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The blogmaster congratulates Voice of Barbados for keeping the issue of a dysfunctional Government Industrial School (GIS) in the public eye. Barbadians are known for having short memories. The outrage expressed by callers and panelists on the ‘Return to Dodds‘ show hosted by veteran journalist David Ellis is merited although it maybe a case of appeasement for the sake of satisfying good conscience. The injustices meted out to residents of GIS and before the name change has been bandied about in the public domain for decades. Then again the residents of GIS are from the bottom socioeconomic bracket, NTSH.

What is happening at the GIS is reflective of a decadence and lackadaisical way to addressing problems prevalent in society- outdated laws, redundant systems and most of all a lack of leadership. It exposes the inability of our people to efficiently manage our affairs given a significant investment in formal education post-independence.

Where is the conscience of a people who for decades look the other way when young people suffering from behavioural challenges are treated inhumanely at Dodds?

Listen for yourself.

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224 responses to “Dodds Accused of Failing ‘Deviants’”

  1. pat oliver Avatar
    pat oliver

    Problem is they treat those children as though they are hard back criminals and not as misguided and in some cases abused children. David I cant get the audio.

  2. David Avatar
    David

    @Pat

    Try again, replaced with raw link.

  3. African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved Avatar
    African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved

    Excerpt from my book:

    The missing segments
    recently surfaced and showed very clearly the alleged
    commission of ongoing crimes against humanity when for many
    years senior citizens spoke about “two Barbados’s” which no one
    could understand until we read the constitutional laws relating to
    slavery, which emphatically states that:
    “No person shall be held in slavery or servitude; No person shall
    be required to perform forced labor; No person shall be
    subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading punishment or
    other treatment, unless under sentence of death.”
    This section instantly exposes the horrifying illegal actions that
    takes place on the island and placed the children’s alleged
    anguish at the GIS school right up there with the mistreatment
    known to occur against the population in general, at regular
    phases and showed that most of the seniors, long gone, were
    trying the best way they could to relay to us that slavery in
    another form was very much in existence. In addition, the UN
    General Assembly proclaimed on November 20, 1959, the
    Declaration of the Rights of the Child to which Barbados is
    signatory, but that did not stop either government from using
    1800s slave laws to violate those treaties and allegedly inflict
    physical and mental suffering. The UNs laws and principles are
    very explicit as it relates to protecting children, the entire
    population, and states, is legible and easily understood even by
    lay persons, so there is no room for confusion or
    misunderstandings. None of this information on human rights
    were ever made available to the public until recently released on
    social media by concerned citizens:
    42
    “Whereas the peoples of the United Nations, in the Charter,
    reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights and in the
    dignity and worth of the human person, and have determined to
    promote social progress and better standards of life in larger
    freedom.
    Whereas the United Nations has, in the Universal Declaration of
    Human Rights, proclaimed that everyone is entitled to all rights
    and freedoms set forth therein, without distinction of any kind,
    such as race, color, sex language, religion political or other
    opinion national or social origin, property, birth or other status,
    Whereas, the child, by reason of his physical and mental
    immaturity, needs special safeguards and care, including
    appropriate legal protection, before as well as after birth,
    Whereas the need for such special safeguards has been stated
    in the Geneva Declaration of the Rights of the Child of 1924 and
    recognized in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in
    the statutes of specialized agencies and international
    organizations concerned with the welfare of the children.”

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  4. African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved Avatar
    African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved

    Again…i take offense to these children, not yet 16 years old, referred to as deviants..

    …the deviants are all in the parliament and other taxpayer funded entities…these children never robbed the treasury, pension fund, VAT or set up scams to keep the majority population in generational poverty..

  5. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    These so called ” deviant ” children need the help of psychiatrist and psychotherapist.

    If there are allegations of criminal abuse at Dodds , the police should investigate.

    I am surmising that the majority of the children are victims of abuse by their parents .

  6. David Avatar
    David

    @Hants

    A big concern is that an investigation was conducted and tossed up a business as usual conclusion. Better needs to be done based on what was revealed on the program.

    https://gisbarbados.gov.bb/blog/operations-at-gis-in-keeping-with-unicef-guidelines/

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    African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved

    All the people need is the hidden information to deal with the nasty system and its imps and pimps, and they are getting it…

    Pacha…a One Afrika conference coming up with the same group we spoke about recently…some heavyweight names you are familiar with..

  8. Heather Avatar
    Heather

    Have the girls who were assumed to be runaways been found?

