Cherry Picking The Barbados Flag
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Several days ago the Nation Newspaper published a letter from an individual. Unfortunately, we did not take note of his name, so, we will call him Mr. Letter Writer (but if any of you remember the letter and the date in which it appeared, please email us). |
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It seems that Mr. L. Writer was most displeased with Anderson Cherry’s display of the Barbadian flag on his skips. The reason for his displeasure being that a skip is no place to display our flag. Fair enough. |
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Cherry himself is no stranger to controversy (see here, here and here) and some may wonder: Is the flag on the skip a commercially oriented publicity stunt? Is he being patriotic in his own special way? Or, both? |
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Bush shit why u in here talking shit. Why dont u use that shit article that u pasted and talk all the shit u want
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I think that the Blogmaster was making the point per the “national aspect” of the discourse which was central to the points and counterpoints being proposed, at that moment.
DIW (now DPD and now … ( me ent saying it cause dat my buddy – 99% uh de times) took a moment “to stop, and stare into the woods”
DIW commented on the micro, through giving focus on the school – Foundation’s Achievement.
Did you know that on the day Michael Jackson either died, or was buried, Joan Rivers either died or was buried? de ole man cant remember which.
So, “during the nova of a sun, so to speak, that is Michael, a star imploded and while momentous in itself to Joan’s family, her passing was drowned in the larger conflagration.
My point is that DIW paused to acknowledge the school
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@DPD
I join with you showering praise on Foundation School, not sure why David’s feathers were ruffled, everyone here mentions the glory that was Cawmere in all forums and we don’t hear a peep from a soul.
I will not take this opportunity to remind them that the Wise men came from the East.
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@ Bush Tea
You are so right regarding the advice per Alvin (and the othe dynamic duo member) and engaging the man on things in the “high science realm” when de man obviously still at abc level WITH EMPHASIS ON A and C.
The issue that i started on, and which others spoke to so much better than the ole man, is “substance without form”.
Some people put their everything into meaningless festivals and celebrations.
Take for example this empty Easter celebration celebrated with gusto by these walking sepulchers Parris and his leprous friends who going be in church Easter Sunday jumping round with the “Holy Hands” Crew.
The same pastor and the rest uh de congregation who going embrace de Leper as with others here, do not see anything wrong with the Speaker of the House of Parliament Michael Carry-way-a-ton uh money.
That fact that he stole $250,000 does not complexion his being asked to speak to secondary school children on the topic of “Hard Work, Honesty and Thriftiness during National Crime Prevention Week.”
You think it is worth it to spend some time explaining to Alvi, the sentiment of national duty and how independence ensues?
Should i spend some time drawing parallels and asking him if it was that every fella who played football or cricket with him on Queen Elizabeth Horspital field, is his youth, was good enough material for the West Indies Team?
Bush Tea you see why Jesus wept?
As Sexy Suzanne said, (dat my gf so lef she alone) “these sycophants are soooo blinded by their supper song that they refuse to accept anything that casts the slightest aspersion at their corrupt dog trainers”. Anybody find out yet wh o wrote the letter in the first place? I gine bet yo dat is was a DLP body!!
Sir Garfield Sobers falls into the category of a man who, irrespective of all the jokes that abound about his grammar, Sir Garfield is a self made man who transcended from village, to town, to regional and to national product.
Here is a man who, while not degreed like Professor Cardinal Warde, and who some might argue, might not even have understood what national duty was, in those earlier year, exemplifies what it is to live one’s life in such a way that you auto-adhere to upholding “national psyche” through your actions
And by so doing this becomes the standard against which on can cay let us use this to measure if one possesses the characteristics befitting “national psyche”,
Bush Tea, tell me dis.
Was I wrong to share with that dufus that we can single out men and women who are so endowed? Was I wrong to try to convince the rock that given the current makeup of the island, and which people speak out and who remains silent, that men and women, like Sir Garfield are exceptions to the rule and that barbados is dabbed liberally with the brush of rampant “Me-ism?”
Bush Tea when I watching war movies pun TV I does see that, when senior officer comes into a room with junior officers. dem is holler out “officer on deck” and automatically those subordinate personnel doe come to attention.
“Independence” should be such a state of mind where successive generations, trained like AC and Alvin trained to jump hoop understand that each one of us HAS A RESPONSIBILITY TO SELF AND COUNTRY.
Bush Tea you feel that them Varmints will evah unnerstand dat that “environment and nurturing” DOES NOT EXIST in Barbados?
You feel that them cud evah unnerstand that WITH EACH SUCCESSIVE YEAR, and aided and abetted by successive administrations of vampires, that these 50 years, whether in politics, or in our education system, or in the lecherous church, wherever we go across the island, in Central Police Station or the drug holes of Crabhill Gall Hill , that that ethos is gone?
Bush tea you feel dat dem wug unnerstan if i tell dem dat verse from de Bible bout “which of these did the will of the Father? Is it Anderson Cherry who paints skips to clean up the filth around barbados or is it Michael Lashes whose responsibility it is to manage that substantive role, is a man devoid of any morals or sense of national pride who is only prepared to buy new vehicles IF HE CAN GET “BOBOL” FROM THE MANUFACTURERS/SUPPLIERS of the new trucks?”
Bush Tea I had actuallypromised myself not to engage with Alvin and a specific one of the quintuplets so I apologise tuh you fuh brekking dis promise.
Oh by de way Bush Tea congratulations pun de new job (de one dat DIW did talking bout Deputy Editor at BU) and I want to know since you so high, ef you could put in a word for me tuh get at piece uh Vivianne at de Nation
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Sargeant March 19, 2016 at 5:14 PM #
All ExFoundation students, and others EXULT IN THE PERFORMANCE OF THE GIRLS IN THE INTERSCHOOL SPORTS
Have the boys won since 1961. Think that team had men like JOJ Nurse Darnley Bohill, Victor Evelyn
Can you remember any others?
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pieceuhderockyeahright March 19, 2016 at 5:16 PM #
Bush Tea when I watching war movies pun TV I does see that, when senior officer comes into a room with junior officers. dem is holler out “officer on deck” and automatically those subordinate personnel doe come to attention.
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But on the good ship Barbados the cry is likely to be ‘Man Overboard!”, and as you stick your head though the port hole to see what is happening, you will experience what Bajans are now subjected to .
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@David,
Was Ryan Brathwaite mediocre when he won the World Championship in the 110 metres Hurdles? He beat the best in the world and the other competitors were not mediocre. And Piece, Barbados once had eight players in the West Indies team. I guess I am an idiot for being proud of that achievement. Do you know who Mango Phillips was? It is because of people like him that I am proud of my country.
And Piece, I don’t care how any of you look at me or try to place me, if the nasty, indisciplined people didn’t put their garbage where it should not be put, in the first place,Cherry would not have any garbage to pick up from all over the place.
As you say so succinctly: “each one of us HAS A RESPONSIBILITY TO SELF AND COUNTRY..” (your emphasis)
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The governments have to see by now the olympic potential of young athletes on the island and build running tracks and supply other sports related equipment to every parish on the island…start putting the island first..start putting the young people first.
,Foundation girls really did well in the 70s…their high jumpers were phenomenal.
I remember Orlando Greene…really nice dude, dedicated.
Springer has had a phenomenal winning streak….unbeatable, deserving to be on the history books.
The only future Barbados has is the young people, why cant the government see this…why are they so blind and greedy.
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@GP
You have a great memory, there have been individual successes over the years but never had a group that could take them over the hump. The best group that they had in my time was in the mid 60’s then they met up with the buzz saws from CP (that Scout- remember him?) used to write about and that was all she wrote.
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Blame the visionless governments, the island has always had world class athletes hence the reason they are recruited and given scholarships from US universities….it’s their governments refused to give them the tools they need, from way back in the 70s…..shortsightedness.
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Alvin Cummins March 19, 2016 at 6:37 PM #
If memory serves Olympic numbers 1&2 were unfit to take part in the race that Ryan won……question to you,why has he not won another gold?
I am still awaiting the statute that Cherry contravened.
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@David,
Agais, was Mary Fraser mediocre last year at Carifta? Is the heptathelete, young Ms Jones, again from Springer, mediocre?
