The ruling Administration has reneged on its Covenant of Hope where it promised to include Barbadians in governance. Perhaps one of the most frightening examples to date is Barbados becoming a Republic without a Referendum or consultation with the people. This article will focus on the impact on General Elections.
We have all heard it so many times that it has become second nature to state “elections in Barbados are constitutionally due every five years” and since the last general election was held in 2018, it would be expected that the next General Election will be held in 2023. The latter part of the statement is now in doubt.
The admission that the Constitution will come into existence after the Republic has started was brazen. This form of oppression is subtle. It should be the other way around with the Constitution first and the Republic after so that everyone can read and understand what they are getting into.
That admission has changed everything. One does not know how long a time period that will be. Since a date has not been specified, could it be a month, six months, a year, five years? The Prime Minister’s statement was not precise and therefore it cannot be measured. Hence, regardless of political affiliation, every member of the Barbadian public must acknowledge that this is a massive red flag.
There are several requirements to getting a mortgage and once these are met, the purchaser is provided the mortgage agreement and can get legal advice on the contents before signing. It is a legally binding document by which a person agrees to the principle, interest, payments, the terms and the other conditions. If the bank provided you with a piece of paper with just the title Mortgage on it and informed you that this will be the mortgage and asked you to sign without the principle, interest, payments, the terms and the other conditions being declared in writing, would you sign that piece of paper? Added to this you are told by the bank that the actual mortgage document with the written details will be available shortly after, not even on a specific date, would you sign? No one with all their mental faculties working would sign this blank mortgage document as the bank could write after the fact whatever it wishes on the document.
In the scale of things, the Constitution of Barbados is far more significant than a mortgage. It too is a legally binding document that will not only contain the laws that govern a mortgage but every other law that defines all aspects of life in Barbados. So how can the people of Barbados be asked by the government to agree to a change in the status of the State and a new Constitution with a blank document? What will be written on this document after the fact?
Essentially that is what the government is asking the people to do, to agree to a grand show and tell and later find out about the laws that make the new Constitution. It is a buy now pay later concept that is a trap for unsuspecting buyers.
There is no guarantee that elections will be held in 2023 as this is based off the present Constitution. Without a definitive time period of when the proposed Constitution will be ratified into law no one knows when the next General Elections will be. Will the document be laid in Parliament in a month, a year, or two years from the change of status? Only heaven knows.
In addition, one cannot even assume who will be legally responsible for issuing the writ that declares when elections will be held. One does not know if changes will be made to the Electoral and Boundaries Commission, if the matter of campaign finances will be a free for all, if payments to social media influencers will become part of the law.
The action by government to change the status of the island first and the Constitution after the change in status causes one to question the legality of this process. Due process is that the laws come first. What happens in the interim, emergency law or military law?
The matter of when the next General Elections are to be held is not to be taken lightly. There has been no Referendum, no terms of reference, no draft issued on the type of Republic or the contents of the new Constitution. There are just too many unknowns and people wanting to believe what they have no evidence of.
To the electorate, why is this entire process a secret? You are not at a Fair, the Constitution of Barbados should never be part of a lucky dip where after withdrawing your hand from the box you get the surprise of your life! Now is the time to stand up and fight for your rights.
All these tin horn dictators in these SIDS have no vision
Clueless on how to manage their economies
Most of them during COVID reads off and repeats a hand prepared script handed to them by international health organisations
Meanwhile acting in insensitive manner towards the populace
Imagine govt acting on behalf of big business and world health organizations making decisions to push their populace backs to the wall and when the citizens reacts
People ask wuh happen
Fuh God sake people are not robots that can be made to operate by a click.of a mouse or a push button
People have feelings which triggers emotions some good emotions and some back emotions
It is past time that small island govts get their house in order and stop showing torrid disrespect to it’s people
Then yuh have auntie Mia showing absolutely no respect for the Errol Barrow legacy
She has been in office for three years have not done one dam thing that can place her effort into legacy standard
However walks around holding on to an entitlement mentality
Talks about transparency and Accountability and in three years her idea of transparency and Accountability boils down to protocol PR comments
Moreover so much in a hurry to fast paced her entitlement to having a legacy forgets what she told the whole of Barbados what processes must take place before Barbados becomes a Republic
This must be a dictator on steroids acting as PM of Barbados
“Yet if one visit some of these small island one would see the kind of poverty that ask questions who is in control. People still living in houses that have no secure flooring lined with mud.”
Hmmmmmm……..
Could you please share with BU, the names of “these small islands” you visited in which you saw “people still living in houses that have no secure flooring lined with mud?”
“She has been in office for three years have not done one dam thing that can place her effort into legacy standard”
DLP will have a window of opportunity to take power in 23 if they don’t fuck it up again like in 18
and if they don’t talk shit like you 24 7 365
just keeping it real
We must now be very, very vigilant. First the cowardly attempt on the life of the honourable, brave Prime Minister of St Vincent, today a scandalous editorial in Barbados Today. This newspaper is not ashamed to systematically spread lies about our government and about our people and beloved island, mixed with homophobia, conspiracy theories and more.
Time to shut down the Barbados Today website!
Time to shut down the Barbados Today website!
why?
it is currently the most informative source of news from Barbados
As Cuhdear Bajan suggested weeks ago, and I agreed, the process probably has been hampered by the covid focus. No harm in postponing until it can be properly done. Change is something that should be managed to bring people along. When things are done with haste and without proper engagement, suspicion flourishes.
This is an opportunity missed to engage, educate and inspire. True leadership! “There is a time when taken at the flood…”
George Floyd’s murder provided the perfect wave every surfer dreams about. All Mia had to do was ride it!
By the way, where is Cuhdear Bajan?
“George Floyd’s murder provided the perfect wave every surfer dreams about. All Mia had to do was ride it!”
she said it was a trend and dismissed it, parliament rats never take part in anything that advances a Black cause or empowers the African descended, that’s why i want to know who the hell they think they are inviting minority criminals to our continent and did not think there was going to be some kinda backlash..
https://barbadostoday.bb/2021/08/05/btcolumn-30-out-of-30-is-not-100-per-cent/
I think becoming a republic is 50 years late, no fanfare or parades are required, just moving on
They also need to be told in no uncertain terms that Africa is not the new ATM for Black/African hating minority criminals and their house negros/partners in crime…..to suck money or resources to maintain corrupt slave societies of the lazy in the Caribbean……..some of us take that as an act of war and ancestral disrespect…
“Barbados is not the fiefdom of Prime Minister Mia Mottley.
