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‘Natlee’ the Former Prostitute Vying to Expand Her Job Description in the City

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News that featured in the local media on the weekend is that adult worker- a euphemistic description for prostitute- Natalee โ€œNatleeโ€ Harewood has declared her interest to contest the City seat when prime minister Freundel Stuart feels to ring the bell.ย  We know he has to do it in the next couple of months so there is no mystery as to when.

Natlee seems to be popular within the social media space with over 40, 000 Instagram followers in Barbados and overseas AND in the environs of Bush Hill. We have received a few requests to share an opinion on her decision. The truth is there is no need for the blogmaster to be prolix on this matter. The way she conducts herself in public would not encourage the BU household to support her candidacy. Our position has nothing to do with her gender, we simply do not like the fact that she is has to resort to vulgarity to express herself or sell her body. She chooses to be a prostitute and that is her business. We would encourage her if she wants to help people in the City, especially the poor, to reconsider the business of disrespecting her body.

The truth is we have no stomach to debate this matter but have not allowed a personal view of the BU household to prevent discussion in this space.

 

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255 responses to “‘Natlee’ the Former Prostitute Vying to Expand Her Job Description in the City”

  1. David Avatar
    David

    @Hants

    Enjoy the F1 downunder, looks like another ding down battle between Vettel and LH. Also the ICC cricket final is early on Sunday.

  2. Sir benwood Dick Avatar
    Sir benwood Dick

    Dear Cousins,

    How fitting that, as Barbados approaches the coming elections, the question of suitability of candidate (s) arises.

    The past second term of the incumbent administration has brought this suitability into question in more ways than one.

    With the country lying prone, albeit open and vulnerable, one asks whether a suitable climax can be reached, to the vagaries of the day.

    The symbolism of sewage on one side of the coast, while at the other end the lady of the night doth take to tumbling in the proverbial electoral hay, is most (almost typed moist) profound.

    A tragedy of Shakespearean dimension, we apply the apt words of that great playwright โ€œMen at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings.โ€

    Indeed that we are the masters of our destiny, yet we accept no such responsibility, collectively, for the shambles that we have become.

    Miss Natalee, by entering the hurly burly of the electoral battle, to mingle her own conviction and sweat with that of the erstwhile commanders of the stage, may indeed be doing us a favour, more than of the flesh.

    Consider thy honour, consider thy rights, consider thy wishes.

    Whereto from here, should we go? When shall our country be great again, in thunder lightning or in rain? When the hurly burly’s done, when the battle’s lost and won. That will be ‘ere the set of sun.

    Shall it? Shall we awaken one June morn and see a new dawn, that joyous crack?

    Or shall we rest ourselves in the hidden chambers of righteous indignation?

    The task lies with us. There shall be no greater task than to rescue our land from the clutches of decadence. Surely it is thus fitting then that the call comes from none other than a siren of the night?

    Will each and all follow Shakespeare’s great call, that life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

    Are words and vitriol offered at the electoral podium, often leading to betrayal and angst, more honorable than a woman who proffers more than verbal favours?

    Surely we jest at those who we do not understand, but is it they who are wrong, or is it us who do not understand?

    It could be that we embark on a quest, and may fall, as light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile.

    But tell me, if we do not take it upon ourselves to seek the good way, then who?

    Maybe the end after this long drawn out and boring charade, as with any overly long meeting, where unwelcome, shall be anti-climactic.

    Maybe the path is not so easily lit.

    But, if as I, you seek a better way forward, we may hope for a truly rewarding climax to the events, after the rigours and sweat of the day.

    Your Truly,

    Benwood

  3. lawson Avatar
    lawson

    The DLP has come up with a sure fire fix for the sewage crisis… worthing and hastings will now be known as Venice.

  4. Pimp and Fraud Avatar
    Pimp and Fraud

    Why is a pass being given to Charles Lewis an opportunist and fraud of the highest order? Charles Lewis has been exploiting prostitutes, strippers and call girls for years in Europe and the Caribbean.

    Owner of several failed strip clubs in Barbados, including even running a call girl center from Royal Westmoreland and later from his mother’s house in St James.

    He is a pimp and also a thief.

    I am sure he is in it for what benefits can be derived from the association as Natalie’s Campaign Manager.