And Well Well, obtaining athletic scholarships to the U.S. schools is an achievement. They also get help from the government when they go overseas. True more would like to be done, but it has to be within the resources of the government of the day.
Negative. Negative .Negative. Always the same.
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Alvin…may I refer you to Jamaica, nothing is too much for their athletes and they are under IMF restructuring and have been forever, but they make sure their athletes have the best…ditto Trinidad, if politicians would stop with the corruption, there will be enough money for their world class athletes, the best training tracks and stadium…you are lying Alvin…the governments have only been thinking of self for the last 30 years.
Of course obtaining athletic scholarships is an achievement, but it’s the individual athletes achievement, not the government, you talk about a flag, when these athletes carry the flag for Barbados, they deserve better treatment, which Brathwaite can tell you, he did not receive..all he got was small minded crap, not even proper training facilities.
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Sargeant March 19, 2016 at 8:19 PM #
@GP
You have a great memory
THAT IS TRUE TO SOME EXTENT BUT DARNLEY BOXHILL DR V S EVELYN (AKA GENIUS) AND EUGENE PILGRIM WHO LATER HIGH JUMPED FOR BARBADOS WITH ANTON NORIS FROM CAWMERE ALL GREW UP IN WORTHING LOL
YOU MUST OF COURSE KNOW G A P LEWIS–he might have been a junior in dat team in March 61 entered BFS in Sept 61
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In our area we looked up to Pilgrim (who also played basketball for BFS) Evelyn and Boxhill who was also a cricketer for BFS and Barbados, and a foot baller
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In those basketball days there was no hard court at BFS they used to play on a grass surface which was soon abandoned. Boxhill was good cricketer, Boozer King was also a good wicketkeeper/batsman who played for B’dos Colts team (I think) the best cricketer to come out of there was Garner.
GAP used to live I the sunny North but I heard he is back in Bim.
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LOL @ Pieceurderock
Bush Tea you see why Jesus wept?
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Alvin?
….Bushie know he old – but yuh mean even back then he was the same so-and-so?
ha ha ha …no wonder the damn palm trees are dying…
Murdah!!
Bushie noted his appointment as acting assistant deputy blog master – as conferred by the Dribbler…….
One can only hope that David is guided accordingly….and more so the substantive deputy …cause as you know, she is the REAL heavy hitter any time that David step out…. 🙂
Bushie don’t want her getting the wrong idea…..
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pieceuhderockyeahright March 19, 2016 at 12:06 AM #
@ David [BU]
Was not sure where to put this. I searched for and appropriate blog and found dated ones
Brussels raids: Paris attack suspect Abdeslam arrested
@ Sargeant and Colonel Buggy
Why so many officers in the vicinity?
Urban warfare, which this operation ,could be classified under, is a different kettle of fish , to “field” warfare requiring an inordinate amount of men to cover, the maize of side streets, alleys and nooks and crannies. And if a Cordon and Search operation was being conducted,even more men would be involved.
Why were special forces pointing their weapons at the windows when Abdeslam was being put in the car?
To be in a position , referred to in the military ,as “the lower ground” is a very disadvantageous position. Those above looking down virtually has the upper hand, and those below must be ever vigilant and ready, for any attack that most likely will be initiated from above.
Why did the French PM act the way he did?
I am not sure what you meant by the way the French PM acted. But the whole of France is looking to him for answers and action.
Do you gents think that he will be kept alive for what he knows.
Like Rudolph Hess, the suspect will be kept alive. He has information, which is not only valuable to France and Belgium, but to the whole of Europe, United Kingdom, USA ,and the rest of the world , who are likely in some way to be affected by acts of terrorism.
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@the Cunt AC
Haters! You interpret people’? responses on here as hateful. Do you people ever take the time out to read properly what is written? You think anyone on here is discrediting the importance of the Barbadian flag? What people are trying to tell you, cunty, and the other loyalist nitwit is that the flag has been disrespected more by the people pretending to be good craftsmen of our fates than Sherry’s flag bearing skips. It is obvious why you two would attack Sherry and not answer to the wearing of the flag dangling over a sexy bod penis, or as a house rug for others to walk over.
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My girlfriend, what you doing up at this hour?
I hope your toe ent hurting you?
Well de ole man up cause you know dat we does be trying to see death when it is coming, and fight it.
You should be cuddling unlike me who heah wid de blanket ovah me head so de madam doan start telling me “tun off de ingrunt iPad and leh muh sleep, Methuselah,” she tek to using dat nickname recently, when she angry wid me.
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@Well Well,
The Usain Bolt sports facility at the University (Cave Hill) is a superb facility with a great track, is new and accommodates almost all sports. It is available.
Athletes will get a new National Stadium soon. Barbados has only 270,000 people to draw from. Jamaica has a population of some millions. Other countries have many more millions; the absence of olympic runners made no difference to Ryan Straight’s achievement. As I am always saying, we denigrate our country’s achievements in every sphere, as if they are nothing; “No big thing”, and yet every country strives to reach the same objective.I remember in 1972 five of us got tickets to attend the Olympics in Montreal. We had a small relay team that included Freida Nicholls. we were all proud that we had representatives in the relay race. We each had a small Barbados flag and we yelled and supported our team. Our country was only six years old at the time, but we were extremely proud of it. We still are; we are now nearly fifty years old; as a country, and we will continue to be proud of it despite what others may feel about it.
sss, I did not refer to your submission; the flag adorned “body”, because I was ashamed; I did not see it as a comedic submission. It is no laughing matter to do this to the flag., but you get all types in a world, so it is to be expected.
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@sss,
NOBODY should make a house rug out of the Flag. No store owner should buy rugs containing or made from images of the flag, to be sold, And anyone who’s sees such things as no big thing deserve to be charged.
But, it makes no sense trying to get this message across to young people because they think differently from us old codgers. Instead of looking in the mirror at themselves, they prefer to look at the faults mistakes, and actions of others and adopt the attitude; “If they do it I can do it too”, regardless of how odious it is. Unless it is a group action, the only image you see in the mirror is an image of you yourself, and that is what should guide you.
In Julius Caesar, the bard says,”the fault..lies not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
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Barbadians should feel pride in the flag based on upbringing. If the state has to penalize citizens how to respect the glad then we have a bigger problem.
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@ Alvin Cummins March 20, 2016 at 11:19 AM
“NOBODY should make a house rug out of the Flag. No store owner should buy rugs containing or made from images of the flag, to be sold, And anyone who’s sees such things as no big thing deserve to be charged.”
Aren’t you ashamed that in the year of your Lord 2016 and almost 50 years after the ‘granting’ of so-called Independence almost all of the trinkets depicting the Bajan flag are made in China or Taiwan?
Shouldn’t you be more concerned that far from breaking from your colonial past you have now entered a realm of total economic subservience to foreigners?
Jingoistic adoration of the broken trident can be seen in the same light that politicians use to read the script at the ‘swearing’-in ceremony to high office while holding the Bible in one hand and promising to never lie, cheat or steal.
The Bajan flag represents nothing more than a symbol of hypocrisy and failure of the country’s leaders to bring real economic enfranchisement to its black people.
(17) EMPLOYMENT AND ENTERPRISE:
OPPORTUNITIES AND RIGHTS FOR ALL
The new DLP Government will therefore put in
place the legislation, institutional structures and
resources to increase the number of self-employed
entrepreneurs from about 10% of the working
population to 20% by 2016.
Set aside 40% of all Government
procurement requests for small and
medium-sized enterprises.
One can guess that the DLP really had the foresight of seeing Maloney and crew as the only ones qualifying as SME’s in 2016.
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Well said Miller…Alvin and his usual crap contijues to spew.
Alvin…have you even been to the new track in Crusher Site Road…and why is it named after USAIN BOLT and not RYAN BRATHWAITE who was begging for one because of the derelict and dangerous conditions at the national stadium…..why was it not named after Obadele Thompson an olympic medalist, is a running track named after Obadele or Ryan in Jamaica.., they were the ones flying the Barbados flag you talk nonsense about.
Leave Cherry alone, he is an asset to the island, all you yardfowls see is party affiliation and have no love or good intentions for each other.
