Guns Everywhere
Rico Wazir Reid shot in the head last week Wednesday.
The horrific shooting incident that saw 50 human beings killed and 53 injured at a night club in Orlando, Florida earlier today serves to confirm the frailties of humankind. Human beings everywhere must feel a sense of disgust at the wanton and senseless act of ‘mano a mano’ violence which seems to be sweeping the globe. Many are quick to explain that we have always had to live with violence going back to the Crusades of the 11th century. The struggle will continue until…
In recent weeks and months Barbados has experienced an several reports of gun related and violent crime. Fortunately we have not had the experience of multiple killings to compare with Paris, Orlando, Ohio and other places across the globe, however, there is sufficient evidence of the changing local crime landscape to be very concerned.
There was a time not too long ago on the island of Barbados a murder evoked a public conversation not just because it was a tragic act but infrequent as well. The tranquil and pristine nature of our neighbourhoods have become threatened as a result of lifestyle changes we have embraced influenced by the global village we have embraced. Barbados WAS the model tiny Black country others use to benchmark against, a country built on the tenets of law and order enabled by superior leadership in all facets of our tiny society. It seems to the BU household the characteristics which made us great we have willingly relinquished and are now being washed along in a stream or moral relativism.
Many of us have heard the saying when the US catches a cold the rest of the world, especially in the Caribbean, we sneeze. This saying although located to matters of economic performance the extrapolation can extend to the non economic. Given what is unravelling in the USA, Europe and other corners across the globe it portends the worst is yet to come.
There is another concern for Barbadians given the escalation in gun violence many attribute to drug trade, gang violence and a general break down in law and order. Reports coming out of Trinidad and Tobago where gun crime is out of control indicate Venezuelan soldiers are selling high powered weapons for food. The soldiers are very poorly paid and have succumbed to the temptation of reporting their weapons ‘lost’.
The time has passed for long talk and to be prolix. It is time for our leaders to act. It is time for the denizens to act. We have high unemployment among our youth and the devil as they say will find work for idle hands. An interview with youngsters on the block last week in response to shootings was eerily insightful. Enough is not being done to win the hearts and minds of our idle youth population. In a small society it takes a only a few disengaged youthful souls to disrupt the quality of life we want for our children.
We hope the Barbados Coast Guard and Marine Wing of RBPF have taken notice of the food for gun trade between Venezuelan fishermen/soldiers and Trinidadian and Tobago fishermen. We do not need another conduit for high powered guns being dumped into Barbados. While this is unfolding we are told to expect 700 Chinese workers to enter for the Sam Lords Castle project.
How do we get our boys off the blocks to be constructively engaged?
Barbados Underground 
Why are we allowing so many Chinese to come to work here, when we have so many unemployed young people? I wonder what the gun lobby in the USA will say about this shooting! Will it still be: We have the right to bear arms? Was any of their family killed or wounded at the club? I doubt it!
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There is a reason the government (Ministers Sinckler, McClean et al) were boasting about the concessionary rate Barbados was able to secure from China for the loan to build Sam Lords, it comes with conditions.
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David ,well said. A clampdown of DJ’s and radio stations who play music which promotes deviant behavior must be done last week. I would go a step further and ban all fetes until show promoters come together and take a stand.
Why are we not hearing from the major show promoters, church, community leaders or politicians who represent these high crime areas?
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@ Mr Anthony Davis
when you say “a” you have to say “b” Mr. Davis.
Tre reason we have 700 Chinese coming here is (a) because it is a chinese funded project and as a prerequisite of this funding the Chinese bilateral Aid programme demanded their people (b) for every dollar lent by Bilateral Aid Agencies they earn $13 the Chinese earn $26 (c) the Chinese will deliver the project on time and on Budget or the indolent worker who has embarrased the PRC will be sent home to be executed (d) these are skilled employees (even including the Military Officials who will accompany them here to observe the strengths and weaknesses of the US regional policing agencies and (e) my personal favourite “Bajans do not want any work” and are famous for “stretching out” projects
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Like the Four Seasons project.now lying rusting at Freshwater Bay,the 700 Chinese would have been part and parcel of the financing agreement ironed out by the parties prior to turning of the sod,so to speak.It is now left to be seen if BLP supporters would be repeatedly calling in to Brasstacks or the CBC radio version of BT,to recklessly malign the project as the DLP and the BWU did in 07 just prior to the election of 08 and which is the real reason behind the failure of Four Seasons here in Barbados.
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Here is what the police must be well aware, the yuts (low echelons) on the block are not responsible for importing the guns.
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The time has passed for long talk and to be prolix.
How do we get our boys off the blocks to be constructively engaged?
@David, a seminal observation and and the question we all need to answer!
My fear is they may have already gone too far to be called back now!
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@ the Author of this article.
Desensitizing a man about life and taking life is difficult even for the military.
Special Forces and Intelligence agencies use what is effectively “tabula rasa” breaking an individual down, breaking into the thug mentality, and then building you up again into a lean mean killing machine.
Grand Theft Auto and Call of Duty are the staple of the Youth on the blocks today.
Street Thugs aided by Herb and cocaine are not there to achieve what it takes Boot Camp several months to achieve vis a vis the competencies of using a weapon, to break it down clean it and assemble it in 40 seconds, to understand natural aim, blow, recoil that is not what thug orientation needs.
The commensurate basic Warrior Training and the other more sophisticated ways of dealing death DO NOT COME ON SCOPE with Street Thugs, “all i want is a glock and I is a shotta”
When your as* high and you tek out a man, it is a completely different state of terminate with extreme prejudice within a state sanctioned operation.
Add the additional layer of uneducated, as in ingrunt, to the phenomena of “you dissing me?” and you have yourself a recipe for disaster that the albino centric aspirations of living large brings to the mix.
“I dont want to get old like Muhammad Ali, or Sir Garfield Sobers or have a diaper put on me my man” I going live fast, die young, and mek a good corpse”
There is a serious disconnect here that we are not getting yet it is you and me my man that are feeding this shyte, yes you and me that are aiding and abetting this madness my man, cause you and I are voting in scum and criminals and the real thugs who are badder than dem fellers who killed Wazir
Dat fellah only kill one man, blow his brains out on the Boardwalk? but dem fellers dat you and I voting for every 5 years killing 10,000 each term that they serve across the entire island.
I am not going to speak to any specific party what I am speaking to is the Policy of Destruction and how successive governments have not built anything upon which our nation can stand.
Our Education, our socialization, our sense of self worth, our sense of service to community, to race, to nation, to GOD, ALL LOST.
So you see the symptoms while the real problem is us, as Pogo is said to have intoned but Gaius of Planet of the Apes said more eloquently “man is our worst enemy for of all the beast on the earth, he kills for sport”
When the moment comes to make your mark my man, who are you gonna vote for???
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@Jeff
Hope springs eternal!
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@Jeff, this is the first time I have read a statement from you that have filled me with such dread re “My fear is they may have already gone too far to be called back now!”
