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Is this something Barbados authorities should be investigating?

Should out of the box thinking be prioritized?

Every year we have to endure the same process of a water prohibition because aquifers dry up.

How do we improve the situation?

A man built a homemade machine to bring endless water to the Bahamas. You already know the science

By Leah Asmelash, CNN

Updated 1244 GMT (2044 HKT) September 17, 2019

Source: HLN

Homemade machine could provide clean water to Bahamas 00:54

(CNN)He designed a machine that makes water from the air. Now, after Hurricane Dorian, he’s trying to bring it to the Bahamas.

Moses West, of San Antonio, Texas, has brought water to Flint, Michigan, and Puerto Rico — all through his Atmospheric Water Generation machines, which extract moisture from the atmosphere and turn it into water.
The science behind it is similar to what many learned in elementary school. It’s really just condensation — the same thing that creates moisture when you breathe on a window, for example.
It’s just done on a much, much larger scale.
Have a look at this link:
Thanks to FearPlay for sharing this link.

Another a related note the blogmaster congratulates Bajan scientist Dr. Shima Holder. We need more scientists involved in national problem solving.

 

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127 responses to “Scientists to the Rescue!”

  1. robert lucas Avatar
    robert lucas

    @ de pedantic Dribbler September 19, 2019 10:29 PM

    Wouldn’t argue with you on the points in your comments. You may have a point .

  2. robert lucas Avatar
    robert lucas

    @ Baje . September 20, 2019 12:38 AM

    I am surprised. When I was at Soil Conservation, tourists were frequent visitors to the gardens; it was all the craze then.

  3. robert lucas Avatar
    robert lucas

    @ SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife September 20, 2019 12:44 AM

    It seems that Barbadians have bought into claims made by Andrew Hatfield anti-vaccine activist and .discredited British ex-physician who published a paper in “The Lancet” claiming a link between the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism. His work could not be duplicated. The social media got hold of his ideas and ran with them. The refusal to vaccinate is spreading in the developed world and it appears to have now spread to Barbados. As you remark, the adherents to the anti-vaccination program haven’t experienced things like polio. When their kids come down with infectious diseases, they may change. To prevent the spread of these diseases at least 90-95 percent of a population must be vaccinated; this is called the herd effect. If these people want not to vaccinate, their actions put the rest of the population at risk..

  4. Baje Avatar
    Baje

    @ robert lucas

    @ Baje . September 20, 2019 12:38 AM

    I am surprised. When I was at Soil Conservation, tourists were frequent visitors to the gardens; it was all the craze then.
    xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

    NO NEED TO BE SURPRISED,

    YOU LIVE IN A CRAB IN A BUCKET SOCIETY.

    BLACKS DONT DESTROY WHITES.

    THEY HAVE NO PROBLEM SEEING THEIR OWN SUFFER WHILST REJOICING IN THE OTHER PERSON’S FAILURE WHO LOOKS LIKE THEM.

  5. SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife Avatar
    SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife

    @robert lucasSeptember 20, 2019 2:02 AM “It seems that Barbadians have bought into claims made by Andrew Hatfield.”

    CORRECTION: Andrew Wakefield

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wakefield

    “In 2010, the GMC (British General Medical Council) found that Wakefield had been dishonest in his research, had acted against his patients’ best interests and mistreated developmentally delayed children and had “failed in his duties as a responsible consultant”.The Lancet fully retracted Wakefield’s 1998 publication on the basis of the GMC’s findings, noting that elements of the manuscript had been falsified and that the journal had been “deceived” by Wakefield. Three months later, Wakefield was struck off the UK medical register, due in part to his deliberate falsification of research published in The Lancet, and was barred from practising medicine in the UK.”

    However as of 2019 Wakefield is still going around the world encouraging parents not to vaccinate their children.

  6. SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife Avatar
    SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife

    This is the mock doctor that foolish people, especially foolish people who are mixing up their religion with hard science are obeying, while disobeying their own sensible public health nurses and doctors.

  7. robert lucas Avatar
    robert lucas

    @ SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife September 20, 2019 6:56 AM

    Thanks for the correction.

  8. Piece the Legend Avatar
    Piece the Legend

    @ DpD aka The Word.

    My old friend Let me see if I can explain how I will view and then respond to an article on Barbados Underground

    The opening paragraphs read and de ole man quotes

    “…Is this something Barbados authorities should be investigating?

