The blogmaster couldn’t avoid the noise generated in the local newsfeed covering the return of former member of parliament Donville Inniss. Inniss was incarcerated in the United States for breaking money laundering laws and suffered the embarrassment of being deported last weekend.
Inniss served his time and is free to continue with his endeavours in idyllic Barbados, UNLESS, local authorities intend to prosecute a matter that originated in Barbados. There is a good chance local authorities will allow the Inniss matter to die in the spirit of a few protecting the many which is the mantra of the political directorate.
The blogmaster will not judge the Don except to say many are not as convinced of his innocence as he is.. It would be in the interest of local authorities to give Donville his day in a local court so that he can expose the lies of the ‘pale face people and house niggas’ he referred to in his home coming media orchestrating.
Barbadians should keep in memory that another local, Alex Tasker has an extradition matter pending – if successful – has the potential to shed additional light on the matter as it relates to how local actors assisted in the crime Inniss was convicted in the USA. The fight against extradition by Alex Tasker a former local employee of ICBL and Ingrid Innes former CEO domiciled in Canada have the potential to keep Inniss in the unfavourable glare of the public for some time.
Commonsense suggests the political ambition of Donville Inniss has been extinguished. However, the blogmaster joins with concerned Barbadians to fuss against the inability of the political establishment to materially commit to rooting white collar corruption. Do not bother to refer to Barbados’s standing on the Transparency Index, a measure based on a perception shaped by players who are mainly responsible for the current state of affair.
On a related note the blogmaster read about the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) meeting advertised, a joint zonal meeting today (26 March 2023) with former candidates Michael Lashley, David Estwick and Neil Marshall promoted to speak. Sometimes so much more can be conveyed by simply making and observation without commenting.
In God we trust!
Donville is allegedly a rehabilitated criminal who served his time
but prison is said to be a University for Crime
with many specialists who have many contacts on the darkside
Criminal and member of the crime family. A family which is not limited to the 30 in but the broader mafioso.
A crook, bribe taker and let-down for decent black people….
CONVICTED!!
We need black leaders who are prepared to be convicted for STANDING UP FOR right – not for doing albino-centric shiite.
@ David,
What happened to the March 8th 2023 etradition hearing ?
@Hants
What do you expect, rescheduled.
This was forwarded to me this morning.
Caswell Franklyn posted this on fb:
To Donville Inniss and his supporters truth and facts seem to be irrelevant. Okay, let’s ask: Did Donville receive money from the Insurance Corporation of Barbados Limited? And if so, on what basis did he receive those funds? Was he an employee or agent of that company? And if he were not so employed, again the question is, on what basis did he receive those funds? Were those funds a gift? If the answer is in the affirmative then why would a Minister of the Crown be receiving undeclared funds from a company in Barbados?. If those funds were legitimately paid to Mr. Inniss, why would he engage in such elaborate means to have that money paid to a dental company in New York.The facts seem to be very clear, Donville Inniss was paid a bribe by person or persons at the Insurance Corporation of Barbados Limited, and that he caused that bribe money to be transported across the borders of another state. If you receive a bribe as a Minister of the Crown that is illegal. And if that money is transported to another country that is also illegal. So on what basis is Mr. Inniss declaring his innocence?This declaration of innocence on the part of Mr. Inniss could only come from a mind that believes its own facts, despite conclusive evidence to the contrary. Did Mr. Inniss somehow believe that because he was a government minister that he was above the law. Or, is it simply that he had an unreasonably high sense of his own importance, believing that no criminal activity could be attached to him no matter what he did.I would urge his supporters not to buy into Mr. Inniss’ narcissism and call a spade a spade. It would be a far better thing to do for him to acknowledge his crime and apologise to the people of this country rather than insist on his own truth. Man-up Donville, you were caught with your hand in the cookie jar and no amount of protesting your innocence will change that.Finally, whether or not people of this country want to acknowledge it, we owe the United States law enforcement agencies a debt of gratitude. We can no longer bury our heads in the sand and pretend that there is no political corruption in Barbados. Thanks Uncle Sam.Caswell Franklyn
A case of the King is wearing no clothes.
@David, the crucial matter here or to use your words … the crux of this affair is whether the US conviction disqualifies Inniss from being a MP or Bajan government official.
I have no precise awareness of the law on this but as the reference to the current Belize oppo leader clearly suggests there is no disqualification.
In sum, Inniss’ future as a politician will be determined of course by the electorate and if we use the relevant examples – Belize – and like the US with Santos it’s quite likely that he can continue to be a successful elected official.
Politicians have no shame and ambitious folks like him can ride this supposed ‘injustice’ all the way to the top!
@Dee Word
Apparently it does not. Peter Wickam posted article in today’s Nation with his advice to his friend Donville which includes the requirement for running.
It has been said that this type of thing is the norm
and is how things get done for Government contracts
how contract bids are made awarded and approved
it greases the wheels to make things proceed quickly
There was some chatter on Bu prime time before the trial and sentence
that Don would snitch like a bitch and say where all the bodies were buried as a plea deal confidential informant
keep moving there is nothing to see here
Always bullshit.
The Feds wanted a conviction. What was Donville gunna snitch on? A bunch of Bajans pols and business people without the hard evidence and paper trail tying them to laundering. His only value to them was a conviction.
https://youtu.be/-WRW5q899Ts
Dr. Yearwood leader of the DLP maybe forced to make some hard decisions if Donville were a successful making a smooth reentry to the local scene. The blogmaster is certain he remains opportunistic given the dearth of political talent floating around. We are in a dark place as far as leadership in all facets of our society.
David BU i agree with Mr Franklyn no amout of grandstanding from Mr Inniss will chang e the facts.I heard one of his supporters a dem telling Mr Wilkinson on friday, s brasstacks that the government should clean up the country for Mr Inniss return.I assumed she was joking as no one could be thsy stupid.The fanfare i heard on starcom from his supporters at the airport i thought the the Us President or some celebrity had artived not an ex Minister fpunf huilty in court of bribery.Starcom, standards has really fallenThe brasstacks progrsmme might as well be broadcast from George Street with the amount of politicsl rubbish i hear on there dsily from the same 10 or so callers aided and abetted by the moderators and the producers in my view.There is no balance whatsoever.It will be interesting to see if Mr Inniss becomes involve in politics again and where that leaves Dr Yearwood.My prediction is Dr Yearwood will find himself in no man, land.I gone.
@Lorenzo
What is the latest with Rodney Wilkinson?
@ David
I would be surprised if Canada deports Innes.
She just made a little mistake and deserves a break.
Have to defend those of a lighter shade of pale.
If Canada will not do it then it may be too much to expect the same for Tasker.
Pacha…local stays local no forward movement, improvement or progress…always 50 years behind.
Check out the financial crisis thread, multipolarity on the move.
Do you think those who love to prance around knows what’s happening in their likkle local world…or how it is likely to be shaken up.
Elliot Ness
https://www.nationnews.com/2023/03/26/rock-hard-looking-expand/
Is there not a picture of this man in handcuffs?
Or prison garbs?Or actually behind bars.
For surely that 36K cannot be the only money stolen, bribed, etc.
He might have even been somebody’s girlfriend in prison.
Donville will now proceed to show that a Bajan politician could be an ex convict and still impose himself on the country, watch it!