  5. Well Well & Cut N' Paste At Your Service Avatar
    Well Well & Cut N’ Paste At Your Service

    As long as everyone understands it’s Natlee’s right to gain experience by presenting herself as a candidate, it’s all good….

    http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/141299/-natalie-canon-burke

    Pimps are people I dont care too much for, but running a pornography ring since 30 years old, exploiting underage girls and women across the world fir years ….is being also pimp ….and then by 40 becoming a minister of government with aspirations though delusional to become prime minister…leaves the door wide open for any pimp or fraud to be campaign manager to any candidate..

    ..the now empty parliament was riddled and infested for 10 full years with pimps and frauds.

  6. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    Prostitutes work for a living.

    Pimps are just lazy, don’t want to do real work, want to sleep until noon RH parasites.

    Living offa somebody’s else labour/living off the avails of prostitution.

    Shameful.

  7. lawson Avatar
    lawson

    do you have to vote for all of her,or can you just vote for parts of her?

  8. System is Broken Avatar
    System is Broken

    Crooked Charles ‘Spice’ Lewis and Natalie facing the music

    https://www.facebook.com/teatimewithgreg/videos/1002899979865974/

  9. New Yorker Avatar
    New Yorker

    Clean Up Bridgetown #Barbados http://www.loopnewsbarbados.com/content/photos-natalie-natlee-harewood-sweeping-city-clean-help

  10. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    lawson March 24, 2018 at 2:30 PM #
    do you have to vote for all of her,or can you just vote for parts of her?

    look lawson, you know that you don’t have no vote ’bout here, so why don’t you behave yourself instead of mekking talk about voting for the lady’s parts?

  11. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    Just when you think that a brass bowl country could not POSSIBLY stoop any lower….

  12. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ New Yorker March 24, 2018 at 7:18 PM

    And this is the same shanty town the Bajan politicians like to brag about as a World (class) Heritage site.

    How could Bajans be so full of themselves as to have their little old town look so depressingly rundown while sticking their noses up at other countries in the region?

    Do Bajans really feel that Hyatt would feel proud lending its brand-name to be associated with a place surrounded by such filth even in the absence of foreign investors putting their money in a veritable dump and real estate junkyard called Bridgetown where 90 % of customers are brown gutter rats and vagrants feeding from overflowing bins of fast food scraps left by the other black rats.

    These same authorities were warned years ago about the sewerage problems that were brewing on the South coast. Now what do they have on their hands today other than a massive crisis about to destroy the major plank of an economy clearly under severe stress by just looking at the state of foreign reserves?

    These same authorities are being warned incessantly about the state of public sanitation in Bridgetown from which hundreds of cruise ship visitors take away more than a lasting impression.

    Only an outbreak of typhoid or cholera or some other culling disease would force these lazy-ass public health authorities to deal with the problem hands-on, like Natalie.

    She is accustomed to getting dickheads called johns to rise to the occasion.
    What must the poor girl do to get these lying corrupt politicians and incompetent bureaucrats for impotent dicks to perform a similar erectile function as far as doing their jobs and paid by the same Bridgetown taxpayers? Provide them with self-raising flour for their heads or Viagra for their tongues?

  13. TheGazer Avatar
    TheGazer

    I find it amusing how Bajans turn up their nose at some and kneel at the foot of others.
    Given 50 years of independence, then we must have had over 500 different political campaigns for electoral office. The number of unique campaigners may be just a fraction of the 500 as several are seasoned campaigners and turn up at every election.

    Among them was Eric Fly Sealy. Was he ever elected to office in Barbados? Did he ever surpass the barriers imposed on him by his social class, his color, or his education?

    If the answer is no, what made him a worse political candidate than those who were elected.

    Since announcing her run, this young lady, in my opinion, has done more towards being elected to office than many in the duopoly. She is on the ground fighting for a place in the race, whilst the duopoly rest safely on “it’s us or them”. They are giving the minimum of effort towards this election.

    Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when You come into Your kingdom!”
    Jesus answered him, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.”

    Jesus dealt with the man who was on the cross besides him. Natlee is in the battlefield with you. Put aside your prejudices and elect one from among you.

    Ignore the fancy suits for they are mostly empty suits. Ignore the degrees for they have displayed a mastery of book sense and no sense of empathy for the common man, their large vocabulary for though they are wordsmith they are silent when performing their dastardly acts; ignore their political pedigrees for they are sons daughters and accomplices of those who lie and cheat to you/ ignore the duopolies and give someone else a chance.

