Smoke and Mirrors (part 3)

Submitted by Observing
The Honourable Prime Minister Mia Mottley, Lawyer

The deafening silence of a large segment of the public where national socio-political matters are concerned is concerning.

Politics aside, all uh we have some part to play in the growth of the country and the development of the generation that will pay our pensions. If we don’t well crappo smoke we pipe.

The recent signing of a “mission Barbados” agreement was the latest attempt at using smoke and mirrors to rub cliches and prescribed narratives in our faces at a time when robust national discourse and debate should be revealing true true ideas and real real solutions to our ever pressing and ever looming challenges.

How in heavens name can it be claimed that labour is fully on board with Government, when CTUSAB the umbrella body was not present (Caswell either).

What do these six points mean from a policy perspective, or are we still satisfied rhetoric is a good replacement for reality and good governance?



What about the manifesto “promises”? Have those “promises” been kept as yet??

The IMF advisor cum Central Bank Governor is clearly an eternal optimist since nothing pronounced so far indicates any concern about anything.

What about the variable interest rates on our low interest rate loans?? Are these the siblings of the Dodds Prison USD/BDS confusion?

The bank failures in the US are a sign of things to come but clearly we continue smartly with no foreign exchange earning capacity and increasing debt and debt service expenditure.

One again all the eggs are in the tourism basket while the other baskets are “prettied” up just for show. God help us.

Let’s not even get started on education non-reform. 5 years after the platform speech, hundreds of thousands spent and we are exactly where we were 5 years ago. No where.

Nutrtion policy, national assessment? Different day, same smoke.

Back in 2000 the then Minister pushed too hard too fast and without listening to those on the ground or taking advice. Sounds familiar?

By the way, where is the media????

Can they uncover the Dale Marshall and Joes River saga?

Will they touch the the extradited/kidnapped Trinidadian affair?

Will we ever see the terms of the loans that have not increased?

Will anyone ask what the hell Senior Ministers really do?

Will they uncover a full list of consultants? Especially those that recently retired from jobs and waltzed back into Government?

Are we to believe the recent unemployment figures?? Really??

In any case, it is always said that “we like it so.”

The absence of a serious opposition or loud civic voices allows it to continue.

Upward and onward we shall inspired exulting free.

135 thoughts on “Smoke and Mirrors (part 3)


  1. These flights of fantasy by Mottley are a natural development, even corrolory, of a decades old American intelligence project of “democracy” promotion through the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) as started sometime back in the 80s by the Ronald Reagan administration as the means of outsourcing these previous functions from the CIA to a network of NGOs across the globe.

    With the NED the chief paymaster, of course!

    Is was never really about democracy, per se It was more about the American external interference in the elections of titularly sovereign states. If for instance these same methods were deployed in American elections, such NGO do-gooder would have been rounded up and sent to jail. Even the now discredited Russian interference claims in the 2016 election pantomime proves this.

    A presumed social system, serving American imperial interests, but posing as a good to the world was akin to the iron fist hidden beneath the velvet glove.

    This fake democracy has delivered us the malformations we have throughout the political culture. A parade of personalities which, across the board, lack the metal needed to confront existential crises.

    Mottley is a child of this politics of tinsel. A politics devoid of historical struggle. A politics deeply commited to caricature. A politics which normalizes even the absence of competitive ethos, the cut snd thrust of tigorous debate – an artificial polity.

    The late great Fidel Castro was the first to observe the aims of such a state of affairs was to destroy democracy, not deepen it. So now, a degenerative culture producing successive “poor-rakey parliaments” can now be led to advocating that the quality of live social costs are to be borne by appeals to the tender mercies of strangers.

    This is the fake democracy some here still look to. As they renew hope against hope that somehow a popular correlation of forces would do the impossible of getting a sound out of this drum.

    As a result, Mottley’s “geh muh de vote and watch muh” was never about radical transformation but transporting Barbados, as beggar, to the sick fantasies of oligarchs.


  2. @Observing

    The challenges facing small developing countries are real. This reality makes it very important for island nations like Barbados to make smart/efficient decisions whether strategic or operational. There is a role for our leaders to play on the international stage the blogmaster will agree but not at the cost of neglecting domestic policy and issues. Domestic and foreign policy must be in consonant.


  3. How is there any symbiosis between domestic and foreign policies when, at home, financialization is being carried to hithertofore unknown irrational levels, and internationally, when most of the important world countries are carving a diametrically different future?

    We explain! Earlier on Mottley invested much on relationships with Afrika. Well, almost every single Afrikan country is with haste seeking to jettison Washington Consesus philosophy, praxis, while Mottley is ineluctable a stooge of such.

    The same case could be made for the countries of Asia, the America’s.

    Where is the consonance?


  4. Growth of the Mind
    Barbados is not a nation of Bussa Rebels
    When the slaves were freed
    they just became freed slaves
    and then business as usual
    as British as the Brits
    mentally and culturally
    2022-3 the New Republic has lost momentum and direction
    state of complacent


  5. Why complain about Ms. Mockley?

    No one has done anything about the unconstitutional Parliament.

    Not the DLP or any of the many and varied opposition parties whose names I forget … well, to be truthful, I remember one, Solutions.

    There is no opposition in Parliament from where the opposition people seem to be imagining and saying they want is supposed to come.

    John Citizen should be out making a living not wasting time worrying about being robbed by crappy politicians.

    That’s the purpose of an opposition in Parliament is in John Citizen’s constitution which John Citizen does not seem to comprehend.

  6. Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved on said:

    Playing both sides against the middle and got stuck in the middle/muddle of their own creation, exactly what they signed up for, cartoon caricatures.

  7. Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. on said:

    Pacha..

    “Half the human population will be obsolete in just 10 years”

    Anywhere around 300 million white collar jobs due to be lost to AI over the next several years.

    Blue collar workers due to be replaced with robots….those will be in the hundreds of millions, possibly billions..

    Forget back to normal, there is no such thing.

    Weeee always heard they were expendable, maybe now they will believe it..

  8. Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. on said:

    The word is out, all CONFORMISTS will be replaced.

    Check with ya Empire representative for more details.

    did we not warn them Pacha, William, Bushman, Miller, TLSN etc…i want the religious, political windbags/slaves gone first. .

  9. Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. on said:

    Misled straight “over a cliff” by traitor politicians and their little imps pimps and minions, who can no longer pretend they were not part of it…..

    .William…huh..

  10. Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. on said:

    Yep…religious and political azzholes first….politics is also a cult that deserves permanent banishment.

    “100 People Starve To Death As Religious Cult Tries To Go To Heaven In Kenya

    A Kenyan religious group leader who encouraged his followers to die in order to unite with their deity is under investigation for murder.

    Authorities say several children were strangled to death as they were among around 100 victims of the death cult who were buried in a mass grave.”

    Read again, sick and tired of the brainwashed, indoctrinated idiots..a drain on everyone..

  11. Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. on said:

    Keep ya eyes open….thieves dont sleep when they plan a heist…

    “Commonwealth Indigenous Leaders Demand King’s Apology For Colonization’s Effects

    Indigenous leaders from across the Commonwealth have banded together to demand that King Charles III apologize formally for the impact of so-called British colonization and demanded the redistribution of the wealth of the Crown as reparations.

