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Caswell Franklyn Speaks – Constitution or no Constitution?

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Submitted by Head of Unity Workers Union, Caswell Franklyn

For some time I have been hearing a person on social media proclaiming that Barbados does not have a constitution. Normally, I would listen in amusement and take it for the comic relief that it provided but now it is no longer funny. It has potential to become dangerous and reckless as I am now hearing others expressing disrespect for the court system because they are also parroting the nonsense about this country not having a constitution. I am concerned that Government has not attempted to clarify the situation and has allowed this dangerous nonsense to take root.

In September 2021, Government brought a bill to Parliament entitled:

An Act to alter the Constitution in order

(a) to provide for Barbados to become a republic with a President who shall be Head of State of Barbados; and

(b) to provide for related matters.

It might have slipped pass many but one of the related matters was legislating, for the first in the Barbados Parliament, a constitution for this country. The original independence constitution of Barbados was never passed in our parliament, it was merely a schedule to an order in council, the Barbados Independence Order, made by Queen Elizabeth II.

When Government decided to rush headlong into republican status; it did so without doing any adequate preparatory work. In order to meet the deadline of November 30, 2021, Government took its usual shortcuts approach by obtaining parliamentary approval, without first consulting the people of this country. On September 29, 2021 the Constitution (Amendment) (No.2) Bill, 2021 was passed in the House of Assembly, and it passed the Senate on October 6, 2021, with only one dissenting vote.

The 1966 Barbados Constitution was a schedule to the Barbados Independence Order, made by Queen Elizabeth II. That order was revoked by subsection 4.(1) of Constitution (Amendment)(No.2) Act. Without more the Constitution would also have been revoked but that subsection went on to save the Constitution. For clarity, section 4 of the Constitution (Amendment)(No.2) Act states:

4.(1) The Independence Order is revoked; but the revocation of that Order shall not affect the validity of the Constitution set out in the Schedule to that Order.

(2) The Constitution referred to in subsection (1) shall be altered in accordance with the provisions of section 49 thereof in the manner and to the extent set out in this Act; and on the appointed day the Constitution so altered shall become the Constitution and supreme law of Barbados.

Admittedly, Government’s approach, to legislate the Constitution for the new republic of Barbados, was mediocre at best or even shameful but it was means to an end. It does not reflect the pride of which Barbadians boast but it is what it is; we do have a constitution.

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146 responses to “Caswell Franklyn Speaks – Constitution or no Constitution?”

  1. African Roots Avatar
    African Roots

    There was an original perception that the new Constitution would be an opportunity to reflect progressive steps made in modern thinking for individuals freedom and rights for it’s citizens, even with an acknowledgement of African Roots and Culture before the legacy of Institutional Slavery.

    But, the online debate seemed to be fixated on the preamble maintaining Euro-centric Christianity belief system.

  2. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Tomorrow may be a fit and proper day for Caswell Franklyn to he duly offered up as the sacrificial lamb in saving the nation.

    Maybe, unlike the first one, he’ll rise in glory three days hence. Sayeth the “story”.

    Substantively, what prople who argue that there is no constitution are saying, imprecisely, is the same as you are, only in short hand.

    But the absence of a written constitution, like in the UK, does not mean there’s no constitution.

    That this hasty PM put the cart before the horse in a direction of travel whose point of arrival makes no particular sense up to now is causal.

    Indeed, that some republican constitutional review committee is still at work while the amended monarchical or socalled independence constitution lives on represents an order of priorities not befitting a serious country.

    No doubt it must have been the writer who alone possessed the intestestinal fortitude to be the SOLE vote against the amendment. For this it maybe arguable that you have already been offered up as the sacrificial lamb in a desperate hope of saving the nation.

  3. Critical Analyzer Avatar
    Critical Analyzer

    The constitution debate is indeed a null, moot and foolish debate. Bajans too love arguing the minutiae over real problems.

    It is a waste of time debating whether we have a constitution or not unless those persons are willing to bring a case before the CCJ to challenge the validity of our constitution.

    Even if the matter was to go before the CCJ and they ruled our constitution no longer existed, nothing changes. All existing laws in the law books will still remain, be enforced and government will still pass new laws.

    Bajan society will not descend into anarchy. All that will happen is lawyers will make less money since no challenges on constitutional grounds will happen until the new constitution is completed. England does never had a constitution so we too can survive without one.

