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Submitted by Grenville Phillips II,

As a small independent country, there are a few maxims that should guide our behaviour.  Never blast a hole in our boat, because it can sink, and we will all suffer.  Never contaminate the food on our boat, because we will all get sick.  Never sabotage any part of our boat, because it will hinder our progress.

The only justifiable reason for damaging the boat, is for enslaved people to protest their condition.  However, we are no longer slaves.  Our slave fore-parents purchased this land for us with their blood.

We elect persons to navigate our boat for up to 5 years.  We may severely criticise their performance.  However, there is no good reason for any Barbadian today to damage our boat.  This should be common sense.  However, there are a few Barbadians who think that they have a licence to harm our boat.

Participating in corruption, bribery, and drug-gang alliances, is to blast a hole in our boat.  Infiltrating and then politicising professional, industry, news media, and union organisations is to contaminate our water supply.  Discouraging responsible foreign investment, is to sabotage our boat.

Opposition politics in Barbados is about convincing people how bad things are, so that they will vote against the party in government.  To do this, each party relies on their political operatives.  These operatives know of only one method of maintaining discontent, that is to harm our boat.

Political operatives have adopted this slave legacy of sabotage, as part of their opposition to the party in Government.  They have a real incentive.  They are normally well-rewarded by their political party.  Therefore, they focus on getting their party elected by any means, regardless of the cost to us.

Since either the BLP or DLP is opposing the party in Government, opposition political operatives are always trying to harm Barbados.  However, this continuous harming of Barbados must stop – for all our sakes.  Since the DLP is currently out of Government, it is up to them to stop this cycle.

The DLP’s political operatives will naturally feel that they are being unfaired.  They saw that the BLP’s worst political operatives, who did major damage to the boat when they were in opposition, were richly rewarded.  They think that now is the time for them to earn their reward.

Despite how badly the BLP’s political operatives behaved when the BLP was in opposition, someone needs to decide to be the adult.  Otherwise, this toxic tit-for-tat political environment that both parties have cultivated, will never end.

If we want to preserve this country for our children, we must find a way of competing politically that does not include damaging our boat.  Perhaps all political parties can consider the following initiatives.

  1. Each party should explain how they plan to stop their candidates from accepting bribes.  The public can then decide whether their methods are effective.
  2. Professional organisations can analyse and compare each party’s social development and economic growth plans.
  3. Industry organisations can assess and compare each party’s barriers to investment.
  4. The media can provide fair, honest, and non-partisan political coverage.
  5. The unions can stop promoting and protecting one party, and frustrating and not-cooperating with the other.

After 50 years of independence, we should be mature enough to try a better path.  However, it is unlikely that political operatives will behave properly, because the rewards are just too enticing.  Since they harm our boat on behalf of their party, only their party can order them to stop.

It is foreseen that if both parties do not restrain their political operatives, then Barbados will become ungovernable.  However, simply ordering their political operatives to cease and desist will not be enough.  The DLP’s political operatives will justifiably claim that they alone are asked to bear the burden.

To ensure full participation by all political operatives, they must all be convinced that they will never again be rewarded for harming Barbados.  For this to happen, then BLP must terminate the reward-appointments of their worst political operatives – otherwise, we are all sunk.

Grenville Phillips II is a Chartered Structural Engineer and President of Solutions Barbados.  He can be reached at NextParty246@gmail.com

218 responses to “We Are All Sunk”


  1. @EA… Please forgive me for this, but your language makes absolutely no logical sense.

    This is where we all find ourselves.

    What do we each do next?


  2. Trying to get my head around the numbers
    25m white oaks
    70m scammers,
    All kind of big money mentioned for other dealers and
    But the IMF doling out money as if it is hard to come by


  3. IMF can see the greedy idiots clearly, they love money, that is all they worship, the more money that keeps pouring out of IMF.., the more they can design WAYS TO STEAL…without a thought to how their TESTS… will be repaid…as long as they are told they are passing, as long as it’s vulerable black people suffering so they can pass these IMF tests, they don’t care…

    people are complaining about the many, many billions collected in the last 18 months in the people’s taxes,…and nothing done with it, no buses, no garbage trucks, ok 2 garbage trucks, the roads are stil deplorable despite all the millions tiefing, dying cow got, but many many millions more already ended up in the hands of the other minority thieves…parasites..robbing the people again..


  4. “Pakistani special court sentenced former military dictator and president Pervez Musharraf to death in absentia, ending six-year long high treason proceedings against him for suspending the nation’s constitution in 2007.”

