The news that government recently created the Department of Public Affairs (DPA) as a bona fide government headed by Director Pat Parris supported by Tyson Henry, Tyrone Lovell, Christal Austin and Lisa Lorde has set tongues wagging. If one separates from the political arguments there is no doubt concerns are valid in a scenario the government of Barbados currently holds a 29 to 1 seat advantage in parliament. Then you add to the mix the country is currently operating under an emergency mandate because of COVID 19 which extends extraordinary powers to the prime minister. Even if we are persuaded that during a pandemic any government in the seat will want to be in a position to make quick decisions unencumbered from the bureaucracy of parliament there is a razor edge balance to be managed all must agree. Who was it that said “eternal vigilance is the price of liberty”?
The blogmaster will not be as extreme as others by comparing the establishment of the DPA to a Joseph Goebbels move, except to say on the face of it there are reasonable questions the prime minister must answer if we cursorily critique the resumes of those appointed. And this is after hearing a reasonable justification for the establishment of the DPA in the first place. They all qualify as Barbados Labour Party (BLP) supporters. The blogmaster is prepared to give Lisa Lord a bligh.
The blogmaster suspects the prime minister being the political animal that she is has an eye on a general election that has loomed large on the horizon and feels comfortable to establish a unit that will disseminate information and respond to concerns from citizens in the government’s/BLP interest. The prime minister is obviously prepared to write-off any political fallout in the face of a weak political opposition.
For the avoidance of doubt the blogmaster does not agree with the establishment of the DPA at this time. It is not a fit for purpose approach in the prevailing climate. There must be a more creative way the prime minister could have achieve the political objective. The is insensitively too naked a political move.
Anyone whom has followed the history of politics and particularly American politics, would have known that in times of National Crisis, the Prime Minister or President is given a Unilateral Power.
And these political happenstances haven’t been made more evident in America with Jackson Indian Removal Act, FDR Japanese Internment Camps, and most recently, George W. Bush Patriot Act, all of which were aimed at and to some extent encroached upon the rights of American citizens.
And perhaps I am digressing from the subject matter here by referring to American politics to emphasize a point regarding the BLP 30 to 0 victory over the DLP, but the one thing the Framers of the American Constitution feared the most in their ratification of Constitution, were a one sided majority of one political party in both House and Senate.
The Founding Fathers concluded that this would have ultimately resulted in a dictatorship or a dictatorial kind of political leadership in America.
Dompey, enough.
Wuh loss!!
I have been following politics in Barbados from my teens and agree with your assessment that the PM is a political animal unlike others. She eventually like David Thompson shook off disappointments to become PM. She is now looking at records in the Caribbean as a woman to repeat that 30-0 victory .All of her actions point to that. She has the slickest PR persons working for her outside of this department for example on facebook as influencers. Today’s nation editorial puts it well. The St. George North playbook will work in all 30 constituencies, that is opposition members cannot do anything for you because the government will win again. Maybe enuff can tell you why a bloated cabinet needs so many PR persons. Remember the PM words that she needed a large cabinet because more hand makes light work.
Here is the Nation editorial.
Lest we forget
Y’all really got free room in wunna heads for me. All governments/PMs create their machinery, whether new departments, consultants or Executive Directors. Wunna expected the government to sit down and allow all the fake news to undermine its efforts? Well them got a team in place. The electorate will decide. Rest muh!🤣🤣
STUPES!
Dem could of tek the money and hire 20 cashiers. Send some to BRA, Licensing authority and customs. If any left back send some to scotia bank too please! Lol
Seriously though where are the priorities here? Right now this cash starved governments sole concern should be this. How can we improve our collections?
Now mind you this is a mistake many private sector companies make too when it comes to cut backs. They would send home the cashiers and maids and the keep some of the useless management in place, so don’t blame only government for this. But could God wunna got 30 ministers looking after an economy that wunna own central bank say is at least 20% smaller today, you don’t feel it is time for a serous restructuring starting at the top?
So let we left out wasting money pun more PR and talking heads. We gut much more basic needs that must be urgently addressed first.
Right that is my 10 cents wut I going and pack the cooler!
Enuff
That is always your fall back position from following you on BU just say it was done in the past and it is Ok.Just remember that Donville said that it is customary for politicians to get money from the private sector and where is he going.So because it was done in the past does not make it right.Hate the Americans or not most of the behaviour we condone is exposed by the press and some ends up before the court with persons high up in government going to prison.
Americans do not play with corruption and when is discover it is dealt with and no one is exempted, no matter the privilege, prestige, or political persuasion.
WTH?????
@David
I got to admit that Verla asking relevant questions. Why in the name of God at this time would we want to start another state department, when it will generate no income but cost us money?
I heard government after government come to the public and say that the GIS is underutilised. Wunna mean wunna know that and going form another entity to do the same thing that the underutilised GIS could do at no additional cost?
Look don’t vexify my soul today do!
@John A
We have been having many press conferences done with the PM present, it is not unreasonable to expect a reporter will feel emboldened to ask the question- why the need to establish the DPA within the bowels of government at this time.