  4. Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. Avatar
    Yolande Grant – African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved.

    “that some republican constitutional review committee is still at work while the amended monarchical or socalled independence constitution lives on represents an order of priorities not befitting a serious country.”

    They have no republic constitution and relying heavily on a pre independence order to pretend legitimacy….Caswell should not entertain that utter shite of defending the idiocy…where nothing will change until they are ALL GONE…and not tainted 11 plus Slaves (look where it’s led) but intelligent people take the helm of real leadership…

  5. David Avatar
    David

    @CA

    Agree to a point. Many are debating a matter that is well above their pay grade. If there is a lacuna to be considered it should be adjudicated/resolved in the court.

  6. Caswell Franklyn Avatar
    Caswell Franklyn

    Where in the article written by me do you see me defending anything. I just stated the facts in the hope that people would not listen to the nonsense on social media and act upon it.

  7. Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. Avatar
    Yolande Grant – African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved.

    ” I just stated the facts in the hope that people would not listen to the nonsense on social media and act upon it.”

    You know you are dealing with parliament idiots…the wannabes…they will take it as you siding with their nonsense while they clutch as straws in their drowning process….

    There is a case supposedly moving through the court about the invalidity of the last BUY (with rooms filled with money) election…..coupled with a post emancipation pre independence order (the operative words) there is absolutely no legitimacy to the revisit of that old wickedness absent a real constitution…something the frauds are well aware they dont have…

    If the local population are not acting on their own deaths and injuries and that of their children and young people, do you actually see them acting on anything else..

  8. David Avatar
    David

    Yes indeed Caswell, we have these social media persons pretending to be an authority about every topic under the sun from their basements.

  9. Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. Avatar
    Yolande Grant – African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved.

    I am going to sit right here and watch them attempt but FAIL to get away with it…

    At least they know they are being “watch muh nuh.” From more than one quarter.

  10. Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. Avatar
    Yolande Grant – African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved.

    And if they did not see their fraud show jump out in that last comment…the post would never have been removed.

    Their end is MUCH closer than they and their supporters think….and they can do NOTHING about it….within the next 2 years…dont blink…justice forces are on it..

    .and i post from the heights of what can be described in its vertical range as a very tall bordering on 3rd floor. Did not know Barbados was famous for basements .

  11. Attic dweller Avatar
    Attic dweller

    ” from their basements”

    If I was no working in my attic, I would have considered that a personal attack.
    —x–

    Men like Caswell and the good Reverend are sorely needed. It is difficult to sit an watch the antics of those in power or to listen to their meaningless words and not tune out. Keep the faith Caswell.

    “”Come back, come back, Horatius!” loud cried the Fathers all.
    “Back, Lartius! Back, Herminius! Back, ere the ruin fall!”
    Back darted Spurius Lartius; Herminius darted back:
    And as they passed, beneath their feet they felt the timbers crack.
    But when they turned their faces, and on the further shore
    Saw brave Horatius stand alone, they would have crossed once more.”

    Caswell in the dark
    ” Silence, silence, Caswell, you know you speak in vain
    Don’t you know it is acts of folly that you seek to explain”
    You seek to find some underlying equation
    To explain acts and words that are truly random
    Some listen and marvel at your genius
    Some scoff and laugh at your madness
    Others urge you to press on no matter the cost
    Perhaps you will lead us to the world that we had and lost
    Stay strong Caswell and fight the good fight
    A solitary light in an endless night.

  12. Attic dweller Avatar
    Attic dweller

    Note the change

    If I decided to smoke, I would have approached ‘444 ‘for my supply of good stuff, but this is no longer the case. Some here are smoking what is tow or three times a strong as that of “222’

    “333” stuff. I would have to use daily, but looks as if some has magical marijuana that lasts in the system for weeks.

    Jesus!

  13. Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. Avatar
    Yolande Grant – African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved.

    Personal attacks lost all power once intent was proven…..YEARS now…

    Caswell is being introduced to the REAL PLOT….that others believe they can hide….but cannot disprove.

