The author’s name withheld at the discretion of the Blogmaster – David
Man makes plans not knowing the plans God has already made or how he will bring his plans to pass. Six things have occurred recently in Barbados that may change the path of our trajectory.
With the deadline for the Trident ID being April 1st there has been an increase in anxiety in the general population.
With a background in gun violence during the past decade, suddenly, the gangs have made a truce and all the deaths by gun fire have stopped.
Then a week ago, some of the former wards of the Girl’s Industrial School won their case and the wandering laws under which they were institutionalized were deemed unconstitutional and struck off the law books.
The very next day, the country learnt that the government had passed the Barbados Identification Act two years earlier in 2021 to restrict freedoms and the ability to vote by citizens. In essence, it appears as though the wandering laws had been replaced by a plantation pass (Trident ID card) proving that plantation slavery is alive and well in Barbados.
This week, the people of St Joseph took the developer for a tourism project and the Prime Minister(she is the Minister responsible for approving Planning Permissions) to court for infringement of their constitutional rights.
Ultimately what appeared on social media this morning, whether true or not, that the government is about to restrict citizens use of social media by amending the Computer Misuse Act, has sent the population into panic mode.
While it appears that the gang truce has no correlation to the rest of the equation, it may change its outcome. There may be no docile acceptance of the Barbados Identity Act and the Trident ID card.
It appears that the island is in the midst of change. There is a struggle for power but how far are the people willing to push back? The stars are lining up. It is only when the formation has stopped that the constellation is revealed.
If the above are the plans of this Administration as they are, except the ending of the gun violence, it was a timely act by God not only in his own time, but it can put a spoke in the plans of government. It can change everything that this Administration has planned. This Administration has never been confronted with a group of people who have shown a lack of conformity for decades. This is where this scenario gets interesting.
The government was unsuccessful in its quest or lack thereof to make a dent in gun related deaths since they came to power in 2018. It is a fact that members of gangs in Barbados have stopped killing each other and this underground economy did it all on their own without the involvement of government. The government cannot take credit and therefore, these gang members are not beholden to the government. One wonders what else they can achieve. If this truce holds, perhaps they can become a great asset to Barbadians but currently, they do not know or understand the power that they now possess.
One recalls that the most docile slaves were taken off the slave ships in Barbados which was the first port of call in the Caribbean. By the time the ships reached Haiti or Jamaica only the most militant were left of board. In essence, docility is inbred in Barbadians; passed down by their forefathers who had nowhere to run.
However, several decades of social and economic decline and the development of the drug trade has bred some lawless, hostile, and militant creatures that were bent on self-destruction up until a few weeks ago. Now that their thoughts have shifted from killing each other, and their minds are now clear, they have time on their hands to focus on the problems that have engulfed this entire island.
Crime, though serious, served as a distraction from the other major problems of the island. Some will now realize that the true enemy is the system and not a rival gang member. Reality will set in, and more than likely they will have a need to redefine their boundaries and truths.
Perhaps this is what we really need to change Barbados, not talkers but doers; people who are accustomed to standing up and can therefore stand up for the rest of the population. These people are not the general population, they do not fit into that mold. They are fearless and resistant, not docile. With time now on their hands, there is an opportunity for this group to become useful for the good of the country.
If the right leader can be found to bring change to these minds and shift it from its narrow focus to the transformation of the social environment of Barbados, their action will be seen and felt across this island. They have an opportunity to stand up and stop a game. However, it is not only these but the 3,000 plus persons that the government will be letting go at month end.
Living in a society where government overreach has become overbearing and with the implication of the new identity Act leading to further marginalization of the working-class population, some will believe that their very existence is being threatened and openly oppose their political masters.
Those who are tired of talking and nothing changes must now ask yourselves, what if the actions of this group of fearless young men can be a stimulus for positive change to this island?
