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Vonda Pile was found guilty earlier today of thieving close to $200,000 dollars from a client Anstey King. The blogmaster salutes Mr. King for finding the time to pursue this matter which was kicked about in our dysfunctional justice system for several years. If the judge suffers no damascene moment- like in the  James O’Rourke matter- Pile will be handed a hefty sentence for breaking the law stripped of her role as an officer of the court. She was remanded until July 16.

Vonda Pile is featured in Barbados Underground’s Lawyer in the News.

One regret of this blogmaster is that John Griffiths did not have the wherewithal to also criminally prosecute former Speaker of the House MICHAEL CARRINGTON.

Another matter irking the blogmaster is to observe former minister of Michael Lashley in our Courts on a daily basis representing minibus men by exploiting laws he helped to enanct as a policymaker. There is something very wrong here.

Time longer than twine!

 

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156 responses to “Lawyer Vonda Pile Found GUILTY as Charged!”

  1. SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife Avatar
    SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife

    @William

    Please forgive me. I was just using Federal and Modern as examples. I did not mean those two schools literally. I might have been better if I said school X and school Y.

    Or this district, and that district.

    Or this kind of work, and that kind of work.

  2. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    @ Greene,

    A great principle is that whoever the accused is, whatever the crime, justice must be fair and transparent. If Vonda is convicted, based on the evidence, then that is fair. But remanding her in custody is not. Our judges and magistrates often use the authority of the bench to carry out their class bias.
    Her lawyers should have appealed to the duty judge for bail. It appears to me as if Vonda has come up against the nasty side of Barbadian social practices. Opposing the abuse of office and clients by lawyers is one thing, sacrificing someone is another. The developing narrative here is that only some lawyers steal from clients.
    By the way, don’t Barbadian lawyers have professional indemnity insurance? Doesn’t the bar association represent members accused of criminal offences?

    @SSS

    Plse do not break the habit of a life time and agree with me. You give me a complex, that I am saying the wrong thing.

  3. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    @Pacha
    Are you saying that you have no control over your own moral compass?
    We must therefore never allow you to control the guillotine for fear you might cut off your own head !

  4. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Sir William Skinner

    Now resorts to being “Black’ as the last vestige.

    Were they not ‘Black’ when they were thieffing ‘Black’ people’s money?

  5. SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife Avatar
    SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife

    @William “black, female judge”

    The wretched of the earth.

    Black working class women remind us too much of where we ALL came from, even John the LIAR

  6. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Sir William Skinner

    This is not about a moral compass. This is about an age-old legal culture of theiffing and official corruption as established by a class of ‘elites’.

    Why not, anybody given such power over life and death should indeed be also able to self judge.

  7. David Avatar
    David

    @William

    You are simplifying this matter. There is a long running angst the public has been directing at the judicial system with a fine target at lawyers. The public commentary by many about her conviction is not about Pile so much, it is the public perception that the legal cabal has been successful is holding the country in a headlock across every sphere of the society.

  8. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    David is quite right.

    We trust that those us who are critical of him, from time to time, including Sir William Skinner, would this last comment as important.

    No doubt, David would want to direct blame at all lawyers and the institutions supporting them, including the biggest and most powerful of them all currently, MAM.

  9. Fractured BLP Avatar
    Fractured BLP

    Wuhloss !

    Attorney Grneral Dale Marshall disclosed that one Barbadian has joined ISIS !

    David BU what caused you join ISIS ?

  10. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    May I go off piste on this subject. Recently, following the untimely death of Harold Hoyte, there were lots of references to world class journalism. The reporting of the Vonda Pile case is a good example that Barbadian print journalism is not world class. I won’t go in to details. But it is not even a match for what we call local journalism in the UK. We must improve our journalism training.

  11. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    @ Fractured

    if officially one Barbadian has joined Isis (that does not account for those leaving the island to ‘study’ in Saudi Arabia or ‘visiting’ relatives in Pakistan, but eventually find their way in the Isis camps) is the attorney general going to launch an investigation in to grooming? In to the activities at the mosque attended by this Jihadist? in to who knew of his intentions? In to fellow travellers and sympathisers? Will the results of any such investigation be made public?

