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Submitted by William H Harriss. 11/22/2025

Why is your stinking socialist leader Mia Motley and the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) swamping SVG with red shirted Bajan election helpers and going into our villages and bribing Vincentians to vote for the ULP and support Ralph Gonsalves?

What in hells name is going on, if we did that to Barbados the people would lynch us.

Five people, Kevin Henry, Kevon Henry, Alicia Deane, and Marcus Stephens — wearing BLP-branded clothing, arrived at the Argyle International Airport at 11:23 a.m. on Thursday and said there were many more coming.

This may well be a declaration of war on the Vicentian people and these Motley soldiers may be at serious risk. Remember SVG is a lot more wild than Bados, it is backward due to the ULP rule there. Gun violence is a common factor, so if the wrong Vincentians are approached, they may end up dead. Don’t think for a moment I am inciting people, I have no influence whatsoever over Vincentians in their homes. I am just warning you. This is not Barbados; it is more like the Wild West.

Get your people out of SVG it is election interference and offensive.

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76 responses to “BLP ‘declares war’ on Vincentians!”

  1. David Avatar
    David

    MARSHALL: NOT THE WAY

    The presence of several members of the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) in St Vincent and the Grenadines a week ahead of elections in that country has stirred some Vincentians who have been posting under a story and pictures that captured the arrival of the group.

    The information came to light when iWitness News reported that a group had arrived in St Vincent and the Grenadines on Thursday, a week ahead of the November 27 general election, to assist Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves’ ruling Unity Labour Party’s election machinery as the contents of an unreleased poll was suggesting ULP was trailing the Opposition New Democratic Party.

    Political scientist Professor Don Marshall, who specialises in political economy of development, said it was not a welcoming development.

    “As someone who has been tracking and following elections and understanding how democracy works, I do believe that this is not necessarily a welcoming development because we are dealing with sovereign governments and general elections ought to be fought domestically involving the various competing parties.

    “When political parties across the region, particularly when you have sitting heads and/ or representatives of the ruling parties or even the opposition parties intervening or politicking in another, I think it takes us beyond the realm of what should obtain, because ultimately CARICOM works on the basis of regional cooperation among sitting regimes.

    “It could be quite uncomfortable and unfortunate if you have a change in government, for example, in St Vincent and the Grenadines, and that new NDP government has to contend with engagements on a variety of matters that relate to CARICOM with the Barbados Government after its head of government or operatives of the ruling party would have participated in trying to encourage Vincentians to vote the other way,” he said.

    The director and senior research fellow of the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES) said it did not bode well for cementing and securing the integrity of the regional integration movement, given the temperature in the region in not holding together on United States ship strikes within the region.

    “We can least afford this kind of tension that could attend to regimes that believe that another regime sitting in another capital is not supportive or was not supportive in its march to victory at the polls, so I don’t see the system being positive. And you also have situations where the prosecution of a political party in office should take place featuring the people making a decision on how to assess the last term of office.

    Marshall questioned how at a time when it was “desperately” needed for the region to engage in campaign finance reform, how much more complicated would it cost governments to be sending delegations or themselves be participating in the hustings in another country.

    “It raises questions about the funding. Who is financing this? Are taxpayers’ dollars financing this? And if indeed taxpayers’ dollars are not financing this, how do we get transparency in relation to the support of political operatives within the ruling government, travelling and looking to lend support. How is that monetised and supported? This is an unnecessary set of interventions and activities that does not in anyway uplift or augment our understanding of how democracy can or should work,” Marshall stated.

    Meantime, political analyst Peter Wickham said the situation was neither unusual or alarming, as labour parties across the region were a brotherhood/ sisterhood and generally helped each other.

    He said in the past Kenny Anthony and Gonsalves campaigned together.

    “The ULP generally supports labour party efforts across the region in pursuit of their fraternal bonds . . . and as you know, they [labour parties] also share political consultants, so this type of thing is to be expected. I think it speaks to the evolution of a regional politics which I do like,” he said. ( SG)

    This photograph of a group from Barbados arriving in St Vincent, some members in Barbados Labour Party shirts, was published in the press. (iWitness News)

    Source: Nation

  2. David Avatar
    David

    The blogmaster is unaware that a statement has been issued by the BLP secretariat on this matter. Most surprising given the public reaction here and in St. Vincent.

  3. John A Avatar
    John A

    Well after all its freedom of movement now isn’t it? These fellows would qualify as professionals no doubt. Lol

  4. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Weee fail to see anybody in BLP shirts. Certainly, no sensible political operator would so do.

