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Submitted by William Parker

I wish to congratulate the BLP government on their handling of the Covid 19 in 2020.

Now that the various “versions” of the original Virus has reached here and the infection rate and deaths are spiralling out of control it is apparent to some, including me, that the government has no answers and is reacting and not pro-acting.

I understand the need for the current lockdown and we all know that 2 weeks is just a start and it will be needed for a lot longer.

However the shutting on the mini marts and way side vendors leaves a lot of us bewildered as the logic behind it. In the area that I live R&R convenience, Mikes Mini Mart, EZ mini Mart and all the others are closed. These were locally owned shops where the poor, and not so poor, could get a little credit until the NIS cheque arrives, when the Post Office reopens, and walk a short distance home in the fresh air.

Now these people have to get an occasional bus to Massy in Oistins, and mix with those in the shop and be infected not only by the current shoppers but those who were there one or two hours ago. Are you telling us that it is safer for a person, who does not have a car, to catch a ZR and travel to Oistins to get a few items than to visit the corner shop?

The word that I have heard from more than one person is that in the last shut down the Major Supermarkets lost a lot of revenue because people switched to minimarts and a lot of way side vendors started. Is the way to make sure that the large foreign owned companies got more of the pie? It certainly seems so.

You have closed them on weekends so their overall sales will increase and their overheads will decrease. Bajans have been very good in following the new rules, and rightfully so, but there is a growing undercurrent of frustration and if the government is not careful there will be mass disobedience. This will hurt everyone. I hope that you can take a pause and consider the additional hardships you are causing a lot of Barbadians.

Thank you. I am a proud Bajan and supporter of the BL&P in the last few elections.

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725 responses to “To BLP Administration: Re. Covid 19 protocols”

  1. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @angela cox February 26, 2021 6:51 AM “…funding to acquire the 2nd or third batches of vaccine called a national COVID funding planned by govt pitched to corporate in MIA bid asking for help to buy more vaccine.”

    What do Covid vaccines cost – and who is paying over the odds? Prices agreed vary wildly as nations scramble to secure enough doses
    https://www.theweek.co.uk/951750/what-do-covid-vaccines-cost-who-pays-what

  2. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    Covid-19: Countries are learning what others paid for vaccines
    https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n281

  3. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @Hal Austin February 26, 2021 6:58 AM “But many of those on BU will still come out and say how capable she is, without stating why she is so capable.”

    In this instance she is capable because she managed in a extremely competitive market place to acquire tens of thousands of covid vaccine. She managed to put together of officials to very smoothly roll out our vaccine program. To have 12% of the population vaccinated in 11 days is quite an achievement.

    Of course I am nor forgetting our wonderful public health nurses, all of those black Bajan women along with the sisters from Ghana and from Cuba who got the medicine into the arms of Bajan health workers, doctors, nurses, lab technicians, housekeepers, cashiers, police constables etc. And of course the few male public health nurses Bajans and others.

    One of my relatives was immunized by a nurse from Ghana. She had nothing by praise for her competence, courtesy and gentleness.

  4. Tron Avatar
    Tron

    I call all Barbadian patriots here and abroad to donate at least 1000 USD per person for the new Barbadian COVID19 trust to buy vaccines.

    Our Supreme Leader told us what to do last night. It is no longer time to stand back and stand by. Support our island!

  5. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @Sargeant February 26, 2021 8:57 AM “NB Watch this page for future apologies to all National Scholars.”

    National scholars wha’

    Buncha old has-beens more like it.

  6. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @Disgusting Lies & Propaganda TV February 26, 2021 1:28 PM “Poor HAL9000, even though he is bitter that Mia hasn’t shown him any love, he still takes the time to watch her, He even noted how long she spoke. I mean you pay more attention to Mia than some of her supporters.”

    When Mia finished speaking last night it would have been past midnight in Hal’s London. Why did the old guy stay up so late? I voted for the BLP last election, but I’ll be honest I am not staying up past midnight to listen to anybody, not A, not B, not C, not D, not Z.

    That’s the truth.

