us as adults to provide the right kind of directionality, which would enable our children to face the contemporary challenges in society with confidence. Now, am I making any sense here? Or do I sound more like the anti-intellectual Bush Tea, who spews and parrots his daily nonesense on BU?
David that is the minister problem to figure out,,,,i made a point about parents unacceptable behavior and it’s poor reflection which as a result leads to horrible mismanagement and deplorable behavior poor responses on the part of their children, now if all this crap starts in the home and is allowed to continue .the side effects would be felt in the school and bear long term anti social behavior in society, that is a challenge for all not only one minister ,
A society is required to raise children among other things. Not all households are competent for one reason or the other to raise children, this is where civil society must step up, politicians et tal.
@Simple Simon
On the other hand Simple, no impertinence intended: I believe also that children should be given a certain amount of Personal -Responsibility and be held answerable and accountable for it, but there ought to be alotted room for failure also.
@ Simple Simon | September 19, 2014 at 10:37 PM |
“I notice that nobody has suggested that we beat Leroy Parris or Rodney Wilkinson.”
@ Simple Simon | September 19, 2014 at 10:38 PM |
“Nobody has suggested that we send the Barbados Defense Force for them.
And some fool is suggesting that we send soldiers for naughty children?”
@ Simple Simon | September 19, 2014 at 10:39 PM |
“No wonder our children have lost all respect for us.”
Simple Simon (S S), The above contributions nicely puts in a nutshell what is so morally wrong with the Barbadian pretentious “Christian” society; a social cesspool of hypocrites and double standards.
The children are the easy targets for the country’s social ills and must be punished accordingly to be treated like social lepers and pariahs.
Now tell us, SS, who have committed the bigger sin?
The “mob” of schoolchildren starved of discipline in the home or two bold-faced crooks protected from the arm of justice by their politician friends and cronies in crime?
@David September 20, 2014 at 7:09 AM “A society is required to raise children among other things. Not all households are competent for one reason or the other to raise children, this is where civil society must step up, politicians et tal.”
Dear David: Politicians ’bout here will step up to raise children when the blackbirds cut teeth.
Dear David: Haven’t you noticed that a lotta lotta of the politicians ’bout here don’t even raise their own flesh and blood children…and you want them to raise other people’s children?
If you think that that will happen I have a nice, nice bridge in Brooklyn that I want to sell to you.
Stupseee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@Colonel Buggy “But there are tens of thousands of school children,all across Barbados who are not as fortunate as their counterparts in the above schools, who have the privilege of a daddy or mummy drop off and pick up, or a door- to -door chartered bus,and who have to wait in the bus stand for hours, but whose behaviour is nevertheless ,exemplary.”
True, true.
Sometime we forget that the majority of Barbados’ children are very, very good behaved, and that tens of thousands of then of both genders, and all ages, ans all social , classes, and all religions go out everyday and try their best everyday and behave themselves everyday.
We all need to salute those children, their families and their teachers.
millertheanunnaki | September 20, 2014 at 7:35 AM |
@ Simple Simon | September 19, 2014 at 10:37 PM |
“I notice that nobody has suggested that we beat Leroy Parris or Rodney Wilkinson.”
And NOBODY has suggested that we beat Leroy and Rodney’s friends Freundel Stuart and Owen Arthur…and nobody has suggested that we send the Defense Force for Owen and Fruendel…and some fool is suggesting that we send the Defense Force for naughty school children? And if the children remain naughty in the face of the Defense Force what will the Defense Force do…use their machine guns to crack their heads and shoot them as Ronald Jones suggested will be done to us?
Our children have lost respect for us and they will so cut our asses that we will wish that we were dead long before we are dead.
Death will seem like a release from our troubles.
Colonel Buggy “And as far I know , some of our own Bajan women needed no encouragement from the British (sailors) to self inflict themselves”
Dear Colonel: This has to be a lie because if a woman inserts a bottle full of boiling water in her vagina she will receive such severe injuries and permanent scarring that she will forever afterwards be unable to have sex…and the women at Harry’s were sex workers and would out of economic self interest want to preserve the utility of their vaginas.
