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Congratulations to Prime Minister Mia Mottley for being recognized by TIMES Magazine as one of The 100 Influential People of 2022. Based on reports the rationale for recommending Mottley for the award was penned by  Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, director-general of the World Trade Organization.

The hope is that Mottley will be able to leverage her burgeoning global brand to improve regional and domestic economies. In recent times Barbadians have not had many high points to celebrate, the recognition of one of our own is a step in the right direction and should assist in bolstering bajan pride which took a hit in recent years.

#congratspmmottley

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535 responses to “Prime Minister Mia Mottley Named in Top 100 Most Influential People of 2022”

  1. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    “Meaning unless one agrees with those who set the standards or set the goal post all other opinions are irrelevant”

    Mia has only got 4.5 years left and then will be moving on
    otherwise your dog in the race Ronnie Yearwood will be doomed to fail again against a Time Top 100er mos def

  2. Enuff Avatar
    Enuff

    “you can take over…ya betta at it than me….you who had to run off the blog in SHAME… after the THE DEBT IS PAID….LIES…”

    Mam, stop the lies. You have no shame?

  3. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    “……..that would disquality many on here, especially those who like to hide and attack others…”
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    I’ll REMIND you and BU, it was a HABIT of yours until recently when you began using your current moniker.

    ‘All of a sudden now,’ you’re playing victim.

  4. Tron Avatar
    Tron

    @ Bush Tea May 24, 2022 9:13 AM

    Four seasons: A great project that the DLP has screwed up.

    No LEC: One is a leader by birth, not by any exam papers.

    the Radical vaccine thingie: Necessity knows no law.

    the mindless adherence to The WHO Covid idiocy: We are the freest country in the world. Everyone can do what they want – provided it is in accordance with the will of the leader.

  5. David Avatar
    David

    @Hants

    Not the word ‘influential’ much of it comes from her intervention at COPS26 which was well received by world leaders.

  6. David Avatar
    David

    @Artax

    One has to perfect the art of ignoring as a blogmaster. For example, the blogmaster posted a link to gravatar.com for commenters who want to upload avatars a note avatars not true likenesses – and off an running there is a comment about commenters asked by the blogmaster to revealed themselves. Where ignorance is bliss it does not make sense to bother. If BU is if no value to sone then leave.

  7. BAJE Avatar
    BAJE

    @Pacha

    You didn’t answer the question posed, you would have preferred Putin?
    xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

    WHAT A FOOL PUTIN IS ON THE SAME LIST SAME AS JOE BIDEN

    https://time.com/collection/100-most-influential-people-2022/

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

    “Waru

    Are you sure that it is education or rather mis-education.”

    exactly what it is, miseducation…my bad….

    the miseducated can stay like that, no one cares…and it’s a waste of energy, totally useless trying to change mindsets, unless they are young, I understand how you and William feel, but it won’t happen…those who were willing to change, have already, the others are doomed..

    the misdirection is the problem,….a stimulus payment, they are calling it a UBI dividend….fine, but the wheel was not invented….stimulus checks to jumpstart economies have been given out in various countries for DECADES….US gives them out on the regular, but don’t claim that it’s a first, and the world should follow…. it’s not….DISHONEST, misdirection, only fowls, fools, followers will fall for that…the world ain’t that dumb.

    ..and no one is about to follow an active slave society anywhere ever again…the last time poison spread from Barbados across the world, it was the slave codes and we know how that turned out…and yall still got them in play…

    Fowl Enuff…ya can pretend it did not happen….but ya have to live with it, the debt was not paid….still owing, up for restructuring……comedy hour is over…lol

    me….a victim…wait for that…but oh how yall tried until ya drained and wore yaselves out..

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

    “WHAT A FOOL PUTIN IS ON THE SAME LIST SAME AS JOE BIDEN”

    steupppsss…no one puts stock in that list, everybody ends up on it…..🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    ya might find a few genocidal manics there as well…but these are so easily impressed….it’s frightening..