And while Barbadians remain mute, sedated, comatose, bewitched, apathetic, perhaps petrified, they are ceding this island to someone who from my vantage point, even if not hers, seems more concerned about creating a legacy – contrived as it might be – than anything else. Of course, this is my opinion and I might be wrong. But actions speak louder than words and I wish to be given the opportunity to highlight a few of the things that Barbadians ought to take notice of, as they contemplate the next general election.”
“minority criminals”
you got to stop repeating “minority criminals”
as minority and criminals are 2 separate things
you hate minorities
you think saying criminals with it will excuse it
whites stigmatised blacks as criminals so much they believe it
which is called racism
@ angela cox
What about the violent economic
policies being inflicted by leaders on the poor people of their countries
These LEADERS are born to BAJAN MOTHERS and raised in BAJAN communities…
Where did they LEARN TO LEAD in such a cruel and inhumane manner??? The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. What kind of HUMAN BEINGS are being created in Barbados???
TELL THE TRUTH. And shame the devil.
The ones who lead and the ones who VOTE for their leadership are all EQUALS… no one is SUPERIOR or INFERIOR to the other…
Again, keep complaining and WAITING AND SEEING, …and you will realize you have no one to blame but yourselves.
Maybe these leaders are THE MIRROR Errol Barrow was asking you all to look into??? But you REFUSE to see yourself.
Barbadosed. 😞
“There is no place for violence and personal physical assaults in our CARICOM democracies where the rule of law prevails and rights, including the right to peaceful protests are fully upheld,” Browne said, adding that “all law abiding and well thinking people of CARICOM should join in resolution that such gratuitous violence will not be tolerated in our peaceful societies.
Here is a man, who like the rest of his Caribbean leaders, governs his country like his personal fiefdom. These people have devalued the life chances of their citizens and have no empathy for their own people. The rule of law is never applicable to our leaders and the wealthy. It only applies to the common man and woman. Now that that one of their own has been targeted they are deeply concerned. They have reason. Covid-19, is the best thing that could have happened to our region. The political deadwood will “inshallah” be pruned or wilt away from our landscape permanently. This will give opportunity for young healthy shoots to prosper.
I hear what focusbarbados has said. It is government and leaders who set the tone for the development of a country. If they are rotten to the core then what does he/she expect from the masses?
With reference to Barbados Today, Dr GP is correct. BT is no longer going to constrain itself from writing articles that do not offend our over sensitive leadership. They are going to write the truth and if it offends Tron, then so be it. The time for remaining silent and timid in the face of oppression is over.
https://barbadostoday.bb/2021/08/06/caricom-condemns-attack-on-st-vincent-and-the-grenadines-prime-minister/
“Covid-19, is the best thing that could have happened to our region.”
amen…if not, it would’ve taken another 50 years to expose the frauds in the Caribbean, using colonial parliaments as their headquarters for crimes committed against the people, their shields and hideouts.
you notice caricom never condemns the financial, emotional and socially violent attacks on the Black/African populations that has been ongoing for over half century….not one of the vote begging frauds condemn the decades of rapes and violence on Black women..
a female police officer, who was the security detail for that beast of the Grenadines exposed him and was ridiculed, just like all the other women he allegedly attacked, including the young lady Yuuge Farrelll that they illegally put in an asylum because of some affair with his son..when these savages for corrupt Caribbean leaders commit crimes against the Black citizenry ya hear NO CONDEMNATION…..but all the hypocrites crawl out when the criminals are threatened….the same gonsalves was once persona non grata in Barbados, if i remember correctly he was deported by another unsavory character like himself who was PM at the time…..
.none of the pretenders at caricom can speak for me or represent me anywhere…they are the worst types of savages to crawl out of slavery….and unworthy.
Africa will get a blow by blow about all of them, if they think they are slithering their way unto the continent to commit more crimes against African people….newsflash……NOT HAPPENING…they can get that idea outta their heads straight away….liars, thieves and frauds…
minority criminals is the accurate description for them, the world understands it means a minority of people who are thieves and criminals, not necessarily all white, all indian or all syrian, but a combination……..the continent understood what i meant very well, they are not majority criminals…they have to be properly identified so that they STAND OUT….so suck it up.
I would stop giving gonsalves the attention he is seeking and craving, let him crawl back into his hole..
https://barbadostoday.bb/2021/08/07/no-violence-allowed-at-protest-organizer/
“Our goal is to ensure that the Government and the private sector, or the social partners as they call themselves, see the amount of us there are and realize that if we decide that we will boycott and stop buying from them, or stop doing certain things, we can break this economy right down. We are a force to be reckoned.”
As mentioned it is repugnant racism and objectionable to keep saying “minority criminals”
you are an insignificant nobody who’s online persona is to keep repeating same hateful diatribes continually thousands of times.
Keep your racism inside your own home with your ignorant family and teach your own children your politics of hate if you want.
says the NOBODY minority polluting the blog….suck it up, they will be called BY THEIR NAME of minority criminals…because that is what they project.
and now the continent knows exactly WHO THEY ARE…
“they will be called BY THEIR NAME of minority criminals…because that is what they project.”
“and now the continent knows exactly WHO THEY ARE…”
You overestimate the power of your mad rantings on social media and your influence in Barbados and Africa
and you will never be able to touchdown in Africa as you are not well, Well Well / Abigail Mitchell / WURA-War-on-U to see if they accept your racism against minorities
neither will ever be a politician or a political pundit in Barbados when you rant on about slave negroes in power
Mia has more credibility in her big toe than you have in your entire existence
that must be burning you that you can’t stop it, let alone know WHAT AM DOING…and since i never LIED and DECEIVED a whole country to be elected to anything, used a dead child and his mother…….protected CORRUPT criminal minorities from prison or help them to rob the country billions of dollars while leaving the Black population to suffer, oppressed and in poverty, dying without their birthright inheritances, land, bank account etc, no salaries, pensions, disabilities or severance….you just look and sound helpless AND stupid…
it must be burning the hell out of that YOU CAN’T STOP ME…..ya can only post wishful shite…and MAY HEAR when i really UNLEASH…ya not even worth pitying…
you just look and sound helpless, BITTER AND stupid…
“that must be burning you that you can’t stop it”
“it must be burning the hell out of that YOU CAN’T STOP ME…..”
not burning me at all
your perpetual crap is always off the mark
for example you mentioned a TV interview in London Town a million times when you clearly got the wrong end of the stick with misunderstanding
you are nothing more than a cliche of soundbites that are derived and twisted for your own agenda and polluted by your biased prejudices and mental health issues
you should seek medical advice immediately
This is tiring and boring.
