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Arresting Crime @Source

In the Friday Nation newspaper of October 23, 2020 Commissioner of Police Tyrone Griffith AGAIN revealed to the public that “guns are still coming”. His comment comes in response to public concerns about gun crime. The COP remains adamant that although there has been a tightening of the security at the Barbados Port, unfortunately it…

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In the Friday Nation newspaper of October 23, 2020 Commissioner of Police Tyrone Griffith AGAIN revealed to the public that “guns are still coming”. His comment comes in response to public concerns about gun crime. The COP remains adamant that although there has been a tightening of the security at the Barbados Port, unfortunately it has not arrested the problem. The blogmaster understands that a system is only as good as the integrity of the operators of said system. We also have other ports of entry where the security is questionable and there is the additional headache that Barbados is an island with many many areas that allow those willing to take the risk to land contraband. This is an enforcement issue BUT there is the systemic issue we have also failed as a society to even scratch the service..

Listen to the following exchange between Social Scientist Corey Layne and Community Practitioner and Veteran Journalist David Ellis from 4 minutes into the clip.

Veteran journalist David Ellis and Social Scientist Corey Layne

 

 

236 responses to “Arresting Crime @Source”

  1. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    @ Carson

    Bajans in the UK know all their tricks. The thing is because they do not say anything and behave with decorum, they think the are fooled. We got the measure of them and it is regular conversation among those of us in the UK, and even among the returnees.
    By the way, as one returnee told me, she loves Barbados, but can’t stand the stay at home Bajans. I knew exactly what she meant.

  2. David Avatar
    David

    Every single comment throwing shade at Barbados. Barbados is a failed state and the blogmaster is a Moslem.

  3. Greene Avatar
    Greene

    David,

    investigating and prosecuting white collar crime (we need to understand what you mean by term altho i will assume you mean fraud, ML etc) does not require whistle blowers. whilst whistle blowing does help, what really is needed is up to date laws criminally and with regard to the companies act, other auxiliary laws, proper training and enforcement by investigators and prosecutors and the will to put that all in place by the politicians.

  4. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    @ Mr. Skinner

    We’re blaming Arabs, Indians and white people for BRIBING Black Custom Officers to facilitate the illegal entry of drugs, guns and other contraband into the island.

    We’re blaming these same minority groups for SUPPLYING drugs to Black people to sell to other Black people and children in primary and secondary schools.And, when Black people don’t have any money to buy drugs, they would rob or break in the houses of POOR Black people, while the children would bully other Black children for money to buy drugs.

    We’re blaming them for SUPPLYING guns and ammunition to Black people, so they could kill other Black people on behalf of their ‘drug lord’ bosses……. or rob or break into the houses of, NOT the Arabs, Indians and white people……. but other poor Black people, for money to buy drugs, guns and other contraband.

    We’re blaming them for BRIBING Black Police Officers and Judiciary to turn a ‘blind eye’ and discard evidence so as to protect them from prosecution.

    We’re blaming them for EXPLOITING Black people who work in their business establishments and homes.

    These are the realities of life and, if we’re honest, it does not ‘paint a very good picture’ of Black people. We seem to be more content in killing each other, while those minority groups continue to accumulate wealth ‘at our expense.’

    Couldn’t all this be ‘nipped in the bud’ by Black people simply saying, “NO?”

  5. Carson C Cadogan Avatar
    Carson C Cadogan

    Artax 9.10 am

    Well said.

    But that is what you get when you have a cadre of poor people, people working from pay check to paycheck and they are some how are in the majority.

    What other Country in the World 3% of the population run rough shod over the majority 97%????? And get away with it.
    Every time.

  6. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    Saying No is just not that simple
    Generations of blacks have been falling into the poverty cracks across the world
    Wealth distribution continues to get worst as those at the top who holds most of the economic power refuses to come to a realization that poverty breeds crime and insist to hold on to a standard of greed and selfish interest that serves their purpose
    Meanwhile the most vulnerable turns to alternative means for economic survival by any means necessary

  7. Greene Avatar
    Greene

    quote] What other Country in the World 3% of the population run rough shod over the majority 97%????? And get away with it.
    Every time. [unquote

    in almost every part of this earth where there is an organised society

  8. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Greene
    Absolutely!

