Press Release submitted by the Barbados Sustainable Energy Cooperative Society Ltd
Colleagues
The Board and Management of ABC Ltd and BESCO Ltd are happy to announce that the 2024 sugar harvest is scheduled to commence next week.
The factory itself will be ready for operation on Monday 18 March, and the first delivery of cane is set for Wednesday 20 March. This year’s crop will be a historic one, in that key roles in the industry are now under the control of a Co-operative body (CoopEnergy Barbados) whose membership is open to all and sundry. Additionally, for the first time ever, workers in the sugar industry will own a 20% stake in the operations of the two key companies.
Trevor Browne Lt Col (Ret’d) SCM
Chairman
ABC / BESCO
114 responses to “2024 Sugar Crop”
You don’t understand the difference between economic and financial benefit.
It would be of economic benefit to Barbados to have the canefields in order even though it makes little financial sense to do so.
Many companies have loss making products which they keep running for economic reasons.
Slavery predates the Bible and the worship of one God.
The point to grasp is that slavery ended because of the Bible, the Word of God.
…. both physical bondage and spiritual bondage.
The Bible after it was translated into different languages and became easily available to the common man opened peoples’ eyes to how they individually could be freed from spiritual bondage.
Once the individual gets that concept, the next logical step is the ending of physical slavery.
When there are enough individuals motivated the same way then slavery ends.
But the starting point is the Bible.
@ John March 29, 2024 at 12:40 pm
“Slavery predates the Bible and the worship of one God.
The point to grasp is that slavery ended because of the Bible, the Word of God.”
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You are contradicting yourself, Sir Johnny!
Are you saying slavery existed before Adam & Eve, just like Cain’s wife?
How could the Bible be the reason for the ending of slavery when the same book of mythology approves the institution of slavery?
Why not quote the passages in the Bible where slavery is condemned just like homosexuality or sleeping next to a menstruating woman?
BTW, monotheism is an Egyptian concept copied by so-called Jewish scholars.
Your friend, Akhenaten.
White people and the Bible are the Devil’s finest works
Romans 13 urges citizens to be subject to the government of the day as instituted by God, and was invoked during the days of apartheid to coerce black people into accepting the apartheid government’s policy of racial oppression and segregation as being ordained and sanctioned by God.
The decades long pro-apartheid regime in South Africa was heavily supported by Christian denominations, specifically the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC), while other denominations and prominent Christian leaders, such as Archbishop Tutu, strongly opposed this oppressive establishment.
Let John Knox spew his bile! There’s few that will fall for it, and what it does is put his sickness on display for all who need to see it.
Are you saying slavery existed before Adam & Eve, just like Cain’s wife?
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The Bible was written long after Adam and Eve and more than four hundred years after Abraham.
“Rabbinic tradition’s understanding is that all of the teachings found in the Torah (both written and oral) were given by their God through the prophet Moses, some at Mount Sinai and others at the Tabernacle, and all the teachings were written down by Moses, which resulted in the Torah that exists today.”
“Slavery was institutionalized by the time the first civilizations emerged (such as Sumer in Mesopotamia, which dates back as far as 3500 BC). Slavery features in the Mesopotamian Code of Hammurabi (c. 1750 BC), which refers to it as an established institution.”
Abraham came and found the institution.
@ John March 29, 2024 at 3:35 pm
“Slavery was institutionalized by the time the first civilizations emerged (such as Sumer in Mesopotamia, which dates back as far as 3500 BC). Slavery features in the Mesopotamian Code of Hammurabi (c. 1750 BC), which refers to it as an established institution.”
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The mere fact that you can ‘quote’ references to the Sumerian civilization only reinforces the point that the Book of Genesis is nothing more than a plagiarized version of the writings of similar Sumerian tales of Creation and the grand deluge (Noah’s flood).
You must concede, therefore, that Cain & Abel are the plagiarized replicas of the Sumerian pair of Emesh and Enten.
If your god Yahweh dictated the first five books of the Old Testament to the Egyptian Moses (including events that took place after his death) then you must accept that the same Sumerian god also dictated the Quran (via Gabriel) to Muhammad while he was asleep in a cave.