You are a key cog in the legal process in Barbados and despite what others may think clearly you have community and institutional gravitas to drive change. For a family and involved man in your position to offer such a stark despondent note is …frightening.
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@Dee Word
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Here are a few suggestions for consideration by Ms. Rihanna Fenty, Andrew Boyce, Mr. Branker. and those of the Bajan White, or Indian White, or Indian, or Syrian population that claim to want change.
Locate a few Good Men and Women in BIM.
Find the Jeff Cumberbatches the Leigh Trotmans, the SSS, and the Well Wells The Bush Teas, Prodigals, Are We there Yets.
A small group.
Hire them for $1 per man/woman and let them manage a project based on some sort of deliverables, wunna ass gets paid when wunna achieve “x”
Find a Building in Bridgetown big enough to host a pilot and let the millionaires buy the shyte and mek de place multi purpose.
Jeff is a legal man, Jeff has a legal project which can be crafted for the yutts. Mek it exciting, target dem minds, dem likes cuntputers and Ipads and smartphones
Let dem be part of a Census gathering mechanism that focuses on Law, Order, Security, Problems that they see, and use de damn technology tuh get Digicel and Lime them Effers tuh support the backbone fuh effing free.
Get Emera to pledge to pay the light bill fuh 3 years, and them so called parasites that we does have meeting all the effing time at the Chamber of Commerce to do shyte and say shyte pun TV each month let them fund the bus fares and lunches, put dem effing money where dem mouth is.
Leigh is an Accountant, leh he suggest where de problems is fuh collating and collecting information and let we get UWI build a purpose structured curriculum dat teks 100 uh de yutes and after dem get a brief course bout adding and subtracting give dem cuntputers and IPADS tuh go and collect and collate materials as effing interns,
Create participatory Workspaces for them to share ideas, Mobile Screens where they talk of what they are doing and the challenges and their problems, give them a place to congregate and, FOR ANY INCIDENCES WHERE A MAN DISRUPT ONE OF DEM SESSIONS, LOCK THE DISRUPTERS TUH SHYTE UP for a year, ZERO EFING TOLERANCE.
THE LITTLE BLACK FELLERS AND INDIANS AND WHITE ONES is not like we bigots, let us gie them a chance to become contributors, give them hope.
Every one of the hand picked “enablers” of the Pilot MUST Come with a project OR MUST BRING SKILL, NO LOTTA LONG TALK, lef dat to Fumbles and Mia.
We dun know that them gine eff up anyways.
My grandson ass got Stanford University to donate US$500K to a 5 year project at a deep discount rate of $50K US to teach our youth to code.
We need to show that this can be done AND IT DOES NOT NEED THEM EFFERS!!
That is the change that THE CUNTRY IS CRYING OUT FOR
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“While this is unfolding we are told to expect 700 Chinese workers to enter for the Sam Lords Castle project.”
“How do we get our boys off the blocks to be constructively engaged?”
Therein lies the paradox that would usher in the social doomsday scenario which would turn Bim into a no-go area for tourists.
With the collapse of the sugar industry and the failure of the country’s leaders to put the lands to alternative productive use what else is there other than construction to engage the minds and pent-up energy of the majority of young black males daily liming on the blocks and smoking weed?
It is OK to take 700 of the 17 million ‘surplus-to-requirements’ males off the hands of the Chinese State but keep thousands of young Bajan men in a life-long cycle of social exclusion.
The presence of 700 Chinese men will not contribute to or generate any measureable economic activity in the local economy.
There will be no additional demand for local accommodation or food since both would be provided in situ by the same Chinese workers. So those itinerant food and drink vendors who service construction or building sites would be sorely disappointed.
But you might see an upsurge in the production of exotic vegetables grown cheaply and ‘organically’ on the same work site with any production excess sold to residents and businesses in the St. Philip area who should be wisely advised to keep all animals, especially dogs and cats, secure behind locked enclosures.
The only increase in demand for native goods would be that in the sex trade.
Don’t be surprised if there is a relocation of camp for some of the scantily-clad Bajan sex Amazons from the Bushy Garrison Hill to the former Long Bay pirate encampment; and just like any other retail trade, where there is a demand you will certainly find willing suppliers, long haul and all.
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Enjoy the finest in Barbadian cultural offerings:
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The Minister of Culture recommends this delectable expression of Bajan high culture:
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@ Ping Pong
I absolutely comment you for this collection of Art.
THe second one speaks to the Efficacy of the HIV Campaign in and among the yutes or the “Life fast, Go in Raw, Die Young and Mek A Good Corpse”
The first one shows us ole effers exactly where those fellers are.
I am sure that that song is on about 10,000 young Bajans’ phones
THis is the exact replication of what is the mind of the yutes
It speaks to what Jeff Cumberbatch fears has already happened
But more importantly it speaks to what the old bembers like me and Fumbles and Adriel Nitwit Brathwaite with his comparison of deaths to death rates in Trinidad and Jamaica CANNOT EVER COMPREHEND
Well Sourced and extremely pertinent
DIS IS WHY MIA MOTTLEY AND DEM HATE DIS BLOG.
We keep it real!!!
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pIECE
YOU WOULD OF COURSE BE FAMILIAR WITH THESE VERSES FROM 2 TIM 3
This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
“THE LAST DAYS” HAVE BEEN GOING FOR THE LAST 2000 YEARS
WE ARE NOW GOING THROUGH “THE LAST DAYS” OF “THE LAST DAYS”
aLL THAT IS LEFT NOW FOR THE RISE OF ANTICHRIST IS THE REMOVAL OF THE BELIEVRS AS IS CLEARLY TAUGHT IN 2 THESS 2
Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
6 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.
7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
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Bashment Soca, another activity we have intellectualized. Do you know bashment is making it mainstream?
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My personal favorite. Wunnuh could talk, dis video done get over 209 000 views! I quite like how the Bajan female is portrayed in all of these masterpieces.
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@ Georgie Porgie June 12, 2016 at 7:59 PM
“.. aLL THAT IS LEFT NOW FOR THE RISE OF ANTICHRIST IS THE REMOVAL OF THE BELIEVRS AS IS CLEARLY TAUGHT IN 2 THESS 2..”
But GP, the Anti-Christ is already here in the presence of ISIL whose stated intent is to wipe ‘Christians’ off the face of Allah’s earth and turn Western societies into caliphates.
Be careful GP, despite sharing similar fundamentalist beliefs about human morality ISIL would not hesitate to remove your head for saying Jesus is God and only the Jews are Yahweh’s chosen (and spoilt rotten) children.
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@David, all of us with family get very afraid of this phenomena. Two simple reasons. Are any of our cousins, nieces, nephews, uncles and heaven forbid brothers or sisters wrapped up in this underworld. Or are any of us or our elderly family going to be a victim of theft/injury for a gun or drug purchase money.