  12. robert lucas Avatar
    robert lucas

    @ SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife June 5, 2019 8:30 AM

    ” how many of the political class are up to date with their taxes, ask whether or not some have ever even ”
    One of my brothers worked in the Audit Department and he always regaled me about the dishonest habits of people from the professional classes .There was a case with person” number one” over an electronic gadget. Person” number one” wanted to keep it.. My brother got cussed out. To this day he has a very low opinion of person “number one”. I leave you to decipher who person number one is: You wouldn’t be shocked if you do figure it out.
    Noted the lack of legal representation. The Blog master indicated that there was belated legal aid.

  13. Piece the Legend Avatar
    Piece the Legend

    @ Fractured BLP

    You do know that there are 2 ISISes?

    There is the the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria or Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham

    AND THEN

    There is the I Stupid and Ingrunt as Shy$e

    That second group has at least 4 bajans in it.

    The two Rented Jackasses Hee Hee and Hee Haw, Donkey/Dompey/Leximoron and Ho ourable Member AC aka ManyPussy

    Teets going soon ban them from Barbados for seditious acts ond “seeking to overun the country with idiots like themselves”

    You want go see if de ole man telling de trufe?

    I going assemble the beasts with dem battle cry, watch.

    “IAI!”

    That is IDIOTS ASSEMBLE IMMEDIATELY !

    Watch dem coming watch!!!

  14. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    @ David
    @ Pacha
    Are we therefore saying that all of our prime ministers to date with the exception of Erskine Sandiford and Owen Arthur are thieves ?

  15. Piece the Legend Avatar
    Piece the Legend

    @ Mr Hal Austin.

    Hal,

    Among the many questions that you asked of our stare gazing Attorney General Teets, you asked and I quote

    “… is the attorney general going to launch an investigation in to grooming?”

    You ever watched cricket? You remember back in the 70’s when you would hear the fellows saying “waki, waki, waki…?

    Now tell me, Teets cant even speak Bajsn properly, far less English so how is he, and dem policemens, of de Royal Baygon Police Force, going be able to follow one uh dem terrorist talking Waki??

    Next time Teets give an interview, I want you to watch he close and tell de ole man if he look like effing he all there!

  16. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Yes, or were parts of the systemic legal cultural institutions which suborn official thieffing.

  17. David Avatar
    David

    @William

    Some lawyers are disreputable, you will find in any profession.

    What we are fighting against is a dysfunctional legal system that has grown deep roots, given how we have designed our business model as a country to borrow a term, this is the problem we have. The people responsible for the dysfunction have to dismantle it.

  18. robert lucas Avatar
    robert lucas

    @ Hal Austin

    If what Fractured stated is so ,I am not surprised at all. I have predicted such all along. I may have to do like the late Patrick Emmanuel did in 1970 at UWI: when he enjoined the student “To Arms To Arms” when the revolution was going on in Trinidad. Beryl McBurnie was also present.

  19. David Avatar
    David

    Ignore Fractured, he is a political nuisance.

  20. FearPlay Avatar
    FearPlay

    Does this mean that the leper and the recently rejected pilferers will also be answering to the law courts one day come soon or should I just continue hallucinating? I mean to say, millions are unaccounted for in both the above mentioned instances.

  21. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    @ Pacha @ David

    . I suggest very humbly that all professionals are responsible for their moral standings.
    When you become a lawyer, I would certainly recommend you to potential clients…..happy thieving my brother!!!!!

  22. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    “Barbados could easily set up an independent system to handle money and documents transfers. But because of the centrality of thieffing to that ‘profession’ this will never happen.”

    You can repeat that a thousand times and it will still resound.

    “One is always advised not to defend oneself in legal matters.What struck me was the fact that none of the criminals ( that is,. lawyers, my opinion of that lot has not changed) came to her defense.”

    Lawyer who represents themself has a fool for a client, it was a dumb move.

  23. Fractured BLP Avatar
    Fractured BLP

    David @ 11;58 A.M

    Is a nuisance recruit for ISIS !

  24. Piece the Legend Avatar
    Piece the Legend

    @ the Honourable Blogmaster

    I wonder if you have been seeing the upsurge in these articles in thd most unlikely of places?

    “… News
    BBC News Navigation
    Sections
    World
    Australia

    ABC raid: Outcry as Australian police search public broadcaster

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-48522729

    I would tell you watch yourself but I hope that you are appropriately safeguarded

    Though some believe that you are actually part of the Mugabe Regime now and may be promoting the Mugabe Disinformation campaign

  25. robert lucas Avatar
    robert lucas

    @ David June 5, 2019 11:58 AM
    I have just read the article in the newspaper. One ignores Fractured at one’s peril.

