CASWELL FRANKLYN
Trading as
VERITAS SERVICES
Upstairs Worrell House
Whitepark Road
St. Michael
PRESS STATEMENT
As the Industrial Relations Consultant to the Prison Officers Association (The Association) I have been authorised by the Executive of the Association to issue the following statement:
Prior to 1982 prison officers enjoyed the constitutional right to belong to a trade union of their choice, and as a matter of fact there was a prison officers division of the National Union of Public Workers. In that year an amendment to the Prisons Act provided for the establishment of the Prison Officers Association.
As a result of that amendment, prison officers lost their constitutionally guaranteed right to belong to a trade union. Section 24A of the Prison Act states:
24A.(1) There shall be established an Association to be known as “the Prison Officers Association”.
(2) The purpose of the Association is to enable prison officers to bring to the attention of the Superintendent, the Board and the Minister matters affecting the welfare and efficiency of prison officers.
(3) No representation may be made by the Prison Officers Association in relation to any question of discipline, promotion, transfer, posting, leave or other matter that affects an individual member of the Association.
(4) The Prison Officers Association shall be independent of, and unassociated with, any association outside the Service, other than similar Associations in and for Anguilla, Antigua, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Christopher and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent or Trinidad and Tobago.
Further, at section 24C the amendment goes on to prohibit a prison officer from becoming a member of unauthorised associations. Interestingly, among other things, subsection (5) defines “unauthorised associations” to mean a trade union as defined in section 2 of the Trade Unions Act.
Notwithstanding this prohibition, since 1992 the Government of Barbados has allowed the Association to become a member of the Congress of Trade Unions and Staff Associations of Barbados (CTUSAB), and by so doing, the Government has allowed prison officers to freely associate with trade unions and become part of the much vaunted Social Partnership. In addition, management of the prison has facilitated the Association’s membership in CTUSAB by granting officers time off to attend trade union activity.
The President of the Association Mr. Trevor Browne, even though maintaining his innocence, has been charged with essentially carrying out the functions normally associated with a trade union leader.
In order to protect its members from any further criminal charges arising from its association with trade unions or anything that is likely to be interpreted as trade union activity, the Prison Officers Association has terminated its membership in CTUSAB, until such time as the 1982 amendments to the Prisons Act are repealed by Parliament or struck down by the High Court.
CASWELL FRANKLYN
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS CONSULTANT
Prison Officers Leave CTUSAB
CASWELL FRANKLYN Trading as VERITAS SERVICES Upstairs Worrell House Whitepark Road St. Michael PRESS STATEMENT As the Industrial Relations Consultant to the Prison Officers Association (The Association) I have been authorised by the Executive of the Association to issue the following statement: Prior to 1982 prison officers enjoyed the constitutional right to belong to a…
146 responses to “Prison Officers Leave CTUSAB”
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@enuff
Why not explain that material had to be ordered from overseas at great cost because the building was not being maintained?
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It took 4 months after they moved the court for us to hear that they have NOT started work on the roof yet..that was 2 months ago…but both the Canewood and Manor Lodge locations HAVE ROOFS…so why are people NOT GETTING COURT DATES… to get their cases finished…
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where is the Supreme Court? GOOD QUESTION
QUESTION IS THE COURT A PLACE ONLY? OR IS IT AN INSTRUMENT OF JUSTICE?
ARE THE FUNCTIONS OF THE SUPREME COURT BEING EFFECTED?
DOES ONE NEED TO GO TO WHITE PARK ROAD TO HAVE CASES HEARD?
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WARU
why are people NOT GETTING COURT DATES… to get their cases finished…THE ANSWER TO YOUR REASONABLE AND LOGICAL QUESTION IS THAT APPARENTLY “material HAS had to be ordered from overseas at great cost because the building was not being maintained. OH ME AM !
