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Thinking Outside the Box: The New order of Doing Things

Submitted by Roslyn Shepherd

Post Covid 19, we need to look at matters from a different perspective rather than rehash and complain about the scary economic and financial reality.  Big business is all about profit, not about the outlay of money without a future gain.  Against the contraction in business, banks will continue to sell off shares and/or downsize and move most of their business to automated platforms.  More than likely, unemployment will continue to increase while wages contract.  We need to bring a different approach to acquiring skills as well as the work world. 

It is all about attitude and developing passion as well as looking for your niche; so said a technical guy I know.  He expands this thoughts, saying I believe in layering a foundation of base skills that interlace and allow the fluidity of moving between disciplines as well as the cross borrowing of ideas with the benefit of seeing broader possibilities for solutions.  To this end he decided to conquer six (6) skills, all of which he started at the same time.  The aim was to get a feel of them as well as to determine whether the selection suited his skill set. It was accepted that all could not be done at once.  His approach was supported by the fact that the first curriculum for the first degree was done by someone without a degree and that his non-traditional approach of charting a different pathway might not lead to work but could be of help to those who needed it. Covid interrupted the order of things so he switched to learning programming and electronics especially manufacturers preferred program language and combined that knowledge with what he had previously learnt about sensors, actuators and building devices to help in agriculture.  He continues to incorporate electronics into different agricultural methods.

Wanting to help, he reached out to Barbados representatives in the prior government to ascertain how he could partner with 4-H programs.  No one responded.  His focus is now on helping his country of residence provide food for a food bank.  

He concluded that we do not know how to evaluate talent and this will be part of Barbados’s down fall.  My suggestion is that we must fast track the acquisition of that skill quickly.    

189 responses to “Thinking Outside the Box: The New order of Doing Things”

  1. peterlawrencethompson Avatar
    peterlawrencethompson

    It is about much more than “attitude and developing passion as well as looking for your niche…” it is about understanding the macroeconomic and cultural trends which show where future economic opportunity lies, then carefully figuring out how to exploit that opportunity, not simply as individuals, but as a coherent community.

    The Welcome Stamp Visa program is one small example of exploiting macroeconomic trends. However, the point of my idea to bring people to Barbados to work remotely is not simply to import their spending power. We do need the hundreds of millions of USD, CAN, Sterling, & Euros that they will bring for sure, but that is not my ultimate agenda… my real agenda is to get those USD, CAN, Sterling, & Euro paying jobs for Bajans.

    The point is to make the connections for Bajans to work at the same type remote work jobs for fat USD, CAN, Sterling & Euro salaries that these visitors are working at when they come here. Many of us have the skills, we just don’t have the connections… but now we are going to make those connections, and we will not have to leave this rock to do so.

    This beats the hell out of being waiters and maids in the dead end tourism industry.

    I’ll tell you a secret… you remember what happened to American industrial blue collar jobs starting in the 70s when they shifted offshore and made a global power out of China?

    Well an exactly parallel process is happening to American office white collar jobs. This evolution will strip each North American and European big city of population and tax base, leading many to spiral into dramatic economic collapse. Think of Detroit in the late 60s, on the brink of plummeting into decades of decline and bankruptcy that robbed it of the majority of its population, all of its industrial tax base, and even its status as Motown. Now scale that up by 10 or 20 and apply it to San Francisco, Toronto, London, New York… Imagine large sections of these cities as ghettos controlled by violent organised crime (this economic evolution will defund the police long before radical activists do). Contemplate the economic dislocation when the price of a Manhattan condo collapses from millions to mere thousands or even less…

    This time places like Barbados have the opportunity to be the winners, because we can do social media management or technical editing or web analytics or digital marketing just as well as people in North America and Europe, so let’s train our youth, let’s build up the Welcome Stamp program with special emphasis on technology professionals, let’s make those connections, let’s take those jobs and build Barbados into a 21st century economic powerhouse that is the envy of the world..

  2. groslyn Avatar
    groslyn

    He offered a micro perspective; his. You offer a macro perspective; the countries. I like

  3. David Avatar
    David

    In others words the Singapore experience comes into play again. How a benevolent leader spotted the global trend at the time and inspired a nation to coalesce around national objectives by selling the vision. Then the task of cascading to the population.

