Submitted by Denise Balgobin, Senior Public Information Assistant, Strategic Planning and Outreach Unit. ECLAC Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean – Op-ED from ECLAC Executive Secretary Alicia Bárcena
The recent call to action by the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, Janet Yellen, to the G-20 for a new issue of IMF Special Drawing Rights (SDRs), which the G-20 recently approved, and the re-allocation of excess SDRs to low-income countries (LICs) is a much welcome and needed initiative. Concerted international action and solidarity are the only means to confront and overcome the COVID-19 crisis.
A truly multilateral and global response to the Pandemic must extend the benefits of this initiative to all developing countries, irrespective of their level of income, including to middle-income countries (MICs). MICs represent 75% of the world’s population, and roughly 30% of global aggregate demand. More importantly, MICs account for 96% of developing country public debt (excluding China and India). Their success in confronting COVID-19 is central for global recovery and financial stability.
Developing countries have, without doubt, borne the brunt of the social and economic impact of the current crisis. The increases in poverty and extreme poverty rates, the number job losses and declines in per capital income have been unprecedented. These impacts are not only concentrated in LICs, but also affect MICs.
Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has been the most impacted region in the world in terms of real GDP contraction (-7.7% for 2020). This has been accompanied by the closure of more than 2.7 million firms, and the rise in number of jobless persons to 44.1 million, and in the number of people living in poverty from 185.5 to 209 million people, reaching 33.7% of the total population. Extreme poverty has increased by 8 million, to 78 million people. By the end of 2020 the level of per capita GDP equalled that of 2010 (ECLAC, 2020); another “lost decade” by any measure.
The effects of the pandemic and the policies implemented in response have increased the liquidity needs of developing countries, including those of LAC. At the same time, fiscal emergency measures to contain the decline in output have led to rising debt levels which -if not carefully monitored- may jeopardize the recovery and countries’ capacity to build forward better.
LAC is the most indebted region in the developing world. The debt of the general government in 2020 reached 79.3% of GDP and the external debt service stood at 57% relative to exports of goods and services (IMF, 2020). In contrast to developed economies, LAC -as the rest of developing economies- face enormous obstacle to create the policy space to substantially increase their debt levels without jeopardizing their credit ratings, exchange rate stability, or even their international reserve positions.
The bulk of the global counter-cyclical monetary and fiscal measures to combat the Pandemic -amounting US$12 and US$ 7 trillion dollars in 2020 (24% of world GDP)- were implemented by developed countries.
A new and significant issue and reallocation of SDRs is the most effective and expedient manner to guarantee enough liquidity for developing economies, and provide the required policy space to confront the effects of the pandemic. Linking the creation of new international resources with financial transfers to developing countries to attend their development requirements is a long-standing demand. Now it is more relevant than ever; indispensable for placing the Sustainable Development Goals, within developing countries’ reach.
Access to SDRs is an indefeasible right of all IMF members. SDRs do not generate additional debt nor do they require conditionalities. Also, they are not subject to the fastidious negotiations of quota increases or borrowing arrangements. A new SDR issue would strengthen the IMF’s “fire power” (currently at roughly US$ 800 billion dollars, a third of the estimated financing needs of developing countries) and provide greater incentive for all countries to participate in this initiative: IMF’s financial support for COVID-19 represents barely 12% of its lending capacity.
A new issue of 500 billion SDR (requiring the approval of 85% of the voting power of IMF board of governors) would generate que equivalent of US$56 billion dollars in additional reserves for Latin American and Caribbean countries. This would benefit some of the most indebted economies in the region.
Since any new issue of SDRs would be allocated mainly to developed countries (roughly 60% of the total) a mechanism must be put in place for the voluntary reallocation of excess SDRs from developed to developing countries. A mechanism to pool SDRs within the existing multilateral facilities and their reallocation to strengthen the financial capacity of Regional Financial Arrangements (RFAs) and other regional financial institutions should receive serious consideration as a means to increase liquidity and put SDRs at the service of economic and social development.
Do these non-revenue earning, cost centres, appreciate every time they decide to create a new acronym to placate themselves, they are setting a stage which conflicts 100% with their intended goals?
Professional public charities need to UP their game. “Senior Public Information Assistant, Strategic Planning and Outreach Unit. ECLAC Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean”
What amazed me was the title of the person.
“Senior Public Information Assistant, Strategic Planning and Outreach Unit. ECLAC Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean”
Wonder what is the title for a local person
“Associate Director, Barbados Based Section of the Joint Strategic Planning and Outreach Unit. ECLAC Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean”
I wAnt a job there, going to send my resume to
Assistant to the Associate Director, Human Relations Department, Barbados Based Section of the Joint Strategic Planning and Outreach Unit. ECLAC Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean”
I couldn’t read.. I got tired at Barcena. Must be a fun office with plenty long titles.
Don’t care what they do, the whole thing operates under a CORRUPT SYSTEM…so that’s all any.of them will ALWAYS. African people in the Caribbean need to REMOVE THEMSELVES FROM ALL OF IT. It ALWAYS TIRNS OUT FRAUDULENT and always will. Let them carry on by themselves.
