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David

I am forwarding this email that I just received a few moments ago.  It is informing us that there will be a meeting of the Senate on Wednesday, August 14th but it did not tell us what we would be debating.  How much later must we wait for the Order Paper (agenda).  Invariably, we will find out on Wednesday.

Caswell

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From: Parliament of Barbados <parliamentBB@caribsurf.com>
Date: 12 August 2019 at 10:22:01 am GMT-4
To: “Adams, Rawdon”, “Boyce, Kevin” , “Cheltenham, Dr. Sir Richard”, “Cummins, Lisa”, “Drakes, Crystal”, “Franklyn, Caswell”, “Grant, Rudy” , “Greenidge, Rudolph” , “Haynes, Dr. Crystal”, “Henry, June”, “Holder, Lynette”  “Maynard, Dr. Christopher” , “McConney, Kay” “Moe, Lucille”, “Moore, Toni”, “Nurse, Lindell”  “Parris, Patricia”  “Rogers, John”, “Sands, Damien” “Springer, Romel” , “Taitt, Monique” , “Walcott, Mr. Jerome”, “Wiggins, Alphea”, “Beverly, Gibbons” , “Eastmond, Pedro” , “Jones, Nigel”
Subject: 28th Sitting of the Honourable the Senate – Wednesday, August 14th, 2019

Dear Honourable Senators,

You are hereby informed of the 28th Sitting of the Honourable the Senate being held on Wednesday, August 14th, 2019 in the Senate Chambers, Parliament Buildings at 11:00 a.m.

The Order Paper and any additional information will be sent at a later date.

Regards

 
Parliament of Barbados
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Tel:  (246) 427-2019
(246) 427-1461 (Direct)
Fax: (246) 436-1310
email: parliamentbarbados@caribsurf.com
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326 responses to “Senator Caswell Franklyn of the Opposition People’s Party for Democracy and Development Exposes a Big Problem”

  1. Greene Avatar
    Greene

    David,

    is there any place to view MAM’s pressie?

  2. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    The leaders and authorities in BARBADOS…are NOT CREDIBLE…no one believes anything they say.

    The cop already made himself look weak and questionable by accepting security cameras from ICBL…who paid a fine for bribing a former government minister…so he has issues …and Mia and Marshall are KNOWN LIARS…

    ..so did yall see the footage..

    The fire service is a known running JOKE…

    Ah could go on all night…but ah sleepy…

  3. David Avatar
    David

    @Greene

    If the video by the now deceased can be explained this matter can be put to bed.

  4. David Avatar
    David

    This link was posted earlier.

    https://www.facebook.com/BarbadosLabourParty/videos/371143050231535/

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

    Hants…the damage ..IS ALREADY DONE…

    The press in UK was knocking this around all day from yesterday..BBC had it as front page…..and every news outlet was playing it …ON A LOOP.

    These crooks and liars only came out AFTER the british press EXPOSED them…that only makes it that much worse..

    They knew the lady was british…but never said a word…

    They knew she died on the 6th of August… but never said a word…..today is what the 15th…

    I personally did not want to address the events surrounding how she got burnt…although i saw the video the very next day…she was very clear about what happened to her and that SHE WAS ATTACKED…people in the video can be heard saying what they saw…

    And today thst video was played over and over just for accuracy.

    It is a COVERUP.

  6. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Hopefully someone can send yall the video…..i cannot watch anymore of that agony and suffering so i deleted.

  7. Greene Avatar
    Greene

    i looked back in this thread and i dont see it but no biggie. i am sure it will be carried in tomorrow’s daily.

    i want to endorse a point you made earlier. Bim is a wonderful place to live. i had lived overseas for the past 35 years and i always look forward to returning home. i feel free and at peace.

    many of my friends i have invited over just love it. of course there are few things that bug me like the built in bureaucracy in the public service, garbage, squatting, loud music, rising crime, an over reliance on Govt to do everything, tiefing lawyers, the last iteration of the DLP after Thompson and this new dispensation of the BLP, a party i dont support largely. but at least they are trying albeit more long talk than action

    but i will never ever cry down beautiful Bim. May she rise to higher heights

  8. David Avatar
    David

    @Greene

    You need to cahnage your device. It was just posted.

  9. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    @ Greene

  10. WURA-WAR-on-U Avatar
    WURA-WAR-on-U

    Furthermore…the lady PLAINLY SAID..she was in HER BED..so she was not cooking anything..they are lying, that person was in the house and she did not even know….she was DESPERATE for people to know what happened…

  11. Baje Avatar
    Baje

    @ Waru

    They are known coverup artists.