  14. I Been On Avatar
    I Been On

    Seems like the wannabe bu comedian is requesting a random song for Dave and Bush to dislike moan about remove which could be a trap for DJ fearless
    Is it pure bait a set up a provocation..
    dedicated to the funny guy in his own mind

    C-c-comin’ down, drippin’ candy on the ground
    Listen

    I been on, I been on, I been on
    Tell me who gon’ take me off
    Take me off, take me off, take me off
    I-I been on, I been on, I been on
    Tell me who gon’ take me off
    Take me off, take me off, take me off

    Rolling high, leather and wood
    Keep it trill, that’s what good
    Kiss my mama, show that love
    Pop them bottles in that club
    I heard your crew was talking lip
    Guess what I did? Smack that trick
    Smack that trick
    Guess what I did? (Smack that trick)
    Gold everything, gold ass fangs
    Gold ass chains, gold ass things
    You can see me stunt when you turn on the screen
    You can-you can see me stunt when you turn on the screen
    I’m bigger than life, my name in the lights
    I’m the capital B, I don’t need no hype
    The capital B mean I’m ’bout that life
    The capital B mean I’m ’bout that life, bitch

  15. Frank Avatar
    Frank

    wtf!! woman, 13 comments and 5 is yours. u en got no clothes to wash, food to cook, housework to do, a man (or woman) to drawup under, or even bathe yuh scunt? u ent got nutten better to do than bounce from blog to blog to repeat scunt every rassoul day? yuh effing humbug.

  16. Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. Avatar
    Yolande Grant – African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved.

    Since this was posted before i found out certain things about names and will have to do as reminder ……..stink niga…read twice….i want no discourse with your type..the stench and filth on you, soap and water can never wash away…

    Yolande Grant – African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. on March 29, 2023 at 11:06 AM said:
    Rate This

    I was thinking i better not wait for some fool to start up as we know they will. Have to set some permanent ground rules and boundaries as it relates to wunna Massa….sorry I was a little slow and took so long to get to it, but conditions were very unstable..

    We know wunna love Massa’s political system….wunna cant get enough of it, that is all yall think and talk about…with admiration and advertised pride….as political birds..

    We also know wunna too love Massa’s slave system…or you wont still be in it and regaling us with the crazy that it’s the best thing ever..since slice bread..

    I have no intention of getting in the middle of any of that.

    So based on those anomalies, and the fact that your political idol went stark raving mad, totally beserk over decades due to illegal exploitable information in their possession, and figured in that psycho obsession that my death would propel them closer to Massa’s Empire….and everyone saw the lengths the little mini me terrorists went to get at me over many years…

    An extremely frightful truism..not that am afraid perish the thought, ..therefore…..i dont want any of the usual suspect commenters catching the same disease and see me as a threat too based on the aforementioned…so i will refrain from any discussions, debates, concerns outside of the general every day news reports about wunna Massa….there you go, permanent ground rules and boundries set…on offlimit topics.

    Pacha…have no choice., weeeee know these too well not to…there is always a setup…no matter how many fail, another one is right around the corner..have to actively preempt this one and put a permanent end to their We Love Massa Show, as it relates to me…

  17. Cost of the crown Avatar
    Cost of the crown

    Constitution Old for New
    An investigation into royal wealth and finances
    perhaps some of the local posters could translate into the local dialect slang they select when they hang to describe the situation of the next dispensation which is a revelation manifestation

    here is a couple of phrases to try on for size

    De berry don’ drop too far from de tree
    Children inherit traits and attitudes from their parents

    Donkey got long ear, but ‘e don’ like to hear ‘e own story
    People do not like to hear or accept their own faults

    Don’ leh nuhbody rub shit in yuh mout and tell yuh it is pudding
    Don’t let anyone do or say anything harmful or insulting, under the guise that they are being nice

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/series/cost-of-the-crown

  18. Mystery Man 101 Avatar
    Mystery Man 101

    @4:10
    That’s a good post.
    There are some things that you are aware of, but it is more of a notion than a concrete idea.

    However, when you see actual details, then you come to realize that things may be even worse than you imagine. The Royal family may be filthy rich, but if I were to attempt to acquire wealth by similar methods some would call me a thief or receiving stolen property.

  19. Adrian Hinds Avatar
    Adrian Hinds

    Mark Adamson and Patrick King are the two idiots trumpeting the “no constitution” nonsense. I am satisfied that their opinions do not hold water. They have lurch from one position to another that could not stand up to scrutiny. Mark has now landed on the view that the Barbados Independence order of 1966 is British law and that the parliament of Barbados cannot revoke what is not theirs. That is the most nonsense postion of them all.