Lest we forget
Y’all really got free room in wunna heads for me. All governments/PMs create their machinery, whether new departments, consultants or Executive Directors. Wunna expected the government to sit down and allow all the fake news to undermine its efforts? Well them got a team in place. The electorate will decide. Rest muh!🤣
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THE ONLY THING THAT THIS ENUFF ASSHOLE DON’T QUESTION IS THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE MIA RED BAG USED TO TRICK MANY MANY TOO TRUSTING BLACK BAJANS ON THE 2X3 ISLAND in 2018.
UNLESS ONE LEARN TO THINK FOR ONSELF AND QUESTION EVERYTHING ONE WILL ALWAYS BE SUSCEPTIBLE LIKE THE GULLIBLE WHO DRANK POISONED KOOLAID GIVEN BY JIM JONES IN GUYANA.
@ David
It just all sends the wrong signals to the public in terms of grossly misplaced priorities. Unless of course the plan is to make excuses for where we are and then try to explain them away. If that is the plan then I guess many hands would make light work.
We have critical basic needs that should take priority over such nonesence in terms of requiring immediate action.
@ BAJE May 6, 2021 1:50 PM
“THE ONLY THING THAT THIS ENUFF ASSHOLE DON’T QUESTION IS THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE MIA RED BAG USED TO TRICK MANY MANY TOO TRUSTING BLACK BAJANS ON THE 2X3 ISLAND in 2018.”
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Great one there, BAJE!
That’s what you would call the perfect riposte which must shut that ass’s hole for a mouth for the balance of this thread.
That red-nose clown Enuff has proven himself to be nothing but the perfectly fitting johnny for a bleeding hole.
OSA must be rocking with laughter in his grave as his vision of a despot appears in the light of reality as Barbados ‘slowly’ turns into a ‘fast’ ripening banana republic under a Goebbels-styled regime.
Three steps forward, one step backward.
Now this bold faced up in yuh face govt has reinvented the PR wheel in the making of a spy machine
Just watch next police pulling people over if they are not wearing a red shirt of blouse
This govt is no longer hiding but exposing who they really are
Things getting closer to Russia
David Thompson created how many constituency councils and the party hand picked how many councillors to sit on them? What Dem councils did beside served to spread the party propaganda? Verla is too funny. The same Verla that in 2007 called RDC and UDC duplications and vowed the DLP would shut them down once elected and when the Dems won she was one of the first elected to the UDC board. The electorate will decide.
Verbosed + 3degree/fake observing = 0
Y’all can cuss me black and blue day in and day out it does not bother me. Had a lovely meeting earlier today now here fuh laffs.🎒🤣
Goebbels? Really? Stuuuupse!I 🤣
Look more jokes, Verla says “for eons GIS has been the information conduit between the Government and the people of Barbados”. But it seems GIS did shut down between 2008-2018.🤣🤣🤣
@enuff
Citing precedents to explain decisions will not cut it. We hope for change.
Y’all can cuss me black and blue day in and day out it does not bother me. Had a lovely meeting earlier today now here fuh laffs.🎒🤣
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LET ME EXPLAIN FOR ALL OTHERS WHO DONT KNOW.
YOU MEAN CHAIRING THE MARKETING MEETING WHILST ON YOUR KNEES LICKING THE 2 WHITE MEN BALLS IN YOUR OFFICE WITH ONLY 2 BLACK WORKERS.
NOW YOU COME UP FOR AIR DEFENDING YOUR NORMAL BLP SHITE IRREGARDLESS WHATEVER IT IS YOU HAVE TO DEFLECT AND FIND EXCUSES..
From day one govt has tried any and everything to control what is said and how said on social media
For months on ends since May 2018 I have noticed how BU has evolved into a think tank for govt rolling out articles that present a flawless side of govt
Having an agenda to distract meander and take readers and those posting down a pristine rabbit hole which takes away from govt failures
Some times I have to ask self what has become of BU
Who are the puppet masters pulling the strings
The voices known to speak freely in opposition to govt policies have all but disappeared those that remain are castigated..moderated or dumped along the corridors of Bu never to be heard of no more
BTW what happened to Bush tea the one person with the bush whackernto keep things straight
GP is no.more along with Hal and it seems like BU of yesterday has die a slow and painful death at the hands of mischievous people
Still more to come
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Let not your heart be troubled
Thanks David
David
I am not looking to cut anything! You want change but I must ignore Verla’s hypocrisy? How can change embrace hypocrisy? But tell me what I have said so far that is not factual? Meanwhile other posters talking shyte about Goebbels and all manner of propaganda. The irony! You realise if I say the capital of Barbados is Bridgetown there is a coven that would dispute that?🤣Anyhow, GIS is still functioning and its work may very well be more of a threat to Verla than Pat Parris and her crew https://youtu.be/pdWOMVEtFXA
3degree aka fake observing
Ouch, I touched a nerve? At least I don’t need to use two names on BU to make my position appear popular. FYI there were more than 2 white men to suck. Keep up!
@ Enuff May 6, 2021 6:01 PM
“Goebbels? Really? Stuuuupse!I”
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So explain why there is that despotically crying need to create another department to replicate the role the long-established GIS is already mandated to perform?
