The Convention on the Rights of the Child (friendly version) states at number 19 heading among other others of equal importance that:
Protection from Violence – Governments must protect children from violence, abuse and being neglected by anyone who looks after them.
UN Convention on the rights of the child
In recent days Barbadians have been expressing outrage in response to the report of a teenager at the Government Industrial School (GIS) recorded naked in solitary confinement. The blogmaster is acutely aware the danger of blogging about matters involving children given the inclination by some in Internet fora to be irresponsible.
Troubling to the blogmaster is the breach of the rights of the teenager occurred while under the care of government. It is not lost on the blogmaster that in other jurisdictions persons charged with the responsibility of managing the GIS would have tendered resignations forthwith.
There is no need for the blogmaster to be prolix sharing thoughts on the heinous act that has occurred at the GIS. It should never have happened. Successive governments by mediocre decision-making are responsible. Adults whether employed at the GIS or parents are responsible. The country is responsible for protecting our children. Faith Marshall-Harris is correct when she reminds us that adults have a moral and LEGAL duty to report incidents of child abuse to the authorities- even if the abuse occurred at a government institution responsible for enforcing the very rights of children.
The blogmaster congratulates children advocates who champion the rights of children every day, every week and all the time. Blogs have been posted over the years (not enough) to expose challenges children face in the country. The number of comments these types of blogs garner is always an indication of the level of public interest in these types of matters. Then there is a predictable reaction when the matter currently provoking rage occurs. We are reactive to the inevitable.
The following related links were posted on Barbados Underground in 2017 to support a similar matter.
We do not place enough importance on little problems until there is a crisis situation.
The blogmaster refuses to consider the problems were not being highlighted to the management of the GIS and at other similar institutions over time.
The blogmaster refuses to consider the problems were not being highlighted to the Board of the GIS and at other similar institutions over time.
The blogmaster refuses to consider that the problems were not being highlighted to the minister responsibly for the GIS and at other similar institutions over time.
The blogmaster refuses to consider that the problems were not being highlighted to the general population by current and former employees of the GIS and other over time.
When we make the logical conclusion what does it translate to?
We cannot compartmentalize related events.
The Judge on the High Court will make a decision on the merits of the case presented. Who do not like the decision can appeal. This is the system we operate under.
When children are targeted and react to law enforcement like that, their toxic environment is always the cause, and that does not neceassarily mean the homes, the schools on the island are TOXIC ENVIRONMENTS…no one better lie and say any different or i will give ya a laundry list of TOXICITY associated with a colonial system and schools created by slave masters…which is another serious problem, they REFUSE TO UPGRADE the education system that would STRENGTHEN THE MINDS OF BLACK STUDENTS….a washpan of wrongs committed by both governments against the people who eledcted them…
further, for those WHO DON’T THINK…if i knew in the last couple years about the Sixth Region concept and so did all the island governments and so did the frauds for pan africanists and so did the thieving minorities that the TRAITORS in parliament TOLD ….DON’T YA THINK THAT EU AND UK ALSO KNOWS?
so all of you with ya tongues hanging out and SALIVATING to grab raparations money that’s NOT YOURS…hope ya strangle on ya saliva…
the only people who DID NOT KNOW and most still don’t…is the Black/African population…because the leaders REFUSE to tell them about their good fortune and coming with some rush and hurried scam about having jobs in Africa…where the hell they got jobs from, ya don’t even have any IN BARBADOS, but ya got in Africa…. and WHY NOT TELL THE PEOPLE THE TRUTH….
Have a great day Barbados.
Support victims and whistleblowers, because tomorrow you may be the victim and there is no whistleblower
Martin Niemöller
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
🙂 Getting out of here before they come for me 🙂
Have a great day.
Morning gratitude meditation to be your best self
Life is a series of breaths
breathe to the rhythm of the beat
Breath In 2 3 4
Breath Out 2 3 4
the perfect rhythm and groove of the music
notice a feeling of gratitude expands when you breath in
and breath out love and notice those good sensations
in a slow smooth consistent rhythm like an ocean wave
feel the oxygen reaching every cell in your body
and pack it into your thighs with the expansion of your body
feel a tingling sensation inside your body
then hold your breath like a deep sea diver
Running on Sunshine
I need to find another forum to say what I really think. I am sickened by the fact that so many Bajans accept abuse of children as normal.
Deviant children are USUALLY the product of deviant parents or other adults in CANADA.
and you are just a bullshit artist who was intent on getting ya hands on reparations money that don’t belong to you…to invest…
.. and YOU are just a stale old cranky and bitter disgruntled nigga who couldn’t figure the burning truth and light what I was selling the world wide web to redeem it’s souls for freedom and livity and would not shut up with your nagging for one year. Becoming awakened and enlightened or woke has been labelled as hip black jive jazz lingo by white spies and political propagandists so they have declared a war on wokeness in babylon due to the sounds of blackness emanating from the sambos, but enlightenment and freedom of the mind is the oldest philosophy to man it is the philosophy of God and is fighting the devil’s philosophy in the spiritual battle of life. Prove I was trying to rob black people’s reparation money tou paranoid fuckwit.
” Gordon Stuckless — the “monster” responsible for sexually assaulting more than 40 boys over decades at Toronto Maple Leaf Gardens and elsewhere — died Thursday night but the pain he caused lives on in his victims and their families.”
” Stuckless, 70, used his job as an usher at the famed hockey arena in the 1970s and 1980s, and his position as a volunteer hockey coach, to befriend, manipulate and ultimately sexually abuse young boys, leaving them with a lifetime of psychological damage.”
They were separated from family, culture and their Aboriginal identity, and suffered physical and sexual abuse. It is estimated 6,000 children died while in these schools.
Canada’s dark history of abuse at residential schools.
