Barbados and China “supported each other on important international and regional issues”
“China willing to push ahead… good relationship between the two ruling parties”
Barbados willing to strengthen ties with China
Barbados Prime Minister Freundel Stuart, leader of the Democratic Labour Party (DLP), on Friday met with a Chinese delegation headed by Chen Fengxiang, vice minister of the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.
Chen said that since diplomatic relations were set up between China and Barbados, political trust between the two countries has deepened day by day, cooperation in all sectors born abundant fruits, and the two countries supported each other on important international and regional issues. China is willing to push ahead the good relationship between the two countries and the two ruling parties.
Stuart said the DLP is willing to learn from the governing experience of the CPC, and his country wishes to enhance the relationship with China through communication between the two political parties.
He said China, the current second largest economy in the world, plays an important role in world affairs. Barbados and the DLP are willing to deepen cooperation and communication in all sectors with China and the CPC.
The Chinese delegation arrived in Barbados on Friday at the DLP’s invitation.
… from the People’s Daily Online
Barbados Free Press 
CPC = Chinese Communist Party.
(quote) Stuart said the DLP is willing to learn from the governing experience of the CPC, and his country wishes to enhance the relationship with China through communication between the two political parties. (/end quote)
Mr Stuart,should have words with DHL and Fedex and let them tell them him how many Barbadians are ripped off weekly trying to do legitimate business with Chinese companies. The Chinese Embassy is no help as china is 1.4 billion and I must say they did contact the police in Xiamen on my behalf who had Liang Liu the scammer and then let him go.
Kammie,
Collect the money the first, cost of goods + cost of shipping. You’ll be robbed in Barbados if you ship with out payment conformation.
What unseen hand prevents Barbados from selling with PayPal.
This restriction stymies most small entrepreneurs before they start.
GoB encourages enterprise LOL.
Too many corns mashup on a level playing field.
Bare shite does happen and de powers like dem fuhget day does run until night catch it. One day coming soon de people gine wake up. We spending nuff money to attract unscrupulous Chinese and Russian businessmen . Yet wont pay de police a decent salary. Where are the leaders? Too many politicians bad for Barbados, not enough statesmen who look towards the next generation rather than the next election.
You nailed it on the head Kammie!
“. . . DLP is willing to learn from the governing experience of the CPC. . .”! These are scary words, in light of the implementation of the New World Order and rule by martial law in the not too distant future a.k.a eradication of citizens’ rights. I recently read a BFP article published on 28 Sept 07 that the then administration had “. . .changed our constitution with four days’ notice and zero debate – and empower foreign troops on Bajan soil – you [late PM Thompson] and your party allowed that to happen.” And our current PM wants to learn more about communist governance?!!! Barbadians, we need to wake up, be vigilante – democracy seems closer to death than we realise.
An interesting — not to mention enlightening — disclosure from Prime Minister Stuart. One clearly remembers him publicly saying some years back that poor people lost the best friend they ever had when Stalin died! That perception has given me nightmares ever since, for even his former Politburo cronies, chief among them Nikita Khruschev, admitted that Stalin was a pathological criminal and mass murderer of proportions more monstrous by far than the far more reviled Adolf Hitler.
One also notes that for many years, P.M. Stuart’s chief political campaign cook and bottle-washer was a certain Mr. Marshall, a diehard atheist, avowed Marxist Leninist and admirer of Stalin and North Korea’s Kim Il Sung, whose country he is proud to say he has visited.
One further notes that, as P.M. Stuart must know, the Communist party of the People’s Republic of China, although a miniscule minority of China’s 1.4 billion people, exercises authoritarian control over them all with no appeal from its rulings except by way of indefinite detentions and harsh prison sentences; and that it, along with the Army, owns a vast business and investment empire.
One also clearly remembers that there was a time in this Barbados when even the perception that one’s thinking or politics was not in line with that of the then-ruling DLP administration meant real hardship in obtaining meaningful employment in Barbados. Just ask former Prime Minister Mr. Owen Arther what a mere phone call from a certain Mr. Lewis did to his chances of employment with a local conglomerate after he had been approved for the job!
If P.M. Stuart therefore wants to study the ways of the ruling Chinese Communist Party, then it is all of a piece with his Party’s past performance (not that the Opposition is by any means squeaky-clean either; but previous bad precedents scarcely justify present or future wrongs). But then, for some time now, one has been getting the distinct impression that retaining power at any and all costs and by whatever means — resident ‘political strategist’ and all — is the primary and (in their view) justifiable goal of our present political masters.
God help Barbados!