    Understanding Mark Adamson’s argument and why it is absolutely faulty is not above anyone’s paygrade; it is quite easy to gather the facts that clearly disputes what he contends.

    1: The constitution was an attached and seperate document to the 1966 order. He like many made much ado about the word “schedule.”

    2: The 1966 order is secondary legilations that derives its validity from the Barbados Independence Act 1966.

    3: The Barbados Independence act 1966 is British law still to this day and can be viewed on the UK legislative website.

    4: The 1966 Order cannot be found on that site because it cease to be British law on the appointed day 11-30-1966 as outline in the Independence act.

    5: The Indepence Act 1966 also outlines that the UK on november 30th 1966 will no longer have any responsibility for Barbados and that the parliament of the Island will have that responsibility.

    6: The act further states How the 1966 Order can be altered and clearly defines what altering means in this regards – which is to repeal with or without re-enactment or by some other means in lieu thereof.”

    7: The rights to alter are contained in the constitution and that Act states that whatever can be done to the constitution can be done to the 1966 order.

    At the end of this all. I ended up back where I first started on this research. Which is that the Parliament of Barbados can do whatever it wants in this regards once they follow the rules to so do as outline in section 49 of the constitution. Yes a sovereign country can do what the Barbados government did – sloppy and uncivil though it may be.

  20. de pedantic Dribbler Avatar
    de pedantic Dribbler

    @David, “above their pay grade” you say so easily … but how tho!🤦🏾‍♂️😎

    There is nothing to take to court re this nonsense about a missing constitution. As noted by the former senator you have people spreading propaganda and illogic and others repeating it.

    But with all the news bout de place not a word of the MOMENTOUS new member to NATO!

    Wasn’t a bloody war started over a year ago to prevent this exact thing (encroaching to Russia borders)! … yet now there is a northern border twice as long with a full NATO ally on other side.

    Wow … how clichéd can it be: for Putin to win the battle but lose the war!

    Surely as matters are set , 1) Putin MUST annex Ukraine or a significant lands therefrom and 2) He must remain on a heightened ‘war’ posture for quite some time (or execute a directed nuclear attack) to ‘save face’.

    Of course the de-dollarization (re oil etc) is moving ahead full charge and last week the Saudi Prince bossman (a Putin ally for sure) led OPEC to punch the US quite forcibly with the reduction stunt to drive up oil prices (this is almost summer drive time vacations in Canada and US and gas prices will be a big issue).

    So yes lots of serious constitutional issues bout de place!

    It will be a wild ride these next several months.

  21. David Avatar
    David

    @Dee Word

    Do you have a view about the challenge brought regarding the constitutionality of the Upper House in the context of validating bills from the Lower House?

  22. Rhythm Is The Master Avatar
    Rhythm Is The Master

    If the new Republic Constitution Project was looked at as a new System Design to change the old legacy system to a new replacement system, would the new system be a radical improvement using bleeding edge technology or will it be a hack of the old system with program code that used the Crown/King/Queen text replaced with the word President.
    I suspect that it will be the latter as Bajan leadership and it’s minions are all mouth and no trousers.

  23. Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. Avatar
    Yolande Grant – African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved.

    So light and power want rate hike but cant keep the electricity on..

  24. de pedantic Dribbler Avatar
    de pedantic Dribbler

    No @David, I have no further view on that beyond the prior (on other blogs) views on the constitutionality of our parliament… that is to say this matter is based now on quite ‘technical’ legal reasoning so I know it’s well above my pay grade!😎😂🤣 (Sorry, couldn’t resist that)!

    But seriously tho brother David … this is quite knife-edge type stuff as the govt is saying you CANNOT sue the Dame President per the constitution so in sum there is no case to be heard.

    And if I may do the ‘whataboutism’ thing … just recently a US Appeals court determined a similiar knife-edge legal reasoning that the US Vice President could not be sued or questioned for his actions in his role as President of the US Senate per the ‘Speech and Debate’ statute … BUT the judges also said he surely could be questioned on matters surrounding that role OUTSIDE the scope of his direct actions therein (my words not quotes).

