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PHARTFORD FILES: Of Covid-19 Contact Tracing Registers and African Embassies

Submitted by Ironside Someone needs to help me understand why Nature’s Discount has a Covid-19 Contact Tracing Register in its stores. Help me find the Government announcement that proclaimed this! There are at least two Nature’s Discount stores I am aware of where this contact register appears. You must sign before you enter the store!  …

Submitted by Ironside

Someone needs to help me understand why Nature’s Discount has a Covid-19 Contact Tracing Register in its stores. Help me find the Government announcement that proclaimed this!

There are at least two Nature’s Discount stores I am aware of where this contact register appears. You must sign before you enter the store!   Some stupid people obviously have done so and their names are there for the next signatory to see!  Don’t take my word for it. Here are two images that have been acquired. One from the Dome Mall store and one from the Sky Mall store.

Does Mr. Nicholas Kelly….excuse me: Dr. Nicholas Kelly think black Bajans- well, ALL black Bajans – are that stupid?  Orrrrrrrr! Is it that the recent “victory” over Representative Prescod has emboldened the White Shadows League? 

Peoples, there is no covid-19 protocol that makes it MANDATORY for ANYONE to give out your contact details BY ANY METHOD on entering a store! What Nature’s Discount is doing is illegal!  Where is the Covid-19 Monitoring Unit? Where is the Minister of Trade and Commerce or whatever? Where is the Fair Trading Commission? Where are the policemen for that matter?

Covid 19 Contact Tracing Register in use at Nature’s Discount

Using Covid-19 as a pretext to develop a direct marketing database is to say the least, unethical! What happened to our Data Protection Act?

My advice to anyone who signed his or her name in Nature’s Discount log is this: if you see any marketing messages / direct mail coming from Nature’s Discount, report it to Fair Trading Commission – and the Police! Better still, if you have any guts at all, go back to the store and BLACK OUT your name from the list!

OR… just BLACK OUT Nature’s Discount!

New Barbados Embassy

Yesterday, according to Barbados Today, Minister Bostic announced that Barbados will be opening an embassy in Ghana. Yep, that is the country where those African nurses “ah come from”! 

Let’s unpack this.   This country is in dire straits financially; NIS has been overrun, people’s salaries have been affectively cut via BOSS and we are going to open an embassy in Ghana? With one planned for Kenya in the near future?

There has got to be a lot more than “acknowledged…cultural and historical bonds between Barbados and the African continent” to justify opening an embassy at this time.

Tell me there is legit business to be obtained from Africa and that on the basis of COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS, the Government expects to gain more than what it will spend on embassies.   

There are other ways to implement diplomatic representation other than by a full embassy, for example, a High Commission, a Consulate.  Have these other options been explored? An embassy means renting premises, more or less permanent staff, frequent travel etc. From whence are the funds to support this? Justify this!

If the Government is trying to get Barbadians angry they are doing “excellent” as my mother-in-law would say!

76 responses to “PHARTFORD FILES: Of Covid-19 Contact Tracing Registers and African Embassies”

  1. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    https://barbadostoday.bb/2020/05/20/renters-not-paying-up/

    Read the comments.

  2. Miller Avatar
    Miller

    @ David September 5, 2020 5:50 PM

    You will find out when a replacement is selected to be ‘groomed’ for the St. Thomas riding to run in the next general elections.

    BTW, have you gotten wind of the constituency earmarked for the new MOT?

  3. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Miller

    The flaw about great men is that their sons seem to seldom measure up to popular expectations. Rawdon is so likely as well.

  4. de pedantic Dribbler Avatar
    de pedantic Dribbler

    Mr Blogmaster come on… u can’t be serious re “The point is all agree the amendment was a progressive change that allows Barbadians in the diaspora to serve the island” and “By his public interventions it was a reasonable conclusion up to now.”

    Both those statements presents a level of naivete which surely YOU do NOT possess …what’s up wid dat!