How many ways can one interpret an interview on ITV that CLEARLY SAYS….the population is mentally enslaved….she did not stutter…she did not speak anything but english with a bajan accent…hard to misinterpret that..if you are going to defend her…at least tell her as she made it public on the world stage…there should be FOLLOWUP..
but of course no one cares enough to say it..
“….the population is mentally enslaved….”
which is a basic concept and point to be made about the long term damages and effects of slavery and white supremacy racism that has to be told to the Brits in the time of enlightened awakenings and realisation of truth and discussions that followed the murder of a black man and the worldwide protests
the crimes to mankind from slavery were bigger and more protracted than the genocide of holocaust against the jewish diaspora although were effectively the same sickness of racism stereotyping scapegoating and blaming of races and minorities of which blacks were victims of but cannot be excused for doing the same
“and effects of slavery and white supremacy racism that has to be told to the Brits in the time of enlightened awakenings and realisation of truth and discussions that followed”
the brits ARE NOT responsible for keeping the mental enslavement going, it’s the liars in the parliament doing so, upholding the same enslavement system and fighting the people who are trying to tear it down….keeping slave laws and le code noir and 18th torture laws on statute books…..ya have to know who to blame…they manage the island day-to-day….keep the same white supremacy minority rule of criminal mnorities in play…..same vicious thefts of properties, thefts of money, ya need to have a word with Mia….
David bu you correctly stated that the conversation is getting tiring and boring.Yet you continue to let Wsru ala Mrs Mitchell the in my view mad ass bitch to hog every blog topic with her racist crap everyday.Why is that is she related to you?I I had hoped by now she would have gone back to africa and create her own racist blog.How many people on here actually reply to anything she says? This alone should signal to her that few care anything about her or her stale rants.A complete turnoff.
“Aug 03, 2021 · In contrast to Owonibi’s claim that fintech with licences will be able to mint the eNaira, Chuta believes the CBN will be the only one minting the digital currency. A legal claim by the CBN will back up every digital currency minted to keep inflation in check.”
ah know yall care about this though….BOOOOOM!
don’t need a fella to care about me…..
my ship is tight..
BANNED from minting any digital currency in Nigeria..
“the brits ARE NOT responsible for keeping the mental enslavement going, “
the black Bajan Government are not responsible for the mess that they inherited and have been trying to fix for 50+ years which is due to the Jolly Old British who are laughing all the way to the bank
slavery is their baby a truly wicked conception
and the justification of slave code was white supremacy racism
and likewise colonialism which followed was robbery of world resources for global capitalism which is responsible for third world poverty and wealth inequality by design and their continued efforts to hold these countries down and exploit them in trade.
These countries are paid pennies and are ripped off and exploited in global markets.
you may not blame whites and married a white man and have a soft spot for them
and have a mixed race family and give them whities a bligh and forgive them
but the mental enslavement is a legacy of their past and their racism that has never stopped
and can be attributed to white /european brainwashed mindset which abused blacks with violence
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anyhow the point I was making about your sick repeated “minority criminals” trope is :
criminals are individuals
whole minorities are not judged in court
whole races are not criminals
the entire black majority or entire non black minority are not criminal
truth is criminals come in all shades of colours and there are criminals in every country of the world and in every prison
Ya still don’t get it…MIA AND HER VOTE BEGGING GANG IN THE PARLIAMENT are RESPONSIBLE for the legislature and all the slave laws, codes and 1800s torture laws STILL on the books and can REMOVE THEM AT ANY TIME…..they are responsible for LOCKING UP the criminal minorities when they break international law and practice racism against the BLACK MAJORITY…they are responsible for locking up the criminal minorities when they TIEF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS from the economy, they have the Black taxpayer PAID armed forces complete with military at their disposal to stop these crimes against the people….but instead use these same forces against the people….
THEY HAVE ALWAYS LIED and said they are self-governing and they are this and that from 1966….SO WHY ARE INTERNATIONAL LAWS still being broken regarding the HUMAN RIGHTS OF THE BLACK MAJORITY……
Just because you repeat the same post on every thread on every topic does not make it true and you are missing and deluded, it is just a half baked thought and a figment of your mind.
Slave Laws have been archived already. Barbados problem is third world ghetto problems where there is a very rich and very poor.
It’s Big Business stems from legacy of British Companies which never changed even when the British Government stopped ruling.
Minorities may have set up businesses and become successful but that is how Business works.
All nationalities have criminal gangs, UK has every country in the world having small communities living there and every country and community has it’s own criminal gangs with their own specialities.
Maybe the solution on the best way to proceed to fix the problems of the poor communities, is to have someone from the poor communities run for power, so they can prioritise projects for helping the poor communities and if they win the votes of poor people and gain seats and / or win election they can work towards levelling up the communities. Although country is broke / bankrupt money is about choices and can be diverted from other spending and even a little expenditure for development can go far.
“Minorities may have set up businesses and become successful but that is how Business works.”
talking shite….CRIMINAL MINORITIES in Barbados ARE THIEVES…they work for NOTHING, they earn nothing HONESTLY….they won’t know how to without some Black person giving them information or helping them along……
they only know how to survive by exploiting the Black population….garbage in, basura out..
where ya think the frauds in the parliament came from, they all crawled out of slavery and came from ghetto life then pretending that they are elite and got pedigree…it’s a DISEASE OF THE MIND that once elected the first thing they do is pretend they are better than those who elect them and SELL OUT…..be CORRUPT….and turn into deadly forked tongue snakes..
..it’s a system they DID NOT CREATE and would not know how to use it to the advantage of the Black/African population who elect them, they are too ignorant, backward, greedy and love to show off…….that’s why they tried their hardest recently to impress minority THIEVES by attempting to sell out the people’s African birthright like if they own a continent, have some right, can give away WHAT DOES NOT BELONG TO THEM and got EXPOSED from the west to the east…..and DID NOT KNOW what is REALLY GOING ON or who is patiently waiting for them re the IDENTIFICATION of all the criminals in the parliaments in the Caribbean who live to BETRAY THEIR PEOPLE, and keep them in captivity in the west with no freedom to advance or become empowered……..
ya dealing with nasty niga, so no better can ever be expected…but they got short memory syndrome just like their yardfowl/Slaves and will try to sell out OUR continent again…..because that’s all they know..
it will take minds with ethics, morals and a drive to WANT see their Black brothers and sisters excel and get wealthy, you will NOT EVER get any of that from DBLP..
