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It is also a different version of how the story got out than what our own Attorney-General said last Thursday after the verdict was handed down. He said: “It is significant that the conviction came about because individuals who had knowledge of the events were prepared to speak out and to give evidence about wrongdoing.” The AG added: “This is something that is required at all levels in Barbados’ society whether dealing with the scourge of corruption or the scourge of gun violence.

Donville Inniss Case Points to Endemic Corruption in Barbados

The traditional media is off and running with the big headlines about the sentence federal District Court Judge Kiyo Matsumoto is scheduled to deliver today in New York in the Donville Inniss matter. It is the story traditional media will have a healthy appetite for because of flagging circulation.

Mia’s Red Bag has come up empty so far

 

The concern of the blogmaster confirmed in the deliberations during the Donville Inniss trial is the strong inference there is pervasive corrupt behaviour in the way business is conducted by some PUBLIC and PRIVATE officials in Barbados. Successive governments over the years have paid lip service to unearthing and punishing corruption even in the face of obvious indications of wrong doing. The Mia Mottley government is better placed than her predecessors given the unprecedented mandate handed to her government to do something about it. It is no secret however to those in the know that Donville and Mia are bosom buddies.

The following is a blog repost from January 20, 2020 which captures key concerns by the blogmaster, the late journalist Patrick Hoyos and the BU family.


Donville Inniss Case Points to Endemic Corruption in Barbados

The blogmaster found the Patrick Hoyos article to be – without prolix – a good summary of the Donville Inniss matter. Especially as it pertains to the inference other payments were made to Donville Inniss and that bribery by elected officials was commonplace in Barbados. Although we have the Attorney General et al saying that local laws would not have permitted prosecution of Inniss this position was challenged during the Inniss trial.

The blogmaster’s wish is that we have a dispassionate debate in Barbados and a call to action by our officials regarding the honest prosecution of public officials. It is ironic former Speaker of the House MICHAEL CARRINGTON and Adriel Brathwaite, former Attorney General showed support for Inniss by attending the trial in New York. CARRINGTON’s legacy will be that a High Court judge had to issue a court order for him to release monies due his client 70+ John Griffiths, the blogmaster will remember Brathwiate for promising to report to parliament the status of Mia Mottley’s qualification (LEC) to practice before the Courts of Barbados. He never did.

The time has come to arrest the moral and ethical rot- add criminal. We have started to experience the negative fallout of pushing our heads in the sand.

Time for the authorities to do a job.

Time for the Prime Minister, Attorney General and stakeholders to lead the charge.

Importantly, time for John Citizens to hold officials accountable.

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817 responses to “Donville Inniss’ File Missing from Mottley’s Red Bag”


  1. “blah…blah…blah…who is going to take someone like a Fowl Slave on a blog boasting about they are the only black person in a company seriously, when many of us lived in US and know there is NO SUCH THING……and a billion dollar projects manager to boot, when WE KNOW that ALL the companies practice DIVERSITY under federal guidelines”

    Wura hush your mouth and stop with the lies and conflation.. Firstly, there was no maid or janitor. I said the other blk person was the in-house graphic designer. Secondly, to assume that if there were indeed a maid or janitor he/she would be black says a lot about what you really think of your people or you’re simply ignorant. Context Abigail, context! Thirdly, you clearly do not understand the concept of a boutique firm. Fourthly, I am not a project manager. Fifthly, I don’t know where you got the story of a billion dollar project and being the only black person in a company from. Learn to read to understand rather than to respond. I do know this is hard for a robot with a programmed vocabulary–tief, black, slave, fowl, tief, black, slave, fowl–and I do empathise. Sixthly, tell BU of the federal guidelines for diversity, if they are mandatory for private firms, their application and commencement date. Seventhly, I never said I was the only black person in any company, I said one of two. Finally, as usual, you clearly don’t know what you’re talking about–pure tales of the expected in the twilight zone. Your climb down from.posting the “St.Lucy” evidence is noticeable.🤣


  2. “The conviction of Inniss is an indictment on all of Barbados.”

    Not really, Bajans should be pleased that the truth has emerged and Inniss’ wrong doings have been exposed.

    The indictment on all off Barbados is that other similar cases have not been exposed and people are keeping quiet about crimes until after the truths are already uncovered and made public.


  3. TheO

    i did’nt claim you made any claim about USA. USA is the standard bearer of where people want Barbados to be. whenever we get caught up with something that the usa is ahead of us in then there will somthing else else that we need to catch up with again. In other words barbados will never be heaven when compared to places like the USA. if you compare it with a place like Haiti then you meay think it is the closest think to heaven.