Africans fix ya business and leave these FRAUDS alone.
https://insightcrime.org/news/caribbean-ponzi-pyramid-schemes/
Did any of the sellout negros in any of the blighted and cursed colonial Slave parliaments acoss the region ever mention any of this from 2003……that’s 18 YEARS…..yall should ask them why they HID THE INFORMATION….then CONTACT THE PEOPLE YASELVES….then ya will understand how dangerous Slaves and sellout negros are…it will also explain why minorities got an instant SCAM and trying to reel Black/African people in.
“The State of the African Diaspora
The political, economic and cultural importance of this Diaspora is increasingly recognized. It contributes greatly to the development of Africa. That is why the African Union wanted the Diaspora officially part of its proceedings. In 2003, at the end of the AU Summit, the Heads of State declared (14 (XVIII) add.3): “The African Union (…) decides to recognize the African diaspora as a effective entity contributing to the economic and social development of the continent. But so far, the diaspora had no institutional reality.
In December 2014, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, President-in-Office of the African Union, gave a mandate to Louis-Georges Tin, president of CRAN, to “give body” to the 6th Region, and to make the diaspora de facto a structure de jure.
Prime Minister: Dr. Louis George Tin – Honorary President of CRAN
In 2018, Louis-Georges Tin presented to the African Union bodies the results of his mission: a Constitution, a Government and development projects.
These elements were validated by President Aziz, and the State of the African Diaspora was formalized at the AU Summit in Mauritania on July 1, 2018.
The Institutions of the State of the African Diaspora
The State of the African Diaspora is composed of several institutions.
The first is the State Government of the African Diaspora, led by the Prime Minister, His Excellency Dr. Louis-Georges Tin. This Government was presented at the African Union Summit in July 2018. The first Council of Ministers and inauguration was held in Abidjan in November 2018.
The second institution is the Parliament. It will notably represent the regions of the diaspora.
Our Objectives
The goal of Africans in the Diaspora has always been to return to Africa, or at least to cultivate relationships with the land of their ancestors. It is an old Pan-African dream that is taking shape.
Beyond this reunion, it is also and above all to strengthen Africa by the diaspora, and the diaspora by Africa. This diaspora constitutes a considerable political, economic and cultural power, but this power remains insufficient because it is by definition dispersed. By establishing the necessary connections between the Diaspora and the continent, we will create unity, and therefore strength.
States are often born of war, conflict or division, such as South Sudan, Croatia, Pakistan, or the United States. The state of the African Diaspora is born contrary to a desire for peace, unity and development. The birth of a state is a rare event. A fortiori, the birth of a state of a new kind, a modern state, diasporic, consistent with the logic of the 21st century, the logic of networks.
In a strengthened Africa, youth will no longer feel condemned to exile, exposing themselves to the greatest dangers. This is why the Diaspora must serve Africa, with energy and modesty at the same time. We humbly recognize that we need each other, and we will work for the general good.
Our initial projects are:
Heritage: the Restitution of Colonial Treasures
Defence: International Brigades of the African Diaspora
Territory: Land Policy
Finance: The African Diaspora Bank
Employment: International Agency for Internships
Food: The Food Bank of the Diaspora
Agriculture: Investment Funds for “Country Products”
Education: The Digital University for Africa
Health: Telemedecine for Africa
Transport: The African Diaspora Airlines
New Technologies: Silicon Valley in Africa
Biotechnology: The Pan African Genetic Bank
Space: The Pan-African Satellite
Citizenship: Identity Cards and Passports
Racism: The International Observatory on Afrophobia
Memory: The Digital Slave Route
Sports: Pan-African Games
Change in church needed – Clarke – Change in church needed – Clarke: https://barbadostoday.bb/2021/03/12/change-in-church-needed-clarke/
Source: Nation
Source: Barbados Today
Source: Nation
I have to stay away from the big brain topics and set up my lowly shop over here.
“Some of the things she is perturbed about is that the school collects bloods from the girls and tests them for sexually transmitted infections”
She is perturbed and I am puzzled. Questions have to be asked.
What is the purpose of this testing?
Is it out of concern for the health of the youngsters or because guards do not want to take an STD home?
Is it common practice that when a young girl is detained, she is automatically tested for STDs?
Is this testing voluntary or is it applied without seeking the consent of the subject or her parents?
Is there a minimum age at which this testing starts or do they apply it to all subjects?
Are young males also tested?
I dislike the way how the hammer is applied to the less fortunate. When we catch folks in a moment of weakness our Barbadian nature disappears and we become citizens of Barbaros. It seems as if there is a conscious national desire to unfair and humiliate those who come into contact with the law. This must stop.
All those highfaluting economic plans and talk mean absolutely nothing until we truly value and respect our citizens,
@ Williams
It is a nasty, vicious culture with people in positions of authority, often themselves from very poor backgrounds, enjoying brutalising poor people who come before them.
They remand people in prison for stealing bread, fine people for wearing their facial masks below their noses, rather than tell them to pull them up, they sit in control over an education system that after 11 years of mandatory education produces a lot of semi-literate people. They pour scorn on ordinary working people. This goes on year after year.
It is not just the police or magistrates, it is the society. I am glad you recognise it. The point now is to change it. Call it out.
