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The blogmaster takes a note that Sir Richard Cheltenham continues to perform in the role of Chairman of the Parliamentary Reform Commission (PRC). The blogmaster has no issue with the quote attributed to him in yesterday’s media – “We have inherited a bicameral system; a House of Assembly and the Senate, but now we have to ask ourselves whether we should continue that system or whether we should have one chamber; a unicameral [system]…We’ve always used the first-past-the-post system that gets most votes at the polls to determine membership but there are questions about whether a mixture of first past the post and proportional representation. . . all of those questions will be on the agenda and have to be carefully considered”. It is important work and hopefully the PRC will deliver on its mandate.

What the blogmaster has a problem with is the fact Sir Richard Cheltemham has a matter pending with the Disciplinary Committee of the BAR association. Several blogs have been published on Barbados Underground (BU) through the years directing the public to matters requiring answers from Cheltemham and local authorities without success. BU also questions those who agree to sit on a committee with Cheltenham with serious accusations outstanding waiting to be ruled on by the Disciplinary Committee of the BAR. Further, BU questions why a Mottley government advocating a political agenda of good governance and integrity continue to appoint persons who are being investigated for possible wrongdoings.#peterodle

It has come as no surprise to read Sir Richard Cheltenham now seeks to frustrate and delay the disciplinary process with a recent injunction brought by him to delay the process by the Disciplinary Committee. See article press article.

Sir Richard granted injunction 

THE DISCIPLINARY COMMITTEE OF THE BAR Association has been slapped with an injunction sought by senior attorney Sir Richard Cheltenham pending the completion of an application for judicial review.

The injunction was granted in the matter between Sir Richard and the Disciplinary Committee, filed under the Administrative Justice Act, the Legal Profession Act and pending an application by Sir Richard for judicial review.

It was heard in chambers by Justice Olson Alleyne.

The draft order states that the Disciplinary Committee, its agents or servants are restrained from hearing Complaint 31 of 2020 pending the trial and final determination of the Sir Richard’s application for judicial review filed on March 10, 2023.

The hearing of the substantive claim has been referred to a judge of the civil court.

Nation Newspaper

The matter in question has been languishing in the system in some form for well over a decade,

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131 responses to “Johnny Cheltenham Files Injunction AGAINST Disciplinary Committee”

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

    Kiki…this one’s for you…

    https://youtu.be/Lv0EBSu7Xgk

  2. John Avatar
    John

    Few plantations in Barbados did not go through Chancery in the 19th and twentieth centuries!!

    Except in times of war, sugar was always unprofitable for Barbados and on its own could never form the tax base to pay for all the things Ms. Mockley says were supplied “only after Independence”.

    It is ridiculous and a serious delusion of grandeur to claim the wealth of Barbados financed the industrial revolution when for the most part prior to the brief period of the 1950’s and 60’s sugar was unprofitable and output was low.

    This was the state of play for the five plantations purchased by the Panama Progressive Society.

    Lascelles had been in and out of chancery all through the 19th century.

    Colleton was in chancery in the early 1900’s.

    Without going to the Archives I can’t say for sure if Trents, Mount Prospect or Four Hills were ever in chancery.

    The Panama Progressive Society thus bought 5 plantations at least two of which had been unprofitable in sugar and lost money for periods of time before they were purchased by it.

    To get them yielding output profitably after 1941 they would have required significant investment in clearing, cultivation and planting. Henderson Carter claims one of the reasons the venture failed was a working capital deficiency, which fits with the lands requiring significant investment before profitability.

    Other plantations that had squeaked by till then in good order would have been a windfall for their owners as the sugar price and profits rose in the 40’s, 50’s and 60’s …. and would have contributed to the tax base during the 50’s and 60’s and 70’s.

    The QEH, Deep Water Harbour and Airport were all investments of the profits in the sugar industry during the 50’s and 60’s.

  3. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    What bullshiiite!

    This writer works all over the world, on assignment right now

    But thought the country had a large population deficit.

    A situation which if not remedied soon will make all development equations quaint.

    We would have thought that this is an existential problem, crisis. Even China, in these circumstances has abandoned its one child policy. But China cannot be an example for Barbados. ‘They are an autocracy” – as well rehearsed.

