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Submitted by Paula Sealy

There was an old Ellerslie boy,
Whose time on the radio I used to enjoy.
At 65 from Starcom he promptly retired, Just six months later by the PM to get hired.

Fearing the spread of COVID,
Along came a plum job for David.
So now all of his Brasstack candour,
Has been bought by the highest bidder.

We know everyone is not Sir Johnny,
All cannot be fortunate like Farley.
And being on the back bench you see,
Isn’t for every stinging Bee.

Remember the rage,
That had Payne on the front page?
Hinkson didn’t make a sound,
So he hasn’t lost as much ground.

Now if my bed was made in St Thomas,
And Sharon was stop every Christmas.
I’d make time to enjoy my last full parliamentary session,
Before the bell tolls for the next general election.

Cause when the tide goes out,
No matter how hard you holler and shout.
Or if you have not a single doubt,
Some will lose their seats after the count.

It is now common to see,
MPs frequently on CBV TV. But with good reason,
Cause it is the silly season.

Some ain’t able speaking Medic-ally,
To get up and canvass daily. Soon the ones on the Edge,
Or the top of the Hill may lose their privilege.

Santia says she is a lioness.
But Vineyard’s bes’,
Is coming to tes’.
I hope he prays at St. Philip The Less.
His pal from the union in Harmony Hall, Is not one to take a fall. You see Toni is sure to contes’, Whether you call her Moore or Less.

What is a good MP?
That is hard to see.
Since they are not plenty,
Expect more whistles and calls for a penalty.

Last of all I will miss Caswell,
That man always gave them good hell.
By now he must already know,
That soon he’ll be home often to play with Snow.


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305 responses to “David’s Reason is Silly Season”


  1. Ps – they still get paid flat pay for the day off but they lose the half time so it a win win for company and employees that need the time

    Again. The option is up to the employee
    If employee needs the money the employee can opt to take the money

    That’s how it works here that I know of


  2. John2September 15, 2021 1:32 PM

    Ps – they still get paid flat pay for the day off but they lose the half time so it a win win for company and employees that need the time

    Again. The option is up to the employee
    If employee needs the money the employee can opt to take the money

    That’s how it works here that I know of

    Xxxxx

    Barbados laws says different


  3. Mari

    I just telling how I know it works here

    To be implemented in Barbados I would assume the unions/workers would have to agree with it first .

    Over and out


  4. Typical insult from a typical man. No wonder I found it so easy to just dun so.

    Not deprived, fool, disinterested! I have ALWAYS found men boringly obsessed with sex with stress on the BORINGLY.

    Sadly lacking, I find. Last guy who tried to get close was a few weeks ago. I laughed so hard he ain’t even speaking to muh nuh more.

    It is you foolish men who take yourselves too seriously. Usually without justification. Not much to recommend you, especially in bed.

    Years ago, I remember the women talking about their husbands in my hairdresser’s salon. One cousin of mine gave a great impression of her husband in bed and how she used to fake it. She was hilarious! The other women nodded their agreement.

    Strange how you think I am obsessed with warring when it is WURA who attacked.

    I am simply having fun.

    So that is why I can say, the marish in de parish publishing books dese days.

    Red Plastic Bag even had a song called THEY PUBLISHIT!

    Here are her opening words…..

    “IT IS THE TIEFING MINORITIES AND THE BLACKFACED TRAITORS IN PARLIAMENT……..”

    Not exactly A Tale of Two Cities calibre!

    Lol

    Murdaaaaah!

    Now take your limp dick and piss off! If you can still piss, that is.


  5. I would calling him a fucking idiot but I am not certain he can fuck!


  6. @John2 September 15, 2021 8:49 AM “Ellis was not FORCED to retire. As correctly stated it’s a company policy – all VOB employees must retire by a certain age (60 I think) – from the heavy rollers to the clerks. He was well aware of this as a condition of employment with VOB / redifusion.”

    I hear you John2. Notice I did not say it was unlawful/illegal.

