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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 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. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ Piece
    man don’t flatter the Bushman please….and more importantly, don’t temp Bushie…. ac does talk a lotta shiite, but letmuhtellya, her garden would take a good mowing and whacking….. 🙂

    But Islandgal too jealous though….

    @ David
    How do you know the decision by Sir Hilary will no(t?) prove to be a seminal moment?
    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
    Have you ever spoken to ANYONE who works with Sir Cave?
    Seminal shiite….

    Decisions taken by Sir Cave usually lead to him having increased access to resources to build a legacy appropriate to his ego….and any ‘consultations’ he claim to have had are pure figments of his imagination….

    Only equally bull headed individuals like Owen, and a few others (and Sinckler because he was broke) are able to resist his ‘charms’…certainly not those beholden to him for a job ….

    steupsss…..and he was SO DAMN PROMISING as an activist …..before the Mutual adoption….

  2. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    Maybe we should “The Barbados Hall of Fame”. It could be like a museum where each member would have a “space” that includes a tv / monitor showing his/her achievements.

    Sooner or later tiny little Barbados will not have enough roundabouts or buildings to name after “eminent persons”.

  3. ac Avatar
    ac

    pride! does not mean being govern or be governed by “single minded”and a set of archaic rules and ideas but includes practicality and an irresistance to exclude
    Pride means having to regard and include differences of opinions and not being caught up in eurphoric frenzy and a belief of knowing”it”all

  4. Anthony Avatar
    Anthony

    @ Bush Tea

    You cannot have progress when UWI’s ‘education’ is about regurgitation.

    Education is about making money and it is BIG business primarily not for the students benefit.

    How can you expect progress when the same books (model) is fed to many thousands, what do you expect to be achieved.

    I taught at UWI for a semester and found the institution a waste of my time.

    When I tried to change my course I was delivering to be based more on practicality than theory I found myself butting heads with professors/tutors.

    I have hired UWI graduates in the past but have found more productivity and creativity from those who never studied on the hill and that I invested funds in private training.

    UWI is about getting bums on seats better the more money coming into the door.

    A good analogy would be if your were given a guaranteed contract of $5000 for every person each year you could sign up to take ‘higher education’ courses only limited by how many you can handle.

    Seeing that there is more money to be made from 100 x $5000 ($500,000) you go on this mad spree where you ‘enroll’ 5000 x $5000 ($25,000,000) ANNUALY.

    That is what UWI is papermill is churning out ‘theory’ degrees each year.

    IF your ministers are graduates and most companies operating locally are owned by foreigner what does it say about UWI ‘higher education’.

    I call it ‘higher regurgitation of theoretical knowledge’.

  5. Enuff Avatar
    Enuff

    @Anthony

    Really? What kinda arguhmunt that? stupse

  6. Ping Pong Avatar
    Ping Pong

    I think the Usain Bolt Sports Complex sounds tacky and conjures up an image of bare bones village sports ground. Paradise Park really has a more polished ring to it. What would be nice is if UWI could organize the Usain Bolt-Shelly Ann Fraser Pryce Inter University Sprint Relay Championships at Paradise Park. This would bring sprint relay teams from universities in North and South America, Europe, Africa, Japan, China and the Caribbean. Just imagine a sprint relay world cup (4X 100, medley, 4 X 400 men, women and mixed gender) held annually in Barbados with a concert featuring Rihanna, Shontelle, Sean Paul, Beenie Man and all those music acts that university students like etc. Get Sir Austin Sealy to help wring some seed money from the IOC, get the Tourist board to help with the promotion and if the university can’t do the rest then it really should shut shop up!

  7. Anthony Avatar
    Anthony

    @ enuff

    Having created the Rift in his garage and having dropped out of college to turn Oculus VR into a billion dollar company at 22, Luckey also voiced his admiration for other self-made entrepreneurs.

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  8. John Hanson 1781-1782- I SERVE 1788- 1792 BARBADOES. Avatar
    John Hanson 1781-1782- I SERVE 1788- 1792 BARBADOES.

