The following communication received in the blogmaster’s inbox is self explained. The traffic challenge in Bridgetown and its environs from sun up to sun down is well known. Please discuss for 10 marks.
Why Harrison College is about to Change Hours of Operation
The following communication received in the blogmaster’s inbox is self explained. The traffic challenge in Bridgetown and its environs from sun up to sun down is well known. Please discuss for 10 marks.
96 responses to “Why Harrison College is about to Change Hours of Operation”
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@ Pacha
I submitted my policies to BU and they were paying published. You will need to check the archives. The first order of business should have been a ban on importation of vehicles; civil servants should have been put on four day weeks; there was no need to abolish the NSRL; all non essential items; should have been banned for at least eighteen months; immediate reform of all and abandon plantations and placing them into immediate food crop production; fast forward the fishing industry; cooperative roads building programs etc.
All of the above will save foreign exchange and the rapid transformation of the economy will commence. Within a year at least a half billion dollars in forex would have been earned. Don’t forget a radical effort to collect the over billion dollars owed to government.
Hope you get the picture. -
William
Civil servants being put on a four day week is a change in their work agreement and is also a pay cut. You would need an agreement from the unions/ each worker / a repeal of the law passed by the OA BLP.
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@ John 2
With 29 seat majority, that would not be a problem.
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William
Until the unions shut down the country.
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@David June 29, 2019 8:26 AM “What would have been useful is Duguid Bradshaw and the technocrats sharing with the public what is the comprehensive plan for traffic management in the city and Barbados. ”
Comprehensive traffic management plan whu”
When most Bajans feel [not THINK] that having a car is a sign of having arrived .
Wasn’t it one of our most senior members of the political class who said that every Bajan should be able to have a little car at the door.
Well if every Bajan has a car at the door, that is exactly where it will remain…at the door, because they won’t be able to get it through the traffic. Lolll!!!
This is more than 20 years now that i haven’t had a car.
You can’t believe the number people who believe that I am low class because I catch the ZR vans.
I’ve saved myself tens of thousands of dollars, maybe $100,00 or more.
It feels sweet.
Just his morning i was discussing with Little Johnnie, who did go to HC, that lack of sensible public policy about transportation has been one of Barbados’ most significant failures in the last 100 years.
This int a “B” thing, nor a “D” thing.
It is we is foolish Bajans thing.
Wasting nuff, nuff foreign exchange too.
Polluting the air.
Lack of exercise causing us to die at younger ages than our parents and grandparents.
Etc.
etc.
etc.
Mia and crew int going to be able to fix it neider, ‘becausin’ we is a bunch of poor gret poppets.
Doan get me started now.
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Pachamama June 29, 2019 9:04 AM “where even the PM could go to work on either a bus, a tram, a boat or a bicycle.”
When next you see a Prime Minister of Barbados on a bicycle [even for recreation] call me quick, quick, so I can take a picture and put it on Instagram.
Prime Ministers of Barbados would rather get heart attacks and strokes from lack of exercise than to let anybody catch them on a bicycle [even for recreation].
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@de pedantic Dribbler June 29, 2019 “11:41 AM the experts views on that and maybe the reasoning are similiar to my concerns or maybe not, but based on past expert mouthing of the lazy, hazy sleeping habits of teenagers I am wary of your suggestion.”
My experience is that our brains wake up with the sun. Therefore the research conducted in northern climes about sleepy teenagers may not hold true for Barbados.
In late December the sun does not rise until after 8 in the morning, so of course the teenages are sleepy as night has barely passed.
Whereas in Barbados the sun rises by 6:25 at latest, and by 8 a.m. the night has passed 90 minutes ago and we are wide awake.
i would bet anything that none of this research has been conducted among people who live close to the equator, like Quito, Ecuador for example where the sun is always risen by 6 a.m.
I would bet anything that Ecuadorean teenagers are not sleepy at 8 a.m., nor are British teenagers sleepy at 10 a.m.