    So similarly if our constitution does ‘cabin’ the Dame from any censure in her role acting as HoS (as it surely seems) then dog dead … there is absolutely no ‘outside her HoS’ situation that would allow any further enquiry!

    I gone.

  25. David Avatar
    David

    @Dee Word

    Thank you for your layman perspective.

  26. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Has the repatriation of the Barbados constitution from Washington, as demanded by Errol Barrow, been achieved?

    If not, or if that has been deemed impossible, or if we seek to ignore the very nature of empire which does not recognize the sovereignty or independence of ANY country, why bother with this excursion into the respectability of having a constitution in the first place.

    Regardless of what opinions there might be on this subject, at the end of the day no difference will be made.

    For a country cannot exist merely by such a public masterbation. Indeed, to the extent that creative energies exists better use of them should be put.

  27. Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing. Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. Avatar
    Yolande Grant – African Online Publishing. Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved.

    “Regardless of what opinions there might be on this subject, at the end of the day no difference will be made.”

    I reached the stage, i no longer have intentions of drawing pictures for old ass people let alone spoonfeeding them…who love to pretend they are lawyers and experts but cannot see the most basic form of destruction approaching their lives, they only know how to attack…weeee saw this same very scenario play out a few years ago with that fraudulent backward entity, pushing the children’s progress back by 30-40 years…straight back into the 1970s and 80s…the same applies here, but the push back is to post emancipation, pre independence order 1966… and the traitors are only too happy to comply..

    dont mind the fake pedigree clown talking about “emancipation is a process” fraud….but all a dem gine get stuck back there BY THEMSELVES…..that suit the slaves, they deserve nothing else…i want absolutle nothing to do with any of them…

    Most people, the awake ones, already figured this out.

  28. Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. Avatar
    Yolande Grant – African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved.

    “to the extent that creative energies exists better use of them should be put.”

    Pacha…we know you mean well…but who the hell squatting in a slave master parliament…is going to possess such creativity …wuh if they had NONE in 100 years unless they tief it…where o where will they get it from now…

  29. Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. Avatar
    Yolande Grant – African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved.

    Btw…UK media is running more articles on who and who were involved in the slave trade…looks like it will be a protracted project.

    This should teach the local narcissitic, ego inflated blowhard employees of Empire a lesson or two about burning bridges.

    ..it’s NOW that voices need to be added to what is being said…but mine has to remain silent because of the IGNORANT.

    Not that am complaining, wouldn’t want to work side and side with such dangerous types anyway….and always have to be watching your back.

    Let’s see if the ones who like to attack me and others add their voices to the choir for their own benefit…

    not holding my breath…

  30. Wily Coyote Avatar
    Wily Coyote

    @David

    Those reporting from their BASEMENTS have proven to be more reliable than those reporting from the FLOOR OF PARLIAMENT. Go figure when the TURD WORLD BASEMENT people are more creditable those in GOVERNMENT the majority of the time.

    Food for thought.

  31. Referenda Avatar
    Referenda

    “Go figure when the TURD WORLD BASEMENT people are more creditable those in GOVERNMENT the majority of the time.”

    Perhaps a brand new good for you Constitutional change could be for more Referenda* that qualify for nationwide ballot* for most law changes by Parliament like in California which is doable with a population the size of 3 or 4 football stadium crowds

    a ballot proposition is a referendum or an initiative measure that is submitted to the electorate for a direct decision or direct vote

  32. Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved Avatar
    Yolande Grant – African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved

    The old constitution no longer in play had option for referenda but NEVER USED because these liars dont believe the population have the right to choose…or make any decisions to benefit themselves and everyone else..

    The pre-independce order they are trying to pass off as a constitution, will have no such option. That document was written specifically for those descents still under emancipation magnetism and muted…those who knew nothing and had no voice….the helpless.

    Are you seeing it now..

    Pacha..the people got their work cut out for them, those who have a functioning brain. I gotta take a pass let them handle that.

  33. Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. Avatar
    Yolande Grant – African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved.

    See….the frauds were depending heavily on a bill recently rejected so they can clamp down on any dissent or resistance, but it backfired….they were already celebrating and had to pull back claiming someone else posted it..

    The wannabe diktator/slavemaster pretender got jolted…but am sure they know it comes in 3s…that was only the 2nd one..they might even get an extra..they are way too obsessed with statures above their station not to feel the brunt of their decades long evil and stupidity…all their own doing, they needed no help whatsover.