  9. David Avatar
    David

    According to what was recorded on the show lawyers representing the two are in discussing with authorities.

  10. BAJE Avatar
    BAJE

    I DON’T KNOW OF ANY GREATER DEVIANTS ON THE 2 x 3 ISLAND THAN THE LAWYERS MOST CRIMINALS THEMSELVES WHO LUCKILY DON’T HAVE A CONVICTION BEACUSE OF THE CLOSED PROFESSIONALNETWORK INCLUDING POLITICIANS WHOSE LIVES ARE AN OPEN DARK SECRETS.

    EASIER TO PICK ON THE LOW HANGING FRUIT THE YOUNG PEOPLE UNLUCKY TO BE BORN IN THE GHETTOS AND TO POOR DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILIES STRUGGLING TO SURVIVE IN POVERTY DAY TO DAY.

    HOWEVER WHEN ONE LIVES IN A TWISTED SOCIETY IT IS EASY TO PRETEND ALL IS NORMAL.

  11. David Avatar
    David

    Being a uni lecturer you are aware when a word is presented in quotes what it means?

  12. BAJE Avatar
    BAJE

    Being a uni lecturer you are aware when a word is presented in quotes what it means?

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    FORMER.

    JUST STRESSING MANY OF THE LOCAL DISHONEST LAWYERS/POLITICIANS SLIPPED THROUGH THE CRACKS AND ARE THE REAL DEVIANTS ON THE 2 x 3 ISLAND HOWEVER EASIER TO PICK THE LOW HANGING FRUIT WHOSE CRIMES OR DEVIANCY PALES IN COMPARISON WITH WHAT GOES ON BEHIND CLOSED DOORS PROTECTED BY THEIR NETWORK OF FELLOW WHITE COLLAR CRIMINALS..

  13. Heather Avatar
    Heather

    There does not seem to be any desire on the part of any government to change this archaic dehumanizing system. It perpetrates a holding system for the lower class.

  14. pat oliver Avatar
    pat oliver

    They are treating those children like the slaves were treated. The entire system is inhumane. It was very difficult to listen to this.

  15. Critical Analyzer Avatar
    Critical Analyzer

    The biggest problem is the public generally has the wrong idea about what happens at, how the facilities operate, the type of children and the reasons they went there cannot be fully ventilated in the public domain because they are minors so nothing can be made public.

    The best way to picture the boys and girls facilities is not as a prison but as a boarding school for children with problems their parents/guardians are having difficulty dealing with. Trying to address psychological issues at this stage is difficult especially when the facilities lack the number of professionals to maintain an acceptable child to professional ratio.

    Our problems have always had their genesis in our school system where children are not properly assessed early on to determine what challenges children have affecting their school performance, be it dyslexia, vision, hearing, abusive or sexual exploitation situations, etc.

  16. BAJE Avatar
    BAJE

    Our problems have always had their genesis in our school system where children are not properly assessed early on to determine what challenges children have affecting their school performance, be it dyslexia, vision, hearing, abusive or sexual exploitation situations, etc.

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    SO WHEN THESE YOUNG TEENAGE GIRLS WERE STRIPPED DOWN TO THEIR PANTIES OR NAKED FOR DAYS IN A ROOM DON’T YOU THINK THAT THEY ARE A LOT OF FUCKING PERVERTS AMONG THE ADULT STAFF AT GIS/DODDS.

    WOULDN’T BE SURPRISE IF THESE GIRLS ARE MOLESTED AT THE HANDS OF STAFF MEMBERS PAEDOPHILES.

  17. David Avatar
    David

    @CA

    A reasonable comment, especially your last paragraph.

  18. Critical Analyzer Avatar
    Critical Analyzer

    @BAJE April 22, 2022 9:00 PM

    SO WHEN THESE YOUNG TEENAGE GIRLS WERE STRIPPED DOWN TO THEIR PANTIES OR NAKED FOR DAYS IN A ROOM DON’T YOU THINK THAT THEY ARE A LOT OF FUCKING PERVERTS AMONG THE ADULT STAFF AT GIS/DODDS.

    WOULDN’T BE SURPRISE IF THESE GIRLS ARE MOLESTED AT THE HANDS OF STAFF MEMBERS PAEDOPHILES.

    These statements are exactly what I mean about not being privy to all the facts or not knowing all the procedures leads to most ill-informed statements. Over the years, I have known a few people working in these types of institutions and let me put a plausible, legitimate scenario under which you would do put someone in an empty room naked and that is threatening suicide.

