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One encouraging approach of this Mottley government is the obvious policy to forge closer links with the Mother Country. Many are smiling at the news an MOU was signed to pursue trade, investment and knowledge sharing opportunities with the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank). Also the alliance between Kenya and Barbados which saw a two day conference which brought together business people across different sectors in both countries.

The detractors will continue to moan that improving alliance with Africa countries is being being pursued because traditional source markets have dried up, so what!

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105 responses to “Barbados-Kenya Business Alliance”

  1. Tron Avatar
    Tron

    Kenya is a great partner and a great role model for our island. There used to be up to 100 ministers and state secretaries there. Anyone who does not take Africa as a model and criticises the number of ministers in Barbados is without a doubt a racist, imperialist and colonialist. Have I forgotten another martial term from the vocabulary of WOKE and BLM?

  2. Heather Avatar
    Heather

    @Tron, one should definitely by pass the Kenyan model if it comes with tax evasion.

  3. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    We have advocated for an alliance with Afrika for years, but the outward HATRED of the continent and all things Afrikan by the colonial pretenders in the parliament, who NEVER CONSIDERED THEMSELVES AFRICAN and took it as a step down….was in the way and they thumbed their noses at our suggestions…..now they have to HIDE THAT HATRED and get on with it, because in truth and in fact THEY HAVE NO OTHER CHOICE…

    As advised, Afrika has to keep an eye on them, security forces MUST STAY ON HIGH ALERT, NEVER TAKE THEIR EYES OFF THEM for one minute or REGRET IT……..since Mia had the TOTAL DISREPECT to OUR ANCESTORS AND US…. and audacity to send HER CRIMINALS for minorities, to OUR continent to perpetrate schemes and scams ON OUR AFRICAN PEOPLE and their GOVERNMENTS…after the way they have WANTONLY robbed, oppressed and marginalized the Black/Afrikan population across the Caribbean diaspora with their weaponized RACISM for HALF CENTURY…AFTER the previous centuries of criminal behavior directed against Afrikans…

    now their little descendants of indentured servants, with their corrupt FAKENESS …and the other rifraff criminals in the syrian and white community got the frigging nerve to act like they are in control of Afrika and it’s financial environs..

  4. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    The children of yesterday’s Freedom fighters are todays capitalists and in bed with the 1%.

    Ask not you can do for your country, ask what you can do for you…

  5. BAJE Avatar
    BAJE

    ANOTHER WAY TO ROB THE TAXPAYERS ON THE 2 X 3 ISLAND.

    LOOK OUT FOR ANOTHER “RADICAL” SCAM IN THE NEAR FUTURE.

  6. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    David
    This piece, if a throwaway comment could be so described, seems intent on providing a good news day for the regime in Bridgetown.

    This writer has travelled to, lived in, is a citizen of, collectively dozens of Afrikan countries.

    It therefore seems childish for us to be still minded to approaching Afrika with rose-coloured glasses.

    The mental disposition of the government and its supporters at other times seem not dissimilar to those who would have exploited Her.

    The truth is that Afrika has many of the post slavery, post colonial problems that we have in Barbados and yet there is a mindlessness which postulates that business cultures, both there and here, could be transcended in the absence of radical transformations either there or here.

    Have we not tried this already and failed. Remember OSA’s solar project in Nigeria.

    We remain unconvinced that enough thinking has gone into such an initiative and see it as merely a last ditch response to failures with our preferred friends. This is a necessary but insufficient precondition for having real relations with Afrika.

  7. David Avatar
    David

    @Pacha

    It is just another option like US, UK or Canada.

  8. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Oh no David
    This writer was also born at night ………….. but not last night.

  9. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    @ David
    While I support government’s efforts to have greater relationships with Africa, seeing such as just another “option” is very short -sighted.
    @ Pacha’s response should not be taken lightly. The business culture of many African countries must be learnt and most of all respected. This will take sometime . Any unnecessary haughtiness such as seeing Africa as just another “ option” because apparently nothing much is coming from UK, USA and Canada is not the attitude to take.
    @WURA has repeatedly warned that we be guided by humility ; understanding most of all, that we have very little to offer Africa.
    That being said, I support the government’s efforts. It’s really a case of better late than never because the calls for closer ties with Africa go back to the 60s.

  10. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    William…we are witnessing and am reveling in the visual, that black parliament dogs, white, syrian and indian dogs have now returned to their MUCH HATED half century old AFRIKAN VOMIT…that they BANNED from Barbados all that time…

  11. David Avatar
    David

    @@William Pacha

    We do nothing?

    Business as usual?

    We ignore Africa?

  12. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    @ David
    Did I say anything close to that in my post?
    Did I not support the effort in my post?

