Becoming a Republic
Posted to Facebook by June Naime Yesterday at 10:15pm.
Independence, 1966
Going Republic might sound good in principle but when you change the legal entity to another legal entity every Treaty every Agreement even down to the letterhead has to change including all international Airline Routes, every Double Taxation Treaty will need to be changed and amended.
Do you think that Barbados in the Re-Negotiation is going to get the upper or lower hand…it certainly will not be the same. The only people that stand to benefit are Lawyers and Those Seeking Power Over The People.
Under the Commonwealth there may be an influence for us to stay Democratic where under a Republic nobody has our back and as a small Nation this is crucial. Too much power is already concentrated in the hands of the Prime Minister and it will be more so with no accountability. By becoming a Republic we will be on a fast road like Venezuela our neighbours. Although these are the effects of Socialism, this will definitely put more power into the hands of fewer people.
This is the worst possible time where Barbados is at its weakest financially and in the International Arena, we will be putting ourselves to Re- Negotiate everything. When they want to take peoples minds off of these trouble times in Barbados that Politicians who make promises and cannot fix, the strategy of the Left is Misdirection, Magicians use SLIGHT OF HAND all the time, it is their favourite tool. The Dems are using this ploy to hype more votes for re-election and also by linking this Republic Ploy, to the 50th Anniversary of Independence. We are constantly bombarded on the airwaves daily with countdown to this Celebratory time.
So far from helping Barbados we are hearing about projects that cost Billions including Waterworks 1 billion… We will only reap higher water rates, all we will see is a new building and none of that money used to get more water for Bajans, they are acting like they can cause it to rain! Is God telling us something by the Drought? Are we are heading in the wrong direction? What about The Airport Project 1½ Billion and Cahill 700 Million? I suppose that Bajans jumped the gun with the Cahill project when it is already a done deal with land selling in St.Thomas for a few cents per Acre and the finders fee of 200 million said to be divided between 5 persons! Who is going to repay this debt and who is benefits, certainly not We The People, our Grand Children and their Children for Generations to come will be made to pay.
By moving in the Direction of a Republic will put us in More Debt, More taxes, more Serfdom and the only way for the people of Barbados to STOP & CHANGE THE DIRECTION IS TO SAY ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.
LET YOUR VOICES BE HEARD LOUD AND CLEAR, Civil Servants work for the people not the other way around. The power is in Our Hands; we can prevent them from becoming the Civil Master!
Barbados Underground 
@Artax and Donna
You guys are entitled to your positions, however should consider what are the things we have to do to shape minds. Organizations use statements, symbols and activities to grow the kind of culture it wants to complement the business.
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@ David January 7, 2016 at 4:26 AM
“The reality is that the move to a Republic will not please everyone just like the move to Independence in 1966 did not. It is life!”
It is also a fact of life that Barbadians will very soon be faced with the stark reality of having to amend their Constitution to deal with the inevitable outcome of LIFE.
As was said before, the current monarch mentioned in the Barbados Constitution will soon be relinquishing the throne with the very high probability it will be taking place in 2016. Ceteris paribus, she will be 90 years in April with an official birthday celebration in June. She has also made history for being the longest reigning monarch on the British throne having exceeded that of old Queen Vic in 2015. There is nothing else for her to achieve and secrets (rumours) out of the Palace suggest this is her intention with the consequential undercover note circulating among members the Privy Council.
The person in waiting to succeed Her Majesty is going to be a male, either Prince Charles or Prince William. This certain turn of events will require the necessary amendments to the Barbados Constitution to reflect this originally shortsighted (ad hoc) gender biased entrenched provisions.
The question is whether the ruling DLP administration would use the upcoming opportunity to pull wool over the eyes of the populace and with tacit agreement of the other side of the political class go for Republic status through the side door as a full rebranding exercise.
Will the Opposition be brave enough and stand on a point of principle on the side of the People and demand not only “No taxation without Representation (as embodied in the charter of Oistins) but also ‘No Republic before Referendum’ to be put to the People.
The People must insist that a vote for republic status cannot take place before the passing and implementation of operational structures of the long promised Integrity Legislation and Freedom of Information Act.
NO ITAL No FOI means No True Republic.
Let the ruling DLP administration celebrate 50 years of Independence not only with the bells and whistles of feting and frivolity but also by a genuine commitment to their promise to the real Sovereign of Barbados, the People;
“Why Good governance? Good Governance is
characterized by the principles of participation,
consensus, accountability, transparency,
responsiveness, effectiveness and efficiency,
equity and inclusion, and the rule of law. It
assures that corruption is minimized, the views
of minorities are taken into account and that the
voices of the most vulnerable in society are heard
in decision-making and the allocation of
resources.
