Tennyson Joseph, UWI lecturer and political scientist shared a personal experience in his recent weekly column. While it is a personal experience, it scrutinises and exposes decision making at the highest level by education planners in the region. We must do better if we are to compete on the world stage, especially being able to cover-off rudimentary decisions.
See article reproduced from Nationnews.com.
Another CXC mis-step
I WRITE IN MY capacity as a concerned and frustrated parent, in response to an incident which occurred during the conduct of the CSEC English B (English Literature) multiple choice exam on Friday May 27, 2022.
Originally intended to be a two-hour exam (from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m), my daughter exited the exam room at 5:30 p.m., with other students having streamed out a few minutes before, this is on a day when they had already had a morning paper from 9 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. Essentially, therefore, the affected students were kept under examinations conditions for seven hours.
What was the issue? It appears that a decision was taken to conduct all CXC multiple-choice examinations online without ensuring that the necessary IT infrastructure to support such examinations was in place. Given that English B is compulsory for all students at my daughter’s school, the demand overload proved overwhelming, and many students had to sit for hours waiting, without success, for the exam App to open. Some were successful at various periods after the start, while others’ systems crashed mid-exam.
My daughter was one of the unfortunate ones whose apps failed to open, and she reported to me that after two hours of waiting, and going through a range of negative emotions, a decision was taken to allow the examination to be done in the old fashioned, but reliable way.
My aim is not to question the judgement of the onsite invigilators and decision-makers. What is concerning is the poor judgment of CXC decision makers, who, by insisting on online multiplechoice examinations, appear to be operating on the assumption that “man is made for technology rather than technology made for man”.
Two issues are of concern here. The first is that, after the loud public outcry and loss of goodwill experienced by CXC over the conduct of examinations during the 2019 COVID period, that CXC did not consider it prudent to put a pause on all “experimentation” to allow for a period of cooling off period and a return to normalcy.
Secondly, given the importance of assessments as measurements of student quality and as a determinant of life chances, great care should be taken to ensure that there is nothing intrinsic to an examination environment that can negatively affect student performance. CXC ought to have assured itself of near 100 per cent success prior to utilising new technology in examinations.
CXC is too important to allow these constant hints of weakness. It should be airtight and the least problematic of our institutions. My recommendation to CXC is that it should perfect the basic aspects of its mandate, before venturing off into new territory, especially at a time when the stench of recent failures still pollute the atmosphere. For the sake of our children and the educational “ecosystem”, let us get it right.
The question should be “WHY IS BARBADOS STILL USING THIS OUTDATED CXC PROCEDURE.
This is an OLD COLONIAL system that is well past its BEST BEFORE DATE. Same old same old, if it was good enough for last century why change. Just another example of Barbados Batting Above its Weight.
God help the sheep.
As Bushie has said from the ‘get go’, CXC is a REALLY stupid idea, and always was…
If you start with jobby, it can only get worse and worse …until the smell finally becomes overbearing.
When in comes to the question of being qualified to compete at the GLOBAL LEVEL, there is no damn place for local qualifying standards.
If you want to participate in the Olympics, yuh HAVE to meet the IOC qualifying standards.
No damn point in creating any shiite Barbados or CARICOM ‘Olympic Standards Council’
LOTTA Shiite.
No wonder our ‘graduates’ CANNOT compete – NOT EVEN AT HOME IN BARBADOS, for the top jobs.
The CORRECT approach of course would have been to attach ourselves to one of the most respected GLOBAL examination Institutions, and then to prepare our students to excel at THAT level….. but no, we want to compete at the brass bowl level.
Plant jobby, and we reap brass…
Same identical shiite now with this joke Sports Minister,.
They come up with a ‘Sports Policy’ …..that is mostly about road tennis and cricket…..
Shiite man…..
Who else in the world plays road tennis?
Why not Beach tennis then, cause those fellows on Brown’s beach would be world champs.
Wuh he could as well just hold a finals game and give out the money to one of the four people who we ALL know will get it…
Also, compared to 30 years ago, no damn people play cricket. Cricket shiite!!
This is 2022, who the Hell has time to spend a whole week playing a shiite game than mostly ends in a draw anyway? Why does Griffith think there has been a move to sports that are much more intense, and that end in 90 minutes max?
People gotta LIFE Boss!!
Some shiite is SERIOUSLY wrong with thinking bout here…
…and Joseph is only complaining because his daughter suffered personally from the folly…. if things had gone well for her and she got the 100%, as she was no doubt primed to do, he would have been the greatest CXC fan….
@Bush Tea
Two things:
CXC is accredited by leading universities around the world not so?
2.The issue Dr. Joseph complains is an admin issue that is visible in many areas across the region which strikes at our ability to strive for excellence?
Could Dear ,Coyote, Barbados Black Belly sheep do not have horns . Why do you expect their butts to be effective? Unless CXC is as blind as a bat.
@ David Bu at 8:26 AM
CXC will soon lose its credibility if it continues to make these administrative mistakes. Accreditation is based on credibility. If the report is true, can overseas bodies trust the integrity of the exams? Is the process fair to the candidates? How can the students concentrate and give of their best in this confusion. . A test of a good manager is how well he manages in a crisis. CXC is not creating a good public image.
@Vincent
Agree with you, this is a basic support function that should have been factored before the exam was taken.
Ridiculous!
There is always a way forward somewhere.
https://www.georgebrown.ca/apply/academic-upgrading
No wonder our ‘graduates’ CANNOT compete – NOT EVEN AT HOME IN BARBADOS, for the top jobs.
@Bushie
You mean to tell me that after decades of independence, that Bajans don’t even have the nous to tilt the board? To load the dice? To give themselves home court advantage?
What is the point of a govt spending $Billions on education to then have little use for those on whom the $Billions were spent?
Yuh can’t make this stuff up.
The challenge may begin with an A, but that is ACCOUNTABILITY. If there are no consequences for effing up….it will continue.
@ NO at 9 :35 AM
I think it is your emphasis on accountability and consequences of “effing up” that is at the root of the problem. The actors/ agents spend more time and effort at covering their asses that they have little of both left to do their jobs. Think about it.
