For decades the private transportation system has been inadequately regulated by government and public sector- the consequence is a sub culture developed that has negatively affected a generation of OUR children. In the absence of empirical data the blogmaster is prepared to say deviant behaviour by school children promulgated daily in the media is the result.
In 2018 when the current administration was voted into office, one of the more high profile appointments was former banker and relative of the Prime Minister Ian Estwick as Chairman of the Transport Authority. Estwick’s mandate was to ensure the authority delivery on its mandate to regulate the transport sector. In less than a year it was clear the Transport Authority was another ‘toothless tiger’ and Estwick resigned having failed in his assignment.
In December 2022 we have another update.
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Transport Santia Bradshaw advised the country this week an amendment to the traffic laws designed to address the troublesome PSV sector is coming. In Bradshaw’s words the amendment will “give greater teeth” to the Transport Authority and is expected to be approved by Cabinet in the near future.
For the last 40 odd years government after government, whether DLP or BLP, refused to provide adequate leadership to the transport, as a consequence a sub culture has contributed to destabilizing a Barbados society that was once the envy of many. Wasn’t Barbados considered a model Black country way back when?
The blogmaster understands the ownership of buses in the PSV sector is a composition of The Who is Who in Barbados. There is the corruption element associated with how licenses are approved by principals at the Ministry of Transport- including successive ministers- and assigned to particular routes. These are not exhaustive observations.
Here it is on the eve of 2023, a majority Black educated tiny country has been unable to address an issue that continues to negatively impact the behaviour of citizens, especially our children. As adults we have usurped our primary responsibility to care for our children. In brings into question what is the Return on Education investment given the billions allocated to the national budget post independence. Then again there is the saying book smart is not street smart.
To be expected,we created the problem now we point fingers at the children, at the unruly PSV workers and others. We like it so.
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“Then again there is the saying book smart is not street smart.”
Preach and teach it Brother Davy King of Bu
It is strange breed of black people that needs a Sri Lankan blogger in London to school them about Reggae, Spirituality and Rastafari, and even was chatting about Reparations and Repatriation Back to Africa before it was picked up adopted and adapted by others.
I stated perception is key
another said There is no truth. There is only perception.
Perception has 2 sides (1) intuition and (2) false perceptions
Where your mind goes your energy flows.
To strengthen intuitive powers you can look and breathe into your inner third eye chakra furrowing your eyebrows and drawing spiritual shen energy into the pineal gland in the centre of your brain and drawing the light through your spine through all chakras down to the roots.
Regarding false perceptions when you look at people abd things negatively with distrust anger etc all you will ever see is the negative side of people and things and will never ever see the positive in them.
Equanimity meaning calmness and composure, especially in a difficult situation is required which can be achieved through a daily practice of meditation.
It all began with the drum
Ancestors in Africa didn’t have telephones but communicated through drum rhythms.
To get in touch with Heavenly Ancestors you have to look deep into your soul and lose all the karmas that you no longer required in your physical mental emotional spiritual body.
Drum Dance Trance Therapy such as Gabrielle Roth’s 5Rhythms is an excellent practice to follow that I fully endorse.
5Rhythms is a dynamic movement practice—a practice of being in your body—that ignites creativity, connection, and community.
5Rhythms Cosmology
From my confusion movement stirred
something bigger than me wanted out
raw awareness set free
allowing untruths to fall away
birthing the 5Rhythms
essence embraced
an offering placed in the cradle of time
continuously rocked
by an incessant hunger to know spirit in all things
the 5Rhythms–
a route
to the
root.
~ Gabrielle Roth
I speak to my father the creator through the bubbling telephone chalice who told me to give you this message.
It all began with the drum
Ancestors in Africa didn’t have telephones but communicated through drum rhythms.
To get in touch with Heavenly Ancestors you have to look deep into your soul and lose all the karmas that you no longer required in your physical mental emotional spiritual body.
Drum Dance Trance Therapy such as Gabrielle Roth’s 5Rhythms is an excellent practice to follow that I fully endorse.
5Rhythms is a dynamic movement practice—a practice of being in your body—that ignites creativity, connection, and community.