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http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/caribbeat-caribbean-athletes-compete-penn-relays-article-1.2570502
They carry the flag everywhere for Barbados but only get recognition outside of Barbados…Alvin…you do not even know how to recognize your own.
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Alvi Pelvi
Let me explain to you what the point is. The point is that all the examples I cited shows that the only person protesting the appropriateness of the flag in these various forms is you. and, of course, the cunt AC and the fella that started all of this. Flag memorabilia ain’t no now just started yesterday business and I am sure that the protesters have seen various depictions in inappropriate settings. Now if the shites that are protesting Sherry had come out before condemning those who went down a wrong road selling or depicting the flag inappropriately, maybe, just maybe, their arguements would be on sound footing. But, we know that Sherry is a target of the PooPawPissPoorAdministration of bajan haters, and we also know, too, you are marinated so deep in accepting corruption that you are literally oblivious to seeing the things in your beloved party that are wrong and that have caused many to say that they are more than likely wheeling and dealing. Take it look at the flag on that sexy bod, I never heard any protest from anyone for the fella wearing it on his dangling mandingo. Alvi, is your real reason for taking issue with Sherry just the flag on the skip thing or the fact that Sherry is on the opposite side of the pooch lickers? And, you got to understand, Alvi, that the young people got to think different from some of you old gezzers (my sweetpiece excluded) because wunna stiffness is the reason why the judiciary is bare shite, why housing provided by government still look like slave huts, why the whites remain rich and continue to give you various trinkets and shiny things to keep you brain washed and loyal, why technology in Barbados is riding on the back of a snail in a age where it is rapidly moving and evolving, why blacks feel so disgusted at the state of its healthcare when multimillion dollars buildings that do not do one shite for Barbados, ludicrous projects that are looking to suck the life blood out of future Barbadians are given priority over its health care facilities, and why people like you remain trivial to issues that are far less than the real issues that shows the greatest disrespect for the Barbadian flag and all the heritages that have help us achieve a little something in life. Alvi, I might be young but I ain’t no body’s fool. I can see and hear, I wish I could say the same for you, Octy. Ok I will confess that you can write better than me OK, after all you are an author.
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WWC
Got to take issue with you concerning Sherry. You see the SSS hates the BLP like rat poison. Sherry is a pooch licker, and all that he has done for Barbados cannot take away from the fact that he was part of the BLP wheel and deal. I am sorry but stinking bitches like Sherry and the politics of past the buck do not go down well with me. I am sick of Barbados having to get there’s through corruption. If any of these nasty parties want to redeem themselves than make money easily available for Barbadians get housing, improve housing and lift themselves up from their despairs. Until that time, Sherry is part of the BLP-gee me gee wee-brigade
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My sweet Piece
What up so early you are talking about? When I wrote that it was after 7 here. I am always up between 5 and 6. I am single and living on my own so do not answer to anyone at the moment. Yes, my toe is bandage but I am still doing my workout routine, minus running, skipping and blanks, during that time. I am a fitness idiot sweet piece. You will see when we go to Surfers Bar.
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SSS…we gotta work with what we got, you will find very few people on the island who are not yardfowls, pooch likers, pimps etc for either one or both political parties, that is how they have been socialized and programmed for the last 50 years to survive..de-programming them is not an option….but we can train the young people to avoid politicians, keep away from yardfowls and hold the politicians accountable for corruption, selling out the people and stealing from the taxpayers and country……that is all we got, itmis, what it is.
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*it is, what it is.
I forgot to mention the minority business people who believe they are entitled to gain wealth off the backs of the population, efery generation, coupled with contracts, concessions and corporate welfare for nearly 100 years, longer than they can live, which means their children and grand children will continue to benefit from the greedy politicians largesse, while the children and grandchildren of the majority will be saddled with the debts from the corrupt politician’s generosity to the business people, decades before….so you see the problem.
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WWC
Barbadians hardly own anything, and more than likely, they will never own anything. The island’s educational system continues to push the psychology of subservience. We have been working for years with what we got. It is time that we make it far better than what it is. The existing model has been exposed and Barbadians have to see themselves for the crabs in the barrel that they are and climb out in togetherness in order to start filtering part of the just over 4 billion dollar economy that they help to contribute towards into developing black business.
If we do not own anything we cannot influence anything. A call to rally blacks behind black business must be uttered.
Mia, I know you reading, and the SSS do not like your manipulative ass, but you are the face of youth. It is time for you to stop your shite and use your wits and intelligence to make Barbados better and not always yourself. Stop your power hungry shite thirst and pokey perversion and lay a path that Barbadians can follow and profit from. Makes no sense being bright and behaving like a total shite. It is the reason why Maria Agard disrespected your ass. You are too darn full of your foolish self. Wake up and serve diligently.
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@Well Well,
In answer to your question, I watched school sports (Primary) at that complex up to three weeks ago. I watched its construction and completion. And as for naming it after Usain Bolt, what is wrong with that?; the theatre at the EBCCI is named the Warner-Walcott theatre, after Earl Warner, (Trinidadian) and Derek Walcott (St. Lucian), Next to that is the George Lamming Pedagological Centre named after George Lamming, son of the soil, when you enter the centre you enter the Rex Nettleford (Jamaican) arts centre. On the wall around it, at least at the front is a painting of the Maricon and Courthouse in the capital of Cuba, and there is a monument to Haiti’s Dessalines. Across the street from the EBCCI is the Three W’s (Bajans) Oval and the three W’s Centre for cricketing excellence. On the hill and pasture, on the area by the traffic lights are three busts of the three w’s.(Recently reCENTLY REPLACED BECAUSE SOME LOUT KNOCKED THEM DOWN. In addition to the grave site for Frank Worrell (Bajan) there is a wall with plaques commemorating all the world records set by West Indian cricketers.
The U.W.I is a West Indian institution, not a Barbadian institution, and it recognizes persons from the Caribbean who have contributed to West Indian greatness in many different ways. So many of you are insular and selfish you can’t see beyond your noses and today. You have no visions for the future.You can never see the positives all you can see is negativity.
Three weeks or so ago, the Ministry of Labour held a two day conference at the Erskine Sandiford Conference Centre; (remember the negativity surrounding that building?) discussing STEM (Science ,Technology Engineering and Mathematics.) advances and Entrepreneurship. I attended both days and was heartened by the number of young people who not only contributed, but who displayed a large knowledge base especially in the IT areas. You folks are behind the times if you know so little about they young people’s potential and where they are going. All positive. I thus have to weep when people like Piece, Miller and so many other negative nabobs get here, pontificate and project negativity, crookery, and such things as though they only came into being within the last ten or fifteen years, and will disappear when the DLP demits office.
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sss’
You are very mistaken. A look at the Yello pages shows the number of Black businesses, if you take time to check them out. In addition there is a publication called Business Barbados; which you can get from any Barbadian consulate or Embassy. It will not only show you all the businesses in Barbados, but it will show the corporate structures, and what might surprise you are the number of women in, and heading those businesses. Don,t take my word for it; (Alvin is a idiot and does talk bare nonsense)check it out for yourself.
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@ Alvin Cummins March 20, 2016 at 5:36 PM
“…the theatre at the EBCCI is named the Warner-Walcott theatre, after Earl Warner, (Trinidadian) and Derek Walcott (St. Lucian)..”
Who is this noted Trinidadian called Earl Warner? And all along we were under the ‘distinct’ impression Earl arrived from Christ Church Barbados and his father being a tailor (not Taylor).
Alvin, we know you like to refer to old stagers like piece and the miller as “negative nabobs” belonging to a long forgotten era of mercantile expansionism but are sure you are not in your static state of dementia mixing up Earl with Jack, a long-time buddy of yours?
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yu jack a ss like who de f cares how many agree with chery ! the point being that there is a political message sent by one individual who believes that he has a right to start a business without the correct regulation and he resorts to using the flag as a garbage wrap for his message …no where in the world would any country allow any citizen to display the flag on a dumpster.
most here on BU would agree with chery position for political reasons but just does not have the nerve to carry out the same ploy
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Alvi Pelvi
What corporate structures in Barbados has the most influence? A few clothes shops uniform making enterprises, a couple of restaurants, and few supermarkets and two tiling business. The percentage of wealth and influence from the few black-owned is marginal. They do not constitute the type of economic wealth that can marshall the large percentage of blacks into the workforce. The money is still very much with the whites, Indians, and Syrians and their businesses generate a large percentage of the employment for the subservient class. Still no major influence or financial strength to make a difference in their status.