    People will migrate or not. None of our business but those who find it moment to make jibes cannot, like they have in the past, opin about the problems of depopulation coterminously.

    And the other who continues to suggest links with China, Russia and Cuba, we plead guilty.

    Maybe the baccra in them both prevent an interrogation of the White supremacist system they have always supported.

    That fascism in the West has again come to the fore , the metal will be summoned to understand why the Russians, the Chinese, the Cubans were never considered White and the inherent supremacist underpinnings of capitalism, from jump street. Williams – Capitalism & Slavery.

    But people are generally ignorant! But not foolish enough to refuse the Chinese things.

  4. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Well, seems like we’ve to take on the revanchists today as well.

    This cannot be a case entirely based on the internal profitability metrics of farm lands alone.

    For markets were protected in Europe. Government support was given. Red legs were given a sponsored place into mechantilism starting at the end of the 19th century. Need we go on!

    The Big Six – BS&T, and so on emerged. Why were the plantations owned by the Black Panamanian returnees not treated similarly since agriculture was generally unprofitable and that sector continually in trouble?

    Even given this oligopolistic market at home, today the Big Six has succumbed to a general failure to transform the country. And they themselves, after over a hundred years of dominance, landed once again in a situation not dissimilar to the plantation s were in. And if you can’t even “buy and sell” there should be no role in development.

    These are the questions your ilk shun. And you will always avoid them because the answers clearly show the racist nature of the country. Not that you have ever had eyes for racism.

  5. John Avatar
    John

    The coordinator added that farmers were also subject to water restrictions and had to practice conservation as the free water supplied came from BADMC wells at Fairy Valley, Christ Church.

    She said farmers were also advised to grow drought resistant crops such as sweet potato, okras, yams and cassava, certain herbs and peas.

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

    The best drought resistant crop found to survive droughts in Barbados is ………….. Sugar Cane.

    Imagine, for farmers in St. Lucy to farm they get water from Christ Church … antipodean agriculture!!

    https://barbadostoday.bb/2023/05/12/water-war/

  6. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Waru

    The best voice we’ve heard in a long time. Given his age, wow!

    Afrikan people were always spiritual.

    And White people have known it. For singing is one of the things they’ll have us do.

    Sing!

    Sing!

    Sing!

    He really good. And given his age ………..well!

  7. John Avatar
    John

    Pachamama
    on May 12, 2023 at 2:47 PM said:
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    This cannot be a case entirely based on the internal profitability metrics of farm lands alone.

    For markets were protected in Europe. Government support was given

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

    Would this qualify as reparations?

  8. John Avatar
    John

    Pachamama
    on May 12, 2023 at 2:47 PM said:
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    The Big Six – BS&T, and so on emerged. Why were the plantations owned by the Black Panamanian returnees not treated similarly since agriculture was generally unprofitable and that sector continually in trouble?

    Even given this oligopolistic market at home, today the Big Six has succumbed to a general failure to transform the country.

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

    Returnees from Panama did not own the plantations.

    They were owned by the Panama Progressive Society who may well have purchased plantations in need of significant investment to turn a profit.

    The Panama Progressive Society then had to hire managers and labour, manage the land and produce sufficient output to ensure the sugar prices would give sufficient return on their investment.

    Same as plantations in the Big Six except the Big Six had all sorts of other money-making activities that could see their agriculture through if push came to shove.

    The Big Six came into operation in 1917. The plantations which the families in the Big Six owned were in the St. George Valley, by the way sitting on top of water.

    Farming in St. Lucy is far more difficult when compared with farming on these lands.

    Chances are farmers in St. Lucy today of comparable scale to those in St. George will more likely than not go under.

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

    “Returnees from Panama did not own the plantations.

    They were owned by the Panama Progressive Society who may well have purchased plantations in need of significant investment to turn a profit.”

    That’s not true, i have seen the documents…beneficiaries are still trying to get the properties back from thieves….one dude’s great grandfather left intact documents for Lascelles.

    Do you think you will ever get yours back or get paid for it….

  10. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    @ Pacha
    I’m terms of pure economic reality, BS&T had a bigger economy than the government . This only changed profoundly in the mid-70s.
    At one time BS&T controlled several plantations, the sugar industry, manufacturing and the retail trade. They fingerprints were all over the shipping and tourism industry as well.
    It’s a part of our history that we refuse to touch or expose. It represented a period of unmatched exploitation.

