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“Barbados: Feel Free” Tourism Slogan Gets Support

Submitted by Peter Lawrence Thompson DLP Tourism spokesman Richard Sealy is mistaken. He leaked the report from the Hilary Beckles led committee to come up with a new tourism slogan in the hope of embarrassing the Government; however the committee has actually done an amazingly good job. See Link to Nation newspaper story – Sealy:…

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Submitted by Peter Lawrence Thompson

DLP Tourism spokesman Richard Sealy is mistaken. He leaked the report from the Hilary Beckles led committee to come up with a new tourism slogan in the hope of embarrassing the Government; however the committee has actually done an amazingly good job.

See Link to Nation newspaper story – Sealy: Slogan an embarrassment

I actually feel that I owe Professor Beckles and his committee an apology because I stated publicly that they were not up to the job, having little relevant expertise among the unwieldy membership of 18. Sorry Dr. Beckles.

They came up with three alternatives; “It’s A Bajan Thing”; “ Live Like A Bajan” and “Barbados: Feel Free”. This reminds me of the oldest consultants’ trick in the book: make three suggestions of which two are so obviously garbage that the client has no choice but to select the third.

The third suggestion, “Barbados: Feel Free” is a better tourism slogan than any we have ever had in the past. In fact, it is one of the best I have ever encountered globally. Let me explain.

A slogan needs to follow the the guidelines below and be:

  • Brief
  • Memorable
  • Allusive (because it needs to mean subtly different things to different segments of your audience)
  • An appeal to emotion (because buying decisions are all made with the emotions and then rationalised intellectually afterwards)
  • A call to action

If you doubt me just take a look at the most successful marketing slogans of our lifetime:

  • Nike – Just Do It.
  • Apple – Think Different.
  • Wendy’s – Where’s the Beef?
  • Coca-Cola – Open Happiness.

Each one follows the guidelines that I pointed out.

“Barbados: Feel Free” is better than any tourism slogan that we have ever had. “Feel Free” is an explicit invitation to drop by for a visit, and it is the sort of relaxed invitation you extend to social equals: to family or close friends. The feeling of freedom appeals to every psychographics and demographic because everyone invests it with what feels like freedom to them. It can appeal to locals as well as visitors because that feeling of freedom is aspirational for every human being.

282 responses to ““Barbados: Feel Free” Tourism Slogan Gets Support”

  1. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    I believe that in the 70’s the Empire and Roodals Drive In were owned or operated by Maurice Jones a Black Trinidadian. The other Drive In (The Sundown) was built in the 60’s I believe on land which formed part of Kingsland Plantation (could be Adams Castle) but John could cast some light on which plantation owned the land, in either case it was part of the Deane family’s Estate.

  2. Heather Avatar
    Heather

    @Tron ” Vaccines are the only proven remedy.” Not true, vaccines are the advocated remedy.

  3. Heather Avatar
    Heather

    @ John, Outside of this topic, do you know where I could find any information on the sale of slaves from Barbados to America?

  4. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    @ Dr. GP

    I don’t know anything about the Oistins or Barbarees Plaza other than what I heard from my parents and persons in their age group. I’ve also read 1950 – 1952 editions of the Barbados Advocate, in which I saw advertisements for cinemas.
    For example, on page 2 of the Saturday, November 3, 1951 Advocate, lists a number of ads for movies showing at the Plaza Theatre – Bridgetown, Plaza Theatre – Oistins, Empire Theatre, Olympic, Gaiety (The Garden, St. James), Royal and the Roxy.

    I remember the ‘Roodal’s Drive-in was located on the site of Life of Barbados Insurance Co. Ltd., Also, the Sundown Drive-in, which is in or near Vauxhall, Christ Church.

    However, upon reflection, I believe you’re correct that the video tape craze began in the early 1980s. I remembered my mother purchasing a ‘Zenith’ video player and the first movie I watched was ‘First Blood,’ which premiered in 1982.

    My comments were based on my experiences. I was still attending secondary school during the early 1980s and ‘going to the theatre’ and horse racing were our favourite Saturday pastimes in those days….. especially when all the guys went with their ‘high school sweethearts.’
    The ‘Vista’ or ‘Globe’ were the first choice cinemas…… and Chefette or KFC after….whenever the guys wanted to impress their girls.
    ‘4:30’ in the ‘Plaza,’ ‘Empire’ or ‘Globe’ on Saturdays, and sometimes during the week, was strictly reserved for martial arts movies, or ‘kung fu pictures,’ as we used call them. We would rarely go into the Olympic.

