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Follow the Witnesses Trevor Browne!

The following was posted to the Unionists BEWARE! blog on the 8the December 2018. Caswell Franklyn A prison officer was caught stealing diesel from the prison. He is now suspended pending his own trial and now he is one of the persons accusing Browne of maliciously endeavouring him away from his duty. Another is a female…

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The following was posted to the Unionists BEWARE! blog on the 8the December 2018.

Caswell Franklyn
A prison officer was caught stealing diesel from the prison. He is now suspended pending his own trial and now he is one of the persons accusing Browne of maliciously endeavouring him away from his duty. Another is a female prison officer who married a former inmate. Her case is pending for years. It is a dismissible offence for a prison officer to associate with former prisoners.

At present, I do not know what the prison authorities have holding over the heads of the other two but I am certain that they did not report this matter of their own free will.

Browne is charged for allegedly inciting prison officers away from their duty. But why is no one being charged for impregnating a Jamaican prisoner. I suppose that the woman, now safely back in Jamaica, would keep quiet while the blackmail money continues to flow.

Wade Gibbons
Wade Gibbons Caswell Franklyn I remember the prison officer ‘lady’ very well….covered that situation years ago when she got impregnated by an inmate, married him on his release from jail, all contrary to the Prison Act, and still kept her job. She is not a credible witness and if the others are cut from the same cloth Browne has nothing to worry about. Apart from being Judases, this must be their way of currying favour from the authorities to remain in the system. And then Bajans have to be subjected to people in suits sitting down around a table in parliament [remove yourself from that bogus gathering, CF] on some select committee talking cnut about corruption in Barbados. Lilliput is alive and well!

Although the blogmaster is pleased to read of Trevor Browne release from prison on $1,000.00 bail the circumstances surrounding his incarceration remains a concern. His matter was adjourned until 18 February. Something smells rotten in Denmark. This is a brief comment is to remind all parties- including the DPP and AG- that Barbados is a nation of laws!

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104 responses to “Follow the Witnesses Trevor Browne!”

  1. Vincent Codrington Avatar
    Vincent Codrington

    @ 45 govt at 11:28 AM

    I concur with sentiments expressed. It is always satisficing for many of us to point the index finger away from ourselves.

  2. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    @ 45govt
    This is not about victim hood. This is just trying to place all struggles in an historical context. Whether we like it or not people are conditioned by past experiences.
    I know we like to sweep reality under the carpet but change is never comfortable for all.
    Some bitter truths must be exposed.

  3. 45govt Avatar
    45govt

    WS – for how long? Israel now deals with Germany (though I wouldn’t), and the descendants of Allied troops beheaded by the barbarous Japanese fill their homes with their products. The trouble is that the longer this victim crutch is leaned on, the harder it becomes to throw it away. Every era has its victims, but to make that your defining emblem is self-defeating, and no one is interested in our history in the long run, ESPECIALLY the thieves now ruining the lives of their kith and kin – not at the orders of their commanders, but out of simple greed.

  4. Vincent Codrington Avatar
    Vincent Codrington

    @ 45 govt at 11:58 AM

    Greed is the fundamental problem and it comes in all colours and creeds.

  5. 45govt Avatar
    45govt

    Exactly Vincent, and has no regard for history any more than morality.

  6. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    @ 45govt
    I am not making historical injustices my “defining emblem”. You cannot discuss change in a vacum.
    Let us therefore agree to disagree.

  7. Lexicon Avatar
    Lexicon

    Vincent Codrington

    What you have failed to acknowledge in your characterization of the corruption that is deeply rooted in politics today, is the fact that the culture of that environment somehow transforms the will intended politician to the corrupted one.

    And this political culture is analogous to the Thin Blue Line we often see in law enforcement in America, and through the wider world…

  8. 45govt Avatar
    45govt

    @WS 🙂

  9. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    William Skinner,

    How the heck are we supposed to diagnose and correct a problem without putting it in context? 45 always bristles when WE speak about race but he is often the one bringing it into the discussion by speaking or posting ALL THINGS NEGATIVE about ALL black people.

