In a country reported to have a high incidence rate of non communicable diseases one of the issues causing Bajan tongues to wag violently is the increase in the excise tax on ‘sweet drinks’. During last month’s budget presentation Prime Minister Mia Mottley decreed that effective 1 April 2022 (today) the excise tax on sweet drinks increases by 20%.
On the face of it one would have assumed the imposition of a sin tax in the prevailing circumstances should be accepted for what it is. Instead many Bajans are expressing that it is a revenue grab instead of part of a holistic approach to tackling the health of the nation.
It seems ridiculous any government should have to legislate to encourage individuals to take responsibility for health decisions, such is the reality; people have to be protected from themselves. The government needs to tax citizens to ensure a balanced budget and at the same time implement effective policies to ensure there is a seamless relationship between achieving financial and non financial targets. Bad decisions taken by SOME Barbadians ultimately effect ALL Barbadians in the pockets.
Can we agree a national debate promoting a healthy lifestyle given the high incidence of NCDs is a good thing? The ‘proposed’ increase in the price of sweet drinks has triggered a national discussion, mission achieved. The blogmaster deliberately used the word proposed because a feature of the Mottley government has been to back out or delay a few decisions taken. Latest example is the postponement of breathalyzer testing because a metered taxi rate system needs to be implemented. You simply cannot make this stuff up.
There is voluminous information to support the conclusion sweet drinks have a high calorific content and therefore high consumption by individuals is likely to negatively impact ones health. The evidence is apparent that the current health trajectory Barbados is on must be interrupted. While we jabber away money must be found to pay for lifestyle choices made by Barbadians. If we want to drink sweet drinks and exhale smoke from our nostrils like Portvale factory, we must pay for it. A good government has to provide leadership that redounds to the benefit of the nation. There are numerous risk factors to manage as it relates to a healthy lifestylke, it is established sweet drinks contribute negatively to the risk factors associated with NCDs.
The blogmaster looks forward to those in the public and private sector charged with healthcare working together to implement effective measures to save Barbadians from themselves.
See relevant link:
Sugary Drinks Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
“As long as we are still emotionally attached to colonial systems, and still comfortable in our colonial consciousness, then reparations will be funding the continued colonial mess. We have to root the plantation out of us in order to escape the plantation system.”
saying it a thousand, thousand times, over and over until it resonates and sticks in heads, is the only way…..everyone is responsible for their own personal transformation…writers are doing their parts, everyone else has to get on board to make it work.
Educational Stunting & Cultural Genocide
By Yolande Grant
“Philosophy: The underlying characterless substance that supports attributes of material reality.”
The philosophical substratum to successful broad-based education was radically excluded in the system of miseducation super-imposed on unaware fragile perceptions throughout the last hundred years of undereducation. With a view to produce the perfect acquisitive consumer who questions nothing, while agreeable to everything no matter how debasing, was the consequent destination. The imagery is suggestive of long-haul artifices stretching into multiple epochs without cessation, and
although a worldwide outreach was initiated, this specific design was aimed directly at Afrika’s people, exclusively. A well-placed instability that never brings balance, equanimity, or equality to the targeted. The fact that expert torturers became self-declared educators, with hallucinations of saving the souls of victims, while empty of any themselves, is too repugnant for comic relief. The intellectual stunting required to hinder normal growth, development and progress of Afrikans and conceal the original scholarship invented by and attributed solely to our ancestors, but denied descents, while wickedly mislabeling the new version, which is undeniably miseducation in its most dubious forms as the only tuition available: that during its glory days produced untold damage consistent with previous historical physical traumas, is longer lasting, causes no understanding of dire situations, limits reality to the size of a pinhead, and though perceived as difficult, now behind schedule for immediate and permanent reversal. A studied approach instituted over time through social and silent debasement got the desired results.
In order to ward off the worse effects of the resident ungodliness, ancestral strength was magnified thousands of times to prevent further loss of responsiveness in the strongest. Unfortunately, the majority took the brunt of the false teachings and misdirection: the fallout from which is evident and consumes everyone like a raging inferno, causing extended periods of misinterpretation of life experiences and real time events. With the churches decidedly the worse and main culprits as armed with vessels of deception from as far back as the 12th and 13th centuries.
When the 14th century arrived, our continent was seen as the playground to upend the earth by any means necessary. Fast forward to today, and it is only the Afrikan in the west, particularly those on small islands who have the most severe challenges coming to terms with who they really are, the only group in the world who do not know the full extent and truth of their heritage. While indoctrinated to believe that they are more European than direct descents of the earth’s original Afrikan bloodlines, but strictly denied every social and financial benefit that comes with such a designation. With entire cross sections of populations resistant to reestablishing the severed links to the knowledge of what ancestors gifted them or the inheritance to which they are entitled from birth. Too many melanated remain in comfort zones of mental relaxation, all too willing to spend the rest of their days in a trapped condition, see this as their only hope, and determined to remain comfortably ensnared in acceptance, compromised as envisioned, and makes rehabilitation of the locked in mind a formidable exercise.
William….you notice that writers are leading the charge in this new era, and actually well received by readers, finally, something frutiful in the educational arena, way outside of the old wasted, tired conventional media of misinformation and same old.
Writers were always from the days of Kush, Kemet and Timbuktu the conduits for changes in any society….way over 5,000 years and counting, with ancient writings still in play…….today we have armies of writers AND technology…..a total win win….the pen, mightier….than…….
Ms. Mockley needs to do something about something else that is put into sweet drinks.
Alcohol.
Raise taxes, ban it or something.
It is far more destructive than any sugar that is put into sweet drinks and far more likely to cause death or injury.
https://imgur.com/DH4stBR
Source: Nation
Source: Nation
It is not my intent to go to War with Wuraola again so I tread cautiously choosing my words carefully not to offend.
The Bajan writing style of Yolande is too flowery and embellished to show off and a less is more approach to proof reading is called for, with an assumption that the intended audience need some simpler explanations breaking down basic details as an introduction.
Accounts of Kemet / Egypt could be expanded to explain the fuller history and it’s spheres of influence especially in regions outside of Africa such as Middle East.
Criticism of British system of Education to brainwash rehabilitate and subordinate is applicable everywhere.
Examples of holistic African teaching methods that should be applied needs to be fleshed out such as teamwork, strong helping weak, creativity in arts, dancing, singing, storytelling, vocational training etc.
Imagining Abolition (Episode 3): The Abolitionist Pod
Still not fat, Lawson. Just carrying more than I am accustomed to and feel comfortable carrying.
I am not giving up meat or sugar. Moderation has always been the key.
Whatever happened to the concept of a BALANCED diet?
And EXERCISE!
I am closer to sixty than fifty. I have no high blood pressure, no diabetes, no cholesterol issues, no heart issues.
I ate a balanced diet from childhood, no smoking, very little drinking of alcohol and plenty of exercise. But I did enjoy my sweet stuff. I was active and slender all my life until recently. What changed? MENOPAUSE! I now need to do more than before and I am doing less.
MY BAD! BUT…there is still time. No damage has yet been done.
This is not rocket science.
Dr Elliot Doughlin – Assisting the Body to Fight Coronavirus – Barbados Underground
https://barbadosunderground.net/2020/03/19/dr-elliot-doughlin-assisting-the-body-to-fight-coronavirus/
Criticisms and robust debates of articles on Bu comes with the territory. Artists need to improve their act.
#ATribeCalledQuest #CanIKickIt
A Tribe Called Quest – Can I Kick It?
When I saw A Tribe Called Quest perform one of their first shows in a small club in NYC Q-Tip asked my opinion, where they were rapping standing still and the crowd were watching, I suggested they needed to engage people more and needed more movement.
The next time I saw them they worked the crowd and had them jumping and going wild.
This blog is about sugary drinks for crissakes.
lol…..ancient writings carrying sway…
the frauds and their enablers must be exposed.
Hip Hop / Rap Music has become the soundtrack for TV Adverts Marketing Campaigns (getting large paycheques)
A Tribe Called Quest Sprite 1994
Sprite Obey Your Thirst (Pete Rock, C.L. Smooth, Grand Puba)
@ John April 3, 2022 4:18 PM
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Ms. Mockley needs to do something about something else that is put into sweet drinks.
Alcohol.
Raise taxes, ban it or something.
It is far more destructive than any sugar that is put into sweet drinks and far more likely to cause death or injury.
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From where would the Bajan government get its large slice of tax revenues if alcohol be banned?
From the land taxes levied on your family’s now idle plantations which were responsible for some of the highest production of sugarcane on the island?
Maybe the same “Ms. Mockley is signalling her administration’s intention to close down the sugar industry as demanded by the IMF.
Maybe the increased tax on ‘sweet’ drinks is earmarked to cover the additional costs associated with the coming closure of the very industry which you always claim has always been more a financial burden than a moral curse on the island.
Why keep an industry that produces the very products conveniently blamed for the increasing bad health of people?
Because the fault lies with the people who indulge to excess and not with the product.
re Whatever happened to the concept of a BALANCED diet?
LET ME NOW ASK A FEW QUESTIONS VERY VERY POLITELY, CAUSE AS YOU ALL KNOW, I DONT KNOW TOO MUCH.
WHAT EXACTLY IS A BALANCED DIET?
WHO DECIDED WHAT IS A BALANCED DIET?
NUTRIONISTS? DIETICIANS?
DID NOT THESE SAME MORONS GIVE US THE FOOD PYRAMID AND TELL US WHAT FOODS WE SHOULD EAT FROM EACH GROUP IN THE FOOD PYRAMID?
