Submitted by Amit Uttamchandani
There have been at least 18 murders for the year so far. The data presented below covers January to July 2022. The steps involved in this analysis are similar to my 2020 analysis.
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Barbados Murder Statistics January to July 2022
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Please note the commenter known as ac continues to flout the blogmaster’s guidance and is now to be banished from posting. No feedback comments are necessary.
To those who continue to disregard please take note. The blogmaster prefers 5 good comments others can learn from than the rubbish sone of you insist on polluting the blog daily.
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@Baje
Lol….so we are hoping the BGA pres is familiar with those who played a decade or more ago?
I made my inquiries and was told CH does not play golf.
Not that he may not have played once or twice, but not that many times, that you could have played “several times with him”.
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@WW&C
I recall the medicinal cannabis story with some ferner on the island.
To my memory Pacha’s primary beef is that CH was part of racist hiring/HR practices at BMLAS, as you pointed out. I never read any factual backup, and have no personal knowledge to say yeah or nay.
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@Baje
Lol….so we are hoping the BGA pres is familiar with those who played a decade or more ago?XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
ANY BGA PRESIDENT CURRENT OR FORMER HAS BEEN PLAYING FOR MANY YEARS AND KNOWS LOCAL GOLFERS ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO PLAYED AT BARBADOS GOLF COURSE.
ALSO CHARLES HERBERT IS A WELL KNOWN INDIVIDUAL.
WE ARE TALKING ABOUT A 2 X 3 ISLAND WHERE GOLFERS DO NOT MEASURE IN LARGE NUMBERS LIKE OTHER SPORTS.
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Not that he may not have played once or twice, but not that many times, that you could have played “several times with him”.
I believe (memory) you made similar comments about the late, former DPP, whose first name was also Charles?XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
YOU MUST BE A WHITE MAN OR SMOKING POT.
THE FORMER DPP CHARLES LEACOCK NOW DECEASED PLAYED GOLF AT BARBADOS GOLF CLUB AND WAS KNOWN TO ZIP AROUND THE GOLF COURSE IN A CART VERY FREQUENTLY.
HIS WIFE BETTY JUNE RECENTLY RETIRED AND HIS SON DONALD LEACOCK PLAYED GOLF FOR THE 2 X 3 ISLAND AS A JUNIOR.
YOU MUST DO BETTER.
THE PEOPLE THAT YOU ARE TALKING TO MUST LIVE ON THE MOON.
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The blogmaster has his ears to the ground and is not aware Herbert is a golfer.
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Anyway, enough of this- how is it relevant to the issue at hand except for challenging the credibility of commenters? Let us move on.
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@ Pacha
Don’t miss the point. These folks are going to protect the Charles Herberts forever. At the end they are just defending the status quo.
Mark my word, this is pure propaganda and pretty disguised political gymnastics these days.
Mark my word # 2: If the economy was firing on all cylinders , the contributions would be completely different but they are scrambling for anything to avoid the real socio- economic problems that confronting the country.
Don’t be fooled, these folks know exactly what they are doing.
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@ David
I addressed the following contribution to you.
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Artax January 20, 2020 3:38 PM
David BU
The information I provided Simple Simon reminded me about an opinion being persistently promoted in this forum re: the “Barbadian authorities set up the DEA to arrest Hawkesworth so they could steal his land and money.”
Information from the Court indicates otherwise.
BACKGROUND:
The U.S. Government began investigating Hawkesworth for cocaine trafficking in 2000. The Government suspected that Raphel Douglas (“Douglas”) and Terrence Sugrim (“Sugrim”) were supplying cocaine from Guyana to Hawkesworth. And Appellants were suspected of assisting Hawkesworth in an international drug trafficking operation that distributed cocaine in Barbados and transported cocaine from Barbados and Guyana to the United States.
As part of its investigation, the Government worked with an unnamed confidential informant. The informant allegedly spoke with Appellants and Hawkesworth on several occasions and made plans to help them transport cocaine to the United States.