I invite the people of Barbados, therefore, to join
the Democratic Labour Party on this exciting
journey to the creation of a Better Barbados. This
journey emphasizes hope rather than despair,
light rather than darkness, and movement rather
than stagnation. This journey aims at human
fulfilment and development. It does not aim at
numerical worship and statistical purity. This
is the true way of the Democratic Labour Party.”
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First they will have to address why DBLP allowed a convicted Canadian criminal into the island to start a business and told the people nothing, if Fruendel cannot address that issue, you can guarantee he will be too arrogant and filled with his own sense of self-importance to address the other very vital issues leading up to republic status.
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David January 7, 2016 at 2:16 PM #
“You guys are entitled to your positions, however should consider what are the things we have to do to shape minds. Organizations use statements, symbols and activities to grow the kind of culture it wants to complement the business.”
Unfortunately, I do not understand your above comments. Perhaps you could clarify.
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Visualize how governing the island can be compared to managing an organization.
http://iew3.technion.ac.il/Home/Users/anatr/symbol.html
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Again I ask- what were the gains from yesterday’s spectacle? If it was mind- shaping I have even more questions to ask.
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@Donna
Perhaps you are deliberately trying to simplify the point. Building to where you need to get to will take more than one event. Therefore why it is year long. After a period of time has elapsed then your question can be answered. The DLP maybe motivated for political reasons, however if it achieves a positive result it would be deemed a classic case of the end justifying the means.
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@ David January 7, 2016 at 5:08 PM
That’s a lot of jingoistic crap.
Black Bajans first have to free their minds from mental slavery by seeking ownership of the country’s economic resources and structures and distribution channels of wealth.
Black Bajans despite all the jingoistic hype on display will never be in charge of their destiny unless they take charge of their economy or at least the decision-making processes of their economic realities.
How can a country boast of 50 years of Independence when the vast majority from the major segment of the black population (despite the billions spent in education from 1962) still find it a badge of false beauty to wear in the most inimically apish way other people’s ‘dead’ hair or synthetic stuff manufactured in China or Korea totally unsuited to the tropics and certainly out of sync with their so-called Creator’s expectations from the talents bequeath to them.
Can you imagine the millions in forex currently spent on ugly false beauty being spent on items that can bring true independence to Bajans leading to proper health like a reliable uncontaminated water harvesting and management system and an organic-based agricultural sector offering a large measure of food security in a growingly troubling world of conflict and terror.
The Sun made black people to carry “natty” or curly hair for a strong biological reason; not to put on a hair hat of dead or synthetic crap to sweat and itch under it.
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I recall a Rastafarian eventually agreed to see a qualified medical doctor after all his herbs failed to cure a headache.When the doctor examined him he saw a centipede living in the man’s dreadlocks.I think it was the first Rastafarian centipede found in Bdos.
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David,
Positive for WHOM?
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David January 7, 2016 at 4:27 PM #
Visualize how governing the island can be compared to managing an organization
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Why do you think that most of our politicians have taken the route of politics instead of business?
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@ Miller
Boss, feel free to apply the ‘brass bowl’ terminologies as appropriate in your characterisation of those JAs who don’t own a single share in a Bajan business, but who have multiple choices of dead albino hair among their major assets.
The people responsible for ‘educating’ such mind-boggling idiots must surely be doing every shiite wrong…..
@ David
There is NO COMPARISON between managing a private organisation and governing an island. These are two diametrically opposite responsibilities.
In the former, the management is appointed by and fully represents the owners …and often are one and the same. Their will be done….
In the latter, the collective owners (public) select a group of volunteers and empower them to manage the affairs of the island, while representing the interests of the majority of citizens.
These are meant to be voluntary servants of the public. However, in cases where the public is comprised largely of brass, these “volunteer servants” often seek to behave like plantation owners….
It can only be the fault of the bowls that these %^$#&* are not treated like any other incompetent, disrespectful servants would be…..
Bushie keeps telling you that the CORRECT model of governance for a democratic society is that of the COOPERATIVE …and not the albino-conceptualised ‘owner/slave’ business model.
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Well put the Bushman and Miller…they are too distracted by fake hair, fake this, fake that, pretentious titles, false status, they are indeed full of shit.
There was an accident on Flatbush avenue just befor xmas, the cameras panned both sides of the street and all you saw advertised in the windows is human hair, the commenters on the blogs wanted to know what was up with that, this preoccupation with dead hair.
Brooklyn is predominately black, all across the world blacks make themselves look and sound stupid with the phenomena that enriches everyone, except them….fake hair for dummies.
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@Bush Tea
The example was used to support what is takes to promote culture change.
