There has always been consensus by the BU family that at the root of our problems is an irrelevant and dysfunctional education system. It was therefore important to listen to Minister of Education Santia Bradshaw as she and her team appeared before the 2019 House Appropriation Debate – Standing Finance Committee OWN the problems with a promise to reform the education system.
It was interesting to note Bradshaw’s assessment of the current education system if compared to her predecessor Ronald Jones. He offered no similar critiques during his lengthy tenure as minister of education. What a difference a general election makes!
A poignant moment came in the presentation when Minister Bradshaw stated that problems identified by the criterion test at 9 years old were not remediated before the child had to do the 11+. It there translated to young children condemned as failures by society. Some may suggest another poignant moment occurred when the Prime Minister asked Chief Education Officer what recommendation would she make to improve the leadership in the schools. Her response will floor you!
Watch Santia Bradshaw, Minister of Education, Technological and Vocational Training share the challenges and opportunities faced by her ministry.
A must listen for all Barbadians!
Just like when the shit was running in the streets…impacting the water supply, am sure they too …the delusional in parliament..will pretend that this is not happening..
http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/238773/us-embassy-issues-travel-advisory
The will of Col Henry Drax provided for the establishment in 1695 of a ‘Free School’ ostensibly for poor whites in Barbados.In 1819 this school was named for a former Governor of Barbados Viscount Combermere,a Welsh born soldier and diplomat born Stapleton Cotton.No wonder another Welsh born soldier and headmaster extraordinaire Major Cecil Noott of Harverford-West,Pembrokeshire saw to it that that School played a significant role in the life and times of his beloved Barbados,which the Major contended was his second home and birth place of his daughter Jacqueline.
At the special assembly commemorating the 300th anniversary of the founding of the school,attended by the Major’s wife Kathleen and daughter Jacqueline,then Very Rev Dean Harold Crichlow,Dean of St Michael’s Cathedral and former Head Boy of the school suggested it would be a fitting tribute to the Drax family that the school be renamed to reflect the contribution made by the that family to what is now the oldest school in the entire Commonwealth and the first to offer secondary education to lower class blacks.
When was Eton founded? When was Harrow founded?
It was distressing to read in the local press of the treatment meted out to children at one of our schools by a principal.That such an animal should be allowed near children is one of the reasons there is such disarray in our education plant.
I am opposed to corporal punishment of any kind.I am opposed to mixing the sexes at primary and secondary levels.Strongly opposed.Its troubling that this practice continues when so many teachers know it is very very bad for many students.No wonder there are so many hooligans let loose on this country every July.
Who will bell the cat!!Definitely not the clueless Ms Wigs and Head Mats.Clueless and out of her element from the time appointed by the other clueless JA minister.
“it would be a fitting tribute to the Drax family that the school be renamed to reflect the contribution.”
ah the Drax family of demons, racists, slaveowning pedophile rapists of black children…no wonder that abuse and rape of black children is still so prevalent on the island today…
what is the point of renaming all these schools. i dont even know the location of some of them when i hear the names.
at any rate, all Cawmerians know the history of Combermere. it is what is it. and no, Combermere will stay Combermere, Cawmere or more recently the University of Waterford thank unnuh please
Continual assessment is pure jobby and lots of work for already stressed out teachers.
the common entrance exam may need a bit of tweaking but it is a reasonable way to transition to sec school. prepare and you will pass. i did and i was a poor poor black boy. and lots of other poor poor black boys passed too.
it is what happens at the particular schools that matters. not everyone is going to be academic and some pick up later in life whilst others fall away.
what i believe is necessary are technical schools in addition to conventional sec schools. i mean trade schools including animal husbandry and agricultural practices not becos you are not good at academics but becos you want to learn a trade or are genuinely interested in technical subjects
the UK got rid of its equivalent CE exam and the results are no better than before
another thing- sec schools need to be single sex until 6th form
@Greene
You are aware the system does not now accommodate students requiring remediation?
You are aware new ways of teaching subjects have been discovered?
You are aware the only thing constant is change?
thanks David
all that is news to me
and i mean that in the most sarcastic way possible
I,fortunately,went to a primary school at a time when there’s was no such thing as homework.This allowed us to play endless cricket with some sides having 20 boys and the wait to bat was as long as Christmas took to come.So we had endless rules even second hop out! Hit a ball in a well.Out!Break a window pane,Out plus reparations by the parent.Hit a ball in a gully,Out!Miss two balls, Out!
@Gabriel
Good point.
There is the view teachers are shirking on delivering the syllabus to children which explains the explosion of obligatory ‘private lessons’ children have to take to pass CEE etc.
Continuous assessment of teachers is the only way to redress this matter.
@ Mr Vincent Codrington
You expressed concern about the VPN suggestion that i made to Barbados Underground
So let me explain the Central Purpose of that proposal.
99% of the BU users/readers are ICT “unaware” euphemism for they have no clue about what a computer can do for them AND MORE SPECIFICALLY against them.
https://i.imgur.com/2Xk9c37.jpg
This is a heat map, (compliments of digitalmarketingschool.in which provides a signature of where your mouse, and mine, and those of other internet users produce when they use any website.
It lets me know who clicked on what and which articles got the most read and linger etc. Or let me say that “IT USES YOUR MOUSE TO RAT YOU OUT”
It is in the interest of the Honourable Blogmaster and Charles Jong, to SEE WHAT USERS ARE DOING for various reasons, the Blogmaster for the most part does this to optimize the site while Jong would be interested in user interests and use that to complexion their social messaging essays.
I must say that I had three objectives
(i) The first was to protect all of wunna from the trickery that these fellers does use to encroach on your Hardrives, SPYING THAT THE DLP & THE BLP subscribe to BECAUSE THEY HATE THE POWER OF SOCIAL MEDIA and they hate BU even more.
(ii) The second was a test to see if the Honourable Blogmaster was committed to protecting users
(iii) And the third was to generate $$ for the BU platform because its model needs $$ to operate and what David of BU does needs to be paid while also making $$ meself on your subscriptions to the best VPN on the internet, IF WUNNA HAD SUBSCRIBED TO THE PLATFORM.
So I have declared my full interests in such a solution for every one of you viewers.
Note that I also responded to comments that one the tripartite iterations of the Honourable Blogmaster made and further, I have asked specific questions of the BU Collective, NONE OF WHICH WERE ANSWERED UP TO THIS POST.
But I understand why and those of you who understand that the Original David of BU, is not all 3 of the BU BORG will comprehend what is going on.
BU IS THE LAST BASTION OF FREE SPEECH ON THE LOCAL LANDSCAPE at 2018 and it is in their interest to secure their platform and to advocate that their users do the same
Let me give you a set of drivel.
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This is what happens on each of your machines when (a) you log on to any harvesting site and (ii) when you post, well let de ole man not bore you with what happens then but look down at the left bottom of your browser
I constantly admonish 2 of the 3 BU BORD that this Social Commentary IS NOT GAME, and it is a matter of LIFE & DEATH for all of us, either by the normal effluxion of time, and the suffering under the DESPOT MUGABE MOTTLEY, or, depending on who you offend, sooner.
BUT THEN AGAIN, nuff of wunna who post here are lost in NeverNever land coolaid servings that the HoA affords with its “Ministers and Ministers in the Ministry of…” and are just passing through and going do whatever it takes to survive under MUGABE
ALL HAIL MUGABE!!!
“every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets”
—-W Deming via Sir Fuzzy
The Common Entrance Examination is one of the cornerstones of class based privilege in Barbados. I am a product of that privilege, but I am a traitor to my class.
It is no surprise that the system works so well to achieve that end because it was designed originally to perpetuate White supremacist ideology. The changes that have been made around the edges, to accommodate brown skins and more than a single gender, have not fundamentally altered the fact that the system was designed to perpetuate power imbalances of a status quo.
@ PUDRYR at 7:28 PM
Thanks for responding. Thanks for your concerns for the integrity of the system.
RE The Common Entrance Examination is one of the cornerstones of class based privilege in Barbados.
THIS IS UNTRUE
WHEN I ATTENDED HC, AS A RESULT OF THE FIRST CEE, I WAS SURROUNDED BY THE SONS OF THE POOR WHO WERE BRIGHT THE SONS OF SOME ELITE FOLK OF PRIVILIGE
THE DRS SONS WERE THERE , THE PM’S SON WAS THERE- AND DAVID WAS NOT BRIGHT AT ALL- THE DIPLOMATS SONS WERE THERE, THE WHITE PEOPLE SONS WERE THERE ETC
WHEN MY SONE TOOK THE EXAM 25 YEARS LATER HIS DR SONS PRIMARY SCHOOL FRIENDS DID NOT GET INTO HC, AS ONE MIGHT HAVE EXPECTED– THEY HAD TO GO TO FOUNDATION.
BEING WHITE OR BEING IN ANY OF THE ABOVE CATEGORIES NO LONGER GUARANTEE YOU A PLACE AT HC………AND THIS IS PART OF THE PROBLEM!
@ David Bu
The present system does allow for remedial teaching. That is the purpose of putting students in schools roughly according to similar achievement levels. There was a time when the then called second grade schools had lower 1st and upper 1st etc. And streams A,B and Cs at the then named first grade schools. The teachers were expected to take longer on the syllabi. Some pupils would take 7 years to “O” levels ; most 5 years.
Teacher appraisals are a joke. A rigorous selection process and a probation period of two terms are more reliable.
The trades area to which we want to relegate the slow learners require the same level of cognitive skills….communication and measurement.
@ GP at 8:15 PM
I rather suspect that this talk of failure of the 11 + exam is to accommodate the neo- meritocracy.
RE @ GP at 8:15 PM
I rather suspect that this talk of failure of the 11 + exam is to accommodate the neo- meritocracy.
I HAVE BELIEVED THIS FOR A WHILE NOW, SIR!
@Ping Pong March 6, 2019 7:53 AM “Try again if the objective is to ensure that the children of Fort George Heights attend Parkinson.”
Except that the people in Fort George Heights can choose not to send their children to Parkinson. The can choose to send them to a private school.
Interesting to hear the response from our hardworking Chief Education Officer
@WARU, Crazy & Unstable, Hogging the Blog March 6, 2019 8:27 AM “And just to reinforce how toxic the education system is…cause am sure most have already forgotten..just recently a very bright boy child at Grantley Adams school, a natural born leader, stood up for his and his fellow students human rights when the government changed and placed their toxic yardfowls in the school canteen to serve the children bad food…and the kids protested and refused to buy food that could poison them and which cost more than their parents could afford this child was sentenced to 2 months at home for standing up for his rights and those of his fellow students and then the same ministry of miseducation after punishing the child for 2 months withholding his education tried to torment and punish him even further by attempting to drag him off to a distant school for troubled kids clear across the other side of the island.”
Not true.
Even the child’s father publicly admitted that his son was not punished for protesting, but for another infraction, which can’t be mentioned publicly because the boy is still a minor.
The food in the canteen was not bad or poisonous food, but good 7th Adventist fare. Aren’t the Adventist the longest living religious group in the United States, and likely in Barbados too. A low salt, low fat, low sugar diet is good for all of us.
