On the 29 th of July 2022 on the floor of the Senate Minister of Tourism Lisa Cummins during wind up on Resolution: Special Loans Act, Cap. 105 – Scotland District Road Rehabilitation made a surprising revelation. At about 2hrs. 12 mins into the video Cummins explained that a loan agreement with China in 2017 included a condition which exposed
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Submitted by Terence M. Blackett “Pigs can’t fly? Have you been to the airport lately?” ~ Gerald Celente In the aftermath of September 8, 2022, the world was gripped by the medieval spectacle of British, monarchical, imperial tradition at its most theatrical. The world’s spectator gallery was techno-swamped with a Spartanesque, swashbuckling, mind-bending circus of protuberant pageantry; a panoptic parade
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Submitted by Kemar Stuart Barbados is still under a state of emergency and the Emergency Management Act holds supreme as law of the land as it was extended for no logical reason by the Ministry of Health yesterday September 13th. AG Dale Marshall in the press conference sought to defend the state of emergency legislation which de facto keeps the
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Submitted by Steven Kaszab The authorities have told us that while covid-19 is still with us for the near future, that the economy and our lives should return to some normality. Yes, we see hundreds and thousands of our neighbors gather in sporting and entertainment events daily. Oh well, ce la vie. What will be, will be. The bad old
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Since the death of Queen Elizabeth, I was uncertain how to publicly respond. I believe all Barbadians are similarly uncertain. Many who dared express sentiments of mourning on social media were rudely set upon by persons accusing them of supporting colonialism. Then the Government’s most revered Cultural Ambassador wrote the song, “Good Riddance to Rubbish” in direct reference to Her
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Recently John A sent a couple interesting articles to the blogmaster that served as a reminder what a future state will possibly be for the next generation of Barbadian, the so-called millennial. Despite our rich investment in formal education there is a palpable lack of cognitive awareness by Barbadians to give weight to what is important. A case in point-
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Submitted by Tee White A poem by Barbados cultural ambassador, Anthony ‘Gabby’ Carter, on the death ofElizabeth Windsor, queen of England has generated unwarranted criticism fromcertain quarters on the island. The poem, reprinted below, points out some truthsabout the British monarch and her relationship to the crimes of British colonialism. For those with a strong allegiance to British colonialism, these
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Submitted by Terence Blackett Ignatian Spirituality: The Bastardization of Human Life – Mass Occult Control, Pythagorean Numerological Coding, Socio-religious Formation Exercises, & Corruption of the Textus Receptus “It is amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites” ~ Thomas Sowell Angel magic, occult magic, black/white/divine/stenographia magic, astrological necromancy, and Enochian divination – hidden esoteric
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Government will be forced to decide the fate of Barbados very soon as the decision to enter into another International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme will be publicly known in some days ahead. In my analysis the Prime Minister may seek to table the proposed changes in legislation before September 30th 2022. In the press conference hosted by the PM she
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Barbados is currently experiencing another crime wave and to be expected it is being politicized which is part of the problem. How does the crime problem get fixed if family members and friends protect the criminals? Same people who were responsible for giving birth to the very monsters terrorizing the country? This is an oversimplification of the problem to make
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From time to time the blogmaster retrieves the various manifestos shared over the years by the two main political parties in Barbados and it makes for interesting reflection. It is obvious the objective by the BLP and DLP is to baffle a gullible electorate. Have a read if you are a doubting Thomas – http://www.caribbeanelections.com/eDocs/manifestos/bb/blp_manifesto_2018.pdf. The blogmaster was drawn page 30
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying? ⁃ Voltaire There is a conversation being had across the globe. In the USA, UK, Barbados to name a few. It is about the integrity of the politician and the system that produces the politician. Oftentimes public commentators in this space and elsewhere offer facile analyses to what is a
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Submitted by Steven Kaszab Strange thing is going on in our market place. Since the event of the pandemic (still here going strong) the Third World has suffered along with the rest of us. Many 1st World Corporations had previously imported trillions of dollars from Asia, Africa and elsewhere, and this domestic, catastrophic strategy destroyed the manufacturing sector in the
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Submitted by Terence Blackett “Those who do not want to hear of ‘Conspiracies’ are those who are already a part of them…” (Anonymous) The first “Satanic Verses” was the ‘Constitution of the United States’. Many will be perturbed by this rather obsolescent poke at a document that is considered of a divine origin, however, before a single stone is cast
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Submitted by Just Observing Only bout hey, can you rattle off a list of 40 supermarket items, but yet the supermarket total bill remains as high as ever. Only bout hey, can a utility take money to invest in its operations, and then look to take more money years later to invest in the operations it never invested in. Only
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Submitted by Steven Kaszab The American Republican Party may very well welcome back President Trump as Leader. Former President Trump has actually never left the leadership since this past election cycle. Many Americans hoped Trump would pass into the lecture cycle so many ex-legislators do, but people in the know surely believe that Trump will not leave the national stage
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The following comment was posted to blog Democracy, Apathy and the National Insurance Fund by a commenter resident overseas – Barbados Underground @David We have to accept facts and reality. I am and always will be a PROUD Bajan. ALWAYS. –Bajanabroad But facts are facts. We have not done nearly enough to remodel the mindset of our people and our economy
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For many years the blogmaster and others have posted voluminously about the importance of the citizenry actively participating in the type of democracy parodied from the former colonial master. While no man made construct is perfect the system of democracy practiced by the Western world is described – some will say by the cynics – as the worst form of
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