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Remove This RH Sign – Chinese Sign Greets Visitors to Sam Lord’s Castle in Barbados

How The Hell Would Anyone Know That This Resort Is In Barbados An English Speaking Country? Since when did Barbados Relocate to China? This Sign Must Be Removed. It Is An Insult To The People of Barbados!   ‎Posted to Facebook The following composed by Heather Cole Anyone offended by the above title should also…

How The Hell Would Anyone Know That This Resort Is In Barbados An English Speaking Country? Since when did Barbados Relocate to China? This Sign Must Be Removed. It Is An Insult To The People of Barbados!

 

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The following composed by Heather Cole

Anyone offended by the above title should also be deeply offended by the disturbing signage outside of Sam Lords Castle that is now being rebuilt.  This historic property has been a part of Barbados since the days of Slavery.  It comes packaged with folklore about the exploits of Samuel Lord, who has since been immortalized in song by the Merry Men regarding his exploits as a pirate, hanging lanterns on coconuts trees for ships to run aground on the reef so that he could pillage its treasure.

It is unfortunate that the property was allowed to run to ruin.  All Barbadians are happy at the prospects of it being rebuilt bringing jobs.  However, Barbadians do not speak far less read Chinese.  No one knows what the signage says.   We speak a Bajan dialect and English is our national language.  Our days of colonialism ended in 1966.  We have a flag that is blue and gold not red and white, we have a Coat of Arms on which is written in English “Pride and Industry” not Chinese Characters, we have a national anthem that is written in English.

Chinese is not the national language of Barbados.   Signage in Chinese must not be allowed on such a significantly historical property in Barbados.   If the Chinese want to build a Sam Lords Castle in Shanghai, Shandong, Guangdong, Sichuan, Henan or any of the other Chinese Provinces they would be well within their rights to put Chinese characters at the entrance but not in Long Bay, St Philip Barbados, the signage must be remove immediately.  It is an insult to all Barbadians.

One wonders if it was done in oversight by the Government or on deliberate action.  However, there is no Chinese sign on the Gymnasium.  In Barbados we have a preference for other cultures to assimilate to our culture and our language and want to keep it that way.  Mrs. Ram Mirchandani has a hotel in Barbados and there is no signage at the entrance in any of the Indian languages. The previous owners of Sam Lords Castle kept its original name and in the English language. Why can’t the Chinese?

247 responses to “Remove This RH Sign – Chinese Sign Greets Visitors to Sam Lord’s Castle in Barbados”

  1. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    @VH
    Dr. SS spoke of her family marrying Asians and if she was younger she would explore her horizons so I felt compelled to respond.

    Remember the phrase “lesser of two evils”?

    BTW no one has explored (at least on the blog) if this was a warning sign for a possible dangerous situation and some unsuspecting Bajan deliveryman ignored it and “whammo” lights out.

  2. Vincent Haynes Avatar
    Vincent Haynes

    Sargeant.

    Chuckle….point taken and good point made.

    We gine gi’e Bushie conniptions now…..wuhloss.

  3. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    This whole blog got Bushie in tights….. everything upsided-down…

    Sargeant on the ball…
    Dribbles waxing hot as Hell…
    Doltish Vincent making sense (vague, but manageable…)
    Shiite!!…. even Hal is having brief periods of coherency…..

    Meanwhile…
    The two women are making their contributions to the blog
    – based on who can give them the most money (as women are wont to do…)
    …and right now that is clearly a Chinese choice… in Yen….

    What is a bushman to think?….. but that the end is near…?
    All that is now required is for some fat-assed woman to sing….
    Probably a popular CBC hostess…
    and it will be the END….

    Steupsss
    That end CANNOT come too soon.

  4. BUCKERF Avatar
    BUCKERF

    Chinese looking for BIG BAMBOO too! Dick hung low and chopsticks want BIG Bamboo !!!LOL

  5. BUCKERF Avatar
    BUCKERF

    Just down the road at Crane House Kyffin Simpson may get bought out by Chinese too !! Wuh Lord and The Masonic Lodge ging get a RED Chinese Symbol too !!! Kyffin is Big Poopah at de Lodge ya know!