Is it because you cannot have two government entities with the same initials, that is “GIS”, in the same Ministerial portfolio so one has to go in order that the other can be ‘reformed’ into a properly-managed institution fit for purpose in a 21st Century society.
Would the ‘government-appointed’ staff at the original Information Service be made redundant or would they be kept on the payroll to merely play the whittling game of fiddlesticks?
In 2018 your ‘tricky-red’ administration promised better governance to be delivered in a more efficient manner; not an ‘additional’ albatross around the taxpayer’s neck especially at a time of significant reductions in the country’s GDP and, inevitably, the government’s tax revenues.
3degree aka fake observing
Ouch, I touched a nerve? At least I don’t need to use two names on BU to make my position appear popular. FYI there were more than 2 white men to suck. Keep up!
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IS THAT WHY YOU WENT FROM CHAIRING OF MARKETING MEETINGS WITH 2 WHITE MEN TO BEING INVOLVED IN BILLION $$$ REAL ESTATE PROJECTS AS SOME KEY PLAYER.
YOU ARE JUST LIKE YOUR LOCAL POLITICIAN MATES WHO WOULD LIE THEIR ASSES OFF TO GET AHEAD OR MAINTAIN STATUS QUO..NO WONDER YOU HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH PAT PARRIS WHO I BELIEVE WORKED UNDER MIA FOR A LONG TIME IN HER CONSTITUENCY OFFICE NOW USING TAX PAYERS DOLLARS IN HARD TIMES TO FURTHER THEIR AGENDA.
NOT ROCKET SCIENCE THE 2 x 3 ISLAND IS SINKING IN QUICKSAND SLOWLY.
Go ask the person that created it. In the meantime demonstrate how Pat Parris crew is similar to the cited Ministry of Propaganda.
It is nothing more than a vehicle for misinformation directed at those who have been underserved, neglected, under-educated and who argue among themselves incessantly about a political machine that they understand little about, something like the fowl Slaves on BU.
3degree aka fake observing.
If I were you, I would not accuse anyone of being a liar because pretending to be 2 different people on the blog is the personificayion of lying. 😭
Miller…they not only need a sign, but most of them need serious punishing with the rod of correction.. there are those who are deeply spiritual and believe that WAKE UP call is just around the corner. Don’t know who these earth things think they are…
“It is nothing more than a vehicle for misinformation…”
Oh RH, BU’s resident, unmatched Queen of misinformation of all people is accusing someone of spreading misinformation. Ah weak!😭😭😭😭
@ WARU
THE ONLY PERSON THAT DOESN’T LIE ON BU IS THE RED POOCHLICKER ENUFF THE BLP PROPAGANDIST WITH DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR AND FULL OF BULLSHITTERY.
On moderation lockdown
They need a bush bath. I remember when they used to be on here telling Bushman that all the time…he must be laughing.
@ BAJE
NOT ROCKET SCIENCE THE 2 x 3 ISLAND IS SINKING IN QUICKSAND SLOWLY.
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You Truffle you!
Did you mummy shipped you out of the country because of the 20 pound breadfruit Incident that embarrassed de family??????????
Please elaborate on de subject…BU community would love to hear your response????????
@ BAJE
Note this: 98 percent of my Dirt is donated. I research only 2 percent…
Your friends (Tyrone & Pat ) have large mouths that exhales uncontrollably..
Did de breadfruit fell on you while sun-tannin face up…???
Would have preferred if you refuted what was said instead of trying to deanonymize Baje.
@ TheOGazerts
Are you de redeemer or
Wicket-keeper ??
Would have preferred if you refuted what was said instead of trying to deanonymize Baje
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WHY WORRY ABOUT A FOOL TRYING TO PROVE HE KNOWS WHO I AM EVEN THOUGH HE IS GOING DOWN THE WRONG PATH.
THEY CAN NEVER CHALLENGE THE TRUTH SO THEY COME WITH ALL THE PETTY TACTICS THAT HAVE BEEN USED TO DISTRACT OTHERS ON THE 2 X 3 ISLAND FOR DONKEY YEARS SUCCESSFULLY.
@ De TheOGazerts
De spinner bowling quick. Back off de stumps a little. BAJE-2/3 is a habitual cheap Sushi eater and suffers with chronic gastritis.
Don’t get hit, back off.
Not even the fowl Slaves believe their own shit anymore, or they would sound more believable, they just come out to poison the blog by reflex to collect what little they get..
I hope that Bajans will not be fooled by this role out of government inspired propaganda machinery. The disappearance of several of our most prominent bloggers and writers from the BU platform is very disturbing.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tbak304MA6g
If they want to believe MORE LIES and keep another generation in generational POVERTY….seeing that the last generation is more or less LOST to the minorities and their containers of drugs and guns and the prison pipeline, that’s on them…
.hurriedly trying to roll out coding and robotics 25 YEARS AFTER EVERYONE ELSE have already advanced to bigger and better…proves that a whole generation of African descended on the island were MALICOUSLY DESTROYED to enrich corrupt politicians and racist minorities….with the BILLIONS OF DOLLARS MISSING…
they can only fool Slaves.