IS IT NOT TRUE THAT LOTS OF THE BOVINE EFFLUXATIONS OF THE FOOD PYRAMID AND BALANCED DIET IS BARE BULL SHIT.?
DO THE VEGANS CONSUME A BALANCED DIET? IF SO HOW SO?
WHAT ABOUT THE ELEPHANTS WHO GET REAL BIG ON GRASS AND BARK AND WATER. DO THEY HAVE A BALANCED DIET?
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WHAT ABOUT THE BIG CATS WHO DO QUITE WELL ON MEAT ONLY AND WATER.DO THEY HAVE A BALANCED DIET?
I AM 60 AND HAVE NO DISEASE. SO THAT MEANS I AM A GENIUS AND HAVE DONE EVERYTHING RIGHT?
NO IT MEANS I SHOULD THANK GOD FOR GIVING ME GOOD HEALTH.
I DONT DRINK OR SMOKE OR DO THIS OR DAT? NIETHER DOES A TELEPHONE POST..
THERE ARE SOME THAT DRINK LIKE FISH AND LIVE LONG LIVES UH LIE?
THERE ARE SOME DAT SMOKE LIKE CHIMNEYS AND NEVER GET CANCER OF THE LUNGS, UH LIE?
AND THERE ARE THOSE THAT HAVE DIED FROM OAT CELL CANCERS OF THE LUNGS AND HAVE NEVER SMOKED ONCE UH LIE?.
EVERYTHING IN MODERATION PEOPLE COCK AND DEAD TOO UH LIE? SO WHAT?
WHY DO PEOPLE REALLY DIE?
WHY DO INDIVIDUALS DIE WHEN THEY DO DESPITE ALL THEIR MODERATION AND BALANCED DIET IDEATION AND PONTIFICATIONS.?
WHY DO FOLK WHO EXERCISE NUFF ALL THEIR LIVES ALSO COCK UP AND DIE?
HOW DID OUR OBESE LESBIAN DICTATOR GET OBESE? WAS SHE NOT OBESE FROM CHILDHOOD?
OH AND SHE IS A LESBIAN CAUSE GOD MADE HER SO RIGHT? CAUSE GOD IS RESPONSIBLE FOR EVATING WRONG PUN EARTH EVEN THOUGH WE DONT TINK THAT THERE HAVE A GOR RIGHT/
AND WE DONT BELIEVE THAT THERE IS GRIM REAPER UNTIL HE IS AT OUR DOOR OR BED SIDE?
IT IS WRITTEN IN 1 CORINTHIANS 3:18 THUS
Do not deceive yourselves. If any of you think you are wise by the standards of this age, you should become “fools” so that you may become wise.
IT IS WRITTEN IN Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
I GOING AND DO SOME SERIOUS STUDY HEAR?
I HAD ENOUGH MIRTH FOR THE MORNING
I WILL BE BACK TO READ THE EMOTIONAL CLAP TRAP THAT THIS POST WILL GENERATE BY THE BU INTELLIGENTIA
BUT CAN ANYONE LIST THE NCDS AND TELL ME HOW SUGAR INTAKE CAUSES NCD’S
CAN ANYONE AT CAVE HILL OR IN BAMP OR WHITE EX PROFESSORS OF MEDICINE OR OBESE LESBIANS TELL ME HOW, AND WHY THE AETIOLOGY OF NCDS AND KIDNEY DISEASE IS RELATED ONLY TO SUGAR INTAKE OR SALT INTAKE OR TELL US WUH THE REAL CAUSATION IS
TELL US FOR EXAMPLE HOW ALL THIS IS RELATED FOR EXAMPLE TO CAUSING THOSE LOVELY COMPLEXES THAT ARE FORMED IN THE GLOMERULI THAT ARE PICTURED IN RECENT EDITIONS OF ROBBINS
HAVE WUNNAH THROWN AWAY ROBBINS LIKE HOW WUNNAH FOLLOWED FALSY TO THROW WAY THE CHAPTER PUN THE TREATMENT OF CORONOVIRUSES ENUNCIATED CLEARLY IN HARRISON’S TWO YEARS AGO?
AND DO SOME SERIOUS THINKING AND READING AND STOP WRITING THE SHIT YOU ARE PUTTING OUT IN THE PAPERS CAUSE WUNNAH NOT MEKING SENSE AND WUNNAH NOT FOOLING THE POPULACE OR COMING UP WITH NO SOLUTIONS
BUT DONT BOTHER WID ME CAUSE I AINT NOBODY, AND NEVER WAS LOL LOL LOL LOL
TheO,
Again I say, Adrian’s message has not changed.
You are one of the reasons he continues to repeat it.
Eventually, it sinks in.
David,
Score one for your persistence in posting!
Q WHAT IS THE BENEFIT TO THE BODY OF CONSUMING ALCOHOL…….EXCEPT FOR WHEN ALCOHOL IS USED AS A SOLVENT IN NECESSARY MEDICATIONS.
RE John April 3, 2022 4:18 PM
(Quote):
Ms. Mockley needs to do something about something else that is put into sweet drinks.
Alcohol.
Raise taxes, ban it or something.
It is far more destructive than any sugar that is put into sweet drinks and far more likely to cause death or injury.
JOHN KNOX YOU ARE AGAIN 100 % CORRECT
CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOL BY CAUSING PANCREATIC DYSFUNCTION LEADS TO THE ONSET OF TYPE TWO DIABETES CONSIDERABLY FASTER THAN INTAKE OF EXCESS SUCROSE
SO TAX SUGAR TAX ALCOHOL AND TAX ALL FAST FOOD OUTLETS TOO CAUSE EXCESS CALORIE INTAKE WILL ALSO LEAD TO DIABETES TOO UH LIE
THIS IS BARE MOCK SPORT AND HYPOCRISY GUH-ING ON HEY
Poor you! Sorry the Lord did not spare you!
As if we don’t know that there are other factors at play.
Still…a balanced diet and exercise is one way to mitigate.
Worked for most of my family. Or maybe we have good genes.
Murdaaaaah!
@ GP April 2, 2022 7:37 PM
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When I feel hypoglycemic I use 3-4 cinnamon rolls. This is my main source of carbs and only source of sugar intake.
I Use cinnamon in my coffee, and chromium piccolinate. for diabetes.
It definitely works
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Very good of you, dear Doc!
Keep it up! It might just help you to raise the dead resulting from your diabetes.
Cinnamon along with clove and aloe vera (Barbadensis) make up the ‘vitally raising’ main ingredients in the bottling of the Chinese painting brush.
Now here is a great opportunity for a budding entrepreneur to ‘create’ the Bajan brand of a ‘cocky-stand’ called the GP fowl-cock!
MILLER
IT SEEMS THAT YOU ARE TELLING ME AS JESUS TOLD NICODEMUS IN JOHN 3 …ARE YOU A MASTER IN BARBADOS AND KNOWETH NOT ALL THESE THINGS”?
I MUST CONFESS MY IGNORANCE SIR LOL LOL
MAYBE I SHOULD ADD THE clove and aloe vera TO MY COFFEE. FOR THE OTHER INDICATION TO WHICH YOU ALLUDE AS A CLINICAL TRIAL LOL I.E TO just help you to raise the dead ressulting from your diabetes.
BUT WHEN YOU PATENT THAT PREPARATION DUE TO MY ENDORSEMENT, AND WHEN IT USED BY ALL AND SUNDRY IN BIMSHIRE, THEN YOU WILL HAVE HANTS OR CLEO OR VINCENT ASKING HOW IT IS THAT THEY HAVE NCDS FROM EXTRA PERKING.
THEN IT WILL BE TAXED BY THE DICTATOR SINCE IT WONT BE MARKETED OR INDICATED FOR BITING, AND MAY TAKE SOME TIME TO BE PRESENTED IN NEW EDITIONS OF HARRISON’S TEXT BOOK OF MEDICINE
@ WURA
Writers and other creatives are always the backbone of all struggles. It’s obvious that our entire political system is now directed ,influenced and controlled by a majority of non- thinkers, who have nothing to offer the country or the region.
The best we can hope for is that somebody arises to arrest the pathetic nonsense.
I admire your patience and tenacity but as always we prefer to shoot the messenger and not pay attention to the message.
That’s why we could be given a 14 cents deduction in gasoline less than two weeks ago and now that same 14 cents is going back on!
But the apologists will find a way to defend any and everything.
Take it easy- more fun to come.
Peace.
.
@William
You understand what a cap on VAT for fuel means as oppose to a cap on the cost of the fuel?
@ David
Yep! I understand hocus pocus bull shit very well, my brother.
There aren’t many carrots left to dangle before the horse anymore.
Political PR has a shelf life like everything else.
Peace
No problem William, in that regard you have the blogmaster at an advantage.
Cinnamon along with clove and aloe vera (Barbadensis) make up the ‘vitally raising’ main ingredients in the bottling of the Chinese painting brush’
I have often wondered what is Miller area of expertise. It appears that he has a strong background in chemistry. Perhaps if Mia imposed a tax on “Bedroom bully”, horny goat weed, “China brush” and the many Guinness concoctions we may yet hear the Miller crying
I will get in line after Lawson and just say
‘Welcome back’
@ GP,
A balanced diet is one that does not have a negative impact on our eco-system. The white man is now consuming insects as a source of protein. Africans have consumed insects since the beginning of time.