Source: Nation
Source: Nation
Source: Nation
Ezra Alleyne go ditch yuh commentary
This is a democracy and the people have a democratic right to make demands of govt
Only in a dictatorship the govt has the last word
Bearing in mind the independent debate was met with forceful opposition in the house of Parliament
This govt has a 30- o mandate
The people eyes have been opened to where mistrust of this govt has entered the political fray whilst taking note and into consideration there is no meaningful opposition voice in Parliament which can give important and forceful sway to opposing views and opinions for the people
Hence the people want to have their voices heard on the issue of Barbados becoming a Republic by other means necessary and that being a referendum
Waru
instead of talking down black politicians as sellouts on BU all day every day day in day out
speak to them face to face and tell them if you truly believe it and let them put you straight
or you will have had the last word and will have solved Barbados problem and won the day
repeating it on bu is so monotonous and is an eternal reoccurrence
As you come out with your minority criminal criminal minority black politician slave blacks negro cussing everyday many times like a racist car driver with road rage on a daily basis it will be interesting to see who what why triggered your bile each time such as a comment someone said or someone just being a someboody
This govt has a 30- o mandate
The people eyes have been opened to where mistrust of this govt has entered the political fray whilst taking note and into consideration there is no meaningful opposition voice in Parliament which can give important and forceful sway to opposing views and opinions for the people
Hence the people want to have their voices heard on the issue of Barbados becoming a Republic by other means necessary and that being a referendum
problem with referendums is they become political circuses on social media with trolling and numbers games and clowns win and become ringmasters
Brexit and Trump both used psyops of dog whistle racism and spam nonsense by foreign agents
in USA 66% of 75% white majority voted for racist platform as they had no issues with it
in UK they copied Trump and voted for racist nationalism and self harmed themselves
weed referendum is also nonsense as it will be about non-smokers deciding if smokers can smoke and they already do
I don’t even need to be bored by your ignorance anymore, since ya can never refute anything i say, even if i post it a thousand times a day…… they will be TALKED DOWN UNTIL THEY STOP SELLING OUT PEOPLE WHO LOOK JUST LIKE THEM…
.neither YOU nor THEM have the power to stop anything, so let them continue trying to sell out OUR CONTINENT…their latest dirty scam to impress thieving minorities….. and both you and THEM will see…they are no longer dealing with our helpless parents and grandparents…they have US to get through and around, the beneficiaries/inheritors and survivors, most of whom already have DESCENDANTS who are also ENTITLED TO THEIR CONTINENT.
try their evil Judas shit again…and they will get an ALL OUT WAR….that they are not in any way prepared for…they can’t say they have not been warned, i have warned them EVERY DAY..
watch muh nuh..
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Explosive Revelations
https://vifreepress.com/2020/09/chinas-490-million-investment-in-barbados-behind-snap-decision-to-remove-the-queen-tory-mp/amp/
BRIDGETOWN — China is behind Barbados’ snap decision to remove the British Queen as its head of state.
That’s the shocking claim of a conservative member of the UK Parliament who said that a Chinese investment of $490 million in Bridgetown’s tourism infrastructure forced the Barbadian leader’s hand in the matter this month.
“Some islands seem to be close to swapping a symbolic Queen in Windsor for a real and demanding emperor in Beijing,” Tom Tugendhat, chairman of the UK’s Foreign Affairs Committee, said. “It’s interesting because of course the UK is really not a monarchy, we’re a republic pretending to be a monarchy. The Crown in Parliament after all is simply a recognition that the people are sovereign.”
Tugendhat said Beijing is attempting to replace London’s historical status and presence in the Caribbean with a $600 million loan to Cuba, a $1 billion loan to Antigua and Barbuda, a $1.9 billion loan to Trinidad & Tobago, a $450 million loan to the Bahamas and a $2.7 billion loan for Jamaica.
“China has been using infrastructure investment and debt diplomacy as a means of control for a while and it’s coming closer to home for us,” he told The London Times.
Meanwhile, CIA intelligence in the U.S. about Chinese activities in Barbados has now reportedly been shared with Britain.
China has poured billions of dollars of investment into the Caribbean in recent years while signing tax and trade deals in an attempt to wrest the region out of the West’s sphere of influence and bring it under the sway of Beijing.
The Chinese government has invested at least $7 billion in six Caribbean nations since 2005, records complied by the American Enterprise Institute show — building roads, ports and the five-star Baha Mar casino and resort in the Bahamas — though the true figure is thought to run well into the tens of billions.
While some of the money arrives as part of trade and investment deals, much of it is offered as “soft loans” for infrastructure projects that are harder to track and typically come with requirements to use Chinese contractors for the work. The loans also provide long-term leverage for Beijing over the cash-strapped island nations.
Some eight countries in the region have signed on to Beijing’s Belt and Road initiative, kind of a 21st Century maritime version of the Silk Road, which includes: Jamaica, Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago.
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Angela Hal Austin Cox
UK and USA has been coming out with anti-China rhetoric and propaganda daily simply because China is overtaking them economically globally fair and square so they resort to every dirty trick they have got in the book of hook and crook. If you like racial warmongers propaganda then you can eat up UK and US shit for breakfast and remain subordinated to white supremacists who represent white people who are the minority in the world and are responsible for the majority of world problems of today. When UK and USA were droning black and brown people over last 20 years, China was developing the developing world. They should block USA and UK access from rare earth resources required for Information Technology computers drones robots smart bombs and WMDs. Tables are Turning Babylon is Burning with Anxiety.
“.neither YOU nor THEM have the power to stop anything,”
your little mind equates and associates me with them
which explains your minority criminal diatribes being triggered when I speak
How will Barbados govt repay China
I dare to say some payments by land
The Chinese govt is smart and have a high level for vision
Xxxxx Barrow words are becoming true
One day Barbadians would wake up to a reality that Barbados is no longer their place of ownership
All they have to do is agree to reparations and slam the door on the Chinese.
They cannot expect to have their cake and eat it too.
Everybody knows that the Chinese are not doing this out of the kindness of their hearts. They are buying influence.
If Europeans want influence, let them outbid the Chinese.