  7. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Skinner

    This writer does not tell lies. We may be wrong on facts but never deliberately mislead.

    If it can be shown that facts are misstated apologies are rendered with haste.

    Earlier we said that you were in a chorus (and be jesus christ we are paraphrasing,) which was saying that the SD was a bad idea. Up to now you cant say what your actual position was but we clearly remember that you were against it. And only relented once we provided a highly sophisticated analytical model to show that the government had a good case for trying to revive the economy through the strategic default (SD) methodology.

    Maybe David could find the link to that argumentation so that reader could relive the exchanges.
    It was a Saturday sometime in late 2018, we seem to recall.

    We have argued for quite a long time that neo-liberalism can go no further. That, all things considered, the Western systems will totally collapse. That we should have started ever since envisioning new societal organizing principles.

    We used the word collapse without fear. We boldly take ownership of it whether we are proven right or wrong. These are the risks a writer takes when trying to foresee events.

    In short, if we want to say collapse, we will say it. However, it was you in your inimitable style who raised that word today not us. We said that you where within a group of people thinking that the sky will fall if the government did an SD., as metaphor to capture weight of opposition to government’s proposal.

    Truthfully, you try to use the same old political traps all the time. We knew that is what you were up to. Or will you now contend that it was this writer and not you William Skinner who introduced “collapse” this morning.

    Well done Skinner. You were nearly successful in erecting a straw-man then to knock it down. Congratulation!

  8. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @Hal Austin “I have been called a Roman Catholic, who I respect, but I am not; a polymath and intellectual, I am not, I left education too early; an insurance agent/financial adviser, and other things.”

    Hal have you ever been called a miserable, lonely, boring old man?

  9. Tron Avatar
    Tron

    @ Cuhdear Bajan February 26, 2021 4:54 PM

    Hal’s relationship with the prime minister is a kind of love-hate. Like between the serf and his dominatrix. Assume that he offered his services as a journalist, but was rejected. If the prime minister were to appoint Hal as her press spokesman, he would of course accept immediately, becoming the new court jester. That would be wonderful because then I could retire.

  10. Miller Avatar
    Miller

    (Quote):
    Another interesting question is whether anyone of those had any contact, professionally or socially, with White Oaks or any of its senior officers.
    When Mottley first came to power it was said foreign reserves were just over Bds$400m, today it is said to be $2.6bn, and in the meantime the government has borrowed a further Bds$1bn.
    We can either discuss this as a party political matter, or as a serious macroeconomic one, with some ready answers, starting with a full and final settlement of the White Oaks affair.
    Where is the national conversation about all this? (Unquote).
    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    The author of the above comment is none other than Hal Austin who has been instructed on previous occasions to put his ‘life-long’ experience and undercover investigative well-honed skills in the more advanced British world of journalism and sleazy reporting to good use in order to rescue his ‘failing’ state from becoming an overripe banana of a republic under his bugbear president MAM.

    Why can’t the BU sleuth in journalism use his highly-placed connections- including those established in his undercover ventures in the London underworld of crime- to find out if there is any avinash-like incestuous relationship or persuasively persauding ‘contracted’ contacts between those advising his hand-waving beleaguered president of PR and the same Medici brand of a shake-down money tree called White Oaks.

  11. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @Tron February 26, 2021 5:07 PM ” Assume that he offered his services as a journalist, but was rejected.”

    Ya lie!

    No 70 plusser should be looking for a pick

    As my old man, he who lived to be nearly 100, and who successfully raised a wonderfully large family used to say “if you don’t fill your bucket full of rain, don’t expect to fill it with dew.”

  12. David Avatar
    David

    https://barbadosunderground.net/2019/05/31/white-oak-and-external-creditors-flirting-with-hobsons-choice/comment-page-1/#comment-1200146

  13. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    @ Tron

    I can never replace you. I know when I am beaten.

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

    Miller, Miller, Miller…there is so much to say and think about..for those of us with a brain.

    Pacha…thoughts..

    https://youtu.be/qPPl4y1YNoY

  15. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    @ Miller February 26, 2021 5:09 PM

    “Undercover investigative well-honed skills?”