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@de pedantic Dribbler June 29, 2019 11:41 AM “Consider that such a start would mean reveille at 5:30 latest for most…At least it would inculcate the cadet or scout camp discipline of early must-rise.”
Just three or four generations ago virtually everybody in Barbados worked in agriculture. Virtually everybody woke up at about 5 or 5:30 Those who practice agriculture in the tropics start early to get much of the work done before the day becomes too hot.
I don’t know if we have “evolved” so quickly that we need air conditioned SUV’s and ten o’clock starts.
We live in the tropics people. Early starts is the only way to go.
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@Green Monkey “For teenagers, melatonin – the sleep hormone – doesn’t start being produced until 11pm.”
Our melatonin is regulated by the sun. The sun in Barbados does not rise as the same time as it does in Essex.
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@Artax
I like Gaston Browne.
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Someone proposed changing the school hours at HC to the same times that presently occur at the St Michael School. It was reasoned that the change may alleviate traffic congestion but HC parents resisted the change even though their counterparts at the SMS noted the advantage of early end of school with after school activities.
Conservative is too mild a word to describe HC parents.
I will be astounded if the Government makes any of the wider, more radical proposed changes to the operation of schools e.g abolition of the common entrance and the establishment of middle schools
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Sir William 8:04 PM
We are not at all impressed with these so-called ‘policies’.
You are talking to a scientist and if you want to make serious proposals you’ll have to show us the costings, estimates of results, comparative analysis, etc. At least for one of your ideas.
But there can be no circumstances where these ideas could stand in for serious policies especially when the country and those so ‘trained’ have been in a state of failure for decades.
In any even, none of this, as implemented in the last number of years could have avoided the program, or a similar one, as being embarked upon. We estimate it would take 30 years to bring the required level of efficiency to food production, in a way to eliminate the food import bill, if the international system allows.
Maybe if your ideas, or similar ones, were implemented during the period after 1994 and had successfully restructured the economy circumstances might have been different.
We also noticed, that like both the current and former administrations, you seem to have no policy for dealing with the elephant/s in the room – the financialization of economy, the collapse of US dollar imperialism.
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For the change of hours to be effective should all the schools in the catchment area be directed to make the change?
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Maybe we need cheaper, simpler solutions, and not more complex more expensive ones? What if we had decent sidewalks, starting in central Bridgetown, and spreading all the way out to the countryside? What if all of the children who go to Harrison College, St. Michael’s, St. Ursula’s, St. Winifred’s, St. Mary’s, St. Patrick’s RC and other urban schools cold be dropped off a mile or so from their school and had proper sidewalks so that they could walk the rest of the way? What if part of a simpler solution was that all children would be given an umbrella or raincoat by their parents? What if no parent drove any further in than Holborn Circle, or the Bishop’s Court area?
Sign!!!
Sidewalk building?
They int much steal in day.
Why are we not worried that our children and grandchildren are fatter, and will likely become sicker earlier, and die earlier too?
What if our children and grandchildren DO NOT NEED to be driven in air conditioned SUV’s?
What if walking two to four miles a day is good for them?
Good for us too?
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@ SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife June 30, 2019 7:55 AM
Maybe we need cheaper, simpler solutions, and not more complex more expensive ones? What if we had decent sidewalks, starting in central Bridgetown, and spreading all the way out to the countryside? What if all of the children who go to Harrison College, St. Michael’s, St. Ursula’s, St. Winifred’s, St. Mary’s, St. Patrick’s RC and other urban schools cold be dropped off a mile or so from their school and had proper sidewalks so that they could walk the rest of the way? What if part of a simpler solution was that all children would be given an umbrella or raincoat by their parents? What if no parent drove any further in than Holborn Circle, or the Bishop’s Court area?”
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++=I like your “Park and Walk to School solution.
How about an ‘easier and less costly’ solution?
Why not let the children who attend these ‘town’ schools be chosen mainly from the neighbouring communities?