  11. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Skinner

    Your are making the general points we’re trying to get to, to make the history come alive, today!

    But when someone who sees himself as a rightful heir to a brutal slavemastership no other arguments can transform such a DNA.

    People like this are worthy of dispatching.

    Waru
    Don’t have Cecilia Carch’s book on The Mutual. If you do, try to confirm when the Big Six started.

    Seem to recall that it was in the 1880s or 1890s. Well ahead of 1917 as recalled by an amateur seeking to impose the rightness of Whiteness.

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

    “Waru
    Don’t have Cecilia Carch’s book on The Mutual. If you do, try to confirm when the Big Six started.”

    I dont have the book, but if i ever come across it will let you know.

    All fraudulent small island Six were exploiters oppressers, and wannabe slave masters…that detail should be recorded in history as a warning to incoming generations…….the historical criminal element of racistsand thieves in Barbados is all they have ever been and still pretending respectability…them and the backward clowns who enable it.
    .

  13. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    No, it was the consolidation of White economic and social power in Barbados by bringing in the Red Legs on the action.

    Reparations? To Red Leg for indentureship and none for the returning Panamanians whose ancestors developed the country.

    Only a White supremacist or a Black apologist would be able to square that circle.

  14. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    Pacha
    It is questionable whether the true history of our country will ever be written. What we have are many watered down versions that make no contact with reality.
    Confusingly, many highly recognized historians go around peddling a bundle of nonsense and it serves the purpose of those who are determined to sanitize every aspect of our past, to cement themselves within the establishment.
    Unfortunately, there are vast numbers of our people who don’t want to hear or be aware of real history. They are more comfortable with the: “ make you feel good version.”
    And this has been and remains a perennial struggle for those who speak the truth.

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

    “AbeBooks
    Amazon
    Find in a library

    Books on Google Play
    The Barbados Mutual Life Assurance Society: Established 1840, Incorporated by Special Act 1851 ; Act of Incorporation and Deed of Settlement
    Front Cover
    Barbados Mutual Life Assurance Society
    The Society, 1989 – Insurance, Life – 39 pages”

    Pacha…this is what i found on it.

    William…too many frauds and liars with a lot to hide, but the truth will out…fraud and lies have a due date for Karma stamp.

  16. John Avatar
    John

    Yolande Grant – African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. on May 12, 2023 at 3:40 PM said:
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    “Returnees from Panama did not own the plantations.

    They were owned by the Panama Progressive Society who may well have purchased plantations in need of significant investment to turn a profit.”

    That’s not true, i have seen the documents…beneficiaries are still trying to get the properties back from thieves….one dude’s great grandfather left intact documents for Lascelles.
    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    The Panama Progressive Society and the five plantations it bought is like CLICO and the many more plantations and properties it bought in the 1990’s and 2000’s.

    Very easy to get a copy of the title deeds for Lascelles or any other plantation the Society bought from the Archives or now the Land Registry.

    You need to read the documents, not just see them and you will find out who owned them.

    I suspect the GOB will have something to say if there are land tax arrears, assuming they have not been put up for public auction by the Land Tax Department.

  17. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Kiki!

    Well said.

    Those people who make such claims are heartless. For them money is everything.

    It does not matter that all three countries have better health care systems than most countries in the West.

    Why would sick people not be entitled to medical care without monetary considerations?

    Such supporters of democracy careless as people are so dying right now.

  18. John Avatar
    John

    “Established in 1840, The Barbados Mutual Life Assurance Society, the predecessor to Sagicor Financial Company Limited, was formed in Barbados — making it one of the oldest financial services companies in the Western hemisphere.”

    It was formed as a means to finance plantations many of which were losing money as I have explained already.

    I am looking at “BS&T, The First 75 Years, 1920 – 1995” by Ronnie Hughes.

    So, BS&T was formed in 1920 not 1917, sorry, I was out by 3 years more than 2 generations after the Mutual was formed.

    I am mixing it up with Plantations which was formed in 1917.

