est. 2007

Barbados Underground

Bringing News and Opinions to the People

,

Sir Hilary Beckles Names New Sports Facility After Jamaican Usain Bolt

Submitted by Anthony Davis PRINCIPAL of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, has defended a decision to name the new sports complex at the university after Jamaican Olympic and world sprint champion Husain Bolt – Unease In Barbados Over Decision To Name Cave Hill Sports Complex After Usain Bolt We are…

, ,
Submitted by Anthony Davis

PRINCIPAL of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, has defended a decision to name the new sports complex at the university after Jamaican Olympic and world sprint champion Husain Bolt – Unease In Barbados Over Decision To Name Cave Hill Sports Complex After Usain Bolt

We are true lovers of things/people foreign. Pray tell me, Sir Hilary, where in Barbados was Usain born?

Why isn’t it being named, as suggested, after Jim Wedderburn, Obadale Thompson, Akela Jones, or any other of our outstanding athletes?

Do we always have to degrade our athletes/artists in such a way?

Is it possible that you don’t want to name it after Akela because you are sexist?

The part about Sir Frank Worrell doesn’t hold water, because Sir Frank had adopted Jamaica as his home, and he was working there.

In any case, I do not only voice my strong opposition to naming the complex after Bolt, I will NOT attend any events at all at that venue!

My money has more sense.

You can give a million reasons for naming it after Bolt, but they all smack of you being nothing but a traitor to those Barbadians who gave/are giving their all for our country!

Charity begins at home, Sir Hilary!

179 responses to “Sir Hilary Beckles Names New Sports Facility After Jamaican Usain Bolt”

  1. harry turnover Avatar
    harry turnover

    When I first read it,I said that IDIOT only trying to get into the good books of Jamaicans since his insult to Chris Gayle.
    Now only yesterday I read that his NEW JOB WILL BE BASED IN JAMAICA. Now he is saying that he will try to convince the St.Augustine Campus to do the same…he mussee tink trinis not patriotic.

  2. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    @ David

    Of course!

    We have always supported reparations. These issues should have been dealt with many years ago, at least since ‘independence’.

    What we have problems with is the transactional use of this issue after these leaders have shepherded us into a developmental cul de sac. Now, this is the ONLY long term plan these people could come up with.

    Knowing these fuckers, a back room deal will be made. Beckles and the UWI are looking for money to support what they think is important to us, their mis-education. And political elites will get debts forgiven only to start borrowing again.

    Caribbean people should not trust these legal criminals, actual or in waiting!

    We should also seek reparations from the Caribbean elites as well. Furthermore, we distrust them and will not leave them alone to handle our ancestors.

  3. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    In addition, if money or money’s worth is to be had it should be for the direct benefit of the descendant of African slaves.

    Why are we to have people like Beckles and other Caribbean elites receive the pay cheques of our ancestors?

    This to our minds represents a misappropriation.

  4. harry turnover Avatar
    harry turnover

    @ Lawson

    EXACTLY !!….the dots are BIG ENOUGH for everybody to see.,and you are even told where to put them.

  5. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Instead of looking for useless paper, we should make a claim on the land of these islands. All the land!

  6. harry turnover Avatar
    harry turnover

    The IDIOT only looking out for he self and family,hope he knows that others in JAMAICA are looking out for the same thing.

  7. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ harry turnover
    One thing the man ISN’T …..is an idiot.

    Scheming, single-minded, selfish, egotistical, articulate, underhanded, manipulative, deceitful…..

    ….lots of convenient adjectives……..BUT NOT IDIOT.

    His ability to exploit us laid back Bajan brass bowl jokers over the past 30 years is a mark of genius …and the disastrous results for Barbados are now material of legendary proportions.

    No idiot sir…..
    MUCH MORE DANGEROUS…….

    LOL
    ac is an idiot – All of them.

  8. lawson Avatar
    lawson

    BT you could say he is a wolf in peeps clothing.