    This is what a lot of the vicious Caribbean leaders/ministers/lawyers want…death for treason.

    when they sell out the people…they commit treason

    when they steal the people’s money and give it away to minority thieves for their bribe money in return, they commit treason..

    when they steal from the old, dead, dying, THE UNBORN….they are committing TREASON..

    when they allow the country to degrade to Barbados’ current state after 4 DECADES.. they commit treason and should be put to death.

    This nasty one has been a TYRANT FOR DECADES…only now getting exactly what he deserves.


  5. @Ewart Archer

    …….I am saying that the humans who remained in Africa are largely irrelevant to the story of human progress, which was created mainly by the humans who walked out of Africa and continued their evolution in other regions of the world.
    ###########################################################

    I’m not sure what evidence you have to base this claim on. Given that KMT, aka Ancient Egypt, an African civilisation, is the source of much of what passes as Roman-Graeco civilisation, I think that fact alone refutes your claim. I’m not sure if you are at all familiar with African history but KMT as one civilisation lasted for thousands of years. Europe’s global domination has lasted 500 years and is already approaching its end.


  6. It is amusing to see studied exchanges against racist bullshit.
    Call a spade a spade or STFU


  7. OOps… that escaped…
    Have a great day Barbados

    “GO PLACIDLY amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.

    Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story.”

    Have a great day…. all


  8. Still no water in parts of Christ Church and no BWA vans. What about the elderly and sick?


  9. “Still no water in parts of Christ Church and no BWA vans. What about the elderly and sick?”

    It would seem that our friends from the IMF are happy with the reforms that Mia’s administration have put into place.

    The fact that some of our citizens are not getting access to water is of no importance to them and perhaps Mia herself.

    Hal, boy, we await for the denouement to take place. At some point, Barbadians will wake up.


  10. A public announcement was issued yesterday on this matter. If you go to the Barbados Water Authority Facebook page some details were shared. There is contact support to be had as well.


  11. next party 246
    You say that you engage the people in and around barbados
    Waiting to see videos or pictures of those engagements
    Tired of your soft ball articles which u seem fit to believe is critical and at times good advice
    Show the BU audience what metal you have in your political arsenal


  12. @TLNS

    You are right. Some idiot thinks that an announcement was made on the BWA website. That will do a lot of good to a 100 yr old unwell man. He should learn to Google.
    Don’t social workers check on the vulnerable, or is this a job for relatives, neighbours and friends as some silly woman suggested the last time this issue was raised.


  13. @Tee White December 17, 2019 7:35 AM
    “I’m not sure what evidence you have to base this claim on. Given that KMT, aka Ancient Egypt, an African civilisation, is the source of much of what passes as Roman-Graeco civilisation, I think that fact alone refutes your claim. I’m not sure if you are at all familiar with African history but KMT as one civilisation lasted for thousands of years. Europe’s global domination has lasted 500 years and is already approaching its end.”
    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    All that is anthropologically ‘true’ but it still does not ‘colour’ the historical fact that the Western European ‘man’ has been exceedingly successful in convincing large numbers of humans of differing skin colours to part with their native lands either by vis-et-armis or by psychological warfare aka religious brainwashing.

    The western European man, like his old god Odin , has actually remade the world in his own image.

    Just look what they have done to the many of sub-Saharan ancestry!

    What a job well done in convincing these wretched souls that their creator and saviour is not Ra but a white man with blue eyes and blond hair.

    Unless blacks emancipate themselves from the worst form of slavery (mental and spiritual incarceration) they will always be some truth in the claim that black people are the dregs of the Earth and will always be hewers of wood and drawers of water to other races.

    We know that ‘Time’ is an illusion so it is not sitting on the side of the blacks.
    They are in the last chance hotel of planetary survival.


  14. You are always quick to throw pejorative labels around aren’t you?

    You must be one unhappy man.


  15. Here is the positive component to the message translated for DUMMIES.

    Go to the BWA Facebook page, click contact and asked them all your questions. This was the purpose of the feedback. Do not do like when you visited the UK Townhall,,LOL


  16. RE Don’t social workers check on the vulnerable, or is this a job for relatives, neighbours and friends as some silly woman suggested the last time this issue was raised.

    HAL ABOUT 30 YEARS AGO I PROPOSED TO MY INFERIOR SUPERIOR THAT THE POSTMEN- WHO AT THE TIME VISITED MOST HOMES DAILY BE GIVEN TRAINING SUCH THAT THEY COULD DO BASIC CHECK INS OF SUBSTANCE ON THE ELDERLY

    MY INFERIOR SUPERIOR LAUGHED ME TO SCORN, BUT TOOK MY IDEA UP THE LADDER TO THE MINISTER AT THE TIME,

    A LOT CAN BE DONE USING SIMPLE PRACTICAL MEASURES

    RE You are right. Some idiot thinks that an announcement was made on the BWA website. That will do a lot of good to a 100 yr old unwell man. He should learn to Google.