No one knows what aggressions may occur. If the government does not retreat, one may conclude that by its own actions, it has placed itself on notice. For the conclusion, one must await the formation of the Constellation.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CptX9tRo-TI/
(edited)
I was dreaming in my dreaming
Of an aspect bright and fair
And my sleeping it was broken
But my dream it lingered near
In the form of shining valleys
Where the pure air recognized
And my senses newly opened
But I awakened to the cry
That the people have the power
To redeem the work of fools
From the meek the graces shower
It’s decreed the people rule
People have the power
People have the power
People have the power
People have the power
Vengeful aspects became suspect
And bending low as if to hear
And the armies ceased advancing
Because the people had their ear
And the shepherds and the soldiers
Well they lay beneath the stars
Exchanging visions
Laying arms
To waste in the dust
In the form of shining valleys
Where the pure air recognized
And my senses newly opened
I awakened to the cry
People have the power
People have the power
People have the power
People have the power
Where there were deserts
I saw fountains
Like cream the waters rise
And we strolled there together
With none to laugh or criticize
And the leopard
And the lamb
Lay together truly bound
I was hoping in my hoping
To recall what I had found
I was dreaming in my dreaming
God knows a purer view
As I lay down to my sleeping
I commit my dream to you
People have the power
People have the power
People have the power
People have the power
The power to dream to rule
To wrestle the Earth from fools
It’s decreed the people rule
It’s decreed the people rule
Listen
I believe everything we dream
Can come to pass thru our union
We can turn the world around
We can turn the Earth’s revolution
We have the power
People have the power
People have the power
People have the power
The power to dream to rule
To wrestle the Earth from fools
Well It’s decreed that people rule
It’s decreed that people rule
We have the power
We have the power
The people have the power
We have the power
People Have The Power
Dream Of Life
Patti Smith
Every time someone post a serious blog, we can depend on Kiki, Jung, or whatever name they choose, to come out with long shiite posts – that are clearly designed to distract….
What Bushie has been unable to work out, is the blogmaster’s complicity…..
@ David
Unless the blogger is prepared to post coherent stuff…
Can you ACTIVELY assist Kiki to keep his PROMISE to leave the damn blog…?
Excellent Post.
The kind of analysis that SHOULD be expected under Cave Hill cover as a starting point for meaningful research….
@Bush Tea
Is it too much for commmenters to exercise discretion? If the blogmaster takes a heavy approach you know the first accusation to be posted?
All these years and some commenters who claim to be regulars just don’t get it. The idea is that commenters should contribute to relevant discussion, so that others maybe enlightened on the subject matter. However, every day some commenter’s life ambition it seems is to repeat positions with an intransigence that explains why people here there and everywhere are becoming polarized. There is a saying you can’t teach an old dog new tricks.
First up @David, you are an excellent provocateur 😎🤣so indeed ideally suited to this role of boundaries shattering social media editor! .. pray tell WHY oh WHY was it necessary for you to state “The author’s name withheld at the discretion of the Blogmaster” … unless of course you wanted people like me to catch that nugget and IMMEDIATELY suspect that the Griot among us (and stylistically it shifts his way) is said author🤣😂! … Anyhow, that’s NOT important but just amusingly interesting.
And to you @GriotBushman, as the Pacha said ..leave 5Dub alone do. The brother (definitely opines like a male) clearly infects blogs with his musical rhythms as a way to lend that artistic expression to the subject at hand … I don’t find it distraction in the least … not like others who rant repeatedly on every blog on same theme. At least his musical beats change markedly … not so !😎 Just saying.
But @The Blogmaster back to the meat of the blog… I was struck by 2 remarks: the April 1 deadline to get a new Bajan ID and the more confounding “The very next day, the country learnt that the government had passed the Barbados Identification Act two years earlier in 2021 to restrict freedoms and the ability to vote by citizens.”
I have only followed these events via this blog so I am truly confounded that such a situation could actually exist with #2 despite all the ‘unofficial” voices there … I don’t remember a spirited discourse here along those lines either… (but I may have missed it) .
Regardless, this blog has given me reason to step back and do a deeper dive into matters on the rock… so thanks again for your excellent provocations!
And oh @BushG, you doth pronounce much above … or as some wag once said in a very telling context you “doth protest too much”😂…
On that literary front, this morn I caught two highly amusing use of English “insults” which simply adds some levity here but may yet be applicable in some way too:
“He is simple a shiver looking for a spine to run up” and…
“Some cause happiness WHEREVER they go; others WHENEVER they go”.
So be happy, I gone. Peace.
@Dee Word
All commenters are allowed to comment, the challenge comes sometimes when some commenters ignore blog etiquette (or whatever you prefer to call it) by going on rants to satisfy selfish interest.
@Dee Word
To your substantive point- the fact we have a one Party dominated parliament, a people lacking in civic awareness/responsibility and a moribund media combine to explain why government was able to complete all the readings to pass the Bill in short time. We have to continue to examine the underlying governance issues. This is important at a time when the new Constitution and parliamentary system is under review.
We will have ourselves to blame if we pursue the trivia and minutiae of the issues.
@ David
Can you PLEASE confirm to the dribbly contributor that Bush Tea DID NOT author the article that is the moot…
Thank you!
Although he is usually wrong, (as all bloggers know,) some may be tempted to think that he guessed correctly here…
@Bush Tea
Confirmed.
“Some will now realize that the true enemy is the system and not a rival gang member. Reality will set in, and more than likely they will have a need to redefine their boundaries and truths.