    I said, and I repeat, that company policies that force competent, productive, willing employees to retire at a certain age are WRONG and FOOLISH. And I’ll add such policies need to be changed


  7. Wages to be paid in legal tender
    3. (1) Subject to subsection (2), in all contracts of employment, the wages
    of a worker shall be made payable in legal tender and not otherwise, and if in any
    such contract the whole or any part of such wages is made payable in any other
    manner, such contract shall be illegal, null and void.
    3. (2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), the wages of a worker under a
    contract of employment may, with the consent of the worker, be paid by cheque
    drawn on a bank licensed under the Banking Act, [Cap. 322.] or by postal order
    or money order

    Law of Barbados


  8. https://barbadostoday.bb/2021/09/15/covid-19-update-124-new-cases-752-in-isolation/
    COVID-19 Update: 124 new cases, 752 in isolation

    And one new death. A 60 year old unvaccinated man died of Covid on Tuesday at the A&E of the QEH.

    May flights of angels sing him to his rest.


  9. What a beautiful thing it would be for the Bajan economy if we were that hestistant and also anti-food imports like our present vaccine stance. We would have a thriving agribusiness economy. Go figure. This goes to show we like to major in the minor.


  10. What a wonderful comment.


  11. Two days passing and not a word out of the COVID advisor mouth
    He said his first and foremost job was to reinforce the importance of the people getting vaccinated
    Well as of today which is about his second day on the job his task would become a mountain to climb if he keeps mouth shut
    All ears are awaiting his medical social and physchological statement on the importance of taking the vaccine ASAP


  12. That our vaccination campaign is so slow is entirely the fault of our indigenous masses, some of whom adhere to the Voodoo or Rasta cult and other superstitions. Unfortunately, it shows that parts of our population have not yet arrived mentally in the 21st century. Unfortunately, our government cannot choose the people and has to work with what is on the island until we have the 80000 New Barbadians here.

    In any case, I wish our new government advisor every success!


  13. TronSeptember 15, 2021 7:28 PM

    That our vaccination campaign is so slow is entirely the fault of our indigenous masses, some of whom adhere to the Voodoo or Rasta cult and other superstitions. Unfortunately, it shows that parts of our population have not yet arrived mentally in the 21st century. Unfortunately, our government cannot choose the people and has to work with what is on the island until we have the 80000 New Barbadians here.

    Xxxxx
    The fault lies with a govt who hired tons of do nothing consultants and talking head spinner advisors
    All at the taxpayers expense
    Don’t expect David Ellis to produce much of anything


  14. The Grim Reaper God took him.


  15. @ fortyacresandamule September 15, 2021 4:36 PM

    The overwhelming majority of our population loves to commit suicide in rates with foreign sugar drinks and hamburgers. Our population has become much fatter and very sicker in the past 20 years. Normal weight is the great exception today.

    A currency reform and a famine would therefore do a lot of good.


  16. ronSeptember 15, 2021 8:57 PM

    @ fortyacresandamule September 15, 2021 4:36 PM

    The overwhelming majority of our population loves to commit suicide in rates with foreign sugar drinks and hamburgers. Our population has become much fatter and very sicker in the past 20 years. Normal weight is the great exception today
    Xxxxxc
    With poor wages weighing down the people and keeping them poor
    The people are condemn to a poor and unhealthy lifestyle
    On 225 per week and having a home to manage that kind of money would not afford no one to buy foods that are necessary to have a healthy lifestyle


  17. @ angela cox September 15, 2021 9:43 PM

    I don’t see any connection between obesity and poverty. Then Chris Sinckler would have been a beggar.

    Normally the poor are slim. So we need a monetary reform to slim down our population and make it Corona-resistant. In its current state, life expectancy will decline in the coming decades.


  18. The list of dangerous opposition figures is getting shorter and shorter. Cumberbatch became a Court of Appeal judge, OSA is in his grave, Donville Inniss in jail, Sinckler is humiliated as a government adviser.