Instead they want to take the cheap route – FEAR. As though the Chinese are any worse to black people than Europeans have always been.
The Alabaster Whites Biggest Fear is Afroasiatic U N I T Y
As for the war in Vietnam, Muhammad Ali, condemned racial discrimination in America
“I ain’t got no quarrel with them Viet Cong,”
“no Vietcong ever called me nigger.”.
so a paranoid white boy spy in GCHQ Babylon HQ says Chinese technology might be used to spy on them
while they spy on everyone
claiming that encrypted messaging will help pedophiles
and that their dubious wars against muslims means for two decades that they need to spy on all for terrorism
X-Conservative Party leader Iain Duncan Smith claims he is being targeted by the Chinese state because of his racism against China
DonnaAugust 8, 2021 6:52 AM
All they have to do is agree to reparations and slam the door on the Chinese.
They cannot expect to have their cake and eat it too.
Everybody knows that the Chinese are not doing this out of the kindness of their hearts. They are buying influence.
If Europeans want influence, let them outbid the Chinese.
Instead they want to take the cheap route – FEAR. As though the Chinese are any worse to black people than Europeans have always been
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Reparations would not be handed over to small island nations
Unless their is cohesive effort brought by a hardened unification process amongst small island leaders and it’s people the long talk of reparations would remain as sounding brass and tinkling symbols
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As for the Chinese foot print across these small islands it is laudible having an effect which would improve their global and economic power worldwide
So dont mix oranges with apples the Chinese moving across small island landscape should open the eyes of those who understand the economic implications for the people of Barbados and what benefits the Chinese would derive
Having questions asked what purpose economically would there be for Barbadians in years to come
“BRIDGETOWN — China is behind Barbados’ snap decision to remove the British Queen as its head of state.
That’s the shocking claim of a conservative member of the UK Parliament who said that a Chinese investment of $490 million in Bridgetown’s tourism infrastructure forced the Barbadian leader’s hand in the matter this month.”
Which is an insult to the people of Barbados.
Check a Rebel Girl
Rebel Girl Dub
When UK Government was conspicuous in it’s absence in condemning the murder of George Floyd and supporting and praising the Trump nut while condemning #BLACKLIVESMATTER protestors in Bristol for their Massive Attack on the statue of slave trader Edward Colston dumping him in the river to sleep with the fishes like the souls of the many blacks called human cargo who jumped overboard from their slave ships of infamy as they would rather die free than live a life in human bondage as a slave under torture terror and rape of the irie African daughters, they failed to listen to the message given by the Barbados leader on her visit to inform them that the repugnant slave trade of 500 years ago still has ramifications of mental physical and spiritual damage to slave descendants today in the black diaspora and colonies of Babylon and serve notice of their intent to leave their rotten colony and become an independent republic moving on. Babylon is well wrong.
#BLACKLIVESMATTER
“Which is an insult to the people of Barbados.”
that’s what the trash misleaders in Barbados, garbage in, basura out, are famous for, selling out for shite money…to pad THEIR BANK ACCOUNTS…
the people have to stop electing the trifling low crawlers….this shifty BLP has always been a blight and curse in Black lives…
“your little mind equates and associates me with them
which explains your minority criminal diatribes being triggered when I speak”
which explains why you are TRIGGERED by my description and rant on and on about Europeans BUT YA HAVE TO LIVE WITH THEM..i don’t see you leaving UK despite the history, don’t see you rushing to live under the TRAITORS in Barbados and minority rule though you may fit in…..that is something you MUST come to terms with.
..many of us carry their European bloodlines, and a lot of it… ya aint hear us saying that we are going to remove the blood, even if it was possible….because we HAVE TO LIVE WITH IT and make the MOST OF IT..
If all goes well, Barbados will soon roll out its new digital ID cards.
https://www.nationnews.com/2021/08/08/mcconney-says-digital-ids-soon/
“which explains why you are TRIGGERED by my description and rant on and on about Europeans BUT YA HAVE TO LIVE WITH THEM..i don’t see you leaving UK despite the history, don’t see you rushing to live under the TRAITORS in Barbados and minority rule though you may fit in…..that is something you MUST come to terms with.
..many of us carry their European bloodlines”
I know racists they were my friends I heard so much racism growing up that it became water off a ducks back
that’s how whites think as you know you married one
I know racists too…they live in my bloodline and i got racist friends..
This is the archive of yesterday’s Mia and Zeinab interview.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct2hfw
@ David,
Please update your top links. The listed BBC link is obsolete. Please replace it with the link at 2.15.AM
Tron would be excited to hear his master’s voice.
Mia has a trait where she talks directly over people. Zeinab tried to ask her questions and Mia would intervene. I was disappointed that she did not modify her behaviour as this programme was aired internationally.
Too many of her answers were robotic and did not chime with reality. Zeinab is no dummy and you felt in her tone that she was bemused with Mia’s approach to answering questions. When a lady of Zeinab’s pedigree asks a genuine question related to the cost of food in Barbados your answer should be genuine. Her research team would have been robust. One moment of hilarity was when Zeinab mocked Mia that she appeared to have a team of supporters on her side in the studio.
@TLSN
The top clicks is controlled by the clicks of commenters. Will have to delete the first comment.
@ David,
Thanks. You are a gentleman.
McConney says digital IDs soon
https://gisbarbados.gov.bb/blog/constitutional-commission-reports/
@ David,
Here, finally, is the definitive broadcast featuring Mia.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct2hfv
I hope Mia knows she is NOT getting away with that bullshit…since the flood of 1970 DBLP were told to build dams, where is the 40 million Canada offered to do so, no bribes in that, so it was abandoned….there was no Covid, sargussum no ashfall no natural disasters for 60 YEARS, with billions of dollars available NOW MISSING….and yall could not see to do anything ..ya not getting away with lying to the world…yall are the ones who keep minority rule, oppression, suppression and THEFTS against the people via the fraudulent TIEFING social partnership in play..ya will not fool anyone, did ya mention that the water goes to watering golf coursse and lawns of TIEFING RACIST HOTELIERS…DEPRIVING the people who pay water bills FOR YEARS.. why did you not mention the CORRUPTION and maloney and the big red bag of evidence to lock up DLP…..
there is a RECKONING.
