Tragedy At Joes River – Six Dead In Barbados Tour Bus Crash
Our Condolences To Families And Friends
The Barbados Advocate has a story online. Nothing on the Nation News yet that we can see…
From the Barbados Advocate…
A FULL investigation will be launched into the crash that claimed the lives of six Barbadians yesterday along Joe’s River, St. Joseph, as they made their way to the Party Monarch Finals at the East Coast Road.
Just after 11 o’clock yesterday (Sunday) morning, the lives of three men and three women were cut short when the 40-seater vehicle carrying patrons who purchased an all-inclusive package from Mount Gay Distilleries, for the much anticipated and high-paced Party Monarch Finals was involved in an accident which saw an additional 37 persons seeking medical attention at the Accident and Emergency Department of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH).
Five of the deceased include Adrian Franklin of Lot No.2 Oughterson Park, St. Philip; Lorie Marshall of Parks Road, St. Joseph; Nancy Griffith of Gooding Alley, Church Street, St. Peter; Kenrick Harewood of Stadium Road, Bush Hall, St. Michael, and Morton Brathwaite of Sayers Court, Christ Church. The identity of sixth person was not available up to press time.
… continue reading this article at the Barbados Advocate (link here)
BU wish to express our deep felt sympathy at what was a tragedy of enormous proportions. We have published the Barbados Free Press story in full to respond to the many hits our site has been receiving from Barbadians around the world. We have some strong views on how this matter was handled yesterday; but we appreciate that it is the morning after and continues to be a very sensitive time for the family and the country.
For those readers who do not want to read about our initial views which we will elaborate on at a future date you can stop reading HERE.
- We want to state for the record that Minister Dale Marshall should relax a little. This is not a time to score cheap political points. Is in your face approach given his “dead pan” personality came over to us as being not appropriate.
- The Party Monarch Finals on the East Coast should have been canceled. Some novel way of splitting the prize money among on the performers could have been done. BU is abolutely sure that patrons would have understood. People in and out of Barbados would have understood.
BU will develop these points at the appropriate time.
The count is now up to 4 someone else died
sad,Ian, T.D ALLAMBY i am aware that there are bajans also but there are no good what so ever a bunck of users who only think about there pocket and to aloff and do not care about the poor man in the street this is a goverment that had the most money and up to know dont know what to do this is the late eric gairy all over again so i stand by what i say fellows but my sympathy goes out to the family of the four who die in st peter
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Where is Dale Smiley Marshall in all of this furore ?
Here again not a word to be heard from him, has he loss his voice or does he have to wait to hear from Owing to hear what he can say, if this is the case we have a useless minister with no voice or say.
Well done Owing keep them like lapdogs.
Same as he has done to Atherley he cannot say boo unless Owing oks him saying anything.
Lets cast our minds back to the issue with the Chinese not one ounce of action was taken in Owings abscence, but on his return the idiot Atherley is expounding his nonsense,
What the general public needs to know is what Owing offered to the Chinese in exchange for their funding rumor has it that he offered an easy passage to their workers and with it he approved Pemberton’s request for hiring 600 Chinese workers for a one off settlement to their bank account ie Nicholls / Arthur’s account.
What Owing failed to come to grips with is that in allowing this nonsense to happen it put a tremendous strain on the rest of the local work force and by extenstion gave Pemberton an unfair advantage in his constuction project just consider for a moment Pemberton employing this group of workers and not have to pay half the normal expenses to them like NIS, Health or any other of the charges, all other contractors would have to pay locally hired workers,
Can the PM be right in his mind to permit this level of inept management ? is he loosing it ? Has he gone soft in the head ?
Based on the above and other actions of late I am convinced he has strayed away from good common sense and caring about anything or anyone.
Or maybe he has missed his appointments recently and needs some shock treatment quickly.
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Having been a part of the tragedy that Sunday, it has just annoyed me how people who were not there have so much to spout about what happened and what should have been done. No one expected that bus not to make it to the east coast and to be truthful it could have been anyone of us going there that could have been involved. I was on that bus and for some reason I got off at the last minute and got on the last bus to leave the Gymnasium. My friend got on in my place and we agreed to meet each other on the coast that did not happen. I knew intimately almost everyone on that bus and had some kind of interaction with them even the driver of the bus. So for holier than though people to just shoot off their mouths about things they don’t know because they heard it through the grapevine or read it in a newspaper that probably got it wrong anyway really bites me in the you know what. I can tell you that a number of people involved in that tagedy either directly from having been a victim or having ben a responder and indirectly from having been a relative or close friend of the victims have been affected in such a way that many persons have been changed. There are some persons who up to this point have not been able to talk about the events of that Sunday and for good reason it hurts. All the minutes of Silence, all the My condolences in the world can’t change what has happened. A little consideration however for the victims and by extentin those who have been affected directly and indirectly will go a long way to making the tragedy a little easier to bear and the healing to happen.
Thank you for sharing what must still be an emotional experience and express our deep condolences at the grief you must still be feeling at your loss.
You are correct that almost any Barbadian we come into contact has comfirmed some relationship to someone on the bus. It is a national tragedy and we are not sure it has been fully recognized as such.
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Hi everyone,this is the first time i am commenting on this tragedy,i was one of the first responders on that day(was on standby @ east coast) and spent 5 hours extricating and conforting many passengers on that bus.I myself had to received assistance mentally.My heart goes out to the families and relatives of those who passed away and also injured,someday i will write an article about that experience,I have been to countless accidents,fires and rescues but nothing could have prepared me for this thank you.
Thanks for being so brave, a true humanitarian service. Again Thank You