On the other side of the equation I feel less despondent than Jeff because I can’t perceive why our island cannot – if the authorities, go all out for six months – squeeze and subsequently control the illegal gun trade. This is not T&T with a ‘near field’ land border to South America.
Obviously the will is not there.
And the inane remarks of the AG’s T&T comparison are insultingly laughable. This gent went to Jeff’s alma mater and his university so its shocking that he is making such simplistic and erroneous comparisons. But then again recently Jeff made a remark to you about competent legal minds and though his intent was not to provide an exhaustive list it was instructive maybe that in his brief remarks he mentioned folks like Toppin and Marshall and did not mention the AG. LOLL.
@PingPong…great videos. Helped me learn some stuff.
But I would add though that the same music sub-culture in the US that produced the violent deaths of the Tupacs and Biggie Smalls et al, and the criminal life of folks like Suge also produced folks like PDiddy Sean Combs and Mr Beyonce.
Yes of course our gang-bangers can’t reach those lavish heights but surely the talented artists among them may produce some revenue from their music within that milieu.
In short, shut down the gun flow and reduce the wanton killings, provide them with some of the business training @Pieces noted above (and a lot of condoms and advise on safe sex) and let the music/video process evolve.
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The Commissioner of Police seems to know who allow the guns into the country, yet still he has not taken any steps to arrest any suspects. I wonder why? Could it be that he is just bluffing in order to give the impression that he is on top of things. However, while doing this, he has cruelly defamed every officer in the Customs and Excise Department without showing proof.
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@Dee Word
Your comment although desired is wonderfully simplistic. Who do you think controls the drugs in Barbados?
@Ping Pong
You are watching the slag videos, checkout Stiffy, he takes it to the net level.
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@ Ping Pong June 12, 2016 at 8:06 PM
Bim gone! Here comes the new culturally dependent territory of Jamaica.
Is that what 50 years of casting off the title Little England has brought to maturity? A deviant and wild adult called Jambados?
If you needed any more evidence of the Failed Barrow Project look no further.
The future is bright for Bim.
Time to remove those extinct symbols from the country’s coat of arms and replace them with a half-naked young woman and a spliff-smoking young man. Wukking-up and drugs are the new words for the motto “Pride & Industry”.
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Oh lawd David, so if the people that supposed to stop this ‘bashment of drugs and guns’ controlling de bad-word process then it makes sense why the AG talking such foolishness and why the DPP could only indict ham-cutters eaters but not those who dine on sirloin steak and lobster.
And Jeff was as right as rain then!
So what’s the point then bro?
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@Dee Word
Maybe it is all bout BBE and fulfilling our role in this temporal space before we cross over to the next stage.
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Prophetic in song…
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@ The Blogmaster
I now see why Bust Tea is absent from the Blob.
De Man is really Stiffy!!
You is a good one though, you ent tell me a thing.
I was looking for AC but I ent see nobody with tight braids.
It is a “decent” play on words the current equivalent of Sparrow, the imagery is just enough to evoke an understanding on the play of words but it is not rude and the beat is catchy.
@ Caswell.
Why you don’t expose de fellers with the real real truth doah?
One ting bout you is dat your source of information wud mek dem fellers really look to close down your union.
Humphhhh leggo a ting man, let dem know that it is known what they are doing.
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So David, you remind we that 31 frigging years ago Bag was saying the same bad-word we pon here talking bout.
So when @Pieces tell Caswell to let loose and let de walls tumble down like what Bag singing only problem is that de people hands tied-up still.
The only think is life that is constant they say is change ..or in this Barbados lack of it.
“I in a high position but I can’t make a decision…I am not really in control cause I must do as I am told ”
He wasn’t singing bout CTP in ’85 was he!
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Where are these children parents?
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millertheanunnaki June 12, 2016 at 8:10 PM #
@ Georgie Porgie June 12, 2016 at 7:59 PM
“.. aLL THAT IS LEFT NOW FOR THE RISE OF ANTICHRIST IS THE REMOVAL OF THE BELIEVRS AS IS CLEARLY TAUGHT IN 2 THESS 2..”
But GP, the Anti-Christ is already here in the presence of ISIL whose stated intent is to wipe ‘Christians’ off the face of Allah’s earth and turn Western societies into caliphates.
NO MILLER THE ANTICHRIST IS ONE MAN
HE WILL PRETEND TO SOLVE THE VOID CREATED BY THE INCREASING LACK OF PROPER LEADERSHIP WORLDWIDE
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Chaaa GP carry yuh bumbaclat wid dat church ting. You dun know that for many Bajans Jesus is a bad word. Pork and Guinness, fooping and fete…Barbados sweet fuh days.
David
nobody “intellectualizing” anything. Whatever it is that the young people are doing, intellect is NOT involved. It is raw, physical ‘follow fashion” instinct.
Dribbler
when you wrote that the US music sub-culture “.. also produced folks like PDiddy Sean Combs and Mr Beyonce.”, are these supposed to be positive exemplars? Would you say that the music and entertainment business in the US has led to an overall economic improvement of the the majority of the Black population or to the enrichment of a few at the expense of the many?
These videos give us clear exposition on the new economy and the social objectives of a large segment of Bajan youth. This is fueled by money earned mainly through the marijuana trade. In order to protect markets (turf) guns are needed.
As the society adjusts to the recent university financing policy for example, the paucity of alternative training programs and a stagnant economy which even in the best of times is shut off to the majority of the population it is to be expected that drugs, prostitution and violence
will be the only options for too many youth.
Anyway lets not get into too much pontificating, Crop Over is here, de gurls looking good, plenty pork and macaroni pie…why worry when the Harbour Master will soon be back? What else is on offer?
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@ Piece..
I now see why Bush Tea is absent from the Blog….
De Man is really Stiffy!!
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Nothing so simple…
It is MUCH more complicated than that.
Bushie took the whacker to the ‘shop’ to be overhauled…. and it has been confiscated…
..as in …Not returned to the Bushman for further use.
Wunna could figure that one out, but from Bushie’s perspective, the time for whacking seems to have gone… There is a time for everything…
A time for growth
A time for fun
A time for BLP
A time for DLP
A time to whack
A time of troubles
…and a time to die…
In any case, there is no point in whacking …when the D9 bulldozer is scheduled for duty….
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Ping Pong June 12, 2016 at 9:25 PM #
Chaaa GP carry yuh bumbaclat wid dat church ting. You dun know that for many Bajans Jesus is a bad word. Pork and Guinness, fooping and fete…Barbados sweet fuh days.
i dont know bout dem tings ping pong
i grow up in church
for fun i played table tennis in the police station in Worthing
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It is alleged that much of the rank and file of these Chinese workers coming here are prisoners serving out their sentences. So, not only do we have men on the block out of work, while we bring in Chinese, we also have our prisoners on the cell block, while Chinese prisoners are chain-ganging it in Barbados.
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Pieceuhderockyeahright June 12, 2016 at 6:50 PM
Street thugs do not also have to bother about such encumbrances as the Geneva Convention, Queen’s Regulations and other treaties and regulations which govern the actions of a trained soldier.