Yes bajans over the years has accepted Corporal punishment as a normal a punishment to keep children on the straight and narrow
The same behaviour accepted has raised it’s ugly head in an nstitution that is supposed to help children
What else should one expect when u sow the wind uh reaped the whirlwind
In the US it is not accepted and what has been the result?
@Hants
I took note of every item that you posted so far.
Take it easy.`
You are not being ignored, just a few steps ahead of us.
We will catch up to you.
This circumstance at the school sums up a society whose norms to solving difficulties as years to conforming to old methods that are attached to inhumane and barbaric method
Hence for years child abuse was accepted in the homes and school as accepted form if punishment
Children who grew up in those yesteryears can tell such stories
Today one can hear individuals still spouting with adoration as those years of blissful moments
A child should be seen and not heard
Banging on King Drive
Break a Bitch Neck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bbt2NrJYHj4
New child protection legislation heading to Cabinet – New child protection legislation heading to Cabinet: https://barbadostoday.bb/2021/03/21/new-child-protection-legislation-heading-to-cabinet/
On news: We look at other media.
On ideas: BU, thought leader.
In his speech yesterday Minister Abrahams said “I also wish from the outset to correct the notion that my annoyance over this issue was triggered more by it being made public than by it actually having occurred. Indeed, there were two equally vexing occurrences that still have me troubled and deeply hurt and dismayed to this day…”
He explicitly said that the actions of the whistleblower are just as bad as the torture of a child for 13 days.
This is so outrageous that he has brought the entire Cabinet into disrepute and must be dismissed from his post immediately.
🙂 David, why ae you blocking SSS
555 need a place to post her/his Sunday songs 🙂
Minister Abrahams also said yesterday that he has confidence in the staff of the GIS facility in St Lucy.
He has confidence in a staff that has been routinely torturing children by putting them naked in a concrete cell for solitary confinement in contravention of every professional notion of child care. He has confidence in staff that egregiously violated the:
1. United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child,
2. United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Administration of Juvenile Justice, and
3. United Nations Rules for the Protection of Juveniles Deprived of their Liberty
Did the staff members know that they were violating these rules? If no they are thereby proven to be grossly incompetent and must be summarily dismissed. If yes then they have shown themselves top be deeply evil and must be summarily dismissed.
@Peter
One suspects we will see staff at that institution switched out in the coming weeks. The politics does not allow for it to be done Big Bang. The public must continue to demand transparency.
Intimated in this blog workers at GIS were aware.
The media was aware.
The courts were aware.
The Child Care Board was aware.
The previous government was aware of the barbaric practice.
Need we go on? This is a case where all of us failed residents at the GIS.
The only thing the COVER UP ARTISTS in the parliament are interested in now is covering up….but even they have to recognize that everything is UNRAVELING….ya don’t GET NEW BEGINNINGS unless things unravel…and they need to STOP ACTING LIKE THEY ARE DOING BLACK/AFRICAN people some FAVOR…it’s fraudulent,
BECAUSE from where am sitting and from the little i know..BLACK PEOPLE DON’T NEED ANY OF THEM….so there…..they are colonial creatures and belong to the crown, which has nothing to do with REAL AFRICAN PEOPLE…
am sure everyone remembers when i posted some nonbinding international laws on the blog…and stated that Africans are indigenous to the earth….i posted them to a few forums including FB for a month and the only ones who nearly died are the BLP Slaves on BU who had a conniption because not only do they NOT RECOGNIZE themselves as African, did not even know that they were born in the Americas…..but the concept of being indigenous as a Black person is so alien to them…the indoctrination and mindwash perpetrated by the cruel in the parliament SO CEMENTED ..that they LASHED OUT…
what has people REALLY APPALLED is that government still got the nerve to want to dip their hands in reparations money despite their arrogance, ignorance, criminality and corruption against Black people…
“who couldn’t figure the burning truth and light what I was selling the world wide web to redeem it’s souls for freedom and livity.”
fraud…ya won’t know what livity is if it BIT YA….posting a few music videos….and tiefing words to rgurgitate ….is not an enightened person made…..blah, blah, blah, ya still aint getting ya slippery fingers on our ancestors reparations…..neither you nor the crooks and frauds in Barbados…even they are seeing that and have gone under the umbrella of the AU on the subject of reparations AND STILL HAVE NOT TOLD THE BLACK MAJORITY, because they KNOW AS A COLONY AND SLAVE SOCIETY THEY ARE NOT SOVEREIGN…and won’t EVER BE unless they ASSERT THEIR INDIGENOUS AFRICAN STATUS….something the dumb pretending to be enlightened DON’T KNOW..
In either case it is abundantly clear that the staff who performed in this manner pose a clear and present danger to any and all children that remain in their care. Minister Abrahams has made an alarming error of judgement and has failed in his duty to the wards of the state at that facility.
Minister Abrahams must be dismissed from Cabinet.
Hinds-Layne, who strongly agitated on the girl’s behalf while being highly critical of the institution’s operations, questioned the rationale of removing the board responsible for exposing the alleged injustice, while keeping the school administration that was responsible for committing it.
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WELCOME TO 2X3 BARBADOS.
WHERE ARE THE SELL OUTS LIKE DAVID COMMISSONG WHO HAS BEEN EQUALLY SILENT ON MARK MALONEY. .WAY TOO MANY CONMEN/WOMEN IN BARBADOS WHO SELL OUT EACH OTHER FOR A TITLE AND SOME CASH IN THEIR POCKETS WHILST LOOKING THE OTHER WAY.
NO BLACK CHILD IS SAFE IN BARBADOS LIVING IN A WIDE SPREAD DEVIANT POPULATION OF BULLSHITTERS AND PREDATORS.
WILFRED ABRAHAM THE MINISTER IN CHARGE IS ONE SUCH DEVIANT SOMEONE WHO I KNOW PERSONALLY FREQUENTS THE LOCAL STRIP CLUBS DENS OF EXTREME PROSTITUTION FOR MOSTLY YOUNG WOMEN FROM OTHER CARIBBEAN ISLANDS.