    Should out of the box thinking be prioritized?

    Every year we have to endure the same process of a water prohibition because aquifers dry up.

    How do we improve the situation?…”

    The key drivers for me were “out of the box thinking” and “how do we improve the situation?”

    Firstly, I was not interested in speaking about any specifics.

    De ole man could talk forever on specifics.

    For me my focus was on “improving the situation” AT THE GRANULSR LEVEL!

    Dr Lucas’s experience encapsulates precisely what de ole man is saying about confidentiality agreements that are required ON COMMENCEMENT.

    “…4. Use – The Disclosing Party and the Receiving Parties each
    agree not to use each other party’s confidential information for their
    own use or for any purpose except the purpose described in Section I.

    Future Development – Receiving Parties shall not directly or
    indirectly acquire any interest, or design, create, manufacture, sell or
    otherwise deal with any item or product, based upon or derived from the confidential information provided by the Disclosing Party,
    except as may be expressly agreed to in writing by the Disclosing
    Party…”

    Right now de ole man in negotiations with nuff peoples

    Some people are accustomed to NDAs and sign them immediately while others, Bajans who are CROOKS, don’t

    De ole man dun wid de bajans but advancing wid de white peeple

    My point DpD AS YOU WRLL KNOW YOURSELF, is that if a man is not willing to sign an NDA you just dont do business with that man!

    What is so difficult for you to understand about that?

    You does get tied up in business models and a whole set of pup but what I’m saying here is fundamental to the process of engaging.

    So, in Dr. Lucas’s case, when that man had told him about Goddards what he should have done, AS I DID, was to take an electronic copy of that breach of NDA and keep it for a rainy day.

    Which part of that process you having difficulty understanding?

    In my next comment I will pursue the simple single premise of my discussion here on this matter which, since you have missed it is

    “…How do we improve the situation?…”

  9. Piece the Legend Avatar
    Piece the Legend

    There are 4 types of Mutual Confidentiality and Non Disclosure Agreements to be considered JUST TO COMMENCE AN INNOVATION PROCESS which clowns like Peter Boos etc al. Would not recognise IF THDY GOT UP AND BIT THEM IN THEIR ASSES!

    1.The NDA for individuals/viewers of a concept as part of the enabling process for finance or technical support

    2.the NDA for joint developers who among several things, agree not to use the idea(s) for a period of x years or cause NDA material to be used by third parties until the effluxium of x time

    3.the NDA for the employee or consultant where among several things on addresses ownership of works, escrow of code etc., assignment…

    And

    4.NDA for sovereign entities, governments or parastatial organizations

    All are important BUT THE MOST DANGEROUS ONE TO BE NEGOTIATED IS THE LAST ONE.

    Understandably so because, WHEN GOVERNMENTS BREACH NDAs you have hell to sue their asses heheheheh

  10. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    A bunch of intelluctual goobly
    Not going to add up to a hill of beans
    What havent been done in the past fifty years would not happen in ten years
    Selfishness plus arrogance has keep this country stuck in mud

  11. Piece the Legend Avatar
    Piece the Legend

    @ the Sheeple

    As I shared with the People in my first comment, sheeple like you Mariposa CANNOT EVEN START TO UNDERSTAND THE SERIOUSNESS OF THIS TOPIC as it relates to a country under IMF prison.

    Let me suggest that you stay clear of ANYTHING DE OLE MAN WRITES because I shall gut you like thd rapists that you snd your Democratic Labour Party are anytimd you step out of line

    http://imgur.com/5CLFEOd

  12. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    @ Dr.Lucas

    We like to pretend there is no racism in the tourist industry.

    Question: Why was Andromeda doing so well for so many years?

    Question: Which similar business stands to benefit from Andromeda’s demise.

  13. Dame Bajans Avatar
    Dame Bajans

    there is another entity in st. joseph. hmmmmmm….

  14. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    Are our young people joining the global climate protests?

  15. Piece the Legend Avatar
    Piece the Legend

    @ Mr William Skinner

    This is why Mr Skinner I find that Adrian Loveridge ‘s blog is so sanctimonious and such dribble.

    There he is talking about Opportunities Abound and about creating opportunities for 5,000 average bajans while a few weeks back he was talking about Air BnB and its evils.