  9. Lawson Avatar
    Lawson

    When you send your children to high school and they ask everyone wheres mrs so and so’s room or where is the science lab but not one of them have to ask for some reason where the cafeteria is.. Its the same with criminals of any stripe if they want a gun they know where to get one. How can any white person know that if he sells a load of guns to 97 percent of the population they are only going to use it to rob and kill other blacks who if what you say is true have nothing Sounds pretty absurd.

  10. Greene Avatar
    Greene

    @Lawson,

    not that i agree with position to which you are seemingly referring but your contention is pure bollocks. what would be the reason for selling the guns? you guys indulge in conspiracy theories when it comes to the US. try peddling one here and you may get an answer

  11. Lawson Avatar
    Lawson

    Greene death means nothing to you it only effects the people around you, kind of like when your stupid.

  12. Miller Avatar
    Miller

    @ GreeneOctober 25, 2020 9:07 AM
    “David,
    investigating and prosecuting white collar crime (we need to understand what you mean by term altho i will assume you mean fraud, ML etc) does not require whistle blowers. whilst whistle blowing does help, what really is needed is up to date laws criminally and with regard to the companies act, other auxiliary laws, proper training and enforcement by investigators and prosecutors and the will to put that all in place by the politicians.”
    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    Does your analysis also apply to either the ‘reluctance’ or ‘incapacity’ of the law enforcement ‘forces’ to treat to the case regarding the prosecution of the other parties involved in the Donvillegate bribery and M/L affair?

    Imagine the same law enforcement authorities can resuscitate a petty charge for the possession of marijuana for personal consumption against a political neophyte of a ‘yellow’ dying lying party but cannot move against those who, allegedly, bribed and facilitated the laundering of the same illicit proceeds by a former minister of the Crown under the same DLP.

    Bajans should thank their god of morality for the ‘personal’ honesty and integrity of a former senior civil servant who sat on the Board and brought that ‘illegal’ act to the attention of the foreign law enforcement agencies knowing full well it would never see the light of day in the endemically corrupt local jurisdiction.

    Barbados has the necessary well-trained ‘investigatory’ resources to carry out investigations into white collar criminal activities as displayed by the country’s ‘ability’ to lend such skills to its much bigger and wealthier neighbour T&T.

    BTW do you think that more “up-to-date laws” are also needed to meet the requirements for the criminal investigation into the financial shenanigans which took place at the BWA as reported and recommended by the Auditor General with all the evidence ‘sealed away’ in a red bag owned by the current PM?

  13. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    “What other Country in the World 3% of the population run rough shod over the majority 97%????? And get away with it.
    Every time.”

    @ CCC

    Because we ALLOW them to get away with it every time.

    I remember when restaurants were allowed to partially reopened as a result of the partial lifting of some COVID-19 protocols, the village and road side food vendors enjoyed an increase in sales, which abruptly came to an end when Chefette reopened. There were videos of Barbadians forming long queues and blocking the free flow of traffic at each Chefette location, crowding to purchase greasy, salty chicken and other fast foods offered by that restaurant chain.

    A few years ago, a Black customer was accosted in a Bizzy Williams owned hardware store by a white manager. Only ONE Black man turned up for protest action against the store, while the customer who was assaulted, said he would continue patronizing the establishment.
    I know Black people who said they were no longer shopping at an old lady’s one door village shop, simply because she was repairing her house. There is a popular barber named Stanfield, who used to sell food on weekends. He lost sales after buying an old Suzuki van to transport drinks and food items.
    These are the SAME Black people who rejoice each time Haloutte opens another branch of Chefette and continue to patronize those restaurants, irrespective of how many he owns.

    A friend of mine who used to work at a store in Marhill Street, told me she and the other sales clerks decided to join the Union because they felt the working conditions were not fair. After discussing their plans, one of the same Black sales clerk ‘went behind their backs’ to inform the Syrian owner of their plans.

    A Black store owner would experience difficulty in receiving payment from his Black customer who bought good on credit. That same customer would make sure he pays the ‘Coolie-man.’

