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When Justice Blinked for 10 Rh Years

One definition of a symptom is defined as a sign of the existence of something, especially of an undesirable situation. In the last 72 hours this blogmaster found a more lucid meaning for the word. A man that stole a bag and contents including $1,000 cash with a total value of $9,230.30 on the 27…

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One definition of a symptom is defined as a sign of the existence of something, especially of an undesirable situation. In the last 72 hours this blogmaster found a more lucid meaning for the word. A man that stole a bag and contents including $1,000 cash with a total value of $9,230.30 on the 27 March 2009 – as a result of the act he spent 10 years on remand at Her Majesty’s pleasure.

This story immediately evoked embarrassment in the mind of the blogmaster. It ranks up there with the time raw sewage spewied onto one of our most popular streets on the South Coast.

Barbados Underground has posted voluminously about the dysfunction that defines the Barbados Judiciary. If you are in doubt click on the link at the top of this page – File Complaints Against Lawyers.

Successive governments have paid lip service to the problem. There was great hope when outsider Marston Gibson was recruited to fill the post of Chief Justice. However, without the financial support and the will to penetrate an entrenched culture his job was never going to be easy. Some also question his competence.

Recently Attorney General Dale Marshall announced that the government is in the process of recruiting  additional judges to help with improving how justice is dispensed in Barbados. It is interesting to quote Marshall explaining why the search for new judges is being advertised outside of Barbados :-

… to attract the highest calibre of individual to the Bench…I have been a lawyer for almost 30 years and there have been days when I would wake up one day and see in the paper that John Brown is appointed to the Bench. There was no advertisement…None of these were transparent arrangements, but any vacancy for judge in our judiciary, whether High Court or Court of Appeal, will be advertised in Barbados, in the Caribbean, in Caricom, in the Commonwealth, as far as Australia; everywhere in the Commonwealth…

–Dale Marshall, Attorney General

The drive to recruit judges from outside of Barbados is interesting because of the huge number of locally trained lawyers educated at great expense to taxpayers.

Winston Adolphus Agard
Winston Agard

How can an educated people go about its daily business if the majority of the population- including those responsible- are not motivated to feel and express outrage at what occurred to Winston Adolphus Agard?

Attorney General Dale Marshall issued a sympathetic statement on the Agard matter as he is politically obligated to do. The question we have to ask is how many more define the revised definition of symptom? How many more human beings are sitting at Dodds prison on remand- forgotten by the system?

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Floyd Downes

Barbadians everywhere thank prison warder Floyd Downes for his civic minded act. It is reported he whispered to court officials including Justice Randall Worrell about the horrific miscarriage of Justice Agard was being made to suffer by the Barbados justice system.

Why, why, why so long? How many more?

This blogmaster urges AG Dale Marshall to direct Superintendent of Prisons John Nurse with immediate effect to audit all inmates on remand at the Dodds prison and report findings. The information that will be of interest is the length of time those on remand. We have to address the symptoms until a more incisive cure can be implemented whenever that may occur.

98 responses to “When Justice Blinked for 10 Rh Years”

  1. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Waru

    How well is Rwanda doing? Are they still stealing the vast mineral resources from the Congo? Is their CIA agent for a leader still colluding with western mining companies in that regard? When will the genocidaire Kagame ever be brought to book for murdering 6 million people between the late 1990’s and the years thereafter? If the so-called Jewish holocaust was that, how can 6 million Afrikan people be mass murdered and nobody wants to know? And what about the western criminals making it all possible, people like stinking Bill Clinton, his wife and others?

    More specifically, just a year ago you, in your haste to get the rid of the last regime you were more than supportive of this present crop, although we warned you that they were unlikely to be any different.

    What happened!

  2. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    The events of the past week have increased my faith in my fellow Barbadians. Whilst I would be glad if we could make bold steps, a few timid steps in the right direction are greatly appreciated.

    **An attorney being remanded and sent to prison.
    Let us hope this is the start of a trend. It is my hope that they can get her to cough up a check for the amount owed. Let’s try to repair the victim and not just seek vengeance.

    **The refusal of a judge to deport the 64 year-old man back to Canada
    Thought this is the correct action, it came as a shock to me. I did not expect Barbados to stand in the corner with one of its sons.

    **The release of this man from prison after 12 years.
    Someone pointed out that the man plead guilty to the charges, but after spending 12 years and not seeing a judge he would have been a fool to plead “Not Guilty” and prolong his engagement with the system for possibly another 12 years.

