Est.2007

Barbados Underground

Bringing News and Opinions to the People

Banner promoting anonymous crime reporting with a phone and contact number 1 800 TIPS (8477), featuring the Crime Stoppers logo and a QR code for submitting tips.

Senator Caswell Franklyn Speaks – Hail Caesar Mia Mottley, Dictator of Barbados

← Back

Your message to the BLOGMASTER was sent

CONTACT THE BLOGMASTER ONLY

For months I have contemplated but resisted writing about the rule of law, or lack thereof, in Barbados under two consecutive states of emergency. All that changed after I read a WhatsApp message sent to me from an unknown person. It simply said:

“If you allow the government to break the law in an emergency, they will create emergencies to break the law.”

In order to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic, the Government of Barbados decided that it would institute a state of emergency. Rather than use the existing provisions, Government sidestepped the Constitution and the 1939 Emergency Powers Act and amended the Emergency Management Act to provide for a public health emergency. They claimed that the existing Laws of Barbados did not provide for such. Notwithstanding Government’s claim, I contend that there are ample laws to institute any such emergency.

Section 25.(1) of the Constitution permits the Governor-General to declare that a state of emergency exists. Section 25.(2) goes on to state, in part:

A proclamation made by the Governor-General shall not be effective for the purposes of subsection (1) unless it is declared therein that the Governor-General is satisfied-

(a) that a public emergency has arisen as a result of the imminence of a state of war between Barbados and another State or as a result of the occurrence of any earthquake, hurricane, flood, fire, outbreak of pestilence, outbreak of infectious disease or other calamity, whether similar to the foregoing or not…

The power in the Constitution to declare a state of emergency as a result of the “outbreak of infectious disease” immediately gives the lie to Government’s claim that there were no provisions to cater to a public health emergency.

Under a state of public emergency government can, and in this case, restrict citizens from enjoying their constitutional right. The mechanism for doing so in the current emergency is a series of directives issued by the Prime Minister. I make bold to say that the Prime Minister cannot use this mechanism to curtail constitutional rights and freedoms since the enabling legislation did not amend or alter the Constitution of Barbados in anyway. To my mind, since the Emergency Management (Amendment) Act, 2020 did not amend or alter the Constitution; any directives issued by the Prime Minister that curtailed our constitutional rights would be illegal and of no effect.

The obvious question would therefore be: How can government declare a state of emergency to protect the country from the ravages of this Corvid-19 pandemic? The simple answer would be that government should have invoked the provisions of the Emergency Powers Act, 1939-3. I readily admit that many of the provisions of the Emergency Powers Act would offend the Constitution, if they were passed today. Be that as it may, the Constitution itself at section 26 saved laws that would be unconstitutional if there were passed prior to November 30, 1966.

Section 26 of the Constitution also allows the government to re-enact an existing law without alteration or if altered those alterations would not render the law inconsistent with the human rights provisions of the Constitution, that is sections 12 to 23. The amendments made to the Emergency Management Act in 2020 have not faithfully re-enacted the relevant provisions of the Emergency Powers Act. For example, all those orders/directives made under the Emergency Powers Act must, in accordance with section 3.(4) shall be laid before Parliament. It states:

Any orders so made shall be laid before Parliament as soon as may be after they are made and shall not continue in force after the expiration of 7 days from the time when there are so laid unless a resolution is passed by both Houses providing for the continuation.

Section 33.(5) of the Emergency Management Act, which required the Government to lay emergency orders before Parliament, was repealed by the 2020 amendments. It is therefore obvious to me that this Government wanted no oversight when it implemented the public health emergency.

Section 48.(1) of the Constitution provides that Parliament may make laws for the peace, order and good government of Barbados. It is therefore my view that even if enabling legislation allows the Prime Minister or anyone else to make rules, they must be approved by Parliament. In this present state of emergency the Prime Minister is making laws for the peace, order and good government of Barbados without any reference to Parliament.

I am now wondering if persons, who were penalised by the courts for infringing these directives, have any remedy against the state. It would appear that our Prime Minister has now become the absolute dictator of Barbados, which is not too far removed from being a despot. Could the late Prime Minister Arthur have been predicting the future? Just wondering!

Discover more from Barbados Underground

Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.