5Rhythms Cosmology
From my confusion movement stirred
something bigger than me wanted out
raw awareness set free
allowing untruths to fall away
birthing the 5Rhythms
essence embraced
an offering placed in the cradle of time
continuously rocked
by an incessant hunger to know spirit in all things
the 5Rhythms–
a route
to the
root.
~ Gabrielle Roth
Boko Haram whose MO is to kidnap their own black school children, kill some of them and sell the others off as SLAVES (in the 21st Century) tribal wars in Africa, Hutu, Twa and Tutsi killing one another….Need I say more?
Yes! You need say more.
I cannot get your point?
Division by tribe or religion may be more important (to some) than actual skin color.
Complete your statement.
1/2
Some get it…
“However, prominent defence attorney Andrew Pilgrim said while he applauded the firm stance on gun violence taken by the police, he was mindful of the potential for encroachment of the rights of average Barbadians.
“I regard any attempt to limit the rights of citizens to go about freely and fairly as a serious incursion on our rights,” the King’s Counsel told the Weekend Nation.
“So, while I support all efforts by the Barbados Police Service and BDF, I am cognizant all of the time of a ‘fella’ being pulled over for no reason, without any authority, without suspicion. This idea that you can stop and search anybody is something that we as right thinking members of society need to resist.”
This position was shared by former Opposition Leader Bishop Joseph Atherley, who said: “I am concerned that we have too much to lose if we let this sort of violence get out of hand, but I would not want to see policing powers become such that the rights of citizens in Barbados are abridged.”
*** Let me state the obvious.. The police/authorities in Barbados must move aggressively and firmly to reduce the level of crime. I support this.
Bishop Atherley and defense attorney Andrew Pilgrim realized that our fears are driving us to the very edge of a slippery slope. Our aggressive pursuit of criminals should not (but it could) result in the diminution of the rights of the Average Joe.
I fear that this new initiative may only be face dressing and will lead to harassment of Average Joe. It will not be funny if innocent families are being stopped and searched as they watch big boys and mules with their drug laden vehicles being waved on. We must not allow ow those who do nothing, get busy by pretending to do something. The public are already suspicious of some police in Barbados.
Given past observations, I have little or no faith in many of these initiatives, especially when the net result could be the targeting of innocents sand a diminution of their right.
Don’t wait until you get caught up in the charade to speak up. Open your eyes and be on guard.
Sometimes a single sentence in a fine essay can jump out and catch me by the throat. I try to move on, but it is like having “a burr in the saddle”.
“Here it is on the eve of 2023, a majority Black educated tiny country has been unable to address an issue that continues to negatively impact the behaviour of citizens, especially our children.”
What does majority black has to do with it? Are you saying that thing would be/are different in a majority educate ‘non-black’ nation (of a similar size)?
It is a fact that we are majority black nation, but i believe that phrase add nothing to the conversation.
Do you agree?
“Division by tribe or religion may be more important (to some) than actual skin color.”
People get tarred with the same brush by the ignorant.
“Terrorists” “Extremists” Fundamentalists” etc have caused entire genders races religions countries and continents to be scapegoated negatively by their projection
Although the whites mindsets manage to say that certain undesirable criminal whites must have a sickness such as mental health issues etc
.. or will still scapegoat other countries like Irish and Russian
Treating to the symptoms and not seeking a cure, is the MO of our authorities when it comes to crime.
I have experienced a stop and search a couple of decades ago when my companion was driving one night. It was simply a peak into the vehicle and trunk. Nothing terrifying. Nothing terribly intrusive. No guns drawn. No threatening behaviour. A brief (and very polite) inconvenience.
I believe the COP when he says that he knows his targets.
Still, it is a dicey situation that needs to be constantly monitored for abuses.
And again, will not deliver up “The Man who Employed my Son”.
“Complete your statement.”
She can’t complete it, while accurate to some extent, her information is incomplete. That’s what happens when you know very little to nothing about Afrikan history, all 56 countries, outside of the rant worthy parts to rgurgitate in an attemt to prove a nonpoint.
Police and soldiers infringing my right to move about freely.
Bad men and boys infringing my right to move about fearlessly.
I really don’t know what to think or do anymore.
I will say this though, Barbados was Barbados when it was only occupied by Bajans.
Like it or lump it, but pick sense from nonsense.
How is it that the PSV workers were able to nurture the children’s predilection for deviancy right under your nose?
