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How does it make you feel that already one man can boast that he has the biggest solar energy operation in Barbados? Obviously it is his intention to replace the generation department of Barbados Light and Power.

It is only the sun and a few pieces of hardware and this is what it has to be?

How does this make you feel as a Bajan, black, white or Indian? (BU’s emphasis)

Every opportunity the same people feature. I am really worried this. While some of us are hurting and frustrated by the circumstances of our country, you mean we can have an elite that is getting on with securing their succeeding generations?

These thing don’t bother you, they don’t anger and demoralised you?

I have been crying out about this all year, only to hear Bizzy William’s boasting about his latest economic coup. He did it with desalination and sea water, now he is doing it with the sun, Jesus.

What will be our end?

Can see we are heading for a major political fall out over this. That I should have to rent my roof to some body to get solar power? Or for expats to turn up as investors. This model is wrong and it is time to speak up. Gov’t needs to revisit its policies as it relates to renewable energy and economic empowerment. Years ago the sugar industry was restructured but the white people were allowed to cut off the plantation houses and yard, and rent the lands to BAMC. Everything we do in Barbados, white people get the cream.

When is this all going to end man?

It is making me angry and frustrated man. And black Gov’ts always?

Everton Cumberbatch (with minor edits by the Blogmaster)

Everton’s comment is interesting because it highlights how Blacks in Barbados – for whatever reason – are grasping the opportunity to create wealth in an emerging new economy.

Who are the key players in the renewable sector as Everton observes?

COVID 19 has fast tracked movement of financial transactions to the online world, who are the key players in the electronic transactions space?

Who are the key players in technology and telecommunications in Barbados?

The time has come for ALL Barbadians to advocate for policies from our leaders that will unleash economic empowerment with equitable distribution in mind. We are an educated people, let us behave like it. Blacks resorting to blaming the problem will not help, blaming successful Whites and other minority players will not solve the problem. Can you guess who must solve the problem? WE must solve the problem if we want to create an equitable society.


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209 responses to “An Angry Black Man”


  1. Europe imported people!!


  2. @Greene

    Does it make sense to wait for additional info from the government? You are aware she is echoing a position of ministers in the former government, one you you support?


  3. America imported people!!!

    It worked.

    But America imported people for a reason, to work!!


  4. What do we need to import people to actually do in Barbados?


  5. Bahamas is pretty similar to Barbados in terms of birth rate.

    https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/BHS/bahamas/birth-rate

    But population is growing.

    https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/bahamas-population/

    … and much faster.

    Immigration, legal and illegal!!!

    What do we know of or like about the Babamas?


  6. @John

    You didn’t refer to the fact the PM has no children? Do you think the blogmaster is an ass?


  7. Bahamas?


  8. So Mr. Greene, if you are dreaming about nubiles, forget the Bahamas.

    Go to Haiti.

    https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?locations=HT


  9. DavidSeptember 9, 2020 10:49 AM

    @John

    You didn’t refer to the fact the PM has no children? Do you think the blogmaster is an ass?

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

    Rhetorical question?


  10. appears the topic has adroitly avoided EMigration. Seems a lot of us posters emigrated. In my own family, taking my parents and their siblings, of 12 offspring, only 2 lived their adult life in Barbados. The birth rate is directly related to the level of education for ladies and the type of social unions sought and practiced.


  11. David,
    in addition to those, Mascoll tabled the same very said thing. but none explained why, when, where, and at what cost. Maybe MAM will


  12. It is stable families which have birth rates that assure a population will grow.

    It is simple belief systems and hope for a better tomorrow that create the environment for stable families.

    Since Independence, how many leaders have we had that have had stable families?

    What examples have we had to follow?

    Falling birth rates are a consequence.

    It just takes a couple of generations to assign a previously thriving population to its fate!!


  13. Barbados is a very small country with severely limited resources. Therein lies the difference. Any business that cannot find the skill set it needs can already import it.

    A country, including America, should always consider its needs when formulating its immigration policies. I am not one who advocated for “whosoever will may come”.

    But…it is not what you say sometimes but how you say it. And it is not always what you do but how you do it.

    Trump attempts to dehumanise and degrade others when what they all need to do is sit down and formulate a comprehensive immigration policy in a rational way that serves those who already live there.

    I always questioned if people who are not American or legal residents have the same right to freedom from discrimination on the basis of religion etc. as those who already live there legally. So you would not have seen me arguing that.

