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The following was posted by Sunshine Sunny Shine as a comment to the Open Letter to ALL Rh Lawyers on behalf of Stephen Archer blog – Barbados Underground

Here is what I want to know concerning this case.

A. Did the late Mr Archer ever saw the cheque for the 2.4 or 2.7 million whichever it is?

B. Did Mr Archer approve the lawyers handling of his money for matters pertaining to his medical situation?

C. Was Mr Archer present when the cheque was signed, seal and delivered to his attorney?

D. Is Mr Archer’s living remaining family ever sought to ascertain why the lawyer was still keeping Archer’s money in a personal account?

E. Did the bar association ever seek to make query concerning the same lawyer relative to Mr Archer’s disclosures in the press?

F. Did Mr Archer ever seek police assistance after making his claims known?

G. What recourse does deceased Archer have now that he is dead?

H. If the utility company stated Mr Archer was compensated for the injury’s he receives at the falling of one of their poles, is it possible for the utility company to produce a copy of the cheque presented to Mr Archer for proof of payment.

I. Why is the lawyer at the centre of this matters so quite? Is he guilty, is he out of the island or is he dead?

We can spend all of our time here talking about crooked lawyers, or we can make an appeal for relevant persons close to Mr Archer’s case, like his family members, the Utility company and such like, to come forward and shed some light on this matter [Blogmaster’s emphasis].

Also, if the lawyer is indeed the Jackman mentioned on the other social media site, he should be pressured to come forth to present his side of the story on why he did not give Mr Archer his money. I would also think that now is the time to bring the Bar Association into the spotlight to face some heat.

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109 responses to “The People’s Court Issues Urgent Summons for Ernest Jackman”

  1. William Skinner Avatar

    @ Sunshine Sunny Shine

    We need to face some harsh facts. If the Barbados Labour Party or the Democratic Labour Party, commonly referred to as the Duopoly, were interested in addressing these legal atrocities , there would have been legislation that would have put fear in the hearts of the legal profession.
    Only today on Brasstacks, a woman was complaining about not getting insurance companies to pay claims.
    It is now obvious that unless one runs to the press or Brasstacks, there is no chance of being heard. The Duopoly circles the wagon and protect the perpetrators.
    As some here huff and puff in defense of the indefensible, true justice is becoming only obtainable by the rich. The country is slowing but surely drifting into an anything goes entity.
    On BU, we daily witness back tracking and softening of previously held positions on governance and it is becoming patently obvious that the tentacles of the Duopoly are beginning to spread.
    Attempts are being made to silence any opposition of the Duopoly and I am certain that this will increase as the fortunes of the state continue to decline.
    None of the professional crimes legal and otherwise being committed today is anything knew. Ordinary citizens are daily ripped off by those who have the power both inside and outside the political class.
    It is a very ominous sign when citizens pay to be represented and then are left to the mercy of newspapers and radio call in shows to express their plight.
    The Napoleon puppies are now fierce fully grown dogs . They are ten times more vicious than the pitbulls .
    The Duopoly is in full control and will destroy all in its path.
    Welcome to Animal Farm, forty five years of marginalizing the working class and now desecrating them economically.
    The picture of the dilapidated houses, people crippled in their beds as legal settlements are withheld. A speaker in the House of Assembly holding on to funds of elderly clients. All of these events show a country in decline. There are no champions of the poor on the horizon and Hal Austin’s failed state description gains momentum. Who will pull us back from the precipice of socio economic decay?

    The Duopoly Rules


  2. Jackman is not the only one involved, they do not operate as a single person..they operate as a GANG….a collective of thieves in sync with each other..their motto has been for years to…..STEAL FROM THE PUBLIC.

    Inside their toxic minds is a horrible place to be.

    The people on the island ARE NOT SAFE….with any of them sitting in parliament.

    Everyone must be VIGILANT, watch their every move, you pay them as taxpayers or clients, they work for you, they are your employees EXPOSE THEM, if they sneeze or cough and you do not like the sound, keep them on the world stage, no more free passes for these beasts, they are way too DANGEROUS.