    Now our new Corona adviser.

    If I see it correctly, so far the outspoken senator is the only one refusing a government post. That must change!


  19. Still waiting for the Blog’s enhancement in Donna and Artax’s style…still not holding my breath, too busy..


  20. TronSeptember 15, 2021 10:40 PM

    @ angela cox September 15, 2021 9:43 PM

    I don’t see any connection between obesity and poverty. Then Chris Sinckler would have been a beggar.

    Normally the poor are slim. So we need a monetary reform to slim down our population and make it Corona-resistant. In its current state, life expectancy will decline in the coming decades

    Xxxxxxxx
    Unhealthy lifestyles affect any race of people or category which leads to various onset of disease
    However my point being that poor people living on slave wages would mostly be affected and pron to unhealthy lifestyle habits and behaviours


  21. Cuddear…..Sidney Burnett has a nice long run….he outlasted Tom by decades..

    https://www.nationnews.com/2021/09/15/sydney-burnett-alleyne-dies/

    Barbadian Sydney Burnett-Alleyne has died.

    It was reported that he passed away in a London hospital earlier today, one week after suffering a heart attack. He was 93.

    A former merchant-banker, Burnett-Alleyne was convicted and sentenced to imprisonment in a Martinique jail in 1977 along with a Canadian yachtsman for illegally importing arms into Martinique. It was claimed that the guns, ammunition and explosives found on board the yacht were to have been used to overthrow the Barbados Government.


  22. They should still be saying PLT’s welcome stamp creation GIFTED to the PEOPLE OF BARBADOS….

    https://www.nationnews.com/2021/09/16/welcome-stamp-tourism-lifeline/

    am sure there will hardly be any such wonderful gifts coming their way anytime soon and everyone is watching out for creation thieves..


  23. Didn’t you see my “enhancement”?

    ….it is the tiefing minorities and blackfaced traitors in parliament….not my job to save the slaves…. i have better things to do….they had better not think they can pull that shit on my children or grandchildren….they will have me to deal with….they had better stay off of the continent and our ancestral lands…

    Ra, Ra, Ra! Yuh rasshole!

    Murdaaaaah!

    I forwarding dat to my publisher, Full of Shit Publishers, Shit City, Shit Hole.

    They are planning a special edition to be printed on a roll of ultra soft Charmin for the anally challenged.

    🙄


  24. Once a Slave, always a Slave,

    but i keep my word…the continent has become harder to penetrate….ask the bitt poop.

    the comment BU removed must have really hurt..

    haven’t even published yet but got a stalker for the last year…gotta beef up that security…


  25. Diagnosis: Inferiority complex masquerading as a superiority complex.

    RICHARD BROWNE STRIKES AGAIN!

    What comment did David remove?

    Put it back, David!

    🎵Dey publishit, I say
    Dey publishit in dey own way🎶

    But enough fun for the day before David deletes my comments.

    OUT TO THE GREEN GARDEN! I AM LATE!


  26. CB

    I said, and I repeat, that company policies that force competent, productive, willing employees to retire at a certain age are WRONG and FOOLISH. And I’ll add such policies need to be changed

    Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxcccccccc

    If the workers feel that same way as you then they can agitate for that change ( unionize)

    I a case like Mr Ellis I can not think of a better person that could have lead for that charge to put over the case for himself and his fellow workers ( especially those at the lower end) .


  27. Easier said than done if you have a sense of the discord and gap which exist between management and staff in the journalism profession. Just look at how the defunct Barbados Association of Journalists operated. Why should Ellis when faced with the task of nobody lining up to support him take on this uphill task.


  28. Mari

    The workers are paid their wages for their labor

    If you work 4 hrs overtime and make the selection to convert the OT hrs to vacation when you take the 4 hrs vacation then you get paid in cash/ check

    Again it up to the worker. Who need the cash up front usually don’t have to do anything and is paid for the OT in the next paycheck.

