BFP and the Wishing in Vain Hoax

BFP’s latest act of deception comes through this announcement on his blog…

DLP Commenter Wishing In Vain Banned From Barbados Free Press

Who is he trying to fool?

Wishing in Vain = Barbados Free Press

BFP created a name to use for spreading smears against the past government during the election campaign, and now he wants to cover his own backside by pretending to distance himself from the very smut he himself was dishing out.

Just like with those slanderous images of top BLP government officials which adorned his blog and which were so hurriedly removed as soon as the election was won.

All we are witnessing here is the metamorphosis from smut-blog against the BLP to propaganda machine of the DLP. From telling the world how corrupt and bad Barbados was to singing tunes of sweetness under DLP rule. At the same time, he is also trying to test the wind of public opinion and level of support for homosexuality among Barbadians.

Do not be fooled by the fraud at BFP.

BFPE

Filthy Barbados Free Press exploits Rebecca Middleton Murder to Attack Mia’s Father

The filthy shameless scumball at Barbados Free Press is at it again… callously exploiting the death of an innocent young Canadian girl as an excuse to attack the father of the woman he fears most in Barbados: Opposition leader Mia Mottley.

Barbados Free Press is not interested in Rebecca Middleton.

Barbados Free Press does not care about Rebecca Middleton.

Barbados Free Press is not interested in the feelings of Rebecca Middleton’s family.

Barbados Free Press is interested in one thing and one thing only, attacking Mia Mottley’s father.

http://rebeccamiddleton.org/index.html

Please see below the copy of an email sent to Rebecca Middleton’s family which we received from an angry Barbadian who visited BFP recently.

BFPE

To:      info@rebeccamiddleton.org
Subject:     Apologies for those who exploited your daughter’s death
Message:

I am writing from the island of Barbados.

Please accept my deepest apologies for the filthy, callous and
sickening manner in which the blog Barbados Free Press has
exploited the death of your precious little one Rebecca Middleton
in his sick and twisted attempt to attack the father of the
Opposition Leader of Barbados, Ms. Mia Amor Mottley.

No death of an innocent child should be used as a tool in a
political smear campaign.

Please do not blame the people of Barbados for the depraved
actions of one sick lunatic in our midst who derives perverse
pleasure from churning out all manner of disgusting filth on
his internet blog.

I will continue to pray for your family.

God’s blessings to you all.

[Name Withheld]

Nation News Online has FAR MORE READERS than Barbados Free Press!

Check the Quantcast Traffic Comparison graph below… as usual, Barbados Free Press has been CAUGHT LYING about the claim to have more readers than the Nation News online website.

http://www.quantcast.com/traffic-compare.jsp?domain0=barbadosfreepress.wordpress.com&domain1=nationnews.com&domain2=&domain3=&domain4=

And don’t forget that in a typical week the Nation also prints tens of thousands of hardcopy newspapers… on 13 January 2008 they reported the following print runs…

Monday 32,700

Tuesday 37,000

Wednesday 39,000

Thursday 36,900

Friday 44,000

Saturday 37,800

Sunday 58,000

The Nation Publishing Company Ltd. is a responsible, reliable, reputable, trusted and true news organisation which has stood the test of time. It has an office and it is run by real people with real names. The Nation delivers real news.

Barbados Free Press is a filthy stinking blog operated by a coward who deceives his own readers and spreads lies, slander and gossip on the internet. It has no reporters but feeds off the work of the hardworking people at the Nation and other true Barbadian media organisations.

You can TRUST the Nation to tell you the truth.

BFPE

Bajan Free Press publishes Errol Barrow Mirror Image Speech

While Barbados Free Press spews its usual piss, crap and drivel even on Errol Barrow Day, we are pleased to acknowledge and promote the excellent work of new blog Bajan Free Press which has today published Errol Barrow’s Mirror Image Speech from 1986.

http://bajanfreepress.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/errol-barrow-mirror-image-speech/

On Errol Barrow Day 2008, Bajan Free Press is pleased to present the famous Mirror Image Speech made by the late Errol Walton Barrow in 1986.