    ** The Auditor General
    This man is charged with a task and tries to do his best. I try, but I cannot imagine the run-around, the unanswered phone calls, the hang-ups, the un-returned calls, the missed appointments ….. But I may be wrong, I am certain that someone will point out that organizations/people perhaps are just dying to give him the information that he wants. Mia, you don’t have to change the constitution to have this man on your honors list. I am certain that he has pissed off both B and D.

    **Andrew Pilgrim and Chief Magistrate Christopher Birch
    These two gentlemen should also be on a list of national rewards.
    Andrew Pilgrim for his pro bono work for the gentleman who stole the finger nail clip. He probably saved us the embarrassment of reading about this man being freed in 2032 (12 years from now).
    Chief Magistrate Christopher Birch for telling the Canadian representative “NO”. Was a bit disappointed he did not order the arrest and deportation of the representative.

    ** Wanted Man: It seems as if some effort has gone into describing wanted men. At one stage it appeared that we were using some offensive descriptions (that of run-away slaves) to describe the “wanted men”. I am hoping someone saw the light.

    Yes, these are signs of life returning to our judicial system. Let’s hope that the tree continues to grow.

  3. TheOgazerts Avatar
    TheOgazerts

    If you think corruption is bad in Barbados then look here.. These leaders have/had their country in a headlock and are not letting go…

    https://wtop.com/africa/2019/03/investigative-group-says-gambia-ex-leader-stole-1-billion/

    https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/05/africa/nigeria-abacha-stolen-loot-jersey-intl/index.html

  4. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    TheOgazerts

    Why always Afrikan countries, their leaderships.

    Hillary Clinton and her crime family are alleged to have ‘stolen’ between 600 billion and one trillion dollars.

    At his current rate Donald John Trump will certainly surpass that all time record, especially when he gets his second term, as we predicted.

    Those African leaders and their co-conspirators in Barbados are mere petty thieves when compared. Mere boys when compared to the old grand daddies of thieffing.

  5. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    “When will the genocidaire Kagame ever be brought to book for murdering 6 million people between the late 1990’s and the years thereafter? If the so-called Jewish holocaust was that, how can 6 million Afrikan people be mass murdered and nobody wants to know? And what about the western criminals making it all possible, people like stinking Bill Clinton, his wife and others?””

    Any country that can get their agriculture upstream and rocking, is successful.

    Ya just cant get away from nasty, tiefing corrupt NEGROS…,just look at the DBLP SCUM…or greedy tiefing whites like the lowlife Clintons.

  6. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Pachamama,

    Quite similar to what I was thinking. Seems like they forgot to pull up my African roots. Didn’t know that psychopaths were curable though.

    You should be introducing those thoughts to the wider society. How about in the month of February when they are interested in hearing about things African. You have to start somewhere.

  7. WURA-WAR-on-U Avatar
    WURA-WAR-on-U

    Mia actually believed she could fool the bajans in Diaspora UK…tief their money…and give it away to the nasty, thieving parasites, Cow, Bizzy, Maloney, Bjerkham, Tempro and all the RACIST THIEVES ON THE ISLAND…

    she is actually telling herself that bajans in the diaspora will give her 20 million dollars to give away to her stinking masters…..goddamn criminal, it’s not ENUFF…that Black women and children are now at risk from predator tourists…she looking to tief for her masters too.

    but…ticktock.

  8. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    @Pacahamama
    I full agree with all that you said. I would have been glad if you specifically mentioned the Clinton organization and the money collected for Haiti.

    To me, stealing from the poor and oppressed is a much greater evil than stealing from others.

  9. David Avatar
    David

    Wanted: Paper trail
    Article by
    Colville Mounsey
    Published on
    June 8, 2019

    President of the Barbados Bar Association, Liesel Weekes, is calling for the establishment of a criminal registry to safeguard against cases like Winston Adolphus Agard’s, the petty thief who languished in prison on remand for almost a decade. His case drew national attention this week when he was brought to court and later released from custody.

    Weekes told Barbados TODAY that given the manner in which the systems currently handle records, she would not be surprised if there are more forgotten persons on remand.

    “In the civil side of things there is a registry, they take documents, they log documents, you know when the matters are due, and you know when the dates are coming. In the civil system you can actually follow a file from the date it starts to the date it ends. In the criminal jurisdiction of the court there is none of that,” said Weekes.