Perhaps this is what we really need to change Barbados, not talkers but doers; people who are accustomed to standing up and can therefore stand up for the rest of the population. ”
Those are the ones to actually make the changes, the wilfully oppressed, exploited, marginalized and terrorized..they have the knowledge and INTELLIGENCE..
…governments, as placeholders for slavemasters are useless, always have been, always will be with their fake elitism, as nuisance copycat wonders….and their pedigree dog food shitehound status.
Pacha…it’s heartening to see it is finally acknowledged who the real enemies destroying Afrikan lives are
…vote for them, you vote for more of the same…cyclically without end..
None of the social and fiscal destruction visited on Afrikans in the last 100 years could have happened without any and all of those bottomfeeding Quislings.
Interesting, how the writer, whose monitor we need not know, has creatively, but in some ways inartfully, or with imprecision in others, tried to connect a range of social forces, circumstances, occurences.
Obviously, a thinker. One who escaped the widget production culture.
But there are some questions. Which god is being referred to? Whose god? Now that gang violence by death has declined, how is the economy of gangs working without this extreme measure of enforcement? How can it be certain that “their law” or lawfare is best located in such hands? Can transformation in Barbados be possibly and exclusively internally bound?
And on and on?
We thanks the writer for the courage to exit the well trodden path.
@ Pacha
You KNOW full well which God the writer is referring to…
The Big Boss who CREATED every shiite that is…
The one who set the RULES, and who established the platform for little mock brass bowls to EITHER choose wisely, or to act naturally like brass bowls… with brassbowlery… 🙂
THAT God!!
Here go as usual.
Allow the blogmaster to restate. The blog will by supervised as the blogmaster see fit.
Hopefully some of you can find the sense to return to the substantive matter.
It is worth repeating Attorney General Dale Marshall has refuted the matter raised in the submission regarding draconian changes to the computer misuse laws.
“The very next day, the country learnt that the government had passed the Barbados Identification Act two years earlier in 2021 to restrict freedoms and the ability to vote by citizens. In essence, it appears as though the wandering laws had been replaced by a plantation pass (Trident ID card) proving that plantation slavery is alive and well in Barbados.”
The government must take lion share of the blame for passing this law in the dark of the night, however, what does it say about the level of awareness by key stakeholders in civil society? Key stakeholders with a mandate to deliver checks and balances.
“The kind of analysis that SHOULD be expected under Cave Hill cover as a starting point for meaningful research….”
I have a real problem with the fear factor that grown people in Barbados love to display when it comes to taking down questionable governments, but they are always ready to fight down and attack each other…or the general public…
Case in point….old hard back lawyers being fearful when they know what is happening is wrong at all levels, legal and otherwise…when you pin one down and ask why are yall stilling on ya backsides and allowing the to happen……the cowardly excuse…”people say bajans docile”…i wanted to know how the hell that became an acceptable answer to my questions…same ones would sue you at the drop of a hat for speaking the truth about them, but pretending fear against political beasts whose skeketons are all lined up outside each of their closets…by the hundreds..
Make that make sense..
Steupsss
If only David would lend Bushie ‘Administrator status’ for an hour, your donkey would be banished into the outer realms of Hades for evermore.
@ David
Rather than focus on single issues as we tend to do, the article refreshingly seeks to bring a number of related issues under a common microscope to arrive at a sensible analysis of our plight.
Note the clear suggestion that the REAL leadership POWER in brassbados does NOT reside in the so-called ‘authorities’ but on the blocks, with the gangs, the ZR community and with our so-called young ‘deviants’, all of whom are clearly above the control of the jokers who find themselves in decision making positions.
The cause of this inversion has been obvious to Bushie for DECADES now….
…a STUPID education system that promotes obedience, feminism and compliance RATHER that merit, competence and RESULTS.
Our system, of course, is being modeled (and guided), on the degenerative albino-centric philosophies that have been warped by their own CENTURIES of wickedness and genocide…particularly AGAINST Blacks.
At this stage, the only really logical ‘solution’ seems to be the one regularly postulated by Pacha – something about a mushroom…..
@Bush Tea
Is it the power factor on the blocks or the fear by good men to do nothing.
Pacha, Bushman…ya know I stay away from politics, but apparently the republicans won some kinda free speech initiative in the last 24hrs.
…no wonder the pretenders in Barbados jumped out talking about…”mischief, there is no computer misuse act violating free speech being implemented, never happened”.
..ah take it sumbody stuck a pin in all of them….deflated…lol..so the narrative made a shift…should have waited for outcomes before jumping the gun..they were so sure…but fell flat on their faces again.
Bushie
Leave Kiki alone!!!