    The ones who for whatever reason opt to take the OT as vacation are paid for the additional vacation time/ time off


  29. I don’t think people are understaning the magntude of what’s happening, they still live in this little comfortable prepared world actualy BELIEVING that things are just fine and the usual crooks will borrow and steal their way out of the predicament that THEY CREATED….no they won’t. no they can’t.

    so don’t prepare, just sit and wait…

    just remember what Barrow…not my favorite person, but he saw what he saw and was in a better positon than most to see it.


  30. David

    The policy affects even the clerks at VOB

    I am not saying Ellis should take on the task if he did not want to – just that because he articulate well known and well respected etc IMO (only) he would have been the best person to put over their (vob) case

    Within a union (let’s say bwu) the union leader would do the negotiations with management and (vob) would have had the backing of all of bWU membership,

    Imagine this going to impass and the union decide to protest with Ellis being the face of that protest.

    I have no clue about what goes on at the other media entities but if they have the same policies and it’s a problem to the workers then they should unionize and fight for change.


  31. @John 2

    We are making the same point in a different way. Ellis can articulate but if executive management senses he does not/will not have the support of members of the bargaining unit it will get no where. Do not forget extending the retirement age at the company will have implications for the P & L.


  32. Within a union (let’s say bwu) the union leader would do the negotiations with management and (vob) would have had the backing of all of bWU membership
    +++++++++++++
    Is there still a BWU? I haven’t heard a word from them in ages, it must be MIA, never fear it has a seat at the Gov’t table. Arthur thought he was smart with his vision of “politics of inclusion” but now we see a real genius at work.

    Smith: I am a journalist first and foremost, just when I thought I was out, they pulled me back in (cribbed from The Godfather) and adopted for “The Godmother” movie coming soon to your local theatres


  33. Good one Sargeant.

    Seriously though, the BWU and NUPW continue to fail on their mandates. The workers as usual will be chaffed.


  34. WURA-War-on-U September 16, 2021 4:33 AM #: “Still waiting for the Blog’s enhancement in Donna and Artax’s style…still not holding my breath, too busy.”

    Yuh mean to tell me MS DELUSIONAL got at up 4:33 AM this morning to post shiite, rather than FOCUS on the substantive topic?

    Shiite, Donna and I are definitely living RENT FREE in your HEAD.

    🎵in your head, in your head,
    rent free, rent free, rent free 🎶

    [‘Zombie’ – by the Cranberries]

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

    Seriously though, some sources define ‘enhance’ as ‘to intensify, increase, or FURTHER IMPROVE the QUALITY or VALUE.

    Could someone PLEASE explain to me how could someone REPEATING the SAME TIRED RHETORIC, with MONOTONOUS REGULARITY…….. to EVERY TOPIC posted to BU for discussion……. even if it’s about cricket, football, gardening or the ‘man on the Cream of Wheat box,’……..

    …………. or copy and pasting ‘unsubstantiated’ nonsense from other questionable social media sites and people’s Facebook pages………. WITHOUT verifying the credibility of the source……….

    ……… be DEEMED as ENHANCING……. or……… FURTHER IMPROVING the QUALITY or VALUE of the blog?

    This is what David BU had to ‘say.’

    David September 12, 2021 11:35 AM #: “All we have on BU are commenters pushing narrow agendas . It does not matter the topic the SAME narrative can be expected.”

    David September 12, 2021 12:20 PM #: “What these people pushing narrow agendas at all cost do not realize is that the resonance of the message diminishes day by (day).”


  35. News from the UK media over the past week indicating that there are a fair number of Bajans working in the UK agricultural industry. They replaced the traditional Eastern Europeans after the UK quit the European Union.
    I know that the Barbados media mentioned available employment opportunities within this industry. It would appear that there are some Bajans who are comfortable working in agriculture so long as it’s outside of their country..


  36. Artax,

    You mean like the 11 Jamaican children who died after taking the vaccine?

    Not just shit but dangerous shit that could cause somebody to made a bad decision!