    Eventually, we began to lose interest in ‘de t’eatre’, preferring instead to watch the same movies in the comfort of our homes. The ‘Vista, Olympic and Empire’ closed, followed by the ‘Globe’ a few years ago, while the ‘Plaza’ was destroyed by fire.

  5. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    ‘Sundown Drive-in’ was once owned by George Hadchicty, the ‘founder’ of ‘Yankee Garments Factory.’

  6. GP Avatar
    GP

    ARTAX
    RE My comments were based on my experiences. I was still attending secondary school during the early 1980s
    LOL THATS WHAT I FIGURED SO I SAID YOU MUST BE YOUNGER
    WHAT YOU WRITE ABOVE ACCORDS WITH THE FACTS
    WHEN ROODALS OPENED LOTS OF BOYS FROM RENDEZVOUS AND WORTHING WOULD WALK UP RENDEZVOUS HILL AND SIT OUT SIDE THE DRIVE IN NEAR TO A CAR FROM WHICH YOU COULD HEAR THE SOUNDI WAS STILL AT PRIMART SCHOOL THEN

  7. John A Avatar
    John A

    Folks lets be honest the decision to mandate hotel workers will be made for us and all the boss lady will have to do is sign off on it.

    By the end of November the reservation situation of Bim compared to the more proactive destinations will dictate to us what we have to do. You see you can play the wait and see or patch remedy for only so long. Sooner or later you have to step up to the plate and choose the vote or the economy. Choice is yours.

  8. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @John A November 3, 2021 7:01 AM “Before we can launch such a program we need to do away with the curfew.”

    I expect that the curfew will end by the end of this month. I read somewhere yesterday that the Ministry of Health has had to discard 11,000 doses of Astra Zeneca vaccine which expired because Bajans have refused to come forward to be vaccinated.

    People are dying everyday, 7, between yesterday and today. 1 of the 7 had been vaccinated. Clearly tens of thousands of Bajans are not at all afraid of suffering or death in fact it seems to me that tens of thousands of Bajans PREFER suffering and death. So the government should open up and who lives, lives, and who dies, dies. The dead will be buried. My cousin is an undertaker [no I don’t own shares in his company]

    As I write this an ambulance is going north…again. I can’t tell you how many for the day, but nuff, nuff, nuff.

  9. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    1966 tests and recorded 393 positives

    https://www.nationnews.com/2021/11/03/393-new-covid-cases-tuesday/

  10. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    That said 65.4% of Bajans who are 12 and older have stepped forward for their vaccines, so essentially a 2/3 a majority of Bajans are trying their best to use what is available to get back to normal.

    So most of us are not as dumb, not as stupid as some here imply.

  11. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    https://barbadostoday.bb/category/local-news/

  12. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Cuhdear Bajan,

    I see you have finally reached. Not begging for the grandchildren under 12 anymore. They will most likely be fine, as I said.

    Open up de damn place!

    🎵Live and let die!🎶

  13. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @Donna November 3, 2021 8:00 PM Cuhdear Bajan, Not begging for the grandchildren under 12 anymore.”

    Don’t misunderstand me. I am still begging for the grandchildren under 12.

    But I am now willing to write off ig’rant adults…and if people’s stupidity generates some business for my cousin, good for him.

  14. John Avatar
    John

    HantsNovember 3, 2021 7:25 PM

    1966 tests and recorded 393 positives

    https://www.nationnews.com/2021/11/03/393-new-covid-cases-tuesday/

    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    Falling numbers?

  15. John A Avatar
    John A

    These are the facts.

    The business sector badly needs a half decent Xmas. That can not happen without extended shopping hours. Plus government badly needs the vat from those sales. So curfew done wid.

    The tourist ain’t coming here to lock up in no room at 9pm nor wear no masks. So that crap done too.

    The entertainment companies need old years night this year worst than ever. So open the doors BUT only the fully vaxxed will be admitted to any function.

    Restaurants old years night only for the fully vaxxed.

    So all wunna that don’t want the vaxx stand to RH HOME!

    FINALLY ONLY THE FULLY VAXXED WILL BE EMPLOYED AT ANY OLD YEARS NIGHT FUNCTION REGARDLESS OF JOB DESCRIPTION.