    @Hal Austin June 5, 2019 11:21 AM
    great questions that need prompt replies
    .

    I have warned against these fifth columns in our midst.. We need to mobilize our security forces against this pernicious cancer. We need to stop funding from Saudi Arabia . We need to investigate the Muslim faith school and if needed close it down as well as the Mosque. The Mosques are sites of insurrection..

  26. David Avatar
    David

    @Dr.Lucas

    We need more info than what Marshall has fed us. Where does the Bajan originate?

  27. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    @Dr.Lucas
    We need more info than what Marshall has fed us. Where does the Bajan originate?(Quote)

    What is the point of the question? Is the suspect a Barbadian citizen, or has right of abode in Barbados, or not? Origins become part of the wider inquiry.
    Or. in the logic of the multi-challenged chairman, origin is key.

  28. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    David

    Maybe Marshall should tell the Bajan public about the role of the GoB in fighting America’s proxy terrorist wars, the deployments of ISIS, ISIL, Deash etc. Their role in the mobilization of Caribbean nationals, as foot soldiers, especially from significant Muslim population centres, in the wars in Syria, Libya, Iraq, elsewhere and now moving to the borders of China and Russia.

    Is this what has become of Sir William Skinner’s zone of peace?

    Marshall, should tell us why is Barbados continuing to accept USAID funding for the so-called monitoring of said Caribbean citizens when the real intelligence project is to grant ‘official cover’ to these, and indeed massively expand this number of criminals, as part of this CIA schema.

  29. robert lucas Avatar
    robert lucas

    @ David June 5, 2019 1:59 PM
    Origin is immaterial. whether the terrorist is a naturalized Barbadian or a home grown one, the common thread is the ummah concept to which all Muslims adhere. The ummah concept as far as Muslims are concerned means that a Muslim must take up arms to defend the faith and other Muslims no matter what part of the world the latter hails from. Haven’t you noticed with the pictures of Mohammed how they mobilized world-wide in a frenzy of hate. I always felt that with all of them bunched up it was the ideal time to launch preemptive strikes against them (no need to look for them) for maximum result. I suppose I suppose I have just outraged your sensibilities. Let me remind you, this is a war that reasonable people cannot afford to lose, therefore, one does what one has to do .

  30. robert lucas Avatar
    robert lucas

    @Pachamama June 5, 2019 2:19 PM
    You really feel that the ordinary jihadist would have anything to do with non-Muslims ? How do explain the jihadist attacks on Sri Lanka, Mali, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Uganda, Bali, areas of the world that the western powers aren’t particularly interested in? What about the jihadist attacks in China and Russia ?

  31. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    @ Robert Lucas

    You are preaching to the deaf. Bajan stubbornness is legendary. But there is a price to pay. I will be long gone by then.

  32. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Robert Lucas

    We have previously found agreement on significant issues. However, on this subject we’re afraid your questions portray a staggering lack of knowledge.

    We never go by ‘feelings’. Empirical evidence must be the only standard.

    If you thought you had a war to fight, that God was on your side, common cause will be found with anyone who you presumed could aid that cause. This happens all the time. Could you have imagined that the Zionist state of Israel would have alliances with Orban, the Fascist from Hungary?

    Your second question presupposes that there is a monolithic Jihad political-militarist current. That is not so, was never so. In Syria, Iraq, Libya and elsewhere there has been massive and enduring infighting amongst the most adherent of Jihadis. In global warfare of this nature, and that is what the Jihadis presuppose, it never happens in a straight line. There are all kinds of splinter groups, with no central command structure, except the USA of course.

    The attacks in China’s western province represents a number of things. They represent China’s alleged mistreatment of the Uighurs, America’s desire for a military option to destabilize China as a forerunner to a possible war. And so on!

    The utilization of Jihadis amongst Muslim populations in Russia have their genesis in similar geo-strategic projects by America.

    There is much more ground to be covered. I tried to be as brief as possible.

  33. WURA-WAR-on-U Avatar
    WURA-WAR-on-U

    “We need more info than what Marshall has fed us. Where does the Bajan originate?(Quote)”

    …..am leaning toward Dale Whistleblower and the usual corrupt suspects in parliament setting up some poor soul as usual, to cover up BLP CRIMES AGAINST THE PEOPLE and COUNTRY..

    otherwise, what’s the big secret.