    ONLY AN IDIOT thinks that an announcement made on the BWA website. WILL do a lot of good to a 100 yr old unwell man WHO PROBABLY DOES NOT HAVE A COMPUTER

    BUT YOU MUST CONTINUE TO JOIN IN THE DISCUSSION, YOU NEVER KNOW HOW EXPRESSING YOUR VIEW MAY MAKE A DIFFERENCE.


  17. “Unless blacks emancipate themselves from the worst form of slavery (mental and spiritual incarceration) they will always be some truth in the claim that black people are the dregs of the Earth ”

    Black people love a lot of stupid shit, love to contradict each other and act illiterate as opposed to the 98% LITERACY rate they too love to boast about…a RIOT OF CONTRADICTIONS…so me nah have no sympathy for them on that one they begged to be mentally enslaved so they can STAY MENTALLY ENSLAVED..of course the downside is generations of young people will also be thus tainted. That must end. But the ones they captured mentally, deserve their misery, let them go long with that to the end.

    Let’s see how much they love themselves or prefer their self-inflicted mental enslavement


  18. Tee White

    As you may know, the Afrocentric theory that Greek civilization was an off-shoot of a “black” Egyptian civilization is regarded by most reputable scholars as a black hallucination.

    I believe in most of what Mary Lefkowitz has written on this controversial subject.


  19. @Ewart
    “Unfortunately, most black people can’t cope with the fact that we are irrelevant to most of the story of human progress.”

    what this black man cant cope with, is, if the above is true, why cant we be left to do our thing whilst the rest of human kind get on with their progress?


  20. @Chris

    “There’s no upside in being pessimistic.”

    DON’T confuse pessimistic with REALISTIC, REALITY IS BARBADOS LEADERS ARE COMPLETELY INCOMPETENT, both presently and in the past. Four times under IMF CONTROL in 60 years of Independence says it all.

    Now you have a “dictatorship”, not in name but REALITY.


  21. @ GP

    A brilliant idea.


  22. @ Ewart Archer December 17, 2019 10:53 AM
    “As you may know, the Afrocentric theory that Greek civilization was an off-shoot of a “black” Egyptian civilization is regarded by most reputable scholars as a black hallucination..”
    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    How about a similar “hallucination” concocted by ‘white’ (European) Jews that their ancestors were enslaved for over 400 years in the hot rays of Ra of the same “black” Egypt?

    Why would the ancestors of such an outstandingly successful group of people allow themselves to be enslaved by an inferior “black civilization”?

    We are talking about a ‘race’ of people who have been simply the best in every sphere of life on this planet; from literature to the arts to sports and science to the world of medicine, business and commerce to politics.

    However, we do have a rather healthy respect for the academic Viagra you are bringing to the BU table of intellectual jousting which sometimes can undergo bouts of libido flaccidity and flagging.

    Keep it up, Archer! The miller is behind you like the footprints in the sand of Time.


  23. thanks Hal
    that was just one of many that were discarded

    now you have a ministry that can not deal with rats and garbage

    WE ARE INDEED A FAILED STATE AND TRULY SUNK


  24. “what this black man cant cope with, is, if the above is true, why cant we be left to do our thing whilst the rest of human kind get on with their progress?what this black man cant cope with, is, if the above is true, why cant we be left to do our thing whilst the rest of human kind get on with their progress?”

    then who will they TIEF FROM…if they do not have black people to steal from, they will ALL DIE…now that is something to remind Black people about, beat it in their heads so they will never forget and pass it on to every generation going forward, that it is their existence keeping others (mainly racists) alive and only as long as they are allowed to continue stealing from the black race, if they can’t and are stopped in their tracks… hasta la vista baby….good riddance..


  25. @GP

    The wise one thinks a 100 yr old man, not in good health, should go on the BWA’s website to find out how to get water. The man would prefer his water supply was working, if not get a supply of bottle water.
    In the old days, his local MP would have known about him and would have made a call to see that he was all right; the welfare department would have known of him; and BWA would have known of him.
    In the UK water supplier cannot turn off water from private homes, even if the bills are not paid, for welfare reasons.


  26. One would assume that A PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT WAS MADE YESTERDAY would mean on radio etc followed by social media. ohhhhh the brainiacs!!! one fool follow the other

  27. peterlawrencethompson Avatar
    peterlawrencethompson

    @Hal
    I have no idea if you have support systems in place for the elderly gentleman… but if it is of help email me at peterlawrencethompson@gmail.com and I can be of assistance.