    Like all other things, where is the Deed for CAVE HILL PLANTATION? FOR those looking why we are not posting as much , We are setting up other outlet for news and to get the word out of the Massive Land fraud, In Barbados , If we had a true and real history of Barbados we are sure we would not have to look out side of Barbados for a Name, we Have Beatrice Henry or Violet Beckles if not removed from the History supported By crooks,

    Another source for Free Smart of Information is now on face book ,

    look for and Like”NAKED DEPARTURE and the “COALITION OF UNIFIED PARTIES”

  9. Anthony Avatar
    Anthony

    @ Ping Pong

    Very good idea.

  10. Anthony Avatar
    Anthony

    @ Enuff

    Let me also add that during the semester I taught 3 classes weekly at UWI to undergraduates, at the end of the semester I gave the UWI check to the department as they were looking to start a club on the campus.

    I had no axe to grind and saw both my time and knowledge to benefit the students freely given.

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

    National cultural identity plays important part of peoples lives but is meaningless to international mindset unaware of the culture. One individual droplet manifests itself as its own unique universe within the infinite, we can chose to isolate ourselves and become disconnected from the infinite or we can become part of the ocean connected to every droplet

    we are infinity

    http://youtu.be/muD57CybVTo

  12. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Bushie

    You have toiled all day and have caught nothing. Why not cast your net on the other side. LOL

  13. pieceuhderockyeahright Avatar
    pieceuhderockyeahright

    @ Pachamama

    It would appear that while your persuasions of the BBE are well enunciated that you have been reading Luke 5: 5 and, with a minor variation (day for night) you seemed well versed in the Word

    @ Ping Pong

    There is a citizen thinking on their feet, We are all here frustrated by the present but what we have to do in 2015 is, AFTER REFLECTING ON OUR PAST change the future.

    Of course if those visionless dwarves can actuate your suggestion, in any meaningfull variant, without prostituting the excellent idea, remains to be seen

    @ AC and ALL UH WE PROSELYTES

    There is a new rule for 2015 that I would suggest to ALL, both the BLPites and the DLPites and you being the leading DLPite should lead the charge.

    One practical idea a month!!!

    Membership on BU may choose to demand that we mouth giants who claim that we love our cvntry and come here and espouse that love in vitriole and diatribes, are hereafter tasked that, once a month, we are to suggest something on some topic that, as our idea, is being submitted to help the Barbados that we claim to love.

    LEts stop talking and start doing….

  14. Gabriel Avatar
    Gabriel

    Of very serious import is the rating downgrade of Sagicor by S & P.When the MoF,the PM,the GoCBB can pour cold water on the repeated downgrades by Moody’s and S&P in particular and try to placate an informed person that the downgrades don’t mean anything,that S&P and Moody’s don’t run Barbados, that ‘powful foolish’ attitude is now not only affecting the capacity of the Government to borrow but is affecting ALL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS IN BARBADOS.Sagicor has been identified and could possibly suffer serious fallout.Would they sue the Government of Barbados for betraying the public confidence in that entity?Does it take an Einstein to see what is going down in Barbados as long as Freundel Stuart remains on the sidelines and fiddles while Rome burns.Is this why the public is no longer hearing fom DeeLyle Worrell?From Christopher Sinckler?From whoever is leading the BLP jokers on the opposition benches.
    You BLP jokers have a silver platter,nay a baseball bat to bludgeon the Ministry of Finance and the Prime Minister’s office for misleading the country and for destroying investor confidence at every turn in Barbados.We are at a critical juncture in the governance of this country and everybody gone quiet.Something happening.There are too many earthquakes almost everyday near Barbados.One last Friday,one on Thursday,one yesterday.Something wrong ’bout hay…..

  15. old onion bags Avatar
    old onion bags

    Can anybody tell the names of just TWO (2) places in either Jamaica or Trinidad for that matter named after a BAJAN? ……yet we have internationally acccomplished persons too… like Rihanna, Obadele and Sir Garfield .

    Now ask yourselves how come…..Is Rihanna not currently riding #1 way above Beyonce’, Lady Ga Ga,Sean Paul, Bres, Bu Ju even late Great Bob…and for the last 4 years?

    So how comes we girl…..far less from recognition… here in her own OWN country gets so much negative publicity? BU even attempt to crucify she TWICE…..