“It appears that a decision was taken to conduct all CXC multiple-choice examinations online without ensuring that the necessary IT infrastructure to support such examinations was in place. Given that English B is compulsory for all students at my daughter’s school, the demand overload proved overwhelming, and many students had to sit for hours waiting, without success, for the exam App to open. Some were successful at various periods after the start, while others’ systems crashed mid-exam.”
did i not warn CXC about this same very thing, they are the most incompetent source of exams for the region…first everyone had to rush out and buy computers, those who could afford it, they did not even give consideration to stock availability….then when they get their uppity, backward asses lit into, they want to take offense…they are lucky my grand did the English paper last year or they would HEAR FROM ME…
“Two issues are of concern here. The first is that, after the loud public outcry and loss of goodwill experienced by CXC over the conduct of examinations during the 2019 COVID period, that CXC did not consider it prudent to put a pause on all “experimentation” to allow for a period of cooling off period and a return to normalcy.”
what do you expect from the paper degreed IGNORANT with no commonsense….they were warned that their experiment would turn to shit…because the time need to ASSURE SUCCESS was not given….but they just had to see for themselves..
*because the time needed to ASSURE SUCCESS was not given…
“soon lose” ?….CXC has NO CREDIBILITY…
“No damn point in creating any shiite Barbados or CARICOM ‘Olympic Standards Council’
LOTTA Shiite.”
they create these useless local shite entities to give themselves pats on the back, massage swollen egos, and get their hands on some free treasury money, but they are ALL FAILURES…given the stench from the arrogant heads…
only reason i did not hear about this, because none of my grands on the island had to take the English paper this year…
@ Dullard (not)
“You mean to tell me that after decades of independence, that Bajans don’t even have the nous to tilt the board? To load the dice? To give themselves home court advantage?”
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Bushie don’t have to tell you… Just look around.
Unlike many others apparently, Bushie KNOWS the importance of getting the BASICS right.
If you start with a shiite foundation, you can build however ‘pretty’ a house you like….
yuh ass is grass.
Question?
What is it we are trying to achieve?
If NOT world class graduates who are among the VERY best ANYWHERE…. then we just making brass bowl sport.
…and, If we are looking for the BEST, …then we MUST measure/judge ourselves against the BEST…. else we just fooling we self.
Only a jackass makes up his own ‘measuring tape’ and then go into international business with WORLD CLASS DEMONS.
Only a clown trains with tape ball in preparation for the World Cup…
Such a JA will ALWAYS be in debt, always be in danger of starvation, and forever begging for loans from the VERY demons….
Steupsss..
But fortunately, the main BENEFIT of being a sheep is the ability to live in blissful ignorance of your fate …right up to the ride to the abattoir….
Then when ya tell these on BU that the formal miseducation system is PURE SHIT and as useless as it can get…….they want to take offense…..only those with ANCIENT ancestral KNOWLEDGE manage to survive it..
.all the others are made to look like degreed or undegreed IDIOTS….with little to no formal education…
Why didn’t many of those African leaders use the “ANCIENT ancestral KNOWLEDGE” to UPLIFT the citizens of the countries they lead/led, rather than ABUSE their HUMAN RIGHTS?
A reminder CXC is a regional enterprise. As usual some locate all issues concerning CXC at the foot of the Barbados government.
“…..only those with ANCIENT ancestral KNOWLEDGE manage to survive it..”
“Africa” is not the answer to every question on every subject under the sun
Information and knowledge is accumulative strong foundations are built on
Everybody Needs A Proper Education, Mikey Dread
@VC
While your concept is possible, the best CYA strategy is successful implementation which doesn’t cause shining lights in your direction?
On that topic, it is interesting how world leaders, and their un-targeted pandemic stimulus is the primary cause of today’s inflation, get ahead of the curve by expressing confidence in their Central Bankers to “solve” the problem.
How did so many of these monetary economists fall so far behind the inflation curve? Their projections have been off by Sinckleresque amounts. Were they blind or stupid, or was their ‘interference’?
Be careful NO, Vincent is a life member of the profession you have scorned.
“Their projections have been off by Sinckleresque amounts. Were they blind or stupid, or was their ‘interference’?”
Bio Warfare
Price Wars
Inflation
Eating up losses
means stronger survive
and the weaker die
Vultures sweep in
Scavengers eat up
Vultures
Scavenger Dub
“Why didn’t many of those African leaders use the “ANCIENT ancestral KNOWLEDGE” to UPLIFT the citizens of the countries they lead/led, rather than ABUSE their HUMAN RIGHTS?”
we can ask the same of the parliament clowns in Barbados and ACROSS THE REGION…
So @Bushie
Are you saying that CXC is yet another anachronism, mostly or wholly unfit for purpose with its best days firmly rooted in the past?
CXC is in good company.
Think of such bastions of innovation, transparency and effectiveness as UWI, BSE, FTC, FSC, NIS, BTMI, DLP, BLP, etc…
Your Brass Bowl Theory is looking more and more like Brass Bowl Law with each passing day!
@David
I didn’t ‘scorn’ the profession, rather interested in how their projections for, and management of levers could be so far behind what was occuring.
@NO
The 2008 financial meltdown exposed a lot about economics, specifically the branch dealing with behavioural indicators.
@ Artax
“Why didn’t many of those African leaders use the “ANCIENT ancestral KNOWLEDGE” to UPLIFT the citizens of the countries they lead/led, rather than ABUSE their HUMAN RIGHTS?
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Master question there Artax…
The answer is not what you may think.
Just because you lead a cow to water does not constrain him to drink.
Again, unless you grasp the FUNDAMENTAL raison d’être of life, it is IMPOSSIBLE to make sense of arbitrary interactions.
If you gave the latest cricket gear to a bunch of Americans, you would be surprised at the variety of interesting, and even enjoyable shiite they would get up to….
..stick fighting, baseball, tag – ball, and many more….
But NOTHING like cricket is likely….(cricket is much too gentlemanly, and there is no fighting..or blood)
So KNOWLEDGE, (and then the WISDOM to recognize it, …and to USE it) is a VITAL requirement for TRUE success at the original rules of the game … or raison d’être.
The Ancients were handed all the ‘gear’ and the instructions and rules to play the game successfully.
As we all know, they CHOSE to listen to some shiite woman called ‘Eve’ who was impressed with a big snake, and the rest is history… (mostly ‘HIS’ story as concocted by the ‘albino-centrics’ who have since proceeded to concoct their OWN ‘cricket’ rules – which look a lot more like ‘no rules wrestling’…. as is their natural wont )
Brass bowls then, are those of us who have adopted those albino rules, while our true talents are clearly designed for the ORIGINAL cricket.
It is only obvious how the BBs will fare….
@Bush Tea
Again you hitched your argument to an allegory?
worth repeating..