    Caribbean political consultants ply their ware in several Caribbean countries all the time. Indeed, under CSME and the recently, even if limited territorial expansion of this structure, has permitted this normal happening for decades. One such person has the name Henry.

    That such could be characterized as an act of war seems a bit toooo rich for this writer.

    People who really know about war often say that loose lips sink ships. Maybe the loose lips of William Harriss will sink those real war ships now in regional waters as sent by the fascist regime in Washington.

  5. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    The BLP seems to be having a nomination and public political meeting in Saint Joseph.

    What’s this? Has the AG resigned?

    https://www.youtube.com/live/RnKebau722k?si=MYlhvcYEcs7gHors

  6. David Avatar
    David

    The nature of politics being what it is, it is not unexpected that people would be hostile towards actors from another country actively participating in electioneering activities. Based on the result of the general election it may or may not be an issue.

    It is a matter of public record that Dale Marshall and Cynthia Forde will not be contesting the next general election.

  7. BLP ‘declares war’ on Vincentians! – Carribwyre

    […] Submitted by William H Harriss. 11/22/2025 Why is your stinking socialist leader Mia Motley and the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) swamping SVG with red shirted Bajan election helpers and going into our villages and bribing Vincentians to vote for the ULP and support Ralph Gonsalves? What in hells name is going on, if we did […] Source link […]

  8. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Thanks, we got that impression from media. But the general elections have not been called, Marshall has not resigned, a by-election not called, to this writer’s knowledge, so why have a public nomination meeting at this time when the AG is still an MP. What else is being here misunderstood.

  9. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    Power corrupts!
    …and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
    Some SERIOUS shiite seems to happen to fairly normal persons, once they attain office, and have parasitical minions stroking their bloated egos for a few years.

    Two 30-0 election victories may qualify as ‘absolute’, …however, given that the vanquished were the slapstick ‘Froon and Stinkliar’ squad, the BLP should not push their luck

    What would possess a ruling political party to so openly push themselves into St Vincent election politics?
    Does the queen Bee now see her PERSONAL choice of personalities extending BEYOND the BLP, Cabinet, the senate, Government house, and Barbados, …and now into the OECS and Jamaica? (But NOT T&T, cause two half-mad women will never co-exist peacefully…)
    Is THIS behind the free movement idiocy being illogically pushed?

    Should the OTHER party win in St Vincent, we can expect less than ‘cordial’ relations between us… is this statesmanship? or feminine emotions and feelings leading?

    LOL
    Or is it a case of aiming for the UN Secretary Generalship …and at least landing as a regional Czar,

  10. emperorharriss Avatar
    emperorharriss

    There are 23 of them in SVG, I have told NDP supporters to confront them wherever they find them.

  11. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    @Pacha
    Hinkson announced many months before he stepped down. Chad was his anointed successor shortly thereafter. Months later Hinkson officially resigned, a by election was called, and the B candidate had been touring the riding for mumphs.
    Whether the new candidates will face the electorate in a by-election or a general election, only time will tell.

  12. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    These local companies, who donate money to local political entities for ‘furthering democracy in Barbados’, should re-examine their contributions to the BLP.
    Because helping a political party in an election in a foreign sovereign, is dangerous territory. And it is their contributions footing the bill.
    And unlike Pacha we see the shirts and know they are there. These are not the likes of Wickham et al. But ground machinery to get the vote out, whatever that entails.
    Those local political donors, who also do business in SVG should be acutely aware of this development.

  13. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    NO
    If you were a Vincie and Bajans came in such a way would that not make you recoil, vote against Gonzales.

    These people cannot be so stupid, or criminally presumtuous, impolitic. Maybe we credit them too much. Maybe we’re wrong!

    On a related topic

    Sandra Mason is stepping down too! Again Mottley will have a unilateral power to decide the next president for maybe another 25 years. That is a true hallmark of hardcore dictatorship. That even after Mottley is probably dead, her rulership endures from beyond the grave!

    https://youtu.be/72hHLltBaTA?si=Wid_0vNFcyGHo0HT

  14. David Avatar
    David

    The term limit expired for Sandra Mason. Which is a 4 year term with the option to renew.

  15. David Avatar
    David

    Kamla challenges Gonsalves to identify operatives

    “The money men, many of the money men behind the UNC have an interest in St Vincent and the Grenadines and they are prepared to send operatives here and I want to tell you that right now as I speak, operatives for the UNC from Trinidad have come here and they’re here right now as I speak. Don’t be surprised if you see one or two foreign faces following Ralph’s meetings around,” he said.

    By Anna Ramdass

    anna.ramdass@trinidadexpress.com

    Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has fired back at St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves, rubbishing his claims that the United National Congress (UNC) is involved in that country’s upcoming November 27 General Election.

