Submitted by Heather Cole
I do not have to close my eyes to remember Christmas Carols on the radio. However, I have a passion to hear live music being played by a band and next to the Black Fingers Band of my childhood years, my next favourite was the Royal Barbados Police Band. Christmas mornings in Queens Park would have been boring without them. To me they were the highlight, the icing on the Christmas cake.
Christmas in Barbados is an event. The preparations start sometimes before Independence Day which is on November 30th. December 1st started a mad scramble in Barbados because no matter what was to be done, it was to be done for Christmas.
Little as I was, like everyone else I had something to do in preparation for the big day. I help scrubbed the floors, we brought sand from the beach in little skillets which were as much as I could carry, and we would sprinkle it in the yard. We cleaned the furniture; wash all the porcelain dishes and glasses that we never used. They just had to be cleaned for Christmas.
Soda bottles or sweet drink bottles were washed and put in cases. We bought whole cases of these drinks, wine, ham and lots of fruits. Getting many presents were not really the big thing in my family, we were content to get that new outfit to go to Queens Park to be on parade just like everyone else.
So imagine waking up on Christmas morning and it is cold outside, the sand on the ground made it look like snow or sort of, and there is the fragrant smell of the lady-in-the night coming in from the bush by the front window and added to it all, the smell of baked ham and freshly baked bread, cake and pudding. The house is spotlessly clean, new curtains are hanging; everything looks polished and brand-new inside. Outside, the poinsettia is reigning in its glory, its red flowers putting everything else in the shade.
We woke up early to go to church, which started at 5 a.m. I can remember it used to be as if I had just closed my eyes and I would hear my mother calling me to get up. When we walked through the woods I was more asleep that awake in the crisp morning air. Sunrise would greet us in church and it was only when you got outside that you could really see what the other people were wearing. After church my cousins took us to catch the first bus to Bridgetown and from there, we walked to Queens Park.
Everyone went to the park to show off their new clothes on Christmas morning. It was the thing to do. Like everyone else, we would stroll up and down the pathways; seeing what everyone else was wearing. We bought glazed candied apples or fresh apples if we did not want the candied ones.
To top it all, was the music the band played. It set the atmosphere for that pleasant day. Rather in my mind, it was as though the music cast a spell. William Shakespeare wrote that “all the world is a stage, and all the men and women mere players: they have their exits and entrances…” he failed to mention an orchestra that directed the activities on the stage.
If he was alive in my early years and saw what I had seen through my eyes, I am sure that he would have agreed with me for I saw the orchestra Shakespeare did not see. The Royal Barbados Police Band seemed to me to be performing a symphony that heralded the part of each player that came onto the stage that was the park.
There was music for everybody. They played marches, carols, traditional songs and other popular songs. All throughout the performances of this great event, the music played. At curtain call when the music stopped, all the actors, dressed in their finest clothes bowed and disappeared.
All my Christmases were not filled with music and excitement. There is a time that stands out in my mind when my mother did not have enough to fill our lives with excitement. That year Christmas was bare of all the preparations and clearing the cobwebs in my mind, we must have wondered why she was not bringing home any packages; she did not bring home any port wine, no falernum, no ham or flour to bake sweat breads. She did not even talk about what we would wear on Christmas morning.
Through it all, I remained hopeful but by Christmas morning I was sad. That day all she prepared was a simple meal, it was all that she could afford. It was a good thing that my uncle came by as he usually did at Christmas to bring ham, sweet bread and drinks and it made us happy. However, the memory of those goodies was fleeting, lasting no longer than a snow-cone.
What I will forever remember apart from our bleak meal is the story my mother told us on that Christmas Day. It was a story that an old man had told her of the Christmas Day that he had nothing to offer to his family. Zander is what we called him, but I believe that his real name was Alexander Yarde. He was a small farmer who worked a quarter acre of land behind our house. The year in reference must have been a difficult one. I do not recall if my mother told us the circumstances but when Christmas Day arrived, Zander did not have one red cent to buy anything for his wife and family. All he had were canes in the field. He made a swing with rope and a piece of wood and hoisted it from a tree. They sucked their bellies full of sugar cane juice that day and took turns on the swing all day long. There was such laughter and happiness that it turned out to be one of the most memorable days that they had ever experienced as a family.
From that, I knew that our plight was not new; it was not desolation it was not the end of the world and like my mummy said there will be good times and bad times; ours just happened to be on that Christmas Day.
Joseph on the first Christmas Day had nothing to offer to his wife or his first-born son. If you are fortunate enough to have more than you need this Christmas, please share with those who have lost their jobs, with the single mothers and their children. Remember the shut ins, those with children far away, the homeless, the desolate, the lonely and those in need of care. Put a sparkle in a child’s eyes as my uncle did long ago when I thought that all was lost. Have a Merry Christmas!
Let Altman go tell Jamaicans and Trinidadians he is building an apartheid, segregation, racist island off Trinidad or Jamaica and see he don’t get himself FED TO THE FISHY…..or to some crocodile or some other man-eater ….BLACK BODY PARTS will be a BONUS because of both islands having over 3 million people combined…but they cannot pull that ish in either island without massive BLOODSHED..
The hyperbole continues.
C.B. Vaughn – Mathematics HC
Campbell, M O’N – Mathematics HC
Shaw, M. – Science Lodge
Shepherd, R.M.H. – Classics, HC
Drayton C.G. – Classics HC
Forde A.N. – Classics HC
Matthews, V.E. – Mathematics, HC
In 1943, there were 7 Barbados Scholarship Awards.
The first four were of Open Scholarship Standard at Oxford and Cambridge and last three of Exhibition Standard.
All 7 were referred to as Barbados Scholarship Awards!!
Got this titbit from “The Harrisonian” of April 1944.
“The hyperbole continues.”
the uninformed, unaware yardfowl ENUFF continues….
when ya see legislation in the US…is being PREPARED…to make it a FELONY to CRITCIZE the CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE that is Is(not)RAEL…you do not play slave master and house negro of parliament games with the jews…
“All 7 were referred to as Barbados Scholarship Awards!!”