Has anyone caught a glimpse of an Amnesty International operative,in these troubled areas, lecturing these rent-a gun murderers on the folly of their actions?
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@PingPong, I can’t even begin to wrap my head around the Bdos drug/music sub culture. As the Blogmaster rightly noted mine is a very simplistic perspective.
The simple point was that there is an entire business within that subset – sans the tampi and gun violence. But Barbados is too small to really make a sensible comparison to the same sub-culture in US or even Jamaica. So that was overly simplistic of me.
Yet it’s not a question of positive exemplars per se its a matter of opportunity. But again its nonsensical to expect talented folks to emerge from that environment just so.
The new economy that you highlight is nothing more than the old economy on steroids so to speak. The fancy music video and 200K hits of fame in a few weeks that a fella back in the day doing his ting would take a few years+ to achieve.
Somebody asked where are the parents. That’s a smile. Aren’t’ dibby, dibby girls of today often daughters of dibby dibby girls of yesterday. Where were their parents. Same place these parents are maybe…
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@ Georgie Porgie June 12, 2016 at 9:17 PM
“NO MILLER THE ANTICHRIST IS ONE MAN
HE WILL PRETEND TO SOLVE THE VOID CREATED BY THE INCREASING LACK OF PROPER LEADERSHIP WORLDWIDE.”
You mean that your friend Obama is not the real anti-Christ and the world would have to wait for another Buddha-like child?
Maybe your idol Cassius whom you refuse to call King Muhammad would reincarnate and be the promised messiah and, like King David, be the saviour of the Yahweh chosen people, once again outfoxing the mocked King just like Jesus Barabbas did.
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millertheanunnaki June 12, 2016 at 9:53 PM #
@ Georgie Porgie June 12, 2016 at 9:17 PM
“NO MILLER THE ANTICHRIST IS ONE MAN
HE WILL PRETEND TO SOLVE THE VOID CREATED BY THE INCREASING LACK OF PROPER LEADERSHIP WORLDWIDE.”
You mean that your friend Obama is not the real anti-Christ
=============================================================================you really tink de rest of de world as stupid as de american populace?
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The police have to start actively looking for the gun importers…lock them up, name, shame and expose them, they are destructively enriching themselves off importing death.
Eliminate the source, the importers of the guns….until that is done, there will always be a proliferation of guns to cause death and destruction. …there are peoole on the island who know the names of the importers but will not talk unless and until their own relatives are killed or injured.
In the US everyone know the merchants of death are the gun manufacturers, the NRA, the stone cold killers, that’s the source of the guns, you find the source….stopping then becomes very easy..
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Let me expand on that….on a small island…knowing the source who imports these guns becomes very easy…unlike the US where Obama kept trying to stop the assualt weapons and came up against NRA and manufactures of assault weaponsm who fought him and won…Today’s hesdlines in NYDAILYNEWS thanks the NRA for yesterday’s mass killing of 50 people….his was a lost battle.
Years ago I know personally that many bajan whites imported guns illegally…the gun clubs are allowed to legally import guns, but some were importing illegal stock as well. …
Piece, whatever happened to those Remingtons the police helped enter the island…..lately it’s being said that the local minority of indian, syrian, muslim are importing guns…..of course ya have the blacks who would also involve themselves….greedy for money, despite it being their own people dying, by guns.
The guns are not importing themselves and the police need to start doing their jobs and stop bullshitting around and playing games..,..they know who the gun importers are….bottomline.
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And we all know more often than not, where there is a container or 2 of guns, there is also marijuana and cocaine and vice versa
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Stephanie F. Chase with David Bowen and 25 others.
Good Morning #realdreamchasers! I hope that everyone had a wonderful weekend adn that you are ready to have a productive week. Here is your daily newscap.
IMPORTED WINGS BURNT TO A CRISP – THE CHICKEN WINGS
importer mystery deepened over the weekend after authorities raided a property and destroyed several hundred pounds of wings.And on Friday, Minister of Trade Donville Inniss is set to meet with the Barbados Agricultural Society (BAS), which blew the whistle on the imports currently flooding the local market.However, there is still no word on who went around the authorised importer, the Barbados Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation (BADMC), and sneaked in the chicken parts.Chief executive officer of the BAS, James Paul, at a hastily convened press conference last Tuesday, raised the alarm, questioning the Ministry of Trade, the Customs Department and the Ministry of Agriculture as to how the wings slipped in without being tracked.
BRA & LAND TAX DEFAULTERS IN TALKS – THE BARBADOS REVENUE AUTHORITY’S (BRA)
threat to auction 28 properties last May 18 for non-payment of land tax has reaped success. Most of the individuals and entities responsible for the properties have sought to make arrangements with BRA to settle their debts.“I can confirm that some persons have visited or contacted the authority in an effort to make thorough arrangements to settle their outstanding tax, with several actually contacting us the same day the notices were featured in the newspapers,” said BRA communications officer Erica Lazare.
GANG WARS – THE POLICE HIGH COMMAND
will be going into Brittons Hill this week as the top cop attributes a rash of gunplay last week to rival gangs in the St Michael district.Acting Commissioner of Police Tyrone Griffith told the DAILY NATION that he had spoken to his deputy divisional officer and, as a result, members of the Royal Barbados Police Force would walk through the area sometime this week but did not disclose what day.“I spoke to him on Friday and so he is putting together the team to do that sometime during the week,” Griffith said.His comments came against the backdrop of three shootings, in quick succession, of young men associated with or in the Brittons Hill area.
POLICE PROBE DEATH –
Police are investigating a death at the Esso gas station in Walmer Lodge, St Michael According to reports, a male collapsed and died.
TWO INJURED IN SHOOTING – TWO ST MICHAEL
young men are now nursing injuries after a drive-by shoot out in Grazettes, St Michael.The men, one believed to be in his late teens and the other in his early 20s, are close friends.The incident occurred in Scotts Terrace, which was described as a quiet neighbourhood. An older gentleman who said he resided in Grazettes for many years, summed up the recent hike in gun violence as nonsense.Though not revealing his identity he said the young people were becoming more educated but making less educated decisions. Another resident of 42 years said what was disconcerting was the large quantity of firearms on the streets, especially in the hands of the wrong people. The man said he knew both men as he practically watched them grow into adults. He said he heard one youngster was shot in the back with a single bullet, while the other was hit with two in the stomach area. What troubled him most though, were the 20 plus shots heard penetrating the air. “You would got to be deaf if you ain’t hear them,” he said. A mother said she was just happy her children, who were playing outside, were safe at the time of the incident. Acting Assistant Superintendent David Welch said investigations into the matter were continuing.