    On Thursday she criticised several other regional prime ministers whom she said have “overtly” campaigned for Gonsalves, warning that CARICOM itself risks implosion if regional leaders continue interfering in the elections of member states.

    During a public meeting in his country, Gonsalves claimed “greedy” UNC financiers were on the ground in St Vincent working with the Opposition New Democratic Party (NDP) to “topple” the United Labour Party (ULP), suggesting their interests were driven by a desire to acquire prime lands and the country’s port.

    In response to questions, Persad-Bissessar called on Gonsalves to identify these alleged UNC operatives.

    She said, “It is ironic that a man whose family got access to three luxury apartments in Trinidad, with one on a favourable rent-to-own basis, would seek to call others greedy. Ralph should account to the people of St Vincent for his 24 years in power and stop deflecting onto the UNC. Further, he should identify the UNC persons he claims are in St Vincent or stop gaslighting his citizens.”

    Housing Development Corporation (HDC) chairman Feeroz Khan previously told Trinidad Express that the State enterprise had launched an internal investigation into how Gonsalves’ wife, Eloise, his son Storm and his daughter Soleil acquired Victoria Keyes properties.

    The Prime Minister said that investigations into the acquisition of the three apartments at Victoria Keyes in Diego Martin have nothing to do with St Vincent’s General Election and insisted the people of St Vincent have an inherent right to choose their government free from external interference.

    Persad-Bissessar said she was informed the investigations are to:

    • Determine whether any fraudulent declarations were made;

    • Verify the source of funds for the three acquisitions;

    • Identify how Gonsalves’ daughter was able to obtain a favourable rent-to-own arrangement two days after the General Election and before the new Government was installed.

    The Prime Minister also took aim at CARICOM leaders whom she said were actively campaigning in St Vincent.

    “Recently I have seen other CARICOM prime ministers and their parties actively and overtly campaigning and interfering in general elections outside of their country within the Caribbean.

    “The UNC does not participate in that type of deplorable and disreputable conduct. The choice of a leader for St Vincent and the Grenadines is solely for the people of that country to make,” said Persad-Bissessar.

    She added, “If Caribbean prime ministers continue cavorting around the Caribbean interfering in the affairs and elections of member states, it is only a matter of time before CARICOM implodes.”

    The general election campaign in St Vincent and the Grenadines has intensified as Gonsalves’ ULP seeks to retain power.

    Gonsalves has been Prime Minister for 24 years, while the Opposition, led by Godwin Friday, is pushing for change.

    At a public meeting in St Vincent last week, Gonsalves alleged the UNC was interfering in that country’s election.

    “The money men, many of the money men behind the UNC have an interest in St Vincent and the Grenadines and they are prepared to send operatives here and I want to tell you that right now as I speak, operatives for the UNC from Trinidad have come here and they’re here right now as I speak. Don’t be surprised if you see one or two foreign faces following Ralph’s meetings around,” he said.

    He further claimed UNC financiers want to come to St Vincent to “see if they can topple this government and have the NDP in office. The matter is simply greed, money, land and property”.

    Gonsalves said the financiers were eyeing St Vincent’s port, which the NDP wants to privatise, and that they were also interested in lands at the old port site earmarked for development.

    “They want that land in a sweetheart deal for themselves,” he said.

    Source: Nation

  16. David Avatar
    David

    Caricom to observe St Vincent elections

    The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has mounted a tenmember CARICOM Election Observation Mission (CEOM) to observe the General Elections of St Vincent and the Grenadines scheduled for Thursday.

    The Mission was deployed in response to an invitation extended by the government of St Vincent and the Grenadines in a letter dated October 2, 2025. The CARICOM Election Observation Mission will be in the country from November 20 to 29.

    The Mission comprises senior electoral and other officials from seven CARICOM Member States as well as three members of the CARICOM Secretariat, who will provide administrative and logistical support.

    The CEOM is headed by the Chief of Mission Sase R. Gunraj, Commissioner, Guyana Elections Commission. The other members of the CEOM are Clovis St Romain, Member, Antigua and Barbuda Electoral Commission (Antigua and Barbuda), Arthur Eugene Holder, SC. MP, Speaker of the House of Assembly (Barbados); Anthea Joseph, Chief Elections Officer, Electoral Commission (Dominica); Karina Nicola Thomas, Systems Administrator, Parliamentary Elections Office (Grenada); Dorinnie Irma, Member of the Independent Electoral Council (Suriname); and Gillian Macintyre, Chair of the Human Resource Sub Committee, Elections and Boundaries Commission (Trinidad and Tobago).