    Why do you fear? The bar set by either of the duopoly is low. I think in campaigning she has already surpassed that bar.

    For those who say Ntalee is a prostitute, I say it is better to be in bed with a prostitute and get your money worth than have some fancy lawyer with a briefcase steel your money and give you nothing.

    Time to wise up…

  14. TheGazer Avatar
    TheGazer

    steel=steal
    Natlee took up all the oxygen in the room.
    Of course the prim and proper will wallow in the effort produced by Grenville.
    After all, he is an engineer.
    But Natlee winning on FB and on BU

  15. David Avatar
    David

    People maybe rallying behind Natalee because she represents a departure from the tried and her focus is a simple message on representing people. What some of 7s hope is that her entry will form the catalyst for others to enter public service from untraditional segments.

  16. pieceuhderockyeahright Avatar
    pieceuhderockyeahright

    @ The Honourable Blogmaster

    There is a sensationalism associated with Natalie a former self declared โ€œlady of the nightโ€ running for politics that has and will elicit commentary from all and sundry BEGRUDGINGLY

    For example when you first blogged this article โ€œmany of usโ€ (heheheheh) did not believe that the article would have gathered 20 submissions but here we are with it gathering momentum.

    Your 1 pm post is the most important observation of all in that here we have a โ€œformer whoreโ€ doing more to represent the people and some might say โ€œshowing more balls than you or I or any of the other of us mout giants here on BU …โ€

    It goes without saying that Natalie WILL NOT GET THE VOTES OF A CERTAIN SEGMENT OF THE ELECTORATE BUT the critical issue is what percentage of those will ultimately vote?

    If there are 20,000 eligible voters in the City of Bridgetown of whom 10,000 are the Bible thumpers and holier than thou crew ALL OF WHOM DO NOT VOTE and 5,000 of the rest will split their votes three ways and Nat Nat secures 4000 of the โ€œCuh Dear Votesโ€ you understand that she will win?

    Notwithstanding her former profession…

  17. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Pray tell, what is the difference between this women and the present gang? She sold what was hers and is real about it. And they… Please put away your stones! Right now Americans are praying a porn star will deliver them from evil. Goodness can come from unlikely places. Ye hypocrites! Natlee may have reacted to her poverty. She may be a real voice for those in similar situations. Speak up, girl! The rest of you, get real!
    ,,,,,,

  18. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    Natlee was a prostitute. She probably gave her customers / clients “value” for their money.

    She has been vilified as being immoral.

    What about the morality of the men and women who paid for her services ?

    @ pieceuhderockyeahright, I still posting in de Diaspora corner but I cheating on Fleur with

    another pulchritudinous songstress….and her friends. lol

  19. David Avatar
    David

    @PUDRYR

    Barbadians appear to be tired of the same people from the traditional political class making the same promises every election cycle with the same result. To borrow from former PS Peter Laurie, whichever political party takes office next time around it cannot be business as usual.

  20. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    David

    Peter Laurie is as much a dreamer as you are.

    For there are no set of circumstances, absent some global cataclysm, that will prevent business as usual in Barbados.

    Indeed, we would venture, short of that, Barbados will be the last country in all the worlds to be impacted by a self-imposed cultural transformation process.

  21. David Avatar
    David

    @Pacha

    For you there is no solution is there?

  22. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    The last election ended in a virtual dead heat, and we could not even discuss a national unity government

    At a time when it was clear the country was entering a dangerous period.

    Why? A coalition government would say that there are no real differences between or within the duopoly.

    Dream on David, dream on

  23. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    We were not responsible for these problems

    The solution means the destruction of the current system

    But that is not what you want to hear.

    Neither is the vast majority of Bajans.

  24. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    Isnโ€™t it a step down when a member of the worldโ€™s oldest profession aspires to be a member of the worldโ€™s second oldest?

  25. David Avatar
    David

    @Pacha

    Didnโ€™t Martin Luther King dare to dream?

  26. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Hants March 25, 2018 at 2:00 PM
    โ€œAnd She appears to have done an excellent job to keeping her clients well satisfied much unlike the present crop of pimps and crooks still loitering in the yard of the people’s buisness.โ€

    It would have been most interesting if Madame Natalee had launched her political campaign to be an MP in the adjoining constituency of St. Michael West in which she would be coming up against a professed priest on the one hand a certified condemned thief on the other who had the indecency to preside over a chamber of 29 so-called honourable men and women all of whom are in the same โ€˜Pโ€™ money-making business (whether it be the priesthood, the pillaging of the fortunes of disabled pensioners or downright prostitution to the likes of Maloney & Co).