    Campaigners from 12 countries wrote a letter to the new monarch just days before his coronation in London. It urges him to initiate “a formal apology and for a process of reparatory justice to commence.”

    Titled “Apology, reparation, and repatriation of artifacts and remains,” the letter has been signed by representatives from Antigua and Barbuda, Aotearoa (New Zealand), Australia, the Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Grenada, Jamaica, Papua New Guinea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, according to the Guardian.”


  12. The term “mission” is not only associated with corporate strategy.

    It’s had its usage in military and other matters.

    But “mission” within the Catholic Church is not limited to issues of evangelism.

    It’s not only a verb but a noun as well.

    Defining a place which the church sets up, normally around the precinct where paupers, beggars, drug addicts, mad people, the homeless, go to find food, to get a night’s sleep, a change of clothing and maybe an intervention from their god.

    Of course, many dangers lay in wait, security can never be guaranteed in these “missions”. All comers are highly vulnerable, even the worst of the worst. The most the church can do is to act after somebody is raped, etc.

    Of course, hygiene leaves much to be desired.

    Are there any differences between missions of the moneyed classes and these Catholic missions?

    Mission Barbados!


  13. Whenever 555 makes a strong and solid point, I accuse him of getting his hand on good stuff and the idiot not realizing that it is a compliment cusses me out.

    Looking at Pacha contributions to this post, it seems as if at 10:45 p.m. and at 9:38 a.m he found good stash. Before the abuse starts in other words 10:45 p.m is brilliant.

    Smoke on! Smoke in peace.

  14. Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. on said:

    ‘ Mission Barbados!”

    That word used in the bajan context seemed odd….out of place.


  15. We sometimes wonder whether the likes of a Tom Adams or an Errol Barrow, with all their flaws, could have been the best representation of what they could have been, given this historical moment.

    Maybe, it would have taken a best leader, we’ve never had, like a Whynter Crawford, to be the person of moment. Maybe?

    Even with the deeply held misgivings about what is generally called leadership.

    For Mia Mottley aint it! She just aint!


    • Enuffffff
      We tooooo were waiting to see whether somebody will return, from the grave, to help the country of Mia Mottley.

      And yes, we still comcede that she has the most difficult prime ministerial assignment in the history of the country.

      The problem is that times even more difficult will soon beset us. And there is nobody else, on your side, and the other side does not even exist. So what are we to do.

      I fact if the other side did exist together we’ll have the most poorakey parliament in the history of Westminster.

      So what must we do but seek council from the dead – the has beens and the never weres😝


  16. Wordy Bajans are in their heads
    not in their body expressing anger
    not black in conventional rebel sense
    a worthless nation of Theos and GPs

  17. Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. on said:

    Patrick King got a loud speaker and he is in Broad Street bellowing….


    • Patrick King who promoted the government until they got elected twice, now he has seen the light…and having none of it.

      Good looking woman. A pity she was not publicly owned by her descendants.

      Am owning everyone of my ancestors, slave master our no. ..we are supposed to be more enlightened.

      https://cantoinettestudios.com/artwork/4452400-Rachel%20Pringle.html


  18. @David
    The only policy that takes priority is “look good at all costs” and “shut up anybody that might make you look bad”.

    Everything else is secondary!

    • Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. on said:

      They hit him with a defamation suit for saying something or the other, it has been rolling along so long and has become obscure the real reason got lost…his reasoning is, since they have no constitution they should not be pretending there is a functioning judiciary…and he actually tapped into human rights agencies, so he has receipts and is resisting them….they are telling him to take it to a constitutional court while attempting to prosecute him.


  19. The case is probably due to his social media comments about the Public Workers’ Co-operative Credit Union in January 2023. Him and John Knox are the Info Wars’ Alex Jones of Barbados regarding Constitution and both should be sued in legal action to the value of their estates plus some more, where they will probably claim as defense they are character actors telling fictional stories


    • Patrick King has a problem to solve. He premises his action on the fact a Barbados Court is unconstitutionally constituted. Here is the question he must answer, which court will be appeal to to justify his position when he is held in contempt of court as he promises to do when he is summons?


    • The comment below this demonstrates the true nature of the innate Bajan typology of dictatorship.

      Long gone are the days of minority rights.

      Long gone are the days when aggrieved persons could seek judicial redress.

      Certainly, the absence of a court to which Patrick King may appeal to, cannot in and of itself, represent the merits or demerits of his case.

      And if that were the case the state has a duty to properly constitute such a judicial process.

      As a citizen he deserves a hearing. Not so prevented by the actions, omissions, bureaucratic hurdles of the very government against which a claim is to be made.

      That he faces legal hurdles which impose an inordinate burden on him used to be the very reason this system said it was different, better, than those which so behaved.

      Bajans, all of them, have a dictatorial bent!

  20. Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. on said:

    Pacha..dont know why they dont stop their fraud and pretense. These judiciaries are too corrupt to function, and as said, like everything else on these islands, they have been neglected by those aiming to assign blame…and trying to absolve themselves of culpability..

    https://stlucianewsnow.net/oecs-bar-association-strongly-condemning-recent-statements-made-by-barbados-pm-and-st-vincent-pm-which-clearly-constitute-an-attack-on-the-independence-of-the-judiciary/


  21. David
    on May 4, 2023 at 4:29 PM said:
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    Patrick King has a problem to solve. He premises his action on the fact a Barbados Court is unconstitutionally constituted. Here is the question he must answer, which court will be appeal to to justify his position when he is held in contempt of court as he promises to do when he is summons?

    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    Parliament is unconstitutional!!

    Everything it has done since 2018 is null void and of no effect.

    That includes judge appointments!!

    If he is lucky enough to have a judge appointed after 2018, he could ask her to recuse herself on the grounds that her court is unconstitutionally constituted!!

    That would set the cat among the pigeons!!

    • Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. on said:

      He did ask the Marva person to recuse herself, she told him find a constitutional court.

      Everything in that judiciary and the island constitutes fraud and corruption…and that is what upsets the OECS Bar, because they know these pretenders are working overtime and overreaching to clean up filthy images…in VAIN…they are acting like no one knows them and their track records..


    • No lawyer, but could never understand how this woman could singlehandedly bend every institution within the country, without any real civil opposition, without long overstepping boundaries of probity, as though there are no limits worthy of respect.

      And there seems not to be a single real man around de place, in the party, to put a pistol wipping in her ass.

      This shall not end well. For if Bajans presume that this Mottley toothpaste can be put back into the tube, this will be an even higher level of self delusion.


  22. Oh Jesus Christ!

    Frabklyn and Depieza as heads ot their unions are out against the Mission Barbados as declared on May Day.

    Why, because of its attempted dictatorial imposition by Mottley.

    At least some sign of life still remains. We were beginning to think that the absolute dictator had an absolute 100 percent of the power in Barbados.

    That a prime minister of a titularly democratic country would seek to impose these mandates on trade unions in such a high handed fashion, under any guise, is not out of step with the behaviours of the worst dictators in the history of mankind.

    Who de rasssoul this woman tink she is?


    • For fucks sake, did you read the thread.

      ‘How in heavens name can it be claimed that labour is fully on board with Government, when CTUSAB the umbrella body was not present (Caswell either)’
      You are the first comment
      Pachamama on May 3, 2023 at 7:06 PM said:
      Observer!!
      So right.