    I would never argue that anyone has the RIGHT to enter any country. That is up to the country.


  14. please do not turn this into another Trump shit show. the issue at hand is from this meadering discussion is, is there a need to increase the pop of Bim? if so, how do we do that? do we have the space? at what cost?


  15. So… the point of this blog was that the government should engineer the business opportunities for black people and not let Bizzy and Cow hog up things.

    Does the fault lie with the Government in this particular instance? I don’t know. Does anybody?


  16. @ Greene

    No.As it is, Barbados is over-populated and has been for years.


  17. @ Hal,

    10k Chinese, 10k syrian refugees, 10k Ghanaians, 10k Nigerians, 10k Cubans, 10k Venes, 10k Jamaicans and 10k Europeans. at 20k a person. that should do it


  18. @ Greene

    In the early 1960s, Barbados sent a delegation to Dominica to discuss transferring people from Barbados to Dominica. Since the abolition of slavery, we have always exported people: Panama, St Lucia (Vieux Fort was a home of Bajans), Brazil, Bahamas, Bermuda, St Kitts, Britain, the US, Canada, etc.
    Now this president, beside herself with her powers, wants to import white and coffee-coloured people. She is certainly not going to import Kenyans, Ghanaians, Nigerians, Morocco and Rwandans.
    She has no idea. These are all ideas from the Guyanese Persaud.


  19. it will be instructive to see how much traction this gets from MAM ministers and from the general public


  20. @Greene

    There you go, always keep an open mind, gather the all the information presented for consideration, then make a decision. Time will tell if this is a kite being floated for whatever reason.


  21. immigrants refugees are making up 44% of covid cases in ontario careful what you wish for


  22. So with 40% unemployment we importing people to do exactly what?

    I would tell wunna before any grand ideas like this try and get the ecomomy working so that the 40,000 that home could get a pick and not have to compete with 80,000 foreigners for the same gardener job!

    You could imagine adding more people to this population with the economy where it is now? Wunna really looking for trouble.


  23. Nobody is turning this into a Trump shit show but a valid point was made wrt popular criticism of his immigration policies and our response to our PM’s and others seeking to amend our own immigration policies and maybe change our cultural and ethnic demographic.

    Self-examination is never a wasted exercise, I find. It keeps us honest.


  24. Hal AustinSeptember 9, 2020 12:02 PM

    These are all ideas from the Guyanese Persaud.

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

    So how come PLT is running about on BU claiming responsibility?

    … or am I missing something?


  25. I got the impression he was touting the sheer geniosity of the idea.


  26. A viral video on FB exposes Barbados’ backward 18th century classism, racism and segregation against the majority population that shite businesses still engage in thanks to ya useless black face governments…yall looking real good, ya will soon be pariahs on the earth, just like South Africa was, keep it up and know ya ain’t got shit…


  27. Enter angry black woman

  28. Michael Campbell Avatar

    And to do it during the prorogation shows her mind set. Our democracy is in crisis.

    Hal Austin

    I noticed that you have been on BU talking about the president, as you call her, rushing through policies during the prorogation. So far, you have been proven WRONG.

    Instead of admitting it, you go off associating everything members of this administration say with the prorogation. You are dishonest and a liar.

    This is the same thing you did with the unbelievable claim that UWI removed an external examiner because he sent a proposal for a PhD candidate to do more work on his thesis.

    A man with your experience should be uplifting the discussion instead of engaging in dishonest tactics.

    Your hatred of Mottley should be of concern. You even tell lies to discredit her. I believe you may need professional help.


  29. @ Michael Campbell

    I am not sure who you are but you seem to fabricate things. This is a pattern familiar with other commenters. I have said that readers should be on the look out for policies being forced through during prorogation. Which is not the same thing ‘rushing through policies’.
    Further, I have said that a policy proposal such as an increase in the population should form part of the Queen’s Speech and be part of the parliamentary debate that follows, not an interview with some media outlet. This, to my mind, is a show of disrespect for parliament and our democracy.
    Plse cut and paste anything said by members of the administration that I have associated with the prorogation. I have referred to Mr Persaud, who the last time I checked was not elected by anyone in Barbados. I have not mentioned the name of any of the other 28 members of the BBLP parliamentary group.
    And, about the removal of an external examiner; I have simply repeated what I was told by the person involved. I also said I am sure he reads BU and if he wants to he is free to reveal himself. I am not going to. Again, I repeat I do not know anything about the UWI and how it supervises post-graduate courses, over and above what people say.
    Finally, what do you know about my experience? Experience of what? The idea of uplifting the discussion is silly and I will not comment on that. Dishonest tactics?
    By the way, I do not hate people. It is a word that is hardly used where I live and I certainly do not use it. It is an offensive and aggressive word. I may dislike, disagree, object, etc, but never hate. I am aware it is in common usage in Barbados. So be it.