  6. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    “Skeptics denounced terms that will allow the Chinese contractor, China National Complete Plant Export-Import Co. Ltd., or Complant, to bring over workers to fill 60 percent of the project’s construction jobs, citing the dire need for work in a largely stagnant economy that relies heavily on the tourism sector. Government officials point to 1,000 direct jobs and 2,000 more that will spill over into the local economy once the hotel is in operation. They also say it will bring in $70 million in foreign exchange per year.

    Still, many are distrustful of China’s intentions, worrying that easy money — 2.5 percent interest over 20 years for a country with an international credit rating that has struggled in recent years — could cloud leaders’ judgment when it comes to negotiating future projects with the Asian giant”

  7. Dr. Simple Simon Phd Avatar
    Dr. Simple Simon Phd

    @Hants November 6, 2017 at 3:17 PM “1,000 direct jobs

    2,000 more that will spill over into the local economy

    $70 million in foreign exchange per year.”

    And several hundred extra men in the sex/romance/marriage market place.

    I think that I will say “”yes please” to that.

    You know I think that some of the men on BU just feel threatened by the thought of Chinese men competing with them for access to Bajan women.

    Because when Bush Tea agrees with Vincent, and Pedantic…ya know that it is male jealousy.

    Take it easy boys. If you are nice to the bajan women maybe they will still deal with you…

    maybe…

  8. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    Hants,
    I see these figures, but no one seems to hold the politicians feet to the fire. Where will be new jobs comes from post-construction? Where is the Bds(?)$70m in foreign exchange going to come from?
    We are taking all these bogus claims for granted and not even our celebrated economists are offering any sound empirical analyses.
    Since 2014, nearly half the top 179 economies have experienced annual depreciation of over 15 per cent against the Greenback, or in other words, against the Bajan dollar. And, between January 2014 and January 2016, most currencies depreciated by about 35 per cent against the US dollar (the Bajan dollar).
    Of these the Chinese renminbi has been the chief culprit. In 1994, after a number of reforms, China devalued the renminbi by half; in other words, during that period, countries such as Barbados lost competitiveness against China. Since 2014, the renminbi has depreciated by a further 7.5 per cent against the US dollar(the Bajan).
    In simple words, it would be cheaper to bring an ex convict from China 10000 miles to work as an unskilled labourer on a Barbadian building site, providing full accommodation, at a cheaper rate than it would take to employ an unskilled, poorly educated young Barbadian.
    We have got serious problems, which local economist s and the media are avoiding by focussing on micky mouse nonsense about foreign reserves. By the way, during the same period, China has lost US$1rn of its foreign reserves and is running a current account deficit.
    I have said before, and say again. Emerging markets account for about 60 per cent of global GDP, an increase from 35 per cent in the early 1980s. We are out of step with history.
    Let us get serious and debate real problems, not cut and paste nonsense from a demented lonely (wo)man somewhere in North America.

  9. Dr. Simple Simon Phd Avatar
    Dr. Simple Simon Phd

    @Bush Tea November 6, 2017 at 3:06 PM “Steupsss That end CANNOT come too soon.”

    No Bushie.

    The end won’t come to rescue you, or your sons or grandsons

    Compete or die.

  10. Harold Orstin Avatar
    Harold Orstin

    Watching Hal Austin’s comments on this thread, and on every BU thread, must surely be an educational experience for those who have decided not to read a book since they left school.

    Austin’s diot racism reminds us of Enoch’s 1968 “Rivers of Blood” speech. Surely “wide-grinnining pickanninies”, probaby Chink, will now follow ourwomenfolk around in blessed Bim.

    Mostly, it calls to mind something writtten by a man infinitely brighter than Mr. Austin could ever hope to be:

    “No question now what has happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again: but already it was impossible to say which was which.”

  11. Harold Orstin Avatar
    Harold Orstin

    The endless “Epistles from the Lord to the Idiots”, in this decade voiced through a spectacularly witless dullard who has chosen to be embodied as a third-person beverage, are instructive here. And heah!

  12. Harold Orstin Avatar
    Harold Orstin

    Also, just asking… What is “the Barbados space”? How does that differ from “Barbados”? What is the word “space” doing in all of David’s questions?

