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The pace at which Singapore has achieved so-called first world status- in a generation- has ensured mention in case studies to be found in any management volume of standing. By every account it is a well managed country directed by a relevant strategic plan, disciplined society, adequate workforce with required skill sets to execute plans, routine enforcement of laws etc. You get the picture. It is a country serious about effectively and efficiently directing its resources.

One cannot recognize Singapore’s success without the mention of the benevolent dictator Lee Kuan Yew whose approach to governing is labelled authoritarian pragmatism. Whether a benevolent or malevolent dictator Lee Kuan Yew was able to operate above the strictures of a democracy therefore charting a course for Singapore from a personal vision. What we are seeing today is the legacy effect of his tenure from 1959 to 1990.

The preamble serves to introduce Rwanda which has been dubbed the Singapore of Africa. The average person will remember Rwanda for the genocide that occurred against the Tutsi group a short 25 years ago. It is reported that 800, 000 million were killed. The question that immediately springs to mind is how in a relatively short time Rwanda was able to undergo a transformation to be the Singapore of Africa.

“If you hear a voice within you saying ‘you are not a painter’ then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.”

– Vincent Van Gogh

Enter former military leader Paul Kasgame. What is common is that both Singapore and Rwanda have been led by ‘dictators’. Both countries have scarified on civil liberties in order to advance the country on the economic prosperity index. The observation one can make is the key role transportation has played in the transformation to support being a significant business hub player.

Watch the following video to appreciate why we have to lift our game. The facile approach to policy formulation and execution will not significantly move the needle to achieve a model for success necessary to sustain our people by being competitive in a muy competitive world. The 65k question – what should be Barbados’ model for success.

The video is a short 13 minutes which aligns with the attention span of many on the blog.

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123 responses to “Becoming the SINGAPORE of the Caribbean”

  1. Carson C. Cadogan Avatar
    Carson C. Cadogan

    Hants

    Why you don’t buy a cane and use it on yourself?????

  2. David Avatar
    David

    In addition: what legitimacy does a 23 member Cabinet have to beseech Barbadians to hold strain? Change must be led in words through inspiration, action through efficient execution and last not least a crystal clear plan.

  3. Carson C Cadogan Avatar
    Carson C Cadogan

    ‘Change must be led in words through inspiration, action through efficient execution and last not least a crystal clear plan.’

    That’s what the Barbados Labour Party Govt. don’t have.
    They only know to do the bidding of people who don’t look like us .

  4. David Avatar
    David

    Steuspe

  5. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    The first order of business for barbados to become like Singapore is to find an AG who has first hand Knoweldge of crime and violence
    While Marshall snooze or take a vacation robberies are going on at schools
    Well we know how Singapore deals with criminals

  6. Greene Avatar
    Greene

    yes Bim need to change. and of course we can do it. we were once a discipline society notwithstanding what lurked beneath and with the advent of TV and unscrupulous politicians we are what we are today- want every American consumer item with mauby money. we are now corrupt and corruptible. the govt that could convince the public it is the least corrupted gets elected. but they all are at some point.

    Singapore model is based on non corruption in govt affairs. that is where it started and then all the so called discipline sprang form there. can we do that. i dont know.

    the Rwandan model is a modern day version of the Singapore model. despite Kagame’s role in the genocide Rwanda seems to be working.

    what can we take from both of them-

    stamp out govt corruption by politicians and the civil service

    stamp out crime by modernising the police service, the judiciary and engaging young people

    generally talk to Bim about crime and how it can cripple a society

    the same goes for talking about healthy eating

    ensure the politicians and citizens understand how government works

    improve the work ethic in govt across the board

    ensure that the civil service is manned by people who understand and can demonstrably carry out its functions

    modernise the civil service making it easier to do interact with them

    make it easy to do business in Bim without compromising laws and values

    heavily invest in citizenry

    ensure a vibrant honest business sector which is the engine of any successful country

    get the black community involved in business ventures

    ensure that fair regulations are set and understood that govern business to business and business to people interface

    concentrate on sciences, agriculture, robotics and other vocational studies in schools

    restore person to person civility among our citizens

    i am sure there are a lot more that can be added. i am equally sure that none of, or very few of these items will be tackled by any politician because they will not generate votes.

    so in other words unless we get ourselves a successful politician or party to be honest with bajans about the myriad of issues we face and how to address them or get a dictator who can do so we are headed for failure and it will come fast