Those who are interested in reading more of Errol Barrow’s speeches can do so by reading the book Speeches By Errol Barrow, written by the late Guyanese journalist Yussuff Haniff who died in 1990. Bajan Free Press takes this opportunity to express deep gratitude to the late Yussuff Haniff for putting into writing the speeches of our Father of Independence.

Bajan Free Press strongly believes that Errol Barrow must be very pleased indeed to see Barbados as it is today, with the future of this country now in the hands of new 46-year-old Prime Minister David Thompson and new 42-year-old Leader of the Opposition Mia Mottley. The rise to power of these young Barbadians is the crowning glory of everything Errol Barrow worked so hard to achieve in Barbados. He sowed the seeds of free education which we now see blooming in abundance all around us in 2008.
Thanks to the Skipper!

Bajan Free Press

“What kind of mirror image do you have of yourself?”

Address to a political rally 13 May, 1986, at which the Democratic Labour Party’s 27 candidates for the general elections of 28 May, 1986 were introduced.

What I wish to speak to you about very briefly here this evening is about you. About yourself.

I want to know what kind of mirror image do you have of yourself? That is what I am concerned about. What kind of mirror image do you have of yourself? Do you really like yourselves? Because you can never really like anybody unless you first like yourself. There are too many people in Barbados who despise themselves and their dislike of themselves reflects itself in their dislike of other people… people who live next door to them, members of their family, husbands, and wives, and the ox and the ass and the stranger within the gates.

I would like to say that in 1951, 1956, 1961 the Conservatives used to do a few favours for people.

A planter would send a man who had a little influence, let us say in Ellerton Village in St. George, send him down to Plantations Limited or Manning and Company and get some lumber to repair the old house, or if he had a cheap canvasser you would send him to Detco Motors and let him trust a new car. And those people would be motivated into giving their support to the Conservative candidate because of the favours which used to be given out to them.

But it really did not matter because the people who accepted that kind of help thought that they would be beholden to the rich people of this island, because the rich people were in a position to do personal favours for them. But what the rich people in Barbados did not realise is that they did not have money to do favours for everybody who had the right to vote after universal adult suffrage.

That was all right when you had 250 people voting in St. Thomas, and probably 178 voting in St. Andrew, and probably 311 voters in St. Lucy, but when you have 38,000 voting alone in St. Michael – voting for two candidates, not even John D. Rockefeller himself would be able to do enough favours for 38,000 people to persuade them to go and cast their votes and exercise their suffrage against the Labour Party’s interest, in favour of that wealthy person.

Which group in wealthiest in Barbados then? Who has the most money to spend? There has never been anybody in the history of Barbados with six million dollars at his disposal. The Tom Adams government had $600 million in each and every year at its disposal to bribe you with your own money, and then spit in your face.

So the Conservatives can now save their money. They are not going to France and Italy anymore because of terrorism, but they are going to Tampa, Florida, Vancouver, British Columbia and California, because they have people now who will spend the workers’ money to bribe the workers and they could save their money and thus go off and live like true politicians, while they use your money against you.

Now what has bothered me in this society is that every time after elections, people expect certain things to take place. And although the law says that he that giveth is as much guilty of bribery and corruption under the Corrupt Practices Act as he that receiveth, we know that even on polling day, people were given envelopes with $100 bills in them.

Philip Greaves and Asquith Phillips and I sat down trying to get people to bring affidavits, so that we could lock up some of them. Our own people, registered Democratic Labour Party people, said they were not prepared to go into court and swear.

So what kind of mirror image would you have of yourself? If there are corrupt ministers in Barbados tonight, you have made them corrupt.

I am not trying to make any excuses for you, but I realise what has happened in this society. You have people who are living on the brink of, and at, subsistence level. I look around and see people who have not done an honest day’s work in their whole lives driving around in MP cars, having an ostentatious standard of living, unlike my poor families in St. John, who the Welfare Officer gives $50 to feed a family of ten for a whole week.

What kind of mirror image can you have of yourself?

Let me tell you what I mean by ‘image you have of yourself’. You so much despair of this society that you queue up at Trident House (United States Consulate) day after day. Those of you who have read Julius Caesar would know the passage that says: ‘You have sat the live long day with patient expectation to see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome.’ And you have stood the live long day with great patient expectation for the man to tell you down there that you can’t get the visa to get on the 400 to New York next week.

