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2020 St. George North By-Election National Debate

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The decision to have a national TV debate between the candidates contesting the St. George North constituency seat has been mired in controversy from the beginning. The result is that of the six candidates registered to contest the seat made vacant by the ‘retired out’ Gline Clarke, only candidates Toni Moore (BLP), Grenville Phillips (Solutions Barbados) and Alex Mitchell (BFP) are the three left standing. The other candidates have offered excuses for not participating, the blogmaster suspects the real reason is that there is a fear to speak to the issues publicly in an independent setting.

It is ironic that the current week has seen Barbados experiencing heavy rains which must be negatively affecting house to house and platform campaigning. What an opportunity tonight’s debate offers to convey respective party messages to SGN residents while in the comfort of their homes.

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447 responses to “2020 St. George North By-Election National Debate”

  1. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Always with the retrograde ideas, claiming it’s from Marston Gibson who could’nt do shit about the long delays and corruption in the supreme court….but grab one of his dumbass ideas and run with it….

    judges presently can’t get a decision ready to HAND DOWN in the ALLOTTED 6 MONTH PERIOD and don’t respond when a letter is sent to them via the registrar asking for matters to be expedited, but take away juries and give the careless, lazy judges all the decisions to make..some have abandoned decisions still outstanding 20 YEARS LATER and they are still on the bench…..

    yall just keep regressing further and futher, soon ya will be back in the 15th century and no one will have to bother looking for yall…

    ‘Judge alone trials’ under consideration for Barbados – by Barbados Today November 1, 2020
    Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Dale Marshall, is awaiting further dialogue with members of the Bench and Bar on the possibility of implementing Judge Alone Trials in Barbados.

    He made this disclosure after the swearing in of Barbados’ fifth Chief Justice, Patterson Cheltenham, by Governor General Dame Sandra Mason at Government House on Saturday.

    Marshall indicated that the matter was first raised by former Chief Justice Sir Marston Gibson, who retired before it could be properly explored.

    However, the Attorney General noted that one advantage of a Judge Alone Trial was that it would eliminate the need for a jury.

    “A lot of time and effort is spent by the judge reviewing the evidence, giving directions to the jury so the jury can then go away and deliberate,” he said.

    Marshall pointed out that in contrast, having heard the evidence, a judge would be in a position to evaluate the evidence and give a decision, thereby eliminating the time that was spent dealing with a jury during a trial.

    “There are some things more quickly grasped by a judge who is a judicial mind that jurors would take a bit of time to deal with. But the fact is that anytime that you are moving away from the venerable notion, or venerable principle, that a person in serious cases should be tried by a jury of his peers, careful consideration has to be given to it,” he outlined.

    The Attorney General stated this was a matter that would require careful consideration, as a trial by jury was something that Barbados had from the time there was a judicial system.”

  2. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    @Dullard
    Those persons who leave their parents and family at the QEH should be located and interviewed When this is done persons who did this deliberately and has the resources of the person should be denied access to those resources.
    ++++++++++++++++

    There are no laws that a person has to care or support an elderly relative. In these cases, the Gov’t has little recourse but there should be a provision that if the person being cared for by the Gov’t has any assets then those should become the property of the Crown.

  3. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Teets don’t even seem to have a dumbass idea to call his own……steuppsss…

  4. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    @HA
    “Sandra Husbands has very solid pedigree”
    You appear to be correct,
    https://www.instagram.com/sandra_husbands/
    Strong political pedigree. Before and leading up to VOTING day 2018, an Instagram feed with many, many entries. Strong after election day, solid in year one, post election. Things slowed thereafter, and the last entry is Boxing day 2019 !!!! In typical politician style, watch it pick up again closer to the next election day. When they are again interested in your vote.

  5. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Yall still talking about a crown, the crown belong to Elizabeth…YOU HAVE NO CROWN..

    this is going to be a real comedy show, repeatedly reminding everyone…that they are no longer a part of the monarchical brigade, Mia made an INTERNATIONAL SPLASH unshackling, UK said, fine with us, let the people decide, Mia said no, she decided already….. alyuh will soon get SUED for continuing to use the colonial system in everything..

    grab ya popcorn and wine or whatever ya have handy folks, they will never get this one right and we will soon find some of them camping out at buckingham palace gates, but wait, Elizabeth is probably going to give the palaces up soon too….lol….slaves will be homeless…

  6. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @WARU “take the abuse and exploitation of the kids from St. George school for instance….UNLESS someone REPORTS DIRECTLY to the relevant agency.”