260 responses to “Senator Caswell Franklyn Speaks – Hail Caesar Mia Mottley, Dictator of Barbados”

  1. John2 Avatar
    John2

    Also
    Every one not as “privileged” as Liz that they can pick up and run home when someone say come

    So why would you deny this family?

  2. Tony Avatar
    Tony

    8 Things to Know Before Your Second COVID-19 Vaccine.

    1) Your side effects will likely be stronger

    Many people who had little to no reaction to the first vaccine dose are reporting that the second one packs a punch — surprising even those who study vaccines for a living.

    Greg Poland, M.D., an infectious disease expert at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and director of Mayo’s vaccine research group, had only mild symptoms after his first dose. But the second one left him shaking — literally — with chills and a temperature of 101.

    “I took one Tylenol and went to bed and woke up the next morning 90 percent improved, and by midday I was back to normal,” Poland says. “This is not an indication of something going wrong; it is an indication of a vigorous immune response.”

    There is no live virus in the vaccine, so you can’t get COVID-19 from being vaccinated.

    Participants in clinical trials of both vaccines had experiences similar to Poland’s. In Pfizer’s clinical trial, for instance, 31 percent of participants ages 18 to 55 reported a fever after the second dose, compared to only 8 percent after the first one. Fatigue, chills, headache and muscle/joint pain were also more common after the second injection for both vaccines.

    The good news is, older adults were less likely to experience vaccine reactions, the data shows. Among those age 55 and up in the Pfizer trial, 22 percent experienced fever after the second dose, and 3 percent had a temperature after the first dose.

    Schaffner recommends not making any big plans for the day after your scheduled vaccine appointment.

    2) You should avoid taking pain relievers before your shot

    If you’ve been hearing stories about second-dose side effects, you may be tempted to take a pain reliever before your appointment.

    That’s not a good idea, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), unless you’ve been advised to do so by your doctor. Pain relievers taken preemptively ahead of a shot could dampen the effectiveness of the vaccine, Poland and Schaffner say.

    However, it’s OK to take acetaminophen (Tylenol) or a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug like Advil or Motrin after your vaccine to treat side effects such as pain, fever, chills or headache.

    3) The timing between doses doesn’t need to be exact

    The second dose of the Pfizer shot is supposed to be given 21 days after the first; for Moderna, the recommended interval between doses is 28 days.

    However, if you can’t get an appointment on the exact day — or if you have to miss your scheduled appointment for some reason — the CDC does allow some wiggle room. Although the agency recommends trying to stick to the suggested interval, it says the second dose can be given up to six weeks after the first.

    If your appointment is scheduled earlier than the recommended date, ask for a later appointment, Schaffner advises. “Your immune response will work perfectly well if you take more time,” he says. “But if you do it too early, the second dose may not invoke an optimal response.”

    4) Your second dose should be from the same manufacturer as your first

    Doctors are already hearing from patients asking if they can get their second dose from a different manufacturer, often because they realize the other type of vaccine is offered at a location that’s more convenient. But the CDC recommends against it: The Moderna and Pfizer vaccines “are not interchangeable with each other or with other COVID-19 vaccine products,” the CDC says. “The safety and efficacy of a mixed-product series have not been evaluated.”

    The CDC does allow the mixing of Pfizer and Moderna shots in “exceptional situations,” such as when the vaccine used for someone’s first dose is no longer available due to a supply shortage, or if it’s unclear which vaccine they got for their first dose.

    5) A rash at the injection site isn’t a reason to skip your second dose

    If you experienced a rash at the injection site three to 10 days after getting your first shot, that doesn’t preclude you from getting your second shot, the CDC says, although it recommends getting it in the other arm.

    A small number of people have developed such rashes, sometimes called “COVID arm,” after vaccination. Doctors say it’s likely a mild allergic reaction that can be treated with an over-the-counter antihistamine such as Benadryl.

    In guidance released Feb. 10, the CDC says the reaction is not believed to represent a risk for a more severe allergic reaction when you get your second dose.

    6) You should temporarily avoid all other vaccines

    It might be time for your shingles or Tdap vaccine, but you should hold off if you are between COVID-19 vaccine doses. Because there’s no data on the safety and efficacy of COVID vaccines administered at the same time as other vaccines, the CDC recommends avoiding other immunizations in the two weeks before and after both doses. Holding off also helps prevent confusion about the cause of a reaction if you experience one.

