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One Imaginary Container Load of Free Shoes from China… compliments retarded BFP asshole
The idiot Adrian Loveridge at Barbados Free Press has done it again.
Only a retarded asshole would post such crap as this on the internet and expect to be taken seriously: Barbados DLP Government Insider: Chinese Provided Container-Load Of Free Shoes For People Of Barbados, But Corrupt BLP Insiders Sold Them!
No date. No documents. No news report from the Chinese government. No facts. No evidence. No investigative reporting.
Just the same stupid lies spewing out of Adrian Loveridge’s BFP’s shit-filled brain. Invent the most far-fetched, bird-brained crap, post it on his blog and expect gullible Bajans to swallow it.
Why would China send a free container load of shoes to Barbados? If any of it was true, why would the Chinese government, through its embassy in Barbados, say NOTHING about it? Surely if such a donation was made, there would have been a representative of the Chinese government appearing at a public presentation ceremony.
Adrian Loveridge BFP is a sick, stupid moron and pathetic idiot and liar.
Contact the Chinese embassy in Barbados and see for yourself how easily the LIES of Adrian Loveridge Barbados Free Press are exposed.
BFPE
http://www.travelchinaguide.com/embassy/barbados.htm
Ambassador: Mr. Liu Huanxing
Address: No.17 Golfview Terrace, Rockley, Christ Church, Barbados
Tel: +1-246-4356890
Fax: +1-246-4358300
Office Hours: 08:30-12:00, 14:00-16:30, Monday-Friday (except holidays)
Email: chineseembbds@caribsurf.com
Website:
http://bb.china-embassy.org/eng/
http://bb.chineseembassy.org/eng/
Consular Office
Tel: +1-246-4356890, 2305344
Office Hours: 08:30-11:30, 14:00-16:00, Monday-Friday (except holidays)
1 comment Monday, 31 March 2008, 3:26 pm
Welcome to Barbados, Jah Cure… Barbados Free Press can fuck off.
Jah Cure (real name Siccaturie Alcock) is most welcome in Barbados. He is a black Caribbean man and he has paid his debt to society. We at BFPE will never remain silent and allow the filthy-minded white dog at Barbados Free Press to continue to vilify black people in Barbados, black people in the Caribbean and black people in general.
It is not without reason that BFP is always promoting anything and anyone white, especially white foreigners and moreso white British.
It is not without reason that BFP is always denigrating black people, especially black Caribbean people.
It is not without reason that BFP pays little or no regard to the successes of black Bajan calypsonians.
It is not without reason that BFP has a policy of whites first, mulattoes second and blacks last.
We at BFPE will never sit idly by and allow BFP to fool anyone into thinking that their racist worldview and plantocracy mindset represents Barbados of today. Study the messages being put out by BFP and you will see nothing but a sinister attempt to malign, attack, subjugate and assault the free will and political power of the BLACK MAJORITY in Barbados.
Jah Cure, as a black Caribbean man, you are most welcome to Barbados and we are happy to have you here.
As far as we are concerned, the lone racist lunatic who runs Barbados Free Press can fuck off.
BFPE
http://www.nationnews.com/story/291339724091922.php
Jah Cure on new track
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by MICHELLE SPRINGER
The time is here
The Cure is here . . . .
NO LONGER “behind prison walls spending restless nights”, Siccaturie Alcock, known by his fans as Jah Cure, is exploring a new beginning in the free world and, in the process, “visioning” faces that cry out with sheer delight at his performances.
He sat and shared some “true reflections” with the SUNDAY SUN on a recent trip to Barbados.
“Life is good. As long as you nah feel nuh pain, yuh feel yuh hand, yuh toes and yuh hand. Yuh give thanks ’cause life is good,” he smiled shyly.
Since his July 28 release last year in Jamaica from Town Street Adult Correctional Centre, Kingston’s maximum security penal institution, where he spent seven years on rape, robbery and gun possession charges, he has been adjusting to his new life.
“I’ve been busier than busy . . . everything going good so far. All of my shows dem work out nice, sold off and ting,” he beamed.
From globetrotting, to studio recordings, social networking websites and performing to jampacked stage-shows in his own island, Jah Cure is cultivating the career he said he carefully sowed and nurtured while in prison. From there he maintained an aural rapport with fans, with hits such as Long For, True Reflections and Love Is.
During the time he spent on the inside, Jah Cure invested heavily in his career.
“When I was locked up I decide not to just sit down and waste time. Me and the other inmates tried to perfect-up. Whatever they do best, we had all the time . . . . I said to myself I could do some good with all this time. So, I just use the time to ‘perfect-up’ my sound and keep my music up and going, so when I’m out it won’t be hard.
“I sing about three albums and that is a lot of song. Three albums can speak for me.”
Those albums – Free Jah Cure (2000), Ghetto Life (2003) and Freedom Blues (2005) – were released while in prison. They totalled 44 tracks of which saw collaboration with the likes of Sizzla, Morgan Heritage, Beres Hammond, Jah Mason and Phillip Fattis Burrell, arguably some heavyweights in the industry.
And today, Jah Cure is keeping positive about his future. He told the SUNDAY SUN he was able to transform his experience into an uplifting and enriching one.
“I’ve been doing that before I was out and for the rest of my life that is what I’ll be doing. And if any other negative comes I’ll just use the positive and turn it around. Take the negative and get positive. That’s what I do and it works for me. This is the free world.”