    I could go on and on and on.

  14. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    Question which govts should ask in the question of guns and crime relates to a person wanting a better lifestyle
    How can govt/s expect those at the bottom of the economic pole to live off slave wages and yet to provide basic needs for their family
    Many of those males being killed at the hands of guns had nothing and even after death no one reads about mass accumulation of wealth left behind by these victims
    Govts need to stop burying head in the sand and pass a living wage that is appropriate to the economic standards of its country
    At least a step forward in a preventive measure in not allowing impoverish people to make a fast dash to alternatives methods of economic means which is cost to their lives and govt/s having to foot an increasing crime bill

  15. Greene Avatar
    Greene

    Miller,

    yes

  16. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    @ Artax
    Research will show that up to 1970 there were very few drug cases in the court system. It will show that the few centered around one prominent family involving rich kids, of Asian extraction, who were musicians. They were then represented by a young attorney who went on to become a corporate legal eagle, parliamentarian and got a knighthood. The drug was not marijuana or cocaine.
    The drug culture grew tremendously during the late 70s and has not stopped since then. We Barbadians have always said “ not ‘bout hey’ . It’s the current mantra of our beloved PM.
    I don’t recall identifying any ethnic group on BU as bringing in drugs. All I said is that no boys on the block ain’t got the resources to be the major players or any players in that.
    As a community leader , I attended a lecture given by a then high ranking policeman, who told us that reaching those who finance the drug trade was almost impossible even with the finest information tools. Now that lecture was back in the very early 80s.
    Since then the police have better tools and so do the drug lords and bosses.
    2. I also listened to the Layne/Ellis exchange. In my opinion it was nothing to shout about. As I have said on this blog and elsewhere , public discourse has been effectively hi jacked and we are hearing the same voices; saying the same things and brining the same solutions.
    It’s going up take more police on the beat in the communities; it’s going to need enlightened civics being taught in the class room; more effective parental control and a more sensible non political approach to basic civic management. The same way the drug culture developed is the identical manner in which the mini bus culture developed
    In the last campaign people running for office were smoking weed openly with the boys on the block. I say no more on that.
    3. I don’t equate the BLM in the USA with the lawlessness we have allowed to prosper in our country. In1965, I was looking forward to independence , enjoying high school and being raised in a village with proper role models. I could turn on any stand pipe in Barbados and sit down anywhere in a bus. At that time my Afro American brothers and sisters were being attacked by police dogs ; getting their heads bashed in and fighting for every frigging thing I took for granted. They are still fighting for justice in their own country and there are in the minority. I am not buying into foolishness. In a country of 95% blacks it is obvious that the crimes committed would be more among blacks. This attempt to Americanize every thing is our foolishness and use American jargon is just overbearing.
    In my country we just run behind two political parties; intellectuals talk endless crap and a faked middle class try to live way above its means; black people are working for less than three hundred dollars per week and we know more about the world than anybody else.
    I said all that to say this: I was assured that all the crime in Jamaica could not reach Barbados; I was told that the bad roads were not like in Dominica and St Vincent; I heard people from other islands being called lower islands. This is what Grantley Adams said (or something like it)to an international audience : Jamaicans are illiterate; Trinidadians can only play steel drum and Barbadians are the most educated.
    We are still of that mentality. I as a Bajan is being told to shut my mouth because I don’t live there , I have no intention of shutting up because some politician tell me to watch muh and dah can happen bout hey.
    How on earth you could control mini buses when parliamentarian families did own a whole lot . What does BLM have to do with black politicians in the pockets of the richer ethnic groups.
    Peace.

  17. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    “I don’t recall identifying any ethnic group on BU as bringing in drugs.”

    @ Mr. Skinner

    Sir, sometimes you take things a bit too personally or perhaps it’s the manner in which I present myself. I KNOW you DID NOT identify any specific group that was responsible for the importation or distribution of drugs.

    Since I often agree with your perspectives on various issues, I was only trying to have a ‘casual conversation’ on the topic with you to know your opinions. That’s all.

