
The young and the reckless are having access to guns at an “unprecedented” level, with police admitting they have “not yet touched the surface” on the issue.
Attributed to Assistant Commissioner of Police Erwin Boyce
See relevant analysis and access Barbados Murder Database @caribbeansignal.com
Source: Nation
Source: Nation
This call from the PSV sector is ironic.
Source: Nation
The fundamental problem is that the damn place is being run by a set of clowns, so it is no wonder that we have a circus.
How long ago has Bushie warned that we have created an ass-backwards ‘eddykashun system’ that promotes low-esteem sheeplike jokers, while alienating assertive, creative, alpha types?
It is why we now see hoards of feeble women and shiite men everywhere in ‘leadership’ contending with the alpha type deviants that we have created, and condemned to the Blocks.
This will be ‘no contest’, just like the ZR shiite.
Shitehounds ALWAYS lose to alpha types. It is the way of Nature.
The situation can ONLY be resolved now by the intervention of a SUPER alpha-type who is righteous enuff to restore sanity to the situation.
Perhaps our Enuff will step up to the plate…. 🙂
This not only applies to Brassbados and our ZR / crime / poverty / housing / nursing / transport / energy / water / bribery / incompetence …
…but also globally.
So when the Bible speaks of a super alpha-type bushman coming back in all his macho glory, to restore sanity, it is difficult to conceive how much more practical and appropriate that scenario can be, to our current (and worsening) situation.
Hurry up and come Boss….
It does not augur well if a top cop is saying the BPS has omly scratched the surface AND hinting at corruption in the frontline at the ports. How do we solve a problem that citizens who should be law abiding seem to be aiding and abetting?
Caption this ,,,
https://barbadosunderground.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Police-high-command.png
A picture speaks a thousand words indeed.
https://starcomnetwork.net/blog/2022/11/11/another-murder/
#39
We plan to open a consulate in Rwanda. We could learn from Kagame. Bet they pick a brownnoser like Mcdonald or a foul mouth know it all like Wiggins
We already have our super alpha female.
Her name is Mia Mottley. Our Supreme Leader. She is all-powerful and decides the fate of many with a snap of her finger.
Nobody will take their mouthings seriously until somebody is charged for the 38 guns at the port.
Unless the guns were in transit to another country, somebody should already be in custody or wanted notice issued if they have fled the country.
Maybe the importer of the guns is so huge the authorities need to figure out how to spin it or make it go away lest it bring too much international scrutiny down on our little rock.
This return of the super alpha macho man to solve all problems routine reminds me of something.
The long awaited coming of THE KRAKEN!
When is the big brass bowl bottom supposed to fall out again?
Counting down to new year!
I suspect I will be laughing into MY PILLOW.
PILLOW TALK!
MURDAAAAAAAAH!
Make that the big brass bowl bottom supposed to DROP out!
In honour of the great PROPHET Bob Marley whom we absolutely love to quote.
HOW MANY POLICE INCLUDING DETECTIVES AND HIGHER UPS ON THE 2 X 3 ISLAND HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH DRUG DEALING, HUMAN TRAFFICKING, GUN SELLING RACKET, FRAUD ETC?
NEXT TO NONE ON THE SCALE THAT SHOULD BE IN FRONT OF THE CRIMINAL COURTS.
THERE ARE MORE A PART OF THE PROBLEM THAN A SOLUTION SAME AS POLITICIANS WHO WORK HAND IN HAND WITH THE DRUG BOSSES, BE THERE BLACK WHITE OR INDIAN.
EASY TO FOCUS ON THE LITTLE BOYS ON THE BLOCK WHO ARE BARELY SURVIVING.
THE BOYS ON THE BLOCKS AROUND THE ISLAND CAN TELL YOU WITH ACCURACY WHO ARE THE CROOKED POLICE, POLITICIANS, IMMIGRATION OFFICERS, CUSTOMS OFFICERS WHO ARE INVOLVED IN MAJOR CORRUPTION AND CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY AT A PANDEMIC LEVEL ON THE 2 X 3 ISLAND.
@ David
I know the guy who was found dead at his home at Springfarm, St. Thomas.
He was popularly known as ‘Jet Man.’
Sincere condolences to his relatives and numerous friends.
Sorry to hear Artax. With the crime situation in recent years and covid related deaths it has been a difficult time for many.