Although i must admit that I too like the high salt, high fat, high sugar diet. But yes it is killing me, hence my multiple chronic non-communicable diseases.
Those of us who know the family/extended family know that the boy had lived not mostly with his publicity seeking father, but with his aunt who lived a short distance to the rural school to which he was being sent.
See page 6 of today’s Nation “Withdrawn from Lockerbie” if wunna think that parents and their spokespeople, and their media “agents” are a bunch of angels.
@Ping Pong March 6, 2019 7:16 AM “Mr Kirk Humphrey asked an insightful question which was not directly addressed by Ms Bradshaw. He asked what accounts for two groups of students having almost identical CE marks but after going to different secondary schools, having very different academic outcomes?”
I don’t know what is is Kirk’s head or Santia’s head.
But I would suppose that the 11+ marks alone are not destiny.
I suppose that some children from all social classes, and with all sorts of 11+ grades decide at some point decide to make something positive with their lives. And some with the same grades, and from the same socio-economic circumstances make decisions which have negative consequences.
Why this happens?
I don’t know either.
Sometimes politicians confuse their legitimate authority with power. The Ministry may well have the legitimate authority to put teachers on contract. Easy enough.
But how can they make teachers stay in the system? In truth the Ministry has no power to compel teachers to stay. There is a worldwide shortage of English speaking teachers and principals. Our teachers can vote with their feet. Unless that is, Karen plans like Trump, to build “a big beautiful wall” around Barbados, a wall which would compel teachers and principals to stay in Barbados.
Otherwise the teachers will leave, and in such circumstances the best ones will leave first.
And how will our grandchildren be better off?
This is a thing most strange
THe Minister of Education Santia Bradshaw was full of praise for a likkle camera that allowed her to stay in her bed in the United States or wherever and communicate with the archaic Ministry of Education officials
I think she even mentioned Chesterfield’s name and all that sort of thing when she and her classroom of dutiful students sat down in that memorable configuration of classrooms heretofore.
What is my point? It is a rather simple one really
Here is the Minister of Education expressing amazement that in 2019 she is overseas communicating with her officers where Skype and demio and eerybody else is been dere and done that.
She and all of her staff should be ashamed AS WELL SHOULD BE MUGABE that after spending US$236 million due to the kind intervention of the Late Pamela McKell nee Williams Resident Representative of the InterAmerican Development Bank, that we are so effing far behind IN THE SIMPLEST OF THINGS
Illuminat became multimillionaires out of this shyte and here she is shouting praise for shyte technology
De whole effing system should have been connected by now so tht all of these primary and secondary schools should all be effing linked
Any so and so company could set up the backbone to cover the whole baskside island’s schools so that all this educational inequity would disappar overnight
We should be effing ashamed of ourelves.
This is the reason that the legendary Arthur of Camelot has an effing Round table so that no Kinight would feel more privileged than the other.
The Internet, properly designed and implemented would “equalize” all of these better schools and wusser schools overnight barring instances where there was a physical constraint and requirement for laboratories and workshops.
The authors of and beneficiaries from the Edutech fiasco should be brought to a court and tried and made to make restitution for these millions of dollars that we are still paying for
This is wickedness of the highest order BUT HEAH WE IS, in 2019, lamenting why Harsun College ent able to teach de same curriculum as Princess Margaret WHEN, after a student get dem as.s kick at Princess Margaret at 10.05am de video at Harsun College at 10.06am
Steupseee
Wunna ent ready and jes for dat Mugabe gine rape wunna scvunt in this Dictatorship
@ the Honourable Blogmaster, your asistance please with an item here for anyone who is interested in my accustomed drivel
@Hal Austin at 8:38 A.M. “parents who in many instances could not read or write, or not very advanced. But they understood the value of education.”
I agree with much of what you said at 8:38 A.M.
Not only did these parents understand the value of education, but they cherished education for their children, and were willing to make sacrifices to ensure that their children got some of this good thing.
Too many parents don’t seem to hold those values anymore. And I am not sure that we know how to get those values back.
@Georgie Porgie March 6, 2019 9:48 AM “WE ALSO NEED THE OLD GARDENER SAGE TO COME TELL US HOW SHE WOULD IMPLEMENT AGRICULTURE IN THE SCHOOL SYSTEM.”
I am not a health professional. (You have already thanked God for that)
I am not a teacher. (You can give God thanks for this as well)
But a few of our youngsters went to HC, QC, BCC, UWI, and to other places of higher education and some earned scholarships too. Because their parents, yea, including even me, lolll!!! even while earning a living took a deep interest in the education of the next generation.
My parents have a 14 grandchildren, and all but one have graduated from university, or are about to graduate within the next eighteen months. A good number have advanced degrees, up to the doctoral level. One is currently completing completing her doctoral program in education
We are a completely ordinary, rural, working class, ZR catching Bajan family. We work hard. We love and support one another. Actually it ain’t that hard.
We learned from our parents to work hard, to pay attention to our children, to teach them to work hard, to love and support each other.
So “no” I have no formal training in education, no expertise and so “no” I cannot advise the Minister about including agriculture in the curriculum, nor about anything else
@Sargeant March 6, 2019 12:43 PM “A more important question is why do politicians have to go overseas for treatment.”
The short answer: They don’t have to.
The long answer: Some of us Bajans don’t want anybody who knows us, or who knows somebody who knows us, to see us when we are down, when we are vomiting, when we cannot feed ourselves, when we cannot toilet ourselves, when we cannot bathe ourselves, when we cannot dress ourselves.
We feel that being seriously ill, that needing help to do the tasks of daily living is a sign of weakness.
And that people will see us a weak, and that they will laugh at us.
Simple…give it up…ya too biased in favor of that jackass principal….and against the child..
SIMPLE BULL SHITTER
RE So “no” I have no formal training in education, no expertise and so “no” I cannot advise the Minister about including agriculture in the curriculum, nor about anything else
YOU THINK I DONT KNOW THAT
YOU THINK I DONT KNOW THAT YOU ARE JUST A NIT PICKER AND BULL SHITTER AND AN IRRITANT?
Piece Uh De Rock Yeah Right March 6, 2019 11:00 PM
IT IS TRUTE YOU AH TELL SIR
WHEN THE PRIMEWICKER WAS IMPLEMENTING EDUTECH THE MORON CINTY THEN HER ASSISTANT IN EDCATION COULD NOT SEE THE VALUE IN A THEN INEXPENSIVE BUT SIMPLE TEACHING TOOL FOR ARITHMETIC THAT LOWLY PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS TO WHOM I SHOWED IT IN MY OFFICE EASILY APPRECIATED ITS VALUE
WE HAVE BOTH DEVILS AND DUMMIES IN HIGH PLACES
INFERIOR SUPERIOTS THEY ARE
WE HAVE INDEED BECOME A FAILED STATE
THE MOE IS NOW LED BY YUL BRYNER OF WENT TO ANTIGUA FOR PILES TREATMENT ANCESTRY AND THE FAT WOMAN OF WIGS AND IN THE BACKGROUND, THE PRIMEWICKER THE DICTATOR STIRRING THE POT
WUNNA CAN CUSS ME BUT TOO MANY WOMEN DOWN DEY
BY DE WAY JONESING WAS SORT OF A WOMAN I HEAR
WE HAVE BOTH DEVILS AND DUMMIES IN HIGH PLACES
INFERIOR SUPERIOTS THEY ARE
WE HAVE INDEED BECOME A FAILED STATE
BARE SPORT IN DE RUM SHOP
ONE OF THE PROBLEMS OF EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS IS THAT TEACHERS DONT KNOW HOW TO KEEP IT SIMPLE AND FIND INNOVATIVE WAYS TO SIMPLIFY CONCEPTS
I WAS AGED 22 AND NOT A TRAINED TEACHER WHEN I PRESENTED AT ST LEONARD’S BOYS AND ASSIGNED THE DUMBEST BOYS I HAD EVER MET IN MY LIFE
I MUST TEACH THE CONCEPT THAT ALL THE ATOMS OF AN ELEMENT ARE SIMILAR TO THAT OF THE SAME ELEMENT BUT DIFFERENT TO THAT OF DIFFERENT ELEMENTS
I ILLUSTRATED THAT BY REFERRING TO A CONCEPT THAT ALL BAJAN BOYS HOWEVER DUMB COULD COMPREHEND……………SALT BREADS AND SWEET BREADS.
LESSON LEARNED………AND WITH GLEE!
SIMPLE SIMPLE SO!
MANY YEARS LATER I AM TEACHING A CLASS OF MEDICAL STUDENTS IN BIOCHEMISTRY ALPHA 1-4 & ALPHA 1-6 BONDING IN MONOSSACHARIDES ALSO USED FOR AMMINO ACID CHAINS
STAND I SAY
HOLD HANDS
YOU HAVE JUST MADE AN ALPHA 1-4 BOND
YOU HAVE NO MORE HANDS WITH WHICH TO BOND
WHAT CAN YOU DO?
STAND ON ONE LEG AND STICK OUT THE NEXT WHILE CONTINUING TO HOLD HANDS TO MAINTAIN YOUR ALPHA 1-4 BOND
LESSON LEARNED………AND WITH GLEE!
USED ALSO TO ILLUSTRATE PRIMARY BONDING IN PROTEINS FOR ONLINE STUDENTS
SIMPLE SIMPLE SO!
NOW FOR SECONDARY HYDROGEN BONDING IN PROTEINS
WHILE CONTINUING IN THAT POSTURE ALL THE BOYS (ELECTROPHILES) APPROACH THE GIRLS
THEY CAN SEE HOW THE CHAIN OF AMMINO ACID (bodies) MOVE TO ADOPT THE FINAL CONFIGURATION OF THE NASCENT PROTEIN
LESSON LEARNED………AND WITH GLEE!
SIMPLE SIMPLE SO!
“AND THE FAT WOMAN OF WIGS AND…….”
Who lòoks just like what s/he eats so lustily.
NOW I LOVE ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
THE NIGHT BEFORE I TOOK FINALS I FOUND A LITTLE BOOK IN THE CAVE HILL LIBRARY THAT TAUGHT THAT THERE ARE ONLY 5 REACTIONS IN ORGANIC CHEMISTRY, AND I WONDERED WHY NO ONE HAD NEVER SAID THAT TO ME IN CLASS EVER
IF I HAD TO TEACH ORGANIC CHEMISTRY, I WOULD INVEST A MONTH OR SO MASTERING THESE FIVE MECHANISMS AND ENSURING THAT THE STUDENTS COULD RECOGNIZE THEM QUICKLY
THE REST OF THE TIME WOULD BE LIKE DRINKING SOUP!