  9. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ Lawson
    LOL
    ….if you wanted to be charitable …. yes!

  10. Easy Squeeze (make no riot) Avatar
    Easy Squeeze (make no riot)

    I expected UK EU and US bloggers to be anti-reparations with weak excuses as justifications for enslaving Africans, which goes beyond a single transaction of illegal sale but breeding and subordination of slaves for several generations and implementation of global system of racism we endure.

    Bajan bloggers are the idiots for helping them by providing excuses..

  11. lawson Avatar
    lawson

    You would have a better chance of reparations if you had named the stadium after Cameron or prince william

  12. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ Easy
    I expected UK EU and US bloggers to be anti-reparations…..
    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
    Boss, you used to make a lot more sense as KIki……

    Now why the hell would you expect white people to be anti-reparations? Come on Easy …..THINK!!!

    …you are a bully.
    you hold a fella at gunpoint and tie him up for 500 years, …cutting his ass, raping his mother, killing his children as you feel inclined….
    …500 years down the road, he get away by the skin of his teeth, and some idiot start this business about racial equality, justice and other shiite….

    Suddenly, this fella that you had like an animal for all those centuries turn up at your door asking you for some money to compensate those 500 years of unspeakable torment…..

    You would be anti -that ……?

    Wuh…
    1 – it reinforces your viewpoint that the fella is inferior and cannot make it without your guidance and pity

    2 – it is a chance to give him a few dollars and be rid of the yoke of those 500 years of bullying. He could NEVER raise the issue again after he has been paid off… (Lord knows what he will tell his children…)

    3 – So he gets a court to say that “slavery was wrong”.
    BIG DEAL.
    Shiite man!!! so is stealing, and lying and murder and speeding… WE ALL KNOW THAT ALREADY.

    BUT….
    Do you want to know who will be anti-reparations?

    PROUD BLACK PEOPLE who KNOW of their true heritage.
    KINGS DON’T BEG.
    QUEENS don’t go to shiite courts seeking justice – they build righteous ARMIES and IMPOSE justice
    PRINCES don’t beg for mercy and seek blood money on their ancestors suffering…they grow up to be kings on the strength of their ROYAL characters.

    ….only shiite people run begging to bullies for mercy and compensation….

  13. Easy Squeeze (make no riot) Avatar
    Easy Squeeze (make no riot)

    Slaves descendants in Virginia Jamaica Barbados Dominica Trinidad South America are getting all Tribal against each other.

    They are good at sports, check the Siddis in India

    Every Voice shall sing, A Time will come
    every Fig shall find its own Vine
    That’s the only solution to end this crime
    Bide up Rastaman for the time is at hand
    Bide up African the time is at hand

    http://youtu.be/GcgtM2hADGI

  14. SuckaBubby Avatar
    SuckaBubby

    Reparations is the cheap way out which serves no purposeful long term solution.The only real solution is for the ex – colonial and the western imperialist powers to relinquish total control of territories back to the indigenous people as they found them.Both in the Americas and Africa.That would cause a very serious and grievous shakeup in the western world as its wealth is built on the very exploitation of these people and their lands.

    Reparations will not cause that shakeup if the ex colonial and imperialist dole out trinkets.Thats how we were enslaved in the first place.People bringing trinkets to create division and strife.

    Unfortunately the real game changer will cause war,as the first world will not release their minions that easily.That was the real purpose of the cold war.Not as a standoff but to frighten and hold the third world in economic stagnation and suspension in the hope that they wont turn on us.

    Reparations is the continuance of “please dont turn on us massa”!!