    A Bajan man was prosecuted for raping 2 British white women, even though the white women insisted it was not him corrupt former COP Dottin still insisted it was the man to win a conviction.

    In Barbados the Police are known to be a stranger to the truth.

  12. WURA-WAR-on-U Avatar
    WURA-WAR-on-U

    Baje ..i remembered that..Dottin was hellbent on framing the dude, Crawford i think his name was… because he was trying to put him back in prison, the mistake he made, dude was not a rapist….shamefully it was the RAPE VICTIMS, both british women, both white, who had to advocate tirelessly to free the man…because they insisted he was not the rapist…and Dottin who seemed to be present at both rapes..INSISTED that he was…

    the authorities on the island cannot be trusted…they are well known for cover ups…

    if you saw the video…you will know that they are all LYING on this woman, who was horribly burnt and ya can plainly see that something flammable was thrown on her., her hair was burnt off…….it’s like the deceased KNEW they would cover it up and she was very vocal while people were trying to comfort her..people KNOW WHO THAT KILLER IS…

    …so there is something very dirty about that whole murder.

    besides, the video was circulating so long, am sure it ended up in the hands of EXPERTS…who knew she was telling the truth, despite her TERROR….or because of it, she was so terrified…..that was no cooking accident..she said she was in BED when she was attacked…

  13. WURA-WAR-on-U Avatar
    WURA-WAR-on-U

    So i take it that the LIARS..did not know there was a video circulating with the lady and OTHERS.. saying what REALLY HAPPENED..and that video…ended up in UK….GOOD…take that..

  14. Greene Avatar
    Greene

    Thanks Hants. i looked at it. really a waste of time except for the CoP looking like a deer in the headlights. the man really need a course in handling and speaking to the press. he read and answered the questions as though he was giving evidence.

    Marshall kinda waved him to explain more when he had already done so and MAM berated him for not answering like a politician when she really added nothing to what he said. quite disrespectful in both cases.

    MAM is a real bully in truth. there was really no need for anyone else to be there. i know most people expect and want the PM to speak but she hogged it and was in her element as she clearly was prepared and wanted to answer all the questions. whilst there was too little of Freundel there is too much of MAM

    it was quite amateurish at best but informative nonetheless. Public speaking is a dying art and this pressie showed why.

    the investigation into the death of the burnt lady seemed to have been thorough and i dont know what else could be added. there seemed to have been enough forensic and witness evidence for the CoP to come to the conclusion that he did. that they are going to investigate for closure but at this stage there have uncovered nothing criminal.

  15. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    I’m watching this PC and Dale M just blamed the past Gov’t for the rising number of crime/murders, is there no one else qualified to do his job?

    Someone should tell Straughn about the KISS system (Keep it simple……) when he is communicating in a public forum. He kept using system specific jargon when speaking about Customs Department changes, maybe the folks at the PC knew what he was speaking about, I didn’t.

  16. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    The entire so-called press briefing was a massive ego massage for the president. She is rude and clearly bullies her team. She would not allow any of them to answer questions without intervening.
    On crime, especially the death of the British woman, an operational matter, she allowed the attorney general to dominate, with the inarticulate commissioner reading from a prepared release like a shy school kid. It was a dreadful exercise in blaming the last government.
    Reminds me of the Zimbabweans who wanted to get rid of Mugabe and are now saying the present president is worse than Mugabe. I am sure some people may even calling for Stuart to come back. Where is the DLP?

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  18. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Wuh…according to Enuff idiot…i was talking shite all day…and these ASSES…jumped out in a press conference…telling LIES on a woman who suffered so much after being doused and burned…and they NEVER KNEW…that there was a DYING DECLARATION VIDEO OUT THERE…wuh i can’t even laugh…

    They so deserve this.

    Wuh even the beastly westminster system am sure RECOGNIZES…dying declarations…especially when there are WITNESSES..

    Ah did not want to talk about the video…that is why i did not mention it..

    And the beauty about this shitshow they craated with that disrespectful to the deceased victim press conference…THEY CAN’T CHANGE BACK THEIR STORY NOW…they done lie already….wuh they had the COP right there LYING…ah sorry they did not drag out Dottin into that liefest too.