You middle-aged Bajan men are tooo want to enforce your own irrational, unsophisticated, “standards” on every brassbowl body. That’s way this country is fucked-up.
Why can’t Kiki be himself or herself without bowing to your irrational backwardness?
Certainly, none of us is worthy of immulation, being any rasssoul benchmark!
How is it, on the one hand, possible to comend the above departure. But on the other, attack Kiki for being exactly that exception to the ruling orthrodoxy?
LOL
Bushie was ’middle aged’ over 40 years ago…
…and Kiki DESERVE some licks… he just lucky that the whacker get tek way – or you woulda see REAL trouble…
There is a difference between being ‘different’ and being distracting, obstructionist and abortive….
Bushie has been around long enough to KNOW how the modern operatives of the establishment go about their business.
The days of the obvious political operatives are long gone – destroyed by GP, John Observing and others of your (and Bushie’s) ilk…
Nowadays, they are much more sophisticated…
Posting long irrational shiite when potentially politically damaging blogs are put up….
This tends to influence the average blogger to scroll along and eventually, to move on, EVEN FROM BU, – RATHER than to read and even ENGAGE in the discussion.
(Bushie is a piece-a psychologist to… LOL)
You think that Mia hired Jung and company to put up the lotta shiite on GIS…?
…NOT when BU here doing so much ‘EDUCATING’…?
Someone ought to send a written memo to the Barbados government stating:
you are NOT world powers, never will be, ya dont have the intelligence level or mental capacity and should stop embarrassing yaselves…stick to what ya good at within ya orbit of limitations…that are becoming more and more noticeable.
After March 31st, It is likely that de most people without de new ID card, will be young people.
De social media restrictions act will affect mostly young people.
De voters most capable of upsetting de government’s apple cart are young voters.
De people most likely to be swayed by government freeness…
Call me paranoid, but I am yet to be convinced that government agents had nothing to do with the so called truce.
“The very next day, the country learnt that the government had passed the Barbados Identification Act two years earlier in 2021 to restrict freedoms and the ability to vote by citizens. In essence, it appears as though the wandering laws had been replaced by a plantation pass (Trident ID card) proving that plantation slavery is alive and well in Barbados.”
Some statements do surprise me. Did i misunderstand the above? Is it factual? Can laws be passed without the people knowing? Are there no reporters? Don’t laws have to be read first, debated and then passed?
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BT(BarbadosToday) has quite a number of articles that feature Dale Marshall or Wilfred Abrahams. Perhaps a super second is being created.
Wrong Number
The 80 year old GOAT of BU is 200% wrong when he claims I am an agent of the MIA/BLP/Government who is the G.O.A.T. (Greatest Of All Time)
(I am an Agent of God)
(Do I really need to spell out the M – E – S – S – A – G – E for the stupid out there)
This tune is dedicated to the wandering girls of GIS
Free up the Prisoners
I’m trampin’, trampin’ Try’n-a make heaven my home
I’m trampin trampin Try’n-a make heaven my home…
I’ve never been to heaven But I’ve been told
Try’n-a make heaven my home That the streets up there
Are paved with gold Try’n-a make heaven my home
I’m trampin trampin Try’n-a make heaven my home
I’m trampin trampin Try’n-a make heaven my home…
“Can laws be passed without the people knowing? Are there no reporters? Don’t laws have to be read first, debated and then passed?”
Theo…ya been around the blog long enuff to see these things posted repeatedly..
governments, as placeholders for slavemasters are useless, always have been, always will be with their fake elitism, as nuisance copycat wonders….and their pedigree dog food shitehound status.
Case in point….old hard back lawyers being fearful when they know what is happening is wrong at all levels, legal and otherwise…when you pin one down and ask why are yall sitting on ya backsides and allowing these constitutional and human rights violations to happen as upward of 1200 LAWYERS in the bar….…the cowardly excuse…”people say bajans docile”…i wanted to know how the hell that became an acceptable answer to my questions.
They all, at least 95% of them, have credibility issues…lack of any morals, ethics, integrity and a massive appetite for corruption…to the detriment of the people and island.
…heard one being roasted on a UK radioshow only yesterday for the elevated lack of morals they display…the whole diaspora heard it…their fool sheep must be proud, other people were appalled….i felt #vindicated.
Did anyone see the unelected Indian shadow sharing the same room with the Prime Minister of Barbados and France in today’s BT?
How is it possible for this Indian to sit in the heart of government. I repeat the man has never been elected by the general public.
The Black Boy is spreading his Indian Hatridge like a Bitch again
Perhaps it is the Demons in Democracy stirring up mischief
The fact that UK Government wants to override Human Rights and International Law is clear proof they are breaking the law with this crooked new policy.