FOR THOSE HERE WITH CHILDREN STUDY ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
THE FIVE REACTION MECHANISMS ARE
1- ELECTROPHILIC ADDITION
2 ELECTROPHILIC SUBSTITUTION
3 NUCLEOPHILIC ADDITION
4 NUCLEOPHILIC SUBSTITUTION
5 RE-ARRANGEMENT
FOR INORGANIC CHEMISTRY,
MASTER THE CONCEPT OF TRENDS DOWN A GROUP AND ACROSS A PERIOD
MASTER BONDING
AND YOU CAN WORK OUT EVERYTHING ELSE
YOU DONT HAVE TO LEARN THINGS BY HEART AS WE DID AT SCHOOL IN MY DAY EXCEPT FOR CERTAIN ANOMALOUS REACTIONS
BUT DONT MIND ME
SIMPLE SCUM WOULD TELL YOU IM SECOND NOT FIRST
IM A DAMN GOOD SECOND AINT I
EVERYTIME YOU SEE A POLYCLINIC IN BARBADOS EXERCISING AS OUR NHS YOU SEEING THE IDEA OF A SECOND WORKING
Simple
Among other things you are a stranger to the truth. In other words you are a proven liar.I for one won’t read your nonsense.
Who heard the snippet in the news from an educator who shared a view that to change terms of conditions to contract for principals will require a more relevant appraisal system?
From what was shared an appraisal for a principal now takes the form of an interview with a peer and a couple officers from the MoE.
@ Piece Uh De Rock Yeah Right March 6, 2019 11:00 PM
“This is the reason that the legendary Arthur of Camelot has an effing Round table so that no Kinight would feel more privileged than the other.
The Internet, properly designed and implemented would “equalize” all of these better schools and wusser schools overnight barring instances where there was a physical constraint and requirement for laboratories and workshops.”
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Right on target there, Master Piece!
Let all children have access to the Internet- both at school and extra-curriculum- and then you would see who is smart or who is forced-fed in order to shine academically because of their socio-economic polish called ‘special’ privileges.
ICT can be the transformational instrument in the area of education and vocational training turning the dictatorial pedagogue into an unbiased facilitator.
Such leveling of the educational playing-field through equal access to ICT resources would result in the socio-economic benefits which even those with disabilities would find ‘enviously appealing’.
@PLT
“it was designed originally to perpetuate White supremacist ideology.”
I know how you love this ideology. Yet, isn’t it the private school system which was so designed and not the public? Wasn’t the idea that if your offspring could get into a school you considered OK, they attended. If not, there were the Presentations, Mapps, St.Winifreds, Convent, Codringtons etc etc which were there to serve those who could afford them.
For 3 years, my opening bat partner was from St.Andrew, the only in his family to attend a school other than the Alleyne. One of the better bowlers was from St.Peter, playing against CP was a homecoming for him. These boys were from poor families. We (team) all knew those who were from less privileged backgrounds and they were afforded first grabs at the food, which included a certain amount in the cap “for later”.
Clearly, if your family could afford good early primary education and possibly tutoring, you had an advantage come the CEE. But it still allowed those who had the academic abilities, without that privilege to compete and be successful. And many did.
@GEORGIE PORGIE March 7, 2019 8:21 AM “IM A DAMN GOOD SECOND AINT I.”
Not really. Couldn’t get work as a physician in America could you?
@GEORGIE PORGIE March 7, 2019 8:21 AM “EVERYTIME YOU SEE A POLYCLINIC IN BARBADOS EXERCISING AS OUR NHS YOU SEEING THE IDEA OF A SECOND WORKING.”
Not really. My mother started her final pregnancy in July 1958 and attended the clinic in Speightstown. The clinic was long located right next to Elmer’s supermarket, in the tall narrow 3 story building, near to where the bank and public library are now located. Nurse Marjorie Mayers worked at that clinic, and Nurse Holita Horton, both ladies (now departed) were old enough to be your mother. I too attended that clinic from the time I was at elementary school. I attended the dentist at that clinic as well. My brother, before migrating worked briefly from that clinic as a public health inspector. My brother was born in the 1940’s. You were at elementary school during the the early 60’s. That clinic housed the public health inspectorate, a dentist, at least two nurses that can I remember, at least one doctor, did prenatal care, immunizations, provided contraceptive services (the pill). I used to pick up the contraceptive pills for an older married cousin who had five children and opted not to have any more) elder care and the regular cuts and scrapes care while you were still a boy at elementary school. The Enmore clinic, opposite the QEH was in operation too during that time, probably was in operation long, long before you were born, and providing the same services as at Speightstown
In July 1958, you were 6 years old.
You created the polyclinic service in Barbados, just like how Columbus “discovered’ the “new” world.
Neither you nor Columbus did as claimed.
This int nit picking. This is truth telling. I keep telling people if you want to tell lies, please to wait until i am dead.
Why they name a clinic after Maurice Byer and int name none after you?
@WARU, Crazy & Unstable, Hogging the Blog March 7, 2019 3:18 AM “Simple…give it up…ya too biased in favor of that jackass principal….and against the child.”
You are the one who needs to give it up. I have NEVER been biased against ANY child. You may not want to hear the truth.
But if you don’t want to hear the truth, please to wait until i am dead. Thank you.
Some ‘o de children, and some ‘o de parents int no sweet breads.
But politicians feel the need to please the people. The people after all=votes. And politicians love votes love votes just like how vampires love blood.
http://historyforumcavehillcampus.blogspot.com/2016/09/the-development-of-some-health-care.html
The Speightstown Health Center was officially opened on 1st July 1953 by Colonial Governor Sir Robert Arundell making it the first parochial approach to organized public health on the island.[8] One month before its official opening, Dr. Maurice Byer was appointed its first Medical Health Officer with Sister Aurora Waters, who had recently completed her public health training in Jamaica and Trinidad, acting as Public Health Nurse. Nurses M. Mayers and B. Payne were added to the staff in September as junior Public Health Nurses while Mr. E. Baird acted as sanitary officer from 15th February 1954.
There you go again trying to cover up the criminal neglect of the children, generations of them by the useless ministry of education….who continue to promote an outdated, equally useless racist education system…
When ya fix the leaders…then work on fixing the parents…ya leaders are the problem…them int no “sweetbread” either..
…..how do you think the parents and their offspring got like that…show me just one good role model out of any of those demons in parliament, the churches or anyone in leadership roles the last 40 years…just one…if ya show me 10…the question will be…so why has everything now degraded on the island…if ya had strong, decent, honest leaders…why is the place a now famously, world renowned, corrupt pit..
All those mentioned did wonderful work, especially excellent preventative health work in the huge catchment area of that clinic in the 1950’s, 60’s 70’s. The public health inspectors were always out in the communities, and when the nurses were not in the clinic they were out on the road, walking out their shoe leather with house to house visits, especially to homes of pregnant and lactating mothers and to homes in which young children lived.
If poly means many. It was a polyclinic, although the people in the community referred to it simply as “the clinic”, as it provided multiple health services to the community.
I must admit though, I took the excellent care for granted. The nurses from that cllnic came to my rural elementary school sometime before August 1962 and delivered the oral polio vaccine to all 135 or so of us. this vaccine only came into commercial use in 1961, so the Ministry of health and the medical staff at the clinic were on the ball. Did not waste any time in vaccinating all of us.
WARU, Crazy & Unstable, Hogging the Blog March 7, 2019 10:26 PM “how do you think the parents and their offspring got like that…show me just one good role model out of any of those demons in parliament, the churches or anyone in leadership roles”
Sensible people don’t look to politicians, celebrities or public figures for role models.
Typically such people have monstrous egos, and are not good role models. Many are not even good role models to their own children.
SIMPLE SIMON
YOU ARE A LOATHSOME PIECE OF SCUM
@GEORGIE PORGIE March 7, 2019 8:21 AM “IM A DAMN GOOD SECOND AINT I.”
Not really. Couldn’t get work as a physician in America could you?
I HAVE NEVER TRIED OR WANTED TO JACK ASS
I MADE THAT DECISION IN 1980
CAME HERE TO DO REAL ESTATE WHICH WAS MY REAL PASSION
IF I HAVE OVER 100 STUDENTS WHOM I TAUGHT WORKING IN THE USA WHO TOOK THE ECFMG OVER 25 YEARS AFTER I PASSED IT DONT YOU THINK THAT I COULD HAVE WORKED HERE TOO IF I WANTED TOO
YOU ARE A NASTY PIECE OF SHIT THAT SHOOTS YOUR SHIT AND DONT KNOW WHAT YOU TALKING ABOUT
@GEORGIE PORGIE March 7, 2019 8:21 AM “EVERYTIME YOU SEE A POLYCLINIC IN BARBADOS EXERCISING AS OUR NHS YOU SEEING THE IDEA OF A SECOND WORKING.”
YOUR DIATRIBE ABOUT THE OLD HEALTH CENTERS STARTED DR MAURICE BYER THE FATHER OF PUBLIC HEALTH IN BARBADOS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE POLYCLINICS
WHICH CAME TO BE IN THE 80’S
THE SERVICES OFFERED BY THE OLD HEALTH SERVICES CAN NOT COMPARE WITH THOSE OFFERED BY THE POLYCLINICS
GO AND ASK VICTOR JORDAN OR OBRIEN TROTMAN WHO BROUGHT THE PROPOSAL TO THEM ABOUT RUNNING THE NHS THAT THE THEN DECEASED TOM ADAMS HAD FAILED TO IMPLEMENT BETWEEN 1976 & 1985 FROM A SERIES OF POLYCLINICS
GO AND ASK JOHNSON WHO TOLD HIM WHERE CLINICS SHOULD BE CITED AND AT THE JUNCTIONS OF WHICH HIGHWAYS
GO AND ASK JOHNSON WHERE I TOLD HIM THAT AND UNDER WHAT CONDITIONS
I STILL HAVE THE LETTER THAT TOM ADAMS WROTE ME IN RESPONSE TO THAT PROPOSAL
Why they name a clinic after Maurice Byer and int name none after you?
GO AND ASK THEM
THAT IS A NON SEQUITUR AND IRRELEVENT
I DONT WANT ANY THING NAMED AFTER ME DOWN HERE
I WANT MY NAME WRITTEN DOWN WHERE IT REALLY MATTERS IN THE LAMBS BOOK OF LIFE
WHY DID THEY NOT NAME ONE AFTER VAUGHAN WELLS OR THE LATE PROFESSOR STANDARD THE MAN THAT STARTED THE SATELLITE CLINICS AT GALL HILL AND THE GLEBE OUT OF SIX ROADS?
WHY DID THEY NOT NAME ONE AFTER SO MANY PEOPLE OTHERS LIKE K R RAO WHO TAUGHT ME PREVENTATIVE MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH ALONG WITH MAURICE BYER
OR SISTER LENORA JACKMAN
WHY DID THEY NOT NAME ONE AFTER YOU OR YOUR MOTHER?