    Any person threatening suicide must be taken seriously, even if you believe they are playing games, and either kept under constant 24 hour surveillance if they are in a furnished room with bed linen as all those things including your own clothes can be used to kill yourself or place them unclothed in an empty cell. If you don’t do either of those things you might find yourself in an investigation for not following procedure if they were serious and attempt it.

    Just like you were resourceful and found loopholes when your parents told you not to do something, incarcerated persons are usually much more resourceful and find ingenious ways of doing the impossible to stump the wardens.

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    African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved

    ” It perpetrates a holding system for the lower class.”

    that’s the whole point….they are the class of the disenfranchised, it’s a setup just for them…and the population in that class is growing bigger…so that a few deviant thieves, the usual lowlife suspects on the island, can pretend to be millionaires off their backs.

    ..the billion DOLLARS of STOLEN VAT could have created programs to aid the vulnerable out of poverty …AND repaired the hundred-year-old mains, but it didn’t did it…it went to crooked business people at the expense of the oppressed….and not one of them went to prison, got arrest, were investigated, let alone carry the label of the deviant class, which is their real names…

  20. African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved Avatar
    African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved

    Poverty breeds much more than hungry people and vulnerable children…..but the unlearned never want to deal with root causes, only with assigning blame…

  21. BAJE Avatar
    BAJE

    ny person threatening suicide must be taken seriously, even if you believe they are playing games, and either kept under constant 24 hour surveillance if they are in a furnished room with bed linen as all those things including your own clothes can be used to kill yourself or place them unclothed in an empty cell. If you don’t do either of those things you might find yourself in an investigation for not following procedure if they were serious and attempt it.

    Just like you were resourceful and found loopholes when your parents told you not to do something, incarcerated persons are usually much more resourceful and find ingenious ways of doing the impossible to stump the wardens.

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    WHAT A BUNCH OF POPPY COCK.

    YEARS AGO AFTER THE BREAKDOWN OF A MARRIAGE I WAS HAVING SUICIDAL THOUGHTS WHILST STILL BEING IN THE US AIR FORCE.

    TRIED DRIVING A CAR AT A HIGH RATE OF SPEED OFF THE ROAD.

    WAS TAKEN TO A HOSPITAL AND CHECKED IN COULDN’T LEAVE FOR A NUMBER OF DAYS WHILST BEING MONITORED. I WAS NOT STRIPPED BUT WORE A HOSPITAL GOWN DURING THE TIME.

    THERE WERE BEDSHEETS AND MANY OTHER THINGS I COULD HAVE USED TO COMMIT SUICIDE IF SO INCLINED DURING THOSE SEVERAL DAYS.

    STOP TALKING SHIT BECAUSE YOU THINK YOU ARE AN ANALYZER.

    LET ME NOTE ALSO THAT SOME YEARS AGO WHILST LIVING ON THE 2 x 3 ISLAND I MET A YOUNG LADY AROUND 20 YEARS OLD WHO HAD SPENT SOME TIME AT SUMMERVALE. YOUNG LADY WAS FROM ONE OF THE IMPOVERISHED AREAS, SHE MENTIONED THAT SHE WAS NOT A LESBIAN BEFORE ENTERING BUT BY THE TIME SHE LEFT SHE HAD MANY EXPERIENCES AND WAS COMMON TO ALL OF THEM INCLUDING AMONG THE DETAINED AND STAFF.

    I DON’T TALK SHITE I SPEAK FACTS OR KEEP MY MOUTH CLOSED.

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    African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved

    let me be clear before some fool misquotes:

    but the unlearned never want to deal with root causes, only with assigning blame…not to where such blame belongs belongs, but aimed squarely at the victims…

  23. David Avatar
    David

    Do some of you believe you can offer constructive feedback about complex behavioural problems based only on personal experience? Sometimes less is more.

  24. BAJE Avatar
    BAJE

    some of you believe you can offer constructive feedback about complex behavioural problems based only on personal experience? Sometimes less is more.

    LET ME NOTE ALSO THAT SOME YEARS AGO WHILST LIVING ON THE 2 x 3 ISLAND I MET A YOUNG LADY AROUND 20 YEARS OLD WHO HAD SPENT SOME TIME AT SUMMERVALE. YOUNG LADY WAS FROM ONE OF THE IMPOVERISHED AREAS, SHE MENTIONED THAT SHE WAS NOT A LESBIAN BEFORE ENTERING BUT BY THE TIME SHE LEFT SHE HAD MANY EXPERIENCES AND WAS COMMON TO ALL OF THEM INCLUDING AMONG THE DETAINED AND STAFF.