  34. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Waru
    09:23
    12:27

    Can any thing good come from Nazareth?

    There was never, nor will there ever be “any watch muh” to see. Except more pretty talk.

    Have long known that there is nothing about Barbados which has an internal dimension to radically and positively transform.

    As a result, we imagine that everybody looking to “The One” and “The One” doing likewise🤣

  35. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    The notorious hit and run coward.

    Recently released, leaked, internal NATO-Ukraine War files, on Telegram and elsewhere, but also covered in the NYT and elsewhere.

    Showing Ukrainian war dead, casualties, massively higher than reported by the chief propagandists. And Russian losses way lower than the lies reported here by those, like you, whose brain space is propagandized by western media.

    Would constitute evidence, if not conclusive proof, even to fools like you, that the big, mushroom-headed deckie is still firmly planted in yuh Pedantic, Dribbling, poooooooooooooookey.

  36. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    Have long known that there is nothing about Barbados which has an internal dimension to radically and positively transform.
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    Pacha
    There is a category of knowledge wherein you will be proven to have been completely misguided…
    …as in this instant.

  37. Swedish Citizen 92701 Avatar
    Swedish Citizen 92701

    Allow me to interrupt the navel gazing exercise.

    Let them take Coursera courses
    How many times can politicians run a scam on our citizens and the citizen take the line, hook and sinker without questioning the scam (claim).

    Allow me to ask you this, if Barbadians are allowed to take courses on Coursera can you tell me who will benefit. Let me guide you towards the light by asking a few simple questions:
    Do you think it will be those who failed CXC exams will be signing up?
    Do you think it will be those who left school barely mastering ‘reedin, spell inn, and writin?
    Do you think it will be those lacking the basic arithmetic skills?

    I see you there, ready to point out that in this new technical age the emphasis will be on computer skills and not on bookwork. You believe that a man that can barely read and write will navigate his way around a computer and through Coursera courses?

    Don’t you see that this new initiative will not benefit those who need it most, but it would be highly beneficial for those who were more/most successful at the CXC exams?
    Don’t you see that Mia has given you a six for a nine? Mia has given a handout that will be inaccessible to most who truly need it? Here we have a replay of Marie’s Antoinette “Let them eat cake”

    Scammed again.

  38. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Bushie

    We’re always happy to be brought to the right knowledge of your Inner Temple as critically rooted😄

  39. Tron Avatar
    Tron

    The written constitution is indeed only a piece of paper. The 30:0 rise to power in 2018 and the proclamation of the republic were revolutionary acts that overturned the entire previous legal system. The new revolutionary law legitimises itself, it does not need legality based on the old constitution.

    Thus the will of our Supreme Leader is the supreme law in Barbados. She represents the will of the people. Our Supreme Leader unites all powers, just like the benevolent mother of the house in matriarchy. She is at once the legislator, the supreme judge and the executor of her own will.

    Our judges should therefore not take the old constitution as the benchmark for their decisions, but ask themselves in each case which decision comes closest to the leader’s will, implements it best. Speeches by the leader and the party programme are binding guidelines for determining the leader’s will. Only a decision that corresponds to the leader’s will is in harmony with the people’s will and thus with true people’s democracy.

    Tron
    Chief Jester of the Court

  40. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    What parody!?

    Why not just call her goddess?

    Cancel the nonsense of elections and put those you dear to question goddess or god or both to death, starting with Pacha?

    After all that, require goddess to provide us an heir to continue that sacred bloodline?

  41. de pedantic Dribbler Avatar
    de pedantic Dribbler

    LOLLL … I can only marvel at your fanaticism brother. You have absolutely no interest in objectively dissecting Herr Vladimir’s actions … so more power to you.

    I recall writing here briefly on details from the war but I certainly don’t recall shilling for Zelensky and his crew on what are CLEARLY bogus deaths reports .

    Get real guy, this is a freaking war no combatan will provide ACCURATE details .  

    It’s left to rational folks to seek info from independent sources where feasible but moreso use practical judgements … like for example how can Russian (and Ukrainian) deaths not be high in such devastating bombardments in a war now over 1 year!!!