    And everyone got to watch them…what a thing

  19. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    Now Barbadians get to see the kind of dictatorship they will have to endure for the next five years
    Prepared statements without media availability to ask questions is a govt poopet show
    The deceased woman made a statement which contradicts what the COP said
    The onky ineckniws what happened to her would be the deceased lady and she made that evidence available for all to see via social media
    As i said before this govt has and is making bold statements to cover up their misdeeds

  20. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    Hal
    In 1991 the National Democratic Party proposed to spend 20 million dollars per year on a youth program. Included was a “ a well staffed Business Advisory Centre to encourage and facilitate the entry of youth into the world of business”.
    (Page 23 NDP manifesto 1991.)
    Almost 30 years later we hear of a new youth set up to the tune of 20 million dollars. It means in real terms that the Duopoly proposes to spend less money on youth than The NDP proposed in 1991.
    It shows once again that the Duopoly having governed this country for sixty years have no vision.
    I challenge anybody to go and read the NDP’s 1991 youth policy and tell me how come it’s taken the Duopoly thirty collective years to come up with a youth program that shamelessly proposes to spend less in real terms than the NDP proposed in 1991.

    The Duopoly Rules

  21. David Avatar
    David

    Journalists were present and questions were asked.

    We may critique her style but she went many steps further than Freundel who presided over a government of silence.

    Did you watch or listen?

    Let us be fair in our criticisms.

  22. David Avatar
    David

    @Wiliam

    The duopoly rules, the NDP tried?

  23. WURA-WAR-on-U Avatar
    WURA-WAR-on-U

    So in case yardfowls still don’t understand what happened….because the video was out there for 18 days and apparently not even the COP knew…the prime minister, the attorney general and the commissioner of police got caught…TRYING TO COVER UP THE MURDER OF A BRITISH CITIZEN…

  24. WURA-WAR-on-U Avatar
    WURA-WAR-on-U

    And now BBC is repeating THE LIE and letting everyone in UK know what Mia, Dale and the COP did at the press conference…

    ah waiting to get the info in writng..

    it will end in tears…wuh they could NEVER UNDO that lie, not when they jumped out with it already….blissfully unaware of that video…wuhloss….

    that is what happens when ya have no sympathy, no empathy for those of your own color persuasion, how could you HATE ya own people like that……..SAVAGES…

  25. WURA-WAR-on-U Avatar
    WURA-WAR-on-U

    I could swear i heard all the ..oh RHs and the …oh shites…. in my sleep last night..

    Karma lowlifes…Karma..

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

    https://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/241252/evidence-intruder

    …this is the cover up…the big lie…REAL forencis experts have to grab that lady’s body ASAP….

    the COP is dumber than i thought…CCTV footage from a nearby home clearly shows only ONE SIDE OF THE HOUSE…any intruder can enter that home undetected if they know the house well…and even i can JUMP THAT FENCE…

  27. Greene Avatar
    Greene

    listen stop with the crap.

    the CoP presented video evidence, witness evidence and forensic evidence and you all still uttering nonsense. i have not seen what the lady said but we seem to think that only what she said should be relied on. tdo we know he mental state at the time?

    the CoP said the video from a neighbour’s house showed no one entering the property and the witness who kicked down the paling door saw no one leaving and there was no evidence of anyone beside the witness entering from the paling.

    the british woman who had custody of the decedent’s child said the lady was cooking in preparation for their visit and police said a gas bottle connector in the house near the cooker was damaged indicating the possible cause of the fire. the fire was concentrated in the kitchen and not the bedroom and forensics also indicated that the decedent was not doused with any flammable substances.

    all this can be re examined

    so please stop with the conspiracy theory nonsense

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

    yardfowls would believe anything…the person who DIED..said what happened…ya cannot LIE AWAY a dying declaration…..and am sure..YOU DID NOT SEE THE VIDEO EITHER..but myself and others DID..

  29. Greene Avatar
    Greene

    Sargeant,

    the journalist asked Marshall to comment on the murder situation given that he was AG when murders was at the highest in 2007 and now. Marshall promptly blamed the last 10 years when the last 10 years would have shown that murders were not that high if the highest points were in 2007 and 2019.

    that was a brilliant exercise in political wukkup. then again cropover just over.

    that said besides MAM Marshall acquitted himself well in front of the camera.

  30. Enuff Avatar
    Enuff

    Greene
    Why you don’t give up? You are dealing with some recalcitrant characters reminiscent of Salem.

    Hal aka Former Senior Editor
    Ensuring your Ministers deliver clear and concise information to the public is bullying? See Sargeant’s comments above. Why didn’t you question the bully at the townhall meeting?

  31. Greene Avatar
    Greene

    listen you know how many dying declarations got innocent people locked up. the idea that a dying person is truthful is a fallacy. i am not saying the lady concocted a story to cover the fire that appears as though it started in the kitchen whilst she was cooking but how do you account for the following-

    no one seen entering or leaving house from neighbour’s video
    door to the paling intact except for being kicked down by recuer
    witness who rescued her saw no one leaving
    no other signs of forced entry
    fire investigators say fire started in the kitchen from gas cylinder connector
    medical examiner says no flammable liquid found on her body
    she was preparing a meal for a visit of her child and his british caregiver
    man disclosed as assailant interviewed, examined and eliminated

  32. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Just so yall dumbasses know…THE VIDEO with the victim’s dying declaration was just sent to a news outlet in UK…ket them review it..,and either hand it into scotland yard whom i believe krready have a copy…or BLAST IT ACROSS UK…unless the police says not yet..