The messenger carries a “JUST SHOOT ME” sign. Hard to resist taking a shot.
RE It’s obvious that our entire political system is now directed ,influenced and controlled by a majority of non- thinkers, who have nothing to offer the country or the region. The best we can hope for is that somebody arises to arrest the pathetic nonsense.
WILLIAM
YOU HAVE HIT THE NAIL ON ITS HEAD
THIS IS REVEALED BY THE CONCENTRATED MANURE PRESENTED IN THE BU RUM SHOP DAILY
HOW EVER, THIS PHENOMENON IS QUITE UNIVERSAL, AND FOR AN ESCHATOLOGIST, TO BE EXPECTED
THE WORLD IS NOW DESPERATELY SEEKING A SAVIOUR TO MANAGE ITS ECONOMIC AND OTHER AFFAIRS
THAT MAN WITH TOTAL CHARISMA AND DECEPTION WILL EMERGE VERY SOON
HE IS CALLED THE ANTICHRIST
PRIOR TO HIS UNVEILING, HOWEVER, ACORDING TO 2 THESSALONIANS 2 WILL BE THE RAPTURE OF THE CHURCH
THE RAPTURE IS NOT RUPTURED AS AN IDIOT ONCE SAID ON BU AFTER THE ELECTION IN THE USA IN 2020, BECAUSE THE RAPTURE IS NOT DEPENDENT ON ANYTHING THATWILL HAPPEN ON EARTH
THIS IS SOUND BIBLE DOCTRINE THAT CAN NOT BE REFUTED AND SHOOTING OF THE MESSENGER IN ANY WAY WILL NOT AVERT OR DELAY THE INEVITABLE. THIS MESSENGER IS WILLING TO DIE, BECAUSE HE HAS ALREADY PASSED FROM DEATH UNTO LIFE, AS CLEARLY TAUGHT IN JOHN 5:24, AND CANNOT REALLY DIE SPIRITUALLY ACCORDING TO JESUS’ EDICT TO MARTHA IN JOHN II. AND IF I DIE BEFORE THE RAPTURE, I WILL BE RAISED AT THE LAST TRUMP AS TAUGHT MOST CLEARLY IN I CORINTHIANS 15: 55 ET SECQ AND I THESSALONIANS 4:14-18
ONCE MORE THIS IS SOUND BIBLE DOCTRINE THAT CAN NOT BE REFUTED
“I WILL BE RAISED AT THE LAST TRUMP AS TAUGHT MOST CLEARLY IN I CORINTHIANS 15: 55 ET SECQ AND I THESSALONIANS 4:14-18”
The “Last Trump” is a Freudian Slip
Your Trump and Bible theories are proof you do not know shit
This is sound doctrine which can not be refuted
@Redguard April 2, 2022 9:10 AM “Very rarely is government the solution, here it is most definitely NOT. If a country is unhealthy then it means we have unhealthy families, it then means the parents and especially the mothers must take the blame NOT THE GOVERNMENT. From birth until 11 years old mothers are primarily responsible for what their children consume, a fat child is the mother’s fault.”
Nope.
A mother is responsible for breast feeding her child. That lasts for 3 months to 2 years or so. In emergencies such as wars it may last longer as it did for a sibling of mine who was born
just a few months before the Second European War began. That sibling breast fed for 3+ years, is now 83 and is as healthy as a horse. Lives independently. Does not require any outside assistance. Things were real-real tight in Barbados then. It was breast feed or die. It does not do any harm to breast feed for years and years. No. It did not harm the parents’ marriage either. That union lasted for 70+ years. However after breast feeding is done it is the responsibility of both mothers and FATHERS to ensure that their child is properly fed. And contrary to what Red Guard feels [note that I said feels, not thinks] government does have a role to play in ensuring that the population has access to healthy food.
It is NEVER enough for a father to drop some money on the dressing table or the bank account and then to go ‘long ’bout his business. The children are flesh of his flesh, and blood of his blood. Fathers too have to be responsible to and care for their children.
And by the way when is Barbados [any party] going to increase the period of leave available to breast feeding mothers? It has been stuck at 12 weeks since 1967. Yes, I said 1967. Surely we can do better. Shame, shame on ALL OF US for treating our infants as though they are unworthy, as though they are less than, as though they are “outside” children. If we are to have healthier adults we ALL need to advocate for more breast feeding time for our youngest citizens. They deserve the best.
It is a well documented fact that children who are breast fed for 6 months or more are significantly less likely to be obese.
“This study of 16 countries across Europe has found that breastfeeding can cut the chances of a child becoming obese by up to 25%. In absolute terms, 16.8% of children who were never breastfed were obese, compared with 13.2% who had been breastfed at some time and 9.3% of children breastfed for six months or more.”
More here: https://www.unicef.org.uk/babyfriendly/news-and-research/baby-friendly-research/infant-health-research/infant-health-research-obesity/
@John April 3, 2022 4:18 PM “do something about something else that is put into sweet drinks.
Alcohol. Raise taxes, ban it or something.”
Won’t work John.
Unlike Dr. GP who is a chemistry boss, I got thrown out of chemistry class in 3rd form or something, but even so I know how to make alcohol, and from time to time I make some from scratch just for the fun of it.
And then I drink it. More fun.
So bans won’t work
@angela cox April 1, 2022 7:50 AM “I am of the opinion that people would buy and consume what their pocket books can afford. The price of health food drinks are our of the reach of many”
Last month I bough 11 cubic meters [about 2,900 gallons of a health food drink [water] for $34.13 BDS. That money therefore bought me about 46,400 eight ounce glasses of a very healthy drink. I call that real, real cheap.
Cuhdear Bajan,
For Redgyard, everything is the woman’s fault. I did not bother with him because DPD fixed him.
Old farts are a feature of BU, mostly grounded in Bible nonsense that often CAN be refuted.
But let’s play along for a bit!
Maybe some wise sage can enlighten me. The Lord, APPARENTLY, has intervened in my health so that all my tests returned a ckean bill. I am told I should thank him.
Another wise sage blithely opines that affliction comes so that we should learn.
So….I wonder what it is that I have learnt that a certain Bible thumping expert in both areas still needs to learn.
Oh dear!
By the way, both Dame Bajans and myself know women who did not in sorrow bring forth their children.
True experience that cannot be refuted.
Do you have any to add to the list?
And you know that if the first part of Eve’s handed down punishment does not hold, then we should toss the whole mess out!
Not that I waited for my cousin to give birth while laughing at the doctor’s jokes.
Smelled that old fartism as a child in Sunday School. All girls do.. until they are repeatedly thumped on the head with the good book to stamp out normal brain activity. They lose their sense of smell.
Why even my grandmother wondered why her brother was dispatched to Combermere and she to nothingness after spending two years as a pupil/teacher.
“Because your brother will get married and thereby acquire a servant. While you will get married and therefore BECOME a servant.”
It just occurred to me THIS MINUTE why my grandmother was a terrible housekeeper, except for cooking.
She wasn’t lazy! She was passive/aggressive!
My grandfather often had to bring in help.
Murdaaaaaah!
Grandma was a passive activist!
@ David
Transparency also means being honest and clear in what you tell people you lead.
The entire country, believed or was made to believe that the price of gas and diesel was being decreased by fourteen cents.
It was given the assurance that such a decrease was a goodie from the non productive marathon political speech erroneously called a budget and would be in place for six months. Remember how the minister of finance , wax praised for giving a “six month” ease on the price of gasoline and diesel.
At that point it should have been told that what was done, was a good will gesture that may last six minutes or six years depending on what occurs in the world market.
After that deception,we now have a senior minister ,with the usual spin and PR telling the people that in reality,what was said in the so-called budget, was really a cleverly executed hoax because according to him, there is very little or really nothing the government can do at this stage.
What does the senior minister know that his boss, the minister of finance does not or did not know ?
So, your weak attempt to out do the senior minister, is just to condone subterfuge,
Read today’s Nation and you would see why the people believe they were deliberately misguided by the minister of finance.
Why was the blogmaster not misguided William?
The average Bajan does not understand how to calculate their personal tax return.
The average Bajan does not understand the rate NIS is calculated and how deductions are made/contributed to the fund.
The average Bajan does not understand their civic responsibilities under our system of democracy.
The average Bajan knows more about US politics than regional.
The average Bajan prefers could care less.
“Writers and other creatives are always the backbone of all struggles. It’s obvious that our entire political system is now directed ,influenced and controlled by a majority of non- thinkers, who have nothing to offer the country or the region.”
neither them, their hangers on. followers and enablers have anything to offer anyone, never will and now have even less for themselves….they just don’t know it yet…
“but as always we prefer to shoot the messenger and not pay attention to the message.”
their idea of shooting the messenger is identifying themselves and showcasing their own ignorance for the whole world to see, those who still read BU posts are appalled and laugh at them daily…..shame got them believing they can change the current trajectory or stop anything, their pathetic attempt to sabotage me….made everything work much better…..they could not even get that right, now they are known as the loser brigade…..
But there is good coming out of the ashes, now that the fraud show from the black face colonial minds all burnt right down to the ground…….the rise of BLACK/AFRIKAN consciousness and businesses are on the upswing…..that train left the station at warp speed.
In about 5 years or less, many on BU will see just how much time they have wasted, exposing themselves as brainless, if still around…but no one will care then, as they don’t now…
William…..what we did was not in vain…..it has produced massive results and all positive am very pleased to report, just because none of it is posted to BU, for obvious reasons, does not mean it did not happen and still is…..everyone is aware how careful they must be going forward……too many traitors abound……
Source: Nation
@David April 5, 2022 6:45 AM “The average Bajan does not understand how to calculate their personal tax return.”
