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Drax Hall: Political Cowardice and the ‘rule of law’

By Tee White In late April, news broke in Barbados that the Barbados Labour Party government, led by Prime Minster Mia Mottley, was planning to make a payment of some BD$ 8 million (US$ 4 million, GBP 3.2 million) to Richard Drax, the current owner of Drax Hall plantation, as part of the compulsory purchase…

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By Tee White

In late April, news broke in Barbados that the Barbados Labour Party government, led by Prime Minster Mia Mottley, was planning to make a payment of some BD$ 8 million (US$ 4 million, GBP 3.2 million) to Richard Drax, the current owner of Drax Hall plantation, as part of the compulsory purchase of 50 acres of that property. The government claimed that its intention in acquiring the land is to build 10,000 houses for low-income families.

When the announcement of the sale was publicised, the outrage among the people of Barbados was instant. Trevor Prescod, MP for St Michael East and Special Envoy to the Prime Minister’s Office with responsibility for reparations and economic enfranchisement summed up the country’s feelings when he declared that Drax must not receive a single cent from the people of Barbados.

Faced with a wall of anger in Barbados, across the Caribbean and globally, Prime Minister Mottley addressed the country on 24 April.  In her address, she announced that the government would pause the compulsory purchase of the land from Richard Drax and consult with the people of Barbados on how to proceed.

Drax Hall [Photo Credit: https://barbados.org/drax.htm]

An important question that this issue has raised is that of the rule of law. David Commissiong, Barbados’ ambassador to CARICOM, writing in his capacity as a private citizen, published a commentary in which he outlined the criminal involvement of the Drax family in the holocaust against enslaved Africans in Barbados and the enormous wealth they derived from their criminal activity. Nevertheless, he argued that “the Law of Barbados stipulates that whenever Government compulsorily acquires property it is under a duty to compensate the landowner by paying him the fair market value of the land that is being appropriated”. Therefore, he argued, the government’s hands are tied. He described the prospect of the payout to the Drax family as a “fundamental injustice”.

Read full article – https://caribbeanempowerment.wordpress.com/2024/04/27/barbados-drax-hall-political-cowardice-and-the-rule-of-law/

166 responses to “Drax Hall: Political Cowardice and the ‘rule of law’”

  1. Street 66 Avatar
    Street 66

    According to White British Law, Slavery was legal, Transporting Africans against their will was legal, Owning Africans as property was legal Rape / Breeding of Africans to make slave babies was legal, forcing Africans to work for free was legal.

    Then they made Slavery illegal and paid Reparations to Slave Owners but not Slaves.

    According to African Barbadian sensibilities all the above was not legal or moral and was the biggest crime in history of humanity.

    African Barbadian Law should make Assets from Slavery as the Proceeds of Crime which cannot be passed down through inheritance.

  2. A Little Way Different / Differentah Avatar
    A Little Way Different / Differentah

    Much like you have a country that is the country that you identify you’re from.
    The Enneagram* is like being from a country of personality. And when you understand your type, suddenly your behaviour is going to make more sense.
    And when you understand the type of someone else, you’re going to understand their behaviour as well.

    (*) The Enneagram is a personality typing system based on ancient spiritual traditions which describes people in terms of their core motivations, desires and fears. The word “enneagram” comes from the Greek “ennea,” meaning nine, and “gramma,” meaning something drawn or written.

  3. Yolande Grant Avatar
    Yolande Grant

    Information circulating states Drax may have been dragged into an alleged scam unknowingly. People are trying to reach out to him to get him on air because they suspect that he was allegedly lured without having certain knowledge…that info is out there..

    Some believe that is one of the reasons he said no houses in the property. People are incensed and DETERMINED Drax finds out what really went on..

    Someone may have flown too close to the sun this tine. Neither the people on the island nor the world need this pappyshow nonsense. This pretense that has now BLOWN UP

  4. My Foreparent Avatar
    My Foreparent

    My Forparent
    Before they passed away
    This is what they say each and every day

    Holy Holy
    Holy Mount Zion
    Holy Mount Zion I
    Is where we are from

    Babylon
    Babylonians
    From Africa you’ve brought us here as slaves

    From the time
    Until this time
    This is what they say
    Tomorrow we will be free

    There is no tomorrow in sight
    Each and every day
    Is just the same

    I want to be free
    I just want to free
    Cannot bear it no more
    Your brutality

    Babylon Babylonian
    Why won’t you set us free

    Give Thanks To Jah

  5. John Avatar
    John

    Street 66 Avatar
    Street 66
    April 28, 2024 at 2:49 am
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    According to White British Law, Slavery was legal,

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

    Slavery was legal, moral and a normal way of life for millennia.