  4. The only place heavenly in America is the National Parks!

    In most countries some enjoy life while others struggle to survive. Scandinavia seems to be the exception with respect to financial struggles.

    America is in political turmoil right now because of the enjoyment of the 1% and the struggle to survive of far foo many.

    Neither America nor Barbados is perfect.

    So I never ever compare Barbados to heaven or paradise. It can be a really nice place to live, relatively speaking and depending on what type of life one desires.

    America does offer greater opportunity but unless you come up with one brilliant idea nobody else ever had, you have to work your ass off.

    I prefer the simple life and so country life in Barbados where I can stand in my vegetable garden among the birds, the bees, the butterflies and the ladybirds, look at the sea and feel to be there and be there in less than fiive minutes is wondrous to me. I marvel whenever I stop to think about it really.

    I like the small island vibe.

    It is all subjective.

    But with the whole world at her feet Rihanna takes opportunities wherever she finds them and frequently finds herself touching base on this rock regardless.

    Frequently….because she can and also because she cannot help it.

    It’s home no matter where you live.

  5. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    “Secondly, to assume that if there were indeed a maid or janitor he/she would be black says a lot about what you really think of your people or you’re simply ignorant.”:

    am not the one who said it, i watched you like the WHOLE BLOG did on here BOASTING…that is where the poster got it from..

    do you understand THAT YOU HAVE NOTHING in the way of teaching anyone ANYTHING…..how would we know anything about your boast if ya were not on here BOASTING…there are no company meetings especially in LARGE CORPORATIONS…without diversity…ya boastfulness is what got ya words biting ya now…

    Dummy, I have relatives WHO WORK IN BOUTIQUE firms, most are small, you are not the first Black person or the last to work in those…..as you believe…..even those ARE DIVERSE…that’s the problem with yardfowls, when ya elevate themselves to new negros…ya believe no one else should or could get the same opportunities…ya don’t even know how well ya have been studied..

    am waiting for the RIGHT TIME to post the billion dollar St. Lucy Project that ya were boasting about in stealth…remember the father/son MONEY LAUNDERING GIG….remember i held on to that for over a year before posting, then the WHOLE WORLD SAW all those millions that were LAUNDERED across the US, BVI, Turk & Caicos ect……….keep pushing….i prefer watch yall STEW…it feels so good.

    ya must think BU is the only place i post, i know what to post, where and WHEN TO POST IT…


  6. The barbados economy continues to take a nose dive
    The PM needs to address the nation on this distressing issue
    Waiting for tourist to come and the Covid to disappear is continuing to put the economic fate in the hands of nature warth
    The governor of the Central Bank has sent a warning to govt which should not be ignored
    The livelihoods of the people are in jeopardy and can no longer be held in a vicious economic lockdown
    Govt vacuous policies and empty promises holds no weigh
    The time for solutions is now

  7. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Peabrain Enuff…i know how that document got made public…..let that keep you up at night.

    ..if ya have ever lived in NYC ya would know that latinx, poles etc DOMINATE the cleaning business as maids janitors etc…it does not need saying if ya lived in those cities before, you are the only one think ya got unique information that others don’t know…..the first and last bajan to work in US….steupppss….all of you got the same backward mentality

    Some European countries got it right, they learned from past errors and actually USE THEIR BRAIN….and understand that to achieve success, THEIR PEOPLE should always come first in the socio-economic realm.

    the discomfort for the Mia/Teets duo is that the TRUTH is galloping out and they can’t handle it, would love to corral it back in but that is a mountain they can’t climb….all of it needs to be released to PURGE the island of that POISON and START THE HEALING PROCESS FROM ALL OF DECADES OF CORRUPTION..

    …let all their names be famous and recognized so they cannot comfortably spread that cancer anywhere else, especially to the continent….they got more than enuff filth to deal with, they don’t need small island anti-black, anti-African evil from toxic parliaments.

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

    Some truths need telling here…the social fabric includes embedded anti-black HATRED…

    …it’s most evident to all when you go to the banks, stores, companies to business as a Black/African…anti-black…SELF-HATRED is a LIVING thing on the island, they just CAN’T STAND themselves and each other, not everyone has that mental problem, but TOO MANY DO….that’s what the trash in the parliament should be reversing, but they MAKE IT WORSE with their sellout, be an agent for and take bribes from anyone mentality…

    Ya CANNOT go to the continent on any permanent basis while HATING YASELVES LIKE THAT….it’s too culturized and normalized to hide..

    yall got work to do, but don’t mind me, i have no such problem.