Condolences to his relatives and friends of ‘Jet Man.’
How many more must be murdered before something decisive is done ?
As a 70 year old contemplating a trip to Barbados should I just forget about it and stay in the freezer ?
Peacefully existing till you die is the expection especially for us with a few more years to live.
Baje,
If you know, you know.
Some jokers think the issue is stopping gun violence by itself.
How can you solve violence, when that is only part of the main problem that you have clearly stated?
@ David
It’s sad news.
However, ‘Jet’ was a very popular and friendly guy.
Unfortunately, he used to wear several gold chains and bracelets…… and walked around with large sums of money, which he openly displayed when purchasing items.
Anyone engaging in such activities, ‘especially in these times,’ is only attracting attention to him/herself.
As it relates to crime, I’ve read where some people have made a definitive correlation between crime and poverty.
Although that opinion may be true in some cases, what I’ve realised is when caught, persons who commit crimes such as aggravated burglary, robbery or theft, often admit they purchased clothing, shoes, alcoholic beverages and ‘herb’ with their ‘ill-gotten gains.’
I’m also aware there are reported and unreported incidences of theft occurring in primary and secondary schools, where some students begin their ‘life of crime’ by stealing stationery, devices, lunch, school bags and shoes, or bullying other timid children for their lunch money.
This may seem harmless at that level, perhaps the reason why some parents defend their children who are involved in those activities.
@Artax
People will profile him based on the jewelry he wore.
Recently suffered a stroke.
House ransacked
Shot in the head.
Arrest the crooks first. Nuff money to buy guns and get them past the port, more for drugs.
Heretofore the crooks have acted upon our nation without any encumbrance. Now the chickens have come home to roost.
How many multimillionaires has the drug trade made in Bim? People without scruples allowed to run unfettered and we are surprised that it hath cometh to this?
My Trini friend used to say “yuh shupidy or what?”.
People “calling for an end to violence”. How seh? Tink dem cay? Yuh shupidy or what?
To end the violence yuh gotta stop the criminal trade.
But as alla dem youngsters get dry money from it yuh problems might be bigger than yuh realise.
You not going like how it can be stopped.
We want some honest and hard police again.
Police like Lion Man an those caliber, with special dispensation and legal protection to deal with these criminals how they must.
And dont give me no namby pamby about “you cant do that”.
“Tell me what de police can do” remember that soca of ill discipline?
Dem need showing “what de police can do”.
And if they get bail for murder, they better stop in jail.
Wunna making sport.
That is the problem.
Artax is correct. The children have to walk about with their backpacks on their backs. Put them down and turn around and they are gone. Leave anything at all unattended for a minute and it will be taken.
We want some honest and hard police again
TIMES HAVE CHANGED.
TOO MUCH EASY MONEY BEEN FLOATING AROUND FOR A LONG LONG TIME.
THERE IS A PANDEMIC AND THE FOXES HAVE LONG BEEN LET LOOSE IN THE CHICKEN HOUSE RE CORRUPT POLICE/POLITICIANS AND THE GENERAL MASSES ON THE 2X3 ISLAND.
Heard retired Bertie Hinds making sone sensible comments about the state of crime.
A workplace with lots of near misses will eventually have a serious accident. A country unable to tackle minor offenses like dark window tint, reckless dirt bike riders, off-route ZRs and riders with no helmets is incapable of preventing serious crime like praedial larceny, aggravated burglary and murder. A recent shooting was carried out by a dirt bike rider. Is it any surprise if drive bys are done by cars with the darkest tint possible.
We need a Captain Gary Griffith
I don’t know if there are any homemade guns in Barbados (as a youth folks used to say that a guy who worked at Bulkely used to make guns) and there are no commercial gun manufacturers in Barbados so any guns on the street have to arrive via our Ports of entry i.e., the Airport or the Harbour. Those two facilities are our weakest link(s). Recently the authorities intercepted a shipment of guns at the Port and I would wager that it wasn’t the first time that guns made their way into the island via that avenue however there hasn’t been news of any subsequent arrests and we all know that items can’t ship themselves they need a shipper and an individual or business listed to receive the goods.
It should be a slam dunk to locate the individual to whom the items were directed, instead we have been subjected to the local grapevine about corrupt Customs officials and corrupt persons in high places that facilitated the entry of guns into the island.