No one voted for Sunak, and “Taxi for Sunak” should be the call.
It’s time to clear out Tory Trash and call for an election..
Bushie 0745
No! Such variables need a proper definition. This understanding can radically change this writers perception.
Is it the fiction given YOU by the White people?
Is it the one followed by Paulinians like you?
Is it the one from a book from which not a single thing can be incontrovertibly proven by somebody who’s not a sheeple?
Is it the same one said to have guided the Europeans to make a slave of you?
Is it the one whose wicked agents, for 3500 years, have put us here, to the destruction of the Mother?
And if your answers are in the affirmative, what sense would that make? What sense is the writer of the article making? Is he or she appealing to Satan about the Devil?
LOL @ Pacha
All those ‘gods’ (and many more) are figments of your and others’ (who overanalyze FUNDAMENTAL concepts to their own confusion) imagination.
God is SIMPLY that entity / entities who INITIATED life on Earth, …and who set the rules that apply. (including the ‘rules’ that allow your imagination to work so creatively.
That is …The CREATOR!!!
Do you REALLY think that Bushie give two bowel-movements how albinos chose, or choose to imagine God? …or how academia does…?…or even how Pacha allows trivia to distract from spiritual REALITY?
no way Jose…
Admittedly, Bushie having been ‘adopted’ is a huge advantage, but even without that, the Bushman has been in Town too long to be distracted with what brass bowls did, or said, or practiced….
Bushie deals with the source…. 🙂
William…keep your ears to the ground. Word going around is that the situation at the hospital is now completely out of control, disturbing, deadly and escalating rates of cancer diagnoses that the hospital is allegedly unable to treat, so people are sent home to cope.
No one can ask how they got here….you know WHO put you there and despite many WARNINGS voted for the same narcissistic, lack of morals, lack of ethics behavior again. Now those who could least afford it are paying dearly with their health and lives.
Bushman…oh for the days when it was just Angela Cox giving the government hell in her own way……
.now this going down is a whole nother animal…and no Angela around.
I find US gun stories funny
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/13/three-year-old-girl-accidentally-shoots-sister-dead-texas
No Bushie.
It’s impossible to purport to deal with any source of spirituality unless you know your own history. Particularly for a Black or titularly Black man, like we presume you are.
This game of dodge ball which you resort to always should be reserved for others. The Bible is and has been your misguided source of socalled spirituality. In truth and in fact yours is anything but. It’s the same Paulinian nonsense well known.
If we had to interrogate you on the fundaments of spirituality you would not have a clue. More precisely, you Bushie, have right here, rejected Obeah. Like Afrikans have been taught to do by Christianity. It’s a rejection of self. For Obeah is the original scientific expression of spirituality in our world. For the Ancients, spirituality was indeed a science, like any other. It was never based of the fiction, or magical thinking, so vividly imagined by you.
If we were to tell you that the Ancients saw everything as Ntr. From dung beetles to buildings. But Afrikan cosmogony does not reside within your mind. So stop playing games which have no basis in reality, or spirituality.
So your game of dodge ball is indeed not spirituality at all, but religion. And you only know one religion, the god given you.
Please have the last word.
@ Bush Tea and Theo,
Dub 555, may spout nonsense. However, BU should always remain an open platform to all and sundry even to the dullards.
On a serious note, take a look at an article in today’s BT. Please bear in mind that Barbados has now become a glorious republic. Please reference the link below on todays BBC which describes in detail some of the torture methods use by the Uk’s “Old bill” to subjugate Black Britons.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-64943305
How can a, newly formed, republic reach out to three notorious racist countries to train their Barbados Police Force. How low can Barbados stoop?
“Overseas experts coming to train local police
Expert trainers from overseas will be in Barbados this year to provide round-the-clock training for members of the Barbados Police Force, Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs Dale Marshall has disclosed.
Admitting that there is a training deficit within the police service, he announced that the government is taking steps to correct that.
Marshall, speaking from the well of Parliament on Friday as the Estimates debate continued, said that while 11 officers had benefited from the immersion programme with the Durham Constabulary in the United Kingdom over the past two years, more needed to be done.
“Sending six police every year out of a total police population of just around 1 200, it’ll take us forever. So, one of the initiatives that we’re taking in the coming financial year is bringing in expert trainers from Canada, from the US and from England, so that our officers don’t have to leave Barbados but our officers can receive training non-stop, around the clock, and we can do larger numbers,” he said.
“We need to have the finest police force in the region but we can only do so if all of our people are trained.”
Marshall made the disclosure as he pointed out that vast majority of the $197 million budgeted for the Attorney General’s Office for the 2023-2024 financial year, will go to the Barbados Police Service.