  7. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Never met so many cowards and sissies who can only type shite…….the idea is to USE THE MODEL used in Rwanda….to REBUILD THE ECONOMY to benefit the BLACK MAJORITY….to rebuild INFRASTRUCTURE….TO REMOVE SLAVE LAWS OFF THE STATUTE BOOKS, to make it easier for BLACK PEOPLE to do business, build generational wealth in their own country seeing as they are the ONES WHO FUND IT……..am told Rwanda is one of easiest places to do business on the Continent because the GOVERNMENT made it that way, they don’t allow a bunch shitehound corrupt local and foreign whites, indians, syrians to dictate who shouild do business nor INSIST that the majority population CANNOT, NOR PASS on generational wealth to their beneficiaries as has happened in Barbados for the last 60 years…..

    not interested in the social model used to contain and control the people as used in Singapore……….docile societies like Barbados DO NOT NEED dictatorial strong arm tactics….

  8. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    The only ones who will need to be CONTROLLED and CONTAINED on the island are the corrupt, racist, tiefing crimiinal minorities in order to accomplish all of the above, they are the problem and willl ALWAYS BE THE PROBLEM on the island if strong arm tactics are not used against them TO PUT THEM IN THEIR PLACE…., what they have going in their favor is that they can tell the ministers lawyers etc on the island that…yall are just as thieving and corrupt as us, so ya cant tell us ANYTHING….and that is the REAL PROBLEM currently confronting the majority population in Barbados…i know everyone will want to AVOID THAT TOPIC.

    i await the shite talk..

  9. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    @JohnA
    don’t worry about the lenders, they will take care of themselves. Note the Chinese don’t lend $$$, they provide financing (and labour and materials) secured by the asset they finance. Default = they become the new asset owners. We love ‘home grown’ ideas, recall your buddy Sinkyuh told people how we would borrow from ourselves. All good, once the lender ‘buys into’ whatever is offered. The days of no collateral Sovereign loans, based on the Sovereign’s ability to tax its populace, is on ‘life support’. The “easy” loans from the international bodies will become ‘less easy’.
    I figure the GoB can skin the locals likely twice more before that game is ovah.

  10. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    @ David BU

    Change must also come relative to politicians no longer being able to engage in ‘buying votes.’ Whether it is distributing cash, jobs, mobile phones, tables, computers, iPads, flat-screen television sets or paying utility bills …………. I’m sure we’re all aware politicians from both BLP and DLP have, at some point in time, ‘bought votes.’

    We had a situation where, immediately after the 2013 general elections, then PM Stuart and AG Brathwaite said they witnessed instances of ‘vote buying’……….. but didn’t do anything thereafter, to address the issue.

    I suspect ‘a lot of’ vote buying went on during the 2018 general elections, because candidates from both political parties were fighting desperately for survival………… either ‘recapture’ their seat or win a seat.

  11. David Avatar
    David

    @Artax

    So many things we have to get right. Greene mentioned we must have a system where there is zero tolerance for corruption.

  12. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    Under Singapore laws criminals would not be allowed to run rampant on the street
    Question why is the AG silent on the high level of crime affecting barbados
    This is the second school for the year that has been affected by criminal activity
    The worse part that nobody seems to care any longer
    People attention focus on the mundane like fake debates controlled by govt and fake a..ss journalist
    Sh.ite like this would never happen in Singapore
    Barbados needs to get its house in impeccable order and stop star gazzing in Singapore backyard
    Our problems are ours fix them

  13. John A Avatar
    John A

    @Northern

    Wuhloss you mean more taxes in my old tail again and again!

  14. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    More electric buses and garbage trucks
    Meanwhile bridgetown is looking like a dump
    Come to think like the prison bajans will be holding the financIal bag for the repayment of those trucks and buses

  15. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    @ David BU

    That’s true.

    Since 1979 or 1980, for example, successive administrations and the authorities have been confronted with the challenging problems caused by mini-bus and ZR operators. How do we attempt to bring some level of discipline to the PSV sector, especially when, in several cases, the owners are influential people, police officers, politicians and their friends?

    What about illegal vendors who, in addition to squatters, do not have any regard for the law? We’re ‘talking’ about Singapore, where one is faced with hefty fines for littering. I could only imagine the amount of fines those coconut vendors on the highway would incur.

    Barbadian society is one in which it’s the norm to ‘drink and drive.’ The penalties for committing ‘drinking and driving’ offences in Singapore are extremely high. So too are the fines for sneezing, spiting, urinating and chewing gum in public. I’ve read the “chewing gum penalty fines for first-time convictions may range up to $100,000, a prison sentence of up to two years, or both. Plus, penalties rise with each subsequent conviction.”