    The vast majority of people in the world have ancestors who were slaves.

    Big deal.

  6. John Avatar
    John

    Even the US has slavery today and children are trafficked routinely across the border.

  7. John Avatar
    John

    Yolande Grant
    April 28, 2024 at 6:27 am
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    Information circulating states Drax may have been dragged into an alleged scam unknowingly. People are trying to reach out to him to get him on air because they suspect that he was allegedly lured without having certain knowledge…that info is out there..

    Some believe that is one of the reasons he said no houses in the property.

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

    He studied land management.

    Bound to know houses affect drainage quite apart from interfering with the enjoyment an open space gives to humans.

    Probably knows of the burials and respects the graves of those long past.

    He is protecting Ms. Mockley from herself. She should just say thanks and move on.

    https://www.richarddrax.com/about-richard

    “Richard enjoyed a variety of activities, ranging from ceremonial duties, such as Trooping the Colour to mark the Queen’s birthday, to parachuting with the Guards’ freefall team.

    On leaving the army, he studied land management for three years at the Royal Agricultural College, near Cirencester, before embarking on a career in journalism, which spanned 17 years.

    Keen to educate children about the countryside, Richard continues to invite schoolchildren to his farm every year.

    It has proved hugely popular.

    Over the past nine years as MP, Richard has thrown himself into many causes and campaigns.

    In addition to serving his constituents, Richard’s role has seen him representing many causes and organisations, such as schools, farmers, police, pensioners, hospitals, fishermen, local services, our Armed Forces and prison officers.

    He will continue to serve, without fear or favour.”

    Ms. Mockley chose the wrong man to mess with.

  8. John Avatar
    John

    Ms. Mockley is way out of her league.

    Anyway, we are getting some comedy and laughs.

  9. Yolande Grant Avatar
    Yolande Grant

    Similarly many carry slave master bloodlines, that being the nature of things back then…this should be taken into consideration..

    ….instead of a bunch of conflict of interest experts/failed pokiticians, bathed in it, running around the place willy nilly with their arrogant ignorance….making total idiots of themselves….in a stupid case they can never win..

  10. David Avatar
    David

    £100m ‘not enough’ for reparations

    By Tony Best

    Barbadian cleric The Right Reverend Peter Fenty, a retired Anglican bishop in Canada, believes the sum of £100 million (pounds sterling) the Church of England was allocating to a slavery reparations fund is inadequate.

    In fact, he also thinks it should be augmented by contributions from major beneficiaries of the abhorrent atrocity of slavery practised for centuries in Barbados and elsewhere.

    Fenty, the first black cleric ever elected a bishop in Canada’s Anglican Church some years ago, said European aristocracies, including the British Royal Family, commercial enterprises and others whose ancestors benefited from slavery and wealth that was traceable to slavery, should now be significant contributors to reparations in Barbados and other places.

    “There can be no figure that can redress the atrocities of slavery and what was done by the Church in collaboration with the (European) colonisers wherever colonisation took place. You cannot put a [premium] . . . on the loss (of lives) and inhumane treatment of people.

    “If the Church and the United Kingdom are serious about reparations, there must be a commitment to ongoing support for the development of those places (where slavery) occurred,” Fenty said.

    “It should last for the next 50 to 100 years. It isn’t you just putting out money. You must be committed to helping transform and upgrade a society you were responsible for impoverishing. Until that impoverishment is removed and people are put on a sound footing you must commit, making provision for restorative justice,” he added.

    According to Fenty, it was not simply a “matter of saying we are sorry, we are going to give you £100 million (pounds). An injustice was done to people; lives lost; livelihood destroyed; and potential for growth and development thwarted,” he complained. “The question is, are you committed to restoring? Are you ready to repent? Repentance is not simply saying ‘I am sorry.’ You must be committed to making things right.” The way to achieve that is to contribute to the economic and development of people whose ancestors were killed, abused, and brutalised, he added.