    “Highly placed connections?”

    “Undercover ventures in the London underworld of crime?”

    Miller, perhaps “you and others not to believe everything you read on BU. I know from experience.”

  16. Tron Avatar
    Tron

    Excellent news today!

    Only a handful of new Corona cases, no deaths, and now nearly 30000 vaccinated.

    Thank you very much, Most Honourable Prime Minister

  17. angela cox Avatar
    angela cox

    Today one death 71 year old from a nursing home
    The dash board one step forward and two steps backwards

  18. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    Another Barbadian has died as a result of COVID-19.

    A release from the Barbados Government Information Service (BGIS) today stated that the 79-year-old man died at a nursing home.

    The death toll from COVID-19 now stands at 33.

    Barbados also recorded 45 new COVID-19 positive cases on Thursday, while 99 people recovered and were released from isolation.

    https://www.nationnews.com/2021/02/26/barbados-records-33rd-covid-death/

  19. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    3692 vaccines done on Thursday.

    Glad to see that the positivity rate is now included on the dashboard. It is at 6 percent. Not so good but better than it was in mid February.
    Listening to Dr. Best? now.

  20. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    https://barbadostoday.bb/2021/02/26/covid-19-update-45-new-cases-99-recoveries-one-death/

  21. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    William….we got much to watch… don’t blink.

  22. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    @ Donna
    Kindly explain what positions I am locked into. You seem to believe that I am Hal’s father. I am not. Why are you dragging me into how you and others respond to him and how he responds to them. Have I ever done such a dastardly thing to you? Have I ever insulted you? Have I ever accused you of being the other half of Hal’s ass.? Have I ever said you suffer from any Bajan Condition? Have I ever told you that Barbados is a failed state.?
    Please find somebody else to pick on. I have treated you and @ Artax with nothing but respect. It is obvious that you are being extremely annoyed by @ Hal.
    I am sorry that others on this blog who know me very well and I also know them would stoop to such lowliness. Like I said if he bothers wunnuh so much dat is all yuh business.
    Just leave me out ; wunnuh cud kill he or he cud kill wunnuh. Not my business.
    BU is not my blog. Talk to David. It’s not my damn blog. I contribute just like all wunnuh..
    I don’t care what wunnuh call me. I would continue to treat wunnuh with respect. Deal with me : for the last time: I am not Hal Austin’s father. Nobody prescribes or proscribes what I write. I don’t own BU. I am not it’s editor in chief. Talk to David.
    I can’t make myself any clearer..

  23. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    @ William

    They are getting to you. Jut ignore them. A few corrections: My expressions of Barbados as a failed state are general statements, which I stand by. All our institutions have failed or in the process of failing.
    My description of the Bajan (Barbadian) Condition again is a general one about what I call predictive behaviours. I stand by that also. Just read some of the contributions to BU.
    If it offends individuals, they will get over it.

  24. angela cox Avatar
    angela cox

    The Supreme leader has come up with a plan to dig her hands further in bajans pockets in order to buy vaccine
    Looking at how small nations under tremendous economic stress going to accomplished this massive feat
    Well for certainty closing borders would not be an option

  25. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    What a schlockmeister!

  26. John Avatar
    John

    Israel is at 91.55% vaccinated.

    https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations

    Cases seem to have leveled off at 3K per day.

    https://imgur.com/TN8oL3R

  27. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    People on BU need to do an emotional release practise like this

  28. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    @ WURA
    @ Hal
    They cannot get to me.. Just setting the record straight. A few weeks ago , they reminded me that the blog is not mine. And told me to go somewhere else. Now they want me to engage who writes and how they write. I don’t play that. It’s not my blog.
    Don’t worry , I haven’t blinked in over fifty years. My eyes are wide open. Believe me. Just setting the record straight.