Wouldn’t these schools be taking in annual cohorts of students who live within walking distance thereby eliminating the need to ‘bus’ them across parishes?
Wouldn’t that be the ultimate expression of proving that all the schools are indeed equal and are given equal resources?
Wouldn’t it be the diamond of altruism as an experiment in reverse social engineering by giving a leg up the socio-economic ladder to those are currently marginalized and condemned to the urban ghettoes as boys and the growing number of girls on the block?
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http://www.walkingschoolbus.org/
Walking school bus
Why develop a walking school bus?
Studies show that fewer children are walking and biking to school, and more children are at risk of becoming overweight. Changing behaviors of children and parents require creative solutions that are safe and fun. Implementing a walking school bus can be both. -
https://thewalkingschoolbus.com/
“THE WALKING SCHOOL BUS SUPPORTS ACCESS TO EDUCATION BY PROVIDING A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT. THEIR WORK INCLUDES PROVIDING SAFE TRANSPORTATION, NUTRITION, AND INNOVATIVE LITERACY PROGRAMS FOR STUDENTS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES.” -
@ Pacha
These are solutions not airy fairy . You are reaching a very interesting place now because you ask what policies I would recommend and now ask about costs. You note my radical approach is to both stem the outflow of foreign exchange and save foreign exchange. Perhaps your “scientific” mind ignores the simple fact that a penny saved is a penny earned.
Furthermore you have presented several opinions/ / policies/ ideas and not once have you attached the cost of any one of them.
All I am saying is that radical transformation is needed. You asked for my alternatives and I gave them. Go into the archives of BU and you read my pre election policies. -
I took one of those walking school buses to school every day of my school life, starting at age 4. Now that I am way past age 64 i am still able to easily walk or work outdoors for up to 5 hours at a time, in 30 degree heat and near 100% humidity.
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My numbers this morning 112/76 and 77
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Dis 3 hours outdoor work yesterday. Will do the same this evening.
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@ SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife June 30, 2019 12:17 AM
“@Green Monkey “For teenagers, melatonin – the sleep hormone – doesn’t start being produced until 11pm.”
Our melatonin is regulated by the sun. The sun in Barbados does not rise as the same time as it does in Essex.”
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Eureka!! The Simple Simon has discovered the “god gene”!
So do you still believe in the ‘authenticity of the Adam & Eve story with melatonin being the fruit of diversity that put poor Adam to sleep?But there is hope for you, El Presidente por Vida. One day you might just come to the ‘factually stark’ scientific realization that Adam was a white woman and Eve a black man (and a wicked (d)evil man too from “whitehill”).
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@ Miller who wrote “Why not let the children who attend these ‘town’ schools be chosen mainly from the neighbouring communities?
Billie Miller created a plan for zoning when she was Minister of Education in 1981.
A fella I have known all my life created the “map” that showed where the children lived and the location of the secondary schools.
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Let’s me begin my BU day on a pleasant note.
A wonderful morning to the BU family. Hoping that your day is full of sunshine and laughter…
Obey my command “Go and have yourself a Greattt day.====================XXX========================
”We need a “Just put it here section”. Sometimes I see an article that I just want to stick somewhere and make a minor comment and have no place to put it…. Odds and Ends -
@ TheOGazerts “Just put it here section”
Great idea.
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https://barbadostoday.bb/2019/06/27/off-track-2/I
I think Dale is trying. But he is trying too damn hard and that is why he is getting it wrong.
I think he needs to push out one or two yes men and bring in someone who has the gumption to say
“Hold it. Not so fast. Before we announce a solution, let us study the problem and how to solve it. These problems are so deeply rooted and tangled that the “apparent quick fix” may not work.”As is customary on BU I will give Dale some grades
B+ effort
C- Results
B- Realizing the problem is beyond him.Mr Marshall
You can still get an A. Study and then fix the problem. Ease back on making predictions on when you can deliver; and if you say you will deliver tomorrow, then deliver before midnight tomorrow. Anything else, make you look like and amateur. -
Why not let the children who attend these ‘town’ schools be chosen mainly from the neighbouring communities?