Your greatest ambition is to try to prove to the people of the United States Consulate that you are only going up to visit your family, when you know very well that when you get up there, you los’ ‘way. And you are surprised when the people at the United States Embassy tell you that you do not have a strong reason to return to Barbados. And you are the only person dishonest enough with yourself to realise that you do not have a strong reason to return to Barbados, because Barbados has nothing to offer you. You are not being honest with yourself, but you tell the man down there, ‘Oh yes, I’m returning.’

If I had to answer that question now I would be in trouble, because under this dispensation for the past ten years, I never had a strong reason to come back here.

But I want to tell you this, that I believe I am as much Barbadian as they are and I do not like my country being run down the way it has been run down since 1976, and that is the reason why I return.

When I went to Mexico, I had to make a decision, and I returned; I went to the Pacific and I had to make a decision and I returned. I had a strong reason. My reason is that I did not want to see my country go down the drain but you who are not in politics, don’t have a strong reason. Tell me one good strong reason you have to return to Barbados.

Your mirror image of yourself is that your ambition in life is to try and get away from this country. And we could call ourselves an independent nation? When all we want to do is go and scrub somebody’s floors and run somebody’s elevator or work in somebody’s store or drive somebody’s taxi in a country where you catching your royal when the winter sets in?

What kind of mirror image do you have of yourself? Let me tell you what kind of mirror image I have of you, or what the Democratic Labour Party has of you. The Democratic Labour Party has an image that the people of Barbados would be able to run their own affairs, to pay for the cost of running their own country, to have an education system which is as good as what can be attained in any industrialised country, anywhere in the world.

It is only now that you are reading that in the state of Texas, the government of that state has asked to make the teachers pass an examination – you know what kind of examination? To see if they can read and write!

The gentleman of the Texas teachers’ union came on the news and he said that he was proud of the result because only eight per cent of the teachers couldn’t read and write!

If (President Ronald) Reagan had to take the test, I wonder if he would pass. But this is the man that you all say in the newspapers, how great he is for bombing the people in Libya and killing little children. I am no (Libyan leader Mu’ammar) Qathafi supporter. I don’t know Qathafi and I never had any desire to go to Libya. But this is the man that you all go up at the airport and put down a red carpet for, and he is the President of a country in which in one of the more advanced and biggest states eight per cent of the teachers cannot read and write, and he feels that they are better than we. And you feel that we should run up there and bow.

What kind of mirror image do you have of yourself? Why don’t you sit down there and start trying to put people on the moon, too? Instead of using $100 million to develop the potential of the young scientists that we have, and the young doctors that we have, we spend it putting up an expression of a monumental edifice behind the Cathedral and call it a Central Bank Building, because we think that people develop by ostentation, by showing off, and not by developing people.

But when a government steals from people in the way of consumption taxes and takes that money and spends it on their own high lifestyles, and unnecessary buildings, then that government not only has contempt for you, but what is most unfortunate, you have contempt for yourself, because you allow them to do it.

And you get the Prime Minister of the country saying that his ambition is to have the same kind of lifestyle as the people in the United States enjoy. I wonder what kind of lifestyle he is enjoying now? And then his successor goes outside of Barbados and says we are drifting away in Barbados from the Westminster model of parliamentary democracy, and we are easing into a presidential system; that we want a presidential system, so that, like Reagan, they can go and bomb. They can go and bomb the mental people in the hospital in Grenada and the little children in Benghazi, in Tripoli? Is that what we want a presidential system for?

We don’t have a Presidential system yet. But you have people who are employed and paid with your taxes who could buy a boat and give it to an Englishman to smuggle arms into Barbados. I can give you the name and the place and everything you want.

We don’t have a presidential system, but you can have people removing money from a Canadian Imperial Bank account and people who are in charge of institutions in this island, and in transferring it to the Barbados National Bank without the authority of the people from whose account the money was being withdrawn. I know it is so, because I told (Prime Minister Bernard) St. John who said it was and that man has not been locked up yet.

I told him then that you should never appoint a person to a responsible statutory corporation in this island who is accustomed to forging people’s signatures. And then he went outside and came back and never said a word. And you allow that to go on in Barbados.