  9. I kinda laugh when talk of Africa makes for ongoing round table subject
    Just look around in the backyards of small island nations the poverty and crime which needs to address
    On a scale of 1-10 the interest is -2
    Furthermore people in small island nations have yet to find any unified position on any thing and put differences asides but talks about Africa a continent that is made up of people with many languages and cultural differences that small island people would find hard to assimilated among their own
    In the many years I have heard of talk about going to back to Africa I am yet to see this massive flight
    Reminds me of Cubans who lives in tge USA speaking of returning to Cuba when Castro dies
    Well all in all the round table topic on Africa makes for good exhaling


  10. TheoGazert

    I never travelled to Denmark but I know this much about Denmark: it has the best welfare system in the world, so perhaps that is why life is so sweet over there?

  11. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Fowl Slave Enuff AKA billion dollar projects manager, ah must thank you, you have been very helpful, even if ya don’t know it..

    Barbados the slave society for VIOLATING WORKER’S RIGHTS…starting with the dangerous sellout governments….Mia better don’t now pretend she’s doing these suffering people a favor…when the government is upfront in refusing to pay and setting up with thieving employers to get away with not paying employees, EG thieving hoteliers still have not paid hotel workers everything…. better not pretend she is some shero saving the day..

    .when people reach the point of ATTEMPTING SUICIDE because they are REFUSED their basic right to money they work for, can’t pay their bills or feed their families….international bodies SHOULD BE INFORMED.

    ..i remembered when she ran up to ILO and LIED to those people with fancy talk….knew it would return to bite her ass. And as for those sellout union heads who love to be seen driving around duty free Mercedes and NEVER standing up adequately for worker’s rights because they too believe that workers on the island are slaves to be used to elevate themselves to wealthy crooks.

    “Indeed, now is the time to understand and recognise the recent experiences of our workers in and out of the workplace. Now is the time to take action to defend human dignity and the rights of working people across our land.”

    “Pay them their money!

    That was the plea from the National Union of Public Workers (NUPW) yesterday as it made another plea to Government to find a speedy resolution to the plight of former Barbadian workers of collapsed regional airline LIAT.

    On Thursday, spokesperson for the 55 severed workers, Captain Neil Cave, said they had written to Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley on Monday in a last-ditch effort to ease their suffering. At a press conference facilitated by Opposition Leader Bishop Joseph Atherley, Cave said “things were dread” and that mental health issues had now set in with some workers, with at least one attempting suicide.”


  12. TheoGazert

    America is a meritocracy for some who choose to go this route and to add to the above: I want to live in a society where I am rewarded on my merit, and not a Hand- Me- Out or entitlement one like Denmark.

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

    I know the CONCEPT of taxpayers ….read the PEOPLE….. PAY FOR EVERYTHING is very new to the average Black person from Barbados…..but EURO countries like Denmark, Norway etc…the PEOPLE KNOW they PAY FOR EVERYTHING, they KNOW the MONEY IS THEIRS all of it…..that’s why some just need a signature of 1000 in a petition to REMOVE TOXIC, corrupt GOVERNMENTS…

    there is no such thing as HANDOUTS when the money IS YOURS…governments only have money given to them by the people, they have no other way of getting any outside of BRIBES.

    i have been trying to explain this for YEARS and many STILL DON’T GET IT…


  14. Here we go again.


  15. “I kinda laugh when talk of Donville Inniss makes for ongoing round table subject,” how you duz keep real far from it and find all other types uh things to talk bout, even Africa.

    https://media.tenor.com/images/b056d7d835ff43ee381a6efbbf1f14db/tenor.gif

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

    Mental health is serious business, it’s a PLAGUE in bigger countries who have been battling it for decades WITHOUT success and they have trillions of dollars at their disposal and still can’t rein it in, ask the billion dollar project manager who knows everything.

    …the simplest problems on the island are difficult to solve, you don’t want a mental health epidemic on top of everything else, one youngster just committed suicide a day or two ago.

    but don’t mind me.

  17. 555dubstreet Avatar

    “In the many years I have heard of talk about going to back to Africa I am yet to see this massive flight”

    Bajans would be looked at as foreigners when they arrive, but over time they would settle in and be accepted, but Children born there would be true born Africans. Those with NCDs shouldn’t go there though.

  18. 555dubstreet Avatar

    Sacred Spaces / Connecting with Pure Source Energy of all Creation

    Population density of Barbados Vs Africa

    668 per Km2 Vs 45 per Km2


  19. Marcus Garvey, the quintessential prophet and visionary preached a message of African Unification with his back to Africa Movement, but we know the story behind his fall from Grace as the first Black leader to aroused the collective-conscience of the Black race.