    How can Russian casualties not be high when they have had to call up MORE reserves (even from their prisons) and then have the ‘double jeopardy’ of sending these recruits with limited training to the front. Some will be killed just by stupid error surely.

    And the same applies to Ukraine! Steeupse.

    The simply fact is that thousands … likely hundreds of thousands of young men have been lost on both sides … all because of your awesome hero!

    BTW … how is that push to restrict NATO from Russian boundaries going ! Working like a charm clearly … now he has his excuse (finally) to detonate your end days desire.

    Madness!

  42. John Avatar
    John

    If we can’t even understand the simple English of the Constitution as it is written requiring that Parliament have a Leader of the Opposition, why would we be able to understand and discuss if there is or isn’t a Constitution?

    Parliament has been unconstitutional since 2018 if there is a constitution.

    If there isn’t, then Parliament has been unconstitutional since 1966.

    Either way you cut it, everything that an unconstitutional Parliament has done is null void and of no effect during the period it has been unconstitutional.

  43. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    It will be hilarious (pun tried) if it turns out that a country with more lawyers per square inch than any other – having been churned out from a Cave on a Hilary – could not get a basic constitution in place correctly.

    The most amazing aspect so far has been the COMPLETE failure of those responsible to address the concerns raised in any formal, EDUCATED, enlightened, manner.

    …quite reminiscent of the lack of response to accusations of persons in high office having false (on no) qualifications, and hence being accused of fraud….

    What a place…
    Where else on EARTH could the “Barbados Slave Code” have originated…?

  44. Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved.. Avatar
    Yolande Grant – African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved..

    “After all that, require goddess to provide us an heir to continue that sacred bloodline?”

    Would have saved me a lot of grief if they had focused instead on getting a bloodline out of Empire Pacha…..to appease that crazy obsession…look where all this has landed them.

  45. The number Zero (0) Avatar
    The number Zero (0)

    The number Zero (0) was invented in Iraq.
    Some people still cannot comprehend it in their logic.

    Like nagging women who always want more and John who keeps repeating an inane illogical point with skewered reasoning and faulty programmers who have bugs in their code.

    The first recorded zero appeared in Mesopotamia around 3 B.C. The Mayans invented it independently circa 4 A.D. It was later devised in India in the mid-fifth century, spread to Cambodia near the end of the seventh century, and into China and the Islamic countries at the end of the eighth.

  46. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    You probably mean to say that the CONCEPT of zero was first understood and articulated in Iraq…..etc
    The number zero is (and always has been) an integral and unavoidable component of the Laws of Nature which existed from the beginning of time.

  47. Bad Boyz Avatar
    Bad Boyz

    You can be negative reactionary dismissive like a Stush Bush..

    Zero is a number which quantifies a count or an amount of null size. In most cultures, 0 was identified before the idea of negative things (i.e., quantities less than zero) was accepted. As a value or a number, zero is not the same as the digit zero, used in numeral systems with positional notation.

    Shine like Shyne Moses Michael Levi Barrow the Belizean rapper and politician. He is the Leader of the Opposition in the Belize House of Representatives, and the leader of the Belize United Democratic Party.

  48. Negative People Avatar
    Negative People

    People will always be negative with their bias misinterpreting messages and news as is displayed on the BU and in other countries where prejudice is rampant

  49. minimising = reduce to the smallest possible amount or degree Avatar
    minimising = reduce to the smallest possible amount or degree

    Posters on the net love to vent and argue
    even more than face to face real life

  50. John Avatar
    John

    The number Zero (0) on April 8, 2023 at 6:27 AM said:
    Rate This

    The number Zero (0) was invented in Iraq.
    Some people still cannot comprehend it in their logic.

    Like nagging women who always want more and John who keeps repeating an inane illogical point with skewered reasoning and faulty programmers who have bugs in their code.

    The first recorded zero appeared in Mesopotamia around 3 B.C. The Mayans invented it independently circa 4 A.D. It was later devised in India in the mid-fifth century, spread to Cambodia near the end of the seventh century, and into China and the Islamic countries at the end of the eighth.

    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
    74. (1) There shall be a Leader of the Opposition, who shall be appointed by the Governor-General by instrument under the Public Seal.

    No need to understand the concept of zero to understand that there is no Leader of the Opposition and that there can be no Parliament!!

    It is there in simple unambiguous English and all that is required is an understanding of English.

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