    The Bar association president contended that it is not enough for the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to be the sole recordkeeper of criminal cases, especially since it is the courts and not the DPP that bears the brunt of the blame for backlog in criminal matters.

    “The prosecution of criminal cases is handled by the DPP and there really needs to be an independent registry where judges are able to see which cases have been in the system for however long and bring them forward. This way they can organise the business of the court, and since it is the court that gets the backlash for the backlog, then they should have control of the cases in the criminal jurisdiction,” she said.

    Weekes added, “We do need that criminal registry so that we could keep track of all of the matters in the system and if we had something like that it would solve a lot of matters. It is a very real possibility that there are others like him [Agard] in the system.”

    The attorney-at-law explained that under the current system violent crimes are given high priority and therefore it was easy for those accused of petty crimes to fall through the cracks.

    “It wasn’t a murder; it wasn’t rape and you would find that there is some kind of priority when it comes to those matters. He stole a handbag, which may or may not have had a $1000 in it. So he and people like him will get lost because there is nobody identifying that as a priority issue because it is not a violent crime. We have brought in plea bargaining system and while that is fantastic, you still have to bring them to court so that you can inform them about their options under the plea bargaining system,” she stressed.

    Agard got his day in the No. 2 Supreme Court on Wednesday thanks to the actions of Prison Officer Floyd Downes who informed court officials and Justice Randall Worrell that the now convicted man “fell through the cracks” and had not been before a judicial officer since 2012. Agard pleaded guilty to stealing a bag and contents including $1,000 cash belonging to Connie Young on March 27, 2009. The total value was BDS$9,230. He had been arrested months later and remanded in January 2010.

    In her interview with Barbados TODAY, Weekes lamented that Agard was essentially denied due process and noted that there is little that could compensate the 50-year-old man for the time he lost.

    “People have rights, at the time he was only accused, he wasn’t tried and convicted but he was not given the chance to plead guilty and get out. That is ten years of his life and I don’t think that is easily compensated, even if there is a monetary compensation,” she said.
    colvillemounsey@barbadostoday.bb

  10. Piece the Legend Avatar
    Piece the Legend

    It would be interesting to find out whose handbag it was this men stole!

    Some years ago, a car washer in Carlisle Carpark stole a VCR tape from a car he was entrusted to clean.

    That car washer was found dead sometime later.

    It will be interesting whose bag he stole and why he was punished for this by the flagrant denial of his constitutional rights BY AT LEAST 6 GOVERNMENT AGENCIES.

    I WOULD SUE EVERY SINGLE ONE SEPERATELY

  11. Dame Bajans Avatar
    Dame Bajans

    All the money collected for Haiti was handed over to the Clintons to administer. The Haitian president said he saw little of it. Canadians in Ottawa were incensed and there was a call in program on the matter. The white people felt that black people could not handle that kind of money and nothing was done to help Haiti and the Haitians. No one knows where it went and we who donated are still looking for it.

  12. Heather Avatar
    Heather

    Pachamama June 8, 2019 11:25 AM

    How is this prison industrial system any different than institutional slavery.

    @ Pacha, this slavery will be further institutionalized if the government does not keep it’s promise to have the referendum to legalize marijuana or expunge the convictions of those incarcerated for it, but allow companies to profit from the sale of marijuana.

  13. nextparty246 Avatar
    nextparty246

    The Judiciary, like all public services, is crying out for better management. We are 20 years behind, since both BLP and DLP rejected the international management standard. Who in their right minds rejects a proven international standard without explanation?

  14. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    The People’s Party for Democracy and Development is the newest political party to join Barbados’ political fray.

    Atherley disclosed that the party was created on November 1, 2018. He presented some of its members to the public including Senator Crystal Drakes, Senator Caswell Franklyn, Scott Weatherhead, Bruce Hennis, Paul Forte, Maria Phillips, Sylvan Greenidge, Paul Gibson, Reverend Paul Leacock, Harvey Barrett, Akil Daley, Dr Philip Corbin, Rosaline Corbin and several who were not present.

    https://barbadostoday.bb/2019/06/08/atherley-launches-peoples-party-for-democracy-and-development/

  15. David Avatar
    David

    @Hants

    What explanation is there for members of the new party not being present at the launch?

  16. de pedantic Dribbler Avatar
    de pedantic Dribbler

    Mr Blogmaster, several of your comments seem amusingly, exceedingly sarcastic!