  34. robert lucas Avatar
    robert lucas

    @ Hal Austin June 5, 2019 2:55 PM

    You wouldn’t believe it. The coverage in the newspaper is on page four. As far as I am aware, it hasn’t made the radio station news. The blog master seems to want to down play this. I recall saying that I had clashed with the local Muslims 2001-2002 and that one of them revealed that he had spent two years in Saudi Arabia. He denied that public beheadings were a regular occurrence. He claimed that women were never beheaded in the Kingdom. I reminded him of the BBC TV program, “Death of a Princess”: the program that nearly resulted in the severing of diplomatic relation between the UK and Saudi Arabia. The princess was beheaded because she was married and was caught in a relation with another man. The man was beheaded also. It was captured by the BBC photographer who had disguised himself. It was public execution. The animus displayed toward western civilization by some on this blog, is such, that it clouds rational thinking. The amazing thing is that despite the animus, the detractors use western inventions like the internet daily: A clear case of envy and malice. engineered by self-loathing ( they haven’t invented much) that the despised people created the inventions. As I have said, look to the future and begin inventing.

    They seem to think Islam is tolerant. They will find out the hard way..

  35. Barbados Underground Whistleblower Avatar
    Barbados Underground Whistleblower

    THE FACT IS IF LAWYER VONDA PILE HAD BEEN A BARBADOS POLITICIAN THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN NO CRIMINAL PROSECUTION OR CONVICTION.

    THERE ARE MANY CRIMINAL POLITICIANS BOTH PAST AND PRESENT WHO HAVE GOTTEN AWAY WITH THEIR CRIMES BECAUSE OF THEIR POLITICAL FRATERNITY.

  36. robert lucas Avatar
    robert lucas

    @ Pachamama June 5, 2019 3:16 PM

    “We never go by ‘feelings’. Empirical evidence must be the only standard.”

    You missed the point; I am looking for an excuse to start a war so I am doing Like Putin and Hitler inventing a reason.

    “f you thought you had a war to fight, that God was on your side”

    I .being a skeptic am not relying on a God : am relying on surprise having fomented the reactions. Knowing where the reactions are and dealing with them . I don’t believe in just wars or good wars ‘all wars are bad. One must make the best of a bad solution. The idea is to win at all cost. The victor writes the history.

  37. Muhammad Avatar
    Muhammad

    @ robert lucas June 5, 2019 1:55 PM
    “I have warned against these fifth columns in our midst.. We need to mobilize our security forces against this pernicious cancer. We need to stop funding from Saudi Arabia We need to investigate the Muslim faith school and if needed close it down as well as the Mosque. The Mosques are sites of insurrection..”
    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    What were the nationalities of the ‘jihadists’ (Islamic Kamikaze) which were on board the planes in the 9/11 mission?

    Remind us who is still America’s biggest friend in the Middle East after the State of Israel?

    Why don’t you ask your Islamaphobic brother Hal Austin which Middle Eastern ‘nationalities’ own the most real estate in upscale London and make up the biggest clientele to the high-end provision merchants like Harrods and Fortnum & Mason?

    Greed and the love of money have no ‘colour’ called Religion. Capitalism will sleep in the bed of the devil just for the sake of profit. Just like the same Bajan Muslims have politicians from both major parties on their payroll.

  38. David Avatar
    David

    @Dr.Lucas

    Not downplaying anything. We need more information than what the AG has let slip on a political platform. This is about exercising a basic level of inquiry.

  39. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    Typical, anyone who does not endorse Jihadists makes one an Islamaphobic brother. There is no fundamental difference between the Saudis (the 9/11 terrorists) and Isis. A murderer is a murderer. You are your own worst enemies with your religious obsession. Some of us do not buy in to your hogwash.

  40. robert lucas Avatar
    robert lucas

    @ Muhammad June 5, 2019 4:06 PM

    I am aware of what you have stated. When the time comes when they are of no use to the west, they will be dropped. The local politicians will be dealt with.

  41. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Muhammad

    Eid Mubarak

    Too many jump on this bandwagon of Islamophobia therefore blinding themselves to the deeper, underlying truths, contradictions.

  42. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    @ Pacha

    We will continue the fight to ensure that our region remains a zone of peace. We know that your heart remains regionalist. We don’t think that you are a reactionary force. Remember : All revolutionaries are brothers..
    Venceremos !!!!!!