    It would have been a good sign from the holy cross this Easter if Natlee could be portrayed as the Virgin Mary having to decide which one of the other two โ€˜partnersโ€™ in the โ€˜Pโ€™ business she would want to join her in paradise through her โ€˜votingโ€™ panty split in the middle.

  27. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    “Right now Americans are praying a porn star will deliver them from evil.”

    ain’t that the truth. Bravo.

    And rather than calling her an actress, they refer to her as a porn star.

  28. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    “Didnโ€™t Martin Luther King dare to dream?”

    did you see his 9 year old great grand-daughter invoking his sentiments at the student led rally yesterday?

    and…did you note the incredible organization (they had students from the Fla HS at every major destination including several Canadian cities). Hard to fathom that social media and some sizeable donations, allowed a group of HS students to be that incredibly organized.

  29. David Avatar
    David

    @NO

    Citizen advocacy in the US is fueled by a DNA which we do not have in Barbados.

  30. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    The real message has nothing to do with Natlee …but it has everything to do with a country that, after 60 years of free ‘education’ – and of bragging about the upliftment of its peoples, has now “progressed” to the stage where its parliament is populated with a set of classless, mindless, bribe-taking judases…
    ….and whose self worth has ‘reached’ the level where this country actually sees value in considering an ACTUAL representative of the lowest possible class, exemplifying the lowest level of education, and the absolute lowest of moral character – for a national leadership position.

    Just when Bushie was thinking that the country was at shiite bottom….
    we have started digging afresh….

    There are, however, notable precedents….
    The brass bowls of the time ALSO chose Barabbas when the vote was put to them by Pilate.
    Brass bowls, it seems, will be brass bowls.

  31. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Neither David nor Northern, no pun intended, can hide under the MLK rock.

    The problem with that, absent the media hype, is that circumstances for Afrikan-Americans are worse today than they were when MLK had his wet dream, as measured by empirical metrics.

    Like your Je-sus, the same people who killed him, now sing his praises – MLK

    This happens all the time.

    Blacks are killed every day but it took 17, essentially White people, from an upper middle class, once Whites only neighborhood, to galvanize a still racist country.

    Nothing will happen, even so!

  32. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    You missed my point….google the March….watch the video clips….observe the organization and the QUALITY of the student speakers. And the planning…like the $1.05 tags. Ms King may have the DNA to perform that way at 9, but the others?

  33. David Avatar
    David

    @Pacha

    Are you saying that the civil rights conditions in a post MLK is worse today?

  34. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    We are not particularly impressed because we know how these things are done.

    We trust that you are not minded that these ‘students’ were responsible for the images you saw or the political organization behind such.

    Did you not so notice that there was a certain level of ‘kettling’ into the ranks of the Democrats?

    Please!

  35. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    No David

    We are saying that so-called civil rights is nothing more than a cypher used to avoid the dismantlement of endemic racism, crypto-racism, which is alive and well, still.

    And that relative wealth of Black people is one indicator of such.

  36. David Avatar
    David

    @Pacha

    Isnโ€™t it a process? We have moved from physical slavery and all that was attached to it to crypto. A work in progress?

  37. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Your posit is not the best thinking amongst the people who study these things.

    Like Haq Shabazz has said. Having a knife in our back 9 inches and pulling it out 3 is no progress.

    At this rate racism will be with us forever.

    In any event your amelioration point has been long discredited by race theorists.

  38. David Avatar
    David

    So your position is that these deep rooted social and economic challenges must have a Big Bang solution?

  39. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Yes, why play around with a fiction, a dangerous fiction created to achieve what it has.

    Afrikan is the mother of all peoples

    Unfortunately, Afrikan peoples can do no more and should not try to.

    It’s White people who are to determine that racism must be dismantled in all its forms. And that will never happen, in this Age.

  40. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    @Bush Tea March 25, 2018 at 3:08 PM “an ACTUAL representative of the lowest possible class, exemplifying the lowest level of education, and the absolute lowest of moral character”

    Who is Natlee’s father? Is he high class, highly educated and of high moral character?

    Who are her customers? Are they high class, highly educated and of high moral character?

    We have always had members of the political class (thank you PM Stuart for that descriptive phrase) who have neglected their children, and people like you have never called them out for that neglect, and sometimes abuse.