  3. Maybe it’s time for a member of the public so aggrieved to be judge, jury and executioner.

    Maybe, just maybe, it would take the most extreme of actions for justice even decency to prevail.


  4. Pacha…this is not going to be allowed to be forgotten. A new strategy is now in place for all these corrupt thieves.

    “He described as a shame Barbados being one of only two countries yet to accede to the UN Convention against corruption.”

    They did not even recognize the UN convention against corruption…so many decades later…is it any wonder that theft by the criminals in bar association and parliament…IS THE RULE in Barbados.

    A definite new strategy will be used to deal with these public nuisances posing as leaders, something they have never seen before, so will not recognize…because it is even WORSE THAN WE THOUGHT….it is because of these evil minded beasts that this happened to Stephen and thousands of other injured people.

    We got this.

    And to see hypocrite Mia waving her heavy arms around at the UN…no shame at all..

    The UN should have put aside protocols and KICKED HER LYING ASS OUT.

    Barbados SHOULD NOT…be sitting at any UN table.


  5. Waru

    The UN is no less corrupted, feckless, than the Bar Association.


  6. But they …the UN…are not the ones, killed Stephen for his money.

    They are not the ones ROB the injured and disabled of their compensation on a daily basis..

    They are not the ones steal billions of dollars from the people to share with the equally thieving cows, bizzys, maloneys and bjerkhams etc

    They are not the ones running the CORRUPTION and thefts from generations of people in Barbados..

    They are not the ones RUINED BARBADOS WITH CORRUPTION.,.

    The UN did none of that…so let’s be practical Pacha.

    We can’t blame the UN for what these corrupt animals in Barbados did…it is all on them.


  7. What you and many people dont know is that these savages in bar association and parliament hold round tables ruminating on best legal strategies and practices to:

    Rob their clients

    Rob the population and country.

    A lot of thought, EFFORT and negative energy have to be put into such organized criminal activities to make it a 5 decade long success.

    The UN may have their issues, but i don’t think they have any guidelines or treaties in place that gives the Caribbean negro lawyers and leaders any LATITUDE to commit such heinous crimes against vulnerable Barbados and Caribbean populations….the majority of whom are black people like themselves.

    These decades old wicked actions by the bar and parliament negros can easily be classified as CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY…


  8. And all Bajans will now HAVE TO to bear in mind, both young and old alike, that this low crawling government and their syndicate partners in the bar association…as soon as they were elected and while ARMED with the full KNOWLEDGE that neither government has EVER ….acceded to the UN Convention against corruption, only one of 2 countries NOT to do so…..WILFULLY attempted to LEGISLATE CORRUPTION INTO LAW….until they were CAUGHT and changed their plans, then started mouthing off about new anticorruption legislation…their favorite buzzword which ALWAYS goes nowhere…..that was merely months ago.

    That is how dangerous to the people those black crabs in parliament and the bar are…they collude to violate the human rights of their own people…it does not get more seriously dangerous for the population than that.


  9. https://barbadostoday.bb/2019/09/30/anti-corruption-measures-coming/

    You have a 90 year old antiquated law that violated your people’s human rights POST SLAVERY, so what do you do, you keep the samr discriminatory law designed to disenfranchise your own people on the statute books over 50 years after independence until 2019 and only now popping shit because ya been caught.

    Both wicked governments did this to their people.

    With hypocrite Mia at UN waving around her arms.


  10. @SSS

    You heard the AG yesterday and the stats many of us have been aware? Twenty two thousand cases originating in the magistrates courts annually then add inefficient administration with compounded effect. A significant number being traffic cases. We have to remove minor cases out of the courts. It is not rocket science.

    How long will it take to process the 70 murder cases? Expanding the number of magistrates and judges will help but will it correct the problem?


  11. Ehat May be interesting to some is that the case load heavy in several regional court systems. The best appears to be the Eastern Caribbean Court system.


  12. Correct David.

    the Eastern Caribbean Court is more nimble but equally inundated. what we need to do is to devise a way of getting matters before the court and or adjudicated faster even if that means a small claims court where minor matters are dealt with speedily. or where people could simply plead no contest and pay a fine without any reckonable being recorded against them.

    to comment on the increase of judges- whilst this looks good on paper and i do commend the efforts of Marshall here, the question remains how is this going to make justice faster if there isnt an increase of prosecutors, administrative and other clerical staff?