      And now all of a sudden, more than 24hrs after, you realised CUTSAB and CF didn’t know/sign off.

      Steupse


  23. Patrick King (presumably no relation to David ‘BU’ King) is barking up the wrong tree again.

    Constitution or no Constitution does not invalidate laws of the land, Courts and rulings made and this issue is a red herring.


    • Red herring or now. He deserves a hearing within a properly constituted court.

      The same why you’ve made that judgement, let a real judge do too.


  24. “He deserves a hearing within a properly constituted court.”

    He will have his day in Court and the Judge will make his/her ruling


    • How is any day ‘a day in court’, if the judge is or could be a subject of the complaint?

      Barrow was right. If you want justice in Barbados it’s best to stay out of Coleridge Street.

      No worries though. There will be a price to be paid eventually.

      Just like the people here who supported the dictatorial mandatory vaccination of people, having found to be so wrong, are at it again.

      Anybody perceived to be going against the grain is demonized. When these are the very people we should most highly value.

  25. Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. on said:

    “And there seems not to be a single real man around de place, in the party.”

    If only there were real men and not a bunch of sit around and do nothing cowards and sissies, bobbleheaded yes men and frauds for women waiting for the next scam to materialize so they can partake..in the next cavalcade of corruption.


  26. “How is any day ‘a day in court’, if the judge is or could be a subject of the complaint?”

    keep up..
    the story so far..

    Patrick King published on facebook that the Public Workers Credit Union had liquidity problems and told people to withdraw their savings.

    They served a cease and desist notice but he continued with the allegations and they are suing him for defamation endangering the banks reputation on deluded and unfounded rumours and nearly causing a run on the bank as several customers withdrew their funds.

    His new ‘conspiracy theory’ is the Courts are unconstitutional, but he has not got a leg to stand on..


    • If this is true, he cannot shout “fire” in a theatre.

      Certainly, he also cannot violate a court order regardless to the status of the court, in his mind.

      Well, some of the greatest people in history were thought to be mad. Maybe he is too.

      But if he can risk the court cost, give him a venue to prove his case.


  27. Pachamama
    on May 4, 2023 at 5:49 PM said:
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    No lawyer, but could never understand how this woman could singlehandedly bend every institution within the country, without any real civil opposition, without long overstepping boundaries of probity, as though there are no limits worthy of respect.

    And there seems not to be a single real man around de place, in the party, to put a pistol wipping in her ass.

    This shall not end well. For if Bajans presume that this Mottley toothpaste can be put back into the tube, this will be an even higher level of self delusion.

    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    That’s the reason a parliamentary opposition is the sine qua non.

    Parliament does not exist as has been the case since 2018, it cannot without an opposition.

    30-0 in a nullity, it can’t produce a parliament.


    • Sine qua non!

      We see no essential quality, ingredient, with a LoO. Not within this epoch.

      Barrow and Adams, even Bree, had strong personalities on their sides to present internal opposition, intellectual rigour. Mottley does not appear to and would most likely sideline all such forces attempting to constrain her excesses.

      We put it to you that the temperment of Mottley predisposes her to behave in the same ways even if she had a numerical opposition greater than a mere Leader.

      Indeed, in the last parliament she had one of her own as titular LoO and that is when she was most viciously authoritarian. So much so that not a boy tried that this time around. Therefore allowing a well-paid post to go unfilled. We’re sure several on the back bench, maybe a few up front too, have salivated over it. But not a boy dares to go to the GG, or whatever.

      Further, if she had a 16-14 numerical majority nothing would change. Some may argue that she was even running things, partially, and was influencing the DLP to give her people jobs, getting them to invest in the hotel project etc when she was on the other side.

      So no! The DNA of this political animal cannot be properly understood by merely using quips from Greece. When the general attitudes of the population are considered, the tectonic shifts globally, and so on, a much deeper systems analysis is required.

      But it ain’t looking good!


    • You ain’t observe yet dat Observing is a DLP yardfowl pimp?


    • LOL @ Enuff…

      So is that wunna strategy then…?

      To throw so much jobby around, that we can’t keep up with the mopping up…?

      Shiite man!!!
      Before one set of poop can be flushed – sometimes even before it can be properly located, wunna dumping another load on the poor brass bowls..?

      Cuh dear nuh!
      …even brass bowls deserve an occasional break from the lotta shiite.


    • Jordan: Signing was not a secret
      Minister of Labour Colin Jordan is challenging the Congress of Trade Union and Staff Associations of Barbados’ (CTUSAB) claims of a lack of consultation on the Declaration of Mission Barbados.
      In a statement yesterday Jordan said that he was laying out the facts of the matter after reading the “mind boggling” claim by the General Secretary of CTUSAB that the organisation was not “properly consulted” “. . . The General Secretary had himself made significant input in determining the challenges and the missions and, beyond that, went on to share many of his perspectives on the implementation of the Missions. None of the consultations we had with partners lasted less than an hour-and-a-half. At the meeting which lasted an hour-and-a-half, the General Secretary of CTUSAB was the dominant contributor, agreeing with the missions and sharing extensively on how they should be implemented.
      “There was never any acceptance by me of the consultation process being inappropriate, on any grounds,” Jordan’s statement read.
      Meeting in December
      The minister listed seven points, the first of which was that the mission started at the Social Partnership meeting of December 9, 2022, where CTUSAB was represented by president, Edwin O’Neal and general secretary, Dennis De Peiza with Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley leading the discussion and indicating a desire to have consultations leading to a signing on May Day 2023.
      During a roundtable discussion of the Social Partnership and other industry leaders on February 1, 2023, CTUSAB was represented by its president and there was a Zoom meeting on missions and enablers on February 15 in which the president participated, Jordan said in his statement.
      National missions
      In addition, said the minister, a meeting was held with workers’ organisations on April 13 to decide on the national missions, during which the general secretary participated, agreed to the challenges and missions, and made
      significant input on implementation.
      “A meeting to continue drafting the missions within the context of a Protocol was held on April 19 which CTUSAB’s General Secretary attended. Based on representations made at the meeting it was subsequently decided to focus only on the Challenges and Missions and not a Protocol. The meeting to finalise the Declaration document with the Challenges and Missions was held on April 25 via Zoom. CTUSAB did not attend this meeting.
      “Contact was made with CTUSAB on the evening of April 25 to share orally and by electronic document what was discussed earlier that day by the other social partners, including that the Declaration related only to the Challenges and Missions, which were already discussed and agreed, and not a Protocol. The Protocol would be the work of the next 12 months,” the statement read.
      May Day signing
      Jordan pointed out that the intention for a May Day signing was on the table from the start and was not a surprise for anyone, “including the General Secretary of CTUSAB”.
      “For him to say he had no knowledge of the document is disingenuous, to put it very mildly. CTUSAB, by letter dated April 11, received at 8:59 p.m. on April 27 and signed by the General Secretary, referring to a meeting of the officers of the Congress on April 27, indicated that it had not received a mandate to sign off on the Declaration on May 1. That was extremely surprising as the General Secretary of CTUSAB had already made significant input in determining the Challenges and the Missions.
      “At all times that Mr [Dennis] De Peiza participated in the consultations we took it that he was participating as invited – a representative of CTUSAB (its General Secretary). If he was engaging in the process in his personal capacity, he did not make the ministry or myself aware. Further, I do not think it appropriate that national development should be negatively impacted by any personal or organisational challenges the General Secretary of CTUSAB may be having externally or internally. We have an obligation to place the national interest first.
      “We continue to live in challenging times and the country is depending on capable, committed leaders in every sphere of endeavour,” Jordan said.
      (PR/AC)


