Barbados Teacher participated in creating “prank” beating of students video (Huh?)

Sometimes I can’t figure things out at all. This is one of those times.
A few days ago The Bajan Reporter posted a video that was said to be of a teacher beating students with a belt. (BREAKING NEWS: Barbadian students lashed for tardiness – Another St Leonard’s Teacher brutalises young boys)
The video is believable as [...]

Not Again! St. Leonard’s teacher brutally beats boys – Exclusive video at Bajan Reporter

No man would dare touch my son the way this animal was filmed beating these students.
Do these students not have fathers?
I just can’t believe I live in a society that puts up with this kind of abuse, considering our country’s long history with the whip.
If this teacher retains his job after this video is posted [...]

Barbados Prime Minister reconsiders Rihanna as “Youth & Cultural Ambassador”

Don’t say we didn’t warn you about Rihanna, Mr. Prime Minister!
If David Thompson isn’t regretting his very-political decision to appoint Rihanna as our Youth and Cultural Ambassador, then there’s something wrong with David.
Rihanna doesn’t represent my culture and I sure as anything don’t want her representing or influencing my children.
We’re going to continue putting the [...]

Barbados PM breaks ground on billion dollar project – No conflict of interest rules apply!

Freedom of Information Request #2009-3
To: Barbados Prime Minister David Thompson
Dear Prime Minister,
Under the Freedom of Information legislation of Barbados, I demand to know how many current and former politicians and members of their immediate families have an interest in any way in the Port Ferdinand marina project in St. Peter that you broke ground for [...]

Lessons from the death of the Tiger Woods Brand

How porn star mistresses and flagrant adultery destroyed America’s biggest sports icon – virtually overnight.
If the Tiger Woods Brand as we knew it isn’t dead, it is certainly in intensive care with brain damage. And right now the doctors aren’t sure if the patient will ever be the same again.
It happened almost instantaneously in historical [...]

GBL Blog: Thompson brought no legal action against corrupt individuals… Why?

“Every day I check my one stop shop site for world (read ‘american’) news, huffington post, and I see something to indicate that as f*cked up as America is, and as IGNORANT as it’s citizens are, they do have one thing going for them.
Elected officials are held accountable for shit.”
The Good, The Bad & The [...]

Morality usually follows the law. That’s why Barbados politicians refuse to introduce Integrity Legislation.

The following letter by Adrian Sobers appears in the current issue of The Barbados Advocate. I was struck by its simple truth.
Throughout history good people have worked hard to implement good laws aimed at changing societal and individual behaviours. Yes you CAN legislate morality because most folks will follow the law and the public heart [...]

Dear Barbados Chief Justice Sir David Simmons, this article is for you.

Why is it not appropriate for the Commissioner of Police of Anguilla on his retirement to be appointed Magistrate of Anguilla?
It is unfortunate that I have to ask this question.  The answer should be obvious to all.  The answer is that such an appointment will tend to undermine public confidence in the administration of [...]

Lies of Omission: Barbados Advocate article IDB “$400 Million Boost” doesn’t once mention word “Loan” !!!!

FREE MONEY!!!!
Oh Gawd, this is freaking hilarious!
The #1 government mouthpiece, The Barbados Advocate, does an entire article about the recent Inter-American Development Bank loan of US$200 million to Barbados and doesn’t once mention that it is a loan to be repaid. A loan that plunges the country further in debt.
Listen friends: I’m not debating whether [...]

Dominica Freedom Party alleges corruption, cash payments for Government appointments: Asks why Hartley Henry paid $50,000

Golly folks, did I miss this story in the Barbados news media?
I must have missed it.
I’m sure the Barbados media, especially the Barbados Advocate and the CBC, would have been all over the story that the right hand advisor to the Prime Minister of Barbados is being called out in Dominica to account for a [...]

Bahamas Politicians lie about Freedom of Information legislation too

“Barbados Free Press blog reminded me of all the times I’ve read about the commitment of our political class to to do something similar.
Oh they write about it in their respective manifesto’s and talk it up on the campaign trail but just seem so busy passing laws to keep the general public “in check” that [...]

Rihanna: Barbados Ambassador for Culture, Youth and Barbed Wire

Another Rihanna nasty picture. So sad.
I arrived home this morning to find Shona prancing around the kitchen wearing only knickers and barbed wire. “It’s the latest Bajan fashion for young girls” she said. “It must be – because our Ambassador for Culture and Youth thinks it’s the thing, doan ya know? Rihanna’s photo is all [...]

Bar Association: Public having doubts about Barbados lawyers’ credibility. (No Kidding!)

Leslie Haynes QC, the President of the Barbados Bar Association, is whining in the Nation about how tough it is to be a lawyer these days when the public over-reacts to a few bad apples.
Our message for Mr. Hayes:
Everyone understands a few bad apples in any profession – it is the Bar Association’s long [...]