    The CDC does allow exceptions in circumstances where avoiding the vaccine would put you at risk, such as a tetanus shot after a wound or a hepatitis shot during an outbreak.

    7) Full immunity is not immediate

    It takes two weeks after your second dose for your body to build full protection to the virus. After that, you should have almost zero chance of developing severe disease if you are exposed to someone with COVID-19, Schaffner says. The CDC also says you no longer have to quarantine if you’re exposed to someone with COVID-19 — as long as you meet these criteria: you don’t have symptoms and it hasn’t been more than three months since your second vaccine dose.

    One possible exception is immunocompromised people, Schaffner says. They will get some level of immunity, he says, “but they may not reach the 95 percent because their immune system is already somewhat compromised, no matter how strong these vaccines are.”

    8) You still need to wear a mask

    Experts are divided about whether it’s OK to hug your grandchild or gather socially with other vaccinated people after you’re fully immunized.

    But they agree you should continue to wear a mask and practice social distancing in public. For one thing, there’s a small chance you could get sick even after you’ve been vaccinated.

    In addition, it’s possible that you could still carry the virus and silently transmit it to others who haven’t been vaccinated, even if you don’t develop symptoms.

    And there’s one more reason. Until the country reaches herd immunity — the point when a significant portion of the population becomes immune to a disease — it’s important for everyone to wear a mask to stop the spread of the virus, Schaffner says. “If we have some people walking around maskless and others not, people left and right are just going to discard their masks,” he says. “We are not ready yet for that for society. Let’s all stick to masks a little longer until we get the all clear.”

    Michelle Crouch is a contributing writer who has covered health and personal finance for some of the nation’s top consumer publications. Her work has appeared in Reader’s Digest, Real Simple, Prevention, The Washington Post and The New York Times.

  3. John2 Avatar
    John2

    A

    Those number / example don’t mean a thing

    Thing would still be the same if the borders were closed on dec 26.th . Jan 1st or Jan 26 th

    Obsolutely. Not one bit different
    Unless u had and infected person that came in after Jan first and was allow to roam . And if that happened then heads needs to roll

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

    They did such a bang up job with the virus that the fast moving UK variant MOVED RIGHT IN and they don’t even know if that’s in combination with a new mutation…won’t want any of them in charge of me and my family, that sentiment includes every politician, they are all the same, abject failures pretending to be successful.

  5. Tony Avatar
    Tony

    Wolf, Wolf, how do we fence it????

    It isn’t enough just to say that the procedures in question is flawed but also how it’s flawed and also point out what works well, not just the flaws.

    It’s important that you share your ingenious ideas to fix/resolve the problems you highlighted.

  6. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    Pointing out flaws and stating what works well are two different things.

  7. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @Disgusting Lies & Propaganda TV February 20, 2021 12:27 PM “Another truth is that Barbados has not had the HISTORY OR EXPERIENCE of dealing with civil unrest or natural disasters (especially pandemics of this type). ”

    Historically this is GROSSLY inaccurate.

    The historic truth is that Barbados until recently has been wracked by natural disasters and epidemics and civil unrest too. My own parents remember laying down on the floor to avoid the police bullets during the 1937 Rebellion. People died by police bullets in that one. People the age of my parents were imprisoned for asserting their rights to decent income and decent family life.

    Pelican Island until my own lifetime was for hundreds of years used as a quarantine center.
    Stroll through any of the older churchyards and you will see the tombstones of parents and their young children all dead and buried in the same year, and take note only the wealthy could afford tombstones, countless others were buried without markers.

    Yellow fever is not like Covid19 which kills about 2% of those infected. Without immunization and without treatment treatments yellow fever will kill about 50% of those infected. The first epidemic of yellow fever began in Barbados in 1647 and lasted for 5 years and killed about half the population, mainly indigenous and European people and African descended people. The African born population had mostly already had yellow fever as children and had acquired lifelong immunity and survived. These epidemics went on for hundreds of years since no yellow fever vaccine was available until 1951. Barbados’ churchyards are full of whole families wiped out by yellow fever. The historical truth is that yellow fever is so scary that when my mother traveled for the first time in 1971 she could not step a single inch out of Barbados unless she could show her WHO approved yellow fever immunization certificate.