The leader of the opposition in Belize, Shynne Barrow, the former rapper, too is a convicted criminal as well.
Any man who always smiling so has to be a con man. Do people not realize that these people are laughing at those who they think they smarter than.
Well done boys!
Even as one of the major players in the cement market has announced cuts at its plant, another is looking to expand.
@Hants
Does Rock Hard manufacturer cement to compare with Arawak?
No, but it is owned by Bajans FOR A CHANGE, so the value of providing some opportunities for employment – rather than just what is in the FINANCIAL interest of FOREIGN strangers is a factor.
ANY SET of brass bowls who are happy to have their national assets managed by strangers, FULLY deserve to be screwed.
@ David
That is a Hard question for me to answer. lol
2 655 Welcome Stamp applications approved.
Hope PLT is getting credit for his idea.
Don should defer to the BLP. So did Big Sinck.
Only those who bow down before our Supreme Leader can hope for rehabilitation.
Tron
Herald of the New Order of the Republic
In defence of the Don
Somehow I understand the Don’s anger. As president, Trump has simply pocketed gifts from foreign heads of state for himself, the Russian political elite receives hundreds of billions in bribes, while the Don has to spend two years hopping around in an orange sack for a handful of dollars.
This seems somehow disproportionate to any neutral observer.
Tron
Always neutral and impartial
Hants on March 26, 2023 at 9:05 PM said:
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2 655 Welcome Stamp applications approved.
Hope PLT is getting credit for his idea.
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So, how long before we hit the 185K?
Hants on March 26, 2023 at 7:48 PM said:
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Even as one of the major players in the cement market has announced cuts at its plant, another is looking to expand.
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The Cement Plant was a bad idea in a country which is tiny and water scarce.
Only of any use if it can export a competitively priced product.
Construction in Barbados is a dead end.
“Always bullshit.
The Feds wanted a conviction. What was Donville gunna snitch on? A bunch of Bajans pols and business people without the hard evidence and paper trail tying them to laundering. His only value to them was a conviction.”
Small Fish are used to catch Bigger Fish and Fat Cats.
Any Intel on guns and drugs juggling or political corruption could have been traded. DLP crooks must be relieved he didn’t rat on them and owe him big time.
Don will have to retire in Barbados now and set up shop to make some bread as he probably lost his US citizenship and residency rights and would be restricted from traveling to Canada or UK due to his criminal record. Politics is the best hustle available or he could become a consultant in the fight against corruption implementing Integrity legislation as he has inside knowledge of hacking into the system of political deal making process.
“The Cement Plant was a bad idea in a country which is tiny and water scarce.”
Dont forget, that land was ALSO stolen from beneficiaries, right along with a sizeable and very impressive bank account…right along with setting up the beneficiary to be wrongfully extradited in the Hawkesworth affair that failed, but Hawkesworth is dead, right along with setting up a foreign agency to get trapped in that scam and now they too, the Feds…not the same as Fed from the Reserve, are being sued….
as is the MO of “respectable” THIEVES……covetousness again, put them in that situation. Am sure a lawsuit about that is somewhere on the horizon..
John..many of the same names, crooks extraordinnaire, on your Kingsland documents…also got their criminal fingerprints, signatures, and DNA all over that one as well.
They can’t escape…if it’s not one theft and the evil associated, it’s the other that will bring them to their knees…because the amount of thefts/crimes are COUNTLESS..
When ya digging graves for others, always dig TWO…
Stop it! Stop it!
I will not attempt to refute what is being said about Donville Inniss, but let’s face it… at $35,000 the man is no master thief. And to have it deposited in a US bank, the man is no brains either.
I find it amazing that with a system that has probably leaked more than a billion dollars, Barbadians are full focused on the man who attempted to Hijack a measly $35,000.
Th attempted Maloney Scam could was in the tens of million of dollars but we seem to have forgotten that item. What about the $500,000 for a useless slogan, we seem to have forgotten that. What about the port scammers, wher we don’t know if the price was in US or Barbados $currency? What about White Hoa?
How can we see the mote in this brother eye, but are unable to see the beams and gigantic oaks tree that are strewn across our financial landscape.
Damn you! Stop it. Our courts are tough on petty criminals and lenient to on the big fishes.. Is this a national trait.
Stop the fake outrage. Stop the crocodile tears! I know you have the memories.
Your comment is simplistic. Donville was a minister of the Cabinet of Barbados. It does not take much to accept why the integrity of public servants and policymakers occupying the highest office in the land should be subjected to the highest scrutiny. In this case is it the amount or the underlying behaviour being questioned. To repeat, we should give him his day in our local courts to clear his name.
Jesus!
Typo Monday.. But I know you get the message.
Simplistic it is?
Clear what name?
There is nothing that he can do to clear his name in the minds of the average Barbadian. The fact that he spent time in a US jail would trump any verdict that does not give him local time in jail. He will always be guilty.
What is even more simplistic is the pretense that we have a clean ‘house’ and only Donville is dirty. Here we are chasing what is in fact a ‘petty’ criminal. Let’s dig into that big ‘red bag’.
You may have the last word. This conversation is of nuisance value.
Actually @David, no it’s not. The chat is quite indicative of society as it always has been but now we are at a very elevated stage of ‘outrage’ … whether ‘faux’ or ‘réalité’, non!
Clearly the debate is – as you suggest – not about the amount but “the underlying behaviour”. Yet although any reasonable person who favors one side or other wilI understand the punishment they will also reflexively and naturally seek sanctions against the other side.
And oh re “we should give him his day in our local courts to clear his name” … come now, that’s quite risible as the Dean often said.
The blogger @Theo is right on that… how would that local ‘clear the air’ work, bro … you are being quite transparently cynical there and just hoping for some real bacchanal.🤣🥳
@Dee Word
You have continually shown an ability to read between tongue and cheek comments. Who will bell the cat. Do you understand now? Will we have to wait for a tipping point?
Theo…ICBL ADMITTED to bribing a sitting government official and PAID A FINE in the US…either 12K or 12 million, exact amount escapes me now, …comparative with a percentage of the profit the contract scam would have generated…it’s all documented but ya done know short memory syndrome can also get convenient…
Of course top management of ICBL were never charged in Barbados and the grapevine reported that barriers were put in place by the same pretenders to give them the time to leave the island without accountability…just as was the case with the German owner of the Kings Beach hotel in the 80s, he too had help escaping from paying his dues ..that’s what they do, it’s a pattern decades old..
“at $35,000 the man is no master thief. And to have it deposited in a US bank, the man is no brains either.”
He should have robbed at least $350,000 and set up a Bajan laundrette business.
Let the record show ICBL disgorged $93k. There is no need to embellish if the facts are available.
Steuspe
https://barbadosunderground.net/2018/08/27/icbl-receives-declination-with-disgorgement/comment-page-1/
“Theo…ICBL ADMITTED to bribing a sitting government official and PAID A FINE in the US…either 12K or 12 million, exact amount escapes me now, ”
What i said was very clear..i did not stutter, the amount escapes me….still does…
..the point i was trying to make, ICBL CONFESSED to bribing a sitting government official…it was not about the amount paid, that’s IRRELEVANT… but the FACT that they PAID A FINE FOR BRIBERY..
Steuspe
I vaguely recall Real Badd Geezer wrote an article in Barbados Today about Corruption and Money Laundering or some such. There is another new BT article stating he probably won’t reenter politics for a short while..
