Nation Publishing MUST Do Better

There is the saying often posted in this space that the price of freedom (democracy) is eternal vigilance. A necessary component to safeguarding our freedom (democracy) is a relevant media. An extract from The Role of Media in Democracy: A Strategic Approach authored by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) states:-

A free, objective, skilled media is an essential component of any democratic society. On the one hand, it provides the information which the polity require to make responsible, informed decisions. On the other, it performs a “checking function” ensuring that elected officials uphold their oaths of office and campaign promises and that they carry out the wishes of the electorate.

The blogmaster is reminded everyday since March 2007 when Barbados Underground (BU) went live on the WordPress platform the importance of a relevant media. We recall the VOB Sunday Brasstacks show when social commentator and retired hotelier Adrian Loveridge was forced to contribute to the program from a separate studio because it was the condition for the participation of former Minister of Tourism Noel Lynch.

During one of last week’s VOB’s Brasstacks shows the blogmaster was again reminded of the naked manipulation of traditional media by a caller (was it you William?) who questioned the Nation Publishing company’s decision to anoint Khaleel Kothdiwala a columnist to replace Dr. Kristina Hinds. The caller’s simple and well articulated logic was – with the BLP in total control of the Lower House, why select Khaleel who is a BLP card carrying member. It does not mean Khaleel lacks the capacity to share a perspective on a myriad topics, however, making Khaleel a columnist ensured the leading publishing house in the country slammed the door on an opportunity to improve vigilance in our democracy.

This is not a personal attack on Khaleel, he obviously is an intelligent young man who is committed to be a BLP sponsored politician. And it is his right, to align with a political party of his choice. This is an attack on the Nation Publishing for allowing itself to be manipulated directly or indirectly into making Khaleel a columnist. We may speculate this is the Nation Publishing being opportunistic by contracting a young man whose star is rising or that ‘someone’ made a telephone call.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

119 thoughts on “Nation Publishing MUST Do Better


  1. Bajans should lead change
    In Barbados, the official celebration of the Season of Emancipation runs from April 14, which is the anniversary of the Bussa Rebellion, until August 23, which is the International Day For The Remembrance Of The Slave Trade And Its abolition.
    In between, we have National Heroes Day, Africa Day, the Day Of National Significance, Emancipation Day and Marcus Garvey’s birthday. One of these days we are going to be so fully emancipated from mental slavery that a four-month season of emancipation would seem unnecessary because emancipation would be like breadfruits, pretty much in season all year long.
    We are the people of the first black slave society. This is where modern-day slavery was invented and perfected. Barbados is a pioneer in systems and methods of human bondage and subjugation. So it makes sense that we should be pioneers in systems and methods of human emancipation.
    Reflecting the dreams
    The Barbadian mission should be to lead the transformation of this world, which is made in the image and likeness of men like Christopher Columbus and Cecil Rhodes, into a world reflecting the dreams some of our ancestors may not have dared to dream. Because to dream of something which seems like it could never be is to invite suffering. After centuries of enslavement, emancipation must have seemed to some like more of a fantasy than a dream.
    And yet, so many of our ancestors did dare to dream. And, more than dream, they dared to attempt to build.
    It doesn’t seem enough to say that they pushed against the odds. They pushed against reality. The reality is that the world system as we know it is based on systems of slavery and colonisation. Does the first black slave society dare to dream to be the first society in history, black or otherwise, to transcend this foundation?
    Attempt to build
    Barbados produced sugar and humans as slaves. It is the place where slavery was made. It is poetic justice that Barbados becomes the place where freedom is saved. With the sugar industry ailing, all we have to fall back on is the human element.
    Instead of pioneering the most inhumane methods to break the spirit and will of human beings, Barbados must pioneer the most humane methods to rebuild the spirit and will of human beings.
    Instead of the world looking to Barbados to learn how to make a slave, as is chronicled in the myth of Willie Lynch, the world should look to Barbados to learn how to emancipate self from slavery, as is chronicled in the hymns of Bob Marley.
    Seasoned with colonialism
    We need a season of emancipation because of how deeply we are seasoned with colonialism. We’ve marinated so long in the slave master’s sauce that even when the skins of the overseers change, the original essence still runs deep. But there is an essence that runs even deeper, which slowly seeps to the surface. It is the essence of all human beings regardless of race or class to seek liberation in some form. It so happens that most of our ancestors have an African form to that essence.
    This essence kept our ancestors pushing against their current reality even when centuries of experience said that bondage was our eternal lot. Under the dark rule of those who would fool you into believing that their ruling is by divine right, our ancestors saw light. Not at the end of a tunnel.
    But in their own minds and spirits and kept going towards it. And it grew brighter. Now it is up to us to carry the torch. Even as the rulers of the global plantation, by acting in their usual manner, threaten to leave the Earth scorched.
    Once upon a time, to be Barbadosed meant to be sent to the place where all dreams and hope were meant to die.
    Can a new generation of Barbadians transform this island into a place where the Barbadosed form and essence of our ancestors are brought back to life and light?

    Adrian Green is a communications specialist. Email: Adriangreen14 @gmail.com


    Source: Nation


  2. Kingdom Rise Kingdom Fall / The Wailing Souls
    Yes! Whoa now, whoa now, whoa now!

    Kingdom rise an’ kingdom fall
    Whoa yeah, now, now!
    Babylon back is against the wall
    Babylon trying to find a solution

    Kingdom rise an’ kingdom fall
    Whoa yeah, now, now!
    Babylon back is against the wall
    Yeah!

    Economics has got them in desperation
    Dis ya modern famine
    And poverty is causing dangerous political tension
    Dis ya modern famine
    Depression is down in the land
    Dis ya modern famine
    And inflation is holding down strong, strong, strong
    Shi dup, shi dup

    Kingdom rise an’ kingdom fall
    Whoa yeah, now, now!
    Babylon back is against the wall
    Babylon trying to find a solution

    Kingdom rise an’ kingdom fall
    Whoa yeah, now, now!
    Babylon back is against the wall
    Yeah!

    False rulers, we know them
    Dis ya modern famine
    Speaking about human rights
    Dis ya modern famine
    Yet they deal with pure dishonesty
    Dis ya modern famine
    And the people, they still can’t walk the streets as they like
    Shi dup, shi dup

    Kingdom rise an’ kingdom fall
    Whoa yeah, now, now!
    Babylon back is against the wall
    Babylon trying to find a solution

    Kingdom rise an’ kingdom fall
    Yeah! Whoa yeah, now, now!
    Babylon back is against the wall
    Oh yeah, oh yeah!

    Economics has got them in desperation
    Dis ya modern famine
    And poverty is causing dangerous political tension
    Dis ya modern famine
    Depression is down in the land
    Dis ya modern famine
    And inflation is holding down strong, strong, strong
    Shi dup, shi dup

    Kingdom rise an’ kingdom fall
    Whoa yeah, now, now!
    Babylon back is against the wall
    Babylon trying to find a solution

    Kingdom rise an’ kingdom fall


  3. KK wrote on BU even though it was clear he was being misled by political pimps, by deceitful politicians. I was very concerned from the beginning that the poison he was indoctrinated to spew would taint young minds….no one else was bothered by this..

    i take it the replacement of the other writer is the real issue here. Nation has always been known to be a mouthpiece for whichever government of the day was usurping the people’s elective power to mislead voters and cover multiple political and minority crimes against said people………no different to the BLP mouthpieces found on BU…


  4. “It does not mean Khaleel lacks the capacity to share a perspective on a myriad topics, however, making Khaleel a columnist ensured the leading publishing house in the country slammed the door on an opportunity to improve vigilance in our democracy.”