  10. David Avatar
    David

    @redguard

    Appreciate the clarification. To your point don’t we need both?

  11. David Avatar
    David

    @William

    How does one deal with leadership to follow your line of comment?

  12. WARU Avatar
    WARU

    “I posit that anything you say requires disrupting can be addressed more effectively and efficiently with innovation, a commitment to excellence and continual improvement. We simply need to empower the right people.”

    …actually although mental enslavement is harder to DISMANTLE than physical enslavement which just required removing shackles and chains…this particular mental enslavement after decades…BECAME SELF INFLICTED…as many have BEGGED AND BESEECHED BLACK PEOPLE …particularly in the Caribbean….for many decades:

    “..EMANCIPATE YOURSELF FROM MENTAL SLAVERY…NONE BUT YOURSELF CAN FREE YOUR OWN MIND”

    “have no fear of atomic energy…cause none of them…STILL CANNOT TELL THE TIME.”

    The problem that STILL RESIDES IN THE BLACK MIND…when you give them even the smallest, tiniest control and power over each other…most of them still do the same backward SHITE…they are greedy, ignorant and backward….a new generation of intelligent black people who are capable of seeing furthur than GREED AND SELF ENRICHMENT…are solely needed.

    THE OLD SKUNKS IN BOTH DLP and BLP gotta go…ya do not even want their youth ams because they have already been infected and infested with the same cancerous poisons by the old guard of criminals and demons in those political parties that need to be forever EXILED out of the parliament.

  13. WARU Avatar
    WARU

    THE OLD SKUNKS IN BOTH DLP and BLP gotta go…ya do not even want their YOUTH ARMS…because….

  14. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    @ Donna
    Very few of us like to deal with the historical truth. Your point is taken.
    @ David
    I think that a new leadership will have to evolve. It is difficult to identify that within the duopoly.
    I don’t want to be wishy washy but we have a crisis in progressive leadership.
    Please note that progressive leadership does not have to exclusively come from within the dominant political class.

  15. Josh Avatar
    Josh

    Barbados Children’s Wear
    Reports are now coming out that officials in Barbados Children’s Wear are being accused of faulty accounting , Clement Jones has been accused of such and allegations are now being looked into

  16. WARU Avatar
    WARU

    Don’t really like quoting these lowlifes..but the comment does apply, now if ya EXPOSE those who are UNAFFECTED ENUFF…they will become JUST AS OUTRAGED…as their HELPLESS VICTIMS WHO ARE AFFECTED…

    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=377114689761567&set=a.114325162707189&type=3&eid=ARDxryDFOmC1C4aXug0ocJH2XUDrixtJ-5zImju4y5l5VkVovM8KnFIhcDcTMOyL91t57bcnUMMwjA8Z

  17. Lexicon Avatar
    Lexicon

    William Skinner

    “Very few of us like to deal with history truth”

    We seldom hear of the period in American History where African Americans owned their banks, hospitals, schools, businesses, and homes, prior to the Great Depression and subsistence/ welfare…

    You seldom hear of th Blacks who fought in every war in America’s history… from the Continental War of Independence to Iraq and Afghanistan…

    And how the Buffalo Soldier who was subjected to some of harsh conditions, and yet fought valiantly against Native Americans in the Midwest and won their respect as well as much territory for America…

  18. Lexicon Avatar
    Lexicon

    WARU

    So why would you quote the words of a slave owner then?

  19. Gabriel Avatar
    Gabriel

    Back to the subject of Dodds and the foolishness of Browne and Franklyn,in 2019 no junior officer in a disciplined force will ever be allowed to get away with insulting or disobeying a superior officer.In my opinion the Police Service,the Prison Service,the Fire Service,the Customs Service(the new to be named Border Security Division)must all be subject to full MILITARY DISCIPLINE as opposed to Civil Service discipline.The nonsense that resulted in the burning of Glendairy Prisons facilitated by the stupid actions and comments of one Gordon Matthews must never happen again in Barbados,
    Barbados is home to its citizens and those thousands who visit and share our space.All you dumbass politicians had better wake up to the reality of the danger of allowing anarchists, unions and anti democratic forces to spout their foolishness in Barbados,

  20. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    Two of the groups that support the status quo are the ruling elite and the submissive.