In 2004, a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., returned a two-count indictment against Scantlebury, Gaskin, Hawkesworth, Douglas, and Sugrim. The first count alleged that all five defendants had conspired to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine. The second count alleged that Hawkesworth and Douglas distributed 500 grams or more of cocaine. With respect to Appellants specifically, the indictment alleged that they “obtained false identification cards and documents in order to travel to the United States to facilitate the importation of cocaine from Barbados, Guyana and elsewhere into the United States.”
J.A. 35. The indictment stated that Hawkesworth was the leader of the organization, which had allegedly shipped 184 ilograms of cocaine from Guyana to JFK Airport in New York City. The indictment also alleged that Scantlebury and Gaskin met with the informant to discuss whether contacts were in place for a test shipment of cocaine and that the informant provided Scantlebury and Gaskin with fake identification cards.
In support of its requests for extradition from Barbados, the U.S. Government submitted affidavits written by a Senior Trial Attorney in the Criminal Division of the Department of
Justice (“Trial Attorney”), a Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”) special agent, and the confidential informant. The Trial Attorney’s affidavit stated that the evidence against the
defendants included the testimony of the confidential informant and of DEA agents, audio and video recordings of conversations, photographs, telephone records, passport records, airline records, and seized cocaine. The DEA special agent’s affidavit stated that 184 kilograms of cocaine, packed in a shipment of frozen seafood, was seized at JFK Airport on September 20, 2003, and that, later that day, the confidential informant met with Sugrim and Hawkesworth, who said that they had lost a load of 180 kilograms of cocaine that had been shipped to JFK. The DEA affidavit also noted that the confidential informant “was told that nobody was arrested.”J.A. 132. In addition, the DEA affidavit noted that the confidential informant had worked with the DEA for approximately five years and had proven to be “completely reliable.” Id. at 129.
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So, based on the above information, I’m finding it very difficult to believe the US government, Justice Department, DEA……… would allow themselves to be DECEIVED (or SET-UP) and forced into a situation where they lost valuable time and resources over a 19 year period, so that some Barbadians politicians could steal Hawkesworth’s land and money.
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“Golf is a good walk spoiled.” Popularly attributed to Mark Twain, but it was first used in 1948. Twain died in 1910.
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@ David
I prefer use information that can be easily verified or substantiated….. and is effectively disseminated by credible sources.
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Wow!
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@Artax
We have some here that thrive on drama.
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@John
Never a good walk wasted.
Challenge is, how many actually WALK any longer? Many of these newer abominations they call ‘golf courses’ ban walking. There is $$ in renting power carts? -
People get caught up with trees.
The bigger issue, obviously Hawkesworth knew too much, became a loose end and was removed by bigger fish.
Those bigger fish and the whole organisation are the issue.
Because those are the poison to Barbados.
That is where resources and thought should be focused.
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But let us be honest, most Barbadians are well aware of who those are.
The question is, why are “authorities” unable to deal with it?
But when invites….
Dahduummmm!
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I see clear parallels with the Dudus Coke scenario.
Though Coke and the local equivalents are clearly no more than lieutenants.
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@Crusue
There is a good reason why those who control the drug trade tend to be untouchables.
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Cops ‘partly to blame’
Some defence attorneys respond to bail concern
by CARLOS ATWELL carlosatwell@nationnews.comTHE BARBADOS POLICE SERVICE must bear part of the blame for reoffenders receiving bail, say some prominent defence attorneys.
In yesterday’s SUNDAY SUN, Commissioner of Police Richard Boyce said the issue was akin to “putting out the same fire over and over again”, adding it was a drain on police resources.
However, Queen’s Counsel Michael Lashley said bail was a right and the police needed to get its act together.