  4. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Very impressive, powerful and interesting, the skills do exist…it’s the opportunities to implement that’s the hold-up..

    “It is all about attitude and developing passion as well as looking for your niche; so said a technical guy I know. He expands this thoughts, saying I believe in layering a foundation of base skills that interlace and allow the fluidity of moving between disciplines as well as the cross borrowing of ideas with the benefit of seeing broader possibilities for solutions.”

  5. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    “The point is to make the connections for Bajans to work at the same type remote work jobs for fat USD, CAN, Sterling & Euro salaries that these visitors are working at when they come here. Many of us have the skills, we just don’t have the connections… but now we are going to make those connections, and we will not have to leave this rock to do so.”

    IT and manufacturing migrated to India and China where salaries are 1/20th (one days pay in west = one months pay in east).
    Competition in East multiplied with lower bids driving costs down further.
    India and China has to compete with countries like Bangladesh offering lower costs.
    The only people who make big bucks are the CEO’s who pay people $100 month and middle men buyers who work on behalf of Western corps and look for cheapest bids for work on consignment.

  6. Bajeabroad Avatar
    Bajeabroad

    @PLT

    You are on the right track in terms of a Barbadian sitting at home offering their skills globally and earning their FX without setting a foot outside of the rock.

    These opportunities already exist via gig work platforms like Freeup, Fiverr and Upwork. Anyone can create courses on Udemy. Many Jamaicans and Nigerians already do and earn USD daily. Know a few generating 6 figures annually and still in their home countries.

    One challenge is getting those earned funds into your Bajan bank account as you know our banking system is still setup to favour the 1% and capital movement is archaic to say the least. Again this has to be systemic design given our high per capita of lawyers, consultants and technocrats who can solve the problem

    But there are creative ways around that he he

    Knowledge is global and easy exported. That is the future of Barbados. A focus on acquiring globally relevant skills around digital marketing, customer service, coding, gamification, photography and video post production, blog content development, ghost writing, and the list goes on.

    It fits well with a still well educated population with internet access and good command of English. Requires very little government intervention except around capital flows legislation improvement

    Let’s go Barbados! Pathways are already available let’s do a little research and start earning

  7. Vincent Codrington Avatar
    Vincent Codrington

    @555dubstreet at 9 :59 AM

    Spot on !
    We need to dig a little deeper. In a more formal sense , International Business Companies already do this. Are we not moving from a macro situation to a micro situation? Are we rearranging the chairs on the deck and playing loud music to distract? Just thinking aloud as usual.

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

    “These opportunities already exist via gig work platforms like Freeup, Fiverr and Upwork. Anyone can create courses on Udemy. Many Jamaicans and Nigerians already do and earn USD daily. Know a few generating 6 figures annually and still in their home countries.”

    yes….and so much more.

  9. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    Allow me to call on PLT to add some detail to his post. Here is a chance to educate me and other bloggers.

    I found it surprising that US companies rushed to India. We in the Caribbean have the advantage of being closer to the USA and English is our native language. Why did these companies choose to transfer their IT and call service support and parts of their manufacturing to IndIa?

    Why did Intel leave? Why did not other companies NA rush in?

    The same factors that created the preference for India/Asia are still in place. And then we have the “What monkey see, monkey do” mentalities. When we attempt to change direction, then we will see other islands rushing to embrace the same ideas. The race to the bottom begins.

    I believe there s some merit in what PLT says, but I find it hard to see the deep blue sky without the accompanying clouds. We must factor in the competition.

  10. David Avatar
    David

    India has a large cadre of software expertise and infrastructure.

  11. Bajeabroad Avatar
    Bajeabroad

    India has a very well tech workforce who also speak ENGLISH = low training and assimilation costs and the reason lots of us customer service and back office operations are actually based on India.