You can from the comfort of North America, you are not dependent on them for your next meal.
We do not know the facts. As Artax opined it might have been a situation of the person placed on sucked watch which is still cruel but we need to hear from officials. The blogmaster will wait before pursuing the matter.
“This is used as a commonplace mechanism at the Government Industrial School. Every child that goes into the Government Industrial School is placed in solitary confinement at the beginning of their stay. ”
This is a horrible state of affairs.
Does it mean that regardless of the crime, perhaps stealing a sweet drink to assuage a thirst or committing murder, everyone is treated in the same manner?
What is the purpose of the solitary confinement? Is it to douse the fire or pride that burns in the heart of the youngster?
Is it to tell them, you do not matter, we are in control of you? Is it to dehumanize them?
What old text on how to control your slaves are they using?
Source: BarbadosAdvocate
David,
Under NO circumstances should a 14 yr old girl be stripped naked and placed in isolation in a cell on a bare concrete floor!
There is such a thing as padding, rugs, canvas, paper gowns etc. etc. etc. Also why routine isolation if not to break the spirit as is done with horses.
Often these children come with problems as a result of abuse. How is more abuse going to make them better????
This can only make them worse!
Is this the best we can do in 2o21??????
How do we sleep at night knowing that this is what happens a few short miles away from our houses, paid for with our tax dollars???????
I am going to keep an eye on this one.
Yes Donna. We must insist on an explanation from officials.
Hasn’t Ms Marsha Hinds-Layne done an excellent job of revealing the bare “facts”?
This is one ‘scandalous’ situation which cannot be laid at the feet of males whose staffing numbers at that prison cannot even surpass the infinitesimal.
speaking about prison, i saw a document where Oran amalgamated with Dodds…….so what scam are they running with each other now…..that involves TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS….and how much is going to be STOLEN FROM TAXPAYERS…
“This is a horrible state of affairs.
Does it mean that regardless of the crime, perhaps stealing a sweet drink to assuage a thirst or committing murder, everyone is treated in the same manner?”
even worse, they harass terrorize and jail children for wandering…and do the same thing to them…lock them in a cell….they only do that to Black children, violate Black children’s right..
One foot in the 21st century and the other in the 19th century why was the treatment of the young child sanctioned by those in charge of the institution despite voices of protest from within the same community? Why are individuals placed in solitary confinement at the outset of confinement? There are many studies documenting the deleterious effect of solitary confinement on adult prisoners, we can assume that those of minor age will suffer lifelong trauma. We talk of transparency and then we learn that individuals are given gag orders. We learn that the Minister was given a “heads up” on assuming his position and yet things remained the same now this same Minister is “waiting on a report”. If we are honest with ourselves what is a report going to tell us except provide cover for those in charge and their political bosses when a board member was preaching to anyone who would listen about the treatment of young offenders
Oh yeah spare the rod and all that……
Abrahams promises full investigation into GIS incident – Abrahams promises full investigation into GIS incident: https://barbadostoday.bb/2021/03/15/abrahams-promises-full-investigation-into-gis-incident/
Abrahams said ” What concerns me is the fact that some member of staff or someone had access to, and breached the privacy of that child to take a photograph or a video of a child in a vulnerable situation. That is against the rules of the institution, that’s against the rights of the child, her rights to privacy. No person should have been in a position to take a picture of that child and expose that child to unwanted publicity or even ridicule, far less the institution.”
Lucky someone exposed this . NO PHOTO. NO EVIDENCE.
He should investigate if girls are being groomed for prostitution.
Was the child’s identity visible in the images?
Were the private parts visible?
If they were visible there is definitely serious cause for concern about that as well.
But…. if she hadn’t been naked on a concrete floor in the first place no such images could have been taken!
So …Mr. Minister is outraged in a back to front manner as usual. More outraged about the exposure of the incident than the incident itself!
Better to have two year old egg on your face than blood on your hands, I say!
Mr. Minister had TWO YEARS to change that institution! He is still at the talking stage! And has the gall to speak of some meeting where they agreed to change legislation on wandering as progress????
Does he understand that he could be dealing with life and death situations?????
Didn’t Charles Dickens die more than a century ago? Why are we stuck in his novels??????
Both black traitors in the colonial system and minority trash community VIOLATE black human rights in Barbados, they’ve done it FOR DECADES….NOT EVEN BLACK CHILDREN ARE SAFE from these savages…am sure yall remember the dead white criminal rose who claimed to be a psychologist and all the lowlifes on the island allowed her to tie a rope around a teenage child’s neck claiming she was exorcising her, that’s how they KILL the African spirit..through brutalizing Black children…that take children away from their parents to do that…..wild animals have more empathy and compassion for their own.
“Minister of Home Affairs Wilfred Abrahams is promising a full investigation into an incident at the Government Industrial School (GIS) where a picture was reportedly taken of a nude 14-year-old girl in a cell.
The story, which was an exclusive in the Sunday Sun, dominated discussion on social media and drew the anger of Barbadians.
READ: Alarm over naked girl in cell
Board member Marsha Hinds-Layne, who spoke to the Sunday Sun, said she has repeatedly asked for the placing of children in solitary confinement to be discontinued and the doors to the cells removed, because it was illegal.