    Some large planters got together to form Plantations Ltd. in 1917 to benefit from bulk purchasing and cut out the middle men, the merchants.

    The six biggest merchant families (who also owned plantations) then got together and in 1920 formed BS&T.

    CLICO bought out the shareholders of Plantations and Neal and Massy did the same with the shareholders of BS&T.

  19. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Johnny

    Racism again!

    Implicit in your assertion is the suggestion that only White people are to deploy legal persons to organized their business.

    Barbados Mutual was a “society” too. This does not change the meanings that the returning Panamanians were the real persons behind this organizational framework.

    Why do you insist on such a mute point? Having formed many entities in many countries, the performance of a function is what is important but the actors behind the entity could be the same, across the board.

    This is business 101!

  20. John Avatar
    John

    Take a look at sugar prices in London CIF in the 20th century.

    It doesn’t take much sense to realise that during the 1930’s economic conditions in Barbados were extremely harsh.

    You can see the impact on prices from the two world wars.

    In the case of WWII, prices rose 10 fold which meant if you started with a plantation in good order in the 30’s you could make large profits from the 10 fold increase in revenue.

    But to do this meant investing heavily in tractors and factory equipment and that’s why the economic boom of the 40’s, 50’s and 60’s prior to independence allowed a tax base which could pay for the social programs Ms. Mockley wrongly described as taking place after independence.

    If you take a look at the sugar output during the pre independence economic boom you will see it doubled from what it was in the 1930’s.

    That meant plantations received 20 times the revenue they were receiving in the 1930’s which allowed the financing of equipment, better wages, more taxes and enough left over to invest in a Deep Water Harbour and Bulk Sugar Handling Facility, the QEH and the Airport.

    Since Independence it has been downhill all the way!!

    https://imgur.com/l594XrS

    https://imgur.com/DlTv7CP

  21. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Johnny

    An insurance company cannot be primarily formed to finance plantations.

    Who ever says so is an idiot.

    BMLAS was the second oldest insurance company in the Western hemisphere.

    Trying to understand the internal workings of an insurance company like with the BS&T misguidance you’ll see too why an incubating, or startup, life insurance company cannot and will not seek to finance bankrupt plantations. That’s impossible.

    Though this came later, admittedly!

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

    Pacha…weeee are beyond thrilled that both the Slaves and the titled traitor/RATS have worked overtime to identify themselves and for such a protracted period too, and on public forums of all things…..the whole objective.

    ..that lack of vision/foresight on their part makes moving forward sans dead weight and danger SO MUCH EASIER…

    What a journey, successful is an underestimation.

  23. John Avatar
    John

    Pachamama on May 12, 2023 at 10:00 PM said:
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    Trying to understand the internal workings of an insurance company like with the BS&T misguidance you’ll see too why an incubating, or startup, life insurance company cannot and will not seek to finance bankrupt plantations. That’s impossible.

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

    You should think before you write.

    Agriculture was the only game in town for most of the working population at the time.

    It was subsidised previous to 1840 by trade.

    In the days of sail, ships going to the huge market of America used Barbados as a revictualling station and paid for the service.

    Check this 1695 drawing by Samuel Copens of Carlisle Bay. Download it and zoom in and you will see the wealth resided with the merchants in town who traded with the world and agriculture was small scale.

    https://www.loc.gov/resource/ppmsca.12842/

    By 1840, it was clear that steam power would overtake wind power and ships could travel directly from Europe to America, taking out the middle man Barbados.

    The year 1840 saw a local population which received wages go from 15,000 to 100,000 and rising. Sure, the wages were low but suddenly there was a whole lot of people who could not only buy life insurance but a whole set of other things.

    Your position demonstrates the prejudice you feel towards the freed labourers. It assumes labourers, now free and able to do their own thing, would not buy life insurance.

    The bulk of the working population got their wages from agriculture. The Mutual could not survive unless agriculture survived.

    Agriculture survived because while in some years revenue would be low because of low sugar prices or drought or whatever, invariably the price would rebound or conditions change that ensured any debts or mortgages incurred in the rough years were paid in the years of plenty.

    Overall, agriculture broke even but for the most part it was a losing proposition.

