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Yellow Journalism Alive at Fontabelle

In the social media world it is referred to as click bait, not sure of the equivalent in the dead tree world. A few weeks ago the BU blogmaster was critical of the Sunday Sun editor for offending the sensibilities of many Bajans by inserting a picture of Peter Wickam and partner on the front…

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In the social media world it is referred to as click bait, not sure of the equivalent in the dead tree world.

A few weeks ago the BU blogmaster was critical of the Sunday Sun editor for offending the sensibilities of many Bajans by inserting a picture of Peter Wickam and partner on the front page. The objective of report was to share the news a prominent local person had taken a husband? There was reference to a marriage to further irritate.

Today the Sunday Editor repeated poor judgment by introducing as front page news a disagreement between late Prime Minister David Thompson’s wife Mara and her mother in law Margaret Knight. It seems like a story traditional media should have left for the blogs to rumble with. Truth be told circulation is flagging and money makes the world go around.

A more worthy angle would have been to inquire from Mara Thompson when her husband’s will was probated and to confirm if she is the beneficiary of tens of millions largely derived from her late husband’s servicing of the CLICO account. This is a matter of national import given the hundreds of CLICO policyholders poorer for purchasing CLICO product. Instead the Sunday Sun preferred to share the news that Mara Thompson turned her back on the 88 year old mother in law by refusing to pay her rent.

What would the late David Thompson say if he were alive to see his mother spurned by Mara?

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98 responses to “Yellow Journalism Alive at Fontabelle”

  1. de pedantic Dribbler Avatar
    de pedantic Dribbler

    @Northern, but the ageing mum should be treated as my spouse’s mum too and hers mine, in every acceptable context of life, not so!

    There are lots of very funny mother-in-law jokes re husbands but all serves to bring light mirth to the real matter of family cohesiveness.

    If as you suggest it was common knowledge among siblings, wife and maybe too grands that brother, husband daddy left mum/granny in an apartment for remainder of her life did it also mean or ‘remainder of his life, whichever ends first’!

    Yes these things should really be perfectly well defined in legal docs but wouldn’t you consider it perplexingly odd that a lawyer, former PM and devoted son who dealt with matters like that REGULARLY would bypass such a ‘technicality’ !

    Maybe he couldn’t conceive his wife and mum ever being at this juncture… Then again I could NEVER have conceived some of the incredible conflict of interest, money laundering and other scandalous llegal allegations lodged against the Combermere Headboy either.

    Life can be amazing, can’t it!

  2. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    Life is full of “teachable moments” and this is another one. May we all learn from this family matter.

  3. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    @ de Pedantic dribbler

    I find this issue very funny.

    Honestly, I was surprised to see the story in yesterday’s “Sunday Sun,” requiring FOUR pages………and wondered why two grown women would bring their personal problems into the public domain.

    But, as I read on, I realized Thompson’s mother, Ms Knight “TOLD the “Sunday Sun” she is suing her daughter-in-law for breach of contract for failing to continue paying an agreed $1,000 a month in rent for a St. James apartment she is now occupying.” And, she went on to explain further.

    Then, on page 5A, I read: “Thompson, who was overseas, was SPEAKING to the “Sunday Sun” yesterday about the contentious relationship between her and Knight, which resulted in Knight threatening to take her to court for breach of contract.” Mara went on to give her side of the story.

    We have two women, who apparently spoke to the “Sunday Sun” of ‘their own free will,’ and we’re here debating whether or not it should be a news item.

    Ohhhh, don’t worry about Mr. Greene, perhaps he sees this issue as an attack on the DLP and became a bit too over emotional.
    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    “in addition they can be v nasty and are not often for public consumption. neither of the present parties are in public life and their particular issue should be left for them to sort out and not commented on. had either been public figures at the moment i would have no issues. have we no decency?”

    @ Mr. Greene

    Was your above comment meant for BU……. or for Mara and Margaret?

    Both women MADE a DECISION to SPEAK with the “Sunday Sun,” and in doing so, THEY BROUGHT the matter into the PUBLIC DOMAIN. ……. “for public consumption.”