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http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/01/25/some-say-this-display-of-the-u-s-flag-is-disrespectful/
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@ ac March 20, 2016 at 6:14 PM
“ the point being that there is a political message sent by one individual who believes that he has a right to start a business without the correct regulation and he resorts to using the flag as a garbage wrap for his message “
If Mr. Cherry’s use of the flag on his “garbage” collection equipment is illegal why hasn’t the police charged him the same way the Nation newspaper staff members were arrested and charged for similar display of trash?
You know why? Because that would be setting a serious precedent requiring all those using the flag and other national symbols in advertising their goods and services to put an end to that illegal activity.
Do you know how many occasions your flag and other national symbols are placed in ads and subliminal commercials?
Now if ordinary products can be endorsed with the flag and symbols why not something as vital to the health of the nation as waste management?
Mr. Cherry should add another slogan to his flagship business: ‘The health of the people is the wealth of the nation’.
There is money and pride in waste; for one man’s garbage is another man’s treasure. Ask Denis Lowe for ‘burning’ confirmation.
What better way to display your nationalism than to be guided by the country’s leader.
After all your DLP manifesto did underscore the need for environmentally sound practices.
Now here is an extract from the DLP’s Bible to support Mr. Cherry’s act of displayed nationalistic zeal:
“This Manifesto envisions a Barbados that is
socially balanced, economically viable,
environmentally sound and characterized by
good governance.
Why environmentally sound? We all have to
live, move and have our being in the protection
of the environment. Daily, as we interact with
one another we also interact with nature. The
contest with nature which characterized man’s
relationship in earlier times, has now become a
contract with nature in our times. A degraded
and unhealthy environment is a threat to man’s
very existence on this planet; and this Manifesto
recognizes that important fact.”
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@Miller,
I apologize for the mistake with regard to Earl Warner. Made that mistake in thinking he was a Trinidadian, and take that back.I mixed up his background, I only acted under his direction in one play, and I was under the impression that he was from there. My mistake.Should I put on sack cloth and cover myself with ashes because of this mistake? Well I will do it symbolically, and wrap myself in my flag.
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Alvin…the young people in Barbados are fighting to move forward in spite of the stupid things DBLP are doing and have done for decades, just imagine the possibilities for the younger generations if there was no corruption. ..period.
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Miller how about chery having the National dish of cou cou and flying fish displayed on the dumpster and next to it a picture of MIA ,, yuh think the response will be well received by the BU household
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@Well Well,
They are fighting to move forward, and are, despite the negativity propounded by people like you. The ones I engaged with are positive and forward thinking. People like you could help greatly bu interacting with them and not filling their heads with stupidity about a world completely without corruption. Don’t look at Barbados. How do you think they react when they can clearly see whaT IS GOING ON IN THE REST OF THE WORLD. AT LEAST THEY ARE REALISTIC.
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@PUDRYR
Do you gents think he will be kept alive, given what he knows?
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He will be kept alive; the French have suffered two attacks and he was part of the pipeline so they want to know the modus operandi and he would be a prime informant. His life was in the balance anyway as self- preservation kicked in and he allegedly threw away his suicide vest so it may have been a matter of time before he would have been taken out by his own people.
If he refuses to sing remember ”Vee haff vays of making hyu tok”
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My Alvi Pelvi
What percentage of the youth represents the fight to go forward? Are you not willing to accept and recognize, Alvi Pelvi, that outside the few scholarships provided for the youth to further their academic achievements, the tone of education is not structured towards creativity and invention? The negativity, for me, is that while a few countries have pushed their educational structures to produce pioneering engineers in various respective fields of engineering feats, the focus being towards invention for revolution, our environment is still satisfied with the 99.9% literacy brag and 100% dependency on outside assistance and wealth to assist with our development. I see that as the negativity of a faulty premise steeped in the belief that achievement is measured by the number of CXCs, CAPE, A-Levels and university qualifications one receives. After that, they get scholarships to overseas universities and make their contributions in the workforce of other countries. The ones who remain in Barbados fight to get their places in corporate Barbados while others wait for the friends in high offices or politico to get them a decent government job. Even the goal of the very brightest is one of gaining a scholarship since an illustrious title of scholar provides for a number of accolades and recognitions that distinguishes you far above the average Joe. I bet you prior to the austerity that slashed free university education, the number one course of study at the University of the West Indies Cave Campus was Management studies. I encourage you, Alvi Pelvi, to see what it is that is fueling Japan, China and India’s economies. At the center of their growth is industry base on invention and transformation of existing inventions to far greater ones. These countries sought to invent products that the world cannot do without. What is better Alvi Pelvi, a scholar who can create and invent, or one who is spoken highly off, works in a high office but nothing really to show in terms of contributing to the economy?
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Dear Suzanne hope you are recuperating.
You have made a point for Dufus Alvin that he cannot understand and that is we only have an environment of consumers rather than inventors.
Alvi does talk de talk but he, and others like him, CANNOT WALK DE WALK, bereft as they are of the intellectual materials to empower or enable.
So he goes to Erskine Lloyd Centre and sits in on a “feel good” seminar (which our successive governments are famous for) with equally clueless boys and girls with good ideas and a minister who love to hear he votive but no mechanism to facilitate the product cycle from idea to market place.
Let me ask the as.skhole what do the younguns need to do with their ideas to get them sold?
Stupid, clueless men who, knowing nothing of the intricacies of the game, come to BU and espouse on things that they are blissfully ignorant about and in so doing confirm to all at large how completely stupid they are, still caught up in that once upon a time land of “The Royal Palms are dying”
Where ignorance is bliss tis folly to be wise.
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My sweet piece
I am fine. I have already assessed Alvin Cummins. The other day when he wrote the words, ”I weep,” I could not believe that a matter of a flag symbol on a truck could cause him such anguish, yet to plunge the island into 40 years of debt on a WtE technology that remains highly controversial and one done in a way that was quite dictatorial was accepted by him as the right course for Barbados to take.
Yet Alvin Weeps!
He did not even offer any objection to Michael Carrington’s continuing speaker of the chair duties after he caused an elderly man great heartache and stress by his defiance to give the man his money.
Yet Alvin Weeps!
He had no problem with the Piss Poor Prime Minister telling bajans that the pile up of garbage is their fault. That they leave their garbage out instead of putting up until the truck comes like if anyone in Barbados, besides those in the heights and terraces, know which days the trucks will be coming.
Yet Alvin Weeps!
He accepts the justification the buying of trucks cannot be done because of expense and the island’s cash-strapped predicament. Nonetheless, he is supporting in full, the spending of 7 million dollars for a big 50year bash called independence Celebrations because his rationale is that 7 million is worth spending on recognizing what we achieve 50 years ago. He sees no consequence in this decision when QEH is begging for toiletries and equipment, when aspiring school leavers can no longer get a University education, when severed workers cannot get their severance pay, when Chris Sinckler and his piss poor cabinet secretly raise the pay of National Insurance Directors, why all government contracts are carrying a Mark Maloney stamp all over them, why there is no accountability or transparency from government…
YET ALVIN CUMMIN WEEPS!!!
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SSS…ignore Alvin, you can bet he went around those young people to feil their heads with his yardfowl crap. Yardfowls should be banned, particularly the ones who revel in corrupt practices being used against the people…the ones like Alvin….someone told me he tried to initiate them to become a yardfowl…I told the person to stay well away.
That programming of people to pimp for politicians should become a national crime. Just look at the destruction about to happen because weakminded, illiterate people unable to think clearly for themselves are following another idiot like themselves, in the form of a corrupt fraud and conman like Trump….that is what yardfowls do, poison anything positive, because they are followers, not leaders. Check out who and what AC and Alvin are supporting in Barbados…the life of a yardfowl is a disgrace and young people want no part of that useless existence.
Right Alvin.
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Alvin does not understand the massive transformation that took place 30 years ago, leaving him and others who think like him far behind. Unfortunately, too many of those same scholars from the island have gotten caught in that same rut over the years, leaving the island, getting degrees and having to go and work for someone, somewhere. ..very little innovation and creativity, but that is how they were socialized over a 50 year period…generation after generation. they did not know.