“So KNOWLEDGE, (and then the WISDOM to recognize it, …and to USE it) is a VITAL requirement for TRUE success at the original rules of the game … or raison d’être.
The Ancients were handed all the ‘gear’ and the instructions and rules to play the game successfully.”
@David
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/morneau-economy-speech-1.6474527
Not the best article, but is not firewalled.
You may recall the former Canadian MoF and his PM parted ways over pandemic measures. Not that there hadn’t been some friction before.
His comments on politics, are as you would note ‘instructive’. He was not a lifetime politician.
Challenges everywhere it seems. In the private sector management is rewarded based on quick wins; short term plans. In government the focus is also on rolling out plans to win popularity because- wait for it- it is what today’s public demands.
Again you hitched your argument to an allegory?
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It that bothers you Boss, feel free to scroll…
Those with eyes to see will see…
@David, your mentor @BushTea has this tendency most evident in A type personalities (of which he is a top gun member) of being unnecessary churlish. To lambaste the author Joseph for using his daughter’s experience on exam day to highlight a major systemic problem is quite such!
But more relevant it is always mind boggling with argumentation such as his that a nation such as ours cannot set standards that are world class. That’s obviously ridiculous as in another breath the brother would loudly toute the world class abilities of a man like Sir Gary or former UNESCO and UWI chancellor Alleyne who both developed THEIR standards using Bajan ‘brass bowl’ measuring tapes that were the BEST anywhere.
Making administrative missteps or errors of execution are management failings that must be addressed and sanctioned but to suggest that the vision of restructuring regional exams to test OUR students with more literature or mathematical models germane to the region, was to devolve to a lower world class standard is absurdly fallacious!
Excellence is NOT determined by what Oxford, Cambridge or Harvard says it is fixed on what is the BEST result. Period.
And Sir Gary and Sir George Alleyne showed us long ago that in lil Barbados they (and others) knew what the standard of being the ‘best’ required!
Let’s stop the fallacious folly.
Talking about lambasting authors though Dribbler,
Bushie continues to be impressed with your ability to continuously redefine the very depth of brassbowlery.
How does clearly outstandingly talented outliers such as Sir Gary (and many others) justify our NATIONAL systemic ignorance of the accepted methodology for establishing NATIONAL competitiveness?
Have you ANY idea of how organizational competitiveness is managed in the dog-eat-dog world in which we are forced to survive?
Have you reviewed the ACTUAL results of the shiite policies that we have been using – with your lukewarm support?
If you are incapable of following Bushie’s position, why not suggest YOUR better position; provide examples of how YOUR ideas have worked;…or just ask for assistance with understanding…?
Bushie is not looking for any converts.
As Luciano says, Bushie is just a messenger, here to expose brassbowlery.
If you like the status quo and can see no need for complaints, then all hail to you.
Bushie will NEVER be happy when so many remain so clueless of their TRUE POTENTIAL, many because lackies are always around (like the Nation editorial yesterday) to convince them that they deserve no better…
If the author is offended by Bushie’s assertion that the article about CXC would NOT have been written if his daughter was not impacted, then he should have kept her out of the story…
David should do a feature on you….
It would help us to understand where we are…
lol…well, there is a time to recognize when ya beating dead horses..
Not Cricket
Take african children from different tribes to the caribbean and tell them they are stupid and ugly and whip them into subservience and breed them with irish niggers
Slavery and Economy in Barbados – British History in depth – BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk › history › british › empire_seapower › barbados_101
https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/empire_seapower/barbados_01.shtml
About featured snippets
It is estimated that between 1627 to 1807, some 387 000 Africans were shipped to the island against their will, in overcrowded, unsanitary ships, which made the Middle Passage a synonym for barbaric horror.
@ Bushie who wrote ” Bushie KNOWS the importance of getting the BASICS right.”
Where and from Whom did you learn ” the basics ” ?
and when ya got a small insular undereducated society where the slave system is primary…..just imagine the battle every day with these damaged black minds…we know who the culprits are still carrying this 40 ton LARGE WANNABE WHITE CHIP ON THEIR SHOULDERS…
the enemy within…
” After numerous conversations with dark-skinned Black women including my wife and close female friends, I understand that colourism began as one of the tools used to create self-hate and infighting among Black people during slavery – but I was shocked to find that the biggest perpetrators of colourism now seem to be Black men, now it seems those messages have trickled down to influence how some Black men feel about Black women.
“but I was shocked to find that the biggest perpetrators of colourism now seem to be Black men, ”
the WEAKEST LINK..
The phrase getting down to the nitty gritty means fucking a black woman
but the dictionary has got it twisted
If people get down to the nitty-gritty of a matter, situation, or activity, they discuss the most important, basic parts of it or facts about it. Knowing the date, time and place of a party are an example of the nitty-gritty of planning a party.
it’s about inviting ladies with big butts like Lakeisha
black woman in relationships with white males use their telephone voice and talk all prim and proper
@ Hants,
Where and from Whom did you learn ” the basics ” ?
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From some of the best parents, teachers and mentors EVER to occupy Brassbados…..
Provided of course by the ultimate ‘adoptee parent’… 🙂
@NO
Yours@12.09 June 2
Morneau resigned over pandemic measures? I thought it was because he got caught up in the WE scandal. In any event Liberal Finance ministers tend to resign over differences of opinion see John Turner re wages and prices and Paul Martin who fought with Chretien
Barbados History is well fucked up as well as misrepresented and white washed
Mor
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the Early Modern P
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https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1550&context=gc_etds
Title:
The First Black Slave Society: Britain’s Barbarity Time in Barbados, 1636–1876, by Hilary McD. Beckles
https://brill.com/view/journals/nwig/92/3-4/article-p300_8.xml?language=en
@Sarge
“WE” may have been the final straw….meaning if he didn’t fall on that the PM was next in line? But they had several pre-leaving spats. The worse part is BMs wife is a McCain heiress, $50K to her is one week’s dividends. Nor is he a pauper himself.
Is Druggie a lock today? There wasn’t a Lib candidate in my riding and 3 blues lol
Waru
We’ve found something that might be consistent with a particular view about that Sahel ‘greening’ mega project.
Difficult for the vast majority to accept and this writer has serious doubts as well.
However it’s a scenarios where that project has connections to notions of large internment camps, repatriation of Caribbean populations and the leading role of a PM ‘dearest’ to us acting under a position at the UN with the cooperation of the many Afrikan leaders coming to visit
Our time is very limited these days. But of the responses received this scenario might have been of interest.