    So, why shouldn’t people comment accordingly?

    You should ASK Margaret and Mara if they don’t have any decency…… and remind them this is a “private matter between two private people” and should be sorted out privately, not in the newspaper.

  4. David Avatar
    David

    On a matter like this views in Barbados will be coloured by party colours, if the commenter is friends or family to Carol Martindale etc. To reiterate- this blogmaster has no issue with the Nation story, like the one about Wickham it should not have commanded front page. We cannot moan about the standard of journalism in Barbados and in the next breath give it a pass when this family matter is featured at a time when COVID-19, pulling back by the minister of education Santia Bradshaw (predicted by the blogmaster), crime etc. We have to reorder our priorities.

  5. Silly Woman Avatar
    Silly Woman

    My mother was a comedian and a pragmatist. When she had to sharply disagreement with her first son outlaw, she remarked that in Barbados there is a potato slip know as ‘mother-in-law slip”. This slip she told me appears to be lush and healthy but when dug up produces zero potatoes. She said that it was evident that her son outlaw held that opinion of her, beautiful but useless. That opinion may not have been entirely undeserved because when he unfaired her daughter she tried to throw him off the balcony of a 12 story building. He never tried the unfairing thingy again. After that they wisely kept their distance from each other. At the time of her death I believe that she was still on the wanted persons list of a metropolitan police force. May she and her son outlaw both rest in eternal peace. Fortunately they are resting in cemeteries thousands of miles apart. Lol! The police can now close their file on the attempted “throw”

  6. David Avatar
    David

    It was international womens day last Sunday?

  7. de pedantic Dribbler Avatar
    de pedantic Dribbler

    Mr Blogmaster, there are about 360 front pages a year. Depending on the mock-up of said page there are likely at least 3 front page stories in Nation or Sunday Sunday on any of those days.

    COVID 19 is topical, so too crime and Min of Ed fits and stops…so all three of them can be front page news for a week or two bro… still leaves 50 other weeks or 346 front pages to fill!

    Thus I still don’t follow your reasoning or logic on suitability, news worthiness or public interest on either story being on front page…

    Front page is also the FIRST thing you see on the E-Paper or the print edition to grab attention and interest to drive you to buy the edition !

    Is the Nation publisher and editors in business to only follow some spurrious moral standard or to SELL papers?

    Let’s get serious about THAT reality and the TYPE of news which really drives us as consumers.

  8. David Avatar
    David

    A media house is also in the business of educating, enlightening, informing public discourse. You seem to be locked on the click and bait show me the money perspective.

    To repeat, it was international womens day?

  9. robert lucas Avatar
    robert lucas

    @ Silly Woman March 9, 2020 9:13 AM

    Point noted

    @ Silly Woman March 9, 2020 9:24 AM

    Just deduction from your statement.

  10. Lorenzo Avatar
    Lorenzo

    David BU i agree with you on clamping down on the disrespectful
    (To you) Austin. It is long overdue do not mind his sidekick Skinner that,s his friend.However , i disagree with you on this story as Ms Thompson is a former MP and hence would be newsworthy.As Artax said nobody forced any of them to go to the press . Whenever the spotlight falls negatively on the Dems you would expect to see Skinner , John A , Greene and others trying to downplay it as trivial this is their usual behaviour.If thos story was about Ms Mottley they would be parading on here but such is life que sera sera.

  11. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    Mia Mottley Hal Austin Verla Depeiza
    Peter Wickham David Ellis. All the present and former Members of Parliament William Skinner……….
    All of us have one thing in common. People know who we are . We don’t hide behind false names. We are proud to let our views be known .
    We hope to get to know all of you as time goes by.
    It must be a beautiful thing when you can hide and insult people; curse them ; attempt to deny them the right to say anything about the land of their birth; criticise their choice of spouse etc and remain under a rock. To take up a pen and call for people to be band. Nobody knows you. Are you fish or fowl. Black or white. Bajan or not. Live in Barbados or not……..
    It must be a beautiful thing when nobody knows where you live; your race ; who your spouse is; what you look like and you have the same privilege of those whose names I have mentioned.
    Stay under your rock……….,

  12. David Avatar
    David

    Former AG Adriel Brathwaite was provoked on BU David Facebook to rebuked Tron. In fact he challenged him to expose himself.