Since there is no longer any job security anywhere in the world, they will lose out greatly, despite all the degrees and titles.
I know of only one young lady who did it the right way, having a very strong mother, she now commands an astonishing world clientele.
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What Alvin pretends he does not know, hypocrite that he is, when these same young people with their bright innovative ideas, presents them to the politicians,business associations that are supposed to help them, banks etc…these same lowlifes, steals the young people’s ideas for themselves, family and friends or sells them to the Cows, Bizzys, Bjerkham s and all the other lowlifes on the island, leaving these young, vulnerable people with nothing, forcing them to then go beg a job from the same lowlifes who stole their inventions. …Alvin…your hypocrisy will be the end of you, remember that when the grim reaper comes knocking at your door.
The young creative gentleman called David, who posts on here someyimes, comes to mind.
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Alvin is an…..
….and does not deserve such extensive psycho analysis.
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WWC, I speak to Alvin only when I have too. He is in a world by himself. However, he cannot refute my point. My desire is to see our young people inventing and showing their creative skills. Check these out.
Young Electrical inventor
Young man turns plastic into fuel
And for your viewing pleasure a number of inventiohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMxnocxsSfsns that soon will be a reality
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Hiiii the last one did not load. Trying again
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@ SSS
You can forget any such innovation in Brassbados…. The ‘brilliant’ government just banned the importation of ‘drones’ because someone flew one over a ‘restricted’ area…..
So, instead of dealing with the miscreant, their ‘solution’ is to ban the technology….
This is cutting edge technology that can have innovative implications for agriculture (monitor for praedial larceny), fire fighting, mapping, lifeguard effectiveness (deliver life vest to bathers in trouble..) and literally HUNDREDS of other uses.
….but because of lazy, ineffective law-enforcement officials and inept government officials, this country will rule itself out of any future innovative involvement. Then next year we will borrow a few million to buy the same equipment to assist our lifeguards – from China…. (where they OPENLY ENCOURAGE THE TECHNOLOGY)
Talk about donkey-holes….. !!!
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Bush Tea
Convenient excuses to hide the real truth why such technology has to be subjected to a one-year ban for review purposes. You honestly think these politicians and their comrades would want the latest of these hi-tech drones with facial recognition programming to follow and record their movements at a preset height in stealth mode? All of what you stated are the advantages of what this technology can do to assist in meaningful ways. All they can see is a threat to privacy and the problems such a technology could bring.
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@Bush Tea March at 8:17 AM …have they banned in as a finality or have they banned it’s non-governmental use!
I imagine that SOME of the authorities are as keen minded as you are and recognize the unlimited potential as you noted but the misuse by such miscreants is also quite real and potentially catastrophic.
Personally I am unable to comprehend how these ‘Jettison era’ drones as envisioned by the usage plans of the Amazons/FedEx etc of this world will work within the context of properly respecting ‘air and land space’.
Drones are perfect as weapons of war and indeed as you mentioned above (when under the control of a government authority or otherwise closely controlled).
But if after all these years we still manage to have so many vehicle deaths on the road how can we unleash this technology to all and sundry and expect not to experience similar serious operational pains..and the really big problem is that the catastrophes can be so much greater.
So until the technology can be properly managed (identifiers/trackers, technological height limitation, collision detectors with some type of avoidance system et al) this is going to be a hard road to hoe.
But yes an outright ban speaks to lack of proper analysis.
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@ SSS
Wow!!!
The 15 year old inventor from Sierra Leone Kevin is absolutely incredible!!
I am speechless, a rarity, but nonetheless.
Let me be frank and share with you why my black donkey is speechless
Well Well and Consequences AT 7.14 am this morning enunciated the full cycle of betrayal that these young minds face in BuLFVCKINGBADOS!!
This is the the silent “rapist” of all young gullible young inventors and innovators that we are seized with, THE SCUM OF THE EARTH!!
Ohhhh yessssss WW&C has summarized what the real problem is – environment that does not nurture because instead of nurturing it wishes to rape – from ministry interface with whom one shares concept documents and ideas, through the minister, through the Bank on Me’s and the Barbados Entrepreneur Foundations, the Enterprise Growth Funds – all entities that are bereft of any idea, technically tasked with the responsibility of enabling innovation, seeks to position themselves as beneficiaries of the proceeds of that technology and effect the rape.
Imagine that a Phd student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology uses the little bargaining power that he would have accumulated at M.I.T to effect a 3 week attachment for such brilliance yet our own Cardinal Warde that Alvin speaks of so reverently, a man who has been at M.I.T for umpteen years, seems unwilling rather incapable of establishing a permanent conduit between Barbados and M.I.T but is content to run summer vacation camps where corporate entities are asked to subscribe yearly to a programme which frankly seems to be there to generate $$ to line one man’s pocket during their retirement.
Show us the successes of S.T.E.M over the years. Where are its statistics? Where are its outputs at the national level? Until you are able to do that then all you are doing is running an O’Level Institute where the courses regurgitate CXC curriculii and our enrollees complete the summer stint and “die” in obscurity.
Only for the same shyte to be refreshed the following year with new suckers, Caribbean Export refashioned for the ICT sector.
Black People are our own worst enemy, “Massah” only has to leave us alone AND WE WILL IMPLODE, because it is in our nature to rape ourselves like the black soldiers are being encouraged to do by their leaders as pay for their military services
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@ Dribbly
But if after all these years we still manage to have so many vehicle deaths on the road how can we unleash this technology to all and sundry and expect not to experience similar serious operational pains..and the really big problem is that the catastrophes can be so much greater.
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You are of course right…….given the present level of incompetence, lack of vision and overall ineptness that we call governance.
Bushie was of course talking about an environment managed by INTELLIGENT and COMPETENT leadership….
EVERYTHING in life can be used for good and for evil …even love. The kind of logic therefore, that seeks to ban specific things based on their potential for evil is well …childish (to avoid using another term that Bushie would be tempted to use)
‘Kitchen knives’ probably account for thousands of injuries and deaths every year, as an example…..and don’t even talk about stairways…..
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@ De Pedantic Dribbler
I see that you are talking using the future conditional “So until the technology can be properly managed (identifiers/trackers, technological height limitation, collision detectors with some type of avoidance system et al) this is going to be a hard road to hoe…”
And therein lies my tears.
I weep because IT IS THE FUTURE CONDITIONAL AND THAT, whereas a hunkie will see that their immediate development of such an interdiction mechanism contra drones, a “defeat switch” mechanism – ONE RING TO RULE THEM ALL, which overides all circuitry when they come into drone restricted corridors you in classic “pedantic” style have, like the rest do, assigned the solution to the problem, to “until the problem can be properly managed”
Yet denizens like us, who supposedly seeing the problem, ARE ABSOLUTELY INCAPABLE OF SEEING THE SOLUTION or at least one of them.
Imagine the value of such defeat mechanism as it relates to drone management!!
But again I will say that some of us will forever be HEWERS OF WOOD AND DRAWERS OF WATER
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America with all its warts opens doors for every innovative, creative brain on this earth…the jackasses, politicians, business houses etc…seek to steal from and destroy the bright inventorstors in Barbados, dangerous, destructive people.
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@ Bush Tea
Do not retract one single word of what you said, you are spot on.
You are speaking of “active self actuation”, a state of “constant on”, De Pedantic Dribbler is talking about “spontaneous self combustion” waiting until the solution presents itself. which frankly, knowing his potentialities, surprises me as I don’t know why he would make such a statement which relies on “a solution from out there”
My comment about the goodly M.I.T professor will elicits automatic “loyalty responses” from many.
So before that dribble starts, as visible evidence of my posits, I invite the loyalist to view the site at http://caribbeanscience.org/ and research the site in its entirety
Unlike many, I am inclined to do research on these matters aided by me grandson who has a tool called “sitesucker” a fancy ting that seems to do some sort of archiving and allows you to compare content changes.
I ent so bright pun dem tings so all i does do is cut and paste.