ANOTHER DAY
SAME HILARIOUS BOVINE EXCREMENT IN THE RUM SHOP
JOSEPH COMPLAINED BUT AS AN EDUCATOR GAVE NO PLAUSIBLE PRACTICAL PLOY AS A SOLUTION
THE ONVIOUS PROCEEDURE TO BE ADOPTED FOR ALL ONLINE EXAMS IS “IN THE IVENT THAT IT IS IN ANYWAY AND AT ANY TIME POSSIBLE THAT AN ONLINE EXAM BE DISRUPTED , THE PRESIDING INVIGILATOR SHOULD RESTART THE EXAM USING PRINTED VERSIONS OF THE EXAM.
EASY SO. EASY SO.
Q.E.D
.
The systemic issue Joseph complained about is that the IT infrastructure should have been tested and it’s architecture robust enough in design to handle the online load.
@NO
Druggie seems to be a lock and appears to be heading into majority territory, a year ago no one would have predicted a win for him, if the polls are correct it will be curtains for the Liberal leader and the NDP leader will be ushered out the door..
Whoever wins it will be without my help as I am out of town.
There you go Pacha…that’s why i did not give too many details because I KNEW YOU WOULD FIND OUT….it’s consistent with information going around for quite a while.. …and that’s the information we were given along with…
“It’s a disguise form of colonization/slavery”…
that’s what i got from the continent from those in a position to know details..
..who don’t want to listen to prepare themselves and make their own future plans… THAT’S ON THEM..
please let WIlliam know so he can protect his family in case he is not seeing this…
Thanks for looking further into it…..
We can only warn them not to go anywhere with ANY CARIBBEAN GOVERNMENT…IF you are forced to leave…GO ON YOUR OWN…
plans change at a whim,
plots are modified,
redefined and made invisible….MAKE YOUR OWN…
that’s the best we can do..
We can only warn them not to go anywhere with ANY CARIBBEAN GOVERNMENT…IF you are forced to leave…GO ON YOUR OWN…as a FREE AFRIKAN…not as a Barbados Slave..
Waru
No. We have not had the time to study this issue and as such are far from the requirements of due diligence. And therefore must demure from propagating same.
However, should a point of scientific certainty be reached only then will war be declared.
I know several Barbadians who took CXC examinations who are very much able to compete in the world arena.
Steupse! “Fallacious” indeed!
And it’s back to a blasted ALLEGORY, made up by MEN to guilt women into standing behind them. Unfortunately it worked with some weak-minded women and look how well the world has turned out with the men in front!
“Lotta shiite!”
Tick tock goes the old fart’s clock!
“However, should a point of scientific certainty be reached only then will war be declared.”
all in progress…but now SCRUTINY and monitoriing must be APPLIED….especially to the treacherous NEGROS….
the WHO scenario did not help allay suspicions…the pivoting…even less so…
in saying that….investigations are under way, we don’t have to wait for anyone to do it for us….we are quite capable….as time moves forward, we can exchange findings…
Bushman gets great fun from pushing that “Eve” fairy tale and biblical lie….highlight of his life..,,lol.
I fully agree that it is time to get things right. The trial and error approach is frustrating and time wasting.
It would appear that CXC is indecisive where it should stand firm (changing grades) and decisive where it should be flexible. Implementing technological changes and then having the system crash indicates that necessary testing (load, stress, user acceptance .
… ) was not performed or that the testing was flawed.
Perhaps CXC need to have an independent body maps it processes from end to end and hire truly qualified staff.
I fun.
Bushie
Tennyson Joseph as a UWI lecturer in political science should have made it his business to have known that none of the general demands of peoples anywhere, almost, where socalled political democracy rules does any public have first call on any socalled democratic government for the guaranteed efficiency of any service.
Whether that service is to be delivered at the accident and emergency department or by CXC.
The fundamental truism has long been that only corporate interests have been demanding such governmental guarantees and consistently receiving such. The role of the citizen is merely to act to present something which makes no sense once every five years.
This is what neoliberal capitalism has come to mean. Those who are waxing lyrical, including Joseph, that some illusive standard should be expected in his child’s case speaks to how disassociated most are from what is real and what is not, what average people struggle with every day.
And after decades or centuries on this same trajectory Joseph should find it necessary to awake from his slumber and face the essential political realities.
There was a time we had
June too soon
July stand by
August a must
September remember
October all is over
Now we have
https://barbadostoday.bb/2022/06/02/barbadians-warned-as-hurricane-season-gets-under-way/
From BT
Read ePaper
“Barbados is in the firing line for more tropical cyclones, with predictions that the country will likely be impacted every year going forward, as systems move closer to the island.
Director of the Barbados Meteorological Services, Sabu Best, is therefore urging residents to be ready, as predictions also indicate the possibility of more storms and more intense hurricanes which intensify rapidly.”
An aside….the Ontario election produced a seat count total almost identical to 2018, few changes, with a 43% voter turnout down from 57% in ’18. Sound familiar?
Bottomline….CXC is useless and not fit to set tests or curruli for Afrikan children…it’s a colonial entity and will eventually go the way of all other such CURSED enterprises…as time passes.
*not fit to set tests or curricula for Afrikan children.
I know you black folks like to talk about books you have not read, but here is a PDF book about Pedagogy which is a very big word for you and is worth looking into if you want to wake up and become enlightened like a child of god, but you can store it away in your archives without looking at it as per usual and is par for the course.
https://peacelearner.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/freire-pedagogyoftheoppressed1.pdf
“I know you black folks like to talk about books you have not read”
I hope you black folks read this …
A great morning to everyone. A great morning to all.
The decision to go with the electronic administration of the CXC paper ones was made by the government of Barbados. Trinidad, Guyana and Jamaica are still having paper based exams.
Is CXC responsible for oversight of the examination by its members?
@Bush Tea
The blogmaster takes note you avoided answering the 2 questions posed to you at the top of the blog, oversight?
“The decision to go with the electronic administration of the CXC paper ones was made by the government of Barbados. ”
so who is surprised, they are no less DUMBER than the clowns at CXC and are in the same lodges..
@ Ping Pong
You have perfectly highlighted the problem with creating ‘local’ standards in the face of global competitiveness.
When such critical decisions can be made by political players, it is inevitable that quality will be compromised on the alter of political expediency.
Have you wondered what else is being ‘decided’ by the people who appoint and bankroll these CXC functionaries?