IT IS NO WONDER THAT HE WOULD PERSIST WITH THE STATUS QUO SINCE HE TOO FUNCTIONS WELL IN A TWISTED WORLD.
Some a dem like to follow dem afrikans on facebook
others sit down and reason with their rasta brethren
and lick up the chalice for fire on buckingham palace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJh7qqCAtX4
@PLT, you are putting yourself in the line of fire.
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If one understands Bajan society and strong desire to do evil things in secrecy, the ministers war on whistleblowers should have been expected.
Here we have the train with all the bells and whistles, but, unfortunately, it is a toy train. One of the whistle worked as it should and the whistleblower was silenced.
We have reviewed our grade of Minister Abrahams. Unlike CXC we have the courage to downgrade him.
C- revised to a strong D+.
His leadership capabilities are severely limited or non-existent and will lead to inaction and obscurification when leadership is required.
At this level of performance, Mr Williams has demonstrated his ability to follow orders and to perform an effective cover-up.
Recommendation:Leave in current position but monitor. Situation is a mess, but it is doubtful that he can worsen it. There is no need to sacrifice a next person in remedying this mess.
Theo…am glad you saw for yourself…the JOB OF THE OUTOING BOARD was to monitor the GIS and REPORT irregularities including violations of childrens’ rights and any accompaning abuses, and make sure that the requisite CHANGES ARE SOLIDIFIED…to PROTECT VULNERABLE CHILDREN…….and when the board, Ms. Hinds.. DID JUST THAT….the whole board was removed..
… they would still be there if they had covered up that horrifying experience for a 14 year old child and all the other violations and abuses that went on before….they would be the government’s darlings with jwell obs secured….but exposing the TRUTH IN A SLAVE SOCIETY COMES WITH CONSEQUENCES..
gremlins, they probably look just like 555.
they would still be there if they had covered up that horrifying experience for a 14 year old child and all the other violations and abuses that went on before….they would be the government’s darlings with JOBS WELL SECURED until they were walking with 2 canes each…….but exposing the TRUTH IN A SLAVE SOCIETY COMES WITH CONSEQUENCES..
Waiting for a statement from the Prime Minister.
And that is what PASSES for leadershiop in Barbados…
so now everyone knows why i keep saying that i DO NOT RECOGNIZE COLONIAL PARLIAMENTS and DON’T want their creatures leading me and my family. anywhere….PARTICULARY NOT ON THE CONTINENT…ah got more respect for my ancestors than that…
@TheOGazertsMarch 21, 2021 9:52 AM
“At this level of performance, Mr Williams has demonstrated his ability to follow orders and to perform an effective cover-up.”
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So, it up to us as citizens to make sure that despite the Ministers ability to follow orders we remove his ability to perform an effective cover-up through widespread and insistent public discourse. Anything less is a betrayal of the most vulnerable children in our community.
Waiting for a statement from the Prime Minister
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PLEASE DON’T HOLD YOUR BREATH BECAUSE YOU WILL SURELY EXPIRE.
BLACK LOCAL FOOLS CALLED VOTERS ARE ONLY USEFUL EVERY 5 YEARS EXCEPT THOSE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BENEFIT FROM SKULL DUGGERY AND CORRUPTION IN PARTNERSHIP WITH SAME ELECTED POLITICIANS OF EMPTY PROMISES
SLAVERY AND STUPIDITY MUST BE VERY POWERFUL TO HAVE BLACK HUMANS PARTAKE IN THEIR OWN DEGRADATION AND SUPPRESSION.
THE MINISTER IS REFLECTING HIS BOSS PRESIDENT MIA HENCE DISMISSAL OF WHISTLEBLOWERS AND KEEPING BUSINESS AS USUAL WHILST MAINTAINING THE STATUS QUO.
ANY PUBLIC DISCOURSE IS JUST PR TO DEFLECT REALITY ON THE 2X3 FAILED ISLAND PUNCHING ABOVE ITS WEIGHT IN TAKING EVERY ONE FOR A FOOL.
THIS INCIDENT BROUGHT BACK MEMORIES OF A YOUNG LADY I MET IN GRAZETTES HOUSING AREA OVER 10 YEARS AGO AND SHE WAS ABOUT 22 WHO MENTIONED THAT SHE HAD SPENT TIME PREVIOUSLY AT SAME GIS INSTITUTION.
SHE MENTIONED THAT ALL THE GIRLS THERE DURING HER TIME OF ABOUT 2 YEARS BECAME LESBIANS EVEN IF NOT INCLINED.
SHE ADMITTED THAT SHE ALSO LIKED GIRLS BECAUSE OF HER INDOCTRINATION WHILST THERE EVEN THOUGH SHE WASN’T THAT WAY BEFORE SHE WAS INCARCERATED THERE.
SHE MENTIONED THAT IT WAS DAILY LESBIAN SEX AMONG THE FEMALES AND MANY OF THE GIRLS WERE TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF BY SOME FEMALE STAFFERS WHO TOOK ADVANTAGE BECAUSE OF THEIR VULNERABILITY AND DEFENSELESS.
SHE WAS A VERY ATTRACTIVE YOUNG LADY WHO SAID SHE ENDED UP THERE BECAUSE OF NEGLECT AT HOME AND HER LATER STEALING AS A VERY YOUNG TEENAGER.
THERE IS A DEEP HISTORY OF COVERUP AT GIS AKA SUMMERVILLE WHICH SUITS THE DEPRAVITY OF MANY OF ITS ADULT STAFF MEMBERS WHO KNOW THAT THEY CAN TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THESE YOUNG GIRLS WITH IMPUNITY.
THERE ARE MATURE RATS RUNNING WILD FOR YEARS AMONG THE DEFENSELESS YOUNG CHICKS FROM ITS INCEPTION AND MANY YEARS LATER.