  20. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    What many don’t know is that Bajans have been visiting Africa for quite some time…there don’t need to be any FLIGHT…what for, people have been doing business between the continent and the Caribbean/Americas for years…Caribbean/African people have resided there for DECADES….

    BROADEN YA PERSPECTIVES AND YA HORIZONS…too insular..

    Africans have navigated and traded across OUR earth for literally 10s of thousands of years, it’s nothing new…maybe only for those who don’t know.

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

    just a thought…but maybe if the African population broaden their horizons and DEPEND LESS on corrupt governments…there WILL BE LESS BRIBERY….because ya won’t need them as much when you are LESS DEPENDENT and have other options…..just me using my brain cells.

    Bajans have already started trading…..stay there.


  22. Jesus take the wheel.

    Lashley – Don’t count Donville out – Lashley:
    https://barbadostoday.bb/2021/05/01/dont-count-donville-out-lashley/

  23. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Anyone with better SOLUTIONS…will love to hear them….i asked 2 days ago…

    .there comes a time when the highlighting of the corruption, bribery, thieving racist minorities, Black human rights violations, estate thefts etc will have to be MOVED in another direction…or yall can keep it and complain incessantly for another 12 to 15 years…without putting any real solutions on the table…

    it’s a personal choice….but those who THINK AHEAD…have already put plans into motion, those will be the successful ones…..it did not surprise me that some already have…

    after stagnating the population for decades, ya governments ARE USELESS….nonfunctioning and can’t move forward….read the tea leaves…or stay and immerse yaselves…those who saw what’s happening are happy to traverse 2 continents or more….it’s in our lineage….some of us anyway..


  24. I am engaged in a discussion that I do not fully understand.
    I suggested that with a few changes that life in Barbados could be sweeter for everyone.
    A few are telling me it is sweet for them, we like it so.

    @Dompey: It is difficult to asses a country based on the few people you interact with, but none of the folks that helped me formed my impression of Denmark were on welfare. What I saw was a proud and hardworking group of people whose confidence and sense of being a citizen was high.

    I made no reference to the US. I would be the first to agree that it is a flawed place and does not keep it promises to some of its citizens. I remain convince that we will get it right eventually…. Of that I am certain.

    . “But it really doesn’t matter with me now, because I’ve been to the mountaintop … I’ve seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land”

  25. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    “after being convicted of money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering.”

    at least US had the good sense to know that they could be no bribery WITHOUT CONSPIRACY…..😂😂🤣🤣😍😜😎 and since they used Barbados’ laws to convict him, conspiracy is definitely part of that legal regime…

    can’t handle fools and their colonial politics that is A ROAD TO NOWHERE for Africans, but then again fools don’t consider themselves anything other than whatever nonsense is currently in their indoctrinated addled brains and minds…


  26. “But it really doesn’t matter with me now, because I’ve been to the mountaintop … I’ve seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land”

    Xxxxxxxxxxx

    WELL SAID MARTIN LUTHER KING REBORN.

    WELL SAID.


  27. Baje

    The effects of slavery continues to muddy our collective-psyche as a people of color, and to the point where we are unable to desist from interpret everything through the lens of our enslavement. There is no Promise Land for Black people as Dr. king so forcefully articulated in his plagiarized speech, and I stand by those words because Dr. king was nothing more that a public academic or rhetorician for the Civil Rights Movement.


  28. David
    Yuh see the trend yet? But I don’t know what else is to be expected from HammieLa. Piss in muh RH pocket.


  29. Somebody has been trolling for quite some time.
    Aaron Neville “Tell it like it is”
    “If you want something to play with
    Go and find yourself a toy
    Baby my time is too expensive
    And I’m not a little boy”

    Disengaging.
    Enjoy the day.


  30. It is hard to imagine this man is regarded as our foremost social practitioner. He is saying that anecdotally Inniss is still popular yet he is unsure what will happen if Inniss were to return to politics. The question he avoided is which political party would have the gumption to nominate Inniss to run again. It would be a quantum step back were Inniss to feel he should present himself agin to the electorate.


  31. Our wishes may be divorced from reality.

    Besides party politics, there is such a thing as personality politics.. Also with our love of pedigree it would not surprise me if Donville returns and get a second or third bite of the apple. It has been done before (see below). Of course, those who are now spouting fake outrage will continue to do so, but they are not part of his voting block.