      Source: Nation


    • Whither the workers when labour unions are divided
      Today’s Editorial
      “You cannot fight a common cause if you’re fighting yourself, internally and externally.” – Dennis De Peiza, General Secretary of the Congress of Trade Unions and Staff Associations of Barbados (CTUSAB) during his May Day speech.
      May 1 remains a significant day on our calendar. It is a day dedicated to workers and workers’ rights. It is to be celebrated in a country built by workers who were enslaved, marginalised and victimised based only on the colour of their skin.
      Much has been done over the years, and many strides made, to ensure that long after the abolition of slavery, workers receive proper pay, but we are also well aware that workers’ grievances vary.
      While inadequate pay remains one of the biggest issues, other factors contribute to employee dissatisfaction. Because of this, strong, robust and active unions are needed. The working class, in particular, who can least afford expensive legal aid, depend heavily on the unions to fight their battles.
      So, it was disheartening to report Tuesday on our back page, a story headlined Labour Divide. In that article, CTUSAB and the Unity Workers’ Union (UWU) complained that they had no input in the historic May Day Declaration of Mission Barbados document that was signed off by other major labour stakeholders at the Barbados Worker’s Union (BWU) May Day event.
      CTUSAB general Secretary Dennis DePeiza said his organisation was not properly consulted and given time to consider the document, while UWU general secretary Caswell Franklyn said his union was not approached for consultation at all.
      Minister of Labour Colin Jordan however outlined in a statement that detailed a series of meetings, that CTUSAB was engaged and made contributions during the consultation. No mention was made of the UWU.
      DePeiza and CTUSAB president Edwin O’Neal used their event at Golden Square Freedom Park to rally against “divisions in the labour movement”.
      Barbadians have also been commenting on social media and on callin programmes about the absence of the Barbados Union of Teachers (BUT) from the signing in light of the fact that the union has been extremely vocal in matters concerning schools, agitating more and holding the feet of the Ministry of Education to the fire.
      Years ago, when matters relating to schools arose, it was the Barbados Secondary Teachers’ Union (BSTU) whose voice was heard the loudest. Not so in recent times.
      Barbadians too have observed and commented that Minister Jordan was wearing a BWU shirt at the May Day celebrations held by that union in association with the National Cultural Foundation.
      The labour movement must be preoccupied with constantly advocating for the workers of Barbados. Energy, time and speeches should not be focused on getting in bed with Government or, on the other hand, scoring cheap political points if you oppose the Government.
      The single focus of any trade union must be the betterment and advancement of the workers. There simply is no time or place for internal or external divide.
      We, therefore, urge the unions in Barbados to get on with the job of uplifting the island’s workers.

      Source: Barbados Today


    • @Bush Tea

      A leader by definition has to be an autocrat because what a leader sees in the future regular folks struggle to keep up. A good leader must be able to sell it to key stakeholders to get required numbers onboard. The challenge any leader in Barbados will have is what again?


  28. | “30-0 in a nullity, it can’t produce a parliament.” |

    the nullity represents the opposition parties who won 0 seats
    They couldn’t produce an opposition in parliament


  29. Logic 101 on May 5, 2023 at 4:38 AM said:

    They couldn’t produce an opposition in parliament

    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    “They could not produce a parliament with the mandatory opposition”.

    There is no parliament.

  30. Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. on said:

    “To throw so much jobby around, that we can’t keep up with the mopping up…?”

    Leave them, while they are throwing jobby, the only strategy they know and tools they have….others are digging and finding the truth of their REAL AGENDAS and it’s just as evil and decidedly more criminal than we thought…but let them carry on smartly….weeee will be waiting at the other end…


  31. We see somebody above writing some shiiite bout leadership.

    As someone who’s spent nearly an entire adult life studying, reading, lecturing about leadership we’ve never seen those elements in any of the models, anywhere in the literature.

    Lies, lies, lies – to protect the maximum ideologue. Who does not know where she’s going. And like any crazed evangelist “is making it up as she goes along” Waru 3:16.

    Bullshiiite!


  32. “There is a Parliament” is a truth
    here is the proof
    https://www.barbadosparliament.com/

    Propositional Logic
    1. take premises
    2. apply logic
    3. derive valid conclusions

    “There is no parliament” is a faulty inference
    I refer you to the video below to grasp the basic concept of logic before rabbiting on on a tangent for another 20 moon cycles as it is tedious


  33. No opposition => No Parliament

    House of assembly existed in 2018 and there were 30 duly elected members.

    But the House could not form a Parliament because there is no opposition which is mandatory.

    Everything the House of Assembly has done is null void and of no effect because it never formed a constitutional Parliament


  34. … including purporting to prorogue Parliament in 2022!!

    The 2022 elections are null void and of no effect so there isn’t at the moment even a House of Assembly.


  35. John

    The election of members is not a function performed by the constitution, that was, but by the people.

    If you agree, how then can members so elected control for the absence of at least one on the other side?

    Law always balances a right with an obligation. The people have a right to vote. Where in the constitution is an obligation to elect an opposition member?

    John, we must say that your reasoning does not adhere to logic.

    The truth is that this elected dictatorship represents a symptom that your so-called Westminster system, even as turned republic like dey say, is fatally flawed.

    • Yolande Grant - African OnlinePublishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. on said:

      And can be rightfully labeled:

      The Traitor Republic…

      You have no other.

      There must be a reckoning..

  36. Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. on said:

    Wuhloss, Pacha, William, TLSN etc…wuh is that saying again….ya could hide and buy land but ya cahn hide and wukk um…

    A notice is going around stating that:

    ” Covid – 19 Recovery Inc Barbados was registered at corporate affairs in October, 2019″….months and months BEFORE any pandemic…

    ..ya traitor liars set up the people….and did not expect the scandal THEY themselves set up would start to haunt them…with their own back-to-back scandals EVERY DAY, unless and until…

    Remember those covid19 crooks…jumped to the front..


  37. The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
    Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
    Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
    Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.

    • Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. on said:

      It’s done…US is stopping vaccine mandates for entry next week May 11…

      It’s only the ignorant little islanders trying to hold on to the absolute small power they so enjoyed…dont want the many parties they throw and pretense to end…

      Now for the fallout…buckle up.


  38. Waru
    Yuh right as shiiite. In a country right now which is continuing wid the shiiite protocols like idiots.

    When months ago these could have been stopped, maybe up to a year ago.

    These things only happen when yuh got idiots like Mia Mottley slavishly following her masters in Washington. Trying to be more loyal to the system than even the masters are or could be.

    • Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. on said:

      They dont want it to end, but they know why…personal opportunities cant knock if it does… but let us see them carrying it forward by themselves…all by their lonesone, the only ones in the world..when everyone else has stopped.


  39. A good read. A bit dated April 23
    https://health.clevelandclinic.org/is-the-pandemic-over/

    If you’ve been watching the news recently, you may have seen that May 11, 2023, is going to be an important day. That’s the day United States President Joe Biden will formally declare both the public health emergency and the national state of emergency for COVID-19 over.