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@ Georgie Porgie
WELL IF FOLK ALL OVER THE WORLD ARE FLEEING THEIR COUNTRIES FOR BETTER LANDS PRESUMABLY, FOR WHATEVER REASON………..AND THE BU HIARCHY SUPPORT THIS (in the case of Central Americans invading the USA) WHY SHOULD THE BLOGGER THINK THAT IT IS NOT LOGICAL TO FLEE BIM TOO?RE you and others spend all day on Barbados Underground doing what again?
THATS AN EASY QUESTION. WE ACCEPT THE TRUTH AND TELL IT. BARBADOS IS A FAILED STATE RUN BY INFERIOR SUPERIORS, WHO RAN AWAY THOSE WITH IDEAS AND GENUINE ABILITY AND INTEREST
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxi couldn’t have said it better fcking hyprocite and bullshtter.
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GP..they are the most wicked people…they have no functioning court due to their own decades of criminality and incompetence…and are ALL GOING OUT OF THEIR WAY…TO MAKE SURE THE COURT NEVER FUNCTIONS AGAIN…
Because the Whtepark location needs a roof does not mean that ALL court function should STOP…BUT THAT IS WHAT IS HAPPENING….the Canewood location is a brand new building with a new roof…and though small and stifling, so is the Manor Lodge location…where am sure they are paying a large amount in rent every month with taxpayer’s money …and yet…ya cannot get a court date…
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A competent government would have made better arrangements and made absolutely sure that there was continuity in the court process..but no, watch and see a year from now we will be hearing SHITE about backlogs at the supreme court, same crap we heard before they imported CJ Marston Gibson…same shite we are heard 10 YEARS AFTER importing Gibson….the jokers in parliament live to violate people’s human rights…and they should not be allowed to get away with this…WITHOUT EXPOSURE..
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@ Enuff
Are you sure Hal Austin wrote for the Financial Times because judging from the ignorance he wrot
or for a gossip rag like the National Enquirer?
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@ Enuff
Are you sure Hal Austin wrote for the Financial Times because judging from the ignorance he wrote about people losing their jobs and people will go missing, and as he calls It, waffle to imply the BLP ordered the police to arrest and charge Browne, he is more interested in sensationalism. He must have written for a gossip rag like the National Enquirer.
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Yardfowl haffa run, yardfowl has no answers..
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@Whistleblower
I do believe that through self-sacrifice, courage and continous effort you can achieve the impossible … so why would you even suggest that one run to greener pastures … when the country it is need of those persons who are capable of creative thinking, and independent action?
I would expect Georgie Porgie to say something like that because he is five cent short of a dime … or what the Americans would call twisted psychologically and emotionally … -
Whistleblower
Just watch the extent of GP psychosis as he endeavours to besmear my character … as he attempts to aggrandize his … -
WARU December 8, 2018 8:27 PM
RE A competent government would have made better arrangements and made absolutely sure that there was continuity in the court process.
CONSISTENT PROBLEM IN OUR CIVIL SERVICE IS THAT THE INFERIOR SUPERIORS CAN NOT OR DO NOT THINK!
IT IS AS THOUGH THEY ALL HAVE SENSORY APHASIAS- THEIR SHALLOW BRAINS DO NOT SEEM TO RECEIVE ANY INPUT OF CONSEQUENCE NOR ARE THEY ABLE TO QUICKLY PROCESS SUCH INPUT – IF AT ALL
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Georgie Porgie
How do you expect people to think critically … when the education their have received is in want of such skill?
I don’t getting it …. because you yourself ought to have been cognizant of this fact … but yet you have exposed your ignorance by alluding to what ought to have been self-evident … -
Mark Fenty aka Dompey aka Lexicon
Where do you reside I am sure in the USA for many years.
You don’t know the amount of shite figuratively and literally that goes on in Barbados.
There is a crab in the barrel syndrome and I advise any young person to leave the island for much greener pastures and don’t be held back by shite talkers who cannot help them proceed in life.