    The Caribbean english speaking population is too small by comparison and each island has different priorities, but there are opportunities for INDIVIDUALS in our Caribbean islands to generate FX for themselves now. We don’t have to wait on government to facilitate

    My business uses these gig work services on Fiverr weekly and I have great service providers in Nigeria doing my photoshop and 3D rendering work right out of this apartment in Lagos. Could easily have been a Bajan getting that FX

    Didn’t need the government to directly make that happen

    Let’s go Barbados!

  12. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    @Baje.
    I agree fully with what you said.
    And I will say “Let’s go Barbados”.
    I do not want to make it personal, but it illustrate the point I am trying to make.
    Why did you settle on workers in Nigeria and not some in Barbados? What can be done in Barbados can easily be done elsewhere. I am not asking for it to be published here, but we have to figure out what will make us the winner in a bid for services.

    I hesitate to voice some comments in this forum because the words “throwing shade” and “negativity” are often introduced to limit and steer the discussion.

    Let’s go Barbados!

  13. Bajeabroad Avatar
    Bajeabroad

    @TheOGazerts

    It’s not personal at all..we are all trying to help and discuss workable ideas

    When I request services on the Gig work platforms I can filter and search for providers from any country I want. Among the lists I see Nigeria and Jamaica often but NEVER see Barbados. I make it a point to try and give the job my brothers and sisters once they have a 4.5/5 rating on many jobs at least and would love to see the Barbados flag and name there as an option

    I agree with you and KNOW my Bajan brothers and sisters can offer services here and compete. The issue is lack of awareness on the opportunities…not on current curriculum….and as I said minor capital flow hurdles.

    Learning to offer these services and earning our way globally is open to all Bajans NOW. More important than studying Shakespeare and other irrelevant nonsense that still on our antiquated, colonial based “education” system that stuck in pre-independence mode

  14. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    Thanks.
    One person that I would like to see contribute on this topic is MoneyBrain.
    I thinks he would broaden the conversation.

  15. John A Avatar
    John A

    @ David

    We must stop using Singapore as a wish list as Barbados will never be a Singapore and for one very simple reason and that is here the politicians need the vote every 4 years.

    The leaders in Singapore had a vision laid it down and the people HAD to follow. As is the case with China and others.

  16. David Avatar
    David

    @John A

    We have to find a way to replicate what needs to be done given the design of our system of democracy. It is the only way.

  17. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    “Among the lists I see Nigeria and Jamaica often but NEVER see Barbados.”

    and people take it for a joke when I said this concept was introduced to Ronald the Jackass Jones 10 years ago, but he was so incensed that Black people’s children had the temerity to get that many scholarships in 2010 that he dismissed the idea from a parent when advised that IT WAS THE INTELLIGENT AVENUE TO PURSUE….. to bring progress and upward mobility for the population…….his mind is just as ugly as his goddamn face….

    i have related the story about 1000 times on BU over the years, so no surprise that they are still dismissing the advice of people who know more than them with their fake selves, faker titles, low intellect and ignorance, and now the island is at least 25 years behind in all things significant to progress for the black population….they will have to play catchup while everyone else stays 25 years ahead.

  18. John A Avatar
    John A

    @ David.

    Don’t get me wrong we need to drastically restructure our economy but what signs have you seen of that happening here? We are 9 months into Covid and what has goverment done to bring a plan to move us away from tourism dependancy?

    As i said the leaders of Singapore had a vision and pursed it, we lack one and only talk about it, Big difference. My view is that they are afraid to accept
    Here the employment fallout that the post covid economy will bring, hence they are waiting for the tourism revival when they should be repositioning the economy.

    The Singapore head led and the people followed, not that they had much choice to. Do you see that type of direction here if so please show me it.

  19. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    @TheoG

    Why did these companies choose to transfer their IT and call service support and parts of their manufacturing to IndIa?
    +++++++++++++++
    Re Call Centre Service: In a nutshell Industrial Relations, I worked for a company that established (through a third party) a Call Centre in the Phillipines and one of my colleagues travelled there (he was Filipino) to train the locals. He told me that the conditions that people worked under would never be accepted in Canada and Bajans wouldn’t accept them either. Barbados has a very active labour union and the North American entities are very aware of them so don’t expect Call Centres here.