    Fenty said he was not holding the Church of England alone responsible for the abomination.

    “Colonies were taken in the name of monarchs and colonial powers – Portuguese, English, French, the Dutch, Spanish – all of them were engaged and now they must take responsibility for their actions. It was not any one group but all who were engaged in the sin of slavery.”

    Fenty’s analysis of slavery and the issue of reparations comes at a time of considerable debate in Barbados, Britain, Europe, the Caribbean, North America and Africa. Fenty said yes, reparations should be paid in the form of long-term economic and social assistance to the world’s developing nations to boost the well-being of the descendants of slaves in countries which were reeling from slavery’s after-effects.

    A few days ago, Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley ordered a “pause” in Government’s controversial plans to acquire 50 acres of land at Drax Hall, St George, to build houses for low- and middle-income Bajans. This development came after the eruption of a firestorm of criticisms.

    In his reaction to the Church of England reparations fund, Fenty said he backed the position taken by Bishop Rosemarie Mallett in England, who said the proposed sum earmarked by the Church of England was “a heck of a lot of money, but we also recognise that it is not a lot when you consider the harm done. How do you put a price on that?”


    Source: Nation

  11. The OG Avatar
    The OG

    The vision of reparations appears to be quite different as we move from folk to folk.

    Though the talk is often the same, dome see it as a partial righting of the evil of slavery whilst others see it as a fast way to make a buck whilst enriching the descendants of enslavers.

    It makes me vomit when some like DC open their mouth and start speaking. They try to straddle the fence and end up insulting our intelligence.

  12. Yolande Grant Avatar
    Yolande Grant

    I noticed from the 1970s no one on the island liked DC…it is a venomous hatred and for GOOD REASON…..justified.

    To pull a fake pan afrikan scam on the people for so long, decades, only to realize when they REALLY NEED IT….the likes of him can never enter our ntr..

  13. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    We have maintained that independence/republic means nothing without progressive land reform. “We can fool some of the people some of the time; we can fool all the people some of the time but we can’t fool all the people all the time.”
    We have allowed the plantation owners to abandon thousands of acres of land and then sell off vast acreage for housing and other commercial enterprises on the false premise that it is “their” land. We say in one breath that slavery was illegal and inhumane but in the other we legitimize the gains of slavery.
    Successive Black governments/politicians underwrote the sugar industry for decades with the taxpayers money while the plantocracy, were complicit in allowing sugar estates to run to ruin and used their wealth to enter other areas usually in association with foreign white business persons.
    We strut the world stage pretending that we can call shots, telling others that they must underwrite caring for our own environment while we allow the building and destruction of the same environment, to the point that the masses are begging for “windows” to the sea in order to see the sea.
    The political lawyer class has no intensions of fighting against these atrocities because they benefit professionally.
    Comrade Prescod has unbelievably said : that the now exposed dastardly attempt, to get in bed with Drax, was a “mistake”. Where was Comrade Prescod when this
    decision was made. After all Comrade, you sit in the Prime Minister’s office , as her Special Envoy in matters relating to reparations and enfranchisement.
    Tell us Comrade if you knew or was consulted on this matter.

  14. unfinished business Avatar
    unfinished business

    14 years ago when Jamaica PM spoke about reparations during Cameron’s visit I was probably the only advocate on British American blogs, but the call has spread across USA, UK, Europe, Canada especially among liberals, youths and some politicians. So the movement is growing and will be coming eventually. It is still an unresolved issue in the ongoing fights for civil rights and truth and rights and equality.

  15. Justice Avatar
    Justice

  16. John Avatar
    John

    The reverend is any relation the Rihanna? She would really lend some credence to his position!!

  17. Yolande Grant Avatar
    Yolande Grant

    William…they are ALL COMPROMISED and owned by the establishment…making them nonfunctioning unless it benefits the establishment..

    …that’s what weee are trying to impart on the conflicts of interest fools…..that they will NEVER BE OF ANY SUCCESS or useful to Afrika and Afrikan people…

    That’s why they ALL HAVE TO BE ISOLATED, preferably EXILED……so the mess can be cleaned up by those with commonsense….

  18. John Avatar
    John

    But who are the plantation owners? Small Ridge is owned by a joint venture between Coxfam, no relation to Oxfam, and CLICO!! Same Criminals involved in the Kingsland matter.

