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Why pick on China?

Who in the world respects Black people?         

The English? No!                   

The French? No!                             

The Americans? No!                                         

Germans? No!

Canadians? No!                                                               

Ukrainians? No!                                                                         

Australians? No!                                                                                     

Filipinos? No!                                                                                               

Russians? No!                                                                                                       

Arabs? No!                                                                                                               

Anyone? No!                                                                                                                       

Blacks? Certainly not!!!

Quite apart from the fact that “Black” and “White” are artificial constructs based on bogus premises and stupid stereotypes (which distort our existential authenticity as much as it does theirs) the simple truth is: all we have to do is respect ourselves. REPEAT: ALL WE HAVE TO DO IS RESPECT OURSELVES! 

Respecting ourselves, truly respecting ourselves (not a stand-alone phenomenon, but one that is accompanied by self-esteem, self-belief, self-validation, self-actualization and, most importantly, self-love) is a mammoth undertaking for any people who have had a comparable history to ours. This turn of phrase is laughable for its emptiness, since no others have; not by a long shot. In short, nothing to compare! The task at hand is uniquely ours. The task at hand is two-fold. One. Demand & collect trillions of dollars in reparations from Arabia & the West for 14 centuries of material enslavement.   Two. Regain our rightful minds. This task is to effect our own rebirth and cease to be what Professor Thomas has aptly termed natally alienated and morally imbecilic. Admittedly, this is no easy task. One generation of enslavement is bad enough. Fourteen centuries of inter-generational dehumanization is deadly. But rise from the dead, we must! 

To every poison there is an antidote. Ours likely exists in our midst, hiding in plain sight. In fact our problem is not one of discovery but legitimization. Legit # 1: recognizing that we have a problem in the first place. Legit # 2: desiring its resolution. Legit # 3: actually taking the medicine. This is what we owe ourselves, our Ancestors and our children’s children. Yes, we owe it to ourselves! (What they owe us is trillions in reparations).  It is entirely likely that a handful among us have undergone this process and effected our rebirth. Speaking personally, we know of only a few; a precious few. And, at the very top of this very short list stands such luminaries as Mirambo, Nzinga, Sandy, Rodney, Azikiwe, Kaunda, L’overture, Hypatia, Nkrumah, Lumumba, Imhotep, Toure, Shaka, Diop, Nyerere, Garvey, Zumbi dos Palmares, Jomo Kenyatta,  av gbhnd, hiding in plain sight from most of our blinkered plant-African brothers and sisters, Molefe Kete Asante. Thank you Molefe and your illustrious associates for swelling our Ancestors’ chests with pride!  Thank you, thank you, thank you!So, let’s not pick on the Chinese or any other group. Let us simply respect ourselves, truly respect ourselves and be the self-validating people God intended us to be. This must be the basis upon which we relate to ourselves. And this, in turn, is the only basis upon which we should countenance transactions with  others; be they large or small, friendly or hostile, material or spiritual.

NM5. Ashe!

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344 responses to “Who in the World Respects Black People?”

  1. BAJE Avatar
    BAJE

    I GUESS THIS HAPPENED IN BROOKLYN NEW YORK SINCE BLACK BAJAN POLICE RESPECT AND SERVE ALL BLACKS ON THE 2 x 3 ISLAND AND ARE ALWAYS PROFESSIONAL IN THEIR CONDUCT AND BEHAVIOR
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    Attorney says police assault woman, 32, during search
    May 14, 2021

    Officers of the Royal Barbados Police Force (RBPF) are again being threatened with criminal charges arising from their alleged treatment of citizens in the course of their duties.

    Attorney-at-Law Asante Brathwaite on Thursday, revealed that one of her clients would be bringing charges of assault and battery arising from the execution of a search warrant that left 32-year-old Aisha Jones nursing injuries to her stomach, back, throat and foot.

    In an interview outside the Oistins Police Station, Jones, who lives at Golden Rock, Pinelands, St Michael, disclosed that officers arrived at her home around 5 a.m. on Tuesday with a warrant to search her house. Instead of searching, they arrested her mother, Mary Clarke, on accusations of theft.

    But the real trouble reportedly occurred around 3:15 p.m., when seven male officers returned to search the house and her brother Alphonzo Jones raised objections.

    “The sergeant came through the door, grabbed my brother by his hand and said ‘you are under arrest’. My brother asked what he was under arrest for like anybody would and started to stiffen up, and everybody started to cover him,” Aisha recounted.

    “So I said, ‘he is entitled to know what he is being arrested for, and all of you police are wicked’. The sergeant then choked me onto the wall and put his knee into my back and said, ‘I does beat b***** like you. I said, ‘suppose I was six weeks pregnant?’”

    According to her, the police officer suggested that he would “kick” the child out of her “guts” put her in a cell, she alleged.

    The young mother said what was even more painful, is that she is recovering from a hysterectomy, which she claims was exacerbated by an officer placing pressure on her stomach. Her eight-year-old son and six-year-old nephew are also said to be traumatised.

    When Barbados TODAY visited the Oistins station to inquire about the claims, an unnamed officer indicated there was no one present who could address the matter in the public domain.

    Clarke, who was also at the station, indicated that she was released on station bail on Wednesday night, but her son was still at the station and had not yet been formally charged.