  28. PTL you fell for that…..


  29. @PLT

    You are such a gentleman. My heart goes out to you. Many thanks.


  30. We are so afraid to speak the truth. I therefore ask :
    When we talk about retrenchment; dilapidated homes; depending on welfare; attending Christmas lunches given by MPs; constantly being exposed in the media receiving acts of charity; disillusioned calling into Brasstacks about poverty and dire financial traits etc. which race are we talking about.
    When we talk about those who can’t find bus fare; belongings bring scattered on the streets because of rent arrears which race are we talking about?
    We need to stop all the fancy talk and speak the truth.
    Who really suffering in the country?
    Which race!

  31. peterlawrencethompson Avatar
    peterlawrencethompson

    @William
    People in poverty in Barbados are suffering; they have been for over 390 years… the vast majority of them are Black, but there a few White people struggling.


  32. @ PLT
    And that’s the problem. We don’t want to engage in the truth. The majority race is carrying the grass for the minority and until this is fully ventilated and a radical progressive economic policy emerges we spinning top in mud.
    We keep putting the country in debt in order to keep one group in control.
    It’s a betrayal of monumental proportions and we need to articulate that betrayal without apology.
    We have two countries. And we are not all in this together.


  33. there a few White people struggling.BECAUSE THEY ARE ONLY A FEW WHITE PEOPLE
    BUT MANY WHITE PEOPLE HAVE ALSO BEEN STRUGGLING IN BARBADOS FOR A LONG TIME
    IT IS FOLLY TO THINK OTHERWISE
    IT IS JUST THAT THEY DONT COMPLAIN OPENLY LIKE BLACKS DO

  34. peterlawrencethompson Avatar
    peterlawrencethompson

    @GP
    You must have learnt at least a little bit of statistics… the percentage of the White population in poverty is dramatically smaller than the percentage of the Black population in poverty. It has absolutely nothing to do with who complains; that is a blatantly racist and disgusting notion.

    There are about 14% of the Barbadian population in dire poverty… that is close to 40,000 people, many of them children. I am talking of annual per capita income of Bd$5.5k or less. It is likely that fewer than 100 of those are White people, if that many.


  35. I AM NO STATISTICIAN SIR
    I SPEAK ONLY OF WHAT I HAVE SEEN


  36. Yes GP and simple probability analysis says you are more likely a see a black in poverty who will complain than you are to even see a white in poverty.
    Hence your experience


  37. RE than you are to even see a white in poverty. OR AT ALL
    WHITE BAJANS SMARTLY STICK WITHING THEIR ENCLAVES


  38. You took the word see literally, in this context it means the chance of occurrence. Whether you actually see them or not is irrelevant


  39. The thing is that the old plantocracy have merged with the new rich to create a real mafia that is sucking the lifeblood out of the country. It’s not a situation that can be allowed to continue.


  40. AGAIN
    I AM NO STATISTICIAN SIR
    I SPEAK ONLY OF WHAT I HAVE SEEN


  41. RE The thing is that the old plantocracy have merged with the new rich to create a real mafia that is sucking the lifeblood out of the country. It’s not a situation that can be allowed to continue.

    WUH YOU GWINE DO BOUT UM BESIDES TALK PUN BU DAILY?

    HOW IS DAT REALLY HELPING ?


  42. GP…really…many like you knew before and said nothing, this is an improvement where it is all EXPOSED DAILY …not only on BU but also on FB and whatsapp, which means the people know…and THOUSNADS ARE PSEAKING OUT…..how has keeping the info to yourself helped over all those decades….and besides there is a whole lot more going on which will be revealed in the fullness of time…

    can’t tell you or you will run and tell the tiefing, racist whites in house negro style..lol

    ya ain’t worried about 40,000 black people suffering and starving because of 2 tiefing corrupt governments and their minority bribers, but ya worried about 100 whites who are being neglectd by the thieves who robbed your people…have you no shame.

  43. SirSimple SimonPresidentForLife Avatar
    SirSimple SimonPresidentForLife

    @Ewart Archer December 17, 2019 12:52 AM “To use your terms of reference, I am saying that the humans who remained in Africa are largely irrelevant to the story of human progress, which was created mainly by the humans who walked out of Africa and continued their evolution in other regions of the world.”

    So human evolution stopped for one set of people, and continued for another. How does evolution stop?