    All St. John is owned by CLICO!!

    CLICO needed dealing with a long time ago but the politicians had skin in the game, backed it and can’t or won’t get out now. So they pervert the course of justice and make it so it is impossible for a Barbadian Court to meet its primary objective, that of the administration of justice.

    Go and look at the penalty for perverting the course of justice!! Life in jail unless the court is merciful.

    The Overriding Objective

    1.1 (1) The overriding objective of these Rules is to enable the court
    to deal with cases justly.
    (2) Dealing justly with a case includes, so far as is practicable,
    (a) ensuring that the parties are on an equal footing;
    (b) saving expense;
    (c) dealing with the case in ways which are proportionate to
    (i) the amount of money involved;
    (ii) the importance of the case;
    (iii) the complexity of the issues; and
    (iv) the financial position of each party;
    (d) ensuring that it is dealt with expeditiously and fairly; and
    (e) allotting to it an appropriate share of the court’s resources, while
    taking into account the need to allot resources to other cases.
    Application of the overriding objective by the court

    1.2 The court must seek to give effect to the overriding objective when
    interpreting these Rules or exercising any powers under these Rules.
    Duty of the parties

    1.3 The parties are required to help the court to further the
    overriding objective.

  19. TLSN Avatar
    TLSN

    The BLP party led by their internationally recognised and colossus Prime Minister have been very quite since she announced that there would be a pause in the government’s plan to pay reparations to Mr Drax.

    Mia will have to explain why in a single sentence she abolished decades of hard work from Caribbean’s and their diaspora to fight for reparations in the name of their ancestors and their descendants.

    It would appear that Mia and both parties bats for for those who enslaved our ancestors. But brothers and sisters, fear not, we are now a republic and have our very own black president whose name I can’t recall. She’s probably a mason.

    Don’t wait for some announcement from the great one to soothe your concerns. She’s probably sold out her population already by ten fold. Heh, whose counting, we Bajans aren’t too concerned. Cropover soon come!

  20. John Avatar
    John

    Coxfam is the same people involved in the Kingsland matter which was part of the 2,400 acre SBG deal.

    No prizes for guessing CLICO was in from the start too, with the politicians!!

    The whole objective was to gain control of the land so they could benefit from the housing that they expected to take off.

    Ironically, Ridge, which was/is a part of Ridge Limited as was Small Ridge is where they have started in earnest not understanding the vagaries of the geology and water.

    Looking more and more like they bought a lemon but time will tell.

    Quite apart from that, you can’t imagine the abomination they have created.

    For sure Kingsland owns its land but it does not have marketable title.

    Kingsland needs releases of its undertaking, property and assets.

    That’s how it was setup as was more than a dozen other family companies during and after WWII by “old conveyancers who did not make mistakes”!!.

    Not one of the nine necessary releases is filed in the Land Registry.

    It is kind of like a “poison pill” used to prevent company takeovers.

  21. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    The governments of the slave trading European countries claim that they have no money to look after their own citizens. I spend very little time thinking about reparations from governments. They will not be forthcoming. The church is a different matter because it is A CHURCH.

    What needs to happen is a new world system with a new attitude going forward. We need to hitch our wagons to the fresh, new horses. The old horses are dying!

  22. Yolande Grant Avatar
    Yolande Grant

    William….the news keeps getting worse and worse. Now i don’t discriminate against people or countries because they invest their money. I am big on seeing noncorrupt investments……i do have a problem when immigrants go into black majority countries and practice racism and apartheid because some may not know but most do what this leads to.

    But imagine my, not surprise, but concern to hear that the island was allegedly sold to China for half billion and the seller allegedly pocketed the money.

    ……similarly Antigua allegedly sold 1000 acres to China…..well Jamaica has been selling for some years and angering the maroons and Trinidad has something going on too….the message sent is China allegedly now own these 4 islands. .

    Politicians/lawyers are very heavily compromised.

  23. GP Avatar
    GP

    RE What needs to happen is a new world system with a new attitude going forward. We need to hitch our wagons to the fresh, new horses. The old horses are dying!

    EXACTLY
    BUT YOU WILL NOT HAVE TO WAIT SO LONG
    READ ABOUT IT IN 2 PETER 3 9-13 THUS

    The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

    10But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

    11Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,

    12Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?