    Khaleel was offered a position in the Senate, which the Senate squashed a necessary constitutional amendment for him to represent. Giving the youthman a voice in a newspaper would be a baptism of fire to prove whether the Senate was ignorant backward and regressive or justified in it’s rejection. To be a mixed race minority or muslim is not a crime. Shallow minded thinking is sipping the cup of ignorance.

    Fire Focus Meditation Full Experience With Performance Coach Damon Damato


    • Why must some of you always do the predictable? The focus of the posting is to highlight the important role of media in Barbados and elsewhere.


  5. It is common knowledge that the Nation is the BLP mouthpiece but what better way to curry favor with the PM than to give her blue eyed baby a regular gig as a columnist thus what we missed in the Senate we can read in the daily rag.
    As for Dr. Hinds you were a tad too critical of the powers that be and your wings had to be clipped, remember the PM said that they will provide the Opposition and that’s the way it is.


    • @Sargeant

      There is something else you could have mentioned.

      When Caswell was appointed to the Senate he was forced to resign as columnist of the Nation. Apparently the Nation has a policy of now allowing members of the house of assembly to be columnists. It is interesting the explanation given by Dr. Hinds for giving up being a Nation columnist.

      We live in interesting times.


  6. The Nation is a Trini Trojan horse, whose role is to keep Bajans foolish and subservient with slave-minded propaganda…
    They have done a great job in fooling 99.9% of the brass bowls 100% of the time..
    ..BUT NOT stinking Bushie.


  7. Why must some of you always do the predictable?
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    Bushie was wondering if your delete button break off…..


    • @Bush Tea

      As you are aware the blogmaster is lazy to delete comments but will do when necessary.


  8. “Why must some of you always do the predictable?”

    Jah Give Us Life [Don’t Feel No Way] (12″ Mix)


  9. @ Sargeant
    The Nation (One Caribbean Network) don’t support the BLP per se…
    They support ANYTHING that promotes THEIR Trini agenda.

    It happens that the stupid BLP policies since Tom Adams, of borrowing and looking OUTSIDE for every shiite is EXACTY in line with their agenda to destroy Barbados…or rather brassbadians..
    OCM promotes ANYTHING that downgrades Barbadian pride. This is why they LOVE Petra Wicky, and why the moderators on brass tacks all sound so paipsy… Just the thought that their ‘go to cuntsultant’ spends the nights under French dictatorship makes Bushie shame as shiite..
    …and Walter could REALLY stay in Atlanta too, someone obviously had a chat with him about his initial dig into radical vaccine accountability. He has been doing himself NO Favors since then…. it is like he needs the couple dollars…

    Steupsss
    Caswell is a MAN among brass bowls in Barbados. He is the same when poor, rich, senatorial or unlettered.

    @ David
    Why the hell don’t you ask Caswell to do a regular column on BU?
    He won’t pay Bushie any mind (cause the bushman knows too much of his business 🙂 ) but he will listen to you…
    BU can be even BIGGER than the shiite Nation…


    • @Bush Tea

      Caswell is not an idiot and he know he is always welcome to post to BU and other mediums.


  10. @555
    I was not planning to mention KK in any comment on this post, but I was expecting you to bring his race into it and you did. On that matter, you are predictable and known.

    It is sad how your view of him is so limited. For that comment you can have the last word.


  11. The first thing that jumped out in this article was mention of USAID. One must bear in mind that the US or its sponsored agencies will say one thing and do another.

    There can be truth and value in what is stated, but, from the US outlook these are sweet nothings that must be whispered in our ears.


  12. Working my way down to paragraph 2.
    Those who would tell you of the ‘Role of Media in a Democracy’ supports the most brutal dictators when it suits their purpose. Needless to say, brutal dictators do not support a democracy or a free press.


  13. Caswell is not an idiot
    ~~~~~~~
    In that regard, he stands out in Brassbados.
    HOWEVER, he HAS to be fed up and FRUSTRATED… having to deal with such BBs.
    Recall a fella called Moses was so pissed that he smashed the commandments?

    Just have a likkle chat with the fella near to a ‘burning bush’ nuh man….


    • @Bush Tea

      Again the follow through- in our system of democracy there is a big role for the people read John Citizens.


  14. ((Your)) Heart is worn inside
    ((But)) Love can change your mind
    When you sing this song

    Love will sing along

    DA DA′n DA, DA DA’n DA
    DA DA′n DA, DA DA’n DA
    DA DA’n DA, DA DA′n DA
    DA DA′n DA

    Ease your pain, be light
    End all of your strife
    When you sing this song
    Love will sing along

    DA DA’n DA, DA DA′n DA
    DA DA’n DA, DA DA′n DA
    DA DA’n DA, DA DA′n DA
    DA DA’n DA, DA DA DA DA
    “Da Da’n Da” is a medicinal melody that simply speaks to the heart healing power of MUSIC. When life’s ailments get you down, sing a little diddy and turn things around!
    DA DA’n DA, DA DA′n DA
    DA DA′n DA, DA DA DA DA

    OOH OOH OOH OOH OOH OOH OOH OOH
    OOH OOH OOH OOH OOH OOH OOH OOH OOH OOH

    DA DA’n DA, DA DA′n DA
    DA DA’n DA, DA DA DA DA

    Snarky Puppy feat Chantae Cann – Free Your Dreams (Family Dinner – Volume One)


  15. My one KK comment.

    If it wasn’t KK, then it would have been some other lackey who have hidden his flag and party card.

    NTSH


  16. CHANTAE CANN
    Craters Lyrics (feat. PJ Morton)

    Verse I:

    Like craters on the moon
    Your love has made its mark
    When ya crashed into my heart
    You hit me like a shooting star

    I’m crazy over you
    Can’t you see it in the sparks
    Shines brightly in the dark
    The universe knows who we are

    Chorus:

    I can’t get away from you
    Can’t keep me away from you
    We belong together like craters on the moon
    Craters on the moon

    Verse II:

    You must be from Mars
    Somewhere beyond the sky
    When I’m with you I can fly high
    Just one look into your eyes

    I can see the stars
    Blazing like a fire
    Your beautiful inspires
    Me to be right where you are

    Chorus:

    I can’t get away from you
    Can’t keep me away from you
    We belong together like craters on the moon
    Craters on the moon

    I can’t get away from you
    Can’t keep me away from you
    We belong together like craters on the moon
    Craters on the moon

    Vamp:

    I can see the stars
    With you (repeat)


  17. “our system of democracy’
    LOL ha ha ha
    Boss, sometime you are SO funny!!
    The ‘role for the people’ is to pay taxes and keep their donkeys quiet.
    They are also useful consumers – although this has to be weighed against the lotta excrement produced… both literally and verbally.
    John Citizen shiite!!! …yuh mean Jack Sheep. 🙂


  18. “If it wasn’t KK, then it would have been some other lackey who have hidden his flag and party card.

    NTSH”

    my point exactly, and that can be said of EVERY LOCAL MEDIA except mine…i don’t do coverups…..so we can’t overlook any other platform that does, you don’t get to cherry-pick what you want to keep hidden from the people because of political inbreeding and then claim ya educating them….ya either in OR YA OUT…


  19. @ David BU

    Is it not undemocratic for the opening post to suggest that the Nation Newspaper seeks the approval of its author in selecting its columnists?All columnists have cognitive biases. It is a column. The personal view of the writer. Are we trying a new version of dictatorship ? Khalid writes clearly and intelligently. Can one ask more of a newspaper columnist. ?