    Matter fix let we go drink a rum!

    Now from January 1 all companies and businesses will have the right to ask for proof of vaxx at the door and refuse entry to those unvaxxed. This will apply to supermarkets and banks as well. SO WUNNA AINT WANT NO VAXX STAND HOME AND STARVE

    Enough of this soft approach and safe zone crap. A handful of clowns can’t hold a whole economy and country to ransom!

  16. John Avatar
    John

    HeatherNovember 3, 2021 4:22 PM

    @ John, Outside of this topic, do you know where I could find any information on the sale of slaves from Barbados to America?

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    I’ve never come across any information on the sale of slaves from Barbados to America probably because I doubt many were sold to America or anywhere else.

    There was the Royal African Company which was in existence after 1660 but by 1708 had become insolvent and which brought slaves to the American colonies.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_African_Company

    There was a period between 1713 and 1748 when England was granted an Asiento by Spain to supply slaves to their colonies and perhaps Barbados was used as a transit point. The Royal African Company operated at a much reduced capacity in this period.

    You will probably find it was the Dutch who did much of the slave trading, primarily to Suriname and Brazil but also to the Caribbean and America.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_West_India_Company

    Quakers families leaving Barbados for America in the 17th and 18th centuries may have taken some of their slaves with them but not many, a different economy.

    A good guage to suggest that not many Barbadian slaves were sold to America is the slave population in Barbados between 1680 and 1817.

    In 1680 there were about 40K slaves in Barbados.

    In 1817 the number had doubled and 95% of these had been born in Barbados.

    Sugar output remained constant in Barbados in this period, capped by the milling capacity of windmills, ~ 500 of them at no more than 4 HP each. Steam only came into use in the mid 1800’s, after slavery.

    It was trade that made up about 90% of the Barbadian economies in the period of slavery.

    America did not see a large increase in slaves until after 1795 when the cotton gin was invented and cotton production exploded in the south.

    By 1807 it would have been illegal for any English subject to trade in slaves but slaves would have been smuggled to America to meet demand. By 1808, America had also ended its slave trade.

    Obviously smuggling took place and there won’t be many records, just the fact that the slave population rose in America.

    https://www.statista.com/statistics/1010169/black-and-slave-population-us-1790-1880/

    Eric Williams, the former PM of Trinidad & Tobago had ancestors who were involved in the smuggling. He had French creole lineage.

    Many slaves from St. Domingue ended up in New Orleans, then French, after the destruction of the sugar industry in 1791.

    French sugar planters transferred their operations to La Louisiane and also to Cuba.

    A bit long, sorry.

  17. John Avatar
    John

    Cuhdear BajanNovember 3, 2021 8:05 PM

    @Donna November 3, 2021 8:00 PM Cuhdear Bajan, Not begging for the grandchildren under 12 anymore.”

    Don’t misunderstand me. I am still begging for the grandchildren under 12.

    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    What do witches do with children under 12?

  18. Heather Avatar
    Heather

    @ John, in the course of trying to find the source of my last name, I was quite surprised when Ancestry.com matched me with persons who shared a common ancestor 5 to 8 generations ago. Two of them had the surname Cole. I contacted both. Only the woman responded. She is in Illinois and said that her father’s family are from Mississippi.
    The furthest I have traced back in Barbados is 1785, when a coloured slave name Tommy was born. He changed his name to William Benjamin Cole at Emancipation and lived at Balls.
    I am presuming that his mother was born of a union between the slave master George Cole and a black slave. Some how either one of George’s may have left the island for North America or sold someone there. I believe that George lived in Welcome Hall or in that area.

  19. Heather Avatar
    Heather

    *****”George’s sons”****

  20. Donks, Gripe and Josh Avatar
    Donks, Gripe and Josh

    So it is a fact Prof Sir Beckles ,Viceroy Sir Gabby and their friends came up with slogans ”’Barbados Feel Free”’ and two additional suggestions.

    Well if the country didn’t hear it from opposition political operatives we wouldn’t know slogans were actually produced by the eminent persons committee set up by the PM.

    The much ballyhooed transparency is as transparent as the thick mud loved by pigs.

    It can be said the esteemed committee tried and what they produced was piss poor.

    Two clear schools of thought emerge in this BU discussion one sensible the other foolish.