NUH MAN NUH BADDA DAN
NO MAN
Business don’t mind paying the Bribe Tax as Government contracts are a license to print money and invoices can easily be marked up to recoup the money that went into the minister’s and wifey’s pockets
@ David
The ‘slogan’ could be justifiably placed in a category similar to that of a lawyer charging CBL $766,855.24 as legal fees to give an opinion on a loan.
Or another lawyer receiving $1.5M to review the BWA Headquarters agreement.
And yet, another lawyer charged BIDC $706,450 for providing legal services relative to “the $32M sale of a BIDC at Lot A1 Newton Business Park, Christ Church to Gildan Activewear Properties (BVI) Inc. in 2010, while asking ‘government’ to pay the BRA on his behalf, $92,146 VAT incurred.
What about building a new $29M five-storey office building for the SSA at Vaucluse, St Thomas, which has remained empty since its completion in 2016?
I’m sure you’ll agree, especially under such circumstances, the “system (government????) has probably leaked more than a billion dollars,” which should be of grave concern to all Barbadian tax payers.
However, the only person scammed in the vaccine debacle, was Mark Maloney…… NOT the Treasury.
And, in all fairness to Donville, the guy did not steal any money. The fact remains that, as a Minister of the Crown, he was offered and accepted an inducement from a private entity, which was meant to entice or persuade him into taking a certain course of action.
Therein lies the difference.
@Artax
Succinctly and concisely put.
Ah cahn help wunna…i doan know what to say anymore…maybe spending less time trying to discredit me which has caused the blog to look questionable and got people asking more and more questions years now, about its authenticity, maybe the answer…
Friendly advice, it’s free and cant take a thing off me…or ya wont get it….whatever was plotted has FAILED…should not need anymore info than that to see the writing and the wall are about to fall and hit plotters in the head.
Is anybody watching what’s happening in the Zionist state.
A criminal, more profound that Donville, is holding the country ransom in order to stay out of prison. Only that no sitting politician in Barbados has ever been so threatened!
Like Barbados the ignorant Zionists recently elected him, like the Bajans elected a dictator twice.
So many internal contradictions!
First, the same Zionists who have for 80 years denied Palestinians any semblance of socalled democracy or human rights now have the unmitigated gall to suppose that Netanyahu intends to deny them the same by become an elected dictator like rasssoul Mia Mottley.
Then there are startling contradictions that stinking christians and bible-reading +unts would maintain that this Zionist colonial project has anything to do with the sacred as first conceived.
More widely, and as the very existence of Israel enters great doubts, and as the very people who set them up, sustain them, arm them, gave them nuclear weapons, are themselves on the brink of destruction, and as the neighbouring countries find a new unity, its merely a matter of time before these interlopers are reduced to being refugees from a land stolen, by a set of people unknown to history before the 6th century AD. 1400 years ago!
And we may continue ad infinitum!
With these clear “signs of the times” all around us no room is left for the woke-ists, the pragmatist-nationalists, those who seek to be conservators of an irrational sameness. We say off with their heads!
The whole damn place is a mess…i just want to impart on slow thinkers that whatever mission their political masters gave them to discredit me is no longer active, even though seeming too obsessed to stop…
……since am sure it may or not dawn on the covetous that discrediting me or whatever other EVIL life ending plans they conceive…..will bring them NO CLOSER to the front seat of Empire…still on the outside looking in and coveting…poor thing..
How could Inniss be guilty? A Bermudian firm owned ICBL. They hire a Guyanese with a Canadian passport to be CEO, who has no experience in either Barbados or general insurance.
The Bermudian firm then pays some US dental company from two different divisions of the company, and “doesn’t realize”? Then ‘suddenly’ they find out.
The then top dog, now a Bermudian senator, seeks clarification from ICBL but nobody is responding?Remember these people work FOR HIM. Nobody is fired. “Not responding” is somehow OK?
Next thing you know the Bermudian firm has contacted US authorities and fessed up to wrongdoing and paid significant fines. Even the blind can see this was to cover for greater issues elsewhere in their organization. The DOJ now has three fish, they will catch one when they travel there. And add a feather to their new’ish anti money laundering efforts.
Pacha…the local parasites need to GO DOWN IN FLAMES and SHAME as a shining example to the world…….they have become the low hanging fruit, efficiently maneuvered themselves into that unenviable and illustrious position…spent DECADES honing their criminal skills to do so… …easy to pick them off…
“these officers would be required to “do things like attend funerals, go to site meetings, go to house fires and things like that”. The cost is in excess of $800 000.”
https://www.nationnews.com/2023/03/27/santia-liaison-posts-needed/
SAR Suspicious Activity Reporting to NCIS
If you don’t confidentially report something suspect to NCIS you are also liable as an accomplice to the crime
@Hants
In Canada, that taxpayer expense, known as “patronage”, brought down a Government in the televised exchange “you had an option Sir”.
A question being asked on todays talk show and mentioned in the blog posted is- how was Inniss prosecuted in the US for a crime that had its ‘origin’ in Barbados?
Give Donville his day in a local court or have some kind of inquiry or statement on the matter. It is not enough for Inniss to be claiming his innocence after spending time in a foreign prison for a crime that was fueled from Barbados.
@David, LOL … re “A question being asked […] is- how was Inniss prosecuted in the US for a crime that had its ‘origin’ in Barbados?” … in Bajan, that’s being a ‘halfa idiut’ 😎
A crime can have it’s “origins” ANYWHERE … but can only be prosecuted in a local jurisdiction where the law has also been broken!
As others noted above, the Don’s MISTAKE was engaging the dentist friend up in the US … they did a very bad ‘cleaning’ and the cavity was exposed. The fact that the licorice sweet stuff were made in Bim obviously does NOT negate the reality that they were consumed and caused the problem in the US.
The Yankees prosecuted the ‘consumption’ so if Bajan officials want to investigate how that licorice was produced then that’s up to them but it’s bare puffery to suggest that Inniss deserves a hearing about that.
One had NOTHING (technically) to do with the other before the courts
For a nation that once boasted a 98% literacy clearly the 2% of idiuts does congregate on ‘Brasstacks’ and here too, den!🤣🤣
@Dee Word
The Don made a mistake? Why did he prefer using the Dental Clinic to route the funds?
Enough stated.
Two crimes were committed in Barbados. The first was a conspiracy to corrupt the tendering process of a government entity and the second the laundering of the ill-gotten gains.
The conspiracy required three players, a business person, a politician and a government employee. We can’t simply give Donville his day in court without the co-conspirators and that means charging a government employee. A BIDC official signed off on this contract (and others), why? Was he/she coerced, was there payment in kind. And if this BIDC official is brought before the courts, should they not look into all contracts this person was involved in.
You cannot look at this in a vacuum just to make an example of Donville
A mistake meaning that he got ‘caught’!
In the scheme of things it would have been considered a solid ‘big foot’ move to have a ‘credible’ invoicing done from a legit operation in US (it’s done eva day by traders who try to circumvent customs … but that too has been caught nowadays 😎) …
And therein is the ‘mistake’ … what appeared very solid also exposed the enterprise to US legal scrutiny and once the whistle was blown … de dog was dead!
@Dee Word
Is that how it occurred? Thought it was the former ICBL parent voluntarily giving Donville up to avoid compliance issues. Was Donville referring to the Bermuda people when he mentioned pale face?