He noted the overall amount set aside for his department is $44 million more than the figure approved for 2022-2023 and said this was due in large part to the introduction of the crime prevention branch and a bump in resources for the police.
“That is a government that is staying true to the central tenets that law and order would be able to have the first stake in our national resources. Part of that significant increase is due to the creation of a special new arm of the ministry which relates to crime prevention, and that particular sector will receive $12.5 million…,” Marshall said.
“In the Office of the Attorney General’s budget, the Barbados Police Service lays claim to the single largest amount of that $197 million – the police service will be claiming $131 million. I want to make the point that this represents a significant increase over what was budgeted in the current financial year.
In the current financial year (2022-2023), the police service is receiving $114 million.
In the coming financial year, the police service will be receiving $131 million. Again, demonstrating our tangible commitment to law and order,” the Attorney General added.
Marshall stressed that the Government will be employing a two-pronged approach to maintaining stability – “law enforcement on the one hand and crime prevention on the other”.
“It stands to reason that if you reduce the incidence of people getting into crime, if you prevent our young men and women from going down that difficult road, then it will certainly make things easier on the arm of the Barbados Police Service,” he said.
Marshall said while more technological resources will be given to the police, emphasis will also be placed on making its processes more efficient.
“In that regard, I’m able to say that the Office of the Attorney General has engaged the services of a now retired deputy commissioner, Mr Oral Williams, to come back to analyse all of the procedures in the police service. There are some very archaic processes, a lot of steps that perhaps are not necessary, and we are trying to get that analysis done,” the AG said.
(JB) (B.T.)”
“How can a, newly formed, republic reach out to three notorious racist countries to train their Barbados Police Force. How low can Barbados stoop?”
That’s all they know, and dont have what it takes to do any better…cant fix shit on the island, can get nothing outside of their conniving wickedness right, but running around pretending to be world power.
“Dub 555, may spout nonsense. However, BU should always remain an open platform to all and sundry even to the dullards.”
The man called Hal (known for racist anecdotes like yours) received a temporary ban in 2020 and never returned. He questioned BU comment policy and deletions with a passion that could not be rationed.
Is it a ‘Bajan trait’ to talk sweet when really stirring shit up using their mind to cut like a knife, in the same way the racist brits do?
It was noted You and the (zer)o were all over Bush’s petty digs like flies on shit.
@Yolande Grant – African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved.
It’s hard to believe we have become a black republic.
TLSN…without a republic or any type of constitution….everything is null and void….just as John said..
The nonsense is still ongoing in UK, same MO from the 80s, rejigged.
Pacha…i see the vatican and Nicaragua got their own war kick started…they are going at it.
Then there is this:
“Will The Collapse Of Some US Banks Spur A Great Depression Worldwide?
Asian financial markets have tumbled amid concerns of a global domino effect as yet another US bank has collapsed. To discuss the latest developments, RT talks to economist Dr. Tope Fasua.”
and hilariously Dr. Faulsi is claiming that a “lab leak can also be termed a natural occurence.” Everybody making it up as they go along… just dont allow them to make up anything for you. I have gotten incredibly skittish in the last month…and dont want to see another politician.
In USA Po Po stop drivers just to run their ID / details through the system
Their goal was capture all blacks in the system at a young age
If you are black and do not have a record then you must be a liar
Even doves have pride
How can you just leave me standing?
Alone in a world so cold?
Maybe I’m just too demanding
Maybe I’m just like my father too bold
Maybe I’m just like my mother
She’s never satisfied
Why must we scream at each other
This is what it sounds like
When doves cry
The Indian chap is meant to be a
“Special Envoy to the Prime Minister of Barbados on Investment and Financial Services,” LOL!!!!!
https://www.cijn.org/barbados-four-seasons-still-stalled-after-seventy-seasons/
@TLSN
Why must you be so bigoted? Where was Persaud raised? Where did he attached high school? Sone if your act out the same behaviour you criticize in others.
Both these political parties have sought comfort in having people like Peter Morgan and Persaud in their ranks.
This blog has even promoted people of a similar hew being encouraged to led Black Bajans but no Bajans can lead their people in places from whence they came originally.
These people are seen by the hoard of sheeple, yard fowls and wannabes, pun intended, as super citizens, entirely based on the presumption that they are somehow better than the rest.
This is an historical, sociological, truism. Attempts at equalization are irrational.
So to pretend that Persaud is not taken more seriously or valued more by the rabble than the rest is an engagement with self delusion.
We see no such value in Persaud. A man people in the party know well who faked being a professor and still continues to stride the corridors of power in Barbados.