  18. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    “Imagine the same law enforcement authorities can resuscitate a petty charge for the possession of marijuana for personal consumption against a political neophyte of a ‘yellow’ dying lying party but cannot move against those who, allegedly, bribed and facilitated the laundering of the same illicit proceeds by a former minister of the Crown under the same DLP.”

    good catch, it’s said he is seen AS A THREAT to the PM in her constituency, won’t it be a thing if they still KICK HER OUT ANYWAY…..

    too much corruption and cover ups and we must believe Mia suddenly sees the light regarding the tiefing social partnership made up of descendants of slave catchers enriched at the expense of the descendants of slaves, by her as well……..that’s like believing ALL THE LIES she told about the big red bag of evidence of DLP corruption and they were going to lock them up….. and the even BIGGER LIES she told regarding locking up tiefing maloney for helping rob the treasury and about his role in the death of the Holder child…look who is representing in Guyana now….sell outs are sell outs, there are no redeeming qualities in any of them, history is REPLETE with evidence of the existence of this trash, they survive until their masters destroy them..

  19. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    When I read this blog a song started playing in my mind. It was “Mixed up Moods and Attitudes” by Jacob Killer Miller.

  20. BAJE Avatar
    BAJE

    In the last campaign people running for office were smoking weed openly with the boys on the block. I say no more on that.
    xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

    @ Carson Cadogan
    @ Hal Austin
    @ William Skinner

    YOU GUYS HAVE ALL NAILED IT.

    THE WHITES AND INDIANS WHO ARE INVOLVED IN THE LOCAL DRUGS/GUNS TRADES ARE HOWEVER ASSISTED BY BLACK CUSTOMS OFFICERS, BLACK POLICE AND BLACK BANK MANAGERS ALL FOR KICKBACKS.

    HOWEVER THE BIGGEST ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM ARE BLACK POLICE OFFICERS INCLUDING DETECTIVES AND SENIOR PERSONNEL WHO FORM PART OF THESE UNDERGROUND GROUPS AND ARE EQUALLY COMPLICIT.

    I KNOW LOCAL POLICE IN BARBADOS WHO ARE INVOLVED IN THE DRUG AND GUN TRADE WITH SEVERAL OTHERS INVOLVED IN HUMAN TRAFFICKING AIDED BY STRIP CLUB OWNERS ON THE ISLAND MANY OF THEM BEING CRIMINAL DEPORTEES.

    THE 2 x 3 ISLAND IS AN EASY TARGET FOR CORRUPTION AS IT RELATES TO KICKBACKS AND BRIBES TO CUSTOMS OFFICERS, IMMIGRATION, BANK MANAGERS, POLICE, COAST GUARDS ETC.

    ANYONE TELLING YOU DIFFERENTLY HEAD IS EITHER BURIED IN THE SAND, IS A BULLSHIT ARTIST AND NOT LIVING IN REALITY.

    BELOW SAME HAPPENS IN NIGERIA (A BLACK RAN COUNTRY), GUYANA AND ELSEWHERE.

    #EndSARS

    Almost 20 years ago, the acronym SARS conjured up a terrifying global pandemic, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, an airborne virus that originated in China, one that could be transferred through cough droplets and which had the potential to spread via the international air transport system. Some of us can be forgiven as looking back at that era, 2003, as a quieter, cleaner, much saner, healthier time. We, after all, only had that and the ongoing War on Terror to deal with globally.

    The new king pandemic is the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), far more terrifying, exponentially more viral than its predecessor, and now, as of the past week, SARS has stood for something else in global media, the Special Anti-Robbery Squad of the Nigerian Police Force. Created in 1992 in response to a serious rise in crime in the oil-producing country, in ten years the unit was itself fingered to be involved in criminal activity. When in 2002, its operations spread from the financial centre of the county, Lagos, the squad’s criminal activities naturally metastasized.