    “In October 2014, the Supreme Court of Singapore upheld the government’s ban on male homosexuality, effectively ruling that gay men must stay ‘in-the-closet’ or face a two year prison term. These laws were designed to defend what Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong described as traditional Singaporean family values.”

    “Driving is a privilege in Singapore, something most can’t afford, with only 1.56 cars per every ten people. The government wants to discourage drivers, so along with expensive import duties and tariffs, a car comes with a mandatory 50% down payment and a 10 year license which starts at $45,000 USD.”

  16. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    @ Hal
    @ John A
    @ Donna
    The best economic news we have had for sometime is the expected increase in sugar cane production due to the high rainfall levels.
    It was Errol Barrow who started this Singapore nonsense. We are constantly ignoring basic facts and being led into discussions by people who hear stuff and start running with it. Old people used to say: As monkey see monkey do.
    The only salvation for the entire Caribbean is to develop CARICOM. I make bold to say that there are no current leaders now to drive such an undertaking as rapidly needed.
    We don’t need any dictatorship; we need leaders who put people before poor rakey politics.
    Where there is no vision people talk pure crap and we all perish.
    There is a reason why after all the castigation @ Hal is slowly being understood. Truth hurts.

  17. David Avatar
    David

    @Artax

    This is true, we have the ongoing PAC sessions of the Transport Board which have exposed what successive governments have done, mismanage public funds. We have many years of auditor general reports that expose malfeasance, incompetence and mismanagement. There is enough evidence to support the conclusion successive governments have lacked the will to address. What is disturbing is that the average Bajan seems happy to tolerate it. Governance issues on this blog hardly get the activity compared to the usual political blogs where partisans are happy to throw punches at the other.

  18. David Avatar
    David

    @William

    We know what we need. The problem is that the people we need are not motivated to be involved in political live. The policia class attracts the bottom feeders.

    For the upmteem time, the blog is not about the search for a dictator for Barbados. If you read with understanding, you will discern the reference identified the discipline enforced under that style of managing the country compared to the lassez faire approach in most western democracies. The video posted was very clear to point out it was not positioning an authoritarian system above a democracy. The takeaway is that transformation must occur and underpinning that transformation requires decisive and sustained actions fueled by a relevant plan.

  19. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    “Come to think like the prison bajans will be holding the financIal bag for the repayment of those trucks and buses.”

    It has been proven you’re spreading ‘fake news,’ each time you brought that propaganda to BU. Yet, you still continue with your folly.

    You need to desist from lying just to score cheap political points.

    This should make some very interesting reading for you, especially #2, which becomes applicable to you each time you come to BU spreading false information about ‘government’s’ response to COVID-19…… as well as #s 5 and 6.

    Singapore has POFMA (Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act), which POFMA prohibits the communication of false statements of fact in Singapore.

    Under POFMA, a “false statement of fact” is defined as a false or misleading statement which a reasonable person would consider to be a representation of fact.

    In particular, under section 7 of the POFMA, a person must not commit any acts, whether in or outside of Singapore, to communicate a statement which that person knows or has reason to believe that it is a falsehood, and the communication of that falsehood in Singapore is likely to:

    (1). Be prejudicial to Singapore’s security;
(2). Be prejudicial to public health, public safety, public tranquillity or public finances;
(3). Be prejudicial to the friendly relations of Singapore with other countries;
(4). Influence the outcome of a presidential election, general election, by-election or referendum;
(5). Incite feelings of enmity, hatred or ill-will between different groups of persons; or
(6). Diminish public confidence in the government.

    Individuals in breach of section 7 will be liable to a fine up to S$50,000 and/or a term of imprisonment up to 5 years. For non-individuals (e.g. online media platforms run by tech companies), a fine of up to $S500,000 will be imposed.

  20. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    So who will be paying for the buses and garbage trucks
    Care to tell

  21. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    @ David
    Kindly go and read or listen to the Throne Speech. Where was the the creativity; the innovation. Listen to all the bankrupt ideas coming from the mouth of those who lead no philosophy or ideology.
    Look at the DLP , after the deserved thrashing it’s refusing to be bold and innovative just no ideology or philosophy.
    Borrow and spend economics.

  22. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    Since the information about the SSA trucks and TB’s electric buses has been in the public domain for months, I’ll advise you to do the necessary research.