My response: Really David. For all of my life I have done my own tax returns, in 2 different countries too. I taught all of my children how to do theirs too, in 2 different jurisdictions. Even though I got thrown out of math class at 13. Lol!.. Doing a tax return on paper or online a’int that hard. Anybody who went to school until age 13 or so can do it, unless of course they are billionaires with really large and complex tax lives. But a basic return? Piece of cake. I am sure that super daddy Redguard has done the same
@David April 5, 2022 6:45 AM “The average Bajan does not understand the rate NIS is calculated and how deductions are made/contributed to the fund.”
My response: This information is on the NIS website which is in the public domain. Virtually every Bajan has a cellphone or other device. They can go to nis.gov.bb and work forward from there. When my children turned 16 I took them to NIS to register. One was working part time at 16, the other was not. But it is a parent’s responsibility to ensure that their children get their paperwork in order. I would bet anything that Redguard did the same.
@David April 5, 2022 6:45 AM “The average Bajan does not understand their civic responsibilities under our system of democracy.”
My response: When they turned 18 I accompanied them to the Electoral and Boundaries Commission to register as voters. Don’t all parents do this? I am sure that Redguard the super daddy has done the same. Now Little Johnny who lives in the great white north takes vacation days so that he can work in the municipal, provincial and federal elections. It is good to have another pair of impartial eyes on any electoral process.
David I don’t like how you making out that the average Bajan is as dumb as a big rock.
@Donna April 5, 2022 5:44 AM “Cuhdear Bajan, For Redgyard, everything is the woman’s fault. I did not bother with him because DPD fixed him.”
DPD cut off one ball. I was my pleasure to remove the other.
And then men like Redguard complain about being emasculated.
Stupssseee!!!
@SS
Lol …since when does a graduate of the ‘Harvard of the North’, irrespective of how many subjects you were kicked out of, qualify you as an ‘average Bajan’.
And from experience in the so called ‘credit counselling’ field, just because someone completes their own tax return, doesn’t mean it is done well. I admit, the newer software helps.
The point NO is that the average Bajan plugs numbers on the screen without understanding the implication of the inputs.
The example by Simple about registering to vote makes the blogmaster’s point. This is where it starts and ends for most people.
@NorthernObserver April 5, 2022 9:54 AM “And from experience in the so called ‘credit counselling’ field, just because someone completes their own tax return, doesn’t mean it is done well.
My response: True.
@ Cuhdear Bajan
Your opinion of @ David is correct. He has his defenders , who allow him to intellectually insult the poor masses and blame them for the stupidity of the political managerial class.
He accuses others of “ throwing shade” but he and at least two others on BU throw more shade than anybody else on BU under the guise that they live “on the ground and are on the rock.”
@ WURA
The apologists and detractors are slowly but surely disappearing . They are nothing but sophisticated party hacks and intellectual frauds. They too have a shelf life.
They made a living coming here on BU running people and behaving like
prosecutors playing they are psychiatrists and having some divine right to call others mentally unstable and were encouraged to do so.
Truth always wins! The country is now in a mess because we deliberately defaulted on our debt before COVID; fooled people that tourism is bouncing back when it is not and refused to increase the police force leaving it short of 300 police.
Even in COVID they tried to cut deals with Mark Maloney to rip off the treasury.
The game is now up.
You do not know oneass about the blogmaster William.
@David April 5, 2022 9:57 AM “The example by Simple about registering to vote makes the blogmaster’s point. This is where it starts and ends for most people.”
Registering to vote is the beginning indeed.
Reading/Listening to what the politicians say. And even more important watching what they DO. Noting the crevice or the chasm between words and ACTIONS.
NEVER EVER committing to ANY party. Deliberately keeping politicians in a state of uncertainty.
The average Bajan is NOT as dumb as a big rock.
@Simple Simon
You have to acknowledge that in order to be strident advocates and in the process hold elected officials accountable it requires an intelligent citizenry. There is no circumventing.
I have to do my tax return fairly soon. Last year my church was painfully slow in uploading my contributions, even though the volunteer treasurer is a certified professional accountant.
I don’t like having to file in late April.
Stupssseee!!!
@Simple Simon
The volunteer treasure is ‘ignorant’ with the mechanism to upload regularly via efiling?
@David April 5, 2022 9:57 AM “The example by Simple about registering to vote makes the blogmaster’s point. This is where it starts and ends for most people.”
Did YOU David take your young adult children to register to vote,
Did you take them to NIS?
Did you take them to BRA?
Did you take them to elementary school?
Did you take them to secondary school?
Did you take them to university?
If not why not?
I am proud to say that i did all of the above and more.
Took them myself to universities in 3 different countries. Waited a couple of weeks until they were settled in.
Did you and Redguard do the same?
@Simple Simon
You are over simplifying the point. It harken back to many discussions we have had in this space about the lack of awareness by ordinary citizens especially as it pertains to governance and civics matters. The blogmaster will agree that leadership in all spheres continue to faile us but the blogmaster will not allow a lazy in thought middleclass off the hook. A group that has failed to give us a reasonable rate of return on our investment in education through the years. This is the group that our leaders are born.
@William Skinner April 5, 2022 10:11 AM “…fooled people that tourism is bouncing back…”
Tourism may actually be bouncing back. I know that one swallow does not make a summer, but the little air bnb, booking.com and so forth place that I manage, [when I am not throwing my fork and hoe in the ground] had a fairly good season. From January 1 to March 31 we had people staying for 65 out of 90 days even though as a Covid mitigation strategy we deliberately spaced bookings out with 4 days between departures and new arrivals. For the September to end of January period we have forward bookings for 57 days, and as you know September 1 to about the end of November is low-low season. I’ve never seen tourism as being that hard to do. After raising nearly a dozen children my mother went to work in the industry as did 2 siblings. People need a very clean place, good food, clean beaches and public spaces, polite staff, unobtrusive security, safe reliable transportation and some entertainment in the community. Tourism really int that hard to do.
I went to a place once, a place with a reputation for great violence [not in the Caribbean] and two security men with machine guns were at the entrance at all times. That did not make be feel safe. It made me profoundly anxious because I knew that the “bad guys” had machine guns also.
@Simple Simon
A look around Barbados there is definitely an uptick in visitors on island. The restaurants, hotels, rental cars are heavily booked.
This isn’t the area of concern, it is the extent we are positioning to stabilize the economy with other pillars. It will take time given the late start but we must try harder.
WHEREAS I SINCERELY BELIEVE THAT IT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF BOTH PARENTS TO RAISE CHILDREN, IT CAN NOT BE DENIED THAT THE HANDS THAT ROCK THE CRADLE RULES THE WORLD..
IF YOU ARE A BIBLE SCHOLAR, AS I UNAPOLOGETICALLY AM, YOU WILL READ OF SEVERAL PROMINENT MEN THERE, WHOSE MOTHERS WERE VERY INFLUENTIAL IN BUILDING THIER CHARACTERS FOR GOOD —-E.G MOSES AND SAMUEL IN THE OT, AND THE MOTHER OF TIMOTHY AND RUFUS IN THE NT, ESPECIALLY.
IN ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY THE MOTHER OF JOHN & CHARLES WAESLEY, AND MRS CAMPBELL-MORGAN ARE TWO EXCEPTIONAL; MOTHERS.
THERE ARE FEW RECORDS OF GOOD FATHERS PRODUCING GREAT CHILDREN ALONE, WHEREAS THERE ARE MANY OF SINGLE MOTHERS DOING THE ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE—–E.G THE MOTHER OF DR BEN CARSON.
THE LACK OF FATHERS IN THE HOME, OR FATHERS WHO ARE BASICALLY INEFFECTIVE IN THE LIVES OF THEIR CHILDREN, THOUGH PRESENT IN THE HOME EXCEPT FOR PROVIDING THE MATERIAL, BUT WHO PROVIDE NO GUIDANCE OR AFFECTION IS A BIG PROBLEM UNIVERSALLY..
THANK GOD FOR THE PROVISION OF LOVING NURTURING MOTHERS, IN SUCH CASES WHO TEND TO SAVE THESE CHILDREN FROM A LOT OF HARM AND ILL, EMOTIONALLY,, AND PSYCHOLOGICALLY , AND IN OTHER WAYS.
I AM NOT HERE TO BEAT UP ON BAD MOTHERS AND THEIR ADVERSE EFFECT.
I AM MAINLY INTERESTED IN LAUDING EXEPTUAL MOTHERS EVERYWHERE.
The average Bajan is NOT as dumb as a big rock. If they were we would not have ex-politicians crying in their soup because the electorate smiled in their faces and voted them out of office. And for our ex-Cabinet Minister now unintentionally residing in Texas do you really believe that it is Americans alone who worked on helping to get him there? Almost certainly some Bajans helped out the Americans. Almost certainly even now the same is happening.
If a politico is dishonest once the red diplomatic passport is gone?
What then?
@Simple Simon
How is your statement making sense if you consider the option the Bajan voter has is twiddle d or twiddle b? An intelligent people would infiltrate the two parties to force change or alternatively created attractive alternatives?