    Then of course he is quoting the greatest enemy to Entrepreneurial Activity in Barbados Peter Boos who is competing for First Spot with Dr Basil Springer!

    Let me show you how wicked these people are Mr. Skinner

    First of all look at this item

    http://imgur.com/1ZSk1Qc

    Of course you know what it is but, in the context of what you have stated here, about the vengeful nature of so called tourism points of interest, WHAT IS DE OLE MAN SUGGESTING?

    A card of the type shown above would create an environment where BOTH ENTITIES COULD BE PART OF A “TOURISM TREASURE HUNT” where tourists would gain points based on Places of Interest visited AND DOUBLE POINTS WOULD BE AWARDED FOR VISITING BOTH VENUES!

    Now I would not expect the anachronism Adrian Loveridge to conceive of that idea NOR PETER BOOS because neither one is a rass**le innovator.

    But, in presenting this idea to support hour point about the internecine actions of tourism players you see how “thinking outside of thd box” is accomplished with ease, BY SOME OF US, but, in the same breath, there is no mechanism available in thd Backwoods that is Barbados TO FACILITATE THE CONVERSION OF IDEAS TO COMMERCE for people like me.

    And that is the crux of this subject matter really, chvunts like Peter Boos and Basil Springer are the failures that are appointed to lead Innovation

    And this is why we is in de death clutch of the IMF or what the Sage Annunaki calls Its Mia’s Fault

  16. Piece the Legend Avatar
    Piece the Legend

    @ the Honourable Blogmaster your assistance please with an item here thank you

  17. robert lucas Avatar
    robert lucas

    @ William Skinner September 20, 2019 11:09 AM

    “Question: Why was Andromeda doing so well for so many years?”

    The time I am referring to, blacks weren’t particularly interested in horticulture (gardens and ornamentals) myself included. I was ,like most black Barbadians more interested in in crops for food production. It is only when certain basic needs are met that people have time to savor esoteric things like how beautiful a garden looks. You must bear in mind most Barbadians were very poor and food was the priority. The major players were white in the horticultural sector that was how it was.

  18. SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife Avatar
    SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife

    The lady at Andromeda needs to mount aggressive social media campaign advertising her place. Paper flyers alone just won’t cut it nowadays. She needs Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram etc. In other words go straight to her potential customers. Let the customers know that she is open and has a beautiful place.If she doesn’t know how to do this there are many bright young people out there who can set her up. Especially as Andromeda is so beautiful, her social media person can add some really beautiful photos.

    I had a place to rent earlier this year, Did not have any money to advertise on regular media. The littlest Johnny who is little more that a child Instagrammed it for me, with photos. I had 10 calls in the first hour, and a verbal agreement before the end of the day. Once I did my background checks and added the new name, dates etc. to the lease i was good to go.

    A good social media campaign can show your goods directly to your public while circumscribing the bad talkers.

    I wish the lady well.

  19. Piece the Legend Avatar
    Piece the Legend

    @ Mr William Skinner

    I posted this before but it does not compliment the Loveridge demigod so this part of the BU BORG blocked it

    @ Mr William Skinner

    This is why Mr Skinner I find that Adrian Loveridge ‘s blog is so sanctimonious and such dribble.

    There he is talking about Opportunities Abound and about creating opportunities for 5,000 average bajans while a few weeks back he was talking about Air BnB and its evils.

    Then of course he is quoting the greatest enemy to Entrepreneurial Activity in Barbados Peter Boos who is competing for First Spot with Dr Basil Springer!

    Let me show you how wicked these people are Mr. Skinner

    First of all look at this item

    http://imgur.com/1ZSk1Qc

    Of course you know what it is but, in the context of what you have stated here, about the vengeful nature of so called tourism points of interest, WHAT IS DE OLE MAN SUGGESTING?

    A card of the type shown above would create an environment where BOTH ENTITIES COULD BE PART OF A “TOURISM TREASURE HUNT” where tourists would gain points based on Places of Interest visited AND DOUBLE POINTS WOULD BE AWARDED FOR VISITING BOTH VENUES!

    Now I would not expect the anachronism Adrian Loveridge to conceive of that idea NOR PETER BOOS because neither one is a rass**le innovator.

    But, in presenting this idea to support hour point about the internecine actions of tourism players you see how “thinking outside of thd box” is accomplished with ease, BY SOME OF US, but, in the same breath, there is no mechanism available in thd Backwoods that is Barbados TO FACILITATE THE CONVERSION OF IDEAS TO COMMERCE for people like me.