    We were reminded you’re much more intelligent than several of us on BU. Therefore, looking for the information should be an extremely simple task for you.

  23. Miller Avatar
    Miller

    The modern Bajans are too undisciplined a people to ever become even close to Singapore.

    The opportunity to be even better than Singapore, in socio-economic terms, has long passed since the early 1990’s.

    There are too many laws on the book which are rarely or never enforced.

    When Bajans are able to remove the detritus taken from the drains and gutters- and then placed on the pavements and in roads- within 48 hours like the old-time Bajan workers with only their donkey carts and shovels, then you guys can talk about comparing Bim to a former fishing village turned into a British trading and colonial outpost in South East Asia.

  24. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    What information .a lot of double speak and both hands telling different stories
    Like the prison the public would never know the truth about the cost of those buses and garbage trucks until this govt is thrown out of office
    So far transparent truth on those buses and trucks are fully lacking

  25. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    “Transparent truth on those buses and trucks are fully lacking,” because that’s what you’re hoping and forcing yourself to believe, so you’ll have something to criticize Mottley for.

    What you could do, is present examples of the “a lot of double speak and both hands telling different stories.” without your usual generalized statements

    But, then again, as I mentioned previously, information on the trucks and buses is in the public domain for the public’s perusal. So, whatever you believe is actually unimportant.

  26. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @Artax October 21, 2020 7:35 PM “Barbadian society is one in which it’s the norm to ‘drink and drive.’ The penalties for committing ‘drinking and driving’ offences in Singapore are extremely high. So too are the fines for sneezing, spiting, urinating and chewing gum in public.?

    If there is drinking and driving on Bajan roads I would bet anything that is largely Bajan men who do so.

    If there is peeing in public, I would bet anything that it is SOLELY Bajan men who do so.

    I honestly don’t see much public spitting, although long ago and far away i was horrified to see my Macau born and raised colleague spit in the communal KITCHEN sink at work. Wunna know izza a Bajan and that I NEVER used that sink again. I have NEVER seen a Bajan spit in the communal kitchen sink at work.

    Chewing gum in public is ok, as long as people remember to do it with their mouths shut, and to wrap the expired gum in a piece of paper before placing it is a bin.

    How do we self discipline?

    We self discipline by disciplining our selves. The government cannot do it for us. As regards the filthy habit of peeing in public, by age 3 my children already knew the drill, pee before you leave home. pee before you leave your grandparents home, pee before you leave school, pee before you leave your friends home, pee before you leave the babysitter’s home, pee before you leave the daycare center, pee before you leave church. I’ve seen a Bajan woman pee in public just once, and she was a lady with a serious permanent polio related disability.

    Most 5 year old girls know and obey the pissing rules. But I have seen senior MALE officials pee in public. A sight that i did not really want to see. And by senior I mean Permanent Secretary grade, or Deputy Head of this and that. All male. Can’t hold their wee-wee, even though 5 year old girls can.

  27. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @Greene October 21, 2020 5:45 PM “the same goes for talking about healthy eating”

    Politicians must not only talk the talk, they must also walk the walk.

    Haven’t you noticed how many of our politicians then and now are big and fat and whopsi?

    And it would help if they literally walked too. Outside of an election campaign when last have you seen a politician walking anywhere? How many go for regular walks or regular jogs or or regular bike rides or regular swims?

  28. Miller Avatar
    Miller

    @ Cuhdear BajanOctober 21, 2020 10:33 PM
    “Most 5 year old girls know and obey the pissing rules. But I have seen senior MALE officials pee in public. A sight that i did not really want to see. And by senior I mean Permanent Secretary grade, or Deputy Head of this and that. All male. Can’t hold their wee-wee, even though 5 year old girls can.”
    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    It seems that you know rather little about the male biological and anatomical makeup, don’t you, simple Simone? But then again you might see it merely as a source of painful pleasure for you dolls.

    Males have prostates which, like some uteruses, tend to enlarge overtime.

    The difference is that in males they tend to press against the bladder next to which they are located; hence the proclivity to urinate at most inappropriate of occasions.

    A condition which the old folks of your parents’ generation used to call ‘Stricture’.

    Maybe those senior “socially-respectable” guys you saw exposing their willies wanted to show off and to impress you with the size of the weapon they were packing.

    Or maybe they were just ordinary Bajan ‘pissy bulls and ram-goats’ dressed up like big men of false respectability.

  29. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Ever had six pounds of baby and a couple more of fluid in an enlarged womb pressing on your bladder?