    So why do you believe that Amnesty International and the U.S. State Department do not read Barbados Underground?

    What if they do read Barbados Underground?

    And take your contributions with an extra, extra large grain of salt?

  7. Enuff Avatar
    Enuff

    🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭😭

  8. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @Dullard November 2, 2020 9:46 AM “Have you heard anything else about the delays at QEH ? The statement seems a bit strange and no reason for the capacity issue is given. Given the low number of Covid cases on the island low low severity of these cases and I presume that this is not the reason? There seems to be something else going on.”

    Wunna have already forgotten that all patients were moved from the St. Lucy District Hospital were moved out to District hospitals in t. Thomas and St. Michael at the beginning of covid, to provide anticipated extra room for covid patients, so we are those beds short there, so the elders for care that might have gone there are now backed up at the qeh. Of course we have thankfully not have to use all of our quarantine beds, but i would bet anything that some beds are being held in anticipation in case there is community spread and we get very short notice; or if we have a sudden upsurge of imported covid cases. Government is trying its best to keep covid patients out of the qeh where ALL the patients are already sick, old or both and therefore extremely vulnerable.

    A short term solution would be to use private nursing homes and have government, that is we the taxpayers pay for those beds, but we the taxpayers are already out to the baller. Everything costs money, and money is in short supply, except among the very rich.

  9. Miller Avatar
    Miller

    @ WURA-War-on-UNovember 2, 2020 6:38 PM
    “Yall still talking about a crown, the crown belong to Elizabeth…YOU HAVE NO CROWN..

    this is going to be a real comedy show, repeatedly reminding everyone…that they are no longer a part of the monarchical brigade, Mia made an INTERNATIONAL SPLASH unshackling, UK said, fine with us, let the people decide, Mia said no, she decided already….. alyuh will soon get SUED for continuing to use the colonial system in everything..”
    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    And that is exactly what is going take place under the so-called Republic of Barbadoes.

    Imagine, under the New Republic, the colonial-damaged jokers in Bim still wanting (and demanding in some cases like Sir Hillbilly B.) to be called “Sir” and “Lady” and with the law enforcement forces bedecked with their old royal crowns and pips.

    Barbados will require a sea change in its current monarchical-based pomp and pageantry (regalia and parade) in order to display any appearance of republicanism and which should mark some distinct break from the over 375 years of symbiosis with the ‘English’ monarchy.

    The country Barbados needs to start very early in its re-branding exercise if it is to present any semblance of readiness of completely cutting its navel string from the monarchy by November 2021.

    Why prepare any list of QCs or give out any more knighthoods including one for the new CJ?

    Maybe the current administration can engage the ‘experienced’ services of Ezra A to draft a New Constitution for the coming Republic of Barbadoes.

    Now that would be consultancy fees justifiably incurred!

  10. David Avatar
    David

    @Sargeant

    This is the reason why many elders are left at the QEH, to feed from their assets. In some cases it is the burden of caring for.

  11. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Trial by judge only should be the choice of the accused. I believe it is so in other jurisdictions.

    This cannot be changed by any government without the approval of the people.

    Hell no!

  12. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    “Why prepare any list of QCs or give out any more knighthoods including one for the new CJ?”

    Miller….tell me that is a joke, tell me the pedigreed slaves are not still gearing up to beg Elizabeth for slave titles pre republic although telling her in the most public way, calling in multiple news agencies worldwide for maximum effect, that they want nothing more to do with the monarchy……unbelieveable….what planet or century are these clowns living in..oh right, the 17th to 18th century, complete with animal pedigree, it is a clear attempt at keeping a SLAVE SOCIETY intact….which will be exposed each and EVERY DAY FOR AS LONG AS THOSE evil negros in the parliament live.