Most people don’t know they are one and the same…many times the government awards based on what they can afford AND many who were awarded exhibitions…are scholarship winners but depends on the cut off point where government is unwilling or unable to give the FULL RIDE.
Stay in ya lane yardfowl…ya are going to get RUN OVER.
WARU December 27, 2018 8:22 AM
RE Most people don’t know they are one and the same…many times the government awards based on what they can afford AND many who were awarded exhibitions…are scholarship winners but depends on the cut off point where government is unwilling or unable to give the FULL RIDE.
THE MONETARY VALUE IS ABOUT THE SAME
RE lol…Simple ah know ya teasing GP…
LET HER GO TEASE HER ILLEGITIMATE SIBLINGS AND CHILDREN
DID HER FADDER GET A SCHOLARSHIP OR EXHIBITION?
DID ANY OF THE MEN DAT BREED HER, HER ILLEGITIMATE SISTERS OR ILLEGITIMATE DAUGHTERS GET A SCHOLARSHIP OR EXHIBITION?
RE .now that is true SCHOLARSHIP.
true SCHOLARSHIP. IS WHEN HAVING NOT BEEN BONDED, YA COME BACK AND ACT FOR YEARS AS THIS AND ACT AS DAT IN POSTS GIVEN TO NON BAJANS WHEN OTHER BAJANS WONT DO THE WORK
True SCHOLARSHIP. IS WHEN HAVING NOT BEEN BONDED YA COME BACK AND ACT AS LECTURER AT BCC AND PREPARE A TEACHING MANUAL /TEXT FREE OF COST TO THE STUDENTS, WHICH THE RETURNING HEAD OF DEPT STOLE
THE COURSE HAD BEEN HELD 22 YEARS BEFORE I ACTED AND PREPARED THAT MANUAL TO FIT THE SYLLABUS
WARU
No real man would attack a woman’s personal life unless he needs a prerequisite amount of starch in his backbone … that is something you expect from a female GP …
Georgie Porgie
A real man who knows and understands a woman would ignore that kind of stuff because silence does more to arouse a woman emotionally, than to have a man go back and forth with her…
“THE MONETARY VALUE IS ABOUT THE SAME”
It really is, but the nasty lowlifes in the parliament made changes over the years, a caveat, which DENIES Exhibition winners their FULL RIDE.
@ Dr. GP
Two things that de ole man is voing to say tou you.
You know why they hate you here on BU?
Because you do not play with them.
Whether man woman or inbetweeners you do not play AND THAT DEAR MYOPE IS HATED.
You are expected because of the fact that you speak with mastery and love for Our God to be a fool and to tolerate tomfoolery but, and they recognise this at their detriment, you are no one’s fool.
The second thing is “Litany of Your Life”
I shall explain with one of the numerous examples that you have shared here
“…true SCHOLARSHIP. IS WHEN HAVING NOT BEEN BONDED, YA COME BACK AND ACT FOR YEARS AS THIS AND ACT AS DAT IN POSTS GIVEN TO NON BAJANS WHEN OTHER BAJANS WONT DO THE WORK
True SCHOLARSHIP. IS WHEN HAVING NOT BEEN BONDED YA COME BACK AND ACT AS LECTURER AT BCC AND PREPARE A TEACHING MANUAL /TEXT FREE OF COST TO THE STUDENTS, WHICH THE RETURNING HEAD OF DEPT STOLE…”
When people like you speak the stranglers on in the Rum shop, listen and while some of us hear the repeating patterns of hatred towards a son of the soul, the majority of the badwords are content to ascribe your indicting Chronicle of the continuum of ineptitude, as bitterness.
Sometimes Dr. GP I try NOT TO READ WHAT YOU WRITE, because when I read it, it makes me angry to realise that the pattern of self destruction accorded tret sons and daughters of Bulbados IS NOT SPECIFIC TO ANY ONE INDIVIDUAL.
It is like a disease that exists a plague that has poisoned our people AND WALKS SBOUTUNDER THE GUISE OF INFERIOR SUPERIORS, KILLING WHO IT WILLS.
IT DOES NOT MAKE SENSE TO TO BACK TO THAT FILTH GP.
THANK YOU FOR SHARING AND HELPING ME DECIDE
What hate what.
Sargeant responded adequately to this matter las week.
Johnnie,
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But I did play cricket and I know that all kinds of balls get wickets depending on the skill of the batsman. But your long hop was sweetly dispatched to the boundary and you have not retrieved it yet, I see.
Why would you think I cannot read the Dow charts? I have studied these things at UWI although I find them quite boring as I did even then.. I am just doing as you suggested and enjoying the show. Nuh lotta long talk! J
Music!
A levels, Barbados scholarships and exhibitions,”illegitimate children”, whores.
Memories of Xmas!
In 1944 it would have been probably the Colonial Secretary’s office that dealt with scholarship awards and disbursements.
Oxford and Cambridge set the scholarship awards, corrected the papers and recommended who qualified for an open scholarship to Oxford and Cambridge and who qualified for Exhibitions.
Barbadians at that time would have been the subjects of Her Majesty’s Government which was at war and needed every good brain in the Empire.
The Harrisonian listed the 100 or so former students who were serving, missing in action or POW’s and the nine who had given their lives until then.
Three had been decorated.by then.
Flight Lieut. C. Desmond Ince, RAF – Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC): Bar to the DFC – Missing
Pilot Officer W. K. Hynam, RAF – Distinguished Flying Medal and the DFC
Pilot Officer B.F.H Miller – DFC
Pilot Officer B.F.H Miller – DFC was listed among the nine dead.
Georgie Porgie
In March 2015, then Minister of Education, Ronald Jones piloted an amendment to the Education Act, to LIMIT the categories of individuals who would be eligible for scholarships, exhibitions, bursaries and grants awarded to citizens…… as stipulated by the Act.
By limiting the categories, the ministry was essentially reducing the number of scholarships to be awarded.