I put it to you that the if the PSV’s have negatively influence the children, then the blame is with the parent.
Further still, how does one explain the different outcomes of children with the same mother and father, eating the same bakes and fried eggs for breakfast, bathing with the same soap and catching the same PSVs to and from schools every day?
PSVs are responsible for a lot of things, but in Barbados today; they are just the easy targets.
Peek not peak
@Donna
“I have experienced a stop and search a couple of decades ago when my companion was driving one night. It was simply a peak into the vehicle and trunk. Nothing terrifying. Nothing terribly intrusive. No guns drawn. No threatening behaviour. A brief (and very polite) inconvenience.”
1) Do you think the stop was justified in anyway
2) Was the final outcome dependent on who knew who
3) Related to 2.
Do you think dress, mannerisms and an English accent made the difference.
You gave yourself some wiggle room when you stated “I believe the COP when he says that he knows his target”
This may very well be true, but the success shown so far does not match his claim. I fear some ‘innocents’ may well be caught in the net.
Apparently there had been an incident in the area. There was a road block. All passing vehicles were being searched. It was so non-intrusive and cordial, that I never even thought about whether it was justified or not. Afterwards, we just continued along our merry way thinking that it was a new experience.
No mention was made of who we were or knew. Our style of dress was casual, shorts and t-shirts. And my English accent was very far from pronounced by that time.
I think we simply came across as being as innocent as we were. Nothing suspicious or nervous in our behaviour. We complied immediately, indicating that we had nothing to hide.
Actually, we were totally caught off guard and too surprised to react any differently.
Surprised, but not afraid. Did not feel violated.
S.U.S. / The Ruts
Down in the street just waiting for a bus
This cop comes up, their giving me the SUS
They said? Hey sonny, I think you’re in our file.
Well, you better come with us for a while’
We got you on SUS
You look to obvious
You better come with us
And don’t make no fuss
We got you on SUS
So they shake me down
Try to make me look like a clown
I just stare at the ground
You better come with us
(We got you on SUS)
You look too obvious
(You better come with us)
And don’t make no fuss
(Too obvious)
You better come with us
(Don’t make no fuss)
We got you well,
We got you on SUS
Solo
You look too obvious
(We got you on SUS)
You better come with us
(You look too obvious)
And don’t make no fuss
(You better come with us)
We got you on SUS
(You better come with us)
Don’t make no fuss
(You better come with us)
We got you on SUS
(You better come with us)
We got you well
(You better come with us)
We got you well
We got you in SUS
While i consider THE time it will take to write this a total and complete waste of time, i shall anyway in the hope that someone in authorty will address these problem areas which clearly only i must see. As all ZRS AND MINIBUSES BEHAVE THE SAME I SHALL REFER TO ALL AS ZRS.
A. ZRS THAT APPROACH THE LIGHTS COMING TOWARDS THE JUNCTION AT THE OLD EYE CLINIC IN THE RIGHT LANE THEN PULL HARD LEFT IN FRONT OF EVERYONE IN THE LEFT LANE AND PROCEED UP BAY ST..
B. ZRS WHO COME ONTO RIVER ROAD FROM BEHIND THE HOSPITAL TURN LEFT AND THEN STOP FOR PASSENGERS IN FRONT OF THE OLD CGI OFFICE.
C. ZRS WHO COME DOWN TO THE TRAFFIC LIGHTS FROM ZEPRINS TO THE 4 CROSS BY THE MARKET IN THE RIGHT LANE THEN TURN LEFT IN FRONT THE TRAFFIC IN THE LEFT LANE TO PROCEED TO BANK HALL.
D. ZRS WHO COME DOWN FROM PEOPLES CATHEDRAL IN THE RIGHT LANE WHICH ONE MUST USE TO TURN ONTO PINE ROAD, BUT KEEP STRAIGHT INSTEAD DOWN LOWER COLLY MORE ROCK IN FRONT OF SAGICOR WHEN THE LIGHT TURNS GREEN.
I COULD CONTINUE TO Z BUT FOOTBALL IS COMING ON AND I HAVE ALREADY WASTED ENOUGH TIME.
YOU CAN JUST ADD ZRS THAT BREAK EVERY RED LIGHT AND DO WHAT THE ASS THEY WANT TO THE LIST!
