Paul Kagame Visits Barbados
Paul Kagame the transformational leader of Rwanda is set to visit Barbados today after leaving Jamaica. In another blog post Rwanda was featured for its rapid transformation under his leadership following a brutal civil war.
His arrival will be telecast – see link: https://youtu.be/PhLZtEhRouA
Becoming the SINGAPORE of the Caribbean
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The pace at which Singapore has achieved so-called first world status- in a generation- has ensured mention in case studies to be found in any management volume of standing. By every account it is a well managed country directed by a relevant strategic plan, disciplined society, adequate workforce with required skill sets to execute plans, routine enforcement of laws etc. You get the picture. It is a country serious about effectively and efficiently directing its resources.
Read full text of the blog – Becoming the SINGAPORE of the Caribbean
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@ David @ WURA
About three hundred years ago, I was doing some business in Tropical Village. A store owner had some wonderful posters. They were promoting Budweiser beer but they were all highlighting the great warriors of Africa. I acquired some on the spot.
Believe it or not , that is when I started to research the great warriors of Africa and how many of their military strategies were still being used by the European armies.
Schooled in Barbados educated about Africa via American Budweiser beer marketing literature.
It doesn’t getting any worst than that !
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That should be Pelican Village not Tropical Village. Apologies.
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@William
It seems obvious that the education found in old civilizations would be coopted and advanced by others.
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“Believe it or not , that is when I started to research the great warriors of Africa and how many of their military strategies were still being used by the European armies.”
nothing escaped the notorious thefts….you will one day learn just how much more is still copied from our ancestors, and many times used AGAINST US…am still learning, still processing, mouth still hanging open at what was stolen….and the audacity..
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But who doan know dah?????????
No civilisation is pure. Each borrows from those with whom they come into contact. Each is influenced by the other.
The problem is that Europeans try to hide that fact.
They fool who they can fool.
But one does not need to read copiously to understand how a people are influenced by those with whom they come into contact.
That can be gleaned from watching people in everyday life.
A people is made up of individual people.
Simple.
So says the unread cunt.
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David,
Our Ghanaian nurses have apparently stated an intention to participate in our Season of Emancipation. I remember suggesting that their service could extend to the cultural.
Hopefully that should turn things up a notch or two.
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This thread is dead because nobody has research skills or access to material.
Murdaaaaaaaah!
Really!
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This is good news Donna, it shows how a commercial transaction done probably can have addon benefits.
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@ David
The deeper we dig into the present and future malaise, we will discover a selfishness in ourselves that is our greatest enemy.
The major problem in discussing issues here and elsewhere , is that some of us want to always count their personal lifestyles ahead of what is actually happening to the majority of those , who are on the verge of socio economic extinction.
Like I have said recently every well known and researched position is considered to be wrong just because it is not happening in their households or in their immediate existence.
Don’t complain about the price of vegetables get a kitchen garden;
Don’t complain about the rips off at the big garages because I got a good local mechanic;
Don’t say anything about the perilous state of the economy because you don’t live ‘ bout here
And it goes on and on.
The simple truth is that the world economy is in a very dangerous position right now. It does not mean that luxury cars are not being bought; it does not mean that mansions are not being built;
and it certainly does not mean that we will all die tomorrow.
But what it really means is that poor black people in Barbados and throughout the Caribbean will catch hell for another thirty years.
It is called persistent poverty. That is where the focus should be. But to come here personifying everything to prove that people are just whining is the trick of the massa.
We have a cultural problem and that’s why we don’t eat local priducecas we should and we have a major governance problem because two useless political parties and their collective foolishness go unchecked.
We must accept that it’s time to move beyond self and get back to being our brothers and sisters keepers.
This struggle is not about any individual it’s about a race of people who must now show solidarity and destroy everything that is out in their path even if it means eradicating the apologists and those who are determined to prop up the decadent establishment at all costs.
Simple as that !