2 despicably corrupt governments only had control of the parliament, legislature and judiciary, because they are not any big players in the grand scheme of things like they PRETEND TO BE…….and they CORRUPTED them beyond recognition….when the OPPOSITE would have been easier and more PROGRESSIVE…for those who vote for and elect them.
am sure now pointed out, they are realizing that they are the ones who will have to take the blame, they were in control of enough to make the requisite changes, let’s see them try to blame anyone else.
“hurriedly trying to roll out coding and robotics 25 YEARS AFTER EVERYONE ELSE have already advanced to bigger and better”
I differ with you here. Either we remain where we are or we try to catch up. If we criticize inaction and sloth, then we should be encouraging when action is taken.
War on Whole World
As self rule since 1966 has been by people like yourself in your lifetime are you not to blame for lack of progress too, or at least have a small share of the blame in the blame game, or are you saying they were not operating in your name which has no shame and is always feels the same with a burning pain in your bloody brain.
You have your parents and your parents parents, your slave ancestors and your free tribal africans DNA in you as well as some European and you are a part of them, representing.
It is the Tourist Season we a go come here to reason.
Bajans Home and Abroad in the Bajan Diaspora*, should be deemed as stakeholders in the Government of Barbados and it’s policy making and should be able to contribute input into all white papers of Government policy and future planning, with a designated department and email or internet site to send ideas. Although vexatious and political complaining should not be allowed and should be directed to BU instead. I and I and I only deal with positivity and not negativity, Jah Jah know. have a blessed Sabbath day my beloveds.
(*) (which I am not part of the diaspora as I am a secret agent wearing camouflage and come to smoke up the Barbados holy herb in my room, on the beach, up in the rastaman camp and down in the Studio 10 dancehall to listen to words sounds and power of Michigan and Smiley born in the ghetto on rewind)
Poems of Shape and Motion
‘I doubt very much’ Barbadians will allow themselves to “be fooled by this role out of government inspired propaganda machinery.”
We had a similar experience under the previous DLP administration that used the GIS and CBC for similar propaganda purposes…… and that party was still defeated 30-0 at the polls.
I’m sure BU remembers when CBC TV8 evening news was dominated with broadcasts of DLP related events, ribbon cutting opening ceremonies of buildings by ministers; constituency branch meetings; annual conferences; lunch time lectures; lectures by Bobby Morris, Maureen Holder and other party members; repeat interviews of DLP stalwarts etc.
Then, immediately after the news, there was a segment named “News Extra,” during which viewers were ‘force fed a diet’ of Freundel Stuart address to the annual conference, or a minister giving a speech at either a branch meeting or some month-long event such as the month of the elderly, disabled, women, etc, or addressing an overseas forum.
And, I’m sure BU also remembers how CBC and the GIS were used during the 2013 and 2018 election campaigns.
This time around, rather than using CBC, the BLP has taken it a bit further by establishing a department dedicated to spewing rhetorical political diatribe and propaganda.
There aren’t any significant political, philosophical or ideological differences between the BLP and DLP.
How many are aware Tyson Henry is said to be the brother of Hartley Henry?
A “misunderstanding” between a tenant and a landlord has left a mother of two without a place to call home and she is appealing to the public for assistance.
“My landlord told me on Monday that by Friday I have to find somewhere to go because workmen coming to repair the house,” said Nakita “Muscle Kat” Jones outside the house in Nelson Street, The City, on Thursday.
“I told her okay and I started to pack because I understood the house needed repairs. On Wednesday she came and said the carpenter coming on Thursday instead
https://www.nationnews.com/2021/05/08/mother-two-needs-home/
As you will notice if you read what you posted, you are the one complaining about UK…am on a higher vibration because am not only well aware of causation and effect, but am also well informed about the WHY…yall got a VERY LONG WAY TO GO and not ready for any of the answers YET…even Pacha and Miller would tell ya this..
again……unless the negros in the parliament, the descendants of the ENSLAVED, don’t care how they pretend otherwise, can tell us that:
it was the palace caused them to ROB generations of their fellow African descended of EVERYTHING;
forced both DBLP governments to be CORRUPT with racist minorities;
forced them to allow the minorities to practice racism, discrimination, suppression, oppression, disenfranchisement of the majority population;
forced them to encourage, enable and condone minorities and their containers of drugs and guns flooding depressed areas of the island and destroying generations of African lives;
forced them to NOT COLLECT 1 BILLION DOLLARS IN VAT;
forced them to DISAPPEAR at least 5-6 BILLION DOLLARS of the majority population’s money;
forced them to keep the criminalization of all things African in education, culture, traditions, religions, ongoing, etc;
forced them to KEEP SELF-HATE as part of the culture and the hatred of everything African still enforced on the island, and refuse to allow the population access their natural African identity;
forced them to use the supreme court as a weapon against the majority population with land thefts, theft estates of the elderly and their beneficiaries and REFUSING to close personal injury cases;
unless they or you can tell me the palace is FORCING them to do all of that on a day to day basis in the LAST 30 YEARS……it’s ALL ON THEM…
i await the answer from you or them..