  10. angela cox Avatar
    angela cox

    What other thinks
    Imagine Time Magazine, name the Ukraine President, influential person of the year, along with 🇧🇧PM, both did nothing but sell out their ppl to the UN, as I said bajans can point at nothing MAM, as done for the ppl or 🇧🇧, bare basic optics, the country is in a mess in every ministry, we are drowning in debt she as created nothing to earn FX, the Ukraine President, along with Putin destroy / kill to hide the secret of Bidens son fkery in the Ukraine, , with the cities blow up, no evidence, bare demons, who think they are fooling ppl,I can bet 🇧🇧 PM, done sell us off to the UN, in order to get more IMF funds, the most laziest leader 🇧🇧, ever had the misfortune to elect, , today is her second anniversary in office, and no growth, no anything, bare female blights, no vision wanted a republic, but still holding on to the Queen’s coat tails, , just illusions / deceit at every turn, like Satan’s favourite child, 🤬

  11. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Baje

    Do you really think a man Putin, making a gambit to control the frigging world and end empire . A man from the largest country in the world, landmass. A man more powerful than all but maybe a few.. Could be compared to another ‘man’ from a tin pot dictatorship?

    Anybody who seeks to ask such a question is a ……….,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

    Wunna Bajans full of it.

  12. angela cox Avatar
    angela cox

    If Mottley is so influential, the World Economic Forum is meeting at present in Davos, Switzerland, where nearly all the world’s top economic leaders are. Where is Mottley? Was she invited? If she was she would have gone. Mottley is not modest.

  13. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    On all other matters small islandness is pleaded to carve out room for Barbados. But on these respectability notions punching above one’s weight is the measure.

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

    That’s why i told Angela, pay no attention to that list, had they researched it, they would not allowed their mindsets to lead them into looking foolish…….for many different reasons….it’s ignorned, it’s only one or two genuine people are ever deserving to be there…most are not…they have to fill up space because it’s an annual event…Oprah has been on it 10 TIMES but before they go do research they got talk for me….lol…steupppss..

    Baje..they are lucky you said anything, i wanted to see them draining themselves, let people get a good look at the real them…lol

    It’s an evabody list…

    “Times 100 Most Influential People 2022 List has also given a place to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and Chinese President Xi Jinping,”

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

    Pacha…it’s only for comic relief these days….really.

  16. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    It takes 2 hands to clap.
    Due credit should also be given to DLP for being so crap in the 30-0 win/defeat x 2.
    DLP are shit shit shit like a big big morning poo.

  17. BAJE Avatar
    BAJE

    Baje

    Do you really think a man Putin, making a gambit to control the frigging world and end empire . A man from the largest country in the world, landmass. A man more powerful than all but maybe a few.. Could be compared to another ‘man’ from a tin pot dictatorship?

    xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

    PLEASE DON’T GET ME INVOLVED WITH THOSE ON THE 2×3 ISLAND THAT HAS A WARPED SENSE OF REALITY.

    I REMEMBER BEING IN MEXICO JUST AFTER MIA WAS ELECTED AND WAS ON CNN, AN AMERICAN MALE ALSO VISITING COMMENTED SHE HAD A VOICE MORE MANLY AND DEEPER THAN HIS WHILST SHAKING HIS HEAD.

    I APPLAUD MIA FOR RESTORING FREE COMMUNITY COLLEGE AND UWI TO THOSE WHO QUALIFY AT THE BEGINNING OF BEING ELECTED ABOUT 4 YEARS AGO.

    THE PROPOSED BLACK BELLY SHEEP JOINT VENTURE WITH GUYANA IN 2022 IF PROPERLY MONITORED AS THE GUYANESE ARE CROOKS FROM TOP TO BOTTOM.

    MAYBE IT WAS THE SHEEP PROJECT WITH GUYANA THAT GOT HER ON THE LIST FOR 2022.

  18. Lawson Avatar
    Lawson

    putin rogan desantis sinema et all made the same category a very high bar indeed

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

    only influential to fools, fowls and followers who don’t know shit and don’t want to learn anything..

    .but the slightest basic bullshit, they are ready to jump out…at those they don’t like…when no one pays the slightest attention to them other than to get some laughs…

    …I applaud Pacha and William for holding out hope, but there are those who are doomed, it’s their fate as perpetual losers…….ya gotta know when to leave them to it…

    Davos is only a wishful dream…

    and believing they can lead the world in anything, when slave codes and anti-black slave laws are still on statute books, directed at Black Afrikan people…..and all the other human rights abuses they REFUSE TO END, is another dream, very likely to turn into a nightmare…..let them and their fowls and pimps keep up the mindless stupidity…

  20. David Avatar
    David

    @Pacha

    There is no other measure of influence besides the one identified by you?

  21. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    David

    No , there are many. Soft power and hard power leavers of influence are the broad categories.