  20. John A Avatar
    John A

    @ David

    Let me ask you one question and it shows why we will never be a Singapore.

    In the last 15 years each party has said the NIS needs a serious restructuring. They usually say this when in opposition though. Why you think 15 years later not a soul will do it? The reason is simple it will cost them votes when they increase the worker and company contributions and move the retirement age to 70. Now if this had to be done in Singapore that would not be a concern.

  21. David Avatar
    David

    @John A

    Agree with you we lack the structure to force real change because our political parties always have an eye on the upcoming election.

  22. Bajeabroad Avatar
    Bajeabroad

    @ JohnA

    True. If you look at any pivotal moment in history or any successful company there is always the hero or charismatic LEADER that made it happen despite the odds, challenges, naysayers and competition which is always present. It takes real guts and grit to pull it off and you have to LEAD….sometimes at the price of your health and life.

    We don’t have those LEADERS in politics across the Caribbean as it would disrupt the status of the lazy colonial merchant class who wants to keep us stuck in the past supporting their lifestyles. It’s easier and cheaper for the merchant class to buy off a fella for a few thousand and free car than lose millions in generational wealth to the masses. Never forget that as it is the real resistance you are up against

    Let’s go Barbados!

  23. Miller Avatar
    Miller

    @ John A December 6, 2020 1:12 PM

    Neither would the employers be allowed to deduct the employees’ contributions and refuse to pay them over to the relevant collecting agency similar to what they did with the VAT collected from their customers. And written off by the same politicians.

  24. John A Avatar
    John A

    @ Bajebroad

    You want a classic example of how poor a job we are doing with diversifying our economy, look at agriculture over the last 9 months. Clico got some of the best agricultural land on the island and the NCC got a nursery and equipment. Why all like now we don’t have a massive green house project going on these lands to cut the food import bill?
    Cause all we good at is talk and more talk.

    Why with all the land government own we haven’t entered into a massive alternative energy project to reduce the demand on FX with imported oil?
    Again talk and more talk.

    So again I ask in the last 9 months what has goverment done to reduce our dependency on tourism and lower the demand for scarce FX in relation to food and oil imports?

  25. BAJE Avatar
    BAJE

    Neither would the employers be allowed to deduct the employees’ contributions and refuse to pay them over to the relevant collecting agency similar to what they did with the VAT collected from their customers. And written off by the same politicians.

    xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

    SANCTIONED THEFT AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL.

    STOLEN MONEY (VAT) FROM THE BLACK MASSES TO MAKE THE WHITE BUSINESS OWNERS WHO PRIMARILY BENEFITED FROM BLP GOVERNMENT SANCTIONED THEFT ALONG WITH CLOSE ASSOCIATES AND FAMILY.

    THIS SAME STOLEN MONEY COULD NOW HAVE BEEN USED TO PAY THE 40% UNEMPLOYED BLACK BAJANS AND THEIR FAMILIES FOR A LONG TIME PERIOD.

  26. John A Avatar
    John A

    @ Miller

    Owe the Singapore goverment $500M in taxes and don’t pay and see where you end up. The reality is there you would never be allowed to owe $50,000 without action being taken, so you would never of had the opportunity to owe them $500M!

    That is why i say stop comparing us to Singapore as we will never get there for all the reasons I have mentioned. I will go further now and say I don’t believe this goverment has a plan to restructure this economy for the post covid environment either, if they did they would of started since April. All i have seen is more of the same tourism dependancy being offered as the solution.
    Wait I forget talk and more talk.lol

  27. BAJE Avatar
    BAJE

    TikTok’s new generation of millionaires: ‘I did it 100% on my own’

    And one controversial social media platform — TikTok — has created a brand-new class of young millionaires who are becoming the breadwinners for their households. With one in three Americans on TikTok, according to the Chinese-owned app, it has become a clear winner for eyeballs and ad dollars even as lawmakers continue to criticize its security practices.

    The short-form video sharing app features everything from business advice to cooking tutorials, comedic couples pranks, and grandparents dancing — its algorithm creates a stream of videos designed to cater to your interests and suck you in for hours.

