Plight of Abused Elders in Barbados
Submitted by Mama Leah The link below is part of a conversation I captured on my mobile phone between myself and an Elder person trying to escape, albeit with no access to his own money or any money at all. If this is not a cry for help, you tell me. Barbados authorities, more often…
112 responses to “Plight of Abused Elders in Barbados”
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@Hal,
yuh scam artist!!! so tell us how did it, mate? lol
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@ Greene
It is so secret even I don’t know about it.
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@Silly Woman February 23, 2020 12:42 PM “Re: “Dashed dreams: Bajans feel ‘scammed’ after Canada jobs fall through” a story on the front page of today’s Sunday Sun. The thing is no immigration or job [CONSULTANT] is needed in order to immigrate to Canada. ”
CORRECTION: In the earlier post I in error left out the word CONSULTANT.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/nursing-home-rations-senior-diapers-1.5470130
Nursing home rationed diapers while residents suffered rashes, infectionsElder care in a wonderful first world country.
Wunna still think it easy.? Wunna still think it cheap?
Seems easy and cheap when daughters and granddaughters [and a few sons and grandsons] do it for nothing.
If these daughters and granddaughters don’t get paid, it means that their labor is worth nothing right? It means that they are not really working right? It means that they are not contributing to the country’s GDP right? They don’t get dressed nice suits. They don’t drive nice cars, so it is not real-real work right? Nothing worth counting right?
What would it cost if YOU had to pay for it?
I asked an economist once, how come child care and elder care in the home is not counted in a country’s GDP. He was a 60+ Central banker, and he did not know.
Maybe some of BU’s intelligentsia can tell me why the WORK of elder care and child care in the home, even when it is excellent work is not counted in a country’s GDP, is not counted in Barbados’ GDP, is not counted as real-real work.
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@ Silly Woman February 23, 2020 10:58 PM
“Maybe some of BU’s intelligentsia can tell me why the WORK of elder care and child care in the home, even when it is excellent work is not counted in a country’s GDP, is not counted in Barbados’ GDP, is not counted as real-real work.”
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Maybe for the same reason the underground drug trade and prostitution are not considered as part of the economy for GDP measuring and reporting purposes.
Don’t you think that, at least, the activities of those sex-workers (part of the ‘wukking-up’ trade) should be brought into the mainstream realm of the country’s official economy and given ‘respectability’ like, gluttony (fast food feasting) gambling and rum drinking (if only for taxation purposes)?
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@ Greene
Not me. Too many Bajans called Hal Austin. I am the on from the Ivy.
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Sorry miller etc. but i do not have a doctoral degree in economics.
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@ Simple Simon
Miller gave you an answer which you did not accept. Were you paid for the services you rendered to your family? You received no income. GDP measures total income produced locally.
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Nope I wasn’t paid. Didn’t expect to be paid. But I hope that one of thes days we find a way to measure all work, including unpaid work.
There ma be a Nobel prize waiting for someone who can come p with a new way of valuing those activities which are truly valuable.
If that was the case right now our GDP would look much better now, wouldn’t it?
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The cabal is worldwide… no president, prime minister or monarch is in control now. All are bad mouthed, falsified to divide the people. We need Cameras in the courtrooms to remove the seats of injustice.🙏
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