    Maybe you should tell the blog wherein the soft power structures of influences does Mugabe lie.. Of course, no hard power factors can be considered so half the game is long lost. Or maybe, you’ll want to tell us how many thermal nuclear weapons Barbados has to project hard power. Or tell us the soft power projection capabilities of Mottley to bring EU and USA economies to their knees.

    David, we know this type of gangsterism constructed out of thin air by Time Mag is what you live for. But it’s meaningless to serious people.

    David, your country is unserious. Nobody has not a clue but for shiiiite talk.

  22. David Avatar
    David

    @Pacha

    Why not ask the people at Times?

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

    I take it that the fowls blew, flew right back into their little coops…lol

    yall are hopeless…

  24. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    David

    There’s no need. Why ask questions to which the answers are already known? Not enamored by Time Mag like you appear to be. It is you who seem to think this foolishness is real. Why not answer any of the questions poised to you? We certainly try to answer yours.

  25. David Avatar
    David

    @Pacha

    Times people have to speak to why Mottley was included.

  26. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Obfuscation!
    That is unnecessary. They’ve been doing this for decades. Have a deep track record.

  27. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    There are radical people on a blog and there are real people in the real world
    Time magazine went for the realness

  28. David Avatar
    David

    https://twitter.com/time/status/1529013084400099332

  29. David Avatar
    David

    Say what you will Pacha, MOTTLEY continues to suck all the oxygen from the news space. Ronnie Yearwood will have to find a way to bore.

  30. Tron Avatar
    Tron

    We fight in the super heavyweight class, although we are actually a featherweight. Thank you, Mia Mottley, for restoring dignity and decency to the state, the party and the people!

    Anything other than Mia Mottley on the new $1,000 note would be a bitter disappointment to the people.

  31. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    @ David,

    Ronnie Yearwood needs to focus on rebuilding the party he leads and let PMMIA do her Chaka Khan song.

    check Diaspora Corner.

  32. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ Vincent @9.34 am
    Are we reading and comprehending the same things? It said Top one hundred Influencers for the year 2022.
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    You are right of course.
    But Bushie was right-ER …. LOL
    In any case the bushman is not constrained by ordinary ‘comprehension shiite’… Bushie is in touch with the esoteric… 🙂

    @ Tron 11.34 am
    Thank for those quotations from the Red Book of Mia.
    Make a note in the margin of your copy …. when the shit hits the fan and brass bowls are hungry, ‘heroes’ and ‘supreme leaders’ turn into villains, and are hunted like prey by theVERY same lackies that sang their praises… research Sri Lanka

    @ David & Vincent
    The term ‘Influencer’ has connotations of decisive (hopefully positive) actions being undertaken.
    Reading some shiite speech – probably written by speech writers over weeks or so with specific intent to made the desired impact, is neither here nor there. It is the ‘mock stuff’ of which the fake Hollywood in made.

    Mis speaks exceptionally well, can be outstandingly charming, and is highly intelligent. (But so is Enuff …and he aint in no top 100,000,000)
    The PM’s best influences have been to get the white people in the IMF to give us some more rope…oops money – after squeezing Stinkliar’s cajones for years….. She has also managed to charm Bajan BBs with a Lotts BS while raising taxes, favoring big businesses over small operations (especially in COVID) and presiding over the sale of the few remaining local assets to foreigners. A perfect fit for brassbadus.

    But as you MUST know by now, a people ALWAYS get exactly what they deserve.

  33. Lorenzo Avatar
    Lorenzo

    Wsru you jealous nobody ain, t want to hear you or take you serious? Go write another book see if that helps.As i stated before you all ain, t want nothing with Ms Mottley.In my view all most of you overseas gloom and doomers good for is boring us to tears everyday.What breaking story you got for bajans now.Waru you should be in comedy fest as you are a total joker.I gone.

  34. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    Madness

    https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/15-killed-in-elementary-school-shooting-gunman-dead-texas-governor-1.5916553

  35. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    David

    Who cares about Ronnie Yearwood, he just another Joker?

    Mottley is a dictator and does not, cannot, stand anybody else, friend or foe, in the lime like for a minute.

    Can’t you see these tendencies playing out over any number of issues.

  36. David Avatar
    David

    @Pacha

    You are saying Barbadians voted for a dictator?

  37. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    David

    Yes! We’ve long deemed the whole political architecture as being an elected dictatorship. Now the people have shown twice over that they agree.

    And while Mottley is show boating all the men under her, and we emphasize this, are being emasculated. Bare sissies they are.

    These are no real men😄

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

    “Wsru you jealous nobody ain, t want to hear you or take you serious?”