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@William
The blogmaster is on the side of an active citizenry, growing a strong culture of consumerism. We will not always get it right but up to now the people have been too passive. You are aware of the blogmaster’s perspective. This is not to mean we are letting leaders off the hook but for our flawed construct to works ALL actors in civil society must be active.
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“The major problem in discussing issues here and elsewhere , is that some of us want to always count their personal lifestyles ahead of what is actually happening to the majority of those , who are on the verge of socio economic extinction.”
that would be the “ignorant.”.
“But what it really means is that poor black people in Barbados and throughout the Caribbean will catch hell for another thirty yearsthey will see wht hell is if they don;t get up and help themselves and turn away from useless politicians…\\”But to come here personifying everything to prove that people are just whining is the trick of the massa”
massa don’t have to do anything…”the ignorant….do it all by themselves…their worse enemy…
“This struggle is not about any individual it’s about a race of people who must now show solidarity and destroy everything that is out in their path even if it means eradicating the apologists and those who are determined to prop up the decadent establishment at all costs.”
from your mouth to the ears of RA!!!…the only way to survive….but i have confidence in the intelligent….
they need to start from scratch…and find the necessary information to move forward sans toxic politics and even moore toxic politicians…they survived without benefiting from either for the last half century…neither are needed…it has always been a scamto rip off..
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William…..people on the island are understanding their predicament much better, and are doing what is necessary, they know there are enemies all around them, including and particularly those who look like them, am impressed how they are standing up to the occasion…nothing and no one can stop them….
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I even got a chapter out of it for my next book….The Ignorant vs.The Intelligent…
am never one to waste an opportunity..
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William…sorry i messed up your comment….corrected now…..
“But what it really means is that poor black people in Barbados and throughout the Caribbean will catch hell for another thirty years”
“they will see what hell is if they don’t get up and help themselves and turn away from useless politicians and keep away from the stinking politics……and stop listening to political pimps…
”But to come here personifying everything to prove that people are just whining is the trick of the massa”
massa don’t have to do anything…”the ignorant”….do it all by themselves…their worse enemy…worth repeating, same ones who love to come and talk about white this and white that….they do all the dirty work for massa and then complain after….
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@ WURA @ David
There is hope. There was a very interesting discussion on Brasstacks today re: how to deal with those who steal sugar cane.
Peace
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Missed it. What was it in summary?
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“re: how to deal with those who steal sugar cane.”
lol…those are the ones looking for fame and not serious about anything, the persistent yappers, love to hear themselves yammer on and on, they will wait until people are dropping from hunger to pretend they have solutions when we know they HAVE NONE….too caught up with their petty useless titles, they better look toward ancestral wisdom and not minority self seeking wisdom…or all will definitely go the way of the dodo bird…
but to think William…there are people out there with the information to help them get on track, filling the gaps of the puzzle, but they are so ungrateful with their eurocentric minds, no one will bother.
..just like they have always been people capable of showing them the right path for the last half century, and they took the road to perdition instead, so, they can keep in that same direction…everyone is breaking for themselves..with what valuable knowledge they have to benefit themselves, no one needs the ungrateful….
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Africa 2022
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Good one. Already had a laugh at that one a few days back. A few sticks of cane sold by a few broke boys by the wayside.
Not Barbados’ biggest problem at all.
I am not in favour of theft but I prefer to examine the causes of these few broke boys hustling to sell a few sticks of cane in traffic.
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William….do you think this is why they are so lethargic to cut loose completely from the colonial political system itself…still house negros…
https://abibitumitv.com/watch/malcolm-x-the-house-negro-and-the-field-negro-2015-cartoon_wPmc5lzx5KjdChm.html
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I have a serious problem with the likes of Ezra Alleyne claiming that “we” were the framers of the Oistin treat of 1652…who the hell is this “we” in the Afrikan descended population who drafted. framed or signed anything to do with our destiny….they still can’t draft their own constitution, still don’t have a handle on anything to drive their own financial and social progress, always waiting for or paying someone else to do it….but the “we we” crowd can’t see themselves..