Source: Nation
Source: Nation
For DLP to win next election they will have to employ psychological operations psyops information warfare
THE BARBADOS Labour Party (BLP) administration is a one-term Government and the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) is ready to lead Barbados again, says leader Verla De Peiza.
oh really…no one want colonial parliament nigas ruling, representing or speaking for BLACK AFRICAN PEOPLE EVER AGAIN…get that thought out of yall CORRUPT HEADS…what rule what, who the hell you want to continue to place under south african boer minoritity rule…fcuk off….both you and Mia/DBLP….that’s for yall IGNORANT SLAVES/yardfowls.
Seems as though Guy Hewitt is also seeking to be nominated as the DLP’s candidate for Christ Church East Central in the next general elections.
Guy said he “has been persuaded by persons both from within the Party and the country at-large to apply my leadership skills and passion not only to administrative but political leadership,” and “believes that the constituency of Christ Church East Central would be a good fit.”
All I am hearing about is a 2021 constitutional review committee and 1998 recommendations. Man, if you don’t have anything new stamp 2021 on the 1998 suggestions and circulate them today.
Is there a news’s blackout on our Prime Minister’s interview with the BBC reporter, Zeinab.
Waru is the only person to have commented. I have spoken over many years how Barbados has been largely unaffected by any major catastrophes since her independence. No wars, hurricanes or famines. It would appear that this period of grace has been poorly managed. We have manoeuvred ourselves into becoming one of the most heavily indebted country in the entire world.
Zeinab would have carried out her research and would have been informed by numerous groups of the real state of the country. For MIa, this was an opportunity missed. She should have been more humbled; rather then blustering and bulldozing her way through the interview whilst looking for sympathy with reference to recent natural disasters. For surely she must know within her heart that Barbados is a busted flush propped on loans by unscrupulous players. May God help our people.
They maneuvered themselves into that position where the MISLEADERS of parliament are now OWNED by IMF….the Black populaiton can WALK AWAY and leave them right there, it looks good on them..
they got the social partnership of thieves to help them out of it…THEY ARE THE ONES HELPED them into it by ROBBING the island GLEEFULLY of BILLIONS OF DOLLARS with their house negros..
the Black population should TAKE NO DISRESPECT from BLP… nor any other colonial political party..
Artax,
“Persuaded” ha, ha! The reluctant hero steps into the fray!
Is this going to be his narrative?
HILARIOUS!
14 more electric buses arrive in Barbados
https://www.nationnews.com/2021/08/10/14-electric-buses-arrive-barbados/
Wasted opportunities and wasted time because the vote begging parliament traitors dont want to see the Black/African FREE or EMPOWERED and feel better about their evil selves pushingvthe people on marijuana slave plantation BLP created just for that while they set up minority criminals in Barbados and the region to slither into Afrika and STEAL OUR ANCESTRAL BIRTHRIGHT…but Karma will get you slimy nigas.
http://www.afrikanheritage.com/who-will-guard-the-guards/
“I must say that I find it hard to understand how any Barbadian citizen could feel satisfied to have as our nation’s head of state, the Monarch of our former colonial master.
We Barbadians are surely not in any way inferior to the British people . And so, if Britain can have a British Head of State, why shouldn’t independent Barbados move as expeditiously as possible to confer upon ourselves a Barbadian head of state? This is a long overdue progressive development, and we should all welcome and support it”
we find it even harder to understand why ya would want to get rid of Elizabeth and KEEP the dangerous colonial slave system in place that DESTROYED 20 GENERATIONS OF YOUR ANCESTORS, they came as a package and SHOULD LEAVE BLACK LIVES AS SUCH…………
and still more dangerous to the Black/African than anything else since yall have crawled into the parliament for the last 54 YEARS and weaponized it against the African population and MALICIOUSLY ADDED the boer apartheid system from South Africa…….so the better question is WHY ARE YOU STILL USING IT.
and ya still ACT LIKE YA INFERIOR by embracing a total dependency SLAVERY tourism product….and refuse to give the majority a chance to make better choices for themselves and their future generations…..as far as i am concerned YALL ARE THE REAL PROBLEM..
Check it out TLSN..the interview was screwed up by Mia, but Zeinab, unafraid of bulllies, exposed the truth.
Cuddear…i do believe that STARVATION and STARK POVERTY will get the most vulnerable in the majority population first before Covid…ya worrying about the wrong thing….misery and poverty is a MAN MADE VIRUS…and the thieves in and out of the parliament love to GENERATE BOTH for the Black population…that should be the biggest concern right now.
the lying government was caught with it’s ass exposed when BBCs Zeinab threw the truth out there and had Mia stuttering and scrambing for words..Slavery tourism is going to cause DEATHS ON THE ISLAND, with the thieving slave driving hoteliers more than willing to assist in the degradation….and all of them should go down or up to international tribunals for MURDER…their thefts from the populaiton are largely responsible for this, they even stole employee salaries, benefits, severance and pensions..
“Barbados has long been regarded as among the most expensive places in the world to live. It is an unenviable position to hold, but we have been led to believe that it is the result of living in an open economy, where virtually everything is imported.
The international organization’s research found: “Job loss and income reductions are still very common, affecting 55 per cent of overall respondents and 88 per cent of those from the lowest income groups. Disproportionately impacted are households whose income comes from tourism and hospitality, petty trade, informal labour, or external assistance, as well as younger people.”
Even more important was the finding that 55 per cent of Barbadians surveyed experienced higher than usual food prices, with the lowest income groups more commonly reporting increases.
With lack of financial means influencing their shopping behaviour, Barbadians began turning to cheaper food products or buying smaller quantities of food.
“Food insecurity remains a concern, with a sizeable number of people cutting back on food consumption,” the report on Barbados revealed.
And so, it was not good news to be informed by the country’s main producer of livestock feeds that there will be a near 20 per cent rise in the cost of its products.
As a result, local meats, including chicken, processed meat products, and possibly some vegetable prices, are expected to rise.”
btw…it’s a nearly decades old pattern for me,. the BU brigade only jump out mostly to contradict and reduce posts to their small petty inputs, but never to add anything worthwhile, the people who do can all be counted on one hand. ..it has gotten much, much better.
that alone shows the negativity assisted in how the island has degraded significantly and with the low minds in the parliaments feeding that beast with their wound up dangerous little yardfowls/Slaves, and the trickle down effect into communities, it’s unlikely to change COMPLETELY any time soon, without a defining catalyst, which we hoped will not be the poverty THAT IS CLEARLY derived from tourism dependency….but that now seems UNLIKELY with the report SHOWING that it does more harm than good..
i just do what needs to be done and HAVE, after 9 YEARS seen what i set out to do come to fruition, and left the naysayers behind stuck in their timewarp, very proud of the citizens who opened their eyes, seen the light and having NONE OF IT, they are very vocal on the known platforms, something you could not get happening 6 years ago, it was like pulling teeth, not anymore though….
so i consider my time on BU and other platforms, well spent and not wasted…trust me, it was much worse in the first 5 years, there were some of the most toxic racists on the blog leaking anti-black poison with EVERY POST and attacking every day…they have become EXTINCT…the reason why they disappeared, they could not fight reality stuck in their fantasy world as they were, the battle was real….with the Black targets of those attacks contradicting every post that could open their eyes….but they BOTH LOST…reality WON.