    TikTok creators have found the platform, which has 689.2 million monthly active users, to be unrivaled when it comes to potential virality, followership, and creative career opportunities.

    And many of these wealthy new TikTok stars aren’t even old enough to drink yet.

    Michael Le, 20, a choreographer on TikTok, posts entertaining and wholesome dance videos, accruing 42.5 million followers 1.2 billion likes for his videos. Le recently bought a house in Los Angeles after relocating from Florida.

    He originally moved to California with a group of friends, but now lives and works with seven people, including his mom and younger siblings.

    “I feel like financially I’m really good. I’m making smart moves. I have a team to assess what I’m doing with my money. I’m at seven figures now,” he told Yahoo Finance.

    Le’s primary income source is through brand partnerships on TikTok that pay anywhere from $20,000 to $50,000 for a single post. He’s worked with brands like Amazon (AMZN) Prime Video, Bliss Skincare, Bang Energy, Postmates, Safeguard Soap, and Tums.

    https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tiktok-creators-millionaires-monetizing-trump-china-132006593.html

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

    Tief not, want not.

  29. John A Avatar
    John A

    @ Miller

    You want to see another difference with Singapore and us. Go and research what happen to Teh Cheang Wan there and compare it to what we do to Donville locally in terms of charging him for anything. If he didn’t get hold in the USA all like now we might of knight him here. Lol

    Talk cheap but action scarce.

    John

  30. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    We had a young lady featured in the Sunday Sun a few weeks ago who is making her living with such content. My son and many of his friends are also trying it.

  31. Bajeabroad Avatar
    Bajeabroad

    @Donna

    I live in this space daily and if anyone doubts the opportunity that is their business. It most certainly is the future and an opportunity that is available to all Bajans RIGHT NOW.

    Spread the word and let’s go Barbados!

  32. BAJE Avatar
    BAJE

    WHAT REAL CHANGE LOCAL BLACK BAJANS NEED IS TO IDENTIFY BLACK BUSINESSES ACROSS THE ISLAND AND SPEND THEIR MONEY WITH THEM AND BUILD THEM UP WHICH SHOULD LEAD TO GREATER EMPLOYMENT AMONG THEMSELVES.

    THEY SHOULD ALSO STOP GOSSIPING AND TRYING TO PULL DOWN THE SAME BUSINESSES THRIVING ONCE THEY HAVE A NEW CAR, HOME OR TRAVELING.

    THE WHITE MAN AND INDIAN DOES IT AND NO ONE SEEMS TO CARE UNLESS A BLACK BUSINESS MAN OR WOMAN DOES IT.

    I BELIEVE THE TRUST FUND RUN BY JERRY AMOS WAS GIVEN $10 MILLION TO PROVIDE LOANS TO START UP AND SMALL BUSINESSES WHICH SHOULD IMPACT A MINIMUM OF 1000 SMALL BLACK OWNED BUSINESSES PRIMARILY.

    FUNDS ACCESS AND BYBT (I WAS A FORMER MENTOR) JOINTLY SHOULD ALSO HAVE OVER THE YEARS FUNDED SEVERAL THOUSANDS OF PRIMARILY SMALL BLACK BUSINESSES ACROSS THE ISLAND.

    EACH OF THESE 3 ENTITIES SHOULD HAVE A BUSINESS DIRECTORY OF ALL BUSINESSES ON THEIR BOOKS FORMER AND CURRENT AND IN WHAT BUSINESS SECTORS.

    SO THEY ARE ENOUGH BLACK BUSINESSES ON THE ISLAND IN EVERY SECTOR FROM GUEST HOUSES, HOTELS, SUPERMARKETS, HARDWARE STORES, RETAIL, AGRICULTURE, AUTO SUPPLIES, CAR RENTAL, HAIR AND PERSONAL GROOMING, CLOTHING, CAR SALES, CONSTRUCTION, FENCING, SERVICES AND CONSULTING ETC THAT THE BLACK MASSES SHOULD SEEK OUT AND SPEND THEIR MONEY WHILST HELPING TO TAKE THEMSELVES OUT OF BONDAGE.