If the Police are serious about “adjusting strategies”, they should focus their lens on the personnel at both the Port and the Airport as a first step.
https://barbadostoday.bb/2022/11/11/police-chief-says-lawmen-adjusting-strategies-to-deal-with-persistent-shootings/
@ Sargeant,
Who wrote ” items can’t ship themselves they need a shipper and an individual or business listed to receive the goods.”
The excuse will be that ” the matter is still under investigation “
Barbados has miles of unprotected coastline.
Yachts and high powered sport fishing boats can transport and deliver guns without going to Port.
Redguard for the island to appoint a Gary Griffith and give him the tools would mean that yuh want to wipe out the trade. If yuh want to guh to St.Lucy yuh get in a car and drive ent? So what is different? Nuh lotta long talk. Same way with gun imports. I think the scholarly people call it endemic.
Guh back and read what Baje said. A lot of people like they dont understand yet.
In the 1970s Bim we had tourism, clothes factories, furniture, sugar.
Now we got what? Just tourism. Where the money does come from?
People shupidy or what?
Schoolchildren stealing endemic. What does that tell you? And them same ones going grow up to be ministers and what they will do? …like xxxxxxx… I see him and a bunch of friends tiefing when in our teens. Brek innna place and carry way stuff. Nuh lie.
Stupse. Is we culture. And THAT is why Baje call we 2×3.
@Sargeant
One can only speculate why it took so long for the public to be made aware a suspect is being questioned about the recent gun haul at the Port. Why not issue a statement to remove public speculation?
Source: Nation
Here is former Commisioner Tyrone Griffith speaking in his capacity as a citizen, we know he knows what is going on, retired or not. Again he hints at corrupt behaviour at the Port.
Source: Nation
Well if the police authorities have expressed concerns about the security at the Port ‘for years’ now,
…and if the problem only seems to be getting worse..
…and if the Chairman of the Port has no comment, and does not see this as a ‘news story’
Wuh shiite! – we MUST all be Brass Bowl idiots….as Bushie has always maintained..
Cause…
If his job is secure – despite all the ‘concerns’,
then it is only obvious that whoever appoints him is happy with the shiite..
@Bush Tea
A result from people up the ladder occupying positions for too long? Creating fiefdoms?
Please remind the Blogmaster who is the chairman of the Port Authority?
@ David
And while you are at it composing a response to Bushie’s Port shituation,
spare a thought for Sir Cave from the Hillary.
No man has had his level of gall since Churchill….
Imagine the CHIEF architect of the local and regional tertiary education system publicly lamenting his colossal FAILURE – and the consequences it has for societal collapse, and speaking as if he is standing on the moral high ground.
ANY normal human would resign in SHAME and sleek off into obscurity like Froon did (before resurrecting himself to ensure another 30-0 for the DLP)
But then again when the chief ANTI-colonialist spokesman would accept a knighthood and bow to the queen that he was so eloquently cussing, what else should we have expected…?
But you can throw ANY shiite at brass bowl topsides, can’t you..?
What a damned place!!
Perhaps the Garrison erection is well placed after all….
Please remind the Blogmaster who is the chairman of the Port Authority?
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Sorry, the quote is from the CEO not chairman
Yes Bush Tea but the question stands. If the head is bad … you know the rest.
European Parliament COVID-19 Committee declares that “The Game is UP for those who perpetrated that “GIANT HOAX” on the world – MONSTROUS LIE!!! https://youtu.be/xSGLnELkGqQ
CLOSER 2 HOME:
From the day the nation’s elites built that “FREEMASON TEMPLE” on the corner there in St. George – the “VERY SOUL” of the country was sold down the river to the “DARK FORCES” of “LUCIFERIAN INTRIGUE”…
When you plot the “LONGITUTUDE & “LATITUDE” coordinates – the point of intersection fall smack dab in the middle of where that tem[ple] has been planted by the dragon of FREEMASONRY (your poLIEtical, reLIEgious & business elites on that island) …
Anyone who has vociferously studied “SACRED GEOMETRY” & the alchemy of FREEMASONRY knows the architecture of how their plans works…
The same can be said of Barbados – as is evident in all the other “FALLEN” nations (i.e.) London, Paris, Rome, Washington etc…
The final nail in the coffin was when your beloved PM was caught out doing a ritualistic simulation down in GUYANA* that was symbiotic to the “LUCIFERIAN WAR-DANCE” done in the “BOHEMIAN GROVE” by all those “NECROMANCERS” – so-called world leaders & their “ELITES” who gather to pay their “LUCIFERIAN PATRONAGE & HOMAGE” to the “OWL” – the creature who see the “LIGHT” in the “DARKNESS”…
Your “PRIME MINISTER” is a “JEZEBEL LUCIFERIAN” who has completed the process of selling “THE SOUL OF THE NATION” to the dark forces of “EVIL” for filthy gain!!!