    They were regarded by high class, highly educated, and ostensibly moral people as scholars and gentlemen.

    Haven’t we had a member of the political class who only recently went up to the QEH and made a big stinking noise because the hospital insisted that he take home his elderly father who was over ready for discharge.

    Is a good thing for him that doctors are commanded to take a vow of silence.

    What class you talking ’bout?

    What education you talking ’bout?

    What moral character you talking ’bout?

  41. Well Well & Cut N' Paste At Your Service Avatar
    Well Well & Cut N’ Paste At Your Service

    “Citizen advocacy in the US is fueled by a DNA which we do not have in Barbados.”

    And it will take another 3 generations, 75 years before that idiocy abd cowardice still existing in the present stock of DNA is watered down and diluted sufficiently to galvanize Bajans into fighting tooth and nail for their rights…and stop allowing others to disenfranchise them, their children and their future generations.

    It took teenagers in the US to galvanize a whole population into action, becayse their parents and grandparents are stuck in their centuries old ideology of sheeple stupidity…….there now is no choice but to dismantle the NRA financed racism, white supremacist ideology and death by gun violence…..a huge battle by any measure.

    Barbados has an easier task which can be accomplished even sooner if only the Black leaders would display and practice ethics, integrity and intelligence, it would easily dismantle the current blighted problems plaguing the economy and stagnating progress in the majority population, it has to start with leaders who are not corrupt…the island’s size is a huge advantage..

    Black governments have to learn how to set boundaries for minorities in the populationโ€ฆ

    Less than 2,000 muslim and hindi combined โ€ฆโ€ฆ.are minorities

    Less than 8,000 local and foreign whites โ€ฆโ€ฆare minorities

    Less than 14,000 others who consider themselves nonblackโ€ฆ..are minorities.

    Start setting boundaries for those who believe they are special and above the laws, rules and regulations of Barbados and that consequences and punishment for crimes they commit on the island and against the people do not apply to them.

    Setting boundaries for minorities will solve 80% of the current problems.

  42. Well Well & Cut N' Paste At Your Service Avatar
    Well Well & Cut N’ Paste At Your Service

    I would bet my last dollar that Natlee has more integrity in one of her pinkies than all the ministers of government, politicians and their crooked masters combined…. who they have continually sold out the island and her people to for decades on end like the judases they all are……

    Where Natlee is a winner, there are more people like her who struggled to survive decade after decade and are much larger in their numbers than those who have not….they are the majority in population and extremely large in numbers who can win or lose you an election by swaying that election one way or the other……..they are the voters.

  43. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    Steupsss
    What shiite…
    It is one thing to NOT condemn the parros, hoes, drop-outs, bullies and other rejects of a society, but it is altogether ‘IDIOT’ to seek to project such characteristics as desirable for leaders of a serious society.

    There should be no surprise therefore, that countries which would are CLEARLY on the way to Hell in a breadbasket would find themselves with low rate jackasses such as Trump, Froon etc as ‘leaders’.

    The moral of the story is that it is NOT the leaders who degrade the country, but the low-class brass-bowl morons who elect /tolerate / encourage/ support the idea of leadership by popular acclaim ….RATHER than by performance and by having a record of success.

    A society ALWAYS get exactly what they deserve.
    Clearly…. we deserve Natlee…

  44. David Avatar
    David

    @Bush Tea

    Isnรขย€ย™t Natlee a symptom? In other words, her elevation confirms all you have been railing.

  45. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ David
    Isn’ย™t Natlee a symptom?
    +++++++++++++++++++
    That is PATENTLY obvious on ANY kind of logical analysis.
    The fact that allegedly intelligent people are able to miss this should be telling ….and frightening….

    Only the existence of unknown (to wunna) dark forces can otherwise explain such phenomena, but as Bushie has been repeating, the fight is NOT against human beings of flesh and blood, but against dark spiritual forces in high places…..

  46. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    @Bush Tea March 26, 2018 at 7:29 AM “leadership by popular acclaim โ€ฆ.RATHER than by performance and by having a record of success.”