    Pre-election atmosphere The CEOM is supported by the following CARICOM Secretariat staff including Shae-Alicia Lewis, Programme Manager, Community Relations, Irvin Brown, Project Officer, Foreign and Community Relations and Serojnie Seetaram, Senior Secretary, Foreign and Community Relations.

    The Chief of Mission and CARICOM Secretariat staff, who comprise the Core Group, arrived in St Vincent and the Grenadines on November 20 while the remaining members of the observation team are expected to arrive today.

    To date, the CEOM has met with Daniel Cummings, Chairman of the New Democratic Party (NDP), representing Godwin Friday, Leader of the Opposition and of the NDP, and Doris Frederick, Leader of the National Liberation Movement (NLM). CEOM also met with representatives of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Teachers’ Union, the Voice of the Disabled, and the media.

    In the coming days, the CEOM is scheduled to meet with Dr Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines and Leader of the Unity Labour Party (ULP), Dora James, Supervisor of Elections, and Enville Williams, Commissioner of Police. The team will also engage with other political actors and civil society institutions. These engagements are expected to provide the CEOM with a first-hand account of the pre-election atmosphere and assess the level of preparedness for the holding of the elections.

    The role of the CEOM Observers on Election Day is to observe the electoral process, including preparations for the start of the poll, the casting of votes, the closure of the polling stations, the counting of the ballots and the declaration of results. The CEOM will also assess the immediate post-election atmosphere.

    Following the conclusion of the Election Day activities on Thursday and prior to the departure of the CEOM on Saturday, a preliminary statement will be issued, outlining the Mission’s initial assessment of the electoral process.

    A detailed final report providing a summary of the Mission’s comprehensive findings and recommendations will subsequently be prepared and will be submitted to Dr Carla Barnett, Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community,and subsequently made public.

    (PR)

    Source: Nation

  17. David Avatar
    David

    BLP has also declared war on the DLP.
    LASHLEY JOINS BLP

    Marshall hands baton to candidate Brathwaite in St Joseph

    Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley last night confirmed that former Democratic Labour Party MP for St Philip North, Michael Lashley, has joined the Barbados Labour Party – a dramatic development announced as the party gathered in St Joseph to install engineer Ryan Brathwaite unopposed as its candidate for the next General Election.

    Ending speculation about the current political affiliation of Lashley, who was in the audience, Mottley addressed him directly with an invitation to put on a red shirt handed to him. He, however, kept it in his lap.

    “I would like to formally welcome Michael Lashley as a member of the Barbados Labour Party,” the Prime Minister said.

    Addressing a large crowd at Grantley Adams Memorial School, Mottley said she deliberately chose the “ancestral home of the Barbados Labour Party” to begin the party’s preparations for the next General Election.

    Her revelation about Lashley comes four weeks after he made a surprise appearance at the BLP annual conference on October 25. Two days, later he resigned with immediate effect from the Opposition DLP citing attacks on his family. At that time he said he was not a member of any party.

    Ex three-time MP

    Lashley, a former three-time Member of Parliament, served as a minister during the DLP 2008 to 2018 term in office and was ousted in the 2018 wipe-out by the BLP. He was again beaten in the 2022.

    On the St Joseph nomination, Mottley said: “I always feel good when I can walk with a pep in my step and a smile on my face. By the time we leave here, we are going to start a movement straight across this country… a movement grounded in service, commitment and people.”

    Mottley praised the St Joseph branch for being the first constituency to lock in its candidate.

    She described Brathwaite as “a man of the people” with the character and professional grounding required to lead a constituency grappling with infrastructure challenges, land slippage and climaterelated pressures.

    “He is not one of those who climbs the ladder and kicks it away. He climbs the ladder and finds more ladders for others. Ryan Brathwaite is ready,” she noted.

    Turning to outgoing MP Dale Marshall, Mottley delivered a deeply personal tribute.

    “If it were possible to delay the election to keep you, I would – but I suspect your people in St Joseph want me to hurry up and do the other thing.”

    Although most of the night’s programme focused on tributes from senior party figures, Brathwaite in brief remarks thanked residents and reflected on the moment.

    “This is the parish that gave me my start, the place that shaped me. I am humbled by your confidence and I promise to serve every district, every family, every young person and every elder with respect and dedication.

    “I have walked these hills all my life and I intend to walk them with you – not ahead of you,” he told supporters.

    Brathwaite turning to the outgoing MP beside him said: “Well done, my brother… well done for all you have done and continue to do for this great constituency.”

    Marshall, who has represented the constituency for 22 years, revealed that on October 17 he wrote “perhaps the hardest letter I have ever written”, informing BLP president Senator The Most Honourable Reginald Farley that he would not contest the next General Election.