    I guess the Miller does not know much about the pregnant female’s anatomy.

    When that happened to me I did not pee in public.

    Besides, many of the men I see peeing are too young for enlarged prostrates more like PISSING DRUNK.

    DO THE OLD MEN OF SINGAPORE NOT HAVE ENLARGED PROSTATES?

    Perhaps you guys need to find out why not.

    Always an excuse for nasty behaviour. Like the BLUE BALLS EXCUSE.

  30. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Prostates not prostrates.

  31. Miller Avatar
    Miller

    @ Donna October 21, 2020 11:53 PM

    Maybe those (young) guys exposing themselves in your ‘view’ were trying to impress with their heavy artillery; just like peacocks strutting their plumage
    or the bower bird building a nest to impress a plain jane.

    After all, men are mere dogs of zoological interests pissing against a tree to mark their territory.

  32. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    https://youtu.be/qv6EQnpdLHM

  33. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    @ William

    You call for greater CARICOM unity. However, the second-rate politicians we have fear losing power and influence, and as a result the people suffer. Just look at the EU/OECD blacklisting. That alone tells you everything.
    Simple fact: a properly constituted CARICOM will punch the weight of the Nordic countries – easily. We have the natural resources, a well educated work force, agricultural land and enormous potential.
    But our politicians will not even harmonise their regulatory and fiscal policies. We must pressure them from the bottom up. How often do politicians campaigning talk about regional unity? I rest my case.
    Here is an example: two police officers from Barbados have just gone to Trinidad to assist in an investigation and had to be sworn in. Why?

  34. Wily Coyote Avatar
    Wily Coyote

    @David

    “How do we demand the kind of disciple from our people given a way of living”

    The answer is SIMPLE…..

    INITIAL DEVALUATION TO 5:1, STAND BACK AND WATCH THE CHANGE’s OCCUR, TOUGH LOVE FOR ALL, PARTICULARITY THE CORRUPT AND INEFFICIENT GOVERNMENT SYSTEM.
    AFTER 18 MONTHS TOTALLY FLOAT THE CURRENCY.
    Results will not be PRETTY, however it will be effective and make the necessary populace attitude changes that are desperately needed.

    I know that the Blogmaster will come back with his usual “what about the poor people” and the CRIERS will be out in force, it’s time to take ACTION and stop all the BULLSHIT.

  35. David Avatar
    David

    @Wily

    The blogmaster is not an oracle, just a person with an opinion with a view from his prism like you.

  36. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Just in case the small island shitehounds and fake leaders get any ideas…

    https://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/ny-police-violence-protesters-nigeria-20201021-itqsiv4z4rfjxcvhjmxkfyqby4-story.html#nt=pf-single%20chain~new-left-chain~recommender~automated~lower-headline-stack~ITQSIV4Z4RFJXCVHJMXKFYQBY4~2~6~5~5~art%20yes

  37. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Gives us quite an insight into the SELL OUT black mind, Nigeria is clearly the resouce wealthiest African country on the Continent, yet they have learned NOTHING after 400 years of SLAVERY and colonization..they are still slaves ready to kill each other and sell out until they themselves are killed by their masters…or dragged off to the Hague for human rights abuses.

    the sell out nig*a mind never learns anything other than to sell out….

  38. Ping Pong Avatar
    Ping Pong

    Although never having visited Singapore and from what I have read and seen in videos, I believe Singapore to be a very admirable country with many features to be emulated by Barbados. That said, can we name one Singaporean or product (other than Singapore Airways) that compares in terms of world wide brand recognition with say Rihanna, Bob Marley, Usain Bolt, Garfield Sobers, Brian Lara, Mount Gay Rum, Sandals, Angostura Bitters, Blue Mountain coffee, Tia Maria, Derek Walcott, V.S. Naipaul, Arthur Lewis, the Mighty Sparrow and the list goes on? We need to be careful to recognise the significant accomplishments of the Caribbean people before we lose them to others while we wallow in self deprecating angst.

  39. David Avatar
    David

    The best in class airline is often highlighted because of the critical role it plays to support business facilitation.

  40. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Nope! These men knew too well I wouldn’t be interested in anyone who behaved like that. In those days I was known as “dah great girl”.

  41. Travler Avatar
    Travler

    Comparing Singapore to Barbados…a wise man once said “location, location location is one of the main keys to success.
    The Suez Canal had a major influence on the success of Singapore. Check a map and see what happened to trading routes with the opening of the Suez Canal.
    It also has a free floating/trading dollar that has a value established by trading against a basket of currencies. It also enjoys a free trade agreement with the USA. Without these 3 things Singapore would not remain competitive.