    I hear Jackie Opel’s beat started the Sca in Jamaica…I also hear that more people of that generation know of him in JA than here….surprised? Go into the Westbury Cemetary now and see the run down state of his grave site (if you could find it)…..There had an event a couple of years back at the Plantation in memory of our indigenous beat “SPOUGE”….. seatting for500 + ..less than 50 attended……

    Is there any surprise now that this Bajan luminary in all high position and esteem would see it fit to find an accomplished Jamaican athlete’s name as more fitting than a young and equally accomplished Bajan athlete (3rd Olympics) like Oba or Weatherburn?

    Bajans don’t like their OWN ! I rest my case.

  16. Gabriel Avatar
    Gabriel

    Name a bajan that win gold at the Olympics and ya cookin’ wid gas.No also rans.At least nobody talking about naming it after Steve Stoute or Sirostin or even Barney.

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

    Greatness is not a nationality it is an individual trait that rises above the masses
    All greatness is an inspiration to all
    Is Bolt Jamaican or an African descendant living in Jamaica

    Vibrations in the Mind of God
    The vibration of the planet is getting faster and the temperature is getting hotter
    Vibrate On
    http://youtu.be/pK8gIjXWaH0

  18. old onion bags Avatar
    old onion bags

    Give Jack his jacket please……Mr. Thompson come in the Court and demand your dues.

  19. Dee Word Avatar
    Dee Word

    OMG you guys have been at this with vigor.

    This is so convoluted that as I am reading Bushie now after being away for the day he is actually starting to make some valid sense. OMG

  20. Dee Word Avatar
    Dee Word

    BTW the point about the Springer of this world was an excellent point by Mr PingPong.

    Unfortunately life in bygone days and certainly in today’s crazy, giddy excitement with glitz and tinsel relegates the hardworking, yeoman , behind-the-scenes services of the Springer types to places seen only by scholars or to places o the beaten track.

    Some are recognized certainly but often you need to look carefully to find others.

  21. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ Gabriel
    Name a bajan that win gold at the Olympics
    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    If only it was so simple.
    Remember the parable of the talents? …a lot depends on what you START OFF with….
    One fellow may have ended up with ten gold medals, and another with only a forth place finish, but the former may have had the full backing of the might and money of the wealthiest country EVER to have existed since the beginning of history…..while Mr. “forth” may have “trained at Brown’s Beach” after work on evenings….

    Who is the more impressive?

    What did Barbados do for athletes like Oba and now for Akela?
    When did we last have an athletics meet in Barbados?
    What training facilities do we have?
    What medical support is provided?
    What administrative support is there for athletes?
    – ever wondered how a talent like Barry Forde got himself into trouble?
    – no damn support. minimal funding . Parents had to scrunt to keep him in training.

    Do you know how it goes in other countries?
    Ever heard of high level athlete development programs?
    Ever heard of Olympic training centers – with Rolls Royce treatment and support?
    Ever heard of athletes NOT having to worry about daily finances when operating at national team level?

    …so when a Bajan turns up in a worlds /commonwealth /Olympic finals (top eight in the event) against competitors who have started with top-of-the-line support and resources…….

    YOU tell Bushie who “also ran…”

    If talent like Oba, Barry, Akela etc were born in another country (where sport mean more than just administrators living like kings and working to get themselves knighted,) those fellows would be GLOBAL LEGENDS of the highest order….

    It is not so simple as just winning gold….

  22. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ DeeWord
    …..after being away for the day he is actually starting to make some valid sense. OMG
    +++++++++++++++++++++
    ….or perhaps you are slowly beginning to sober up after a very merry christmas….

  23. old onion bags Avatar
    old onion bags

    You tell her Bushie…..Trinidad connections cloaked n buttin into Bajan’s bizziness…..You think Sir Hillary don’t know all this?…The Jmca influence is very very heavy in Board Meetings pon D Hill ( the just open EWB Centre- go see who get the big jobs in leadership in dey) ….and poor Hillary musse bowing to the pressure. Question is why all these ‘neighbors’ like to fly in we meat? Wait Bubbades so sweet? We Massy ole slaves or sumthin….

  24. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    Just a minute though Onions…
    …what is this shiite of you and Bushie being allies?

    wuh that ain’t feel right!
    Bushie don’t trust you yuh know skippa….
    Some big foot trick up your sleeve…..

    what the sea cat woman gone and tell you now….?

  25. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    But I am very surprised that the sports complex is not named after Stephen Lashley or Ronald Jones, or some United States born athlete of Bajan lineage, who have never set foot in Barbados ……. to hell with accomplished athletes.