    Further inquiries reveal that the allegations of theft against Clarke stemmed from a dispute over her power of attorney in relation to an 84-year-old man. Relatives of the elderly man’s deceased wife are said to have accused Clarke of stealing jewellery and a 40-inch television – a claim which she vehemently denies. From all reports, the police have not recovered the allegedly stolen items.

    Police have also expressed an intention to charge Alphonzo with using threatening words over the phone to a citizen involved in the dispute and for assaulting the officers on Tuesday.

    Brathwaite, a junior counsel at Michael Lashley and Associates, has advised her client to lodge a complaint with the police complaints authority as she brings a cross charge for assault and battery.

    “We have a medical report in that regard, so we will be pursuing the cross charge in the criminal court, and then we will be heading upstairs for compensation and I’ll be hoping to bring it under the Constitution for inhumane and degrading treatment from an officer of the state,” the Attorney declared.

    Brathwaite revealed that the station sergeant on duty informed her that, to the best of his knowledge, his officers had been assaulted and that he was happy that none of them was injured.

    “I don’t know the fullness of the facts. I can only speak with regard to my client’s position. But even if the officer is saying that the client was behaving in a hostile manner, there are other ways to restrain someone who is behaving in a hostile manner. I don’t believe a male officer should be choking a female. I believe that other measures could have been taken if it was a position that the citizen was behaving hostile,” the attorney contended.

    The young lawyer is no stranger to the issue of police brutality and has made numerous complaints in the interest of improving relations between the force and the public.

    And, she continues to go on record in support of calls from the Barbados Bar Association for an independent police complaints body with greater impartiality and accountability.

    “If we look at police brutality in Barbados, you would see that this is an ongoing issue that we have. Even before I came into the legal fraternity, it was an ongoing issue and to me, nothing fundamental has changed.

    “The same unreasonable tactics, force and violence are being used. So I am saying that it is only when average citizens who see officers using unreasonable force during the execution of their duties called them out for their actions, only then will citizens say ‘our voices are being heard’. But for now, it would appear that police can do as they like and there is nothing that ordinary citizens can do. And I believe the Commissioner really needs to address that,” Brathwaite concluded.

    https://barbadostoday.bb/2021/05/14/attorney-says-police-assault-woman-32-during-search/

  2. BAJE Avatar
    BAJE

    NOW WHY WOULD SOMEONE QUESTION A CONTRACT THAT WAS AWARDED TO A SUCCESSFUL BLACK MAN WHO IS WELL KNOWN AS A HONEST MAN EVEN THOUGH BLP GOVERNMENT BROKE TENDERING RULES SINCE OVER $100,000 SHOULD HAVE GONE OUT TO TENDER FOR INVITATIONS TO BID.

    WHY SHOULD BLP GOVERNMENT BE TRANSPARENT WHENEVER THEY GIVE THIS BLACK MAN $MILLIONS IN BUSINESS SAME AS DLP GOVERNMENT IN THE PAST.

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    Contracts to develop latest housing project ‘above board’ – Duguid

    Minister of Housing Dr William Duguid insisted Thursday that the award of construction contracts under the Government’s new $250 million Home Ownership Providing Energy (HOPE) programme was transparent and above board,

    The latest development, a “premium” project at Chancery Lane, Christ Church, features Preconco Limited operated by prominent businessman Mark Maloney who was awarded the contract without going through a tender process.

    https://barbadostoday.bb/2021/05/14/contracts-to-develop-latest-housing-project-above-board-duguid/

  3. BAJE Avatar
    BAJE

    Black Brazilians protest racism, police violence
    RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Black Brazilians demonstrated in the country’s two largest cities yesterday to protest against racism and police violence toward their communities in a local version of the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States, with some accusing the country’s president of genocide.

    They were also protesting what they called the “false” anniversary of the abolition of slavery, officially marked for the day in 1888 when the Brazilian monarch’s daughter, Princess Isabel, signed the law freeing slaves.

    Black Brazilians celebrate the end of slavery on Nov. 20, the anniversary of the killing of Zumbi, a figure of resistance against slavery and the last leader of a runaway slaves community called Palmares.

    Around 1,000 people marched through downtown Rio de Janeiro in the evening holding candles and signs saying, “Don’t kill me, kill racism,” and accusing far-right President Jair Bolsonaro of genocide through police violence.

    https://www.stabroeknews.com/2021/05/14/news/regional/black-brazilians-protest-racism-police-violence/

  4. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Oistins Police Station? I believe every word the young lady said. Tried that shit with my son when he was a schoolboy. Grabbing him without warning when there was no threat to anyone (the schoolboy combattants had run away). When my son wriggled in his grasp asking what was going on the constable threatened to beat him to a pulp.

    When the mad woman went to the station the Station Sargeant first tried to justify it, talking about how I was lucky he did not pull his gun.

    I laughed because it was in fact the officer who was lucky he did not pull his gun.

    But before the madwoman left the station two hours later he was asking what he could do to make it right.

    And the officer who threatened my son now sees him, gives him funny looks but keeps his rh distance.

    The problem was that my son used to catch the bus home from school so they thought he “din nuhbody”. When faced with somebody who could boldly represent with fluency, they backed down. Oops! Not from the “ghetto”!

    And no, I did not name drop or make a phone call. Never even thought of it.

    But “high wind know weh ole house live”.

    This should not be. It is only certain people that they do this to. We need body cams on these power trippers.