YOU ARE A NASTY STINKING PIECE OF SCUM JUST LIKE BUSH TEA, ALWAYS TRYING TO PUT DOWN PEOPLE
I SAY IT A GAIN
GP IS A DAMN GOOD SECOND
AND SHIT LIKE YOU WILL NOT AND CANNOT DETRACT FROM MY CONTRIBUTION
TALK ABOUT WHAT YOU KNOW YA NASTY STINKING LIAR
YOU HAVE A NASTY MIND LIKE A SEWER
YOU CAN LIE LIKE A HORSE CAN TROT
THIS PIECE OF SHIT WANT TO TELL ME THE HISTORY OF PUBLIC HEALTH IN BARBADOS
SHITTY SEWER SIMPLE SIMON I GOT IT RIGHT FROM THE HORSES MOUTH FROM MAURICE BYER HIMSELF. FROM THE MAN HIMSELF VIR IPSE!
HE TAUGHT ME ALL ABOUT IT MISS SHIT!
I DONT WAIT FOR SHIT AND SEWER SCUM LIKE YOU TO COME TO TELL ME ABOUT THE ORIGINS OF THE HEALTH CLINICS OR POLYCLINICS
YOU ARE A NASTY STINKING LIAR AND YOU DONT KNOW WHAT YOU TALKING BOUT AT ALL
GO BACK TO YOUR LIAR YA DEVIL GO AND FORK THE GROUND
GO IN THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FIND THE SAME PROPOSAL I SENT TO TOM ADAMS IN 1985 WHEN THE DRS WERE FIGHTING WITH THE BLP ABOUT ADAMS IDEAS ABOUT A NHS
GO AND ASK JOHNSON WHAT I EXPLAINED TO HIM THAT NIGHT AT ST JOSEPH HOSPITAL AND THE SAME STUFF THAT I POSTED HERE ON BU IN JANUARY 2008 YA NASTY STINKING SEWER SCUM
DO THAT WHEN YA OUT PICKING—————— YA OLD WITCH
“Sensible people don’t look to politicians, celebrities or public figures for role models.”
I totally agree…but when ministers are being paid huge salaries with perks to upgrade the education system and keep it current and progressive…and they instead, wilfully kept it in the dark ages…in the same state it was handed to them over 60 years ago, meant to demoralize, marginalize and sideline the vulnerable ….and despite the destruction it has caused generations of vulnerable children… for decades……that is called criminal neglect…
And ya can’t find not black leader on the island that recognized that destruction decades ago …or even more recently …let alone have the intelligence to rid the island of that blighted system…..ah hope am proven wrong….and someone can actually do what is necessary.
…it is not like if the parents and their children have access to the mechanisms that can affect the changes to the system……that is what governments are paid by taxpayers to do…so you can continue blaming the parents and children for lazy, backward governments not doing their jobs and neglecting everything ….it still will not change the reality that there is system failure on the island…and it can only get worse the more government refuses to make those adjustments.
….so far…all we are hearing is long talk…..but time is longer than talk or twine.
TO ALL AND SUNDRY WHO WANT TO HEAR THE FACTS AND NOT THE LIES BY A PIECE OF STINKING SEWER SCUM
I PARTICULARLY SAID IN MY POST
1 A POLYCLINIC IN BARBADOS ………………………2 EXERCISING AS OUR NHS
IN OTHER WORDS THE POLYCLINICS BEGAN TO FUNCTION AS OUR NHS
AND OUR NHS DID NOT BECOME LIKE THE BRITISH NHS AS TOM ADAMS HAD DESIRED AND EXPRESSED IN 1976
THE IDEA TO OFFER DRS IN BARBADOS A NURSE AND A RECEPTIONIST AND GET THEM TO WORK 24/7 /365 AS THEY DO IN THE UK WAS FORGOTTEN
THE SYSTEM OF PARISH DRS WAS ABOLISHED AT THAT TIME
THE WORK OF THE HEALTH CENTERS BEGAN BY BYER IN THE NORTH AND STANDARD IN THE SOUTH CONTINUED IN A LARGER NUMBER OF LOCATIONS
A GENERAL PRACTICE PROGRAM WAS INITIATED —–SUCH A SERVICE WAS NOT PREVIOUSLY OFFERED AT THE HEALTH CENTERS WHICH HAD AS THEIR PRIMARY PURPOSE MATERNAL & CHILD HEALTH AND OTHER ASPECTS OF SOCIAL & PREVENTATIVE MEDICINE
IT IS NOTE WORTHY THAT NO STINKING SEWER SCUM WAS INVOLVED IN THESE THOUGHT PROCESSES AS SUCH SCUM WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO UNDERSTAND THE INTRICACIES. NOR DOES THE STINKING SEWER SCUM REALIZE THE POLITICAL REASONS THAT THE CLINICS CAME INTO BEING IN THE BLP’S ANXIETY COMING UP TO THE 1986 ELECTION TO IMPLEMENT THIS PARTICULAR PROMISE OF A NHS
STINKING SEWER SCUM CAN TALK ONLY ABOUT WHAT THEY KNOW BUT STINKING SEWER SCUM DOES NOT KNOW ABOUT THE COVERT WAR THAT THE MEDICAL PROFESSION WAS RAGING AGAINST THE BLP GOVERNMENT OF THAT DAY.. AFTER ALL WE EXPECT DOGS TO KNOW THEIR PLACES BEFORE DRS………YOU KNOW THE SAYING. SO THE STINKING SEWER SCUM SIMPLE SIMON JUST WOULD NOT KNOW THESE THINGS, ALTHOUGH THIS WILL NOT STOP HER FROM LYING REPEATEDLY LIKE THE PATHOLOGICAL LIAR SHE IS
MY APPEAL TO BOTH TOM ADAMS AND VICTOR JOHNSON WAS THAT SOMETHING OUGHT TO BE DONE BECAUSE THE MEDICAL PROFESSION AND THE GOVERNMENT OF THAT DAY OUGHT NOT TO BE FIGHTING
AFTER TOM DIED IN MARCH 85 .WITH TIME RUNNING OUT JOHNSON STOPPED ME AS I WAS DRIVING ALONG BLACKROCK BY JENKINS AND BEGGED ME TO GO SEE MINISTER OBRIEN TROTMAN
I MUST CONFESS THAT I DID NOT SEE THE LYING STINKING SEWER SCUM SS IN EITHER THE ER AT ST JOSEPH HOSPITAL OR ALONG SIDE THE ROAD IN BLACK ROCK….BUT SEWER RATS ARE NOT ALWAYS EASILY VISIBLE. SHE MIGHT HAVE BEEN THERE
MAYBE IT WAS THE STINKING SEWER SCUM RAT THE SAID SIMPLE SIMON WHO MADE THE TELEPHONE CALL FROM MR TROTMAN IN THE MOH ASKING ME TO COME SEE HIM
WHEN I DID NOT GET AROUND TO GOING TO SEE MR TROTMAN AS MR JOHNSON HAD URGED.
THE REST IS NOW HISTORY.
THE BLP GOVERNMENT OF THAT DAY LISTENED TO THIS SECOND.
THE ABOVE IS AS TRUE AS JOHN 3;16
Maybe a look back ….DIRECTLY INTO THE PAST..,can help ya miseducated, intelligence lacking leaders to understand what needs to be done to PROTECT the majority black population and their children….going forward..,ah wont told my breath that they are intelligent enough to see parallels though..,they are not equipped with that level of foresight or forethought.
“Supreme Court Rules Black People Are Not Citizens
Image | Dred Scott Painting by Louis Schultze, 1998 Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis
On March 6, 1857, in Dred Scott v. Sandford, the United States Supreme Court ruled that black people were not Americans citizens and could not sue in courts of law. The Court ruled against Dred Scott, an enslaved black man who tried to sue for his freedom.
For years before this case began, Dred Scott was enslaved by Dr. John Emerson, a military physician who traveled and resided in several states and territories where slavery was illegal–always accompanied by Dred Scott. Dr. Emerson eventually took Mr. Scott back to Missouri, where slavery was legal. When Dr. Emerson died there in 1843, Mr. Scott was still enslaved.
After Dr. Emerson’s death, Dred Scott and his wife, Harriet, sought freedom in the Missouri state courts. The Scotts argued that their prior residence in free territories had voided their enslavement. The Missouri Supreme Court ruled against the Scotts and authorized Dr. Emerson’s widow, Irene, to continue to own them. When Irene Emerson later gave her estate, including the Scotts, to her brother, John Sandford, Dred Scott brought suit in federal court.
Written by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision held that the Fifth Amendment did not allow the federal government to deprive a citizen of property, including enslaved people, without due process of law. This ruling kept the Scotts legally enslaved, invalidated the Missouri Compromise and re-opened the question of slavery’s expansion into the territories. The resulting legal uncertainty greatly increased sectional tensions between northern and southern states and pushed the nation forward on the path toward civil war.
Unable to win liberty in the courts, Dred and Harriet Scott were freed by a subsequent owner a few months after the decision. Dred Scott died just months later of tuberculosis, while Harriet Scott lived until 1876.”
For those missing the point.,..,the miseducated house negros of parliamrnt and the bar association has since the 1940s made absolutely sure that the black majority population can get NO JUSTICE THROUGH THE SUPREME COURT SYSTEM……
Wuh did Barrow not tell yall that…..that you will get no justice at Coleridge Street…
,….the judiciary in Barbados was designed by miseducated black nuisances…outside the perimeters of the constitution.., to make sure the black population….IS NEVER FREED…through justice…..
,,,,.and i have this niggling feeling that it is the lowlifes in the local privy council who operate outside the perimeters of the supreme court and the constitution…and has always been headed by each successive and very useless GGs…who have committed these crimes against the black population….but Karma and retribution are 2 very cool bitches.
Of course many whites and others will also be ensnared in that same trap for a supreme court….and also be disenfranchised….if they have something really big to steal….eg Kingsland estate and 9 MILLION DOLLARS…..and can pay no bribes or refuse to…
@NorthernObserver
“… to serve those who could afford them.”
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You misunderstand “White supremacist ideology.” The ideology is about maintaining a system of privilege, not just about racial segregation. It is correct that the Presentation College, Ursuline Convent, St Winifreds, etc are also part of this system of privilege, but the prestige of Harrison College is a part of the same system.
There an advertisement running and the voiceover encourages parents to enroll children in a mock 11+ exam at HC, a girl’s voice chimes in to say she is looking forward to doing the mock exam because she wants to pass for St. Michael school.
@Georgie Porgie “ALWAYS TRYING TO PUT DOWN PEOPLE.”
I am not trying to put anybody down. I just feel the need to speak the truth. Especially when blowhards try to subvert the truth, and take credit for what was planned long before said blowhard was born, and which was rolled out before said blowhard’s first birthday.
In 1953 When you were one year old the clinic at Speightstown was opened and started providing the same comprehensive health services to the people of the north as the clinics in other areas now provide. To wit: contraceptive education and products, well baby care, immunizations, care of sick children, treatment of veneral diseases, care for elders with chronic non-communicable diseases, dental care, dispensing of prescription medicines, public health inspections where the inspectors checked for mosquitoes etc. Nurse Marjorie Mayers was hired shortly after the opening. The late Lyle Worrell and the late Mr. Greaves of St. Lucy worked from that clinic as public health inspectors, as did my brother. When these people were working hard providing comprehensive health services to the people of St. Lucy, St. Peter, St. James and St. Andrew you were still a breast feeding baby. Tom Adams was at that time a 21 year old student in London. Erskine Sandiford was a 16 year old student of Coleridge and Parry, Bernard St. John was 21, Mia’s parents had not yet met.