@David yours @9.34 am
Isn’t that the case with most issues in Barbados? You are advocating collective responsibility, who the hell are “all of us”? Who in the “all of us” were empowered to make decisions? When was this ventilated in a public forum before the crap hit the fan? Didn’t Ms. Hinds-Layne say she raised the matter with the Minister? Why point fingers in all directions?
The failure in this is the Minister’s alone, the buck has to stop somewhere.
@Sargeant
The buck stops with the minister there is no denying. The bigger point is that many wrongs can be righted in Barbados if ordinary members of the public exhibit the spleen to take a picture and make public even if anon, a public servant leaks a document to show unfair tender practice etc.
Sargeant the system will not change because of orthodox behaviour.
“Waiting for a statement from the Prime Minister.”
hope ya still got quite a few years left…
we are ALL STILL WAITING for Mia to address the worldwide revolution she labeled “just a trend” after the George Floyd public execution…..as though it’s…nothing to see here folks, quite normal the everyday killing of black people, so let’s all just move on……we got racists and thieves to please and appease in Barbados..and ENRICH WITH BLACK PEOPLE’S MONEY….
she’s still to address the racism practiced against the majority population on the island…by a tiny minority and let’s not forget all the thefts and the associated criminality….the reason why i still wonder why she mentioned anything on ITV London about the mentally enslaved on the island….if nothing is going to be done about it, unless it was an advert for slave masters,
she’s still to address why the court process was INTERFERRED WITH to allow a white sexual predator tourist from UK to escape justice when he assaulted a grown Black lady who was recently widowed…..and let’s not forget the vicious racism displayed to Tiny Tempah at sandy lane hotel that they ALL TRIED TO COVER UP and LIE ABOUT….straight from the parliament…while ignorning that the Black population are entitled NOT TO BE VIOLATED through racism and discrimination by racists..
i don’t even have to list all the other CRIMES AGAINST BLACK PEOPLE…that none in the parliament want to address, because it’s not as important to them as it is to their victims…the list is way too long AND GROWING…
so what would make us think she cares about the abuse and violations of the human rights of Black/African children in Barbados or anywhere else..
“gremlins, they probably look just like 555.”
oooh !
no man they look ugh! like a thug called Mr. Mitchell who jah bless let no man curse I thank God I am not the worst they say your first sexual encounter imprints your mind and forms your fetishes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3EHw18yOMI
I just hope they know that you CANNOT make omelettes without BREAKING EGGS…
THEY KNOW…although trying to pretend otherwise, that change is INEVITABLE and can be SEEN ON THE HORIZON…
they can fight it, but WILL NOT WIN…
no one can say i don’t give FOREWARNINGS…
i can be vindictive and keep the info to myself, but am not vindictive by nature….and don’t carry hate…but will PUSH BACK if they try to stop the changes…
We should not let this quote from the St. George North bye election go to waste.
Quote: “Any idiot can play cricket”
Updated: “Any idiot can be a Minister” or
“Any idiot can be an MP.”
Finally, I must commend PLT for his courage in speaking out on this matter, as one of the few publicly identified people on this blog he risks considerable repercussions on our small island.
@Sargeant
Individuals like PLT are protected if more Barbadians in the know agitate for the change. This is the point.
peterlawrencethompsonMarch 21, 2021 9:12 AM In his speech yesterday Minister Abrahams said “I also wish from the outset to correct the notion that my annoyance over this issue was triggered more by it being made public than by it actually having occurred. Indeed, there were two equally vexing occurrences that still have me troubled and deeply hurt and dismayed to this day…” e explicitly said that the actions of the whistleblower are just as bad as the torture of a child for 13 days.
I had to let that digest. That a qualified lawyer, who should have the understanding of language phrasing and its content, to make such an outlandish statement, is shocking.
One has to question either his capability or his mindset. Either way, it demonstrates an unsuitability for his current role.
Finally, I must commend PLT for his courage in speaking out on this matter, as one of the few publicly identified people on this blog he risks considerable repercussions on our small island.
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I AGREE WITH THE ABOVE COMMENT 100 PERCENT EVEN THOUGH PLT AND I HAVE DIFFERED IN CHARLES HERBERT DRUG CRIMINAL MASTERMIND BEING LET OFF BY THE 2X3 ISLAND CORRUPT LEGAL SYSTEM.
ALL THIS HIGHLIGHTS IS THAT MOST BLACK BAJANS DON’T STAND A CHANCE HAVING ALREADY BEEN SOLDOUT FROM BIRTH TO THEIR FINAL DEATH AND BURIAL AND ARE SIMPLE PAWNS IN THE JOURNEY OF LIFE TO GRAVEYARD.
DOES ONE THINK IF THIS WAS A WHITE CHILD ON THE FAILED 2X3 ISLAND IT WOULD BE DISMISSED SO EASILY AND SWEPT UNDER THE CARPET BY TWISTED WILFRED ABRAHAMS.?
White parents do not commit their children to a GIS type institution.
The the Reformatory and Industrial Schools Act CAP169 of 1926 stipulates that “… the Principal may impose […] two days solitary confinement on punishment diet…” but the girl in question was so imprisoned for 13 consecutive days, a clear violation of this law.
Will the Principal be disciplined for violating the Act??
angela coxMarch 21, 2021 8:35 AM Yes bajans over the years has accepted Corporal punishment as a normal a punishment to keep children on the straight and narrow. The same behaviour accepted has raised it’s ugly head in an nstitution that is supposed to help children. What else should one expect when u sow the wind uh reaped the whirlwind
On this I can agree with you. Hence my point on violence being culturally inherited. I am telling the blog, when it is considered from this angle it makes sense. What do we think happened on the plantations? Lashes for those who did not adhere to orders.
I am saying that we need an active education on violence via discussion and coaching of alternative means, in the wider society. That is where it should start.
How many times do we see someone post that ‘I get lashes and it ent do me no harm, look how I turned out’? But you know what? That person is wrong. The lashes were wrong.