So do not be surprised at the exponential upsurge in “MURDERS”, “VIRULENT VIOLENT CRIME”, “RAPE”, “BURGLERIES”, “DRUG PROLIFERATION”, “MORAL/POLIETICAL CORRUPTION”, “#ReLIEgiousAPATHY” & the never-ending spiral of unanswerable conundrums the country faces…
This is a “CROSS-ROAD” that forks into something much more diabolical & as a person who has “ZERO-FEARS” (I FEAR FOR MY COUNTRY BARBADOS) & the seismic fallout that is about to ensue…
Final thought:
FOR THIS CURSE TO BE BROKEN – those who have been responsible for it must be dealt with by “THE SOVEREIGN LORD HIMSELF” on the condition that the people “RISE-UP” & spiritually through “PRAYER, FASTING & REPENTANCE” – cast down the “SATANIC STRONGHOLDS” that has fettered the nation…
The “ANGEL WATCHERS” & “THE HOLY ONES” are waiting to completely “SLAY the wicked ones amongst us who have perverted the way of righteousness (and we know who they are) but again, the conditionality rest with “THE PEOPLE”!!!
#IAMDONE
MUCH CLOSER 2 HOME:
From the day the nation’s elites built that “FREEMASON TEMPLE” on the corner there in St. George – the “VERY SOUL” of the country was sold down the river to the “DARK FORCES” of “LUCIFERIAN INTRIGUE”…
When you plot the “LONGITUTUDE & “LATITUDE” coordinates – the point of intersection fall smack dab in the middle of where that tem[ple] has been planted by the dragon of FREEMASONRY (your poLIEtical, reLIEgious & business elites on that island) …
Anyone who has vociferously studied “SACRED GEOMETRY” & the alchemy of FREEMASONRY knows the architecture of how their plans works…
The same can be said of Barbados – as is evident in all the other “FALLEN” nations (i.e.) London, Paris, Rome, Washington etc…
The final nail in the coffin was when your beloved PM was caught out doing a ritualistic simulation down in GUYANA* that was symbiotic to the “LUCIFERIAN WAR-DANCE” done in the “BOHEMIAN GROVE” by all those “NECROMANCERS” – so-called world leaders & their “ELITES” who gather to pay their “LUCIFERIAN PATRONAGE & HOMAGE” to the “OWL” – the creature who see the “LIGHT” in the “DARKNESS”…
Your “PRIME MINISTER” is a “JEZEBEL LUCIFERIAN” who has completed the process of selling “THE SOUL OF THE NATION” to the dark forces of “EVIL” for filthy gain!!!
So do not be surprised at the exponential upsurge in “MURDERS”, “VIRULENT VIOLENT CRIME”, “RAPE”, “BURGLERIES”, “DRUG PROLIFERATION”, “MORAL/POLIETICAL CORRUPTION”, “#ReLIEgiousAPATHY” & the never-ending spiral of unanswerable conundrums the country faces…
This is a “CROSS-ROAD” that forks into something much more diabolical & as a person who has “ZERO-FEARS” (I FEAR FOR MY COUNTRY BARBADOS) & the seismic fallout that is about to ensue…
Final thought:
FOR THIS CURSE TO BE BROKEN – those who have been responsible for it must be dealt with by “THE SOVEREIGN LORD HIMSELF” on the condition that the people “RISE-UP” & spiritually through “PRAYER, FASTING & REPENTANCE” – cast down the “SATANIC STRONGHOLDS” that has fettered the nation…
The “ANGEL WATCHERS” & “THE HOLY ONES” are waiting to completely “SLAY the wicked ones amongst us who have perverted the way of righteousness (and we know who they are) but again, the conditionality rest with “THE PEOPLE”!!!
#IAMDONE
Sorry Terence, it is too late to look for a break in the curse.
When the whacker ‘get tek way’, …THAT was the point of no return.