Oh @David … you made me reread other of my remarks like “One had NOTHING (technically) to do with the other before the courts” … so to clarify!
Yes the matters were related as the original ‘fraud’ originated in Barbados which resulted in the ‘false invoicing’ in US. I am stating that the PROSECUTION in US only revolved around what laws were broken in US and had nothing to do with any prosecutions or laws in Barbados.
That should be obvious but as I read through my remarks and others subsequently I smiled and decided to preempt any further queries on my ‘lack of legal training’ 😎🤦!
And to the blogger @Redguard re “You cannot look at this in a vacuum just to make an example of Donville …” that’s the reason we all know they will NEVER be an indictment locally and why the Blogmaster’s appeal for Donville’s day in local court is bare sweet talk and bacchanal.🥳
By electoral fate or other this man could, in another five years or more, be a senior Barbados govt official and … the US will surely then give him free passage via any diplomatic passport he may hold as his crime there was truly not a serious one.
I am sure he is looking forward eagerly to that day to thumb his nose at the ‘pale faces and house [afros]’!
@Dee Word
To add to your screed, can you explain why ICBL officials were required to give evidence to the US courts in the Inniss case?
Ahh @David, more technicalities brother … re ‘Is that how it occurred? Thought it was the former ICBL parent voluntarily giving Donville up to avoid compliance issues.”
Whether ‘Bermuda Fire and Marinel’ gave him up or not is not the crux of these posts .. rather it’s under what statue or law the US DA/Fed Attorney nailed his backside: and that as I understand it was ‘money laundering’!
In very simple layman terms that is: tekking money under false pretense like illegal false invoicing and trying to ‘launder’ that ‘dirty’ money by making it appear legitimate… Simple, brother.
and re “Was Donville referring to the Bermuda people when he mentioned pale face?” …
I have no true context of his quote. I believed he was referring to his jailers and prosecutors in the US. I will be guided by your remarks.
But wait .. so you believe that I followed this case THATclosely re “To add to your screed, can you explain why ICBL officials were required to give evidence to the US courts in the Inniss case?” … Gee… the last court matter I followed that closely was OJ … 😎🤣
But seriously tho … you call witnesses to make your case air-tight… and any locals who could support that would have been called.
Surely the real question would be WHY did they comply with the US authorities … and the answer would surely be their ability to continue doing business in US.
Again brother this is based on broad experience and not delving into this case specifically beyond reading some public details .
@ David,
Inniss has taking the hit and there is no need to punish Tasker and Innes.
Too besides Innes will contribute to Canada even if only as “eye candy”.
Fish seller never say she fish stale yet!
Oh how i miss Jeff…and Amused…. real lawyers.
“It is not enough for Inniss to be claiming his innocence after spending time in a foreign prison for a crime that was fueled from Barbados.”
Barbados’ financial laws and powers of it’s agencies against (a) political corruption and fraud and (b) client reporting in banking and (c) tax fraud are much softer than US legislation. Barbados is toothless and has less bite.
Attorneys for both sides will make their sentencing submissions today when self-confessed murderer Cheriss Ricardo Omar Ince returns to the No. 2 Supreme Court.
@ David
The fundamental point some people seem to be missing is BF&M made two (2) wire transfers in the amounts of US$16,536,73 and US$20,000.00 (a Minister of the Crown accepting bribe, a contravention of Barbados’ laws…… proceeds of a crime)……
…… to a bank in Elmont, New York, in the name of Inniss’ friend’s dental practice, which was subsequently paid to him (money laundering).
It was ICBL’s parent compny, BF&M, that contacted the US authorities about the issue.
What occurred in Barbados was used as a preamble to build and articulate the case.
@Artax
Further, and a point rarely made, is based on the DOJ filings (they have a fancy word, I forget), is how would this have unfolded “if” Tasker or Innes had been on USA soil first? Or were they?
I believe fervently Innes was likely warned. Why? She is the only one who could shed light on what, and who, at BF&M were aware (if anybody…their story is nobody knew until an internal audit)
The CFO Millar testified asking Innes whether she had cleared the matter with H/O. To which Millar testified Innes replied “Its Ok”. The question is “Ok with whom”?
The two invoices you referenced were drawn on two separate divisions of BF&M. This is what is claimed to set off ‘internal audit red flags’. The CFO Millar admitted to generating each invoice. Why then were they debited to two different BF&M divisions. Or merely a clerical choice?
The execution of the payments was handled poorly and likely cost Inniss 2 yrs in jail ++++
Waru
Not many here are interested in the interrogation of such a system which is consistently producing criminals, deformed humanoids as politicians, people who are sitting on an establishment which has proven itself unable to address the material needs, far less real development.
Instead, fetishes consistently take the place of rigorous discussion. When will these assholes ever come to see that no amount of ruminations about Parris or Inniss or the next criminals in wait will stop this political culture from producing more of the same.
Indeed, there is a stout defence for Donville Inniss. For when you continue to ask poor ass people to take on the presumptive responsibility for a constituency of 5 or 6 thousand people, who are as poor as these political representatives have generally been, it speaks to a fundamental weakness in the system which encourages thiefing😄😄😄😄😄
And when the system sets up people to thief it must be the system not the people to take primary responsibility.
Since nobody has made a case in defense of Donville Inniss, we have!
Again! When will the perennial shiite talkers turn their guns on the system, held so dear by them?
When you get ready, you does write bare scunt.
The two mouth people bout here gine be frighten to tell you so.
You are the shite talker here.
Lashley to contest post of DLP vice president
https://www.nationnews.com/2023/03/27/lashley-contest-post-dlp-vice-president/
Frank
Be as your name or moniker suggest. Frankly, what is the shiite? Where is it? We have a pooper scupper!
Is it not possible to both consider Parris and Inniss to be criminals while at the same time being broad minded enough to try to understand the forces making criminals of them both, convicted or not?
Is it not possible to consider some to be intellectually limited while indicting the forces so responsible?
Or is it that you would prefer us to be simpletons like you appear to be?
And since you seem to favour a B Or D paradigm, could you possibly consider that others give not a fuck about either?
” Is anybody watching what’s happening in the Zionist state. anybody watching what’s happening in the Zionist state. Like Barbados the ignorant Zionists recently elected him, like the Bajans elected a dictator twice.”
Been watching for a while…only sheep, slow learners and lovers of corruption would vote in the same frauds twice, knowing that they are corrupt, wannabe diktators and fully expect things to change or get better…
Things are escalating, just saw some excerpts…and can be seen as them hating Palestinians more than they love themselves, hence now finding themselves in that position of their own making.
Some are calling it Karma…
In Barbados’ case, they love the corrupt, the sound feel and sight of political corruption more than they love themselves, so suffering will become a badge of honor, if they survive..
They keep bringing it down on themselves.
“Instead, fetishes consistently take the place of rigorous discussion. When will these assholes ever come to see that no amount of ruminations about Parris or Inniss or the next criminals in wait will stop this political culture from producing more of the same.”t
Slow learners who will still belch out same ad nauseum 10, 20, 30, 50 years from now, once they can take another wasted breath…never want to deal with or look at or research root causes..full time admirers of political shitehounds and every ill they visit on the people.