  20. @ David
    It was not me who called Brasstacks. Lol.
    @WURA
    “no different to the BLP mouthpieces found on BU…”
    You are more than correct !
    A few weeks ago , on this same BU, I mentioned that the media was sucking up to Mia. Apologizing before asking her serious questions.
    I was told that I should have checked the Advocate’s bias to the DLP.
    Like I often say: tell a Bajan ,the roads bad ;he would ask yuh if yuh evah went to some other island and see dey bad words.
    @ David again
    I don’t care if Mia amends the Constitution and make Mr. Kothdiwala the next president . Won’t surprise me one bit.. And if Ronnie does it one day with one of his faithfuls, it won’t surprise me either.
    Same bs different day.
    All I do these days is laugh at the apologists , who come here with more egg on their faces and trying their best to pretend that they ain’t embarrassed by the pure shite that going on.
    And if it were the Dees it would be the same thing.
    And @. Bushie makes that clear every day. Just a frigging pony show.
    The same paper the Blogmaster criticizing,is the very same paper , that the columns and columnists , being promoted on BU.
    Why buy the Nation, when you can read all its columns on BU ???
    Peace.


  21. “The same paper the Blogmaster criticizing,is the very same paper , that the columns and columnists , being promoted on BU.
    Why buy the Nation, when you can read all its columns on BU ???”

    i didn’t even want to highlight that, people might tink i pickin pon dem bozie….lol

    although I beat up on Nationnews myself, this time, outside of replacing someone more experienced with someone now learning the ropes, unless we are not being told everything….i did not see the need for the finger pointing..

    These will never like AOP, i never practice being a suck up artist, there is no integrity in that, and in the international world, despite all the warts out there…people tend to respect integrity..

    noticed that politicians are treated as though they will break if you ask hard questions, they depend on cowardly reporters and journalists, am still waiting for Barbados local media to grow some balls..

    ya done know not a fella int coming to be interviewed by me….

    ….


  22. Scratch & His Rainbow Throne
    Although Lee Perry never released a solo album in the 1970s other than Roast Fish Collie Weed And Cornbread, his work as a singer from this era can be very heavy. Mick Sleeper selects some of the best tunes with Scratch behind the microphone.
    Scratch & His Rainbow Throne
    Death Before Dishonour – Lee Perry & The Black Disciples
    Justice To The People – Lee Perry
    Black Man Time – Lee Perry
    Ghetto Sidewalk – Lee Perry
    Nuh Fe Run It Down – Lee Perry
    Standing On The Hill – Lee Perry
    Rainbow Throne – Lee Perry
    Babylon A Fall – Lee Perry
    In This Iwa – Lee Perry
    Disco Devil – Lee Perry & Full Experience
    Chase Them – Lee Perry
    Happy Birthday Jamaica – Lee Perry
    Eradication Squad – Lee Perry & The Majestics
    Upsetting Version Galore
    As any reggae fan knows, it is common practice in Jamaican music for producers to use the same rhythm track more than once. Lee Perry did this perhaps better than any other producer, creating something new and fresh with his versions instead of just a carbon copy. This episode features some killer rhythm showers featuring some of Scratch’s best-known rhythms including “Beat Down Babylon”, “Words Of My Mouth”, “Tighten Up” and more.
    Upsetting Version Galore
    Tighten Up – Inspirations
    Tighten Up Skank – Dillinger
    Cane River Rock – Upsetters
    Riverside Rock – Upsetters
    Beat Down Babylon – Junior Byles
    Informer Men – Junior Byles & Jah T
    Tribal War – U Roy Junior
    Freedom Fighter – Bunny & Ricky
    Iron Wolf – Upsetters
    Bet You Don’t Know – Chenley Duffus
    Philistines On The Land – Junior Murvin
    Bingo Kid – Upsetters
    Soldier And Police War – Jah Lion
    Bad Weed – Junior Murvin
    Grumbling Dub – Upsetters
    Babylon Thief Dub – Upsetters
    Fire Fe De Vatican – Max Romeo
    Earth Is The Lord – Jah Lion
    Stop The War Ina Babylon – James Booms
    Black Vest – Upsetters
    Words Of My Mouth – Gatherers
    Words – Lee Perry
    Wisdom – Jah Lion
    Little Flute Chant – Upsetters


  23. I really don’t see the point in attending schools of journalism and then BARRED from asking journalistic questions….or BROWBEATEN into LYING TO and misleading the public…or blacklisted and set up when you don’t comply with the demonic political games…


  24. Why buy the Nation, when you can read all its columns on BU ???
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    William …thanks for that perspective.
    Cause here was Bushie gloating that, with BU printing the columns …AND with the opportunity to have full and frank discussion on them here, David was juckking the Trojan horse in the eye (or the other end…) for a change.

    All we need now is for WISE advertisers to choose to advertise on BU… 🙂
    …and for David to figure out how to take the money and pay Caswell and Baffy… for their contributions.


  25. William….btw….in George Lammings book there is this character “Slime”…well, would you know it, it was recently revealed WHO this real life character descents in the parliament are…..real “SLIME”……yall got generations of slime.

    they keep electing the same families with a vicious legacy and then complain how dirty they are….how could they be any different…it’s in their DNA..stop electing them….now that you know the parliament is CURSED with revolving family trees..

    did i not tell them that place was haunted, first with the ghosts of demonic slave masters and then with the dregs of the earth from the negro tree…


  26. Greeting Music Lover
    This is Upsetting
    OK OK Lets Take It From Here

    Tighten Up

    Tighten Up Skank


  27. “Why buy the Nation, when you can read all its columns on BU ???”

    It is nice to know what you are going read in advance in your daily news
    Like the Afrikan Duopoly for Morons


  28. I did not make this up…

    On Thursday, at London’s ThundCrit cycling event, two biological males identifying as women took first and second place and then celebrated their “achievement” by kissing on the podium as the third-place winner, an actual female, held her baby.


  29. Theo…it’s all a pappyshow, do you remember the female athlete from South Africa Semenya that the olympic committee has TERRORIZED for years because of her appearance…they even claimed she is a hermaphrodite, although she offered to show them her feminine parts, and they refused….because they don’t want the narrative to change…

    but you see what they are doing….allowing males PRETENDING TO BE FEMALES to compete with real women…


  30. @ David Bu at 11;18 AM

    I read the caption which suggest that the Nation should do better , And the reference to an appointment as a columnist. I am happy to learn that i was mistaken about the intent of the post.


  31. David
    Senator Hinds is in the senate and a moderator on Brasstacks, which is carried on VoB–a sister company of the Nation. How does replacing her with KK a threat to democracy? I always thought democracy thrived where ALL opinions contend. Walter Blackman is also on Brasstacks, a man that according this same BU Blog declared an interest in contesting SME for the DLP in 2018. Michelle Russell has a column in the Nation’s Sunday Sun, she’s currently on the legal team representing Adriel Brathwaite and the Constitutional motion he filed. Her lead Garth Patterson regularly now has columns he both newspapers. In a healthy democracy should only those oppose/not aligned to government have columns or moderate talk shows? The argument about controlling the Lower House is also flawed. Firstly, parliamentary debates, Brasstacks and a newspaper column ain’t the same, as it is a known fact that more people listen to Brasstacks and read the Nation than listen to parliament. Secondly, in the context of public access there’s no difference between the Upper and Lower houses, So one can therefore similarly argue that if Senator Hinds is in the Upper House, why does she need a column? A mature society accepts rather than constantly frowns on a talk show host, columnist or BU poster’s political affiliation. Is it not better to know a columnist’ agenda if we’re preaching objectivity and transparency? Giving KK, who is 18 and a known member of the BLP is democracy at work. Ah bet yuh these people that talking love MSNBC or Fox. We need to grow up!