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@Well Well & Consequences2,
Have some empathy for black women. Natural black hair is very difficult to “maintain”.
We men go to a barber, sit and relax and get a hair cut.
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From watchman.
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No empthy from me Hants, it depends on personal tastes, but natural hair can be well groomed, black females of yesteryear managed well enough. Personally, I have had my hair in dreads for over 20 years, well groomed, the most natural aragon oils, olive oils and shampoos, etc that softens the hair. No challenge there.
Black women try too hard for thecEuropean look and eventually find that it’s all they spend their money on, have you ever seen how they scratch and tap their heads when the mites start bitting the hell out of them and their scalps become irritated, they actually pay for that experience, paying for their own torture and discomfort…no sympathy here.
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@ Bush Tea January 7, 2016 at 7:27 AM #
“The joker actually compared living conditions fifty years ago – almost directly out of slavery, with 2016…. to suggest that we have nothing to complain about, …indeed that we should be thankful.
Perhaps COW ..or his recent Central Bank director, wrote the damn speech for him…”.
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First of all Happy New year to all here on BU!
You are so true……………………..these jokers all sing from the same hymn sheet.
I was at a function over the Christmas period and the CBB joker was there. The man actually said in a conversation that Barbadians are better off today than they were eight years ago.
These people are delusional!
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Did the DLP need to start off these celebrations in January with a big show costing $300,000……….. when so many people cannot get back their tax refunds including my family,
….when the hospital is still in dire need of supplies,
….when roads are in a bad state,
….when the water situation in St Joseph is appalling
……..and we celebrating for a whole year?
God help us with the debt after……if the first bash cost $300,000 how much is the last brouhaha going to cost? Did the DLP need to use the taxpayers money to literally burn up with all those fireworks?
To sensible people who care about the debt that this DLP is racking up monthly, we need to be concerned………….spending money for a big show to impress low information voters to cover up reality does not make sense.
I am sure that most Barbadians would have no problem if the DLP had said that they would use Crop over as a kick off…………but these johnnies come lately are not accustomed to the life!
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http://heyevent.com/event/bigxz754sv6doa/barbados-50th-independence-celebration-and-food-wine-and-rum-festival-2016-aaic-luxury-travel
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@millertheanunnaki January 7, 2016 at 6:01 PM #
Chuckle………they are not black(what ever that means),they are multi-ethnic and if they want to wear whatever it is their right.
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Every year we sing out the Old year ,and just about the same time ,welcome in the New Year . Why couldn’t the the start of 50 th Independence Celebrations , be similarly combine with the gala parade of the 49 th .
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Artaxerxes
Did you see the Minister of Agriculture tonight on DLPTV?
Aside from looking bloated and his face so big that you cannot see his neck……………..this man has refused to address the water woes the people of St Joseph have been experiencing and was talking about building a new factory.
The farmers have said that this year is going to be the worst crop ever and why is the DLP government borrowing money to build an expensive factory. For what? He also said that they would be generating electricity.
How much more electricity does Barbados need?………….
………………Estwick producing electricity from Andrews
………………Clare Cowan producing electricity from Cahill
………………The Canadian fraud producing electricity from Deltro
Listening to Estwick, this project is looking to have a lot of steel in it.
He looks out of breath as he spoke, he had better look after his health.
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Why January 6 , to launch Independence celebrations?
Celebrate Epiphany
January 6, which is 12 days after Christmas in the Gregorian calendar, marks not only the end of the Christmas holidays but also the start of the Carnival season.
Nice one Squire!.
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Prodigal Son January 7, 2016 at 11:11 PM #
Dennis Kellman’s facebook page is constantly updated with items relative to Moon Town, while NHC employees were paid late last month, and they may likely receive their payments late again this month as well.
Water woes being experienced in St. Andrew and St. Joseph seem to be running a distant second to Hoodies Bar.
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Mr.David of BU,
Sir, why is bajan.wordpress.com no longer resolving to the new address?
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This is what I am now getting
https://bajan.wordpress.com/2013/12/25/senator-henry-fraser-healthcare-slide-at-the-qeh/
Still relevant but..
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http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/76426/blacks
When will these people the bizzys, cows, bjerkham, tempros, simpsons etc get it in their heads that blacks are the majority on the island, the majority who purchase and allow the money to circulate so that those same business people can become wealthy, the majority who pay the taxes, so that everyone can get paid.
When the taxes started accumlating on the island to drive the economy it’s because of black people’s hard work the economy flourised, the bizzys, cows, bjerkhamns, tempros, simpsons etc did not have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of in those times, they should be glad that the local politicians are weak, greedy and have no sense of self, or those complaining would still be poor or just like the average taxpayer, just managing to get by, bizzy should be grateful instead of complaining and trying to take credit belonging to blacks and stop trying to jump in front of everything.