    And in my own generation, just as we were about to enjoy our sex lives as ALL of humanity has done for millions of years, the whole world, including Barbados was struck by the HIV/AIDS pandemic, and we were told that in order to do what is completely natural we had to “wrap it up” in rubber. The world has not yet recovered from that pandemic, and neither has Barbados.

    The massive buildings which now house the Archives and some of the UWI classrooms are for good reason still know as the Lazeretto, because for hundreds of years lepers were isolated there. Even though I have never met a leper myself, a public health official in my age group told me that he has.

    I am not yet 70 and I remember the public health teams coming to the end of our gap to deal with the two old ladies who had TB and had the potential to spread it to the whole village, especially as we all used the same communal standpipe. I witnessed the health officials burning their mattresses and other soft furnishings and fumigating the house. I am sure that that was not the only case of TB in Barbados in the 1960’s

    Barbados has been struck by tropical storms or hurricanes in July 1653, August 1674, September 1675, October 1780, September 1786, July 1813, August 1831, September 1835, September 1898–my own grandmother only 12 years old lost her father in that one. He was 42, and left a young widow and many, many children–Some still living Bajans remember Janet in September 1955 +plus all of the near misses of the past 66 years.

    Barbados is mostly a tropical paradise now but for most of its post-Columbian history it was a tropical hell hole and had to deal with civil unrest, natural disasters and epidemics. And people had to develop coping strategies, a quarantine island, a lazerrato, vigorous anti-mosquito campaigns, TB campaigns, HIV/AIDS campaigns and on and on and on…

    It int done yet.

  8. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    What unadulterated crap.

  9. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    I am being the devil’s advocate here. Nothing more.

    The same way that you have the SA and UK variants, couldn’t we have have a new and even deadlier Barbadian variant as time passes?

    If by chance the answer is yes, could it be possible that the introduction of the UK/SA variant stopped the deadlier Barbadian variant from developing?

    I stopped drinking, but I would love to be in a rum shop (now illegal?) pushing BUllshit

  10. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Theo..you are talking about as time passes, the diseased tourists were on the island for the whole year, every variant has had an opportunity to mutate to another variant profile since September… there were 7 deaths for at least 10 months…then suddenly 24 deaths within 3 weeks, 8 deaths in one week, do the math, you have a mathematical mind.

  11. Tron Avatar
    Tron

    @ Cuhdear Bajan February 20, 2021 6:09 PM
    @Disgusting Lies & Propaganda TV February 20, 2021 12:27 PM “Another truth is that Barbados has not had the HISTORY OR EXPERIENCE of dealing with civil unrest or natural disasters (especially pandemics of this type).

    And what about the recent Nelson riots where the mob threatened our local businessmen? Since that day, many businessmen always have a flight ticket at hand because they never know when the mob will blame the minorities for their own failures and come after their lives.

  12. John A Avatar
    John A

    @ Artax

    I stand by my statement and will repeat it again for the numerically challenged out there.

    Covid has killed nearly 100 times more people than Ebola has.

    Ebola = 28,000 approximately
    Covid = 2, 450,000.

    Dividing the larger figure by the smaller results in a multiple of 87.5 times. So if you want to be correct to the decimal point to date covid has killed 87.5 times more people than Ebola has.

    That is a reality you can say ” oh but this or yes but that” all you want, however it does not change the numeric reality of the total global deaths of one disease over the other as the numbers registered with the WHO clearly show.

    The reality is the level of contagion and it’s ability to mutate and spread has made it more deadly than many other diseases out there and that my friend is a numeric fact that can not be questioned or challenged by anyone.

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

    “People died by police bullets in that one. People the age of my parents were imprisoned for asserting their rights to decent income and decent family life.”

    despite all of that, yall still allow these dirty politicians and their sidekicks to get away with all types of human rights crimes against yaselves….84 YEARS LATER.

  14. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    @wura
    Was bs-ing like some are doing. Not a serious thought.

  15. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    I like to break things down ok, because i’ve noticed that not many Bajans will notice that 3 and 4 generations later, they are still experiencing the same human rights crimes against themselves…

    1 generation = 25 YEARS..of a person’s life.

    from 1937 to 2021 = 84 YEARS = 3 and a half generations….of human rights abuses against the Black/African population.

  16. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    “Not a serious thought.”

    we have to laugh to break the momentum.