“then we should be encouraging when action is taken.”
i see that as ENCOURAGING SLOTH 2.0….when they WERE SPECIFICALLY WARNED in 2010….11 YEARS AGO…that they should move swiftly to engage the young i coding, combinatorics and optimization etc , they took an ARROGANT PASS, result of SLOTH…another generation LOST to minority CONTAINERS OF DRUGS AND GUNS…..you can dress it up pretty, but that’s the reality…
quantum computing is about to take off…a follow up to coding etc…so why not wait another 25 years to catch up to that…they got all the time and money in the world…just as they do now…
“As you will notice if you read what you posted, you are the one complaining about UK…am on a higher vibration because am not only well aware of causation and effect, but am also well informed about the WHY…yall got a VERY LONG WAY TO GO and not ready for any of the answers YET…even Pacha and Miller would tell ya this..”
you are hallucinating and are not on a higher vibrational level, the atoms in a chair vibrate at a higher level than yourself, you are always calling out to Miller and Pacha but they don’t hear you though. You are loony tunes doing a massive disservice to your cause.
@ David May 8, 2021 5:34 PM
Blogmaster, have you been ‘privy’ to the government’s plan to abolish that long-established Government Information Service (GIS)?
Or will the already overburdened (and fast contracting) taxpayers be forced to pay the salaries and operational expenses for two entities tasked with the same mandate of executing the propaganda agenda for the current administration as it seeks, like a ‘spinner in a hurry’, to carry the ‘royally poor’ Barbados into ‘Republican’ status where money appears to be ‘No Problem’?
Why is Dr. Kevin Greenidge allowing this blatant wastage of taxpayers’ money especially at this stage of the country’s current choice of either swimming or sinking in the quagmire of economic stagnation?
BTW, is he still the IMF-assigned special economic advisor to the GoB?
@Miller
The government has seen an urgent need to establish the DPA deep within the bosom of government to debunk a rising tide of fake news. With a general election coming it will be a busy unit. If the government wins it will say the decision was justified. Dr. Kevin was seconded from the IMF no?
Miller and Pacha are NOT expected to answer….they know that…they also know what they know and they know i know it too….and maybe 4 or 5 others on the blog, but not you..,,that’s why i can’t call out to you..
why don’t you attack UK on your own, since ya got all the answers..
Or they could be ignoring you as a wack job.
You did not answer and deflecting….
why don’t you ATTACK UK, with ya sane self…since you KNOW that not only have they done the laundry list of what you accused them of and posted, but they also forced the negros in the parliament to COMMIT ALL THOSE CRIMES against the people. and island…it’s a simple question, and deserves a simple, uncomplicated answer.
you are the one asked.
you have the lack of understanding in messages that are suggestions to your lesser ideas
your roots are connected to the crimes of UK which is apparent
Yet ya complaining about UK and can’t attack them for the root cause that bothers you about them, so what does that tell you.
i go after the corrupt in Barbados for a reason that clearly escapes you…..they are the end result, but ONLY BECAUSE OF THEIR OWN ACTIONS…unless, as i asked you repeatedly, do you believe they are the ones FORCING the fools in the parliament to do what they do and am still to get an answer from you..
Are you human or animal. Rhetorical as it was the trope that condoned inhumane illegal slavery.
One and only thing you can thank Brits for is they did not commit genocide as slaves were property needed to work the land.
Why even worry about how bad Barbados is, if your heart is in Africa.
Just say ya can’t give a clear answer on why the negros in the parliament commit so many crimes against the people who elect them and ya don’t know if UK is forcing them to do it, in the last 30 years and 2021 STILL, and stop trying to drive me all over the blog deflecting…i have my own views on that, you can’t address it.. i asked you nothing about slavery back then and ya are wrong there was plenty genocide to go around, but since ya can’t answer my question with ya sane self….i will move on..
just heard some news coming from the continent where questions are asked about reparations being paid to the descendants of the enslaved which is supposed to be DISBURSED DIRECTLY TO DESCENDANTS for Africa’s LOSS of creatives, brains, labor etc…..AU as in Africa, is handling that and it’s very clear that NOT ONE DIME is to go into the dirty hands of small colonial governments in the diaspora for them to find some kinda corruption to use it for and who still have a slave society setup that they don’t plan to dismantle so what’s the use of them salivating for reparations money…
…….that is the news, departments of public affairs handle..cause ya don’t want the rush and hurry to believe AU should pay it to them directly, it’s NOT THEIRS…
everyone EXCEPT THEM know that any reparations payments should go DIRECTLY TO THE AFRICAN DESCENDANTS, in their HANDS, and not through corrupt governments talking about, “the money is for infrastructure” when was infrastructure ever enslaved i would ask, as usual, they have no respect for the majority population who look just like them..
Another job for the department of public affairs….UN should be keeping their eyes on those governments VIOLATING Black human rights in the Caribbean…in Barbados as well, it has gone on for far too long..
“United Nations – Michelle Bachelet, United Nations human rights chief, has issued an alert over the rising number of threats, attacks and attempts to undermine national human rights institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The High Commissioner for Human Rights said in a statement that “governments and others in positions of power”, including members of parliament and vigilante groups, were at “the root of the problem in a dozen countries”.
The UN said these rights institutions (NHRIs) “work closely” with Bachelet’s Office and UN human rights mechanisms.