  13. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    2nd comment (not on the story, but on the comments)

    It must be hard to be a journalist in Barbados….One moment you are part of some ongoing cover-up and the next moment, there are stories that should not be published.

    It surprises me that some will come here and claim that this should not be in the newspaper. I cannot fathom the reasoning behind such a statement. It appears that both women went to the papers on their own volition; and the fact that one of the women was an MP for years makes her less than a private citizen.

    I must ask, should we just pull the cloak over her years of service as well? Is her time public office now off-limits or is it still open for public inspection.

    We have little care for agriculture, but yet we have an increasing number of sacred cows. Let me add, it always gave me a great deal of pleasure to call the name RA and watch a “spirited” defense mounted behalf of that sacred cow..

    We can only hope that more of these sacred cows decide to wander off the reservation and graze in the USA.

  14. Robert Avatar
    Robert

    @ William Skinner

    So what if people use false names? The most of you who use your real names here are old retired men anyway, who ain’t got nothing to lose or have a fear getting victimised or nothing so.

    It looks like you trying to tell we that using your REAL NAME GIVES YOU the PRIVILEGE to be downright nasty to people, insult them, curse them, tell them they are semi-literate, fools, silly, ignorant, buffoon, bone-head and tell them whatever else they feel like them, when nobody provoked them in anyway to do so and the people they insult should keep quiet, hide under a rock and don’t retaliate.

    Never once I every hear you tell your bosom buddies that use their real names that they WRONG to insult people, or to respect their views even if they don’t agree with them, but when the people retaliate, hypocrites like you gine come out now to talk shyte.

    The thing is, the people names who you call are in the PUBLIC and obviously people are going to know who they are. If somebody comes here with a name like Tyrone Agard or Paula Weekes, what difference is it going to make? How are you going to know if it is their real name or not? Or, who they are, their race, if they are actually male or female, where they live, thing about their spouses, what they look like and whatever else you say? How are you going to know all that?

    If you really believe in fairness, you would be calling for ORDER and GOOD BEHAVIOUR FROM BOTH SIDES and not from just one side. Order and good behaviour from the false name people and from the real name people. Instead, you want to condemn one side.

  15. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    But David you shouldn’t even open mouth to speak about anyone making challenges to expose a person on social media
    For you have many times made said comments towards ac even going as far to speak of ac location
    I mean your attitude is as equally nasty as those whom u condemn

  16. Silly Woman Avatar
    Silly Woman

    @David March 10, 2020 6:04 AM “In fact he challenged him to expose himself.”

    As long as we all remember that it is a criminal offense for a man to expose himself/his person in a public place. And BU is a public place.

  17. Silly Woman Avatar
    Silly Woman

    @Robert March 10, 2020 7:38 AM

    You is bare-bare trouble den.

    Lol!

  18. Silly Woman Avatar
    Silly Woman

    Any by the way I am both Tyrone Agard and Paula Weekes. I am black and white and indian, and some days chinese too. I am both male and female, I live in Barbados and abroad, I am both married and single, and some days I am divorced too (no surprise there, lol)

    And all ‘o wunna know long time that I am both BLP and DLP, and some days PDP and NDP and Solutions etc. too. But most days I am none of those parties. I love Barbados, I work hard, I pay my taxes, I give my blood, I volunteer in my community, I NEVER litter, I recycle, I work the land, I raised my children well. I looked after my parents and other elders in their old age, I love my grandchildren and help to look after them too. But I am COMPLETELY, ABSOLUTELY DISLOYAL to ALL political parties.

    I am me.

  19. David Avatar
    David

    @Simple Simon

    Behave!