    “It was a letter whose time had come,” he said. “When I came to St Joseph, I found constituents. I leave St Joseph with friends,” he added.

    Marshall shared memories of meeting Brathwaite as a shy teenaged Combermerian during a 2002 canvass, a first encounter that sparked quiet mentorship over the years.

    Handing over the baton, he pledged: “I will be far enough behind him, so the spotlight is always his but close enough to reach out a hand to support him.”

    Party CEO, Senator Pat Parris, delivered one of the evening’s most forceful endorsements, cataloguing the BLP’s record in the constituency, from ending the “water wars” with the Castle Grant reservoir, to reopening the Horse Hill outpatient clinic, to completing the Hillcrest Community Centre and improving the road network.

    “This is not a constituency neglected by the Labour Party. Tell them the facts,” she said.

    Parris endorsed Brathwaite as a grounded, peoplefocused young leader.

    “Ryan is a people’s person… he is ready to serve,” she said.

    Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Transport & Works Santia Bradshaw, who worked closely with Marshall on Scotland District engineering projects, assured residents that Brathwaite was already deeply familiar with the constituency’s road failures, slippages and design challenges. ( CLM)

    Source: Nation

  18. Mia once cared before 2018 Avatar
    Mia once cared before 2018

    A sad day in our history and Caricom as Mia is a total disappointment. Afreimbank, China, CGI, Mark Maloney, Innotech, Sandals, Innotech and Jada will throw money behind Mia like never before. Indeed Mia is worried as the anti Mia movement is growing not only in Barbados but throughout the region .

  19. John A Avatar
    John A

    I don’t get into this politics thing normally but if what they say is true, I got a major concern with it.

    If elections as I understand it are to be free and fair from all forms of outside interference, then surely one could question whether the outcome of this elections would be genuine. Why in caricom would a primeminister of one country openly favour a political party in another country by assisting that party in winning elections, if true democracy is being practiced? Assuming that these stories of BLP presence are true.

    So what’s the next move, will our leader head from St Vincent to Venezuela to stand next to Maduro to show solidarity with him, as opposed to honouring the true outcome of their elections? Is our loyalty to a neighbouring country, or is it it now to a leader or party in that country instead? We as a small island dependent on international support, really treading on dangerous ground here in the eyes of the world.

    Look wunna concentrate on Barbados and it’s problems with crime and stand out other people backyards do that! I could hear Errol Barrow words now “friends of all but a satellite of none.”

  20. David Avatar
    David

    @William

    Are you in a position to give an unbiased opinion of what is the mood on the ground? is it one of ‘we want change’ or are levels of cynicism and apathy high like most places these days?

  21. TLSN Avatar
    TLSN

    I believe Mia was a pupil of Ralphie. It is said that Ralphie’s family were early day slave traders. The elite are attracted to each other like a moth to light. Who can forget Mia, the Godmother, when she told the routed and defeated DLP politicians that she had papers on them whilst using biblical language to encourage them to join her camp of the righteousness.

    The “popular” widower of the the deceased Prime minister did the math and crossed the floor. The sins of association were crossed out. Chris Sinclair, crossed over and was rewarded with an IMF job. Ex Minister Lashley is the latest to have seen the light.

    Our leaders are mere puppets, vassals, and are there to serve the interests of themselves and an exclusive group.

    Bajans look out for yourself, your family and your community. Do not place your faith in your corrupt and incompetent leaders.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vVJ4mxQU2qk

  22. BAJE Avatar
    BAJE

    Bajans look out for yourself, your family and your community. Do not place your faith in your corrupt and incompetent leaders.

    xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

    COULDN’T HAVE SAID IT BETTER MYSELF.

    THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN ONE IS DELUSIONAL AND BRAGS ABOUT PUNCHING ABOVE THEIR WEIGHT

  23. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    Pacha
    I have given up attempting to guess or rationalize how an electorate will respond. After the ‘grab them in the pussy’ comment, one may have surmised, but….

    Mam and Ralphie had a joint announcement “they” were jointly nominating Bostic as the new President. You paying much attention to the Intl scene and the local shite slipping by?

  24. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    “Ending speculation about the current political affiliation of Lashley, who was in the audience, Mottley addressed him directly with an invitation to put on a red shirt handed to him. He, however, kept it in his lap.”

  25. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    All leaders of the opposition and PMs in Barbados have had some type of relationship.

    When Grantley Adams died it was Tom who called Barrow to make sure he could be buried where he currently is.

    It was the same Barrow who said that he didn’t know that Henry Forde had a bed. That political parties should not be si different that it would be impossible to cooperate in the national interests.

