The biggest concern is that as a Caribbean people we are able to unshackle our minds to appreciate for change to occur, we must look in the mirror.
In recent weeks two African development banks took root in the Caribbean with a goal to nurture economic links and fuel growth opportunities. It will be interesting to observe the extent the Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean (CAF) and the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) are able to build a model for success that addresses ” the financial needs of stakeholders and improve the quality of life for Caribbean citizens“.
Already CAF has committed USD50 million to support the the Blue Green Bank initiative that focuses on the blue economy AND Afreximbank USD1.5 billion to finance trade and investment ties between Africa and the Caribbean by stimulating the “economic sectors, enhance trade infrastructure, and empower small to medium enterprises across the Caribbean“.
See Relevant Link: New banks open in the Caribbean
On the surface the blogmaster is happy to observe initiatives with the Motherland recognizing our cultural moorings and common challenges. Both the Caribbean and Africa currently have similar issues, we are countries struggling to unleash our potential on the world. We continue to allow our physical and mental spaces to be exploited by Western interests. The only way to break the shackles of dependency on the West – a legacy of our colonial past – is to transform how we think in order to discover new opportunities.
It should be evident to the region, especially Caricom, that Western countries will continue to pursue a type of geopolitics to inform domestic foreign policy. Why should Caribbean countries continue to accept arrangements with Western interest that will always be informed on a foreign policy informed by interests external to the region?
The interest of a majority of countries in Africa should intersect with a majority of Caribbean countries given our undeniable lineage. It is unfortunate it has taken too long for both sides to reach where we are today. The blogmaster recalls many visits to Barbados and the Caribbean by prominent African leaders in the 80s and 90s. Our active participation in the African, Caribbean and Pacific states and Non Aligned Movement led by Cuba. There was the Kingston Summit almost 50 years ago (not dissimilar to the Bridgetown Initiative) in 1975 where Africa, the Caribbean and Asia stridently demanded of rich Western countries to create a new economic model to distribute wealth to better support developing countries.
The call by Prime Minister Mia Mottley et al on the developed world to assist developing countries is not new. There will always be a battle by developing countries to carve out a space in the global market to be able to compete and sustain our fragile open economies. The alliance being constructed with African countries makes sense given our common heritage and the fact Africa is without doubt the richest continent in the world. Hopefully modern day leaders in Africa and the developing will see the necessity to establish and improve relationships, along with the economic and social benefits there is a moral imperative to satisfy.
The biggest concern is that as a people in the Caribbean we are able to unshackle our minds to appreciate for change to occur, we must look in the mirror.
See the following short lecture delivered by former First Lady of South Africa Graca Machel titled DON’T COPY WESTERN DEMOCRACY MODEL.
This is interesting.
Phoenicians, Irish, Welsh and English were in America long before pre-Columbian times!!
Pacha, William, TLSN…full circle…weeee put in the work and the CHANGE has started, despite there being so few of us with the mental strength and brain power to forge ahead and with the regressive backward attacks from the weakminded that have gone nowhere..
… Was happy to see certain things unfold yesterday…it was a hard long road/journey…but we get to see and REAP what wee SOWED…and take FULL credit for sticking to our ancestral convictions…knowing we were RIGHT all along …
Weeee control the narrative going forward…that’s the power of our most ancient bloodines from both sides of our ancestral divide on full display…the original rulers…
This is what forward thinkers do, OPEN UP NEW FRONTIERS of development and progress..
. only the limited in intellect who never had access to networks of higher NATURAL education, (london school of economic/LSE is not) certain things come naturally, ancestral in flavor and design. Those types never will gain access, they are still stuck on slave codes, slave laws, dependency and attempting to maintain a slave society civilization at the expense of Afrika and Afrikans…
https://youtube.com/shorts/Anqnhvz33Rg?feature=share
RE This is what forward thinkers do, OPEN UP NEW FRONTIERS of development and progress..