We fail to see any higher than average value which Persaud has brought to the table. His claim to fame is that he’s Mia Mottley’s friend. A man who committed this government, and the last one, to large losses in that hotel project, as proposed. And Mia Mottley quarterbacked these actions in and out of government.
This is the kind of super citizen with an ability to shake his head to make his hair fall into place to express a racist demand for respectability.
Persaud represents the very culture of Bajan racism. But we like it like that. The same way we surrender the corporates to red people and Indians, maybe the political will go similarly. What a bunch of cuuuuunts!
Waru
Not surprised at the Asians markets tumbling. It has long been a leading indicator.
We see sets of forces.
One, a growing lack of confidence in the banking system, across the board. Remember bail-ins, sanctions and outright theft of deposits by the American government.
Two, the geopolitical, the war in Ukraine, the rising correlation of forces to dethrone the greenback
Three, the debts of commercial banks which are huge.
Four, cultural decay across all environments within the USA. They know empire is dying.
Five, printing of money, Covid, inflation. A level of recklessness unimaginable a few decades ago.
The biggest scam in the West is the War Industry.
Wars Spending (called Defence) support their economies.
Billions of tax payers funds are funneled into Military Industrial Complex. Shareholders are laughing all the way to the bank.
Wars are accompanied by recessions and cuts in public services and increases in Defence budgets.
We are supposed to believe the scum i.e. White people’s bullshit propaganda.
@ Pacha
Why do you sound so surprised ..when this is exactly the eventuality that we have discussed here for eons – back when this country could have taken action to minimize the fallout?
The dollar has become a colossal JOKE… something that Uncle Sam has been printing like the waters of Niagara …with ZERO backing…
This coming crash was always more inevitable than 2024 is in coming… and with Biden accelerating the process by threatening Putin and picking on China, one wonders if the USA is REALLY so stupid, ….or if they are seeing a war as a way out of the economic catastrophe…. like the little hurricane, Covid, and the ash fall gave Mia something to blame for their abject failure last year.
Either way, the REAL debate now is what comes after the chaos – or ‘the Tribulations’, as the period has been described in other places (which Bushie will not mention – out of respect for your blood pressure Pacha…)
LOL. ha ha
Those jokers who spent their whole life striving, conniving, stealing, killing,
sacrificing, and working to accumulate so-called ‘wealth’ will have SERIOUS heart stress when they wake up some morning SOON and find that they are just as ‘rich’ as Ninja man, only less able to survive from being completely unprepared for what is coming…
“it ah go dread ina Babylon”.
No wonder we have been able to ‘borrow’ so easily… Monopoly money !
Currencies have fallen compared to US Dollar over the last year
I see properties where in local currency the value has halved, but sellers are saying they want it’s USD equivalent of one year ago
“These people are seen by the hoard of sheeple, yard fowls and wannabes, pun intended, as super citizens, entirely based on the presumption that they are somehow better than the rest.”
A bunch of wannabe shitehounds extraordinnare, pretenders.
“The same way we surrender the corporates to red people and Indians, maybe the political will go similarly. What a bunch of cuuuuunts!”
What’s there now int worth shit, they may as well surrender to anyone, can’t get much worse, the dudes on the blocks with their kee. Sense of business acumen and no pretense whatsover am convinced could do a much better job of keeping the island afloat in just a few years than ya current pretenders….who are sinking the island at warp speed.
*the oppressed dudes on the blocks with their keen sense of business acumen and no pretense whatsover am convinced could do a much better job of keeping the island afloat.
Pacha …despite too many warnings they continued batting and bowling with advertised pride over the corruption, racism, promoting racists who would starve their people and treat them like second class citizens while in the middle of a crisis. They are always so happy to see the criminals they vote for perpetrating and engineering billion dollar thefts against their own, and the diminution of the people. ..
wonder wuh dem gine do since the conniving beast they worship is now exposed everywhere for the hateful covetous creature it is…
Do you remember their disrespectful rudeness to us when we warned them…they prompty jumped in their big rides and drove directy to the wrong side of history where they will never escape….ever….all their own doing, can’t blame a fella.
Looks like Bushman done got his life boat packed and ready.
In Third World countries Ex Pats and Foreigners and their small communities are synonymous with wealth and a desirable place to live.
.. but, when cost of living rises exponentially they sell up leave.
Bushie
Yuh know uh like yuh bad as shiiite. But dah don’t mean uh kant cuss yuh when yuh talking brassbowl, coooogh blemah.
There is an article in the epaper of BT. “Sir Roy urges community not to back down in Joe’s River battle as new committee is set up”.
One of the points in the article is that building of the structure to block access had been stopped by the court but the structure was not demolished.