Common sense (and the involvement of Sir Cave Hilary) tells us that CXC is merely a ‘front’ that allows the politicians to play PR games with education.
But if Bajans cannot even see how they are being ripped off by the banks, the utilities, and by Trini supermarkets, how the Hell can we appreciate more complex deceptions such as CXC?
BTW
You are much too scarce Ping..
What happen? global situation too scary for yuh..? 🙂
@Bush Tea
The blogmaster is not convinced such a decision could have been made arbitrarily by a CXC member and if it was the buck still stops with CXC.
More proof beyond a doubt that other Caribbean islands, or no one else, should follow Barbados into anything or to anywhere..do so at your own risk…
the way it was explained to me after they had parents rush to buy new computers UNNECESSARILY, is that they they were planning to try that same experiment last year despite the chaos and had to abandon it, COULD NOT GET IT OFF THE GROUND…
.they never told the people they were going to try it again this year and prepare them, they just rushed out last minute with their little scam….without proper testing or giving the students the time needed to familiarize themselves with the new program AS I WARNED THEM…turned out they did not do any proper testing and COCKED THAT UP TOO…
If they could, they would try to pin the blame on the students the same way they tried to with their bad grading cockup….public nuisances, both them and the jokers in the parliament….who only their fowls, pimps and Slaves listen to or defend nowadays.
same fools rattle on and on about how educated they are and how many useless degrees they got…steupppss
and got the nerve to claim the world should follow them in giving out stimulus checks that have been a big country routine for DECADES…they are just as obsessed with everyone following them into OBLIVION as they are with the world stage…wannabes.
LOL @ David
“The blogmaster takes note you avoided answering the 2 questions posed to you at the top of the blog, oversight?”
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Apologies Boss, Bushie thought this was a blog. Did not realize it was a Court of Law and that Bushie was under oath…. 🙂
1 – Accreditation (after all the glowing definitions) is a fancy term that means VERY LITTLE.
All ‘accreditation’ says is that the accrediting body confirms that the institution essentially does what it said it would do, and meets some basic minimum qualifying standards. Like all ‘exams’ institutions can PREPARE for, and pass these ‘tests’, and then revert to their normal modus operandi until next review.
However is does ‘sound’ very impressive – as if the institution is world class.
2 – The endemic lack of quality in practically all areas of regional life is associated with brassbowlery…. ie – the mindset that we cannot expect to do any better, and that, in fact, we should be lucky to be not much worse off…
It is the ULTIMATE form of slavery – where OUR OWN MINDS have conditioned us to be mediocre…and NOT EXPECT excellence.
(Think ‘dribbling’ if you need a practical example of this mentality).
So instead of requiring a SYSTEMIC review of the ATTITUDES that cause such failures, we just look for some poor idiot to blame and then we continue along the same mediocre path….
This is why we have a society where ALL LEADERSHIP is essentially about ‘covering your own donkeys’.
The blogmaster is not convinced such a decision could have been made arbitrarily by a CXC member and if it was the buck still stops with CXC.
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Blogmaster … you need to check with the original ‘David’ who actually understood these things…
For example…
About 90% of EVERYTHING that is decided in Barbados, for example, is decided by the PM. Whether she likes it or not.
90%of those decisions are based on off the cuff comments that she make, or conclusions that she arrived at, even in the absence of INFORMED analysis.
This has been so since Barrow….
This is because 99.9% of our ‘leaders’ are SIMPLY seeking to be able to ‘pass the buck’ onto somebody else if things fowls up…(CYA)
Note that even SENIOR ministers NEVER make any decisions, unless they start with ‘As the PM has said…’ or ‘PM Mia Amor Mottley (code for ‘I have been instructed to say…’)…
The Public service is even worse…. They make no decisions PERIOD…. that way, you make no ‘mistakes’…
The CXC is completely dependent on politicians funding their salaries and keeping their jobs and the CXC Board reflects the TRADITIONAL methodology by which our politicians have exercised their control on such institutions….
@Bush Tea
What does your comment have to do with the fact a decision was taken by Barbados to do online exams under a CXC oversight? Leave the emotional argument at the door Bush Tea.
Am sure most are not aware especially their rabidly staunch supporters, but what they have so competently achieved, only competence outside of corruption they have, is making themselves PARIAHS everywhere with all these side to side ANTICS……
what did Angela say Owen called them….gimmickry?
thankfully the fallout is all on them, they did a very good job of advertising it…….that way, the world’s people everywhere can protect themselves FROM THEM….and watch their every move, reject their EVERY LIE…
it’s SICKENING, but that’s WHO THEY ARE…suffering with bouts of self-delusion instead of doing the jobs taxpayers pay them so handsomely for…
“90%of those decisions are based on off the cuff comments that she make, or conclusions that she arrived at, even in the absence of INFORMED analysis.
This has been so since Barrow….”
now you see why i don’t like under educated colonial politicians or their supporters…..all they do is talk out of their ass, with no formal expertise on …not even the most simple…they believe shite titles from the colonial slave framework makes them exceptional experts…their only claim to fame..
@ David BU at 9:05 AM
Everything. Somebody did not do his/her job properly or the job was unimplementable. Optics can carry this country only so far; but no farther.
@Vincent
Agreed.
Bushman….have you heard if the people in St. Peter got access to water yet, there were complaints up to yesterday that they had none.
Thing is though, that I do not know ONE Bajan who does not know that they are being ripped off by the banks, the utilities and the supermarket
I do not know ONE Bajan who does not know that they are being ripped off by the banks, the utilities and the supermarket
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Nor Bushie nor…
So can anyone come up with a description of such a people, (without using REAL CUSS WORDS,) that is more acceptable than ‘brass bowls’…?
So can anyone come up with a description of such a people, (without using REAL CUSS WORDS,) that is more acceptable than ‘brass bowls’…?
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THE SAME BRAIN DEAD THAT KEEPS VOTING FOR EITHER BLP OR DLP WHO DO THE SAME SHITE EVERY 5 YEARS WHILST EXPECTING DIFFERENT RESULTS
To address these issues the media team will start a competition open to all students, they must go and find a BTMI postcard location and take a picture once they have finished their exams and post it online with the following hashtags #CXC #worldclass #barbados #littlecountrybigbarbados and whoever gets the most likes will get a scholarship regardless of their CXC results. Problem solved!!