  29. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    lawd…everybody is going to be in a tizzy, i gotta stock up on GASOLINE.

    ya gonna get outright riots…lol

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

    William….too many brainless, petty people on BU…they like their bajan condition and are comfortably ensconced…picking at shit like CARRION BIRDS….the world is changing right in front of them but they cant see it and don’t understand the significance, too busy picking at shit…regular cadaver birds..

    been warning them about that for years, now they’re laughingstocks, ya should hear what people who come on BU to view the posts are saying about them…..

    ah wonder what Ms. It’s only a TREND is saying now….she better get those shitstains for minority racists and thieves OUT OF BLACK LIVES…before UN receive well written reports….Liz can’t tell the UN Enuff lies to reverse what’s coming..

    i would ignore BUs shitstains unless they TIEF MY POSTS….

  31. John Avatar
    John

    What is the formula for the positivity rate ?

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

    “Vaccines in Barbados are not mandatory, but anyone who wants to get a COVID-19 vaccine should be able to do so by the beginning of May once those on order arrive on island.”

    for the people with HOLES IN THEIR HEADS……vaccines in Barbados are NOT MANDATORY…it’s a personal choice.

    somebody should tell wickum that….idiot.

  33. lyallsmall Avatar
    lyallsmall

    Cuddear bajan
    Either the positivity figure of 6 given tonight is wrong or the data given today on number of tests and/or the number of positive cases are wrong. If you go by the dashboard data the positivity rate for tests carried out yesterday is 4.9 not 6. They need to correct this mistake. The backlog gave rise to several days of incorrect positivity data. The backlog still seems to be creating problems in attributing the correct cases and tests to the actual dates on which the tests were done.

  34. John2 Avatar
    John2

    What is the formula for the positivity rate ?

    Posted by John2 Not John the johnnie

  35. Tron Avatar
    Tron

    Our citizens will remember that the opposition campaigned against the life-saving vaccine. The opposition’s only alternative is total isolation of the island and a return to the plantation.

    Is Richard Drax behind the opposition to get as many slaves as possible on his sugar cane plantations? The ruthless Bishop, the outspoken Senator, the ISO-Taliban and the DLP be warned of the people’s anger!

  36. lyallsmall Avatar
    lyallsmall

    John2
    Formula is number of positive cases multiplied by 100 divided by number of tests carried out. The answer is a percentage. The positivity test is usually calculated for the day on which the tests were done but could be aggregated for longer periods.

  37. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @lyallsmall February 26, 2021 8:12 PM “Cuddear bajan, Either the positivity figure of 6 given tonight is wrong or the data given today on number of tests and/or the number of positive cases are wrong. If you go by the dashboard data the positivity rate for tests carried out yesterday is 4.9 not 6.”

    True.

    During the course of the radio broadcast Dr. Best corrected himself and gave a positivity rate of 5%. The dashboard has not yet been corrected though. But he spoke less than 3 hours ago. I expect that it will be corrected by morning.

  38. lyallsmall Avatar
    lyallsmall

    Cuddear bajan;
    I hope so.

  39. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @WURA-War-on-U February 26, 2021 8:03 PM “…for the people with HOLES IN THEIR HEADS……vaccines in Barbados are NOT MANDATORY…it’s a personal choice.
    somebody should tell wickum that….idiot.”

    Leave my Peter alone please.

    He never said that vaccines were mandatory. He has never compelled any one to be vaccinated.

    I went out today and overhear a woman bullying her colleague, that if she took the vaccine she would stop speaking to her. So when the loud mouthed anti-vaxxers loudly should their ignorance the rest of us have to speak up.

    The antivaxxer was of course grossly obese and of late middle age and doing a job with massive interfacing with the public. Just the sort of person who needs to be vaccinated.

    So you think that Peter the son of a long serving public nurse should be silent in the face of ignorance and misinformation?

  40. john2 Avatar
    john2

    CB

    So you met Waru today ?

  41. lyallsmall Avatar
    lyallsmall

    Cuhdear bajan;
    In Dr. Best’s presentation tonight did he say that our high incidence numbers in February might be attributed to a different strain of Covid-19 having taken over the wild type original virus?

  42. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    Perhaps the people are slave minded as they are descended from slaves

  43. David Avatar
    David

    @Lyall

    He did.

  44. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @john2 February 26, 2021 9:01 PM “CB So you met Waru today?”