  13. David Avatar
    David

    So what is the point then – we support all the way, no half measures. Better late than never. Bear in mind one of the initiatives is Barbados and the region.

  14. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    @ David
    You have lost me.
    Carry on smartly my Brother

  15. David Avatar
    David

    Is that hard to do William? LOL

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

    Totally see where Pacha is coming from, yes the continent has its own colonial crime scenes from centuries ago still permeating everything., but they have NEVER HAD these lowlife wretches that were FORCED ON US for over half century….in their wildest dreams they could never envision what REMORSELESS BEASTS in subhuman form they truly are…and as manufactured.

  17. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    No David
    You do everything you’re not doing now.
    Will your only interests be commercial?
    Even they are, good commercial relationships are not built with photo ops. A lot of work must go on behind the scenes. Why not start by teaching Afrikan history in all schools. Teaching Swahili instead of Spanish.
    You remind us of the welldigger.

  18. David Avatar
    David

    @Pacha

    Even a well digger has his role to play in the ecosystem.

  19. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    David,

    Again, the Royal Wee is absolutely correct.

    Dig deeper!

  20. David Avatar
    David

    @Donna

    We have to start somewhere.

    It does not have to be ‘mutually exclusive’.

  21. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    David

    Just as our intuition has always directed us. You and yours hold no general cultural interest in Afrika. But are intent on making a limited corporate play to satisfy a section of the elites.

    Your non-response response is as good as an admission.

    The average Bajan would also be against teaching Afrikan history and Swahili in all schools because there is a dominate cultural fear deep within the national psychic for what White people will say. National cowardice does not good international relationships make.

  22. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    “Teaching Swahili instead of Spanish”

    KiSwahili will soon eventually become the accepted language spoken ACROSS AFRICA…

    as soon as i can find some time, will be signing up for a course…..good catch Pacha..

    we have also advocated FOR YEARS for REAL Afrikan studies particularly the LANGUAGES which only needs genetic memories and PRACTICE to trigger…..but that was to Black/African for the impostors in the parliament..

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

    the enslaved mind is total…..and they are dumb enuff to care what minority racists and THIEVES in Barbados think, who are now plotting and planning how to ROB AFRIKA and cut them COMPLETELY out of their ancestral legacy, heritage and benefits..

    “The average Bajan would also be against teaching Afrikan history and Swahili in all schools because there is a dominate cultural fear deep within the national psychic for what White people will say. National cowardice does not good international relationships make.”

  24. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    @ Pacha
    David has already said Africa is “ just another option”. It’s obvious that he feels it can help bail us out of dire economic circumstance. His view is very narrow.

  25. David Avatar
    David

    @William

    You do have a problem with comprehension don’t you.

  26. GP Avatar
    GP

    RE Even a well digger has his role to play in the ecosystem.

    HUH? WHEREAS THEY ARE INDEED NEEDED TO DIG WELLS SEPTIC TANKS AND GRAVES. I CANNOT SEE HOW THEY PERFORM TO DIRECT THE PROGRESS OF THE ECOSYSTEM.

    I SUPPOSE THAT YOU ARE GUILTY OF BEING LIKE MRS MALAPROP AND USED THE WORD ECOLOGY INSTEAD OF ECONOMY
    HILARIOUS

    WHEREAS SOME WELL DIGGERS MAY FIND EXPLOYMENT DIGGING SEPTIC TANKS AND GRAVES.
    MANY DIG THEMSELVES INTO HOLES ON BU IN THEIR WANNA BEE ATTEMPTS TO SOUND INTELLECTUAL

    I RIPPED TO THREADS A CHURCH ELDER IN A ZOOM MEETING RECENTLY FOR FALSE TEACHING AND TRYING TO IMPRESS WITH THE UNNECESSARY USE OF BIG WORDS LIKE ESCHATOLOGY AND APOCALYPSE

  27. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    William Skinner

    Certainly, nobody could accuse him of not being ephemeral.

    His short- termism is being guided by issues which he calls governance being unable, after two years, to contend with. Covid and the accompanying economic dislocation.

    So for him it has been any port in a storm. Especially with the election clock ticking.

  28. GP Avatar
    GP

    RE @William You do have a problem with comprehension don’t you.
    WILLIAM SEEMS TO BE SMARTER THAN YOU
    WHEREAS HE HAS NO TROUBLE WITH COMPREHENSION YOU SEEM TO HAVE ONE WITH VOCABULARY UH LIE?

  29. David Avatar
    David

    @Pacha

    The blogmaster has a more pragmatic view of the world is all. Do you recall the flack the government of the day received for establishing the Pan African Commission? The ridicule directed at Rosemary Alleyne for dressing and adorning herself in traditional African gear on national TV? Piss in the blogmaster’s pocket do.