    13Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

    RIGHTEOUSNESS WILL CHARACTERIZE THE COMING WORLD

  24. Enuff Avatar
    Enuff

    Wow! China owns four of our islands.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  25. Yolande Grant Avatar
    Yolande Grant

    Am sure i typed the word alleged…but glad to hear it confirmed.

  26. TLSN Avatar
    TLSN

    @ Enuff,
    I understand the sentiments of your last comment.

    Can you remember the DLP just prior to it been voted out of power. It fired out the message, dril baby drill. Yes, I’m talking about Barbados oil and gas basins. Mia appeared keen on exploitating these natural resources. However, no mention has been made of this for a very long time.

    I would argue that both governments have already conspired to relieve Bajans of their Crown jewels. These resources have probably been signed off to a number of foreign bodies.

    When governments lack transparency it is always right to assume that they are up to no good.

  27. Yolande Grant Avatar
    Yolande Grant

    “Enuff
    April 28, 2024 at 2:06 pm
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    Wow! China owns four of our islands.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣”

    Definitely confirmation….thanks….glad you’re happy.

  28. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    @ Yolande Grant
    We have to stop making excuses when our own dog bites us. Skullduggery , thieving, corruption in all forms ,will not magically disappear , regardless of the system unless we are honestly going to hold those we go into polling stations and vote for responsible.
    We have given our Caribbean politicians enough time, for them to realise , that their first order of business, was to protect and serve the masses and they have refused to do so. They have convinced us that corruption is part and parcel of their mission. And in the words of @ Pacha, the guillotine must now be seriously considered.
    The only leader in the region, who understood that mission was Comrade Fidel Castro. When we read during the 2018 election that at least one Pan Africanist , had hailed Prime Minister Mottley, as the second coming of Castro, we knew that a collective madness had invaded the Comrades.
    As Marcus Garvey said we have to eliminate the enemy within. In more progressive societies several BLPDLP politicians and their collective apologists , would have long departed this planet as judgement for the wholesale sell out of the masses, who have underwritten their existence.

  29. Yolande Grant Avatar
    Yolande Grant

    “Skullduggery , thieving, corruption in all forms.”

    THAT IS WHAT THEY ARE VOTING FOR…when they stop voting for them…it STOPS.

    “They have convinced us that corruption is part and parcel of their mission. And in the words of @ Pacha, the guillotine must now be seriously considered.”

    Well i hear that BULLET PROOF cars are now en vogue on the island, with all kinda info floating around about the WHY….nuff intrigue….so ah guess many have developed the very same sentiments as Pacha….and the amount of people ha!….and ONE DAY….

  30. TLSN Avatar
    TLSN

    What a lame and pathetic excuse from our prime minister that we needed to pay Drax’s reparation in order to build affordable homes for the masses. Yet, at the same time, we allow foreigners to buy swathes of land to build million pound mansions in an island measuring 166sqm.

    What planet is the BLP living on. Our prime minister is lost at sea and can not find a way out of the labyrinth of non-transparency that is the hallmark of her governance.

    Barbecue, were art though!

  31. Yolande Grant Avatar
    Yolande Grant

    Barbacue dont want those types anywhere around him….

    Info surfaced that it was a cover story…the REAL REASON was tied to another alleged scam..

    ..that’s the one they are claiming Drax did not have all the details….am sure Enuff will confirm for us…

  32. case dismissed Avatar
    case dismissed

    Kingsland Estate Trial is well over. Madam Justice Sandra Mason became Governor General of Barbados and the other Justice Andrew Burgess was appointed to the CCJ. Knox Klan lost, get over it, call it Karma for supporting slavers.

  33. BAJE Avatar
    BAJE

    The only leader in the region, who understood that mission was Comrade Fidel Castro

    Xxxxxxxx

    FIDEL CASTRO WAS A FUCKING TYRANT.

    POINT BLANK AND PERIOD.

    I DON’T KNOW WHAT WORLD YOU ARE LIVING IN. IT IS THE REASON WHY PEOPLE IN CUBA ARE LIVING LIKE NORTH KOREA UNDER ANOTHER TYRANT.