  5. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Ok! Who got the briefcase of money this time? We know who got the last one.

  6. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    No one in the Slave system of law enforcement etc likes to acknowledge that it’s THE BLACK POPULATION who pay their salaries and none of them should VIOLATE THEIR RIGHTS and brutalize them, neither should they beat the women, men or rape their children. They only do it because the 2 dirty governments will never stop them. Unless they are dragged up before world courts it will never end, because they believe themselves untouchable.

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

    Whatever they got caught doing, they are now on EVERYONE’S WATCH LIST…we warned for years that they were going to get reeled in, they cussed us..

    we told them start educating the people TO THEIR ORIGINAL CULTURE, history etc and not a bunch of 400 year old made up shit devoid of ancestral identity, they cussed us, their Slaves did, now they believe they can slither into Africa and continue their scams uninterrupted without addressing any of the above, not a chance…road block.

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

    BTW…ah heard what they been doing all these decades…shitload of trouble…

  9. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    I would not advise Black people to invest in anything in Barbados, find other places to invest, the island is anti-Black/African and always has been, take pride wicked racism and always will.

    https://barbadostoday.bb/2021/05/14/restaurateur-reels-after-eviction-assets-seized/

  10. Enuff Avatar
    Enuff

    Milluh
    I don’t have time to waste. Because everyone is pretending not to hear that an Expression of Interest (open tendering) was advertised in the newspaper at two separate periods and it was said that 15 of the 18 respondents have been selected for the projects in the pipeline. There is also pretense that a few weeks ago another set of EOIs were not in the paper for suppliers and small contractors for the same HOPE. It was said the small contractor just need to walk with tools and crew. Like I said weeks ago, if we talked less and acted more the government would not have to rely on Mamoney $$$. So instead of bragging about quadrupling revenue/profit, mobilise some dollars and submit an EOI too. What is clear is that Mamoney can’t pull a Coverley.

  11. BAJE Avatar
    BAJE

    Milluh
    I don’t have time to waste. Because everyone is pretending not to hear that an Expression of Interest (open tendering) was advertised in the newspaper at two separate periods and it was said that 15 of the 18 respondents have been selected for the projects in the pipeline. There is also pretense that a few weeks ago another set of EOIs were not in the paper for suppliers and small contractors for the same HOPE. It was said the small contractor just need to walk with tools and crew. Like I said weeks ago, if we talked less and acted more the government would not have to rely on Mamoney $$$. So instead of bragging about quadrupling revenue/profit, mobilise some dollars and submit an EOI too. What is clear is that Mamoney can’t pull a Coverley.

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    WHAT WAS SAID OUT OF THE RED BAG OVER 3 YEARS AGO BLACK MAN MARK MALONEY WAS GOING TO BE LOCKED UP BY THE BLP GOVERNMENT FOR THESE SAME TYPES OF PRACTICES BY THE DLP GOVERNMENT.

    WHY WOULD ONE WANT TO INVEST THEIR MONEY ON THE 2 x 3 ISLAND WHERE THE COURTS, GOVERNMENT AND CORRUPTION RUN HAND IN HAND AS IT RELATES TO ANY CIVIL DISPUTES.

  12. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    take pride IN wicked racism and always will.

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

    Coverley is a shithole…that’s all it will ever be, anything the corrupt touches, turn into shitholes.

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

    Don’t start respecting each other.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VrLBA79VJgE

  15. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    Black People get respect when they die

  16. Miller Avatar
    Miller

    @ Enuff May 14, 2021 1:36 PM

    That same line of reasoning was used by the previous corrupt administration to justify the award of multi-million contracts to the same lawbreaker as described by your leader still concealing that red handbag of deception.

    What has the man MAM done for your MAM to deserve this 360 degree ablution of political purification?

    Is it payback for switching sides in the campaign financing of the last electoral race by backing the red horse instead of the tired one which wore the yellow and blue livery?

    The man MAM belly is already impregnated with the Hyatt erection.

    What more does he need in government’s assistance to deliver the overdue economic saviour to Bridgetown?

    Or has he aborted his false hotel pregnancy?

    The ghost of Abijah has already read the tea leaves on the fate of your administration.

    You guys are just creating the type of environment for history of the 1930’s to repeat itself.

    “Deception may give us what we want for the present, but it will always take it away in the end.”

  17. Miller Avatar
    Miller

    @ 555 dubstreet May 14, 2021 9:01 AM
    (Quote):
    I dig the works of el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz aka Malcolm X aka Malcolm Little and also the daughter of Malcolm, Gamilah Shabazz. (Unquote).
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    We believe you are aware that this radical prophet ‘has’ his maternal roots firmly planted in that ‘little’ but revolutionary-famous island in the Eastern Caribbean once invaded by the Reagan administration to show those uppity leaders who was the real cowboy in town.