    I’ll start at the end where you state: “This blogmaster urges AG Dale Marshall to direct Superintendent of Prisons John Nurse with immediate effect to audit all inmates on remand at the Dodds prison and report findings. The information that will be of interest is the length of time those on remand…”…. Your sarcasm cuts deeply.

    As part of your voluminously postings on this broad subject of law reform you wrote in February 2010 that “.. In recent days the length of time persons have to remain in prison on remand has been the subject of hot debate. Last week retired jurist Sir Frederick ‘Sleepy’ Smith contributing to a radio call-in show called on the powers that be to do something to ameliorate the situation; ideally a society concerned with justice should want this problem to be nonexistent.”… so WHY embarrassment now! …Mr Agard was remanded but ONE year prior to that post, not so !

    And then last year Jan you noted “[t]his is the perfect case for the newly installed Director of Public Prosecutions Donna Babb-Agard QC on the eve of a general election to send a loud message to those with ears to hear, there is a new sheriff in RH town!”.

    All that to say senor that this is entrenched, deliberate incompetence and negligence…and YOU have chronicled it for years now.

    Do you really want us to believe that this AG in his second coming is awaiting an inmate log to know the ridiculous remand problem in St.Phillip… or that Ms. Babb doesnt have effective records, you think they don’t know who they got up there, who convicted and who awiating trial? fah trute…well than I got a bridge to sell you!

    And taking about bridges let me span some water and put this cruel remand problem in a different perspective…just like Bim…just worst!

    About three years before Agard was accused and sent on remard a young fellow of 16 was accused of the theft and just like Agard with NO conviction (and no guilty plea) he too was sent on remand. He remained there for three years (at Rikers island prison) …two of them in solitary confinement presumably as a form of protection because when he was in general population he was allegedly sexually, mentally and otherwise physically abused.

    In his case eventually publicity effected his release after the case floundered for lack of proper evidence – butTHREE damn years later. This innocent lad was deeply traumatised by the ordeal and eventually killed himself soon after his release.

    Tragic. Hopefully Mr Agard did and will not suffer the lad’s fate…whose family were eventually awarded a hefty settlement from the state of NY… I don’t hold out much hope that Agard will get any damages for his rights being breached, however!

    Wherever we are, social status (and lack of money) will always condemn us to a harsh reality of beaten down victims.!

  17. WURA-WAR-on-U Avatar
    WURA-WAR-on-U

    Pacha….first of all..i wanted to give Mia 4 months to at least appear to make changes on the island

    We thought she would at least:

    start by DISMANTLING the racism and apartheid practiced by her minority racist masters against the black majority for decades, racism and apartheid both governments allowed to practice because it lines all their pockets….racism and apartheid that is a steady diet in the lives of the last 3 generations of black bajans…ya would think she would have been glad to remove permanently the dirty cows and bizzys etc out of the lives of the people and out of the treasury and pension fund…but no, her first act upon being elected was to pick up black people’s money and give to these vile racists..

    AND…Mia got in UK yesterday and LIED ABOUT THE RACISM IN BARBADOS…and telling herself she fooled the people..

    for the last 60 plus years black bajans could get NO JUSTICE in that vile, corrupt supreme court or the magistrates court for that matter as we see a white UK predator was allowed to walk after assaulting a black woman…

    Well Mia could not even mention that yesterday because she knows her whole government should have been removed for that act of criminality against the black female…again, she could only mumble a reply.

    What Bajans don’t know is that the UK had a fight to REMOVE 2 or 3 of their most dangerous PEDOPHILES = UK child rapists… from Barbados…not too long ago….the government could have made it easier to remove these vile rapists,,,but both black governments prefer keep their sex tourism in play, against the island’s children..

    A female asked Mia about children’s rights being violated on the island…and she could only mumble a reply..

    Another female asked her about the elder fraud and elder abuse on the island, she knows she has at least 2 demons for lawyers in her cabinet who steal land and money from the elderly, especially from female., but all Mia could do was refer the female to one of the same crooks, her AG is seeing after that…of course he is, still stealing from the elderly.

    As i said…Mia is not a quarter intelligent as she pretends to be and she keeps telling herself that black people like herself are too dumb to understand what is going on, just as our ancestors were…but right there she is making a bad mistake because people’s eyes are open and can CLEARLY SEE THE EVIL in this government.

    Black women and children are truly in DANGER from this wicked government.