    This is not a story that would be unfamiliar to Guyanese. The infamous Tactical Services Squad, known then as the Black Clothes Police, invoked fear, if not outright terror, in this society up until the execution of its head, Superintendent Leon Fraser in 2003, a crime that today has not been solved. Launched as a special crime-fighting force, the TSS quickly, like SARS, became the very thing it was created to combat. Its ‘replacement’, the Tactical Services Unit, was no better. Consider the following excerpt from one of our articles from 2011:

    “According to a usually reliable source, [Assistant Commissioner Steve] Merai during his verbal exchanges with the Commissioner, revealed that certain elements of the Tactical Services Unit (TSU), namely the ‘Black Clothes’ anti-crime squads are linked to certain drug blocks in the city and its environs. The Assistant Commissioner, who is currently the Commander of the Force’s Berbice (B) Division, explained to the Commissioner that he was in receipt of information that some of the squads are engaged in busting certain drug dealers and using the proceeds to enrich drug blocks that they are in association with… Merai explained at the meeting that the TSU patrol units operate in designated sections of the city where they provide protection for certain drug blocks that operate with impunity. This newspaper was told that the Assistant Commissioner pointed out that many persons who are affected by these operatives are afraid to come forward out of fear for their lives.”

    Today, Nigeria is in uproar, tired of the impunity with which SARS has carried out its frankly criminal conduct across multiple political administrations, all of which have promised to disband the unit. In the uprising, several citizens have been shot dead by the police and dozens otherwise injured. While the mainstream news sites have been vague about the shootings so far, citizen reporting and underground news organizations show the brutality with which protestors, coming together under the banner of a movement called #EndSARS, have been treated.

    We no longer have a rogue unit at present in the Guyana but our own history and Nigeria’s present provide a critical cautionary tale for our own future. SARS is one of the symptoms of what ails Nigeria today, not the disease. After 50 years of oil, and 50 years of corruption, equating to over US $400 billion stolen by successive governments, over 95 million Nigerians, roughly half of the population, remain in extreme poverty. This is the sort of poverty that breeds the sort of crime that politicians use to justify the creating of special anti-crime units which become predators on poor people (and not on corruption-enriched politicians) leaving the country in a perpetual cycle of criminalized under-development while an elite political oligarchy continue to siphon off its wealth. In brief, Guyanese need to pay keen attention to both the #EndSARS movement in Nigeria as well as the surrounding socio-economic and political context – if we do not take it for a warning of what might come, we should at least accept it as a mirror of our possible future.

    https://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2020/10/25/endsars/

  21. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    @ Artax
    Point taken. Going forward. Man you gine so have to arrest me for driving badly crossing lanes. Have a good day.✌️

  22. john2 Avatar
    john2

    MARIPOSA

    How come the poor black women are not struggling to survive and there doing any killings/ robberies?

  23. Miller Avatar
    Miller

    @ Greene October 25, 2020 10:55 AM

    Then you need to explain the recent ‘heavy-handed’ treatment of the two “Parrises”.

    One a former financier and policy controller of both political parties and the other an attorney-at-law.

    What ‘strong’ laws were employed to bring these two c(r)ooks to book?

  24. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    Do you really understand what you meant by “Wealth distribution continues to get worst as those at the top who holds most of the economic power refuses to come to a realization that poverty breeds crime and insist to hold on to a standard of greed and selfish interest that serves their purpose?” Several fancy sounding words and jargon put together……but pure nonsense. (I’ll expect a visit from your lawyer).

    Yes, I agree some crimes are committed as a result of poverty. But, on the other hand, look at many of these youngsters committing crimes. Several of them have children and ‘still live home at their parents,’ who in turn are willing to ‘put up’ their houses as collateral to pay expensive lawyers such as Andrew Pilgrim and Johnny Chetleham and raise bail, when these youngsters find themselves in trouble with the law. All you have to do is stand outside a Courtroom and hear the applause a guy who has been charged with two counts of murder receives from his adoring fans.

    How is it that, according to CCC, 3% of the population supposedly controls the wealth? Those minority groups have a culture of assisting those among them who may require help, financially or otherwise. Why can’t Black people do likewise? For example, an Indian could approach his Indian friend for financial assistance and be told, ‘check me at 6 O’ clock.’ The money is there when he turn up. A Black asks his friend for assistance. He tells him, ‘no problem, check me tomorrow.’ He turns up, his friend would tell him, something came up, check me tomorrow……. or his friend is no where to be found. And, in both cases he’ll make himself unavailable for the next three months.