Here is an excerpt for your reading pleasure “SPISE (Student Program for Innovation in Science and Engineering) is offered for 4 weeks each summer by the Caribbean Science Foundation to the brightest 16-18 year old students interested in pursuing careers in science and engineering. ..” So we establish that this is a yearly ting.
Then let us move on to the carefully crafted comment “SPISE offers workshops which coach the students on how to optimize their chances of admission with financial aid to the world’s top universities. As a consequence, students from previous SPISE classes are now studying at top universities, including Stanford, MIT,….blah blah blah”
My point is that unlike the young Sierra Leonain? MIT coordinator David there does not seem to be one instance at the seasoned Professor’s site where we see that “as a consequence of the specific classes/S.T.E.M sponsorship one of our our local equivalents to the “Kevin” in the you tube item provided by my girl friend Susanne, is now studying at blah blah”
One could easily say that, for the six years that the organisation has been in existence, it not only has not found an equivalent of Kevin, but has been unable to leverage the currency of its principal into direct relationships between regional denizens and the ICT world and is only piggybacking on what any West Indian would do i.e. apply to Stanford, and the other top Universities
I almost forgot to mention the seeming, or it that “requisite”. lick poochism “SPISE concluded on Friday August 14 with final project presentations by the students, which was open to the public. The audience included: Dr. DeLisle Worrell, Governor of the Central Bank of Barbados; Dr. Hon. Esther Byer, Minister of Labour, Social Security and Human Resources Development of Barbados…”
We don’t give one rat’s donkey who came to view the activity really, what this ostentatious list should include is the name of every one of the students WHO WERE, LIKE KEVIN, ABLE TO BLAZE A PATH ACROSS THE ICT cosmos.
But then again de ole man does use udder metrics to measure success and meaningfulness and doan get tie up in the pagentry and the titles
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@Pieces granted that the ‘future conditional’ situation has “assigned the solution to the problem” as you so expertly noted. But what can a society do, what?
When the Wright Bros developed their flying machine was there not a solution that was circumscribed by problems which had to be regulated as that machine became ubiquitous?
NASA no longer does outer space on their own basically but (as I am positive you know) for generations they basically banned private to-space explorations….now that’s their vehicle (pun intended) to outer space.
—– So tell me again how this new landscape of citizen use drone technology does not basically fit the same dilemma! We both know this technology is not NEW…has been used by US and others for years…but now that its been perfected to the proverbial n’th degree its truly now ready for full scale commercialization. But that must be PROPERLY managed.
—– Where in the world except Germany and the mid-East desert roads are cars allowed to travel at 100 miles/hour as they like? How long ago now did Ford commercialize cars again !
So my friend I am pedantic because I write here. I am not like your grandson with super left brain inventive skills or like your buddy Bush Tea with his maths wizardry inventions either. I can also digest what you inventors do and then analyze and look at best options…pedantic is as pedantic does. LOL
Some inventions create more problems than they solve..until those created problems can be managed the invention is generally carefully used…
—- has always been so throughout life so I am unsure whey we should start to stop that now!
@Bushie your logic defeats me…not for the first time. You remind me of a Math teacher from my days in First Form. Really erudite and intelligent man but his views on the youth of the day were absolutely strange — to say the least….but a cool guy, nonetheless.
One cannot legislate for stupidity or ignorance, obviously. But any government is being negligent if they allow a technology or process to be exposed to all citizens – without proper controls – when its pellucid that miscreants and idiots can abuse same to the detriment of many.
So yes knives are dangerous that’s why they are banned as a concealed item when strolling around in public. Stairways can be dangerous…that’s why they are regulations on how they must be constructed…cars at high speed can be lethal..that’s why there are posted speed limits….a nuclear bomb is earth ending and that’s why the world will ban and CRUSH North Korea before their leader develops one….and on we can go.
Thus the “kind of logic….that seeks to ban specific things based on their potential for evil is well …” REAL and PRACTICAL.
Anyhow, Bushie that math teacher was quite smart and I certainly couldn’t match wits with him and neither can with you; so let’s agree to disagree.
I gone.
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My sweet Piece
Does he not make your heart melt? Such a little darling. To see what he is doing at 15 and how impressed his MIT overseers were just blesses my heart. You think we have any 15 years in Barbados inventing things we do not know about?
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Sweet Suzanne,
There are many, hundreds yea even thousands who are equally talented in diverse areas but here is the thing.
We have the potential to change our economic circumstances right under our feet!
But the thing is that like the proverbial “if a tree falls in the woods and there is no one there to hear it, does it make a noise” conundrum the problem is not with the thousands of Bajan Einsteins it is with the stewards and Stuarts WHO SIMPLY can’t see!!
Two men are passing a party which says “Bald Men Convention – Only baldies allowed” and when they look through the window they see some exquisite damsels on the inside (let us say that all looked like you).
The bouncer who is letting the people in is blind but what he does is that he feels up the heads of the entrants when they reach him.
The men by the way have full shocks of hair and are stumped until one fellow has a brilliant idea.
He takes off his pants and underwear, skins a cuffin, and walks on his hands to the bouncer who proceeds to rub his hand over the mans bald posterior while saying “man you bald, you so bald till you crack” and allows him in the party!
My pint is quite simple beauteous one.
Spencer Silver the investor of the Post It Note, was trying to develop a super-strong adhesive for 3M laboratories in 1968 and failed. However he had the vision to comprehend that instead of a superglue he had invented the opposite: an adhesive that stuck to objects but could be easily lifted off.
You understand what “vision” is my darling? The ability to “see” the potentialities in things that others CANNOT.
So you understand what these successive administrations have been doing in their greed and nepotism?
Appointing blind bouncers as the gatekeepers of our National Development strategy proud of their yearly announcements of “come on in, you sooo bald till you crack”
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My sweet piece
You know I only put that profile of my eyes shut for you. I am not a vain person, just a real bitch when I wannabe. Will send you full picture of my face but not my body. Do not want you to get cardiac arrest. Maybe Alvin can take the pic to some expert and see if he can figure the rest of me to lay his charge that I defame him. Oops I forgot AC too. Lord now AC gine come after me. Woooo is me.
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@ AC
Have no fear like the Lone Ranger I going get my sturdy steed and ride that horse to protect you.
Oh dear, i don’t have no horse nearby and may have to revert to riding one of the Animal Chariots to save you which, now that i think of it, since they are both ACs, will defeat the purpose lolol.
I saw the picture and was ammmmmm… quite ammmmmmm … we gots to be careful causing dere is a fellow by de name uh Hants dat does be here looking and ting and know sum uh my bizness already.
Nonetheless the picture is very beautiful so, in order to keep me heart going, i will only look through one eye, to halve de excitement…
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There are very talented, skilled young people on the island, but too many adults wait to steal their ideas…then the same adults pretend to wonder why the young people are so angry…..hypocrites.
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WWC
You got any proof to substantiate your claim. Cuzing I ain’t see nothing invented since my fater told me about the racing carts and tractors dem use to mek back in the dey?
My sweet Piece
So you are going to left me to the ACs to get hang? You who say love me!
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SSS….David has had a young man on here posting called David…he can give you all the info re stolen inventions, Piece can also give you info.
The people I know personally who had their ideas stolen by bank employees, government employess etc are still angry enough to take these so and so thieves out…..I suggest you ask around for info on the subject when you are in Barbados again.
If anyone of those blighted thieves had stolen any idea from me, it would have been their last tiefing venture…they have learned the art of stealing very well….from the politicians.
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Noooo SSS, I will not leave you alone.
I will have to look for another means of transportation.
Some have suggested the brooms of witches and warlocks or a plain jackass, but since that again points us to you know who, I will have to look for another means.
I dont want you on any broomsticks so that again rules out that hag.
As to your request for proof, i have proof for you.
Easily 20 “instances of proof” and that is only among the ones de grandson knows about
They are thieves all of them seeking to profiteer on the gullible.
We are putting together a brief on a certain group of so called “national facilitators” who everyone getting sucked into their shyte too and as soon as that is finished that will be published here.
it shall neither be mine nor thine should be the mentality of all persons who are raped by the system.
We all need to learn from Putin.
You bomb Metrojet Flight 9268 on Saturday, October 31 2015 and Russia bombs the living daylights out of ISIS AND, HERE IS THE AND THAT WE MUST OBSERVE, not one more incident will happen to Russians anywhere in the Middle East!!