    Barbados is unlikely to become another Singapore but it can be the best in class tourist destination. The keys will be keeping it competitive, keeping it safe and keeping it clean. Currencies in source markets have taken major declines over the last 10 years making US$ based currency destinations expensive. That is a major hurdle to overcome. The Barbados dollar has grown by about 35% in value against many of the countries that are major suppliers of tourists. On the other hand the Brazlian real has declined by abut 400%, Jet planes and the internet give consumers a vast choice.

  42. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    Apart from sun, sea and smiling locals, what is unique about Barbadian tourism?

  43. Enuff Avatar
    Enuff

    David
    We have done some Singaporean things since 2018 but the intelligentsia on BU knows so much, they know nothing. By the way, who owns Chukka? But then again, the know it all from London inferred that because the Hutus slaughtered the Tutsis, forming a relationship with Rwanda would lead to them doing worse to Bajans. No historical, social or economic context, just bilge. Interestingly, the same know it all lives in a country with a history of civil war, racism, classism and religious bigotry. How long ago the Irish were “slaughtering” English people? I am sure the BNP or MET is more likely to “slaughter” him than Rwandans running rampage in Bdos.

  44. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    In Rwanda it was not a massacre, it was genocide, ethnic genocide. And this brain dead president wants us to form relations with these people, who murdered nearly a million of their own people. What do you think they will do to Bajans.
    Many people in Barbados have a romantic view of Africans, but those of use who live with them everyday do not. Why do you think the majority of black people in the Tory party are Africans? They should talk more to returnees.
    But, according to our self-obsessed president, Rwandans want to learn to play cricket. Idiot….(Quote)

  45. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @Miller October 21, 2020 11:14 PM “Males have prostates which, like some uteruses, tend to enlarge overtime. The difference is that in males they tend to press against the bladder next to which they are located; hence the proclivity to urinate at most inappropriate of occasions.”

    Most women are pregnant at some time. Then their uteruses enlarge to accommodate one baby, or two or three. These infants also press against the bladder. Yet I have never seena pregnant Bajan woman pee ‘longside the road.

    My words above still stand. ALWAYS pee BEFORE you leave wherever you are.

    End of the Infants A lesson.

  46. Tron Avatar
    Tron

    Barbados, unlike Singapore, has remained a banana republic, because we did not have a tough leader and abolished colonial punishments (death penalty, flogging).

    Just look at the murder rate in Jamaica and Singapore before and after independence: Under British rule no difference, after that Jamaica became the most criminal country in the world and Singapore the safest. The citizens of Singapore owe all this to their authoritarian leader and the whip.

    Now we have such a leader, our Prime Minister Mia Mottley, and a one-party democracy. Like Singapore. If Parliament now pays homage to the whip, we will overtake Singapore in 10 years!

  47. David Avatar
    David

    Rwandan government minister will participate in the upcoming economic forum.

    http://www.centralbank.org.bb/news/article/10042/regional-and-international-government-officials-to-talk-digital-transformation

  48. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @Hal Austin October 22, 2020 11:30 AM “Apart from sun, sea and smiling locals, what is unique about Barbadian tourism?”

    Sand?

    Food?

    And don’t tell me i don’t know food. I have eaten in restaurants, upscale, down-home, fast food, pubs, rum-shops supermarket counters, office cafeterias in London, New York, Paris and dozens of other cities in the world.

    I like food. No. I LOVE food.

    Barbados’ chefs and mixologists can hold their own, and can exceed those in any of the world’s great cities.

    Who doesn’t like good food while on vacation?

    And don’t talk about the rum…

  49. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @Tron October 22, 2020 6:52 PM “Barbados, unlike Singapore, has remained a banana republic, because we did not have a tough leader and abolished colonial punishments (death penalty, flogging)”

    David. You can’t drop some hard lashes in Tron? I think that his parents did not beat him enough.

  50. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @Hal Austin October 22, 2020 5:07 PM “In Rwanda it was not a massacre, it was genocide, ethnic genocide…”

    What the British did to our fore-parents over hundreds of years was not nice. Millions of people died. It was a genocide. An ethnic genocide. Yet we have had to form relationships with them, you even keep one in your bed to keep you warm on wintry nights We know that the British don’t love us but we do business with them. We can do business with the Rwandans as well. As long as we don’t do business with any individual who is on the wanted list for their complicity in the genocide.

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