    If those who deal with this sort of thing in a professional way can see it, you know the population on the island has a problem, let’s hope they understand, take it seriously and protect themselves. AND THEIR WOMEN AND CHILDREN.

    If your leader can see nothing wrong with black women being assaulted by white men…you have a serious problem.

  18. Loving it Avatar
    Loving it

    IT’S THE FREEMASONS AT WORK THESE MEN AND WOMEN FRATERNIST DON’T HAVE HEARTS DONT FOOL UNNA SELVES LAWYERS AND JUDGES KNEW ABOUT THIS MAN AND THE OTHERS, IT’S WHAT THEY SWEAR TO BECOME IN THOSE LODGES THAT MAKE THEM SOOOO EVIL, ONLY JESUS CAN HELP, AH GONE

  19. David Avatar
    David

    Why would Freemasons seek to avert justice??

  20. David Avatar
    David

    @Dee Word

    It seems poor people everywhere struggle to get their day in court and because of lack of resources struggle to exploit the legal system. You are correct this is not a Barbados only thing. We need to ensure Barbados does not find itself in the heaviest side of the scale.

  21. WURA-WAR-on-U Avatar
    WURA-WAR-on-U

    “Why would Freemasons seek to avert justice??”

    There is obviously a lot that you are quite oblivious to…you have no idea of the EVIL THAT RESIDES IN BARBADOS….it can be truly called RESIDENT EVIL…

    if i had my way, i would GAS ALL OF THEM..

  22. WURA-WAR-on-U Avatar
    WURA-WAR-on-U

    What pisses me off is the justification…oh, but it happens everywhere..

    that is little comfort to those being victimized by a corrupt system and 2 corrupt governments..

    ya got child rapists everywhere, but it does not mean Barbados should be flooded with white pedophiles while calling it tourism and allowing these pedophiles to rape black children because ya dont want to upset white child rapists…

    ya got rapists everywhere, but that does not mean Barbados should be flooded with sex predators to assault black women and then calling it tourism because you do not want to upset white sexual predators by imprisoning them…

    so the usual dummy justification about ..it happens everywhere, won’t cut it when ya have the power and resources to STOP IT from happening in Barbados..it’s just the nasty sexual predators in parliament getting off on seeing black women and children being raped and assaulted…while they line their pockets from these crimes against the people….and still call it TOURISM.

  23. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    I would urge those responsible to call for a list of crimes for which the value of an offense was less that $2,000.00. Then go through that list, look at when the crime was committed, at the sentence (if any) and if the offender is in or out of prison.

    A theme that I have seen here is having judges distributing extremely severe punishment for ‘petty’ acts: e.g. stealing a loaf of bread, a drink or for something just as petty. In my opinion, the punishment are a violation of the rights of those who are hungry, poor, the weak, and vulnerable. This is “judicial abuse”. It is incumbent on every Barbadian to actively defend and protect the rights of those less fortunate than ourselves and to protect the rights of those who fall on hard times,

    We have to let those who administer swift justice for some and injustice for others know that we are watching them. Quite lately I have been seeing, Barbadians would not know of this or of that. This is too difficult for a Bajan to do or understand, so we need to get a foreigner for the job. The strange thing about injustice is that everyone (except the judges) can recognize it. I do no know if it is a “feel” or an “odor”, but injustice is immediately recognizable.

    I sit and I wonder what motivated the prison guard to bring the injustice to the attention of his superiors.
    What was his tipping point?
    Did he reach a point where he was unable to sleep in the face such injustice?
    Did he establish a friendship with the man and at some point the obligations of a natural friendship and the need for justice for his friend outweighed all other considerations??

    But we cannot simply wait on this “Damascene moment” from prison guards. Fairness must be built into any system of justice. We cannot wait util we have failed and then pat ourselves on the back when we correct grave injustices.

    Publish the list of all crimes committed wit a value of less than $2000.00;
    Publish the name of the perpetrator, the name of the crime, the date of the crime; the date of appearance in the court; the fine/sentence; and the scheduled/actual date of release. Let us throw the national spotlight on this piece of judicial nastiness.

    Since we are unable to track who is in, how long they were in and if they saw a judge, I am beginning to wonder if we know who is out and should they still be in. Let do justice and not lucky or unlucky.

  24. TheOGazerts (Editorial staff) Avatar
    TheOGazerts (Editorial staff)

    Hopes you can get past typos and verbs and subjects disagreeing
    Heads will roll …. .