  30. @ John A September 9, 2020 2:03 PM
    “So with 40% unemployment we importing people to do exactly what?”
    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    You have hit the nail on the head in fashioning the silver bullet to kill off any argument for the expansion of the Bajan population.

    And that “40 % unemployment” does not even include the ‘75,000 plus’ classified as permanently unemployed aka the ‘voluntary idle’ in the much politically massaged (un)employment statistics.

    This is just a load of bullshit and bluster from political jesters looking for diversions to distract the masses from the economic realities facing the country.

    Wouldn’t such a demographic adjustment put tremendous pressures on the country’s already crumbling infrastructure and the ‘efficient’ delivery of public goods and services which are already under severe strain like water supply and garbage and sewage collection?

    Barbados clearly does not have the economic carrying capacity to support any major increase in its population.

    What is required is for the “well–educated” section of the population (UWI graduates) to ‘reproduce’ at a rate needed to keep the population at a ‘steady state’ growth rate.


  31. i have discussed the dire need to increase the population in Bim with the wife. she is ok with the idea of me doing my civic coition duties for the country. all she asked is that she vet the candidates and that all the progeny (2.1) be raised by us.

    MAM could you please get this thing up and running?


  32. you know by us she means united states


  33. Greene, Miller,

    I think we are in agreement on this issue. According to my information, we now have 50 percent unemployed. How the hell are we going to feed any poor migrants?

    What is clear is that we need a few thousand rich expats to improve the balance of payments. Expats who work globally and only use Barbados as a residence and home office. But we do not need immigration into the local labor market. We already have enough civil servants, boarders, slackers, welfare recipients and other boys who do not want to work.

    Considering that we live almost exclusively from tourism, no more than 150,000 to 200,000 inmates should populate the plantation called Barbados.


  34. “What is required is for the “well–educated” section of the population (UWI graduates) to ‘reproduce’ at a rate needed to keep the population at a ‘steady state’ growth rate.”

    maybe after she dismantles the racism, segregation, classism on the island that they use as tools to pimp tourists…no one should bring another African child into that colonial-themed nastiness in Barbados……she will also have to remove that racist nelson statue that she so disrespectfully left in place with another lying excuse, then she can ban Lawson from Barbados and we will go to Canada and enslave his backside..

    Am glad Mia can’t see what is coming at her, I tried to warn her but negros with slave titles never listen….


  35. @Greene yours @6.25pm
    Now we know who has the brains in the family “all she asked is that she vet the candidates”

    Wuhlaus ,wuhluas muh belly,hold muh, she is in charge of vetting? Send us de pictures of the candidates she approves.

    In other news “one smart’ found dead at “two smart” door.

  36. Michael Campbell Avatar

    Hal Austin

    Forced through, rushed through, so what?
    To-mat-to, to-may- to.
    Same meaning. Because I used rushed instead of forced means I fabricate things? You are just parsing words, nit picking.

    Whether I used forced or rushed does not change the fact that you have been proven WRONG.

    Or maybe you want to tell us how many policies were forced through during prorogation.

    As far as I read, it was Mottley’s opinion, just as Inniss and Ronald Jones did.

    You are the only person that is saying it is a policy proposal.

    Are you saying Mottley is not entitled to an opinion and
    anything she says must be a part of parliamentary debate?

    How is uplifting the discussion silly. Or is it silly as long you are not the one suggesting it?

    I too believe you fabricate things. Case in point the removal of the external examiner.

    Forget everything else and ANSWER this question. How many policies did Mottley forced through during prorogation?


  37. GreeneSeptember 9, 2020 6:25 PM

    MAM could you please get this thing up and running?

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

    If you are looking to the particular individual get your thing up and running the population is probably not going to increase.


  38. Hal Austin, you told me to plse cut and paste anything said by members of the administration that you have associated with the prorogation.