    BELOW YOU CAN READ FIRST HAND FULLY FROM A CUBAN AND NOT AN ARMCHAIR ADMIRER LIKE YOURSELF .

    https://www.quora.com/What-was-it-like-growing-up-under-Fidel-Castro-in-Cuba-What-was-the-general-attitude-of-the-population-towards-him?top_ans=31466643

  34. bgoldariella Avatar
    bgoldariella

    There are some folks on this blog that have some sense PRAISE THE LORD.

    Before the 2018 election I warned wunna all of the trap that you were walking into but none of you wanted to hear a WORD I had to say. Eventually I shut up. But you know what? Time is the great equalizer and I knew I would just have to sit back and wait and so said so done.

    I know who y’all are dealing with. I had many dealings with the said person and leopards don’t change their spots. Snakes are the same way too. They are very devious and deceitful but eventually they will show their true colours.

    Now what people of Barbados? Now what are you going to do?

    My advice now as it was then is that as our Anthem so beautifully is scripted our hope lies in GOD and GOD alone. Turn back to Him. He will never turn away ANYONE who calls on HIm and it is NEVER TOO late.

    I continue to pray for the country of Barbados and its people daily. May you seek the Face of God before it is too late. He is long suffering but there is a time when he does turn His Face away.

  35. John Avatar
    John

    case dismissed Avatar
    case dismissed
    April 28, 2024 at 4:59 pm
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    Kingsland Estate Trial is well over. Madam Justice Sandra Mason became Governor General of Barbados and the other Justice Andrew Burgess was appointed to the CCJ. Knox Klan lost, get over it, call it Karma for supporting slavers.

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

    Fraud unravels all!!

    https://tenetlaw.co.uk/articles/fraud-unravels-all/

  36. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Foolish Baje

    Have you ever read anything about Cuba before the revolution? Do you have any idea that Cuba brought Apartheid in Southern Afrika to an end? Do you understand that Cuba is technologically, especially in medicine, way ahead of the rest of this region?

    Certainly, Cuba is not perfect, neither is anywhere else, but instead of focusing on the 70 years of sanctions, as war, which have arrested development , not unlike the colonial project in Haiti, you with your belligerence continue to spew nonsense.

    Even when proven wrong, ass wipes like you, never seem to retreat from the kind of ignorance which only death must cure.

    We cite your sublime ignorance in relationship to the lies of White people about Hamas killing babies and raping women.

    Although the evidence is now out, not once has this blog been apologized to for the lies propagated by you as a foolish instrument of Western disinformation media.

    You’ve never read anything critical about anything. Shut up your ignorance.

  37. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    @ Baje
    You obviously are dead wrong. Of course, we forget that Cuba built a brand new airport for Grenada . Ask Grenadians how much they paid for it. Cuba has produced more medical professionals per square mile than any other country ; has sent doctors into countries that had acute shortages throughout Africa and other regions; has provided free cataract surgery for dozens of Bajans ; has given free medical education to Bajans; as recently as COVID sent nurses to combat the shortages in Barbados and several other Caribbean islands.
    Ask any historian what was the literacy level when the USA was driven out of Cuba; Cuba has the best preparation response to hurricanes and other natural disasters in the Caribbean.
    We would like you to to state how many governments in Latin America and how many innocent people were killed by the “non-tyrant USA governments . Name any other Caribbean government that was denied the importation of medicines by the USA and yet has developed treatments for several ailments that the poor people of Barbados cannot afford and are fighting for their lives because of accute shortages of medication. Do you know that Barbados is considered the amputation capital of the world
    We have never stated that Comrade Castro was perfect. However, we delight in turning a blind eye to the murders that were executed by the CIA even in the Caribbean. In your non-tyranical USA, the Supreme Court now wants to give a ranting lunatic racist immunity from even murdering political opponents. Of course when Cuba was the playground for the Mafia and the said Mafia was controlling the non-tyrant politicians , we said nothing because it was the great USA.
    Who killed Pele ; who killed Mark Stokes, in our country. Non-tyrants , we presume.
    We guess that all the corruption in law enforcement and successive governments that you have exposed in our country were done by non tyrants.
    And it was no doubt a non-tyranical regime that just recently tried to pay an slave owners descendants millions of dollars for enslaving black people

  38. John Avatar
    John

    Takhar v Gracefields is important for those Bajans who have lost land through a fraud on the court. There is a way to reverse a court decision obtained through fraud and also to act as a deterrent against the corrupt local legal fraternity..