  30. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    GP

    Have some sense. An ecosystem is not necessarily the world around us.

    This writer functions in a group of companies all of us refer to as an ecosystem all the time.

    Even so a grave digger by burying bodies to prevent diseases is integral to the ecosystem around us.

  31. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    David

    So Afrikan nurses could come to Barbados and change your rassoul bedpans
    But a majority Afrikan population can’t ever know about themselves for fear of the ignorant. What is the role of leadership then?
    We remain unconvinced that Bajans have a right to be.

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

    “The ridicule directed at Rosemary Alleyne for dressing and adorning herself in traditional African gear on national TV?”

    that anti-Black/Africanism started in the colonial parliament by black faces to please a the local and foreign thieving racist consortium who now all HAVE THEIR EYES ON OUR CONTINENT..

    .anti-Africanism is still very active alive and well., that will never go anywhere after 400 YEARS…….but they will close their eyes and FOCUS ONLY on what they can get out of Afrika to keep the famous Slave society intact…at the expense of Black/Africans…

  33. 555 Dub Street Avatar
    555 Dub Street

    “The truth is that Afrika has many of the post slavery, post colonial problems that we have in Barbados and yet there is a mindlessness which postulates that business cultures, both there and here, could be transcended in the absence of radical transformations either there or here.”

    Africans are black like your mummy and daddy who made you so there is underlying commonality even though the culture was taken away from you. But, regardless of that Africa is a young population that needs developing and is the biggest growth market with highest return of investment that the capitalist west trade and businesses would like to access which is open to Barbados for trade deals.

  34. GP Avatar
    GP

    RE GP Have some sense. An ecosystem is not necessarily the world around us.
    IN BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES THAT IS WHAT AN ECOSYSTEM IS DEFINED AS
    IF YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT ECONOMIC SYSTEMS USE THE APPROPRIATE JARGON

    IN BIOLOGY, ECOCYSTEM MEANS THE ENVIRONMENT AROUND US AND HOW THE FAUNA AND FLORA INTERACT WITH AND ARE ADAPTED TO ITS ENVIRONMENT AND SURROUNDINGS

  35. GP Avatar
    GP

    RE Even so a grave digger by burying bodies to prevent diseases is integral to the ecosystem around us.
    THAT I DO ACCEPT
    I TEND TO PUT CERTAIN DEFECTS IN FOR YOU MORONS AS HOOKS TO ATTACK TO COME FOR YOUR BASHING
    I AM WAY AHEAD OF YOU
    I ALSO HAVE A LAB COURSE THAT REQUIRE ECOLOGICALY BASED EXERCISES AND I STUDIED ECONOMICS IN MY FIRST DEGREE

  36. David Avatar
    David

    @Pacha

    One suspects any Barbados government to introduce African language in school will attract criticism from our Eurocentric population. Unfortunately this is an embarrassing truism.

  37. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    David

    Please help the blog to understand the mind of a GP.

    For he behaves as if word usage must be forever static.

    As if language is not as organic as the rest of the ecosystems around us.

    By his reckoning we’ll all be speaking a Bantu language still.

  38. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    David

    Are we in a time and space when we should be hiding under old canards.

    People are dying. The economy is a disaster. And disaster conditions are perfect for the courageous.

  39. David Avatar
    David

    @Pacha

    Have no time for anyone who would expose their nescience about some matters.

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

    Don’t expect a traditionally Anti-Black/African PM who is still invoking Pope white dress to move away from the ugly tradition of keeping Black populations as the slave minded, sending them away to Europe or any other enslaver country as the enslaved, refusing to open doors for the Black/African population on the continent because the evil intent is to keep them forever under the feet of every other group and in GENERATIONAL POVERTY in Slave society Barbabos…., no matter how much the continent has to offer it’s BLACK INHERITORS…

    that’s all ya will ever get out of house nigas…nothing better or progressive for the African descended……

  41. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    its BLACK INHERITORS….

    that’s the WHIP we will ALWAYS HAVE TO BEAT THEM WITH…

  42. GP Avatar
    GP

    RE Have no time for some who would expose their nescience about some matters.
    SURELY YOU JEST

    NO IT IS BECAUSE YOU ARE UNABLE TO COPE WITH ONE OF SUPERIOR INTELLECT

    AS YOU DID IN THE LAST LINK ON THE OTHER BLOG WHERE YOU POSTED THE LAST PARAGRAPH OF AN ARTICLE BUT OMIITED AND FAILED TO UNDERSTAND THE SALIENT FEATURES OF THE TRUTH REPORTED FOR THAT COUNTRY AS CLEARLY STATED IN THE ARTICLE