Young black entrepreneurs are making an entry on the island’s business, time for bizzy et al to fade to black, this is a different era and the days of stealing their business ideas and stagnating them is over, enough with the greed and pretense of being black people’s masters. People are sick and tired of ya’ll, decades of you is quite enough….move on.
The same thing happens in majority white countries. The majority are responsible for holding up, uplifting the country and driving the economy, you don’t hear the 45 million minority blacks in the US complaining and they too drive the economy, but there is not enough of them to make any real difference although there are black billionaires who also contributr, it’s the majority making things happen on a large trillion dollar scale, any country, the minorities also play a role, albeit, a very small role, just live with it and be content. Without the majority blacks on the island there would be no business or boasting of being millionaires and the richest people on the island…..so get lost bizzy.
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“Have some empathy for black women. Natural black hair is very difficult to “maintain”
Must be easier to maintain but very smelly too because obviously it is not regularly washed.
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Balance….those fake, dead hair sit in a corner and collect more mites, when the wearer takes them off after wearing them for months on end, the front and both sides of their heads are eaten out, hair pulled out from the roots, making them look like bareneck yardfowls, something like AC…lol, I nearly choked with laughter one day when I saw one of those females, minus the dead hair, in full bareneck yardfowl bloom ..lol
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@ Hants who said “Have some empathy for black women. Natural black hair is very difficult to “maintain”
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You talking about last century boss…?
What about some empathy for the men who now spend more time than the women … ‘maintaining’ their natural hair?
You see the locks? the plaits? the curls? ….the pony-tails?
It seems that our expensively educated young men are now willing to invest the time and energy in ‘maintaining’ their fancy hairstyles and ear-rings….. perhaps they are seeking to attract the attention of the new busy, educated women who are being certified by Cave Hill to carry out the directives of our foreign plantation owners. After all, they gotta eat…..
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@Well Well & Consequences2 January 8, 2016 at 4:55 AM #
Chuckle……what are you?………would love to see your DNA as to your origins…….more than likely 60%caucusses mountains,35%middle east and possibly 5%west Africa.
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This Article is a Very Enlightening Read!
Home › Barbados Department of Archives › Barbados Heritage: Celebrating 50 Years of Independence
Barbados Heritage: Celebrating 50 Years of Independence
Posted on 1 January 2016 by Chief Archivist — Leave a comment
The Queen and Prince Philip driving through Barbados waving to the crowds on their 1966 tour.
The Queen and Prince Philip driving through Barbados waving to the crowds on their 1966 tour.
Our island of Barbados became independent from Britain in November 1966.
The Queen’s Royal style and title in Barbados is Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, Queen of Barbados and of Her other Realms and territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth. She still remains represented through the largely ceremonial role of the governor general.
Tourism, Bajans only hope
We have always enjoyed the pageantry and qudos of the monarch which has made five official visits to the island, including in 1977 when she left by Concorde on her first supersonic flight. In 1989, she visited to celebrate the 350th anniversary of the Barbados parliament. At the very least it is a prime commodity to bring income through tourism.
Foolish Bajan
Half a century of Independence has become little more than a-big-fete and resulted in almost all Bajan’s taking no responsibility of what it truely mean or what is required by a people and country to evolve and succeed in their Independence.
Considering neither the costs to our island nation nor the standing and position on the world stage that such a move will entail, our current prime minister, Freundel Stuart, plans that Barbados is to have its own head of state this 50th anniversary of independence in 2016. Yet he cannot put down on paper, in plain English, how much it will cost all of us to move into republicanism nor anything at all that we shall gain in becoming a republic — let-alone what we shall lose!
Becoming a republic mean the expense of removing all references to “Royal” which in itself will cost millions of dollars replacing titles, costumes, ceremonies, changes of Royal Police Force, New National Flag, photographs and portraits of president on banknotes, coins, public places, portraits and photographs of elected governors, decorations, awards, medals, no more OBE’s, documentation, salary, superannuation etc travel costs of higher profile presidents, governors, vice-presidents, increased staff.
Becoming a republic will neither gain us power or strength nor will it pay off any of our international debts, it cannot help build us new hospitals, roads, or schools. It can not teach our young about respect for others, that “Hospitality & Service” does not means “Servitude“, nor how to work harder to make all things better, nor teach us the skills to become more independent of international powers by giving us the skills to design and build our own alternative-energy resources such as solar-power on every home and alternative fuels to remove us from the strangle hold of dependence on foreign oil, nor show us that we must all contribute to the production of food sources to reduce the national costs of high import cost and dependancies.