    A sane person would not take shit and spread it all over the place like that.

    Unless it fits their agenda.


  37. David

    Ok but to get change you must start some place.
    To ME – Ellis brought in a lot of $upport to the company through out the years. At anytime he had decided to taken on management that $upport would have follow and back him (his workmates/union the general public and the advertizer$).
    It exactly the bottom lines that management would have worried about and would have drove them to the tables.

    IMO.


  38. “News from the UK media over the past week indicating that there are a fair number of Bajans working in the UK agricultural industry.”

    it’s ok to get away from the trap that Barbados can become financially and socially…but 8 pounds and hour in a hostile racist environment is not exactly better…..hospital workers in UK were protesting against that pay a couple years ago because they live in UK and CANNOT LIVE ON THAT….they just want to get away from the toxic arena for a while..


  39. @John A

    The blogmaster is not as confident in the support Ellis have from rank and file. He was station manager for a relatively short time.


  40. Someone just said on another forum that a book should be written about Sidney Burnett-Alleyne, the colorful character he was, i tend to agree, any takers on BU…it may hit the bestsellers list.


  41. “A sane person would not take shit and spread it all over the place like that.”

    @ Donna

    Remember when she was polluting the blog on a daily basis, with posting information from Jackie Stewart’s Facebook page to BU, as TRUTH…… without verifying its accuracy or credibility of the source?

    Also, recall when she was repeatedly copy and pasting information relative to ICIJ company directors’ flow charts, which they both suggested the names mentioned thereon, had offshore bank accounts and were engaging in money laundering?

    That is an EXAMPLE of “the Blog’s enhancement in WARU- War-on-U’s style.” Misusing information to fit the purpose of her particular agenda.

    I read the following disclaimer while perusing ICIJ’s website……. and, in an effort to present to level of fairness and balance to the discussion, posted it to BU.

    Disclaimer: “There are LEGITIMATE USES for offshore companies and trusts. WE DO NOT INTEND TO SUGGEST or IMPLY that any people, companies or other entities included in the ICIJ Offshore Leaks Database HAVE BROKEN the LAW or OTHERWISE ACTED IMPROPERLY. Many people and entities have the same or similar names. We suggest you confirm the identities of any individuals or entities located in the database based on addresses or other identifiable information.”

    I asked, why would people GO AGAINST the STATED INTENTIONS of ICIJ and persist in posting the information from their website………..

    ……… to “SUGGEST or IMPLY that any people, companies or other entities included in the ICIJ Offshore Leaks Database HAVE BROKEN the LAW or OTHERWISE ACTED IMPROPERLY?”

    David January 17, 2020 6:20 AM #: “Thanks Artax, we must prosecute matters truthfully.”

    And, this is what NorthernObserver had to say.

    NorthernObserver January 27, 2020 5:58 AM #: “@Artax….. because the majority cannot understand them. The one with the name of a former Formula 1 driver, posts firms with registered addresses in Buhbaydus and calls them off shore? Another showed firms most know have been SOLD long ago, but obviously forgot to read the diwrekkers were from 2001. A lil igrunce can go a long way in these parts. Any one eyed man is king in a blind man land?

    Surely any reasonable, rational individual would agree my efforts at maintaining the integrity of BU, can be reasonably described as “Blog enhancement in Artax’s style.”


  42. @ Donna

    WARU-War-on-U also posted an extract from Jackie Stewart’s Facebook page in which she (Stewart) made the following comment: “See Barbados low life Attorney General Dale Marshall. Fulcrum Chambers Ltd. is CONNECTED to your money laundering tiefing Butterfield Bank and Trevor Carmichael.”

    A reference was also made to a merger, on August 5, 2008, between the Fulcrum Group and Butterfield Fund Services…….. to form Butterfield Fulcrum Group.

    Now, whereas the Fulcrum Group was established in Bermuda in 1995, and is described as a leading global fund administrator for the hedge fund and alternative investment management industry………..