“This is used as a commonplace mechanism at the Government Industrial School. Every child that goes into the Government Industrial School is placed in solitary confinement at the beginning of their stay. No matter how I have said to the staff at the school, solitary confinement can no longer legally be used with juvenile offenders, they continue to do it.
“I have begged the Minister to take the doors off of the cells. If the staff are still doing it, the Minister has the power to remove the two doors,” she said.
Hinds-Layne noted: “This particular child was placed in the cell naked as she born because she was determined to be a suicide risk. I am saying if the child was a suicide risk we have a Psychiatric Hospital in Barbados, with the best trained psychologist and psychiatrist and occupational therapists.”
The picture was not circulated, but in a statement, Abrahams said a “member of staff or someone” seems to have breached the rights of the 14-year-old girl and if that was proven to be so “someone will have to answer for it”.
The full statement follows:
I come to you in response to the alleged incident at the Girls Industrial School that was reported in the press yesterday and has been all over social media today.
This incident has Barbadians outraged, and understandably so, because at the end of it, we’re talking about your rights of children, we’re talking about the rights of persons who are in the custody of the State. We need a full investigation into the protocols at the institution and whether the proper protocols were followed in this circumstance.
What concerns me is the fact that some member of staff or someone had access to, and breached the privacy of that child to take a photograph or a video of a child in a vulnerable situation. That is against the rules of the institution, that’s against the rights of the child, her rights to privacy. No person should have been in a position to take a picture of that child and expose that child to unwanted publicity or even ridicule, far less the institution.
At the end of the day, we will get to the bottom of this. If any of that child’s rights have been breached, someone will have to answer for it.
The Government Industrial School is not a perfect institution. We are aware of the shortcomings of the school and we are working hard on those. As recently as Friday, we had a full meeting with my Ministry, the Child Care Board, the officials of the Government Industrial School, persons from UNICEF, and we were discussing the policies or the evolving policies in relation to child protection legislation in Barbados. We ended up meeting with an agreement to fast-track that legislation as quickly as possible. The policy should come before Cabinet very shortly and the legislation should be pushed through in the shortest possible time. That’s how we ended on Friday.
I am not going to rest until we get to the bottom of this matter. I am not going to rest because this is serious. We are taking this very, very seriously. I am taking this very, very seriously.
The rights of any person, in particular a child, should never be compromised. And I don’t want it under my watch. (PR/SAT)
THEY take children away from their parents to do that…..wild animals have more empathy and compassion for their own.
the world had to SOME DAY find out at about the black face human rights violating savages in Barbados…STARTING in the Slave parliament and coming down…Black lives are NOT SAFE in Barbados…never was.
When are we going to accept Barbadians for who they really are, rather than who we think they are?
“As recently as Friday, we had a full meeting with my Ministry, the Child Care Board, the officials of the Government Industrial School, persons from UNICEF, and we were discussing the policies or the evolving policies in relation to child protection legislation in Barbados. We ended up meeting with an agreement to fast-track that legislation as quickly as possible. ”
they even tell you HOW they did it….ALL THESE DECADES and they NEVER put legislation in place to PROTECT VULNERABLE KIDS….NOT ONE, neither FRAUD government…
they amended and legislated all types of UTTER SHITE since 2018…it’s now thisclose to 3 years and if this did not happen, they would have amended and created more human rights violating legislation and never considered how they violate children’s rights or put an end to it, don’t know who what’s his face Abrams thinks he’s fooling…..
What civilised society will jail children for ‘wandering’? Of course, not a child in Dodds or the GIS is from a middle class,professional family? Wonder why? Because they have pedigree.
Some day we will see Barbados for what it really is. It is Dante’s Inferno.
Source: Nation
Source: Nation
Slave society Barbados will get its COMEUPPANCE for their crimes against Black humanity.
@ WURA-War-on-UMarch 16, 2021 5:39 AM
“…..they even tell you HOW they did it….ALL THESE DECADES and they NEVER put legislation in place to PROTECT VULNERABLE KIDS….NOT ONE, neither FRAUD government…
they amended and legislated all types of UTTER SHITE since 2018…it’s now thisclose to 3 years and if this did not happen, they would have amended and created more human rights violating legislation and never considered how they violate children’s rights or put an end to it, don’t know who what’s his face Abrams thinks he’s fooling…..
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And all this is happening against a background of the GoB having been a signatory to the United Nations Convention or Charter on the Rights of the Child from its very inception.
How many remember the Springer Memorial School littering fiasco?
To many facets of the Bajan society are still functioning in pre-Victorian times when slave-controlling laws were deemed ‘inviolably sacrosanct’.
We wait to hear from the so-called Church in Barbados whose modus operandi is based on the principle of punishment for sin instead of forgiveness.
Yes, the same Church which in the past has turned a blind eye and a ‘closed’ mouth on similar matters exposed to the sunlight of public enquiry.
@Miller
You do not think we should wait for an explanation? Any institution may have rougue employees. It can happen anywhere.
Miller the churches are WORSE…they are indoctrinated from the negro slave bible, ya can never have a wholesome conversation with any of them, they are Slaves…GP is the poster child for that mental enslavement.