  18. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    “The ghost of Abijah has already read the tea leaves on the fate of your administration.”

    using a deceased child to be elected whose death maloney caused with his illegal protrusion because he just had to show the whole of Barbados that he owns parliament nigas and they can’t stop him and he can do as many illegal things on the island as he like…

    having the child’s mother arrested and the case winding through the corrupt judiciary until next election or after….yep….the ancestors sure as hell won’t find that as funny as the fowl Slaves…

    just shows how disrespectful of the African population these thieving nobodies are…

  19. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Better be grateful for your ancestors, those disrespectful, corrupt, racists in Barbados don’t have shit, all they have ever done is ROB YOU AND YOUR GENERATIONS……and they are preparing to do so again….with their sellout negros.

    https://www.instagram.com/p/CO3sbpHFPhk/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

  20. angela cox Avatar
    angela cox

    Barbados media fraternity are a lazy bunch
    Only reporting a bunch of scripted news handed to them.by govt
    When Joe or Mary citizen presents them with an issue relevant to present day handling of the economy these la,zy buggers go on the defensive hurling ridiculous attacks against the persons input
    A relevant question to these armchair reporters sitting behind a computer in an air-conditioned office is why doesn’t the media get off their duff and do investigative research as to how govt conducts the business of handling or managing the country.
    What a bunch of jokers

  21. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    “We believe you are aware that this radical prophet ‘has’ his maternal roots firmly planted in that ‘little’ but revolutionary-famous island in the Eastern Caribbean once invaded by the Reagan administration”

    I must have forgotten about his parents as I read a couple of books about his life but did not remember that.
    Googling shows his mum and dad were both activists and part of Garvey’s movement.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR1O6AxmBBE

  22. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    @ Baje
    Take it easy. They will eat themselves eventually. They are political cannibals .
    These are the people who control the Duopoly:
    The Williams Family (Whites)
    The Indians
    The Other ethnic Groups
    Let them burn in the political hell. It’s a waste of time engaging the apologists and cool aid drinkers. They cannot change. Until a third political party emerges we will continue to see the deception and theatrics. Some people have no shame.
    Barbados DOES NOT MATTER to them. It never did and never will. All they do is cuss people, occasionally cuss each other (acting) and orchestrate who should be ostracized on BU.
    Let them be. It’s their collective mess. Let them clean it up. These Bees and Dees have no blasted shame. They enjoy pissing on the country.
    Let them swim in their own cesspool of lies, deception and greed.

  23. FOTOROTO Avatar
    FOTOROTO

    I have to disagree that Germans don’t have respect for People rich of melanin. While i can’t speak for all melanin poor individuals at least my German friends have RESPECT.

    On the other hand, i can’t agree more with you that the exploitation by slavery generated gazillions of profits. So the People of Barbados should definitely receive trillions in reparations. The questions is: Who needs to pay? and Who profited of slavery and exploitation?
    The working class is living from pay-check to pay-check and it makes no difference if you look into the Netherlands, Britain, USA, or Germany. So it’s less a question of nations, but bank’sters and other incorporated monsters. Obviously, they are based on the system of capitalism and took the wealth that was generated by exploitation. Those organisations are the only ones who could pay back.

    Since Karl Marx experieced the situation of the working class in London he developed the antidote against the banksters of england. So he wrote his book “Capital – a critique of political economy” for all the wage slaves. We as the People, need to stand up in Solidarity and speak with ONE voice to be heard.

    “Solidarity is the tenderness of the peoples.”
    – Che Guevara

    Everybody who can’t agree with Karl Marx & Silvio Gesell needs to invest in crypto-currency and becomes part of the problem.

  24. FOTOROTO Avatar
    FOTOROTO

    At least BLM raised a lot of awareness in Berlin

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

    “They will eat themselves eventually.”

    Karma dictates that they eat themselves, as long as they know that they OWE the Black/African population REPARATIONS for what they have done for the last 60 years, particularly the in the last 30…instead of sitting and counting how much in reparations they will TIEF off the blood of our ancestors for their CORRUPT St. Lucy Project, which is now a dream TURNED NIGHTMARE..

    as long as they know, the CONTINENT knows who and what they are, and keep their slimy, corrupt selves off OUR ancestral lands.

    as long as they know, the alignment of the stars is for them to PAY WHAT THEY OWE to the Black/African population on the island..

    and as for those petty little trained monkeys who believe they have Black lives to abuse to appease and enrich minority criminals using slave laws and slave codes….every dirty dog has their day, some have two.

    William…there is no getting away..so let them pretend until there is nothing else to pretend…burn they will.

  26. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    William…these small island criminals were plotting and planning to keep the Black population in generational poverty, bondage and oppression for another 50 or 60 years so that the minorities little drug and gunrunning grandchildren and great grand children could continue benefitting and standing up on the population while stealing from the people nonstop with the help of parliament sellouts…they had NO INTENTION TO STOP…they better find real jobs…bunch of frauds….all should be in PRISON SOMEWHERE…especially for that money laundering they GOT CAUGHT in.

    anyone thinks it’s Donville alone who was watched gotta be mad, he was just more or less the greedy fall guy for the real money laundering taking place, but his conviction has sealed their wicked fates..

  27. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    I know there is greed and then there is real greed and criminality, but it still mystifies…how the DESCENDANTS of the ENSLAVED…could be that vicious and self-hating, that they would sellout their own for over 60 years because they were given a few colonial titles and deluded themselves that it made them something or somebody, fake elite and fake pedigree, like the jackasses INSISTING that they be called “honorable”

    well I got one for them, how bout i call ya sellout asses HONORABLE SLAVES from now….because that’s all ya are or will ever be seen as in any part of the earth, except for ya fowl Slaves who are no different because of their ignorance.

    were i them, i would be ASHAMED…but instead they are modeling false pride, with nothing to back it up…not even reparations money they thought they could use to maintain and sustain corruption.

    someone was asking me recently what became of the Nigerian billionaire, the alleged financier of the last general election, like if i would know….but WHO asked the question was reason for me to perk up…antennas in the air.