  32. @ David Bu
    I expected the content to elaborate on the caption. I take your word that the caption does not reflect your intent.
    My personal conclusion is confusion. But maybe it is not one of my better days for comprehending.


  33. Nation Publishing MUST Do Better
    Barbados Underground MUST Do Better
    Publishers write any damn thing they want
    Bob Marley & The Wailers – Brain Washing

    Ooh-ooh
    Old Mr. Joe, he build a house away
    On top of some hill
    Old Mr. Joe knew he had to go, so he
    He got right down and wrote bank will
    He say now, here’s to mother hen
    And her chicken, Lord have mercy now
    Master, will you take a roll in the mud
    Like you know you should?
    The old barnyard, the old barnyard
    Birds and the chick, ooh-wee
    Who’s got to watch out for brother mongoose
    With his top hap and walking-stick?

    It’s just the poor’s brain washing
    (Poor’s ..) They told me a long time ago,
    It’s just the poor’s brain washing, ooh-wee
    (Poor’s brain washing) Now look at a thing like this

    Cinderella and her long lost fellow
    In the midnight hour, she lost her silver slipper
    Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
    While Jack and Jill had themselves a fall

    It’s just the poor’s (.. brain washing)
    And I don’t need it no longer (.. washing)
    It’s just the poor’s brain washing
    Coming through to a poor man’s child, ooh-wee, look at this

    Little Miss Muffet she sat on a tuffet
    While Little Red Riding Hood delivered her grandmom’s food
    Ooh-wee ooh-wee
    Ooh-wee, look at one more thing like this
    The cow jumping over the moon
    While the dish got jealous, he grabbed the handy spoon

    It’s just the poor’s brain washing
    And I don’t need it no longer, I don’t want it no longer
    I don’t need it no longer (.. washing)
    And I don’t care for no more brain washing (.. washing)


  34. “I was not planning to mention KK in any comment on this post, but I was expecting you to bring his race into it and you did. On that matter, you are predictable and known.

    It is sad how your view of him is so limited. For that comment you can have the last word.”

    Nigger Please
    Black Bastards Deluxe Edition


  35. Casting pearls before Swine
    KK should not bother with Politics in Barbados
    Never make a politician (aaa-aaah) grant you a favour
    They will always want (aaa-aaah) to control you forever
    so if a fire make it burn (make it burn, make it burn)
    and if a blood make it run (make it run, run, run)
    Rasta up on top (aaa-aaah) can’t you see (doo-doo-doo-doo)
    So you can’t predict the flock, Eh eh (doo-doo-doo-doo)
    Bob Marley & the Wailers Revolution


  36. I see that you are not below using the n word.

    Funny that those who cast stones live in a glass house.


  37. if someone accuses you of something
    you may as well do it
    you view and others on BU has been consistent about KK from day one


  38. @David, LOL yes indeed the BushMan does incite moments of pure WTBadword 🤣😎!

    “spending nights under French dictatorship” was surely such an example!

    But I am a lil amused and bemused that your mentor labels the Nation as a ‘Trini Trojan Horse’.

    I have to imagine that this BushBath reasoning was long held by him because way back then prior to the OCM merger the Nation was a close partner to the TnT Express and had their paper printed there on a few occasions when there were problems here.

    @BushTea, I say that to note that you would have known or perceived that our Trini brethren were trying “to keep Bajans foolish and subservient with slave-minded propaganda” for many years now so why did you not mount a serious rebellion … or did you!

    These mild rumblings now that the die has surely been cast with their effective take-over is warmed over “stinking” nothings, not so! 😎🤦🏾‍♂️

    BTW @David, surely if we do an audit bureau review of Nation readership I suspect one would find that who they select to write columns is rather insignificant to that readership bottomline, not so!

    They are too many avenues to read and comment on those with bold opinions that this matter of KK as a columnist is quite irrelevant and immaterial!

    Just saying.

    I gone.


    • @Dee Word

      How does your last paragraph excuse a media house from taking the best ethical journalistic decisions?


  39. Under 21 + Over 21
    1 seat in Senate to represent Barbados youth Under 21
    would only apply for one term until the Senator reaches 21
    and would only be a casting vote in event of a tie in Upper House


  40. Last/last
    I agree my view has been consistent and will remain so.
    However, it does not match what you think my view is. Stop mind reading and you will find out what your own views are.


  41. “I agree my view has been consistent and will remain so.
    However, it does not match what you think my view is”

    My own view is I never did like you
    you engage like scum do


  42. “How does your last paragraph excuse a media house from taking the best ethical journalistic decisions?”

    Newspapers tell journalists what to write and how to write it
    staff have to toe the line and produce the spin as directed
    meeting the deadlines for their paycheque


  43. Does it matter if you like me or not?

    Well if I engage you like scum do, then perhaps I am dealing with scum.

    You say a lot of nasty racist things here and then want to shout racism when someone makes a political comment on a political actor. But I believed you have already exposed your own ass.


  44. 1/x
    What was your previous racist comment about blacks.. it had something to do about reading..


  45. I have called out You, Waru and Wiiliam out for your racist views about Asians and KK on Bu
    the youth is better than you and your children who god bless let no man curse


  46. 2/x
    Let me ask you four questions
    (1) Given that you have use the n word, would you use it to describe KK black parent?
    (2.a) Are you one of those Asians who embraces a black mixed child only if it is doing well?
    (2.b) Would you be one of those who taunted and insulted Kamala in her youth but became claimed her after she was nominated for VP.?

    (3) Given your knowledge of blacks and their reading habits, do you believe that his black parent read to him or was all of the reading work shouldered by the Asian parent
    (4) Do you have any idea of where KK got his brains from, both parents or just the Asian parent

    We are probably as proud of the youth as you are. We make no distinction of his black side or of his Asian side, but you seem fixated on the part of him that is Asian. Accept the whole person. You need to call yourself out before calling out others, You have continually made many racist statement here, but most prefer just to ignore you.

    Called out or called in, I will comment on KK as I se fit,


  47. @David, re “How does your last paragraph excuse a media house from taking the best ethical journalistic decisions?”

    I see nothing unethical about the Nation’s decision on their columnists per KK. I agree broadly and specifically with the position of @Codington: 1) broadly that an opinion writer is by trade going to have a bias and in MOST cases is 2) hired to espouse that very clear bias.

    The inference made in the piece above is that 1) the Nation publisher was mandated to offer KK that column and 2) they are in some way reducing the voice of opposition to this admin. I cannot speak to either of those allegations but based on my prior close attention to such media matters and too the pervasiveness of social media I deem both of them as IRRELEVANT to our current world.

    There has ALWAYS been room for opposition views on the Nation’s editorial/opinion pages so I would be shocked if there are no strong DLP nor other party hacks allowed to give voice to their views these days.

    But moreover, as I noted, the over exposure of FB, Instagram, TikToc, websites, podcasts, talk radio etc makes the who’s who of traditional media columnists a NON issue, IMHO.

    I put it to you, brother that if, for example, ‘Muff’ Holder was a prominent columnist today that he would be taken to task comprehensively by netziens in a way he was NEVER assailed back then…. because people would be mouthing off all across the spectrum noted. Back then u had to get a letter to the editor published to battle him and of course he would smack u down with his depth of data and books … now sir the data retrieval and research available to us all makes him and folks like him less IMPACTFUL, more easily challenged and often shouted down..