  25. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    Personal experience is what happens to you in the test tube. Very difficult to discard or ignore.

    Next up on my list is my gut feelings. This is based on personal experience and the experience that others relate to.

    Then I go with the experts/talking heads.

  26. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    Very reluctant to refer to folks as fools.

    Some of us are wise, some of us are wiser and, sadly, some folks imagine themselves even wiser than the rest of us.

  27. David Avatar
    David

    And there have been residents of Dodds who were able to retrieve their lifes and got back on track. As a former resident states on the facilities – and it is on the recording attached for those who bothered to listen. The challenge is that we have a systemic problem we need to solve. Not enough priority is given to rehabilitation at penal and correctional facilities, this includes Dodds Prison. We have to do better, hopefully with the spotlight on GIS we may see required reform sooner rather than later.

  28. David Avatar
    David

    We know of the many problems, we need to agitate for decision makers to do better. Recounting problems adds nothing to the discussion. We know of the dysfunctional and unacceptable practices already as a matter of record. We pressure Lucille Baird’s Board and Minister Wilfred Abrahams to deliver.

  29. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    The blogmaster is on point. But he bludgeons his way through instead of using the precision of a surgeon.

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    African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved

    there is NOTHING complex about the situation with the kids at GIS…..just had a situation RECENTLY where the deceased Rose tied up a Black child claiming she was exorcising demons…as a white psychologist in Barbados, when she herself was the REAL DEMON…these are the types of CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY ….they love to pretend to forget…

    “Very reluctant to refer to folks as fools.”

    fools would MISINTERPRET, misquote and then dive into the archive to tell ya what ya said…have to put them on notice…have seen too much of that on here…

    ya forgot to mention the “EXPERTS”

  31. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    Not a thumper, a part time believer but I will confess that the Bible is full of wonderful verses.

    Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves

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    African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved

    Most psychologists in Barbados are not worth the paper their letterheads are printed on, worse if they are handpicked by government…had it explained to me years ago, by a lawyer….there are some great ones, but they avoid government period.

  33. de pedantic Dribbler Avatar
    de pedantic Dribbler

    @David, quite noble words to say “The challenge is that we have a systemic problem we need to solve. Not enough priority is given to rehabilitation at penal and correctional facilities,[…] We have to do better, hopefully with the spotlight on GIS we may see required reform.” … but alas and unfortunately ‘this too will pass’ WITH NO DEEP SEATED IMPROVEMENTS.

    I would hope that if bloggers can opine so practically that “the public generally has the wrong idea about what happens” at penal institutions that surely then also realize that individual instances CANNOT always be so easily extrapolated to be representative of the whole; OBVIOUSLY.

    But I wanted to speak to a few of the remarks @Analyzer made. Brother, you are being very warm and euphemistically ill-directed (IMHO) to offer “The best way to picture the boys and girls facilities is not as a prison but as a boarding school for children with problems their parents/guardians are having difficulty dealing with.” That’s a platitude filled with false promise.

    Invariably and always … graduation or even removal for any reason from boarding school leaves former students with positive life options based on the association with that former place of attendance. I am hard pressed to know of any ‘graduates’ with positive options re their attendance at a place like GIS. My point is that the analogy fails because it gets way too far ahead of the problem: the parenting.

    Look, we go around and around this mulberry bush and get no where. We HAVE to address the very loose adolescent behaviors and mentality that places the youth in the penal system and thus we have to address HOW they reached that stage which is the abjectly ridiculous home life. Thus governance has to solve the problem of adolescent pregnancies, sexual predation on minors by fathers and other males, particularly those who are their teachers and other authority figures.

    It has to be a very comprehensive and deeply worked solution to MAKE youth see themselves way beyond the sex and carousing, objectifying and drugs etc …. of course there are no easy freaking answers here but surely there are also NONE in well intentioned but really still abjectly unreal commentaries about the management of penal institutions particularly for youth who at that age see themselves as so totally indestructible and empowered that they ‘act out’ in the most crazy ways.

    Just saying … we do need to get REAL.

  34. David Avatar
    David

    Many of the residents at GIS for boys and girls are coming from homes with delinquent parents; little or no support. When they enter GIS they need significant psychological assistance and if some get are lucky to straighten up there is the challenge of careful reentry to society.