    And that is the crux of this subject matter really, chvunts like Peter Boos and Basil Springer are the failures that are appointed to lead Innovation

    And this is why we is in de death clutch of the IMF or what the Sage Annunaki calls Its Mia’s Fault

  20. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    Has the Mottley government got a policy on climate change?

  21. Piece the Legend Avatar
    Piece the Legend

    @ the Honourable Blogmaster your assistance please with an item posted here 3 hours ago thank you

  22. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    @ Piece

    I have known for over fifty years that to even mention race in Barbados is a certain path to the gallows.
    We enjoy beating up black politicians but the Public Order Act protects (1974) Massa.
    Innovation is only welcomed when it comes from certain sources.

  23. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    @ Robert Lucas

    What are you really saying ? Who do you feel really maintain the beautiful gardens? White people? What do you mean by black people only grew food. Almost every house in the village of long ago had a flower garden in the front.
    You think that horticulture originated in Europe? Don’t you know when Uganda was enduring social and economic maladies , it was still exporting roses to England?
    Who looked after the gardens at Sam lords during its heyday? A white person?

  24. Ping Pong Avatar
    Ping Pong

    Dr Lucas’ story about his business experiment is the most depressing story that I have read in a long while.

  25. Piece the Legend Avatar
    Piece the Legend

    @Ping Pong

    The saddest thing about this issue Ping Pong is that he is not alone

    There are 1,000s of bajans who have been in the precise situation as Dr. Lucas and have suffered equally AND WORSE yet there is no recourse.

    Other than the few who come out and say it like Dr. Lucas others prefer to suffer in silence

    If they open their mouth to complain THEY GET CASTIGATED AND VICTIMIZED BY THE SYSTEM.

    The following Stoopid Cartoon highlights the victim protection strategy de ole man does recommend to people nowadays.

    http://imgur.com/3iA7umh

    Let your smartphone do the recording AND, if it is a picture or video, BLUR OUT the faces in the video and publish part of it.

    If it is an audio tape, cut and splice it AND THEN POST IT TO SOCIAL MEDIA.

    Then keep the whole message as a DELAYED DELIVERY in Outlook for Friday at 9.am

    But you have to remember to reset the mail every Friday or it will send the incriminating evidence to the email addresses you designated

    This social media thingy gives “victims” the chance to be the person in control and make de body who EFFED you up feel what it is like to be a victim

  26. Piece the Legend Avatar
    Piece the Legend

    @ the Honourable Blogmaster your assistance please with an item here for Pjng Pong thank you

  27. SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife Avatar
    SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife

    @William SkinnerSeptember 20, 2019 4:08 PM “Almost every house in the village of long ago had a flower garden in the front.”

    True.

    We did not have running water at home but we had a two rose trees, a red one and a white one, on each side of the front step. And lots of people in the village grew crotons, rice plants, bachelor’s buttons, and ferns for the gentlemen’s buttonholes for weddings and funerals, and Queen Anne’s lace.

    The running water came later, much much later.

    Everybody in my family, even with as little as one square foot of space, we will plant something pretty and flowery. I still have a red rose tree. Once established they are fairly easy to manage, and will survive for decades.

  28. robert lucas Avatar
    robert lucas

    @ Piece the Legend September 20, 2019 2:18 PM

    I see you have taken the measure of Basil Springer: a talker if ever there was one. Actually I once wrote an article which was published in the press, in which I stated quite clearly that he has no qualifications in agriculture and should keep his mouth shut. The man had more say on the topic than people who were trained in the field.

  29. robert lucas Avatar
    robert lucas

    @ William Skinner September 20, 2019 4:08 PM

    Let me clarify . Sure Blacks had flower gardens but the extent to which exotic plants were imported and utilized by whites out weighed the effort of that of blacks. Blacks as far as I am aware never had gardens on the size and scale of Andromeda . The point I am making is that the average black person did not engage in creating gardens on the scale of Andromeda. I personally wasn’t that interested in the horticultural aspects of agronomy and most of my contemporaries weren’t either. As a matter of fact we tended to consider the effort exerted in growing non-food plants to be an exercise for the leisure-class type of people. I am just expressing my opinion of how the majority of professionals in agronomy thought at the time. I am glad that you were one who took horticulture seriously.