  13. @ Greene

    Are we prosecuting too many people? What about fixed penalties What about the waste of police and court time with road traffic accidents in which no-one is injured? What about wasting time with people speeding? What about a small claims court?

  14. SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife Avatar
    SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife

    @Hal AustinOctober 1, 2019 7:50 AM

    Are we prosecuting too many people? Yes.

    What about fixed penalties? Good idea.

    What about the waste of police and court time with road traffic accidents in which no-one is injured? Bare stupidity den.

    What about wasting time with people speeding? Stpssseee.

    What about a small claims court? Good idea.

    But we Bajans have fallen head over heels in love with legal solutions. We the people must bear some of the responsibility for running to the law with every little thing. We feel that everything can be settled by looking for a legal solution. i am surprised that we do not call the police or a lawyer when our toilet bowl develops a leak.

  15. SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife Avatar
    SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife

    And of course we have far too many lawyers, and it seems as though the lawyers encourage this nonsense. Finding work for themselves I suppose. Maybe some of our lawyers need to retrain to do something practical and useful. Like the lawyer who sells eggs on the highway. Farmers get their product sold, and many people get to enjoy a good breakfast. Useful, everyday.

    A good egg salesman is better and more useful than 100 lawyers.

  16. de pedantic Dribbler Avatar
    de pedantic Dribbler

    @MrGreenie… well stated at 734AM.

    The Blogmaster remarks re “We have to remove minor cases out of the courts. It is not rocket science” caught my attention because in reality they are not removed from the courts but simply shifted to another branch of the system (eg small claims)…. thus the point is making the process more EFFICIENT.

  17. de pedantic Dribbler Avatar
    de pedantic Dribbler

    The points above are well made so I merely add… Isn’t an court system set up to handle minor and major cases!

    Yes of course our society has developed (devolved, really) into an overly litigious one and that has overloaded the system and it’s apparent archaic processes…and THAT as stated above is truly the key… So yes again @Green the support systems need action moreso them anything else.

    There is a traffic court so unless the event involves injuries which could lead to an indictable charge there really is NO reason that any traffic case should linger in the system beyond a 7 -10 days after initial hearing (with the majority of that time in admin clean up for insurance, license issues etc).

    Up to a few years ago (maybe still is) justices were keeping track and preparing judgements by longhand…admirable tho that may appear and possibly just the way the justice preferred, it seemed incomprehensible to me that more technology (audio recordings into a PC as one ex) was not in use.

    How many clerks do justices have to complete case research and generally assisting on expediting the processes?

    But there are lots of attorneys so more judges does have a certain satisfaction to it…for those in the system….we shall see how quickly that move and the more telling one of removal of justices who remain outstanding on overdue judgements improve the backlog.


  18. How does moving cases to Small Claims court affect the backlog if the majority of cases before the Court are criminal matters? Aren’t small claim courts primarily about Civil matters? If they are about Civil matters isn’t mediation as touted by the CJ the better option?

    The usual disclaimer: I am not a lawyer but read Earl Stanley Gardner.


  19. @ Sargeant,

    Plse read the rest of the post.


  20. Sergeant

    the civil courts are also backlogged.

    every court and legal system in Bim is collapsing under the weight of its own bureaucracy and inaction if they are not the same. we are officious without being efficient and we love it so.

    so to answer your question- yes a small claims court would help in civil matters and its equivalent (minor offences) will help in criminal matters where a person could plead no contest pay a fine and go their way without anything recorded against them.

    it calls for a complete overhaul of the system gearing it towards efficiency which like tabled above would see less use of paper documents etc.

    with regard to what Hal mentioned i thought SSS covered that well enough.


  21. Sarge,
    mediation would be a big help too. man we can do all these things. does have to be one or the next. in fact small claims could be handled by mediation and vice versa


  22. @ Greene

    If someone is pleading no contest (American) or guilty (UK) then there is no need for a court appearance. A fixed penalty would do.