    Seems that way.

    Lol!

  45. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    @ Pacha
    You said :
    “You did NOT say the sky will fall literally. That is merely a linguistic device to capture what you and your friends were predicting about the SD.

    What a fucking simpleton.”

    “ I introduce collapse. Now in my understanding of the English language, the sky is falling is a metaphor for collapse. You therefore introduced the concept of collapse; I in turn asked you where did I say the country will collapse in other words , that the sky is falling.
    I find it strange that you can come here pretending that you know when I said that. Why the hell dont you pull it up if you are so certain you know when I said it.
    Like I said, bring the relevant article and I would apologise immediately..
    BTW you are not a simpleton. Not even close.
    .

  46. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    @Pacha
    t’was a fine day to complete tapping my maple trees, and be offline.
    “We should not be scared to break all the eggs to make this omelet.”
    Nice sound bite.
    My interest is HOW one goes about achieving the goal. Yes it has been discussed before, but times change, maybe solutions too.

  47. John Avatar
    John

    Published October 2020

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7550914/

    Abstract
    The occurrence of human pathogenic viruses in aquatic ecosystems and, in particular, in internal water bodies (i.e., river, lakes, groundwater, drinking water reservoirs, recreational water utilities, and wastewater), raises concerns regarding the related impacts on environment and human health, especially in relation to the possibility of human exposure and waterborne infections. This paper reviews the current state of knowledge regarding severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) presence and persistence in human excreta, wastewaters, sewage sludge as well as in natural water bodies, and the possible implications for water services in terms of fecal transmission, public health, and workers’ risk. Furthermore, the impacts related to the adopted containment and emergency management measures on household water consumptions are also discussed, together with the potential use of wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) assessment as a monitoring and early warning tool, to be applied in case of infectious disease outbreaks. The knowledge and tools summarized in this paper provide a basic information reference, supporting decisions makers in the definition of suitable measures able to pursue an efficient water and wastewater management and a reduction of health risks. Furthermore, research questions are provided, in order to direct technical and public health communities towards a sustainable water service management in the event of a SARS-CoV-2 re-emergence, as well as a future deadly outbreak or pandemic.

  48. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Would it mek a difference. You would just deny, per usual.

    We’re done wid you. Have the last word.

  49. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Northern
    We don’t particularly care how it’s done once it’s done.

    There maybe a range of possibilities.

    During the reign of OSA, Cow Williams increased his holdings to about 20 percent of the landmass, it is estimated.

    There could be a range of methods. Government itself owns lands which could be so distributed.

    Eminent domain, this is the one yuh waiting for, could be deployed to compulsorily acquire private lands.

    Government could end support to sugar plantations and let them fail.

    Government could make it impossible for foreigners to own large tracts of land.

    Do whatever else is necessary to achieve objectives.