AC says if it is trained that violence is a solution, it will be accepted. She is right.
What have the ‘young boys with guns’ learnt. Violence. So guess what, they use the ultimate in violence to get what they want. A gun.
It should never, ever be a solution. A last resort at self defense.
peterlawrencethompsonMarch 21, 2021 11:53 AM The the Reformatory and Industrial Schools Act CAP169 of 1926 stipulates that “… the Principal may impose […] two days solitary confinement on punishment diet…” but the girl in question was so imprisoned for 13 consecutive days, a clear violation of this law. Will the Principal be disciplined for violating the Act??
Direct contravention of Article 16 of the United Nations Convention Against Torture.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Convention_against_Torture
Ban on cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment
Article 16 requires parties to prevent “other acts of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment which do not amount to torture as defined in article 1” in any territory.
No doubt, this is serious and demands urgent action.
“DOES ONE THINK IF THIS WAS A WHITE CHILD.”
a white/minoirty child would not see the inside of GIS. the same negros would break their backs bending over backward to make sure it never happened, even if the child committed murder, just as they break their necks to make sure white/other minorities get a slap on the wrist or no slap at all…even for murder and drug trafficking….etc..
remember….whites. indians, syrians can homeschool their children without explanation, but BLACK PARENTS COULDN’T WITHOUT GOING TO PRISON…..am sure with Covid all of that has changed…BY FORCE…but not one negro wanted to change it….ask Faith Harris…
Crusoe…why do you seem so surprised…..i call it a blessing that a minister has SHOWN THE WORLD what we have been talkng about for years and years…and called liars….i don’t think he understands what he did, any logical comprehension is outside of his comfort zone..
@ Peterlawrencethompson March 21, 2021 9:12 AM
“He explicitly said that the actions of the whistleblower are just as bad as the torture of a child for 13 days.
This is so outrageous that he has brought the entire Cabinet into disrepute and must be dismissed from his post immediately.”
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Welcome aboard, PLT!
Glad to see you have joined the Bajan branch of the human rights club by way of imbibing the principles long promoted by the likes of Waru and William Skinner.
The only difference between the two political administrations is the colour of each banner behind which both incompetence and corruption reign supreme.
That same mouse of a man and his predecessor previously sought to blame the ‘ordinary’ folks of St. Andrew, St. Joseph and St. John for bringing the water woes upon themselves just because they happen to be living.
Now he has gone and made the whistleblower for children rights and justice the sacrificial lamb to attempt to subside politically the outrage of decent-thinking members of the public like you.
But why seek to heal a deeply festering wound by covering it with tainted dirty paper instead of antiseptic dressings?
Why put in the Chair to be the change agent for a more enlightened GIS whose moral philosophy is grounded in those Judeo-Christian punitive principles of ‘an eye-for-an-eye’ and ‘spare-the-rod and spoil-the-child?
This is not the function of a bible-bashing psychologically damaged preacher woman or man but that of a more humane-oriented trained social worker or psychologist.
@David March 21, 2021 12:44 PM
White parents do not commit their children to a GIS type institution.
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If a White girl child shot someone with Daddy’s gun, they still would not end up in GIS. Why? Because we live on an unreformed plantation that is racist to its very core.
Peter if you are referring to Bejerkham blame the DPP and not the Court.
Doug Maloney’s some went to Station Hill.
@David
White parents do not commit their children to a GIS type institution
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You ever wonder why? Do you think white children are not recalcitrant too? Remember just a short while ago when Edgehill went on his rant? Didn’t some member of the family allude to problems growing up? That community settles problems in house, the worst some of us can do is expect that entrusting the care of our children to the Gov’t is a panacea for their/our problems.
Does anyone know what percentage of children formerly resident of the GIS end up in adult prison? I would venture more than a few, a common refrain in my youth was “doan mine he, he is a Dodds boy”, in small societies very few overcome those labels.
@Sargeant
Minorities manage their garbage with children on the down low.
13 days?Tis was a ‘light’ punishment compared to 60 days.
Did you all miss David at 5:24 a.m.
Teen ‘preferred Dodds Prison’ over GIS
By Maria Bradshaw mariabradshaw@nationnews.com
An attorney at law who was hired by a mother in 2017 after her teenage daughter said she was placed in solitary confinement at the Government Industrial School (GIS) for more than 60 consecutive days believes this may be one of the first cases where a mother asked the court to transfer her child to HMP Dodds Prison because she was afraid for her safety.
Attorney Michelle Russell spoke to the Sunday Sun after the mother gave her permission to highlight the situation involving the child, which occurred four years ago at the GIS.
That child was so fed up and frustrated at how she was being treated at the school that she attempted to burn down the Barrows, St Lucy reform institution by setting a mattress on fire and lying down on the burning mattress.
Forget about color here. I will tell you that if a white child went to the GIS, his her experience would be different.
Do you think employees at GIS are all barren. I suspect that they also have children.
This is about class; this is house slave and field slave behavior. These are people educated to an uncle Tom mindset
We should stay away from hypotheticals and prosecute the matter before us.
@David March 21, 2021 1:46 PM
We should stay away from hypotheticals and prosecute the matter before us.
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I agree. The matter before us is that the GIS facility in St. Lucy has been proven by a preponderance of credible allegations not to be fit for purpose. The Minister ought to have acted before now to protect the vulnerable children still incarcerated there in a manifestly unsafe environment.
PM Mottley must ask him for his letter of resignation.
I fully agree.
Let me add that if nothing comes of this, in the next go around is it then a hypothetical. This makes it hard to simply focus on the bird in the hand. The bush is full.
Agree the Minister must resign in the spirit of the type of democracy we are suppose to be practicing. If he does not then the PM must relieve him. One suspects if the plan was for Abrahams to resign the PM would not have allowed him to appoint a new Board.