  17. John2 Avatar
    John2

    The numbers may be fact

    But is it also a fact the Covid is spread by air while Ebola is spread by contact that’s why it is much easier to contain Ebola than Covid.? Then you can translate that into the number of cases / deaths

  18. Disgusting Lies & Propaganda TV Avatar
    Disgusting Lies & Propaganda TV

    @Cuddear Bajan I never stated that Barbados NEVER had natural disasters or civil unrest (that is absurd)….It was to state that in COMPARISON with even countries in CARICOM we do not have( in relative terms). the constant dealings with Hurricanes, coups, civil unrest etc. I made that statement in reference to SOME Bajans angst to the SHORT TERM suffering from the lockdown measures. We want to believe that God is a Bajan and that we will avoid these “shocks” for all our lives. Nobody wants to deal with these shocks but WHEN they do come we must known that temporary pain will occur. I remember when we got a lash from Hurricane Ivan and Storm Tomas and the amount of “cries” from people that after two days their electricity wasn’t restored. I told myself it was better than what Grenada got from Ivan or what happened in 1990 with the coup in Trinidad.

  19. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    This is the haunting.

    “The History of Marijuana in Britain
    http://www.civilized.life/articles/the-history-of...
    Britain has a history with marijuana that dates back to the 16th century, when cannabis cultivation in Britain had reached its peak. During this time, there was a high demand to build and maintain ships, which created a boom in the hemp market because the strong fibers were crucial for building. By 1533, King Henry VIII actually issued laws requiring British farmers to grow hemp, and thirty years later Queen Elizabeth I increased this amount farmers were obligated to grow”

  20. John2 Avatar
    John2

    Numbers may be facts ur there don’t necessary tell the whole story

    And they are not telling the whole story with the Covid Ebola comparasion

    The numbers quoted are just statically facts

    Don’t mean anything more

  21. Miller Avatar
    Miller

    @ Cuhdear Bajan February 20, 2021 6:09 PM
    “And in my own generation, just as we were about to enjoy our sex lives as ALL of humanity has done for millions of years, the whole world, including Barbados was struck by the HIV/AIDS pandemic, and we were told that in order to do what is completely natural we had to “wrap it up” in rubber. The world has not yet recovered from that pandemic, and neither has Barbados.”
    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    To the Simple Simon aka S S also a “Cuhdear Baje:

    Your historical review of public health in Barbados and its many challenges during the ‘centuries’ is quite sound.

    But you can expect the apologists like our own tar-brushed Johnny to try to ‘throw shade’.

    You should also expect flow-back in the form of racist arguments and throwback to archival evidence from the slave-breeding records to ‘confirm’ that there was indeed excellent health among the general population during the glorified days of the slave society when the average black Joe and Josephine lived to a ripe old age of 100 on the sweet-life plantation and where, from cradle to grave, they were well watered, feed and bed(ed) by the white massa.

    You should take note of the first ‘feedback’ destructive critic out of the block to object to your well-researched thesis.

    That person is indeed the leader of the peer-review braying pack and no other than the overseas-based critic with the know-it-all leaning by rote Bajan Condition.

    But there just one ‘mere point’ which you need to sharpen up on before final submission (and acceptance) of your Masterful piece of analytical history to advance teaching and learning about ole Barbadoes and with which Prof. G.K. Lewis from his grave would be most impressed.

    According to your brainwashing Judeo-Christian scriptures humans left the garden of Eden circa 10,000 solar year ago; and not millions.

    Unless you intend to set the chronological and anthropological records straight by calling humans ‘animalistic’ members on the same great ape family tree of knowledge about good and evil.

  22. John2 Avatar
    John2

    But they

  23. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    @ John A February 20, 2021 6:35 PM

    Firstly, I misinterpreted the beginning of your contribution. After re-reading it in its entirety, I realized you weren’t comparing ebola with COVID-19 as it relates to closing the borders. In other words, I thought you were suggesting EVD deaths were much less because borders were closed in comparison with more coronavirus deaths as a result of leaving the borders opened.
    And, that’s the reason why I mentioned taking certain factors into consideration such as spread, challenges, containment, treatment, recovery rate and overall policy response.

    Secondly, could you please provide BU with the source of your information that reports EVD deaths at approximately 28,000. Even though your figure is disputable, your calculation of the death ratio is correct…… and even more so if the ebola deaths were less.