Finally I don’t wish to engage further with you so you can respond to Georgie Porgie direct and leave me out.
I don’t deal with hypocrisy only with reality of life.
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Whistleblower
You would be surprised as the extent of my knowledge regarding the social and political affairs of the island
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Whistleblower
I know for a fact that certain officers in the Immigration Department of Barbados take kickbacks ….along with certain lawyers …
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Whistleblower
Remember a lot of my friends in Barbados now constituted the police high command … I knew the former Deputy Commissioner Oral Williams personally as well as his two brothers whom were members of the police band… so I get my information -
Whistleblower
And when you instruct the young people to leave the island … make sure you also advise them that this place is no bed of roses or for the faint of heart …
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Mr Mark Fenty aka Dompey aka Lexicon also known as DONKEY.
THE MORE YOU BRAY THE MORE YOU SHOW YOUR TAIL.
NOT TRYING TO PUT YOU DOWN FURTHER HOWEVER YOU WENT TO SCHOOL AT ST LEONARDS IN THE 70S WHEN THE SCHOOL DID NOT HAVE A STELLAR REPUTATION FOR GENIUSES BUT FOR DUNCES.
IF YOU HAVE BEEN ABLE TO SURVIVE IN THE USA ALL THESE YEARS ANYONE IN BARBADOS CAN DO SO SUCCESSFULLY.
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@Robert Goring, send me an email hamicb65@yahoo.com I have a piece information for you.
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Cases getting heard up at the Manor!!
Manor Lodge!!
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John…inconsequential. …the backlog is in the thousands, many, many thousands and from MANY, MANY YEARS AGO …one or two cases a month is not cases, I doubt 10 cases has been heard AND COMPLETED since SEPTEMBER …this is December, hundreds of cases were adjourned,…that is why people are complaining, cases that should have been COMPLETED OVER A YEAR AGO…the Claimants CANNOT GET ANY DATES….the Judges are NOT DOING THEIR JOBS…effectively…or no one would be complaining. .
This is information I know for a FACT…not hearsay.
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The way thngs are happening in Barbados and as the economic pressure is placed on barbadians
It would not take a geniuses to make a decision of self interest one which would include seeking higher ground for survival to the point of leaving the island
For sure a person on low income having to pay personnel debt and govt debt cannot be easy
The rationale behind the economics of such a policy is mind blowing to say the least and illogical in its beginnings -
David
“Barbados DOES NOT HAVE A FUNCTIONING SUPREME COURT..and it appears TO BE A MALICIOUS AND DELIBERATE ACT BY the current AG AND THOSE WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR HAVING A FUNCTIONING SUPREME COURT…”
David there is no need to mention anything about materials for a roof, Abigail knows that. The Salemite is more interested in talking igrunce about persons deliberately stalling the “functioning” of the Court. The last time I checked, the Supreme Court consisted of the High and Court of Appeal. A browse of the court’s website shows a hearing list for high court and court of appeal cases up to last month. Are they publishing Hearing Lists for publishing sake? Everyone knows the building on Whitepark Road is closed for repairs and I hope they know a building does not define whether the court is functioning.
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The blogmaster is listening out for an update from the AG about the plan to retire old cases read greater than 10 years. All agree the backlog cannot be cleared based on current resources available.
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Enuff 68…that hearing list is updated most times…ONLY ONCE A MONTH….sometimes MONTHS go by….no update to the hearing list…onlinr
So why are cases that should have been COMPLETED 2 YEARS AGO and less…STILL HAVE NO JUDGES descisions….do they need a completed roof…to CLOSE CASES..
The resources are not the problem….THE CORRUPTION BETWEEN JUDGES AND LAWYERS AND INSURANCE COMPANIES. ..and OTHERS….that is the PROBLEM…, that is why cases are not being COMPLETED…
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Ah done spelling out everything…from month 5 of Mia’s election…I tried to warn her what was ahead, but since they don’t want to listen…ah WILL just sit back and watch it play out…
When bloggers have more INFORMATION THAN A GOVERNMENT….about what is coming at them….they should KNOW they got a serious problem…and START SCRAMBLING FASTER TO FIX IT…
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All agree the backlog cannot be cleared based on current resources available.