  28. angela cox Avatar
    angela cox

    It is disgraceful and down right disgusting how givt has turned a deaf ear and blind eye to the hotel workers who for almost a year have been walking in the protest lines in the hot sun demanding their severance dues from the Hilton Hotel management
    Govt continues to be a party to this kind devilish behavior
    Mostly sad is that Barbados govt has a financial interest in the Hotel and that being the case govt should move heaven and hell for these workers to be compensated
    So sad

  29. angela cox Avatar
    angela cox

    Caring for tourism workers
    Today’s Editorial
    If a substantial number of tourism workers feel a sense of betrayal and ambivalence about the sector they have given so many years of sacrifice to, who can blame them.
    Often regarded as the key contributor to the economic engine which keeps this country going, tourism has become our nation’s lifeblood. The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has so altered the industry, that our economic planners are pinning hopes of an economic recovery on tourism, despite the health threats caused by COVID-19.
    It, therefore, cannot be a good look for a country that has placed so many of its eggs into the tourism basket, to so callously treat the people on whose shoulders, the industry’s success is so dependent. We continue to be saddened by the treatment meted out to so many workers in this sector.
    Stripped of their dignity, the ex-tourism workers, mostly women, are forced to picket the streets and outside the facilities of brand-named hotels.
    They are now appealing to the collective conscience of Barbadians and governmental authorities to step in and confront their former employers about severance and other payments owed to them.
    Earlier this week, former employees of at least three well-known hotels, continued their near year-long battle and public protests. Should not these hotels, which have been relying heavily on local patronage to keep their operations afloat, not feel a sense of obligation to settle their debts to these workers? What level of commitment are the current employees expected to display when they have witnessed the treatment of their former colleagues? Are they expected to provide genuinely customer-centric service to guests when they are aware of the fate that could also befall them? The placard of one worker put it quite aptly: “Dear Barbados Government. Is tourism still the main industry or have we switched to the cannabis industry? Hotel employees are suffering; no one is listening!”
    The fact that the Barbados Government has an interest in Hilton Barbados, one of the hotels being complained about, is a sad indictment.
    It was not surprising the recent observations of Roseanne Myers, a former president of the Barbados Hotel and Tourism Association (BHTA) and the current chair of the Barbados Tourism and Marketing Inc (BTMI), who acknowledged some workers may have lost faith in the sector.
    She described as “unfortunate”, the way some former tourism workers have been treated since the pandemic began affecting the region, leading to the collapse of the sector.
    “It is unfortunate that some businesses made an early decision to close, some because they could do no better. The problem is that once you close, it is very difficult to reopen and that is why it was important for those operating in the sector to take advantage of the social safety net, try to hang on and then take advantage of whatever the government was offering.”
    An experienced tourism executive, Myers went on: “I understand fully why some workers would be disappointed because you gave your heart and soul to something for many years and then a business owner takes a decision that was not necessarily founded on good business practice because they did not go after the help that was offered. And so, I understand the disillusionment.”
    The hospitality sector is a major direct employer and thousands more jobs are reliant on the spin-off services that support the sector. The fact remains, however, that a significant number of tourism-related jobs are low-paying and lack security of tenure.
    It is not uncommon for hospitality employees to be laid off during the lean summer months, adding to the insecurity of year-round employment.
    As Barbados issues new protocols for the international travellers and has laid out the welcome mat for the cruise sector to resume, little has been said to address the labour issues that arose during the pandemic and how they are to be addressed going forward.
    Myers, the BTMI chair revealed that there is to be an audit of the skills available for hire on the island. While we commend the move, there is no guarantee that establishments that severed or laid off workers during the pandemic will have any obligation to rehire them when the sector is revived.
    Many of the employees are women and mothers. And so, the implications for their lives and livelihoods transcend the individual employee.
    Hospitality establishments may choose this time to “sweep the house clean” and hire an entirely new complement of workers whom employers believe can be shaped in the post-COVID operating paradigm.
    Hospitality workers face an increased level of exposure to the disease and so special provisions should be made for their safety, thus reducing their risk of contracting the disease.
    There are still not enough COVID-19 vaccinations for every adult in Barbados, and so can a hospitality employee bring legal action against an employer if he or she contracts COVID-19 in the course of doing their job? Should the Barbados Workers’ Union (BWU) and the Unity Workers’ Union (UWU) be seeking some form of hazard pay allowance for those in the sector? These are just a few of the issues which should also be occupying our policymakers as we seek to get Barbados out of the recession in which it has been stuck for nearly a year.

  30. angela cox Avatar
    angela cox

    Govt of Barbados only seems to care or show interest in the “big business side” of tourism those who have clout namely the cruise industry whose cruise liners were given a safety net.of survival and security to dock their sickly ships in Carlisle Bay and destroy the coral reefs
    Then their were the tourist whose complaints to govt did not go unnoticed to their plight of lost money by their long stay having to wait for COVIDtest results and govt step up with a hastened response to seek resolution
    Now at home these poor Hilton employees continues to wait in vain for a response as govt remains deaf blind and dumb to their plight
    What a dam shame

  31. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    Namibian jams
    Young T Wokongha Fikulimwe
    “Fikulimwe naame aika landa em’tuwa lange”, meaning “One day I will also be able to buy my own car”.