    We have children of poor Black people who attended universities at the expense of other poor Black people, obtain employment in government agencies that caters for the indigent…… and would make it extremely difficult for poor people to receive or access the services intended for them.
    They work in banks and other financial institutions and make the process extremely difficult for other Black people to access finance, unless it’s for a vehicle. Lawyers and doctors ‘ripping off’ the same poor taxpayers who fund their university education.

    We continue to ‘discuss’ crime along the same lines each time the topic is brought up on BU. Crime is always politicized. The BEES said former AG Brathwaite and PM Stuart did not do anything to address the crime situation during their ten year tenure………and the DEMS respond with, at least it wasn’t bad then as it is now, because there is an increase in murders under the current AG Marshall and PM Mottley….. and they aren’t saying or doing anything about it.
    However, if one examines the gun crimes carefully, it is evident they were on the rise since 2014 and a gradual increase was expected. The TV style execution of Rick Bryan in Warrens, a gunman boldly walking into Sheraton in broad daylight to murder a man in the food court and the execution of Jerome ‘Wild Geese’ Bovell in St. Stephen’s Hill, immediately comes to mind.
    But, anyone making these observations, taking the time period into consideration, they’ll be labelled a BLP yardfowl.

    Many of our opinions on crime seem to be shaped by political affiliation, rather than on any clear criminological reports or theories compiled, analysed and explained by criminologists. Maybe that’s what Dottin’s consultancy entails??? What are the functions of the Criminal Research & Planning Unit?

    How do we define crime as its relation to poverty? Perhaps we could ‘discuss’ it within the context of an unemployed mother of 4 going into Carlton Supermarket and stealing a whole chicken and a bag of rice; a homeless man shop lifting a pack of Elispse and a tin of sardines; or an unemployed youth, enjoying ‘four square meals a day,’ while ‘living home’ at his mother and she supporting him and his children…… who follows his peers and goes out to rob a poor person or a store, for money to buy clothes to wear to, and buy brandy at ‘Super Dan’s boat cruise.

  25. Miller Avatar
    Miller

    @ BAJE October 25, 2020 11:54 AM

    BAJE, YOU HAVE HIT, INDEED, THE NAIL ‘RIGHT’ ON ITS ‘CORRUPTION’ HEAD.

    The coffin is now sealed so the white shadows, Middle Eastern or Indian bogeymen cannot escape to be any scapegoat for the obvious corruption and bribery of the ‘black’ politicians and their handmaidens in the bureaucracy.

  26. David Avatar
    David

    @Miller

    Surprise you side with such a simplistic view. In countries where there is a large caucasion population what does it tell us? Corruption is not motivated by race or ethnic group. In any system measures have to be implemented to minimize corruption.

  27. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Countries of the South generally learn how to be corrupt from those from the North.

    In fact, we have argued that most countries from the South know too little about tieffing.

    That they are generally only petty thieves.

  28. Carson C. Cadogan Avatar
    Carson C. Cadogan

    Rubbish!!!!!!

    I don’t agree with anything in this post.
    It is just an excuse to give the Barbados Labour Party a free pass.

    When in opposition they had a plaster for every sore. Now in Govt. they seem to be caught like the Deer in the headlights. Completely clueless about anything.

    What have they done for the past two and half years???? Giving the WHITE BAJANS AND INDIANS ALL the tax breaks in the World
    and forgiving all duties that they owe instead of collecting them , does not count.

    At the same time burden BLACK PEOPLE WITH TAXES. THE PEOPLE LEAST ABLE TO PAY NEW TAXES AND DUTIES. Many of them without jobs, without income, without hope, under this Govt..

    Some under the DLP had jobs to support their families, they don’t HAVE the jobs now..

    I know a woman who used to delight under Freundel Stuart to me tell how they are going to vote out Freundel Stuart, every time she saw me. Now under the new Govt. she use to work at the Ministry of Transport. SHE IS NOW UNEMPLOYED. She was the fist person who MIA AMOR MOTTLEY laid off when she first came to office. I saw other people saying on this blog she is doing a good job, she should send home more.