AN ACT OF TERROR –
President Barack Obama called the mass shooting at an LGBT Orlando nightclub Sunday an “act of terror” in remarks to the nation from the White House briefing room.“We know enough to say this was an act of terror and an act of hate,” he said. “The FBI is appropriately investigating this as an act of terror. We will go wherever the facts lead us … What is clear is he was a person filled with hatred.”At least 50 people were killed and 53 more wounded in the what is now the deadliest mass shooting in American history.Obama said while it could have been any one of our communities, “this is an especially heartbreaking day for our friends who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.”
CHERISH THE ELDERLY –
Barbados has a high incidence of elder abuse and neglect and citizens must do more to reverse the trend, Social Care Minister Steve Blackett has urged. Addressing a church service this morning to mark the beginning of activities leading up to ‘World Elderly Abuse Awareness Day’, on June 15, Blackett told the congregation at the Church of the Nazarene, Bank Hall, that this island could not ignore the problem since it leads the Caribbean with the highest population of older people. Pointing out that “the average life expectancy in Barbados is 77″ and more than 10 per cent of the population has been classified as elderly, Blackett raised concern that “several older persons are living alone and are becoming more vulnerable, and dependent on community support systems”.He stressed it was therefore critical for “individuals, organizations and communities to become involved in the process of heightening awareness about elder abuse, neglect and exploitation”.The minister suggested that proper care of the elderly could be achieved with support and recommendations from the church, the family, legal and judicial systems, members of civil society, corporate Barbados, non-governmental organizations and the media.He urged Barbadians to “continue to love, respect and protect the elderly; embrace and cherish them rather than abandon them in their time of need, especially in their advancing years.”
CITIBANK PAINTS SENIOR CITIZEN’S HOME – A HELPING HAND
can go a long way.And last Saturday, Citibank celebrated its annual Global Community Day by lending several hands to the Soroptimist Senior Citizens Village and Activity Centre in Eden Lodge, St Michael.Dozens of employees helped change the face of the complex as they decorated the premises with plants and repainted several of the housing units.Business head at Citibank, Shimon McIntosh, told the DAILY NATION that the activities formed a part of the group’s 11th annual Global Community Day.
BARBADOS TO GET HOSPICE – BARBADIANS IN
the diaspora are teaming up with those at home to provide a hospice and palliative care home for the terminally ill.Jessica Odle-Baril, one of the driving forces behind the project to build the proposed $5 million, 14-bed facility, said it would be “a place for people to die with dignity”. According to Odle, the idea to fill this need originated with the Barbados Cancer Association in the United States. The project is being undertaken by the Barbados Association for Cancer Advocacy (BACCA) in collaboration with Living Water Community of the Roman Catholic Church, which has already donated the land at St David’s, Christ Church.
CPL EYES GOVERNMENTS – FIVE OF THE SIX
franchises in the Caribbean Premier League have been sold – mainly to non-West Indian investors – and organisers are encouraging Caribbean governments to get on board in supporting the tournament.Only one franchise had been sold in the inaugural year in 2013, but the sale of Barbados Tridents and Trinbago Knight Riders this year means St Lucia Zouks is the only unsold franchise.Three weeks before the start of this year’s tournament, in which organisers are hoping to break even for the first time, CPL chief operating officer Pete Russell is hopeful that regional governments will become more involved in the Twenty20 competition.“The challenge for us is that you need to have a strong private-public partnership. The governments are very important in all of this. At the end of the day, they benefit the most. Their economies are the ones that are taking all the money,” Russell said.
CRICKETING LEGENDS HONOR ALI –
National hero and cricket’s greatest all-rounder Sir Garfield Sobers led a special tribute to Muhammad Ali at Lord’s on Friday that coincided with the boxing legend’s funeral.The two sporting icons met at Lord’s back in 1966 when Sobers was a member of the West Indies team playing England in a test match and heavyweight star Ali was in London for his second fight with Britain’s Henry Cooper.During the lunch interval of Friday’s play in the third Test between England and Sri Lanka, black and white photographs of Ali meeting Sobers in the Lord’s dressing room were displayed on the ground’s giant screens.Sobers, 79, then rang a bell in the Lord’s pavilion five minutes before the start of the second session of play as a tribute.Ali, 74, who died last week after decades of suffering with Parkinson’s disease, and Sobers enjoyed success in London in 1966. Ali stopped a bloodied Cooper in the sixth round to retain his world heavyweight title.Sobers (163 not out) and his cousin David Holford (105) shared a second-innings stand of 274 that helped save the West Indies from defeat as they drew the second test against England.
THE DAY THE EARTH SHOOK –
The young, not so young and in-between gathered for a sound-off of vehicle music systems in an epic encounter that is better labelled, ‘The day the Earth shook’. Owners of cars, minivans and pickups, all tightly packed with speakers, amplifiers, condensers, and other earthquake-making equipment took centerstage and for a minute at a time belted out popular music to the roar of the crowd as the Earth shook. MC Alex McDonald eventually announced that a blue van that literally had speakers for panels was the winner.
IMPRESSIVE JUNIORS –
The Junior Monarch semifinalists thoroughly impressed last night during the first staging of their tent held at the Lester Vaughn Secondary School. Singers in both the 8-12 and 13-18 categories pulled out all the stops giving patrons more than they paid for. The crowd loved it so much they kept calling for encores but were denied in the interest of time. The juniors however enjoyed every minute onstage as they honed their skills and prepared for what is expected to be a battle royale at the semifinals on July 2nd. The standard of the material was high and all the youngsters showed their excitement. It was hard to choose last night’s top performers but most notable were Star Diamond singing Calypso Queen; Sanche, School Days; De MC, Outta Love; Quinn P, De Call; Raheem, My Story and Confetti, Why Yuh In Shock. They all handled their various topics well and should be easy picks for the semifinals.
Well that’s all for today folks. Have a Magnificent Monday 😉 Shalom ❤ Steph.
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I do not think we are too far gone. I have spoken to many who either live or have managed to escape these neighbourhoods where gang activity is rampant. I have the number of a really intelligent guy from one area and I plan to pick his brain. We met because I was spouting my theories in a public place and I saw him nodding his head. I also recently talked to one guy who came out of prison a few years back. He was in for kidnapping and murder. He told me his story. He also told me how he chased his grandson off the block threatening to shoot him and get it over with rather than wait for a call from the police. The grandson is off the block. These guys are not lost. We can still give them a reason to live or we can at least rescue their children.
Think about it. Our gang guys usually only murder each other. They do not target persons who are not involved. Neither do they execute whole families as is done in other countries. Any uninvolved person who dies does so by stray bullet. These guys ARE NOT EVIL. They are NOT lost. We can get them back. But we have only a small window of opportunity. I don’t plan to sit idly by. God is a god of hope. I am not one for doomsday prophecy. It makes no sense and encourages us to wait idly looking up at the sky for our selfish extraction while others perish. But we have been told to pursue the salvation of others even to the physical detriment of our own selves. How do those two add up?
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Wait Bushie, I love puzzles so…… the doctor give you six months to live or what?