  13. Harold Orstin Avatar
    Harold Orstin

    I remember in Shanghai. We had to build a hotel, choppy choppy, and we had to import those globally famous artisans and masons, the Bajans.

    We stuck a sign on a gate saying, in our best Bajan: de mason be enter here, dis de place.

    Total uproar. Questions in government, on the blogs, innit?

  14. Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger. Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger.

    Poor Ha, Ha Austin…how did I get to be the problem stopping Ha, Ha from debating and creating the solutions to fix Barbados’ economy…..he been on BU debating what 8 years…and dont have one solution yet to fix the economy,…and still want to debate…but I, who have only been on BU for 5 years….is somehow stopping him…

    He sounds like the ministers, they cant fix the economy is 10 years, but somehow are trying to convince the population that they can fix it if they can only get another 5 years …to really F it up.

    Ya cant make none of this up,,..lol

    “You know I think that some of the men on BU just feel threatened by the thought of Chinese men competing with them for access to Bajan women.”

    Lol….Simple…ah think ya on to something too…

    Ah waiting for my son in law to do his travels and get home to get that translation so the BU men don’t die on us tonight Simple…or we wont have a soul to argue with tomorrow, we will have to learn to speak Mandarin and Cantonese real fast if that happens…..

  15. Harold Orstin Avatar
    Harold Orstin

    What? You think that this is a continuity? You think you, dickhead,can get away with willing the deaths of thousands of children in Tel Aviv and just get away with it?

    Where is we? In the Barbados space wid de eddoes?

  16. Harold Orstin Avatar
    Harold Orstin

    Islandgal246 isly apologises for this report. All deplants good. Negro an Bonny where are you?

  17. Harold Orstin Avatar
    Harold Orstin

    Ya got ma bawlinnnn, negroman!! White bitch be white, er, “thrash” wunna heah?

  18. Crusoe Avatar
    Crusoe

    Austin said – We have got serious problems, which local economist s and the media are avoiding by focussing on micky mouse nonsense about foreign reserves. >

    Are you joking? Barbados cannot operate without foreign reserves. Do not compare Barbados with China.

    China is a global power. It is virtually in a position to do what it wants.

  19. Heather Avatar
    Heather

    SIGN REMOVED!!!!
    http://www.loopnewsbarbados.com/content/btii-looking-chinese-signage-sam-lords

  20. Crusoe Avatar
    Crusoe

    Austin said I see these figures, but no one seems to hold the politicians feet to the fire. Where will be new jobs comes from post-construction? Where is the Bds(?)$70m in foreign exchange going to come from?>

    But there you are right. Unfortunately you do not realise the answer yet. Those economists that you mention do.

    Answer: a speeding train towards a cliff. Not too far off either. With two idiots driving.

  21. Mal Colm. Mayers Avatar
    Mal Colm. Mayers

    And remember, you could get an abortion on Baxter’s and still have change for an anglocentric flat-screen TV. LAWD how wunna laffed.

  22. Tron Avatar
    Tron

    So everybody in Bim has seen now what happens when somebody like China issues a SMALL loan.

    So we also know what would happen if Jeremy Stephen, the caveman of Cave Hill, had his way with his very idiotic idea of a BIG Arab loan: The Arabs would enslave Barbadians, black and white, and ship them to Arabia to work in the kitchen, hotels or brothels.

  23. Vincent Haynes Avatar
    Vincent Haynes

    Tron

    Chuckle….you like you spouting heresy……Caribbean Pelaus paddling their own canoe…..making Caricom function……making Guyana the bread basket of the Caribbean……designating an area of competency for each island…..signing on to the federated states of the Caribbean…..forming their own banking system…..etc,etc.

    Yup…..we can do it on our own…..but we dare not…..cuhdear.

  24. Willie Avatar
    Willie

    Whatever happened to “Tourism Minister Richard Sealy says construction on the stalled Hyatt project will begin within weeks”. Declared since September 29, 2017.

  25. Vincent Haynes Avatar
    Vincent Haynes

    David

    Sign has been removed….loop has a play picture of it….BTII apparently did the trick……posibly with our help.

  26. Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger. Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger.

    And that’s all it took…….complain to the right people, see if permission was granted etc….if not, sign removed, easy…still gotta know what it said though, will post when I get translation.