@John A
The ZRS lag on the stretch at the entrance area of Sheraton as well. Many other are to numerous to mention the consequence, traffic congestion.
“I have experienced a stop and search a couple of decades ago when my companion was driving one night.”
@ Donna
I’ve had similar experiences on more than one occasion. The first time, I was stopped by approximately six or seven young police officers, in plain clothes, one night, while walking through St. Lawrence Gap. Two older officers who ‘brought up the rear,’ told them to let me be on my way.
Another time, was during a ‘stop and search operation’ in my area, while driving home one morning after 2am……but was allowed to leave without being searched.
Perhaps because, according to ‘The O Guy,’ “the final outcome was dependent on who knew who” or my attire and “mannerisms made the difference.”
However, I like to hear a legal opinion on the legality of “stop and searches,” relative to the Barbados Constitution, especially Chapter 3, section 11: ‘Protection of fundamental rights and freedoms of the individual.’
@Artax
We have to be careful to avoid the quagmire of a litigious society USA and other developed countries have become. As far as the Blogmaster is aware the police have some latitude to stop and search predicated on reasonable suspicion. One may argue this is where the “subjectivity” of such action can be questioned.
@ David
We clearly are incapable of dealing with the ZR Issue. The fact that the locations of these crimes are well know and this nonsence going on unchecked for years is confirmation of this.
The problems manifesting in the PSV sector is emblematic of present day standards.
So @David when you say “The problems manifesting in the PSV sector is emblematic of present day standards” I presume you are speaking of the standards or lack of them which are set by our ‘leaders’!
I would also reflect on the blogger’s remark that “The fact that the locations of these crimes are well know and this nonsense going on unchecked for years is confirmation of this” and wonder if his remarks are also reflective of the repudiations from the CCJ to our leaders (in law and thus too governance) when one newspaper reported:
“The Trinidad-based CCJ levelled the criticism as it delivered a decision[…] noting that the appellants who were sentenced to 15 years would complete their terms in March 2016, possibly without their appeals being heard.” […] “The court cited this as an example of the “inordinate systemic delay” of the Barbados judiciary and advocated, once again, that steps be taken to address this situation.”
So, we can beat up on the lawless ZR culture all we want but as you suggest they have been taught well on the “nonsense going on unchecked for years is confirmation” and “emblematic” of our pervasive lawless standards!
OMG… Brazil lost and now Argentina giving it up … almost!
Standards have to be improved indeed!😎😒
@Dee Word
Yes and no. Our leaders mirror wider society and the extent we are unwilling to hold them accountable.
Frank Stronach:
Halting the inevitable drift toward socialism
We’ve reached a dangerous tipping point where more and more people are taking resources out of our economy, through government handouts, and fewer and fewer people are contributing to it. In other words, there are more people who are dependent on government handouts for their livelihood and fewer people generating the tax revenue needed to support the social safety net.
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Our government, meanwhile, is more focused on how to distribute wealth than on how to create it. It’s a trend that happens in almost all capitalist democracies: over time, they invariably drift toward a socialist economy propped up by government spending and social programs for a growing segment of the population.
And here’s the reason why: the democratic system is vote-driven, which incentivizes political parties to cater to the masses by introducing wealth redistribution measures and socialistic programs.
The inevitable result is that the free enterprise system gets slowly pulled toward a more socialistic system, where the state takes and distributes a larger and larger portion of the wealth, leading to an an enormous build-up of bureaucracy that stifles individual initiative and productivity.
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When the disparity between the wealthy and workers grows larger and larger, with growing cries to take from the rich and give to the poor, it’s hardly surprising that more and more people begin to question capitalism and look to other systems that promise greater equality. We need to wake up to the realization that wherever you have economic disparity, you have fertile ground for socialism to spread.
I believe the best way to stop our inevitable slide toward socialism is to give workers a portion of the profits they help produce. One solution, therefore, would be to require companies to share their profits with their workers.
I have always believed that it takes three forces to drive a business: managers, investors and employees. Most importantly, I believe that all three have a right to share in the business’s profits.
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Traditionally, investors have received a cut of the profits through dividends and stock appreciation. Managers have also gotten a healthy chunk of the profits through bonuses, stock options and other payments. But employees are often left out of the profit sharing — and without employees, you don’t have a company.