“The conditions of the surrender were incorporated into the Charter of Barbados (Treaty of Oistins), which was signed at the Mermaid’s Inn, Oistins, on 17 January 1652.”
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@ WURA
Yep. A pretty close analogy. Sadly, too many of us still see the world through Massa”s eyes.
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William…still applicable today…
“Ijiji na eweghị onye ndụmọdụ na-esoro ozu laa n’ili.”It is only the adamant fly that follows the corpse to the grave.” -Igbo proverb”
and the “ignorant” say that our ancestors knew nothing…
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I thought the environs of Bridgetown was clean and all ready for inate change until I read this
Mia trying to convince the diabolical entities, that she is about climate change and green spaces, to get more free money mean while, independence square look stink, don’t talk about the one to the top of broad Street, by courts, nasty, garbage every where,, in the middle of bridge town, the minister of health, certainly is not doing his job, or the city representative, queens Park looking shabby too, during elections she was doing optics, but she won, so nothing, then there is the river stand, bare rot, and stagnant water, , and garbage, no where poor ppl frequent, is enhanced, or even attempted to upgrade,
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They could learn the art of cleanliness from Rwanda….and how to keep PUBLIC SPACES CLEAN DAILY…the information is out there, they should do the research to find it…i have posted more than enuff information on that particular and on other Afrikan countries over the last 4 years…posting less and less about the continent.
less information is more…and available.
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“Sadly, too many of us still see the world through Massa”s eyes.”
and do all of massa’s dirty work too, voluntarily, without massa asking, sewing seeds of division among each other, so there will be no hope of cohesiveness….doing it publicly too, without any shame or remorse…then complain about massa too, just for good measure..the ones on BU are famous for that sideshow.
got it all down pat in my book’s new chapter….don’t know how they expected or hoped to escape these dirty deeds being published for everyone to digest the info and know who the culprits are, by their actions…..
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Start with yourself on the ignorant side. You are ignorant about yourself and how your constant self-promotion all day, every damn day mades you look like a person desperately in need of validation.
DPD said it once. You seem to be accomplished enough to be satisfied with yourself. There is really no need for your constant attempts to elevate yourself artificially and denigrate all others as a profession. I have never seen or heard of such behaviour inspiring unity anywhere.
More than likely that it runs some people off BU. Nobody wants to read that shit all day!
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“the ignorant” seem to think their opinions matter, i assure you they don’t, no one cares, now try contributing something to make a difference in the lives of the disenfranchised, in Barbados there are over one hundred thousand of such helpless people…….that would be something new to draw more people to BU..
.attacking the “intelligent” daily is retrograde and seen as such…
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William…i stupidly, as usual….thought with all the recent big talk on here of forming some “faculty” to rival UWI, in educational OUTPUT, we would have seen some positive advancements by now…these things do not take long to put together. Some people do it within HOURS, if complex it could take DAYS…. and only fail when the REQUISITE WORK is not inputted …
.but would you know it, after a week when they thought everyone forgot….back to the same OLD TRICKS again…
had to tell someone recently about internet parasites…
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I read with great interest where a black man is asking for govt help maintaing a beautification project which he built by himself
Now all and sundry knows that if a privately owned white establishment was involved in the building of such project govt would have opened the revenue tap and allowed the flow of money to reach that white establishment
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Donna April 20, 2022 7:22 AM
I agree.
That’s why I suggested David should rename Barbados Underground, the ‘WARU Show.’
I’ll admit that her criticisms of Barbados’ political environment and race relations are often correct.
But the question is am forced to ask is, since the goodly lady believes she has been “contributing something to make a difference in the lives of the disenfranchised” for the ‘past ten years,’ how come she has been unable to “draw more people to BU?”
‘In other words,’ if it hasn’t worked for her in 10 years, how ‘on earth’ would you, or anyone, achieve immediate success with a few days?