Bushie had explained about the URGENT need for ‘sack clothes and ashes’ while the whacker was wukkin … but not a fella cared…
The Temple was symbolic, but do you see the ACTUAL ALTER that Froon was moved to build at the Garrison…?
THAT was the final straw….boss.
It is now just about laying down in the bed that we have made, …and that we have reinforced with a resounding 60-0, and reaping our just reward as explained in Isaiah 3.
Note that Froon was again ‘moved’ to come from his hideout to ENSURE the second 30-0.
Anyone who thinks that these ‘happenings’ are purely coincidental, and not HIGHLY influenced by forces BEYOND our imagination, can be properly described as ‘blinded’…
Such persons are invited to enjoy the ‘privilege’ of not seeing the oncoming traffic….
…BUT not stinking Bushie.
The hardest thing is to know, blame your BIGGEST ENEMIES, ya judas traitors.
Terence…finally got the spelling of your name right.
Maybe they will listen to you. Many of usare really too busy otherwise, they are fortunate to have you still trying on their behalf, if they don’t listen to you and Bushman now, oh well, there will still be over a billion of us..
Seems like Crime does pay and becomes a Business / Career to pursue in times of high Youth Unemployment. Corruption in poor countries is called Opportunity and happens given a chance. Looking for the pocket by looking the other way is a nice earner and is less complicit, sometimes they have no choice as threats are made for non-compliance.
If his job is secure – despite all the ‘concerns’,
then it is only obvious that whoever appoints him is happy with the shiite.
DAVID JEAN-MARIE CEO OF THE PORT AND PETER HARRIS OF CGI TOWERS AND INSURANCE HAS BEEN BEST BUDDIES FOR A LONG TIME AN OPEN SECRECT IN THE CRIMINAL UNDERGROUND.
BESIDES GUNS THERE HAS BEEN MANY THOUSANDS OF POUNDS OF WEED AND COCAINE COMING THROUGH THAT PORT FOR MANY YEARS UNDER THE CEO WATCH.
I SAY NO MORE.
well…now they have one, they can take their NO CHOICE and GO DOWN with their masters…without them and their treacherous bloodlines, and undereducated status in the last hundred years, none of this could have happened.
they are and always have been the WEAKEST LINKS….i can’t stand politicians, because they are not real leaders, they are PUPPETS ON A STRING….that the world’s population are about to take a pair of scissors to and sever that string.
Two items
(1) Typee
Wasn’t Tyrone Griffith the COP when the scammers were being installed?
As COP would that be the time to ask these questions? A time that he had power and his voice would have some weight.
Asking question now to prove what point?
Did he gain this knowledge only after he left the job?
Did was he develop courage / a tongue only after all his business get fixed?
Get out of here. Peddle the watered-down concern elsewhere.
*** People are going to the bank first, depositing their checks and finding their voices when the sound does not carry. I believe some of these items were identified by the pick-a-noise crew, though OUR emphasis was on the cost of the scammers
(2) Trisha Tannis
“We have already thrown a lot of money behind this problem, and we have no answers as to why this is still happening. We are seeing instances where the scanners have worked, we have found some of the guns, but I don’t know that I am seeing anybody going to courts, though,” said Tannis, who was referring to a seizure of 38 guns at the Bridgetown Port last month.
***Why is this still happening? I am glad that you asked? You call it throwing around money, I call it fooling and robbing the citizens of Barbados. If you would only admit and agree that this money was never intended to solve the problem. An if it solved anything then that was accidental. It was merely the transfer of funds from one pocket to the other.
But you! You dare not admit that fact as it would show the utter Chaos of the “ordered system” that you believe in.
I had a good friend whose daily prayer was “life is a bitch”. Let me tell you this “reality is an ass-kicker”. Closed eyes or not, you are feeling the kick.
I can hear your stifled groan.
To those who missed the memo former CoP Griffith did mention his concerns about poor surveillance at the Ports.
https://barbadosunderground.net/2019/06/11/fighting-corruption-at-the-port-authority-and-grantley-adams-airport/comment-page-1/#comments
Typo Saturday.
Ending exile early today.
Will try to get a few comments in.
Frank, that was an alert. Start scrolling.
https://barbadostoday.bb/2022/11/12/sir-hilary-says-level-of-enrolment-in-higher-education-tragic/
Not going to hurt my head trying to figure out what was said but did he explain if tertiary graduates will have the same or similar diversity of opportunities as those in other countries.