So to try to take credit for work that was going on while you were still an infant in fundamentally dishonest. Just as dishonest as the claim that Columbus “discovered” the new world, when in fact he came to the “Americas” and found tens of millions of people who had come here tens of thousands of years before him, and had created thousands of highly complex societies.
Not only was the polyclinc template created when you and Tom Adams were still children, you a suckling baby. But the service had been rolled out in the north and was fully functioning, providing the comprehensive health services for more that twenty years before you gained your medical degree. I haven’t checked but I expect that “Enmore” was fully functioning too then, because it is unlikely that the service would be rolled out in the second city (Speightstown) before it was rolled out in the capital Bridgetown.
If you have claimed credit that you do not deserve to your wife, to your children to friends to family, to the BU people it is time to apologise.
If you want to tell lies. Wait until I am dead. And in my family we live to be 100+.
Look out for the badly brainwashed, mentally damaged to DOUBLE DOWN….on keeping a useless racist education system in place that does the majority population…no favors.. .but .that has always been the plan..
SIMPLE SIMON, SHIT SCUM & SEWER RAT
I KNOW ALL ABOUT THE SHIT THAT YOU HAVE AGAIN CITED YOU PIECE OF SCUM
I LEARNED IT FROM MAURICE BYER HIMSELF
WE MOVED ON FROM THERE
WE UPGRADED FROM THERE AT TOM ADAMS DESIRED
YOU STILL PICKING POND GRASS AND TALKING SHIT BOUT YOUR GARDEN AND FEEDING YOUR VILLAGERS
THAT IS THE ZENITH OF YOUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS…APART FROM BREEDING OUT OF WEDLOCK
RE Not only was the polyclinc template created when you and Tom Adams were still children,
WHAT POLYCLINIC TEMPLATE JACK ASS
A HEALTH CENTER AND A POLYCLINIC ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS AND FOR TWO DIFFERENT PURPOSES
IT IS WELL KNOWN THAT TOM ADAMS DESIRED TO HAVE A NHS IN BIM LIKE THE ONE HE EXPERIENCED WHEN HE WENT TO THE UK TO STUDY
I READ ABOUT HIS DESIRES IN 1976 AS A STUDENT IN THE NATION NEWSPAPER IN THE LIBRART IN MONA
ON RETURN TO BARBADOS I ALSO READ THE REPORT PRODUCED BY FOREIGNERS CONTRACTED TO DESIGN A NHS FOR BARBADOS
I AM SURE THAT YOU SIMPLE SIMON A PIECE OF SCUM AND SHIT SEWER RAT DID NOT WRITE IT
I KNOW TOO THAT YOU SIMPLE SIMON A PIECE OF SCUM AND SHIT SEWER RAT DID NOT PARTICIPATE IN THE COVERT WAR BETWEEN THE DOCTORS AND THE GOVERNMENT IN 1984
I KNOW TOO THAT YOU SIMPLE SIMON A PIECE OF SCUM AND SHIT SEWER RAT DID NOT MAKE TELEPHONE CALLS TO, OR RECIEVE TELEPHONE CALLS FROM OTHER DRS IN BARBADOS TO RALLY WITH THE PROFESSION AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT ON THIS MATTER
YOU SEE SIMPLE SIMON A PIECE OF SCUM AND SHIT SEWER RAT THE PROFESSION DIDNT AK SCUM AND SHIT LIKE YOU FOR YOUR NAST OPINION ON MATTERS TOO HIGH FOR YOU WHICH YOU STILL DONT UNDERSTAND
YOU ARE FROM THE POND GRASS PICKERS AND THAT IS ALL YOU STILL ARE
I REPEAT
I PARTICULARLY SAID IN MY POST
1 A POLYCLINIC IN BARBADOS ………………………2 EXERCISING AS OUR NHS
IN OTHER WORDS THE POLYCLINICS BEGAN TO FUNCTION AS OUR NHS AS TOM ADAMS DESIRED
AND OUR NHS DID NOT BECOME LIKE THE BRITISH NHS AS TOM ADAMS HAD DESIRED AND EXPRESSED IN 1976
THE IDEA TO OFFER DRS IN BARBADOS A NURSE AND A RECEPTIONIST AND GET THEM TO WORK 24/7 /365 AS THEY DO IN THE UK WAS FORGOTTEN
IF TOM HAD NOT DIED IN 1985 WE WOULD HAVE HAD A BRITISH NHS GP SYSTEM
THE SYSTEM OF PARISH DRS WAS ABOLISHED AT THAT TIME
THE WORK OF THE HEALTH CENTERS BEGAN BY BYER IN THE NORTH AND STANDARD IN THE SOUTH CONTINUED IN A LARGER NUMBER OF LOCATIONS
A GENERAL PRACTICE PROGRAM WAS INITIATED —–SUCH A SERVICE WAS NOT PREVIOUSLY OFFERED AT THE HEALTH CENTERS WHICH HAD AS THEIR PRIMARY PURPOSE MATERNAL & CHILD HEALTH AND OTHER ASPECTS OF SOCIAL & PREVENTATIVE MEDICINE
IT IS NOTE WORTHY THAT NO STINKING SEWER SCUM WAS INVOLVED IN THESE THOUGHT PROCESSES AS SUCH SCUM WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO UNDERSTAND THE INTRICACIES. NOR DOES THE STINKING SEWER SCUM REALIZE THE POLITICAL REASONS THAT THE CLINICS CAME INTO BEING IN THE BLP’S ANXIETY COMING UP TO THE 1986 ELECTION TO IMPLEMENT THIS PARTICULAR PROMISE OF A NHS
STINKING SEWER SCUM CAN TALK ONLY ABOUT WHAT THEY KNOW BUT STINKING SEWER SCUM DOES NOT KNOW ABOUT THE COVERT WAR THAT THE MEDICAL PROFESSION WAS RAGING AGAINST THE BLP GOVERNMENT OF THAT DAY.. AFTER ALL WE EXPECT DOGS TO KNOW THEIR PLACES BEFORE DRS………YOU KNOW THE SAYING. SO THE STINKING SEWER SCUM SIMPLE SIMON JUST WOULD NOT KNOW THESE THINGS, ALTHOUGH THIS WILL NOT STOP HER FROM LYING REPEATEDLY LIKE THE PATHOLOGICAL LIAR SHE IS
MY APPEAL TO BOTH TOM ADAMS AND VICTOR JOHNSON WAS THAT SOMETHING OUGHT TO BE DONE BECAUSE THE MEDICAL PROFESSION AND THE GOVERNMENT OF THAT DAY OUGHT NOT TO BE FIGHTING
AFTER TOM DIED IN MARCH 85 .WITH TIME RUNNING OUT JOHNSON STOPPED ME AS I WAS DRIVING ALONG BLACKROCK BY JENKINS AND BEGGED ME TO GO SEE MINISTER OBRIEN TROTMAN
I MUST CONFESS THAT I DID NOT SEE THE LYING STINKING SEWER SCUM SS IN EITHER THE ER AT ST JOSEPH HOSPITAL OR ALONG SIDE THE ROAD IN BLACK ROCK….BUT SEWER RATS ARE NOT ALWAYS EASILY VISIBLE. SHE MIGHT HAVE BEEN THERE
MAYBE IT WAS THE STINKING SEWER SCUM RAT THE SAID SIMPLE SIMON WHO MADE THE TELEPHONE CALL FROM MR TROTMAN IN THE MOH ASKING ME TO COME SEE HIM
WHEN I DID NOT GET AROUND TO GOING TO SEE MR TROTMAN AS MR JOHNSON HAD URGED.
RE I am not trying to put anybody down. I just feel the need to speak the truth. Especially when blowhards try to subvert the truth, and take credit for what was planned long before said blowhard was born, and which was rolled out before said blowhard’s first birthday.
HERE THE LYING PIECE OF SHIT AND PIECE OF SCUM WHO DOES NOT UNDERSTAND MEDICINE OR PUBLIC HEALTH OR THE ADVANCEMENT OF HEALTH CARE IN BIM AS DESIRED BY TOM ADAMS THE VISIONARY
THE SERVICES OFFERED AT OUR POLYCLINICS
AND THE SERVICES NOT OFFERED AT OUR POLYCLINICS BUT ARE OFFERED IN ST LUCIA JUST AS I PROPOSED IN MY PLAN OF 1985
ARE NOT THE SAME AS WAS OFFERED AT ENMORE OR SPEIGHTSTOWN OR AT SIX RDS HELTH CENTERS
RE I just feel the need to speak the truth.
YOUR KNOWLEDGE AS A STINKING LYING BREEDING SEWER RAT IS REALLY QUITE LIMITED
RE what was planned long before said blowhard was born, and which was rolled out before said blowhard’s first birthday.
MISS SCUM, MISS SHIT
THE POLYCLINICS WERE NOT PLANNED OR ROLLED OUT BEFORE I WAS BORN OR MY FIRST BIRTHDAY
NOR WAS THE NHS IN BARBADOS AS IT IS AND HAS BEEN SINCE 1985
BUT YOU STILL HAVE YOUR POND GRASS PICKING MENTALITY
YOU STILL BLOWING HARD ABOUT ALL YOUR OFFSPRING WHO WENT TIO UNIVERSITY
WHO BLOWS HARDER ON BU ABOUT INCONSEQUENTIAL SHIT LIKE YOU
WHAT HAS YOUR CONTRIBUTION TO BARBADOS BEEN BUT TO BREED ? OR SHARE A FEW PIECES OF FOOD WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS AS YOU DAY ALMOST DAOLY?
BLOW HARD ABOUT THAT AND TELL US
GP
You don’t need me but Simple has lied about knowing where Carew lived and has lied about a 2 storey building approved and constructed on the same spot Carew lived.All lies.Infernal lies.Simple needs to apologize to the BU for lying to the blog.
WHERE YOU GONE TO SIMPLE SIMON? MISS SCUM, MISS SHIT
YOU HAVE POND GRASS TO PICK?
OR CLEAN THE RECESSES OF YOUR NASTY STINKING LYING ENVIOUS MIND?
OR ARE YOU GOING TO TELL US TODAY MORE ABOUT ALL YOUR SIBLINGS WHO WENT TO UNIVERSITY AND HOW YOU FEED THE 5000 IN YOUR VILLAGE FROM YOUR DAILY TOILS?