    THERE IS NO EXCUSE IN 2020 TO SAY THAT THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH BLACK BUSINESSES FOR THE BLACK MASSES TO SPEND ON THE 2 x 3 ISLAND TO UPLIFT THEMSELVES AND THEIR FAMILIES.

  33. Miller Avatar
    Miller

    @ John A December 6, 2020 2:18 PM

    A government (for example the Bajan) not collecting taxes which it has budgeted for is like a business refusing to collect its accounts receivables while still making deliveries of goods and services to its debtors and not settling with its creditors.

    It must run into serious cash flow problems even if the government has the power to impose additional taxes on the ‘obedient’ tax payers.

    Barbados has been plugging those annual deficits (holes in the ‘inflows’ side of the cash flow accounting statement) by borrowing at exorbitant interest rates.

    Those days are over and the government must learn very quickly how to live within its means as it was doing, relatively speaking, in the country’s first 25 years of Independence.

  34. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    @ Baje

    Apart from rum, one of our major manufacturing products is hot sauce. Yet we cannot even get that together. There are about a dozen or more brands on the market, all selling an insignificant amount.
    Yet, strangely enough, I have an English friend who first got hot sauce in Barbados and now cannot do without it. He lives in the country and every time he comes to London, or we are visiting him we must pack hot sauce.
    Here is an opportunity for government to step in and bring the manufacturers together in a proper manufacturing setting and promote the product.
    But, then again, it is manufacturing; we like services, especially law, tourism and finance; that makes us world class.

  35. TheOgazerts Avatar
    TheOgazerts

    It’s competitive.
    https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2020/11/30/Hawaii-offers-free-round-trips-for-remote-workers/5521606760085/

    https://sports.yahoo.com/hawaii-seeks-seen-remote-workplace-160824233.html

  36. TLSN Avatar
    TLSN

    @ Hal,
    I thought we had agreed not to put out ideas on this site. We have 30 government ministers who are well paid to THINK!

    Several years ago I stated that with so many Bajans in the diaspora that our government should establish provisions/ food outlets in Canada, the UK and the States to provide for their needs. At a stroke we would cut out the Paki’ and Hindu man.

    This would allow our people to both generate and keep wealth within our community.

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

    Miller…check out the sellout brigade handiwork. Got their marijuana slave plantations all ready for black people only. Whike they still go to prison for the plant.

    https://www.instagram.com/tv/CIWKndAHrPb/?igshid=13t5fkv1a6ihq

  38. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Did anyone notice Charles Herbert the Goddards yacht big cocaine/marijuana drug shipment, that PLT SWORE UP AND DOWN BU that Herbert knew nothing about and was innocent, next thing ya know, the DPP let him go, black man took the fall……..wuh looka how lies does haunt ya though………….😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  39. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    Recognize one man in the video
    One would think that after the Agony and the Ecstasy, some would not let themselves to be caught in a marijuana video.

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

    Theo…thing is, as the dude said, the Marijuana has not even been legalized yet, so where is PLT to tell us that Herbert could never, never ever, ever, ever be part of any illegal marijuana big drug shipment…….🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣…

    ah guess, as we had been warning him that there will be EGG ALL OVER HIS FACE…..we only had to wait 2 plus years, ain’t that something…..lol

  41. Miller Avatar
    Miller

    @ WURA-War-on-U December 6, 2020 3:19 PM

    Is that same marijuana business magnet “throwing shade” on Barbados when he boasts of employing the locals, i.e. the blacks who have been persecuted for growing the same plant in order to save foreign exchange and to build up the local economy instead of those of St. Vincent, Jamaica, Guyana and Columbia?

  42. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    1:21 to 1:23.
    Suspect the video was heavily edited.
    Wondering what the alternative was to guard towers and why does he have to mention the hiring of locals (I took that for granted)

    Throwing shade at Big Mike

  43. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    @TLSN

    Apologies. Watch out for the Indian hot sauce factory going up soon and employing overweight old black ladies. Apologies for letting slip this idea. It will not happen again. Buggers.
    Sometimes the incompetents are so awful one cannot resist joking about them. Clever dicks. Even the flying fish have left us.