However, I have not seen any information that would suggest or be reasonably interpreted as “denying scholarship winners their full ride.”
As it relates to “bonding,” on Wednesday, August 15, 2012, during a meeting held with the winners of scholarships, exhibitions and awards of excellence held at the Ministry of Education, then Minister Jones, said government was looking at removing the bonded stipulation of scholarship contracts.
I don’t know if any changes were made.
Lexicon
December 27, 2018 9:21 AM
WARU
No real man would attack a woman’s personal life unless he needs a prerequisite amount of starch in his backbone … that is something you expect from a female GP …
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Like Stormy Daniels … the Happy Hooker!!
Stormy only had one problem, she picked the wrong man to mess with … Trump.
I suspect SS has the same problem!!
… and of course there was Ballsy Forde!!
Again, picked the wrong man.
thanks Piece
there has always been hate and a desire to put me down or try to put me in my place by a set of scum and slime on BU………WHICH i HAVE NEVER, AMD WILL NOT TOLERATE
@ KING
now what exactly did Sargeant respond adequately to last week?
@GP
We have differences of opinion.
Many batsmen who fancy their skills are compulsive hookers and it is fun to feed them the short ball.
RE Artax December 27, 2018 11:14 AM
However, I have not seen any information that would suggest or be reasonably interpreted as “denying scholarship winners their full ride.”
PLEASE KINDLY NOTE THAT IT WAS WARU WHO SAID THIS NOT ME
As it relates to “bonding,” on Wednesday, August 15, 2012, during a meeting held with the winners of scholarships, exhibitions and awards of excellence held at the Ministry of Education, then Minister Jones, said government was looking at removing the bonded stipulation of scholarship contracts. I don’t know if any changes were made
I DONT KNOW ABOUT THESE THINGS
I KNOW THAT I WAS NOT BONDED
MY BROTHER GOT A NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT SCHOLARSHIP, FOR WHICH I SIGNED HIS BOND
“PLEASE KINDLY NOTE THAT IT WAS WARU WHO SAID THIS NOT ME..”
Georgie Porgie
I know.
I am an ILLEGITIMATE / OUTSIDE CHILD but my memories of Christmas in Barbados are great.
I had family and friends who made Christmas enjoyable especially for the children.
Toys were not important. It was the Ham or baked pork or chicken and the sweet bread or pudding cake.
I am grateful to have spent the first 20 years of my life in Barbados.
I hope you all had a great Christmas this year. I did.
@Lorenzo
At some stage I will get off my phone and reply using my computer.
Here is some pre-work
Learn the difference between a promise made and a promise kept. You seem to have difficulty separating the two.
I know that you are not a fool, but I feel it necessary to remind you that ‘a promise is comfort for a fool’
Where on earth is Mariposa? She has me carrying her water for her.
Woman, I don’t have your tenacity and cannot punch all day.
One problem of mentioning names is that you will fail to mention some of the major contributors.
A happy 2019 to Hants. May your musical plate be always full.
Same to you TheOGazerts.
Artax…yes, they are denied the full ride scholarships they used to get and only get about 10K per term which has to be supplemented with a larger loan from student revolving and other places, either way, they do not get a full ride that GP alluded to they got in his time where they did not need to access multiple loans to attend university off island..
BTW…Happy Holidays.
Lexicon…Simple is quite capable of taking care of herself, she gives as good as she gets.
GP…both scholarship and exhibition winners are still bonded, which is weird because there are NO OPPORTUNITIES FOR THEM TO RETURN TO THE ISLAND TO …TO GIVE BACK…
Let me rephrase, up until 2010 they were still bonding, don’t know if the idiot Jones made the changes or if it was just talk because he so HATED to see all these bright young people getting dozens of scholarships and exhibitions knowing he will NEVER GET ONE.
“True SCHOLARSHIP. IS WHEN HAVING NOT BEEN BONDED YA COME BACK AND ACT AS LECTURER AT BCC AND PREPARE A TEACHING MANUAL /TEXT FREE OF COST TO THE STUDENTS, WHICH THE RETURNING HEAD OF DEPT STOLE…”
And this is the reason most scholars STAY AWAY…
They KNOW they will be ROBBED, DISENFRANCHISED, MARGINALIZED and chased off the island if they try to make any changes for the better to UPLIFT THE PEOPLE ….most are just watching from a distance….THE DEGRADATION OF BARBADOS…by the jokers for leaders…and shaking their heads.
I was never bonded.
The bonding started after 1975, when I don’t know.
It really makes no sense.
Yes I too have missed mention of Hants, the archiver Artaxerxes and Pachamama in my specific Christmas greetings .
Donna and others of the BU family.
I forget to name you all because of old age forgive me but some of my worthy bloggers I have mentioned here with regard to your content please note that I also bid you Yuldtide greetings and the best for the coming year
I was never bonded.
My brother who got his award in 1978 was bonded.
I guess the purpose was to get recipients of awards to return to the island and give back.
i have/had no problem with that.
What I found problematic is dat foreigners had/got certain jobs—and they still do..and you would be asked to act when they went on holiday at inconvenient times to them, such as Christmas time gor example
@GP,
When Sir Wes Hall ( a good Ivy man) was a minister, I think it was tourism, he entered in to serious talks with the sports editor of the Daily Mail about bringing out a local publication, or so I was told.
The first thing the sports editor, who should remain nameless, did on his return to the UK was to walk up to my desk and ask if I would be interested in working on it with him. Funny that.
PUDRYR
I wish you season’s greetings and a heathy, prosperous 2019…….
…….as well as to David BU and to Barbados Underground.
“RE Most people don’t know they are one and the same…many times the government awards based on what they can afford AND many who were awarded exhibitions…are scholarship winners but depends on the cut off point where government is unwilling or unable to give the FULL RIDE.”
I now catching up. More misinformation.
”I now catching up. More misinformation”
I feeling real bad. I couldn’t keep you in hiding. Mariposa, where are you?