Companies must realize that they can be more productive and more competitive if they’re able to harness those three driving forces — management, employees and investors — and get them all to pull in the same direction. If you have a wagon pulled by three horses, and each of the horses runs off in a different direction, you usually end up in the ditch. It’s the same with most businesses.
Profit sharing among all of the key stakeholders of a business is basically a recognition that the people who create wealth should get a fair share of that wealth. It’s what we did at Magna for many years, and it was one of the key reasons why the company continually achieved record profits.
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Our employees not only got a portion of the profits each year in the form of cash, they also received equity in the company, making them part-owners of the business they helped make successful.
Imagine if we could apply the same profit-and-ownership principle on a national scale.
Sharing profits with workers would benefit companies, employees and governments. Companies would see an increase in productivity and profits. Employees would get more income. And governments would gain enhanced tax revenue due to the growth generated by increased spending.
By requiring large companies with more than 300 employees to establish a profit-sharing plan that gives employees 10 per cent of the annual profits, we can create a system where wealth is distributed more evenly and fairly throughout the economy, rather than remaining concentrated in the hands of relatively few individuals.
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But most of all, the economy would function better if we had a much fairer and broader distribution of wealth, and there would be fewer social problems caused by the growing income gap between the wealthy and the working class.
Instead of constantly redistributing the wealth we create, we need to focus on how we can improve the living standards of everyone in society, while lifting the people at the very bottom rungs out of poverty and off of their dependence on the state.
One thing is for certain: if we fail to find a way to allow workers to participate in wealth creation, our society will continue its slow but sure drift toward socialism.
National Post
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Frank Stronach is the founder of Magna International Inc., one of Canada’s largest global companies, and an inductee in the Automotive Hall of Fame.
The so called ZR buses/vans culture is just hustling and bustling 3rd world style. It would take a big shift in standards of life to change and rearrange it.
@ David
There is no excuse for the level of breakdown in law and order that we are seeing. The ZRs basically are a free for All enterprise now with no respect for our roads.
The answer is really quite simple. All insurance companies have to do is ban any driver with more than 3 convictions. So who ever he goes to drive for on the island he will be black listed for insurance by all companies on the island. All that is needed is for a clause to be placed in all policies that requires the driver to be listed on the policy with a picture of the drivers drivers license. As drivers go and come the owners will have to simply update the companies with the new license info. If they dont do that and the vehicle gets in an accident with an unlisted driver the insurer will simply deny their claim.
Problem solve and watch the owners and drivers clean up their act.
@John A
Will the problem be solved? Are you not seeing the same lawlessness being perpetrated daily on the roads by the average John and Jane citizen?
@David, I know you may see this as too ‘off the wall’ but here is another example of why standards are so negligently observed.
I saw this in an article recently: “The Bank for International Settlements warned earlier this month that pension funds and other nonbank financial institutions owe some $25 trillion in debt that is essentially “hidden” from regulators.”
WHAT! That’s 2008 system failure redux possibilities as it can all come crashing down once again!.
Or in short, in the same view that you preach re our NIS there is lots of LAWLESSNESS masquerading as acceptable standards by those who damn-well should know better …
The actions of our PSV owners are day-today mundane stuff, fah sure … but it’s taught by our leaders I say again; THEY set that tone of that societal malfeasance and then demand decency from all others. CAN’T work so!
@Dee Word
Who in our democratic systems is the defense of last resort when the leaders fail over time?
The people with the authority don’t care about fixing the PSV problems because they all drive cars so they can roll up their tinted windows, blast their AC and stereos and blast their honk when they behind a PSV until they overtake them.
Between the Transport Board and PSVs, there is more than enough vehicles to ensure no one on any route has to wait more than 15-30 minutes at a bus stop. Routes like Bush Hall and Silver Sands have too many while other routes have too few. Then there is the situation of a transport board bus and PSV on the same route one behind the other.
The problem can be solved in one month by re-balancing all permits so routes are not overcrowded or under-served. That solves the hustling need which in turn solves the lawlessness which is caused by the need to hustle.
Decades ago, the issues related to the PSVs and the level of indiscipline ,were effectively addressed under Mr. Vic Johnson(BLP) Minister of Transport and Works. Comprehensive rules , regulations and legislation were put in place to eradicate the ignorance that we have today.