    Allow me to refer you to the blog “PHARTFORD FILES: Of Covid-19 Contact Tracing Registers And African Embassies.”

    Ironside wrote “Yesterday, according to Barbados Today, Minister Bostic announced that Barbados will be opening an embassy in Ghana.”

    You contribution on September 5, 2020 at 3:32 AM says: “Member states of the Commonwealth do not have embassies, but high commissions. Embassies are the diplomatic offices for none commonwealth nations. YET ANOTHER IMPORTANT DECISION MADE DURING THE PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.”

    Jeffrey Bostic is health minister and a member of the administration and he announced the opening of the embassy in Ghana, which you associated with the prorogation.

    I wrote rushed instead of forced and you said I seem to fabricate things.

    You said the announcement of the opening of an embassy in Ghana was yet another important decision made during the prorogation.

    The blog master, David BU told you that the decision to open the embassy was announced by the PM in June last year.

    That information was in the public domain since June last year, so don’t try to insult our intelligence by saying you did not know. You IGNORED it on purpose just to give credence to your chorus about looking out for policies being forced/rushed through during the prorogation.

    That id what I call a DISHONEST TACTIC.

    You know I am justified if I say you fabricate things too.


  39. @ Michael Campbell

    This is my last reply to you. I think I now know who you are. Let us go back to what you quote above. The statement about high commissions and embassies is a statement of fact, a correction.
    About an important statement made during the prorogation. Mr Bostic is minister of health; does a minister of health normally make a government statement on a new diplomatic mission? Why was it left to him and not the minister of foreign affairs, or the prime minister?
    Mr Bostic’s only involvement with Ghana, as far as is publicly known, was the recruitment of the nurses. Is that enough to make him the lead minister on the development of diplomatic relations with Ghana? You said the information was already in the public, so Mr Bostic was repeating old news?
    As to David saying things to me. I must apologise. I try not to have a rational conversation with David, unless it is about his gobbledegook. The same way I will no longer have one with you.
    Finally, saying people should watch out or be alert to an attempt to force through policy, is not the same as saying she IS rushing through policy, unless you earned your English at the stand pipe.
    I think I now know who you are. Plse go back to your little box and play with your toys.


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  41. @Hal

    who is this Michael Campbell chap. you sure have your fair share of enemies for want of a better term.

    it seems to me with this increase in pop trial balloon MAM is prepping for something along those lines in her Throne Speech


  42. @ Greene

    He is an idiot. What he does not understand is that the use of language is a kind of linguistic fingerprint. He certainly does not understand basic English.
    I believe this character has used four different pseudonyms on BU recently. Which tells you something. Why use a pseudonym to hide a pseudonym?
    Anyhow, what I am saying is simple. If the good Barbados electorate has given you a 30:0 parliament (later morphing in to a 29:1 parliament), then it is incumbent that you rule with caution and reason.
    To abuse that majority is to behave like a president, autocrat, or even dictator. Then, to add to this, ignoring the conventions of making major announcements in parliament first is undemocratic. He does not understand this so sees it as an expression of ‘hate’.
    But she is not the first. Sandiford announced his 1994 general election in New York; Arthur announced the sale of BNB in London; so Mottley is following a recent tradition.


  43. Hal Austin, you have a very serious problem when people expose you as a liar and being wrong. I don’t care if you think you know me or if that was your last reply to me. I just don’t care. You don’t know who I am, you are NOT THAT CLEVER, you can only ASSUME. That is a DISTRACTION to justify you not wanting to reply again.

    That is DISHONEST TACTIC #1.

    DISHONEST TACTIC # 2. You coming to tell me about the difference between a high commission and an embassy, which is IRRELEVANT when you know that the dispute was about you saying you NEVER ASSOCIATED ANYTHING MEMBERS of the administration SAID WITH THE PROROGATION. I showed you one of your post as PROOF THAT YOU SAID SO and put the statement in capital letters.

    DISHONEST TACTIC # 3. I am going to remind you AGAIN that the argument was ABOUT YOU SAYING YOU NEVER ASSOCIATED ANYTHING MEMBERS of the administration SAID WITH THE PROROGATION.
    The thing is that Bostic is a MEMBER of the administration and he talked about opening an embassy in Ghana, and you said YET ANOTHER IMPORTANT DECISION MADE DURING THE PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT. My stand pipe English tells me that you ASSOCIATED what Bostic SAID WITH THE PROROGATION.