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

    “They are now appealing to the collective conscience of Barbadians and governmental authorities to step in and confront their former employers about severance and other payments owed to them.
    Earlier this week, former employees of at least three well-known hotels, continued their near year-long battle and public protests. Should not these hotels, which have been relying heavily on local patronage to keep their operations afloat, not feel a sense of obligation to settle their debts to these workers?”

    Again…these hotel and restaurant workers are SEEN AS SLAVES, not real people deserving of payment or benefits, you can thank the two tag teams colonial Slave government ministers who barter with the same hoteliers and restaurateurs for free rooms and comp drinks and meals, so don’t expect the employees to be paid anything…employers have complained for years how DBLP extorted bribes from them, it has been a talking point on BU for years.

    Ask the employees how they are treated even in the best of times, the way these racist savages talk down to them, INSULT and DISRESPECT THEM…with the blessings of the honorable Slaves.

    It’s called modern day slavery, when the labor laws can be changed in the cabinet to benefit crooked employers NOT PAYING BENEFITS or salaries, what do you think that is, it’s SLAVERY…2.0 in the 21st century.

    either accept it or do something about the dangerous governments.

  33. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    @ WURA
    Remember the tax havens of the late 60s and 70s. Barrow allowed companies to set up in so-called industrial parks and gave them ten years tax free. They treated the workers badly. After ten years they would “ just left” without paying a cent into National Insurance.
    Fast forward to the present: Mottley writes off millions upon millions and then COVID strikes. What happens? She finds millions to give hoteliers. What do they do. They hold a meeting at the Barbados Yacht Club ( note the venue) and declare they would rather close down than prop up the industry. Result: Hundreds of poor white hotel workers begging for their severance.
    This is a brief historical journey of these two parties since Independence.
    Let the fools bray.

  34. David Avatar
    David

    TOURISM THRUST
    BTMI launches new strategy to international community
    Barbados has relaunched its tourism brand to the world while unveiling a new tourism strategy.
    Just about two months before the island is due to see a meaningful return to tourism, the Barbados Tourism Marketing Inc. (BTMI) yesterday proclaimed the Barbados brand under the banner Little Island; Big Barbados.
    The virtual event, witnessed by partners from all sectors of the tourism industry, representatives of related Government ministries and private sector agencies, was also followed by an international audience, including several people involved in the travel trade. They were given a detailed presentation on Barbados’ plans to make a strong reentry into the global tourism market following the decimation of the sector worldwide
    by the COVID-19 pandemic.
    Minister of Tourism Senator Lisa Cummins said Barbados had endured 18 months of a slump in the tourism industry as global travel came to a halt with source markets closing their borders, airlines grounded and cruise ships idle at anchor as a result of the global pandemic.
    Back on track
    Yesterday, she signalled Barbados was back on track to welcome visitors again. She stressed the emphasis would be on a safe reopening and encouraged Barbadians, particularly those working in the tourism sector, to get vaccinated not only for their own protection but also because it would engender a sense of confidence in prospective visitors from source markets that have already made vaccination a priority.
    Cummins welcomed recent news that the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention just upgraded its travel advisory for
    Barbados from Level 4 to Level 3. She hailed the move as “a positive signal” and an indication by the US of the interdependency of the two countries.
    She also announced Cabinet had approved a new set of cruise protocols that would allow for safe travel for vaccinated cruisers.
    “Getting ‘Brand Barbados’ out there is what we are focusing on today, helping our people to inspire pride in who we are and to share that pride with global audiences,” Cummins said.
    However, she cautioned that the BTMI strategy would only be as good as its ability to monitor outcomes.
    “You will be required to monitor and ensure that the impact of our new rebranding and integrated approach to tourism is not just about marketing. It will be about people; it will be about partnerships.”
    The launch also highlighted
    BTMI’s plans for the development of several niche markets as an extension to the sand, sea and sun brand, as well as the refreshing and upgrading of existing tourism attractions. (GC)

    Source: Nation

  35. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    I was impressed with, Baje’s and WS’s very clever inversion (switch) of the role of race in our GOB business transactions. It would be difficult for an ardent B/D supporter to read those brilliants posts and remain convinced that business as done by the DBLP GOB is for the benefit of all on the island.

    The Lorenzos/Acs types can continue to debate the mythical B versus B, but some local businesses have accepted that the BDLP is real and responded with a single BDLP representative (Maloney),

  36. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    ” Little Island; Big Barbados.”

    What does this mean ?

  37. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    “They treated the workers badly. After ten years they would “ just left” without paying a cent into National Insurance.”

    that’s why Barrow cannot be left out as the architect for the social and financially degradation, oppression, suppression, disenfranchisement and marginalization of the majority population, he SET THE PACE….and it has gotten progressively WORSE…with every lawyer etc who crawled on their snake bellies to go into that parliament….continuing where he left off, without fail.

    the slave master employers have now graduated to openly refusing to pay workers….instead of running off the island with all the money and owing the NIS and Inland Revenue tens of billions, they are staying and brave it out, once again, protected by the honorable Slaves.