GOOD JOB MOTHER & GRANNY SIMPLE SIMON
GOOD EXAMPLE
SEEMS YOU WERE GIVEN A GOOD EXAMPLE BY YOUR OWN MOTHER, AND THAT YOU TOOK THE BATON FROM HER AND HAVE THEN PASSED ON THE BATON TO YOUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN, LIKE LOIS AND EUNICE. (see 2 Timothy 1:5)
THAT IS THE ESSENCE OF WOMAN HOOD AND MOTHER HOOD AND THE FOUNDATION FOR NATION BUILDING.
ALL YOUR OTHER SERVICE(S) TO THE NATION ARE(HAVE BEEN) BONUSES.
@SS
based on reports, it was the Bermudians, who were majority owners of ICBL at the time, who made the Americans ‘aware’. Was that to fry a local pol, or, to save their own behind?
“@ WURA
The apologists and detractors are slowly but surely disappearing . They are nothing but sophisticated party hacks and intellectual frauds. They too have a shelf life.
They made a living coming here on BU running people and behaving like
prosecutors playing they are psychiatrists and having some divine right to call others mentally unstable and were encouraged to do so.””
theirs is UP…expired, they just don’t know it yet, and believe they are clever, that’s why it was so easy to do things so successfully, without them knowing…while they were busy throwing up barriers, there was a second open route, way above their intellect..
.we are laughing the best and the loudest and they don’t know why….soon there will be no money left to pay them for mischief, then they will be completely cut off….the first casualties, last in, first out…
@ David
In your opinion Bajans were only intelligent when they voted out the DLP.
Do you listen to any radio programs? Don’t you hear ordinary citizens expressing their views. Don’t you read letters to the Editor.?
Do you even pay attention to those who have kept this blog going?
Where are they from ?
Barbadians care and understand what is going on in their country as well as anybody else.
On this topic you are just being a snob believing that poor people are stupid and can’t think of for themselves.
You are wrong on this and I am glad you have been called out.
Were they not the same citizens who were marching up and down prior to the 2018 elections?
Were they from another country or planet.
Cuhdear BajanApril 5, 2022 10:15 AM
@David April 5, 2022 9:57 AM “The example by Simple about registering to vote makes the blogmaster’s point. This is where it starts and ends for most people.”
Registering to vote is the beginning indeed.
Reading/Listening to what the politicians say. And even more important watching what they DO. Noting the crevice or the chasm between words and ACTIONS.
NEVER EVER committing to ANY party. Deliberately keeping politicians in a state of uncertainty.
The average Bajan is NOT as dumb as a big rock.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
I have never registered to vote as far as I can remember!!
I have voted in every election from 1986 once my overseas studies and work attachments were over.
All I did was turn up to vote, get in line, have my ID number confirmed and vote.
Any Bajan who is as dumb as a big rock can do that.
The most I have ever done is get an ID number which was required in my first job.
How exactly does one register to vote?
How did you register to vote?
Educate us Bajans who are as dumb as a big rock..
When you are hellbent on keeping a destructive status quo in place to trap your own people……you deserve to be trapped…
David,
I think you may have stepped iin it a little there. I understand what you mean but you did not really say it. You said something cimpletely different, I think.
If you want Bajans to follow through and do more than talk then say so!
If you want them to wield people power more effectively, then say so!
If you want boots on the ground on Bay Street, then say so!
An occasional march can be ignored, just like a call to Brasstacks.
As I always say, PERSISTENT AND SUSTAINED PRESSURE is what Bajans fail to apply when it comes to our political activism.
And ir is that which compels change!
@Donna
The blogmaster wrote what he meant.
Theo, your childhood friend Victor Roach was interred at St. Phillip the Less Church, a year or more ago. I too had some acquaintance with him thirty or more years ago. He was a life long advocate of abstaining from alcohol and illegal drugs. May he rest in peace.
Cuhdear Bajan April 5, 2022 9:40 AM
I agree the “average Bajan is not as dumb as a rock.”
And, yes, you may have done your own tax returns all your life and taught your children to their’s as well.
But, with all due respect, you’re essentially ‘speaking for yourself.’
Based on MY experience, there are several Barbadians who do not know how to complete an income tax return…… especially since the filing process is now being facilitated on-line.
Some people actually believe filing income tax returns is a very complicated process.
Also, many small business men/women do not know how to prepare income statements that accompany the tax returns.
Why do the BRA and accounting firms have ‘tax clinics’ to assist persons in filing personal and small business tax returns?
Before COVID-19, why did you see people standing for several hours in long lines outside and along the Treasury Building, especially the day before the filing deadline?
Why do you think, every year, the credit unions offer the service of filing returns to members and non-members?
Or, you see ads online or in the print media, in which businesses offer tax services?
I know for a fact some people are also of the mistaken belief that the main purpose of filing returns is to ‘get back money.’
And, if they’re not entitled to a refund, then, to them, it doesn’t make any sense in filing.
A few years ago I went into the BRA to get information on filing returns for a partnership. The clerk told me she never heard and does not know anything about that.
And, that’s someone employed by the Barbados Revenue Authority.
RE Theo, your childhood friend Victor Roach was interred at St. Phillip the Less Church, a year or more ago
TIME FLIES ACCORDING TO A NATION ARTICLE HE DIED IN 2019
@GP April 5, 2022 11:09 AM “GOOD JOB MOTHER & GRANNY SIMPLE SIMON
GOOD EXAMPLE. SEEMS YOU WERE GIVEN A GOOD EXAMPLE BY YOUR OWN MOTHER.”
And father.
Truly I was blessed with excellent parents. Hard working, loving, plain speaking, competent. Even though my old man did not darken a church door until he was in his late 50’s Lol! His mother was an excellent grandmother too. I learned grandmothering from her. She lived nearby and always had time for us. Visiting at her home I never felt that I was unwelcome or that I was too much trouble. And she cooked wonderful food on an old fashioned fire hearth [she was born in 1879] and always when we were leaving a shiny round penny [she kept them in a match box] with the head of King George the fifth on them.
We often bought sugar cakes with those pennies, lol! alas! BUT our journey to and from elementary school was about 4 miles each day, as we walked home and back for lunch. At my rural elementary school there was no sweets vendor in the school yard nor outside of the gate. We had to walk a little distance to get to the sweets. We had a cup of milk [yes prepared with sugar] at morning break and there were water fountains DIRECTLY in the classrooms. Sp nothing but water and milk to drink during the school day.
ALAS when I got to secondary school there was a Coke machine there. Why oh! why was that permitted? I guess it was very persuasive marketing from the gigantic Coco-Cola company.
All soft drink machines and soft drink vending should be taken out of schools. Only water, milk and unsweetened juice should be permitted at schools, especially at nursery and elementary schools where little children should not be exposed to the giants who market sweet drinks.
How can 4 year olds resist the blandishments of soft drink executives with doctoral degrees and decades of experience in marketing? A David and Goliath situation. And alas Goliath is winning.
@Artax” Before COVID-19, why did you see people standing for several hours in long lines outside and along the Treasury Building, especially the day before the filing deadline?”
I don’t want to be mean, but some of those in the line don’t know the full names and dates of birth of their own children. And it is NOT because they are as dumb as big rocks.
Don’ ask me how I know.
And don’t ask me how and why this is so.
I int no sociologist?
@Simple Simon
Many were standing in line because they are computer illiterate.
@NorthernObserver April 5, 2022 11:19 AM “@SS based on reports, it was the Bermudians”
We know that no tax authority in the world has the capacity to keep a real close eye on every tax filer or non filer. Lol!
Why were the Americans keeping a close eye on the Bermudians and ICBL? The IRS can’t watch everybody all of the time. The have to do so selectively.
So…
Artax,
Good to see you!
We have many Bajans who are functionally illiterate. First, we berate our educational system for leaving them behind and then we deny their existence.
Logic does not reign supreme on BU at all, at all
I had a colleague whose son in law worked in marketing for Coco Cola. I was earning $30,000 per year. He was earning more than $300,000 per year.
And these marketing execs are permitted access to our 4 year olds?
Are we mad?
@ Donna
History proves @ David to be dead wrong! Who changed the direction of the country in 1937 ?
We have marched against increases by the telephone company.
Public Servants marched against Sandiford.
A public servant put the government in court and won concerning the same 8%
Bobby Clarke and other progressives organized marched against apartheid in South Africa.
Barbadians are what we call fair- they give people a chance
What we have now is essentially a one party state and Barbadians are giving Mottley a chance. They gave Barrow , Adamses, Arthur, Stuart – all of them were given chances
Don’t you and David see how we have turned against the DLP . It’s because they truly disappointed the citizens.
Barbadians have always taken a interest in the affairs of their country regardless to where they live
The truth is that this administration seems prepared to squander the greatest mandate ever given and none of us want to admit it and are attempting to blame the people.
@ David has been saying the same thing repeatedly and he means exactly what he said.
And @ Cuhdear Bajan was write to pull him up on the crap.
Barbadians decide when they have had enough and they prove it every day.
And that is a historical fact.
Do you all think that workers who built up one of the most powerful unions in the Western Hemisphere are docile and stupid.
I bet if the people decide to take up arms against the politicians wunnuh would start to sing a different tune.
Go after the damn politicians and leave the poor people struggling everyday to determine when they are ready.
We, the so called middle class should not join with the political managerial class and pull down people who barely surviving.
David,
I heartily commend you for allowing Willam to continually PROSECUTE you on flimsy “evidence” much weaker that what Artax retrieves from the archiives.
Apparently only he and WURA are QUALIFIED to come to conclusions about others based on their BU posts.
Do not be discouraged! Some of us see that many are too heavily investesd in old narratives to even consider new initiatives.