    From Wikipedia
    “Saunders was Chief Minister of the Turks and Caicos in 1985 for the Progressive National Party.[1]

    Saunders was arrested in March 1985 together with Commerce and Development Minister Stafford Missick. Saunders was alleged by the US Drug Enforcement Administration to have accepted $30,000 from undercover agents to ensure safe passage of drugs by permitting safe stopover refuelling of drug flights from Colombia to the United States. Video evidence showed Saunders accepting $20,000 from an agent. Saunders was convicted in July 1985 of conspiracy, though he was acquitted of the charge of conspiring to import drugs into the United States (which Missick was also convicted of). He was sentenced to eight years in prison and fined $50,000.

    Later political career
    In January 1995 Saunders was elected to the Parliament by just six votes. His former party, the Progressive National Party, had disowned him, forcing him to run as an independent.”


  32. Donville Inniss is a born Barbadian.

    He has the right to return to Barbados and do whatever he wants to do.

    Donville Inniss is a born Barbadian.


  33. Donville’s conviction set him apart from other politicians in Barbados. but statements from our leaders convinces me that he would have never been accused, tried or convicted if the same information was in the sole hands of GOB.

    We see people trying to position this as one crook and thirty virgins, but the average man believes it is one convicted crook and 30 crooks who are not yet caught. The distance between Donville and our other politicians is imaginary. Our wishful thinking and opinions may be divorced from reality.

  34. 555dubstreet Avatar

    “Go Back to Africa”

    Back in the olden days say 50 years ago when 9/10 of whites were openly racist as opposed to 2/3 whites who are less open secret racists today a common insult to Black / Negros protesting for Civil Rights and against Colonialism was “Go Back to Africa”.

    Do you think Waru is working for KKK.


  35. Wait the Inniss story still making round table talk on BU
    A jogging into the archives of my mind reminded me of a situation which placed the then leader of the blp OSA to answer allegations placed over his head after him receiving a whopping check from a business entity which he placed in how personnel bank account
    Then when the story got out into public domain OSA declared the whopper of hundreds of dollar was for campaign financing
    Up to present time no one was told why OSA placed that money into his personnel bank account
    The skeleton are long and large in the blp side
    However as OSA Barbadianhave forgetful memory


  36. I like smart people. I like a good laugh.

    I find it amusing and amazing when Mariposa jumps aboard a dead horse and flogs it to a second death.

    I also find it amusing, when the spin and fast bowlers take to the field and give us some exciting deliveries. I have seen some spinning here that would make us champions if we could duplicate it in test cricket.

    Watching the blogmaster spinning is exciting cricket. Rumpelstiltskin would be envious of his spin; unfortunately for us, the end product is not gold.


  37. Honourable mention.

    Former Member of Parliament Hamilton Lashley has helped poor people in Barbados.


  38. just a thought…but maybe if the African population broaden their horizons and DEPEND LESS on corrupt governments…there WILL BE LESS BRIBERY….because ya won’t need them as much when you are LESS DEPENDENT and have other options…..just me using my brain cells.

    Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

    People in here did saying that for a long time – about not depending on government . Your brain cell now caught up?


  39. Soon be 500.


  40. @Hants

    A person having the right and others having a dispassionate debate about the utility such a decision were it to be taken is a different matter. Inniss was caught out taking a bribe in Barbados. The money laundering conviction in the US stemmed from the ICBL executives secreting funds to Inniss via the USA. We know why.


  41. @ David this is a multi tasking session Formula One qualifing in progress.


  42. The truth is….. I always had a liking for Donville. He had a fluency and a smoothness that I found appealing.

    “De wicket taking spin”. Conspiracy theory:
    Perhaps our big brother in the North saw Donville as more of a threat to its goal than Mia and decided to take him off the board. A possibility, eh.

    Our politics may not be as simple as we think.


  43. I don’t want to read this in 2022…
    🙂 Concert police in Canada arrested a stalker from Barbados.
    Take that off your bucket list 🙂


  44. 1007 theO

    You talking about spin bowling ?

  45. WURA-War-on-U Avatar

    “Your brain cell now caught up?

    saying and doing are 2 different things and you have no idea the level am talking about…the know it all yardfowl who knows nothing at all….just pretending…so since you know, tell me what kind of trades that can happen between Africa and the Caribbean.


  46. Yep. The spinners are out.
    Going to see how good you are at spinning.


  47. @ David did you listen to David Ellis on Brasstacks yesterday ?

    Some people will not be visiting the USA.

    read between the lines.


  48. @Hants

    Yes, the Donville Inniss issue is a watershed moment in our history. Sensible Barbadians will be asking this government to deliver on integrity legislation before 2023.

  49. WURA-War-on-U Avatar

    yeah…and am not talking about any SCAM embassy, or SCAM consulate or SCAM missions from corrupt governments…

    …..REAL Africans know how to do REAL business on the continent…without SCAMS….


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