    ………… Fulcrum Chambers Ltd. is described as a “firm providing strategic legal advice for corporates, public bodies, and private individuals in the field of bribery & corruption, fraud, investigations, due diligence and regulatory and compliance issues and compliance.”

    According to the file copy re: Certificate of Incorporation of Change of Name, as it relates to Company Number: 7149049:

    [The Registrar of Company for England and Wales hereby certifies that under the Companies Act 2006:

    WILLIAMS PEARCE ASSOCIATES LIMITED

    a Company incorporated as private by limited shares; having its registered office in England and Wales; has changed its name to:

    FULCRUM CHAMBERS LIMITED

    Given at Companies House on 2nd October, 2014.]

    Whereas the Fulcrum group was established in Bermuda in 1995……..

    ………… Fulcrum Chambers Ltd, came into existence, by way of a name change NINETEEN (19) years AFTER the Fulcrum Group was established in Bermuda in 1995…….

    ………… and SIX (6) years AFTER the Fulcrum Group merged with Butterfield Fund Services on August 5, 2008.

    So, it’s clear the Fulcrum Group and Fulcrum Chambers Ltd. are two DIFFERENT entities.

    I know people mean well and we must commend them for attempting to expose corruption. However, we must be very careful when trolling social media sites and “sharing” information believing it to be FACT, without at first verifying whether or not it’s accurate.

    The following is what David BU had to ‘say.’

    David January 17, 2020 6:20 AM #: “Thanks Artax, we must prosecute matters truthfully.”

    Now, this is “Blog ENHANCEMENT in Artax’s style.”


  43. Gaston Browne in Antgua complaining about hardship……they have not see hardship yet, he just made mandatory vaccination into law..

    probblem for Caribbean governments, they have been playing fast and loose for far too long with their little colonial titles….not one of them thought of Afrika in all that time……HALF CENTURY……but now they are….😂😂🤣🤣


  44. Any news out of the mouth of The Covid advisor yet
    This is day four
    Taxpayers money at work


  45. “Any news out of the mouth of The Covid advisor yet. This is day four. Taxpayers money at work.”

    The gentleman took up a new appointment on Monday and there’s supposed to be a REASONABLE EXPECTATION of him ‘coming out of the gates running,’ WITHOUT FIRST acquainting himself with the intricacies of the job and those with whom he has to work, planning and strategizing………

    ………….. as is EXPECTED from ANYONE taking up a ‘NEW JOB?’

    It is becoming clearer and clearer there are some individuals whose sole purpose is to criticize. And, that every imagination and intention of the thoughts of their hearts are only to criticize continually.


  46. @Tron September 15, 2021 10:40 PM “…life expectancy will decline in the coming decades.”

    According to provisional data from the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) life expectancy in the USA has already declined by 1 1/2 years since the Covid pandemic. With Barbados’ current wave I expect a decline in our life expectancy as well.


  47. @Artax @10:05 A.M. “the ‘man on the Cream of Wheat box…”

    “Frank L. White (c. 1867 – February 15, 1938) was a professional chef best known as the model for the fictional breakfast chef (often identified as “Rastus”) featured on the boxes of, and advertising for, Cream of Wheat breakfast cereal. A native of BARBADOS, he immigrated to the U.S. in 1875, where he became a citizen in 1890. He was working as a master chef at a Chicago restaurant at the time he was photographed for the cereal box in 1900. ”
    Source: Wikipedia


  48. @TLSN September 16, 2021 10:13 AM “. It would appear that there are some Bajans who are comfortable working in agriculture so long as it’s outside of their country.”

    Somewhat better wages. The opportunity to see another place. Significantly lower temperatures on the job.

    As one who does outdoor field work several days a week I can tell you it int easy working in 30+Celsius and near 100% humidity.


  49. heat


  50. There is bound to be a fall off in life expectancy…all across the globe, it is serious business.

    the media is now using the Rasta Community in Jamaica to promote the vaccine, cause some are actually taking it….

    the dog government return to their vomit…

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