COME AND TELL US MORE ABOUT BYER CAUSE YOU DONT SEEM TO KNOW ABOUT PROFESSOR STANDARD, OR VAUGH WELLS, OR WILFRED DASANTOS
YOU CERTAINLY DONT KNOW MUCH ABOUT WHAT ADAMS PLANNED, OR HOW OBRIEN TROTMAN AND VICTOR JOHNSON SOUGHT TO BRING HIS VISION TO FRUITION, BECAUSE YOUR DIMWITTED, STERILE BETZPAENIC BRAIN IS STILL WARPED IN TIME AS TO WHEN YOUR BREEDING SIBLINGS AND YOU AND THEIR OFFSPRING ATTENDED THE CLINIC BYER SET UP IN ST PETER
I WOULD SCAN ADAMS LETTER TO ME AND PRODUCE IT HERE BUT IT WOULD IDENTIFY ME THOUGH IT WOULD PROVE THAT I KNOW WHAT I AM TAKING ABOUT
I WAS A BOLD RADICAL WHO WENT AGAINST THE GRAIN OF THE OTHER DRS AND WENT TO THE PM WITH MY PROPOSAL IN THE NATIONAL INTEREST
THAT IS WHAT SECONDS DO!
SIMPLE SIMON MISS SCUM, MISS SHIT THAT IS WHAT SECONDS DO!
GABRIEL March 8, 2019 10:31 AM]
I AM AN OLD NOBODY AND A HAS BEEN WHO NEVER REACHED FULL POTENTIAL
I HAVE ACCEPTED THAT
I LOOK FORWARD TO THE RAPTURE
I DONT LIKE TO CUSS BUT I HATE LIARS
I HAVE TRUTHFULLY TOLD THE BLOG BALL BY BALL HOW THE CURRENT NHS IN BIM CAME INTO BEING, AND HOW THE DRS WANTED TO GET A NURSE AND RECEPTIONIST AT GOVERNMENT EXPENSE, AS TOM ADAMS OFFERED, BUT DID NOT WANT TO SERVE 24/7/365 AS THE DRS DO IN THE BRITISH HEALTH SERVICE, MUCH MALIGNED BY AMERICANS WHO HAVE PISS POOR HEALTH SERVICE, EVEN TO THOSE WHO HAVE VERY GOOD HEALTH INSURANCE
I RESENT THE LIES OF A LYING OLD PIECE OF SCUM AS SIMPLE SIMON SHIT IS
I HAVE NEVER DENIED THE HEALTH CENTERS SET UP BY BYER IN THE NORTH AND TOWN, OR IN SIX RDS , GALL HILL AND THE GLEBE BY PROFESSOR STANDARD
I STUDIED THEBRITISH NHS AND EUROPEAN HEALTH SYSTEMS VIA UPDATE ( the Journal of THE Royal College of General Practitioners) AND ALSO THE STUDY OF THE AMERICAN JOKERS COMMISSIONED TO ADVISE THE GOVERNMENT THEN
THE AMERICANS CAME AND ASKED THE LOCALS THEIR OPINIONS AND PREPARED A RIDICULOUS INADEQUATE REPORT.
WHEN I GOT TIRED OF THE LOCAL DRS COVERT TELEPHONE CALLS AS THEY SOUGHT TO CLOSE RANKS AGAINST TOM ADAMS AND THE GOVERNMENT, I WROTE TO PM TOM ADAMS AND SENT HIM THE INFORMATION POSTED HERE ON BU IN JANUARY 2008
TOM WAS INSISTENT TO HAVE A NHS LIKE THE UK NHS, AND NO DOUBT, IF HE HAD NOT DIED WHEN HE DID, WE WOULD HAVE DONE SO.
GABRIEL
MY INITIAL PROPOSALS TO MR ADAMS WAS FOR A SYSTEM THAT CATERED TO
1- THE ELDERLY who I thought deserved free care because of their immense contribution to develping the nation and in sustaining the mores that we grew up with, and which Hal Austin praises effusively
and
2 THE CHILDREN. for obvious reasons
Blood testing and the convenience of XRAYS for simple things would also be offered on site. (THE ST LUCIANS ARE DOING THIS AT THE POLYCLINIC IN THE NORTH AT GROS ISLET AT LEAST…….I cant speak for other areas there–only for what I saw in 2012)
Clinics would be located at the apices of the triangular wedges as can be seen from studying the location of the highways on our map, to enhance the catchment area for each of the 7 zones I propose.I was here applying what I had been taught by KR RAO, who stressed the use of transportation to enable attendance of the folk in any catchment area
Note that Warrens Health clinic is placed at the junction of Highways 2 and 2a. It is our best cited clinic though not by design but inadvertently by the DLP, THE ORIGINAL BUILDING AT WARRENS WAS TO BE A CREMATORIUM
look at the map highway 2 goes all the way down to Belleplaine.
Highway 2a goes down to Mile and a quarter. Between these two Highway is HIghway D
Warrens ought to have been, but was placed by accident, to serve most of St Thomas, much of Eastern JAMES and sections of St Michael and it does.
ALL OF THESE THINGS WERE POINTED OUT TO VIC JOHNSON AS I TOLD HIM WHERE POLYCLINICS SHOULD BE FOR EACH “WEDGE” OF THE ISLAND
NOT TWO ON THE HIGHWAY 4 WEDGE AT THE GLEBE AND AT GALL HILL BUT ONE AT SALTERS ETC
VIC JOHNSON LISTENED ATTENTIVELY AND HE BUGGED ME TO GO TO OBRIEN TROTMAN BECAUSE THE BLP WANTED TO KEEP THEIR PROMISE OF A NHS AS PROMISED IN 1976 BEFORE THE 12986 ELECTIONS
THESE ARE TRUTHS THAT CAN NOT BE REFUTED BY ANY LYING SCUM
I NOT BLOWING HARD OR BLOWING AT ALL
I TELLING WHAT I KNOW!
I WAS THERE…….I WROTE TOM…….I EXPLAINED THINGS TO VIC JOHNSON
THE BLP BY A NHS BASED ON A SERIES OF POLYCLINICS IMPROVED IN 1985 ON WHAT BYER AND STANDARD STARTED IN THE 30’S AND 50’S RESPECTIVELY
THESE ARE TRUTHS THAT CAN NOT BE REFUTED BY ANY LYING SCUM
SILLY SIMPLE SIMON THE SHITTY SCUM AND SEWER RAT DOES NOT KNOW WHAT SHE IS TAKING ABOUT
SCUM OF HER ILK DONT CREATE ANYTHING THEY CAN WITH THEIR LIMITED ABILITY ONLY DENIGRATE
THEY DONT HAVE THE GUTS TO RESIST THIER COLLEAGUES AND SEEK TO ADVISE THE LEADERSHIP ACCURATELLY FAIRLY AND FAITHFULLY AND FERVENTLY AS I DID
MY INITIAL PROPOSALS WERE TO BE A PILOT STUDY
BUT IN THEIR NEED TO WIN THE 1986 ELECTIONS BY FULFILLING THEIR PROMISE OF IMPROVED HEALTH CARE FROM 1976 THEY PITCHED IN AND OFFERED THE SYSTEM TO ALL
LIKE THE UK NHS SYSTEM, THE COST OF DRUGS IS A MAJOR PROBLEM THAT IS HARD TO HANDLE
BUT THE UK NHS SYSTEM AND OURS BOTH WORK WELL EVEN IF NOT PERFECTLY
THE SO CALLED GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD EVER, HAS NOTHING TO MATCH IT
IF YOU DONT HAVE GOOD HEALTH INSURANCE IN THE USA YOU WILL CATCH HELL
AND IF YOU DO HAVE GOOD HEALTH INSURANCE IN THE USA YOU CAN STILL CATCH HELL
AND IF YOU DO HAVE GOOD HEALTH INSURANCE IN THE USA YOU CAN STILL CATCH HELL
For the Yanks good insurance cover = good health care.
It is amazing how many Americans assume this to be true.
It is one of the dumbest things I’ve ever seen.
DULLARD
MY WIFE HAS BEEN IN INSURANCE FOR OVER 4O YEARS HERE IN THE US
WE HAVE GOOD INSURANCE VIA THE COMPANY
ONCE SHE HAD WHAT WAS OBVIOUSLY A RENAL STONE AS IT TURNED OUT TO BE
THE DRS IN THE ER DID NOT HAVE A CLUE TILL THEY RUN “TESTS” AND DID SCANS
DESPITE INSURANCE IT COST $1000 US OUT OF POCKET
WHEN SHE HAD A RE-OCCURENCE IT COST $2000 US OUT OF POCKET
ALONG WITH INSURANCE!
THE POOR DO NOT HAVE A HOPE OR A PRAYER
THERE IS MUCH MORE THAT CAN BE SAID
,….the judiciary in Barbados was designed by miseducated black nuisances…outside the perimeters of the constitution.., to make sure the black population….IS NEVER FREED…through justice…..
,,,,.and i have this niggling feeling that it is the lowlifes in the local privy council who operate outside the perimeters of the supreme court and the constitution…and has always been headed by each successive and very useless GGs…who have committed these crimes against the black population….but Karma and retribution are 2 very cool bitches.
BUT…..THE LINES GOT BLURRED…this one big incestous family where everyone is cousin or some such DNA nightmare and are all in the government, in the bar association…and infesting every area that is supposed to be a bastion of good governance….but can’t…..so these local privy council miseducated, useless subspecies of miscreants….are just one happy family of criminals…who…because of who they are, gleefully operate with impunity…outside the perimetres of the supreme court…AND constitution…
but they never took into account that all their criminality from the 1940s…would come crashing down…dumb as rocks…no vision….a symptom of being merely common class criminasl….miseducated and limited intellect to boot..
yall MoFos….ah will figure out exactly what yall did and tell the WHOLE GODDAMN WORLD…
and the ones who know and still keeping secrets and playing the same nasty game ya pretending to expose..ah know who ya are…
Calm down, GP!
Simple Simon is obviously does not appreciate the intricacies as you said.. That is obvious.to all the rest of us. Has anybody else challenged you on that? I don’t understand why you allow the mouthings of a few people to be your focus. Why would you call yourself a nobody seconds???? Because Simple Simon called you a seconds? I don’t know who called you a nobody. Nobody is a nobody.
Don’t you realize that Simple Simon is not going to bat an eyelid at the names you call her? She doesn’t care!
Simple Simon obviously……
Donna March 8, 2019 2:28 PM
Calm down, GP!
I AM VERY VERY CALM
IN FACT I AM USUALLY LAFFING WHEN I WRITE ON BU
Simple Simon is obviously does not appreciate the intricacies as you said.. That is obvious.to all the rest of us.
I AM GLAD THAT YOU CAN SEE IT
I HAVE TOLD THE TRUTH AND REVEALED BACKGROUND STUFF NOT GENERALLY KNOWN
Has anybody else challenged you on that?
BUSH SHIT DID!
I don’t understand why you allow the mouthings of a few people to be your focus. Why would you call yourself a nobody seconds???? Because Simple Simon called you a seconds?
ITS CALLED SARCASM
I don’t know who called you a nobody. Nobody is a nobody.
I AM A NOBODY CHILE.
NOBODY OR VERY FEW FOLK KNOW ME HERE. AND NOBODY REALLY KNOWS ME THERE LOL
GOD KNOWS ME AND MY DEAR DEAR WIFE
Don’t you realize that Simple Simon is not going to bat an eyelid at the names you call her? She doesn’t care!