ANOTHER DAY
SAME BULLSHIT
THE DIAGNOSIS HERE IS VERY SIMPLE
ALL MEDICAL STUDENTS WHO FAILED TO GET THE CORRECT ANSWER HERE IN THE SHORT CASES WOULD FAIL OUTRIGHT
THE DIAGNOSIS IS OF COURSE =====> DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR!
I WAS VISITING AN AFRICAN COUNTRY RECENTLY AND IN EVERY VILLAGE, WHENEVER I STOPPED THEY RANG THE CHURCH BELLS TO ACKNOWLEDGE MY PRESENCE
QUESTION WHAT IS WRONG THERE?
ANSWER: IS OF COURSE =====> 1- DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR!
2 NARCISSISM
@ WURA
The struggle continues. Opportunists operate on what they can benefit most from and what makes them most comfortable at the moment. One will never find objective thinking in the tool box of opportunists.
The deluded attention seekers who now believe they can influence anything are the worse. …..
..the way to access and utilize opportunities has changed significantly……the stop gap approach is now extinct….am sure Pacha will expound on that sometime in the future….
Glad to see they left themselves way behind…was bound to happen…they were told to keep their eyes on the Easy…didn’t and missed everything..
The local situation has turned so ugly and embarrassing worldwide that the diaspora, not the slave minds, they are not invited, is mobilizing and organizing themselves to action…they say this can go no further.
William Skinner have you completed your memoirs yet?
RE Opportunists operate on what they can benefit most from and what makes them most comfortable at the moment.
THE GREATEST OPPORTUNIST OF ALL IS WAITING IN THE WINGS
EVERYTHING IS HEADING TO HIS TIME AND REVEALING
THE WHOLE WORLD IS IN CHAOS
THERE IS CHAOS IN EVERY NATION SIMULTANEOSLY
THE WORLD IS SEEKING SOMEONE TO SOLVE ALL OF ITS PROBLEMS-ESPECIALLY ITS ECONOMIC WOES ——-WHICH HAVE AS THEIR ROOT GREED AND AVARICE
WE ARE BEING TOLD ON BU TO DAY THAT PACHAMAMA AND WARU ARE THE “forward thinkers ” WHO WILL OPEN UP NEW FRONTIERS of development and progress.
MURDAAH…..
‘MA BELLY
OH LAWD AH GWINE DEAD!
SOON WE WILL HERE THE HEAD BRASS SECTION OPINING
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COMING SOON IS THE MAN WHO WILL PROMISE TO FIX TINGS
THEN AFTER SEVEN YEARS OF HIS SHENANIGINS THE REAL FIXER WILL COME ON THE SCENE
ONE OF HIS NAMES IS THE BREAKER!
HE IS ABLE TO BREAK DOWN AND BUILD UP.
BUT FOR NOW LET US HAVE WARU AND PACHA TO ENTERTAIN US
RE The deluded attention seekers who now believe they can influence anything are the worse. ….
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YOU CAN SAY THAT AGAIN
BUT ARE YOU NOT SPITTING UP IN THE AIR
AND IS THE SPITTLE NOT FALLIING IN YOUR FACE?
YOUR POSTS ARE VERY USEFUL IN PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY CLASSES
THANKS VERY MUCH FOR THIS VERY GOOD TEACHING MATERIAL
Africa!
https://videos.files.wordpress.com/2RykikKS/africa.mp4
https://www.youtube.com/live/YE2LvjQUBCg
“Looking into the mirror”
“…interests ……. Moorings. …….linkages”
Wow!
A johnny come lately.
We’ve never found anything about the Bajan or regional mind which is so grounded. Far less such banal utterances.
It was just a few years ago in Ghana during that country’s independence day celebrations when Mia Amor Mottley sided with Ukraine as comprador of her handlers in Washington.
Ukraine an openly fascist country which at the time was exposing African students to the worse forms of Nazi treatment but Mottley sought comfort in supporting a Western military project ultimately aimed at asserting Whiteness.
Ukraine, with the help of the Europeans, which use the Grain Deal for the Europeans to feed their pigs while denying Afrika critical imports.
But these are the images in the mirror speaking lofty shiiite as their truths.