  39. John Avatar
    John

    Read it here.

    https://www.supremecourt.uk/cases/docs/uksc-2017-0072-judgment.pdf

  40. The OG Avatar
    The OG

    Just curious.
    Will this argument hold in a court within the Caribbean given how our courts are?

  41. BAJE Avatar
    BAJE

    @ Baje
    You obviously are dead wrong. Of course, we forget that Cuba built a brand new airport for Grenada

    XXXXXXXXXX

    BOSS

    I DON’T GIVE A DAMN WHAT FIDEL CASTRO SUPPOSEDLY DID FOR OTHER COUNTRIES.

    DOCTORS ARE WORKING IN CUBA FOR US$40 MONTHLY.

    WORKERS FOR THE COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT AND PRIVATE SECTOR FOR BETWEEN US$14 AND US$40 MONTHLY.

    RIGHT NOW A TRAY OF EGGS IS ABOUT US$10 LOCALLY BECAUSE OF INFLATION CUBA.

    CUBA PIMPED THEIR DOCTORS, NURSES AND OTHER WORKERS ACROSS THE WORLD AND CHARGED GOVERNMENTS AT VERY GOOD RATES FOR THEIR LABOUR PER INDIVIDUAL YET PAID SAME WORKERS PEANUTS IN THOSE SAME COUNTRIES BARELY ABLE TO SCRAPE THROUGH FOR SURVIVAL LIKE HOW NORTH KOREA DOES TO ITS OVERSEAS WORKERS.

    THAT IS HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND MODERN DAY SLAVERY.

    YOU CAN READ BELOW ARTICLE AND GET REAL INFORMATION ON HOW LIFE IS FOR CUBANS ON THE GROUND I AM SURE YOU LIVING IN ATLANTA DON’T HAVE TO DEAL WITH THIS REAL REALITY.

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    A tube of toothpaste every three months, ‘meaty mass’ to eat: Cuba’s economy is this bad

    Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/cuba/article242732366.html#storylink=cpy

  42. dreamstarworld Avatar
    dreamstarworld

    @DAVID

    #GoodMorningBruh

    LET ME REITERATE THE POSITION I STILL HOLD:

    “Where there is #NoVision – the “PEOPLE PERISH”…

    While “Black Folks” are engaged with the “CHATTERING CLASSES” on the struggle for “REPARATORY JUSTICE” – a stealthful “ENEMY” is gaining traction & ground where a vacuum has been left by our leaders – who due to a lack “FORESIGHT”, “HINDSIGHT” & “DAYLIGHT” – stumble around in the darkness of their myopically, disassociated, visionless “HELLSCAPE” – wearing the “FACE OF JANUS” in their dealings with their masters & their masses!!!

    In #AmeriKKKa, #DIS_UnitedKingdom, #EuROPE* & wherever the “SLAVERS” have wielded power over the centuries on the backs of “BLACK AFRICANS” – “NEW PLAYERS” are in town (IN THE FORM OF RUSSIA & CHINA)!!!

    I wish I had more time this morning (BUT THE SUN IS SHINING – SO #CarpeDiem) – however, as you look across the aforementioned nations, one thing is now becoming seminal reality: (CHINA & RUSSIA ARE INFILTRATING THESE COUNTRIES & BUYING UP EVERYTHING THEY CAN), including #AFRIKA*, where the “WORLD’S STOREHOUSE OF MINERALS EXIST”!!!

    If #LandIsPower, which has been established over the last few weeks, over the diatribe regarding “RICHARD DRAX” & his asset (DRAX HALL) – few are rarely paying “ATTENTION” to how the “EASTERN BLOC NATIONS” are covertly moving into “WESTERN BLOC NATIONS” and taking over major pieces of “REAL ESTATE”, FTSE & NASDAQ COMPANIES, FOOD MANUFACTURERS, BIOMEDICAL ENTERPRISES, OIL & NATURAL GAS ASSETS & the list goes on!!!

    David, “BUSINESS IS BUSINESS” & the “ALMIGHTY DOLLAR” is the #god_WHO_RULES – therefore, “BLACK FOLKS” cannot afford to be “TRICKED”, “SIDE-WINDED” or “DUPED” into a new form of compliance as is being seen across #Afrika, #Caribbean, #LatinAmerica, #Asia & wherever there are “RESOURCES” to be “EXPLOITED”!!!