    What performance and record of success did Grantlry Adam have when he was 33

    What performance and record of success did Grantlry Adam have when he was 33

    What performance and record of success did Grantlry Adam have when he was 33

    What performance and record of success did Grantlry Adam have when he was 33

    What performance and record of success did Grantlry Adam have when he was 33

  47. Well Well & Cut N' Paste At Your Service Avatar
    Well Well & Cut N’ Paste At Your Service

    Bushman….of course you deserve Natlee, at least you recognize that…..cause ya cant point to me where any of the ones all dressed up in monkey power suits and carrying briefcases and all the pretensive titles and law degrees and this and that degree real or imaginef….who loiter in parliament for decades on end to look out for themselves only on the island are any better than Natlee…

    Show me one pokitician/minister who is better than het …and I will change my mind.

    People are not born politicians…it is a scam they learn long the way.

    So try and accept ya Natlee do, she is all up in ya face.

  48. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    @Bush Tea March 26, 2018 at 7:29 AM โ€œleadership by popular acclaim…RATHER than by performance and by having a record of success.โ€

    What performance and record of success did Grantley Adams have when he was 33? He did not become president of the BWU until he was 43, and did not become premier of the West Indies Federation until he was 60. And even so we remember how that ended. I remember how that began and I remember how it ended.

    What performance and record of success did Errol Barrow have when he was 33? He did not become an MP until he was 31. And he did not become Premier/Prime Minister until he was 41. I know that he is regarded as a war hero and all that, but is it Natlee’s fault that there is no war on in which she can show her mettle? Shall we start a war so that she can show her stuff?

    What performance and record of success did Tom Adams have when he was 33? He did not become Prime Minister until he was 45, even though he had been raised in a very privileged family as the only child of two professional parents.

    What performance and record of success did Bree St.John have when he was 33? He first became an MP when he was, what 35? He did noot become Prime Mnister until he was 54

    What performance and record of success did Erskine Sandiford have when he was 33? He was first elected when he was 34, and did not become Prime Minister until he was 50.

    What performance and record of success did David Thompson have when he was 33? Ok, So he first became an MP when he was 25, but he did not become Prime Minister until he was 46, and we are not yet sure if history will absolve him or us or the DLP for his Prime Ministership.

    What performance and record of success did David Freundel Stuart have when he was 33? He was called to the bar when he was 33, and first became an MP when he was 43, and Prime Minister when he was 59. History is still documenting his “achievements”

    Sometimes I think that we look back at the past through rose coloured glasses We see our great men as always having been great men, when in truth many did not achieve eminence until well into middle age. Many were raised in relatively privileged families, some were raised in extremely privileged families which were able to provide them with the education, contacts and experiences which were not and which are still not are not available to most people.

    I mean how hard is it to achieve when mummy is a school teacher and daddy is premier and you are an only child?

    Or when daddy has died and left you several billion dollars? Lolll!!

    I put it to you that typically our great men have stood on the broad shoulders of others, starting with the broad hard working shoulders of their parents. Without good parents, and a supportive environment what would any of them have become?

    And yet some idiotic people are demanding from 33 year old Natlee “performance and a record of success”

  49. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    It appears Natlee is immoral and has sinned.

    ALL HER CUSTOMERS who paid for sex are IMMORAL and have SINNED.

    ALL OF YOU WHO HORN YOUR WIVES AND HUSBANDS ARE IMMORAL and have SINNED.

    All Natlee is doing is making some of us remember the hypocrites who hide their immorality.

    Yes we would like all our parliamentarians to have high morals but we have always had SOME bad apples in politics in Barbados.

  50. de pedantic Dribbler Avatar
    de pedantic Dribbler

    Simon, you are being overly simplistic in recent posts…

    You wanted to ban an entire team and by extension a nation for FIVE years because of the actions of three – five senior players for an infraction which the stated game rules sanction with no more severity than demerit points and a one game banishment…. Wha loss!

    Now here you extrapolate again out of context and untethered to reality.

    I don’t know Natlee’s upbringing but to suggest that at the same age of 33 that the successes of the men you highlighted can be equated to hers seem rather absurd!

    Many of the men mentioned had gained comparative success, some grandly so, by that age. History tells us they had succeeded in their school life academically (scholars) and as importantly in various clubs and organizations as youthful leaders and activists.

    Most of them had gone on to succeed in getting acreditation in their chosen career choice and surely already succeeded with projects/cases under their direction.

    Perhaps Natlee has to…I have absolutely no idea… but how can one look at an acclaimed person in mid life and older and perversely dismiss the well trod but private stepping stones of achievements they built on (regardless of inheritances) to reach that level of public acclaim.

    #Keepingitreal!

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