The two guys are out and being naughty. Come fuh den
TheoGaz
You gine need nuff smelling salts come next year. Stock up.
Those who know better would never ask a favour of a politician for the ‘simple reason’ that the politician is notorious for never letting one forget that favour.Its like the sword of Damocles hanging over your head 24/7.When a brother thinks it ok to rat on a sibling when he did the sibling a favour is equally as bad.Bloody lunatic behavior which has no place among intelligent people.#Sikassfool.
the angel gabriel from de brothel came
his knotty hair uncombed oh what a shame
Bloody lunatic quoth he
was his stupid remark
most stupid jackass ever
la la la la la —lah la
Enuff
Don’t pay any attention to the “president” of Mariposa’s “fan club” writing nuff shiite.
The consortium of Mariposas, formerly using the names ac/Angela Cox/Angela skeete/Coxable was NEVER able to run anyone from BU, with their weak, incoherent, unresearched, emotional and political motivated “lollipop bowling.”
What is interesting is having written “The DLP disappeared. Why should I focus on Kellman or Fraudel? Why should I speak of ghosts or noises in the night when in front of me is the BLP,”……..
……. he endorses the consortium’s preoccupation with Barbados’ economic misfortunes during the period 1994 and 2008…… and from May 24, 2018 to today’s date…….
……… while purposely or conveniently forgetting the events that transpired between January 15, 2008 and May 24, 2018……… and absolving the former lot of any responsibility.
He prefers to “speak of the ghosts or noises in the night” of Dodds and VECO, Crab Hill Police Station, ABC highway and SSS, public bath (golden shower) at Silver Sands, Greenland and Hardwood Housing.
But…..have you noticed one of the issues they ALSO constantly referred to, was the ackee tree a UDC contractor “cut down” for $11,000, when Hammie Lah was Minister of Social Transformation……
………. but when Hammie “CROSSED the floor”……. they conveniently developed AMNESIA?.
To this day, dey duz mention every t’ing……..except dah ackee tree.
Bajan politics too sweet….nuh?
Hahahahahahaha!!
“I now catching up. More misinformation.”
Except of course for when the ministers are TIEFING PUBLIC FUNDS…to send their own friends and family away to university on taxpayer’s dime…..hence the reason many scholarships and exhibitions….often have to be CHALLENGED…
Enuff Yardfowl…does Farley RING a BELL..
@ pieceuhderockyeahright,
I hope you had a great Christmas and that next year will be prosperous for you and yours.
You ( or de grandson ) will appreciate the last video I posted in the Diaspora corner.
The musicians are really good. lol
@WARU December 27, 2018 6:21 AM “black people’s INTERNAL ORGANS ARE IN DEMAND.”
Fortunately nobody will want the internal organs of me, my parents, my siblings, my children nor my grandchildren, since according to Georgie Porgie we are all a bunch of smoking, drinking, drug taking, ungodly, criminal, and no doubt STD ridden whores.
Not a good organ in the lot of us.
Lolll!!!
Still in the last 25 years I have donated nearly 80 units of blood, so that the Georgie Porgies of this world can do their work.
Ain’t old diseased whores useful?
CORRECTION: was rushing out..
…hence the reason many EXHIBITIONS…which should be SCHOLARSHIPS….often have to be CHALLENGED…
“Ain’t old diseased whores useful?”
lol…wuhloss!!
@John December 27, 2018 m6:29 AM “SS has gone senile yearning for the days of yore!!”
Sorry John. No.
Blessedly in my family we do not do senile. We remain good mentally and physically until we are 100 or more.
In spite of our drinking, smoking, drug taking and whoring etc.
Ain’t life something?
Show me one post where I mentioned any of “Dodds, VECO, Crab Hill Police Station, ABC highway and SSS, public bath (golden shower) at Silver Sands, Greenland and Hardwood Housing, the ackee tree a UDC contractor “cut down” for $11,000, when Hammie Lah was Minister of Social Transformation”.
Good try, but it is a no-ball. With so much misdirection… no wickets
WARU
What does Farley and the bilge you post have to with your initial claim? You may continue to call me what you wish. From as far as I remember, students knew what grades were required for a Bdos scolarship vs an Exhibition. Over the years the criteria changed and BCC’s GPA got added. I don’t, however, recall the government arbitrarily changing the requirements on receipt of results. You are worse than Mariposa, because she’s just being political, but you’re just plain wrong and believe you are right. Terminally infected with RolericHindsitis.🤣🤣🤣
@John December 27, 2018 11:15 AM “I suspect SS has the same problem!!”
Dear John: I have no problems. I am happy, healthy and well loved. I have always been happy, healthy and well loved. I expect to remain so for many decades to come.
“Over the years the criteria changed and BCC’s GPA got added. ”
Any retard could tell I meant the criteria changed, but yardfowls will NEVER ASK…what caused the criteria to change…yall just sat back and accepted that cause ya still think that taxpayer’s money belong to ministers and lawyers…ah was waiting for ya to come out with ya sheeple nonsense.
Ya should ask Mia about Farley…ain’t yall some kinda friends?
@Georgie Porgie December 27, 2018 11:17 AM “there has always been hate.”
Why do you feel the need to see yourself as hated? As a victim?
What if NOBODY on BU hates you?
What if nobody on BU has ever victimised you?
What if nobody on BU has ever had any desire to victimise you?
Would that make you feel really badly?
Would it take away your joy in life if nobody hated you?
Still, 2nd can never be 1st.
simple simon
DID YOU EVEN GET A LIL EXHIBITION? OR YOUR ILLEGITIMATE SIBLINGS OR CHILDREN?
WERE YOU FIRST AT ANYTHING?
WERE YOU OR ANY OF YOUR ILLEGITIMATE SIBLINGS OR ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN FIRST AT ANYTHING BESIDES BREEDING LIKE RATS? OR WERE THEY JUST SECOND?
WERE NOT YOU AND ALL YOUR CHILDREN AND SIBLINGS BORN OUT OF WEDLOCK?