Source: Nation
The only legacy that lives on is the legacy that is written in the hearts and minds of the people, passed down from grateful generation to generation, not in dry history books but in the passion conveyed by the oral tradition where heroes become larger than life.
Being the “Father of Independence” has outlived its magic. We realise now that we are not independent. Being the “Mother of the Republic” holds no magic on its own. The magic comes only in creating a SUCCESSFUL republic, a republic that transforms the lives of the majority population in a tangible way and makes the world marvel at the impossible dream accomplished.
All other legacies are like dry bones, lifeless, buried and marked only by headstones, out of sight and increasingly out of mind.
Until eventually they go, “Poof!”
Where Mottley went blatantly wrong in her mouthings
It all began when she loudly and boastfully stated that Nov.30th be a day for the birthing of Barbados becoming a Republic
At that point and time all eyes and ears were opened to Mia deceit and voices rang out in Unisom Hell No
On and before her 30th Nov. statement no one seemed to be paying attention and just thought that becoming a Republic meant simply removing the Queen of Head
Talking about shooting oneself in the mouth
Unbelievable
I see you haven’t read Tennyson.
Tennyson Joseph nailed it. This is not to excuse the government from poor execution with communication.
I agree with Donna and Dr. Joseph.
The DEMS and their supporters are mainly concerned about ‘Barrow’s legacy’ being erased from history and are making it out to be a substantive issue.
We celebrate Barrow every year on January 21, ‘Errol Barrow Day,’ and April 28 during ‘National Heroes Day,’ when both days are entirely devoted to highlighting his speeches and political exploits, while references are constantly made to the role he played in Barbados becoming Independent.
The same references to Barrow are also regurgitated on ‘Independence Day.’
So what if Barbados goes to Republic status on November 30?
Or, are we saying ‘Barrow’s legacy’ is so outstanding that THREE (3) annual public holidays are required for us to remember it?
(Quote):
This was childish trivialising of an important issue, when exemplary statesmanship was required. Perhaps, Stuart can make a profound post-prime ministerial development contribution by publicly restating his call for republicanism. (Unquote).
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And while he is “publicly restating his call for republicanism ” we hope he takes that opportunity to apologize to the citizens of the new republic for threatening to withdraw his fiefdom of Independence from the CCJ just because it simply did not rule according to his expectations and indeed those of his lawyering sidekick the shallow Hal.
Where would he have taken the Bajan judicial system if not back to the same monarchical Privy Council of the former Mother country only to be ‘ret(r)ied’ to the monarchical apron strings and insulted in a manner befitting only a ‘loyally good’ old colonial slave?
Poor Fumble, in the regal Muttley medal collecting style, must be royally’ disappointed he has missed that Right Honourable (RH) opportunity of being called “Sir” even under the dawning republic.
ArtaxAugust 12, 2021 7:46 AM
I agree with Donna and Dr. Joseph.
The DEMS and their supporters are mainly concerned about ‘Barrow’s legacy’ being erased from history and are making it out to be a substantive issue.
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More than concerned as all eyes are wide concern to Mia deceit
After all her stampeding exercise to remove Barbados name from the minds of people
First her magical imprint of placing her name on a Barrow memorabilia honoring his name
Next the demolishing of the NIS building a building whose architecture structure was worth saving
Now hovering with what seems to be a disgusting and disguise attempt to replace the significance role Barrow played in Barbados becoming Independent
Mia can drag out as many foot soldiers to bring all causes and reason placed on intellectual mouthings as to.why how and should be
But the masses already see the path on which Mia wants to pursue Barbados becoming Republic while piggybacking on the good name of His Rgh Errol Barrow
Talk all wunna want the eyes and ears are opening and not having it
Ronnie Yearwood explain the other side and many are listening and agreeing with what he said
####wheelandcomeagain
@ John August 12, 2021 8:24 AM
(Quote).
Whatever water is on the earth was there at the beginning. (Unquote).
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Where does water come from other than the tears of your Yahweh?
It’s truly enigmatic how an intellectual fraud like you can argue a case based on ‘Science’ but, paradoxically, continue to display your blind faith in the universality of the Jewish ‘Six Days of Creation’ story as confusingly plagiarized in their book of myths and legends.
@Miller
Partisan party politics is suffocating the world. This period of existence does not recommend the political class at all.
David,
Truly they have no shame! They are brazen in their shenanigans.
Do they think we don’t see them? Or don’t they care?
Is there some sort of sick pleasure in rubbing their brazen inconsistencies in our faces?
Well… look where that has brought us! People don’t trust them enough to follow public health recommendations.
I can’t say I blame them. Proven liars are known to lie.
So… all the preening, pompesettin’ and pisparadin’ on CNN ends with huffing and puffing to keep up on the BBC.(?)
The gloss is gone! No more star power!
Sad.
@ angela cox August 12, 2021 9:01 AM
[1]: “After all her stampeding exercise to remove Barbados name from the minds of people.”
Trinidad & Tabago, for example, maintained its name after becoming independent in 1962 and a republic in 1976.
When has Mottley said anything to suggest that, by becoming a republic, she intends “to remove Barbados’ name from the minds of people?”
[2]: “First her magical imprint of placing her name on a Barrow memorabilia honoring his name.”
Please give BU at least ONE (1) example of Mottley “placing her name on memorabilia honoring Barrow’s his name?”
[3]: “Next the demolishing of the NIS building a building whose architecture structure was worth saving.”
Please provide BU any official information that indicates the old ‘NIS Building’s architectural structure was of such significant historical importance that it was worth saving?’
[4]: “Now hovering with what seems to be a disgusting and disguise attempt to replace the significance role Barrow played in Barbados becoming Independent.”