  15. Easy squeeze (make no riot) Avatar
    Easy squeeze (make no riot)

    Human Costs incurred was for Economic Power
    Commodities like Cotton Tobacco Sugar and building nations roads and railways etc was all achieved under black mans burden for white mans gains

    Financial Recompense is fully in order your honour legally morally and spiritually
    it is a spiritual battle we are fighting

    illegal slavery
    share cropping
    indentured slavery
    segregation
    racism
    incarceration
    unemployment
    poverty
    police harassment

    it always has been a great depression recession time of high unemployment

    it ruff
    it tuff
    It ruffer ruff

    I’ve got a story to tell you
    it is blow
    but is true true true
    my brother me know you a go screw
    but there is nothing else for me to do

    I was born in a hut
    down by the gully bank

    my mother was a tougher rank
    I don’t know my father

    we have to look a little hustling
    but it never enough

    http://youtu.be/8T8gkfpoLe4

  16. Negroman Avatar
    Negroman

    Sabina Park and Bushy Park can be considered regional institutions because cricket in the West indies is a regional institution and regional cricket is played at Sabina Park.Likewise,Motors Sport is also gaining the reputation as a regional sports. Motor Sports enthusiasts from many countries in the Caribbean including Jamaica participate in events at Bushy Park.
    I have observed in the last two Olympics when Usain Bolt won his medals,Usain Bolt never ever mentioned Barbados or other Caribbean Countries in his victory speeches.Everything he said was about Jamaica.
    I do not think Usain Bolt like many other Jamaicans are interested in Caribbean integration.
    Barbadians the time has long passed for us to be really nationalistic.
    Remember Jamaica wanted to go war with us over Shanique Myers issue.

  17. Easy Squeeze (make no riot) Avatar
    Easy Squeeze (make no riot)

    Easy Take It Easy

    Babylon Too Rough

    I Stand Accused

    Them a walk, them a shoot, them a loot
    Babylon them a brute
    Them a walk, them a loot, them a shoot
    But we know evil by the root

    Easy, Natty, easy
    Nah take it so rough
    Easy, Natty, easy
    Babylon too tough

    http://youtu.be/IrEopcECEyA

  18. Easy Squeeze (make no riot) Avatar
    Easy Squeeze (make no riot)

    The Wicked shall not enter
    the Kingdom of Zion
    You got to be strong like a Lion

    http://youtu.be/tI6jeNuaNPc

  19. Togetherness Avatar
    Togetherness

    Heard Barry Wilkinson on sportsmax saying this is a non- story and Bajans are not upset. Pray tell where do we find these clowns. Did Wilkinson bother to read BU, the newspapers or speak to folk on the street. Some folks are for many are against and rightly so.

    Someone posted that this is a personal decision by Beckles to appease Jamaicans given his bad record with them when he called Gayle a don and prima donna. The Myrie case and immigration accusations may also be at play here. Beckles is no fool he is laying ground for his relocation to Jamaica to be Vice Chancellor. No doubt he knew his posting there was coming long before the public knew. He is concerned about a hostile reception when he gets to Mona. Jamaicans remain angry in the extreme at Bajans over Myrie.

    Usain Bolt has no connection to Barbados whatsoever he is admired by many around the world including Bajans for his athletic prowess. Placing his name on a a stadium in the heart of Barbados is a nonsense. Its like someone expressing love for a person who not only does not know them but couldn’t care less if they exist. Its demeaning really. Comes across as we being inferior and leaves a bad taste in the mouth . The regionalism of the university argument is a tacky red herring.

    The place will always be Paradise Park a name that is catchy and captures the beauty of the location. What Usain Bolt stadium what. Let the man’s name resonate where it belongs among his people in the land of wood and water. The finance for its construction was generated in Barbados not Jamaica not Trinidad. The stadium could be named the BJT Complex for Ryan Braithwaite , Akela Jones and Obadele Thompson.

  20. Derek Avatar
    Derek

    I wonder what jamaican woman put him up ta this. Two years from now it comes out bolt had been using steroids. How did we get so mixed up with Jamaica. To many jamaicans, n Guyanese in Bim. To much reggae sh’ite on the radio. A country that is more interested in winning medals rather than strengthening its currency. A country that never wanted Caribbean unity, please why do we waste our time.