  35. BAJE Avatar
    BAJE

    Many of the residents at GIS for boys and girls are coming from homes with delinquent parents; little or no support

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    THIS COULD BE SAID OF OVER 60 PERCENT OF BLACK HOUSEHOLDS ON THE 2 X3 ISLAND.

    STILL DOESN’T MAKE UP FOR THE FACT THAT SOME WOULD LIKE TO COVERUP WHILST BLAMING AND SHAMING THE VICTIMS.

    SLAVERY CONTINUES TO DAMAGE PEOPLE WHOSE BRAINS ARE SO WARPED PASSED ON FROM GENERATIONS THAT SOME WOULD RATHER MAKE EXCUSES WHILST PUTTING OTHERS IN A BOX.

    PICK SENSE FROM NONSENSE

  36. David Avatar
    David

    @Dee Word

    Like many other problems this one is a soft issue which requires adequate resources successive governments have not shown the inclination to efficiently address. There is the undeniable fact residents admitted to GIS are positioned on the lower socioeconomic rung. With so-called scarce resources it is easy to ignore social problems under discussion until it gobsmacks us all.

  37. Critical Analyzer Avatar
    Critical Analyzer

    @BAJE April 23, 2022 8:11 AM

    You reinforced my substantive points about lack of resources and public not understanding the procedures.

    Your experience was different because the resources were available to monitor you for those days. Had the monitoring resources not been there as they most likely would not be in Barbados, you probably would have been sedated and restrained to the bed while recovering from the injuries sustained before being transferred to our mental facility for assessment.

    Our problems has always been lack of resources and increasing inefficient use of what we do have. We used to be more ingenious and solve problems doing more with less but that seems to be a lost art where consultants and lawyers are thrown at every problem.

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    African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved

    Long before any book was published, the above excerpt was published to BU, when it was exposed about the naked child in the cell and what goes on at GIS..

    ….torture, mistreatment of people including children etc ARE INTERNATIONAL CRIMES…nothing complex about any of it…..all straight forward..

    .these are just trying to impossibly clean up their dirty conniving image…..epic fail….

  39. David Avatar
    David

    The point about ‘careful reentry’ has implications for the incidence of recidivism.

  40. de pedantic Dribbler Avatar
    de pedantic Dribbler

    Yes @ Mr Blogmaster accepting your 9:16 AM as valid and mostly accurate it reinforces the challenge that we are NOT going to solve our problems by harping on the GIS ITSELF. Of course management can be improved but the issues go back much further … thus that’s where we have to go to start the fix.

    On an island THIS small we should NOT be facing these intractable issue if there was a determined will to address the issues at their root and cut them out, as there are TOO many well trained professionals with long years of experience on these issues. So again to your point “successive governments have not shown the inclination to efficiently address” and I am just amazed by that.

    Why are there so many teachers and parents who are never taken to court and JAILED for raping minors; why have we seemed to normalize that a secondary school youth can become pregnant and it’s not such a big deal and thus of course with that there is mush less a taboo even of having sex during those formative years.

    Obviously now as when I was a lad that whole self image, ‘am I likable’, ‘will I be peer accepted’ issues are troubling our youth and then as now it morphs into all types of recreational peer induced ‘going along to get along’. But when that leads to a lil weed, petty shoplifting, bullying and so on then we are skidding down a slippery slope … and (with your favorite word) ‘deviant’ parents at home there is no one to forcibly apply the brakes!

    So sorry but there is no way a warden or a board of management at a GIS is going to FIX those issues … and neither is this government seemingly ready to properly address the real issues either!

    Lata.

  41. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    Let me be GP-ish until he arrives. We need to dial back on our claims.

    An example
    “Most psychologists in Barbados are not worth the paper their letterheads are printed on, worse if they are handpicked by government…had it explained to me years ago, by a lawyer….there are some great ones, but they avoid government period.”

    That is a harsh statement to make and most of it cannot be supported
    1)Most psychologists – numbers please

    2)worth the paper their letterheads are printed on – how did you arrive at this conclusion?
    3) worse if they are handpicked by government – evidence please

    4)had it explained to me years ago, by a lawyer – is he qualified to make this call?
    How many has he encountered?
    5) there are some great ones – I am sure they are and some lousy ones also, but I don’t have data

    6) but they avoid government period – evidence please
    Facts please
    “Facts are God’s argument. We should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them” -Tryon Edwards

  42. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    “fools would MISINTERPRET, misquote and then dive into the archive to tell ya what ya said…have to put them on notice…have seen too much of that on here…”
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    The real problem here is, some people often MISREPRESENT the TRUTH and when REMINDED, they SWEAR they DID NOT,

    “Have seen too much of that on here.”