  27. David Avatar
    David

    Long live social media!

  28. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    Need a new HOT topic David.

    Did you read what de minista of eddykashun say bout de community college lack of boys an

    de girls likely to look for older equally eddicated mens ?

  29. Dr. Simple Simon Phd Avatar
    Dr. Simple Simon Phd

    @Harold Orstin November 6, 2017 at 4:35 PM “de mason be enter here, dis de place.”

    Bajans NEVER use be in that fashion.

    You are an American, correct?

  30. Dr. Simple Simon Phd Avatar
    Dr. Simple Simon Phd

    @Harold Orstin November 6, 2017 at 5:09 PM “Negro an Bonny where are you?”

    Bonny died a few years ago

    Bonny was a white man.

  31. bajans Avatar
    bajans

    David, I thought that Boreman person was banned. Is that not him above calling himself Harold Orstin?

    I hope Bush Tea does not let him get away with with that sling.

  32. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ bajans
    Thanks for the heads up, Boss…

    Jack was obvious from the first post… even though he tried to disguise himself by leaving out the familiar ‘J’ …as in Harold J. Orstin – (the ‘J’ is for Jackass) LOL

    David normally allows him a few posts to pleasure himself .. before dropping the ban in his donkey.

    Poor chap. He is absolutely fascinated with BU and the characters here…. but seems to be intimidated by the big dicks on parade here….

  33. bajans Avatar
    bajans

    @Bush Tea,
    Glad you picked him up. Thought I was the only one. He must be really BORED!!!

  34. Talking Loud Saying Nothing Avatar
    Talking Loud Saying Nothing

    Tron commented that “….. everybody in Bim has seen now what happens when somebody like China issues a SMALL loan.

    So we also know what would happen if Jeremy Stephen, the caveman of Cave Hill, had his way with his very idiotic idea of a BIG Arab loan: The Arabs would enslave Barbadians, black and white, and ship them to Arabia to work in the kitchen, hotels or brothels.”

    I agree with you Tron, however you must remember that our Chinese friends did not coerce us into accepting this loan. Likewise, if we were to end up toiling our backward assess in Arabia for the sake of accepting some paltry loan from the UAE then we would only have ourselves to blame.

    The politicians and the public accept these deals with their eyes wide open. That neither group seems remotely interested with the ramifications of accepting such loans speaks volumes as to the mindset of Bajans.

    On a positive note it was good to see that the controversial signage has been removed. However the display of this symbolic sign was informative; we Bajans are merely pawns on the chess board. The power brokers on the island are increasingly foreign. A situation that most Bajans have meekly accepted.

  35. Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger. Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger.

    According to the translation in Chinese, the sign ………says, …….Sam Lord’s Castle Hotel Project…..

    …….and according to someone who took the time to drive up there, it says on the other side of the wall/pillar…Sam Lord’s Castle Hotel Project…in the English Translation.

    Which was never mentioned by the poster…….so case closed.

    Am not hot topicing any young men losing out to older men because they are not being raised to respect and care for young women, if neither of them dont, the Chinese men will…lol

  36. Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger. Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger.

    The real elephant in the room is, will bajans have any pension money left in the NIS fund in 10 to 20 years….and in whose bank accounts will the money be…because it certainly will not be in theirs.

  37. Rick Avatar
    Rick

    Things like this can only happen with the governments’ blessing or their ignorance;
    Totally ridiculous!

  38. David Avatar
    David

    Having said that congrats to Bajans and those responsible for responding positively to concerns expressed on social media.

  39. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    @David

    Is there any truth to the allegation that the sign also had an English translation?

  40. Tell me Why Avatar
    Tell me Why

    David. This is a classic example that Social Media bring results. We knew that it was wrong and should be removed. Commonsense prevail and it the sign was removed. Congrats David and Heather Cole.

  41. Vincent Haynes Avatar
    Vincent Haynes

    Is there any truth to the allegation that the sign also had an English translation?
    ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

    Does it matter?

    The purpose of a sign is to communicate effectively to whoever it is intended for,hence it should be in English,Chinese and possibly German as that was one of their haunts back in the day and should be placed together in a suitable place with the dominant language on top.