    Yall are not getting away with this coverup…fckers

    Angela Cox…do not tell these assholes anything about the contents of the video…let UK handle this.

  33. Greene Avatar
    Greene

    if you really knew anything you wont want the UK police to handle anything of import. if you distrust the Bim police well good luck with the UK’s

  34. de pedantic Dribbler Avatar
    de pedantic Dribbler

    @ Mr Blogmaster it’s amazing to read the comments re this matter in the absence of 1) not having irrefutable facts and 2) putting aside political bias.

    First, I am truly amazed at the totally divergent story lines…to hear one person tout a pre-death determination of what happened from this private video and read the facts as presented by officials is presently ridiculously hilarious.

    …Heinous crime or tragic accident…we will see.

    And 2…are we seriously giving props to Marshall and Mottley for their performance before a mic. SERIOUSLY!

    A press conference is normally a very mundane, unpleasant and dry event for the average govt official but for the politician it’s a moment to parade and pompasette… whatever the circumstances.

    For two VERY accomplished pols like the AG and PM both of whom were impressively ACCOMPLISHED public speakers even from their late teens it’s laughable to be praising them for simply being eloquently effective at a presser at this stage of the game of life.

    As I said rather amazing palaver above.

  35. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    You have no real police in Barbados, no forensics experts, no real forensics lab…cause everything has to be sent to Trinidad, Jamaica or US….for nalysis…so what’s there to trust..

    I dont even want to beat up on the police too badly because i understand their situation….this is a government coverup…at least we know that UK cops CANNOT be bullied by the halfassed Barbados government….and that is ALL we need to know.

  36. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    And i take it that Idiot Enuff did not see the video either…NOR even knew it existed…lol, lol, murder!!!!….literally…

    …….now i can laugh..

  37. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    Greene

    It is IMPOSSIBLE for a video to be circulating on social media for 18 days and RBPF did not know anything about it.

    I’ll give you an example. I don’t know if you could remember a video that was circulating on social media around June this year, in which a group of men were seen talking about revenge killings and bragging about attacking their rivals anywhere, at anytime.

    The Cyber Crime Unit and CID detectives would have examined the video to ascertain its source and authenticity.

    All the victim’s relatives have to do is engage their own forensic pathologist to re-examine the body and seek assistance from UK police to conduct another investigation.

    If the victim was doused with a flammable substance, traces of that substance may not be found because the body would have been washed and prepared for repatriation. However, signs of strangulation or bruises may still be evident on the body. The RBPF could share their evidence with the UK police

  38. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    Let’s cut to the chase. The clear truth is that politics has infected our major law enforcement agency. This goes back to Barrow’s heyday when he said on the floor of parliament he would not work for less than a police sargeant; continued when COP Durant said his hands were tied(RPB); in recent times the Dottin issue and the Guyston Mayers Police Commission embarrassment.
    All matters related to crime are now viewed with cynicism by the populace.
    These two parties have allowed yardfowlism to invade every area of national life.
    More and more Hal Austin’s declaration of a failed state becomes frighteningly ominous.
    The culmination of sixty years rule by the decadent Duopoly is bearing the fruit that has been predicted from the seventies.
    The question now is : Who will save Barbados from further decline.

    The Duopoly Rules

  39. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Wuh even worse…Mia sheself said yall dont have a proper forensics lab…ha!

    Wuh they wont even be able to analyze a video…..LET ALONE A FIRE THAT WAS DELIBERATELY SET…and the COP it seems can’t even explain a melted gas cylinder top…some cop he is….ha

  40. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    @Greene

    I haven’t seen the video but I heard the rumours, the COP’s explanation of the facts surrounding the incident seems credible. A thinking person would ask why would Bajan authorities cover up the murder of a woman who is not a wealthy well connected socialite or political animal? Who are they covering up for? That cover up would involve multiple agencies and people and would be hard to contain. Barbados – pound for pound– may be the rumour and conspiracy capital of the world, we like um so.

    BTW If the victim was doused with a flammable liquid, traces may more likely to be found on the clothing she was wearing.

  41. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    When something sounds TOO GOODBTO BE TRUE…it usually is…

    Ya have to see the video..