    The first school of thought centers on the wise recommendation that selection of slogans be run in a competition among the schools.

    Give our young free minds a crack at a slogan.

    It wouldn’t surprise if a brain storming exercise by school kids throw up a slogan which gains immediate traction.

    Because at their young ages their minds are uncluttered bursting with innocent creativity.

    The second school of thought is one to be thrown into the nearest garbage bin.

    There is absolutely nothing about Barbados Feel Free which provokes excitement for tourists or Bajans.

    Anyone who feels so is a candidate for the college of delusion and mediocrity.

    The eminent group who produced those three slogans deserve to be fired or disbanded never to be permitted near such a project again.

    Their recommendations were childish rubbish.

    Yet we have brown nosing idiots on BU praising such absurdity.

    Presumably the brown nosers aim is to stay in government’s good books with an eye on the easy money regularly splashed out to lackeys, family and friends of the said govt.

    Will the powers that be continue to pursue a slogan after wasting $1 million trying to find one?

    Does Barbados need a slogan?

    Barbados name alone used to be magical to foreign travelers.

    Do holiday makers still see BIM as paradise given the pandemic ,gun violence, lawlessness , unemployment , begging and mounting woes on an island state in brisk socio economic retreat.

    The reality is Barbados is no longer what it used to be and that is a bad omen for the future slogan or no slogan.

  21. John Avatar
    John

    In the 1817 Returns I am seeing a Tommy who is described as coloured and a taylor. He was born abt 1786.

    His owner was Margaret Cole, no location given.

    He appears in the 1832 return of Thomas Cole who is listed as the executor of the estate of Margaret Cole but he is listed as Black and no employer.

    Looks like he was bequeathed to Thomas Cole, probably the same one making the 1832 return.

    He is listed as owned by Thomas Cole in his 1834 return.

    Possibly Margaret Cole was the wife of George Cole and Thomas a son.

  22. John2 Avatar
    John2

    John A

    The population of Antigua is about 1/3 that of Barbados therefore they can reach the point there are at now faster than Barbados

    The proposed safe zones will get us to the same point as Antigua

    Right now we have more vaccinated people than the whole population of Antigua yet we still have a lot more to go

    Relax! There is more than one road to bring you to a point .

  23. David Avatar
    David

    You must be a tourist.

  24. Slave Voyages Avatar
    Slave Voyages

    Slave Voyages
    https://www.slavevoyages.org/

  25. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    David,

    It’s that pesky yardfowlism again. The slogan is a good one but the climate is wrong for it right now. It is not the fault of the committe. They had the unenviable task of making a paradise or what is not a paradise. They are not the only ones. Barbados has almost the whole world for company, INCLUDING JAMAICA WHERE THERE IS NO “ONE LOVE” TO BE FOUND.

  26. John Avatar
    John

    John2November 3, 2021 11:32 PM

    John A

    The population of Antigua is about 1/3 that of Barbados therefore they can reach the point there are at now faster than Barbados

    The proposed safe zones will get us to the same point as Antigua

    Right now we have more vaccinated people than the whole population of Antigua yet we still have a lot more to go

    Relax! There is more than one road to bring you to a point .

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    Here is Antigua

    https://imgur.com/g66n2n4

    Here is Barbados

    https://imgur.com/guQauzl

    The 3 month surge in Antigua started earlier than the one in Barbados.

    So it ended earlier.

    Not as many cases but to date has 104 deaths compared to Barbados which has 164.

    Elsa and other hurricanes/storms that passed probably gave it heavy rainfall.

    Can’t find much on flooding there for this year, a couple of flood watches.

  27. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Artax,

    It is good not to see black and white issues where there are none. But one should not ignore them where they exist.

    Barbados, if one examines it, is infused with racial issues. We have failed to confront them and fix them.

    For some of us they don’t slap us in the face every morning. They don’t slap me. I actually have to stop and think or I could easily imagine that they are not there.

    But they are.

  28. Heather Avatar
    Heather

    @ John yes. That is the Tommy. Over that span in time, there was George, his son Thomas and then grandson Thomas.

    However, there was the selling off slaves at some point in time because my great great grandfather John Christopher was born in 1837 at Rising Sun. Rising Sun was owned by Thomas LeGall (he was the tax collector in Oistins) and after his death it was sold to Renn Hampden.
    I do not know how Tommy got to Balls. Renn Hampden MP for Barlow ( If I remember correctly ) was the owner of Balls then.
    So far, I have been unable to figure out who is John Christopher’ father.