And there are people in high places in this island who conspired to allow that to happen, because the gentleman was fined $1,000 for so doing, and not by the law courts, but by a private group of people who got together and said, ‘You committed forgery; we are going to fine you $1,000.’ So you circumvent the Director of Public Prosecution, and you hold your own dumb-head court martial and then you present him with a big bowl and congratulate him on his achievements.

What kind of mirror image do you have of yourself if you allow this kind of thing to happen?

What kind of mirror image do you have of yourself when you allow the mothers of this nation to be beasts of burden in the sugarcane fields? In Mexico where people suffer under a lower standard of living than in Barbados, they use donkeys to freight canes out of the fields.

In Antigua, they use a small railway; but here the mothers of the nation with sons at Harrison College, the Alleyne School and daughters at Queen’s College, St. Michael and Alexandra – they are used as beasts of burden and there is no shelter in any of those cane fields. I have talked time and time again to the Barbados Workers’ Union about this and you allow that to continue. What kind of image do you have of yourself?

I suggested, and I was inspired by the work done by the late Mr. Ernest Bevin, who was (British) Foreign Minister, who went to work at eight – I don’t mean 8 o’clock in the morning, I mean eight years of age – and those dock workers in London used to turn up during the winter and summer from 5 o’clock in the morning waiting for a ship, and if a ship didn’t come in for three weeks or three months, they wouldn’t get any pay. And Ernest Bevin introduced the guaranteed week for dock workers. I set up a commission of enquiry into the sugar industry and made the examination of the guaranteed week for agricultural workers one of the terms of reference of that commission, and the commission reported that nobody gave any evidence before them in support of this recommendation.

What kind of mirror image do the people of the Workers’ Union, of whom we have members, have, even of you or themselves? And I had to wait until there was a dispute in the sugar industry and we had television and get on a blackboard and say, well these will be the wages from next week and on Tuesday I went into the House (of Assembly) and introduced the guaranteed wages for agricultural workers.

Why should only one man have a mirror image of you that you do not want to have of yourself? What kind of society are we striving for? There is no point in striving for Utopia, but you do not realise your potential.

You have heard the opportunities which our members have taken to improve themselves by going to certain institutions and so on – not that we believe that people with good education are the only people who can be in politics. The very fact that a man has made the effort and taken the time to improve himself shows that he has the kind of calibre which would make him a useful representative of the people.

I lived in a little country when I was young, the Virgin Islands. It was just bought from Denmark by the United States of America. My father was a Chancellor. I was too young to go when he was transferred. So when I was three months old, I went.

There is no unemployment in that country. They don’t manage their affairs as well as we did in the past. They don’t receive any big lot of grants and loans and that kind of thing, even from the United States.

They have to bring in workers. They have the largest oil refinery in the western hemisphere run by a man called Hess. But that is a small country. But there is another small country which is run by a friend of mine. That country has 210 square miles; it is 40 square miles bigger than Barbados. If you took the Parish of St. Philip and put it right in the little curve by Bathsheba that would be the size of the country of Singapore of Lee Kwan Yew.

But you know the difference between Barbados and that country? First, Barbados has 250,000 people. You know how many people Singapore has on 40 more square miles? Over two-and-a-half-million, on an island just a little larger than Barbados.

They don’t have sugar plantations; they don’t have enough land to plant more than a few orchids on. It is one of the orchid centres of the world. They grow orchids in Singapore. They don’t have enough land to plant a breadfruit tree in the backyard and nearly every Barbadian, even in the metropolitan area of Bridgetown, have some kind of fruit tree in the backyard.

Sixty per cent of those three million persons have been housed by the government of Singapore. They don’t have oil for ministers to steal. They don’t have any beaches like we do here. There are people here in this audience, Barbadians who have served in Singapore, who can tell you about Singapore. There is no unemployment in Singapore.

They have developed an education system but they are teaching people things that are relevant to the 21st century. They are not teaching people how to weed by the road. They are in the advance of the information age.

But you know the difference between you and them? They have got a mirror image of themselves. They are not looking to get on any plane to go to San Francisco. Too far away. The government does not encourage them to emigrate unless they are going to develop business for Singapore.

They have a mirror image of themselves. They have self-respect. They have a desire to move their country forward by their own devices. They are not waiting for anybody to come and give them handouts. And there is no unemployment.