Just another Fete for Bajans in January of 2016 with planned parades on land and sea, fireworks and a multimedia concert, all to launch Barbados’ 50th Anniversary of Independence Celebrations. The “50th Anniversary National Organising Committee” chairman, Maxine McClean, explained that these events, “represents an opportunity for Barbadians to gather in communal appreciation of the journey to this point and with a determination to continue growing in strength and unity”. Incredible words considering how little Bajans have understood or taken on the role of Independence and the planned ceremonies inspire no retrospective of successes and failures or foresight to our future and aspirations.
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Lol…..Vincent….you got me there..lol
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@Well Well & Consequences2 January 8, 2016 at 1:41 PM #
Chuckle…..so you can pass for “White”….no wonder you hate them so much,it happens with mullatoes…..now have to work on your reason for your hatred of men.
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Vincent….what the hell is wrong with you, the word mulatto no longer applies, its so 15th century, the politically word is multi-racial. What hate men what….are you trying to find out my sexual orientation….ha…dream on.
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Should read: politically correct word is ……multiracial, Vincent
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@ Well Well & Consequences2,
I have dated black women with afros and straightened hair (on their heads).
Same difference to me.
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Nothing wrong with dating them Hants, am sure it was fun., these hair issues are really a matter of personal choice.
Look Vincent…..racism in it’s most ugly form.
Thai company pulls skin-whitening ad that claimed ‘white makes you win’
BY NICOLE LYN PESCE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Friday, January 8, 2016, 8:51 AM A A A
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Seoul Secret, a Thai beauty company, has apologized for this advertisement for a skin lightening product that featured the tag line, “Just being white, you will win.”
SEOUL SECRET
Seoul Secret, a Thai beauty company, has apologized for this advertisement for a skin lightening product that featured the tag line, “Just being white, you will win.”
A Thai cosmetics company is red-faced after being forced to pull a controversial ad for a skin-lightening cream that it marketed by saying white skin “makes you win.”
The Seoul Secret “Snowz” video that puts a model in blackface has been yanked offline, and the company apologizes on social media after the viral clip was blasted as racist.
“Thai craze for whiteness rears its ugly head again,” tweeted a prominent social-media commentator going by the name Kaewmala. “It never ends. Thai ad agencies are the worst of them all!”
The 50-second spot featured light-skinned model actress Cris Horwang, 35, who credits her success on the pale skin she maintains with a strict beauty regimen.
“If I stop taking care of myself, everything I have worked for, the whiteness I have invested in, may be lost,” she says.
Horwang’s face starts turning black in start contrast to a light-skinned model next to her.
“The new kids will replace me, will make me a faded star,” she says, looking down at her darkened skin in dismay before eyeing the pale girl beside her.
That’s when Horwang sings praises for the Snowz beauty cream containing a glutathione compound from kiwi seeds that helps you “not return to black.” The compound is known as an anti-oxident — but has been shown to lighten skin in large doses.
In the video, as Horwang’s skin lightens, a tagline appears: “White makes you win.”
Other translations render it, “Just being white, you will win.”
This racially incensitive advertisement for Dunkin Donuts was also from Thailand.
DUNKIN KONUTS
This racially incensitive advertisement for Dunkin Donuts was also from Thailand.
Thai consumers slammed the video on the popular Thai forum Pantip.com.
“I’m perfectly fine being dark-skinned and now you’re saying I’ve lost? Hello? What?” posted member 1575141.
“Suggesting people with dark skin are losers is definitely racist,” agreed another.
Seoul Secret responded with a statement on its Facebook page early Friday.
“(We) would like to apologize for the mistake and claim full responsibility for this incident. Our company did not have any intention to convey discriminatory or racist messages,” it said.
“What we intended to convey was that self-improvement in terms of personality, appearance, skills, and professionality (sic) is crucial.”
Skin-whitening products are popular in many Asian countries, including India and Thailand, where lighter complexions are held in high esteem, and darker skin associated with the rural lower class.
The Dunkin’ Donuts Thai franchise angered consumers in 2013 by using a female model in blackface to promote a chocolate doughnut with the tagline, “Break every rule of deliciousness.” The company later apologized.
And a 2011 Pond’s White Beauty series of ads show a Bollywood superstar winning back the love of her life by turning “pinkish-white” using the lightening cream.
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In living color Vincent.
http://ow.ly/WOhmz
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A mulatto is NOT multiracial. A mulatto has black and white parents.
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@ Artaxerxes January 7, 2016 at 11:52 PM #
“Dennis Kellman’s facebook page is constantly updated with items relative to Moon Town, while NHC employees were paid late last month, and they may likely receive their payments late again this month as well”………………………………………………..
Chalk this one down to the results of the IDIOTIC decisions this DLP government has made.