    Cuddear….you must look out for this case in the next state department or amnesty international report….tell me if even one word of the narrative in either report changes or is updated….i can tell you now they never do, not even with multiple cases of police torture and brutality exposed in the news, that is how those agencies operate, they must follow their own protocols, and according to information i received yesterday, i now understand why even more, those agencies, including Transparency International are restricted from going beyond what they currently do, no matter the crimes being committed against the people on the islands, can’t get into too much of it because it gets technical and might confuse you even more than you are confused right now….but the PEOPLE have to get up and DO AND SAY SOMETHING about any human rights violations AGAINST THEMSELVES instead of sitting on their asses whispering behind their hands or only protesting same sex people having sex with each other…that is the ONLY TIME the agencies can act OR EXPOSE VIOLATIONS according to their guidelines….it’s not cut and dried…something like what happened in Nigeria and amnesty hopped on it right away and exposed the government lies and cover up.

    https://barbadostoday.bb/2020/11/03/son-suffering-seizures-following-police-encounter-mother-claims/

    bear in mind there are annual articles related to police brutality, one dude nearly got killed in his cell a couple years ago, it was a big thing even on BU, am sure you forgot, but check the archives, that case never made it to any amnesty or state department annual report, but they do draw up reports speaking in general of the brutality and torture and they do make it public….you keep on pretending for cheap laughs from ignorant fowl slaves until it happens to you or yours….it might be safer for you to talk to your plants and vegetables instead, ya either turning foolish, or ya just don’t understand.

    “This cannot be changed by any government without the approval of the people.”

    you will notice that Teets never once mentioned the people, they are making all these dumbass elaborate plans dreamed up by an idiot all on their own, they believe they are dictators, the pedigreed slaves.

  13. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    But this one too sweet Miller, all the elaborate SELF SERVING PLANS they had for 50 BILLION DOLLARS in reparations JUST GOT BURNT TO CINDERS……..🤣🤣😂😂…Sir Slave Title and all other salivating CROOKS including the tiefing cockroaches for minorities hiding in dark corners just waiting and calculating….. must have ALL CRIED themselves to sleep last night, after reading the articles on the palace’s finances and as we know only too well, the horrible state of the economies of UK and Europe……lol

    just like DLP had all those big self-serving plans for reparations back in 2013, they even held secret meetings on how to CUT OUT HALF THE BLACK POPULATION from receiving anything back then…and are now exposed for the vicious negros that they are, 30-0 was even too good for them..

    .BLP had even BIGGER PLANS to cut out ALL BLACK PEOPLE and build blighted, cursed, ugly sick buildings ONLY emblazoned with their slave names instead…. the fraud brigade…..not a goddamn dime for any of them outside of the programs Lloyds and other slave trading entities may develop for Black students…

    And of course Africa would be wondering how the pedigreed slaves planned to not be EXPOSED for wanting UK and EU to rob Africa to pay them reparations in the Caribbean just so they can continue maintaining slave societies AGAINST AFRICANS on the island.

    2020….. the YEAR OF REVEAL.

    ah didn’t even bother to mention mouth breathing fowl slaves, they don’t even count in any of this or in anything else…their empty decaying shells should not even be recognized as existing..

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

    Cuddear…now i remember the name of the dude who was tortured and brutalized in the police cell, Nazim Blackett, and he was not the only one, did you ever see it in a state department or amnesty international annual report…no you didn’t, because that’s not how it’s done, they must follow their own protocols, especially when the stink nig*as for law makers on the island REFUSE to legislate laws TO PROTECT THE BLACK POPULATION…..which is outside of these agencies jurisdiction…UNLESS….

    …..a big long blog here on BU with a BLOOD SPATTERED JAIL CELL and you are trying to cover up attempted murder, torture and brutality by police, you have no damn shame, stick to growing food..

  15. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    “all they can do is think in billions of dollars for money that DOES NOT BELONG TO ANY OF THEM….THIEVES”

    Indeed, I found it puzzling that we can forgive billions and at the same time sit with our cap in our hands waiting for $20-50M from some fund/agency .

    I stopped doing the math.

  16. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    “….you keep on pretending for cheap laughs from ignorant fowl slaves until it happens to you or yours….it might be safer for you to talk to your plants and vegetables instead, ya either turning foolish, or ya just don’t understand.”

    The local papers often publish stories from locals who claim they were brutalized by the police. In fact, this was a complaint by a man who recently beat a tape charge.

    It is puzzling why in the face of this local and direct evidence that we must wait on a US State Department report. These same folks will howl when COVID-19 warnings are issued for Barbados.

  17. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    “Trial by judge only should be the choice of the accused. I believe it is so in other jurisdictions.”

    But dem tink wunnah slow and chupid.