  20. Greene Avatar
    Greene

    i will break my silence in this thread only to say the first post Tron made on this topic is quite distasteful and had little if anything to do with the subject matter. Tron behaves like the court jester and has been given licence recently by bloggers praising his jestering or whatever it is.

    i dont read his stuff generally but as i was skimmimg down the page i saw a reference to a name and wondered what the arsehole had written this time. i read and it rankled me. it was not only irrelevant it was nasty. i believe Sergeant called him out on it.

    i think he is an arsehole but i generally ignore him. v few things get my goat but sometimes enuff is enuff. in this instance he ought to be censored but that is not up to me.

    i do think this matter is a private one that the parties ought to be left to settle amongst themselves. i think Mara is now a private person and not a public figure notwithstanding her previous position and to whom she was married. many have commented differently and so life goes on

  21. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    It is politics take the story for what it is
    The political knives will be sharpened
    But what is amazing is the way and manner David pounced on the article contents and in his self righteous manner calling out the writers whilst glaringly hiding behind a veil of political deceit knowing full and well the response the article would received on BU

  22. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    @ Robert
    You are not a hypocrite because you have a different point of view. I am a hypocrite because I have a different point of view.
    You win !

  23. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    I am certain that what I say here will be misinterpreted by those determined to do so but I shall say it anyway.

    It is wonderful when those Barbadians who have left our shores remain interested in Barbados and the well being of those who live here. It is also wonderful when they bring a different perspective (as their distance from and cultural experiences would obviously provide) to the discussions on the affairs of Barbados and Barbadians. What is NOT wonderful is when some of them talk down to us, somehow managing to deride us as losers who probably could not escape the “Hellhole” that is Barbados, doomed to die in despair in the “failed state” of all failed states whilst they frolic in the fantasy life that their “superiority” and “foresight” allows them to enjoy in the wonderful countries to which they have escaped.

    And when they diagnose us as somehow suffering from some nebulous disease dubbed “The Bajan Condition”. This condition is inescapable, apparently, for Barbadians who have “lived on a rock all their lives”. If i wanted to be as gratuitously insulting as they I would diagnose the disease that ails these people as “The Overseas Bajan Delusional Condition.” This condition causes them to ignore the problems that we KNOW exist in the countries to which they have fled, many of the VERY SAME PROBLEMS that occur in Barbados.

    When we point that out it does not mean that we do not acknowledge that there are serious problems that need to be addressed in Barbados, neither do we wish them to be silent about these problems. But there is a saying, “Sometimes it is not what you say but how you say it”. The way some say it does nothing to motivate but just seems to be an attempt to beat us into the hard ground from which we can look up and “envy” those who have escaped to “greener pastures”.

    And all the while there are some of us who were born overseas, entitled to the “prized” citizenship and visas, living normal happy lives here in Barbados, acknowledging and working on its problems, recognising that politicians EVERYWHERE seem to be corrupt, rich are getting richer EVERYWHERE while the poor are getting poorer, cronyism and nepotism and kissing ass (among other things) for jobs occurs EVERYWHERE, INCOMPETENCE AND STUPIDITY in government and the private sector occur EVERYWHERE, the racial and class disparity in the criminal justice systems occurs ALMOST EVERYWHERE, elder abuse is proving problematic for the authorities EVERYWHERE and certainly in the countries to which these fantasy land dwellers have “escaped”. These people may have been lucky enough or skillful enough to have “made it” as were some of our close relatives, i am sure, but the reality is that many other Barbadians have NOT. And sometimes WE HERE are forced to render assistance to THEM and some of us are actually in a position to do so.

    So…. we have learnt here, hopefully, that insults include much more than calling someone “jackass” and that we rock dwellers are quite aware of when we are being gratuitously insulted.

    PS. What does it matter if we use fake names as long as we do not slander? Using one’s own name sometimes detracts from the very valid point one is making. People often tend to judge the person rather than the point. But surely if one is always commenting on the inferiority complex of the Bajan black when one marries a white person that is indeed relevant to the discussion! How often have I heard black Barbadian men boasting in awe of bedding and marrying white women as a sign of their superiority? They didn’t need to bother with me, I was told on more than one occasion on the street. How often have I seen their shoulders thrown back in pride for having “achieved” such a feat? Bajan condition????? I wouldn’t be the judge of that. But it is relevant.