IS THAT FIRST OR SECOND?
DID your FADDER GET A SCHOLARSHIP OR EXHIBITION?
DID ANY OF THE MEN DAT BREED you your ILLEGITIMATE SISTERS OR ILLEGITIMATE DAUGHTERS GET A SCHOLARSHIP OR EXHIBITION?
were any of these first or second
SIMPLE SIMON
RE LETS GET A FEW THINGS STRAIGHT ABOUT WHAT WAS SAID IN RESPONSE TO YOUR SAYING Tomorrow self I will ask my lawyer to go after you for the child money for the illegitimate children which I have had by you and which you have never supported.
I DONT DRINK- NEVER HAVE
I DONT SMOKE-NEVER HAVE
I DONT DO DRUGS-NEVER HAVE
I DONT SCREW WHORES-NEVER HAVE
SO HOW ON EARTH CAN I HAVE HAD ANY ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN WITH YOU OR BY YOU THAT I HAVE NOT SUPPORTED
I WOULD HAVE TO BE DRINKING & SMOKING WEED AND CHECKING WHORES TO HAVE HAD ANY ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN WITH YOU OR BY YOU THAT I HAVE NOT SUPPORTED
I THINK ANY REASONABLE PERSON CAN UNDERSTAND THAT …..AND THAT WHAT I SAID DEBUNKED YOUR REMARK ABOUT YOUR ASKING YOUR LAWYER to go after ME for the child money for the illegitimate children which I have had by you and which you have never supported
IS YOUR COMPREHENSION OF WHAT I SAID FIRST OR SECOND ?
SIMPLE SIMON
PLEASE POINT OUT WHERE Georgie Porgie SAID THAT YOUR parents, YOUR siblings, YOUR children nor YOUR grandchildren, were all a bunch of smoking, drinking, drug taking, ungodly, criminal, and no doubt STD ridden whores.
Georgie Porgie DID NOT SAY DAT BUT IF YOU ARE ALERTING THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THAT IS THE CASE THIS IS IMPORTANT FOR THE PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT AND THE BLOOD BANK TO KNOW CAUSE DISEASED PERSONS OUGHT NOT TO BE DONATING BLOOD BE CAUSE DAT WOULD NIETHER BE FIRST OR SECOND
YOU ASKED Ain’t old diseased whores useful?
I WONT KNOW CAUSE I NEVER DEALT WITH A WHORE?
IT SEEMS THAT THEY ARE USEFUL FOR THOSE WHO LIKE DISEASED WHORES
IS THAT FIRST OR SECOND ?
SIMPLE SIMON
WHAT DID YOU, YOUR SIBLINGS OR ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN EVER WIN?
Barbados scholarship OR Barbados Exhibition?
WERE ANY OF WUNNAH the brightest boys and girls OR DID WUNNA EVEN came 2nd.?
WHAT DID YOU, YOUR SIBLINGS OR ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN EVER WIN?
WERE THEY EVER FIRST OR EVEN SECOND?
YOU AND THE REST OF YOUR ILLEGITIMATE SIBLINGS AND OFFSPRING ARE CLEARLY SECONDS NOT SO? AFTER ALL 2nd is 2nd. 2nd is what comes AFTER 1st. 2nd is NOT first.
AND SECONDS LIKE WUNNAH PAID FOR ME TO GO TO MONA FOR A FIRST CLASS EDUCATION IN MEDICINE NOT SO?
The consortium or whatever de hell wunna call Mariposa was around to witness the blp having several wickets knock out of the stumps by the dlp first in 2008 under the leadership of The great economist OSA and then in 2013 under the leadership of Mia Mottley
Really not impressed by a blp win which cleaned bowl the DLP
What would be more impressive after that magnificant victory is that the blp commit to all promises made that of putting money in the peoples pocket and not borrowing money to increased barbados economic debt levels and furthemore reducing taxes and fees
All this continual jubliant fanfare by govt and blp yardfowl about a 30-0 red wash does not add up to a hill of beans when the people backs are pushed against a wall trying to pay their household debt and govt debt
@Mariposa December 27, 2018 6:06 PM “…blp win which cleaned bowl the DLP”
Clean bowled is right.
Lolll!!!
Yes “cleaned bowl” which has left every one heading to the toilet bowl because of the sickening nauseating taxes and fees leveled on the head and shoulders of every citizens with the exception of those whose cut of the bony calf was already guaranteed
Simple Simon duffus anything else you would like to add before i knock your stumps right across the BU hallway
What you seem to forget is that the people put the blp in the wilderness for 13 long years and there abilty to make a comeback was predicated on promises for the better which has turned out to be a long winded set of empty promises
One can easily predict that going forward govt policies would have every one shi..tting bricks for a very long time
Fortunately nobody will want the internal organs of me, my parents, my siblings, my children nor my grandchildren, since according to Georgie Porgie we are all a bunch of smoking, drinking, drug taking, ungodly, criminal, and no doubt STD ridden whores.
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It is you who claim to have children from an unknown father and are looking to pin paternity on GP!!
It is you who forgot the father of your children.
It is you who are pulling a Stormy Daniels claiming an illicit affair with GP!!
Don’t you realise what you have said?
Lexicon thinks this is acceptable and normal behavior to be expected from a woman.
After all, look at Stormy and her protestations!!
Me, I suspect it may be early dementia … but then I am not a doctor, not even by half.
Gazzerts I see the conspiracy theorist come to your aid,good for both of you.Your response about separating promises,does not make sense but why am I surprised,anyone who supports a J/A like Mariposa would do or say anything.The list of accomplishments on this government,s side ,as well as the lack of performance of your dems cannot be refuted by you ,Mariposa or the shite conspiracy theorist,therefore what promises you speaking about this government has only been in office for 7 months not years ,everything cannot be done at once.You seem to have as Artax states amnesia or convenient memory,only focusing on post May 24th and wanting to forget the reason we are where we are,giving the Dems a free pass.Gazzerts it will not happen not once I am around as I will throw their record in your face,to remind Mariposa ,T Inniss ,Piece and you why we are where we are ,you could like it or lump it.