I DONT CARE EITHER
I TOLD BU THE TRUTH
I HOPE YOU GOT IT AND CAN SEE THAT THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WHAT BYER DID AND THE IDEAS THAT HIS STUDENT PROPOSED AND THAT THE BLP BROUGHT INTO BEING…
@PLT
I agree, that I misunderstand.
Seems you are describing “supremacy ideology” in general, as in methods used by people to ensure they sustain their level of ‘class’ or privilege, and this is done by systems/methods which seek to ‘keep others out’. And they all fall under the ideological title of “white supremacy ideology”.
Son #1 went through Gr 4-12 in a ‘gifted’ program, as rookie parents we had no idea how it worked, one of his teachers suggested it. The class was 90% Asian, and the Asians would buy a house in the area of what they deemed the ‘best gifted program school’ and then register all their children at that address, so they qualified for the school. It was known as Asian Supremacy, where they sought to keep others out, because classroom size was limited, and they ‘believed’ they were academically superior. I believe under your terminology, this tactic would simply fall under ‘white supremacy ideology’.
This said, I can appreciate how the CEE is skewed to privilege, yet all have a shot. In private, they can keep you out for basically any reason, and your parents must have the financial resources in the first place.
My Asian example shows parents can manipulate geographical zoning to suit their needs.
The idea of a level playing field doesn’t exist?
Bush Tea was pulling your leg. More than once I saw him saying you should have stayed around and made Barbados better. He just enjoyed poking at you because he thought you were too proud of yourself.
BUSH TEA IS A DEVIL AND SO IS SIMPLE SIMON THE S—————–!
I DONT COME HERE TO MAKE SPORT AND HAVE MY LEGS PULLED………….AND BY MEN!
I AM NOT TOO PROUD OF MYSELF
I KNOW EXACTLY WHERE I COME FROM
AND HOW I GOT WHERE I AM
I LOST LOTS OF MONEY TRYING TO HELP OTHERS
YOU CANT STAY AROUND AND MAKE BARBADOS BETTER ……..THAT IS NOT EASY
IF YOU WENT TO A MEETING OF ANY SORT THAT I ATTENDED, YOU WILL FIND IN THE BACK SEAT OR NEAR THERETO
YOU WILL FIND THAT I SIT QUIETLY AND LISTEN
I MIGHT SPEAK AT THE END……ONLY IF I HAVE SOMETHING OF VALUE TO ADD
@Gabriel March 8, 2019 10:31 AM “You don’t need me but Simple has lied about knowing where Carew lived and has lied about a 2 storey building approved and constructed on the same spot Carew lived.All lies.Infernal lies.Simple needs to apologize to the BU for lying to the blog.”
An apology is never required for telling the truth.
i know Weston/St. Albans very well. My parents married at St. Alban’s long, long before GP’s parents ever met. My mother’s mother lived at Weston as did my aunt. I know the area like the palm of my hand. I don’t have to go asking anybody “Where Carew lived?” A two story wall house has been constructed on the west side of highway 1 at St. Alban’s not 100 feet away from where Carew lived.
You tink I now come?
All that I have said about the clinic at Speightstown is true and has been documented in the historical record. You will notice that GP can cuss me by he cannot deny that the clinic offered the COMPREHENSIVE services that I have listed above. I had a tooth exteacted at that clinic in the early 60’2 when GP was still wearing short pants.
Wunna is a couple of ole has-beens trying to make out that wunna invented sliced bread, or like Columbus “discovered” the “new world” or created the polyclinic system in Barbados.
Not true. Not true.
I don’t know Hants, but he came here yesterday and documented that the clinic at Speightstown was opened on July 1, 1953. Truly I don’t remember July 1, 1953, but I do know that I and many, many people in the north benefited from comprehensive health services at that clinic when GP was still a child.
Wunna tink i born yesterday, that wunna can come here and reinvent history?
Tom Adams a middle class town boy, who went to England when he was still a teenager and who experienced the NHS system [rolled out between 1946 and 1948] for the first time, may not even have been aware that an HNS-like system in the form of clinics at Speightstown, and perhaps at Enmore as well had already been replicated in Barbados when Tom was but a lad. It is unlikely that the young Tom ever had the need to visit a public health clinic before he went to England while still a teenager.
If wunna want to tell lies, and big up wunna selves, please to wait until i am dead, dead, dead.
As long as I live I will tell the truth.
And I don’t have to cuss nor put down anybody to tell the truth.
@Georgie Porgie “DID NOT PARTICIPATE IN THE COVERT WAR BETWEEN THE DOCTORS AND THE GOVERNMENT IN 1984.”
I don’t do war.
I only do Godly deeds, love God and love my neighbour.
@GP “YOU STILL BLOWING HARD ABOUT ALL YOUR OFFSPRING WHO WENT TIO UNIVERSITY.
Jealous nuh?
Your exhibition and your university education is important, and the scholarship, nuff, nuff, and graduate degrees, up to the doctoral level, of my children and nieces and nephews isn’t?
Lolll!!!
Ole joker.
@Georgie Porgie March 8, 2019 10:33 AM “WHERE YOU GONE TO SIMPLE SIMON?”
Was out enjoying a lovely, lovely lunch at one of the poshest laces on the west coast with some of my very well educated [and well heeled] kinsfolk.
But I back now to challenge your lies.
RE You will notice that GP can cuss me by he cannot deny that the clinic offered the COMPREHENSIVE services that I have listed above.
RE many people in the north benefited from comprehensive health services at that clinic
YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT COMPREHENSIVE MEANS NOR DO YOU KNOW ABOUT EITHER
ATHE EVOLUTION OF THE ORIGINAL HEALTH CENTERS LIKE SIR MAURICE DID. HE TOLD ME MUCH MORE THAN THE SHIT YOU WROTE ABOUT THEM.
NOR DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THE ORIGIN OF THE POLYCLINICS
YOU KNOW ABOUT PICKING——————-
RE Tom Adams a middle class town boy, who went to England when he was still a teenager and who experienced the NHS system [rolled out between 1946 and 1948] for the first time, may not even have been aware that an HNS-like system in the form of clinics at Speightstown, and perhaps at Enmore as well had already been replicated in Barbados when Tom was but a lad.
THE UK NHS IS NOTHING LIKE the form of clinics at Speightstown, and Enmore AND Six RDS AND THE GLEBE AND GALL HILL WERE
THAT SERVICE IS FAR SUPERIOR AND REALLY COMPREHENSIVE!
RE It is unlikely that the young Tom ever had the need to visit a public health clinic before he went to England while still a teenager. HOW DO YOU KNOW DAT. HE WAS THE SON OF A POLITICIAN WHO LISTENED TO CONVERSATIONS ABOUT ALL THAT WAS GOING ON IN BARBADOS.
YOU ARE A PIECE OF SHIT AND SCUM WHO DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING BOUT ………..YOU THINK THAT THE LITTLE YOU KNOW IS ALL
YOU THINK THAT ALL YOU KNOW IS COMPLETE AND COMPREHENSIVE
RE I DID NOT PARTICIPATE IN THE COVERT WAR BETWEEN THE DOCTORS AND THE GOVERNMENT IN 1984.
EXACTLY ! FEW PEOPLE KNEW THAT IT EXISTED…THE DRS DID
NOT POND GRASS PICKING SCUM, WHO ARE GOOD AT PICKING OTHER THINGS TOO
RE Was out enjoying a lovely, lovely lunch at one of the poshest laces on the west coast with some of my very well educated [and well heeled] kinsfolk.
WERE YOU ALL PICKING———————?
HAVE YOU EVER HEARD ANY ONE ON BU BOASTING ABOUT enjoying a lovely, lovely lunch at one of the poshest Places? TALKING BOUT BLOW HARDS?
YA NOT IN THE GROUND TO DAY OR PICKING ——————?
RE “YOU STILL BLOWING HARD ABOUT ALL YOUR OFFSPRING WHO WENT TO UNIVERSITY. Jealous nuh?
NO SCUM I HAVE MANY OF THOSE IN MY FAMILY I DONT BLOW HARD BOUT IT HERE
AT LEAST FIVE PHYSICIANS WHO KNOW WHAT COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH CARE. WE DONT BOAST ABOUT IT
@ Georgie Porgie “THE BLP BY A NHS BASED ON A SERIES OF POLYCLINICS IMPROVED IN 1985 ON WHAT BYER AND STANDARD STARTED IN THE 30’S AND 50’S RESPECTIVELY.”
I am glad to see that you have finally acknowledged that you, Tom and the BLP “IMPROVED IN 1985 ON WHAT BYER AND STANDARD STARTED IN THE 30’S AND 50’S RESPECTIVELY.”
Note that you yourself did not say create, but “IMPROVED.” We can only improve something which already exists, which has already been created and maintained by Byer, Standard and the other people which I have mentioned by name.
The health centers/polyclinics, whatever you want to call them were offering these services when Georgie Porgie was still a child “contraceptive education and products, well baby care, immunizations, care of sick children, treatment of venereal diseases, care for elders with chronic non-communicable diseases, dental care, dispensing of prescription medicines, public health inspections.”
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
The health centers/polyclinics were taking good care of us when Georgie Porgie was still a child.
And Columbus did NOT discover the new world.
The health centers DID NOT OFFER A GENERAL PRACTICE SERVICE TO THE POPULACE
child “contraceptive education and products, well baby care, immunizations, care of sick children, treatment of venereal diseases, care for elders with chronic non-communicable diseases, dental care, dispensing of prescription medicines, public health inspections.”
THAT IS CALLED PUBLIC HEALTH!
THE polyclinics IS A VAST IMPROVEMENT HAS A LARGER CATCHMENT AREA AND MORE PATIENTS AND IS BETTER ORGANIZED
THE polyclinics INCORPORATED THE PUBLIC HEALTH FEATURES OF THE OLD HEALTH CENTERS AND ADDED MORE SERVICES THERETO
@Georgie Porgie March 8, 2019 4:24 PM “YA NOT IN THE GROUND TO DAY OR PICKING ——————?”
Nah!!! I wasn’t picking fares today.
My last, most reliable client, a rich doctor, got run out of Barbados and he run to Florida…and now all i have left is picking pond grass.
RE Nah!!! I wasn’t picking fares today.
OH SO YOU DO PICK FARES?
WHO SAID YOU DID?
YOU SAID IT….I DIDNT
RE I wasn’t picking fares today. WELL IF YOU SAY SO WHO AM I TO SAY NOT
@ David,
I see that our resident doctor is enjoying his sojourn on BU. LOL.
Perhaps it’s time for you to cast out GP – again! Send him back to the Siberia of social media: “Barbados Today”; where he was writing unnoticed under a different moniker.
BU is one of the few places on the Internet Bajans away from home can get a true true taste of what is really happening in the country. We are all Bajans despite our differences.
RE Nah!!! I wasn’t picking fares today.
AMAZING ! DID NOT KNOW YOU DID BUT I GUESS CONFESSION IS GOOD FOR THE SOUL
I NOW UNDERSTAND WHY YOU FREQUENTED THE HEALTH CLINIC
DID THEY OFFER THE SERVICE THERE FOR WHICH ENMORE WAS BEST KNOWN?