  24. Robert Avatar
    Robert

    You are not a hypocrite because you have a different point of view. I am a hypocrite because I have a different point of view. {Quote}

    @ William Skinner

    You are not only a hypocrite, you are very dishonest joker, too.

    All I’m saying is, in one breath somebody is saying it is best if we debate ideas instead of drifting off into personal attacks and insults, and that if you don’t agree with other bloggers, you should read past without saying anything.

    Then, in a next breath, this same person comes here everyday, without any provocation and ignoring their own advice, to insult other bloggers and call them all types of NASTY NAMES, that they are ANIMALS and should be in the JUNGLE, talking about the Bajan Condition and how they are silly, bone-headed, appallingly ignorant, semi-literate buffoons that learn by rote.

    IS ALL OF THAT NECESSARY?

    Why don’t you read pass or ignore the other bloggers, too?

    Where is William Skinner when this going on? He CHOOSES TO REMAIN SILENT, HE DOES NOT SAY A WORD.

    When people retaliate, the holier than thou William Skinner comes out telling PEOPLE THAT USE FALSE NAMES THEY ARE HIDING TO INSULT PEOPLE.

    You trying to tell us, it’s ALRIGHT TO USE YOUR REAL NAME TO INSULT PEOPLE, but when you use a false name it becomes an ABOMINABLE OFFENSE.

    You twisting it now to talk about some difference of opinion.

    You said you can’t tell people how react to their critics and that in debating sometimes people are sarcastic, but now you got nuff advice for the false name people.

    THIS IS DOUBLE STANDARDS AND HYPOCRISY.

    IT WOULD HAVE BEEN FAIR IF YOU TELL THE REAL NAME PEOPLE AND THE FALSE NAME PEOPLE TO DEBATE IDEAS OR IGNORE IF THEY DON’T AGREE, INSTEAD OF DRIFTING INTO PERSONAL ATTACKS AND INSULTS.

  25. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    William Skinner,

    Robert does have a point. What’s good or bad for the real name users (and overseas cohort) and even friends from long ago must be good for the rest of contributors.

    As for me, if you continue to defy ALL LOGIC AND COMMONSENSE while posing as an all-knowing academic, I reserve the right to call you what you are.

  26. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    @ Donna
    @ Robert

    You are both correct. I am wrong. All I can promise you both is that I personally will continue to resist going into the gutter. Quite frankly I am in agreement with those who say Barbadians living outside should stay aqay from commenting about their country. I also agree with the blogmaster that I am a RH and an Jackass.

  27. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Whoever said that Barbadians living abroad should stop commenting on their country? I have never heard such a thing! Also, you and I do disagree sometimes but we have always been respectful of each other and I do not agree that you are an RH or a jackass. You do not come across across as one who thinks we are all underprivileged or stupid for living here and I generally have no problem with you. You are not boastful or gratuitously insulting or any such thing. But you do tend to give Hal Austin a pass and you were a little off in your criticisms of people who use monikers.

    PS. I am not one who descends to the gutter except to clean it of the muck that blocks the flow. Sometimes one has to do that, even on BU.

  28. Silly Woman Avatar
    Silly Woman

    @Robert March 10, 2020 11:36 AM,”… that they are ANIMALS…”

    And not only animals, we are also often called savages, as recently when an announcement was made that the BWA would soon remove public standpipes, even though 96% of Bajan families already have running water at home and at the same time an announcement was made that tenants who currently do not have running water at home could receive piped water to their homes even if the landlord withholds permission, and that the landlord would not be held liable for the tenants’ water debt. Permission will continue not be granted in zone 1 in order to protect the cleanliness of water for everybody. And yet we are called savage. Perhaps somebody can point out to me exactly which part of that policy is savage?

    Savage: fierce, violent, and uncontrolled.

  29. Silly Woman Avatar
    Silly Woman

    @Donna March 10, 2020 10:47 AM

    You is real-real trouble den. Wha you got to be so reasonable for?

    Long ago, in another century, and far away, in another land I had a boyfriend who “insulted” me by telling be
    “you know what is wrong with you? You are too reasonable”

    Lolll!!!