  23. Sarge,
    mediation would be a big help too. man we can do all these things. does not have to be one or the next. in fact small claims could be handled by mediation and vice versa


  24. People by now ought to realize that barbados system of govt works like a revolving door
    You might not see the same faces going or coming or st work
    However reassured the mind set is the same made up of plenty back door deals ..cover ups..and a large measure of self interst
    Oh not forgetting media role i hiding the truth while setting up the victim for a gruesome fall

  25. William Skinner Avatar

    A citizen’s money from a major accident were apparently never delivered by his attorney. Answer to this high class fraud:
    Expert comments on court / case management.
    It never ceases to amaze me how absolutely brilliant we all are.

  26. de pedantic Dribbler Avatar
    de pedantic Dribbler

    @Simple et al..

    As simple as it be to scribe your “truisms” like in response to @Austin with “What about the waste of police and court time with road traffic accidents in which no-one is injured? Bare stupidity den”… one CANNOT divorce the change in societal behaviours from actions such as that.

    Isn’t the reality that everyone is focused on insurance premiums and shifting blame re their minor accident and then (more perhaps insidious) setting up a possible ‘claim’ for an insurance payout for the unseen neck or back injury!

    Like it or not, when we read for example about folks who are racked with pain years after a minor fender-bender due to earlier undiagnosed neck or back problems it DOES feed into our attitudes about these supposedly minor accidents.

    “What about wasting time with people speeding? Stpssseee.”

    No one can legislate against willful bad behaviour … Unless somebody legislates for governors maxing speed on a car to 40mph (and then also makes then unhackable) that is a non point… Not so!

    ***Back before avarice was codified by legal eagles there was something called ‘settlement out of court’. So now we have arbitrators and small claims court all feeding into an avarice driven court system.

    In PRACTICAL terms if a pole falls on a man, that would be the direct responsibility of the pole owner unless some other negligent action was attributed otherwise.

    In short, the pole owner would PROPERLY assess (that’s what precedent, medical diagnosis and insurance is for in those cases) it’s liability and award the injured party monies to remedy injuries (for his lifetime)… Why would u really need any long talk legal action or for that matter that the check is passed via the attorney for the injured person.

    WHY really! Because our system has now demanded such?

    Built in SYSTEM INEFFICIENCY and AVARICE remains the stubbling blocks… I don’t see them being changed so we will yet remain in the grip of very bad cases like the one recently discussed!

    I gone.

    Oh BTW… If that plumber look at my daughter the wrong way or didn’t readjust my water properly and my son nearly get scald wid hot water when he was taking his midday bath u betta believe I will be calling my lawyer for his ‘negligent’ plumbing backside… and no small claims court neither cause I want he pun sexual harassment charges and damages for attempted 3rd degrees burns! Reality TV teach me dat😂😂!

    Gone. Gone.


  27. to the substantive issue of this post- on the face of it this lawyer wants locking up and the keys thrown away. if true that was a despicable act and that he can get away with it says a lot about us and the justice system.

    he and his ilks have long brought the profession to its knees and bajans no longer revere the profession and from acts like this they are quite correct in so doing


  28. @ William

    If the rule of law is the foundation of our democratic system and it is not working, does that mean the system has failed? Are lawyers the organised gangsters of our system? Are the colleagues of the bent lawyers seeking to protect their colleagues ahead of their clients?


  29. I think we have lost sight of the purpose of this blog. Have we forgotten Mr. Stephen Archer already? What we should be focussed on is how to make his death count for something.

    How many more “Stephen Archers” are there in Barbados right now?

    Was it inefficiency in the justice system that caused his death? Or was it something more deliberate?


  30. Hypothetical Scenario:

    Man gets injured. Insurance company pays settlement of $100. Lawyer is paid his fees with cheque for $20.

    Injured man is paid his money by cheque in his name.

    Why should a lawyer have control of any money other than his fee ?


  31. @Donna… both!


  32. @ Donna,

    Stephen Archer has family. Let them go after the lawyer if he has Archer’s money.

    Where were we Bajans when Stephen Archer was alive and his story was in the news in 2013 ?


  33. Because the lawyers are covetous and wicked minded. Never want to see Black people with anything. They prefer tief it, sell it out or give it away to crooks who look nothing like them.