“GoB having been a signatory to the United Nations Convention or Charter on the Rights of the Child from its very inception.”
how many YEARS…have i said they violate and DISREGARD EVERY charter, treaty or legislation they signed on to and continue the violation of Black rights…
it’s even worse for the elderly, they are also signatory to the Charter on the Rights of the Elderly in Latin America and the Caribbean…THEY TIEF estates and bank accounts from the elderly, refuse to EXPEDITE cases in the supreme court as they are supposed to under UN charter…..and WAIT PATIENTLY for the elderly to DIE…..they DON’T CARE as long as Black human rights are violated…
yeah i remember that fiasco at Springer…the ignorance of so called educators…don’t punish the litterers, but terrorize a completely innocent child and force them to pick up litter that a dirty person left…and punish them if they refuse…a completely backward Slave society..
Why must our nastiness be splattered on the wall before we realize that our systems are not working the way they should? Why should someone spend a decade in jail before going to trial? Why should outrageous sentences be imposed for stealing a loaf of bread?
Are our senses not calibrated so that we can differentiate between child care and child abuse or between justice and injustice or between punishment and cruelty? I do not want to resort to the imagery of others, but we seem to feast upon those weaker than ourselves and fall within our grasp. We chew them up and spit them out and continue merrily on our way.
Let us give a shout-out and stand by to support “Marsha Hinds-Layne’. Let us keep a long memory and scream to high heavens if they try to promote her up/down, promote her out or to replace her. It is well known that we love to keep our bad deeds secret; instead of punishing those who commit the foul acts, we will try to punish those who speak out against such cruelty. The system prefers to remove and punish whistleblowers instead of correcting issues that were identified. Monique Hoyte thought she was protecting a child when she reached out to higher management for help. The system immediately targeted and removed her. How can we allow nastiness to fester for years but can identify and remove whistleblowers in seconds? Do we have rules that protect whistleblowers?
This statement is frightening “What concerns me is the fact that some member of staff or someone had access to, and breached the privacy of that child to take a photograph or a video of a child in a vulnerable situation. That is against the rules of the institution, that’s against the rights of the child, her rights to privacy. No person should have been in a position to take a picture of that child and expose that child to unwanted publicity or even ridicule, far less the institution.
At the end of the day, we will get to the bottom of this. If any of that child’s rights have been breached, someone will have to answer for it.”
Is this about justice and protecting the rights of a child or is it a threat and a stern warning to whistleblowers. I will leave you to decide, but given our penchant for keeping our nastiness well covered and away from the public view, I will urge whistleblowers to act with extreme caution. You have been warned by the Minister. Don’t let them Monique Hoyte you? Here is a case, where you will be punished for doing a good deed.
I will urge you to pray for Marsha Hinds-Layne. I am quite certain that they have already decided how to ease her out of the system. It would be funny, if she got a “bigger” job in a completely different department/organization.
Why did this Ms. Hoyte not feel compelled to blow the whistle in December when she was fired according to her?
@David
Why did this Ms. Hoyte not feel compelled to blow the whistle in December when she was fired according to her?
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Surely that is an unfair question, many people feel powerless in some situations and won’t come forward until others step up especially when they would be labelled as a disgruntled employee.
Have you noticed how many women ae “stepping up” in the allegations against Cuomo? Some a few years after the fact, so let Ms.Hoyte speak her piece.
@Sargeant
Theee is merit in your position it she has come now. Let us deal with it!
There can’t be any “promotion up/down” or “bigger job in a completely different department/organization” for Marsha Hinds-Layne.
She is just a board member Government Industrial School (GIS)…… deputy ‘chairman’ to be precise. And, the only decision that could be made “to ease her out of the system,” is the minister asking her to resign or revoke her appointment.
But, if it comes to that, since the situation reflects negatively on the entire board of management, the minister would have to ask the chairman and the other board members to resign or revoke their appointments as well.
Is Mrs. Hinds-Layne is taking action against the institution and ‘government’ in her capacity as president of the National Organisation of Women?
@David March 16, 2021 8:20 AM
“You do not think we should wait for an explanation? Any institution may have rougue employees. It can happen anywhere.”
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You mean wait like how Blues Knight widow had to or could be still waiting for an explanation behind the murder of her husband and serious wounding of her son?
Are you questioning the veracity and integrity of Marsha Hinds-Layne who has been a tireless campaigner for female human rights?
Why should we take her word for it when it comes to the high levels of gender-based violence (and discrimination) in Barbados but cannot rely on her as a member of the Board even if speaking under a gag order?
“Surely that is an unfair question, many people feel powerless in some situations and won’t come forward until others step up especially when they would be labelled as a disgruntled employee.”
@ Sargeant
I believe it is a fair question. I agree some people may look at the situation as you have outlined above.
However, Ms Hoyte would also be “labelled as a disgruntled employee” by people looking at the situation from the perspective of her ‘coming forward’ ONLY after she was dismissed, as alleged by her…… or, according to the minister, her contract was not renewed.
But, we’ll never know if she would have been as forthcoming with the information if her contract had been renewed on January 1, 2021, and especially under the current circumstances where the allegations of abuse are in the public domain.