  50. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    In defence of critique or criticism
    It is important that there is critique of the government’s Covid policy and generally of any government policy.
    Perhaps a good place to start is to have a look at a recent critique by Dr. Melissa Goddard and a response to that critique by the Prime Minister.
    In an article (23 Feb 2020), ‘COVID Surge in Barbados points to Policy Failures’, Dr. Melissa Goddard, states that, “Despite warnings from clinicians, Barbados held on to a too-short quarantine and test protocol when its borders opened last summer.
    Now, a new surge in COVID cases and deaths begs retrospective policy questions… It seems likely that the ongoing surge in Barbados may be due to specific policy failures, frequently in opposition to expert guidance, and with attempts at correction faring little better.
    The final hopes now rest in the recently procured vaccine, and that science will finally be enough to overcome fumbles where it has too often been ignored.”
    The Prime Minister responded to Dr. Goddard’s article in a news report (24 Feb 2020) to say, “I felt that all views must contend, I do not necessarily agree with Dr. Goddard, but I think she has a perspective that needs to be heard and I am hoping at some point we can meet with her and hear what she has to say in more detail. But I do not know if there is much to be gained at this time from focusing on the rear-view mirror, we have to get ahead of this issue.”
    A flawed response In her response to Dr. Goddard the Prime Minister sets out an approach to policy making that I believe is flawed and incorrect. If we go by the science, this may not be the last pandemic or major national crisis we face in our lifetime.
    Therefore, it is not about focusing on the rear view mirror, so much as government accepting responsibility for its policy failures, fixing the failures, addressing current issues and planning for future issues.
    This does not negate any of the hard work that the government has done. However, “we are working hard”, the “crisis is global” or the “government is faced with a difficult job” are not policy responses. Governments are elected to do difficult things.
    Based on the Prime Minister’s approach to past criticism a meeting with Dr. Goddard will likely be used, and I will say what many are probably thinking, to perhaps offer Dr. Goddard a government role or a place on a government committee, thus using tax payers’ money in an attempt to placate or curtail criticism of the government.
    It is a fallacy to think that critique has to come “through” the government or be institutionalised by the government.
    Citizens are free to critique government in the public space and not come into some government institutional set up or government led conversation. That approach does a democracy and the development of Barbados no good, even if it looks like good political strategy.
    It is up to a responsible government to take note of the critique and address the issues as best as they can, instead of trying to absorb the critique from public view, while filling the air with platitudes about being “in this together” or “many hands making light work.”
    Let’s us not pretend, since we all like to “keep it real”, that we live in an equal society and that we are all in this crisis together in the same way, even if we are all in this crisis together until the crisis ends.
    In the national interest Critique and probing policy can lead to changes or improvement in policy or its execution. There is always more than one way to love our country.
    And anyone pushing the view that now is not the time or it is not in the national interest or its unpatriotic to critique government’s Covid policy is wrong and misunderstands the value of criticism in the public space of a democracy.
    I am certain that I am part of the national interest as were all Bajans who said late last year that the Covid protocols were incorrect and not based on the science. Did critique then not cause the improvements in the current protocols? I am certain that I am part of the national interest, as were all Bajans forced out to supermarkets in a panic, because closure was announced the day before the supermarkets were to close. Did critique then not cause more notice to be given before the current lockdown? I am certain that I am part of the national interest as were all Barbadians, especially the elderly, who were made to stand in the hot sun and rain to cash cheques at the post offices or more recently for vaccines. Sadly, ongoing critique has not yet helped with these.
    I am certain that we are all part of the national interest when people in need still have not received the “care packages” handed out from the back of a truck.
    Are you telling me we can do no better in 2021? In fact, people who do not need care packages are getting them.
    How is it that getting relief to people cannot be properly organised and reach the people who actually need it? Real time critique It is therefore key to critique a government and its leadership response to this crisis. It is important to do so while in the crisis so that lessons can be learned in real time and errors corrected quickly, particularly in a public health crisis when lives are at stake above all else.
    Bad policymaking and execution in this crisis are not like getting a road repaired wrong or mismanaging public funds because there can be a direct correlation between bad policy in this crisis and the death of our people.
    Criticism is key in moments like these and it is in the national or public interest. Above all else, it is the lives of our people that matter most. Critique aides the evolution of solutions.
    You do not need permission I do not think anyone should feel that critiquing the government at this time is about complicating, or adding to what is a difficult process. That is a sophomoric view.
    The reason is that critique is key to democratic governance.
    It is a hallmark of the best of our democratic traditions, especially those of freedom of expression guaranteed by Article 20 the Constitution of Barbados.
    Your view or perspective does not require “permission” or approval from the government to be “heard.” It is not an accident that the framers of our Constitution baked into law your freedoms of expression and opinion.
    They did this to protect us from the worse aspects of ourselves and to try to prevent the political class from using their powers to control public discourse. Stay safe everyone.
    Dr Ronnie Yearwood holds degrees in Political Science, Sociology and Law. He is currently a lecturer in law at The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill. He is a Chevening Scholar, National Development Scholar, and Overseas Research Scholar. He is called as a lawyer in Barbados, England & Wales, and the British Virgin Islands. His areas of interest are varied and include commercial law, international trade, politics and law, education and governance. Email: yearwood.r.r.f @gmail.com

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