These Johnnies cum lately only see Afrika when all other options have been explored. But as soon as a feeling of safety presents Afrika is again forgotten.
It’s best described in the literature as a mental disease. An illness emblematic of another prominent christian asshole here. These are the images you’ll see when you look into that mirror.
Images of an unpeople who see themselves as White. Who assert cultural Whiteness. Unpeople who contend that Whiteness is the only way to salvation. An unpeople who see nothing wrong with deifying the ancestors of others while denouncing the aboriginal truths of the Ancient Afrikans as “nostalgia”
When you look into that mirror it will only look back at you! Images giving the best meaning of your Barrow’s bs.
BY THE WAY
SINCE ORDERED BY VINCENT CODRINGTON ABOUT 3 YEARS AGO I FAITHFULLY WATCH THE RECORDING LIVE STREAM OF THE MORNING SERVICE FROM CH CH PARISH CHURCH ON U TUBE EVERY SUNDAY
I AM SADDENED TO SEE THE LACK OF TEEN AGED BOYS & GIRLS PRESENT
EVEN IN THE SUNDAY SCHOOL GROUP THERE ARE FEW BOYS ESPECIALLY
IF WE CAN NOT GET THE BOYS IN OUR COUNTRY SORTED OUT AND IF WE CANT GET THE MEN RIGHT HOW WILL WE GET THE WOMEN AND THE REST OF THE FAMILIES RIGHT?
I PRAISE GOD THAT I GREW UP IN BARBADOS…………..AND THAT I DID SO IN THE 50’S AND 60’S
WE HAD THE BEST OF THINGS EVER……….BUT IT SEEMS THAT WE BLEW IT ALL UP!
SEEMS WE HAVE DESTROYED ALL THAT WE WERE GIVEN
Pacha…all eyes on the continent…that’s where the real changes are evolving from….OUR peeps are in charge of new beginnings..
We will soon have to write in the manner of Jhuty.
Waru
Yes, but countries like India, without resources, except people, even as they have been all over Afrika, presume to be contenders. As even the truism that of the last 2000 years Asían countries have dominated trade, business, economy for over 1700.
But all the indicators seem to agree with you. Some foolish people somewhere still would like in think in terms of Asia Minor for Akebulan.
That’s why less must be revealed moving forward…since there is still much work to do, so it’s Aha mode….
the problem encountered for the last few thousand years just as Marcus Garvey said was “the enemy within”…who are now identified and conquered in synchrony across both continents, and who helped shine a glare on themselves in the final analysis…that was the biggest challenge…now none can hide…they are publicly branded..it was a sight to behold…no turning back…our peeps are on it…..this wave cannot be defeated…
Pacha…in the meantime, our geniuses and Afrikan creatives are hard ar work creating, and no, they can’t tief any of it..
…heard someone invented a similar product here and the island crooks tief it, am sure they screwed it up too…as they are known..
Moses West is pulling clean water out of the air…with his invention, and about to supply those suffering in Maui. That’s what he does and donate it. He has been doing it since 2019 or around there.
The creatives got this.
Getting water from the atmosphere is not something new.
….’Transforming how weee think’ …..
Only if one is prepared to throw out everything.
Then, you’ll be accused of ‘trying to tear down everything’ like this writer has been once accused by another.
But if that lofty notion is to be embarked, maybe we could start with the ‘broken trident’, the holy grail, as a sacred symbol shared with the Nazi, Azov battalion in Ukraine.
Marcus Garvey said:
You shall see me in the whirlwind!
Look for me in the worldwind!
I shall be like a terror!
It’s Marcus Garvey time now!
Well the vampire lose
and Babylon lose
Reap what you sow, vampire!
Bloodsuckers! Reap, what you sow, bloodsuckers!
Reap, what you sow!
Cork Dancehall, New Ruler, Balong Balong (The Exit Riddim)
Whoa Pacha…everything is entering a space that not even i saw coming, simply because weee were not privy to certain information, and events accelerated like a fast moving wildfire fueled by accelerants..