    Just like the greedy lawyers/ministers in parliament do and have done for 60 years. Anything to see their own people living in permanent poverty and dying there.

    They could have changed that destructive to Black people 90 year old legislation at anytime during the last 50 plus years when UN demanded they did..they refused because it was a vehicle to fill their own pockets at their own people’s expense.

    But now they have been caught they are now pretending to, now that their BRIBERS are openly fightening them to take away the water supply am sure to sell it to some foreign tief like themselves for billions of dollars, just like Simpson tried with the oil terminal, they are pretending to go through the motions. No bribes in that for them.

  34. William Skinner Avatar

    @ Hal
    We seem to have accepted the status quo. Hypocrisy is rampant all over the place. We all know they protect each other and then the the cool aid drinkers defend them daily.
    @ Donna
    “Experts”ain’t concerned with human tragedy. Your efforts are appreciated . Please remember elections are at least four years away. Nobody ain’t looking for votes now.
    When things like this happen in an election year or near to elections, it attracts about 400 responses.
    People right now either feeding at the trough or making their way there. On both sides.


  35. We were right here asking who the lawyers were and NO ONE WOULD TALK..

    now they have killed him, none of them can shut up.


  36. “How many more “Stephen Archers” are there in Barbados right now?”

    there are hundreds if not thousands being victimized by the thieves in parliament and the bar association….and the blog is on target…from a legal point of view..

    most of the questions don’t have answers because those who killed Stephen will not want any answers out there to cause problems for themselves…

    you go for their evil head…where it will do the most damage.


  37. We does forget the dead and the living .

    Abijah Holder-Phillips dead. may he rest in peace.

    Felicia Holder still living and suffering the loss of her son.

    Credit should be given to Piece the Legend for reminding us about Abija.


  38. “Are the colleagues of the bent lawyers seeking to protect their colleagues ahead of their clients?”

    they can continue that shit of protecting their fellow crooked lawyers, most do so in a bid not to be shut out of the corrupt court system because if they don’t toe the line, they do get shut out and are not allowed to even bring cases…but they better change that habit or THEIR NAMES WILL ALSO BE BROADCAST ACROSS THE INTERNET.

    ya only had about 5 names yesterday, but there are many, many more..

    so these lawyers can continue to enable crooked lawyers…or EXPOSE THEM ALL and be free of them once and for all.


  39. I don’t know if anyone remembered reading about a Welsh couple, Taffy and Bonnie Bufton, that lived for more than 30 years on an island called Guiana Island, which is about 50 yards away from Antigua.

    In 1997, the then Antiguan government approved a $600 million in private investment project, by a Malaysian billionaire, Dato Tan Kay Hock. in at least two luxury Asian-style hotels, a casino, villas, marinas, a golf course, a shopping center and a conference facility on 1,500 acres that include Guiana Island and a small part of Antigua.

    Being told they had to move off the island did not sit well with the Buftons. As a result, Taffy Bufton went into the PM’s brother’s law office……..and during a confrontation over the Guiana dispute, he shot Bird in his mouth.

    Although this situation differs with that of Mr. Archer…… supposed his (Mr. Archer’s) relatives or anyone in a similar predicament decided to take a similar course of action against these unscrupulous lawyers?


  40. HantsOctober 1, 2019 10:18 AM

    @ Donna,

    Stephen Archer has family. Let them go after the lawyer if he has Archer’s money.

    Where were we Bajans when Stephen Archer was alive and his story was in the news in 2013

    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    Don’t know where the rest of you Bajans were but I was here fighting my own battle with the support of family and a few friends.


  41. I vaguely remember the incident. In those days I was living in Fools’ Paradise and not paying much attention.

    But alas! I have been dragged into the real world and I wonder if fools don’t have more fun if only for a short while.


  42. “WATCH LIVE: Amber Guyger has been found guilty of murder.”

    At least the US is dishing out justice..

    someone should be charged for Stephen’s death in Barbados.