  21. Negroman Avatar
    Negroman

    I agree with you Derek Too much dead weight waste of time Jamaicans,Guyanese & Trinidadians.These people live in the three biggest land masses in the Caribbean outside of Cuba,yet they destroyed their countries and are now fleeing to tiny Barbados to live.
    I listened to Barry Wilkinson on Line & Length.His comments were nonsensical to say the least.
    Usain Bolt like many other Jamaicans have no regard for Barbados.
    Before I forget,maybe Hilary Beckles is trying to appease Jamaicans regarding the unfortunate incident between his son and the Jamaican student.

  22. adonijah Avatar
    adonijah

    This is all about marketing. Bolt is a universal brand and, as Sir Hilary has said, through his doctorate he is a part of the UWI community. This is nothing at all to do with regionalism.

  23. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    Ri Ri and Bolt are Pumas.

    http://www.businessinsider.com/rihanna-becomes-creative-director-of-pumas-womens-business-2014-12

  24. pieceuhderockyeahright Avatar
    pieceuhderockyeahright

    @ Negroman

    Appeasement through this naming exercise even if that was Sir Hilary s objective (and he would be a stupid man if it was) would not have that desired effect because the complex s name is a “non-incident” in Jamaica

    This blog with 173 entries it does not have the readership in the quadrant that he Sir Hilary would need to appease and neither the media nor BU will affect those who will seek vengeance if the opportunity affords itself

    The specific son would be well advised not to take up residence with Dad and certainly not to be as party going in Jamtown

  25. Gabriel Avatar
    Gabriel

    Derek and Negroman
    You both have touched upon a peculiar cultural backwardness that is so pervasive in these Caribbean countries you have identified.I grew up in a relatively civilized Barbados and my profession took me to all these Caribbean countries with the exception of Guyana although I have visited many times.
    I am amazed at how we have permitted the US ghetto culture,warmly embraced by the Jamaican garrison culture and filth and grime added and exported to Barbados.So we see CBC proudly portraying the slime and scum of the Jamaican ghetto on our TV,guys dressed like they straight out of Rikers prison in NY,with the huge black shades,the leather jacs,the twang and the women gyrating like pollards windmill and that is the garbage CBC is showing on our TV.If Errol Barrow was alive,he would just make a phone call to the chair of CBC and that crap would never be seen again and the likes of Al Gilkes and that ilk that always bringing these nasty people to perform in Barbados would have to find some other means of conning the youth of Barbados.

  26. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    Well said Gabriel
    Dipper would have put a stop to that shiite long ago…

    Do you hear the shiite those semi-literate DJ’s play on the Radio stations bout here? Believe it or not …much of it CANNOT see the official light of day even in Jamaica…but um is a free-fuh-all bout here…

  27. Crusoe Avatar
    Crusoe

    @Gabriel, very good indeed.

    Without a Vision, the People perish.

  28. Derek Avatar
    Derek

    Negroman. A true Bajan fighter respect my brother. The socialist are responsible for all of this mayhem in Bim right now.

  29. Derek Avatar
    Derek

    @ Mr Gabriel if the late PM was PM today there isn’t anything in Barbados that would have A jamaican’s name next to or above it. Jamaican rasta- culture the most destructive force of Caribbean youth development wouldn’t be here. 2015 . 1,120 jamaicans murder by jamaicans.. In forty nine years we haven’t killed 300 people. Your socialistic Rambling is nonsense. By getting involved with Guyana and Jamaica we’ve hurt ourselves. The to. most anti social,and uncivilized. countries in caricom. Beckles is an intellectual appeaser

Older Comments
1 2 3 4

The blogmaster invites you to join the discussion.

Trending

Discover more from Barbados Underground

Subscribe now to keep reading and get access to the full archive.

Continue reading