    Thanks for taking the time to do the research.

  29. David Avatar
    David

    Yes Donna, a difficult task given the state of flux that will be with us in the short to medium term. That said we had to come up with a rallying cry to message the market.

  30. John Avatar
    John

    HeatherNovember 4, 2021 5:45 AM

    @ John yes. That is the Tommy. Over that span in time, there was George, his son Thomas and then grandson Thomas.

    However, there was the selling off slaves at some point in time because my great great grandfather John Christopher was born in 1837 at Rising Sun. Rising Sun was owned by Thomas LeGall (he was the tax collector in Oistins) and after his death it was sold to Renn Hampden.
    I do not know how Tommy got to Balls. Renn Hampden MP for Barlow ( If I remember correctly ) was the owner of Balls then.
    So far, I have been unable to figure out who is John Christopher’ father.

    Thanks for taking the time to do the research.

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    Barlow??

    In 1837, slavery had ended.

    Look at the Ellis Island records and see if your ancestor came to America through here.

  31. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Considering our history, it would be amazing if they weren’t. Slavery is not as far back in our past as we tend to believe.

    When I was young, I used to think that the world was far removed from the second world war. ONLY THIS YEAR I did the math and realised I really was born less than two decades after it ended.

    Unlike many, I believe the world has come a long way in a short space of time. Not even the warmongers have an appetite for a world war because they know their own survival would be in jeopardy due to the devastating weapons now available. But many still carry a warring nature that could provoke one. Likewise, we have not shaken off racism and racist systems. Most people know how stupid it is, but…..

    The whole world, including Barbados is still infused with racism. We cannot escape that fact.

  32. GP Avatar
    GP

    THERE SEEMS TO BE LITTLE FREE IN BARBADOS THESE DAYS
    EVEN ON BU
    I JUST MADE A VERY IMPORTANT POST WITH SERIOUS AND RELEVANT MEDICINE BUT IT HAS NOT APPEARED

  33. John Avatar
    John

    Slavery ended almost 2 centuries ago.

  34. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Two centuries is not that long.

    GP,

    Are you watching the cricket?

    It seems as though Ottis Gibson is producing good work again. Apparently Bangladeshi fast bowlers are inproving “leaps and bounds”. Not my words but the commentators.

    I thought he was doing well with Windies also. What happened?

  35. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    My great grandmother most likely knew some former slaves.

    And I knew my great grandmother.

  36. GP Avatar
    GP

    YES DONNA I AM WATCHING THE CRICKET. AND HOPING THAT THE TRINIDAD TEAM WILL BE ELIMINATED AND POLLARD DISGRACED
    BOTH R BRATHWAITHE AND HOLDER HAVE BEEN HORRIBLY TREATED

    IT IS GOOD THAT SHREK IS ABLE TO EARN A LIVING BUT DONT FORGET THAT COURTNEY WALSH COACHED THEM PRIOR TO SHREK

  37. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @Donna November 4, 2021 6:29 AM “When I was young, I used to think that the world was far removed from the second world war. ONLY THIS YEAR I did the math and realised I really was born less than two decades after it ended.”

    2 of my siblings were born before the Second European War began.

    My father who died at 94 was born before the First European War began. He died nearly a decade into the 21st century. My mother was born a year after that war began. They were a young couple who had to hit the floor when the police were shooting the protestors during the 1937 rebellion. I did not read this in a history book. I was told this by my parents when I was just a child.

    My father’s mother who died when I was 16 was born 41 years after the abolition of slavery. So the beloved grandma who lived in the same village as I did all the days of her life was very likely the granddaughter of people enslaved at Whitehall Plantation, St. Peter where she was born.

  38. GP TRAINED MEDICAL DOCTOR Avatar
    GP TRAINED MEDICAL DOCTOR

    LET IT BE KNOWN THAT KING DAVID THE BLOG OWNER IS SUPRESSING THE TRUTH FROM BU THAT EITHER THE COVID “VIRUS” OR ITS “VACCINE ,” IS POSSIBLY ONCOGENIC
    THE PEOPLE OF BARBADOS PAID FOR MY EDUCATION SO THAT I SHOULD BE DISALLOWED FROM SHARING MEDICAL INFORMATION BY A CERTIFIED MEDICAL ILLITERATE

  39. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Cuhdear Bajan,

    We forget that these things are recent history and want to behave as though humans have moved way past it.