    Does that mean the pandemic is finally gone? Should we be celebrating?

    Unfortunately, no. The COVID-19 pandemic isn’t going anywhere. What’s changing is the U.S. government’s approach, which means prevention, care and treatment are about to become more expensive in America.


  40. My transition from a believer to a sceptic
    In all honesty, I don’t have a clue when it comes to COVID-19.

    I took some vaccines, as I felt it necessary to err on the side of those with real medical training. When it became a booster, then a supplemental booster and then the possibility of boosters ad infinitum I tuned out both sides.

    I am not convince that the deniers or supporters of the usefulness of the vaccine ‘fully’ know what they are talking about. I think it is a coin toss. My suggestion, do what you feel will help you to live another day.


  41. The Barbados opposition are still very much alive with DLP (Ronnie Yearwood), Solutions Barbados (Grenville Phillips II), Alliance Party for Progress (Joseph Atherley), Bajan Free Party (Alex Mitchell), New Barbados Kingdom Alliance (Apostle Lynroy Scantlebury) and Barbados Sovereignty Party (Michael Thompson),

    But, by application of the three strikes rule, if they fail to win anything again next time around, they will be out of the game.

    Anyhow, that is enough pretending that I care about Barbados politics and I would just like to say R.I.P. Linda Lewis..


  42. @555
    You and I must stop poking at each other.

    We should declare peace.

    I will bring the peace pipe. I know you will bring some of your good stuff.

  43. Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved on said:

    Pacha…the reveals are fast and furious ..

    ..was telling a Jamaican man about this in a meeting some time back,he was wondering why he saw so much Spain in his lineage, apart from the fact that Spain also colonized Jamaica and other islands.

    https://youtu.be/L3XKNTzWxHU


  44. YOU are the one poking away you batty bwoy
    Boom bye bye Inna batty bwoy head Rude bwoy no promote no nasty man Dem haffi dead Boom bye bye Inna batty bwoy head Rude bwoy no promote no nasty man Dem haffi dead

  45. Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. on said:

    That peace treaty lasted just as long as the Sudanese one, 5 minutes lol.


  46. @ WURA, Pacha
    Anybody can take up a Nation or Advocate and read the exact cures and solutions that were being bandied about fifty years ago. Nine and a half out of ten failed.
    The unions were united under Sir. Grantley; then they were united under Barrow; now they are united under Mottley. In other words, the workers are supportive of their party and the party leader.
    The only genuine trade unionist maybe Caswell Franklyn . We don’t have unions , we have people who will surrender their rights as workers on the alter of their political party and leader.

    • Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. on said:

      Slaves to salaries, stealing from taxpayers…all of them.

      The people are seeing they should never allow themselves to be dragged along like sheep…there will be resistance, started already..


    • William Skinner

      Quite true!

      Only this time we judge the orders of magnitude to be much larger, and the wages for this misleadership classism will be non-linear!

      Sometimes the general impression is given that countries mostly go forward, that reversals could easily be recovered, that misleadership (Glenn Ford) is easily corrected. None is true.

      Added, a woman who is best described as a raging lunatic, and followers willing to construct all kinds of justifications for what is done, will be done, a Jim Jones scenario cannot be discounted.

      Forgive us, but the conclusion that insanity is a major driver was unavoidable. How can the proposal to make the country an industrial beggar under this “Mission Barbados” pipedream be otherwise explained. Certainly, not under the rubric of some misleadership vision which has never happened anywhere on earth before and which only one woman has the unique abilities to deliver. Madness!

  47. Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. on said:

    Dont let small island frauds run anymore of their vaccine scams…the party is finally over. I just watched the Ethiopian dude from WHO in a one minute video….TODAY

    Pacha…it’s a wrap..

    “WHO declares end to COVID global health emergency

    LONDON, May 5 (Reuters) – The World Health Organization ended the global emergency status for COVID-19 on Friday more than three years after its original declaration, and said countries should now manage the virus that killed more than 6.9 million people along with other infectious diseases.”


  48. I think the problems with Barbados is due to the heat
    that causes poor thinking and a lackadaisical attitude

  49. Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved on said:

    Pacha, William…..reveals coming up on May 10. Marcia Weekes Show, who knew what as far back as 2018.

    Ya can hide and buy land….but..


  50. TLSN is always sub par when he opens his gob without fail
    His ism and schism blinds his spiritual eye which is intuitive mind

    The article is kosher and copacetic if you read it with an open mind

    prejudice pre-judgement is for below average individuals

    Funkadelic Parlaiment
    One nation under a groove
    free your mind and you black ass will follow

    So wide you can’t get around it
    So low you can’t get under it
    (So low you can’t get under it)
    So high you can’t get over it
    (So high you can’t get over it)
    Da-yee do do do do do do

    This is a chance
    This is a chance
    To dance your way
    Out of your constrictions
    (Tell suckah!)
    Here’s a chance to dance our way
    Out of our constrictions

    Ready or not here we come
    Gettin’ down on
    The one which we believe in
    One nation under a groove
    Gettin’ down just for the funk

    Suleiman Bulbulia is a commissioner on Barbados’s constitutional reform commission and a former member of the republican status transition advisory committee

  51. Yolande Grant - Aftican Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2923. All Rights Reaerved. on said:

    “NEW YORK (AP) — Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, submitted her resignation Friday, saying the waning of the COVID-19 pandemic was a good time to make a transition.

    Walensky’s last day will be June 30, CDC officials said, and an interim director wasn’t immediately named. She sent a resignation letter to President Joe Biden and announced the decision at a CDC staff meeting.”

    TLSN…that’s what black traitors do, was on a zoom meet and this guyanese indian talking about he is representing African guyanese on the instructions of the indian guyanese government and all he could talk about is his curly hair while demonizing and lying on the previous African government….ya done know WHO had their filthy corrupt hands in that…

    ya know how well that went down, first i told the fool….who wants to hear about ya curly hair that is going to fall out anyway, and shut him up permanently….the nerve of these scum and pretenders…..the nerve of the traitor beasts who set up these anti-Afrikan disrespect and insults.

    The evil intent is to keep Africans trapped under corrupt minority criminals, while the begging, borrowiing, TIEFING, dependency and corription continues.

    That is what needs to be taken away from them permanently, the slave system agenda….Pacha

  52. Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. on said:

    That’s it right there Pacha, the path…….the descendants of indian indentured servants, a bunch of backward racists, now beleive they are the slave masters over the descendants of enslaved Africans.

    Similarly the descendants of white indentured servants, another bunch of backward racists…just like the sforementioned those heavily invested in and collude with traitor governments as a criminal syndicate believe they are the slave masters of the descents of the African enslaved…..thanks to EVIL BLACK HANDS that believe themselves black nobility without having the requisite status and stature of that group of dangerous slave traders …..all they got is a tainted traitor bloodline…


  53. The dark thoughts of your mind affect your whole being
    The meditation of the mind clears the mind
    Daily practice has accumulative effects

  54. Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. on said:

    William……ah take it all the reparations talk has hit a ROADBLOCK…3 o’clock..

    With the volumes of black slave masters on the island from the 1700s and possibly BEFORE that, descents would have to sue each other for reparations FIRST …problem with that dey….80% of them are more likely than not COUSINS….