Under Mr. Vic Johnson , the then Fairchild Street Terminal,now known as the Granville Williams Terminal, was completely refurbished or renovated , and was very pleasing to the eye.
We destroyed the new terminal in a few years; the “ mini bus men “ never paid any attention to the regulations.
Had the rules put in place then been adhered to, we would not have the high level of pure ignorance and disgraceful behaviour now displayed on our roads .
@WS
Fair observation.
Clico could never had occured if regulations were followed and enforced?
A ‘significant’ level of imports could not be classified as they have been if the regulations were followed.
The GoB could not have accumulated the debt it did, if the rules and regulations were not modified/ignored to suit their purpose.
And on and on.
There is minimal accountability. Regulators/Rule keepers turn a blind eye. It several cases it is so blatant, they cannot even try to defend the action/inaction.
We like it so ☺️
@William
The issue is far more complex. The ownership mix found in the sector and unwillingness to hold owners partly accountable, the quality of recruitment, lazy enforcement of traffic laws etc.
@ NO
I recall the vandalism inflicted on St. George school, when it was first built.
A culture of lawlessness that took root going back to the 80s and 90s.
The sad thing is that this culture is represented by a rather small percentage of citizens, whom we have allowed to just do as they like.
William…helter skelter. Can”t get better, will only escalate. Under the Monroe Doctrine not one of them are in charge of fiscal policies and never will be, they screwed everything up over the last half century. They can never repay those mounting debts, loans, nothing, they are owned. Born in debt, live in debt, die in debt…can’t lie their way out of that. After decades and decades of lying to the people reality is right up in their deceitful faces.
Took in the Save the Children event in Independence Square today. There was quite a cast. The parents and other activists have to stay on top of the current and future governments who have no control over meaningful things, never did, that’s why everything has devolved into degradation, and they can only roll out the edicts and dictates from offshore personalities, the real owners of the island who set the policies that the parliament pretenders can only follow and never question.. Stop listening to Hiel HitSchwab’s minions and pinning your hopes on the fallacy that anything will ever change or get any better. They are only in charge of the fools who vote for, support and enable them so they can warble shite from their bully pulpit.
Time to stop the… we is bajans and dis is we island crap…. No it’s not. Wunna need to find out who really owns it. That has been a topic in discussion for some weeks now. One which the patented liars will never broach.
But doan mine me, i only passing thru.
William..wuhloss, you know you don’t see me out at this time, but pay very close attention to one 54 minute audio clip in circulation, in particular, making the rounds since last night, you will know it when you hear it. Explosive does not begin to describe.
Things are reaching that place, just as we knew it would. Evabody gone quiet was the tell. The evil, sellout, traitor nigga syndrome comes with a ginormous price tag.
I staying in my little corner with my little publishing company. I never tried to lure or bully nuhbody so neither my name nor that of AOP can end up on anyone’s compiled tek down list. I int in no big leagues with nasty politicians bosie.
Lol…lawd. what another turn of events.
Source: Nation
Source: Nation
Source: Nation
“Law and Order As Christ-
mastime progresses.. ”
.. any smackhead or crackhead will tell you t’is the pagan winter solstice season to go down to the supermarket and shopping centre car parks to target and old ladies and snatch their handbags with a getaway car drive accomplice fellow fiend
One paragraph is jarring
“Home Breakdown” eventually places increasingly greater pressure on police officers as they work “to serve, protect and reassure”. The ultimate example of this “breakdown pressure” is when the military service is “called out” in special circumstances of “excess” criminality, as strange as that sounds, or, worse, in times of civil unrest as happened during the Arab Spring where public obligations to law dissolved in favour of a new order.”
I would not place the Arab Spring in this category. This was a deployment of the police forces to reinforce oppression and tyranny. A wicked criminal system seeking to protect itself and to preserve the status quo by calling out the police, army and religious nuts. It is a false illusion to believe that once the police or army are called out that people are wrong; quite often the society is already broken.
I had some difficult with the rest of the article as it became a Christmas wish list for the police
More money
Personal insurance
More police
More training to be officers
and abracadabra
Less crime
Adrian gets it this week.
It is a complicated problem with roots in slavery.
Will give you my thoughts of yesterday after this.
I wish to explore the word “parents” which appears to be the solution for all of our ills?