“If a man is charged, there has to be some basis upon that man being charged which means the police should have a file with statements ready. However, the waiting period for these files is more than a year and it is totally ridiculous to have to wait that long to get a complete file while a man, in some instances, remains on remand with no regard to the fact he should have had a trial within a reasonable time,” he said.
Lashley said he was currently involved in a matter where he had not received any statements from the police in more than a year so he applied for bail.
Commissioner Boyce had said while he did not have the exact statistics to hand, a substantial number of the murder and firearms cases cleared this year resulted in the arrests of several people already on bail. In some cases, he added, the offenders had been put on bail twice or more, and on each occasion there was an escalation in the crimes committed.
In response, Lashley called for those statistics to be revealed, stating: “I want to know what those statistics are in relation to reoffenders charged for murder and for gun crime if granted bail. If you are going to make statements like that, you must base it on evidence.
“The police needs to get its act together and use modern technology to record witness statements and send that to us so we don’t have to wait on paperwork,” said the attorney, who compared Barbados paper system to that of the technologically driven one in Tortola where statements were on CD and part of the hearing on Zoom.
Queen’s Counsel Andrew Pilgrim said greater priority needed to be placed on those who keep appearing in court for the same matters.
“The solution to all our problems in this regard is speedy trials. But where does the fault lie? We need good investigations with a high quality of evidence. We have five judges now so the system
had sped up but what more can we do?
“There needs to be a clear strategy where people on bail who reoffend, we have to try them for at least one of their matters. You can’t just let people keep coming back this way. You have to be tried and found guilty or not guilty. If you can guarantee a speedy trial, we would be in a better position,” he said.
Pilgrim said the issue of bail usually came about due to a lack of readiness of the relevant files and the police service may need help in this regard.
Pilgrim said the knee-jerk reaction to ban bail altogether would infringe on constitutional rights.
Attorney Angela Mitchell-Gittens said she had clients on remand who wanted to plead guilty and get their matters over but they could not, due to a lack of files for trial. She said pretrial detentions could not go on forever and the longer someone spent on remand, the more likely they would be granted bail.
“If files are brought in a timely manner and the guilty convicted and the innocent acquitted, we would not be having this problem. The police don’t have unlimited resources and I suspect this is why they are unable to produce these files in a timely manner . . . ,” she said.Source: Nation
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“There is a good reason why those who control the drug trade tend to be untouchables.”
In the case of Iran Contras who the CIA were working with in late 80s, drug smugglers were CIA assets under protection from prosecution by DEA. The Lockerbie bombing on Pan Am Flight 103 was alleged to have CIA drugs and two US Intelligence officers from the CIA and DIA Agents aboard who were about to spill the beans and raise their concerns to Washington DC. The bomb was alleged to be an CIA inside job using alleged CIA drug smuggling routes to ship heroin to the U.S. using Pan Am flights as per Oliver North in the Iran-Contra scandal, where a suitcase that contained Heroin was allegedly switched to one containing bombs.
Pan Am took the US Government to Court over this but their case was struck out.‘Sing A Sweet Love Song!’ vox version eLBee BaD
Iran · CIA drug smuggling · Alleged framing of Libya · Iran and the London angle
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Yes Skinner
That is the general impression. Game playing to deflect from central failures.
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Getting tired of the back and forth and blame game….with NO OFFERING OF CONCRETE SOLUTIONS FOR ANY OF THE SELF-CREATED ILLS….it’s a merry-go-round and no one wants to get off..
“The bigger issue, obviously Hawkesworth knew too much, became a loose end and was removed by bigger fish.
Those bigger fish and the whole organisation are the issue.
Because those are the poison to Barbados.
That is where resources and thought should be focused.”
chickens are home and roosting.
““Barbadian authorities set up the DEA to arrest Hawkesworth so they could steal his land and money.””
stop LYING….i said one of the defendants….NEVER CALLED ANY NAMES…because i saw the documents and don’t need to…they know WHO THEY ARE…
i still can’t get anyone to tell me WHY THE CASE WAS DROPPED…
“Mark my word, this is pure propaganda and pretty disguised political gymnastics these days.”
gymnastics don’t always work…..chickens HOME AND ROOSTING…
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There is a good reason why those who control the drug trade tend to be untouchables.