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Coming soon to a station near to you. How many will remain after project end?
http://www.chinawhisper.com/chinese-in-africa-chinese-men-marry-african-wife/
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@ The Honourable Blogmaster
The subject “Another resident of 42 years said what was disconcerting was the large quantity of firearms on the streets, especially in the hands of the wrong people”
Of late Honourable One, I have notices a disturbing practice in local (regional and international) news.
During local reporting in the news I am seeing how the newspapers have some of the most ingrunt reporters in the world who DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT CRIMINALS DO TO PERCEIVED SNITCHES.
I know that we have an abundance of female rabbits around the cuntry but Whuloss Man, So many?
“A man, who has lived in the community for 42 years, who preferred not to be named said …”
How many so and so people lived in a community for 42 years?
Every effing body who is less dan 42 excluded from de list right?
De de one dat i like was dis on pun TV, “a woman who preferred not to be identified, first name Jennifer…. and then dem proceed to show the woman’s face…” for 5 minutes.
Steupseeee
Whuloss man, you mean dat not only de Fumbles and de Adriel Nitwit is scvunts but de news reporters too?
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@ Bush Tea
Well my man you gone back up in my estimation!!
A D9 Bulldozer!!
Man you ent mekking nuh sport, you wont be “moving de earth to please” you going be “Mekking DEM DBLP parasites of dis earth, PLEAD”
I got a job fuh you up by Coverley Plantation pun de Highway, and I was wondering, it in a likkle bit of controversy but I was wondering effing I cud borrow it and do a likkle public service”
Since I ent know how to drive a D9 you would have to show de ole man how.
Dere got another place down Spring Garden dat you could show me how to operate de controls dem.
I got some time on Friday, you free?
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Someone pointed out to me…the bigger the politicians, the nastier and more depressed the constituency they represent…eg…Billie “the goat” Miller blighted the City…it has never recovered.
Other areas of blight are represented by Mia Mottley, Owen Arthur and Fruendel Stuart….all left a trail of blight in their wake while securing their own pensions and monthly checks.
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@ Acting Commissioner of Police Tyronne Griffith
With all due respect sir, (Mia tell me to respect the positions of authorities and the institutions of law in the lands) if wunna was to get off wunna donkeys (I said donkeys not as*es) and have a police officer walking through the community all ovah Barbados, or pun Horseback, more regularly, you doan tink dat dis ingrunce would stop?
You doan feel dat community policing, like was used tuh happpen years ago in Bulbados, would cause de public to be reassured about wunna presence?
Why de under day I was driving through Sandy Lane and I see dat it does still happen down dey among de white rich people, every single morning.
Oh and by the way, since wunna is looking fuh drug dealers and criminals and guns, could you inform the general public what happen with the Remington 30.07s dat de whlte collar, sorry in wunna case it is de black collar criminals in the Office of the Commissioner of Police, teif way and cant be found??
Wunna really is de laughing stock of the caribbean doah.
Looka you doah.
“THE POLICE HIGH COMMAND will be going into Brittons Hill this week as the top cop attributes a rash of gunplay last week to rival gangs in the St Michael district”
This should not be something that you are hiding to do as in ““I spoke to him on Friday and so he is putting together the team to do that sometime during the week” Griffith said.”
This should be the customary activity of our Men in Blue, constant patrolling, instead of wunna being out there driving out the gas in the Suzuki’s or reporting people at Lancaster Gully for speeding with every one of the lawbreakers doing exactly 94.7 km/h.
Needless to say the ingrunt reporter she was quick to add that you did not say which day.
“Dear Criminals, On tuesday this week we plan to pass by you at 11 p.m. so hide all guns drugs and paraphernalia” Signed Heather Lynn Evanson Nation reporter and Ignoramus.
I wonder if i cud find a picture of her online?
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In a small country like Barbados one would have assumed community policing should be an every day strategy. It is about growing relationships and trust. The success of the police force to be able to effectively fight crime is correlated to the relationship with the public it is sworn to protect and serve.
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I assume all these Chinese coming in to work on the Castle project are all fingerprinted.
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But looka dis fella Gabriel doah!!
Looka how who has the name of the Arch Angel of the Lord, dont seek to cause ruption.
I can absolutely guarantee you that, as a condition of the bilateral aid programme that, while implicit with such intra governmental collaboration, NO SUCH PROVISION OR PROCEDURE WILL BE DEMANDED.
Them Chinese is above the law and while me and you gots to get a Police Certificate of Character to effect what is going to be a de facto emigration for years for these 700 menses, THAT HAS NOT COME ON SCOPE FOR THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
Lets say that I want to emigrate to Murica or Englant. I gots to get a Police Certificate of Character and when I carry it into de Commission/Embassy dem fellahs does verify the document, even though I good at falsifying documents through their on the ground access agents.
Dat is how de US Embassy find out dat de Remington 30.07s ent gone tuh the designated recipient that the Office of the Commissioner of Police lie and say so bout.
Look dis is about “Equity in Sovereignty”
When Diplomatic Staff get post to a Cuntry the courtesy among equitable partners e.g. Russia and the U.K is that we are going to post our spies in your jurisdiction and you will post yours
in ours. That is equity.
When the Chinese post their military, their spies and their criminals, the GoB is not an equitable nation, we are beggars, in fact we are talking monkeys who, in keeping with that Primus inter Pares ape that leads us now, WILL NOT INSIST ON ANYTHING.
In fact, as long as Maxime McClean get a trip to China, to buy some chinese clothing, every ting good.
No sir, Fumbles is not going to insists on (i) files for all the parties who are emigrating here prior to them arising and (ii) certainly no fingerprinting.
Plussing you dun know that the same way all uh we niggers look alike, every Chinese look alike so when I transpose Wong Oing hai fingerprint, who is de Chief Immigration Office tuh say dat it ent he?
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Still saying NO!to finger printing .one day the chickens will come home to roost..just saying!
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The videos posted by Ping Pong last night are depressing. I love lewdness as much as the next man but these offering have no artistic value in my humble opinion.
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Chickens roosting already AC…check the auditor general’s report, check Mark Maloney, yall better fingerprint him real quick.
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Let me just say the garden calypso is nothing more than a foolish copy of one Kitchener did many moons ago. At least it had some of the old time double entendre.
On the AG’s so-called comfort of citizens. I find it shameful that instead of doing what is necessary in Barbados to clean up the crime, our government finds it necessary to compare us to Trinidad, claiming we can be happy we not as bad, as if that is to give us hope for the future.
The rest of the videos, and the remarks, have brought streams of tears, filled with shame and fear for our future. Almost feel like there is no hope whatsoever. The feeling is so profound, I have nothing, and I mean nothing more to say except shame, shame, shame as I take to my bed with the vapours.