But William is correct about one thing – our political leaders have sworn an oath and they take a salary to act in our best interests. THE ONUS IS ON THEM FIRST TO LEAD IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION AND THEN TO ACT IN THE INTEREST OF THE PEOPLE!
The only reason why the people would need to apply pressure is BECAUSE OUR LEADERS ARE FAILING TO DO THE JOB FOR WHICH THEY ARE BEING PAID.
So…now we have got that straight, do try to keep your foot out of the do do!
“Go after the damn politicians , and leave the poor people struggling everyday to determine when they are ready.
We, the so called middle class should not join with the political managerial class and pull down people who barely surviving.”
So this is what it has reached to, trying to push the narrative that the cross-section of the Black population were not DELIBERATELY PAUPERIZED through thefts of their labor, taxes and NIS contributuions for DECADES/generationally and that 6 BILLION DOLLARS is not missing from the treasury….and upwards of 1 BILLION in VAT stolen/written off for thieves …with the usual suspect, lying politicians, their criminal minority friends and their pimps involved….trying to rewrite the truth…trying to pretend that there was no BUY ELECTION….trying to blame the victims as usual…and not those who destroyed the economy with greed and corruption…
William…i don’t go after politicians anymore for various reasons, apparently they take that as an opening to make life harder for the Black Afrikan population, by using the vehicle that will disdirect those who are mentally weak and believe political CRAP……by first blaming them for the victimization perpetrated against them….and then, it will only go downhill from there…
since my websites etc were launched, you do notice the narrative on BU has changed significantly and rapidly to one of anti-black people and promoting racist whiteness at every turn, but no BLACK EMPOWERMENT, although if we look back THROUGH THE YEARS, it never really did, but now it’s going all out to show that black empowerment never was any part of any agenda……….the change was gradual a few years back but intensified recently. Many expressed opinions on that, but we did not pay attention, i was very busy and until certain events occured to grab my attention totally, was not aware of this particular agenda until a few years back…
they can do what they want, but the people’s eyes are wide open, and they know they have to ACT for their own safety and remove themselves from the colonial system of crooks and their pimps eventually……….and not continue to trap themselves in the corrupt status quo to appease criminals…across the divide..everyone are not as they present or attempt to project….glad you and others are paying attention, stay on top of that, from they slip up, call them out……..because i don’t read everything here these days, i would have missed certain things…
apparently, it’s just as others said ALL ALONG…
You do know the saying…”Black people have no friends”…not even, and especially among their own TRAITOR kind…..
.everyone with your skin is not your kin…words to live by…..
i used up a lot of energy and time pushing pro-Black Afrikanness on here and got attacked for it at every turn….they had to REVEAL THEMSELVES…
RA is in control….
Donna April 5, 2022 1:06 PM
I’m scared and a bit reluctant to ‘say,’ “logic does not reign supreme on BU at all, at all.”
i have pro-Black sites geared toward educating OUR PEOPLE because they are the ones who know very little to nothing about themselves…not saying that others will not be referenced because although we are the majority on the earth…..we don’t live on the earth by ourselves as some other groups pretend….but my sites have one agenda and from that there will be no deviation nor will anyone get any opportunity to sabotage to push their own agendas…
William…in saying that, today am knocking back a chocolate mousse cake soaked in Amaretto…don’t even need to drink the brandy, life is good….and that’s how it should be FOR ALL BLACK/AFRIKAN PEOPLE…quality of life, and having financial and social choices…
And just as i forgot to mention the NIS THEFTS in my comment…am sure none of them are giving pensioners and that of the disabled a second thought…. who are not receiving their payments as they should, if at all…money they paid into the fund…
but the tens of millions stolen to build dead Cow’s fraudulent polo club, went up in smoke, especially when the new owners dug up the pool area….ya can’t hear a squeak about the people’s money lost in these SCAMS by the hundreds of millions to BILLIONS of dollars…
4 seasons anyone? Northern always talks about that, but it’s not as important a topic as pushing a corrupt agenda of sleight of hand and false narratives….
@John
If you got a Barbadian ID, there was no need to register to vote. You are automatically added to the voters list. they used to be one and the same. That is how I got on the list of voters with the address where I was staying while on vacation. So when I vote in Bim, I have to vote in that district.
@Dame Bajans
You are added to the list but every citizen has a responsibility to inspect the list to ensure information is entered correctly. So there is an accountability factor to be honored.
@ Donna
You are saying the same thing I am saying. @ David is going to persist with his belief that the political managerial class is getting away with murder because of a lack of activism on the part of the citizenry.
That’s my view.
Quite frankly you are one of the few on BU who do not give the political managerial class a pass. This is about the fourth time I have alluded to that.
Peace.
@SS
I await the trials of Innes and Tasker……waiting in vain?
My bet is somebody at H/O was ‘aware’, give it a pass…..until….the accounting group uncovered the mass of pottage….and then had to be seen as ‘complying’. The majority ICBL owner, was paying fines and disgorging profits, while certain people were still employed? In a typical world, they would long since be on administrative leave.
@NO
#disgorgement
@David April 5, 2022 1:52 PM “You have to acknowledge that in order to be strident advocates and in the process hold elected officials accountable it requires an intelligent citizenry. There is no circumventing.”
You still have not told us why you believe that Bajans are not intelligent citizens?
Did not we ordinary Bajans raise the political class, the administrative class, the academic class, the business class [yes even the white men of the business class] Are they not ALL, including the PM just one or two generations removed from OUR working class homes? Did we not teach them ALL to read and write, did we not pay for their university educations [we coulda fete out we money ya know] dis we not burn the midnight oil with them while they studied? Did we not teach them how to be teachers, doctors, lawyers, engineers, [even politicians]
So how come you feel [notice I did not say THINK] we stupid and they bright?
The 30 people sitting in the house are no brighter than we are.
The fellas sitting in the board rooms are not brighter than we are.
Some [not all] may be greedier, some may be more unscrupulous. NOT a fella int brighter nor better.
And when we ready we will send the bad behaved ones home. Just as we have long done.
@Simple Simon
The point is self explanatory if there is agreement that we are currently enduring a crisis of governance.
#PAC
#NIS
#debt burden
#trade deficit
#etc
@Skinner, you do prosecute the Blogmaster mercilessly (and questionably so, in my view) on this subject of leadership vrs citizen ‘apathy’. As @Donna noted, alas he does have the tendency to be cryptic in his posts and thus often has “stepped into it a little” with inexact commentary. That said, however, one must yet take the man at his words and actions across these pages over the years and NOT focus on an inexact post which is often just one of many across various blogs (and across various months of similarly themed topics). ….. His basic argument that “that in order to be strident advocates and in the process hold elected officials accountable it requires an intelligent citizenry” must be READ and understood as an _’ACTIVE, ENGAGED, INFORMED’ citizenry (as @Donna alluded to).
That is a truism in EVERY nation for all citizens so it absolutely does not dismiss history nor make mutually exclusive your point that the type of Bajan from ’37, the Bobby Clarkes, those who railed against Sandi or any others are nowadays ‘foolish’ under the Blogmaster ‘Trident’…. That’s NOT his point and I think you really know that!
I agree with the assessment that if we continue to facilitate our leaders’ behavior then regardless of the protests that will erupt from time to time that WE have abrogated our proper duties as guardians of OUR heritage (His not allowing the “lazy in thought middleclass off the hook”)
The blogmaster admonished me (wrongly, let me add 🤣😎) for questioning as ‘fit for purpose’ the right of Russian or Chinese citizens to acclaim their leaders … so let me pose here the following contrived analogy from that… in our Bajan sphere who is it that’s fit for purpose: the political managing elite or the electoral class who accept their supposed wisdom and elect them regardless of the problems about which they (we) complain!
Yes, yes, of course we are the same citizens who put boots on the ground to say ‘this can’t happen here’ often enough but we are also the same folks who heard one esteemed leader tell us that the courts will never give us the justice that we truly need … yet to this day some 40 plus year later we still continue to look for ‘salvation and justice’ and entrust our care into the hands of the same people who run those same courts and about whom we were told would NEVER give us justice!
So please do tell me: who or which group are truly ‘fit for purpose’ !
Governance and elections is a mutually inclusive damning mind game: we seek to elect the best from among us to protect and guide us from our worst impulses; although those who are motivated to be elected and thus present themselves as shining stars often are the greatest perpetrators of expressing those exact same bad impulses.
It’s almost like a life of controlled delusionary antics .. with some protests and angry marches periodically done to remind those elected to temper their bad impulses … but invariably that’s just ‘fit for the particular purpose’!
I gone.
@Dee Word
The blogmaster cautions you to pontificate on your behalf. The blogmaster does not have to be prolix to make simple and obvious points. We cannot spend all day and night on a blog rebuking Barbadians for being docile in our system of governance and then give them a pass for being disengaged. This is after spending half billion annually on education for decades. The problem and solution will always be the ‘man in the mirror’.
@ DPD
I am here laughing. The Blogmaster has called me a RH and Jackass more than anybody else on this planet.
He is free to continue calling me that. He is a defender of the political managerial class , more so Mottley and the BLP.
He sometimes tries to emulate David Ellis by pretending he can make statements to draw others into his often puerile nonsense.
He has no respect for the working class and very often protects the atrocities committed by the same political class he pretends to dislike.
We agree on something’s but on this particular topic he is unapologetic and relentless. And that is his democratic right!
As he recently reminded @ Donna, on this thread, he means what he said.