    That’s why there was a court of Chancery. A plantation that went into bankruptcy changed hands and came out of bankruptcy. It meant the large number of workers would have a source of income, albeit small on which they could survive,

    If you look at the sugar prices in the 1930’s, you will see why conditions were so tough in that time period.

    The previous sugar price peak during and after WWI was not sufficient to extend the 20 years to the end of the 1930’s.

  24. John Avatar
    John

    I can’t recall the Mutual buying a plantation out of Chancery.

    They passed from the indebted person to the creditor or anyone who could buy the indebted person’s debt.

  25. John Avatar
    John

    Go and google the “Dance of the Millions” and you will see how the sugar market worked in WWI in Cuba and the Dominican Republic.

    “Dance of the Millions is the phrase used to describe the boom-and-bust prosperity associated with the rapid rise and collapse of sugar prices in Cuba at the conclusion of World War I. The war stimulated an unprecedented demand for Cuban sugar and great business growth in Cuba from 1914 through the conflict’s end.”

    https://ufdcimages.uflib.ufl.edu/UF/E0/00/63/01/00001/grogan_k.pdf

    The Panama Progressive Society was just one of many speculators looking to make a fast buck out of the exploding sugar prices at the time of WWII.

  26. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    No time. Can’t read all of this.

    But yes! BMLAS much later served as financero to local planters and merchants.

    We’re not denying that. Your, point was that it was started for that specific reason. We say no. It could not have been. Even when started by planters, merchants.

    However, these actions came much later, after capital was better mobilized.

    Still, you have no idea about the financial structuring of life insurance companies in their startup phases.

  27. John Avatar
    John

    It took a few years to restore Europe’s sugar beet fields to full production after WWI but WWII was far more devastating of agricultural production not only in Europe but also the Pacific.

    So, by 1921, the sugar price had collapsed.

    After WWII, it took a lot longer and allowed Barbados to experience a period of sustained growth up to Independence.

  28. John Avatar
    John

    Don’t forget that there was an injection of capital of 20 million pounds at the end of slavery into British Dominions for emancipation of 800,000 slaves.

    There were about 80,000 slaves in Barbados which means 10% of the 20 million came to Barbados.

    If you look at the Church it embarked on a massive church and school building program.

    What financed that?

    My bet is that much of the 2 million pounds went towards this program and provided startup capital for the Mutual.

    Agriculture provided local jobs and had to survive.

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

    “WURA, Pacha
    The days of making excuses for those who are daily committing atrocities against their own people must come to an end right now, if we want to energetically advance.”

    Done. Only the Slaves will allow that to continue TO THEM in their mentally weakened state…and they have now made themselves invisible with their years and years of ugly shenanigans…so naturally they stayed behind…and will bear the brunt of what they bullied people to accept and wished on others ….it was bound to happen.

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

    https://fb.watch/kvoaUAUKiy/?mibextid=RUbZ1f

    Pacha…Suriname, the Indigenous people came out to protest…no one wants the toxic government there……the allegations are that they stole the people’s land and sold it to China…

    ….all of them seem to have the same disease, TIEF and SELL OUT….not build from the GROUND UP to sustain and maintain……it’s all about shortcuts to big bucks..temporary bandaid to get .their cut…hence they are all CORRUPT FAILURES..

    And of course thieves never like to leave….

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

    Was waiting to confirm…but the Suriname Amerindians are having none of it and determined to preserve ancestral lands for their future generations…

    ..a concept the ignorant, corrupt, greedy UNSKILLED vote beggars for politicians in the Caribbean seem to not understand or know anything about….you never see these people out and about, but when they burned down a police station and rioted, ya know they mean serious business.

    Further, a video was again circulated where the Jamaica PM was telling grown people a couple years ago, “the vaccine was made by god”…the wickedness in and from these vicious creatures still on display on recordings, in their death for dollars frenzy..

    …ya will soon see the other one circulated again telling their dumb Slaves…” if the vaccine kill ya, we can help ya, but if Covid kill ya, we cant.”

    Weee are very thankful for those recordings pon de replay…they cant even call it fake news or conspiracy theory…it’s really EVIDENCE. 🤣🤣🤣 already submitted.

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

    William…FIRE SALE!!

    ALL the SOES that got RoB-ed…and ALL DID over the last half century….gone…lawd.