    The same TONI MOORE who begging DLP voters for the their vote in SGN, told the PM it is ok to send home people as long as they DLP members.

    That is how I know it will be CAT PISS AND PEPPER if she gets in, for workers.

  29. BAJE Avatar
    BAJE

    How is it that, according to CCC, 3% of the population supposedly controls the wealth? Those minority groups have a culture of assisting those among them who may require help, financially or otherwise. Why can’t Black people do likewise? For example, an Indian could approach his Indian friend for financial assistance and be told, ‘check me at 6 O’ clock.’ The money is there when he turn up. A Black asks his friend for assistance. He tells him, ‘no problem, check me tomorrow.’ He turns up, his friend would tell him, something came up, check me tomorrow……. or his friend is no where to be found. And, in both cases he’ll make himself unavailable for the next three months

    Xxxxxxxxx

    THERE ARE TWO SIDES TO A COIN.

    I HAVE PREVIOUSLY INVESTED OVER $200,000 IN A LOCAL BLACK BUSINESS BUT GOT NOT ONE CENT IN RETURN BECAUSE OF BLATANT DISHONESTY AND STEALING.

  30. Carson C Cadogan Avatar
    Carson C Cadogan

    BAJE 11.54 AM
    Well written.
    The other post was aimed at ATAX 12.28 PM.

  31. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    What about t h e free the dlp got. The former minister indicted. Lol

  32. Enuff Avatar
    Enuff

    David
    I am not suggesting anything. I just reported the facts according to Bdos Today. My only opinion is that it is a nuffin story. Funny seeing Carson C. Cadogan so busy after dissappearing. He paid the old lady light bill yet? I hope if/when the unfinished school meals building in Six Roads is the subject of the Auditor General report and then Atherley (or his replacement provided GPII get his wish) convene the PAC, Cadogan don’t flee given the 3 degrees of separation.🤫

  33. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    Just watch a video with Mia ridiculing Floyd from reading his presentation from papers
    These are her exacts words
    “If Floyd Reifer is ever elected to Parliament
    Do u know that he can be the leader of the opposition in this country but yet has to read his name from a piece of paper”
    Then mockingly goes on to demonstrate how foolish he would look
    By mockingly as if to make her comments look real
    Says in a mocking tone to demonstrate his lack of intellect as a reader
    ” I am Floyd Riefer ”

    Below is an extract where she made such comments

    https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10216067448953871&id=1678894407

  34. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    Carson C Cadogan October 25, 2020 1:19 PM #: “BAJE 11.54 AM Well written. The other post was aimed at ATAX 12.28 PM.”

    @ CCC

    What other post??? Please explain.

  35. Carson C. Cadogan Avatar
    Carson C. Cadogan

    My post at 1.06 pm.

  36. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    @ Mariposa

    Funny world. The real joker is the speaker without notes, hands flaring, fingers pointing, and behaving like a mad cat. Good speakers speak from notes so there is coherence and not repetition and rambling for two or three hours.
    But an unsophisticated Barbadian audience may find this rambling attractive.

  37. Carson C Cadogan Avatar
    Carson C Cadogan

    That is the trouble with SOME Bajans they like a lot of flowery meaning NOTHING AT ALL.

    Where is the ACTIONS??????

  38. Carson C. Cadogan Avatar
    Carson C. Cadogan

    should be ”speech” on line one.

  39. Carson C Cadogan Avatar
    Carson C Cadogan

    This should give MIA gripe.

  40. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    Hope the dlp used these idiotic statement by Braddie and Mia to full.advantage
    A couple of Tee shirts with pictures and comments would be enough to bring both Fools down to size along with repetition at mass meetings
    Mia is such a hypocrite when a boy was being mocked by children for a speech he had made after he received an award
    She pretended to be of concern
    yes it was another moment for her to hound publicity for herself
    On this campaign trail the ” real” Mia is being exposed and she is beginning to look and act like Trump
    Who would have thought that a bi- election would have exposed Mia political nakedness for all to see

  41. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    @ CCC

    From what I read, there isn’t anything in your 1:06 PM post that is relevant to my 12:28 PM contribution. Rather than address or respond to any of the issues I raised therein, you engaged in a continuation of your usual DLP versus BLP nonsensical political diatribe and racist rants about white people and Indians.