    This KK brother is a liliputian in comparison so who cares (other than him and his peeps) that he gets to display his smarts and opinions every week in the Nation!

    If you can find me 10 bloggers here who do then I will stand down 🤣😎!


  48. @David, this post deals with a media house being tasked to offer better reportage on their opinion pages but the bottom line demands that also be done on the news pages.

    In that vein I want to speak to how this pervasive social media 24-7, very personal and intrusive environment causes the traditional media houses like the Nation to offer too much SENSATIONAL reporting!

    Fah sure, this is NOT a new phenomena but it’s much more damaging now because it so quickly has a VERY LARGE reach.

    Exhibit, this headline: “Uvalde funeral attendant who encountered gunman says he tried to go after shooter, was held back”

    This is an NBC headline … and it’s ABSIRDLY misleading, ridiculous and sensational in the most damaging way!

    That sir in my view is the very epitome of unethical journalism. 1) it encourages a false narrative that this man could have saved those 19 kids and teachers killed but was stopped by the authorities; 2) it suggests the cops on site were not executing their responsibilities effectively and 3) it fosters this mentality of vigilante justice: I have a gun too and will kill u if you try any of these attacks in my neighborhood!

    This is dangerous and very inaccurate inference of what was actually possible. We are all the worst for this type of scandalous reporting.

    There are too many mediums to be satisfied and thus there is too MUCH erroneous, half true and often times absolute BS used to fill the spaces.

    We need to be more discerning and wrap our heads around what are the ethical standards truly being breached and plunging us down a very perilous slope!

    I gone.


  49. Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
    “(1) Given that you have use the n word, would you use it to describe KK black parent?”
    I used it to reply to your comment for being a snide cunt bitch like you do

    “(2) (2.a) Are you one of those Asians who embraces a black mixed child only if it is doing well?”
    I have never ever met an asian like that
    I assume you have never ever known any asian as friends and family from previous lack of response if you had

    “(3) Given your knowledge of blacks and their reading habits”
    that was a joke like you and lawson like to crack
    if it hurt you and you want to make a big deal about it so what

    “(4) Do you have any idea of where KK got his brains from, both parents or just the Asian parent”
    50-50

    “We are probably as proud of the youth as you are.”
    I read the bad minded comments and call out the bad minded people
    treat him same way you would want your own child to be treated


  50. youthman promotion

    “(4) Do you have any idea of where KK got his brains from, both parents or just the Asian parent”

    where did the anti-Kaleel bandwagon get their bias and hate from
    they said that there are other black black children who deserve to be ambassador
    but senate said they didn’t want any youths and change in law instead as their solution


  51. even in racist countries they know discriminating against youths is wrong
    and in racist countries they know they can’t stop minorities being successful
    slave plantation colonies with indian plantation workers are behind racist places


  52. This work is dedicated to the victims of the global system of white supremacy (racism), all non-white people worldwide, past and present, who have resolved to end this great travesty and bring justice, then peace to planet Earth.
    “If you do not understand White Supremacy (Racism)- what it is, and how it works -everything else that you understand, will only confuse you.”
    -Neely Fuller, Jr. (1971).
    The United Independent Compensatory Code/System/Concept
    No persons who classify themselves as white living in the area of the world referred to as the United States of America (or for that matter, in any other area of the world) should presume to tell any Black person (or other non-white person) what racism is or is not, until they have read completely Kenneth O’Reilley’s Racial Matters: The FBI’s Secret File on Black America, 1960-1972.
    No Black person living in the area of the world referred to as the United States of America should discourse on racism or deny the conspiratorial dimensions of the local and global system of racism until he/she has read Racial Matters completely.
    All non-white people (black, brown, red and yellow) should read and discuss the implications of the book, Racial Matters; the implications for themselves as individuals and the implications for their collective should be discussed in depth.
    Then, all non-white people should view the docudrama videotape, The Wannsee Conference (which can be rented), to observe exactly how a white supremacy government calmly sits and plans the destruction of a people that it classifies as
    non-white.
    The Wannsee Conference took place in Germany, in 1941, to finalize the plans for the destruction of 11,000,000 Semites (non-whites) of the Jewish religion.
    The German white supremacists succeeded in killing six million.
    After the above steps have been taken, all non-white people worldwide should read Neely Fuller’s work, The United Independent Compensatory Code/System/Concept: a text book/workbook for thought, speech and/or action for victims of racism (white supremacy).
    Frances Cress Welsing
    Washington, D.C.
    August, 1989


  53. Ambition
    Is the Republic of Barbados dead already

    National Hero Rihanna’s singing talent was not promoted in or by Barbados, but her career was developed and built by the Black American Underground Hip Hop Pedagogy Scene.

    The token seat in Senate for the youth politician would have opened the door to spot and nurture youth talent in local politics for the future, but the crusty Senate cock blocked it and he couldn’t penetrate.


  54. “I have called out You, Waru and Wiiliam out for your racist views about Asians and KK on Bu”

    a old racist like you pretending to call out people….because you DON’T WANT US CALLING OUT ASIAN RACISM against Afrikan peoples……well too bad, ah got it nicely OUTLINED in my first book….can’t unwrite it…

    yall are not special and would not even exist HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR AFRIKANS…


  55. and got the delusional belief he can get here and twist everything Marley, Nana Welsing and others say to suit his narrow asian agenda….

    ..I had the pleasure of lisening to Dr. Julius Marley, Garvey’s son, yesterday, and these types of saboteurs existed back then in his father’s days…they never go away and are to be sidelined and IGNORED…

    Pacha…it was worth it to hear Garvey’s son tell us the plain UNVARNISHED truth…and he interacted very well with those present…


  56. I expect that the Nation knew exactly what it was doing. I doubt that it was being manipulated. I expect that it enjoys being a “suck-up” to the political class whichever party is in office.


  57. @African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved June 5, 2022 6:10 AM
    “KK wrote on BU even though it was clear he was being misled by political pimps, by deceitful politicians.”

    I doubt very much that KK is being misled. I expect that he knows exactly what he is doing.


  58. @Bush Tea June 5, 2022 7:29 AM “…makes Bushie shame as shiite.”

    Take my simple advice.

    NEVER be ashamed unless YOU have done something wrong.


  59. “I doubt very much that KK is being misled. I expect that he knows exactly what he is doing.”

    no he don’t, it’s just a continuation of colonial political indoctrination into ANOTHER GENERATION…of very UNAWARE young people….an ONGOING CRIME against Black youth…


  60. @TheOGazerts June 5, 2022 7:33 AM “…but I was expecting you to bring his race into it.”

    What race.

    His mother is a woman black like me.

    2 of his grandparents are people black like me, One Bajan born just like you and me, and the other Jamaican born I think,


  61. You really haven’t answer the questions. Obfuscation and lies.

    Political comments about KK were classed as racist comments about KK and then as racist comments about all Asians and now I am making racist jokes against Blacks. Who is next?

    That is what happens when your main plank is a lie. You have to embellish to continue the story.

    Political KK is fair game. There is no free pass.