Who in their right minds would own a house and after a tenant has been renting it for 20 years would just ups and give their property to the tenant? Only a jackass.
I well remember the late “Economist” asking Tony Marshall on Brasstacks one day if he had a tenant in his house for 20 years, would he give the tenant the house…………Phony is such a hypocrite he refused to answer as he was looking for a diplomatic posting.
The NHC’s problem is that it has more or less lost most of its rental income. Yes there were tenants in those units who were delinquent but the majority paid their rent. In one fell scoop, a jackass PM comes in and to score cheap political points……….. decides that he would give away the properties of taxpayers without even respecting Parliament by bringing a bill to the House.
It is quite obvious that there was no in depth thought given to the decision as to how the NHC would recoup the lost income. So anyone is surprised that the NHC cannot pay its workers?
Kellman is not the one from St Philip North…….the PAC found out that Stinkliar was transferring money from the Consolidated Fund to the NHC without authorisation from Parliament and what did this so called PM do…………..change up the rules of the PAC so that the information cannot get out.
The former minister went on a building spree……….building fowl coups for the so called small man but want to charge the poor man mansion price. Now the NHC is left with all these fowl coups on their hands with no money coming in but leaving Mark Maloney a wealthy man.
And we are celebrating 50 years of Independence?
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Remember Urban was under MoH.The PM,Lord Stuart,who giveth and taketh away,took urban so he can lay claim to providing housing for his constituents in sin michael south.now Maloney got his millions from a fund overseen by the CCB and the silent lord of the grotto manor don’t have either the energy or the intelligence to get tenants in the empty project.
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Hants….tell him, if my DNA is made up of several different blood groups, what am I doing with an old antiquated label of being a mulatto…jeez….lol
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Vincent…I don’t want you ending up like Alvin, so to bring you into the 21st century, you must know that a person with DNA from 2 blood groups is bi-racial, no more mulatto, it’s too 15-1600, if it’s still being used in Barbados, that explains so many things and there is so much I can say about that problem.
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In circa AD100, the Roman poet Juvenal in his Satires bemoaned the descent into dictatorship of Rome and explained how the dictators operated to gain political power with the phrase, “Give them bread and circuses.” And we know what happened to the Roman Empire as a result. Yet, a little less than two millennia later, Bajans are falling for the same thing. It is not that we haven’t seen the tactic before, it IS that, apparently, we as a nation choose to don blinkers and ignore it – after all, “That couldn’t happen in Barbados, we are too bright – the best in the world.”
Why should we not celebrate our independence? After all, the Americans do. The French have Bastille Day to celebrate theirs etc.
The Americans fought a war of independence and the French had their revolution. Barbados got its independence simply because it (and other colonies) instead of enriching the motherland, had become a drain on its resources and the motherland was ecstatic to let us go. Our only struggle lay in the terms on which independence would be agreed and in this we had the advantage of a team of intelligent, experienced and INTERNATIONAL Bajan minds, under the leadership and direction of the Rt Excellent Errol Barrow, negotiating. It is THEY we should be celebrating – all of them of whatever colour or creed or sexual preference. We should not, at this time, be fooled into celebrating how far we have come/descended as a country. Rather, we should be ashamed of ourselves over the brass bowls we have elected to rule us once they ad gone. And using this time to promote giving these idiots even more power is suicidal. So, what we got was not a celebration, but the precursor to a wake.
Realising that an independent Barbados, absent the reassurance of British support would not be viable in an international sense, Mr Barrow implemented a number of measures, the most visible of which was recourse at the highest appeal level to Her Majesty in council (the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council).
So Britain got its wish to cut back on its outgoings and Barbados got its wish to be autonomous, but under leaders of truly global stature. Unfortunately, these leaders were, over time, replaced by yard fowls aka Brass Bowls, whose means of survival was and continues to be reducing everything to the level of their own incompetence and in doing so, reducing Bajans to a state where they can only exist in Barbados, unless they get the hell out and embrace internationalism. But of course once they do that, most do not return and those that do find that a prophet is of no merit in his own country.
Take education as an example. Back in the day, pre and immediately post independence, all exams and exam papers for schools were directed from the UK. This meant that Bajans had the same qualifications as anyone in the UK and these qualifications were accepted almost worldwide. Now, in most professions, if a Bajan leaves Barbados, they have to re-sit exams before they can practice in their chosen profession.
We have eschewed the Privy Council as our final court of appeal, in favour of the CCJ which, with an alarming record of questionable judgements, is becoming the laughing stock of the international judicial world, resulting in the disappearance of our foreign investments, a situation enabled by the idiot we have as chief justice and a Bar Association that is a standing joke, except to Bajans who file complaints about specific attorneys and have to wait for 10 years and more and attend hearings of the “disciplinary” committee that are adjourned because of a lack of a quorum, which is not a joke. On that alone, one incident springs to mind.