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The police work diligently to arrest reckless youth with guns and put them behind bars. Different crime fighting tactics are needed to add to what the police are doing. Former COP Dottin carried out regular raids on blocks where gunmen spend their days. Resume the raids. When the block goes underground intelligence helps find them , continue the raids. Raids by law enforcement keep gunmen off balance denies them room to plan shootings and crime. Resume road blocks. Charge motorists and motorcyclists breaking the law. Businessmen who import product, chicken wings for example without the knowledge of customs can similarly bring in weapons. Raid them. Fishing boats are vulnerable to smuggling, target them. Customs have to work closely with police. Take down corrupt customs officers . In the recent past security guards at the Port were arrested for criminal activity.
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In and Out June 13, 2016 at 11:25 AM #
“Businessmen who import product, chicken wings for example without the knowledge of customs can similarly bring in weapons. Raid them.”
Good observation In and Out. Anyone know who imported the chicken wings?
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I don’t really get the gist of the Chinese fingerprinting. What do we need to know bout dem that de fingerprint gine offer? If a fellow got a record because he was one of dem religious gas-killers of years ago in China which database are we going to match the prints against to know that. The one in China? They gine bring a fellow like dat and den tell we too?
No effing benefit of fprinting besides a good talking point, peeps.
The Chinese coming to do a project. When dem done they gone. Any who hide-bout and stay will be easy to find among the 50 Chinese who now live in Bim.
Not to mention dem other family life in China gine get catspraddled by de party officials.
Even from the top of the Central Bank building I not seeing how this should cause conniption. Well other than de contraptions dem that the Chinese gin hide way in be top suites to snoop pon de business big shots who come pon holiday or business to de island.
Wanna think did sorta thing easy nah, well come again. That is de sorta worry from dese descendants of dat mongol ruler Genghis Khan.
When the chinks gone dat is when we peeps will get job opportunity and hopefully also get more of Genghis’ hordes as Chinese tourists. Now dem we definitely want to match in dat US fprint database. Just to be careful. hehehe.
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Guns everywhere, Liars everywhere, Thieves everywhere, Frauds everywhere and Crisis Actors working for the US gov’t everywhere to take away people’s guns which they will need to kill the Jackboots after they crash the economy. Americans keep your guns for the real terrorists are your government. They are behind all these shootings.
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If anybody should still be doubtful that Obama is a stinking BULLER, bear with us as you see the decisive differences when his initial comments about the Florida incident are compared to the South Carolina incident.
One was a brutal murder, an act of terror, hate. An attack on all of us. Great clarity. And rightly so.
The other he relies on Biden and seeks to mollify Blacks. He is clear about Florida but much less clear about South Carolina.
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He does not even mention that Pinkney was an elected official, a member of state government.
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YOU ARE VERY OBSERVANT PACHA
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I have said before and will say again the AG should resign. We are not interested in what the crime statistics are in Trinidad. What a lame duck lament for an escalating crime situations.
All persons on getting elected should be given a bush bath to protect them from losing their common sense and integrity.
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Why has mainstream media allowed the AG to get off so easy. It seems no journalist in BArbados has any balls either small or big to ask the hard pressing questions irrespective of consequences.
Perhaps, Bajans were born to act zombie sheeple and to betray those bold enough to fight for justice.
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@Pieces introduced us (me anyhow) to the phrase “I’ll be your Huckleberry” and sometimes when I post to respond to some bloggers I almost feel like that counter-weight to an outlaw position. But frankly that is not the case as all gunslingers are welcome on this wild west site.
So my colt-45 shooting back at de gunslinger @Pacha.
When some bad-boys comes into town it’s impossible for his aura not to come with him…in short he will be a bad-boy in every saloon regardless of circumstance because that his is position in life. My bad-boy aura has a very different position. Take the saloon as it is and try to shoot straight and true based on de prevailing circumstances.
President Obama delivered a personally tinged report on Charleston. Very personal on many levels. He knew Rep Pinkney personally. This was a deliberate racial issue with direct echos of one of the worst racist tragedies in US history – from which he deliberately quoted. He spoke briefly but glowingly of the racial history of that church. He invoked Dr. King to say we must engage peace this is not a time for bloodshed.
He frankly could have ignited a power keg of rhetoric and physical violence akin to LA riots or worst if he displayed the searing anger that surely coursed through his body and soul.
Do we recall the climate of the time with all those police vrs Black matters.
Yet this gunslinger comes out shooting wildly that the man is a Bajan ‘epithet’ of the male bovine group and was not ‘clear’ about the tragedy.
On the other hand details on the Orlando attacker were clear based on his calls to police. There was no doubt about who he was or what were his intentions. And Obama certainly did not have the explosive circumstances like Charleston to navigate…other than the rhetoric of an election campaign. Thus he was brief but incisive and pellucid.
So what is clear from my fellow gunslinger is that he obviously can pull his gun and shoot pretty but if he had to govern the town and thus use his weapon judiciously to control and guide the townsfolk out of danger that he would be an absolute failure.
Lots of people can prosecute a war but it takes a real man (or woman) to negotiate and manage the peace.
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And he is right…it’s all being done by design, the only people being killed are blacks killing each other. There are no coincidences and the guns are not being imported by poor people….it takes money, planning and contacts to successfully run guns through so many islands.
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As long as the “boys on the block” and the fellas in the ghettos keep killing each other, nothing will be done to stop gun crime in Barbados.
It does not matter what happens in Trinidad,Toronto,Jamaica or Montreal.
Barbados is small enough an Island to at least reduce the flow of guns and drugs into the Island.
I suspect that they are a bunch of untouchables running guns and drugs in Barbados.
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Probably the only person, technically, in the Police Force who have had hands on experience in dealing with the apprehension and curtailment of illegal firearms , in a situation with an organisation far more lethal and brutal than these so called soljers gangsters, now involved in shooting up the community, has been sent of long ,lonnnnnnnnnnnnng, leave.
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‘White’ people in Barbados have had guns for centuries to protect their ‘property’ and this social dynamic has never been an issue.
No criminality has been associated with them having guns, in those times, any times.
Still today, White people and Blacks thought to be honorary Whites, could have guns and there has never been any real challenge to this status quo. It is the creation of super citizens. Private citizens who have a license to take the law into their hands and kill people, sometimes on a whim.
They see so-called illegal guns as a challenge to their monopoly on violence.
We remember well, a man who used to own a restaurant in Belleville, can’t remember his name presently, shot a young man one day for stealing some limes.
Ours is not to justify taking anyone’s belongings. But Jesus Christ, killing a man for a few limes, man.
If this writer, as a, youngster, were shot for stealing a few mangoes here or some achees there, and more,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, we would have been dead 1000 times.
But then again, after the first few reincarnations the ignorant Bajans with guns would have recognized that Pachamama is God and would so worship. LOL
We should get the rid of all guns for everybody including the military and the police as part of a wider agenda for peace. Barbados as a zone of internal peace. And that is what our tourism product should be informed by. Not the BS marketing trite as promoted by the Tourist ‘Board’ for ages.
Pay people to turn in, if necessary!