    I GOT MY SCHOLARSHIP IN BIOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY AND I HAVE BEEN AT IT SINCE
    IN EVERY SUBJECT THERE IS DOGMA
    WHEN EVER YOU OPERATE OUT OF THE DOGMA YOU ARE LIABLE TO CONFUSE

    ONLY MRS MALAPROP CONFUSES ECONOMY FOR ECOLOGY
    ONLY PEOPLE WITH A COMMAND OF THE LANGUUAGE USE MALAPROPISMS IN HUMOUR —AND YOU ARE NEITHER HUMOROUS , NOR DO YOU COMMAND THE LANGUAGE.

    YOU ARE STILL FINDING IT VERY HARD TO COMPOSE A PROPER SENTENCE IN WHAT IS SUPPOSED TO BE YOUR NATIVE TONGUE

  43. GP Avatar
    GP

    WURA-War
    I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH YOU INTRODUCING THE TEACHING OF SWAHILI INTO OUR SCHOOLS……..BUT TELL ME…..HOW WILL YOU ACCOMPLISH THAT WHEN YOU HAVE SO MANY HERE WHO ARE NOT PROFICIENT IN THEIR OWN NATIVE TONGUE, AND WHO SEEK TO USE BIG WORDS THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND, AND WHO CUT AND PASTE IN AREAS THAT THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND ?

    I NOW UNDERSTAND IT IF YOU ARE HAVING PROBLEMS MIXING UP ENTOMONOMY WITH ENTOMOLOGY AND ECOLOGY WITH ECONOMY HOW WILL YOU UNDERSTAND VIROLOGY—WHICH IS PERHAPS THE MOST DIFFICULT ASPECTS IN MICROBIOLOGY? AND FOR WHICH THE RELATED BIOCHEMISTRY IS JUST SIMPLY MIND BOGGLING?

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

    GP..i know nothing about medicine outside of what i hear from doctors.

    AND…i was on BU for 8 years before anyone realized that am a writer…..and only because i said am a creative that anyone knows that….so it may be a mistake for me to judge anyone else….you cannot tell what anyone is based soley on their posts alone, unless like you they have a specific and easily recognizable profession, cause remember, i’ve had my fair share of ridicule, and weren’t people shocked to find out that i actually write….

  45. GP Avatar
    GP

    WARU
    I DID NOT EXPECT YOU TO ADDRESS THE SECOND PARAGRAPH
    THE SECOND PARAGRAPH IS MY PSYCHOANALIST OF CERTAIN BU BRIMBLERS

    IT IS THE FIRST PARAGRAPH THAT WAS ADDRESSED TO YOU
    WURA-War
    I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH YOU INTRODUCING THE TEACHING OF SWAHILI INTO OUR SCHOOLS……..BUT TELL ME…..HOW WILL YOU ACCOMPLISH THAT WHEN YOU HAVE SO MANY HERE WHO ARE NOT PROFICIENT IN THEIR OWN NATIVE TONGUE,

    YOU COULD STOP AT TONGUE EVEN IF YOU ARE NOT PROFICIENT TO DEAL WITH THE REST

    AND WHO SEEK TO USE BIG WORDS THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND, AND WHO CUT AND PASTE IN AREAS THAT THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND ?

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

    again….i was accused on here of posting the same things over and over which i did and do for effect and for those with short memory syndrome who complain the most…knowing what i know, am definitely not the best person to ask…..but am sure you can find someone more qualified than i am, to address any concerns…..whether real or imagined.

  47. GP Avatar
    GP

    OK I UNDERSTAND THAT YOU KNOW MUCH LESS THAN I THOUGHT YOU DID

  48. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    only because it’s difficult to judge what some people really know, unless it’s certain other people where it’s much easier to tell based on certain criteria….some are more transparent, unable to hide certain things, they would not know how…

  49. GP Avatar
    GP

    WELL YOU ARE SMARTER THAN THE AVERAGE BU MORON
    THEY ARE SOME THAT THINK 1- THAT I KNOW NO MEDICINE 2 – THAT THEY KNOW MORE THAN I DO ABOUT MEDICINE…. EVEN THOUGH I PRACTICALY WENT TO MEDICAL SCHOOL TWICE . ONCE TO LEARN TO BE ABLE TO TEACH AND THE SECOND TIME (WHEN I STUDIED HARDER AND LONGER) TO BE ABLE TO TEACH PROPERLY

  50. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    GP knows BIG WORDS but was not a successful doctor or surgeon as he obviously was not sexy enough with his word play

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