Russia doan play that Geneva Convention shyte my sweet one.
We are at war with these bureaucrats, we are in mortal combat. This is not a game this is our lives so you kill one of mine and i kill 200 of yours and you either stop or the next time I kill 400, expose them to be the scum that they are with their own internal memos and intra-personal email.
Mia now learning how to play that game by accessing the letter-headed documents from the registry where they are teifing and telling Stinkliar “deal with dat”
I am on my way to the castle where the evil ogre has you locked up so hold out
I will reach you by railway, I will reach you by trailway
I will reach you on an airplane, I will reach you with your mind
I will reach you by a caravan, Cross the desert like an Arab man
I don’t care how I get there bt I’ll get there when I can
Young miss you got de ole man singing Oleta Adams instead of Gladys Knight and the Pips “midnight train to georgia
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@WELL WELL, PIECE AND SSS,
PUT THIS IN YOUR PIPE AND SMOKE IT.
In Barbados there are restrictions on where one can fly a kite. There is legislation defining where these areas are. The reason stated is that these areas are within the landing and taking off flight corridors for aircraft. Each year before kite flying season the areas are broadcast on radio on a regular basis. Does that stop people from flying kites in those areas? No way. Even though it is a danger to planes and passengers people still fly kites in those areas. Can you imagine what would happen if a person controlling a drone lost control of it and it took off near the airport just as a 747 was taking off or landing, and it flew into the engine of the aircraft? Mind you the plane has a passenger load of three hundred. All the hand wringing would not help after the disaster has occurred. I prefer government to take preemptive action and ban them. Right now drones are only playthings with a high propensity for danger.
I agree with government, for I can see these things in the hands of our indisciplined youth. One of them is sure to “see what would happen if he flew it near the airport. ”
CATASTROPHE.!!!!
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@WELL WELL, SSS, PIECE
,I INVITE ALL OF YOU TO CHECK OUT: TROY R. WEEKES, ON YAHOO. I ALREADY MENTIONED HIM AND HIS APP, EASY LEARNER, RE HIS EZ LEARNER FLIGHT SIMULATOR. IT SPEAKS FOR ITSELF. THERE ARE MANY OTHERS. When I was young many young people used to indulge in building radio sets. The young people could not afford to buy short wave radio sets to listen to overseas stations (there was no CBC or local stations, so everyone had to buy radio sets like Phillips, Grundig etc. Older people can tell about them. Like Kevin many young people had the same curiosity and inventiveness. Many built their own short wave radios. Nt denigrating Kevin or his achievements, but he is no more unique than some of my compatriots.
While you are at it check out http://www.beepcab.com, a local app for summoning taxicabs developed by a young cajan lad.
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@ Alvin Cummins March 21, 2016 at 9:25 PM
“Nt denigrating Kevin or his achievements, but he is no more unique than some of my compatriots.”
But you Alvin are not only unique but an absolute gem of perfect nationalism.
So why are you sitting on your “fat” ass enjoying a pampered life in Canada when you should be back in your homeland Bim giving back to your beloved DLP country in her most crucial time of need?
The same way you see the young people not only talking the talk but also walking the walk so too can you before you kick the inevitable bucket and spilling all of that creamy intellectual milk you so loyally carry around in your cowardly cranium.
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Alvin Cummins March 21, 2016 at 8:50 PM
Actually I was surprised a few weeks ago to see a drone in flight in the Kingsland/ Lodge Road area, Ch Ch, which are supposed to be restricted kite flying areas. One other item that we seem to have overlooked so far, until it has become a raging problem is the use of laser beams, the same type that has scared a few pilots in recent times. These lasers area now seen as play things to spot on individuals as they walk by.
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They will stupidly soot one of those beams on someone who is packing and then rue the day…idiots.
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*spot
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@Pieces, you does wax real Timothhy Callender when you ready fah real. I certainly ain’t intruding between you and the lovely lass but your Putin commentary caught my eye.
As accurate as you may be re strong man Putin’s motives an enquiring mind would also ask why would ISIS poke de Bear like that? Surely they would have presaged such a strong response from Putin.
So is it not just as feasible that they wanted to provoke that response to form the basis to incite another round of Muslim religious warfare in the Caucases area of the Russian Bear’s sphere?
Just a query….I am not a geo-political expert as some here but the ISIS leaders had performed very well to that time as a military unit in their dehumanizing and sadistic way. Therefore, it seems remarkable that they would make such an insipid mistake to attack that Russian plane and open themselves to blistering Russian anger.
….so one can argue that it was either a Western instigated plot to nudge the Bear (and that would be insanely dangerous) or that the ISIS instigated terror attack had deeper implications.
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Is Hard Rock Cement now the official adhesive of the Government of Barbados?
The $7Million, 50 th Independence song and dance has been written in stone. ” Bajans know the price of everything and the value of nothing”
The decision to decommission the Belleplaine Police,has been written in stone .
The residents at a recent meeting, were told that their presence, with officials of the RBPF, would not change anything.
The decision of the Mercy Committee in Barbados is written in stone, and cannot be challenged by any court.
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Alvin Cummins
The technology is not the problem no more than Chris Sinckler tries to come over as honest and upright. The same way how you can jump on the bandwagon because one miscreant, as Bush Tea stated, decided to do shite with the technology does not mean that the entire island should be robbed of its advantages. Why don’t you ask for anticorruption and integrity legislation to be passed in light of Chris Sinckler bold face lies. I think it would be more productive if the same way how these people can enact legislation to protect and enable their purposes they surely can enact legislation that makes liars like Chris Sinckler accountable for his wrong doings.
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Now you see why they refuse to enact anti corruption, integrity and frredom of information legislation, they are all practicing liars, corrupt and intend to keep information hidden from the taxpayers.
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@ Dribbles
@Bushie your logic defeats me…
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Tell Bushie about it…. That is the story of a Bushman’s life…
Why do you think Bushie has to delegate Caswell to deal with BUP…? Wunna fellows are unable to follow Bush-logic because it is not of this world….. Caswell’s is…
But Bushie can see your plan … You are a smart fella…
You are obviously looking to coerce the Bushman to cuss and ‘get-on-bad’, and ‘sin he soul’ …with the hope that BBE would then dis-own Bushie ..and adopt you instead – being as you does write real sweet and convincing…. and you wanna be rich like Bushie…
Don’t waste yuh time Dribbles… 🙂
BBE like Bushie BAD BAD BAD ….in fact, BAD as shiite…
So you can FORGET that plan…
Besides, many are called….. (you included), you don’t HAVE to be chosen….like Bushie.
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Alvi Pelvi
What you mean when you say that Kevin no more unique than some of your compatriots?
I am confused by this because if you drawing reference to 4 decades ago I don’t see what that got to do with what we would like to see happening now. Kevin is currently in this era. Do you know anyone in Barbados who currently is getting the same recognition for their electrical inventions like Kevin. Please keep your answer short and sweet Alvi.
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Alvin is just jealous of that incredibly talented kid. I am still trying to get him to answer me on why Barbados’ olympians do not have their names on the island’s stadium and running track….are they not Caricom Citizens, are they not Bajan…idiot cant even recognize his own people.
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WWC
Barbados has talent just not enough opportunity. I think our school curriculum has served us well but if we want to change this consumer base mentality we have to wet the appetites of the young from old for engineering, creating and innovating.
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Alvin Cummins has outlived his “sell by” date and while I too is an ole man, i am very sorry to say that.
Here is an article by Li Dongsheng, the chairman and CEO of appliance group, someone who should know about the value of innovation much better that Alvi WILL EVER KNOW
http://asia.nikkei.com/Business/AC/China-s-manufacturers-must-innovate-or-else-says-TCL-chief
The CEO said that “Only innovation and a greater emphasis on quality can help Chinese manufacturers weather the country’s economic downturn”
I am of the generation and breed of person who is not too interested in the effort, only the results and to be fair to both the DLP and the BLP, the results on either side of the innovation equation are poor with a capital P.
They live in the same world of Alvi caught up in a time tunnel of Errol Barrow and Grantley Adams whose world is dead and WILL NEVER COME AGAIN
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You guys are being quite harsh on the elderly Alvin…his date for sale is indeed past (as we all will be) but he still has lots of fizz left in his bottle it seems.