    Told yall you do not understand basic english…when someone keeps telling you about “OUR SHARED HISTORY”…the message is veddy, veddy clear….dont know wuh wuna was hearing, but i heard something completely different.

    .it’s the PRETENDERS hiding their Slave master ancestors from everyone REFUSE TO LISTEN…cause they got their own Slave system agendas to kickstart and cahn be bothered to stop and think…..lol


  55. @Bushie
    Jobby is in abundance. Apparently some people like the smell.

    @Enuff
    Lol. You really think Mr. Jordan wrote that “press release” himself??? And if the buy in of labour was so important why do it on a day when ONLY the BLP controlled unions were present?

    @Frank
    Dat fuh lick ya. If the truth hurts and the cap fits then feel it and wear it.

    Just observing


  56. Pachamama on May 5, 2023 at 9:55 AM said:
    Rate This

    John

    The election of members is not a function performed by the constitution, that was, but by the people.

    If you agree, how then can members so elected control for the absence of at least one on the other side?

    Law always balances a right with an obligation. The people have a right to vote. Where in the constitution is an obligation to elect an opposition member?

    John, we must say that your reasoning does not adhere to logic.

    The truth is that this elected dictatorship represents a symptom that your so-called Westminster system, even as turned republic like dey say, is fatally flawed.

    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    Because you have not read the constitution and choose to remain ignorant dos not mean others have not read it either.

    Read the document!!!

    It is pretty clear and well written.


    • Johnny!

      Yes! Have not had cause to read the constitution since high school.

      But given that, how could any document be well written, as you say, and mek sense if it gives a population a right to vote, leaves it to chance that one party would not get all the seats, and simultaneously says it’s illegal when one side wins all seats leaving the chamber without an opposition leader.

      Since you’ve read it more recently tell us then what should happen when Mottley wins 30-0 again?

      How many times would she have to win 30-0 before losing 29-1 before her government is legal by your reckoning?


    • Pacha one of your better responses.
      What happens when a mathematician applies their logic to the English language.

  57. Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. on said:

    UPDATE:

    According to a voice clip, now that the pandemic show is over….a “State of Law re criminal investigation proceedings” can be triggered against ambitious local and regional players, aka the bullies who terrorized the people for nearly 3 years….and apparently, you dont have to engage any crooked lawyer who would sell your case out…real lawyers are accessible..

    What great news.

  58. Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. on said:

    Since i will no longer touch on certain topics, but can say, the ability for misleaders to deceive the people ARE OVER…..only fowls and Slaves will believe anything going forward, and they DON’T COUNT….

    The other untouchable stuff, i quote……”their days are NUMBERED”.


  59. “Because you have not read the constitution and choose to remain ignorant dos not mean others have not read it either.”

    Just because you have read the Constitution does not mean you understand it..

    .. as you clearly don’t comprende capiche

    1 sentence is not the whole enchilada

  60. Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. on said:

    The REPUTATION:

    “Friday, May 5, 2023
    BARBADOS, WHERE LAWYERS CAN STEAL FROM THEIR CLIENTS WITH IMPUNITY

    Where did Attorney Vonda Pile hide all that money?
    Barbados continues to be the jurisdiction where the local culture not only allows, it actually encourages the local legal profession, swollen with far too many attorneys, to steal estate inheritances, real estate sales proceeds, insurance recoveries, and whatever other client assets they acquire, without any fear of the consequences. We have repeatedly exposed the plight of illiterate clients, who have literally been stolen blind by the lawyers that they trusted.

    Lawyers in Barbados are free to repeatedly break the law, and to victimize their clients one after another, because there simply is no effective self-regulation of a “profession” which has become a Gathering of Thieves who become rich through crime. Some even stray into organized crime, as the firebombing death of a local attorney, together with her entire family, by alleged drug traffickers unhappy she stole criminal proceeds intended to be the subject of money laundering, illustrates.

    Barbados attorney VONDA PILE, who stole almost Bds$200,000 from a client, and who elected to serve three years in prison, rather than return the money, was recently released from custody, and was seen arrogantly representing a new client in court this week. The local Bar Disciplinary Committee advises that they have no jurisdiction to disbar her, because Barbados does not require practising attorneys to be members. Ms. Pile is merely the latest in a very long line of attorney-criminals, who can happily operate with impunity.

    Evil is alive and well in Barbados, living and thriving in a local legal profession driven by greed and avarice, and unchecked by a government itself populated by attorney-politicians. The people absolutely distrust all attorneys as the result, as they should. There is no justice in Barbados.”

    Kenneth Rijock at Friday, May 05, 2023


  61. More, deeper, organic, levels of democracy in China than in the USA, France, Barbados, etc

    With Chinese characteristics!

    Even Vietnam gets a score in the eighty percentile.

    Dispense with the democracy vs autocracy, Bidenist, false dualism for an hour to gain insight into conceptions which are far superior to western European offerings.

    https://youtu.be/mgcyqkEOhQc

    Professor Roland Boer.

  62. Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. on said:

    The reputation is so UGLY worldwide, it beggars belief that they are still running around lying, pretending deceiving and believe someone is impressed, those who are, are deemed nobodies, they dont count..

    Dont hold ya breath they will even try to clean it up, an impossible task….there is too much of it, the corruption infection is now terminal..

    Weeeee would never want to be them…a terrible place, horrifying situation.


    • The master of ceremonies here even once tried to equate Mottley with Putin and Xi.

      When you people this lost, that ignorant, so ignorant that a miniscule circle of awareness purports to contend with the universes – this is toooooo much darkness to enlighten!

      Allow death to be!


  63. @ Pacha
    Perhaps the framers of the constitution presumed that they were dealing with logical, intelligent people, who understood that EVERY good debate REQUIRES that there be a ‘proposer of the Moot’, AND ALSO an OPPOSER – as a basic academic requirement.

    In which case, having elected 30 ‘representatives of the people’, those 30 were EXPECTED to divide themselves into Proposers of policy and OPPOSERS of policy – even if only on a policy-by-policy basis, in the interest of arriving at the best decisions for the COUNTRY.

    Who was to know that the constitution was to be applied to a bunch of brass bowl Bajan clowns – who have settled instead for the interest of the ‘PARTY’ rather than the COUNTRY, and where ‘good decisions’ are therefore seen to be those where opposing views are stifled?

    John is actually quite correct.
    However he is missing the basic point that one should not throw pearls, which were designed for kings, to swine – in the form of brass, and expect the results to be logical.
    …the damn hogs are NOT CAPABLE of understanding the value of pearls – what they value and WANT is mud, slime, and wuk-up…..

    Steupsss..
    The damn place is past its used by date… caused by greed, materialism and unrighteousness – in HIGH and LOW places….
    and as we ALL know now …

    “Quos Deus vult perdere prius dementat”


    • Bushie
      Well sighted!
      This writer never even considered the level of sophistication your insight could have brought to our national affairs.

      Again, you’re right. It would take too high a level of social, political, intellectual development, from what we have now, to even so approach.