“Indeed, there is a stout defence for Donville Inniss. For when you continue to ask poor ass people to take on the presumptive responsibility for a constituency of 5 or 6 thousand people, who are as poor as these political representatives have generally been, it speaks to a fundamental weakness in the system which encourages thiefing😄😄😄😄😄”
The nuisance wannabes and THIEVES already set up the people for the new buzzwords…”you will have nothing, and you will be happy”…the bottomfeeders tested the theory for 100 years with well armed and thoroughly weaponized corruption….and their airhead supporters/voters never saw it coming, probably too busy and distracted peeping in people’s bedrooms…
Pacha…just saw a Redacted clip on proxy wars, very disturbing, am sure you will come across it, if ya havent already..
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/nashville-shooting-covenant-school-03-27-23/index.html
Whilst we are talking about fraudulent MP’s. I decided to take a look the ICIJ offshore leaks database for Barbados and Singapore. A country which Mia admires and would love to emulate, and a country which gained its independence in 1965.
The results were surprising given that Singapore is a wealthy country whilst Barbados is a relatively debt ridden country.
This forced me to collect some basic data on both countries which are listed below. I collated the data from Wikipedia:
Barbados:
Population – 280K
GDP – 5.7 B
GDP Per capita – $20K;
Singapore:
Population – 5.5 M
GDP – 424 B
GDP Per capita – $80K;
FILTER BY
Categories
Barbados:
Offshore entities: 3606
Officers: 2012
Intermediaries: 25
Addresses: 17107
Others: 0
https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/search?q=Barbados&c=&j=&d=
Singapore:
Offshore entities: 200
Officers: 161
Intermediaries: 84
Addresses: 5999
Others: 1
https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/search?q=singapore&c=&j=&d=
It will take you an awful long time to scroll through the ICIJ entries for Barbados. Now do the same for Singapore.
Is there anyone on BU who can explain the discrepancies behind these numbers. I can only presume Barbados is a more favourable and attractive place for conducting business than Singapore. The “favourable” ICIJ numbers underlines this “fact”?
Very simple. The CAIPO database was accessed and downloaded in it’s entirety. Some may say ‘hacked’?
@NO
Do not waste your time, some here will believe what they will although the facts are presented.
🙂 So what is the real point 🙂
Ah guess it depends on what the businesses are…the fact that the people 285k and country 166 sq miles dont benefit, cant repay debt while those voted in still beg and borrow everywhere says everything..
…. compared to less offshore businesses linked to Singapore but MORE BENEFIT to the population of 6 million – 719 square miles…tells us they have always had intelligent leaders who respect the people who elect them, have morals, ethics, integrity and a rigid approach with no tolerance for corruption..
2 completely different scenarios..
Dont know who they plan to blame for their disabilities and challenges in that regard, cahn blame me…Massa might come in handy…
Hmmmmm……
I was about to ask a similar question.
@ dpD
Could you explain how money was laundered in Barbados?
Which financial institution in Barbados, for example, accepted deposits of currency from ICBL or its parent company BF&M, allowed withdrawals of currency or transfers between accounts; paid cheques or payment orders drawn on a financial institution by, or collected cheques or payment orders on behalf of Donville Inniss?
@rtax, you are catching me well beyond my posts limits .. so tout de suite and I dun.
I said – I thought pellucidly – that Inniss was prosecuted in US under money laundering statues … never said anything about Bim and money laundering.
According to Bajan authorities NO LAWS worth prosecuting were broken here…. and for all I know they maybe quite accurate.
No laws worth prosecuting was broken with David and his CLICO cheque nor with Owen and his nor lots of other local issues … but I am no lawyer brother … so what do I know!
I gone.
What a mess, would love to know how they feel that the tide has TURNED against them after decades of running loose on the public….i know i feel real good…..
Massa need to put a leash on them before they do more damage..
Pacha it’s terrible out there….looks like the dude in israel is backing down till summer, too much trouble right now…probably waiting for people to forget and do the sleight of hand.. lol
The Louvre employees shut it down, imagine that.
An active shooter, a woman no less, massacred 3 kids and 3 adults in a Tennesse school. It’s getting wilder outer. Time to stay in and batten down the hatches. Shut out the unwanted.
I am back with my simplistic analysis..
Yes, Maloney was scammed before he got the opportunity to deliver the high cost vaccines; if he had gotten his hands on those vaccines, then a big scam of our nation would have been initiated.
In our island, one man can steal hundred of thousand of dollars from a poor family and the peanut gallery stay silent. A next man man gets his hands on a measly $36,000 dollars and some here wish to hang him.
The mob for the hanging will rush out with all sort of fancy phrases and explanations, but I will give you the real reason. … the man is a D. This is a paret of the B vs D battle. “we gottee. lehe we mek an example of he before they get one of we”
Don’t fool yourself that this is a robust and serious debate; this is an unmasked crooked D being hounded by masked crooked Bs.
A next reason some clamor for the arrest and trial of DI is that the US did it, so (some think) we should do the same. I believe this is the group that when something happens in Barbados, goes googling for a similar incident elsewhere and use it to point out that we are no that bad.
Then there are folks like myself; we don’t really care if he makes a jail or not; all we care about is that you go after the real sharks. Barbados is littered instance of larger sum of money disappearing- grab hold of one of the auditor general reports.
Summary: NTSH .. much ado about nothing. All the heavy lifting is not really necessary.
B vs D
” “we gottee. lehe we mek an example of he before they get one of we”…lol
They will get got anyway…they overdid it…played themselves to the hilt…now comes the comeuppance..
Ya know the saying….every dog got their day, some get two…
Caswell got a good one out there, got people laughing…
“B vs D”
Creative Leadership Not
when the Minister of Industry is lacking in his duties the Country goes bankrupt
RUPT (Rapid, Unpredictable, Paradoxical, and Tangled)
DisRUPTion happens when RUPT™ is in play and leadership fumbles.
Rapid: The changes we experience come at us quickly. They overlap with each other like waves emerging from different sources crashing in mid-ocean.
Unpredictable: We can analyze, strategize, and predict the future, but then something totally unexpected emerges (rapidly), challenging our assumptions and causing us to reframe our thinking.
Paradoxical: As leaders, we’re so easily lured into believing complex challenges are problems with one right solution, rather than seeing them as polarities that must be leveraged
Tangled: Everything is connected to everything else.
Now, now, Theo and Artax. I’m, simply, expressing my disbelief and shock that Barbados should be “outperforming” an important nation such as Singapore in this domain.
I perused the website and have to be frank that I was unable to recognise the hundreds and hundreds of companies listed under Barbados. Unlike those that were listed under Singapore where I saw some heavyweight companies that required no google search.
I confessed to seeing the Barbados Rally Club which named the Goddards as being directors.
Waru’s reply seems highly plausible. However, I would like someone to explain to me the economic benefits that those listed companies are bringing to Barbados. I would like to believe that these are genuine companies who are bringing employment to our island and are not simply merchants of frauds working in hand in hand with Barbados legal and accountancy professionals.
I presume that a high proportion of our MPs past and present would be on the list.
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Should it surprise any of us that the media are already speculating as to when the deported Innis will be making a return to the political world. Anyone surprised?
As I said, yesterday, about the disgraced MP: “Welcome back. All is forgotten”.