Come on Miller!
You expect to populate Harsun Kolij wid childrun from de Greenfields, Orleans, Garden Land, Hindsbury Road. etc?
St Michael School: Marl Hole, carrington Village, Brittons Hill, etc.
Queens College: Haynesville, Cave Hill, Free Hill, etc
Man u mekking bare mock sport if u tink dat zoning gine get anywhere in Buhbadus. As wid averyting else in Bim, this is just more hot air from the talking heads.
The education system in Bim reverting back to pre-independence times where the monied got the best education.
You aint see de private schools slowly growing in importance again?
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https://barbadostoday.bb/2019/06/30/the-most-excellent-now-the-highest-honour-for-citizens/
Dear Prime Minister,
I think this is NOT a “most excellent” idea. Scrap the system and bring in a new one or just keep the old one.Straddling the line and having two systems is is a sign of indecision and a lack of courage.
Those who were previously honored can keep their old titles, but in the future we will use a single and new system.
Kr,
TheoGazerts (
(Specialist in Legal, Restructuring, Financing, Sewage fixing, Tourism and Bitt)
We do it cheaper; we do it better and faster -
This is a prime minster who dislikes details, who does not think through policy, and who believes speech-making like a Pentecostal preacher (gesticulation and all) is all that is needed to sway Bajan opinion. And she is right. We are not critical thinkers. This is a bogus idea with the trimmings of nationalism. A government incapable of making serious decisions.
Since May 25, 2018, give me a government policy in which the prime minster has explained in detail? -
https://barbadostoday.bb/2019/06/27/bteditorial-we-must-try-getting-it-right-the-first-time/
I love this editorial. This fits nicely here with the HC start time and with Dale Marshall revising his delivery date.
The time of floating an idea out there and seeing how the wind blows must come to an end. The time of making promises and not delivering must come to an end.
I don’t care how much you want to be a part of Caricom or Mr Caribbean, we must have solutions that are suitable for Barbados. Each step must be Fully calculated. We must have a firm idea of what the results will be, before we conduct our experiment. Controlled experiments and not just doing and saying sh*t hoping for the best. It is too late for trial and error, especially when error seem to be the most frequent outcome
Here is a bit of advice for B’s and D’s.
If you did not know sht before you were elevated to the post, it is highly probable that you don’t know sht after you were elevate. Get advice from others (who know sh*t).Barbados is suffering.
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A shout out to the regulars of BU. You are doing a hell of a job and this is without lessons from Hal 🙂
I scan BU and the other sources of news.
Heer is my ranking
BU #1
BT #2. Improved vastly. There is still some cowardice as you can read a story and never see the names of the bad guys
De Others.. Trying to figure out what they are doing. Tempted to subscribe, but the price seem unreasonable. -
If the authorities are looking for a kite to fly for a lark and get Bajans all stirred up, why not announce HC will cease being coeducational as for the September term!!
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Dullard
Elerslie Secondary School is located in the “back yard” of Free Hill and St. Stephen’s Hill……. so, you can rule out Queen’s College as first choice for students from these areas.
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@ Dullard June 30, 2019 9:37 AM
Come on Miller!
You expect to populate Harsun Kolij wid childrun from de Greenfields, Orleans, Garden Land, Hindsbury Road. etc?
St Michael School: Marl Hole, carrington Village, Brittons Hill, etc.
Queens College: Haynesville, Cave Hill, Free Hill, etc
Man u mekking bare mock sport if u tink dat zoning gine get anywhere in Buhbadus. As wid averyting else in Bim, this is just more hot air from the talking heads.”
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++See how easy it was to unmask the Dullard to reveal a rather bright spark!
You clearly have read between the lines to spot the vein of mocking sarcasm of the hot air emissions from the mouths of the political bull-shitters when it comes to the abolition of the 11-plus exam.