Public flogging of students degrades Barbados

St. Leonard’s Boys’ School senior teacher whips students for lateness
One would think that teachers in a nation that was built upon a foundation of whips, chains, rape and cultural genocide might view the public flogging of students as unacceptable in the year 2009.
We are disgusted with the actions of Dr. Victor Agard [...]

Barbados Auditor General: Owen Arthur – Mia Mottley Government stole land and profits from the people of Barbados

“On two occasions, lands for which the infrastructural development was funded by the Corporation were placed under the control of private developers for allocation to potential buyers. There was no clear benefit for the Corporation from this course of action. With applications in excess of 24,000, there was no benefit in allowing private developers to [...]

Cowardly pee-in-pants Barbados Nation Newspaper hides name of corrupt Government Minister

When a Government Minister’s husband is awarded a $300,000 contract for work he has no experience doing – That’s Corrupt!
The current DLP Government says it is taking steps to sue the husband of a former Minister in the previous Arthur/Mottley BLP government – over the non-fulfillment of a 2004 government contract for the removal of [...]

Where did Denis Lowe get the money to pay for this Barbados Advocate advertisement?

The Public has no right in law to monitor any government expenditures – Once elected, MPs do as they wish
The simplest questions are often the most awkward – but only if you have to answer them. Dr. Lowe and our other elected representatives don’t have to answer questions about money, so why should they [...]

When there is a lack of will to punish wrongdoers, the world pays attention

For almost two years now, David Thompson and his DLP comrades have been declaring that they will hold people “accountable” for wrong-doing.
The list of wrongdoings is long, and for the mostpart the main culprits are known. When we think of Hardwood Holdings, the Barbados Tourism Authority, Hotels and Resorts, Dodds prison, the dozens of major [...]

Freedom of Speech on the Barbados Blogs – Part 1: A journalist confesses to his sins…

Part 1 of our new series: Freedom of Speech on the Barbados Blogs

Jeff Cumberbatch of the Barbados Advocate confessed to posting comments (HORRORS!) on two anonymous blogs: Barbados Underground and Barbados Free Press.
(That’s ok, Jeff! We’ve had government ministers posting on BFP – so don’t worry about it. Your secret is safe with us.)
The confession [...]

Disciplinary Committee of the Barbados Bar Association prove they are as incompetent as the lawyer appearing before them

“Unfortunately, both (Attorney Balfour Layne) and the Disciplinary Committee laboured under a mistake of law that Mrs Henry’s action was statute barred against the Transport Board,”
Ya can’t make stuff like this up, folks!
Attorney Balfour Layne and all the big-name lawyers of Disciplinary Committee of the Barbados Bar Association didn’t know the law – which is [...]

What did Robert Hoffman know about Sir Allen Stanford’s crimes, and when did he know it?

Journalist started Antigua Sun newspaper for Crooked Sir Allen
Here is a book I’d love to read – because I want to know if author Robert Hoffman comes clean about how he personally started up Sir Allen’s Antigua Sun newspaper that was used to bait the trap for the suckers who trusted Stanford with their [...]

United States Vows to increase prosecution of Human Trafficking in it’s offshore territories

United States accuses Barbados of “Minimal efforts” in fighting Human Trafficking
The US Attorney’s Office and Federal Bureau of Investigation recently announced increased efforts to prosecute of human traffickers in American offshore territories. Guam and the Northern Marianas are of particular concern because the reported incidents of human trafficking doubled over the course of two years, [...]

Different day, Same old promise…

Yawn…. Back on August 23rd at the DLP annual piggyfest, Prime Minister Thompson once again promised he was going to hold people accountable for “certain financial irregularities” at the Barbados Tourism Authority. You know how it is folks, every few weeks the PM says he’ll hold the thieves to account and the paper prints his [...]

Barbados Advocate ‘Yellow Journalism’ Editorial Ignores the Truth: Hartley Henry carried out his threat at Barbados Underground

WARNING: MATURE CONTENT – Discussion of alleged intimate acts
Tell your neighbours, Tell your friends about the Lie in The Barbados Advocate

It is really very simple, folks. Let’s review what happened step by step…
1/ August 23, 2009 – An article at the Nation News is published accusing the PM’s senior advisor, Harley Henry, of threatening [...]

Murdered Canadian Tourist Terry Schwarzfeld Called “White Trash” – Senior Advisor to Barbados Prime Minister Publishes Articles on Same Racist Website!

Why Does Prime Minister Thompson’s most senior advisor publish articles at a website that calls Terry Schwarzfeld “White Trash”?
Early this year, readers from Barbados Free Press voted to remove the sidebar links to the Barbados Underground blog because that blog had become a racist hotbed – and also because they published reader comments containing threats [...]