  33. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    Keep up the good work Wura.
    Keep the big spotlight on

  34. Terence M Blackett Avatar
    Terence M Blackett

    MIA_CARES? Clean your house, woman!!!
    https://youtu.be/UvfFd0BhG48

  35. 2 + 2 = 4 but not 5 Avatar
    2 + 2 = 4 but not 5

    4 Deletions = 1Xtra
    Jah Shaka Tribute by David Rodigan @ BBC Radio 1Xtra – 16-04-2023

  36. a throwaway comment Avatar
    a throwaway comment

    This may be a throwaway comment but I will say it again for the record

    Mia is an impressive leader on the world stage for cussing out Massa White Boy’s Racist Ways

    but is a mere human and not a God like Weretnebetneferu Akhetzeh
    (Cleopatra VII)

    Queen Cleopatra* (Isis*)
    “the Last Pharaoh”
    is now showing on Netflix

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

    Pacha…nuff, nuff things a gwaan…

    Dont know how they could even get the nerve weasle out of what they so gleefully help set in motion…

    Even worse, got a bunch of racist and thieves ripping off the island generationally, for THEIR CUT, exploiting , suppressing and oppressing their people for the last 100 years in the huge Empire plans….but in twisted minds, that one seems to be acceptable….and should not be questioned.

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

    Not everyone is impressed or dazzled by the world stage performance, the acting….the stupid useless, lack of positive action slick talking….too many are blinded by the superficial…the facade…they too are acting like if not a thing is wrong with dah dey..

  39. TLSN Avatar
    TLSN

    @ Yolande Grant – African Online Publishibg Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. on May 14, 2023 at 8:55 AM said:

    “Not everyone is impressed or dazzled by the world stage performance, the acting….the stupid’…”

    Are you alluding to proposed ideas such as the “Bridgetown Initiative ” now relabelled the Bridgetown Initiative 2 “.

    I wonder if your goodself, or the Bush Man, Pacha, W.S, Artax, GP, Donna, Theo (?) and all the other soi-disant BU intellectuals could explain to me the significance of the
    “Bridgetown Initiative “. I understand that significant international players appear to be seduced by its content.

    This government promotes a handful of gimmicks simultaneously on a regular basis which adds up to sweet * F.A*!

    I know that many on BU are bored of Dub 555, however his contributions are of far more value than the daily shite that comes out of the mouth of this BLP government.

    Keep up the good work. Mia’s remorseless voice and power has all but shut down debate in Barbados.

  40. People Funny Boy Avatar
    People Funny Boy

    “I know that many on BU are bored of Dub 555, however his contributions are of far more value than the daily shite that comes out of the mouth of this BLP government. ”

    Speak for yourself
    Bushman
    The O
    and David
    like a Bitch

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

    “Are you alluding to proposed ideas such as the “Bridgetown Initiative ” now relabelled the Bridgetown Initiative 2 “.

    No country that gave the earth the evil Slave Codes should be enabled in more criminality…once is more than enuff., especially since said codes still sit on the island’s statute books, still wielded against the Afrikan descended with impunity by the criminal CRABS…and their minority sidekicks who believe themselves entitled tio take liberties with the Afrikan descended..
    and .who until recently wielded 18th century Slave laws against the island’s children and refused to stop UNTIL VERY RECENTLY FORCED via exposure…i will never accept such beasts and their destructive agendas….and with good reason. Nothing good will ever come from any of them..

  42. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    @000
    Why do I think you are a DJ?
    Not a very good one, but I am willing to help you improve.
    Please send me your daily selections and I will remove those that suck and suggest some alternatives. A task like that requires hazard pay, but I will do it for free.
    Hoping that you accept my kind offer. 😀

  43. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    For the record, Bushie likes KiKi…..OK!!?

    It is just that the bushman would like the Blogmaster to ban his donkey….
    Can’t a bushman walk and chew gum now…??!! LOL ha ha

    @ David
    Talking about Lawyers…
    You heard the lawya fella that called Barry on Friday and pissed all over the PM, AG, COP, Police Force, and brassbados in general – over the Trini man that got his donkey sent back to T&T to deal with his issues?