@ Sargeant March 16, 2021 9:02 AM
“Have you noticed how many women ae “stepping up” in the allegations against Cuomo? Some a few years after the fact, so let Ms.Hoyte speak her piece.”
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Same thing applies to the Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby situations.
“What concerns me is the fact that some member of staff or someone had access to, and breached the privacy of that child to take a photograph or a video of a child in a vulnerable situation. That is against the rules of the institution, that’s against the rights of the child, her rights to privacy. No person should have been in a position to take a picture of that child and expose that child to unwanted publicity or even ridicule, far less the institution.
At the end of the day, we will get to the bottom of this. If any of that child’s rights have been breached, someone will have to answer for it.”
Is this a warning to ‘evil-doers or a threat to ‘do-gooders”?
I sent this through my Theometer and the needle came up on the side of threat. Why?
One theme that jumps out from the articles/blogs is a lack of response or inaction from the Minister. The minister was warned and informed often enough so that action could have been taken. Given the ages of these children, this inaction rises to the level of incompetence.
You can either attempt to cure incompetence or you can try to hide it. Since he has demonstrated an inability to correct the situation, we believe he will quickly apply a self-serving patch and to SILENCE future whistleblowers. Problem solved. Ongoing and continuous incompetence is hidden.
“I will urge you to pray for Marsha Hinds-Layne. I am quite certain that they have already decided how to ease her out of the system. It would be funny, if she got a “bigger” job in a completely different department/organization.”
just another corrupt day in the Slave Soiciety….even if they have to punish her with a promotion, at taxpayers expense, just like they sent the Supervisor of Insurance Vernese Brathwaite, i think her name is, on PAID LEAVE for exposing the corruption at CLICO…when their partner Leroy Leper was ILLEGALLY SELLING a scam and she exposed it when he refused to stop…she asked for police intervention..that was more than Enuff to remove her……paid leave, she’s probably still there..and that was since BEFORE 2008….just so they can continue covering up their CLICO SCAM………they are not the ones paying for it, it’s at taxpayer’s expense.
i know personally of people who were removed and sent to another department in another building for exposing their nastiness…just for doing their civic duty…
all of them from the slave parliament, the supreme court and every other hole coming down, need to be MARKED AS PARIAHS everywhere they go, no exceptions.
This is what DECADES OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS against the Black population….MANIFESTS INTO over time.
https://www.nationnews.com/2021/03/16/four-confess-torturing-boy/
“Four men who confessed to torturing a boy, including scalding his hands at the Nature Fun Ranch last month, got a scolding yesterday ahead of their sentencing.”
Source: Nation
Source: Nation
“Here was the Government in Parliament discussing the very notion of whistle-blowing within the context of stamping out corruption. Now we have someone who put a lot on the line to step forward to help the girls at the Government Industrial School, and all the minister could be upset about was that somebody had the audacity to out the treatment that the girls were receiving.
Whistle-blowing.”
Frauds…they can get nothing right….always contradicting themselves and deceitful by default..
“Hinds-Layne said she had written countless letters about the goingson at GIS to Abrahams, as well as to the former minister [Edmund Hinkson] and the Office of the Prime Minister, yet there had been no indication that change would be forthcoming.’
none of them cares about Black children’s human rights, young people’s human rights, rights of the elderly. THEY JUST DON’T
wonder if Abrams see the total idiot he made of himself..
“Franklyn, who heads Unity Workers’ Union, has represented three staff members at the reform school who were either suspended or dismissed, according to him, for speaking up and trying to highlight the wrongs against the children sentenced there from the courts.
He told the MIDWEEK NATION yesterday that the staff had been “victimised” and “dehumanised” but nothing had been done about it.’
anyone surprised, we have covered these HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES AGAINST BLACK PEOPLE IN BARBADOS for years…and were called liars…the island needs to be put on a HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH LIST….they take violating black human rights to a gross level that CANNOT BE IGNORED…and all DBLP frauds of parliament do is TALK, collect their salaraies and refuse to do anything to solve the problems or halt the social decay.
https://www.nationnews.com/2021/02/13/family-may-sue-scalding/
https://www.nationnews.com/2021/03/16/four-confess-torturing-boy/
Alas, I have been away too long. I now see things through an Americans lens instead of my natural Barbadian lens. And this clarity of vision has often taken me where I would not normally go. Be it six adults or be it three adults, that number is overkill when dealing with a 14-year old.
I will now enter the arena of speculation. The fact that they burned his hands suggests to me that something was stolen and I hope this was the case, even though I vehemently disagree with that course of action. My active imagination has led me down avenues that I do not want pursue, as I pray there was nothing sexual about this harmful contact. Is this bullying or failed sado-masochism?
It is time we take off our blinders and deal with cold hard facts. This viciousness and savagery against the weak seem to be a theme that runs through all sectors of society; from the man in the streets to those in the courts (who should be the frontline of our defenses against cruelty. Distribute a little power in Barbados and customers/clients are rewarded with a savagery that harkens back to a distant past.