  43. robert lucas Avatar
    robert lucas

    @ Muhammad.

    it never ceases to amaze me how Muslims tend to look down on non-believers. Sure the capitalism is motivated by greed and money. Islam is portrayed by so-called piety ;praying five times a day ( as though praying five times a day makes one more holy). According to Islam there is only one God and Allah is his name.. This statement implies that the Islamic deity is better than deities of other religions. However, the Islamic deity seemed to have forsaken Islam: For a religion which projects itself as superior to all others, the Islamic civilization should be the driving force in the world but it isn’t. The decadent west and the Chinese seem to be leading the way. This lack has resulted in envy of others: the envy is further compounded by the seeming inability to tolerate critical analysis of Islam.

  44. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    @ Robert Lucas

    We see almost everyday people coming in from the Middle East claiming asylum from brutal regimes, yet within months they are campaigning against the liberal democrat government ad culture of the UK. Little islands will not escape this onslaught.

  45. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    @ William

    All revolutionaries are brothers? What about Daniel Ortega? What about Mugabe and Nkomo? What about Eldridge Cleaver and Stokeley Carmichael?

  46. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    re praying five times a day ( as though praying five times a day makes one more holy).
    BUT FOLK WHO ARE ENJOINED TO BE HOLY ARE ENJOINED IN I THESSALONIANS 5 TO PRAY WITHOUT CEASING!

    PRAYING OFTEN DOES NOT MAKE ONE HOLY BUT FOLK WHO ASPIRE TO BE HOLY PRAY OFTEN

    CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON ONCE SAID I CAN NOT PRAY FOR TEN MINUTES……..BUT I CANT GO TEN MINUTES WITHOUT PRAYER

  47. David Avatar
    David

    It was interesting to hear Vonda Pile declare her innocence after the jury verdict.

  48. Gabriel Avatar
    Gabriel

    A passing reference was made to Attorney at law Philip Nicholls.In his book More Binding than Marriage Nicholls was arrested and locked up on orders of one DPP Leacock who also charged him with stealing money and with money laundering and is alleged to have made use of his connections at the US Embassy ( recall he was representing the US in a local court matter involving a case of extradition)to have Nicholls’s visa cancelled.
    A lot of names are referenced in that book including big up QC’s and big up lawyers with big political connections.One of the beneficiaries of the stolen or misappropriated funds was recently found guilty before the court,and her defence was that she used the money to pay her medical bills however her partner in the thievery remain out of this jurisdiction living in the USA and Barbados seem not to have a reciprocal extradition treaty with the USA such that that individual who appear to have caused the Nicholls family to lose money and property over the Cottle Catford catastrophe remain out of the reach of our law courts.
    It would be interesting to hear whether the lawyer who played the court system to frustrate Nicholls is still practising his craft of subterfuge and delay to continually postpone a judgement in Nicholls’ favour.There was a time Barbados boasted of no-nonsense judges and lawyers.Not so today.High standards of morality and justice appear to have gone out the window post independence.Were we better served by non bajan judges?Perry drove fear in the hearts of traffic offenders in the 60’s.EK Walcott as Attorney General drove fear in the courts and his son Ambrose did the same sitting on the bench.If a police prosecutor was man enough to say to EK that a file can’t be found he would be sent up to Glendairy until it was found and brought to the court.

  49. WURA-WAR-on-U Avatar
    WURA-WAR-on-U

    DPP Leacock was too damn corrupt, and his demon partners in crime he left behind in Barbados, need to follow him pronto, no one needs their funky asses.

  50. WURA-WAR-on-U Avatar
    WURA-WAR-on-U

    Wonder if the corrupt, tiefing lawyers in Barbados are finally getting the message that everyone is tired and fed up of them and want to see them ALL IN JAIL.

    Pacha…eyes are opening, can’t remain asleep forever, when you see Africa is removing statues of racists…it becomes VERY CLEAR that it is only backward Barbados governments seem to be hellbent on keeping stinking, blighted, cursed racists ,BOTH ALIVE AND DEAD…IN THE LIVES OF THE MAJORITY BLACK POPULATION..

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-46552614?SThisFB&fbclid=IwAR3GtGBMXp35y11obaJ-7hPlJOMg3-hZKkzu9Ht7gWaC2siZORWX-aDDa5o

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