PLT
I admire you lending you voice using your real name. I hope you have done all the calculations and you or none of your family would get caught by no such thing as a loan, referral, visa, building permit, etc…
No need to reply. Just think it through
Jesus.. never reread what you post.
And that was written without having a drink.
@TheOGazerts March 21, 2021 2:12 PM
Someone sent me the following this morning:
“An extensive study in the U.S.A found that the most productive age in human life is between 60-70 years of age.
The 2nd most productive stage of the human being is from 70 to 80 years of age.
The 3rd most productive stage is from 50 to 60 years of age.
The average age of NOBEL PRIZE winners is 62 years old.
The average age of the presidents of prominent companies in the world is 63 years.
The average age of the pastors of the 100 largest churches in the U.S.A. is 71.
The average age of the Popes is 76 years.
This tells us in a way that it has been determined, that the best years of your life are between 60 and 80 years.
A study published in NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE found that at age 60, you reach the TOP of your potential and this continues into your 80s.
Therefore, if you are between 60 -70 or 70-80 you are in the BEST and 2nd level of your life.”
SOURCE: N.Engl.J .Med. 70,389 (2018)
I found the above to be fascinating… but I should not be surprised because I feel that I have been more productive in the past five years than at any other time of my life.
I attribute it to losing my fear of what people might think. My younger son put it this way to his elder brother, “Dad appears to have finally run out of f@cks to give.”
I was just casually following a blog on facebook Just a little curious. Why would Christ Church East BLP constituency branch congratulate one of the new GIS board members?
@LWF
What is the point you are chasing here? It is not unusual for party faithful to be appointed to Boards by the minister in charge.
The word delinquent keeps cropping up. This is the name that is employed to describe these kids who end up in the government industrial school.
Are these youngsters suppose to be borderline physcopaths? Are they truants? Are they disruptive in schools. Are they shoplifters?
Is this the only solution to deal with these problem kids. To remove them from mainstream society and to dump them into a virtual prison; to dehumanise and institutionalise them in an establishment that was created well over 100 years ago.
We are a small island and should have the capacity and the creativity to nurture these kids. They should not be raised in government institutions.
They are underaged children who cannot be charged as adults for committing crimes some of them.
Big Up Jah B singing and wailing is the stars above above the clouds up in Heaven with Bob and Peter Rest in Peace
You roots (you roots) you radicals you rock to the reggae
You roots (you roots) you radicals you dub to the reggae
You roots (you roots) you radicals skankin to the reggae
You roots y’all
now it’s the roots (the roots) the radicals the rockers and the reggae
Roots (the roots) the radicals rockers and the reggae
You roots (you roots) you radicals you step to the reggae
You roots
now there’s no stem, leaves, or branches without the roots
You’ll never find a city of dudes without the radicals
You’ll never see the earth without the rocks, they’re the foundation
Music wouldn’t be music without reggae c’mon
This is a cry of a people who for over 400 years have been enslaved in mental bondage
A people who with their blood their sweat their tears and their hands they built great cities of babylon
only to be paid the wages of the wicked the sword and the gun
Your Roots Are Reggae
Rise and Shine
@ PLT
You are wasting your time with people going about the place believing that they are “oldsters” at 45 ! I once was talking to a young man who was about 35. He looked me full in the face and told me that the “youngsters today” are this and that. He had already moved himself out of the youngstesr crowd. Look in the papers and you read about people less than 60 being referred to as elderly. Sometimes you have to wonder what planet these people live on.
Ignore them @PLT.
David
I once commented that all the outspoken persons were being coopted and so I never from reading this blog felt that the person was a party person.The blog carried all of Caswell articles from the news and was very impartial during the St.George Bye election. So persons must be very careful how influencers are working on social media in Barbados to make sure that the government wins 30 sets again.
By the way I think the person seems like a someone who can contribute to that kind of organization.
@LWF
Yes she seems equipped to make a contribution.
Theo…just as we thought, earlier today i saw on FB the one Stephanie Chase one of the new GIS board members castigating the 14 year old child and literally calling her a criminal..in the most unprofessional outburst on such a huge platform……so you see, there are no plans to make changes to that toxic institituion since the new board member is already in cover up mode and lashing out at the victim, she should not even be speaking about that child in public…unprofessional and ignorant..
as someone said in reply to HER WICKEDNESS..”
“Ms. Stephanie Chase has clearly demonstrated below that she is not competent to sit on the board of the GIS. She is completely lacking the characteristics of mature judgment, logical reasoning, and human compassion which are required in that post.
Ms. Chase has gained public profile for her imaginative gossip and colorful language, but that is a liability, not an asset.
Her post about the child that was abused by the GIS with solitary confinement is completely tone deaf, legally warped, and simply serves to try to excuse the institutional failure.”
That one wasted no time in showing what a total jackass she is…and a governent lackey…she’s just another failure, not surprised in the least, that’s all they attract to suck on taxpayers and the money isn’t even big for directors so she’s just another yardfowl, aka fowl Slave.
Stupssseee!!!
The government won’t/can’t win 30 seats in the next election.
In this community Lucille Baird is believed to be a “D” sympathizer. In case she fails as board chair–and to the best of my knowledge she has no training nor experience in psychology, psychiatry, social work, teaching etc. so I don’t know what she can bring to the chair. But anyhow if she fails, come next election the B’s will be delighted to have a “known D” sympathizer to take the heat.
It is my belief that the government is playing political games with these children’s safety.
It seems that for politicians nothing is as important as winning the next election, not even children’s safety.
Perhaps, not even children’s lives.
The fact that the crabs in the parliament refuse to give the Black/African population any information regarding their African heritage is more than enuff to get them ALL KICKED OUT of that cursed Slave parliament…everyone of them, they think they’re slick using dirty politics to become elected to keep the population in generational poverty so that minority beasts can feed off them and their children….then they will operate in Africa in stealth FOR THEIR SELFISH COVETOUS SELVES..leaving the people scrambing to survive…………the sellout negros have no shame…
for the people to survive any of this first they have to get rid of the SELLOUT GOVERNMENT….