Well lest Lorenzo forgets that present govt hollered and wailed about past govt placing unconscionable fees and levies on the people .but guess what this present govt after all the belly aching and promises to reduce taxation did not only reduce but double and tripled the tax burden in most cases even extending these taxes and levies as far out to international tourist when they visit barbados
Foolbert give me a f.ing break
Maybe it’s time to learn something, people cannot stay uninformed, unaware and miseducated forever…those who jump out to pretend they have the most information are ALWAYS THE LEAST INFORMED..
Meet the original North Americans…..the first.
https://youtu.be/zrueRFs70vI?t=55
Abigail
Look you real igrunt eh; and I quote “…AND many who were awarded exhibitions…are scholarship winners but depends on the cut off point where government is unwilling or unable to give the FULL RIDE.” I done!!🤣🤣🤣🤣. Come 2019 I shall continue to point out all your false claims–BUFactchecker.
@Lorenzo
“This Government comes in decides based on conditions found,defaults on loan payments to give it fiscal space ,gets an agreement with the IMF,restores the free University tuition,gives government workers a 5% increase,cleaned up the Btown sewerage Plant ,remove the sewerage off the streets,start repaving roads like the sradium road”
I am not on the island so I cannot verify all that you said, but your list of accomplishments seem more like promises made and a whole heap of trouble for some
defaults on loan payments -agree, but not worth bragging about-shhh
an agreement with the IMF – agree
free University tuition -???
workers a 5% increase -???
cleaned up the Btown sewerage Plant ,remove the sewerage off the streets – stop it. You don’t get to take a victory lap in the middle of a sewage crisis… fix the problem first
start repaving roads like the sradium road – stop it. That is what the hell you should be doing… fix the roads, the sewage, transport …. Fix what is broken
Barbados first.
I hope the Good Lord gives Mia all the support she needs. I hope that she is able to right the good ship Barbados.
But I reserve the right to have my own opinion and to state it. At times it will not be complimentary. Sorry guys, that’s the way the cookie crumbles.
The local promoters have billed the Buju Banton concert “Long walk to Freedom”
SMFH
You can’t be serious
It will be a big show Sargeant and tickets are yet to go on sale.
Firstly, I never wrote that you made any DEFINITIVE, WRITTEN references to the issues I raised. I wrote “he PREFERS to speak……” The word “prefers”, if defined within the context it was used, means “being more partial” to doing something.
First ball……….. hit over the stands for a huge six.
Secondly, notice I used the word “SPEAK” and not “WRITE.” So, I don’t have to show (you) any post where (you) mentioned anything.
Second ball…… hit over the stands for another huge six……. the bowler could only “gaze” at the ball in astonishment.
Thirdly, please re-read my comment re: “But…..have you noticed one of the issues THEY also constantly referred to………”
The word “THEY” is used to refer to TWO or MORE people. You would have a point if I had written YOU wrote a contribution in which you mentioned “the ackee tree a UDC contractor “cut down” for $11,000, when Hammie Lah was Minister of Social Transformation…..”
Third ball……another huge six……and the bowler “gazes” as the ball goes over the boundary.
Go back to the bowler’s end and try again.
Hahahahahahaha!!!
@Sargeant December 27, 2018 8:25 PM “The local promoters have billed the Buju Banton concert “Long walk to Freedom” SMFH. You can’t be serious.”
I noticed it too that the promoters seem to be calling Buju Banton’s concert “Long Walk to Freedom”
Isn’t “Long Walk to Freedom” the title of Nelson Mandela’s autobiography?
Is the Mandela family aware that the concert promoters are using the title of Mandela’s work to promote this concert? Isn’t that some sort of copyright infringement? Is COSCAP aware of this?
Isn’t Buju Banton a convicted criminal? “On 22 February 2011, Banton was found guilty of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 5 or more kilograms of COCAINE, POSSESSION OF A FIREARM in furtherance of a drug-trafficking offense and using communication wires to facilitate a drug-trafficking offense.”
Isn’t Nelson Mandela not the late revered freedom fighter?
Are we a confused people or what?
On the 9th June 2018 it was announced via the Government Information Service that the Mottley administration had retained the services of Cleary,Gottlieb.Steen & Hamilton LLP as external legal advisor in the context of the planned debt restructuring that was announced on June 1st.
Mia Mottley campaigned on transparency as her watchword – and on strong,trustworthy leadership – so shouldn’t she as the Prime Minister of Barbados tell us the taxpayers :
What are the terms that this foreign firm was contracted ;
the cost per month ,per hour,per advice etc – whether in U.S dollars or Barbadian dollars;
What have they done for Barbados so far as per their contract and;
Are they still being paid by the taxpayers of this country.
Show us the transparency Mia.
So what if Buju Banton is a convicted drug criminal
So what if his walk to freedom was long or short
So all that matters is that his concert would put some money in the local economy
So what!so what so what if our Pm invited know drug dealers to Parliament and it doesn’t matter to any one
So what So what So what
Give me a fking break
@Artax
🙂
@Artax
Did you see that short run-up by Mariposa?
Telling me they cannot clock the speed of the delivery…
Because I like ya, go back in hiding till next Xmas. Yuh gun get hurt by the pace. She rested and is back
Was going to advise you to get to the runners side of the wicket, but T.Inniss generating some real heat as well.
Get smart and send out Lorenzo. I know you cannot find Enuff. “I had Enuff of that bowling” … is that how he got his name?
In the early hours of the morning after the election result of 30 -0 was called Kerrie Symmonds Member of Parliament for St James Central said :
“Along with a ‘tremendous blessing’ of a clean sweep of 30 constituencies from the people of Barbados – comes a ‘tremendous amount of authority and power;’
The BLP MP said that mandate ‘MUST BE REFLECTED WITH A BALANCE OF TREMENDOUS ACCOUNTABILITY AND RESPONSIBILITY’.
Who will hold this government accountable ?