Follow this and note this is the same game as victims winning their case against crooked lawyers but not getting back a penny from what was stolen.
TheO’s prediction:
The structure will be completed and the passage blocked. The judge will then rule that it is too late to have the structure destroyed; other ways of access must be found.
Corrupt judgements: Sweet words to put you to sleep and to make an ass out of you.
The order halted construction. There is another case scheduled to hear the matter of access.
@TLSN
(Good catch)
It is unfortunate that we must turn to the most racist of countries for police training. Quite recently we had a US official advocating the use of lie detectors (for port access?) A position that she could not take for citizens of the US but which she would be glad to see apply to all Barbadians. Hopefully, our police are smart enough to ask “Can you do this in your country?
Hopefully these training courses have been improved upon and made relevant to an independent Barbados (and is no longer geared towards maintaining colonial rule).
Before being critical of the decision the question to ask should have been what does the training entail.
Lots of work for construction workers.
” The construction is to be led by C.O Williams Construction, and include Preconco Ltd, Versatile Construction Inc.
The project is being executed by the Barbados Tourism Investment Inc (BTI) on behalf of the Ministry of Health and Wellness.”
https://www.nationnews.com/2023/03/14/building-start-new-geriatric-hospital/
In the sea of information Barbados is not an island. One only has to look at the headlines of various Caribbean nations and noticed that they are all caught in the tide of digitization.
Two things causes this
(1) Modernization and the increasing use of technoly
(2) What monkey see, monkey do. This is the reason why every island is a tourist trap. Bereft of ideas, they look at what is happening next door and then rush and do exactly the same.
Is this a bad thing? No.
The fight for survival is a very strong instinct and will be followed. What is wrong, is when a collection of cronies/incompetents/ measure once and cut three times are hired to do the job. Working within their level of expertise we get half-baked (which may be better than Raw Baked 😊) and flawed products.
Competent Bajans are ignored and then the nation sits with its butt tightly clenched, finger crossed and hoping a flawed product is not the “death’ of us all.
We cannot avoid the use of technology in today’s word. The challenge has it always has been through the ages from horse and buggy is adopting relevant technologies.
“The project is being executed by the Barbados Tourism Investment Inc (BTI) on behalf of the Ministry of Health and Wellness.”
BTII? Are they now construction experts?
“The order halted construction. There is another case scheduled to hear the matter of access.”
You are well suited for driving this bus. The wheels are off and there you are turning the steering wheel.
You believe what you want. The blogmaster’s job is to be fair in all matters. What was stated is fact: the first case was to halt construction, the next case is to hear the substantive matter of public access.
Contrary to what some of you like to portray in social media, Barbados remains a decent place to live compared to many others.
I get your point about Barbados remains a decent place to live but comparing to others is problematic.
Negative benchmarking puts you on the fast road to mediocrity and further down the road, chaos, and this is what many of us see.
For years our tourism product was negative benchmarked against St. Lucia, and what happened, last year their Carnival overshadowed Crop-over and now the hoteliers fear St. Lucia owns summer.
We negative benchmark by saying we are the least corrupt in the Caribbean. That is like at schools now where they are giving out trophies for 6th, 7th and 8th.
Negative benchmarking serves no purpose other than keeping the masses satisfied, docile and compliant.
The point of the blogmaster is that we have to sustain and improve. Not mash up and destroy. We are in danger if we allow a negative narrative to control will not create the confidence in ourselves we need to improve. There is a saying every think is part of a cyclical process. Barbados has grown a large middle income people which has brought its share of problems. We have to fight through this.
Improvement is not achieved through confidence and controlling narratives, that is the recipe for creating delusion. Before improvement, must come accountability. Before accountability we must agree on standards, morals and ethics.
Accountability will come in a perfect scenario or at minimum a nucleus of players in civil society with sufficient influence to ensure the accountability you seek. What we have is a society where the influence has been hijacked by a group, the political directorate.
I withdrew from a next group recently. I felt my comments were too negative and censored myself with that group.
But naysayers and Negative Nellies are sorely needed here. As one looks at the local news and see the new and glorious initiatives that are being promised it becomes necessary task oneself … Have I seen this before?
As one sees the praises that are delivered by the PR machine, one must ask oneself … Is PR spin the same as performance?
As one look at our leader sitting next to Macron et al one must ask oneself…
Given the lack of transparency, are we punvching above our weigh or is this a cap in hand (begging situation)
Negative Nellies are needed to inform us and to help us avoid the alternative universe that is being created by others.
Shooting victim dies at QEH
https://www.nationnews.com/2023/03/14/shooting-victim-dies-qeh-20230314-1155-069771/