    Since then I have been sure to keep at least two or three thousand miles between us.

    I don’t know if he is happier.

    But I certainly am.

  30. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    @ Donna

    I honestly thank you for your gracious comments. I feel the exact way about your contributions.
    However there are those on this blog who are always telling Barbadians living abroad to stay out of the country’s business.
    As for @ Hal ,he like others on BU , including myself, has his own style. I don’t own the blog. The blogmaster sets the standards.
    The majority of BU contributors defend the use of false names. My views on this matter are in the minority.
    I’m cool with that.

  31. Greene Avatar
    Greene

    so wow. a thread about nonsense has descended into insults and more nonsense and trended toward pitting overseas bajans against stay home bajans. just wow.

    in the words of King Rodney – “cant we all get along”

  32. Robert Avatar
    Robert

    @ Donna

    You see how HYPOCRITICAL and IMMATURE these guys are?

    You see how things went from me saying he is criticizing the false name people for insulting people and giving his real name bosom buddies a free pass for doing the same thing, move from having a difference of opinion, to who is right and who is wrong?

    I never said nothing overseas Bajans should not comment on nothing about Barbados and I did not say I agree with anybody who says William Skinner is a RH or jackass. Look at people like de Pedantic dribbler. he lives overseas, he comes here, he politely makes his points and move on. I’ve never hear him behave like some others here who feel they have arrived.

    My problem with Skinner is that he is prepared to defend his bosom buddy who calls HUMAN BEINGS names like SAVAGES, ANIMALS, BUFFOON, SILLY and other DISGUSTING NASTY NAMES everyday. He IS PRETENDING he does not see what that man is doing is going into the gutter. When the false name people retaliate and do the same thing, that is when he sees it as going into the gutter.

    If he disagrees with something somebody says he also refers to them as….. I see some brain dead idiot said this, or an idiot said that, or some semi-literate buffoon said the third.

    ALL I’M ASKING IS IF THIS RIDICULOUS BEHAVIOUR FROM THAT MAN IS NECESSARY?

    NOTHING FROM SKINNER TO SAY ABOUT THAT MAN’S DISRESPECTFUL CONDESCENDING POMPOUS INSULTING, DEGRADING BEHAVIOUR. BUT HE CAME HERE TO MAKE A SONG AND DANCE ABOUT CONTRIBUTORS USING FALSE NAMES.

    NONSENSE!!!!!!

    SKINNER REFUSES TO TELL THE MAN HE IS WRONG, BUT KEEPS INTRODUCING IRRELEVANT FOLLY INSTEAD, JUST BECAUSE HE DON’T WANT TO MASH HIS BOSOM BUDDY’S CORNS OR OFFEND HIM.

    THAT IS THE REAL ISSUE HERE.

    THE DOUBLE STANDARDS AND HYPOCRISY.

  33. Robert Avatar
    Robert

    @ Silly Woman

    Look at the HYPOCRISY.

    This morning Skinner said…….It must be a beautiful thing when you can hide and insult people; curse them ; attempt to deny them the right to say anything about the land of their birth; criticise their choice of spouse etc and remain under a rock. {Quote}

    Not too long ago Donna said………But you do tend to give Hal Austin a pass and you were a little off in your criticisms of people who use monikers. {Quote}

    After telling off the false name people this morning, she mentioned him giving a free pass to his bosom buddy, and look what he says:-

    As for @ Hal ,he like others on BU , including myself, HAS HIS OWN STYLE. I don’t own the blog. {Quote}

    So, he trying to tell us a man calling people savages and animals is his own style, but when people retaliate, they are going into the gutter and should hide under a rock.

    HYPOCRISY.