Don will have to retire in Barbados now and set up shop to make some bread as he probably lost his US citizenship and residency rights
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DONVILLE INNIS THE CONVICTED 2 BIT CRIMINAL COULD NOT BE LAWFULLY DEPORTED FROM THE USA, LOST HIS CITZENSHIP AND RESIDENCY RIGHT FOR A FINANCIAL CRIME RE MONEY LAUNDERING OR EVEN MURDER IF HE WAS A BORN OR NATURALIZED US CITIZEN.
THESE COULD ONLY HAPPEN IF HE WAS A GREEN CARD HOLDER AKA PERMANENT RESIDENT OF THE USA.
“I presume that a high proportion of our MPs past and present would be on the list.”
You will feel no surprise at the narcissistic, arrogant, puffed up and pompous you will find..as directors this and that, and most of them questionable. .there is a company for every seaon reason and occasion..that’s why you see so many…..and the usual suspects cahn keep away from infamy….everything they do is for their own benefit, no one else’s. Certainly not for the people.
An active shooter, a woman no less, massacred 3 kids and 3 adults in a Tennesse school. It’s getting wilder outer.
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GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT THIS WAS NO NORMAL WOMAN.
7 dead, including shooter and 3 children, at Nashville Christian school:
Here’s everything we know
Police said the suspect was a 28-year-old who identified as transgender and was once a student at the private school.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/female-shooter-nashville-covenant-school-mass-shooting-200014093.html
“Here’s everything we know
Police said the suspect was a 28-year-old who identified as transgender and was once a student at the private school”
When i saw the clip it was 2 hours in and they did not have all that information…there is still no name for the shooter or victims…as of 6pm the story was still unfolding, so no facts can be straight until ALL the information is in.. the news said A WOMAN…i had to go with that…
They released a name Audrey Hale.
3 deceased nine year olds now identified along with the 3 deceased in their 60s.
Just saw it where ” Hale identified as a transgender woman.” They are working through the info to see if that played a part in the shooting. Gotta wait for more details..
“IF if he had gotten his hands on those vaccines……”
We often emphasise our points by making references to songs that are appropriate for the specific discussion.
On this occassion, I’m reminded of a Roger Whittaker song…… ‘I don’t believe in ‘IF’ anymore.’
“No you won’t believe in ‘if’ anymore; ‘if’ is an illusion.”
“No you won’t believe in ‘if’ anymore; ‘if’ is for children…… building daydreams.” [Chorus]
The fact remains Maloney DID NOT “get his hands on those vaccines.” “If is an illusion.”
Hence, “a big scam of our nation COULD NOT have been initiated.” “If is for children, building daydreams.”
As it relates to Donville, I UNDERSTAND and AGREE with the points being made. That the ‘BEES’ will want to crucify Donville because he is a ‘DEM.’
I recall the October 26, 2022 BU blog, “Why was the information leaked is the question,” in which the “mob similarly rushed out with all sort of fancy phrases and explanations” because they believe Neil Rowe is guilty of an allegation of rape, simply because he is a ‘BEE.’
I’ve seen Carrington, Derek Alleyne, Donville Inniss and other DEMS, socialising with Mia Mottley and other BEES on Thursday nights at karaoke at ‘Jack’s Bush Bar.’
Donville will be okay, because politicians ‘duz look out for one another.’
Ask Michael Carrington.
“……never said anything about Bim and money laundering.”
@ de pedantic Dribbler
I know you did not.
Just wanted to read your opinion on that issue.
“The two invoices you referenced were drawn on two separate divisions of BF&M. This is what is claimed to set off ‘internal audit red flags’. The CFO Millar admitted to generating each invoice. Why then were they debited to two different BF&M divisions. Or merely a clerical choice?”
@ NorthernObserver
The Court also heard testimony from BF&M’s Vice-President and Financial Controller, Gloria Legere.
She testified of having conducted her own investigation after discovering a US$20,000 disbursement by BF&M General insurance in the 2nd quarter of 2016, and realised a similar payment was made in 2015 by BF&M Life Insurance, but encountered some difficulty in identifying the reasons why the payments were disbursed and who authorised them.
Legere admitted it was not the norm, as payments to the same business were usually paid by the same BF&M company (‘internal audit red flags???’).
She subsequently discovered the disbursements represented payments for consulting fees charged to ICBL by Crystal Dental Labs’ New York branch.
Repeated efforts by Legere to contact CDL proved unsuccessful, so she decided to call the company’s branch in Virginia, US, but, was was told no such consultations services had been rendered.
She also tried repeatedly to source information from Innes, former Chief Financial Officer Kamante Millar and BF&M’s former Chief Information Officer Paul Matthews, to no avail.
ICBL did not have any business relations with Crystal Dental Labs.
Obviously, those events would have initiated an internal investigation.
It was just a matter of time…Caswell can feel #vindicated…
“Concern over pay of Ghanaian nurses
IF GOVERNMENT WANTS to avoid a diplomatic embarrassment, it is being urged to swiftly solve a payment issue affecting some Ghanaian nurses.
However, as Democratic Labour Party spokesperson for health Paul Gibson was sounding the alarm, Minister of Health and Wellness, The Most Honourable Senator Jerome Walcott, said the matter was being dealt with.
Gibson has charged that more than 50 of the 122 Ghanaian nurses who arrived last October, were facing contractual issues and not being paid for their years of experience.
“We have been selecting specialist nurses, we have given them a commitment that they will be paid properly and paid for their years of service in Ghana.
“Some of those nurses have gone into the [Queen Elizabeth Hospital] but the ones that are in the Ministry of Health have not received a contract from the Ministry of Health in Barbados,” Gibson said.
He added that if the matter was not settled, the nurses who he said were experiencing challenges with their expenses, were likely to take action, which could have negative implications for the polyclinic system.
“Not only have they not received a contract.”
Donville will be okay, because politicians ‘duz look out for one another.’
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Stop with the high-level attempts to mislead the Blog Artax…
The reason that Donville will be OK is simple.
Not a boy dares to cast the first stone at his donkey…. except Caswell and Bushie of course, but since the whacker get tek way, Bushy done with that stoning shiite (officially at least) 🙂
Also.. this ‘Bee and Dee’ thing is just a scam to keep the brass bowls busy and feeling relevant. (as you well know) Wunna does flow smoothly….
Talking bout songs… Can you imagine what would happen if Donville (or any of the countless petty bribe-takers in the Public Service ) REALLY started SINGING in a Court of Law?
…like those big-up Public ‘servants’ on the Clear Water Board for example?
..or the Most Honorable PS who signed the order for the Radical vaccines?
LOL
Not only is Donville ‘OK’…
But there are probably MANY political donkeys on both sides of the shitty fence, squeezed tightly shut in anticipation of his next moves..
These ‘last days’ looking to be sweeter than Bushie anticipated…
Not only is Donville ‘OK’…
But there are probably MANY political donkeys on both sides of the shitty fence, squeezed tightly shut in anticipation of his next moves..
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PRETTY OBVIOUS TO ANYONE EVEN WITH A PEA BRAIN THAT DONVILLE WAS TAKING BRIBES FOR YEARS ALSO WITH OTHER ENTITIES LOCALLY, HE ONLY GOT CAUGHT OUT BECAUSE OF THE USA PURSUING MONEY WIRED TO ITS JURISDICTION.