    “There are some things more quickly grasped by a judge who is a judicial mind that jurors would take a bit of time to deal with. But the fact is that anytime that you are moving away from the venerable notion, or venerable principle, that a person in serious cases should be tried by a jury of his peers, careful consideration has to be given to it,” he outlined.

    Wunnah so chupid, wunnah might get confuse, let the criminal go and find yuhself guilty.

  18. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    “The country Barbados needs to start very early in its re-branding exercise if it is to present any semblance of readiness of completely cutting its navel string from the monarchy by November 2021.

    Why prepare any list of QCs or give out any more knighthoods including one for the new CJ?”

    Great comment. Good question.

    The republic thing not finalized yet. 29 more years to go

  19. BAJE Avatar
    BAJE

    People with REAL pedigree in Barbados do not get on political platforms and talk about pedigree. Does Rawdon Adams, MSc, political sociology, talk about pedigree? Does Odle talk about pedigree?
    If you talk about your pedigree, it means you have no pedigree. You are just a pet mongrel.

    XXxX xXxX xxx

    @Hal

    THE POLITICIANS WHO HAVE PEDIGREE ARE FOR STEALING, INVOLVED IN CORRUPTION AND DECEIVING BLACK BAJANS WHO SEEMINGLY LIKES MOORE SHITE TO EAT WHILST THINKING IT IS SWEET TASTING CHOCOLATE,

  20. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    Judges rule on the law, juries on the facts.

  21. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    My mind takes me back to another of Mia promises which she has not kept
    A promise placed on rooting out corruption practices having hidden agendas
    Well lo and behold Woods spoke on that promise a promise whereby Mia told every one that all her ministers would submit all of their assets which she would revealed
    The last which was issued on this promise by Mia was a feeble attempt cloaked in smoke and mirrors which were words of nothingness
    Woods on Sunday told the people of SGN that an attempt was made by Mia for the ministers to give account of their assets
    The attempt was so poorly orchestrated in that the ministers were handed a piece of paper and told to write their financial amount
    He said that one person told him “man write anything”
    The belly of this govt lead by Mia actions is not surprising given that OSA once described Mia politics on governance as gimmicks

  22. David Avatar
    David

    Every single morning you lot from overseas rise with a single purpose- throw shade at Barbados.

    News flash, another beautiful day in BIM an island paradise.

  23. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    David in my mind it is all but laughable that when one speaks about transparency related to govt policies and actions
    You called it shade
    Many yuh need to take a derp breath
    Mia promised accountability and transparency on all issues brought to parliament and she has not
    For that reason govt feet should be held to the fire

  24. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    “The republic thing not finalized yet. 29 more years to go.”

    🤣😂🤣😂..they believe they got the descendants of slave masters fooled, but wait for it….lol

    “The local papers often publish stories from locals who claim they were brutalized by the police. In fact, this was a complaint by a man who recently beat a tape charge.”

    Cuddear knows this….the blog about Nazim Blackett, it took me two days to remember his name, was shown repeatedly for the whole world to see complete with blood and everything…that’s why we must question the motives of some for being on the blog, it’s really a Bajan..which means lower in Spanish…condition that they have ALL THE FACTS, about government corruption, police torture and brutality, racism, exploitation, oppression…BILLION DOLLAR THEFTS AGAINST THEMSELVES, yet they will still park their asses on a blog and PRETEND NONE OF IT IS HAPPENING and try to cover it all up and attack you for exposing any of it….

    ….the only thing they will EVER protest bitterly is WHO IS HAVING CONSENSUAL SEX WITH WHOM or if one of them gets promoted in a job and they are jealous or if another black person like themselves gets wealthy, they will take to the streets in droves and holler and scream in protest…..but they will never do it to protect themselves, each other or their human rights……i shit you not…

    the thing is…the state department also knows all of this and so does amnesty international…but unless the black face thieves, liars and enablers for lawmakers…legislate and ENFORCE integrity legislation, FOIA…freedom of information….anti-corruption etc…to protect the black population….THESE AGENCIES HANDS ARE EFFECTIVELY TIED….and the sell out scum in the parliament ROBBING THE PEOPLE of even their human rights…know this…and as we all know they have absolutely REFUSED to make the requisite changes for the last 25 years….because they are the pedigreed slaves, wannabe slave masters and dictators.

    i didn’t even know a few things until yesterday, but now i do….to their detriment…

  25. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Any rebranding ideas pre or post republic for a new system of governance ….from those empty headed uppity asses in the parliament…will have to be STOLEN FROM THE BLOGS…when either of us gives freely of the information and post it, so don’t hold your breath until that day comes…that is where they get ideas, having their little pimp Enuff etc peruse the blogs on a daily basis for intelligent ideas..