    Reminds me of a foolbert who kept arguing that Rolerick Hinds was the duly elected representative for St. Thomas, and then subsequently DENIED doing so.

    Remember, the archives is a credible source of information that provides us with an ACCURATE QUOTE of what a person ACTUALLY ‘SAID.’

    So, any reasonable thinking individual would understand why SELF-CONFESSED LIARS and FOOLS would feel THREATENED by the archives.

  43. David Avatar
    David

    @Dee Word

    Your comment could have been extended to include the management of deviant behaviour by teachers and principals in traditional education over the years. The transfer of teachers and principals in the system known for engaging in inappropriate conduct. It is not only about efficiently allocating resources, it is also the lack of will by successive governments to implement reform.

    Let us deal with the systemic.

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    African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved

    “2)worth the paper their letterheads are printed on – how did you arrive at this conclusion?”

    “had it explained to me years ago, in the 80s by a lawyer….there are some great ones, but they avoid government period.”

    read TWICE…to answer all your questions…

  45. African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved Avatar
    African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved

    This is not the first or LAST discussion about the problems at GIS, it has been a TOPIC AMONG MANY for DECADES…….there is very accurate information out there on what causes and solidifies these problems…

    not that i will share, there are places where the info can go to actually bring about needed changes instead of only being a talking point and forgotten within hours….

  46. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    I have been pushed to the ‘other side’.
    I willingly agree that there is much that is wrong and needs to be corrected.

    There really is no need to be creative or inventive.

    Supporting the truth and being silent on the misspoken word is not true honesty. Will try to move to a higher level (80%) of honesty.

    Have a great day Barbados.

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    African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved

    Theo…make no mistake, it’s not like people don’t know what’s really going on with that situation…….but they love their 9 DAY wonder of gossip until something juicier comes along…AND….using blinds to hide behind, that one i put my foot down on, because it’s clear the intent is to perpetrate DISABLING MOTIVES, and i ain’t no bling……. a cover-up while the real crimes are shielded, look out for something hidden being exposed soon..

    I reached the point that will no longer even bother share many things, just send them elsewhere…in a different format…

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    African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved

    Correction:

    because it’s clear the intent is to perpetrate DISABLING MOTIVES, and i ain’t NO ONE’S BLIND.…to hide behind.

  49. BAJE Avatar
    BAJE

    Your experience was different because the resources were available to monitor you for those days. Had the monitoring resources not been there as they most likely would not be in Barbados, you probably would have been sedated and restrained to the bed while recovering from the injuries sustained before being transferred to our mental facility for assessment.

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    SIR NO DISRESPECT TO YOU.

    I HAD NO INJURIES WHEN I WAS ADMITTED TO THE HOSPITAL ROOM.

    DUE TO A THREAT OF SUICIDE WAS ENOUGH REASON FOR ADMISSION AND MONITORING.

    STOP MAKING FUCKING EXCUSES FOR THESE MISCREANTS IN AUTHORITY ALONG WITH POLITICIANS SUCH AS WILFRED ABRAHAMS WHO ARE THE REAL DEVIANTS WITH POWER.

    MOST OF THESE YOUNGSTERS DIDN’T KILL ANYONE.

    SUMMERVALE/DODDS HAS MANY MALE AND FEMALE EMPLOYEES MORE THAN ENOUGH TO MONITOR ANY YOUNG TEENAGER.

    INSTEAD OF BEING THERE TO CUSS, SLAP, BEAT WITH STICKS AND SEXUALLY ABUSE YOUNGSTERS WHO ARE CUT OFF FROM THEIR FAMILY AND THEIR COMMUNITIES IN A PRISON LIKE ATMOSPHERE.

    THEIR IS WAY TOO MUCH SICKNESS OCCURING ON THE 2 X 3 ISLAND AND PEOPLE LIKE TO ACT THAT IS NORMAL.

  50. Vincent Codrington Avatar
    Vincent Codrington

    @ David Bu at 9 ;58 AM

    Do Governments implement reform or the technocrats in the Public Service? Why are you deflecting blame? Technocrats advise and implement. Hence the need for relevant experience, technical know how,and the ability to manage the Political Directorate. The Public Service represents the continuity of GoB.
    Some politicians tend to overstep their remit and cause unnecessary confusion. Of course we know the drivers of such behaviours/responses.

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