But, Donna, why worry yourself? I’m happy she has now become a member of BU’s ‘selected few,’…… the ‘intelligent.’
Remember, this is someone’s whose main sources of information were Jacky Stewart’s Facebook page and the gossip site, ‘Naked Departure.’
And, who ADMITTED to “making up things just to make things interesting.”
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Angela…ya done know it’s a decades old evil habit from those who suffer from SNSyndrome to tear down Black creativity if they can’t tief it…and that’s why the island is in this position…and will not progress until they understand that CREATIVES make progress where others fail..
.what did Rwanda ask for, not who passed the 11 plus or which high school they attended, they asked for CREATIVES….entrepreneurs……there is a reason…
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And the young…another valid reason..
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I posted a link to support my comment and so far the link does not show
Wuh happen
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But look how quick govt would break.up.amd mash up small farmers thriving on govt land
Rather than draw up a plan that would serve these budding entrepreneurs to a gainful livelihood
Meanwhile govt would find a way anyway to transfer govt land to the high and mighty outside interest like Hyatt at tax payers interest
Xxxxxx
https://fb.watch/cvPQ7N4Nd0/
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Waru don’t pay the naysayers any attention
Had not for your ongoing input BU would be like a broken shoe nevertheless a shoe string lol
BU has become the lone voice of govt and their lackies
Your voice irritates them because you are not singing from their hymn book
Hence criticism Frustration and temper tantrums is their best mode of response
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Don’t know how they expect any of these things to hide, there are an overabundance of platforms out there..
they don’t have control over any except what they own in terms of control….
and some really high-tech forward moving ones can be found too…..can’t even find the time to peruse all…
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“BU has become the lone voice of govt and their lackies
Your voice irritates them because you are not singing from their hymn book”
not my style or flavor…don’t do the…. somebody own me thing, and i gotta say what THEY WANT…or i can’t survive……i burn fire on that….
too independent minded, call own shots, craft my own destiny…don’t need a fella to like me, like i need a crutch…
they love to show up primary school attributes, although people keep telling them it’s unbecoming of OLD PEOPLE……
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Angela….don’t know why they don’t come clean and be honest with themselves and everyone else…..it would take the pressure off them, but no, ah guess they have a close relationship with pressure…
they would like to put the blame on me for people avoiding the site, when it’s old news what they are hiding, it’s even a running joke on FB and one or two other platforms…
the least they could do is give up the facade, the charade, before it all goes SIDEWAYS.
..but dah is dem bidness, iz dem gotta go sleep wid dah dey and wake up wid it……not moi..
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If not comment on the subject move on.
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MUST SEE VIDEO BY ALL BLACKS IN 2022
Chinese mine manager in Rwanda sentenced to 20 years in prison for whipping local workers
https://www.yahoo.com/news/chinese-mine-manager-rwanda-sentenced-235647279.html
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That is the outcome ya want…glad to see the beeche get what’s coming to him, one shot an 8-year-old boy in Ghana earlier this year, waiting to hear they sentence him big too….
that’s the attitude they go to Afrika with, he owns no damn minerals on the continent…none..
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Source: Nation
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Source: Nation
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“In the context of transatlantic slavery, was Emancipation simply a change in the terms and conditions of bondage? Do we have or have we taken the authority to change those terms and conditions? Do we have the will to define words, the world and reality for ourselves? Or do we simply wait for and accept what others put in their books?’
powerful questions…that cannot be defined or answered accurately in a colonial context, had this same conversation on another forum some weeks ago, papers are already written on the subject from an Afrikan perspective…
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Source: Nation
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“With both Africa and the Caribbean almost now totally decolonised,”
obviously not living in the real world and only a propaganda mouthpiece….
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How could those claiming higher education with bits of paper from degree mills…..NOT UNDERSTAND what is really going on around them, but all ready to MISLEAD THE PEOPLE….with self-massaging fantasies and fairytales…not this time…
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Source: Nation
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