    White skin is an adaption to climates with little sunshine,so that th e body can effectively process vitamin D which is necessary for survival. People living in sunny climes naturally get plenty of vitamin D from the sunshine. I mean why doo youthink that the rate of multiple sclerosis increases the farther human beings move north or south from the equator? Ithe rate is als significantly higher among people who for religious reasons completely cover their bodies. i mean surely you have noticed that in Caribbean families those who have migrated to the north have a higher rate of MS that those who stayed at home. Perhaps the same is ocurring or has ocurred in your own family

    But foolish people, including you have attached a whole lot of significance to white skin.


  44. lol…dumbasses Simple…if you have lived in cold countries your blood vessels do the same thing those from the Caucus mountains EXPEREINCED IN COLD WEATHER …hide deep under your skin to escape the cold, which accounts for the paling of Black skin during winter….when you return to warmer climes of course your blood vessels are more than happy to resurface so that your skin can attain their more natural, healthier tones.

    but idiots are dumb Enuff to attribute this naturally occuring phenomena to something else….and end up worshiping shite and end up being ROBBED…lol


  45. @Hal Austin December 17, 2019 9:48 AM “You are right. Some idiot thinks that an announcement was made on the BWA website. That will do a lot of good to a 100 yr old unwell man. He should learn to Google. Don’t social workers check on the vulnerable, or is this a job for relatives, neighbours and friends as some silly woman suggested the last time this issue was raised.”

    It is the job PRINCIPALLY of relatives to check on their elders. Secondarily it is the job of neighbours, friends and and social workers.

    Sincerely

    Silly Woman


  46. @GP December 17, 2019 10:30 AM “RE You are right. Some idiot thinks that an announcement was made on the BWA website. That will do a lot of good to a 100 yr old unwell man. He should learn to Google. ONLY AN IDIOT thinks that an announcement made on the BWA website. WILL do a lot of good to a 100 yr old unwell man WHO PROBABLY DOES NOT HAVE A COMPUTER.”

    For Hal Austin in London, and Dr. GP in Florida: The announcements are also made on the radio. A lot of old people including me spend many hours of the day listening to radio, so yes, we do hear the BWA notices, British election commentary and results, religious broadcasts, and alligator stories out of Florida, and much else.

    Don’t worry about our 100 year old men and women. Why do wunna think that Barbados has per capita more 100 year olds than the United States or the United Kingdom.

    We does look out fah we old people.

    Wunna should look out fah wunna own.


  47. WURA-WAR-on-UDecember 17, 2019 4:31 PM

    GP…really…many like you knew before and said nothing,
    who tell you dat? I HAVE ALWAYS SPOKEN UP BOLDLY DIDNT GET ME ANYWHERE

    RE ain’t worried about 40,000 black people suffering and starving because of 2 tiefing corrupt governments and their minority bribers,

    but ya worried about 100 whites who are being neglectd by the thieves who robbed your people

    NOT WORRIED ABOUT EITHER GROUP MAM

    WHO WORRIED ABOUT ME WHEN I GET UNFAIR OR THE FACT THAT I NOT IN BIM LIVING LIKE A MAGUFFY NOT A SOUL

    …have you no shame. NO NUTTIN TO BE SHAMED BOUT


  48. @GP December 17, 2019 3:10 PM “WHITE BAJANS SMARTLY STICK WITHING THEIR ENCLAVES.”

    I have seen white bajans complaining in public about suffering dire poverty. These are not people who live iinany enclave. Some lived in my village, an ordinary poor working class village.

    But since according to the census data there are fewer than 10,00 Bajans who identify as white, of course we will see//hear/know of fewer complaints; but from what i have observed Bajans who are white and poor are just as likely to complain in public.

    And in private I can’t tell you how many white Bajan women have complained to me about their wufless husbands, and i ain’t no RH social worker. In fact one woman asked me “where I t’ink that the wuffless black men learned their wuflessness from?


  49. “I HAVE ALWAYS SPOKEN UP BOLDLY DIDNT GET ME ANYWHERE”

    different times my friend, we are getting results, we are not our unaware and helpless parents and grandparents…and that is what backward, corrupt governnments and their minority bribers FAIL TO UNDERSTAND…..they are dealing with new age people who would methodically bring their greedy, tiefing asses RIGHT DOWN to the ground.

    “where I t’ink that the wuffless black men learned their wuflessness from?”

    yo…that’s a whole nother story right there, it would require a couple books..

    black men really need to catch their weak selves and stop copy catting shite..


  50. Off face book..look what they think of media advice to clean up barbados

    Mia has to take her own advice first, the gymnasium stink with garbage/ bush, , the old goverment buildings / hospital infested with rats and want pushing down, the miller building want pushing down in fact the entire baxter eoad want demolition, the barracks at the Garrison wants refurbishing/ bushy, even her office in bay street want power washing, she looking for money now, and a way to milk bajans,

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