    Mottley has many times invited Thorne to be more engaged in the workings of government and Parliamentary fora, which he seems to have sometimes avoided.

    It was Thorne himself who long ago and without Mottley’s urgings advocated for Bostic to be the next President.

    That Mottley and Thorne, as leaders of the duopoly, could have found common ground on this issue should be seen as rare or anything outside the boundaries of normal politics is misguided.

    We have previously made the point that bourgoise democracy and dictatorship are historically linked as if siamese twins.

  26. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Is the same type of thing not suggested in the WH between Drumpf and Mamdani, the new NY mayor. Mamdani, who called Netanyahu a criminal and promised to have him arrested if he lands in NY. We’re sure this tête-à-tête between them will lead to reversals, on both sides.

    A man Drumpf who recently called Mamdani a communist and threatened to stop him from governing NY.

    Politics!

  27. Terence Blackett Avatar
    Terence Blackett

    NOTHING WILL STAND THAT IS NOT based on RIGHTEOUSNESS!!! IT IS ALL GOING 2 HELL IN A PANCART & WILL IMPLODE SOONER OR LATER

    #StayTuned

  28. Terence Blackett Avatar
    Terence Blackett

    MALACIOUS PEOPLE ALWAYS END UP ONE WAY!!! DOES NOT THE MOTTLEY-CREW GOV* HAVE ENOUGH ON ITS PLATE TRYING TO MAKE SENSE OF THE MADNESS IN BARBADOS??? HOW WOULD THE #PolieTICAL_clASS FEEL IF INTERNATIONAL CAMERAS WERE ON THE ISLAND OF BIM 2 EXPOSE THE PROFOUND LEVELS OF CORRUPTION IN BUSINESS-DEALINGS, JUDICIARY & POLYTRICKS??? BE CAREFUL – YA’ DON’T KNOW WHAT IS COMING

  29. Terence Blackett Avatar
    Terence Blackett

    CARICOM WILL FALL HEADLONG INTO THE DUSTBIN OF HISTORY WITH THE CURRENT MAD MEN & WOMEN WHO CLAIM 2 BE LEADERS

  30. David Avatar
    David

    @TB

    Is it true that humans are inherently flawed and must therefore thrive to constantly improve? Our existence requires us to be productive and contribute to improving our society for project life to work.

  31. Terence Blackett Avatar
    Terence Blackett

    @THE BLOGMASTER

    “Is it true that humans are inherently flawed and must therefore thrive to constantly improve? Our existence requires us to be productive and contribute to improving our society for project life to work…”

    #PermitMe 2 allow #JeffreySachs 2 answer you!!!

    Then you can tell me if “HUMANS” have “EVER” learned anything…

  32. David Avatar
    David

    @TB

    The blogmaster will never let the perceptions many have of a single man shape our humanity.

  33. TheOG Avatar
    TheOG

    “CARICOM WILL FALL HEADLONG INTO THE DUSTBIN OF HISTORY WITH THE CURRENT MAD MEN & WOMEN WHO CLAIM 2 BE LEADERS”

    I do not like how we decide what is right and wrong. It appears that it is not the act itself but it is who is performing the act.

    The US should be condemned when it attempts regime change. Be it soft regime change or by gunboats and soldiers, we believe that regime change should reflect the will of a nation and not the interest of the USA. We condemn ‘regime change’ when it is executed by others.

    Caribbean leaders may lack the gunboats and airplanes but they are in effect doing what we would condemn the US for. The insertion of political operatives into the election of another country smells of soft regime change or regime fixing.

    I cannot for the life of me understand how we could campaign against MR B today and if he is elected then expect a sisterly embrace us when the elections are over. At the same time, MR C in a next island knows he must be aware of his CARICOM sisters when election time approaches in his country.

    Are CARICOM just for loft speeches, big ideas and patting each other on the back? Are we seeing the “Zone of Peace” becoming a “Zone of Distrust”? Instead of being eating alive by the predator from the north, are we seeing the cannibalism of small islander?

    Cautious note: The Vincentian people have it within their power to end the practice of this inserting foreign political operatives in local elections. Nuff said.

  34. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ David
    It is not just the perceptions of a single man.
    Compare the aggressive, materialistic, war-like, greedy CHARACTER of the Western albino-centrics with the inclusive, community focused, SOCIAL DEVELOPMENTAL and peaceful CHARACTER of the Chinese in general, and you get a FUNDAMENTAL idea of the different OBJECTIVES of project life on Earth.

    Compare China’s example of, after 6000 years, coming to the point of moving BILLIONS of its people from abject poverty, to middle class standards, …with the West’s history of creating 1% MEGA rich, and HOARDS of poor, dispossessed citizens over the same period.