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@ Pachamama
You remember wrong
John the Lime Stealer was s dope addict and was a very aggressive dope addict and he threatened the owner of the Hideaway? and the owner was right to use “deadly force” against John the aggressor
Some of us remember we “in times aforetime”
That is the thing about Remembrance, like Nassar and others, when enough of the old people have died out the younger people rather those still alive remember whatever the shythe they want to.
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@ Piece
Your remembering may very well be correct. And we bow to that, humbly.
We remember being so repulsed by the incident that that place ceased to be a meeting place for us.
You however don’t seem to remember an investigation and circumstances, to which we were really never well informed, still appear murky.
One question though. If this person was aggressive and obviously had mental issues, per his addition, is deadly force justified when he lacked the ability to use deadly force himself, in what you deem as aggressive actions?
And how can we build a zone of peace when these circumstances are acceptable? Would it not have been better for the shooter to take a beating as opposed to the outcome? When, as a society, did we decide that an arms race, this is what we have now even between criminals and property owners, is a good thing?
Again, we surrender pre-eminence to your seemingly better memory.
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There is a good reason that the Lord give us computers to write lots of Maloney and Baloney.
@Pacha. Are you the same bro who writes on these pages about using a guillotine? The same man who now speaks fondly of a zone of peace???
So let me understand your elevated and enlightened thinking today.
You come into my establishment and steal my property AFTER you threatened my very existence (or to cut off my head). Witnesses, in the person of another fellow called PieceoftheRock confirm that you were often aggressive towards me and others. They say this was due to your use of hallucinogens or such substances that may cause hallucinations and other wayward behaviour.
Ok lets take a breath and blow a tapi puff.
So with all this in the mix: you are once again taking my property and you are once again making threats (directly or otherwise) at that moment I can accurately determine that you ” lacked the ability to use deadly force …”.
Your mind is partially fried and at times you talk to yourself or attack imaginary things but I am expected to invoke a zone of peace because I absolutely know my life is not at risk.
Thus, I should confront you and dispense instead “a beating”.
May the Lord above give us grace and commonsense to decipher your absolute duplicitous words as we do with the other intellectual wags in society. Steeupse.
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@ Dribbler
Is this Lord you speak of not well known for dispensing death to those who would mislead the people.
We prefer true peace as a result of justice. We accept that people like you are to be killed (justice) in order to get to peace. And there are no misgivings about that position!
Part of your wickedness is the misleading of the people through a massive mis-education. Certainly, that is worthy of death, is it not?
But when you and those you purport to represent demand to have ways to kill others for the slightest of reasons. When you demand the sole right to the technology of death you deny others, because they are not like you – honorary Whites, that is worthy of death.
All the boys on the streets should have the means of death, guns, which you would seek to deny them. And those guns should be aimed at the right targets – the real oppressors and their enablers like you.
We thirst for peace everywhere ONLY on terms of justice. No obeisance to lackeys like you, your ilk and masters.
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Pieceuhderockyeahright June 14, 2016 at 8:39 AM #
@ Pachamama
………….. and the owner was right to use “deadly force” against John the aggressor
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I was always under the impression, that it was ‘Necessary’ or ‘ Equal’ force.
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The guy went on the property and picked some limes.He was shot , and ran out on the street and died.It was broad daylight on George Street.Unnecessary loss of life.The man was unarmed and posed no threat.
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http://www.barbadostoday.bb/2016/06/14/update-threat-reported-aboard-air-canada-flight/
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@Whoever “Many are quick to explain that we have always had to live with violence going back to the Crusades of the 11th century. The struggle will continue until…”
OH boy!!!
Whose Eurocentric “bright” idea is it that human violence started in the 11th century? Human beings have always been violent. We have been violent for hundreds of thousands of years. Maybe millions of years.
That is how we are.
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SuckaBubby June 14, 2016 at 4:57 PM #
“The guy went on the property and picked some limes. He was shot, and ran out on the street and died. It was broad daylight on George Street. Unnecessary loss of life. The man was unarmed and posed no threat.”
@ SuckaBubby
I agree with you, it was an “Unnecessary loss of life.”
I remember the incident because I had reason to be in Belleville on that fateful morning. Unfortunately, I saw when the perpetrator breathed his last breath.
Based on information received, the guy’s nickname was “Chinese” and he was from the Orleans. Apparently, it was his custom to enter the premises of an establishment located to the top or bottom (which ever way you enter) of 1st Avenue Belleville, called The Great Escape and steal limes. On that morning, “Chinese” entered the premises to perpetrate his usual act, but this time he was confronted by the owner, Mr. Alder, who shot him. He ran a few yards before collapsing and eventually dying on the spot.
When I arrived on the scene, Alder was looking at “Chinese,” who was breathing faintly, before returning to his property.
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There are any number of circumstances where they are senseless loss of lives.
A blogger described this character as ‘aggressive’ and a user of illegal drugs so its a bit difficult as far as I am concerned to circle the wagon train so efficiently to determine that the theft on that morning was just an illegal act on the part of the owner leading to the senseless loss of life.
Seems to me that both individuals were being callous and indifferent. Unfortunately one had a weapon that he used rather laxly and the other should have been acting more judiciously but was badly impaired.
So with the owner’s impaired thinking that day based on raw anger that this man walked onto his property regularly and with impunity stole limes despite surely being warned off several times. Days or weeks or months of a growing sense of lack of safety exploded in a gunshot.
And the other fellow had weeks and months and years of not cleaning and oiling the weapon he had called a frigging brain which brought him to his death with his lax perspective on life. As an adult he believed that he could so cavalierly steal stuff as if he was a boy stealing a few mangoes or coconuts from the families in his neighborhood.
Senseless. Clearly.
You call the police. They come, warn the fellow, maybe even send him for a few days rests to Station Hill (as it was then, I presume). He serves his time and is back on the street and does the same shiittee again and again.
Senseless. Clearly.
Any homeowner or proprietor, callous or not, who experiences that level of ‘Chinese’ invasion wants to get-rid of that invader after awhile.
Senseless and ‘vigilantic’ and possibly criminally liable . Clearly.
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Very often we hear the statement that soldiers make bad policemen as they are trained to kill.
Here is a snippet from the Soldiers Yellow Card on Opening fire in Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx,against not lime or crop thieves ,but hardened terrorists.
Never use more force than the minimum necessary, etc etc
Always first try to handle the situation by other means than opening fire.
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Why am I not surprised that a man has been detained attempting to enter a Bridgetown court while carrying an unlicensed concealed firearm.
And if our wait-and-see excuse for leaders, think that they safe from this crazy show of blatant respect for law and order in this country, they may have a surprise on their hands.
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Colonel
We usually follow precedent from Britain. A female LABOUR MP was shot and stabbed to death today.
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With an automatic hand gun and two magazines/clips of ammunition , this young man could have done untold damage, US style , in and around the Bridgetown court yesterday, and as far as our leaders are concerned its business as usual. Go on home folks, the show is over………………For Now!
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A gun up in his botsie. A hate to think what else is up in his botsie this hot, hot night.
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