Reductio ad absurdum.
Suppose you lived in a country where the only job was picking grass … an abundance of degrees may be seen as ‘a good’ thing but it is not really smart or useful. It may be smarter to invest in some protection for your hands.
I am curious about how we rank events. I saw where today will be celebrated as Remembrance Day in Barbados. Do you think that when they placed Independence Day of the chopping block that someone put Remembrance Day there as well.
I am not suggesting that they should have, I am only wondering if the idea ever crossed their minds. I am not a gambling man, but I would bet it never did.
“higher education” to what, to be the Petra Wickies, the Henry Harlots and puppets on expert masters’ strings like the nuisance
politicians…..or mindless worker drones for the tiefing corrupt subspieces on the island, steupppss…
oh please, someone tell Hilary that he and his colonial education are about to become EXTINCT…just like the dodo bird.
It looks as if I missed the memo
Then
“The reality is that where there is corruption, there will always be problems. And so, if the system is corrupt, then we are not going to get the information and support. You have to work together to break the back of those crimes. And so, even though the intelligence says that, you are not going to get that tip that breaks it…There is corruption. There must be some form…there must be corruption if you are going to have the number of firearms that are coming onto our shores illegally…then there has to be corruption”
I read and reread, but there was no mention of the ‘capabilities’ of port scammers in the post back then. Even in the paragraph above, he seem to approach the possibility of corruption as a hypothetical.
Saved rating” Failed (major)
I can only conclude that TG made it to the sacred cows list and must be defended.
Corruption! That word rears its ugly head again. A Gov’t without an elected opposition introduced The Integrity in Public life bill which subsequently died in the Senate. Despite a second 30 love victory there has been no haste in passing a similar piece of legislation again. I remember a time when after the DLP’s victory in the 2008 election the late Owen Arthur and the current PM rushed to declare their “assets” . That was then this is now, Integrity in Public life remains a chimera, if politicians won’t get their house in order, why do we expect them to demand that others put theirs in order.
I would leave them all to it, they will IMPLODE ANYWAY…that’s the trajectory..
people should be more concerned with their health.
AstraZeneca was REFUSED permission to create another of their vaccine blood clots and drop it on people. If ya haven’t yet, yall should have started real immunity therapy, as best you can….as soon as you got those vaccines, after the 6 week period where things were liable to go wrong. and if ya haven’t, well, what can i tell ya…it’s been 2 years or close for some…some have been using different things to boost that immunity from yet illnesses.
let the corrupt focus on tiefing or whatever else they do, saw a bunch of people buried recently and couldn’t carry shit with them…and some were quadrillionaires.
woke up too early, did too much, tired.
some have been using different things to boost that immunity from yet UNKNOWN illnesses.
AstraZeneca was REFUSED permission…
take note that they did not use any mRNA technology, so imagine those who did, and the other 2…. sinopharm and J&J..
your health is more important to focus on right now than sleazy, crawly politicians.
What does William say repeatedly and always get cussed or attacked for it:
ya don’t plant peas and expect to reap potatoes…
these WILLFULLY depressed neighborhoods were maliciously pauperized, oppressed, exploited and NEGLECTED all through the fake independence..because they are only seen as uneducated voters, only useful for filling the slave master parliament with TRASH..
SAY IT LOUD: ya reap what ya sow.
“Confident criminals have friends in high places
By Anesta Henry
Criminal elements in Barbados have become emboldened and Government will have to take responsibility for that situation.
Charging that the operations of the police force have become more difficult within recent years, former Senator Caswell Franklyn said this is as a result of the perception that certain drug dealers have political ties.
Franklyn said images of known or previously-convicted drug dealers brandishing invitations to important, high-profile Government events could only have created the belief among impressionable minds that they are well connected.
“The Government must really be having buyer’s remorse. Now that the thugs are taking over, the Government can’t do anything about it.”
The outspoken trade unionist told Barbados TODAY that like thousands of Barbadians, he is also concerned about the spike in gun-related murders and shooting incidents in public spaces.
Franklyn indicated that the Barbados Police Service can only do so much with its resources to manage the criminal elements in society.
He charged: “Those drug people are also community workers because the money that they get in drugs, they help the poor people in the communities and the poor people in the communities then protect them. So you can’t get them trapped so easily, the police can’t hold them so easily because the people protect them from the police,” he said.