    As the Pacha asks how in heaven’s name can you EVER describe a scion of this storied political family as ‘apolitical’ merely due to public silence!

    The OPPOSITE of your assessment is shown by the PM’s action with the absolutely non-progressive legislation to impose him into the Senate… it suggests he was quite politically active behind the scenes and it was decided there was a need for an IMMEDIATE jumpstart back in the public glare.

    And what made placing him and McConney in Senate so progressive !

    Since I was a lad Bajans from the ‘diaspora’ have been giving their expertise to their nation… thousands of them left US or UK and elsewhere to return here at senior levels or to initiate a political career… the pathways are myriad… so do expand on what was so progressively needed to get those two latest bright Bajan sparks back home … that couldn’t follow well worn pathways!

    Come on David…

  5. Dullard Avatar
    Dullard

    David Why have you becomed sooo defensive of this guvment, on even moot points.

    David is hoping beyond hope that the guvment will somehow – against all the evidence so far – change the current trajectory.
    He must be a masochist.

  6. Miller Avatar
    Miller

    @ Pachamama September 5, 2020 6:38 PM

    You are a man ‘steeped’ in the history of the World.

    Very rarely do the offspring (children) follow in the footsteps of great men (and women).

    Tom was an exception but the curse of ‘leadership infertility’ intervened.

    EWB is another ‘thoroughbred’ example of political gelding.

    Such lofty expectations usually signal the fall of great dynasties whether political or financial.

    Just take a look at the fate of the Kemet/Egyptian pharaonic dynasties or the Russian Romanov family or even the European/British royal families (or more recently, the Japanese Imperial dynasty).

    ‘Greatness’ usually springs from below in the wellspring of struggle; not from a life of pampering from above.

  7. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    Embassies and High Commissions are EXACTLY the same thing.

    Called Embassies in non-Commonwealth countries.

    Called High Commissions in Commonwealth countries.

  8. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    I don’t do the “health food” thing. I don’t do the gym thing either. Last went to a gym in 1982. Didn’t like it. Found it boring. Haven’t gone back.

    I do what my grandma did. Work the ground. Pick and eat a li’l spinach offa the paling.

    She made it past 90.

    I plan to do the same

  9. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    Some of the “gentlemen” who visited the strip club did indeed enter names such as Joe Blow, and this hindered contact tracing when it was discovered that someone at the club had covid19. So “no” please do NOT enter false information. If you do not want to provide your true contact information, then do NOT enter the people’s place.

  10. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    Usually a fireworks display ends with the grand finale; a great show followed by a spectacular ending.

    What we saw was a fantastic build up, then a lame show followed by a whimper of an ending.

    The unbiased bystander can only ask ‘WTH happened here?’ whilst others apply a generous dose of spin to events as they unfold.

  11. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @Hal Austin September 5, 2020 9:23 AM “Go back to first principles. The president is the smartest person in parliament.”

    How do you know this?

    Is your statement true or are you just making up things?

    Have you done IQ tests on everybody in Parliament?

    Have you examined their university transcripts?

    Have you examined their CV’s

    Have you seen any of their previous work reviews?

    Have you taught any of the current Parliamentarians?

    Are you the parent of any of the current Parliamentarians?

  12. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    Gline is really, really ancient.

    Ooops!

    I forgot, he is what the BU intelligentsia calls a “relatively young” man.

    In BU speak that means anybody younger than Methuselah.

  13. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Miller
    Ever since Tom passed there was an expectation, even anticipation that one of his sons, mostly Rawdon, would take over the family business.

    That much whispered expectation served as a reminder to all blp leaders as aspirants that the Adams legacy was a force to deal with.

    Yes, neither son has shown any inclination thus far. Maybe we might even skip a generation but the inheritance Grantley left will always to the birthright of his heirs in the minds of a critical mass.