    If the UK media are allowed to play it…ya will…unless someone posts it to the blog. FB might baulk at playing it, because it is so graphic.

    They have covered up for far less than that and on people no one even knew.

  42. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    Only a “dumbass,” according to an individuals, would believe the police needs a forensic lab to analyze a video.

  43. Enuff Avatar
    Enuff

    Man BU too sweet!!🍬🍭🍩🍪🍰🧁🥧🍫🤣

  44. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Wuhloss..it is not me gotta explain shit. Ah saw the video..that NONE of yall did…. and intelligent people unlike ENUFF… UNDERSTAND what they too saw. Just like all the other people who saw it. Now that the idiot government have created this mess…and not ONCE mentioned the video…and hello neither did the COP…and all this will now have to be handled at a higher level…i can rock back and ENJOY the show.

    Yep..a shitload of fun on BU..cause when the police KNOW of any video in circulation…they always come out and yammer on and on about it. SOOOOOo why the silence on the video NOW…people are GLUED to their TVs in UK.

  45. Piece the Legend Avatar
    Piece the Legend

    “THREAD MIGRATION”

    @ the Honourable Blogmaster

    Please accept this comment in the spirit that it is given.

    It is normal for any blog to become infected/hijacked by a burning topical subject WHICH THE DEATH OF THIS BRITISH WOMAN IS.

    Artaxerxes made a point earlier which, BECAUSE DE OLE MAN ENT GOT NO TIME, I was not able to respond to.

    But my friend, the Superlative Archiver summarizes the matter of monitoring airwaves adequately to confirm if Collusion has occurred as to a purported wrongdoing.

    And he has provided several links to the same SO THAT WILL DISPEL INFORMATION SUPPRESSION.

    Having said that there is something that he cannot dispel and which Piece the Legend submits FOR YOUR LISTENING PLEASURE, See the POST here @ 8.09am on August 15 which reads

    And I quote

    “…If it were anything otherwise we would see the Attorney General Teets Marshall, Mugabe and Oblong Head Symmonds on national TV commisserating on thd death…”

    So Mugabe reads it (AS SHE DOES WITH ALL DE OLE MAN’S POSTS & ssh materials which she continues to claim as her own heheheheh) AND SAYS

    “Piece is correct, we need to issue a statement about this!”

    But, since I did not send Mugabe the script, like the ssh gave her the files, she decides to ad lib it!!

    The dufus should have done the following

    Give the COP slowpoke a script that said (a) name of party (b) incident report (c) evidence collected (d) steps in process and (e) current status/determination. MSKE SURE HE WAS TOLD NOT TO PLACE POLICE IN CORNER IN CASE ADDITIONAL EVIDENCE COMES TO FORE
    Teets Marshall was to be the party who would speak about the inter agency communications with (1) the UK government and (2) the pathologist etc.

    A statement like “investigation while much advanced have so far suggested that blah blah blah..” then shut to FVUCK up”

    Mugabe bless her Stoopid soul SHOULD NOT HAVE SAID SHY$E ABOUT THE CASE CAUSE SHE ENT NO FVUCKING POLICE!!!

    That is why the retarded Commissioner of Police Griffith was there!! Bless his simple Simon looking ass.

    Mugabe’s purpose was to

    1.Speak through the camera to the family of the victim ALL THESE MILES AWAY!

    She Mugabe, devoid as she is for the feelings of poor black people was to use her bass voice and convey a sentiment of care about how children would feel when dem muddah get dead pun a trip to Barbados

    But you has to got a heart to do whu de ole man telling wunna SCVUNT and anyone who purportedly can bite out a clitoris CANT GOT ONE UH DEM, can dey???

    Criminal matters, institutional matters AND EMOTIONAL MATTERS.

    3 separate scopes of engagement like what happens in 1st world countries BUT DICTATORSHIPS ARE DIFFERENT AS WUNNA SEEING

  46. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Piece…it is a monumental FCUKUP…lol…ah got some popcorn and trying to decide which beverage alcoholic in nature…to wash it all down with…while watching THIS DOWZY…lol

  47. Enuff Avatar
    Enuff

    Piece de TnAl
    You got caught telling lies..periodt…AGAIN! Now trying to save face. GTFOH.

  48. David Avatar
    David

    It seems some are of the mistaken view by regurgitating BS it will become truth.

    The blogmaster will have the final word.

  49. David Avatar
    David

    Did some of you say the CoP was a DLP appointee. To who much is given much is expected. We have a forum that can be productive or not.

  50. David Avatar
    David

    The British media is balancing the original story.

    British mother who was ‘set alight’ in Barbados house not attacked by intruder, police sayGas canisters were found in the kitchen, police say

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