As we get caught up in our own narrative, stories and points of view, free flow writing is a way of getting this out and down on paper to help us see things from a new perspective. From this, we can gain insights into patterns of behaviour that may not be serving us, and help us to become more mindful of our action
Deep Flu
Barbados needs to heal damages inside it’s body
Dysfunctional people and systems
like other places that need improving
Here is some free flow writing as an emotional purge or detox
check out mindfulness and focus wheels
Blacklivesmatter
seems absurd to blame black government
Paradigm shift needed
Homeopathic remedies
Anger resentment bitterness
Heal body and emotions from inside out
Issues in the tissues
painful remains of past
trauma stored in body
Governments selling people short
not addressing issues
self serving protective mode
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bqCdpuGonw
A good morning to all.
Woke up this morning and my mind seems to be blank.
With no thoughts of the discussions that we have usually going on.
Perhaps my mind will connect with my body again during the day.
Have a great day Barbados
Treating Symptoms versus Addressing Root Causes
If GIS recruit people from general public then problems lie within the whole of society
Likewise, Waru’s claims of bad government is just a manifestation of bad people in a bad country
[ Same goes for racism and policing in Western and Eastern Nations and also North and South ]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48y9bXJZGUA
I’m Going In..
I’m Comin In..
I have been blessed with intuitive knowledge and would often tell my teachers they are/were wrong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuUUeFZzXAc
I don’t sing, but I’ve been lucky
can we have another debate subject opened please
I think I have won this one again man
this one was too easy we need some bigger challenges to occupy our minds
another problem solved
another plan formulated and gifted to those stupid stupid bajans
sometimes outside consultants with fresh minds are need to solve local issues in the tissues
to see the woods from the trees
with an out of world perspective
with higher and more evolved minds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlmRzqFpTBM
In 1966 we became independent.
With probably 11 changes of government
and we have not evolved beyond a Dickensian society
Black leaders with the mindset of a pre-Mandela South African government
Never thinking of freedom, only of ways to torment ‘those of lesser pedigree’
And we have with those who would defend with their last breath
A society spiraling to certain death
Becoming offended by constructive criticism
Their defense based only on being on location
“You are there. We are here. Go away
What the hell are you talking about. I’m having a ball”
They cannot see the broken spirits and dreams and dragging feet
Cause for them life is sweet
But in their minds they know their lies will end
Cause they can hear the coming whirlwind
TheOGazerts 2021
Enjoy the day
Never forget. Live good, treat others well, because….in the words of the great Johnny Cash…
People in Barbados do not protest or riot so there will never be much change happening quickly.
BLP will still win power against weak opposition anyhow,
Complacency is a thing inna long talking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYB6Njigxv0
Easy Squeeze (make no riot)
Theo…it appears as Cuddear was hinting, the child was out late, the worried grandmother called the police, she turned up before the police arrived and the cops proceeded to physically assault her….so yes, there are 3 sides to every story, and the truth always wins…
..so that fraud Chase they just put on the board at GIS made herself famous for being a total idiot and an enabler…..of CRIMES AGAINST BLACK CHILDREN….
now everyone knows her for what she is…
@ TheOGazerts,
You could visit the Diaspora Corner. Lots of great music videos.
UN also has reports of the brutal nature of the police in Barbados and they way they gotoo many of them after Black people only and violate their rights….Black children don’t stand a chance with them, they need to keep their hands off people’s children and be more professional..
The gremlin 555 at it again…
UN also has reports of the brutal nature of the police in Barbados and they way they too many of them go after Black people only and violate their rights….Black children don’t stand a chance with them, they need to keep their hands off people’s children and be more professional….WITH BLACK PEOPLE…the same way i have seen them on multiple occasions sweating their asses off to be courteous to minorities and their children WHOM THEY DARE NOT TOUCH….no matter how many crimes they commit…
so, in saying that, has the police arrested the 17 year old white boy who killed the former cricketer with his car just last month, did they test him for drugs or alcohol and did they find out if he was on his cellphone and did not see the man…..no, but they allowed him to walk away with his parents without so much as a ticket…
but they will pick up their big wicked hands and slap or punch a 14 year old Black child in her face…
You all could listen to Down to Brasstacks . David Ellis is moderating.
Some Bajans seem to care about the children who end up at GIS.
@ David,
Brasstacks bring back sweet memories for me this morning. One of these days I will explain. #exgfs. lol
@Hants
Do not wait too long. Hope you were not reminded of your residency at Dodds?
yes…Theo…i know exactly how you feel, would imagine that PLT now feels the very same way…i have become sensitized to the bajan (means LOW in Spanish) BULLSHIT OF DESTROYING BLACK LIVES BECAUSE THEY CANNOT FCUK WITH ANYONE ELSE..
@ David, good one. lol
I emailed Minister Abrahams the following (I am hoping that he receives many hundreds s:
Minister Wilfred Abrahams,
You have failed to protect the vulnerable girls at GIS by removing all the staff who are implicated in the systematic torture of children by routinely incarcerating them naked in a bare concrete cell for days and weeks on end.
This treatment was contrary to the United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. It was also in breach of Article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
I understand that you have ordered that such torture not be repeated, but you have left the torturers in charge of the institution and you have left vulnerable girls in their charge. Furthermore, you have publicly stated that you have confidence in the staff who inflicted these inhuman and degrading assaults on vulnerable children.
Your catastrophic error of judgement has made me deeply ashamed of my Government.
You have left me no choice but to insist on your immediate resignation from your position as Minister of Home Affairs, Information and Public Affairs.
