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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).

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.

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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199 responses to “Cherry Picking The Barbados Flag”

  1. ac Avatar
    ac

    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

  2. pieceuhderockyeahright Avatar
    pieceuhderockyeahright

    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

  3. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    @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.

  4. pieceuhderockyeahright Avatar
    pieceuhderockyeahright

    @ 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

  5. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    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?

  6. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    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.
    *************************************************************************************************************\
    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 .

  7. Alvin Cummins Avatar
    Alvin Cummins

    @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)

  8. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    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.

  9. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    @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.

  10. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    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.

  11. Vincent Haynes Avatar
    Vincent Haynes

    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.

  12. Alvin Cummins Avatar
    Alvin Cummins

    @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.

  13. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    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.

  14. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    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

  15. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    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

  16. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    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.

  17. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    LOL @ Pieceurderock
    Bush Tea you see why Jesus wept?
    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
    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…..

  18. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    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.

  19. Sunshine Sunny Shine Avatar
    Sunshine Sunny Shine

    @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.

  20. pieceuhderockyeahright Avatar
    pieceuhderockyeahright

    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.

  21. Alvin Cummins Avatar
    Alvin Cummins

    @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.

  22. Alvin Cummins Avatar
    Alvin Cummins

    @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.”

  23. David Avatar
    David

    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.

  24. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ 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.

  25. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    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.

  26. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    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.

  27. Sunshine Sunny Shine Avatar
    Sunshine Sunny Shine

    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.

  28. Sunshine Sunny Shine Avatar
    Sunshine Sunny Shine

    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

  29. Sunshine Sunny Shine Avatar
    Sunshine Sunny Shine

    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.

  30. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    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.

  31. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    *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.

  32. Sunshine Sunny Shine Avatar
    Sunshine Sunny Shine

    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.

  33. Alvin Cummins Avatar
    Alvin Cummins

    @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.

  34. Alvin Cummins Avatar
    Alvin Cummins

    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.

  35. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ 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?

  36. ac Avatar
    ac

    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

  37. Sunshine Sunny Shine Avatar
    Sunshine Sunny Shine

    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.

  38. David Avatar
    David

    http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/01/25/some-say-this-display-of-the-u-s-flag-is-disrespectful/

  39. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ 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.”

  40. Alvin Cummins Avatar
    Alvin Cummins

    @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.

  41. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    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.

  42. ac Avatar
    ac

    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

  43. Alvin Cummins Avatar
    Alvin Cummins

    @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.

  44. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    @PUDRYR
    Do you gents think he will be kept alive, given what he knows?
    +++++++++++++
    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”

  45. Sunshine Sunny Shine Avatar
    Sunshine Sunny Shine

    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?

  46. pieceuhderockyeahright Avatar
    pieceuhderockyeahright

    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.

  47. Sunshine Sunny Shine Avatar
    Sunshine Sunny Shine

    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!!!

  48. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    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.

  49. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    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.

  50. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    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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