      Thanks


    • A post-truth era
      A friend once asked me, “What does it feel like to believe a lie?” The answer he gave me was jarring. “The same way it feels to believe the truth.” Study it for a moment. It may be one of the most important truisms one must come to grips with in what some have described as a post-truth era.
      Oxford Dictionaries declared “post-truth” the word of the year in 2016. They define it as an adjective “relating to circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than emotional appeals.” There are some problems here. Oxford Dictionary defines the word “fact” as “a thing that is known to be true, especially when it can be proved.” If a fact is, in fact, something that can be proven, then aren’t “facts” by definition, “objective truths”?
      When Oxford uses the term “objective facts” does that mean that there are “subjective facts”? Are there then, “facts” which can be proven objectively and “facts” which can’t? The fact is, some facts are not true facts.
      A lot of things that were once known to be true are now known to be false. Some things, like religious truths, were widely taken to be truth on faith and are less so now. Some truths that were scientifically proven to be true were later scientifically proven to be not as true as previously thought. It is probably true that much of what you believe to be true today, will be considered crap in generations to come. This is a hard truth for many to swallow.
      We feel the need to feel like we know the truth.
      The need to feel like you know the truth seems to be greater in most people than the need to actually know the truth. Because to actually know the truth and to feel like you know the truth feel the same. And the first one is harder to accomplish.
      Some have argued that we have recently entered a “post-truth era” where “fake news” and “alternativefacts” capture people’s brains and hearts. But, if you are Black and/ or African you know that we’ve been living in a post-truth era for at least 400 years. Fake news about Africa and Africans has been the norm. History was shaped by false facts about the inferiority of people with darker skin and the superiority of persons with lighter skin. These lies, which were believed to be true, were often backed by government, religion and science.
      If you recall the invasion of Iraq which was justified and sold to the world via major media houses on the basis that Sadam Hussein was stockpiling weapons of mass destruction, it is hard to believe that you would still believe that you ever lived in an era of truth. The truth may be that you have always been living in an era of lies, but you just did not realise. Because believing lies can feel the same as believing truth. But, you just believed the word of those who you believed would know.
      Official sources of information have often not been trust worthy. A post-truth era may just be one where the monopolies on information have been broken. Rather than a posttruth era we live in an information dense era. Information is not as easily monopolised. The problem is though, the information processing and assessing capabilities
      of most people have not kept up with the access to information.
      Many still believe that what they believe is true is true, mainly because they believe it and it feels true. The situation is dangerous because, not only are we still prone to believe lies, the variety of lies on the menu destroys the social stability of shared beliefs.
      Shared beliefs can bring stability even if those beliefs are not true.
      This is why our recite and regurgitate educational system once worked to an extent and is such a problem now. Whether it teaches you to believe religious facts, social facts or scientific facts is not the central issue. It does not teach you the hard skills of working through mountains of information, composed of true and untrue facts. And, to be open to the fact that absolute truth may be beyond reach. This is so necessary today.

      Adrian Green is a communications specialist. Email: adriangreen14@gmail.com

      Source: Nation


  64. Lib Dems’ Ed Davey calls for national debate over UK’s slavery role.
    Davey says King Charles III is ‘moving towards trying to look at this issue with greater subtlety’ than government.

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/may/07/lib-dem-ed-davey-calls-for-national-debate-over-uk-slavery-role

    “The devil is in the details” is an idiom alluding to a catch or mysterious element hidden in the details; it indicates that “something may seem simple, but in fact the details are complicated and likely to cause problems”. It comes from the earlier phrase “God is in the details”, expressing the idea that whatever one does should be done thoroughly; that is, details are important.

    More recently, the expressions “governing is in the details” and “the truth, if it exists, is in the details” have appeared.

    Mr JazziQ | Boiler Room SYSTEM: Amapiano London

  65. Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. on said:

    That is what happens when you put these minion puppet types in charge, the mindsets are always of those who themselves are descended from indentureship or slavery as happened in india as well…but when they think they have arrived and in the parliament telling everyone to loud applause “that illegal immigrants will not be able to take part in the new slave system”…that iz exactly what you get….the wannabes..small islands are infested with them.. told yall reparations are not on the table.

    “Rishi Sunak has ruled out his government making an apology or reparations for slavery. The prime minister told the Commons last month: “Trying to unpick our history is not the right way forward, and it’s not something that we will focus our energies on.”

  66. Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. on said:

    Bushman….do you see part of the problem….am totally against reparations going to corrupt governments .NOT A DIME…..they have done more than enuff damage in the last hundred years…..everyone knows what will happen if they get their scam hands on any…….too many thieves….i believe it should go directly into the hands of descents….bypassing the middle crooks….

    ….but….here is part of the problem…..THEY KNOW the Black groups involved in the slave trade back then, 1600s and coming forward, no matter it was trending and one of the few ways to survive, they also know OBVIOUSLY ..who the descents of these black slave masters are…remember, none of us have perfect ancestors.

    Had the parliament rats not been so deceitful to the people for over half century, misleading them and hiding valuable information that could help…this could have been handled quite differently with much better results…but ya done know who ya dealing with.


  67. How much should Britain pay in reparations?

    After the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833, the British government agreed to pay £20m in compensation to 46,000 slave-owners. The equivalent sum today would be £2bn according to the Bank of England’s inflation calculator. The Caricom Reparations Commission has not put a figure on Britain’s reparations bill. Instead, it issued a 10-point plan that includes debt write-offs for Caribbean governments and contributions to public health and education spending. In 2004, the Rastafarian Nation in Jamaica said European countries once involved in the slave trade, especially Britain, should pay $129bn (£72.5bn) to resettle 500,000 Jamaican Rastafarians in Africa.

    How has Britain responded to calls for reparation?

    In his meeting with the Jamaican prime minister, Cameron ruled out paying reparations reaffirming a long-standing rejection of the idea by the British government. Instead of focusing on the past, Downing Street said he wanted to improve future relations with Jamaica by announcing funding for infrastructure projects and a new prison.


  68. Adrian Greene should have been truthful enough to credit at least one thinker who has dealt with these phenomena.

    They have long shown that ‘a thing is not necessarily true or false, it maybe both true and false’ – is the shorthand.

  69. Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. on said:

    Pacha….check it out….based on comments, people are resigned to outcomes, but not sitting back and waiting.

    “Over 2,000 US Banks Are Insolvent — Telegraph

    Almost half of the 4,800 banks in the US are nearly insolvent, as they have burned through their capital buffers, The Telegraph reported earlier this week, citing a group of banking experts.

    According to Professor Amit Seru, a banking expert at Stanford University, around half of US lenders are underwater.

    “Let’s not pretend that this is just about Silicon Valley Bank and First Republic,” he said. “A lot of the US banking system is potentially insolvent.”


  70. Waru

    Not nearly! Insolvent period.
    Even the four or five big guys. JP Morgan et al.

    Yellen, Biden and Fed Chair Powell are all lying.

    People are so stupid, we’ve just had the biggest bailout, which was supposed to be a baili-in, in the history of mankind and nobody noticed.

    It happened when the FDIC decided to insure deposits about 250k and cover mortgages and bonds held by banks which are underwater because of the inverse relationships with interest rates, without a requirement to mark them to market.

    Inflation, or higher interest rates, which were supposed to trigger a mini recession.

    A recession which was aimed at making poor people poorer and the rich richer.

    They are lost!

    • Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. on said:

      Hence the reason am staying in my corner. Waiting for things to get under control and settle down. Too much turbulence.

      Hopefully the Caribbean can see its way forward sans corrupt dictators….this is their opportunity, lets see if they grab it or remain in a state of flux…begging, borrowing and dependency.