His fourth album, True Reflections – A New Beginning, is also testimony of this.
Mikey Bennett, director of Grafton Studio in Kingston, where the album was recorded, spoke highly of the quality of Jah Cure’s music, stating that even though recording under the prison situation was not ideal, his appeal was indistinguishable.
“He have something real special in his voice, still,” he said during a telephone interview.
Local reggae and groovy soca artist Geoffrey Biggie Irie Cordle agreed.
“He is a great singer. Some people say he can’t perform. I don’t agree, he doesn’t have to jump and dance around the stage. He just lets his voice work for him,” he said, speaking from Jamaica where he was scheduled to perform at that island’s carnival.
Responding to queries on lessons he learnt while in jail, he was unequivocally clear on his long-standing, spiritual integrity.
“There wasn’t much to learn. I was always conscious,” he said.
Unlike in previous interviews he didn’t promote any notion of innocence. Instead, he chose silence on the issue, suggesting only he had already “paid his pound of flesh”.
“That’s too much pain for me. I’ve come out of it and I’m in the free world. I can’t take up so much pain in my life. I don’t intend to carry that cross all my life. I gotta leave it somewhere,” he said
Jah Cure is slated to perform in Barbados at the upcoming Reggae On The Hill concert taking place at the Farley Hill National Park.
1 comment Sunday, 30 March 2008, 2:36 pm
Racism at Hotels in Barbados
BFPE thanks Bob Verdun (who is ironically a white Canadian) for his article below on the racism which is so often practiced at our hotels in Barbados. Barbados is a funny place, because the same sentiments if expressed by a black Barbadian might not have gotten the same public reception. Too often in this country we quietly dismiss the voices of the loyal sons and daughters of this island because they are too “local”.
Bob Verdun is to be commended… his writings over time have proven that he has Barbados’ interest at heart. On the other extreme, we have other white foreigners such as a lowlife scum and fraud who suddenly, a few days before the January election, pretended to be championing the cause of the Southern Farmers at Gibbons in their fight against Shell. Having beguiled those black Bajan farmers as props in his cheap election publicity gimmick, he has just as suddenly abandoned them and is now busy enjoying his share of the fatted calf. The unfortunate thing is, at no stage would such “grimy black folk” ever be welcome past the gates of his south coast hotel, and that is exactly the racism in our hotels which Bob Verdun is fighting against.
BFPE.
http://www.nationnews.com/editorial/328442168355334.php
THE HUMAN RACE: Racism in our hotels
by BOB VERDUN
HOTEL: noun (derived from Old French: hostel): a house that provides lodging, and usually meals, entertainment, and personal services for the public; synonym: inn
Note that key phrase: “for the public”. A legitimate hotel is readily accessible to everyone.
I’ve travelled the world, and entered freely into virtually any property that proclaims itself to be a hotel. The lobbies of many of the world’s finest hotels are such public places that it is easy to conduct informal business in them without even being an overnight guest or a customer of the bars or restaurants.
In Barbados, most hotels are reached by driving, and many of them have gates and guards to control access to the parking areas.
I have never had a problem driving into any of the walled and gated resorts on this island. Indeed, at one large hotel where I dine periodically, the guard starts opening the massive gate as soon as I turn off the main road.
So what’s the problem? My easy access happens only because I am white.
Black leader snubbed
A very important public official told me recently that she was refused permission to drive inside a walled and gated hotel property. She had been inside previously to attend events at the hotel’s restaurant – but this time she simply wanted to look at the architecture of the villas, as personal research for her own new home.
The guard flatly refused to allow her in – even though she’s an elegant lady driving a stylish car with a green licence plate.
As a matter of principle, she declined to identify herself – because the real issue is accessibility for all Bajans, not only VIPs.
One of our new Cabinet ministers had a similar experience. He was showing off this blessed island to two visitors, and they wanted to stop at a well known West Coast hostelry for a drink at the bar.
Flatly refused
He drove up to the gate, explained his intentions, and was flatly refused the right to enter a place that provides “services for the public”.
Almost every black Bajan has similar stories to tell. Racial discrimination is rampant at many of the hotels in Barbados.
If challenged, the managements deny they intentionally keep black people out. They say they are simply maintaining a high level of security for their guests.
That is utter nonsense. Walls and gates keep out only the honest people. There isn’t a wall on this island that could not be scaled or circumvented by a criminal.
Blocked from beaches
I attended a recent public meeting on sustainable tourism. I heard many passionate complaints about the manner in which West Coast hotels are restricting or even closing traditional access points to the beaches.
I also heard about many cases where boulders and other barriers have been erected to make it impossible to enjoy continuous walks along the beaches.
The message is very clear: many hotel owners don’t want black people close to their white guests.
A dangerous policy
This is a very dangerous policy, because it undermines the social peace that is this island’s best asset as it competes with other tropical vacation destinations. I am not alone in choosing Barbados as my place in the sun precisely because the majority population is well educated, sophisticated, and friendly.
How long will that friendliness last when the degree of welcome a person receives at a hotel is directly related to skin colour?
Racial discrimination and foreign control of too much beach access are serious problems in Barbados – but there are practical solutions that are easy to implement.
I will go into detail on some of these solutions at another time.
Bob Verdun is a hotel and land development consultant: bobverdun@rogers.com.
1 comment Sunday, 30 March 2008, 10:59 am