  62. let me rephrase a word, because i was enlightened to a certain fact yesterday…

    .an ONGOING CRIME against AFRIKAN youth…


  63. Kiki has an asian agenda….that is the bottomline….and no conscious person has to entertain it…


  64. “a old racist like you pretending to call out people….because you DON’T WANT US CALLING OUT ASIAN RACISM against Afrikan peoples”

    Divide and Rule to Conquer Modus Operendus
    Black Slave Descendants Versus Indian “Coolie” Plantation workers

    You obviously never read Welsing’s works or learned her lessons as she does not discriminate against browns like you
    Nor have you ever listened in depth to Robert Nesta Marley’s lyrical messages as he does not discriminate either
    Nor have you listened to Selassie’s message to League of Nations

    “Racism (global white supremacy) is the local and global power system dynamic, structured and maintained by those who classify themselves as white; whether consciously or subconsciously determined; this system consists of patterns of perception, logic, symbol formation, thought, speech, action and emotional response, as conducted simultaneously in all areas of people activity: economics, education, entertainment, labor, law, politics, religion, sex, and war. The ultimate purpose of the system is to ensure white genetic survival and to prevent white genetic annihilation on Earth — a planet in which the overwhelming majority of people are classified as non-white, (black, brown, red, and yellow) by white skinned people. All of the non-white people are genetically dominant (in terms of skin coloration) compared to the genetic recessive white skinned people”.

    “I don’t stand for black man’s side I don’t stand for white man’s side I stand for God’s side”

    ““Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is war. And until there are no longer first-class and second-class citizens of any nation, until the colour of a man’s skin is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes.”


  65. Kiki has an asian agenda…

    we know you are well ignorant everyday in every way

    but being an old woman who feels poorly you are excused for your lower energy thinking


  66. @African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved June 5, 2022 8:46 AM

    “…EVERY LOCAL MEDIA except mine.”

    LOL!!!


  67. “Political comments about KK were classed as racist …”

    were you against KK becoming a Senator or were you against youths becoming a Senator

    I was against neither

    I was against paranoid arguments narratives conspiracies against minorities


  68. 555dubstreet June 5, 2022 8:38 AM “Do the papes need to consult the raggedly unwashed lumpenproletariat when they recruit their staff”

    Who you calling raggedly unwashed lumpenproletariat?

    Be off do.


  69. Lumpenproletariat refers – primarily in Marxist theory – to the underclass devoid of class … Ragged Revolutionaries: The Lumpenproletariat and African American radical groups, most notably the Black Panther Party and the Young Lords, have sought to mobilize the Lumpenproletariat. .

    Anyway the point is Newspapers recruiting people who you may not like is par for the course and out of your hands

    They even flip people who did have a conscious conscience like an old anti-racist campaigner Trevor Phillips working for the Times as a black faced apologist for current Conservatives new wave forms of racism anti-black-lives-matter etc, at the end of a career it is all about the retirement fund monies
    Principal rules over the principles, selling out for the big bucks.


  70. @Enuff June 5, 2022 12:20 PM “Ah bet yuh these people that talking love MSNBC or Fox. We need to grow up!”

    I watched Fox once for about half an hour. Never again. I don’t even know what is MSNBC.

    What is MSNBC???


  71. Like he ain’t got enough issues in Sri Lanka to deal with, thinks he can tell Afrikan people what to think and say…just ignore, i do a lot of scrolling…

    “MSNBC is an American news -based pay television cable channel based in New York City. It is owned by the NBCUniversal News Group division of NBCUniversal (a subsidiary of Comcast )”

    a little better than FOX…..but i make sure to stay away from conventional news….and only use some content……those places are owned…therefore, the narrative is not wholly suitable for Afrikans…


  72. Nigga Please.. is a phrase that means you are talking crap

    Nigga Please.. is also the second solo studio album by American rapper and Wu-Tang Clan member Ol’ Dirty Bastard.


  73. Like he ain’t got enough issues in Sri Lanka to deal with

    An argument based on race such as you are African is called irrelevant

    1 GBP = 450.078 LKR means houses are getting cheaper and cheaper to buy


  74. Bajans have say on overseas voting

    by TONY BEST OPEN BARBADOS’ DOOR OF opportunity to more members of the Bajan diaspora but be very careful when it comes to overseas voting.
    That’s how a cross section of the Bajan diaspora in North America has reacted to a call by Dr Ronnie Yearwood, the Democratic Labour Party’s new leader, for greater inclusion of the diaspora in national affairs.
    Barbadians in Canada and the United States agree with Yearwood that Bajans abroad should have a larger role in Barbados’ decisionmaking processes, but most of them were wary of giving them the right to vote in national elections.
    Indeed, some were hostile to any suggestion that overseas voting privileges should be extended to the diaspora. They are concerned about possible election fraud.
    Dr Yearwood was recently quoted in another section of the Barbados media as saying that “considerations should be given for persons in the diaspora to be allowed to vote, and discussions started about what levels do we want them to vote and for who(m) and for what positions.”
    “These are really serious discussions because we can’t continue what effectively is a one sided-relationship” between Bajans at home and those living overseas, said Dr Yearwood. “We (Bajans at home) take and take and take, but what role do they (diaspora) actively get to play in the policy space for the money they are giving, either through remittances or whether it’s through supporting charities or investment? It cannot be that one-sided relationship, so there has to be some rebalancing and we have to find a way to seriously do that.”
    The DLP leader seemingly complained that “too often we see the diaspora almost like an ATM machine.”
    But Adrian Mapp, who recently won a record third four-year term as mayor of the 55 000 municipality of Plainfield in New Jersey, said that while Barbados should find additional ways to involve Bajans in the country’s affairs, voting shouldn’t be one of them.
    “I left Barbados in the 1970s and I have been living in the US ever since and I don’t see why I should be given a vote in Barbados to (help) determine the outcome of the election there when I don’t live there. I am dead set against it,” said Mapp, a highly certified public accountant.
    “Why on earth should anyone who left home be allowed to vote and influence the outcome of elections; who should be elected to serve in the House of Assembly or who should become the Prime Minister of our country? The things that happen on the ground in Barbados, we who are living abroad are not there to be impacted by the decisions made by our governmental leaders. We ought not to be able to influence the outcome of elections.”
    Shirley Morris, a real estate executive in Virginia agreed with Mapp.
    Improving living conditions
    “There is no good reason why Barbadians abroad should be allowed to vote and help decide who should run the country,” said Morris. “Barbadians in the diaspora should continue to make contributions to their birthplace’s national development. It is true that we have been remitting tens of millions of dollars annually to our country but that money to which Dr Yearwood referred goes for the most part to relatives of the senders. It doesn’t go into the national treasury. In almost every case, the money is used to improve living conditions of families. Voters in Barbados’ case should be those persons who live there and feel the impact of the policies carried out by Government. Imagine what a nightmare it would be for those who are responsible for managing and counting votes at election time to set up a system to accommodate overseas voting.”
    Sam Clark, who until recently was the head of a Better Life for our People, the ruling Barbados Labour Party’s arm in the US, thinks otherwise.
    “I am supportive of a position (Yearwood’s) like that,” said Clarke, a Brooklyn resident.” I think the (members) of the diaspora should be embraced. The diaspora has done so much for the country and actually has been neglected for too long. There is much talent in the diaspora that could be and that should have been used. Many an administration came up here (US) and spoke about having a space for the diaspora and they were going to do this for the diaspora (which) would have been part of it. With a new constitution, the diaspora should have a part in it and it should be reaching out to the diaspora. We have had various zoom meetings. It (expanded diaspora role) has been long in coming. It should have been embraced a long time ago.”
    Clark, who is active in Brooklyn politics, said that Bajans abroad have contributed large sums over the years as seen in the (Barbados) “Central Bank ledger” as part of the country’s economy.
    “I think it is about time that the diaspora has a say in the Government of Barbados. It should be able to advise the Government on certain positions.” There should be a diaspora ministry to deal with the diaspora. We just can’t keep using
    the diaspora like a wash pan. You come and say you are going to do this but nothing ever came to fruition,” he said.
    “Now, I am glad this guy (Yearwood) has seen it too and has spoken out for it and has acknowledged that the diaspora must be an integral part of any Barbadian society going forward.”
    When it came to national elections, Clark insisted “every Barbadian has the right to vote” and contended that the issue of electoral fraud which was being raised by many Barbadians was a “crock” and should be ignored.
    Dr Grant Morris, a leading Bajan and Caribbean philanthropist in Canada who has raised millions of dollars for education, the youth and other social causes in Ontario, Barbados and its neighbours said that while he agreed in principle with the idea of an expanded role for the diaspora including voting in national elections, it would require a carefully planned system to prevent abuse, especially fraud.
    “It is something that many of us here (Ontario) had been supporting. It would be necessary to set up a system to make sure it was done properly and people were not misusing it,” he said.
    Like most Bajans in the US and Canada, Canon Ryan Boyce, the new Reactor of St Gabriel’s Episcopal Church in New York City, said the diaspora had earned a much larger role but he drew the line when it came to voting.
    “I agree in part with Dr Yearwood because the diaspora has always been called upon to assist financially and so on,” said the Anglican priest who has served in Barbados, Aruba and New Jersey before becoming rector of a major church in Hollis.
    “However, as it relates to electoral politics, I really don’t think members of the diaspora should be so involved in politics at home that they would be given the vote at election time, especially if they have no intention of living there.”
    Gregory Chase, president of the Barbados Association of Southern California shares that view. He said it was unwise for Yearwood to link remittances to voting rights in Barbados because people send money to their families to improve living conditions and they did so freely without any government input.
    “Remittances are voluntary contributions we make to our families back home, so we cannot say because we give money back home we (in the diaspora) should be given the vote. They are two independent things,” Chase argued. “I don’t think that it (remittance) is the basis to call for voting rights.”
    “The current Prime Minister, Mia (Amor) Mottley and her Government were concerned about the brain drain from Barbados, interested in the influences and contributions overseas Bajans were making in the country and appreciated the nationalistic feelings of Bajans abroad,” said Chase. “Whether that buys an obligation to vote, I don’t think so.”
    Noel Lynch, Barbados’ top diplomat in the US said that the Mottley administration was making a “greater effort than ever before” to involve Barbadians abroad in the running of the country’s affairs.