  26. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    This govt should be ashamed of self
    The NSRl comes to mind when govt fooled the people that once removed the tax level would decrease to a point of easing which did not happen but the tax was transferred by smoke and mirror policies which have hurt the people
    Woods also spoke about that manner of governance and govt making fun of the peoples intelligence words to the effect that barbados have short memories and in nine days all talk about double taxing the people would be over
    What a dam shame

  27. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    David,

    It is a beautiful day in Barbados for some of us but we aim to make it a beautiful day for all. It is a better place to live than many, many countries in the world.

    But when all our citizens are in the position you and I are in, then indeed Barbados would be an island paradise.

    P.S. There is still some work to be done.

  28. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Gotta thank Cuddear for her wretched display which prompted me to go do a little digging, because something was not quite right, as some of us had been thinking for quite some time, about agencies sending out the same reports each and every year, verbatim, while knowing different, having the same information we have up to present day and still they regurgitate the same old….

    It is now known that both DBLP administrations have repeatedly REFUSED to upgrade legislation to reflect modern times and had to BE FORCED and threatened with blacklisting to implement anti-money laundering legislation, that’s the ONLY reason it got done….so determined are they to keep corruption in play….despite they having corrupted the banking system until it’s now more or less dyfunctional..

    same goes for the supreme court, they are all aware that many of the judges ARE TOO responsible for the destruction of the integrity of the judiciary, but here they are arming them to continue, knowing that it will further degrade the system if integrity legislation does not apply to judges, knowing that cases will never be completed, knowing that black people will continue to be disadvantaged….but there is TEETS TALKING SHITE about judges only trials….instead of holding these judges accountable..

    .they are expending all their negative energies toward sidestepping integrity legislation, FOIA and anti-corruption all in a bid to prevent anyone from cleaning up their corruption and to continue to use it to inflate their bank accounts…..DESPITE they having GOT CAUGHT expanding their illegal activities into OTHER PEOPLE’S JURISDICTION and are now being investigated for their crimes…

    it’s left to the people whether they want this vile system of corruption to say in place to continue robbing them and disenfranchising their children and grandchildren perpetrated by evil ministers, lawyers, politicians etc and their minority sidekicks…it’s up to yall, some of us can only make so many comments and post them, there comes a time that we can do no more…..YOU HAVE TO STOP THEM ALL…kick them out of your parliament THAT YOU FUND….or live with the consequences..

  29. David Avatar
    David

    @Donna

    It will always be a work in progress. No society is perfect.

  30. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Ah here wondering how Professor Shillary and the other reparationists slept last night……….😂🤣😂🤣

  31. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    How does one progress unless one has an idea of what progress is. Moving does not mean one is progressing.

  32. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    ” Every single morning you lot from overseas rise with a single purpose- throw shade at Barbados”

    If they are publishing lies, they should be banned and block. You would have my support and encouragement as I am a strong believer in free speech and I do not believe this freedom extends to spreading lies.

    Have a great day, Barbados
    HAGD

  33. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    Free speech, on condition it is not so free that it upsets the chairman. As to ‘you overseas lot’, why don’t you go away. We do not want you, unless you bring in the Greenbacks.

  34. BAJE Avatar
    BAJE

    Every single morning you lot from overseas rise with a single purpose- throw shade at Barbados.

    XXxX xxx xxx xxx

    ONE OF THE MOST STUPIDEST COMMENTS I HAVE READ ON BU.

    YOU CALL TELLING TRUTH AND SPEAKING REALITY THROWING SHADE.

    YOU MUST BE AMONG THE SAME PEDIGREE AS THE LOCAL POLITICIANS.

  35. Miller Avatar
    Miller

    What about the “SHADE” thrown by the political class on the country?

    Didn’t Donville throw the biggest penumbra to date and ably extended by the load of evidence still stored for safekeeping in that big red designer bag marketed by MAM?