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There actually is…
But instead of accepting the REALITY of our current situation as CONSISTENTLY explained by Bushie, wunna keep on looking for windmills to attack.In the current SPIRITUAL battle being waged, the EVIL forces have been allowed to gain the upper hand because brass bowls have CHOSEN to follow their albino-centric doctrines about materialism, greed and selfishness.
Basically the OTHER spiritual side of the conflict has had to concede to our brass bowl wishes – and take a step back.It is therefore only OBVIOUS that the ‘agents of EVIL’ will be ‘untouchable’…. FOR THE TIME BEING….
In the fullness of time however, when the full time whistle blows (or is it a trumpet?)…
… and (what the Rastaman calls) “Earth’s RIGHTFUL RULER” re-takes FULL control ‘VI ET ARMES’ … it gwine be cat piss and pepper bout here… -
NorthernObserverAugust 8, 2022 12:06 AM
@John
Never a good walk wasted.
Challenge is, how many actually WALK any longer? Many of these newer abominations they call ‘golf courses’ ban walking. There is $$ in renting power carts?++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
The point is if Charles Herbert is known to enjoy hiking there is little chance he will play golf!!
In all the years I hiked I never met a body who played golf on any hike.
Rather, hikers were miffed when Wastemoreland stopped us hiking through the cart roads and trails and Richard Goddard organised a hike along the Indian Trail that crossed Apes Hill golf course.
CH was on it.
There is a video somewhere on youtube if you want proof!!
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“Cannabis has been grown in and amongst the cane for years. The $1000 question was always, who planted it?”
Northern…..only now seeing this, but it’s funny and true..
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I FIND IT EXTREMELY STRANGE I MADE TWO COMMENTS YESTERDAY ABOUT CHARLES LEACOCK FORMER DPP BEING WELL KNOWN AS A FORMER GOLFER AT BARBADOS GOLF CLUB IN DURANTS ALONG WITH HIS WIFE BETTY JUNE RECENTLY RETIRED GM AT THE GOLF GOURSE.
WHY WOULD THIS INFO BE SUPPRESSED?
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Baje
The White bacra people here have come to expect a certain sensibility. Poor Whites and their Black middle class institutional lackeys claim pride of place. A claim this writer has always, and shall forever, spit upon!
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“Poor Whites and their Black middle class institutional lackeys claim pride of place. A claim this writer has always, and shall forever, spit upon!”
none of them have any shame…..spit should land on them…
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Baje
The White bacra people here have come to expect a certain sensibility. Poor Whites and their Black middle class institutional lackeys claim pride of place. A claim this writer has always, and shall forever, spit upon!
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FIRST RESPONSE IS ALWAYS TO DISCREDIT.
LET THEM EXPLAIN HOW WHEN MARIJUANA LICENCES FIRST CAME UP ON THE 2 X 3 ISLAND FROM INCEPTION CHARLES HERBERT WAS FILMED TAKING A WHITE FOREIGNER TO TOUR HIS PROPERTY TO PLANT MARIJUANA.
COINCIDENCE OR xxxxxxx
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now this information has been PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE FOR AT LEAST 20 YEARS…but some prefer to LIE and then PRETEND THEY DON’T…
all the information is on the internet…..it was a big thing prior to the Covid and all the other mess…..but to hear confusion makers tell it…..someone else must be targeted so they can look good..and ended up SABOTAGING THEMSELVES…
this claim comes COMPLETE WITH DOCUMENTS…
https://rijock.blogspot.com/2022/06/john-wayne-scantlesbury-one-of-dozens.html
JOHN WAYNE SCANTLEBURY, ONE OF DOZENS OF BAJANS WHO ARE VICTIMS OF SYSTEMIC LAND FRAUD
“He can track his immediate family back to 1905, complete with birth and death certificates, but in Barbados’ corrupt system, where government property records are routinely destroyed, moved, altered, lost and otherwise missing, JOHN WAYNE SCANTLEBURY is on a Crusade to recover his family’s patrimony, which is his by right of heirship.”