    Disruption is a word that cannot be embraced by the submissive Even the words that they use must be devoid of any radical ideas, The docile knows that their world need changing but they lack the courage to initiate such change. They sit and wait for the next innovation; perhaps life may be better then.

  21. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    Is Gabriel serious?
    What a load of jobby.

    When a man is elected to be the leader of a group that REPRESENTS a class of workers, that damn man has to be given the SAME level of respect as any man or woman or man/woman who is elected to represent groups – all the way up to the people of Barbados.

    Skippa, if you want to treat Brown as an individual in his own right, then Bushie would have to treat Mia as an individual in HER own right..
    …and you done KNOW how Bushie feels about Glendairy, School Meals contracts, Dodds, Crab Hill ……. etc etc etc

    BUT…Bushie RESPECTS the fact that PM Mottley is REPRESENTATIVE of the people collective vote and responds accordingly..

    YOU and Nurse MUST recognise and respect Mr Brown’s appointment….
    ..quite APART from the fact that a court found in his favour…. and the ruling has been ignored by government.

    Are you RH serious…?

  22. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Gabriel,

    Seems more to me that YOU are the dangerous one promoting anti-democratic behaviour in Barbados. You want to crack down on representation against authority. You want obedience without question. You want prisoners to have no recourse.

    You want the opposite to anarchy. Authoritarianism!

    That is no better than anarchy.

    We need to find balance. There will always be tension as parties flex their muscles. There is nothing wrong with that.

  23. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Oh oh!

    I have to learn to type faster. Again I am too slow. Bushie beat me to it!

  24. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    WARU,

    Most of those who see themselves as unaffected will NEVER be as outraged as those who see themselves as affected.

    A minority will be outraged and along with the masses they can be enough.

  25. Gabriel Avatar
    Gabriel

    We only have to look around us and see what might be Barbados’s lot, in the misconception of some well meaning citizens who do not think it can happen here.Jamaica,Trinidad,Guyana are all suffering the consequences of too much liberalism as opposed to realism.Even the UK,France,Germany,Greece,Spain are all falling to the anarchists hiding under the cloak of democracy because authority figures think ‘it can’t happen here’.

  26. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    Get a cold shower and come back Gabriel.
    The ABSOLUTE WORSE experiences that can be seen by looking around comes from AUTHORITARIAN NITWITS who sound just like you do – demanding unquestioned obedience.

    How come you were not this gung ho about obedience when Freundel ran things?

    You (of all people) are aware of Guyana’s plight – because of leaders who feel that they are laws unto themselves.

    Shiite man…
    YOU are the VERY last person that Bushie expected to come with that authoritarian shiite…

    Besides … you OBVIOUSLY don’t know Nurse….

    @ Donna
    Never mind being at one with Bushie… (ain’t it sweet?)
    We either need to quit talking in our sleep… or we will need to get different rooms.
    LOL
    ha ha ha

  27. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Gabriel,

    The problem is that the system is UNFAIR! It works for the rich and powerful ONLY. That is what you need to correct.

    The problem is the authority figures. They are the ones who need clamping down on.

    Can you really not see this?????????

  28. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Snap again, Bushie!

  29. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Gabriel,

    I don’t know Nurse but I know a whole lot about Browne. He is a very responsible FAMILY MAN. I would imagine that he carries that type of attitude into his work. He is no anarchist but he does not stand for foolishness. I would put my money on him anytime.

  30. Jean Avatar
    Jean

    @ogazerts
    True but so sad!!!

  31. WARU Avatar
    WARU

    “A minority will be outraged and along with the masses they can be enough.”

    oh they do exist..

    those who believe themselves untouchable are now OUTRAGED that they cannot STOP the exposure…that is ALSO enough for what’s ahead.