    It is a CLEAR choice between the materialistic albino-centrics, and the COMMUNITY CENTRIC minded paths to progress, and is fully reflected in the respective CHARACTERISTICS ingrained in the two personalities.

    It is the same thing at the national, societal, community, family and individual level…

    What a plan!

  35. Terence Blackett Avatar
    Terence Blackett

    @ THE BLOGMASTER

    “The blogmaster will never let the perceptions many have of a single man shape our humanity…”

    I am not sure what you are implying…

    #WhoIsThisSingleman???

  36. David Avatar
    David

    @Bush Tea

    These matters are complicated and outside the pay grade and competence of a lowly blogmaster. China developed a system of government (centralized system) that appears to be organically nurtured. Driven by its size and harsh physical conditions? Can you say categorically race was the difference in approaches between China and the West. Always willing to learn as you know.

  37. Declaration of Dub Avatar
    Declaration of Dub

    @ David of Barbados Underground Sound Dimension Cosmic Intelligence Agency

    Declaration of Rights
    FYI There is a comment in your bucket awaiting moderating
    perhaps the CIA put it there

    Declaration (Ver.)

  38. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    The only way that such a simple observation as cited by Bushie could be beyond the pay grade of any sentient being is if that person is and was never paid at all!

  39. Terence Blackett Avatar
    Terence Blackett

    @The Blogmaster

    If I may, I would like to address your “CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK” on the “NOTION” of the “SINGLE MAN’s” role in the evolution of human perception & how it has or has NOT* shaped humanity!!!

    As a social historian with “CLASSICAL” back-teeth stretching all the way back to my Great-UNCLE* – Dr. A.W. Blackett, whose PhD work @Oxford centred around Greek & Latin Classics – he used Socrates as a teaching tool for us when we were young boys, learning at home in Barbados from his well-read, academic genius…

    In the below VT, is a snapshot of what your question entails & how it was answered by the man himself…

  40. Terence Blackett Avatar
    Terence Blackett

    THE FIRST WILL BE THE LAST & THE LAST SHALL BE THE FIRST

    #ONE_MAN named #YeshuaTheMessiah prophesied that this will be the condition in these last dayz!!!

    For those good ‘ole #ReLIEgiousBoyz, I DOUBLE DARE YOU TO PREACH THIS SERMON IN YOUR BLACK CHURCHES & IN YOUR PALESKIN BUILDINGS OF WORSHIP!!!

  41. David Avatar
    David

    @TB

    An excellent video, and I strongly agree with many of the perspectives shared. It reminds me of the valuable insight that true learning often happens when you are comfortable knowing you are not the most intelligent person in the room.

  42. Vietnam Avatar
    Vietnam

    R.I.P. Jimmy Cliff

  43. John A Avatar
    John A

    You know my old memory ain’t so good so wunna help me here. But wasn’t Mia and Ralphy both up front and centre telling Trump not to meddle in the affairs of Venezuela and dat you must respect the election results there, as it was fair and just while being free from manipulation.

    So by their own admission then what exactly Mia doing in St Vincent with Ralphy that different from what she told Trump NOT TO DO in Venezuela?

    I mean I is a layman at how politics does work and as I don’t have no pailing by me to fly up on guide me here please.

  44. Anonymous Avatar
    Anonymous

    “So by their own admission then what exactly Mia doing in St Vincent with Ralphy that different from what she told Trump NOT TO DO in Venezuela?”

    I made a point which did not reach that they are making sure that filthy Warmonger Trump does not pollute Caribbean politics. He is already trying to blame Venezuela for interfering in 2020 US Elections. Western Press is giving him a soft pass saying that might be why he hates Venezuela like they were negroes.

  45. Terence Blackett Avatar
    Terence Blackett

    @THE BLOGMASTER

    “true learning often happens when…”

    “WHEN YOU TRULY KNOW THE MOST HIGH” – not some fanciful notion of how much you think you know or understand of “HUMAN FRAILITIES”, “HUMAN KNOWLEDGE” (something #RobertNestorMarley AKA #BobMarley called “ISM(s) & “SCHISM(s) or some #DisguisedNotion of how “MEN” think the world should be run & whether their ideas are more amenable to the “MASSES”)!!!

    Scripture is “CLEAR”: “The “FEAR OF YAH” is the beginning of “WISDOM”…” (Proverbs 9:10)

    Knowledge without “MESSIAH” is foolishness – for it cannot save anyone on the “DAY OF JUDGMENT” – neither can it save anyone when the “DEATH ANGEL” comes a ‘callin’…

    What will it profit any man 2 gain this whole but lose his soul? For what can any man give in exchange 4 his life? (Matt 16:26 & Mark 8:36)!!!