  38. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    https://www.nationnews.com/2021/05/15/former-buccament-bay-workers-get-ec2-000/

    “Kingstown – Finance Minister Camillo Gonsalves says former workers of the Buccament Bay Resort are to receive soon a pay out of EC$2 000 each.

    The resort closed it doors in December 2016.”

    UNDENIABLE slave societies in the Caribbean, they can always find some “investor” to help them with their SCAMS against the people. am sure that dude got arrested in UK for the harlequin scam..

    but tell the traitors of the Caribbean to EMPOWER the people so that fraud investors don’t ruin their and their children’s lives/futures AND THEY WILL FIGHT TOOTH AND NAIL SO IT NEVER HAPPENS……hint, hint, Mia with the marijuana trade that went BUST…because she don’t want to see the BLACK population independent and in EMPOWERED…..and now left with marijuana AND NO TRADE cause African RUN THINGS.

  39. rickross Avatar
    rickross

    How Europeans evolved to have white skin, starting from around 8,000 years ago

    Europeans have not always been light skinned, and Caucasians are in fact a fairly new development on the continent, relatively speaking…
    When modern humans first travelled from Africa to the continent around 40,000 years ago they had darker skin, which was still seen in Spain, Luxembourg and Hungary around 8,500 years ago.

    These humans lacked two genes – SLC24A5 and SLC45A2 – which lead to the depigmentation and lightening of the skin. But in the far north, ancient bodies in Sweden from 7,700 years ago were found to have both these genes, and a third causing blue eyes, meaning they were pale-skinned and blue-eyed…

    From Independent.co.uk
    23 September 2015 .

    Science reveals how Europeans evolved white skin:
    Pale-skinned people first appeared in Europe around 8,000 years ago.

    Earlier migrants to Europe from Africa (circa 40,000) were dark skinned, and most suited to the heat and intense sunshine of the southern hemisphere.

    The later immigrants who arrived around 8,000 years ago and settled in northern Europe contained the genes that lead to depigmentation, or paler skin…

    ‌From Metro News.co.uk, Friday 3 Apr 2015.

    The Myth of Race and the Evolution of Skin Color

    This ground breaking documentary combines anthropology, paleontology and human genetics to show how that all humans, no matter what race, nationality or ethnicity you claim to be, share a common ancestor with a small population that lived in Africa between 150,000 and 200,000 years ago. It also explains in detail the biological process, known as mutations that happens every generation that causes humans to look different. And last, it challenges a long standing theory that the evolution of skin color is a result of humans proximity to the equator. The research conducted in this film shows that the evolution of skin color is the direct result of a skin pigment mutation known as albinism, in particular, oculocutaneous type 1 and 2 albinism.

    Key points:
    * Europe was first inhabited by Africans( Black people).
    * Black people carry the ancestral ( original ) genes for skin colour/ pigmentation.

    White people carry mutations of genes regulating skin colour leading to depigmentation.

    *The evolution of skin color is the direct result of a skin pigment mutation known as albinism.

    What caused the population in Europe to change from BLACK to White?

    1)The second Out Of Africa (OOA) migration event (The first being Humans to Australia), saw Blacks from Africa with straight hair and “Mongol features” take an “Inland route” through southern Asia and on up to China, where they settled. Included with this group, were straight haired Blacks “without” Mongol features – now called “Dravidians” who stayed close to Africa, and settled in India and other areas of southern Asia. Also included with this second (OOA) group were Albinos, who were probably motivated by a quest for relief from the heat and burning Sunshine of southern Africa .

    2)In Central Asia albinos started inbreeding.

    3) Between 1,500 B.C. to 500 A.D.) millions of Albinos (Caucasians) would abandon Central Asia and move to Europe.
    4) millions of blacks were driven by out of Europe or murdered during the Albino invasion of Europe.

    *Mongols are derived from Africans with what has come to be called Mongol features, admixed with Albinos – including the Dravidian type Albino. European Whites (formerly of Central Asia) are derived from the Albinos of the Dravidian type Blacks found in India.
    Albinos( white people) have neither the Genetic nor Physical wherewithal to compete successfully with Pigmented People.
    European Albinos who chose to settle in areas of the Earth between 40 degrees North and 40 degrees South; knew fully well that they would NOT be able to do the FARMWORK necessary to support themselves with FOOD in those areas due to the Damaging/Killing strength of the Sun’s UV radiation at those latitudes. So they resolved to use the Slave Labor of pigmented people as a means to supply themselves with enough Food to live in those Latitudes.

    Albinos (Europeans) committed mass killings of blacks all over the world.British Empire

    In places like the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Canada settler colonialism caused the indigenous population to decrease by over half after becoming a British colony. Foreign land viewed as attractive for settlement was declared as terra nullius or “nobody’s land”. The indigenous inhabitants were therefore denied any sovereignty or property rights in the eyes of the British. This justified invasion and the violent seizure of native land to create colonies populated by British settlers. Colonization like this usually caused a large decrease in the indigenous population from war, newly introduced diseases, massacre by colonists and attempts at forced assimilation. The settlers from Britain and Europe grew rapidly in number and created entirely new societies. The indigenous population became an oppressed minority in their own country.

    Europeans ( albinos) use mass killing, torture , incarceration & disease to reduce the black population. On the other hand, they use inbreeding & emigration from Europe to increase the white population.
    Another concern for white people is declining fertility.