    Slavery was removed from the law books less than 200 years ago. Formal colonialism is present mostly in countries where the people accept it.

    But the world is still ordered in much the same way it was under slavery and colonialism – to promote certain interests at the expense of others.

    The colonisers may no longer crack whips but they have not let go of the reins.

    I don’t feel their pull but I know they are there in all the world systems.

  40. John2 Avatar
    John2

    @ DAvid

    November 3, 2021 11:34 PM

    You must be a tourist.

    Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxcxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

    If that was aimed at me I do not understand

    As for my coming home I had my family up for the summer and now that we don’t have to be tested /quarantine on Arrival most likely I will be counted as an arrival during the winter season .

  41. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @GP TRAINED FORMER MEDICAL DOCTOR November 4, 2021 8:14 AM “THE PEOPLE OF BARBADOS PAID FOR MY EDUCATION.”

    Unfortunately for us, yes we did.

    It is a pity that we cannot get a refund with interest, since you are spending your old age denigrating the people and the country whose whose love, time and money nurtured and educated you.

    We know that you have become completely deluded with white, right wing, American religious hatefulness…but that is your choice, nobody has imposed it on you.

    You are an ungrateful wretch.

    As I write this an ambulance is screaming northwards again.

  42. Heather Avatar
    Heather

    @ John, Renn Hampden ex slave owner was the Member of Parliament for Great Marlow in the UK from 1842 to 1847.
    Whoever it was that was sold or taken to the US was before John Christopher’s time. He is 4 generations from me. 5 to 8 generations was the reference given by Ancestry.com. Most likely the reference point is the first one you mentioned when the growing of cotton demanded labour. George was probably his grandfather or great grandfather.
    Yesterday someone on one of the Barbados Genealogy groups was asking for Sarey, that she was a slave on the Rising Sun. She is also on the Returns for Thomas Cole. It has made me now realize that the Coles did not have a Plantation and hired out their slaves. That explains how these slaves are captured on the Returns as belonging to Thomas Cole and yet my oral history from my grandmother placed them at Rising Sun. So most likely Tommy was hired out to Balls and ended up living there after Emancipation. I am only assume that the others were hired out to nearby Plantations.

    I contacted the Genealogical Society in Mississippi but no response yet.

    The 5th to 8th generation DNA match also brought back some white people as well.

  43. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @John November 3, 2021 9:45 PM “What do witches do with children under 12?”

    Since I don’t know any witches, how would I know?

    N.B. I am not spending my old age deluding gullible people.

  44. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    @ Donna November 4, 2021 5:43 AM

    Usually, I immediately understand the gist of your comments, arguments, etc, but, I’m having a bit of difficulty understanding ‘where you’re coming from’ in this morning’s contribution.

    RE: “It is good not to see black and white issues where there are none. But one should not ignore them where they exist.”

    Firstly, because I do not come on BU to repeat, with monotonous regularity, a daily tirade of ‘criminal, racist minority white, Indian and Syrian thieves,’ and then claim I achieved some unidentified objective, does not mean I ‘IGNORE black and white issues where they exist.’

    However, if you’re referring to my comments, they were made in response to TLSN’s remarks that “the Empire theatre was the epicenter for culturally minded white Bajans,” (something I was unaware of), and if “blacks have no interest in these places.”
    I failed to see the correlation between ‘blacks and whites in his argument……. in this regard, especially when one takes into consideration if or when that theatre is historically contextualized, it may become clear that many other factors contributed to its present state.

    RE: “Barbados, if one examines it, is infused with racial issues. We have failed to confront them and fix them.”

    I became fully of this from a young age.

    Let me give you an example. I remember, as a youngster, going into Harrison’s toys department with two friends and we were immediately followed at every turn by a female sales clerk. She was very aggressive and shouted at us not to touch the toys.
    A white boy took two cars off the shelf, removed them from their boxes and began to play with them on the carpet. When I drew it to her attention, she looked at him with a friendly smile, ignored what he was doing to focus her attention on us.

    That’s a simple case of what we currently refer to as ‘racial profiling.’

    Additionally, I worked for a popular white owned business establishment, where the salaries of unqualified white people were much higher than those of their qualified black counterparts. There was a unqualified white woman whose NET salary was more than my GROSS.