Certainly not the media with Ellis the Station Manager (he was worse than a sycophant today) and the others at VOB or those at the Nation newspaper
Certainly not the Unions like the NUPW or the BWU – remember Toni Moore May Day speech where she told the workers ‘To make your vote count’ – and told them to let their ballots do the talking – while on the stage – she had children holding placards with a list of complaints – along with some adults – ha ha
Certainly not the Private Sector whose head (Charles Herbert) in January of this year called for a change in government – and was rebuked by Ms Ram who said he could not be speaking on behalf of the private sector when he made those remarks
Certainly not the UWI POSSE at Cave hill like George Belle,Tennyson Joseph or Lisa Cummins – the latter who wrote in a column a few weeks or so on April 29th 2018 – that the people should” rise up on May 24th.”
HAVE WE BEEN SEEING THIS GOVERNMENT ACT RESPONSIBLY OR DEMONSTRATE ACCOUNTABILITY TO US THE TAXPAYERS – LIKE KERRIE SYMMONDS SAID THEY SHOULD ?
I THINK NOT.
Theo
You and TInniss/Mariposa (same person) gine need nuff smelling salts over the upcoming months I tell yuh. Ross University about to open yuh heeeeeeeeear.
All along I thought Wes was a Station Hill man.
RE Ross University about to open yuh heeeeeeeeear.
SO WUH?
WAIT TILL THEY START TO COMPLAIN ON VALUEMD BOUT ALL THE PROBLEMS IN BARBADOS?
“……….but T.Inniss generating some real heat as well.”
TheOGazerts
To be fair to T. Inniss, his 8:56PM contribution was an excellent ball.
@ Theophillus
See what j dun tell you?
You gine get attack now coming and going by the BLP paid apologists
(Artaxerxes is not one of them so when I say the two of dem you know the nameless ones I am speaking of)
DE GRANDSON did that Speculation poster and in 3 days it exceeded the 200 count.
There is no magic about Stoopid Cartoons all de ole man does is listens to what The Voice says or to what the community is saying.
And with that comes immediate subscribers
Now I gine take your post at around 8 PM and create a Stoopid Cartoon and we going watch how it is subscribed to.
We going call it something bout BERT and see its effect.
But like I dun say dat as long as you are speaking out about Mugabe you going have a problem.
You ent notice dat Peter Lawrence Thompson dun talking too much bout de problems dat even he encountering?
You going have a problem because you ent prepared to suck pooch like Luc***** so the alter ego going come and try to frighten you wid de Wild talk.
The thing here is that IRRESPECTIVE OF ALL THE STOLEN IDEAS BROUGHT TO THE FORE, THE TRUE AUTHORS WILL NOT GET THE CREDIT
Cause Mugabe and her horde or is that hoares? want the praise.
Five years, watch and see.
Recently I hailed the Xmas ‘present’ that the Barbados Gov’t provided with the reopening of Worthing beach but it appears that the announcement and my celebration was premature. We are being led down the garden path, how is the beach “open” when vendors and patrons and other interested parties are unable to use it due to the presence of Industrial equipment and garbage.
I guess the announce was to satisfy some arbitrary deadline that was set by a Gov’t Minister and to assuage the demand of the Parliamentary representative for the area who made statements to the Press about the situation.
Another lump of coal in the Xmas stocking.
https://barbadostoday.bb/2018/12/27/beach-blues-2/
“Look you real igrunt eh; and I quote “
Enuff in Wonderland……that comment means the SAME THING YOU SAID…the criteria changed……
…..we know what you suffer from…the very same disease as every other yardfowl….LIMITED INTELLECT…where you can take a thought so far …AND NO FURTHER…and that is going to carry you through the next 5 years where you are unable to think further than being told what to think…OR SAY…….and I will get to BEAT YA OVER THE HEAD WITH IT EVERY DAY…cause ya can’t help yaself….limited intellect is a terrible thing..
Enuff in Wonderland……that comment means the SAME THING YOU SAID…the criteria changed.
Ah hope ya ain’t think the criteria changed on it’s own or that some white man in the sky changed it…. ya fool…
…someone in that parliament made a concerted decision for whatever reason, a reason that negatively impacted exhibition winners, some jealous minded lowlife minister made that decision…without caring… and here you are with ya limited intellect thinking everyone should accept it without question…just like you do…
……ya should be ashamed that ya wasted the money taxpayers money spent trying to educate you…..cause like Jones…ya will NEVER get a scholarship or an exhibition…
“WAIT TILL THEY START TO COMPLAIN ON VALUEMD BOUT ALL THE PROBLEMS IN BARBADOS?”
lol, lol..
“Isn’t Buju Banton a convicted criminal?”
you mean just because the US says so????
……..ya may want to take a really good long long at his accusers and THEIR HISTORY…to define the word CRIMINAL…it is not like he got caught with money in the bank money laundering or he was caught with drugs, he was not…….the charges were brought solely on what a DEA SNITCH SAID.
….the charges were brought solely on what a DEA SNITCH SAID…who himself was a convicted criminal….THEIR CRIMINAL….this might be a good time to stop allowing the US to cause you to criminalize your own people, based only on their say so…without solid and definitive PROOF.
Indeed the first jury could not even come up with a verdict. One wonders what new evidence there was in the second trial. Some people think Buju was set up because of ‘Boom Boom Bye Bye” which advocated for the shooting of homosexual men. I don’t agree with the sentiments he expressed but I do not agree with a set up either. Now if it was marijuana possession rather than cocaine distribution I would have believed that in a flash.
I rarely ever quote statements by Chomsky, but this should teach the uninformed and limited intellect Enuff, what I really meant, poor soul can use all the help “he” can get….”he” still got 4 years 6 months to go of making “himself” look foolish..at “his” own expense..
“Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people into a system of debt, they cannot afford the time to think. Tuition fee increases are a “disciplinary technique,” and by the time the students graduate, they are not only loaded with debt, but has internalized the “disciplinarian culture”. This makes them efficient components of the consumer culture.”