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

    You know already no one says a word when the disgustingly corrupt ministers and lawyers or the racist minorities DISRESPECT THE POPULATION AND THE ISLAND….but try to give information to institute change and they jump on you….that’s why am so glad that they are ALL being investigated and not by anyone on the island with their small island power mentalities….that love to keep the destructive status quo in place for some kinda perverse pleasure….. not wanting to see any real reform, but in love with the idea only.

    even UK is ushering in reformation because having had centuries of experience they know it’s the only way to survive and to prosper…but not the half-assed idiots in Barbados, they want to continue on the same trajectory and got the goddamn nerve to EXPECT DIFFERENT RESULTS……😂😂🤣🤣🤣.

  37. BAJE Avatar
    BAJE

    IS THIS LOCAL BLACK BAJAN MOTHER THROWING SHADE ON BARBADOS TOO?

    I GUESS SHE IS NOT PART OF YOUR PEDIGREE.

    xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

    Son suffering seizures following police encounter, mother claims

    An irate mother is alleging that police brutality has brought on her son’s suffering seizures

    In an interview with Barbados TODAY, Melissa Walcott charged that since being hit in the head with a gun by a police officer last Wednesday, her 20-year-old son had suffered two seizures.

    She said he had never suffered from a seizure before the alleged confrontation with police.

    Walcott said as a result, he had been detained at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) for treatment.

    In recalling what happened, Walcott, who resides in Kingsland Gardens, Christ Church, said her son was at home last Wednesday when two friends came to visit him and he subsequently left with them.

    She said her son told her that the two friends dropped him off at a location and left.

    “Whatever happened, the police were on the scene. He ran and after he ran he said he was held by the police and the police hit him in his head with the gun. He didn’t say what gun, how big the gun was, nothing.

    “That happened on Wednesday and he also received a laceration to his right knee which required surgery. He cannot remember how he got the laceration but the cut in his head he is saying that he was ‘gun-butted’ by the police,” Walcott said.

    The upset mother said that injury to his head required “four to five” stitches.

    She said on Saturday her son was discharged from the QEH into police custody

    Walcott said she spoke to him and he complained of feeling unwell.

    “Yesterday [Sunday] I got a call that he fell and he burst his mouth. I tried to talk to him but he’s not really corresponding like how he usually does.

    “After he fell a doctor was called to see the wound and when I got to the hospital the doctor told me that he had seizures and he believes those seizures are in connection with the blow to the head,” the distraught mother said.

    “My child never had a seizure before, never once. Now, he had two seizures – one in the cell and the second one he had in front of the doctor and the doctor summoned an ambulance and took him to the QEH.”

    Walcott said she had been told by the doctor that her son had also suffered kidney failure.

    “He is 20 and he never had a seizure before. He isn’t even in the system for medication…Now he’s complaining for headaches all of the time,” she complained.

    She admitted though, that her son had a previous run in with the law.

    She said he had spent a year on remand at HMP Dodds after being charged in connection with a shooting incident. He had been out on bail since December 2019

    Her attorney-at-law Rasheed Belgrave, told Barbados TODAY that the country’s Constitution protects all citizens against any physical abuse while in police custody.

    “If what Ms Walcott is saying is true then the situation is a very severe one. It is an allegation of her son being gun-butt which had led to seizures so that is very serious and something which needs to be investigated,” Belgrave said.

    He said he would also advise his client to make a complaint to the Office of Professional Responsibility.

    Efforts to reach Commissioner of Police Tyrone Griffith and police public relations officer Inspector Rodney Inniss proved unsuccessful up to press time.

    https://barbadostoday.bb/2020/11/03/son-suffering-seizures-following-police-encounter-mother-claims/

  38. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    David,

    Paradise is perfect. I have therefore never described Barbados as a paradise. The statement is as false as the statement that Barbados is hell.

    Keep it real!

  39. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    To the piece of shit in the parliament:

    no one is paying you a monthly salary by the tens of thousands of dollars, after begging for votes, to violate BLACK PEOPLE RIGHTS…as you have been doing for decades, you have tied the hands of world bodies by STEADFASTLY refusing to:

    legislate and enforce FOIA…..cause you don’t want the world to know the crimes you’ve committed against the people and country

    legislate integrity legislation THAT ACTUALLY WORKS…because ya are COVERING UP for everyone of you involved in CRIMES

    legislate anti-money laundering legislation….WITH NO LOOPHOLES…..cause am sure if anyone specializing in international law takes a closer look at that legislation, they will find every hole…

    legislate anti-corruption legislation….but filled WITH ESCAPE CLAUSES that lets thieves who STEAL BILLIONS OF TAXPAYERS and PENSION MONEY off the hook

    but yall don’t have enuff fingers to stick in the leaking dyke…and ya can only attempt cover up in Barbados, but nowhere else that ya have committed multiple crimes…you are effectively imprisoned on the island and ya should tell the people what’s real going on but ya won’t will ya…still playing big, bad, large and in charge and know you have been effective shut down….

    i thought i should let the people know..