How can “the significance role Barrow played in Barbados becoming Independent be replaced,” when it is recorded in the ‘annuls of Barbadian history’ and Parliamentary debates on the issue are recorded in Hansard?
[5]: Who are “the masses” you keep referring to?
Because one or two people are speaking to the Republic issue in terms you agree with, does not mean their opinions are the GENERAL CONSENSUS of the population.
To the remainder of your contribution………..
“Stupseeee.”
“####wheelandcomeagain……..”
ArtaxAugust 12, 2021 10:15 AM
@,Angela cox
Trinidad & Tabago, for example, maintained its name after becoming independent in 1962 and a republic in 1976.
When has Mottley said anything to suggest that, by becoming a republic, she intends “to remove Barrow name from the minds of people?
Please give BU at least ONE (1) example of Mottley “placing her name on memorabilia honoring Barrow’s his name?”
Please provide BU any official information that indicates the old ‘NIS Building’s architectural structure was of such significant historical importance that it was worth saving?’
[5]: Who are “the masses” you keep referring to?
Because one or two people are speaking to the Republic issue in terms you agree with, does not mean their opinions are the GENERAL CONSENSUS of the population.
To the remainder of your contribution………..
A big FAT YAWN
@ angela cox August 12, 2021 11:18
Yes, it would be “A big FAT YAWN” to you, because your folly has once again been exposed.
Retired NAB employees are expressing concerns after having not received their pensions for the past TWO (2) MONTHS.
Apparently, the Mia Mottley administration has put an end to the payment of those pensions, without having the decency of informing them of its decision.
From what I understand, NAB personnel is saying they were told not to pay pensions without being told the reason why, while a Minister in the Finance Ministry said the NAB was directed to inform the retirees about the decision and placed the blame for pension payments on the previous DLP administration, while Minister of Elder Affairs, Cynthia Forde, claims she does not know anything about the situation.
It is true the retired employees may not be entitled to pensions from both the NAB and NIS, as was indicated in several Auditor General Reports, the most recent being the report for financial year ended March 31, 2020.
However, these elderly people would have based their lifestyle on present income. How about those who are paying rent or for their upkeep?
After paying people pensions for as much as 17 years, to abruptly end payments without any prior notification, is heartless and inhumane.
They could have simply held a meeting with the retirees or send them correspondence outlining the reason why the pensions are no longer being paid, because it contravenes government regulations.
Or, they could have continued with the payments to the existing retirees and inform present and new employees they won’t be paid pensions.
To ‘stop payments’ abruptly without prior notice and remain ‘tight lipped’ to their queries on ‘Brass Tacks’ or to persons calling the Ministries of Finance or Elder Affairs for information……….
…………. and then attempting to pass the blame on to the previous DLP administration, is a WICKED ACT.
Image, senior citizens being treated inhumanely by the Ministry of Elder Affairs.
Just goes to show, “MIA CARES.”
As I mentioned some time ago, I believe Mia Mottley will achieve ‘two firsts’…………. the first female Prime Minister and the first ‘one term government.’
@ David August 12, 2021 9:38 AM
If the very “West Indian” politicians themselves do not demonstrate confidence in and support for the fledgling regional institutions [like the same CCJ and the comatose LIAT] under the umbrella of Caricom why are they being so disingenuous in their criticisms and attacks on the ordinary man and woman for not following them blindly like politically-brainwashed sheep.
Why are these petty-minded two-bit politicians want from the people other than to massage their power-driven egos more taken up with scoring cheap political points to embellish their dull legacies rather than bringing genuine social and economic development to the same vulnerable ‘English-speaking’ sub-region of the Caribbean?
Why can’t these tin-pot dictators, many of them UWI graduates, pool together their territories’ measly resources and have one external affairs agency to represent their common interests on the international scene instead of the current menagerie making themselves look like competing political baboons?
Why is there need for so many (different) diplomats from those English-speaking former colonies to have their own separate offices (and costly to maintain) in the UK, across mainland Europe and North America with a similar basket of junkets planned for the African continent?
@Artax
It is difficult to imagine this matter did not go before Cabinet of which Minister Forde is a member.
@Miller
Cannot fault your position as stated.
ArtaxAugust 12, 2021 11:38 AM
@ angela cox August 12, 2021 11:18
Yes, it would be “A big FAT YAWN” to you, because your folly has once again been
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This one deserves a Drum roll
How about a BiG FAT FRAT
“Why is there need for so many (different) diplomats from those English-speaking former colonies to have their own separate offices (and costly to maintain) in the UK, across mainland Europe and North America with a similar basket of junkets planned for the African continent?”
their big DISHONEST plans for the continent got SQUASHED and now they will be WATCHED….they went to our ancestral lands with BAD INTENT…..don’t forget they now have one representing in the UAE, believe they also have one to take up a post in Morocco…two enslaver jurisdictions, with the Black/African population in Barbados footing that bill…..they MUST BE WATCHED….
Artax,
Great comment on the pensions issue. Exactly what I said when they started withholding the pensions of medically unfit retirees who were also receiving NIS invalidity benefits. That almost cut the income of such people in half. Many would have had to choose between paying the mortgage and buying groceries! All this while prohibited from selling a pack of nuts while receiving an invalidity benefit. So… no way to make up the difference.
In my opinion, a pension is deferred earnings. You have already EARNED IT. It is yours until death. In the case of early retirement, you get a REDUCED pension – only what you have earned. In the case of the NIS benefit, you have paid into the fund for such an eventuality. The two combined amount to almost exactly what you would have earned in salary. That tells me that the intent was to make the “invalid whole” and not to plunge him or her and often minor offspring into inescapable poverty.
The two pension law was meant for old age pensioners. Mortgages finished. Children grown. Free healthcare. Can more easily adjust to a reduced income. Besides which their retirement would have been planned for for years.
Caswell and I were of one mind.
What the Government SHOULD do is ensure that those who are deemed unable to work are actually unable to work. Some can be retrained for less demanding employment. Some can work part time or for a few hours but not a whole day. Some can supplement their benifit working from home eg. a teacher may not be able to teach a class of thirty in a school setting buy he/she may be able to teach a few lessons from home. Some people should be assessed at intervals over a longer period to see how they have progressed. I think people are being written off too early.
Being somewhat disabled and being a total invalid are two different things. Sometimes they award invalidity benefits to those who are LESS able but not UNable.
That is where the NIS should be looking to save the money.
@Donna
A reasonable position to hold if the guardian of the fund is able to discharge its responsibility.