  30. robert lucas Avatar
    robert lucas

    @ William Skinner September 20, 2019 4:08 PM

    “You think that horticulture originated in Europe? Don’t you know when Uganda was enduring social and economic maladies , it was still exporting roses to England?”
    A couple of questions. When was Uganda exporting flowers to the UK? Was it in 1890 or more recently? Did the Ugandans go to the UK and lobbied for the creation of the flower business in the UK? Contemplate on the questions posed.

  31. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    @ Robert Lucas
    There is nothing in this country worth anything that Black people did not nurture and develop. We did not own the plantation houses either but we built and maintained them. We did not own the estates but we planted and reaped every crop and looked after after all the cows pigs sheep poultry etc. We did not own the stores but our Labour developed them. Why on earth will you talk about Black people not owning horticultural enterprises such as Andromena ? After the “exotic” plants were imported who cared for them?
    I personally knew the gentleman who maintained Sandy Land grounds. A master gardener by any measure.
    Grafting plants, knowing when and where to plant them; knowing the local names given to plants , all of those skills should be appreciated. Next thing I will hear is that Blacks never owned fishing trawlers so we knew nothing about fish outside of eating them.
    It’s time that we stop this nonsense regarding how this country was built.

  32. Vincent Codrington Avatar
    Vincent Codrington

    Dr. Lucas

    Andromeda was established by the owner, former Iris Bayley , wife of of Dr Bayley of Bayview Clinic as a Botanical Garden. It became a tourist attraction to help defray the costs of operations. It was not a private garden at her home. It was supposed to be educational and thus a public service by a socially conscious Barbadian. The fact that she was Caucasian is irrelevant.

  33. Vincent Codrington Avatar
    Vincent Codrington

    @ William Skinner at 7 :49 PM

    I agree with you 100%. We have a tendency in this country to underrate the contribution of the working class to the Agronomy of Barbados, The development of the grape fruit, the cultivation of sugar cane from seedlings were first observed by the labouring class. The fact that their bosses received the praise and honour for the discoveries cannot erase these facts. We need to show more respect for our ancestors.

  34. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    @ Vincent Codrington

    You are absolutely correct. We tend to either downplay or pretend that because somebody does not have a diploma saying aquaculture, horticulture or agriculture , that makes them some almost useless workers. All the fine workmanship and estate furniture that brings thousands for the auctioneers were made by Black people. We get taken up with words and cliches.

  35. TLSN Avatar
    TLSN

    Piece the Legend has got it wrong in that there are many who have commented under this post. Even though they may have strayed from the subject matter just as I am about to.

    William Skinner for years has trumpeted the importance of the Bajan Cherry tree. Now I know why.

    The link below highlights another lost opportunity. The reasons are many. The practical and theoretical knowledge that our ancestors acquired through centuries of working in the fields appeared not to have been passed on to the post-independent generation or may have simply have been discarded in our haste to become a modernised and a developed country.

    It is clear that the significance of the Barbados cherry tree was undervalued within the country. Even though our great grandparents knew of the health benefits of our indigenous cherry tree. It would appear that the government from the Barrow era right up to the Mottley era have played down the significance of agriculture and horticulture; and the value that research and development brings to a country’s economy. As ever we appear to be, patiently, awaiting the arrival of the “outside expert” to “assist” us in our self-development.

    Well it would appear that others knew of the value of our cherry tree. The only question that we need to ask ourselves is whether we are capable of developing an institute which will be able to both carry out research and have the brief to commercialise their findings of our “indigenous” plants.

    https://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/barbados_cherry.html

  36. WURA-WAR-on-U Avatar
    WURA-WAR-on-U

    “The fact that their bosses received the praise and honour for the discoveries cannot erase these facts. We need to show more respect for our ancestors.”

    exactly…black governments have always been DISRESPECTFUL..of the contributions the black population make to the very existence of the country…they always need someone else to give the praise and credit to, someone else to reap the rewards of black labor who does not look like them…and now they have ran themselves and the country into DEEP trouble they are pretending to turn to the Rasta Community for help…once again to steal the knowledge and any economic benefits achieved for themselves and a gaggle of minority parasites and cockroaches..so that the black majority will once again end up with nothing…once again dependent and struggling, we know the plan, wicked leaders will never deviate from that OPPRESSIVE, destructive to the majority poulation behavior…

    ….it is a decades old pattern to keep the majority population in BONDAGE and dependent on minority parasites so they can continue to enrich each other…..but not this time…

    Stop giving government sell outs information on anythng they can steal and give away…IMPLEMENT IT YOURSELVES…even if ya have to leave the island to do so.

