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2,162 responses to “Diaspora Corner”
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PM MIA say to come home next year.
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@ The OG,
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almost sweet as Glennis
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She could dance with me all day everyday and in my dreams.
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Nice.
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Wifey is hot.
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So here I am booting up just to see Hants’s wifey.
My man, I assume the next lady was your wife.
You have to teach her about dressing and sitting down and fire the camera man. -
@Hants
Are you ‘coming in from the cold’?
I am planning to drift in some time in September (God willing) -
@ Goeht
My health is not good enough at this time to plan a trip to Barbados.
I think it is going to a good year for those of you who visit.
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@ Goeht,
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We Gatherin’ 2025 begins with an islandwide motorcade,
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I watched the Q Old years video I posted above. The band was very good and Cherish can sing and dance / wine.
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Judith Hill.
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females rocking out.
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Awesome !!!!!!!!!!
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My latest distraction lol
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Bajan musicians in the band.
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New York
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update.
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We gatherin.
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Lucy.
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Thanks for the last 2 videos. They were very informative, particularly for a son from the mother country. Both my late parents would have experience of this. With industry comes pride in one’s personal development.
The tragedy with this video will be the certainly that St Lucy will become over developed by a bunch of foreigners. That location will soon become desecrated by the Yankee dollar.
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More accolades for PMMIA.
https://barbadostoday.bb/2025/01/17/pm-mottley-receives-surinames-highest-national-award/
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so eloquent.
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Part-Bajan Baylis bids to replace Trudeau
MONTREAL – A Canadian – the son of a Barbadian mother – is running to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as leader of the Liberal Party of Canada.
Frank Baylis, a businessman residing in Montreal, served one term in the House of Commons, from 2015 to 2019, representing the riding of Pierrefonds-Dollard.
His mother, Gloria Clarke-Baylis, was a nurse by profession, who founded Baylis Medical Company in the early 1980s, operating the business from the family home.
Baylis Medical, which incorporated in 1986 as an importer and distributor of medical devices, has more than 870 employees with offices in Montreal, Toronto, the United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Frank was company president from 1989 to 2015.
Earlier this month, Trudeau announced that he was leaving politics.
“I intend to resign as party leader, as prime minister, after the party selects its next leader through a robust nationwide competitive process,” he told reporters at a January 6 news conference.
Trudeau will chair a retreat of his Cabinet next week, focusing on defending Canada’s interests and boosting ties with the US.
The retreat, in Quebec, will coincide with the inauguration of American President-elect Donald Trump, who has recently vowed to impose tariffs on Canadian imports and mused about making Canada the 51st state of the US.
Baylis, in his run for Liberal Party leadership, is receiving backing from some segments of the Black and Caribbean community.
Gemma Raeburn-Baynes, a well-known Montreal activist and community leader, has been urging Liberal Party registration and support for Baylis.
“Frank Baylis is a friend. He is part-Bajan and needs our support,” said Raeburn-Baynes, who also urged completion of an online form that calls for support for Baylis “for the position of leadership contestant of the Liberal Party of Canada”.
In a comment on the unfolding developments in the Liberal Party, Grenadian-Canadian Dr Justine Pierre, said the resignation of Trudeau “serves as a critical wake-up call for the Black population in Canada. It highlights an urgent reality: we cannot rely solely on government policies or the guidance of universities to address our community’s unique challenges. Instead, we must take ownership of our progress and focus on solving our issues collectively”.
Pierre, a labour statistician and a director at Toronto-based Dunn, Pierre, Barnett & Company Canada Ltd., pointed to research conducted by his firm that shows that Canada’s 1.5 million black people are some of the most educated in the labour force; and also has a youthful black demographic that “presents an enormous opportunity for growth and innovation”.
“Our community contributes approximately CAN$25 billion annually in combined income. However, these resources are not fully leveraged for collective advancement.”
Among the “significant barriers” hampering black community advancement and economic empowerment, according to Pierre, is lack of unity.
He laments that Canada’s Black community is yet to “fully capitalise on the potential of entrepreneurship and business ownership as a tool for collective advancement”, adding that “without a strong base of black-owned businesses, our community struggles to achieve self-reliance and long-term growth. A prosperous business class serves as the backbone of any thriving community”.
In order to build a stronger back community, collaboration is needed and “we must prioritise the development of black businesses”, Pierre advised.