.the good news, small island crooks, now famous everywhere with their own 2 hour corruption movie, while seeking to capitalize on our ancestors 530 years of misery inadvertently sabotaged themselves…so who said there was no Karma…was very wrong.
The Brutish Museums
Museum labels can freeze a particular culture in the past, thereby silencing its people in the present. Curators will display objects as “primative art”, devoid of context and dehumanising their creators and owners.
Pacha…read about the plane crash, waiting for confirmation about who was on board.
Waru
Yes, Prigozhin was almost certainly on board.
We could imagine the spin on Western propaganda media.
Thanks to Ntr we’ve been ignoring them for many years.
Too early to determined causation but speculation is rife, we imagine.
That the American embassy personnel were withdrawn from Belarus yesterday is suspicious.
On the other hand betrayal is not easily forgotten within the Kremlin.
However, there’ll be no negative impact on Wagner international or the campaign against NATO for Prigozhin was a mere money man or businessman and not a military expert in the least.
He was just a cog….
Barbados is being sold right from under the people, even disputed lands…what a mess. Let the entertainment begin…should be a long run…
No, we would not so describe him.
He did a good work training Afrikan fighters to kill Western backed terrorists like Boko Haram.
Which have been operating in the Sahel, and further afield, after they, the West, killed Ghadafy and destroyed Libya.
Will there be a new Barbados Constitution by the time the next election is called? Your guess is as good as mine
https://barbadostoday.bb/2023/08/23/not-ready/
Pacha…dont look like this will only be Afrikan and Asian countries, didnt realize it’s a global initiate..
“.We Will Continue To Expand The Influence Of BRICS Worldwide — President Putin
The president’s words reflect the announcement that six more countries will join the bloc.”
Pacha….also saw a video where China is taking full responsibility for working with Afrika to guide the continent along the way to full social, educational and fiscal independence/freedom……guess it is now the right time…
…when it rains
While France is packing up….
Waru
Bushie was quite right.
‘What a time to be alive’
These tectonic shifts CANNOT be stopped, assuaged, turned back, bribed away, intimidated.
Have we not been seeing the West, and particularly the USA, begging world countries to let them continue to be hegemon, imposing irrational sanctions, giving us distractions like wokeism.
They have no tools in their quiver but nuclear weapons. Only nobody is afraid of the bullies and bullers anymore.
The Chinese see this as the ultimate military strategy. Destroying the West without firing a single bullet.
Afrika is the economic theatre for the future
And they aiming directly at their barley field.
If this was not addressed to you maybe a more visceral expression might have been used.
Forgive us!
Systems expire as my book Collapse, clearly outlined, everything has to be …redefined.
Btw…right along with the system expiring, politicians, that came hand in hand with it, they too have expired…but that’s a topic for a more open forum….change in the air…
Source: Nation
POWER CUT
Political scientist recommends changes to selection of election date, AG, and House Speaker
By Emmanuel Joseph
A political scientist has recommended to the Parliamentary Reform Commission (PRC) that the power to determine when elections are called should be removed from the prime minister, and politicians should no longer have a direct say in the selection of a Speaker of the House or appointment of the Attorney General.
He also suggested that early elections should not be allowed before three and a half years of a term, under a revamped system.
Devaron Bruce made the submissions on Thursday night at the Christ Church Foundation School during one in a series of town hall meetings being held by the PRC to hear the public’s views on parliamentary reform.
Bruce, who was one of five Barbadians making presentations before the panel chaired by retired president of the Senate Sir Richard Cheltenham KC, further proposed that the power of a prime minister to decide when an election is called should be removed.
“One of the concerns that I have within our parliamentary system is that our constitution grants the prime minister the ability to call an election at will. An election ought to be a democratic exercise, but when we have a circumstance where we have the prime minister – who I consider the most partisan individual in our political system because they carry the numbers of the most partisan persons in a House, hence they become prime minister – [making that decision], then political strategy and partisanship are often foremost on the minds of that position,” he said.
“So, introducing partisanship and introducing political strategy into what ought to be a democratic process, I think is problematic.”