Franklyn added: “The communities, especially in the drug areas, will not cooperate because we have a lot of poverty in those areas and the drug men pay for the light bills, they pay for the food, pay for the water and that is why you can’t hold them”.
During a press conference on Thursday evening, at Police headquarters in the City, acting Commissioner of Police, Erwin Boyce, called on persons in communities to help lawmen fight the criminal elements in society.
However, Franklyn, a former Opposition senator said the acting commissioner is asking for a huge favour, and even described the lawman’s call as “just idle talk”.
“The acting Commissioner of Police must know that by now. I know it. And that is why those fellas have so much influence at elections, because the politicians know that these people support the communities that they come from.”
Franklyn said when a gunman can open fire in a public service vehicle, as was the case on Thursday morning at Eagle Hall, St Michael, the crime situation is out of control.
“This fellow might not even be a supporter of any particular party. But he is seeing how the other criminals are getting away with it, so he wants to get away with it too because the example has been set. It is not hard for Barbados to turn back now, it is impossible”.
(AH)
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Just heard someone break down what John has been saying for 4 years, “the government is not legitimate.”
they got an opportunity to play the bully role and grabbed it….but it will unravel..
Off topic
Lawyers complain that the delay in issuing a written judgement is hindering their efforts to appeal. The judge had assured the parties that her written decision would be available within 30 days of her October 8,2021 order.
All together now
Mañana, mañana, mañana is soon enough for me
Mañana, mañana, mañana is soon enough for me
https://barbadostoday.bb/2022/11/12/baffling-delay/
Source: Nation
Source: Nation
David,
Hoping that fentanyl and other synthetic opiods have not hit Bim. But this is probably too late.
These latest things seem to shatter lives even quicker.
I heard that some children also sell drugs at schools, as agents for the dealers. Is there truth to this?
As this continues, will people start to call for a Philipine type response?
Starting to think that Singapore’s government had the right idea.
Execute for trafficking?
@Crusoe
Given prevailing behaviour, attitudes and a porous border you are hoping in vain.
@November 13, 2022 at 5:26 AM
“While males were noted as the predominant users of addictive substances, the number of females was on the rise especially as it related to alcohol usage. While exact figures could not be given, the NCSA said it hoped to collect updated data via the upcoming Secondary School Survey.
Deputy Manager of the NCSA, Troy Wickham said findings in the 2020 National Primary School Survey revealed children as young as eight years old had admitted to substance use.
“I can say the main drug is still alcohol, followed closely by what we call energy drinks. A small amount admitted to using marijuana in their life. The main source is at home, the family and siblings and this is a concern for us at the National Council on Substance Abuse,” he said.”
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The above points to a 2020 survey, but it would not be hard to imagine the same/ a similar process was followed as the IDB survey. Forget about parents, principals and teachers. Think about your child at 8 years of age.
Can you imagine having your child’s name documented with drug use from the age of 8. Even, if your child became a saint at the age of 9 and onwards, there is information that could be use to the detriment of your child. That is why the IDB survey in all formats should be destroyed.
Hopefully, you get it this time. Don’t wait until the disrespect comes to your loved ones to start seeing the light.
@Sargeant
Taylor remanded on gun, ammunition and drug charges
https://www.nationnews.com/2022/11/14/taylor-remanded-gun-ammunition-drug-charges/
@David
https://barbadostoday.bb/2020/01/16/different-outcome-for-two-accused/
Is this the same guy?
Was this previous case concluded or is it still awaiting trial and he was out on bail?
You think the police could be pleased if he was already out on bail waiting for a case?
Same guy CA. Same old.
When will we change it up?
@David
If I was a police, I would done wasting my time trying to catch perpetrators.
The media need to do a check and state clearly at the top of the article ‘Already on Bail’ whenever someone brought before the court on fresh charges is out on bail.
@CA
This is a worrying matter. The lawyers will tell you if a person charged does not pose a flight risk or sone other factor to prevent to prevent bail allowance the presumption of innocence must prevail.
@David, I know that you are aware that the BAIL process is a very difficult one PARTICULALRY when it is within a very slow judicial case management system like in Bim!
This comes back to your ‘draconian’ remark earlier: maybe there should simply be NO BAIL allowed, period! But then that may disadvantage truly unfortunate Bajans who get caught in a legal problem through misfortune, right!