    Thirdly, why is it some of you guys cannot engage in a simple discussion without making some derogatory slur. Do you believe it was necessary to ‘talk about’ “the numerically challenged out there,” simply because I misinterpreted you comments?
    I recall a few days ago you were upset because someone used a derogatory remark to you. When I asked if it was only at that time you noticed such an occurrence because you were involved. As I anticipated, you refused to answer.

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

    BTW…..it’s no secret, i have known that for ages.

  25. John A Avatar
    John A

    @ Artax

    The comment about being numerically challenged was directed at anyone who had a problem understanding that 2,500,000 was greater than 28,000. It really was that simple and was not directed at you but at anybody who was challenged with understanding the basic quantum of a number.

  26. John A Avatar
    John A

    The total Ebola death figures can be found on the cdc.gov website

  27. angela cox Avatar
    angela cox

    So Barbados in total lockdown and govt has all but turn country into a police state
    What next ankle bracelets and shoot on sight

  28. John A Avatar
    John A

    @Artax

    Also what i said on BU before and hold firmly to still is this.

    I said the English language has thousands of words in it that one can use and hence there is no need to step into the gutter of profanity or vulgarity.

  29. John2 Avatar
    John2

    A

    You still dodging my questions ?!

  30. John A Avatar
    John A

    @ John2

    Sorry got caught up here in some stuff. Give me a minute.

  31. John2 Avatar
    John2

    Mari

    The lock down stopping the nighwatchman. From declaring her full slate of candidates in preparation to take us out the ankle bracelets and police state?

  32. John A Avatar
    John A

    @ John2
    If the borders are closed then they are closed to human traffic. If the 11 family memebers were in a country where the borders were closed like the UK is today they couldn’t have flown out could they? Likewise if the funeral was in a closed border country they couldn’t of flown in either.

    As for the visitors here they will be allowed to leave once flights existed or they would of had to wait till arrangements could be made for a repatriation flight and stayed on at their expense. You must be aware to return to the UK now British Nationals must pay their own quarantine costs of £1700 out of their own pocket? It’s is only here that we are paying their cost of quarantine out of the state’s coffers.

    Closed borders are closed borders to human traffic it really is not that hard to understand. Rememeber when Trinidad closed their borders and we had Trinis here who had to await special permission to be repatriated?

  33. John2 Avatar
    John2

    A

    IF

    FACT is they were not in a country who borders were closed to Barbados

    And I totally disagreed with how the Trini treat it citizens

    U skirting around the questions

    What would u have done with the thousands of visitors here if you had just slammed the door shut in their faces on January 1st

    Even Trinidad had give a grace period

    Britain gave them a grace period to get back home and told them what measures they were going to implement

  34. Tron Avatar
    Tron

    @ angela cox February 20, 2021 8:02 PM

    I pray that next week our Supreme Leader orders two weeks of TOTAL lockdown.

    Total lockdown
    means shortest lockdown,
    means ultimate victory.

    We need a female Augusto Pinochet.

  35. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @Disgusting Lies & Propaganda TV February 20, 2021 7:06 PM

    Understood

  36. John A Avatar
    John A

    @john2

    Obviously you would of stated on December 18th or so you were locking down on January 1st. That would of given people and embassies time to deal with repatriation. You wouldn’t wake up new years eve in other words and announce closure the following day.

  37. Hants Avatar
    Hants

  38. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @Tron February 20, 2021 6:35 PM “And what about the recent Nelson riots where the mob threatened our local businessmen?”

    I have absolutely no recollection of this.

  39. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @Miller February 20, 2021 7:24 PM “Your historical review of public health in Barbados and its many challenges during the ‘centuries’ is quite sound. But you can expect the apologists like our own tar-brushed Johnny to try to ‘throw shade’.”

    Next thing the Lonely Londoner will be telling me that I was not immunized against yellow fever in 2003, not because there is any yellow fever in Barbados but because I was traveling to an area where yellow fever is endemic, and I love my country too much to have risked bringing asymptomatic yellow fever back with me and transmitting it to the the vector Aedes aegypti which as we all know is resident here.

  40. Tony Avatar
    Tony

    @ Tron February 20, 2021 10:01 pm

    “We need a female Augusto Pinochet”

    We don’t need a replica of
    Augusto José Ramón Pinochet.