Bachelet said NHRIS “must not face any form of abuse or interference, especially political pressure”.
The UN said incidents reported to the UN Office of the High Commissioner (OHCHR) in the past two years have covered Bolivia, Chile, El Salvador and Haiti, along with Guatemala and Mexico, where, there were “attempts at the State level to remove the head of the independent rights office in those countries.”
Bachelet said she was urging governments across the region to abide by their responsibilities, and respect and protect the independence of the national human rights institutions, adding adding that the fact that complaints had come from a dozen countries in the region was “striking testimony to the expanding trend and magnitude of the problem”.
She acknowledged that NHRIs could post challenges for governments, “because their mandate meant they had a duty to expose gaps in the protection of human rights”
@David
The government has seen an urgent need to establish the DPA deep within the bosom of government to debunk a rising tide of fake news
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So the Gov’t is worried about “fake news”? The Gov’t apologist “Enuff” also mentioned that the Gov’t was concerned about “fake news”. Where is this “fake’ news” originating from? Is it any different from the “fake news” that previously appeared on the social networks? Does the Gov’t have clean hands or are the decision makers afraid that they may have unleashed a beast in election campaigns that they can’t control? Will this Dept. be tasked with ferreting out anything that is critical of the Gov’t and describing it as “fake” news?
Donald Trump must be proud.
@Sargeant
Your comment is a good one for the DPA to respond.
Yes, and i actually sent a message to someone telling them just that, complete with the link, cause had they locked up a few of these vile human rights violating bic*hes over the last 30 years, they would not now have grown so confident to be attacking the institutions…..so they can continue their corruption with all the criminal attachments.
if you think shipping 14,000,000 africans to be slaves and breeding them for 20 generations to make 140,000,000 in the diaspora is not a crime to humankind then you are missing. No Bajan politician ever put people in chains.
before election 2018 Mia was saying how CORRUPT mark maloney and DLP were, she gushed about all the questionable contracts between all of them THE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS MISSING, the usual criminal minorities INVOLVEMENT, how they were going to clean up corruption, since then ALL OF THEM ARE IN BED TOGETHER doing as they like with the people’s money..
..remember the BWA SCAM they accused that company INNOTECH about when they called each other corrupt in their back and forth corrupt games, then we heard the company had a FILING CABINET OF EVIDENCE of DBLP CORRUPTION and soon after we heard that the same Mia government CONTRACTED WITH THE SAME CORRUPT COMPANY AGAIN…doling out taxpayer’s money to them AGAIN…..despite their CORRUPT, BOTTOM FEEDING WAYSL…
she swung a red bag all around the place and said it contained EVIDENCE OF ALL THE CORRUPTION, it was in the NEWSPAPERS and ONLINE..
…she involved the lady whose child maloney caused his DEATH, promising to right that wrong and as soon as she was elected….THEY ALL HAD THE CHILD’S MOTHER ARRESTED and now facing charges with a case that CANNOT BE COMPLETED OR CLOSED, using ALL HER POLITICAL GIMMICKS ..they are YET TO ARREST maloney…
since then a youngster was allegedly killed by police in the same manner as and BEFORE George Floyd, and was covered up, one cop in the US has since been CONVICTED there but the parents of the young man in Barbados can’t get answers….and we did not even hear about that case..
so all of the ABOVE attributed to Mia MUST HAVE BEEN FAKE NEWS TOO…..why would she need a department for fake news WHEN BLP PRODUCES SO MUCH OF IT ALL BY ITSELF…they seem to be the ORIGINAL purveyors of FAKE NEWS…wasting taxpayers money on SHIT AS USUAL…
the department should be renamed, GETTING LIARS and frauds OUT OF BLACK LIVES….with the FAKE NEWS they spread everywhere…to cover up their OWN CRIMES…
and give the FAKE billion dollar projects manager fowl Enuff the title of CEO…
don’t know what they would have done had Trump not coined that phrase and since then that is all they talk about, with their despicable COPY CAT SELVES.
didn’t realize kiki was still driving around the blog deflecting away from the simple question and still can’t give a simple answer, sorry ya got left alone, i went to bed….just woke up..
..read the above, ya may get some insight into what the question i asked is about.
For What It’s Worth
The Problem with Fake News it develops legs that run further than arguments based on truth by loud shrill empty vessels neutralising debates with meaningless white noise. There is a clear distinction between right and wrong and true and false which gets lost in political one sidedness bias.
Waru
Your questions are for your little mind with it’s lack of reasonings
then we heard the company had a FILING CABINET OF EVIDENCE of DBLP CORRUPTION and soon after we heard that the same Mia government CONTRACTED WITH THE SAME CORRUPT COMPANY AGAIN…doling out taxpayer’s money to them AGAIN…..despite their CORRUPT, BOTTOM FEEDING WAYS and the back and forth accusation of thievery that they publicly accused each other of RIGHT BEFORE they kissed and made up again..