  26. David Avatar
    David

    @DeeWord

    Lloyd comments although interesting are not new. He has summarized positions discussed publicly. Concerning BCA officials and their involvement with the media and media players, it is all about politics.

  27. lawson Avatar
    lawson

    I see this guy in the paper today happy to go take up a new post in Jamaica and people cant connect the dots .This has nothing to do with athleticism Because if it did it would be called the Fergeson Jenkins sports complex

  28. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ Lawson
    The man is amazingly and impressively arrogant.

    Perhaps more are now able to see why the new complex is designed to appease and impress Jamaicans….and to grease the way for Sir Cave as he expands his empire to the region.

    LOL …says he is “looking for a scotch” at Cave Hill….
    …and taking over the Sports Building….

    Well…this only means that the WHOLE UWI is now French Connected (UK) as opposed to mostly Cave Hill.

    We brass bowls have this way of promoting non-performance and incompetence, but in Sir Cave’s case, this is even worse – because he IS supremely competent, just focused exclusively on HIS OWN ego and it’s satisfaction rather than on the country’s REAL education.

    …this is even more dangerous than incompetence…..

  29. David Avatar
    David

    @Bushie

    Is Sir Hilary accountable to a higher authority in the structure? Would be great if our friend Jeff Cumberbatch is able to clarify the command structure.

    On Sunday, 4 January 2015, Barbados Underground wrote:

    >

  30. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ David
    Boss …..steupssss…
    Why don’t you leave Jeff outta dis nuh?

    Command structure?
    My man, If Sir Cave EVER get through with that reparations shiite plan he working on, Bushie strongly feels that he is going to rule the whole damn world hear….? 🙂

    Wunna think Sir Cave easy nuh….?

  31. Jtl Lincoln Avatar
    Jtl Lincoln

    To all my Barbadian friends, the UWI Mona Campus Named a Sports Facility after a Barbadian by the Name of Frank Worrel in the 1970’s. The last TIME i checked Mona is in JAMAICA. Maybe Jamaica should get out of the UWI Configuration and the WI Federation aswell not to Mention Carifta, which most Jamaicans dislike.

  32. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    Jtl Lincoln January 4, 2015 at 12:41 PM #

    Just to set the record straight ,Jtl, The West Indies Federation was scrapped in 1962. CARIFTA has been supercedded by CARICOM since 1973 . But your message is loud and clear.

  33. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    Mr Lincoln…
    Maybe Jamaica should get out of the UWI Configuration and the WI Federation as well not to Mention Carifta,
    +++++++++++++++++++++++++
    Boss man, which of these things is Jamaica seriously IN? perhaps the Federation…?

    LOL
    Why not ‘get out’ of the CCJ while you are at it?

    Was Frank Worrell not an employee of the Mona Campus?
    Wuh Shiite man, if Mr. BOLT had even just visited Cave Hill …we would be happy to dump Sir Cave, make him Dean, and name the whole Campus after him…

  34. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    David

    The Chancellor, is his boss, George Allleyne. Of course, you also have the Govenors, the same Caricom leaders who empowered Beckles with the Reparations thing. See how Beckles has them checkmated.

    This time Bushie does not know how right he is.

  35. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Of course the Chancellor is almost ceremonial

  36. David Avatar
    David

    @Pacha

    Thanks for your response, wanted the opportunity to introduce the strategy by the this government to always attack Sir Hilary and budget decisions if part of the command structure. Politics!

  37. David Avatar
    David

    @Caswell

    Looks like you and Roslyn are it. Surprised she has not received the blessings of the NUPW EXECUTIVE and President.

  38. Jtl Lincoln Avatar
    Jtl Lincoln

    Carifta or Caricom it’s the same crap Jamaica will be better of without them. Jamaican dollars built that sports facility or (stadium) That means Bolt dollars aswell. Problem is Small-mindedness Allover da Place.

  39. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    LOL @ Pacha
    This time Bushie does not know how right he is.
    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
    You may be surprised at Bushie’s known knowns…. 🙂

  40. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    Let’s not turn this into a “ain’t me tis you” Barbados Vs Jamaica affair.

  41. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    Read this on another blog.