Yours sincerely,
Peter Thompson
PLT…i posted information on the African Diaspora Sixth Region that the government was hiding from Black people in Barbados….because they got some SCUMMY SCAM for the continent that will NEVER BENEFIT BLACK PEOPLE ………hope you take a look at it, people with your skills are sorely needed to help Black people in Barbados and the region UNDERSTAND BETTER what it all entails and…transition if they so desire…..
bear in mind any ideas you have given the retarded government so far WILL NEVER BENEFIT THE BLACK POPULATION on the island…it’s never their intent…sellouts never change their stance.
Dear Peter,
I make an effort to avoid politics of any kind. However, it pains me to see you standing alone. If it becomes a petition, you can be assured that I will sign it.
You have my support.
Kind regards,
Everton
Hi Everton,
How are you. It is good to see you.
We were in the same class for several years.
You have come a long way, baby.
The Everton that I know would be afraid to sign a check in his own name.
Theo
Sorry waru no offence but..
I still find you a mind numbing bore mindless monotonous repetitive one dimensional dimwit who don’t move me
Barbados is not the only country in the African diaspora but it could be the most docile of all
Journey’s Prelude / Jungle Fever / Africa / Brazil
@Kiki et al
Can we move on please? This constant harangue is boring between some commenters. The point has been made on this and other blogs let us move on please.
@PLT,
You are a credit to your parents and to your people. Have you considered contacting Aljazeera’s investigation unit? Not only on this story but on a whole range of stories coming out of Barbados that are detrimental to the welfare of our people.
I still listening to Down to Brasstacks. Jonny Tudor did a lot of travelling to european countries researching.
Tings coming out. Unpuckinbelievable!
Things are bound to come out….it has finally stuck in Bajans heads that their EXISTENCE IS AT RISK…they are in danger and the government is their biggest enemy..
@ peterlawrencethompson,
Nuff respect.
OK Dave Roger Roger 10 4 but when push comes to shove everyone put the blame on me
“Barbados is not the only country in the African diaspora but it could be the most docile of all”
But what are u doing to END THE DOCILITY…am sure you see me BEGGING PLT for help…because my PLATE IS FULL…moving in mulitple directions to help the BLACK POPULATION on the island before they are COMPLETELY DESTROYED BY BLACK SELLOUT GOVERNMENTS. I spent all weekend calling multiple countries asking for help. Use your connections just as i am.
David Ellis is doing a great job moderating this GIS issue on Brasstacks.
” I spent all weekend calling multiple countries asking for help. Use your connections just as i am.”
Writing strong and stiff letters of complaint is the British / Colonial way and does not cut the mustard.
When you file a case in court it has to be heard.. and when people are up in arms and fight back it puts abusers on the back foot.
Violence beats Violins and sob stories.
Barbados is out of my jurisdiction. I am too remote from the issue for any legal standing under tort law.
“Writing strong and stiff letters of complaint is the British / Colonial way and does not cut the mustard.”
wrong…i don’t do colonial, ask cousin Boris, everyone has their own way of doing things, i prefer rely on instinct…it never fails…
keep depending on colonial laws and you will get absolutely nowhere…there are other laws in force outside of the perimeters or manmade nonsense…like tort that cannot stand up to certain scrutiny..
@Hants March 22, 2021 11:54 AM “I still listening to Down to Brasstacks. Jonny Tudor did a lot of travelling to european countries researching.”
I was kinda hoping that all that European travel was virtual, that is searching the websites of European countries, and maybe some phone calls.
Please Lord tell me that my tax money has not been paying for that “research” especially as by his own admission the board is only advisory and has no power, since the power resides in a stupid 1890 law, and with the permanent secretary.
Tell me please who signs off on all of that travel? And why?
The same Permanent Secretaries who it seems NEVER visit the GIS?
Spending tax payers money as though it falls like manna from the sky?
It seems to me than that more than the Minister should go.
Are Permanent Secretaries ever fired for anything?
Was listening to the radio and there was a gentleman speaking of a 130 year old law
2020-130=1890
Do you believe that a law for children of the 1890’s (just a few years after the abolition of slavery) should still be in use for children in 2020.
The guy on the radio like he stealing wura notes. Is the ‘mad woman’ correct? Are we running our country using slave laws?
I have been interacting with the local Bajans at various sites and many of them sing the same song as the overseas Bajans.
Perhaps
1. overseas Bajans
2. local Bajans, and
3. local BU Bajans
It is known that many laws/statutes are out dated. If memory is correct there is a project started to update our laws. This is not an excuse, it is more a criticism of successive governments not giving priority to this matter.
Theo…i will tell you how i found out, fresh out of NYC doing a project..really long time ago, went over to the supreme court’s law library long before they moved over to Whitepark Road…checking out this and that statute…and am like, why am i not seeing any amendments or upgrades in the laws, all am seeing are Slave laws and as luck would have it, who should walk in and see me perusing those old books….but DPP Leacock, deceased…so i knew somehting was very, very wrong on the island…..
would you know it, he used one of those same slave master laws to FREE Bjerkham in the death of his little son….so they use the slave laws to penalize and criminalize Black people to the FULLEST EXTENT …but keep slavemaster laws to free minorities…same laws that FREED white CRIMINALS for slavemasters so many centuries ago…
remember the sexaul predator tourist James from UK…well they went into their little cubbyhole of slave master laws and freed him from assaulting the Black lady..
What the hell are they studying at Cave Hill?
Forget the big dollar projects and introduce a course where students review section of laws and suggest changes. These can then be used for further discussion.
The low hanging fruits.
If you understand the NASTY MINDSETS of SELLOUTS…you will understand they won’t have it any other way..
they get to keep full control of the Black population under an obsolete slave system, even controlling information …until social media ended that evil practice… and control minorities by allowing them to get away with murder, thefts from the BLACK POPULATION, drug and gun trafficking, money laundering etc……….in exchange for all the bribery and corruption we have been hearing about for decades…
“What the hell are they studying at Cave Hill?”
someone said …”HOW TO ROB THE POPULATION…”