.the power of corruption DEMANDS that they cannot divorce, they will ALL HAVE TO BE JAILED to separate…that’s the only way these crimes end.
am sure if Innotech have a filing cabinet of DBLP corruption over the years as claimed, everyone of those corrupt minority companies of FRAUDS and CROOKS have filing cabinets of evidence of DBLP CORRUPTION TOO complete with video and voice recordings………no wonder the HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES and THIEVERY against the population on the island WILL NEVER END….neither side can AFFORD for more information to leak out on them and their immoral, unethical criminal activities, so it continues…..
the PEOPLE have to throw out this last TRAITOR government and BREAK UP THAT ALLIANCE…;they will have to regroup in another form, but it will be an inconvenience..and with eyes EVERYWHERE on them all, it’s very unlikely a break up where they CAN’T reconnect will see it continue…..the sellouts will have no more power and the thieves with their CLAIMED filing cabinets of evidence against BOTH GOVERNMENTS….will be rendered INEFFECTIVE….
something gotta give.
For those who CAN’T SEE….that it’s the PEOPLE, the African population being HELD HOSTAGE, deep within the bowels of all of this corruption….and it’s their grands and great grands CAUGHT in the crossfire…..sit there playing games with corrupt governments and wicked minorities and see what will happen….
Political shenanigans to win elections and that’s the end of it. Maloney, Innotech and more were the bad guys who apparently have turned good.
Every project will therefore be viewed with suspicion no matter how good it sounds. Nobody can blame us for that. It is a consequence of the political shenanigans.
We must also keep our eyes on this so-called investigation into the death of the young man in police custody and we must demand frequent reports on the transformation of the Government Industrial School. We need people who have no skin in the game.
What we need are independent inquiry and oversight.
It was ALL FAKE NEWS from BLP to TRICK the gullible into voting them in so their corrupt relationships with minorities could be legitimized and rekindled…that’s all it was…..LYING TO THE ELECTORATE AS USUAL.
now they their own Fake News Department…conveniently forgetting how much fake news they themselves already put out there…..and have the Slave minded captivated with it…while they are fed MORE FAKE NEWS…lol.
.these types of unethical, immoral actions should be CRIMINALIZED when practiced by deceitful, wicked politicians/ministers/yardfowls and hangerson….at taxpayer’s expense.
Donna…am sure you understand that those “political shenanigans” are CRIMINAL ACTIONS and they COST YOUNG BLACK LIVES….nearly every day now…with the minorities and their STEADY trainline of drugs and guns streamed into depressed, pauperized Black neighborhoods…
TSLN you mea.n the same ptopaganda that was dished out every night on CBC for ten years between 2008 anf 2018?Where hslf the news was taken up by Dem ministers at every branch meeting and every damn cockfight particularly by Ms Suckoo, Mr Inniss and Mr Sinckler?Perhaps you forgot Ms Holder and the others on the call in program talk ya talk which should have been called talk dem talk with the amout pf propaganda you heard.The dems really believe we bajans got short memories.If this set up debunks a lot of the fake news you dems like to spread i am sll for it.
As a watcher of CBC news I would say that it is worst now when it comes to Ministers on the news. First of all there are more Ministers now and sometimes there are ten segments of Ministers in fifteen minutes of local news doing and saying mundane things.
Does it matter evaluating CBC based on the number of minsters spotlighted on the news? Both parties use the station to highlight their agendas.
I didn’t watch the minister parade then and I do not watch it now.
“Does it matter evaluating CBC based on the number of minsters spotlighted on the news? Both parties use the station to highlight their agendas.”
You dwell in the news and all the conflict, turmoil and play dramas, which takes us away from our true selfs and inner peace bliss.
As old what’s her name will tell you the first casualty of War is truth.
@ Blogmaster:
Was any provision made in the current year Estimates for the funding of this new fighting force against “fake news” called the ‘DPA’?
After all, the ‘Sun’ queen bee of the coming republic was quite au fait with the effectiveness of that same method of propaganda prior to May 2018 which resulted in the creation of Bajan history on two fronts.
Is this new-brand of propaganda machinery a replacement for the CBC mouthpiece which the IMF wants to see removed from the overly obese portfolio of State-owned enterprises (SOE’s)?
To which minister of propaganda, now, do the ‘disabled’ staff of the GIS report?
The ‘MIA’ Ms Moe?
In addition to that overabundance of unproductive ‘costly’ consultants, the poor taxpayers are now overburdened with an excess of trained and experienced Information Officers with nothing to do but stare at a computer screen from 8.30 to 4.30 looking for internet sites peddling “Fake News”.
@Miller
What are supplementaries?
“In addition to that overabundance of unproductive ‘costly’ consultants, the poor taxpayers are now overburdened with an excess of trained and experienced Information Officers with nothing to do but stare at a computer screen from 8.30 to 4.30 looking for internet sites peddling “Fake News”.”
which leaves a window open for Fake News Terror attacks working on the nightshift
All a waste of taxpayer’s money and a DISTRACTION, they are too small-time and copycat to get away with it though….their intelligence level leaves a lot to be desired, when they continue to use someone else’s script and pretend it’s theirs.
Fake News only has to bed in and seed so it can be picked up by legions of trolls who propagate it all over the net to make it go viral, so that deleting it’s original source becomes an exercise in futility like whack a mole. Calling out fake news with fact checks feeds the beast further.