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BAJE…btw the dude still has property left although they stole the majority and a hell of a bank account…….so if he needs money all he has to do is SELL PIECE…..but he still collects rent for what was not stolen from his family estate…
am sure you got my drift..
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TLSN….there it is….but there is so much more…
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David BU you have the patience of job.How you allow perdons to come on your blog and disrespect you is amazing.First Hal Austin and now Angela Cox to be banned.It is about time, good riddance to both.I will not miss either.I wonder who the blog clown Gazzerts going to worship now Piece gone now ac poor fella.The next one should be the blog nuisance and liar Waru who bores most of us everyday along with a few others.In closing i would humbly suggest you not tolerate any disrespect on your blog going forward.I gone.
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@ David
It’s good to analyze informationso as to form a reasonable and rational conclusion.
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Lorenzo, I see it. The poetry.
Now ac gone what will Gazzerts do
Soon he will be kissing up Waru
BU creator of stories and fable
Now we know that woman isn’t stable
If she goes his life will be rough
It’ll be sad to see him kissing up to enuff
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You go boy.
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“Now ac gone what will Gazzerts do
Soon he will be kissing up Waru”🤣🤣🤣🤣 Theo i want this one for my sites….if you don’t mind…
the schooled….are now separated from the wheat…it will be only fun..
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David BU you have the patience of job.How you allow perdons to come on your blog and disrespect you is amazing.First Hal Austin and now Angela Cox to be banned.It is about time, good riddance to both.I will not miss either.I wonder who the blog clown Gazzerts going to worship now Piece gone now ac poor fella.The next one should be the blog nuisance and liar Waru who bores most of us everyday along with a few others.In closing i would humbly suggest you not tolerate any disrespect on your blog going forward.I gone.
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WHAT AN BUMBLING IDIOT.
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO FREEDOM OF SPEECH ON THE 2 X 3 ISLAND.
FIRST SUPPRESS AND DELETE COMMENTS.
THEN BAN OR CALL FOR OTHERS BECAUSE THEY DON’T AGREE WITH OUR OPINION.
IN THE PARADISE ISLAND KNOWN CROOKS WITH IMPUNITY ACTING AS LAWYERS AND POLITICANS WHO MISLEAD AND ROB THE TAXPAYERS ARE GIVEN CARTE BLACHE BECAUSE OF POLITICAL PARTY AFFLIATION AND NOT A WHISPER BY THEIR BACKWARD THINKING FOLLOWERS/VOTERS.
BILLIONS OF $ IN MIS-EDUCATION HAS BEEN WASTED FOR DECADES.
WHEN WILL WE LEARN THAT CAN’T ALWAYS TURN A BLIND EYE BECAUSE SOONER OR LATER THE CHICKENS WILL COME HOME TO ROOST.
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what people are concerned about after reading about John Wayne Scantlebury is that the information came from a white blog, it had to be explained that those trying to pretend they are black media would hide and cover up that information once it’s tied to corrupt politicians and their scams and crimes against Afrikan people….in this particular case setting up 3 INNOCENT PEOPLE to steal the estates and bank account of ONE OF THE DEFENDANTS, to achieve this evil crime all three who were set up….so the only way that information would be HONESTLY posted is by a white blog…
then:
no analysis or conclusion can be reached WITHOUT the COMPLETE FACTS OF THE CASE….this is now a third case attached to this estate theft…and am surely not posting anything regarding an ongoing case, except for what is already out there prior to the announcement of the lawsuit…
chickens are home and roosting, the ignorant little schooled fowls believe if they attack us it will all go away, but they are shit outta luck…
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It’s a known fact that in all societies there are sycophants. They are a common breed , usually their skills are put at the disposal of others they believe are superior to them.