    You now want to force or rush through the point about WHO SHOULD OR SHOULD NOT make the statement about the embassy in Ghana, which too, is IRRELEVANT.

    DISHONEST TACTIC # 4. I said you associate everything members of this administration say with the prorogation. You said you never did that and asked me to prove it. I PROVED IT. Instead of ADMITTING YOU WERE WRONG, you CREATED IRRELEVANT ARGUMENTS AND THEN DISPUTED THEM.

    As to your insult to blog master David BU. If I were him, I would LAUGH AT YOU to see that although you like to insult Barbados Underground and him, with all the TV stations, newspapers, journals, magazines, books and restaurants you say you have, you still come on Barbados Underground EVERY SINGLE DAY.

    David BU must be doing something good to keep you here.

    The problem with you is that you think you are the most intelligent man on BU. YOU ARE NOT. Some days you would write good contributions and other days gobbledegook, just like the rest of us here.

    You also exposed yourself as DISHONEST and a LIAR.


  44. Will comment when I am on my computer. One-finger poking on a cellphone distorts the message.


  45. NorthernObserverSeptember 9, 2020 10:59 AM appears the topic has adroitly avoided EMigration. Seems a lot of us posters emigrated. In my own family, taking my parents and their siblings, of 12 offspring, only 2 lived their adult life in Barbados. The birth rate is directly related to the level of education for ladies and the type of social unions sought and practiced.———-

    THAT is the comment right there. Any young person with a brain needs to get out and make a life elsewhere. With the banks squeezing, the prices so high cannot save a penny, jobs scarce, what person is going to stay except those who have no choice re money or opportunity?

    Most are going to run to escape the plantation life. As you said that most of your family did. For education most cannot afford eight or ten children anymore. If the woman is working, then that applies too.

    But what will the imported people do? Many countries are trying to figure out how to deal with their unemployed, as automation takes more and more jobs. The subject of a universal basic wage is one tried option.

    So why would any country want to take even more on? It makes no sense.

    Mind you as Greene says, some of you fellows (my wife would not look too kindly on me doing so), may need to fulfill your civic duty and stand to assist the Barbados population with nubile liaison.

    I do not think that any race should be treated with priority, there are many beautiful women all over the world, of all races. From Africa, to the East, to the Nordic countries.

    However, if you so volunteer, please see one of the excellent cardiologists in Barbados first. Or visit Sagicor and ask about term life policies for the wife to have something in case you overextend your capability.


  46. @Crusoe

    Some on the blog are trivializing and or politicizing the issue of growing the population. Suppose to use one example Barbados wanted to seriously push agriculture production in a 2 to 5 year plan. The question to ask is- do we have the labour force which includes expertise to achieve the objective? This is one sector.


  47. On the title subject, the electricity generation should be nationalised forthwith. Then put on the local stock market for local Barbadian people and companies to buy shares. No one to own more than twenty percent.

    Or put it under the ownership of the NIS investment fund. At least one investment that is not trash.

    That is a no brainer, for revenue generation and a local investment opportunity.

    The other thing is to remove any restriction on individual power generation. So if an individual has the money to invest in a home solar plant, or for their business, so be it. The sun is free, why should anyone have rights to it?

    ”Jah give it to us all”. Time to get real, people.


  48. DavidSeptember 10, 2020 10:25 AM

    But David, all of that has to be part of the assessment plan. You cannot just come and say, increase the population. Show why it is needed, explain the strategic necessity. To your example, get the input of people like the Honourable Richard Hoad, to offer suggestions. The people who have been doing it, when it was not popular because of a world calamity.

    Ask THEM, what they need. The idea that suddenly eighty thousand people are going to change the fortunes of the island, unless they are all Russian, Chinese or Arab billionaires, is nonsense. Unless it can be supported with a strategic assessment, documented to show the studies and explanations.

    So, is the trivialising merely lack of appreciation or is it a response to a trivial approach?

    I agree, I have no time for political posturing, however let us be real about this. The government is also throwing money at the hotels. Did that work with other ventures, such as Four Seasons, or was it just a hole for money?

    You need proper studies and support of the expenditures., In the case of a major change in national policy, you need support for this.

    If they are businesspeople, who will run businesses from Barbados, as in the one year program, that is a great idea. Because the spinoffs are obvious re rentals, local business support, revenues from international sources etc.

    But the increase in population needs a clear and supported explanation.

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