Bruce suggested that a decision on when elections are called should go to Parliament.
Addressing the timing of an election, he said that should also be controlled.
“You cannot have an early election in our system until parliamentarians have served three and a half years of their term. If you wish to have an election after that, you have to take it to Parliament and have a two-thirds majority vote for that election to occur,” Bruce suggested.
The political scientist also urged the PRC to consider his recommendation regarding the method of choosing the Attorney General and the Speaker of the House of Assembly.
Contending that the Speaker of the House is responsible for the management of the House, the protection and the rights of those within the House, and the minority in the House, he said that given the importance of that post, “objectivity and impartiality matter”.
“Yet we have a circumstance where the prime minister, in essence, determines who the Speaker of the House is. And I have made my case in stating that there is no person in our political system more partisan than the prime minister because they carry the majority of those who admit partisanship,” Bruce told the PRC panel.
“What I would suggest in that instance, to enhance the capacity and enhance the impartiality of the Speaker of the House, is that the Speaker of the House not be selected from within Parliament because parliamentarians are admittedly partisan people.”
The political scientist recommended that the Speaker of the House be selected from outside Parliament by the President and then the selection be taken to Parliament for a vote.
He acknowledged that a vote could not be taken in Parliament without a Speaker, but said that matter could be discussed at another time.
Bruce also told the commission that the same process should be applied to the selection of an Attorney General. He said that person should not be a political appointee or aligned to any political party but should be focused strictly on advising the Government on the law.
Also making submissions was Jacqueline Carter, who said she represented a group of Barbadians whose numbers continue to grow.
On the list of recommendations she made was that the Senate should comprise 22 elected members, two from each of the island’s 11 parishes, and during their tenure, the senators should reside in the parish they represent.
Carter added: “Members of Parliament and House of Senate may be recalled by the election of 30 per cent of the registered voters in that district, signing a petition to recall that member.
All Senate and House members shall serve for a term of five years. A prime minister shall serve for no more than four terms in office.”
Carter also suggested that the President should face the electorate instead of being appointed as currently exists.
Congress of Trade Unions and Staff Associations of Barbados (CTUSAB) president Edwin O’Neal, meanwhile, called for labour to be guaranteed a place in the Senate, and said that if that Upper House is to review legislature, it should consist of individuals with experience in terms of profession and age.
He also queried whether the Senate could not be made up of both elected and appointed members.
Also presenting were historian Robert Bobby Morris and Buddy Larrier. emmanueljoseph@barbadostoday.bb
Natural High
The Bongoman Collection
No one is dying, my people aren’t crying
We are living in the love of the Father
Living in the house of the Almighty
The days of destruction will never be
Not hard to the wise man who will see
Yet the fool thinks he knows it all
’cause here comes later he stumbles and falls
He goes down for a reason, Jah is giving him a beating
To the foundation he’ll have to go down
To the foundation, chant him down
What goes around, definitely comes around in spades.
“AstraZeneca Faces Double London Lawsuits
The Big Pharma firm was the first drugmaker to roll out jabs in Britain, restricting the dose to those 40 or younger due to blood clotting concerns. AstraZeneca now faces the first of 50+ product liability cases in the UK.
First up is Anish Taylor’s case, whose wife died after receiving a Covid-19 vaccine in March 2021.
The second is from Jamie Scott, who was diagnosed with vaccine-induced thrombotic thrombocytopenia, which can cause fatal blood clotting.”
Did i not tell them they can forget the reparations gig…
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https://rijock.blogspot.com/2023/08/alert-on-extensive-money-laundering.html?m=1
“You cannot have an early election in our system until parliamentarians have served three and a half years of their term. If you wish to have an election after that, you have to take it to Parliament and have a two-thirds majority vote for that election to occur,” Bruce suggested.
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That is confusing:
Bottom line, if you want to take the power to call an election out of the hands of the PM then have fixed election dates except if Gov’t is defeated on a vote of confidence.
@Sargeant
The talking heads are coming out of the woodwork day and night.