  37. WURA-WAR-on-U Avatar
    WURA-WAR-on-U

    Not this time Vincent, not this time.

    it can only continue to happen if you allow it, at this point, too many people have awoken and can clearly see the crimes being committed against themselves by these cockroaches the people elected….and thought were human.

  38. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    Has the Mottley government a policy on climate change, or is this irrelevant; let us talk about coconuts.

  39. Miller Avatar
    Miller

    @Vincent Codrington September 20, 2019 8:11 PM
    “I agree with you 100%. We have a tendency in this country to underrate the contribution of the working class to the Agronomy of Barbados, The development of the grape fruit, the cultivation of sugar cane from seedlings were first observed by the labouring class. The fact that their bosses received the praise and honour for the discoveries cannot erase these facts. We need to show more respect for our ancestors.”
    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    Excellent points made!

    It was the horse & buggy driver (chauffeur) who drew the sugarcane breeding phenomenon to the attention of John Redman Bovell. Why isn’t he celebrated in some form of fashion?

    It was the slaves (euphemistically called donors of free labour) who first experimented with the distillation of rum (kill devil) from molasses in Barbados; and most likely in the Caribbean.

    Without that by-product (rum) the sugar industry would be dead as a door nail in the Barbados of today.

    Maybe the Rum producers in Barbados could blend a vintage rum in recognition of this unheralded feat. Why not called it “Black Discovery-the Gold of Barbados”?

    How about the Bajan rum marketers coming up with a bit more imaginative strategies?

    What about marketing a ‘Special’ (expensive) rum made from 100 % Bajan produced molasses called the “Pres. Washington High Life” in recognition and celebration of the long-standing connection between Barbadoes and the USA other than the Oistins Bay Treaty motto (‘No Taxation without Representation’).

    It was rumoured that George was so ‘enamoured’ with the Bajan spitfire while he was recuperating on the Island that he requested an entire barrel to toast at his presidential inauguration.

  40. David Avatar
    David

    @Miller

    Who to blame for the drift?

    The question is asked against the background we boast a world class education system in a black majority political system.

    Rephrase, we allocated a proportionately high budget to education compared to other countries.

  41. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    @ Vincent Codrington

    It goes beyond what we’re saying here. Heard a Prime Minister recently lamenting how “small “ the region is and what we cannot do. We stress our inabilities and incapabilities never what we are capable of have done and have the ability to do. These visionless leaders preach hopelessness and then use the hopeless theme to enrich themselves and the political lawyer class. WARU’s argument is strong direct and cannot be seriously questioned.
    Imagine a people, freed from slavery in 1835 . Imagine the same people gaining self government by the 1960s. Imagine a people beating the master at his own game( Cricket).
    And then you have a Prime Minister stressing what we cannot do .
    I go with WARU assessment of the villains. Is it then difficult to understand why we read that Black people only grew food and had no interest in horticulture. We have not yet grasped that the same flowers found at Andromeda could be found in the village. The same fish caught by the trawlers were caught by the man with his piece of iron with the top filed down when he went spear fishing. Sometimes twenty or more fish on a string , out there in the deep sea with only a bathing suit and a diving mass.
    But there is one of our Prime Ministers lamenting what we cannot do.
    Mental slavery and pseudo intellectual posturing have replaced the whip. WARU is more than right.

  42. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    diving “mask” my apologies.

  43. David Avatar
    David

    @William

    Say what you will, the majority class in Barbados has demonstrated an inability to monetize activities compared to the minority classes. Do you know why?

  44. Vincent Codrington Avatar
    Vincent Codrington

    @ William at 11 :44 AM

    I concur. That was my first reaction when I first came to BU. Previous to that I was unaware of this level of self- deprecation of Barbadians.

    @ Daxid BU

    The love of money is the root of all evil. Money is the means not the objective. So not monetizing activities may be a good thing for the majority class.
    It is easier for a camel to get through the small gate of a fort than for the richman to achieve contentment.