“This is the moment for us to take charge of our destiny,” he emphasised. (Taken from Caribbean Camera, a newspaper which states it is “a trusted source of news, information and community engagement for the black and Caribbean communities in Toronto”.)
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Part-Bajan Baylis bids to replace Trudeau
MONTREAL – A Canadian – the son of a Barbadian mother – is running to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as leader of the Liberal Party of Canada.
Frank Baylis, a businessman residing in Montreal, served one term in the House of Commons, from 2015 to 2019, representing the riding of Pierrefonds-Dollard.
His mother, Gloria Clarke-Baylis, was a nurse by profession, who founded Baylis Medical Company in the early 1980s, operating the business from the family home.
Baylis Medical, which incorporated in 1986 as an importer and distributor of medical devices, has more than 870 employees with offices in Montreal, Toronto, the United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Frank was company president from 1989 to 2015.
Earlier this month, Trudeau announced that he was leaving politics.
“I intend to resign as party leader, as prime minister, after the party selects its next leader through a robust nationwide competitive process,” he told reporters at a January 6 news conference.
Trudeau will chair a retreat of his Cabinet next week, focusing on defending Canada’s interests and boosting ties with the US.
The retreat, in Quebec, will coincide with the inauguration of American President-elect Donald Trump, who has recently vowed to impose tariffs on Canadian imports and mused about making Canada the 51st state of the US.
Baylis, in his run for Liberal Party leadership, is receiving backing from some segments of the Black and Caribbean community.
Gemma Raeburn-Baynes, a well-known Montreal activist and community leader, has been urging Liberal Party registration and support for Baylis.
“Frank Baylis is a friend. He is part-Bajan and needs our support,” said Raeburn-Baynes, who also urged completion of an online form that calls for support for Baylis “for the position of leadership contestant of the Liberal Party of Canada”.
In a comment on the unfolding developments in the Liberal Party, Grenadian-Canadian Dr Justine Pierre, said the resignation of Trudeau “serves as a critical wake-up call for the Black population in Canada. It highlights an urgent reality: we cannot rely solely on government policies or the guidance of universities to address our community’s unique challenges. Instead, we must take ownership of our progress and focus on solving our issues collectively”.
Pierre, a labour statistician and a director at Toronto-based Dunn, Pierre, Barnett & Company Canada Ltd., pointed to research conducted by his firm that shows that Canada’s 1.5 million black people are some of the most educated in the labour force; and also has a youthful black demographic that “presents an enormous opportunity for growth and innovation”.
“Our community contributes approximately CAN$25 billion annually in combined income. However, these resources are not fully leveraged for collective advancement.”
Among the “significant barriers” hampering black community advancement and economic empowerment, according to Pierre, is lack of unity.
He laments that Canada’s Black community is yet to “fully capitalise on the potential of entrepreneurship and business ownership as a tool for collective advancement”, adding that “without a strong base of black-owned businesses, our community struggles to achieve self-reliance and long-term growth. A prosperous business class serves as the backbone of any thriving community”.
In order to build a stronger back community, collaboration is needed and “we must prioritise the development of black businesses”, Pierre advised.
“This is the moment for us to take charge of our destiny,” he emphasised. (Taken from Caribbean Camera, a newspaper which states it is “a trusted source of news, information and community engagement for the black and Caribbean communities in Toronto”.)
Source: Nation
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Amurca
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We Gathering fete today.
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deportations possible
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We gatherin virtually in Toronto. I did not get invited. lol
https://www.cbc.bb/news/local-news/we-gatherin-2025-to-be-launched-in-toronto/
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doing my self imposed duty lol
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we gathering in St.Peter next.
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Flying fish $40 per pack.
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The Monument was once surrounded by a sweet lime hedge and a Flamboyant tree was about 20 feet nearby.
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36 hours in Barbados
Easternmost in the Caribbean Sea, Barbados is an island-nation of dualities. The Atlantic side is tumultuous and windswept, while the Caribbean side is tranquil with soft breezes. The former British colony’s sugarcane plantation system profited enormously from enslaving Black people for centuries.https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/01/16/travel/things-to-do-barbados.html
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Great session.
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Barbados has world class musicians.
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” The Bank of Canada (BoC) just cut its lending rate by 25 basis points, bringing it down to 3%”
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Oh Canada.
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mo gatherin.
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Keyla Acker
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Jazz in The Bahamas.
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We Gathering. Speightstown
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