@Simple
Are politicians from Barbados or this world for that matter? Who is responsible for raising our politicians?
Ask wunna selves these questions…
The answers these questions and more are the reasons why Barbados is in so much turmoil at the moment. The entire island is under pressure and pressure builds their is bound to be an explosion.
that should be …..and when pressure builds…Need to get a new laptop..any you computer geeks can recommend to the SSS a really nice system…
Our large so called middle class drive around in the their air conditioned SUVs oblivious or not caring about a deteriorating society. One day we will wake up and the many shootings, so it seems, will appear the norm just like how the minibus culture creeped up on us.
@David
There is nothing wrong with driving around in an SUV. The problem with Barbados is that those in the SUV have mentalities of discrimination and pride. Even the stupid ass parties in and out of power exhibit the same bias. As I have said before this is only the smoke. It will get worst because the reasoning of these criminals and those suffering will be to hurt those that are not suffering and well off. And those doing the hurting believe that those who are well off are the reason why they are hurting. Its called pass the blame…AND ITS VERY POPULAR IN BARBADOS
@SSS
The mention do SUVs is in its symbolic meaning. Many in middle class see the attainment of the status as a success and divorce from the responsibility of contributing to nurturing the very society in which they have to exist.
Yup..Gotcha!!! The pride has certainly blinded them. Because as long as they remain behind their gates and security fences they believe all is well. But if a man builds in the middle of a garbage heap and prevents garbage from getting into his backyard, he must still recognize that the garbage is still part of life,
@ Sunshine Sunny Shine
Not a computer geek but I have been using an HP Touch screen
Cheap and reliable.
@Hants & SSS
Des anyone still use laptops?
David and SSS I am sure most of the Politicians and “Big ups” have an exit plan.
There seems to be an ever increasing number of angry young men who no longer pelt bottles but will pelt bullets.
I still use Laptops because of the power and some of the work I do cannot be done on a tablet or phone.
I also have a Samsung tablet I use for streaming video to my TV.
We are always looking for a hole a dump our shite in. What the frig driving an SUV has to do with the sorry state that we now find ourselves in. I drive an SUV, BUT I am more incline to call it a GUV, a general utility vehicle , for the simple reason that a good GUV could give the owner some 20 years service,especially with severely pot holed excuse for roads that we have always had, while other car owners during this same time may have had 3/4/5 change outs. And if we do some calculations, this saves the country valuable foreign exchange.
There are many people in this country who do not drive about an SUV but walk about with their dainty heads high in the clouds,and without much prompting, would let you know that they are one up on you,invariably mentioning, which school they went to, which university they attended, which politician or big business man that they rub shoulders with.
@millertheanunnaki September 20, 2014 at 7:35 AM “what is so morally wrong with the Barbadian pretentious “Christian” society; a social cesspool of hypocrites and double standards.”
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Barbados is not now and has NEVER been a Christian society.
Simple Simon
The state sponsored Religion in Barbados is Christianity. So therefore, the morality which flows from Christianity, is designed to shapes all of the major institutions in the country. But this is an idealist dream, imprinted upon minds of those of individuasl who borders on the periphery of lunacy.
@David
Firstly, I love a laptop. Secondly I cant see how the heck I can use a tablet to type holding upright in my hand, which I consider very tedious. Tablets are good for making presentations because of their convenience. Yet the same darn tablets still provides a mini USB type keyboard an a support sleeve for the tablet to be propped. When you done do all of that you still have mimicked the same basic structure as the laptop.
So David what you using?
Barbados has a failed social services and failed social development programme. We have develop every aspect of our interests to cater to foreign pleasures i.e. tourism, offshore sector development, investment etc. We have spent millions and very little on meaningful social programmes as an impetus to drive change from backward mentalities and selfish thinking. Poor is another word that can be translated into – will more than likely end up doing shite…
@SSS
Your last comment does not make sense if you try to align it with the expressed objective of the government read building a society. Couldn’t resist!
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