During the tenure of David Simmons, the disciplinary committee found against a now-deceased attorney and referred the matter to the Court of Appeal where Simmons advised the complainant and the lawyer to SETTLE. This was not a litigation, but a disciplinary matter seeking the disbarment of the attorney for the embezzlement of client funds. Counsel for the Complainant, two eminent queens counsel, had taken the case pro bono and were disgusted when the chief justice offered to pay their costs out of legal aid, in other words, out of the public purse and they are on record as having indignantly refused. They did not expect to and were not paid ANYTHING AT ALL!! They saw (and wee) it as their duty as members of the Inner Bar. And to this day, 6 years later, the matter remains unresolved and likely unresolvable as the attorney is now deceased and likely his estate settled and disbursed. But why did Chief Justice Simmons do as he did? I do not accuse, but merely reflect that the attorney in question was one of his most ardent supporters and campaigners when he (Simmons) ran for office in St Thomas. In other words, a friend – a close friend. Which, in a PROPER and FUNCTIONAL justice system, would have been grounds for the CJ to recuse himself. It ought to have also elicited a payment of some sort to the complainant from the BA’s Compensation Fund that has never made any payments to any aggrieved party, despite the millions of dollars in the fund. One has to wonder of the Fund will be tapped to pay the likely awards and costs to Mr Vernon Smith QC and Mr Michael Springer QC in their actions against the BA. We shall see – and we shall also see what Government does should such a misappropriation of statutory funds occur.
And how does all this tie into the author’s views, with which I completely agree? If we become a republic, apart from the extraordinary expense already highlighted by the author, the already parlous state of our country will diminish even further into dictatorship. We will become a pariah state like Venezuela or even like North Korea with its “beloved leader” or Feuhrer (ring any bells?). We are already in crisis state, but what the hell – let us embrace the idiocy of people like @ac, as long as the dictators give us bread and circuses whenever they are touting for votes and support. And I also agree that one party is as bad as the other.
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@ David
PLEASE make Amused’s post above into the MAJOR post that it deserves to be…
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Amused;
A boos post!
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Ghee gosh darn !How Amusing The above Comment by Amused just a BIG BOWL OF POLITICAL brass bowlery topped with big slices of rants and raves with convoluted arguments arranged to convince the unsuspecting individual that Barbados Independence is of less merit since it day not come about by death and destruction and Barbadians should settle for less of a celebratory day
Simply put Barbadian Independence does not rise to the level of that of America or French ,The British monarchy did us a favor on which we should be grateful subjecting us only to having limited fanfare and recognition of our Independence Day now fifty and counting . Our struggles along the way are countless and merit less,We just simply arrived no pain or suffering! No fan fare it simply does not count as actions worthy
What the ignoramus fails to understand are the varying degrees of symbols/actions which underscores such events
It is rather disheartening that a few can only see a small part of the bigger picture and remain politically convinced for all the wrong reasons borne upon a cockeyed view that a day of celebration should only be afforded to bigger and more influential powerful white countries
How dare a small nation /black stand shoulder to shoulder with the same vision that larger countries have and wave the flag of patriotism and love of their country openly
For theses small minded imbeciles Barbadians are undeserving and our Day of Celebration is not of full merit and that one day in 1966 is sufficient to capsulized and put full closure to our chapter in the History of our Independence forever
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Oops!
That should have been “boss”
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When a whole country can find nothing more to ‘celebrate’ after FIFTY years, than the fact that England got tired of them ‘loitering’ on its back steps and sent them packing, then we know that we are dealing with REAL brass bowls.
When the Olympic Sports people have to resort to giving sports awards in 2016. … to men who won medals 50 and 15 years ago, while lamenting the LACK of a BASIC stadium…then we KNOW where to look for brass bowls
When a Government have sold off …or allowed to be sold… national assets such as BNB, BARTEL, BS&T, BL&P, Almond, etc …how the hell is that different from having PARROs for parents …selling off the damn household furniture and silvers to fund their habits?
When KNOWN crooks /gangsters and pimps such as the CLICO group, the CAHILL conspirators, this Insurance/medical scam being perpetrated by Harris etc can continue WITHOUT criminal charges or even any investigation in this country….. we can only be classified as brass bowls…
What Republic what?!?
Not even a Banana republic… we would become a SHIITE republic.
We need to FIX our brass bowlery BEFORE even talking any shiite about such changes. Republicanism is something to be pursued by people with PRIDE and INDUSTRY ….not mendicant, parro, brass bowls…
..and as Nassar said yesterday, Independence Shiite!! NO DAMN man can GIVE Bushie independence. Bushie’s independence is a BIRTHRIGHT …and brave is the brass bowl that can take it away…
Time to stop ‘celebrating’ that too….