  25. David Avatar
    David

    http://www.nationnews.com/IMG/170/88170/june-9-2019-front-page2023-415×557.gif

  26. WURA-WAR-on-U Avatar
    WURA-WAR-on-U

    “This is “judicial abuse”. It is incumbent on every Barbadian to actively defend and protect the rights of those less fortunate than ourselves and to protect the rights of those who fall on hard times,”

    That is why …despite all the stupid background noise on BU from fools who know no better…some of us have been calling repeatedly..FOR BLACK BAJANS TO STAND UP FOR THEIR RIGHTS…stop ALLOWING 2 evil, corrupt governments and a corrupt judiciary to victimize them into another 3 generations…their children and grands/great grands will also be victims because YOU DID NOT BOTHER TO STAND UP AND ASSERT YOUR BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS…

    you cannot continue to be afraid of evil black governments and a couple white parasitic racists…there are not enough of them …you can remove them out of yours and your future generation’s lives…PERMANENTLY…you have the numbers, over 200,000 strong black people…THEY DON’T have those numbers…AND NEVER WILL.

  27. WURA-WAR-on-U Avatar
    WURA-WAR-on-U

    Now we will hear the lip service from all of them when:

    there should have been a criminal registry in place in the last 40 years..

    there should have been a sex offender’s registry in place in the last 40 years, which Dale Whistleblower the known land thief DON’T WANT, and he knows why, he plainly said that rapists should be protected…that demon.

    so in reality…the lowlifes in parliament don’t see crimes committed against black people as crimes at all, that is why come next election…TAKE AWAY THOSE DIPLOMATIC PASSPORTS..from all of them in the parliament…and WATCH the fallout..

  28. WURA-WAR-on-U Avatar
    WURA-WAR-on-U

    Bajans have to be on their Ps and Qs with these fly by night political parties..

    https://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/240168/welcome-people-party

    can’t believe Judas Atherly expects someone to take him seriously when he got a big weatherhead crook sitting in his party.

    ..Bajans would do well to make absolutely sure this political party NEVER enters parliament as a government.

  29. WURA-WAR-on-U Avatar
    WURA-WAR-on-U

    “Wherever we are, social status (and lack of money) will always condemn us to a harsh reality of beaten down victims.!”

    especially bad when ya are beaten down and victimized by ya own…the house ni**as in the parliament who love nothing more than to pretend they white, when given titles and positions by the same black people..THEY HATE.

  30. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    Whaddayaknow we have our own gulag, some clever student should come up a la Solzhenitsyn with an article “A day in the life of Winston Agard”, there would be no shortage of material, they have at least 3650 days to choose from.

    Where does the buck stop? We know there is no buck so life will continue inside as well as outside, for those returning the familiar face is gone, for those on the outside its time to renew acquaintances, some things haven’t changed the pudding n’ souse is on us.

  31. David Avatar
    David

    @Sargeant

    What we have here as Jeff described in the blog above was a catastrophic failure, the blogmaster suggests it was systemic.

  32. David Avatar
    David

    http://www.nationnews.com/IMG/168/88168/june-9-2019-cartoon2022-418×278.gif

  33. Piece the Legend Avatar
    Piece the Legend

    You do know that the Barbados Labour Party seems to be plagued by these Agards.

    Do you remember Maria Agard?

    The MP for Christ Church West?

    The lady whom I believe also had the big C, and was tossed to the curb by Mugabe Mottley?

    Though it is noted that Santia who is similarly challenged by the Big C has been embraced!

    Why is that?

    Could it be that, Santia represents INTERNAL BLP SUPPORT FOR MUGABE while Maria does not?

    SO IT WAS EASIER FOR MUGABE to throw Maria under a bus WHILE BEING SO ACCOMODATING FOR SANTIA?

    And now a nex’ Agard?

    And the totally clueless Teets talking bout “UNBELIEVABLE “?

    You got to be RH kidding me right?

    You mean dat Mia and she government get de RH machinery of government in place to mek she RH fadder a knight, even when she was in opposition, but she nor she ingrunt Attorney General cannot so manage the RH job of AG and see who lock up for 10 RH years?

    You mean dat Mugabe and Dale can remember to RH hire back Dottin from 10 RH years ago BUT YET SHE AND HE CANT REMEMBER to Lego a citizen after 10 years?

    You mean dat Mugabe and she AG can forget to arrest and indict any cocaine drug lords for the 20 buff years ago dat she was AG, and he was she side kick, BUT DEM CANT SEE WHO LOCK UP FOR TEN?