    “Frank Worrell lived and as you guys were saying recently even played for Jamaica at one point plus he played for the West Indies. Usain runs for Jamaica, has he even ever been to Barbados.
    chupse, only Bajans wud do something this dotish trying to be inclusive”

  42. lawson Avatar
    lawson

    In the downtown of Ottawa we have a statue of simon bolivar why ..who the f&ck knows, I think we got it for free… but if we don’t prize our own people and be proud of their contributions by representing or furthering our countries we end up with total mish mash of culture with no direction . Let Jamaica praise bolt and marley and quit trying to somehow have there luster rub off on you. You have many great athletes to name it after but what is more shocking of all is he didn’t name it after himself.

  43. Boy Blue Avatar
    Boy Blue

    But there was no outcry when Dodds Prisons was partially name after BOLT,……Build- Own -Lease Transfer. Perhaps ,Sir is claiming ownership,and will lease the complex to the UWI

  44. DR. THE HONOURABLE Avatar
    DR. THE HONOURABLE

    Bolt competed in Barbados as a JUNIOR.
    The uwi Cave Hill is a Regional Institution
    Sir Hilary is a wise man

  45. Enuff Avatar
    Enuff

    Open minded, worldly, mature and embracing vs small minded, parochial selfish and insular. The former is part of being Bajan. Many of the naysayers are the same bloggers that constantly talk about the “medicrity” that is Barbados. If we really need a stadium named after a Bajan to feel worthy we are even deeper than the duck’s guts.

  46. Gabriel Avatar
    Gabriel

    Pacha et aux
    What is your take on the latest developments in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.
    The Palestinians have again been outmanouvred by Bibi and Kerry and have used a trump card to speed up the ‘peace’process by joining the ICC.Well,who tell them do that.Bibi has become the vindictive jewish eye for an eye hitlerite and Kerry his guardian but equally to blame for the treachery that is the US policy in that conflict

  47. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ Enuff
    If we really need a stadium named after a Bajan to feel worthy we are even deeper than the duck’s guts.
    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
    steupsss – there MUST be something that you actually understand Enuff… no one can be so consistently off track…

    The whole damn discussion has been about (not) developing Bajans who are worthy of having a stadium named after them…not about dissing Bolt, Jamaica or even Freundy….
    Sir Cave, the man paid (and failing) to facilitate the development of “top-of-the-line” Bajans, naturally took the brunt of the licks ..easing Sinckler and his Boss for a change… 🙂

    ….and was it not the open-minded, worldly, mature and embracing escapades of your man Owen that largely landed us in duck’s guts in the first place?
    things….
    …like flooding the place with immigrants living is cramped conditions so we could exploit their cheap labour….
    …Like embracing CARICOM, changing our laws and spending our money, while everyone else just laughed…
    …like embracing a chicken feed man as supervisor of insurance and then watching CLICO implode….

    BTW…

    Not one shiite wrong with being insular and selfish …..
    CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME
    YOU CAN’T LOVE OTHERS IF YOU DON’T LOVE YOURSELF FIRST…
    Why should BAJANS not put BAJANS first…?
    it is enuff time now that you drop this nonsense….

  48. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    @ David

    Maybe it is a good idea to start the BU Annual Awards Prersentation. You never know, it may even get so big you might have to have it on TV.

    Not only the people who are thought to have done good things but the opposite as well. For instance we could give an award to FJS for avoiding all the bad things which did not happen to Bajans.

    For that is basically his claim to power. That he avoided all the other bad things Bajans were not to endure. Could you imagine that this class of people will rest entirely on a raison d’etre of the fiction of avoiding the unknown, unknowable.

    But you have to give it to them, an award, for being as creative as a rat!

  49. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    And on the Beckles issue. The Caricom leaders are so lost that their only hope for our futures lies on this Reparations issue. There are no other long term plans.

    These leaders are hoping to solve their debt, development issues by exacting money from the powers. They are grasping at straw.

    This is a highly risky endeavour. Certainly now worthy of a single-minded approach to the future. Politicians and others are going to be bought out. Bribes are going to be paid.

    Why would the Queen and David Cameron, as direct beneficiaries of slavery, pay reparations when a token could be given in exchange for ‘patronage’?

  50. David Avatar
    David

    @Pacha

    The politicians seeing reparations as an economic lifeline and whether the claim is a redress issue are distinct and separate no?

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