  43. Someone should be held accountable for Stephen’s death, you don’t decide because you are a shite lawyer from a criminal syndicate that you have some right to steal millions from a disabled, helpless man lying in a bed. While being fully aware that as long as he gets substandard healthcare and no access to the millions which is rightfully his to have a quality of life…HE WILL DIE.

    they systematically killed him and waited for years for him to die..

    these wicked, thieving lawyers/politicians/criminal minorities involved should pay for his death.

  44. Barbados Underground Whistleblower Avatar
    Barbados Underground Whistleblower

    You all don’t believe me.

    I have been telling you for a long time because of first hand KNOWLEDGE not gossip.

    Senior police and detectives being corrupt.

    Lawyer politicians inviting major drug dealers into Parliament, what did you think was the real reason for that?

    All these guys operate in a criminal network whilst saying fuck you to the public who voted for them or who they are supposed to protect and serve.


  45. Whistlerblower…i have been telling them for 7 long years, who did not cuss me called me crazy…..no one beleived this was actually happening in such a tiny island as Barbados…a criminal syndicate OPENLY operating out of the parliament and bar association…a very well organized criminal syndicate…OPERATING SINCE THE 1940S OR 1950S…and ALWAYS operating outside of the best interests of the majority black population.

    what they don’t realize and definitely don’t want to acknowledge is that this decades old criminal syndicate is now at the end of its life…particulary now they have exposed themselves of being capable of systematically killing vulnerable black people to steal their money, to steal their land and estates…they have gone way too far with these personal injury deaths for profit and have to be held accountable.

  46. SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife Avatar
    SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife

    @HantsOctober 1, 2019 10:10 AM ‘Hypothetical Scenario: Man gets injured. Insurance company pays settlement of $100. Lawyer is paid his fees with cheque for $20. Injured man is paid his money by cheque in his name. Why should a lawyer have control of any money other than his fee ?”

    Sensible.

    But maybe we don’t like sensible?

    I’ve actually paid lawyers like that. The didn’t seem to mind. My scenario?

    Ask the lawyer for an estimate of his fees. Give him a certified cheque for an agreed amount upfront, maybe 25%, maybe 50%. Once the job is finished pay him the rest with another certified cheque, or maybe electronically transferred directly into the lawyer’s account. . You the client writes cheques in the lawyer’s name. Any cheques for you are written in your name?

    Everybody happy.

  47. Piece the Legend Avatar
    Piece the Legend

    My Dearest SSS,

    The single item that would shed some light on this matter definitively is the encashed cheque.

    More than any other issue, my dearest, having the signature or stamp at the back of that check will focus one’s attention on the primary culprit(s)

  48. Sunshine Sunny Shine Avatar
    Sunshine Sunny Shine

    Mr Blogmaster

    It is good that you are interested in keeping this matter of the missing millions and Stephen Archer’s demise in the mainstream of things. If you are ready to step up the war against the main perpetrators, in this case, let me know, and I will start the poster war rolling. I will provide you with a first poster so you can put it on Instagram, Facebook and whatever other BU accounts you may have. If those on here are not all bark but willing to show that they got bite, let us forward all that we know about this case (accompany with posters) to every email address we know. Those with printers can engage in printing a few posters and simply past them around. It is very clear, and I hope it is clear to the right thinkers as well, that the legal fraternity has no intentions of acknowledging the part they have played in illegal activities they want bajans to believe is illegal. More than like they are many other stories similiar to this where persons are at their wit’s end trying to get what is theirs. If the Carrington matter is anything to go by, we can easily establish a pattern of systematic abuse of power, by lawyers towards clients for reasons that easily brings the Bar Association into focus and also implicates them as condoners of wrongdoing. So Mr Blogmaster are you ready to step it up?


  49. @ Saint Artax,
    You have made a valid point. The English couple felt aggrieved and were in the wrong. I find it incredulous to date that no harm has come to those in the legal profession who have embezzled their clients. Thank the Lord that we Bajans are a passive people.
    However with the transnational movement of the world’s population it is inevitable that someone from our legal profession will embezzle a foreign client with unknown mafia connections. One does not need to be an Einstein to predict the fate of that legal professional.


  50. @TLSN

    Or the grand children of black Britons raised in the tough inner city streets of the UK.

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