  32. WARU Avatar
    WARU

    Lexicon….

    this…

    now if ya EXPOSE those who are UNAFFECTED ENUFF…they will become JUST AS OUTRAGED…as their HELPLESS VICTIMS WHO ARE AFFECTED…

    is not what FRANLKIN SAID…if ya noticed…I twisted his words…what he said applied to HIS time…I had to TWIST IT. so it will APPLY TO OUR ERA…

  33. Vincent Codrington Avatar
    Vincent Codrington

    A few interventions before,I made the observation that we have to be careful in choosing persons for leadership positions. The leadership criteria that are fit for a particular position are not the criteria for selection to other positions. Crisis management is not civil management.

    David your precursive algorithm does not understand Greek syntax. I had to correct my verb twice. But that is machine intelligence for you. LOL!!!

  34. David Avatar
    David

    @Vincent

    Your snide observation is noted.

  35. Redguard Avatar
    Redguard

    @Theo

    Take what happened last year. An incompetent immoral DLP brought the country to its knees. The country was ripe for disruption, then elections were called, people voted and in the space of 24 hrs disruption was abated.
    But the truth is nothing changed, all the problems that were the catalysts still remain.

    Why is that?

    It is not that people are docile or submissive, instead people have bought in to the notion that the ballot box is the safest and most civil way to disrupt. This of course is nonsense but people take comfort in it because as Bushman says they are brassbowls and they will always choose what is easiest rather than what is right.

    What we need in Barbados are strong active professional non-partisan organisations who will provide citizens with the facts, details on best practice and recognised global leaders and analyses of our current systems regardless of who is in power.

    When faced with overwhelming facts, examples of good governance and best practice even the most insular of brassbowls will become activists and recognise the fight must continue regardless of elections, leaders must be held accountable from the first day on the job not 7 months in and leaders must have a vision and they must share it, justify it and defend it.

  36. WARU Avatar
    WARU

    More importantly…they must IMPLEMENT IT..and not just use it as a tool and weapon to BECOME ELECTED..and thereafter even REFUSE TO ACKNOWLEDGE that they made those FALSE PROMISES..to the electorate.

  37. Sir SimpleSimon Avatar
    Sir SimpleSimon

    @Gabriel January 3, 2019 7:26 AM “in 2019 no junior officer in a disciplined force will ever be allowed to get away with insulting or disobeying a superior officer.In my opinion the Police Service,the Prison Service,the Fire Service,the Customs Service(the new to be named Border Security Division)must all be subject to full MILITARY DISCIPLINE as opposed to Civil Service discipline.”

    I disagree.

    The police officers, the prison officers, the fire officers, the customs officers did NOT join the military. if they had wanted to be soldiers they would have joined the Barbados Defence Force. They did not.

    Civil servants. Civil discipline. If you try to impose military discipline on civil servants they will vote with their feet. Barbados thankfully is not a concentration camp. People can leave, and people will leave.

    Next thing we know people like you will be seeking to subject old ladies and gentlemen with canes to full MILITARY DISCIPLINE.

    Nope.

    I can’t happen.

    Not ’bout hay.

    Just yesterday I was saying that Barbados is still very much a post-slavery society. There are always people like you seeking to compel others, as though you feel like you is some kinda slave master, as though you feel like you own somebody.

    You don’t own anybody. In all likelyhood you can’t even discipline your own self, and seeking to dragoon others.

    Stupseee!!!

    Massa day dun dead.

  38. Sir SimpleSimon Avatar
    Sir SimpleSimon

    @Gabriel January 3, 2019 7:26 AM “The nonsense that resulted in the burning of Glendairy Prisons facilitated by the stupid actions and comments of one Gordon Matthews must never happen again in Barbados,”

    Glendairy prison burned because the prison was designed to house 300 people, and WE had permitted 1,000 human beings to be housed there. And then we acted surprised that the prisoners rebelled and burned the place to hell down. If you put 1,000 rats or 1,000 dogs in a place designed for 300 they too would rebel. What is truly surprising is that it did not happen before. And note that I am NOT blaming Mia since Glendairy Prison was over crowded long, long before Mia was born. Long before she was even conceived.

    My house was designed for 6 people. If you stuffed 20 people in here and kept the doors locked most of the time, we a loving family would also cut each others throats or burn the blasted place down.