They are like Leeches and attached themselves to others hoping to become members of an inner circle that has no real uses for them.
These people , especially the ones, who have some skills disguise themselves as the protectors of those who have the real power . The entire exercise is a desire to be acknowledged as bringing some superior talent .
A society , community or group whose leaders only depend on these pathetic characters will survive but it will never reach the potential possible because parasites only impede growth.
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“These people , especially the ones, who have some skills disguise themselves as the protectors of those who have the real power .”
ugly disrespectful and disgraceful…but that’s who they are…
“A society , community or group whose leaders only depend on these pathetic characters will survive but it will never reach the potential possible because parasites only impede growth.”
NEVER WILL….look at the condition of mindsets….can’t move forward but well-equipped to PULL EACH OTHER BACK…nothing good has come out of that in the last hundred years, and don’t hold your breath that it ever will…because they like it so…and we get to witness the TOTAL DEGRADATION of the mindless.
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I’m SHOCKED 😲!
After years of never missing an opportunity to disparage and berate WHITE people……..
…… we are now CONVENIENTLY ASSOCIATING HONESTY with them?
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I go on white blogs, indian blog, syrian blogs and they come on mine..
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words sounds and power
words can be weapons
used indiscriminately
like duopoly sycophantsNunk (New Wave Funk)
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And, these people CLAIM they DO NOT READ my contributions.
Ainthaa kadhibatan.
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@Artax
Please.
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I take it there are some VERY ANGRY people on the island right now, so is this the cream of the crop..
but this type of behavior is quite normal from as far back as the 1920-30s and in the recently published Kush Quarterly July issue just last month…..going on for over 100 years just as George Lamming took such pains to point out in his book…
….and there is the politically owned press being dragged for refusing to point out these types of crimes once politicians are involved….and they want people to take them seriously…..
“Just when you thought we had seen it all with Barbados greedy and corrupt lawyers, it gets worse. EZRA ALLEYNE, the recently deceased politician and lawyer in Barbados, sold the same home to three different purchasers. The truth came out when one of new “owners” arrived from abroad, and found out, to her chagrin, that the house she thought she owned was occupied by another individual, who was claiming right title and interest to their property. Victims’ statements appear to confirm that Alleyne gave all three of them warranty deeds to the same property.
His misconduct was ignored by the local press, which instead enumerated his political and legislative accomplishments, but failed to disclose his repeated pattern of …… “
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but this type of behavior is quite normal from as far back as the 1920-30s and FEATURED PROMINENTLY in the recently published Kush Quarterly July issue just last month…..and going on for over 100 years, a common practice, just as George Lamming took such pains to point out in his book…
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is a disbarred attorney who, in 1990, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to defraud the IRS and one count of racketeering at federal court in Gainesville, Florida, for which he received a 24-month prison sentence.
After being released from prison, he began promoting himself as a ‘reformed money launderer’, regularly speaking at Anti-Money Laundering conferences and operating as a consultant and writer in the areas of financial crime and compliance, most notably working on behalf of Know Your Customer database provider World-Check and serving as “Anti-Money Laundering Compliance Consultant” for Florida-based Mutual Benefits Corporation.
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the dude is upfront about what he did 40 years ago…..if all corrupt dangerous lawyers were that honest, we won’t have the whole island now a worldwide poster child for corruption….murder….theft……wholesale criminality…and have people both on and off island scared of doing business…
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Hants…it’s the ones who LOVE TO PRETEND that i can’t stand and will NEVER TRUST…cause ya don’t know what they are plotting against you or the people on the island….or for people in other countries for that matter because they have spread themselves so thin across the diaspora that everyone knows about them and what they have done…and what they are capable of, they are always the main topic in offshore conversations for some years now…
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