IT EXPLAINS YOUR GPI!
NO RICH DR WOULD PICK FARES WID AN OLD HAG LIKE YOU, IM SURE
Talking Loud Saying Nothing March 8, 2019 4:41 PM
@ David,
I see that our resident doctor is enjoying his sojourn on BU. LOL. Perhaps it’s time for you to cast out GP – again!
YOU PREFER THAT I LET AN OLD HAG HARRASS ME WHILE I GAVE THE HISTORY OF THE ORIGINS OF PUBLIC HEALTH AS TOLD ME BY ITS ORIGINATOR AND THE BACK GROUND TO THE OPENING OF THE NHS VIA A SYSTEM OF POLYCLINICS THAT ARE SUPERIOR TO THE OLD HEALTH CLINICS IN EVERY WAY…….THAT WAS HITHERTO UNKNOWN
CAN YOU ADD ANYTHING OF REAL SUBSTANCE TO THE DISCUSSION SIR?
@Georgie Porgie March 8, 2019 4:46 PM “NO RICH DR WOULD PICK FARES WID AN OLD HAG LIKE YOU, IM SURE.”
Wasn’t always old. Was young and very, very beautiful.
Never a hag. Not then. Not now.
Under cover of darkness, rich doctors do the same as poor labourers. Although poor labourers do it better. Lolll!!!
But rich doctors can afford to pay better.
But my rich moved to Florida, boo, hoo, hoo, when he get pelt out of Barbados.
Alas!!!
I AM VERY SORRY FOR YOUR RICH DOCTOR WHO MOVED TO FLORIDA AND WHO GOT PELTED OUT OF BARBADOS
HE OUGHT TO HAVE LIKE ME, LEFT ON HIS OWN MERIT AND MARRIED A CARING WOMAN OF SUBSTANCE! AND A VIRGIN TOO!
Wuhlaus!
David
i get a better sense of what is going on when i actually go back to Bim and it is never like what is depicted on this website.
what you get here is a bunch of wanna BEES spouting crap and shooting the breeze
@Greene
You missed the point, big time.
BU commentaters debated the state of the economy and the need to pull-back long before BERT.
BU discussed the sad state of education long before Bradshaw’s epiphany.
BU debated the weeds growing on the lawns long before gun violence started to get out of hand.
We could grow this list.
You like other Barbadians never bother to stoop and check the underbelly (underground) of society.
Forgot to add that it may be BEEEs spouting crap today and yesterday you could have substituted DEEEs spouting crap.
true. yeah on a good day topics are discussed seriously between 2 or 3 people for a while. that is quite enjoyable and enlightening but then the crowd joins and it descends or ascends into US politics or the bible or some BLPs comes in and blames the DLP like Bim politics started 10 years ago
@greene
That is life. You take the riff with the raff.
A blog is more than comments and commenters.
The blog post is like an editorial for a target market.
THE BIBLE IS IMPORTANT MR GREENE—quite enjoyable and enlightening TOO
for you GP but not for me.
i will never believe in the bible of my en-slavers- never. their way to heaven cannot be mine.
that is apart from any belief in a god however
A leading physician, healthy lifestyle advocate and paediatrician has blamed the exam for contributing to the thickening waistlines of Barbados’ children, especially girls.
Professor Anne St John said yesterday there appeared to be a link between studying for the exam that determined which secondary school a child would attend, and the increase in weight of those children.
She was speaking as the Heart and Stroke Foundation released the results of its commissioned poll, designed by co-director of the Caribbean Development Research Services (CADRES), Corey Sandiford, on childhood obesity. The launch was held at Hilton Barbados.
The results revealed that 83 per cent of the 816 Barbadians polled were very concerned about obesity, while 88 per cent were concerned about childhood obesity. Sixty-two per cent said the current food environment in schools was not healthy, while 72 per cent felt there should be a restriction on unhealthy food and beverage sales. (Quote)
Is there a link between talking crap and being over-paid? Why am I not surprised that the survey was carried out by CADRES?
Is there a link between talking crap and being over-paid?
HAL, ARE YOU SUGGESTING THAT ANN ST JOHN IS OVER PAID OR THAT SHE TALKS CRAP?
WERE YOU OVERPAID FOR THE SHIT YOU USED TO WRITE IN THE UK.
WHEREAS I DO NOT THINK THE REASONS GIVEN FOR SCRAPPING THE CCE IS SOUND, I CAN UNDERSTAND WITHOUT USING A SINGLE ONE OF MY BETZ CELLS THAT THE CONTEMPORARY YOUTH CAN IN AN ATTEMPT TO ACE THE CEE MIGHT BE MUCH TOO SEDENTARY WHILE THEY SNACK AND STUDY.
HOW IS IT THAT USING ALL OF YOUR BETZ CELLS THAT YOU CAN NOT SEE THIS.
ANN, OF COURSE WAS NOT ONLY SHARP BUT WAS AN OUTSTANDING SCHOOL GIRL SPRINTER IN THE 60’S
I think that provocative snippet was meant to make one pay for the full article just to see where she made the link. I, however, will outsmart them and read it at the library. I’m sure Dr. St. John has something to back up her claim because she is certainly not a fool.
No she is not!
@ David,
Can you tell the BU bloggers that they are not compelled to read everything on BU or watch/listen to the videos.
I scroll past a lot of of the crap that is posted and would not suggest you ban Mariposa,Lexicon,SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife,Talking Loud Saying Nothing or WARU, Crazy & Unstable, Hogging the Blog .
@Hants
You have been one of the early BU bloggers, you know how we abhor censorship. It is done only when all has failed. People need to relax, it is a blog, not the Wall Street journal.
SINGAPORE – — A place known for its high standards of education, Singapore is now shifting to a more relaxed style at the primary and secondary levels, hoping to nurture people who can flexibly adapt themselves to a changing economy.
The city-state has six years of compulsory primary education, followed by four-year secondary. Based on the results of the exam at the end of primary school, students are placed on one of three secondary education paths. This is a crucial factor in determining their future — lower-streamed students face more hurdles and challenges getting into local universities.
Earlier this month, the Education Ministry announced it will scrap this three-path system by 2024. Instead, it will introduce a subject-based system where students can choose the levels of each subject based on their strengths.
“Our students need to be resilient, adaptable and global in their outlook. They must leave the education system still feeling curious and eager to learn for the rest of their lives,” said Education Minister Ong Ye Kung in the parliament on March 5.
The current system, created in the 1980s, has allowed students who are more academically inclined to learn better and at a faster pace, which helped to push up Singapore’s education standards. Singapore topped the world in science, reading and mathematics in the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) test by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in 2015.
However, the segregation also meant that students’ academic abilities are tied to their worth in society. Students who do not perform well are subjected to pressure from parents and attend extra private lessons on top of their regular school classes and activities. This emphasis on judging children based on academic grades has negative consequences. There were 27 suicides among 10- to 19-year-olds in 2015, according to the suicide prevention agency Samaritans of Singapore.
This major change comes at a time when Singapore faces a changing and more uncertain economy in which the skills required may change over time. To boost competitiveness, Singapore has been increasing its efforts to transform itself into a “smart” nation by investing in emerging digital technologies in various industries.
The government thinks it is important for younger students to have more fun and less pressure in school so they can develop a passion to learn new skills after they grow up.
To this end, the government this year scrapped exams for the first and second year of primary school students — children seven and eight years old — to reduce exam pressure on the youngest students and allow them the freedom to learn and be creative.
Over the next three years, the government will also scrap midyear examinations for third and fifth year primary students, as well as the first and third secondary students. Instead, teachers will help students develop critical thinking skills to solve problems through projects and other activities.
Parents have mixed feelings about the changes. Mei Ling Chen, a 44-year-old mother with a daughter in her second year of secondary school, welcomed the end of the three-path system. “I think the new system is good, as not everyone can be good in everything they study, and I want my daughter to be able to enjoy what she learns in school,” she said. “But at the same time, if we only focus on strengths, we may not be able to produce the well-rounded individuals needed for the workforce,” she added.
“It is a good move to get away from a system that can demoralize kids who are placed in the ‘weaker’ levels,” said Karen Tan, a mother of three. “However introducing the new system, I believe, will still not resolve the issue of comparisons among kids [academically].”(Quote)
All Saints Primary School has officially been closed today, after teachers and students left class.
According to sources, the Pleasant Hall, St Peter school is “rat infested” and rat droppings were seen in several classrooms.
At present teachers and students are outside the classrooms, huddled on the pasture and the school’s play park.
http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/238878/teachers-job-saints-primary-school
All schools should be inspected during vacation time and cleaned if necessary.
I don’t think Dr.St.John made her point very well and her conclusions are open to criticism, in a nutshell she said that girls spend the last three years prior to the 11 plus focusing on studying, taking lessons etc. to the detriment of healthy exercise formal or informal and this becomes a life- long habit as they don’t want to take part in PE and some parent will likely complete an excuse why “Anne” can’t participate in Phys Ed. On the other hand, studying for 11 plus did not seem to present a problem for boys and they were still physically active despite studying for the exam. One could then argue that girls results from the 11 plus were better than boys because they were more focused on their studies while boys were apt to “play” instead of forming the conclusion that the 11 plus was partly responsible for obesity in girls.
I was surprised at her line of reasoning and I am not sure what data was used to form her opinion but she is a Professor and I am a layman.
@Sargeant
We can debate if there is sufficient evidence to support St.Johns conclusion. What is a fact- the explosion of after school lessons to prep for 11+.
@ Sargeant,
Anyone can become a professor within reason. Professorship does not give them wisdom. How about Sir Frank Alleyne? Remember those economic professors who backed the DLP government?
hal austin bullshitter
you do not know Anne, nor her prowess or ability as a caring paediatrician and teacher
you do not know of Anne’s, dutiful devotion as a caring paediatrician THE NATIONS’S CHILDREN FOR 40 YEARS
since anyone can become a professor within reason, why are you only a bull shitter?
Anne became professor of paediatrics because she studied and then served!
She did not get there by bull shitting.
SHE DOES NOT HAVE MUSCLE IN HER BRAIN BUT FUNCTIONING BETZ CELLS
LET ME ASK YOU AND SARGEANT A QUESTION
WHO HAS BEEN SEEING THE NATIONS’S CHILDREN FOR 40 YEARS?
WHO HAS BEEN TALKING TO THE NATIONS’S CHILDREN AND THEIR PARENTS FOR 40 YEARS?
THE CLEAR CORRECT ANSWER IS NEITHER HAL AUSTIN OR SARGEANT
I AM QUITE PREPARED TO GIVE THE BENEFIT OF ANY DOUBT TO ANNE ST JOHN
AS JESUS SAID IN JOHN 7:24
JUDGE RIGHTEOUS JUDGEMENT AND NOT BY THE APPEARANCE
I.E YOU CANT NOT ADJUDICATE PROPERLY WITH OUT ALL THE FACTS