I CAN REMEMBER THAT WHEN I RAN A REGIONAL COMPANY THE TOURISM MINISTER UNDER OWEN WOULD CALL ME ON A REGULAR BASIS TO SUPPORT HIS CONSTITUENCY OFFICE FOR DONATIONS FOR VARIOUS EVENTS.
I REMEBER ONE DAY BEING TOLD HE WAS GIVEN US$40,000 CASH IN A BAG WHILST HE HAD TRAVELLED TO BERMUDA BY AN INVESTOR WHO WANTED TO DO A HOTEL/TOURISM PROJECT.
THIS MONEY WENT INTO HIS BACK POCKET.
THIS IS NOT HERESAY.
SO, IT IS NEITHER A DLP NOR BLP IT IS THE POLITICIANS ENRICHING THEMSELVES WHILST THEY HAVE THEIR TURN IN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE DAY.
REMEMBERED
It amazes me that these people are using the laws of another country to throw shade at Donville for actions that continue to this day in Barbados and that some of them might have benefited from. Patronage\corruption is core to Westminster, master\client relationships, and all the other pretty names we call Bribery notwithstanding. Practically all “appointments” given out by a Prime Minister have been done with the intent to curry favor and exact loyalty to them and their regime. This is core to the system of government we practice. So that if you are truly ashamed of Donville’s action, you should be ashamed of what takes place in this country every day as a matter of its political, governmental, and cultural norms.
@Adrian
So you are saying that because patronage/corruption is at the core of the Westminster system ,on occasions it raises its head in the full glare of the public we should ignore it? Isn’t this a grand opportunity because of the high visibility given to Donville’s incarceration we should respond to it for the public’s sake? A public that is low on apathy and trust of the system? How do we improve over time to hold public servants accountable? What should the system be evolving to.
What specific Barbados law would be use against Donville currently, and why was it not used back 2018 or 2015?
as if people habitually launder clean clothes or money, I am getting the impression that BLP yard fowls are deliberately skipping the Bribery charge and highlighting the money laundering one only – because the very real actions that led to the bribery charge are done with impunity in Barbados still to this very day.
Yuh see Arturo being hypocritical is a National pastime. 🙂Alex Tasker is in real jeopardy of having the US extradition request granted. 🙁 hypocrites are to be found everywhere due to the motley patronage-giving machine. Tell Alex that his only hope of being saved is to sign a pledge of allegiance to you know who!!!! LOL!
TLSN on March 27, 2023 at 3:18 PM said:
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Is there anyone on BU who can explain the discrepancies behind these numbers. I can only presume Barbados is a more favourable and attractive place for conducting business than Singapore. The “favourable” ICIJ numbers underlines this “fact”?
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My bet is you will find many of the Barbadian companies are shells setup to evade or avoid taxation and keep their beneficial owners shrouded in secrecy.
You may find one lawyer named as a director of thousands of companies.
Their names are pretty well known.
Some are even knighted!!
Run through the list of members of the Bar Association and see how many companies in the ICIJ database they direct or hold powers of attorney.
It is difficult to believe the 1910 Companies Act required yearly shareholder returns be made but when it was replaced by the 1982 Companies act, this requirement was dropped.
The companies employ minimal numbers and are often one man shows.
In Singapore where they are serious about transparency and companies actually are expected to do something constructive you will find it is precious few meeting that qualification.
You may also find that many in Barbados are setup to own real estate and ownership of the real estate passes with ownership of the shares in the company.
Shares can be undervalued easier than property saving on Transfer Tax and Stamp Duty.
Close to home!!
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/09/revealed-scheme-gary-lineker-tax-barbados-home
Common sense tells you that the construction industry is a dead end activity in a tiny water scarce island.
But the more houses the more dirty money can be laundered all nice and legal using banks and mortgages,
“These ‘last days’ looking to be sweeter than Bushie anticipated…”
Man Bushman…sweet enuff, i here enjoying eva second, dont want to miss a ting…waking up earlier to make sure..
Wuh i could only ask de now..HOW does it feel to have ONE TRILLION dollars COLLAPSE and squeeze all the slick talking bs and hot air outta demmm lol…murdahhh..
Well CRUSHED…
…all those decades of hate, envy and attacks directed at me…and ALL FOR NUTTEN..
By the time the banking system is stabilized….your shitty act will also be over…tried to swallow an elephant and choking, choking, choking..
Bushman…to make things even SWEETER…there are voice notes out there explaining the 57 YEAR OLD FRAUD…that parasites in black face perpetrated on the people from 1966…wannabes.
Barrow did try to warn the people while well aware they will never fully understand without a HIGHER level of education and much information sharing, something he himself clamped down on…
The fraud show that is DBLP should know – A DEBT is OWED and MUST be paid…by THEM..
More details on the transgender killer..
https://nypost.com/2023/03/27/nashville-school-shooter-audrey-hale-identified-as-transgender-and-had-detailed-manifesto-to-attack-christian-academy/
Does it matter if transgender?
Heterosexual males and females have done more than their share. One transgender cannot speak for, act for or define all. This stereotyping and demonization has kicked our black butts for years.
TheOGazerts on March 28, 2023 at 7:18 AM said:
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Does it matter if transgender?
Heterosexual males and females have done more than their share. One transgender cannot speak for, act for or define all. This stereotyping and demonization has kicked our black butts for years.
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The question is what do males, females and transgenders involved in shootings have in common?
Mental problems!!
Most shootings are done by males so they are more likely to have mental problems than females who also have done shootings and have mental problems.
Percentage wise, males and females are 49/51 of the total population, well almost if transgenders are not counted.
This seems to be the first transgender so while females have more mental problems than transgenders, transgenders do have mental problems as well.
Since the transgender population is so tiny, it is a fair bet that they have far more mental problems than either males or females which you would expect given their exercise of their right to choose.
A single swallow does make a summer in their case.
ie, if the whole population is considered, it is more likely for a transgender to commit a shooting than either males or females.
It just goes to show that mental problems need to be addressed if shootings are to be reduced.
If they aren’t, then shootings will get worse.
TheOGazerts on March 28, 2023 at 7:18 AM said:
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Does it matter if transgender?
Heterosexual males and females have done more than their share. One transgender cannot speak for, act for or define all. This stereotyping and demonization has kicked our black butts for years.
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Noting to do with stereotyping, it is plain statistics.
It is more likely if you are in Chicago for you to be sot or killed by a black male.
That however does not mean all black males in Chicago are killers.
Statistics and stereotyping are different concepts.
There are lies, damn lies and statistics, but statistics do not lie!!
Pacha…these planning to COLLECT reparations off our backs instead of PAYING IT for all the evil they worked overtime to direct AT US..
Not a chance they will get 30 cents by the time am done….but if they do can consider themselves veddy, veddy lucky…that money should be going DIRECTLY INTO THE HANDS OF THE DESCENTS OF THE ENSLAVED…..not into the hands of mud raking swines and slime.
further, was on this meet last weekend, and though i saw nothing about it in mainstream media…understood that an apology was issued by UK for slavery but it was reinforced there will be no reparations…at least that’s what the lady who was present said…
Not a dime attributed to the enslavement of our ancestors is to be going directly into the greasy, corrupt hands of these thieving political FRAUDS..in Barbados or anywhere else in the caribbean….
Theo…this transgender killer just slaughtered 3 nine year olds and 3 seniors in their 60s that could have been any one of my relatives or yours.. if it was straight we would be blasting it…
Breaking news
“transgenders do have mental problems as well.”