    LOOK AT WHAT THE SO-CALLED SMART PEOPLE OF THE WORLD HAVE GOTTEN US PLEBS & PEASANTS INTO???

    #BrinkOfWorldWarIII

    I would have paid a #MusicalTribute to the ‘ole boy – #JimmyCliff, who barely made it to 81 years & “GIVEN HUMAN MORTALITY”, we are often blindsided by a world that inadvertently & subliminally teaches “IMMORTALITY” – but according to Solomon: “For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. As well their love, as their hatred and their envy, is perished long ago; neither have they any more a portion for ever in anything that is done under the sun”… (Ecclesiastes 9:5-6)

    FINALITY – #UntilTheResurrection (WHETHER 1ST OR 2ND)!!!

    If this is mankind’s fate – then what’s all the “FUSS” about???

    WHY NOT SERVE THE CREATOR WHO GIVES LIFE & DETERMINES DEATH???

    #EnoughSaid

    P.S. Maybe, this “TRIBUTE” is undoubtedly more apt & appropriate given the “TIMES” in which we are living, as some may not even know the song, seeing it is the “MOST” underplayed piece of music, in 40 years, by what is the greatest “BLACK ENSEMBLE” ever put together with musical instruments!!!

  46. emperorharriss Avatar
    emperorharriss

    Motley by name, motley by nature. When you get like-minded socialist scum leaders, they always look to each for help and support. Together, they make a motley crew.

  47. Malcolm X Avatar
    Malcolm X

    ” When you get like-minded socialist scum leaders”

    I could never suck up to white people and their rotten ‘free market’ agenda

    No, we need either this or that, this or that
    If you wrong you’re wrong and if you’re right you’re right

    There will be no skulduggery, no flim-flam
    No compromise, no sell out, no controlled show

    Malcolm X
    No sell out

  48. David Avatar
    David

    From all reports Gonsalves ‘begging duh de vote’.

  49. David Avatar
    David

    Elections and war

    IT IS WIDELY ACCEPTED that foreign policy hardly features as an issue in Caribbean elections. However, in the coming elections in St Vincent and the Grenadines (today) and St Lucia (next Monday), the global political issues cannot be ignored.

    Indeed, both these elections are pervaded by an atmosphere of impending war between the United States, Venezuela and possibly other major powers.

    Relatedly, these elections cannot escape the consequences of the decision by the recently elected Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Kamla Persaud-Bissessar, to appoint herself as champion of US military intervention, and as outspoken critic of the historically social-democratic and antiimperialist regional parties, two of whom are currently fighting for re-election.

    Similarly, it cannot escape attention that the current Opposition Leader in St Lucia, Allen Chastanet, who is seeking to return to office was, in his first term, an active member of the Lima Group whose main purpose was to reject the presidency of Nicolas Maduro.

    Further, in the context where the opposition parties, particularly in St Vincent and the Grenadines and Dominica have faced decades of defeat at the hands of the labour parties, the opposition parties in these countries have found it expedient to invite global imperialism to assist them in electorally defeating the progressive leaders of the region.

    Ralph Gonsalves has been a particular target of these efforts, given his long-standing and high profile as a regional social-democrat.

    Sadly, the electoral frustrations of these long-defeated opposition parties (in Dominica and St Vincent) have given rise to a virulent antiregionalism that is also packaged as anti-left.

    A recent online “article” picturing an alleged group of Barbadian consultants arriving to assist the Unity Labour Party (ULP) launched into a searing rejection of regionalism and blamed many of the successful technical regional initiatives for the defeat of the opposition parties.

    There has also been a related call to the US Secretary of State, of all persons, to “look into” the charge of regional interference in the St Vincent election.

    A more unsophisticated attempt to invite the US to assist these parties to defeat Gonsalves, could not have been imagined.

    For these reasons, therefore, the US war in Venezuela is a central issue in these elections. The US is badly in need of regional allies to legitimise its war, and the multitimes defeated political parties, desperate for political office, and unable themselves to offer concrete alternatives, have shown a willingness to embrace USdependency in the hope that the US can sponsor their bids to office.

    The elections in St Vincent and St Lucia are deadly serious affairs. They can either lend two more social-democratic voices to the call for dialogue and diplomacy, or they may place two more willing Caribbean leaders at the disposal of the US, and open the door to war.

    Tennyson Joseph is associate professor of political science at North Carolina Central University. Email tjoe2008@live.com

    Source: Nation

  50. David Avatar
    David

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