Savaged at camp and then savaged by the prosecutor. “Prosecutor Constable Sayleen Hinds, had no objection to bail in the District “D” Magistrates’ Court, stating the boy was no longer enrolled in the programme so there was no reason for interaction” was being ridiculous. What is next? “Your honor, you can grant bail as the murder victim will have no more interaction with his murderer”. Ridiculous. Please do not rush in to explain about bail.
It is quite possible that, here, we are dealing with several sick individuals and not one of them had the strength of character to say “This is a child, this is wrong”. The expression that three heads are better than one has been soundly refuted in my homeland and should be replaced with three heads are just as savage as one.
Why six boys initially and then only four? Let me tell you a story. Growing-up, I had a friend who served time. One day he explained to me why he was a convict and others were not. “All of us did the crime, but the other boys had parent who begged for them. I had no one. On the day in court when I looked around it was just me by myself”. Let us hope this is not the case.
What bothers me as i have said thousands of times on BU…WHERE ARE THE HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYERS ON THE ISLAND….this should not STILL be HAPPENING IN 2021..
.they love to boast and brag about how many lawyers they have….but not one have the testicular fortitude or the spine to drag these two useless, worthless black governments up to human rights tribunals for what they allow to occur….and apparently DON’T PLAN TO END IT..
…………………………Let me tell you a story. Growing-up, I had a friend who served time. One day he explained to me why he was a convict and others were not. “All of us did the crime, but the other boys had parent who begged for them. I had no one. On the day in court when I looked around it was just me by myself”. ….(Quote)
This is the moral vacuum in Barbadian culture, the island that so many of us are so proud of. What does it say about our court s. Nothing has changed. I am sure some of the magistrates we now have were not even born then.
This is the spirit of reparations…so that current and future generations of the descendants of the ENSLAVED could benefit throughout lifetimes and not crooks tiefing $50 billion dollars from descendants and build SHITE in St. Lucy so that the descendants of SLAVERS, the SLAVE PATROL and the SELLOUTS of parliament ONLY can benefit….
Most are trying to atone for human rights abuses from the past….but Barbados intends to carry on the same traditions against Africans…
“By
Marisa Iati
March 16, 2021 at 6:12 p.m. GMT-4
One of the Catholic Church’s most well-known religious orders has pledged $100 million for the descendants of hundreds of enslaved people they once profited from — a significant move toward atoning for its slavery as the United States continues to reckon with its past.
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Those descendants and the Jesuit order of priests on Monday announced the creation of the Descendants Truth & Reconciliation Foundation to fund descendants’ educations and support programs that promote racial reconciliation and justice. The nonprofit group will ultimately seek to raise $1 billion through other private donations.
Joseph Stewart, a descendant and the foundation’s acting president, said the descendants approached the Jesuits with a vision for atonement that would benefit their future offspring more than the current generation. The Georgetown Memory Project, a nonprofit organization, has identified roughly 10,000 descendants, about 5,000 of whom are living….
Source: Nation
This is the same one don’t want Black children homeschooled…A VIOLATION OF THEIR HUMAN RIGHTS…..so what kind of human rights child advocate is that…
“Child rights advocate and former Magistrate, Faith Marshall-Harris, who sits on the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child also weighed in on the matter on Brass Tacks.
In terms of the Convention On the Rights of the Child, she said some of the things Barbados had agreed to was never subject a child to solitary confinement; that the depravation of liberty would be a last resort; that the child should always be held in decent accommodation and that meals would be wholesome and fit for consumption.
She also stressed that children who came into conflict with the law were entitled to legal representation at every stage as she pointed out that parents and children were not being made aware of this.”
Where is our first female prime minister?
“The president of the National Organisation of Women further stated that the child’s attorney intervened yesterday morning, when officials at the GIS took her to the Psychiatric Hospital for an appointment, without notifying her parents or the lawyer.”
Like it or not, psychiatric hospitals are part of the state and are used in an abusive manner. Do you remember the Tiger Farrell story? How they attempted to take her off the game board by sending her to a mental institution?
The first thing they do is to ‘stamp’ you as mad and then your fellow citizens ignore ‘the madman’. Psychiatric hospitals are the state’s rubber stamp for dehumanizing a person. Often used to remove a troublesome piece from the board.
Look at your sons and daughters.
Imagine them getting caught up by the system (right or wrong).
Imagine that for some reason the system does not know they are your relatives.
Imagine hard cold floors
Imagine sexual organs and butt exposed for peephole viewing
Imagine them being sent and confined at a psychiatric hospital without your knowledge or approval.
The only way you can stop this happening to your child by accident is to prevent it from happening to anyone.
Is the Minister so wicked and incompetent that he would destroy this young person to save himself? It must be asked.
Thank God for the strong and sensible women of Barbados.
Marsha Hinds-Layne
Faith Marshall-Harris
Monique Hoyte
👍👍
Are we given our medical professionals a free pass? Are we allowing their unethical behavior to go without condemnation?
Let me cite the case of Yugee Farrell where the GoV (St Vincent) silenced, shamed and ‘discredited’ her by having her placed in a mental institution; now we see the GoB (or its representatives) planning to use a mental institution to blunt the horror of what was done to a citizen (a minor).
How can these governments be confident that they will find a doctor to give them the diagnoses that they desire. Are we given our medical professional a pass
@ Williams
Nothing has changed about Barbados society over the last 80 or so years. The problem now is that they do it to young girls, who should be in school, and it has become public.