    Ya little scam to spread stinking slavery got exposed, whole organizations are dedicated to taking down trash like yall…wuh i got to be jealous bout, wuh nubody int investigating me….

    and ya should tell the dishonest clowns that stimulus checks are used routinely to stimulate population spending in economies WORLDWIDE, it’s been done for decades, said clowns did not invent it and no one follows slave societies.,.

    https://rijock.blogspot.com/2022/05/victims-names-sixteen-co-conspirtators.html

    So who gine be jealous ah dah….

    “Obfuscation!
    That is unnecessary. They’ve been doing this for decades. Have a deep track record.”

    So how come the BU know it alls who know for other bloggers don’t know this….it is standard operating procedure especially when people reach out and have someone sponsor them…..it’s not a stairway to heaven, it’s just basic shit that only impresses pimps and fowls…..there was absolutely no reason to make yaself look dumb over it…

  39. John A Avatar
    John A

    Well one more notch in her belt as she prepares for her next step.

    Please share with us who your successor will be as soon as you can though before you move on to higher heights.

  40. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ David
    Bajans voted AGAINST Froon and Stinkliar in 2018..
    Then the DLP brought back Froon in January to remind us of this fact….

    Question:
    We now know that Stinkliar is on Mia’s payroll, …but is Froon too…??? 🙁

  41. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    While Mia Mottley running around like some show pony Putin is busy sending Europe back to the Stone Age.
    https://youtu.be/ZuwpHZ0VdTU

    Gonzalo Lira in Ukraine.

  42. de pedantic Dribbler Avatar
    de pedantic Dribbler

    @David, this is quite amusing….

    But first congrats to the PM for this added ‘notoriety’ for herself and Bimshire!

    It’s amusing that a list which has been compiled annually since, I suspect Adam was a lad, or maybe some time back then when Time saw an opportunity to boost readership with a nice ego tripping affair generates this much heat over one such honoree.

    Let’s get a grip. Its PUBLICITY to sell readeship and absoluty generate interest … yes it’s awesome to be mentioned as one of 100 of the almost 8 billion people in the world but still get a grip !

    Oh @Codrington I noticed you said “Top one hundred Influencers for the year 2022.”

    Now not to nitpick but in current modern jargon the term “influencers” often refers to the social media mavens with very large followers/subscribers.

    Clearly some on this Time list absolutely also fit that criteria but I also expect that Time’s “influential” goes beyond that.

    And to that point of influential or influencers It’s difficult to NOT include the man who upended the world with a contrivance of wiping out Nazism and NATO from Ukraine. His actions are catastrophically influential on us all!

    I understand why he is NOT on the list but realistically he should be … and so to the other lunatic President who loved him so much!

    Just saying … one may not love a fella but to deny their INFLUENCE flies in the face of reality!

  43. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    A next person also sees Secretary General of the UN as one of the next steps for Mia. She has been planning her exit for years.

  44. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    … research Sri Lanka

    I am a SME subject matter expert in Sri Lanka and Reggae music and had a radio show called “London Underground” on FM99 in 1985. This is the first tune I played on the Radio Station.

  45. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    1995

  46. John Avatar
    John

    I sure hope these 100 influential people can do something about the monkey pox which is affecting people in our tourist market, Britain..

    Ms. Mockley can’t do it on her own.

    Pretty soon people in Barbados will be walking around in masks to hide the fact that they have caught it.

    https://imgur.com/knJuvpD

  47. angela cox Avatar
    angela cox

    Power structures that controls economically socially and the philosophical branding and tinkering of the people’s mind also belives that people living in small islands are dumber than rocks
    Hence they come up with sh.ite that would attract small minds with a hope that no one residing on these islands would question

  48. John Avatar
    John

    One thing is sure, if this monkey pox reaches Barbados with our large population of monkeys, it could spread like wildfire.

  49. Enuff Avatar
    Enuff

    L.MFAO, y’all sound igrunt! TIMES chooses a list as it has done for yeeeeears. Due to hate and bitterness of some, all manner of excuses are sought to discredit the list. You know yuh scraping the underside of the barrel when yuh selectively choose Putin etc–3 or 4 people out of 99. I am convinced some struggling with the meaning of influential 🤣🤣🤣

  50. angela cox Avatar
    angela cox

    Yes many are struggling with the word influential especially when one have to ask
    What has Mia done that is deemed worthy for her to be listed as being influential
    Mia as PM has yet to propose a Constitution for Barbados with all the influence she carries as stated by a low rated magazine

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