    He was head of Chile’s military government (1974–90). During his dictatorial reign tens of thousands of opponents of his regime were tortured.

    Lord no 🥵

  41. John2 Avatar
    John2

    A

    No it was not obvious

    You adding the 18th is now adding another dimension

    All the time I thought u were. Saying from Jan 1st because the outbreak was discovered at the end of December

    And I am sure others thought the same.
    Probably why David told you something about hindsight

  42. Piece the Prophet Avatar
    Piece the Prophet

    It has taken Senator Caswell Franklyn and some of you a long time to realise that Mia Mugabe Mottley is a despot.

    In the fulness of time the words of I, Piece the Prophet, have now permeated the skulls if many more of you

    AND YOU BAJANS ARE ALL SCARED!

    And rightfully so, for living in A PERPETUAL STATE OF EMERGENCY us a frightening place to be as you watch democracy die around you!

    So, under Cover of Night, Mugabe continues testing her new intelligence gathering equipment which permits her to

    See who you are calling
    Whether On your cell phones or land lines
    determine the duration of your calls and your pecking order
    Determine your political affiliation

    All in preparation for the upcoming General Election

    “…Therefore the skillful leader subdues the enemy’s troops without any fighting; (s)he captures their cities without laying siege to them; (s)he overthrows their kingdom without lengthy operations in the field…”

    Bajans, fir the most part, are a slow and slothful people.

    More suffering HAS TO COME so that a nation can wake up and understand what good government is.

    Until then, Senator Caswell Franklyn will have to make many more if these posts to deaf people.

    Especially while his impotent leader Joseph Atherley, tows the Mugabe line daily!

  43. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    “when cannabis cultivation in Britain had reached its peak. ”

    They are still the #1 exporter and farmers of marijuana but use it to criminalize and pauverize Black/African people world-wide through vicous laws…

    …i never want to see nor hear another black face sellout parliament nigga…they are the ones keeping Black populaitons in poverty and slave like conditions…so they can have false titles and false status…and steal whatever Black lives generate.

  44. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    New Black/African World Order…time to dump colonial parliament nigas.

    https://youtu.be/HvN9DVZ72m8

  45. whiteHill Avatar
    whiteHill

    @Cuhdear Bajan, why don’t you listen to the Miller. While I have not been posting in recent times pretty much every day I’m keeping an eye on you.

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

    “See who you are calling
    Whether On your cell phones or land lines
    determine the duration of your calls and your pecking order
    Determine your political affiliation”

    nice to see them distracted with their own small time, petty, corrupt shit, they won’t see what’s coming at them next.

  47. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    @ John A

    I said the English language has thousands of words in it that one can use and hence there is no need to step into the gutter of profanity or vulgarity….(Quote)

    Great.

  48. Crusoe Avatar
    Crusoe

    Look, there are far worse drugs than marijuana circulating freely in the developed countries.

    Ecstasy, methamphetamines, opioids (including legal ones, wherein that wealthy company just had to pay a huge fine), doctors getting under the table payments to push opioids, this is documented. Those drugs are even widespread in US schools, in UK clubs. They were using methamphetamines, uppers and downers in US schools for decades. Disgusting environment for children. How many raves in the UK do not use ecstasy?

    Those things truly screw up peoples heads. And people wasting time chasing those with a spliff or two.

    Let us get real.

    My concern is about crystal meth being manufactured internally. It is not hard, particularly for someone with a chemistry background. All of the ingredients are available over the counter.

    I suspect that it is a good money earner on the Platinum Coast.

    When the tourises are here at least.

    Or maybe those people have the sense to stay away from that, they may just use the age old cocaine.

    If meth is being used by the poorer, as is likely, THAT is something you have got to shut down.

    Destructive beyond belief.

    An wunna worried about a spliff.

  49. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    @ Crusoe

    The good thing about this criminality is that when the white tourists return to the UK they usually tell their black friends what they got up to.
    That is how I got to hear about white Bajan prostitution on the West Coast.

  50. David Avatar
    David

    Did they remind you prostitution is the oldest profession practiced in all countries by all races and ethic groups. What about the fact the White prostitutes in Barbados are local as well as Europeans many hired as nannies by the rich and famous. Tell us something we do not know.

The blogmaster invites you to join the discussion.

Trending

Discover more from Barbados Underground

Subscribe now to keep reading and get access to the full archive.

Continue reading