    Source: Nation


  75. Enuff June 5, 2022 12:20 PM
    “Walter Blackman is also on Brasstacks, a man that according this same BU Blog declared an interest in contesting SME for the DLP in 2018.”

    Enuff,
    I have grown quite accustomed to you unwittingly using the various fallacies that are encountered in argument and debate. Here, you are using the non-sequitur fallacy, but you are not aware of it. Therefore, I forgive you.

    Yes, I used the constitutional privilege accorded to every Barbadian to join a political party of his/her choosing, and to choose to run for public office. I felt that I had the training, specialized knowledge, confidence and ability to effectively represent the people of St. Michael East and to bring progressive change to governance in Barbados. I did not have to seek your permission.

    Yes, I chose to be a moderator on Down to Brass tacks. I felt that I had a wide enough grasp of national issues to engage Barbadians of all walks of life and intellectual ability in meaningful conversation, and to offer solutions to national problems. I did not have to seek your permission.

    Are you arguing that I had no right to make one or both of those decisions?
    Are you arguing that my desire to represent the people of St. Michael East for the DLP has negatively affected my performance as a moderator? If so, you need to bring more facts.

    Let me offer you a word of advice.

    Mark Maloney was contemptuously referred to as “the billionaire boy who will no longer get government contracts if the government is changed” and Chris Sinckler was characterized as an incompetent, bungling ignoramus who had failed the 11-Plus exam, and who had brought disaster to Barbadians and the economy of Barbados.

    Please enlighten BU readers about what has happened to these two “characters” since May 24, 2018.
    That exercise should keep you busy for a while.


  76. Have our journalists ever carried out research on the similarities shared between Barbados and an African country often compared to Barbados: South Africa.

    How many Influential Gupta types have we had in Barbados since its independence?

    I would say quite a few. Some of you can continue to revel in nonsense. None of you will be able to camouflage the awful reality that Barbados has been a captured state for many, many decades.

    Keep up the pretence and the petty point scoring in la la land. Hail Mia!

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-61713832


  77. Bush TeaJune 5, 2022 7:29 AM
    “Walter could REALLY stay in Atlanta too, someone obviously had a chat with him about his initial dig into radical vaccine accountability. He has been doing himself NO Favors since then…. it is like he needs the couple dollars”

    Bush Tea,
    Of course you know that my treatment of you would be “radically” (pun intended) different from my treatment of Enuff. It would be naturally softer because of “the Waterford effect.” In this particular case, I recommend that you get up, but do not get on..

    I see Enuff as a blinkered BLP yard fowl. No quarters asked. None given. He now has the right to cuss me as he sees fit, and I hope he does just that to his heart’s content. He should remember though, that a wise man can play the part of a fool, but a fool cannot play the part of a wise man.

    Pachamama has long taught me how to giggle whilst being cussed. Talking about Pachamama, did you see that numbskull using “demure” as a verb in one of his comments, when in actual fact it is an adjective? I have given up on him/her/them when it comes to the proper use of English.. One year at Combermere, with Captain Perkins teaching him/her/it English, would have worked wonders for Pacha. Alas, no remedial action can be taken at this point. Pachamama would not want to admit it, but he/she/it is irretrievably lost when it comes to the use of the English Language. Do you think the use of Russian would serve him/her/it/them better?..

    Now back to you.

    You deserve to be lathered in cuss, but I will show some restraint.

    BU readers and bloggers were led to believe that you had landed a government pick. For years, we heard nothing from you, so we concluded that the few dollars you were getting from Mia were enough .to purchase your silence on one hand, and pay your bills on the next.

    Fair enough.

    Crisis after crisis materialized, but no word from Bush Tea. Then all of a sudden, you reappeared as if nothing had happened. Do you think that BU readers and bloggers are stupid?.

    I am in New York now, and will be headed to Atlanta in a few days. Are you telling me that I should stay in Atlanta? Really? I will stay in Atlanta as long as I wish, and will come to Barbados whenever I wish. I do not have to ask your permission. As the song says, “You better steer yuhself”.

    However, I must express great disappointment and dismay at the level of stupidity you are displaying with respect to the Astrazeneca vaccine procurement scandal. I am a moderator, so I cannot give anyone the impression that the Astrazeneca Vaccine Procurement Scandal .is an item on my personal political agenda. After reading the various articles in the press, I have analyzed the situation and agree that Barbadians only needed 300,000 vaccines at US$3 per dose. That means that Barbadian taxpayers should have been asked to only pay US$900,000 for the Astrazeneca vaccine.

    Instead, we have a situation where the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health & Wellness (the Accounting head of the Ministry) wrote Astrazeneca and told them that she was ordering 1 million doses of the vaccine, and the million doses will be for the exclusive use of Barbadians and will not be resold.

    Meanwhile, the PM of Barbados, from an interview in NY, said that Barbadians will have to pay US$24 per vaccine dose. Although Astrazeneca said that they will only be dealing with governments or COVAX to limit the profitability of the vaccine , the Government of Barbados asked them to deal with Radical Investments Ltd., a foreign company owned by Mark Maloney. So straight away, Barbadian taxpayers were being asked to pay US$24 million for Astrazeneca vaccines that should have only cost US$900,000.. The Minister of Health & Wellness said that he did not know that Radical Investments Ltd. as a company existed, so he would be bringing his political career to a sudden and unexpected end.