Did you figure this out all by yourself or did you have some help?
Unable to follow the rest of the argument, but thanks for that nugget.
Sharks have a nasty habit of biting people; do they have mental problems also? I anxiously await our response, but I blame it on the various medications used by transgender flowing into the sea.
Any news on the sentencing of Norman Leroy Lynch? My world is on ‘pause’.
Tell him John…there is all this mental illness galloping around and what do they do…STICK THEM IN SLOTS, in boxes, explaining away their mental issues with labels instead of dealing with the root cause….
.oh, your problems are because you have 3 or 4 genders so let’s label you a shim, switch up the identities, now a he, is a she, they their or them…give them special dispenation and that should fix that…..there will be many more massacres.
@David
Of course ‘you’ can be expected to take the cheap route of reframing my post into a ‘non sequitor’ then proceed to answering and or responding to it as if it is a legitimat inferrence.
I will wait for you and others to respond to corruption in Barbados as whole rather than the cheap partisan approach of responding to Donville’s specific actions. When that occurs I may be tempted to believe that there is genuine willingness to agree that Westminster is at its core a corruptable system that we can look at for methods to curtail, address, and respond to its weaknesses in that regard.
Thanks for your reply Adrian.
TheOGazerts on March 28, 2023 at 8:05 AM said:
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Sharks have a nasty habit of biting people; do they have mental problems also? I anxiously await our response, but I blame it on the various medications used by transgender flowing into the sea.
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Some people have a stupid habit of bathing with sharks whose sole purpose in life apart from breeding is to devour any meal presented to them and with 100% certainty.
In my researches I have found a single instance of a boy being devoured by a tiger shark off Speightstown in 1927.
Did he have a stupid habit of bathing with sharks?
Does that mean that all Bajans have a stupid habit of presenting themselves to sharks for their daily meal?
*Political Patronage destroys a society based on merit and rots the democratic process. Patronage gives power to patrons and takes it away from everyone else. Patronage thrives on secrecy because the process is so shameful that even its greatest enthusiasts are loath to have to justify each decision.*
*Patronage belongs in British history to a medieval age where kings bestowed favours, estates and titles as a means of control.*
*Political Patronage is just another form of bribery, used for the sole purpose of undermining integrity.*
…and this Mia Mottley-led regime – more than any other has used political patronage in every sphere of Barbadian power and governance structure to conclusively bind all of its power to her leanings and understanding.
@John
First, I wish you success in your pursuit of other matters.
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1) Mental health and
2) Guns
were always on the table. Now a crazy transgender person acted out and suddenly (1) and (2) are mostly irrelevant. All the mass shooting in the US can now be explained by one thing.. crazy transgenders.
I can imagine you running up and down the street of Barbados shouting
“Run for your lives. The transgenders are coming. The transgenders with guns are coming. Run for cover”
“*Patronage belongs in British history to a medieval age where kings bestowed favours, estates and titles as a means of control.*
*Political Patronage is just another form of bribery, used for the sole purpose of undermining integrity.*
Wannabes and FRAUDS love to copy and mimic things they dont fully understand…or want to…only interested in what they can get as bottomfeeders and opportunists with no morals, ethics or integrity.
The majority of gun related deaths in the US is suicide.
If we look at gun related deaths in Barbados, would you expect to find the same thing? Of course not.
Like Chicago, most gun related deaths here are of young black males shot by other young black males who should not even have a gun.
Clearly the prevalence of mental problems in the US is higher than Barbados and it occurs across the board!!
A school shooter inevitably with almost 100% certainty will end up shot.
Would you count this gun related death as a suicide?
@John
The question is what do males, females and transgenders involved in shootings have in common?
Mental problems!!
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You missed the elephant in the room, what they have in common is easy access to guns. When these mass shootings occur somewhere sometime someone will point their finger at mental illness and shrug it off but other countries have their share of citizens with mental problems and we seldom hear of mass shootings because there are gun restrictions in place.
Sarge
The one thing they have in common is they are nearly all dead, either by suicide or shot by someone.
The shooters are trying to commit suicide while at the same time making some statement.
They are mad.
Here are the 15 most deadly shootings in the US.
The shooters in 13 out of these 15 are stone cold dead.
Sargeant on March 28, 2023 at 8:48 AM said:
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@John
The question is what do males, females and transgenders involved in shootings have in common?
Mental problems!!
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You missed the elephant in the room, what they have in common is easy access to guns. When these mass shootings occur somewhere sometime someone will point their finger at mental illness and shrug it off but other countries have their share of citizens with mental problems and we seldom hear of mass shootings because there are gun restrictions in place.
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Check New Zealand.
Check Paris.
Check London.
Gun restrictions but still can’t prevent mass shootings.
The shooter has to have mental problems.
In Israel it is only the presence of guns that minimise mass shootings!!
Real mental problems over there.
@Adrian
As someone who spent a lifetime in construction and it’s various facets, and was lucky to work ‘all over’, I can tell you corruption is rampant ‘all over’ and has little to do with Westminster.
In it’s worst form, it has to do with people controlling money and events which are not their own, and seeking personal benefits based on those. The key being ‘personal’ benefit. And often the decision take is that which benefits them the most, not those whom they are paid to represent.
As such, patronage is a form of corruption. Again, that occurs well beyond Westminster systems or any other. It is a political entity using tax payer funds (money that isn’t their own or their political entity) to bestow a benefit on a person or group who supports them in some way, and hopes that support continues.
This is a prime reason for political support? One knows once in power, they are a myriad of benefits which are controlled, and potentially available. Also known as the ‘political trough’.
These matters will be analyzed and distilled through political lenses, everything. This is the polarized world in which we live. The political directorate looms large in our small societies and therefore feeds and influence the culture how business is done. This is where we part company NO.
@David we only distill these affairs via political lens because politicians are OUR executives to whom we give over our permission to “run things’.
As @Northern noted corruption permeates everything … so whether business or government its the SAME ‘patronage’ … just labelled differently.
Shareholders deal with their company executives … we deal with ours.
And @Northern, I didn’t explore as broadly as you did but my ‘limited’ business sphere regionally and through US and LatAm turned up the same concept of ‘patronage corruption’… thus I always get bamboozled when folks cry ‘foul’ loudly because one of their players gets a wrenching tackle in the same game in which said player’s team made many fearsome fouls !
Of course, in this game of life and too on the field it’s often not the foul itself that ends ur play but what the referee sees and how s/he issues punishment.
I gone.
@Dee Word
The Blogmaster will hold the opinion that the political directorate is a bit influence on the culture of doing business. Clearly like poverty we will never be able to eradicate 100% but we must aspire to do so.
If corruption is all over, and Westminster exist in parts of “all over” would it not be susceptable to corruption? And simply because it is pervasive,we should accept it, and or only talk about it,to extract political benefit as the Bee’s including David, are doing? I subcribe to the thinking that no matter how deep, how pervasive or how tall the task, we must get busy fighting corruption at the poltical level,and at the governance level, to set the stage for a transformation of how the rest of the society conducts if self.
The mere fact that at the core of how a Prime Minister wins and keep their perch among his\her equals, is by patronage\corruption, that sets the stage,on down and all through the land for, corruptable practices to become a national passtime.
John
But the unchanging variable is Whitey!