Or maybe simply stated, absolutely no bail for any offenses where a gun is involved; where there is serious personal injury caused by any weapon like machete, knife etc; where drugs over a certain quantity is found … the list can be quite precise as it has been DONE many places previously and maybe already so in Bim!
This bail thing has become too progressive (certainly in other western nations) with too much attempts to appease ; its hurting society and needs to get back to commonsense !
Bail is allowed, of course, not just because one is “presumed innocent” but also re the seriousness of the offense, possible further danger to the original victim and what you mentioned among other factors….. So the question here is what were the risk factors associated to the ‘bail assessment’ on this perp … not just flight risk!
Damn sure he will not now be issued bail again … so nothing stopped a serious and proper assessment initially that may have determined that he should have been remanded!
@Dee Word
Didn’t the incumbent AG introduce an 18 month period if a person charged fell within couldn’t be eligible for bail and it was shutdown by the appeals court?
Source: Nation
@Dee Word
You recall the discussion about drastic interventions?
See article Nation article.
Source: Nation
Looks like the policymakers are catching up.
Source: Nation
@David
Thanks for the update
Maybe it is time people on bail for theft, drug, murder and gun crimes be required to wear the COVID monitoring devices as condition for bail.
Maybe that will keep them from committing fresh crimes if it is know they are tracked 24/7.
A few days ago, there was a an article with lamenting the fact that too few students were enrolled in tertiary education. Here is one area that is not ‘suffering’.
https://barbadostoday.bb/2022/11/15/new-attorneys-told-journey-has-now-started/
As I saw the above article, I recalled that there was another recent article where a large number of ‘lawyers’ were admitted to the bar.
Is Barbados producing 50 or more lawyers every year?
If it is, how are they supporting themselves?
This would explain the need to drag out cases for year and to cheat clients of money awarded to them. The grazing area is becoming overcrowded. Interestingly, one would think as the field becomes crowded that the price of legal fees would drop, but I saw a notice informing us that the fees for legal advice were recently increased.
I seem to recall that the fees for a lawyer with QC designation were higher than those of a lawyer without the designation. That a lawyer’s bread and butter is affected should explain the reluctance to abandon titles such as QC and KC
PM MIA SPEAKS
Buers like to congregate in Carmetta’s Corner Garden
so using a Gardening metaphor to explain a calling in divine consciousness
Seeds are placed in a store deep within and there are good and bad seeds
the bad seeds or thoughts of the mind have to be suppressed
and the good seeds nurtured to manifest into beautiful flowers
This is part of the first 8 exercises of Mindful Breathing as taught by Buddha
Never trust a Yank
Come Here Come Here
I go reason now
Come Here Come Here
It is dry season now
Too much bad weed is in the garden
I man go weed them out
I don’t want to be hypocrite
I want to know what you are dealing with
East West North and South
Jah Jah a go weed them out
https://www.instagram.com/tv/Ck__-RyrNJA/
Crime talks – Crime talks:
https://barbadostoday.bb/2022/11/16/crime-talks/
Can’t bail also be determined by the strength of the evidence against the accused? I know that is a factor in some jurisdictions.
https://barbadostoday.bb/2022/11/18/invest-in-crime-fight/
This is a different from an article that I read yesterday.
Yesterday, it was businesswoman stating that crime is up and it will soon affect businesses and tourism. I read the article as if she was saying “if we can get ‘the criminals’ in a corner just killing themselves and not affecting our businesses then everything would be OK”
I am trying to remember if the same joker referred to a US DOJ program ‘seed and weed’. Barbados must be careful in how it copies any justice program from the US. Let us hope that those who employ/follow these programs have the sense to weed out the in-built racial component. Barbados is not the US. Justice in the US is not blind.
I copy a lot of BT stuff.
But I must admits that it seems as ideas generated on BU spawn contributions to other sources of media in Barbados
👍@blogmaster 👍
I may be mean at times, but he is one of my favorite guys.
🙂 He may be incapable of criticism, but there is brain activity 🙂
But I must admits that it seems as if ideas generated on BU spawn contributions to other sources of media in Barbados
Source: Nation
Another senseless shooting death.
https://www.nationnews.com/2022/12/03/update-police-identify-shooting-victim-20221203-2114-430110/
Vi et armis
“Around 10 000 troops have surrounded the city of Soyapango in El Salvador as part of a massive crackdown on gangs, “