  42. Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger. Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger.

    I liked the energy, just show the same fervor when addressing the very serious ills and crimes against the people. …..to bring about even quicker results.

  43. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    Good…..
    The damn sign wanted tekking down – mainly because it look like a picture of a centipede dat get chop-up with a ‘lens.

    Now that we have discovered the power of the people, can we also mobilise and get the shiite monument at the Garrison dug up….?
    Which is worse, Chinese putting their scribbles on their future property? … or the damn Devil having his agents build his alter on the Garrison – and then proceeding to fcuk up the whole place with evil….?

    Bushie says – let us move the pitchfork to George Street where it rightfully belongs.

  44. Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger. Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger.

    Lol……Bushman….let’s get that satan monument moved today, so something else can be fixed tomorrow. ..put some energy into it.

  45. Roy Benjamin Avatar
    Roy Benjamin

    The question we need to seriously ask is whether Barbados is quietly being re-colonized by China. Think about it. The Chinese keep giving us money and different gifts, just last week $40 million. They had doctors working at the QEH; their navy was helping our coastguard; they are helping at Cave Hill with the Confucius centre; and more. No country gives so much for free. They always want something in return. From a strategic geographic position, Barbados is important. That is why economist Jeremy Stephen always keeps saying that Barbados could boost its economy as a transshipment point. With a weak Government in the DLP looking for money, could it be that they are supporting the Dems to get greater leverage to pursue their plans. This is something all Barbadians need to ask ourselves.

  46. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    Roy Benjamin,
    It will be beyond belief that the Americans will allow another Cuban missile build up to take place in the Eastern Caribbean. China thinks strategically, look at their involvement throughout the Caribbean, Central and South America, their investments in the US and Canada.
    They are buying votes in international fora; they are isolating other Asian nations, especially Taiwan; they are looking to build ports to service their navy; they are trying to offload some of the tens of millions of single men they have as a direct result of the one-child policy; they are simply returning to what China was before the onset of the industrial revolution.
    What is different is that the Chinese think across generations, not in a single lifetime as we do in the West.

  47. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    @Bushie
    Which is worse, Chinese putting their scribbles on their future property? … or the damn Devil having his agents build his alter on the Garrison – and then proceeding to fcuk up the whole place with evil….?
    +++++++++++
    You are an anachronism and missed your century its either one where the belief in good or evil spirits was prevalent or one (BC) which sought an injunction against “graven” images. Since this image has your dander up perhaps you should also rail against the other images that populate the country e.g. Barrow et al; the lion at Gun Hill etc.

  48. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    Moderation?

  49. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Dr. Simple Simon Phd November 6, 2017 at 3:35 PM
    “And several hundred extra men in the sex/romance/marriage market place.
    I think that I will say “”yes please” to that.
    You know I think that some of the men on BU just feel threatened by the thought of Chinese men competing with them for access to Bajan women.
    Because when Bush Tea agrees with Vincent, and Pedantic…ya know that it is male jealousy.
    Take it easy boys. If you are nice to the bajan women maybe they will still deal with you…”

    Pure Bajan macho men like the ‘all-rounder’ Bush Tea feel threatened by “Chinese men competing with them for access to Bajan women”?

    What a big belly of laughs at a rather large 刺 of a puny Chinese joke!

    Not in a million spins of the Chinese Zodiac wheel of 12 cheeky monkeys and ‘cocky’ roosters in a barrel of rats and snakes.

    There is no way real BBB’s (black Bajan bulls) would accept the “Terror” of Chinky children calling ‘dem’ Daddy when de muddas were born tar babies.

    Dr. S S, you are making the cock and bull assumption that your young black women, likeJean & Dinah, Rosita & Clementina, are posing and looking for toothpicks daubed with a brush made by the ‘man in the glasses’ to p(r)ick fares and not wooden vibrators made of royal black bamboo.

    Besides, your young black liberated ‘sistas’ (and she-she bruddas of the DD kind) are not of your great, great-grand mother’s vintage who had to submit to the white massa’s ‘forced’ advances or die of starvation.

  50. Dr. Simple Simon Phd Avatar
    Dr. Simple Simon Phd

    No talk about force here. VOLUNTARY unions.

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