  45. WURA-WAR-on-U Avatar
    WURA-WAR-on-U

    ‘It goes beyond what we’re saying here. Heard a Prime Minister recently lamenting how “small “ the region is and what we cannot do. We stress our inabilities and incapabilities never what we are capable of have done and have the ability to do. These visionless leaders preach hopelessness and then use the hopeless theme to enrich themselves and the political lawyer class.”

    It was mindshattering to actually understand that is how from the idiots in parliament and bar association …those who fancy themselves the leaders in Barbados…on down the line articulate EVERYTHING..in terms of WHAT CANNOT BE DONE…as opposed to WHAT CAN BE DONE……the CAN’T mentality that has trickled down after decades of such backward practices, into the majority population…..the CAN’T mentality that is IMMERSED IN NEGATIVITY…backward and counterproductive to growth and wealth in the majority population..

    but when members of the majority population who are thus gifted and talented…SHOW THEM that we CAN…these are the same useles shells for humanity..who misuse all their small island parliamentary power to SHUT DOWN and chase off the island..the WE CAN movement..

    but not this time…so they better put their BRIBERS on alert..

  46. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    I am one of many Bajans who benefited from ” Agriculture ” in Barbados.

    Small and medium size farms have done well over the last 60 years.

    The Ministry of Agriculture used to help farmers and a lot of them were successful.

    The problem is that a much greater effort could be made to aggressively increase food production with a goal to becoming as close to FOOD SECURE as possible.

  47. de pedantic Dribbler Avatar
    de pedantic Dribbler

    Mr Blogmaster, as you have anecdotally asserted I in turn anecdotally refute your “the majority class in Barbados has demonstrated an inability to monetize activities compared to the minority claszes.” (I took your question at the end to be rhetorical!)

    Without hard evidence yours is based on anecdotal perceptions but I suggest even on that basis it’s flawed.

    There are numerically more money making “majority class’ businesses than there are those of the “minority class”…that’s just seems fundamentally indisputable…Black business is there in all Bajan sectors!

    That said, those Black owned operations do pale significantly in the basic metric of revenues generated compared to the others because compared to the coconut or roadside food vendor, or the mini-bus operators or the folks like the Halls or ‘Propa Pork’ supermarket honchos or those at the very top of that business pole like an Everson Ellcck or the hotel magnates ….the white and mid-east folks do control bigger and too more regionally spread operations!

    So on that last point you win on re White/mideastern vrs Black monetizing but I would be shocked if the empirical studies did not show that Black Bajans in modern times have not been rocking successful business and monetizing opportunities in larger total numbers than other ethnic groups!

  48. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    @ William

    CARICOM should be punching the weight of Norway. Are we? If not, why not?

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

    Now in all honesty…UK and Europe are the ones who designed this particular evil system for geertions of black people, but we cannot kid ourselves…it’s ya own wicked leaders keeping this system alive to benefit themselves and their likeminded bribers…in Barbados..

    Imagine in 2019..these filthy so and so are still trying to relegate their own people to slave plantation labor and doing so while in black face….every black face criminal that has walked into that parliament from 1966, has kept this philosophy alive, disenfranchisement and wealth removal from the majority population at any cost…to enrich themselves and those they protect in their crimes against the people…the social structure is STILL attached to a slave-based system that the leaders are bending over backwards to keep alive…in a black majority country..

    Your leaders are the problem….as long as this is understood, the electorate will know how to operate going forward.

    “The logic of emancipation politics was to ensure that freed Blacks remained as far as possible located on sugar plantations that would not change ownership. There would be no redistribution of income or economic enfranchisement of Blacks. The social structure would remain as closely attached to the slave-based system as possible.

    The world as we know it today was therefore not only built on the buying and selling of African bodies, but

    it was structured in such a way that Blacks would remain

    chained in landless-ness,

    and caged by

    MONEY-LESS DEPENDENCY

    so that they would never be a real threat to the global order that built itself with Black labor and sits on top of Black wealth.

    A powerless Black middle class that depends on white favors would be maintained to promote the illusion of change,

    and also to deputize (sometimes more cruelly) for the real owners of wealth,

    but the reality of the black masses would remain the same:

    CHAINED EFFECTIVELY,

    YET INVISIBLY.

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

    So criminal are they these low class leaders and lawyers, they TIEF ALL THE LAND from the people …THEMSELVES…

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