    Barbados only needed 300,000 vaccines, so the extra 700,000 vaccines that Barbadian taxpayers would have paid for, based on the order placed by the PS of Health & Wellness, were now to be sold to St. Lucia and the Bahamas at US$27 per dose. The amount of money destined to pass through the hands of Radical Investments Ltd., owned by Mark Maloney, amounted to US$42.9 million. This is the heart of the Astrazeneca vaccine procurement scandal. The plot was hatched in secrecy, and everything would have worked like a dream if Mark Maloney had not been robbed by the “3-card men”, and forced to produce documents in a USA court..

    The Government of Barbados, so far, has been unable to provide a credible defense against the scandalous allegations.

    Now, in order to ventilate and discuss this matter further, I would have needed a caller to call the Brasstacks program and initiate discussion on the matter. That caller could have been you. Unfortunately, instead, you chose to sit on your backside and criticize me. Useless, lazy, dim-witted Bush Tea.

    So far, you have wasted your time, my cursed friend. The opportunity is still there, though. Let us see if you can seize it. Call Brass Tacks and raise the issue. Or is that too much for your lazy backside to handle?

    Feel free to cuss me if you want. I simply do not care.


  78. I have analyzed the situation and agree that Barbadians only needed 300,000 vaccines at US$3 per dose. That means that Barbadian taxpayers should have been asked to only pay US$900,000 for the Astrazeneca vaccine.

    Meanwhile, the PM of Barbados, from an interview in NY, said that Barbadians will have to pay US$24 per vaccine dose. Although Astrazeneca said that they will only be dealing with governments or COVAX to limit the profitability of the vaccine

    The Slave Plantation of Barbados could not access the Product and were forced to go to Black Market Distro to save it’s Beasts of Burden aka African Dunces

    Jacob Miller – 80,000 Careless Ethiopians

    This lyric contains biblical references. [Matthew 20:16]; [Matt. 22:14]
    “So it is. Everyone who is now last will be first, and everyone who is first will be last.”
    “For many are called, but few are chosen.”

    I-dren and sistren, sight up Jah Ras, Jah Rastafari!
    Even the childs on their mothers’ breasts
    Are sightin’ up, are sightin’ up Jah Rastafari

    80,000 careless Ethiopians, shall go down in Babylon
    80,000 careless Ethiopians, shall go down in Babylon
    Many are called but few shall be chosen, to go to Mount Zion
    Many are called but few shall be chosen, to go to Mount Zion

    And it came to pass in the eleventh year
    In the first month of the seventh day
    The words of Jah came to us, saying

    I shall say unto the north: “Give up!”
    And to the south: “Keep not back!”
    Send the chosen sons from afar
    And his daughters from the ends of the earth

    80,000 careless Ethiopians, shall go down in Babylon
    80,000 careless Ethiopians, shall go down in Babylon
    Many are called but few shall be chosen, to go to Mount Zion
    Many are called but few shall be chosen, to go to Mount Zion

    A living God
    25,000 ?? shall gather
    Oh, O the ?? my God
    Jah Almighty living God

    And it came to pass in the eleventh year
    In the first month of the seventh day
    The words of Jah came to us, saying
    I shall say unto the north: “Give up!”
    And to the south: “Keep not back!”
    Send the chosen sons from afar
    And his daughters from the ends of the earth

    80,000 careless Ethiopians, shall go down in Babylon
    80,000 careless Ethiopians, shall go down in Babylon

    Many are called but few shall be chosen, to go to Mount Zion
    Many are called but few shall be chosen, to go to Mount Zion

    Oh, all the licks that I have received
    I feel it all over me
    Even the blind cannot see – it’s feeling the pressure from Babylon
    Oh, I am feeling all the pain from Babylon
    Licks that I have received all over
    Their faces so ugly
    They look just like the devil in the deep blue sea
    O Jah, O Jah, O Jah..


  79. Better Analysis (than the Blackman)
    2 doses are required
    or 3-4 for elderly and immuno compromised
    300,000 x 2 = 600,000

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  81. “Have our journalists ever carried out research on the similarities shared between Barbados and an African country often compared to Barbados: South Africa.”

    they started remodeling the island to an apartheid system boer pig system under Barrow which was completed under Adams…all of them TRAITORS and SLAVES to status and shite titles…..for all the good it did them…

    “How many Influential Gupta types have we had in Barbados since its independence?”

    ah bunch of small island minority thieves who have had help from the DNA tainted black traitors for 90 YEARS in corruption and theft of everything from the Afrikan population…now believing they can penetrate Afrika they hate and the Afrikans they hate even more……

    look at the present clowns….no one is impressed by them except fowls, pimps and Slaves…but yet they race across the world stage believing they are conquering intelligent minds with useless titles and nonsense accolades…..that is all they are, shallow and empty…just like their sheeple supporters…

    “I see Enuff as a blinkered BLP yard fowl. No quarters asked. None given. He now has the right to cuss me as he sees fit, and I hope he does just that to his heart’s content. He should remember though, that a wise man can play the part of a fool, but a fool cannot play the part of a wise man.”

    wuhloss…tell the little billionaire errand boy yardfowl/FOOL do…lol

    “Barbados only needed 300,000 vaccines, so the extra 700,000 vaccines that Barbadian taxpayers would have paid for, based on the order placed by the PS of Health & Wellness, were now to be sold to St. Lucia and the Bahamas at US$27 per dose. The amount of money destined to pass through the hands of Radical Investments Ltd., owned by Mark Maloney, amounted to US$42.9 million. ”

    Ah take it that neither Astrazeneca or any other big pharma entity want anything to do with the Barbados government at any level…outside of procuring vaccines through them and not throw thieves…

    then after the SCAM was a success, ya would hear the IGNORANT fowls and fools on here gushing about what an intelligent untouchable businessman Mrs. Maloney corrupt fraud of a husband is…..that is how the minorities have RIPPED OFF THE TREASURY FOR DECADES….and the pension fund, then claim with the help of STUPID traitors, even stupider black people about they are the best business people in world…A GANG OF THIEVES…


  82. Oh shiiite!

    Guess some “sages” do not know the meaning of the word “MODERATOR”.

    MURDAAAAAAAAH!

    De whacker get whacked!


  83. “by TONY BEST OPEN BARBADOS’ DOOR OF opportunity to more members of the Bajan diaspora but be very careful when it comes to overseas voting.”

    no one takes Tony Best seriously…..the diaspora knows all about him..

    “Crisis after crisis materialized, but no word from Bush Tea. Then all of a sudden, you reappeared as if nothing had happened. Do you think that BU readers and bloggers are stupid?.”

    Bushman…word of advice…..things are known about this blog…so do the right thing…


  84. Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me

    Jah Guide, Moja Nya

    Little Roy-Peace And Harmony (aka Tribal War), Bullwackie’s All Stars-Tribal Dub


  85. But is it not satisfying TO ME…that after all the YEARS AND YEARS of posting what they have really done on the island and the dirty little BU fowls calling us LIARS everyday ….that in this timespan….they themselves are the ones WHO FINALLY EXPOSED THEMSELVES for the WHOLE WORLD TO SEE………MURDAHHH!!!…effectively turning all BU YARDFOWLS INTO DANGEROUS LIARS….

    just because they could not resist the vaccine scam……🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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