Who are the parents???
I grew up in St Lucy.
There was a rich family where the patriarchs sowed their fertile seeds throughout the villages. We were aware of who was whose, but those born outside of the family home did not carry the family surname and held a lower status than those born to the wife/mistress in the house.
In many ways family is a continuation of the social interaction between master and female slaves. A hybrid version of “massa”, ‘house slave” and ‘field slave” children.
I was researching the history of a prominent Barbados politician. At many of the sites it stated that he had two children and then a third child was often given like an afterthought. Here now, we have a next example of family relationship in Barbados where some offspring are given much more weight than others.
Do we consider ‘massa’ and political heavyweights as parents and fathers to all of their children, or do we give them a ‘pass’.
What does our officials mean when they use the word ‘parent’? Is it just the biological model (mother and ‘father’) or does it reflect the complexity of different familial relationships in our society.
Are our officials thinking only of male/female in a LBTQ+ world? Do they take the many single-parent families into consideration? And what about “disputed relationships”, fathers that come with jackets? “Not my baby” seems to be bake into some father’s DNA.
Calling on parents is an easy out, but if it we do not admit that fragments of our past where families were ruptured and destroyed and if we do not admit that powerful men walk among us discarding their sperm and not building families, the call to parents is just noise.
| “Why are the youth so angry?”. It is a complex and wicked problem which I have spoken to on several occasions. I do this with full awareness that the issues cannot be fully addressed in this column.
They are too complex. Too wicked.|
Sometimes listening is better than talking
try asking the youths why they are so angry
Big Bout
Round 1
In Jolly Old UK there is the Megan Vs The Stuck Up Racist Brits and Media playing out, which breaks down slavery racism colonialism ism and schisms of Babylon System.
Source: Nation
What a set of brass bowls….
Lovell can continue to seek guidance and help from Mia, Kaye and de Chief….
Isaiah 3..outlines the REAL problem.
9 The show of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have done evil unto themselves.
10 Say ye of the righteous, that it shall be well with him; for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
11 Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him; for what his hands have done shall be done unto him.
12 As for my people, children are their oppressors (in schools and on the Blocks) , and women rule over them. O my people, they that lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths. (borrowing for bling….)
(…so we donkeys are grass… Bushie 2022)
@Bush Tea
As long as humankind has existed haven’t we had non believers and those practicing usury?
@ David
…and you said that to say…?
We also had honesty, truth, love and …wisdom.
Part dem is now…?
The point Bush Tea is that we have never lived in a perfect world. All the human characteristics and behaviours have spanned the gamut.
Bushman…ah wonder if anyone, the fowls, apologists.and enablers specifically, thought of what roles they will get in this new world order of a one world government, wuh i int see dem getting none, dah is the onliest ting that Hiel HitSchwab, Lord god Rothschild and i agree on. The useless breathers/eaters are taking up too much space and resources, and they are now extinct in my view and contribute nothing but utter shite, no developmental strategies that can actually work, no educational inputs only shite colonial politics that not even colonists are interested in anymore. But there they are trying to turn everyone into undereducated fowls and brainless political clowns like themselves. Just look at how many YEARS they wasted with that idiocy. They have nothing to offer in the way of independent critical thinking skills, wuh nuhbody int looking for no more slaves/slave minded, and apparently in de depopulators view they are definitely not needed, wuh i heard Hiel HitSchwanb seh so with my own two ears.. but their lying political masters int telling dem nutten cause they looking to save their own useless asses and to hell with the slave minded followers/supporters, bunch of idjits.
Anyone volunteering for the gas job?…send ya resumes and application forms to:
If the metal detectors are not installed in a short time it will not be knives but guns.
Concerned….
Are we past the edge of the slippery slope?
Lie detector (suggested by a US agent)
Metal detectors
Stop and search
Continue to lie to yourself
Anyone volunteering for the gas job?…send ya resumes and application forms to:
Ah forgot to add, don’t forget to start with the despicable lowlife fowls, imps and pimps first, hint, hint.
We need to give it more time before slapping on the back statements.
Source: Nation
In related news.
Source: Nation
Judge Greaves has always shown he has a finger on the pulse of the nation.