  40. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Having a previous run in with law enforcement is no reason to get a GUN BUTT TO THE HEAD that probably caused brain damage….am sure the clowns on BU will disagree until they too get a gun butt to the head…

  41. Crusoe Avatar
    Crusoe

    Hal AustinNovember 3, 2020 7:57 AM How does one progress unless one has an idea of what progress is. Moving does not mean one is progressing.

    Very good comment. Profound as it goes to the heart of the purpose even of this blog.

  42. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    For all the big pharma repeat victims, check the status of the medications you are using, google helps with that too..

    https://youtu.be/V4un16isO-s

  43. David Avatar
    David

    @Donna

    Take a breath, reference to paradise is intended to have a figurative meaning.

  44. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    @ David who wrote, ” Every single morning you lot from overseas rise with a single purpose- throw shade at Barbados.”

    Trying to find some shade to throw but distracted by IPL cricket.

  45. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    That is the trouble with ‘you lot from overseas’.

  46. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    For all of you who believe having US citizenship really means something…i remember some years ago, long time, i brought up this discussion because i knew for a fact it happens, i think the same Cuddear, then named something else told me i was lying. As far as i knew all the people i know, know they have been deporting US citizens for years, people in Barbados need to do more reading, more research and travel more, although many travel and still know very little, spent years even in this same countries and know even less… Well here are the statistics….time to open your minds.

    “Deportations of U.S. citizens occur much more frequently than commonly understood. According to Jacqueline Stevens, a professor at Northwestern University and founder of the Deportation Research Clinic, about 1 percent of all people detained by ICE are U.S. citizens, and about one-half of 1 percent of all people deported from the country are U.S. citizens. That means thousands, or even tens of thousands, of U.S. citizens are deported annually.”

  47. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    David,

    I do not see the benefits of hyperbole at this time or in this context. If you want others to keep it real in their comments, so should you.

  48. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    We know that mankind is not perfect and the battle between good and evil is a daily event. Some countries have managed to minimize the casualties more so than others. Some countries are keeping corruption in check much better than we are. Others do far worse. I KNOW that corruption in Barbados is at an unacceptable level and is likely to remain so until citizens do more than talk. Right now absolutely nothing is being done. (Latest case – Transport Board. Mock hearings as usual. No action taken. None will be taken.)

    And Barbados will continue to limp along until we tackle it.

    If one sees life in Barbados through that lens, then one will always be throwing shade. Because no matter what the Government does one knows that much better could be done and so one will never be satisfied.

    We are in deep trouble right now. Nothing will change until we treat corruption seriously. No matter what the international organisations do for us, we will be back at square one in short order.

    That is a fact. No shade.

  49. Enuff Avatar
    Enuff

    David
    But them staying put in their “paradise” overseas where the likes of Trump and the Oxbridge educated pedigreed rules. I bet their mouths are shut and don’t pollute a single blog? COVID surging in the UK, US and Canada, and the diaspora crew just paint Bdos in the worst light everyday as if those economies didn’t experience economic decline betwern 14 and 30% at sometime during Covid. Them cussing judge only cases, but living comfortably in countries where the practice exists. You would not believe that George Floyd happened and police were the cause; or that the Met Police constantly profiles and criminalises blacks as is evident in the stats on stop and search. I wonder wuh condition yuh duz call dah–‘feel yuh better off….’?

  50. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    The policy started back in the 1980s, jointly between the UK, US, Canada and Australia. The policy, now called Windrush, was to deport those who had long lived in the country, but had failed to take out citizenship.
    Now it has moved on to dual nationality. And, under the Tory government (Priti PATEL) citizens with access to citizenship in other countries (dual citizens) are being deported. It is applied to those sentenced to more than a year in jail, or for terrorism.
    Sometime ago I said on BU that we should adopt the same policy and deport some of those New Barbadians who cause trouble when a loud mouth came on and asked how could we do that. Simple. Do as the US and Old Dominions do.

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