And replace it with what as a method to allocate students to those “great schools” remains the 166 sq. miles question facing the Bajan social-class division players.
I guess the bullshit-talking policy makers could come up with a quota system to reflect some form of Affirmative Action owing to the children of those ‘blackened’ boys (and girls) on the block who were incarcerated for dealing in marijuana now seen and the economic Joan of Arc for Barbados.
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Came across this interesting Bajan on line.
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Good move by Harrison College because Barbados is really in dire need Daylight Saving(s) Time . At 5 am in the morning there is a surplus of daylight on the island which Barbadians do not use and this is due to the back that Barbados being the Easterly of the Caribbean Islands gets the rising sun first and much earlier than the other Caribbean islands.
At 7 pm it’s like being in a cave in Barbados . . . pitch dark , so moving the clocks forward 1 hour in Buhbados will give Bajans much more time to put the extra hour(s) to good use instead of having wasted daylight in the morning.
Now , I don’t know if this true beacuse I was not in Barbados during that time but I was told that the late Barbadian Prime Minister Tom Adams shot down the DST idea back in the 70’s / 80’s as a re-election ploy. -
” In observance of Barbados’ independence, the highest honour of the land will now include the title of The Most Excellent.”
https://barbadostoday.bb/2019/06/30/the-most-excellent-now-the-highest-honour-for-citizens/
” The Prime Minister said the title reaffirmed the Barbadian identity, as future generations of Barbados can embrace their “Bajaness” or “Barbadianess”.
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SimpleSimon
You have described the problem accurately, the mentality of most bajans. They have no financial commonsense.
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SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife
June 30, 2019 8:35 AMMy numbers this morning 112/76 and 77
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This morning, apnea hypopnea index 2.7 over 8+ hours, sometimes under 1.
Tend to be around those BP numbers when I go to the doctor and get BP checked.
Pulse Rate usually between 60 and 80, as low sometimes as in the 40’s when I am sleeping.
… and SPO2 usually in the 90’s when I am sleeping.
No complaints about snoring.
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SS
Do you snore?
I used to snore down the house.
Then I discovered I had sleep apnea and did something about it.
Snoring can worsen heart function, especially in women
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/323829.php
https://www.health.harvard.edu/heart-health/why-snoring-could-be-a-sign-your-heart-is-at-risk
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@John July 1, 2019m1:01 PM “SS. Do you snore?”
My children say so. But even though they are good kids, i know for sure that they telling lies on me.
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If you are interested in seeing how your pulse rate and SPO2 levels behave during sleep, try one of these.
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=pulse+oximeer+usb&ref=nb_sb_noss_2
Upload the data to the computer/phone in the morning and look at the graphs.
They will tell you a lot.
The graphs speak for themselves.
If necessary, go see a doctor with the data.
One doctor I know after sending countless patients for sleep studies decided to have one himself!!!
He has sleep apnea too and remarks how much his life has changed since he is taking the appropriate action.
Another doctor I suspect when I meet him next will be saying something similar.
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Why not consult the owners/operators of the railway operating out of St.Nicholas Abbey? They may have valid ideas and suggestions Perhaps a publicly/privately owned elevated solar and wind powered modern monorail system would result in a significant decrease in the need for ‘two and three-car families’,particularly, the many single-occupant vehicles which clog our highways and byways on a daily basis.Such a system would no doubt,also result in a reduction in the carnage caused by the many irresponsible ,reckless and unconscionable drivers ! Think about hospitalization and lost productivity ! Think about foreign exchange spent on repairs and replacement of damaged vehicles…etc. etc. Kudos to those who have dared to think and propose similarly !
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The Crane to from Bridgetown Cruise Ship passengers
St. Philip to/from Bridgetown, school, workers.
Airport to Bridgetown?
https://barbadostoday.bb/2019/06/04/national-trust-welcomes-investment-plan/
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Sunday Sun catching up, and lead story story too!
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