@Redguard
You may just have thrown a spanner in the CXC works Boss…
Given recent history with the School Based Assessments, a very similar ‘solution’ to your’s may well have been on the table,
Of course now it will be back to the drawing board … perhaps in another 5 years we may hear of another brain wave …much like 11+
@Bush Tea
How have our CXC/CAPE graduates been performing on entering foreign universities?
How have our CXC/CAPE graduates been performing on entering foreign universities?
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This is a typical irrelevant red herring David.
Foreign universities of ANY worth are DESIGNED refine the cream of their crop of youth, to become the LEADERS and “exploiters of the rest of the world”.
Typically, Caribbean students who are admitted, adapt to THAT mentality and more often than not, redefine themselves in the image of the host country.
Most don’t ever return to brassbados to contribute here.
On the other hand, Sir Cave Hilary came with the stupid philosophy of ‘graduates a dime apiece in every home’.
In short, the institutionalization of mediocrity in education.
Now every brass bowl bout here is a ‘doctor’ or ‘masters’, ….and not a SINGLE one is worth shit where it REALLY matters. They are ALL scrambling for ‘employment’ from unlettered Trinis, Jamaicans and the usual albino occupiers…. or they are robbing the very brass bowls who ‘educated’ them, as lawyers … while our legal system remains an international joke…
The PROBLEM therefore is not with the students. It is with our institutions’ FAILURE to focus on HIGH-PERFORMANCE individuals who SHOULD be channelled towards becoming LOCALLY FOCUSSED world beaters.
GP is always talking about this, (but he does cuss and complain a bit too brass bowl much LOL )
Our failures are therefore SYSTEMIC boss.
No one is blaming the students. They are unwitting VICTIMS….as we can ALL see now.
@Bush Tea
Whatever spin you put on it our CXC/CAPE students perform in top universities across the globe read they possess the technical skills.
But your argument was that if they do not know that they were being so ripped off then they could not be expected to know other less obvious things.
I don’t know who is being fooled by your attempted sleight-of-hand, but I SEE YOU.
“LOTTA SHIITE!”
Of course, your argument re CXC is also nonsense.
You try to switch when someone points out your inconsistencies.
Our entire educational system certainly needs reform in accordance with new understandings regarding what our society needs to move forward.
We are attempting to come to terms with a realigning of our identity to produce persons of who will uplift their own. Long overdue, of course.
But I fail to see how taking examinations from Oxford and Cambridge could be better in doing so than our own homegrown examinations that relate more to our culture.
Seems to me that Oxford and Cambridge syllabuses with Eurocentic biases would be even better at producing Bajans with a disconnect and a fly the coop and never come back attitude than CXC ever could.
Your argument was that students who take CXC cannot compete on the world stage. When it is pointed out that they do rather well at overseas universities, the world stage, we have a new argument about their not coming home to contribute to the benefit of Barbados.
More sleight of hand!
Your form, though quite impressive, cannot blind me to your specious arguments that seem to evolve as needed.
Very entertaining yes, but leave the pretzel contortions to John Knox, will ya?
Correction – persons who, omit “of”
David
Whatever spin you put on it our CXC/CAPE students perform in top universities across the globe read they possess the technical skills.
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Read Bushie’s lips slowly…
It is NOT about the student’s ability to perform.
It is about a SYSTEM OF MEDIOCRITY that settles for mock ‘certification’ rather than effective PERFORMANCE.
Obviously, when placed in a REAL academic environment, students’ mindset CHANGES…. or they get dumped.
Any jackass can bray
Just listen to ‘brass tacks’ and you hear volleys of poor, helpless brass bowls who mostly don’t even have jobs, pontificating on how complex national problems should be addressed.
Ask any of them what THEY have ever achieved successfully…except school? ….notta shiite!!
Again
The problem is not students, it is the national mind-set of mediocrity.
Obviously, the RESULTING ‘graduates’ from a mediocre system are bound to be…
…’brassy..’ …even where they had the POTENTIAL to be DIAMONDS.
LOL
Same with LIFE.
Lack of TRUE knowledge and understanding will condemn EVEN THE MOST TALENTED among us to brassbowlery and failure in life.
@Bush Tea June 3, 2022 3:33 PM “On the other hand, Sir Cave Hilary came with the stupid philosophy of ‘graduates a dime apiece in every home’.”
I wish people would stop misinterpreting what was Barbados government [not UWI] policy of a graduate in every home. The intention was that if there are 80,000 households, Barbados should have alive at any time 80,000 university grafuates. These graduates woould include those who graduated 50 years ago, and those who graduated last month. It was never the intentionog government to order 111 year old men who live alone back to university.
That is assuming that our total population is 280,000 people, the intention was/is that about 29 to 30% of the population would have graduated from tertiary institutions including UWI, BCC, Polytechnic Erdiston.
At the time statements about this were made only about 12% of Barbados’ population were college graduates. 12% is not good enough in the 21st century.
Am I the only person who thinks that having about 30% of the population having graduated from colleges and universities is a good thing?
@Simple minded Simon
So why not have 100% of Bajans be university graduates then? is THIS not even better than 30%..?
..and what is so hard about that?
All you would have to do is charge the Government $100,000 per year per student …and let the happy lot lime down at Cave Hill talking shiite and taking ‘polls’ for three years.
PRESTO… you have 370,000 ‘graduates’….for only 4 billion borrowed dollars.
Steupsss..
The REAL POINT of a university is to filter out, and REFINE to world class standards, the TRULY talented LEADERS with which the society is BLESSED. Without these LEADERS, the society is doomed to outside domination.
This is typically about 1% of any random sample.
A university can ADDITIONALLY be commissioned to prepare ordinary ‘graduates’ to fill specialists roles needed by the society that are not necessarily at the cutting edge of global competition. (professionals, specialists etc) in specific, needed roles in the successful society.
A scheme to churn out ‘graduates’, just to meet designated quotas, DEVALUES and DILUTES the university’s key role which is about putting the society in a position to compete GLOBALLY against the cut-throat competition…(like the Trinis)
When you have 8000 ‘graduate masters’ churned out, how can you discern the 1% TRUE leaders from the other 7200 jokers?
ALSO, any ‘curriculum’ that will ENABLE the 8000 to ‘pass’, can never be stringent enough to get the TRULY talented to really EXERT themselves and prepare thereby for TRUE global competition.
See if you can work out what is wrong with CXC making it ‘easier’ for students to ’succeed’ because of COVID.