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@David
With the elevation of Corey Lane as Associate AG (my title) there were too many cooks in the AG Office thus a make work job was created for Darwin Dottin, he is now Anti Corruption Anti Terrorism Czar…..
And wunnah think Santa Claus isn’t real
All I want for Christmas is a…..
@Sargeant
It was Bertie vs Darwin when the Dees were in office. Dees were behind Bertie and Darwin was Bee. Whether B or D in office, work must be found for the boys.
Qualified.
Dottin was awarded a Bachelor of Laws Degree from The University of the West Indies; the Legal Education Certificate from the Hugh Wooding Law School; a Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Criminology and Police Studies from Cambridge University, and the MSc in Security and Risk Management, with Merit, from the University of Leicester.
He is a graduate of the National Academy of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Police Staff College, Bramshill, United Kingdom. (BT/BGIS)
“Whether B or D in office, work must be found for the boys.”
@ David
You are correct.
Remember, after Bertie Hinds officially retired from the RBPF in January 2013, he was subsequently appointed Deputy Executive Director of the Regional Security System (RSS).
Hinds holds a Bachelor’s degree in History and Law from UWI and a Master’s in Criminology. He was also a part-time lecturer in criminal justice and criminology at UWI Cave Hill.
Senator Nicholls: PSV sector should be treated like public utility:
https://barbadostoday.bb/2022/12/15/senator-nicholls-psv-sector-should-be-treated-like-public-utility/
PSV sector should be treated like public utility:
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He mean we should sell it to the Canadians?
Steupsss
The problem is not with the PSV sector…
it is with the Political Sector..
…and that bunch CANNOT heal themselves…
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CmMT4yqPff7/
The public is warned to avoid the most dangerous person in Barbados.
Police profilers have indicated the person is a male PSV driver who is a parent. We are warned to exercise extreme caution when he is accompanied by his two teenage children.
Meanwhile, at the port a container of …
https://barbadostoday.bb/2022/12/16/psv-body-rejects-notion-of-regulating-routes-salaries-in-the-sector/
Now these things are above my paygrade, so do not expect a well-reasoned argument from me.
When you start talking about regulating salaries, I can see jealousy and envy operating.
These guys may need more regulations and more policing. Please do so.
When you start talking about regulating worker salaries, it enters a dimension other than bad behavior. Some of these guys “without CXCs” (that’s and expression (unknot your knickers) … sum of dese guys “wdout CXCs” mekking mo money dan me and my degree. We gotta stop dat.” Can you handle the truth???
RE: “When you start talking about regulating worker salaries, it enters a dimension other than bad behavior. Some of these guys “without CXCs” (that’s and expression (unknot your knickers) …”
Come on, my friend. Your line of reasoning is a bit unfair and disappointing as well. I know you can do much better than this.
“Regulating PSV operators’ salaries” has been a topic of discussion for several years.
A few years ago, some PSV owners, especially the Indians:
(1). paid their drivers and conductors 25¢ and 5¢ (30%) ‘out of every $1’ respectively.
(2). ‘leased’ the ZR, whereby the drivers were required to give the owner $500 per day, fill the vehicle with diesel, with the remaining fare collected being proportionally divided between the driver and conductor.
It is reasonable to assume there was a proportional increase in those rates relative to the increase in bus fare (now at $3.50).
Using the OLD RATES above, a ZR driver would have to collect $500 in bus fares to earn $125 per day.
200 passengers @ $2.50 = $500.
A ZR is licensed to carry at least 14 passengers.
Bear in mind, there are routes, such as Wansted (3), Fairy Valley (3D), Jackson (3Y), Deacons (4), Bush Hall (6) and Silver Sands (11), where the number of ZRs are in excess of what would be reasonably required to provide adequate service.
Those methods of payments CREATED problems such as overloading; going ‘off route’ to get ahead of competitors; speeding; ‘dragging,’ which prevents the free flow of traffic; music to attract passengers and a general non-compliance with traffic and civil laws.
Why???? Because the guys are FORCED to ‘HUSTLE’ to earn decent wages.
RE: “sum of dese guys “wdout CXCs” mekking mo money dan me and my degree. We gotta stop dat.” Can you handle the truth???”
Please note, Transport Board bus drivers’ wages are ‘REGULATED.’ And, they can earn over $1,200 per week with overtime…… “wdout CXCs.”