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Some things are enough to make curious minds ponder.

Last week there was a media report of a Barbados Defense Force (BDF) soldier dismissed because “he was caught three weeks ago at the BDF’s shooting range at Paragon, Christ Church, with a box of ammunition. He was subsequently dishonourably discharged following certain statements he made during a BDF internal investigation.”

Last week we heard that retired legendary policeman Rap Brown who is charged with being in possession of 100 rounds of .40mm ammunition without a valid licence to do so on October 13, 2019 – had his case adjourned for the umpteenth time.

Last month retired Superintendent of police John Mark Annel was fined a fine $20,000 for having 100 illegal bullets in his possession six years ago. Although a serious infraction Judge Pamela Beckles gave favourable consideration to Annel’s 40 years of serving and protecting.

The other observation is the Brent Thomas matter. Attorney General of Barbados Dale Marshall recently advised that the government will accept liability for participating in an illegal ‘extradition’ of Thomas from Barbados to Trinidad. Based on all research Thomas is a registered arms dealer in Trinidad and has a matter pending before the Trinidad & Tobago courts. Was Brent Thomas’ release only an administrative foul up?

The blogmaster will tread lightly on the matter of prominent citizens found in possession of illegal ammunition except to say – who is guarding the guard?

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10 responses to “Who stealing ammunition?”

  1. dreamstarworld Avatar
    dreamstarworld

    “ALL THE WORLD IS A STAGE – THE MEN & WOMEN MERE PLAYERS”, according to the #Bard…

    Where there’s a proliferation in “DRUG USE” – the business of the illicit trade brings with it the asinine cover of “GUNS” – this is a foregone conclusion!!!

    Barbados is a tiny nation of some 388K people and the majority of the youth are unemployed with precious little prospects for upward mobility – so, “guns & roses” is the moniker of the day!!!

    THIS IS NOT DRAMATIZATION!!! You murder – the victim(s) gets recompensed with flowers!!!

    Bajans now feel it a constitutional right to bear arms (whether you live in the heights & terraces, towns or villages or in the housing schemes – as the need to protect life & property has become sacrosanct…

    What the so-called leaders who sheepishly believe they wield power are blinded to is the “ATMOSPHERIC WINDS” that are blowing across the planet – as a signpost that an “APOCALYPSUS” is coming to bear down hard with patent violence & wrath – on a world past it’s “SELL-BY-DATE”!!!

    This is not the beginning of “SORROWS” – that was #WW1 following by #WW2 – now we have reached the “END” (#TheCurtains) of 21st century civilization and all that we have taken for granted since the #BabyBoomers; #GenX & #GenZ crawled out from between the labia of their mothers into a world they have shaped according to their warped imaginations – NOW THE CHICKENS ARE ABOUT TO ROOST!!!

    Barbados will not be exempt!!! What affects the “MIDDLE EAST” will have spill over for the entire world including far off lands that are shackled with unnecessary death & violence due to “LAWLESSNESS” & the lack of fear for anything that is “GODLY OR RIGHTEOUS”!!!

    No one on this “BLOG” needs a lesson in “POlieTICAL SOCIOLOGY” – the mounting evidence speaks volumes in & of itself – where individual “CONSCIENCE” tells us that between the 4 walls of our matchbox brains that something is NOT* right – whether we chose to play on the chessboard of “DENIAL” or not!!!

    I F.E.A.R nothing but #YAH_ALMIGHTY, but regrettably, I have forebodings for my country and the abject apathy that is now fossilized into the matrix of a nation that according to the #ProphetAmos opined in chapter 5:19:
    “If a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him, or went into the house and leaned his hand against the wall, and a serpent bit him. In that day you will be like a man who runs from a lion – only to meet a bear…”

    THERE WILL BE NO PLACE TO HIDE ON 166 SQ MILES!!!

    #EnoughSaid

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk4Y6XeBeyo

  2. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    This Black, Brown, Red, Yellow, White World has been at War since 2001 when USA and UK, Israel started using Killer Drones against people of colour.

    Music is my Weapon in the Spiritual Battle of Truth Against Lies.
    And if they have any questions about what you are talking about, please play them this album.
    Let me say one thing, There is Human Education Against Lies Shirts out there, that is the movement that is putting this on, the stuff that they are protesting about is of course what you are not hearing about.

    It’s called Jesus was an African, Noah was an African, Abraham was an African. All of these people were Africans and you must rise up on that

    Sweet Sunday Sermon Musical Version Excursion
    Village Soul, “Sounds of Young Jamaica”, Studio One Radio Show [Intro]

  3. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    Give Love A Try

    I was watching Oppenheimer and it seems like USA used the antisemitism trope to entice Jewish scientists to develop nuclear weapons as they wanted the power of God to rule the world in dominion just like Satan and his minions.

    They are clearly missing the message of the lyrics in Bible Psalms passed down through the generations of God’s children from the beginning of time.