    WE LOSE IF WE NAP & WE#LL GET SLAPPED IF WE DON’T LOOK BACK!!!

    FROM THE LIP 2 THE HIP – WE SLIP (if we refuse to pay attention to the “ENEMY POSING AS A PARTNER & FRIEND)!!!

    #JudasComesInManyForms

    #StayBased

    #StayBlessed

    #StayTuned &

    #LookUP*

  43. John Avatar
    John

    The OG
    April 29, 2024 at 3:19 am
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    Just curious.
    Will this argument hold in a court within the Caribbean given how our courts are?

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

    The first application of this precedent out of the UK might have to go all the way to the CCJ!!

    Courts usually follow other courts so maybe it won’t.

    More likely that the old tried and tested tactic of delay and frustrate will be employed.

    The precedent set by the decision is what it is.

    Fraud is fraud and fraud unravels all.

    The argument that reopening litigation after final decision is an abuse of process appears to get blown up by this recent, 2019, decision in the particular case of fraud.

    https://www.lk.law/2019/02/fraud-unravels-everything-the-test-for-admission-of-fresh-evidence-in-an-action-to-rescind-a-judgment-obtained-by-fraud/

  44. Yolande Grant Avatar
    Yolande Grant

    Yolande Grant
    April 28, 2024 at 4:23 pm
    2 Votes

    “Skullduggery , thieving, corruption in all forms.”

    THAT IS WHAT THEY ARE VOTING FOR…when they stop voting for them…it STOPS.

    “They have convinced us that corruption is part and parcel of their mission. And in the words of @ Pacha, the guillotine must now be seriously considered.”

    Well i hear that BULLET PROOF cars are now en vogue on the island, with all kinda info floating around about the WHY….nuff intrigue….so ah guess many have developed the very same sentiments as Pacha….and the amount of people ha!….and ONE DAY….

    Everyone should pay rapt attention to this….it is quite the reveal, such a pity Enuff only wanted to strategically confirm once..

  45. Yolande Grant Avatar
    Yolande Grant

    Yes, it’s that bad and gearing up to get decidedly worse and no amount of legislating shite laws to scare the public into silence will change anything….it’s all their own doings by their own hands…, operating for DECADES outside the public servant/employee job description comes with consequences.

  46. dreamstarworld Avatar
    dreamstarworld

    THE POLYTRICKS OF THE “OBVIOUS”

    Scotland’s #FirstMinister “HAMZA YUSUF” bows out in “TEARS”!!!

    This is the #CommonThread in #PoLIEtics today where so-called leaders “BITE THE DUST” with tears of recrimination!!!

    POLIETICIANS ARE DELUDED, DECEIVED FOOLS WHO BELIEVE THAT THEIR BACKSIDES DO NOT STINK!!!

  47. TLSN Avatar
    TLSN

    https://globalvoices.org/2024/04/28/as-a-strong-supporter-of-reparations-barbados-has-had-to-reconsider-purchasing-land-from-a-former-slave-owning-family/

  48. TLSN Avatar
    TLSN

    No end of praise for our prime minister.

    https://globalvoices.org/2022/05/23/time-magazine-chooses-barbados-prime-minister-mia-mottley-as-one-of-the-worlds-most-influential-people/

  49. Alvin Cummins Avatar
    Alvin Cummins

    Everybody forgets that the NATIVE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS WERE EXPORTED THROUGHOUT THE CARIBBEAN, INCLUDING Brbados, even before the africans were brought over as slaves. why hAS THIS BEEN FORGOTTEN AND NOT EVEN DISCUSSED. THESE INDIGENOUS NATIVES INHABITTED NORTH AMERICA FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS BEFORE THE EUROPEANS EVEN KNEW THEY EXISTED BEFORE 1492. TEK DAT! Let mia fool people into thinking she can do anything. Trevor Prescod, Davod Cpmissiong, David Denny, and their ilk are living a pipe dream.

  50. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Nonsense!

    They were merely descendants of Afrikans who were here from the time when the only humans on earth were Afrikans!

    At least 200,000 years ago.

    It was only 15,000 years ago that we then had the Asiatic migrations which, through inbreeding gave rise to the so-called American Indians, the Incas, and many other sub-genotypes.

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