    It appears as though you blame the BLP for everything possible that went wrong in Barbados. I believe if that political party was around in 1937, you would have blamed them for the riots. It won’t surprise me if you blame Grantley Adams. Maybe, you also blame them for Central Foundary, Cave Shepherd and Foggarty fires or the disturbance when the Supremes performed in Bridgetown.

  42. Miller Avatar
    Miller

    @ David October 25, 2020 12:44 PM

    One view (simplistic or sophisticated) you can certainly ‘side with’ is that in most countries with large ‘Caucasian’ populations and democratically elected leaders such accusations made by any democratically elected leader holding such damning evidence in any bag would most likely lead to criminal investigations and prosecutions against those alleged to have committed such fiscally damaging financial crimes.

  43. David Avatar
    David

    @Miller

    Good you have sanitized your statement to remove the race/ethnic slur.

  44. BAJE Avatar
    BAJE

    in a continuation of your usual DLP versus BLP nonsensical political diatribe and racist rants about white people and Indians.

    Xxxxxxxxx

    I SEE A MAN IRREGARDLESS OF WHETHER HE IS PRO DLP OR NOT HAS SPOKEN THE TRUTH.

    MANY WHITES AND INDIANS WHO ARE INVOLVED IN BUSINESS SOME OF THEM INSURANCE, CELL PHONE, FAST FOOD, BITCOIN, CONSTRUCTION, CAR PARTS, MOTOR VEHICLES, RETAIL STORES INCLUDING JEWELLERY AND CLOTHES ARE HEAVILY INVOLVED IN DRUGS TRADE AND SOME GUN RACKET.

    I HAVE NO TIME FOR EITHER DLP OR BLP BUT WILL AGREE WITH ANYONE WHO CALLS A SPADE A SPADE.

  45. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    “I SEE A MAN IRREGARDLESS OF WHETHER HE IS PRO DLP OR NOT HAS SPOKEN THE TRUTH.”
    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    Even if what he wrote was true or not, how was it relevant to the discussion?

    It’s similar to a group of men discussing fishing. One man disagrees with the points they’re making and goes on to talk about the sky is blue (which is true).

  46. Carson C. Cadogan Avatar
    Carson C. Cadogan

    Let me make it clear:

    Black people CANNOT be racist.

    We are are the ones who everything is being done against.
    Black people are simply representing Black people, asking for a better deal. It is unfortunate some find this obnoxious. Some people including some Black people Cant stomach Black people seeking betterment. We must always be hewers of wood and drawers of water.

    They even quote the Bible to back them up like in the Slave days.

  47. Carson C Cadogan Avatar
    Carson C Cadogan

    The WORST THING you can do for some Black people is to praise Black people.

    You have to be crazy. You can not be right in your head. They have been told Black people are the worst thing in the World and they are sticking with it and who is me to tell them any different.

  48. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    @ Carson

    Racism is about power and the exercise/abuse of that power. The servant has no power, so cannot be racist. It is simplistic to say a black person not liking a white person is racist. There is not a single country in the world majority black-led that discriminates against any other ethnic group.

  49. Lorenzo Avatar
    Lorenzo

    Mariposa why you pimping about behind Ms Mottley looking for red herrings and not tell us what Mr Reifer, s plans are and how he will finance them? You were on here bigging up Reifer talking sbout all this momentum he has but you cannot produce anything pf substsnce he has spoken about so far?Why is this?In my view his hiding from the debates tells me he is very weak when it comes to public speaking along with most of the others i have heard speaking at your meetings on radio and tv.This includes the political nightwatchman.Looking at the crowds at both on tv as i have not been to any as yet it is chalk and cheese no wonder you looking for non issues to raise to keep Mr Reifer relevant.Trust me ot will not help Mr Reifer , the dems or you.I gone.

  50. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    “This should give MIA gripe.”

    what CDC will never say is that infection rates among whites are the highest, they are dying the most and it’s only just gotten started..

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