He is on the wrong side of history.
This is a democracy and I maybe a Jack ass and RH but like everybody else on BU , I call it as I see it.
Those who are foolishly attempting to partner me with others, will fail. I am not a member of any tag team.
I know the vast difference between prosecuting and opposing/critique.
Nobody proscribes or prescribes what I write.,I give and take .
No tag team here.
Peace.
William….am waiting for them to not only mention but prosecute ALL THE MENTIONED CRIMINALITY….against the people…..then they can talk about which citizens don’t hold the corrupt responsible…they don’t even want to address any of what i outlined on both pageslet alone…..call out the same corrupt ministers, corrupt minorities, corrupt lawyers etc…but want the citizens…THE VICTIMS to do something about them…steuppsss..
.then when they finally reach their limit of being discriminated against, oppressed, disenfranchised, robbed and treated like SLAVES and DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT….the same ones will call them crazy…like they call me..STEUPPSS and then will come the slander and sabotage….
“He has no respect for the working class and very often protects the atrocities committed by the same political class he pretends to dislike.”
while knowing fully well that the VICTIMS do not have what it takes to FIGHT BACK….they do not have my level of “crazy”
So William…we fully expect Blogmaster and those who see the people as weak and too illiterate to understand their circumstances to show the oppressed masses how to fight back against their oppressors and those who discriminate against and rob them….going forward, that is what the blog should be dedicated to…..
i would understand if the people are deemed UNDER-EDUCATED by design generationally, through no fault of their own……but you do not claim they are too stupid to help themselves without HELPING THEM TO FIGHT and better understand their predicament, with a view to helping them overcome their situation by presenting SOLUTIONS…
after 16 years the blog should have developed a BLUEPRINT just for that….Black empowerment..
@ WURA
They simply cannot handle the truth. You have people working for $300 per week or less; spending 60% in bus fare; being daily ripped off by unscrupulous merchants/ retailers; exorbitant rents and they come here talking about applying pressure to them. We have poor black children that are eating the cheapest over priced junk and we come here talking about their parents need to buy healthy foods.? Buy fish and vegetables with what , sand?
The damn truth is that poor children from our generation were eating far superior food and had a better quality of life than the poor of today.
They don’t want to address anything but want everybody to come here and sing in some BLPDLP choir.
Painting some pictures that only represent them and their comfort level.
Poverty and extremely poor nutritional meals have been increasing from the early 80s
We are told to accept a PM who criticize a fifteen persons cabinet but now has: a Chief of Staff; and three ministers/ semi ministers working in her office . Who is this Chief of Staff what is his or her purpose. She also has an information/ propagandists. In other words , the PM technically with all the advisers, ministers in her office , Chief of Staff etc has as many people working for her as the Stuart cabinet.
What really is a senior minister?
But these people come here telling their brothers and sisters who catching economic hell that they are to blame for not rising up against the political class.
Pure nonsense.
Besides, no Black conscious platform would dare push a colonial agenda …did they not go half a republic last year, and dropped/shed the monarchy?……complete with a nasty anti-black status quo..,,in 2022,…time for a long overdue UPGRADE..
.and those who are saying how THINGS SHOULD …..are the ones responsible for leading the charge…
and those who are saying how THINGS SHOULD BW//
William……. i have always found the general pack mentality from Black people toward what other Black people in the DELIBERATELY depressed areas experience in Barbados to BE DAMN UNREASONABLE.
..they act like they are above it all, untouched from what others suffer….and it’s all the sufferers’ fault to hear them tell it….that is right up until IT’S THEIR TURN to feel it even more;…which is right around the corner..just in case they are still not getting it…
@Skinner, the word prosecute does carry certain legal overtones but in my lexicon here there is absolutely no vast difference… it simply means to critique the matter relentlessly (or mercilessly as I noted). And surely no one would attempt to “proscribe or prescribe” what you write. I believe a little disagreement is good tonic for the soul!
I certainly can’t agree with you that a guy who teamed up with others to create a medium such as this which enables so many to relentlessly ‘prosecute’, interrogate and examine the business of Bajan governance, lawyers in the news and so much that affects the fabric of this nation “has no respect for the working class“.
That simply runs quite counter intuitively to the man’s stated mission. And the mere fact that these pages have exposed shenanigans across many an administration should give pause to the sentiment that he “often protects the atrocities committed by the same political class he pretends to dislike“.
One can only to be fair and rational, good sir… we may absolutely not agree with positions he or his editorial acolytes take and he and they have cussed us all at one point or other (if you more than others than accept that badge of honor proudly 👍😎) but quite clearly they aggressively often take to task the political class even if at times they defend them when they do well. Nothing irrational or unreasonable about that.
As he said above, “we cannot […] give [Bajans] a pass for being disengaged” as they can be at times. And it’s clear that the ongoing dynamic between citizens and the pols is fraught with complex decisions on how best to control our (worst) impulses and about electing those who are more like us that we would care to admit!
The sweet drink tax is a tax grab and the usual government putting the horse before the cart yet again.
They keep overstepping their authority which is to define and inform the population what the standards in Barbados are and put things in place to help us easily identify which standards the products and services being offered meet so we can make informed decisions.
A simple rating system based on sugar content by volume or weight is the simple way to go. The rating can be no sugar, low sugar, medium sugar or high sugar content and shops can be required to have the rating displayed on the product’s price label, shelf price label or placed in an entire section with products of the same rating.
@ DPD
I have credited those who own or control this blog for the opportunity. I am putting it directly to you that @ David is constantly blaming citizens for not being engaged. Like you, I asked him what keeps BU going : Is it not “ engaged” citizens?
I am here dealing with one issue: his determined nonsense about people being uneducated and the negative branding he puts on ordinary citizens.
He has honestly told you and others who have rushed to his defense that he does not need it. But yet you and they persist.
The boss cow is give a good bucket of milk and then knock it down.
Nothing wrong with you and others giving him a pass but on this particular issue he does not get one from me , and I am certain , it matters not to him.
He knows what he writes and I know what I write. Like you said there is nothing wrong with robust debate. He and I have been here before.
The only blog , that I am involved with , m sure that Barbados Underground is followed. We promote this blog almost on a daily basis.
Peace
@ WURA
It’s a facade. A kind of social /,intellectual arrogance. Nobody can tell them anything but they assign divine rights to themselves to direct how others think and write.
Disagree with them and they assign you to a box. It’s so funny. Good sport.
Peace.
“I am here dealing with one issue: his determined nonsense about people being uneducated and the negative branding he puts on ordinary citizens.”
the people are NOT uneducated…..THEY ARE UNDER-EDUCATED….= they are missing crucial information that would allow them to PROGRESS and REACH THEIR FULL POTENTIAL………huge difference……they did not bring that on themselves, it’s a lasting derivative of the repulsive colonial post-emancipation BLIGHT…
….it’s a colonial construct forced on 2 generations STILL, and the last half century KEPT IN PLACE by the traitors in the parliament…..without any upgrades that would allow the people to resist their oppression.
..but that was the whole point, keep them docile and do whatever they want to them…..without any fight back…keep them in poverty and in financial dire straits….then threaten them with legal regimes….legislations, slave laws and slave codes…..kept in place for exactly that purpose…if they try to resist or make their voice heard….hence the Public Order Act is still in place..
…these are the things BU should be ADVOCATING TO HAVE REMOVED…i have spoken about this thousands of times on BU and everyone just pretended that i didn’t..
.but don’t tell the people they are stupid because you want to see them forever trapped in a colonial construct to feed bottomfeeders……this is the time to put an end to all of that..
“Nobody can tell them anything but they assign divine rights to themselves to direct how others think and write.”
they should have figured out after 10 years that i don’t play those games, you cannot have it both ways, you are either using the platform to better your people’s existence, make the necessary changes, or to keep the same decrepit status quo in place to help destroy them….it’s a no-brainer…
bonne nuit.
@ WURA
I don’t know who they think built this country and still paying every frigging sacrifice for them to run their mouths with pseudo intellectual crap.
It’s so disrespectful to sit in their ivory towers and pour scorn on the poor black masses
Where is the sensitivity the love for their people.
Imagine, they could have used the same tourist industry to empower their own but they did not. Now, that the industry struggling they talking about community tourism when they for the last forty years trying to keep the tourists from the community.
They are frauds.
They going to help poor black youth with $5000 loans but they tried to get with Mark Maloney to make millions of the vaccines.
These criminals are watching all the black manufactures disappear but find $ 300 million to give hoteliers while the same hotel workers begging for monies owed to them.
Frauds.
You sit in parliament for donkey years, never saw the necessity for eighteen years old in parliament but suddenly one comes along who supports you and you are prepared to change the constitution for him to b we in the senate.
Frauds.
More to come
Peace
@Skinner, fair enough re “I am here dealing with one issue: his determined nonsense about people being uneducated and the negative branding he puts on ordinary citizens.” …. But let’s be clear : I am NOT rushing to defend him on ANYTHING. Nor am I interested in his perplexing and confusingly weird remarks about “caution” above. And fah sure, it would be foolish of me to perceive that I need to defend a man of his capacity and intellect.
His remarks about Bajans being “uneducated” must also be interpreted in the context of his oft repeated remarks about the expenditures on education here on the rock. I read the comments as being facetious, sarcastic and intended to incite a reflection on the lack of emphasis placed on studies in technical areas as compared to things like legal education. In that sense his ripostes are NOT ill-formed. … So this is surely not about giving him a pass. …. I simply am in agreement with his broad thesis re citizen ‘disengagement’.