    Here be a nex’ prophesy.

    All these colossal ef ups going form a collage of the building list of incompetencies of ghis Mugabe regime

    Watch and see!

    Leh Mugabe keeps fvcking up the affairs of the “small man” like Agard, the Sanitation Worker, the Pensioner and WUNNA WATCH SND SEE WHAT GOING HAPPEN AT THE POLLS IN 2023

  34. Piece the Legend Avatar
    Piece the Legend

    @ WARU

    You do not play chess, do you?

    Remember these few words that de ole man says in response to your remarks

    “…WURA-WAR-on-U June 9, 2019 8:45 AM

    Bajans have to be on their Ps and Qs with these fly by night political parties..”

    De ole man has spoken in 2019 AND IT IS SUFFICIENT UNTO THIS DAY…

  35. fortyacresandamule Avatar
    fortyacresandamule

    Sometimes incompetence is worst than corruption. And we like to proclaim to the world that we are the best manage black country on the planet. If that is the case, our standards are really low.

  36. David Avatar
    David

    @fortyacresandamule

    Agree with you this is more about getting it right more than being corruption focussed. Think about it, Barbadians have to stand in a line for upwards to 2 hours to show an insurance document in order to get a free sticker from government department to affix to ones vehicle.

  37. TheOgazerts Avatar
    TheOgazerts

    This is not a B or D thing.
    It pains me to invoke the imagery of Guantanamo when discussing the case of Mr. Agard. In fact, some will claim that I have gone too far as we have never water boarded anyone. But if we have some of the failing attributes of the system at Guantanamo and we if can only point to the lack of torture to so as differentiate our system from that in Guantanamo, then our system is in a state of failure. It should be pointed out that, like Mr. Agard, some prisoners were released from Guantanamo without trial.

    Mr. Agard is our canary in the mine. A signal that citizens can be made to disappear or have their human rights violated without ‘anyone’ noticing.

    Richard Delisle Arthur had a physician who stated that “It is not in [his] best interest to be incarcerated at this time.” It is highly probable that Mr. Agard probably suffers from the same illnesses as Mr. Arthur, but Mr. Agard lacked (1) the family connection, (2) the political connection, (3) a medical; doctor who would testify on his behalf, (4) a press that would follow his case and make it a national story and (5) the resources or Mr. Arthur In fact, his crime was that lacked the $400,000 of the accused drug smugglers or the $150,000 that Mr. Arthur used to make bail.

    Can we accept a justice system that would hammer the poor out of existence? Can we accept a system that can make people disappear ? Should it be in the hands of a prison guard to determine (1) your length of time in jail and (2) if you receive a trial?

    We need to drive a stake into the heart of this vampire of a system. It does no suck blood, but it dehumanizes the poor who it comes into contact with; it strips them of their dignity Let those who run the system know.. we don’t want apologies, explanation or promises of new technology. We want a system that will work for the rich, the poor and those in-between.

    Do you still think that I have gone too far or does it pain you to look at this injustice, or of this failure of a caricature of a judicial system?

  38. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    https://barbadostoday.bb/2019/06/10/minister-calls-for-greater-collaboration-between-church-and-state/

    Can someone help me with this story?? I read it and missed the point?

  39. ThgeOGazerts Avatar
    ThgeOGazerts

    https://barbadostoday.bb/2019/06/08/shut-it-down-3/

    “In fact, his attorney Angella Mitchell-Gittens, who appeared pro bono as a friend of the court, noted that he had spent more time in prison than the maximum penalty for his crime.”

    It seems as if some lawyers are helping the poor. Angella Mitchell-Gittens go to the head of the class. Keep up the good work.

    “But today, another defence criminal lawyer, Marlon Gordon told Barbados TODAY he was currently trying to get a decision in an appeal case for a client for the past three years while he remains jailed on a lengthy sentence.”

    “The defence attorney noted that worse yet, is that accused are now lining up to plead guilty out of frustration and being tired of sitting in prison for lengthy periods without their cases being heard.”

    Must a man surrender his dignity and pride to escape the clutches of and injustice system?
    What a way to beat a man.
    Drive home the realization that he is an expendable pawn.
    Drive home the realization that his destiny is not in his hands.
    I call upon those who are in charge of this injustice system to send psychiatrist into the jails.
    Without a doubt, you have broken the spirit of some and driven others crazy.