  14. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    “but the inheritance Grantley left will always to the birthright of his heirs in the minds of a critical mass.”

    it’s all colonial inspired and worthless..an imperial system that is not even dying anymore but fully DEAD, anyone still trying to promote it, is a SLAVE..still owned by UK….any black person (AFRICAN) still trying to promote their faux englishness, is STILL A SLAVE….and will always continue to be viewed by their owners as such, as are they and their children and grandchildren..any black person still trying to cling to and embrace a system that ENSLAVED THEIR ANCESTORS IS A SLAVE…

    i would be embarrassed to associate myself with any of the current or former Caribbean leaders who did not and still do not even know that they are still SLAVES, apparitions of slave masters, placeholders for dead slave masters, still being controlled and used to carry forward their colonial wills from the grave.

    Pacha and Miller are fully aware of what am speaking about..i know it’s well above the pay grades and intellect of shite negros with colonial slave titles…so they will never get it…

  15. Ironside Avatar
    Ironside

    @Green Monkey September 5, 2020 3:45 PM

    Thanks for this insight.

    Very early on in the pandemic, there was agreement among some sections of the medical profession that the corona virus would be no more lethal and no less persistent than the flu. Your contribution helps us to understand what muddled that thinking.

    There is still no definitive agreement as to whether the virus was naturally occurring or man-made.

    When the CCP pandemic first started that it was thought it would have very little effect on children and young adults. But shortly after that the messaging changed. We were then told that children are susceptible to a “reaction” to covid-19 called “paediatric multi-system inflammatory syndrome”. Why? How many children have died from covid-19?

    After Bill Gates was roundly castigated for his proposal to use quantum dot tracking technology with vaccines, the strategy shifted to children. It was a master move because the self-appointed global saviours of public health (including Bill Gates) know that if you are a parent, you will do anything to protect your precious child – even if you are misguided!

    We know we are truly living in a banana republic when you broach the subject of retail outlets requiring people give up their private data on the PRETEXT OF CONTACT TRACING without any GUARANTEE OF PRIVACY and the reaction amounts to a shrug.

    Correct me if I am wrong but isn’t contact tracing supposed to begin with a person who has been diagnosed with the virus?

    Elsewhere, over a billion people are subject to technology that tells the government if an individual sneezes in a taxi! A pervasive facial recognition technology is part of a system that issues so-called “social credits” which can be used to prevent you from boarding a train -even though you can pay for the ticket!

    A smart card is going to be issued in Barbados shortly. Soon, even that will be outdated. I give you two guesses what is next.

    One-tracked, insular, live-for-the-moment “sheeple” will never connect the dots! Like the proverbial frog you can bring them to the boil one degree at a time! It is a technique this administration is using very effectively.

    in the limit, only those who have some scriptural insight into the future and therefore understand what is going on GLOBALLY will be in a position to value the opportunity offered to escape the coming GLOBAL TOTALITARIAN state.
     

  16. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    According to worldometer the following places currently have zero Covid19 cases:

    Anguilla
    Cayman Islands
    Djibouti
    Falkland Islands
    Greenland
    Grenada
    Macao
    Montserrat
    Saint Kitts & Nevis
    Saint Lucia
    Vatican City

    And the following places currently have a single Covid19 case:

    Antigua
    Laos
    Western Sahara
    Isle of Man

  17. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    The following places currently have low rates of Covid19 Infections per million people:

    Laos, 3 cases per million people
    Tanzania, 8
    Veitnam, 11
    Cambodia, 16
    Western Sahara, 17
    Timor Leste, 20
    Taiwan , 21
    Myanmar, 28
    Fiji, 35
    Burundi, 39

    The following places currently have very high rates of Covid19 Infections per million people:

    Qatar, 42,862 cases per million people
    Bahrain, 32,374
    French Guiana, 31,179
    Aruba, 23,229
    Panama, 22,427
    Chile, 22.159
    Kuwait, 21,109
    San Marino, 21,094
    Peru, 20,873
    USA, 19,558

  18. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    Places with zero Covid19 deaths so far:

    Anguilla
    Bhutan
    Cambodia
    Caribbean Netherlands
    Dominica
    Eritrea
    Faeroe Islands
    Falkland Islands
    French Polynesia
    Gibraltar
    Greenland
    Grenada
    Laos
    Macao
    Mongolia
    New Caledonia
    Saint Barts
    St. Kitts & Nevis
    Saint Lucia
    Sanit Pierre & Miquelon
    Saint Vincent & the Grenadines
    Seychelles
    Timor Leste
    Vatican City

    Places with low numbers of Covid19 deaths per million people:

    Burundi, 0.08 deaths per million population
    Myanmar, 0.1
    Taiwan, 0.3
    Tanzania, 0.3
    Vietnam, 0.4
    Paupau New Guinea, 0.6
    Sri Lanka, 0.6
    Thailand, 0.8
    Mozambique, 0.9
    Rwanda, 1
    Uganda, 1

    Places with very high numbers of Covid19 deaths per million people:

    San Marino, 1237
    Peru, 903
    Belgium, 854
    Andorra, 686
    Spain, 631
    UK, 612
    Chile, 609
    Bolivia, 599
    Ecuador, 598
    Italy, 588
    Brazil,597
    USA, 584
    Sweden, 577
    Mexico, 523

  19. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    A BA flight, a 550-seater, is due in Barbados this afternoon, Saturday. All those people packed in to make money ignoring social distance, it is a good example of CoVid spread. This is high risk.
    I ask again: what is our epidemiological model? Where is the Czar?

  20. David Avatar
    David

    The problem with you is that you like to sit on the balcony like Stadler and throw your pot shots. You believe Barbadians do not have brains. So far we have done a good job managing the pandemic. Until we observe something that suggest otherwise this blogmaster will continue to express support for the authorities. You and some others overseas from the moment the pandemic started were shouting FIRE, we should have exhausted our food supply by now and people seen starving on the streets. You worry about the UK and the upcoming winter. You expect Barbados to close it’s borders and suck salt.

  21. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    A happy and pleasant morning to all of Barbados.

    That goes to those obsessed with the ordinary and those with the extraordinary; to those with brains, those without and to the brain dead.

    It seems as if we will have a lovely day on BU.

    Blogmaster, blogger and others…
    Have a great day.

  22. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    A British Airways flight came in yesterday, Saturday, at 2.30pm with about 550 passengers. They did not leave the airport until midnight.

  23. David Avatar
    David

    Good, it would have take time to screen and arrange results.

  24. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    What is going on at the QEH? The reception area is packed with patients waiting to see a triage nurse, some of them there from yesterday. This is barbarism, and those people could be dying become of gross incompetence at our only major hospital.
    Where is the president? Of course, she is busy talking to CNN and the BBC and Australian ABC. Too busy to do her job as prime minister of little Barbados.

  25. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    because…..

  26. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    COVID-19 has hit Latin America and the Caribbean harder than other parts of the world, both in human and economic terms. The relatively large human toll is evident: with only 8.2 percent of the world population, the region had 28 percent of cases and 34 percent of deaths, by end-September.

    Our new Regional Economic Outlook: Western Hemisphere projects a real GDP contraction of 8.1 percent in 2020. Unlike in previous recessions, employment contracted more strongly than GDP in the second quarter of 2020, 20 percent on average for the five largest countries, and up to 40 percent in Peru.

    Two structural characteristics of Latin American and the Caribbean economies contributed to the relatively larger economic impact: comparatively more people work in activities that require close physical proximity, and less people have jobs in which teleworking is feasible. Almost 45 percent of jobs are in contact-intensive sectors (like restaurants, retail stores, or public transportation), compared to just over 30 percent for emerging markets. In reverse, only about one in five jobs can be done remotely, half the share of advanced economies and below the emerging world average (26 percent). These two features, in addition to a high degree of informality and poverty, and combined with lower trade and financial turbulence caused by the ailing global economy, contributed to the historic collapse in activity…..(Quote)

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