  34. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    @ Robert
    I am not giving you Hal or anybody a pass. I am merely saying that those who publish their real names are essentially exposing themselves while monikers are not.
    For example: If I am any part of the world anybody who knows me can point me out to somebody I have offended and that person can proceed to plan my execution. I am known. On more than one occasion , people who don’t know me, walk up to me and ask if I am the William Skinner who writes on BU. I have received phone calls castigating me for my views on BU and elsewhere.
    Now I am saying to you that those who use monikers are more protected
    and many times they hide behind such anonymity to slur and insult others.
    Now I will not be held responsible for what Hal writes but at least we know him and he has also exposed himself. Amazingly this is a simple point that has never gained any acceptance on BU.
    If speaking the truth about such people is hypocritical then I am a hypocrite. If saying that Hal and I don’t hide behind monikers is the truth and that makes me a hypocrite so be it.
    Please do not let me be a problem to you simply because I have a point of view. It is a wonderful thing when we can attack people and then disappear into the shadows. As we say: No name no lock up.
    I will never suggest that those who use monikers do not contribute great ideas and so on to BU. Without them contributions to BU will decrease by almost ninety percent and I personally will not welcome such a development.
    Just saying it will be nice to have an equal playing field. However I know about victimization so at least on one of your points we are in agreement.
    Now you have me wondering if you are one of the many Roberts I know but as was pointed out you may not be even named Robert. Anytime you see me let’s have a drink of your choice and you will quickly realise that we have a lot in common. Perhaps I am slowing accepting that ideas and not names matter. Just asking you to respect my position as I respect yours. I have no problem with you or anybody else on this blog. I just have different opinions sometimes.I learnt a long time ago atBay Primary that manners maketh man. I also learned that sometimes all a person has is his or her name.

  35. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    GreeneMarch 10, 2020 1:46 PM

    so wow. a thread about nonsense has descended into insults and more nonsense and trended toward pitting overseas bajans against stay home bajans. just wow.

    in the words of King Rodney – “cant we all get along”

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

    Short answer – NO!

    Long answer –

    It’s the human condition.

    Sometimes it is good to clear the air. I do not consider an attempt to clear the air to be nonsense.

    “Tongue and teet does got words.” The problem is when they lose sight of their goals to speak and eat and refuse to reconcile.

  36. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    The good, the bad, the ugly an nuff igrunt wrasse whole idiots at home and abroad.

  37. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    Robert u ought to give tge back and forth a rest
    Yuh sure nuff sounding like an ole faggot
    Bitc.hing and belly ach.ing about Hal
    Notice hal not even responded to yuh b/s

  38. TheOgazerts Avatar
    TheOgazerts

    Does that offer a drink extend to me or do I have to go to attack mode for the offer to be extended.
    Just kidding.
    Stay on course.

  39. Lorenzo Avatar
    Lorenzo

    Skinner like Robert said very clearly to you you are a hyprocrite. This is David BU , blog on which he gives all of us a voice.Tell me why should he tolerate your buddy Hal Austin to call him names like buffoon , illiterate etc.This like going in a man, house and disrespecting him and his wife.How can that be acceptable in your eyes? Yet you never call on him or Piece to respect the blogmaster tell us why is this or maybe your head is in the sand.You have never seen me disrespect the blogmaster yet on here.I will disrespect certain bloggers on here who disrespect others and if they can dish it out they can or should be able to take it if not too bad.As you know i pull no punches on so called neutrals like yourself but based on your contributions we know which side of the duopoly you support.By the wsy in the US and UK are there not two major parties so what is the big deal you make about duopoly?Finally to David BU anytime Austin or any pf them mash the crease deal with them to suit.