    Stop the wickedness. Stop the madness.
    I now understand why you want to work with the church.
    Where is your humanity?.
    Stop the wickedness..

  40. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    Forget digitization and computerization ..
    Use an excel spreadsheet …
    https://www.techrepublic.com/article/5-free-alternatives-to-microsoft-excel/

    “If you don’t want to pay for an expensive Microsoft Office subscription, here are five alternatives to Excel that you can get for free today.”

  41. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    https://barbadosunderground.net/2010/05/02/trouble-brewing-at-dodds-prison_veco_warders/

    Next time you build a $700M prison add about $60 more (the cost of excel)
    If you think the kickback on $60.00 is too small, I will donate the software.

  42. Piece the Legend Avatar
    Piece the Legend

    @ Commander Theophillus Gazerts

    What is going on here on the Western Front?

    I know that you are a crack shot

    I know that you have the Gatling gun with you but…

    Commander you here telling these people you going give them $60 for software?

    My man, dem is definitively WORDS OF SEDITION!!!

    Mugabe going sent extradition orders for you in Canada!!!

    She has forgiven you talking bout the Injustice perpetrated against Agard for these 10 years.

    She has forgiven your several dissenting remarks

    But Theophillus what she cannot forgive is this your most egregious remark!

    $60 for software to manage the prisoner registry

    The next thing you going offer is software to harmonize the court cases so that plaintiffs, defendants, lawyers and judges can all be in the court at the same time!!!

    I know what it is though

    It is all the cordite that your are inhaling from the Gatling

    It was bound to happen after a time.

    The cordite mixed up with the fragments of leather from the Whip of correction that you have been using to beat those two Rented donkeys Hee Hee and Hee Haw

    Licks like peas in dem crutch half killing dem scvunt

    Commander Theophillus I begging you to tell Mugabe dat you did not mean anything bout the $60 offer.

    Say dat you was tired beating she 2 jackasses and in a fit of ingrunce you write down dat statement.

    Commander de ole man cant lose you down dere in the middle of the Battlefield with dem swine

    So as soon as you tek you finger off de trigger, write to Mugabe and tek back you $60 dollars

    Plus she liable to feel dat you paying she $10 more to do de Wild thang being dat she into dat White Whores ting

    You remember that song?

    “For $50, I make you holler? ”

    Wild Thing by Tone Loc

  43. TheOGazerts. Avatar
    TheOGazerts.

    https://barbadostoday.bb/2019/06/12/back-dated/

    “A High Court Judge is clearing his court’s calendar to hear the matters of some prisoners presently on remand at Dodds Prison and who may not have had a hearing for a protracted period.”

    “Veteran Attorney Angella Mitchell-Gittens who is representing Springer as a friend of the court, gave the judge the thumbs up for the move.”

    It is heart warming to see the response of this judge and this attorney. In fact for the past two weeks, I have seen some positive activity in out courts. Whilst we must hammer them when they fail us, we must also compliment when they tackle an issue head on and try to resolve it.

    Justice Randall Worrell and Attorney Angella Mitchell-Gittens you have made my heroes list. You made my day.

    @Justice Randall,
    In the remainder of the article, I noticed that there are two folks who are giving you support but their support is lukewarm.
    Ignore them.

  44. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    Barbados is a failed state.

  45. Dame Bajans Avatar
    Dame Bajans

    Another shooting death in Barbados. i think the number for this year may exceed Piece’s prediction for which he was lambasted as not being patriotic and wanting the worst for the island. We will see at December 31st.

  46. Piece the Legend Avatar
    Piece the Legend

    @ Dame Bajans

    Dat feller Piece seems to have a way with words though!

    He opens he mouf and says that the murder rate will increase AND NEEDS TO INCREASE and he gets singled out for plotting the murders!

    The sad thing about this is that the country seem to be unwilling or incapable of shaking off this shooting and violence curse it is beseiges with.

    And whereas we should be getting endless suggestions from everyone about what could work, all dem can do is cuss out people who are calling the facts like they are

  47. David Avatar
    David

    Do we know how many people are on remand for an unreasonable period?

    We have been hearing conflicting communications from AG Marshall and one lawyer who has taken the challenge to represent these forgotten people.

  48. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    What about those on bail? How about police officer Gittens, who shot his neighbour? When is he going to be tried? How about the woman who claimed she was kidnapped and taken to an ATM? How about the man who assaulted Ninja man? Our criminal justice system is not fit for purpose. Barbados is a failed state.

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