    But I blame all ‘o WE. We by our inaction LET it happen.

    WE are to blame.

  39. Sir SimpleSimon Avatar
    Sir SimpleSimon

    @Bush Tea January 3, 2019 8:33 AM “AUTHORITARIAN NITWITS who sound just like you do – demanding unquestioned obedience.”

    And Gabriel, tobesides a simpleton like me can’t give anybody unquestioning obedience. Shite man. I stopped obeying my own parents when I was 12 years old. Respect yes, love yes, honour yes, until their deaths when I was well in my fifties.

    But unquestioning obedience.

    Nope.

    Can’t happen.

    Not ’bout hay.

  40. WARU Avatar
    WARU

    “Just yesterday I was saying that Barbados is still very much a post-slavery society. There are always people like you seeking to compel others, as though you feel like you is some kinda slave master, as though you feel like you own somebody.

    You don’t own anybody. In all likelyhood you can’t even discipline your own self, and seeking to dragoon others.

    Stupseee!!!

    Massa day dun dead.”

    …..jackass EXTRAORDINAIRE..both BLIND, DUMB and REFUSES TO WAKE THE HELL UP…BU is INFESTED…with these nuisances and THREATS to the SOCIAL freedom of BLACK bajans..

    https://www.facebook.com/iwantmoorr/videos/1762585020462637/?t=45

  41. T.Inniss Avatar
    T.Inniss

    .Imagine that.Not blaming Mia – but blaming everyone.wuhloss.

    When she was the Minister with responsibility for the Prisons.

    When she was warned by Rev. Gordon Matthews privately and then publicly – that if she didn’t look into the prisoners complaints – there would be unrest.

    Yet she sat on her fat boxy and did nothing .

    IMAGINE A COMMISION OF INQUIRY INTO THE BURNING DOWN OF THE PRISON – AND MIA WHO IS THE LINE MINISTER – WAS NOT CALLED TO TESTIFY BEFORE THAT COMMISSION.

    Where else would that happen huh?

  42. Gabriel Avatar
    Gabriel

    Inniss
    You should ask former Deputy president of the Senate Harold Crichlow if his life was threatened by some goons of the DLP, arising out of a stinging sermon he delivered live on Rediffusion just before the General Election in 1976 and for which act of preaching that sermon the Rev Gordon Mattthews called on Errol Barrow,Prime Minister to revoke the broadcast licence of the same Rediffusion.Gordon Matthews the “honorary white” who was so anointed by the apartheid regime of the Boer regime of South Africa who saw nothing wrong with denying Bajans the right to hear the ills of the society and was allowed into Glendairy under the cloak of religion and encouraged the prisoners to mischief,Then when Mia moved at lightning speed to save Bajans and tourists from marauding prisoners on the streets of Barbados the DLP spread untruths of cost over runs and all kinds of innuendo and lies fed by an inside source dubbed the Quisling.The DLP has always been the vagabond element in politics Barbados from when Tudor told tenants in the government housing districts not to pay rent.The DLP mindset is to commit any act that gives them a political advantage and the devil take the hindmost.

  43. T.Inniss Avatar
    T.Inniss

    Redguard

    I like your post at 10:53 a.m.

    I agree with most of your sentiments there.

  44. T.Inniss Avatar
    T.Inniss

    So Gabriel

    If all that is true – why didn’t Mottley who was A.G. – testify and tell all to the Commission of Enquiry.

    Mottley is a failure – because she has convinced sheep like you and others who wait on the fatted calf – that she has this outsize skill, enormous capacity, boundles intelligence – you name it.

    She got de vote and now we watching she lol – and we are not impressed at all, at all, at all.

  45. T.Inniss Avatar
    T.Inniss

    boundless intelligence * correction

  46. Gabriel Avatar
    Gabriel

    No diehard Dem likes a successful BLP candidate let alone a brilliant politically savvy contender cut in the cloth of Tomadams.When Tom died suddenly in ’85 one of your fellow Dems named Bernstein said “ah,we now got a chance to get back in”.Mia going kill wunna stinking Dems with efficiency and proper governance going forward and she might find the evidence and a few quislings who should ensure the bracelets and the perp walk become a reality of you Fatted Calf starve out Dems.