You can bet your last dollar that many students in other societies, found ways to use the covid period to prepare EVEN MORE intensely to succeed in THEIR exams…while we seek shortcuts for ours…
Guess which ‘graduates’ will be owners of our LOCAL asse(t)s down the road….
Take a music pill and enjoy
I admire BushTea’s stamina. To go back and forth with those who don’t get it is something to behold.
BT calls it the “institutionalisation of mediocrity. l call it the “mediocritisation of institutions”.
There is so much mediocrity everywhere that what should be passing for business as usual is hailed as great success.
If the education system – including CXC – is not providing the country the human capital it needs to compete effectively in any sphere of endeavour, isn’t that a sign of failure?
But apologists will say not and point to the relatively small group of high achievers and highly motivated students who go on to “success”, not realising that they will mostly succeed wherever they go. Their success is IN SPITE OF not BECAUSE OF, the broken system.
Don’t look at students from HC, QC, etc. How effective is the Ministry of education in equipping the average student from say Parkinson or Princess Margaret for the next stage?
@Dullard
BU welcomes all views (within the boundary of common sense)- those thought to be dullards and intelligent have a say.
These are all deficiencies that have been acknowledged. A fix is supposed to be in the works.
What is so hard to understand?????
Barbados was founded on colonialism and slavery. The savages took away our names, our culture, therefore our very identity! Our ancestors were indoctrinated in the philosophy of white supremacy, This horrific and very intentional act was done over centuries and is a worldwide phenomenon. The beasts were successful in destroying many peoples sense of self most everywhere they went. This generational trauma is still in evidence. Barbadians are no exception. Many people are only now waking up to the extent of the trauma and even the full knowledge of what was recently done and still being done to perpetuate it.
Healing is a process. It would be folly to expect fifty odd years to undo what centuries have done.
We are on a journey….. one that has only just begun!
Cussing the traumatised people is not going to make them walk any faster. It is too reminicient of massa’s demeaning tactics. They close their minds and get defensive.
Strangely enough, it was Lawson who pointed this out many months ago. What is required is patient coaching.
Barbados was founded on colonialism and slavery. The savages took away our names, our culture, therefore our very identity! Our ancestors were indoctrinated in the philosophy of white supremacy, This horrific and very intentional act was done over centuries and is a worldwide phenomenon. The beasts were successful in destroying many peoples sense of self most everywhere they went. This generational trauma is still in evidence. Barbadians are no exception. Many people are only now waking up to the extent of the trauma and even the full knowledge of what was recently done and still being done to perpetuate it.
Healing is a process. It would be folly to expect fifty odd years to undo what centuries have done.
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EXCUSES EXCUSES EXCUSES.
BLACKS HAVE BEEN THE LEADERS ON THE 2 X 3 ISLAND FOR OVER HALF A CENTURY AND HAVE DONE NOTHING TO EMPOWER ITS PEOPLE WHILST MAINTAINING WHITE ECONOMIC DOMINANCE ALLOWING THEM TO ENRICH THEMSELVES ALONG WITH SOME OF THEIR FELLOW BLACK CRONIES THROUGH KICKBACKS AND BRIBES VIA VOTE BUYING AND MULTIMILLION $ CONTRACTS.
THE EDUCATION SYSTEM DOES NOT TEACH CREATIVITY OR CREATE LEADERS BUT MAINTAIN THE STATUS QUO.
THIS IS NOT ABOUT TRAUMA BULLSHIT.
HAVING COME OUT OF ONE OF THE POOREST GHETTOS STLL WITH ONE OF THE HIGHEST MURDER RATES IN 2022 ON THE 2X3 ISLAND AND HAVING LIVED IN ABJECT POVERTY, SAW ABUSE DAILY, FIGHTS, ALCOHOLISM, DRUGS ETC ALL AROUND IT COMES DOWN TO CHOICES AND A DESIRE TO NOT BECOME A PART OF THE QUAMIRE DESPITE OBSTACLES REAL OR IMAGINE.
I REMEMBERED TEACHING AT UWI AND BEFORE I WAS TO RECEIVE MY FIRST SET OF STUDENTS IN THE MANAGEMENT DIVISION I WAS GIVEN A TEXT BOOK WHICH SAID CARIBBEAN MANAGEMENT.
ON THE FIRST DAY I TOLD MY STUDENTS INCLUDING PROFESSOR DEVONISH CURRENTLY AT UWI WAS THAT THERE WAS NO SUCH THING AS CARIBBEAN MANAGEMENT, AND THAT MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES WHEN PUT IN PRACTICES WERE THE SAME WHETHER IN THE US, UK OR ELSEWHERE.
I ALSO TOLD THEM THAT MY CLASS WOULD BE DIFFERENT AS I WOULD USE THE CARIBBEAN MANGEMENT TEXTBOOK NOT AS A PRIMARY SOURCE WHILST TEACHING THEM REAL WORLD PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE UNLIKE MOST OTHERS WHO TAUGHT THERE USING THEORY AND SAME INFORMATION OVER MANY YEARS EVEN THOUGH THE WORLD HAD CHANGED.
I WENT AS FAR AS GETTING MY STUDENTS TEMPORARY WORK PLACEMENTS IN BUSINESSES LOCALLY ON THE 2 X 3 ISLAND TO HELP THEIR PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE SOMETHING NO ONE HAD UWI HAD EVER DONE.
I WAS THE ONE WHO HELPED WHEN A UWI BUSINESS BREAKFAST CLUB WAS STARTED AND DONATED MY UWI CHECK AT THE END OF THE SEMESTER TO ASSIST WITH ITS STARTUP.
I HAD A REGIONAL BUSINESS SO HAD LITTLE IMPACT ON MY FINANCES BUT WANTED TO SHARE MY KNOWLEDGE GAINED AT THE TIME FROM BOTH THE US AND UK TO STUDENTS.
MOST MAKE EXCUSES WHILST FEW ARE DOERS.
So….you have made the common mistake of judging everyone by your standards.
So….you have made the common mistake of judging everyone by your standards.
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NOT JUDGING ANYONE.
YOU WERE BORN IN ENGLAND AND THEN BROUGHT TO THE 2X3 ISLAND AT A YOUNG AGE AS YOU HAVE TOLD IT.
I COULD BE WRONG YOU WEREN’T RAISED IN ANYONE OF THE MAIN GHETTO AREAS ON THE 2X3 ISLAND.
I WAS AND SPEAK FROM FACTS NOT SPECULATIONS.
How much of the 2×3 island is ghetto?