  40. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    @ Lorenzo

    You calling me a hypocrite is a compliment. Thanks.
    I dont care how you and others feel about @ Piece . A few years ago you and your friends were hugging and kissing him when he was rigtly kicking the backsides of the decadent DLP. That is wunnuh fight not mine.
    All you have done for the last few years is try to prove I am a DLP. You continue to fail miserably.
    A blog master who has frequently called me a RH and Jackass can fight his own battles with Hal and whomever else offends him
    I don’t care about any political party or politician in the USA or UK.
    You know as all the blog knows that I ran for the NDP in Barbados and lost my deposit (1991)
    I don’t know who appointed me as Hal’s cousellor. How you, the blogmaster and others choose to respond to Hal and how Hal chooses to respond to you all is really none of my business
    I maintain my position: Mia Mottley Verla Depeiza, Hal Austin, Peter Wickham, All the present and former members of Parliament and William Skinner have one thing in common -we are known. If that staement has stuck in anybody’s craw-it’s the truth;
    The Barbados Labour Party and the Democratic Labour Party is a Duopoly as far as I am concerned. If you feel differently that is your democratic right.
    Lorenzo , it must be a beautiful thing that you can call people all kinds of names and remain unknown. It is a wonderful thing. Enjoy it.
    As for David , he has the most successful blog in Barbados. Like you I am grateful to contribute. David knows I have never “overstepped the crease” with him. I simply was not raised that way.
    I don’t disrespect my PM and I certainly don’t disrespect my friends in the Duopoly. And I am proud the say that I don’t disrespect others on BU.
    You have called on David to ban me. If he does , I will thank him for the opportunity and move on. Everybody in Barbados who knows William Skinner know he gives as well as he takes. Everybody in Barbados who know Hal Austin , knows that he is capable of defending himself.
    Now you can call me an idiot; continue to fail at trying to convince yourself I am a Dee but one thing for sure I am not going to ask David to ban you and regardless of what you think about @ Piece these days, I am not going to call you a hypocrite.
    You are an upright , neutral , objective person. Like I said you bring a lot to BU and I continue to learn from you.
    Thanks for taking the time to rerspond to me and I look forward to meeting you one of these days. If you see me anywhere let’s have a drink of your choice. Chances are that we already know each other.

    .

  41. TheOgazerts Avatar
    TheOgazerts

    @WS
    For you it is Hal, for me it was piece “my leader”
    Like you I ignore the ca;;s to denounce someone.
    I would bet money that David is not going to ban you.
    He has done well without the advice of these guys.
    Ignore and move on.
    I will do the same.

  42. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    @ TheOGazerts
    That’s the problem with these Duopoly jokers.They were not asking David to ban anybody a few years ago.
    They can’t handle independent thinkers. They really are not concerned with content; they are more interested in the criticism that the Duopoly is coming under.
    Then they talk about respect and hypocrisy.
    Let me make it clear I understand where @ Robert and @ Donna are coming from and I sincerely respect their positions .
    However I will not allow the well known apologists and cool aid drinkers of the Duopoly to lecture me on what is appropriate or whom I shall attack or defend.
    I have never lived on Roebuck or George Street.
    They can burn in the political hell.
    @ Robert
    @ Donna
    I respect your positions and enjoyed our back and forth.
    @ Piece
    Keep up your creative and independent thinking.

  43. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    William Skinner,

    Have a very good night and don’t let the politically partisan bugs bite!

  44. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    @ Donna
    Thanks. You do the same.

  45. Robert Avatar
    Robert

    @ William Skinner

    Cheers mate. No offence was intended to be given and no offence taken.
    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    Robert u ought to give tge back and forth a rest
    Yuh sure nuff sounding like an ole faggot
    Bitc.hing and belly ach.ing about Hal
    Notice hal not even responded to yuh b/s {Quote}

    @ Mariposa

    I remember you telling me…….Mariposa March 9, 2020 9:49 AM Robert The funny of this all I DON’T EVER READ YOUR POST. {Qoute}

    IT IS A GOOD THING YOU DON’T EVER READ MY POST.

    IF YOU DON’T EVER READ MY POSTS, HOW COME YOU KNOW I SOUNDING LIKE A OLE FAGGOT AND BITCHING AND BELLY ACHING?

    SOMEBODY TELL YOU SO?

    IF YOU KNOW AUSTIN NOT EVEN RESPONDED TO ME, WHY ARE YOU READING MY POST AND RESPONDING TO ME ON HIS BEHALF? YOU IS HE LAWYER?

    YUH SEE HOW RH FOOLISH AND A JACKASS YOU IS?

    YUH SEE HOW THE WORD BONE-HEAD SUIT YOU?

  46. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    @ Robert
    The feeling is mutual my brother.

  47. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    An editor has got the right to publish what s/he thinks, within the law. Readers have a right to buy that publication if they think it is irrelevant. Publishers have a right to hire and fire. Advertisers have a right to withdraw their support. It is called a free press.

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