Who is in charge of the GIS? Who is the minister responsible? When is he going to tender his resignation? Who has spoken to the girl’s parents?
Not a word from our president and it is not the first time. Remember Black Lives Matter. This is the moral vacuum at the heart of Barbadian society which when I call it a failed state I am bitterly criticised. It runs from the top to the bottom of society; from the church to the gambling dens. Listen to the silence of the church.
Remember the man who attack Ninja Man. Has he ever been arrested? No. The assumption is that Ninja Man is not important and does not deserve justice.
Remember the cruel death of Ezra Moseley. Has the driver of the vehicle ever been questioned under oath?
I can go on.
Barbados must have something in common with the medieval RACIST royal family and its unfit for purpose purpose channeling same behaviour going back centuries.
Oh well, since the old 50 billion dollar scam from 2005 with the 146 page document did not work to build the St. Lucy Project, time to join with Africa….and pretend to be Africans……same frauds who thought they could get UK and EU to rob Africa so they could maintain slave societies of Africans in the Caribbean…..they have no shame, what they should’ve done first, only just occured to them…..so now they will learn who really has the resources….and a brand new currency..
“Plans for Kenya to host a CARICOM and Africa Summit in 2020 had to be put on hold because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but CARICOM Heads of Government have also agreed to seek collaboration with the African Union (AU) to co-sponsor a proposed summit with European Heads of Government on the issue of reparations.”
William…they have NO SHAME…..CHECK IT OUT…..only now they realize how much they will need Africa..
“Faith Marshall-Harris”..
.that one is misleading you Theo, don’t fall for it, she don’t protect Black children, don’t want to see them homeschooled and is part of the clique who JAIL Black parents, particularly Rasta families who try to homeschool their children, but have no problem seeing whites/closed bretherens, indians etc homeschooling theirs….there was a blog about that topic ..right here on BU, most people avoided that blog like the plague…
don’t be misled, most of them are anti-black and support human rights abuses against Black people including children.
“Is the Minister so wicked and incompetent that he would destroy this young person to save himself? It must be asked.”
yes and yes, answered.
And the whistleblower who tried to save this child, also have to watch their back..
so you see now that the games they have played with the integrity legislation and anticorruption bills for the past neary 3 years is really to destroy whistleblowers……they can’t even hide it anymore.
“Faith Marshall-Harris”
now comes the COVER UP THEIR ASSES….ya will hear that they DON’T KNOW that human rights of Black children are routinely violated on the island….although they are the child advocate, one wonders exactly what do they tell the UN when asked…first thing i would want to know is HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THE VILATION OF children rights on the island as advocate…and listen to the answer..
so…
“don’t let them change you
or try to rearrange you”
and certainly, don’t LET THEM MISLEAD YOU….they are very good at that..
This is a good read
https://barbadostoday.bb/2021/03/19/childrens-advocate-backs-new-facilities-over-reform-school/
@wura- FMHarris appears to be somewhat different from what you say.
Theo…ya getting reeled in….this woman was a CHILDREN’S ADVOCATE FOR YEARS……she now has to cover her ass…..she CAN’T SAY SHE DID NOT KNOW ABOUT WHAT IS BEING SAID….re the abuse of children rights in a GOVERNMENT RUN INSTITUTION…
.did the other lady not say HOW MANY LETTERS SHE WROTE TO THOSE WHO HAVE THE CLOUT TO STOP the GIS human rights abuse….do you really believe she did not get one of those letters….and as someone claiming representation under UN rules and as a FORMER MAGISTRATE…you really believe she knew nothing…
..the SHIT HAS HIT THE FAN…everyone will now use their naked fingers to plug all that shit so it don’t blow back on them….notice it took her days to come out, this was brewing all last week…. i even forgot she existed…
I have been saying for sometime, it’s the human rights abuse AGAINST BLACK PEOPLE on the island that will bring these nogood sellouts down….the UN has them on a human trafficking watch, neocolonialism and crypto-racism….FOR A VERY LONG TIME……….black face governments in a majority black country…
https://barbadostoday.bb/2021/03/18/hold-gis-accountable-ross/
never buy into their bullshit Theo…YES…the news is VERY DISTURBING but OLD and well known, it’s no secret…..don’t let a former magistrate and self-proclaimed child advocate tell you she didn’t know.
Let this sink in Theo…wuh if people on the CONTINENT OF AFRICA…know and talk about the human rights abuses against African descent people in Barbados……WHO DOESN’T?
“I know girls who have come out and went into prostitution. I spoke to another girl who recently came out and she said to me that she felt like a slave and she referred to the ‘wicked, spiteful’ people encountered and these are words that come from these children,” Ross said.
Ross recalled that when the Government changed in 2018, Johnny Tudor took over the chairmanship of the board and soon after made sweeping comments about the operations at the GIS and called for the removal of the principal.
“After that outburst by the new chairman, he went totally quiet. Not another word came out from GIS board about that situation. And if a person was so passionate about what he saw and could make those statements in his capacity as the chairman and then went into keeping quiet, then we could all guess what happened.”