How much is Heights and Gardens? Did I grow up in a ghetto?
Do we have projects?
https://youtu.be/-0BIhXqMZno
@Bush Tea June 3, 2022 10:22 PM “@Simple minded Simon. So why not have 100% of Bajans be university graduates then? is THIS not even better than 30%..?
..and what is so hard about that? All you would have to do is charge the Government $100,000 per year per student …and let the happy lot lime down at Cave Hill talking shiite and taking ‘polls’ for three years. PRESTO… you have 370,000 ‘graduates’….for only 4 billion borrowed dollars. Steupsss.”
Your suggestion. NOT mine.
So you can go ahead and implement it.
@Bush Tea “and let the happy lot lime down at Cave Hill talking shiite and taking ‘polls’ for three years.”
My response: Again your foolish suggestion, NOT mine. I expect students to work hard and to work well. I’ve NEVER suggested liming, you have.
@Bush Tea “The REAL POINT of a university is to filter out, and REFINE to world class standards, the TRULY talented LEADERS with which the society is BLESSED. This is typically about 1% of any random sample.”
Where did you get this 1% nonsense?
Can you please document for BU which countries with 1% college/university graduates are doing better than countries with much higher percentages of college/university graduates?
Thanks.
@ TheOGazerts who asked ” Did I grow up in a ghetto? Do we have projects?”
You went to Kolij.You should know. lol
EXCUSES EXCUSES EXCUSES.
THERE IS NO LEADERSHIP ON THE 2X3 ISLAND.
BLACKS MAKING EACH OTHER SUFFER AFTER 50 YEARS IN POWER, SOME WILL SAY NEED ANOTHER 100 YEARS TO GET IT RIGHT BECAUSE OF PAST TRAUMAS.
FIRST THE NURSES, CBC WORKERS, VOLUNTEERS AND I CAN GO ON AND ON WITH THE BULLSHIT ON THE 2X3 ISLAND WHILST BLACK FAMILIES LESSER FORTUNATE SUFFERS.
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“I’ve worked from January and there are also volunteers who worked from January and the last time we were paid was in December. I’ve worked January, February and March and there has been no sort of payment,” she complained.
“This is June, a whole six months later and we are still waiting to be paid. How do they expect us to be able to put food on our tables and support our families if we are going three, four, five and now six months without getting paid?”
https://barbadostoday.bb/2022/06/03/volunteers-reveal-they-have-not-received-wages-since-december/
@TheOGazerts June 4, 2022 12:38 PM “How much of the 2×3 island is ghetto? How much is Heights and Gardens? Did I grow up in a ghetto? Do we have projects?”
I grew up in a rural village. Everybody was poor, barefoot poor, but I did not then or now considered it to be a ghetto. Everybody was striving to make life better for themselves and especially for their children. Neighbors did not prey on each other. My old man born more than 110 years ago was without a doubt poorer than anybody on this blog. Yet he raised all his children safely to adulthood. Nobody ever had to call the police or a lawyer, or a politician for any of them. But he used to speak about “poor-minded” that is a ghetto of the mind.
I grew up in a rural village. Everybody was poor, barefoot poor, but I did not then or now considered it to be a ghetto.
WHAT A REAL ASS IF YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND SOMETHING RESEARCH IT BEFORE SHOWING YOUR SILLY ASS
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ghetto
noun
a part of a city, especially a slum area, occupied by a minority group or groups.
Nobody should have to wait 3 to 6 months for their pay cheque.
For their first pay cheque weekly paid workers should be paid in later than 14 days after starting work. Workers paid twice per month should be paid by day 28 at latest, and monthly workers by day 60 at latest.
If this is not happening something needs to be fixed.
Most poor people have little to fall back and. They need their money. And to quote Scripture “a laborer is worthy of his wages”
1 Timothy 5:18
I’ve heard a middle aged heavy drinking town man refer to my village as a ghetto. As in “I can’t wait to get out of this ghetto.” He was renting a very nice 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom [wall] house, with electricity, water, telephone, wifi, and solar water heating, fence too. The village has since the 1960’s had paved roads, bus service was 5 minutes walk from his door, he owned a car and he and his wife both childless were both gainfully employed. A lovely beach was less than 10 minutes drive away. A library, post office, public health clinic, private doctors, supermarkets, clothing stores etc. were all within 15 minutes drive. And yet he felt ghettoised.
I wonder if sometimes ghetto is not mainly of the mind.
Ran into this… Is this where we are heading? Are we there as some are saying?
https://www.royalgazette.com/other/business/article/20200213/most-would-not-believe-the-poverty-in-cayman/
CXC has to be watched….today is Whit Monday and CXC has the students taking Biology tests…
their useless APP CRASHED during the Math test and had children spending unnecessary hours waiting for the program to work nearly 6pm in the evening……..the program which they did not give themselves sufficient time to test IS CRAP…
not too long ago, they had kids wading through a flood to do exams with leaking roofs and everything…
The eligible voter turn out is about 43%. A party receiving as low as 22% can win an election.
Ridiculous scenario
Look at the possible mathematics
22% x 30=30
21% x 30=0
91 – 0 in your tail
I can see a time where you will begging for more people to vote. With proper safeguards in place we can increase the number of voters.
Source: Nation
They do not have the SKILLS, DISCIPLINE or COMPETENCY to effectively implement anything,
no matter HOW ARE HARD THEY TRY, NO ONE in the Caribbean or on the continent of Afrika will follow Slave Society Barbados to nowhere…..they are too NOTORIOUS…dangerous and destructive….to AFRIKAN LIVES…
“BLACKS MAKING EACH OTHER SUFFER AFTER 50 YEARS IN POWER, SOME WILL SAY NEED ANOTHER 100 YEARS TO GET IT RIGHT BECAUSE OF PAST TRAUMAS.”
it’s only BUs anonymous clowns talking shite about “patience” over 300 years of chattel slavery and over 150 years OF BONDANGE and social/financial disenfranchisement…..and the idiots still want to sit and wait and believe they sound so clear….steupppsss…
all ya hear everywhere is people lamenting they are NOT BEING PAID…slave island…
Barbados echo chamber was talking about it’s ambition to be a Global IT player in the Big League
As an IT Subject Matter Expert with skills and experience in all stages of Software Development Lifecycle from business analysis thru > design > development > system testing > user acceptance testing & signoff > implementation > post-implementation support and further modifications development
I testify that all systems are shit
Systems Failures are the Industry Standard
Them Never Know
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