    Real Hot, Lennie Hibbert, Theme From Scorcher, Dub Specialist, Give Love A Try, Sugar Minott

  4. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    David, off topic, but gun related. As at today’s date, St. Lucia has recorded 30 murders, the majority occurring in Vieux Fort.

  5. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    Everything is related so it is impossible to be off topic on any thread..

    Israel is trying it’s bloody best to provoke and drag Middle East into conflict so they can play the antisemitism card as per usual and get full support of US UK and all the other Racist White Supremacy Europeans and Colonies.

    Iran is telling it’s forces to learn the enemy’s tactics. At least 34,097 Palestinian people have been killed and 76,980 injured in Israeli strikes on Gaza since 7 October.

  6. David Avatar
    David

    @Artax

    You know better than most this is a problem Caribbean wide. Last week we heard that people are accusing Trinidad police of negotiating a gun truce on the down low. We focus so much on economic issues as we should but the social fabric of our societies globally on the decline.

  7. The OG Avatar
    The OG

    I still here.
    I saw where an exiting official was commenting on the ballot of cases. He even provided statistics. This was not to inform the public but to provide cover for the new guy.

    Look out for this speech..”When I took office we were resolving 10 out of 1000 cases. Under my leadership and in 1 year we have doubled that number to 20, a 100% increase.

  8. The OG Avatar
    The OG

    I still here.
    I would be mad as hell, if at the end of his and handing over his keys, the watch man told me.. ‘All the doors open, the keys do not fit the lock’

    ‘So you mean that all of these years you were pretending to do something? Now, I must play the same game.’

  9. The OG Avatar
    The OG

    I saw where an exiting official was commenting on the backlog of cases. He even provided statistics.

  10. David Avatar
    David

    ‘TROUBLINGLY LOW’
    CHIEF JUSTICE SAYS CURRENT RATE OF CLEARANCE WILL ‘GUARANTEE’ CONTINUED BACKLOG

    The outgoing Chief Justice of Barbados is about to leave office with the court system still grappling with an alarmingly high backlog of cases, prompting him to urge collaboration on revising procedures to radically overhaul the failing structure.
    Speaking at the opening ceremony of the Court-Annexed Mediation Workshop hosted by the Supreme Court and the Barbados Bar Association on Monday, Sir Patterson Cheltenham warned that “our clearance rate of cases is troublingly low”.
    “It is disturbingly evident that in civil/commercial matters, our clearance rate will guarantee, I repeat, will guarantee that we have an ever-accumulating backlog of cases. Simple fact. I am not here to attribute blame, but I think we need to pause,” added Sir Patterson who will demit office on May 15.
    He revealed that upon assuming office in 2020, he sought assistance from the regional Judicial Reform and Institutional Strengthening (JURIST) Project to undertake a detailed analysis of case processing in the island’s court system.
    Although the analysis covered only the period from 2017 to 2021, the report presented was critical of the judicial system’s subpar performance, even by international standards, according to the chief justice.
    Quoting directly from the report, Sir Patterson stated: “The average hearing that a civil/commercial matter takes is deeply troubling reading; in 2017, 1 361 cases were filed, the matters that were completed in that period, let’s treat that period as a year or so, 290. So the clearance rate was 21 per cent. The average hearings per disposition – the number of times you go to court – 27.88.
    “In 2018, 1314 cases were filed; matters disposed, 258; percentage clearance rate, 19.63; average hearings per disposition, 30.88. So we are not clearing, then we are going to court frequently.”
    The outgoing chief justice provided similar figures for subsequent years, highlighting the distressingly low clearance rates and high number of hearings per case disposition.
    While the clearance rate for family court proceedings averaged 68.11 per cent with an average of 10.42 hearings per disposition during the same period, Cheltenham stressed that the data summary for civil and commercial proceedings should be deeply concerning to all judicial stakeholders.
    “You don’t need to get confused by the data, it’s scary. Matters go into the court system and they never seem to come out, and we go to court frequently. The question is, ‘to do what?’” he said.
    “Without in any manner trying to confuse, I wanted to give you an accurate assessment and feel for the tardy manner by which matters progress through the court system and are ultimately resolved.”
    Sir Patterson, who has been vocal about the need to significantly reduce the backlog within the courts, stressed the need for a thorough revamp of the judicial framework to better meet the needs of all interested parties.
    “The accepted clearance to ensure that a court is not accumulating a backlog of cases is to clear/dispose of at least as many cases as has been filed/reopened/reactivated in a period, by having a clearance rate of 100 per cent or higher. That’s the consultant’s report and I agree with it,” he said.
    The chief justice stressed that radical measures must be taken, including a “fundamental reorganisation” of the Registration Department and deploying more management-centric personnel.
    “This is a reengineering process, the outlines of which have already started, but it needs to have a team dedicated solely to that mission, and it is urgent,” he insisted. (SB)

    Source: BT

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