    Fertility rate for white women plummets BELOW the limit needed to maintain the population in every single US state :
    Fertility rates for white women were down in every US state in 2017 – below the rate needed for the population to replace itself, a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reveals.

    However, among black and Hispanic women, fertility rates were up in 12 and 29 states, respectively.
    Dailymail.com, 10 Jan 2019.

    Sperm Count in Western Men Has Dropped Over 50 Percent Since 1973, Paper Finds
    New York times ,2017.

    Women who use fake tan could put themselves at an increased risk of fertility problems and having babies with birth defects, according to experts.
    Although seen as a safe alternative to sunbeds, the products can contain a ‘cocktail’ of chemicals which may pose a risk to health – and can even cause cancer. Among the dangerous ingredients found in fake tan are hormone-disrupting compounds, which can affect the healthy development of babies. The products often also contain carcinogens, including formaldehyde ….
    DAILY MAIL- UK
    By CLAIRE ELLICOTT, 22 July 2012

  40. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Can remember vividly getting on BU sometimes 2 and 3 in the morning telling her for the last 2 years to LET GO THE MARIJUANA to the people…well now she can KEEP IT..

  41. angela cox Avatar
    angela cox

    To read the jaw dropping rubbish coming from the minister of labour mouth spouting the words “not knowing ” in reference to the workers not receiving severance is a sadly telling tale of where govt priorities lies
    After more than a year worth of protest and pleading and begging of these past employees asking govt to step in and help them
    The minister of Labour tells all and sundry he now gets the message
    Boy uh tell yuh
    Bajans would continue to be treated like slaves as long as they continue to let headless chickens take control of their lives from inside the hallways of Parliament

  42. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Pacha etc am enjoying some stimulating, progressive and solution finding debates between the diaspora and the continent…they are going on in multiple forums at once. Asante Sana.

    https://youtu.be/ShFeO7PTJ24

  43. Enuff Avatar
    Enuff

    Milluh
    The difference is that there was no EOI, no engagement of multiple contractors. Maloney got Coverley, Country Towers, Valery and Grotto. Only Coverley was Mamoney money. Let’s talk about size, affordability and costs. Coverley was touted as low-income, government’s recently launched HOPE project at Vespera is providing 2 and 3 bed homes bigger and more affordable than Coverley. A 2-bed at Coverley starts at $290,000. The recently launched Atlantic Breeze that Mamoney is using his money, the starting price for a 2-bed is $265,000 about 100 sq.ft bigger and no zero lot. The former government paid $35M for 80 apartments at the Grotto and $24M for 72 at Valarie. Do the maths!

  44. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    The Slaves are still boasting.

  45. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Miller….everyone is moving FORWARD…these clowns are MOVING BACKWARD…no one got the time for any of them…let them stay in their self-created agony.

    they were warned for years and years.

  46. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    This is slavery and human rights abuse, as usual…and will only get progressively worse if like the Slaves want, everyone turns a blind eye and forgets about it.,,always Black women with children who take the brunt of these government led human rights violations…coming from the fraudulent oppressive tourism industry of criminals and their sidekicks in the private sector.

    https://www.nationnews.com/2021/05/16/ex-silver-point-workers-cry/

    “Some former workers of Silver Point Hotel are still awaiting severance payments after being let go last October.

    The women reached out to the Sunday Sun after repeated efforts to get their money failed.

    Stacia Daniel said they were given their documents and told the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) would pay them out but when they checked back at NIS they were informed that nothing had been sent.

    Daniel said they were told NIS couldn’t force anyone to sign the relevant documents for them to be paid and she feared that going to the Employment Rights Tribunal would take years for the matter to be resolved.”

  47. rickross Avatar
    rickross

    *Miseducation of black minds responsible for our dysfunctional people.
    https://youtu.be/vVX-PrBRtTY
    https://youtu.be/vnALicKzunQ

  48. BAJE Avatar
    BAJE

    “Some former workers of Silver Point Hotel are still awaiting severance payments after being let go last October.

    The women reached out to the Sunday Sun after repeated efforts to get their money failed.

    Stacia Daniel said they were given their documents and told the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) would pay them out but when they checked back at NIS they were informed that nothing had been sent.

    Daniel said they were told NIS couldn’t force anyone to sign the relevant documents for them to be paid and she feared that going to the Employment Rights Tribunal would take years for the matter to be resolved.”

    xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

    CAUGHT BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE.

    CLEARLY SHOWS BY ACTIONS OVER THE LAST 3 YEARS WHO “MIA CARES” ABOUT.

  49. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    “Daniel said they were told NIS couldn’t force anyone to sign the relevant documents for them to be paid and she feared that going to the Employment Rights Tribunal would take years for the matter to be resolved.”

    Giving people paperwork and not filing the supporting documents is nothing more than a scam/fraud. Trickery to get people out of the office and off the property.

    “You are out of luck is not a proper response”. Regulatory bodies must have more than rubber teeth. They cannot be as weak or as impotent as described. The GoB must represent and defend the people.

  50. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    Side note:
    Allow me to ask a silly question .

    Has our notion of constituencies and parish making us feel we are bigger than we are and places limits on solutions to our problems?

    Why can we not address water scarcity as a national problem instead of addressing it as one constituency/parish at a time?

    Is this how parties build strongholds?

    I have not yet seen water scarcity in St Lucy addressed. Correct me if I am wrong.

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