    Can you imagine the precedent being set, where a Trini ‘badman’ can be assured that if he gets his donkey in Brassbados, then the Trini cops have to go through hoops (and pay $$$$ to shiite lawyers) to get his tail back home to face the music…?
    All these lawyers EVER see, is what has $$$$ in it for themselves.

    How do you think he must feel today – after reading the assessment of Dr Knight, (who actually knows what he is talking about,) on the subject?

    Next question for yuh…
    If you were that lawya caller, (who Barry FORCED to identify himself), … would you be still in Barbados tomorrow…? or in T&T redoing the LLB.. 🙂

    Murder!!!
    What a joker.

  44. Critical Analyzer Avatar
    Critical Analyzer

    Does the BAR Association have the power to disbar a lawyer and stop them from practising law?

  45. David Avatar
    David

    @Bush Tea

    Both sides on the issue misstepped. It is a magnification of what is possible by officialdom.

  46. David Avatar
    David

    @CA

    No.

    The disciplinary committee has no teeth. It has to go to the Court for ruling.

  47. Critical Analyzer Avatar
    Critical Analyzer

    @David

    Thanks for the answer.

    All Associations including BAR need to focus on removing the bad professionals from their approved professionals list.

    No association or even the court outsise of a court case judgement should never have the power to stop someone from practising their profession once they possess the necessary qualifications and any applicable license fees are paid.

  48. de pedantic Dribbler Avatar
    de pedantic Dribbler

    @David, we live in a society that must be governed by rules to govern the right to employment, basic free speech, association and all that great stuff … thus it’s a bit surprising and disappointing that you responded above as you did!!!

    I am not aware of ANY professional organization that has the ‘teeth’ to simply ‘disbar’ a member from its professional ranks/certification WITHOUT redress and direction from the law courts!

    That’s NOT to condone anyone’s bad behaviour but merely to note that everyone has rights to careful adjudication… otherwise what would stop one group of professionals from dismissing someone on trumped up charges.

    And using that as a painful segue …I was just looking at a clip of that CNN townhall and was again confounded how so many Americans can be supporting a man who despite 60 lost court cases and several Republican led election audits that did not confirm any of the significant elections fraud issues STILL perceive this man as a viable and valid leader of their nation … BUT to read one of them asking you that query related to STANDARD law and rules of association it actually makes perfect sense:

    —- hese folks believe whatever agrees with their agenda and look at life continually through their rose coloured lens. SMH!!

  49. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    David
    Bushie’s point is bigger that any procedural misstep…

    In the bushman’s opinion, extradition SHOULD be about protecting the rights of a BAJAN from being demanded by a foreign country because of issues that they may have with him.
    Where a country is requesting the return of its OWN citizen, based on LEGAL warrants of arrest, this seems to be a no-brainer. The eventual ACTION TAKEN therefore only seem excessive in that a private flight was used, rather than an economy seat, and at his own expense.

    Can you imagine a precedent where wanted persons who managed to get to Barbados then LEGALLY get to hang around here for the 10 years it will take to decide the damn case? …and have to ‘find’ the hundreds of thousands of dollars that they will have to pay the lawyers?
    ….and to evade the various ‘hitmen’ that would be sent over to ‘settle’ various accounts?

    There is a reason NOT to put a child to do a man’s job. Some issues are complex, and the possible consequences can be dire….
    ‘Monkey playing with gun’ is also why so many issues remain unresolved bout here, and in fact get worse and worse…

    Also..
    The disciplinary committee was NOT set up to have teeth. It is there to look like we have a ‘system in place’ to outsiders.
    The Legal profession has hijacked the damn country and used the legal system to protect themselves from being subjected to justice. At the same time they need to appear to outsiders as above board – else they would not get a single loan….

  50. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    @Bushie
    Either I am blind or you are sipping some strong Kool-Aid.. I suspect that because you do not si pKool-aidt often, the effect is much stronger on you than it would be on an Lorenzo or enuff.

    Mr Knight made a whiff and missed the ball completely. He made no contact with the topic. He introduces nothing new and in effect contradicts the AG (and Mia). The treaty that he cites gives the AD a central role, but our AG insisted he was out of the loop (so did the PM> He also use a fancy phrase for the abduction “… out of the legal norms

    Come back to us. Put away the cup.

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