Is that the mirror image that you have of yourselves? Anyhow, ladies and gentlemen, I done.

Errol Barrow Day welcomes three new Bajan blogs

Happy Errol Barrow Day to all the people of Barbados.

We at BFPE as especially pleased to welcome the three new Bajan blogs which launched their operations well before 2:00 am this morning. They are all dedicated to politics and news in Barbados, and they are…

Bajan Free Press

Cat Piss and Pepper

De Standpipe

We extend a warm welcome to all of them!

BFPE.

What A Friend We Have In Jesus

Another Sunday morning in Barbados and we at BFPE were in church once again enjoying a powerful sermon, singing hymns and giving praises to the Lord who has blessed our lives in so many ways.

There was one particular hymn which we enjoyed so much today that we decided to share it with you our readers. Please enjoy.

BFPE.

WHAT A FRIEND WE HAVE IN JESUS

What a Friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and griefs to bear!

What a privilege to carry everything to God in prayer!

O what peace we often forfeit, O what needless pain we bear,

All because we do not carry everything to God in prayer.

-o-

Have we trials and temptations? Is there trouble anywhere?

We should never be discouraged; take it to the Lord in prayer.

Can we find a friend so faithful who will all our sorrows share?

Jesus knows our every weakness; take it to the Lord in prayer.

-o-

Are we weak and heavy laden, cumbered with a load of care?

Precious Savior, still our refuge, take it to the Lord in prayer.

Do your friends despise, forsake you? Take it to the Lord in prayer!

In His arms He’ll take and shield you; you will find a solace there.

-o-

Blessed Savior, Thou hast promised Thou wilt all our burdens bear

May we ever, Lord, be bringing all to Thee in earnest prayer.

Soon in glory bright unclouded there will be no need for prayer

Rapture, praise and endless worship will be our sweet portion there.

-o-

Some Sound Advice for new Minister of Health David Estwick

http://barbadosfreepress.wordpress.com/2008/01/19/welcome-to-the-barbados-boys-club/#comment-208310

frankology

January 20, 2008 at 1:43 am

We have Estwick as Minister of Health, he is an action man (mouth only). His only problems are: – we can stand from our homes and hear his board room discussions in Martindales Road. Remember the hospital is a “Silent Zone” and you must refraim from shouting. Nurses are extremely delicate and you must not jump them whilst holding an injection needle with your loud speaking.

I better shut my mouth, cause I still have to use the hospital if I become sick and he might remember my blogging.

Congratulations to the new Minister of Tourism: Richard Sealy

We at BFPE welcome the announcement that Mr. Richard Sealy has been appointed as Minister of Tourism in the newly-elected Democratic Labour Party government.

We are extremely pleased that a BLACK BAJAN has been selected to hold this position. We believe quite strongly that there is no place for white foreigners in the government of our beloved country, and the message must be sent loud and clear that “massa day done”.

Congratulations to you, sir.

BFPE.

Richard Sealy
Candidate for St. Michael South Central

Richard Sealy is the Democratic Labour Party’s candidate for St. Michael South Central. His public service goal in clear-cut and unambiguous: “To work towards ensuring the ultimate success of the Democratic Labour Party’s revolution to help ordinary Barbadians which began in the 1960’s. And especially to see that the instruments of economic power are controlled not by the select few but by a cross-section of Barbadians”.

He believes that special emphasis ought to be placed on young people many of who feel left out of mainstream Barbados. Richard, born in the constituency, is already known as a serious person who can get things done. The economy may be good to some but it has left a number of individuals without jobs or with poor paying jobs. He sees unemployment among women as a major problem in the constituency. “The Government has failed to deliver on jobs, particularly on its pledge to increase the numbers employed in the informatics sector”, he says. That failure has had terrible consequences for many of our young working mothers. “The economic pressures on those without jobs and/or poor paying jobs has resulted in an increased in crime in this country that just should not be”, said Sealy. “We, as a nation, can do much better for the people of Barbados”.

Richard would like to see more sporting facilities in the constituency and better housing and health care for the elderly. He is a Civil Engineer and was educated at Harrison College, the University of Florida and the University of the West Indies.