Noam Chomsky
In this particular case, Barbados has lost out big for decades on brain drain because of bad minded, jealous minded, useless, corrupt government ministers…and nothing will ever change that REALITY.
I thought Mia as Opposition leader and the BLPites on this site were complaining when the last government started to enter and concentrate on foreign business through on island offshore medical schools.
It just goes to show that this government had no ideas or serious plans about generating foreign investment – the only plan they had was to win the elections at any cost.
So all she is doing whether its tourism,off shore sector,agriculture construction plans – whatever – she is relying on the plans the Dems- that she said was incompetent – put in place and she is running with that it seems.
This after being Opposition leader from 2008 – with a short break in-between – enough time to formulate serious economic,crime,education etc policies.
Remember leading up to the election Mia never gave you a full manifesto but instead she gave what she called a ‘mini manifesto’ with a promise to deliver the real thing.
Are we going to be relying on the IMF loans to boost the foreign reserves going forward then ? Steupes
Abigail
Limited intellect, but I know the difference between a candidate and an MP. Anybody can cut and paste, none better than you. That’s why you were confused and accused Dr.Hinds of taking public funds under false claim. Here once again you’re talking nonsense, and no one else on the blog is willing to call you out for the repeated untruths. Unless you cut and paste, most of what you post is filled with wrong info.
Enuff 68…do you really think that is the reason…OR..is it that anyone who thinks ministers and candidates are the beginning and end of life..and are THAT IMPORTANT …is really and TRULY of limited intellect…ah think that is what it really is…
what you see as IMPORTANT…I don’t, I see the same people as BENEATH ME..big difference..
…anyone who PARROTS and MIMICS ministers, candidates and politicians…ARE OF LIMITED INTELLECT…..for the simple reason that YA ARE UNABLE TO THINK FOR YASELF..
I have no such problems…
BTW…everyone knows ya full of ish…lol
All politicians whether they are candidates or MPS…take public funds under false pretences…they lie and lie and spread false information…particularly to yardflowls…who are NEVER WELL INFORMED..
TInniss
Stop lying. Here are two extracts from the last manifesto:
“We will also pursue wider tourism activities in education, health and sports tourism that can be developed in the centre and east of the island from St.
Lucy to St. Philip.”
“If Barbados is to realise the optimal benefits from the sector, we must broaden our understanding of and
approach to tourism and hospitality, to embrace the idea of the visitor economy. This concept encompasses broader economic activity such as events, sporting
competitions, festivals, conventions, exhibitions, as well as education and sports tourism.”
TInniss
You ever hear bout Gabby song ‘Cadavers’? Please don’t talk about the BLP lacking ideas and mention offshore medical schools 🤣🤣🤣
The new ECFMG standards are a game changer for the Caribbean medical education post 2023. I have always believed the vast majority of schools in the Caribbean will close down or they will change their marketing strategy to attract non-North Americans. Some schools have already started doing that by marketing to students from Nigeria, India, and Middle East who would go back to their respective countries for clinicals or residency.
The larger Caribbean schools will see their market shrink as residency spots become more competitive. For now, all schools are trying to make as much money as they can before the storm hits. They know full well the end is near. This is all the more reason to be careful if anyone is thinking about the Caribbean school because schools will do whatever they can to get as many students as they can.
Another trend that is alarming is the availability of legitimate clinical education. Clinicals have dried up for most schools and those who still have them have to invest millions to keep their spots. Most Caribbean schools are cheating their students by sending them to doctors’ offices where they learn next to nothing and will have no inpatient experience. Those students could face hurdles with state licensing boards when its time to apply for a license. What many people don’t realize is that doing a residency does not automatically entitle them to an independent license to practice. State boards still scrutinize and verify clinical education, and in some states, even basic sciences and premed credentials. So there are many pit falls along the way and most students, at least the ones I have seen, have no clue about these issues!
The last I heard even St. George is up for sale and is looking for a buyer!
WARU
Hahaaaaaa, more obfuscation. You accused Dr.Hinds of collecting taxpayers money and not doing anything. Massive lie, because the man was not an MP and therefore not receiving any taxpayers money as a politician. I choose to call you out for your arrogance and arrant nonsense. If you can’t get the basics right, why should I waste my time engaging in “intellectual” debate, which ought to he grounded in evidence/facts? I have always been taught that it’s pointless to throw pearls before swine.
John
December 27, 2018 6:41 PM
Fortunately nobody will want the internal organs of me, my parents, my siblings, my children nor my grandchildren, since according to Georgie Porgie we are all a bunch of smoking, drinking, drug taking, ungodly, criminal, and no doubt STD ridden whores.
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It is you who claim to have children from an unknown father and are looking to pin paternity on GP!!
It is you who forgot the father of your children.
It is you who are pulling a Stormy Daniels claiming an illicit affair with GP!!
Don’t you realise what you have said?
Lexicon thinks this is acceptable and normal behavior to be expected from a woman.
After all, look at Stormy and her protestations!!
Me, I suspect it may be early dementia … but then I am not a doctor, not even by half.
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Has your family pulled your computer privileges as yet?
Stormy looking for megabucks for wasting Triumph’s time!!
I remember back in the days of christmas, if you didnt had any money to buy cases of drinks, people would just laugh and point their fingers at you, and tell how you didnt get any drinks for xmas, like the drinks are only available on xmas day. Now those same sweet drinks causing lots of diabetes and high sugar levels. If you drink a bottle of water, thats more healthy than sweet drinks. Then you have the great cake, but people put too much sugar and rum in it. You can celebrate xmas any day. I remember people would go in queens park dressed in suits and winter coats, and women dress in nice dresses, and look to see what you wear in the park, but all you do is walk around. If you didnt have new blinds, low and behold people would say, oh she didnt had any new blinds, are the windows complaining about new blinds? In big countries christmas have another meaning, and that is to get all the nice bargains and cheaper items, you see people rushing for things they not going to use anyway. Then the day is gone before you know it.