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Says who?The backlog cannot be clear based on the same STUPID thinking that created the backlog in the first place.
Einstein explain this BASIC rule many years ago.If a Jackass was UNABLE to complete a course at any time …for twenty years,
it should be OBVIOUS that you need thoroughbred for that course,
…and it should be even MORE obvious that you cannot expect the jackasses to come up with a solution
– given their limited brass bowl intellect.A thoroughbred will then go on to make that SAME course look like cake….
…and BEG for a real challenge to avert boredom…Barbados is a place where Jackasses are attempting to perform on courses that are set for thoroughbred horses….
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That Enuff attempts to defend what currently passes as a justice system in Barbados does more damage to his BU credibility even than the post-may 25 revelation that he is a leading BLP yardfowl rather than a dispassionate onlooker.
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@Bush Tea
We have had this discussion many times over on BU. We have several thousand cases where files have disappeared or gone missing, judges have retired, witnesses can’t be found etc. All of this in a court that statements are taken by long hand etc. we have to implement a short term plan to overlap with a medium and long term.
Are you aware caseload backlogs is a problem in many regional jurisdictions?
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Which part of Jackasses being employed on race day at the Garrison Savannah do you not grasp Boss…?
So if the Turf Club were to run a bunch of dumb jackasses in the Gold Cup …can you not see that the problem is NOT that they fall all over each other and shiite up the place….
BUT RATHER that the Turf Club erred in using jackasses to do a thoroughbred’ work?Solution … GET HORSES FOR THE COURSE….and judge them by their PERFORMANCE.
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@Bush Tea
Where do you recommend we look for the racehorses?
They should be local bred or imports
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Imports Bushies’ donkey…!!!
There are thoroughbreds all over the damn place.
However such horses require proper conditions in order to perform.Wise owners select good stock and then provide the conditions, constraints, rewards and recognition to get the desired results. Even then, when results are not up to expectations, CHANGES are made – but the FOCUS is on results.
Where does the Credit Unions find the race horses to continue to succeed ….and in the same shiite environment where EVERYTHING ELSE seem to be failing?
You won’t find more ‘ordinary’ persons anywhere….
But you also won’t find such a COMMUNITY-CENTRIC SYSTEM anywhere else….
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@Bush Tea
The people managing the current setup have to change the process? Is this what you are suggesting?
You are aware the large credit unions have been infiltrated by a ‘group’ of persons who have been operating counter to the philosophy to which you subscribe?
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BushTea
Am I attempting to do such? I never said the court was functioning efficiently; I never used the word effectively or efficacious, or well-managed. I merely addressed whether the Court functioning or not; but as usual, you have elided two issues. You may continue to call me a yardfowl, that’s your right. I support the government, it is not perfect but far better than the 2008-2018 version and based on the bulk of what they are doing I have more confidence in them than cut&paste, hypocritical, disingenuous, shallow, egofowls masquerading on BU as public policy gurus and specialists in every discipline under the sun. Many of them don’t have a clue.🖐🏾
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How does the legal system does due process legally and justifiably “retire cases” never heard such a thing in all my life
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I hope I am not making an ass of myself by assuming that the “retirement” of the cases would have to be done with the agreement of the aggrieved parties.
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Yes I agree with the decision of the Prison Officers Association. Why pay subscriptions to an Association which offers no representation.
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Ha Bushie,
So you and GP agree that Barbados is being run by inferior superiors.
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“Where do you recommend we look for the racehorses?
They should be local bred or imports.”
Maybe the OECD states can help out…ya local shitehounds in parliament and in the judiciary,… are too CORRUPT TO FUNCTION.