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ac’s post, on the other hand, was worthy of “BOOS” and perhaps even banishment.
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I agree with the Bushman, David, what a post from Amused, I actually felt it. While I have no problem with Bajans celebrating their achievements in the last 50 years, not the politicians’ achievements because I have a feeling that this recent lot believes it’s all aboutvthem and not the people, it is hypocritical for Fruendel & Co to waste the taxpayers money, it does not belong to DBLP, for a year long celebration, that is ugly and just highlights the politician’s incompetence when so many people are being affected by water shortages, bad roads, no severance payments, no tax returns etc, it’s in bad taste, tacky and useless to taxpayers.
I am told that there are boxes and boxes of complaints against attorneys, who abuse their client’s trust, money etc, sitting in the Disciplinary Committee’s Office of the Bar Association, just sitting there because head of the committee is doing nothing about them, the Chief Justice has to take a stand and do something about those complaints, because obviously, the disciplinary head is useless and only collecting a salary for doing nothing.
ACs role is to keep us sober and able to constantly highlight the incompetence of DBLP.
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Mandatory read for Barbadians who stand against racism.
Well Well & Consequences2 January 9, 2016 at 4:37 AM #
Just Saying… don’t care how Bizzy, Goddard or Chandler try to dance around the issue, majority blacks on the island have a right to celebrate at any time, their achievements post slavery Barbados, it’s a majority black country. A relative was pointing out to me yesterday, that Bizzy and that lot only make up 2.7% of the island’s population, exactly what do they want to be recognized for, is it spending the last 50 years pretending they are superior to the black majority, is it celebrating that they too can practice racism against the black majority, is it bribing the politicians for every government contract, is it living off the backs of the majority as parasites for the last 40 years, is it aiding the politicians in corrupting the system so totally, that it is now non-functioning.
Is it colluding with the politicians to illegally acquire land belonging to old, helpless people, hoarding so much land and jacking up the prices to such a degree, that the majority are unable to purchase land for their future generations because land has been priced out of their reach.
Does Goddard want recognition for giving information about the pokiticians to the US Embassy as reported by Wikileaks. Does Chandler want recognition for pretending the majority blacks are unable to do anything on their own unless she shows them how to, like a typical know it all.
Had these same 2.7% minority on the island been in the majority, blacks would have no voice, given the past and present nasty attidudes they display to the majority, as minorities. Bizzy is yet to say what he wants recognition for, is it for one of his white managers assaulting a black customer at his Warrens location because according to bizzy, the manager was just in a bad mood, of course bizzy did not fire the culprit because he only hit a black man and a customer, so what’s the big deal. Is that what bizzy wants recognition for, the arrogance and nerve of this dummy is amazing. See why him and his politicians Mia and Co. wanted to get rid of the internet and social media out of Barbados, they just believe they will always be untouchable, because there will be no politician on the island with the brain power to stand up to them and put them in their minority place.
Exactly what have they contributed other than positioning themselves, aided by weak politicians, to control the financial sector, steal business ideas from the last 2 generations of young black entrepreneurs, aided by waek politicians, stagnate 2 generations of young, bright people with the deceitful pretense that they went to Cow out of slavery with hardly any clothes and he saved them, gave them work, all of this delusion on their part is always aided by weak politicians.
I am all for the majority blacks celebrating achievements, but this year long nonsense at taxpayer’s expense will now return to bite Fruendel & Co in the asses, because Bizzy & Co now want recognition for all the nasty, corrupt, racist things they been doing to the majority for the last 40 years and they want it at the majorities’ expense. I wonder how much in bribes Bizzy & Co would be willing to pay Fruendel & Co. or Mia & Co. for that privilege.
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Just Saying, Togetherness, In and Out aka waiting or DLP troll.
On 9 January 2016 at 12:35, Barbados Underground wrote:
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@ Amused
Barbadian blacks are not independent whilst Bizzy et al retain 90% plus of the wealth and those in non tourist or wealthy (rural) areas have to contend with a lack of water and the dumping of stinky old molasses. If the latter two actions were occurring on the West and South Coast as well as the North and East then one could argue a measure of equality but they are not and this is arguably purposeful. The majority blacks of the island are paying their taxes and water bills and quite frankly subsidizing the tourists. The profits from the high end tourism are not reaching the central bank otherwise Barbados would be a wealthy country. I bet Bizzy et al have water and yes, him and his ilk should be recognized as part of the 50 years celebration for raping and pillaging Barbados and black Bajans.
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