Clearly, IMHO it’s ‘ridiculous’ to perceive that Bajans have not been well educated, are not well informed or even that we are under-educated based on the sizable cohorts of PhDs and MScs and others with first degrees, associate degrees, City & Guilds and multiple professional accreditations like CMA, ACA and MBAs, Fellows etc which abound … not to mention the strong awareness for over 40 years now by the regular non-lettered Bajan of the issues raised by people like John King (‘How Many More Must Die’), Gabby (‘Boots’ and endless), RPB (take your pick), people like Eric Sealy and Elombe, the same Bobby Clarke and all your comrades of yesteryear and folks like the ‘Cement Man’ and the many others of today.
We simply CANNOT be ‘ignorant’ of the knowledge of what bedevils us … and no one can rationally accuse us of that … we just seem to be freaking indifferent on some of the issues!
So I really do believe that it’s incomprehensible to interpret his sentiments in a ‘narrow’ construct of disrespect when he berates Bajan ‘apathy’ at times. Just saying!
Mr. Skinner made some very interesting comments in his April 5, 2022 8:14 PM contribution, especially those related to the tourism industry.
I’ve been hearing about ‘community tourism’ from the time I was at secondary school in the early 1980s.
But, I remember, during those years, when hotel security guards were running the black coral and beach craft vendors from off the beaches. They were deemed to be either ‘beach bums’ or ‘drug pushers.’
The hotel operators were allowed to encourage tourists not to mingle with hotel employees or in the surrounding communities with ordinary Barbadians.
They also constructed kiosks on their premises to facilitate the sale of beach towels, souvenirs and locally made ‘tied dyed’ and other clothing…… as well as to accommodate hair dressing salons for guests who wanted their hair ‘braided with beads,’ and invested in beach chairs……. which only served as a means of systematically removing Vendors from the beaches, thereby depriving them from ‘making a living as a result.
Why is it that, with a Hotel School and UWI offering BSc and MSc degree programmes such as International Tourism Management, Tourism Development & Management, Culinary Arts etc, we remain unable to recruit suitable candidates from Barbados or the region, to fill management positions at local hotels?
How could tourism officials, in all seriousness, talk about ‘community tourism,’ when hotel operators have been making the Bajan custom of ‘going to the sea’ increasingly difficult, by blocking access to the beach from Bajans in surrounding and other communities?
Guests are also encouraged, by Concierge and Front Desk, to hire vehicles from the large rental companies such as, Courtesy Car Rentals, Stoute’s Car Rentals and Drive-A-Matic.
These are the types of issues I want to hear Chief Executive Officer of the Barbados Hotel and Tourism Association, Rudy Grant; Minister of Tourism, Lisa Cummins and other ‘top level hotel players’ discuss.
However, ‘on a positive note,’ fortunately, at least two vendors I know that operate bars on Dover Beach, told me sales for vendors operating there were extremely high, especially after cricket, when the British were here for the recent test match.
“@ WURA
I don’t know who they think built this country and still paying every frigging sacrifice for them to run their mouths with pseudo intellectual crap.
It’s so disrespectful to sit in their ivory towers and pour scorn on the poor black masses”
i remember very well when my sites launched, BUs little imps and pimps made it their personal business to start launching personal attacks for months and months, mind you, i never tief anything from them, my sites, books and magazine are funded by ME, and geared as designed toward black improvement, empowerment, upliftment and education about our ancestors, and the half that HAS NEVER BEEN TOLD….anyone who has visited the sites can tell you, even though one has still not been upgraded to specs yet, that’s why they continue visiting BOTH…it’s because of the information available and WHAT they can learn…
….but this anti-black movement immediately started ON BU to attempt to SABOTAGE me from educating the masses about what is hidden from them….all because they don’t like how i write or express myself and they DO NOT WANT to hear OR LEARN anything outside of what they are indoctrinated to believe, no matter HOW it’s presented..and in true slaveminded style, they are well aware that is what their pretend slave masters want…and what corrupt politicians want continued indefintely, no changes to their dirty little plans to never upgrade to Black enfranchisement….otherwise, there is NO WAY, even if you don’t care for a person, you would attempt to stop them from distilling information that would be helpful TO YOUR PEOPLE….
so it has become clear, that BUs only reason for existence, outside of the colonial political claptrap always spewed, because that is what it will always be until the appropriate changes are made……. is.to maintain the anti-black status quo, instead of drafting a plan to LEAD THE PEOPLE OUT OF OPPRESSION AND BONDAGE…the blog showed itself to be pro colonial construct to keep Black people TRAPPED INDEFINITELY….and the blogmaster cannot deny it, simply because……..(will leave that one right there)..
.am not saying that was the initial plans, the blog may have started with the best of intentions but got lost somewhere along the way……giving the benefit of the doubt…but it could all have been designed specifically to continue the minorities on top and Blacks at the bottom of the financial and social ladder,,,which it had become glaring that there has been very little attempt to change the pecking order…
“I simply am in agreement with his broad thesis re citizen ‘disengagement’.”
but one must be fair….the people were SOCIALIZED by the same disgusting politicians for over half century GENERATIONALLY …to leave everything to us, we will take care of it all, you don’t have to do nothing, just vote every five years, which then evolved to ///it’s none of wunna business, we know what we are doing, you did not go to university, we are lawyers and got degrees….which then revoluted to…..wunna slaveminded and cahn pronounce words….so BU is showing in your face blatant disdain,black snobbishness and HYPOCRISY……against the Black majority who are the ones feeling the brunt of political corruption and government treachery…..
i practically EXHAUSTED MYSELF on BU outlining how crossections of the Afrikan descended population is MALICOUSLY disenfranchised and ROBBED generationally, and that NEVER ONCE made any profound impact on the blogmaster and many on here…not enough to say or do anything about it…..while knowing that it will NEVER END if not dismantled..that too caused me to make the decision to get my own platforms to distill what i know would make a difference and it has…and keep it out of the way of those who would sabotage it to push pro white racist agendas…
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“@ WURA”
you seem to keep reasoning surreal and not real and about your persona
your pyschommetric analysis reveals you’re not
(a) black (b) female
but are actually
(c) white (c) male
in disguise
something is not right
you are busted
and we are disgusted
ya still have to prove all of ya delusions…..prove it…
i notice none of you are ever able to prove anything …but go on and on anyway…and still cannot STOP ANYTHING…..BUs loser brigade…
btw…why don’t you tell BU what is happening in Jamaica…you use their culture and music to post crap all day long like you know something about what these people are experiencing, like you got some right and authority……Jamaicans are speaking out….post to the blog what you know…like i can..
and stop using Caribbean people for your repulsive agendas, you do not know what or how we think or feel and NEVER WILL..
https://www.instagram.com/tv/Cb-tFMYpLo0/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
I was going to post this video for GP although it can apply to Wuraola too
the meditation question for the universe is
Who is the best teacher on Bu?
Less is more.
@ Artax
It went a lot further. The hoteliers and governments ran the vendors of the beach because they knew that the vendors were making collectively , millions of dollars. They knew that a hard working vendor could easily make $1000 USD per week. I know vendors who when the industry was booming , made five times that.
They also knew that tourists arrivde at the hotels and the very first thing they ask about is the availability of drugs. Every single tourist destination has gigolos. The problem with the white hoteliers was they did not mind the white gigolos coming on their properties with white tourist women, but they had a problem with black gigolos.
The hoteliers started to open souvenir shops on their premises and sold the same products that the guys were selling on the beach and they bad talked the beach vendors by telling the guests to stay away from the locals on the beach. Every single small black business in the industry was sabotaged and or destroyed by local white racists and white expatriates assisted by shameless backward black governments.
There was a whole lot of economic racism that the black political managerial class refused to challenge.
Look around the industry today. Look at who owns the car rental business; the small apartment/hotels properties and we will see who was looked after and who cashed in on the industry.
They now come talking about community tourism. Big Joke !!. The small businesses like Boyce’s shop at the bottom of St. Lawrence gap were community tourism; taxi men taking tourists to their homes to enjoy our culture was community tourism; the return visitors came every year because of the small friendly community they built up with ordinary Bajans.
In the meantime, the big white owned tour companies ripped off the tourist carry them around the island at brek neck speed. I know of what I speak. I had interest in a small tour company. Many tourists tried our product and those who had also tried the big ones, told us that we took time; explained historic areas; gave them all the time they needed to take pictures and then took them to a establishment down Bathsheba and gave them an inclusive meal not one transported in the tour bus that was crude and which they were forced to eat in record speed. On our return they paid us way above what we charged because of the service provided.
I would not even worry to comment about the racial profiling at the Carlisle club on Bay street and others.
The Minister does not even know what community tourism means or what it is. In the words of a popular calypso: She betta ask somebody. She is a fashionista that’s all.
Am sorry, but never set out to be a BU teacher, that is and will NEVER be my intent…you have the wrong person…
…my purpose is to SHARE INFORMATION not known before to benefit the people who are ROBBED of the ability to understand what was created to UNDERMINE and keep them trapped intellectually, socially, and FINANCIALLY…..that’s all.
..this is not a competition, never was for me, never carried an 11 plus primary school mindset where i have to compete against every post/comment and never will..
“The problem with the white hoteliers was they did not mind the white gigolos coming on their properties with white tourist women, but they had a problem with black gigolos.”
every hotel has white/minority drug dealers….no need to draw a picture there either..