Senior Advisor To Prime Minister David Thompson Follows Through With Threats Against Barbados Journalist

Hartley Henry Makes Public Allegations of Sexual Impropriety, Beatings, Attempted Suicide by Nation Newspaper Staffers
Uses Barbados Underground Blog
We told you on August 24, 2009 how Barbados journalist and editor Carol Martindale alleges that Hartley Henry threatened to turn Barbados against her if The Nation Newspaper did not print a story about a political poll [...]

Microsoft Edited Out Black Man From Marketing Photo – How Racist

Welcome to Microsoft’s Tribute to Selma, Alabama, 1957
Sure, Microsoft has issued apologies all around after getting caught removing one of those horrid Negro persons from a marketing photo at Microsoft’s Polish website, but we at Barbados Free Press don’t believe the corporation should be let off the hook that easily. A simple apology is not [...]

Barbados Newspaper Editor Threatened by Senior Advisor to Prime Minister David Thompson – Police Investigation Launched

Mr. Hartley Henry, the senior political advisor to Barbados Prime Minister David Thompson and, many say, the primary engineer of the DLP’s election victory in the 2007/2008 campaign, is under police investigation for alleged threats to the editor of the Sunday Sun newspaper. The editor, Carol Martindale, says that Mr. Henry threatened to destroy her [...]

Hero’s Welcome In Libya For Lockerbie Terrorist Spits On Victims’ Graves

“Obviously a political decision…” … US Admiral Michael Mullen, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff
The full story of the “compassionate release” of the man convicted in the terror bombing that brought down a Pan Am 103, a Boeing 747 full of innocent men, women and children, is starting to appear in the British news media. Contrary [...]

Barbados Integrity Legislation a Forbidden Topic at Weekend DLP Conference

The governing DLP Democratic Labour Party is holding a conference this weekend at the George Street Auditorium, starting tomorrow (Friday August 21st) and ending on Sunday. Prime Minister David Thompson will address the faithful on Sunday morning at 10:30am.
The agenda of the “DLP – Working For You” conference does not include anything at all about [...]

Royal Westmoreland’s Pure Leisure Group Accused of Unethical Behaviour By U.K. Town Council

A Community Is Lied To By John Morphet’s Pure Leisure Group
1/ In 2007, Pure Leisure Group purchased land in Ulverston, U.K. – presumably to develop into one of their famous holiday caravan parks or resorts. Later that year the industrial building on the site was gutted by a fire.
2/ Pure Leisure Group failed to properly [...]

Murder Allegations Against Principal Of Barbados Corporation – Blackwater and Greystone use Barbados to support arms dealing & mercenary operations

“While the private military/security industry rejects the characterisation of their forces as mercenaries, Blackwater executives have turned the grey area in which they operate into a brand asset. The company has been quietly marketing its services to foreign governments and corporations through an off-shore affiliate, Greystone Ltd, registered in Barbados.”
… Jeremy Scahill, author of Blackwater: [...]

The Barbados Problem: Unethical behaviour & conflicts of interest are legal

City of Bridgetown Co-operative Credit Union Limited Members Learn About Conflicts of Interest The Hard Way
Some COB members are upset that their board awarded a quarter-million dollar contract to an old friend and “just resigned” board member Oral Dowell – without tender or notice.
Ethically-challenged COB President Lynette Holder arrogantly says that no laws were broken [...]

Barbados Government On Integrity Legislation: “Not until we’ve pigged out at the public trough for a few more years”

We Told You So…
At the last moment in the 2007 election campaign, David Thompson and the DLP were dragged kicking and screaming into announcing they would introduce Integrity Legislation and Freedom of Information laws within 100 days of taking office in January, 2008 – and also “immediately” declare a Ministerial Code with conflict of interest [...]

Nation Newspaper CLICO Advertisement – “Why do I save? 3 Reasons!”

My 3 CLICO Reasons for saving…
1/ I used to have savings, but then I invested with a CLICO investment fund and now I have nothing.
2/ CLICO gave millions to Barbadian and Caribbean political parties so they could act without oversight or accountability. Now those politicians are bailing out CLICO and protecting CLICO executives.
3/ CLICO used [...]

Barbados Internet Providers Slowing Reader Access To Barbados Free Press

For several months Barbados Free Press has been receiving complaints from Bajan visitors about extremely slow access and slow loading of the Barbados Free Press blog. The complaints are being received only from BFP readers located in the country of Barbados.
Barbados Free Press staff have been monitoring the situation closely and for the last month [...]

Barbados High Court Justice, Supermodel Jodie Kidd’s Father Both Caught Breaking Law – Corporate Records Funny Business Surfaces During Land Fraud Trial

Actions of Barbados High Court Justice Elneth Kentish & Businessman Johnny Kidd Are What President Obama Warned About!
The Obama Administration is on the offensive against offshore banking jurisdictions like Barbados – in part because Barbados often allows corporations to play fast and wild with the few laws we do have about records keeping and accountability.
Most [...]