    I could go on and on.

  45. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @Donks, Gripe and Josh November 3, 2021 11:02 PM

    Good morning Donks, Gripe and Josh. You big disappointed “D” you.

    Your turn to rob the taxpayers and enrich self, family and friends will come again.

    For the time being just chill.

    As I write this an ambulance is screaming northbound again.

  46. GP Avatar
    GP

    SIMPLE SIMON

    YOU KNOW NOTHING AT ALL ABOUT ME. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING AND I FIND YOUR AD HOMINEMS QUITE AMUSING AND HILARIOUS FOR SO MANY YEARS

    RE You are an ungrateful wretch. NOT SO AT ALL I WON MY SCHOLARSHIP FAIR AND SQUARE. VERY GRATEFUL FOR THAT
    I LEARNED WELL. WENT TO MED SCHOOL TWICE AND SO I CAN MOCK WITH AUTHORITY WHEN CONTRADICTED AND CHALLENGED ON BU

    RE It is a pity that we cannot get a refund with interest, I HOPE THAT THAT FACT SENDS YOU MAD MAD MAD.
    ARE YOU GOING TO GET A REFUND FROM ALL THOSE WHO WENT TO SCHOOL AND WASTED THEIR TIME
    ARE YOU GOING TO GET A REFUND FROM ALL THOSE WHO WENT TO SCHOOL LIKE I DID AND THEN DEPARTED OUR SHORES AND NEVER RETURNED

    AT LEAST I RETURNED AND WORKED FAITHFULLY WHEN GIVEN AN OPPORTUNITY TO DO SO FOR 20 YEARS

    NOW SINCE THE PEOPLE OF BARBADOS PAID FOR MY EDUCATION SHOULD I BE DISALLOWED FROM SHARING MEDICAL INFORMATION BY A CERTIFIED MEDICAL ILLITERATE?

    NOW SINCE THE PEOPLE OF BARBADOS PAID FOR MY EDUCATION SHOULD I BE DISALLOWED FROM SHARING THE RECENT DISCOVERY BY RESEARCHERS THAT VACCINES AGAINST COVID MIGHT VERY WLL BE ONCOGENIC

    RE We know that you have become completely deluded with white, right wing, American religious hatefulness
    AGAIN YOU ARE SWIPING BLIND I LEARNED MY “RELIGION” IN BARBADOS STARTING IN THE ANGLICAN CHURCH….DID I NOT?
    AGAIN YOU ARE IGNORING THE FACTS IN YOUR VERY POOR ADJUDICATION AND PROVIDING ME WITH A SOURCE OF GREAT MIRTH, BUT YOU CANT HELP IT CAN YOU
    STICK TO YOUR GARDENING
    GOING TO WATCH THE TRINIDAD TEAM PLAY
    SAY HELLO TO THE LIVE WID MAN WHO IS NOT YOUR OWN HUSBAND AS CLEARLY TAUGHT IN GALATIANS OR IS THAT white, right wing, American religious hatefulness TOO
    BY THE WAY I LEARNED THAT TENET OF SCRIPTURE IN BARBADOS

  47. David Avatar
    David

    @John2 ———> Donks

  48. 555 Dub Street Avatar
    555 Dub Street

    2021 Sloganeering for the Tourist Seasoning with some Big People Reasoning

    Cum to Binga ♫ Bonga ♫ Binga ♫ Barbados for some Pink Chocolate
    If you like the Half Caste thing
    If you like the Syrian thing
    if you like the Indian thing
    if you like the Chinese thing
    if you like the nicest girl in whole wide world
    African girl are the nicest thing
    African girl are all over the world
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mMqjj0OCkI
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO61bOTSFp0

  49. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @GP November 4, 2021 10:04 AM ” I HOPE THAT THAT FACT SENDS YOU MAD MAD MAD..”

    Sadly for you it won’t.

    No mental illness in this family.

    No Alzheimer’s either.

    So nope. It won’t happen, even when I am in my 90’s

    I won’t go mad, although you with your fat evil self wishin’ and hopin’ for it.

  50. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @GP November 4, 2021 10:04 AM “SAY HELLO TO THE LIVE WID MAN WHO IS NOT YOUR OWN HUSBAND.”

    “Hello GP. My sweet favorite liv-wid man.” GP sends his hellos.

    Ambulance screaming north as I write this.

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