  71. Life is all about…
    Controlling Narratives
    Good Guys Bad Guys
    White Guys Black Guys
    Eastern Guys Western Guys
    Chinese Guys American Guys
    Russian Guys Ukrainian Guys
    Slave Guys Slave Master Guys
    The Art of Spin is all about the Spinners Spinning Spin
    Will USA and UK admit they were Bad People for Slavery?
    Or will they change the narrative to say there are no good and bad people just people
    and USA and UK are now warmly welcoming Africans like equals in the sequels?

  72. Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved on said:

    Pacha…people on the island are up in arms and rightfully so, some health ministey person is seen trying to lure the gullible to be injected with 2 vaccines that have no good track records…

    That is despite WHO saying the nonsense is over very recently …saw where Russia is also stopping the injections…

    ..but not the ignorant idiots who believe in injuring people and destroying lives …they are determined to proceed, but only if allowed. Dont know who they are trying to impress cause no one is

    That’s the problem with them…always doing dumb things to impress……or carry forward some wicked agenda..


  73. From Dominica came Ross University because of a hurricane, presented as a temporary fix at the time.

    Now the Grenadians are worried about SGU. As part of a general fear that Barbados is cannibalising the off shore business of other territories.

    Mia Mottley, say it aint so!

    Barbados has offered incentives which smaller islands can’t. Barbados has far better airlift. Barbados has a much higher development. And on and on.

    But should there not be a modicum of honour even amongst thieves? Or is it just about survival of the fittest? And if that is so, what of
    Skinner’s “One Caribbean”? Or
    Mottley’s lotta shiiite talk bout
    integration.

    • Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. on said:

      Someone just opined that a leash should be applied.

      They are tired of vote beggars, their employees, pretending to be their masters, taking liberties. ..can’t blame them.


  74. The Criteria for the Leader of Opposition in Parliament is the Second Party with most Seats qualifies, but no one could meet that standard.
    It was like when John wanted to run for office but couldn’t find a couple of people to co-sign that he was capable so he did not meet the basic requirement.
    Any elected BLP MP could have gone Independent if they wanted to, but they didn’t feel like it.
    There is nothing in the Constitution that states Parliament is invalidated if no one can meet the criteria to be LOO.


  75. @ Pacha
    My Brother, “
    “Skinner’s Caribbean” does not envisage any of the current crop of jokers, including Mottley, as saviors.

    • Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. on said:

      Everyone is happy the truth about all of them is finally being revealed.

      ..the nerve to call themselves leaders and are so disrespectful of the people., their needs wants and hiding their history from them, the same citizens who pay their salaries and responsible for all the perks they enjoy.

      They can take their Slave master wannabe petty selves and find something constructive to do for once in their corrupt destructive lives..

      .NO ONE in Barbados or the wider Caribbean will tolerate slave masters in black face….so keep on testing..and watch outcomes.


  76. Clarification disambiguation :
    The subgenre of house music that emerged in South Africa is called :
    ~ Amapiano (Zulu or Xhosa for “the pianos”)


  77. “.NO ONE in Barbados or the wider Caribbean will tolerate slave masters in black face….”

    (just being picky or petty so don’t feel no way)
    “they” are not ‘in black face’ if they have ‘black face’
    “they” are longer “slave masters” and are “plantation overseers” after emancipation of slaves


  78. Introducing … Billy Woods
    his Jamaican feminist intellectual mother and Zimbabwean revolutionary father met in grad school in the US, where Woods was born. By the time he was five, they’d relocated to Zimbabwe, where his father worked in the nation’s first government after winning independence. “It was my first experience of the malleability of identity, the politics of revolution, and drastic change,” he says.

    After his father died, the family returned to the late-80s US. Woods describes the experience as “a culture shock”, as he navigated “how American racism worked, the ways in which being a despised minority weighed on you psychologically. White Rhodesians had been openly racist to me in a way I rarely experienced in the US – I remember being with some white friends, going back to their house to get a soda and them warning me their father didn’t like ‘kaffirs’. But it didn’t have any real effect on my self-esteem, because our country had a black president, our house was bigger than theirs, my dad had a better job than his … I didn’t feel like a second-class citizen in Zimbabwe, because I wasn’t. There wasn’t the power behind that racism that there is here. The ways American apartheid was enforced were more subtle and unspoken and indirect, but based on the powerlessness of being that minority. The power imbalance in everything made it totally different. People would do shit to you, and it was left up to you to figure out, ‘Was that racism?’”

  79. Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. on said:

    Information most African descents, and those domiciled in Afrika dont know. Similarly, many whites and others dont know either..

    ..time for the truth about black traitors to reign, the wicked slave master types exposed…they have hidden in the shadows for thousands of years……committing ant African crimes for personal gain…

    ..explains why there should be no more Marcus Garveys, Harriet Tubmans, Martin Luther Kings, Malcolm Xs, Freddie Hamiltons…etc…all because of black Judases..

    https://youtu.be/187mC2Rqygw

  80. Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserve. on said:

    Take note that the Caribbean had black slave masters as well, a detail criminal frauds in the parliaments omitted, am sure those are the rush to the front deceitful descents of black slave masters now angling for reparations….TO TIEF…

    NOT A DIME.


  81. Jamming in the House of Dread

    Sheltering under Christianity
    And using all means of insanity
    To achieve vanity
    Robbing and stealing in the name of the Lord
    And playing the game in the same name

    Singing natty ten against one
    Sing natty tell you ten against one
    ‘Cause I tell you it will be ten against one

    One man I don’t like is a hypocrite
    The other one I don’t like is a hooligan
    Heathen gone back biting
    Throwing at him bombing and fighting –
    It wasn’t Rasta
    The bombing and fighting – it wasn’t Rasta
    War inna jungle – it wasn’t Rasta
    The bombing in Rema – it wasn’t Rasta
    Cussing in Garden – it wasn’t Rasta
    The fire in a Jonestown – it wasn’t Rasta
    Ask ‘im Babylon – then I tell ’em,
    Why you trimming out the dreadlock?
    So mi tell yuh what to
    Ask ‘im Bablylon
    Is why yuh trimming out the dreadlock?
    Long-time rob him of his language
    No one going rob him of his culture
    True me say the table going turn
    And watch it and the fire going burn

    This time it will be ten against one
    ‘Cause I tell ya it will be ten against one

    Going on the other side
    And then a how you come over, hill so high
    And then you can’t go over
    Still so round, and then you can’t go around

    Sing natty sing them songs of victory
    Watch it natty sing them songs of love
    Tell me natty sing them songs of glory, woooaah

    Then and a sing it and a shout natty set them free Far I

  82. Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved on said:

    William was there not a thread about this on here with this same dude…

    Is this not the same dude claiming he lost a client’s over 200 title deeds and the deceased lady never got back her inheritance neither has her beneficiaries…

    https://youtu.be/x1o7AIYUbko

  83. Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. on said:

    Yo Pacha….

    “The Signs Of De-Dollarization Are Everywhere — Analysis

    The major global economies are shifting, and the clues are there for those who know where to look.”

  84. Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. on said:

    Maybe now that all these embarrassing scams are being exposed everywhere ..by a ton of people….they will stop trying to put on airs across the Caribbean, and pointing fingers as though they are clean while knowing they are dirtier and much more corrupt than most..

    one things for sure…more to come.

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