  44. peterlawrencethompson Avatar
    peterlawrencethompson

    Cannabis faming in Barbados is an ill considered waste of money. It is almost certain to be a scam because the cannabis farms in Canada, where it is already legal, are loosing money by the bucketload.

    Didn’t we learn our lesson farming another drug, sugar, for export?… that “employed locals” as well. This is just one more lame effort to bring back the Plantation as a socio-economic structure of exploitation.

  45. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    Another mcguffie looking to set up shop and used citizens for slave labour
    Any how this is Barbados dont expect nothing better

    In the sixties barbados was a self made industrial country made up of people who knew how to build an economy
    Now all.left are loud noises blowing hot air and people looking through other successful countries window wondering how they did it
    Whoever said that a nations best resource is its peoples got it right
    China understood that much
    Barbados still thinking about

  46. BAJE Avatar
    BAJE

    WHAT CAUGHT MY EARS IN THE VIDEO IS WHEN THIS WHITE FOREIGNER SAYS IT IS HIS CHANCE TO HIRE LOCALS.

    MEANING TO DO ALL THE MENIAL JOBS LIKE BEING ON A OLD PLANTATION.

    I HAVE SAID @PLT HAS NO CREDIBILITY AND THAT CHARLES HERBERT IS A KNOWN DRUG DEALER.

    I KNOW OF WHAT I SPEAK I PLAYED GOLF WITH HIM MANY TIMES.

    @ WARU THANKS FOR POSTING VIDEO.

    WHITES CONTINUE TO CONTROL BARBADOS IN 2020 AIDED BY POLITICAL SELLOUT ANIMALS AND THE PEOPLE THEY PUT IN PLACE TO ASSIST THEM SUCH AS IN THE CRIMINAL COURTS AND GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRACY.

    THEY ARE MORE THAN ENOUGH BLACK LOCAL BAJANS THAT SHOULD HAVE ALL THE MEDICAL MARIJUANA LICENCES TO DEVELOP THE INDUSTRY LOCALLY AND EMPOWER THEIR PEOPLE INSTEAD OF BEING LOCKED UP FOR IT AND ALLOWING THE WHITES TO AGAIN DISENFRANCHISE THEM.

    THERE IS REALLY SOMETHING SICK MENTALLY ABOUT BLACK POLITICIANS WHO EXPLOIT THEIR OWN PEOPLE FOR THEIR OWN PERSONAL GAINS.

    https://www.instagram.com/tv/CIWKndAHrPb/?utm_source=ig_embed

  47. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    I see that I am on the same wavelength of Miller and Wura.

    The ‘locals’ would beat/shame us into silence. We are supposed to sit and watch as overseas people who are not Bajans should have a “Big”ger voice than the overseas crew.

  48. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    “Suspect the video was heavily edited.”

    we might have missed a quite a few packages….lol

    Miller…..day runs UNTIL….just check out the demeanor of the dude and it says everything we have been posting about for years and years on BU, while trying to get sellouts to see the light, but when ya blind wicked, and self-hating and see ya own people only as slaves to be exploited and left to starve in poverty, this is what happens.

  49. Miller Avatar
    Miller

    @ WURA-War-on-U:

    Don’t jump out of your Wellington boots if you hear that the fowl Enuff’s man of business the Ma(l)money guy gets into the deal by diverting some of that US$ 175 million (sitting in the bank to build a hotel in a sunset industry) as start-up capital in the Bajan Cinderella ‘cure-for-all-economic-ills’ Mary Jane venture.

  50. BAJE Avatar
    BAJE

    CHARLES HERBERT IS A GREEDY MAN, DEFINITELY NOT A WISE ONE.

    DIDN’T LEARN HIS LESSON THE FIRST TIME, AND IN HIS ARROGANCE THOUGHT HE HAD PULLED THE WOOL OVER THE BLACK LOCALS EYES.

    THE VIDEO EXPOSES HIS DECEITFUL DRUG DEALING ASS AS IT SHOULD.

    BLACK SOLD OUT DPP SHOULD BE FIRED.

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