  47. T.Inniss Avatar
    T.Inniss

    Have a good night Gabriel.

    Don’t let the hate and bitterness suffocate you.

  48. Caswell Franklyn Avatar
    Caswell Franklyn

    Donna

    You commented:

    “Gabriel,

    I don’t know Nurse but I know a whole lot about Browne. He is a very responsible FAMILY MAN. I would imagine that he carries that type of attitude into his work. He is no anarchist but he does not stand for foolishness. I would put my money on him anytime”.

    I know Nurse from the time we were boys at Combermere and we had been friends for a long time. He chose to opt out of our friendship when I, as an industrial relations officer at NUPW, represented a member of staff at Dodds prison, who Nurse had violently abused. He turned on a hatred for me because I was performing my lawful duties.

    On the other hand I met Trevor Browne much later but I can endorse your testimonial.

    For Gabriel’s information, prison officers formed a division in NUPW up to 1982 when they decided to for an association and were tricked by Tom Adams into a legislated entity that took away all their trade union rights. As the law now stands, it is a criminal offence to even attend meetings of CTUSAB.

    When Nurse was appointed, he found a civilian prison and he set about transforming it into his own Glendiary Defence Force. He even recruited ex-soldiers who superseded most of the other officers and of course problems would start, as they did, but prison officers were hamstrung by the 1982 amendments to the law, which they came to believe was unconstitutional.

    In order to settle the question of unconstitutionality, the then Attorney General, Adriel Brathwaite, suggested that the officers should take the matter to court to have the matter settled. When the case was filed, certain persons in the prison, who were convinced of the officers case and who did not want to see their power reduced, started to make life extremely difficult for the officers who approached the court in a representative manner.

    In Browne’s personal case, he was interviewed for the post of Orderly Officer and was placed on a priority list. When his time for appointment came he was superseded despite the provisions of the Public Service Act. He went to court and was vindicated. As a result, the High Court made certain orders that so far the Government has refused to implement.

    Gabriel, how is Browne a villain in these circumstances.

  49. WARU Avatar
    WARU

    Gabriel is intent on abusing and violating this man’s human rights and also the human rights of bajans in the majority population…these jackasses are the ones who keep a SLAVE SOCIETY ALIVE..on the island…

  50. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ WARU & Caswell
    Gabriel is intent on abusing and violating this man’s human rights
    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
    Not necessarily true.
    Gabriel probably don’t know this Browne from the other Browne that the nation mixed up his picture with.
    Bushie also doubts that he knows Nurse – except in passing.
    Gabriel is quite simply a BLP yardfowl.

    When the DLP was doing shiite, Gabriel made outstandingly valid, principled contributions here on BU.
    We all thought that these positions were built on the PRINCIPLE of rightness.
    This change in government now allows us to identify the TRUE basis of his contributions
    – the PRINCIPLE of BLP self-interest.

    Gabriel is not alone.
    Prodigal Son was among other outstandingly principled defenders of what was ‘right’ – when the DLP was doing shiite.

    It is now CLEAR to Bushie that if the DLP had turned out to be a righteous government, then these bloggers would have been cussing and insulting them – like we have seen with some DEFENDERS of the shiitehound party-interests.

    The MOST IMPRESSIVE thing about BU to Bushie has been the UNEXPECTEDLY large number of persons whose PRINCIPLES have transcended that of the political shiitehounds we have been cursed with.
    Caswell stands out for his PUBLIC, high-profile stances….. but Piece, Artax, WARU, Donna, SSS, and so many others here have been able to base their positions on RIGHTEOUS PRINCIPLES, that Bushie is almost tempted to think that we have a chance of survival…

    Most of all of course, Blogmaster David has been a paragon of virtue and principle
    – even when he allows his optimism to cloud reality…

    BU is EASILY the most EDUCATIONAL entity to have impacted Barbados in the last decade,
    HOWEVER, unless these principled persons take a stand to influence NATIONAL policy, we will ALL end up in the plimplers….

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