Rest assured that this plan to PUSH BACK any progress of the Black majority in increments of 3 and 4 DECADES can plainly be seen by 18-20 year olds in this generation, yes, that’s the new generation that yall will not be able to drive into poverty and despair….they will end your REIGN OF TERROR ON BLACK LIVES, with your fake economy, you and your minority criminals and fellow sellouts…they can see what you are doing and will have none of it.
Every single MP looks Black to me. One day Blacks will be viewed as individuals.
To quote His Imperial Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie I and the Prophet Robert M.
Until the colour of a man’s skin is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes
Me say war
When politicians engage in political shenanigans to win elections they should not expect to be trusted after the election.
They have no right to outrage at fake news since they are the fake news champions.
Instead of looking outward for the source of the problem, politicians need to look inward.
How can citizens be expected to trust leaders they have proved to be untrustworthy.
Politicians need to cut out the crap and just state facts on the political platform, in parliament and on news media.
And the smart mouthing is nauseating! How refreshing it would have been if the AG had just answered Verla’s questions without the insult! He is a minister of government and Verla is a citizen entitled to ask questions. He could have cut out the endless politicking and made his case as a servant of the people. Whether Verla is a hypocrite or not is irrelevant. Verla’s motives are also irrelevant. Answering politely would have cut her down to size more efficiently, unless he had nothing of substance to offer.
But instead we have the “she is only trying to be relevant” or something of the sort.
As a citizen of the country he serves, Verla is relevant.
If you want to impress.me, you must state facts without commentary. I form my own opinions.
I noticed he did not give a date or even a timeframe for his report to the nation.
Dark Arts is par for the course in the political game where the MO is to win by hook and crook using every dirty trick in the book. The next election will become a cat fight between two witches who will pull each others natural hair wigs or weaves out by it’s roots and will smear their faces with vaseline so they can’t be cut with razor blades they hide in their mouths. It will be like mud wrestling and Womans WWE combined.
Looks like govt creating a booby trap for itself
The citizens knows a rat when it sees one
Never mind that govt has prefected the art of fake news
How about all those empty promises
How about the promise for a Covenant of Hope
How about the promise of putting money in peoples pocket
If ever there was Fake news handed out the leadership of Barbados owns it all
“How about all those empty promises”
….. BREAKING NEWS!…. POLITICIANS LIE LIKE FUCK… STAY TUNED…. MORE NEWS AT 11…
Yes politicians lie
But don’t come waving a holier than thou banner about fake news when the political fake news machine remains in full swing during election cycles and continues after the election is over
Not smart
@ angela coxMay 10, 2021 5:25 AM
“Yes politicians lie
But don’t come waving a holier than thou banner about fake news when the political fake news machine remains in full swing during election cycles and continues after the election is over.”
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Is this your BU moment of epiphany?
But we are so happy for you now that you realize that there is diddly squat of difference between your blue-blooded yellow party people and your political red nemesis feeding on sea crab shit(e).
When it comes to peddling fake news choosing between Tweedle Bee and Tweedle Dem to determine which is ‘better’ is like tossing a coin with two tails.
Now go and confess your sins and maybe your lying god Stinkliar would not accept the offer of being appointed a Senator under the coming republic.
If you had served your god as you have served the Dems you would now living in political paradise with your political dog H A.
@ angela loves cock
“Yes politicians lie
But don’t come waving a holier than thou banner about fake news when the political fake news machine remains in full swing during election cycles and continues after the election is over.”
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You are not the sharpest knife in the drawer and are a shilling short of a pound or in other words the lights are on but nobody is home let me spell it out for you and you and you and pull your coat with some friendly helpful advice in a modified quote from the text book politics for dummies to educate the dummies for politics
“When it comes to peddling fake news choosing between Tweedle Bee and Tweedle Dem to determine which is ‘better’ is like tossing a coin with two tails.”
they don’t understand yet that it’s OVER..
only the Slaves, yardfowls, whatever they are called now and LYING politicians are STUCK in an ever rotating whirlpool OF THEIR OWN MAKING…all the minority leaches and parasites are just waiting in the “shadows” to see what they can nibble like MAGGOTS from that dead carcass…before they TOO MOVE ON…and leave the cadaver to stink up the island…just like their decades of corruption has.
@ Lorenzo
Ten years ? Be gone ! CBC has been the propaganda instrument from the time it was established. Ten years? Who the hell you trying to fool ? Be gone ! Speak the damn truth.
CBC has been and will forever be the propaganda instrument of the blasted Duopoly. Speak the truth or shut to hell up. Ten years – who the hell you kidding ?
Fire gine bun both Roebuck and George Street. Six and frigging half dozen. Pot calling kettle black.
Shame on you, Lorenzlowe Are you family to Dennis Lowe? Oh yes you are. Joined at the hip. BLPDLP same shit different day.
@all
The only party I hear spouting words of holding people responsibile along with using tactics to stiffle citizens words under the banner of “fake news”is this present govt
Time and time again the PM has not resist placing her words with anxious activation of loud shouts and threats calling upon citizens to temper what they say on social media
Now this new long arm branch of govt is put into action as the ” citizens spy” or warlords to oversee what is being said across the length and breadth of this 166sq.miles