It’s been DECADES now the CRIMINALS in the insurance companies have been controlling the judiciary, they have the Supreme Court sewn up tight with corruption. bribing LAWYERS, JUDGES and whichever lowlife will take a bribe….ask David Simmons….they are all too corrupt to function…it has all come to a HEAD…rendering the supreme court EFFECTIVELY CRIPPLED.
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” I have more confidence in them than cut&paste, hypocritical, disingenuous, shallow, egofowls masquerading on BU as public policy gurus and specialists in every discipline under the sun. Many of them don’t have a clue.”
None ah dat takes away from the FACT…that ya got a nonfunctioning supreme court controlled by the criminals in the insurance companies and in the banks…who have had the court backlogged FOR DECADES…with their bribery and corruption…
So try changing that FACT…yardfowl supreme..
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Don’t even know the difference between a candidate and an MP. #gettheebehindmesalemite
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How the Court is non-functioning when, as someone pointed out cases are being heard at Manor Lodge? Wunna see what I mean about the idiocy peddled by the Salemite?
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Are you not TIRED EXPOSING YASELF as an uninformed yardfowl….the couple cases heard NOW and THEN at Manor Lodge …BUT NEVER COMPLETED are not sufficient….TO CLOSE ANY OF THE CASES…or REDUCE THE CURRENT BACKLOG of thousands of cases….what about that is so HARD to understand..
Ya got on here pretending to be a lawyer…when that caught up with you.., ya had no choice but to REMAIN A FULLTIME YARDFOWL…stay in a lane..
that is ENGLISH…no frances, no espanol…., ENGLISH.,
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Yall stay there and think that those who are watching can’t see that ya AG is DOING NOTHING to make sure cases are closed….there are people in their 60s and 70s waiting for their cases to be completed while ya piece of shit AG, the useless Judges sucking on taxpayers without producing much, the corrupt lawyers like Leslie Haynes and the scum in the insurance companies and other cockroach dens….ARE WAITING FOR THESE PEOPLE TO DIE. .
but ya see what is happening at BWA…that is just the beginning.
BTW …since ya into hearsay…what is going on with the criminal cases at Canewood….the supreme yardfowl should be able to tell us that..
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@ Enuff
I merely addressed whether the Court functioning or not; but as usual, you have elided two issues.
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Look up the meaning of ‘functioning’ …and then look up ‘or not’….The court is worth shiite.
Publishing a shiite schedule and then adjourning the cases for six months is NOT functioning.
Accumulating an ever ACCELERATING load of unresolved cases is NOT functioning.
Putting on a pappy show by morons in tails …. is NOT functioning.
Wasting people’s valuable time sitting around Manor Lodge… IS NOT ‘functioning’…If you were to allow your natural HONESTY to peep over your yardfowl blinkers, you would agree 100% with Bushie….
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Enuff in Wonderland is a DISGRACE to the Black race…and here were were thinking that Mariposa and Alvin were the two worse yardfowls to be created by corrupt government ministers…Enuff yardfowl supreme sure PROVED US WRONG..
……ah wonder which corrupt government minister he belongs to…
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Either way…there are cases lingering in the supreme court that should have been completed a year…2 years…3 years….15 YEARS AGO…if the scum in the attorney generals’ office, in the bar association, sitting on the bench were not all taking some level of BRIBES to keep these cases UNMOVING in the supreme Court…INDEFINITLEY
Not a yardfowl, supreme or otherwise…can change that FACT…
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Bush Tea
I duncey, but I always thought functioning meant–working/operating. For example yours and the Salemite’s brains are functioning; the degree of functionality, however, is questionable. As usual when cornered you resort to name calling and semantics. Only yesterday the Salemite was blistering the PM for only focusing on the use of marijuana in the context of tourism (her interpretation), now today look at the Nation. I repeat–clueless…but then again she vehemently argued that Roleric Hinds was the duly elected MP for St.Thomas.
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