Barbados Free Press tries to suppress Taiwan News Report

When Barbados Free Press reader Claire Pilgrim posted this Taiwan news report on the BFP blog, they quickly DELETED it, even though she posted it without making any comments whatsoever.

Since BFP is trying so desperately to suppress it, we therefore give readers the opportunity to read it here. Please pay particular attention to the section which reads: “During his campaign, Thompson promised to break 30-year ties with China once he entered office.”

Now why would BFP be trying to hide that from the people of Barbados?

See full article below.

BFPE

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2008/01/20/2003398028

No problems with Honduras diplomatic ties: MOFA

QUIET ON THE CARIBBEAN: The ministry declined to comment on speculation that the new Barbadian prime minister-elect is set to switch ties from Beijing to Taipei
By Jenny W. Hsu
STAFF REPORTER
Sunday, Jan 20, 2008, Page 3 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) yesterday said that diplomatic ties with Honduras remain firm in spite of the Central American nation’s president recently saying he would try to shore up ties with all nations, including China.

MOFA spokeswoman Phoebe Yeh (葉非比) said the media had blown Honduran President Jose Manuel Zelaya’s comments out of proportion when he said Tegucigalpa would not rule out establishing closer ties with Beijing.

“The comment was made during Zelaya’s visit to Costa Rica and the local reporters have read too much into the remarks,” Yeh said, stressing that nothing Zelaya said was contradictory to what he has always said in the past.

Honduras, Yeh noted, has always adhered to the policy that it welcomes the establishment of stronger ties with any country, including China, under the condition that its relations with Taiwan remain unchanged.

Honduras newspaper La Prensa said Zelaya had hinted on a private visit to Costa Rica that his nation could establish diplomatic relations with Beijing. The paper quoted him as saying: “We have the intention of opening relations with all countries in the world, even China.”

Taiwanese ambassador to Honduras Lai Chien-chung (賴建中) told the Central News Agency that Zelaya’s commitment to Taiwan remains solid.

“Zelaya was the first head of state to express his support for Taiwan’s independence and recognized Taiwan’s contributions to the Central American region last September at the UN Assembly [in New York],” he said.

During President Chen Shui-bian’s (陳水扁) recent trip to Latin America to attend the inauguration of Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom, Zelaya reiterated his support for Taiwan and promised to push for closer Taiwan-Honduras ties during his remaining two years in office, Yeh said.

In other developments, the ministry declined to comment on speculation of possible Taiwan-Barbados ties, except to say Taiwan seeks to establish relations with any country that upholds democratic values and recognizes its sovereignty.

Talk of Barbados switching allegiance from Beijing to Taipei came after the Caribbean nation elected Taiwan-friendly candidate David Thompson as its new prime minister last week.

During his campaign, Thompson promised to break 30-year ties with China once he entered office.

Thompson’s rival, outgoing prime minister Arthur Owen, has accused Taiwan of meddling in the election by providing a large cash donation to Thompson’s Democratic Labour Party (DLP).

Owen and his Barbados Labour Party said that Barbados’ intelligence services had reported that there had been frequent contact between the DLP and Taipei, via St. Kitts, and said that the campaign finance came after Thompson made his promise to switch diplomatic ties.

Taiwan has categorically denied the accusations.
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Congratulations! Why BFPE is proud of Opposition Leader Mia Mottley

We at BFPE extend our congratulations to the new Opposition Leader of Barbados, Mia Mottley.We are VERY PROUD of the fact that Barbados today has an opposition leader, and political leader of the Barbados Labour Party, who is 42 years old and we are eager to promote that fact as we promote Barbados to the world. The winds of change have also given us a new 46 year old prime minister in David Thompson and we are overjoyed that the future of this country has been placed firmly in the hands of talented, young, capable and well-educated Bajan people. These happy developments, coming mere days ahead of Errol Barrow Day on 21 January 2008, should be seen as the crowning glory of Errol Barrow’s outstanding effort in providing free education to the masses of this country. Wherever his spirit is today, there can be no doubt that the father of our independence would be very pleased with the political scene in Barbados today.

Mia Amor Mottley, we salute you as the new political leader of the Barbados Labour Party.

May your term in office be a blessed and successful one.

We love you, Mia!

BFPE