A pioneer of awesome innovation Andy Grove (Intel) died this week and he was just a few years younger at 79.
There is the randy still alert Sumner Redstone (CBS, Viacom et al) who is one of those that was quite innovative re the technology surrounding media delivery of content. He is 92.
Fellows like Elson Musk, Zuckerberg and, one day ahead, the lad noted above will make the Grooves and Redstones seem as passe and long forgotten as the days of Barrow and Adams….even as we tend to bypass the old, old names of earlier century innovations.
Embracing innovation and the push toward new concepts is important at every period in life and obviously many older folk did it as well as possible during their time…
So are we lacking the ‘silicon valley’ type incubation centers, the bright brains to populate those centers or the public/private partnership will and support ?
Certainly it’s clear that innovation today is at a completely different level to what it was eons ago and to be on the cutting edge it’s important to be swift, keen , willing to do what may seem impossible and to move completely away from previous norms.
The latter seems to be our greatest challenge.
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Dribbler
Alvin Cummins is a pooch licker and one who defends corruption. He believes his quest is to come on here enlighten the ignorant when he just simply shows all how ignorant he is. He is one old man that has not grown wisdom. He would do well to check himself and write differently.
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SSS,
Tough!!I may be chronologically ahead of many of you, but I am still perking and the brain is still functioning perfectly well. You should know by now that your epithets don’t mean a ping or pang to me.
Colonel Buggy,
A British Airways plane coming in for a landing at Heathrow experienced a laser beam shining on the Pilot’s cockpit. Someone caught it on camera, and the pilot called the tower. It is not only in Barbados that we have idiots snd louts.
Well Well, following my suggestion to BIDC around 1991 t0 Vere Browne (recently deceased) and Mr. Pounder, an annual Innovators competition was initiate. Since then department of Innovation was added on to the Ministry of Trade and then incorporated into the Ministry of Education. So Government does take the issue of innovation seriously.Check out the work that PhD candidates do for that degree. Each project is original and unique, and the theses are subjected to local and external examiners and defended before that panel.
Dribbler,
We are making strides in that area. Only in December I was on a CBC programme and there was a long Barbadian whose IT developments had won the top prize in Latin America, and later in Europe. Check with Tricia from The MIX, he was a guest on her programme. Learn more about the young people, and not depend on assumptions and negativity.
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Alvin you miss completely the point and thrust …SSS and Pieces et al can surely speak for themselves but I clearly understand them to be lamenting the extent and depth of the innovative efforts in BIM over the years.
Certainly that is the context of my remarks above. Absolutely nothing to do with any negativity of our youth or misguided assumptions.
To SSS’s point re your penchant to ‘enlighten’ you need to recognize that it can’t be enough to talk about a BIDC effort back in ’91 to validate modern success. Fah real!
Where are the myriad avenues to different technological options? Where are the successes in the other areas? A PhD program in not an incubator of anything unless those folks are the engine works of an active manufacturing or development process. Are they?
Based on our size and resources (lack of) the question as Pieces alluded to is why are we not providing a supportive framework for innovation by our human capital and also providing the type of fertile environment to encourage outsiders to use that human capital!
That’s the rub!
Too little has been done and we are not wired for innovation and moving into the 21st Century …that , was the thrust of the ‘dated’ remark.
I agree that you still have fizz but by highlighting a passe 1991 program you ABSOLUTELY make the exact point @Pieces scripted: that time is past…the future is here and we are still holding on to old models of the past.
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What’s passe about the National Innovators’ competition? All I was pointing out was that the need to pay attention to Innovation was posited as far back as 1991. So the attempt to present the need for Innovation as something New, is not new.
Troy Weeks’ EZ Learner is today not 1991. All the young people who have designed and launched apps, are aLL NEW. Do you know Shannon Clarke? He has been recognized and awarded as a mobile innovator regionally and internationally. Do you know of Khalil Bryan? Check him out. DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY OF THEir innovations have been adopted by outsiders? If Pieces would seek he would see that the framework is there.
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Alvin…are any of the young people’s innovations being used in Barbados and are they being paid for them…you talk about they being adopted outside, are they being paid for their creations.
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Alvin Cummins
Of course, I know they do not mean anything to you, but I know they make you think- DAHHH! Can you not stop acting and be true to yourself? You are one self-absorbed egotistic maniac do you know that? How could one old man believe that a few qualifications, talking to a few big ups, qualify him to educate all others? This twisted weasel-like man seems too got it in his head that all others on here need the occasional history lesson in order for them to understand present day realities. And the thing is, the more you write the more you show up a piece of your egotistic shite. Now I would admit that there are times when one or two of your contributions is worth the read, but those are like solar eclipses, very rear. Do you not see the idiocy of you ways yet? Practically everyone on here describes you the same, but the ignorantitis that you suffer from blocks you from seeing anything. You are an enabler to your administrations corruption and you write on here thinking you are doing them and yourself a great service by trying to point out the folly of what others write and know to be true about this administration. Alvin Cummins, I have the scoop on you, and from those few things told, you are trying to redeem your old soul, but as you know, once a Leopard you can’t change them stripes to Zebra. Have you notice that in all of your writing you believe it is your belief to be critical and hardly objective. Alvi Pelvi, where does Jesus fit in all of this?
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WWC
If Alvi Pelvi can provide the list of achievements/achievers who benefited from his innovators idea now incorporated into ________ I would very much appreciate it. I do not want one or two names. I want a list of the names coming forth that were able to benefit themselves and the island after incorporating their genius in Alvin’s innovators idea. And WWC, we must give credit if it was Alvin’s idea because if it was, it was and still is a great idea. It is what Barbados needs to do to get young brains thinking and creating. I also want to know if these innovations resulted in wealth generation for these few people and if the island in return benefited. Now please do not tell me shite about he/she/it from Barbados, but doing great things in the US or Europe. I want to know what great things from these innovations are helping Barbados.I also want to know if we are currently manufacturing these ideas on an industrial scale in Barbados as part of our expansion in commerce via exports. Oh, shoot sorry WWC, Alvin said the innovations were adopted by outsiders – COLUMBUS!!. Since 1991, it is only fair to ask how much innovation, creation and invention emerged from this initiative after 35 years of implementation. What is the level of support during and after? Gotta ask that because you know how things run bout dere.
For Alvin, one of my girl peeps had a brief encounter with a young scientist named Handel Callender. Mr. Callender was pushing to set up the business of converting used oil to biodiesel. Do you know what happen to him and the idea that could have afforded Barbados the opportunity to solve some of its used oil problems while getting a relatively marketable source of fluid for those diesel operated locomotives? I think he was frustrated out of existence. Note I said think, I ain’t got many scoops on this. Will have to call my girl to find out more. Maybe Alvin knows, he is the resident historian with 4 decades of knowledge.
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Lol….SSS, I am still waiting for Alvin to answer me, good luck getting that list or any positive answers. He is more than likely trying to think up the best sounding lies to post so as to impress…give him a few dsys.
I do remember that bright young man, I hope they did not literally kill him with frustration, trying to steal his invention.
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WWC
Barbados has endeavoured, and rightfully so, to put in place, a number of things that is meant for the greater good. But, the problem with them all is that they tend to be tampered with or purposefully shrouded in red tape with black locks. They never work the way that they are meant too. Take for instance this disaster fund that Chris Sinckler wants to done- away that was never used. It obvious that he wants that money so the excuse for getting it is that it was never used and so it would be better to put it in another section of the finance of Chris Sinckler for his good pleasure. It does not bother him one bit that a number of people who wanted assistance, a number of people who were promised assistance and a number of people whom the government officials say were assisted but when investigated were never assisted (Judy Thomas comes to mind) is not a priority for him at this time. Chris wants that 35 million just as much as he has no problem using the NIS billions as his personal ATM withdrawal machine. Good things and great ideas have a way of becoming horrible things with bad ideas after certain people get involved with them. This is the main reason why Barbados’ politicians do not want integrity and transparency legislation. Too much to lose when you are in a position to influence how much you want to gain.
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And here is the Barbados Flag / Colours set below that of T&T. Says a lot!
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