BTW, Colonel Browne should be demanding compensation- in the form of reparations- from the British government equivalent to what it paid to the white plantation owners for their loss of slave labour.
The mere fact that you can ‘quote’ references to the Sumerian civilization only reinforces the point that the Book of Genesis is nothing more than a plagiarized version of the writings of similar Sumerian tales of Creation and the grand deluge (Noah’s flood).
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That’s the point.
The Sumerians were the descendants of Noah so of course they knew about the flood.
You can figure out how many generations but remember people lived alot longer by hundreds of years so the number of generations may not be many …. or you can ask Kiki to calculate it for you!!
Just as we today relate what happened to our parents and grandparents, great grand parents and even in some cases, great great grand parents, any “ancient” civilization had an aural tradition going back generations as do we.
We turn up flood stories from ancient peoples all around the world because we all have common ancestry as is apparent from the DNA of various peoples.
Isn’t that awesome?
The huge difference between the Bible and the writings of similar Sumerian tales of Noah’s flood is that the author of the Bible is also the author of Noah’s Flood.
On authenticity alone, the Bible trumps (pun intended) ancient Sumerian writings which in turn confirm its authenticity.
WOW!!
Throughout history, various groups of people have considered themselves to be the chosen people of a deity, for a particular purpose. You can call these beliefs affirmations, but I call them lies and bullshit.
People may say God chose them and has spoken to them, which in reality is clearly distinct from God actually choosing or speaking to anyone.
These stories of chosen status are available for everyone today and has no proof of lineage that it was handed down. For example European Jews have adopted stories of Middle East and European Settlers in America claim they have divine right to land stolen as do all colonists segregationists oppressors and slavers.
Chosen people
In Judaism, “chosenness” is the belief that the Jews, via descent from the ancient Israelites, are the chosen people, i.e., chosen to be in a covenant with God.
Manifest Destiny
Manifest destiny was a phrase in the 19th-century United States that represented the belief that American settlers were destined to expand westward across North America, and that this belief was both obvious (“manifest”) and certain (“destiny”).
Racial interpretation and Racism of the past has no role in present enlightened multi-cultural liberated thought. You cannot reason with fools who believe lies. Blank them.
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March 30, 2024 at 6:52 am
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Throughout history, various groups of people have considered themselves to be the chosen people of a deity, for a particular purpose.
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Name some and produce the written evidence to that effect, otherwise shut up.
They do not exist.
The Bible on the other hand exists and today we repeatedly find the archaeological evidence to its authenticity, and of course, God’s chosen also exist.
God’s Chosen people are eternal and that alone confirms the Bible.
The writings of the Sumerians confirms the Bible.
No other group can make such a claim.
Their empires have risen and fallen.
God’s Chosen live on and will live on long after you have passed.
You could get eternal life too, but you would have to believe the Bible and ask for it.
Then you would be around to witness the end of the story and the beginning of God’s Kingdom on Earth.
Our Father
Who Art in Heaven
Hallowed be thy Name
Thy Kingdom Come
Thy will be done
On Earth as it is in Heaven
WOW …. what we were taught as children and know by heart is real and true.
Confirms everything in the Bible, it is so simple that it is easy to miss.
That prayer is straight from the Bible the same book you denigrate.
Matthew 6:9-13, King James Version
9 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
10 Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
11 Give us this day our daily bread.
12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
All of the physical evidence of the Creation story is there and the Bible tells us where to look. The geological, paleontological, archaeological etc evidence is all there. …… just as the Bible says:
Job 12:7-10 King James Version (KJV)
But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; And the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: And the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee. Who knoweth not in all these That the hand of the LORD hath wrought this? In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind.
The story is beautiful, wonderful in its every detail.
“Name some and produce the written evidence to that effect, otherwise shut up. ”
Do your own cunting “research” google “chosen people” and read like a good boy
seek and you will find
Read the bottom line which was specially dedicated to you
“You cannot reason with fools who believe lies. Blank them.”
consider yourself blanked
a waste of space and a waste of time in the intellectual debate of life
a creep and a troll and an old man child
The same few of you must post a 100 repetitive comments when the mature and sensible thing to do is to agree to rh disagree.