That Anonymous post above is mine. (Just in case the pedantic style wasn’t obvious…)

But might I please present the concept of the Quantum Uncertainty Field.

This was discovered by some very bright people some time ago. (QED, et al.) It can be argued that the unknowable “Knowledge Membrane” (or “Knowledge Space”) can actually be quite large.

Or, perhaps put another way, there are some things which can simply *not* be known.

The phenomenon of anonymous communications (speaking from personal experience from the BBS days in the mid 80s on) brings this truism up to the tangible level of our very world views.

Or, in the “high-bandwidth”: Most of what you “hear” is probably lies.

Deal with it. Manage.

Thanks, you are too nice!

Pat

I was there at the same time as Michael Fitzwilliam and the other guy. As for Colin Williams, he and I were in articles together. Great guy.

I did leave Barbados about 40 years ago, but I lived there again between 1993 and 2001. I expect that if I ever retire, then like most Bajans, it will be in Barbados. Like you I have lived all over. Only way to go.

Please feel free to speak for me any time you want. I’ve really enjoyed it. And you certainly got the signs right. I was very impressed. I will e-mail sis and ask her to give you my e-mail and phone number.

Best,

I

It is a small world. I cant help laughing.

We called all of you by your last names. Like Fitzwilliam, Serroa (who I found arrogant and rude) Haynes, etc., but I never linked you. Were you there when he (serroa) reported me to the Registrar because he wasted time downstairs and wanted to browbeat me to take his docouments moments to three o’clock? Just because I asked them to line up!

How was I to know who was first in line with no line? hahaha! At the end of the day they all had to line up. This was after I dealt with W.O.O Haynes and Rochester from Nova Scotia.

Did you realize that the two guys behind me used to give me hell because I made more than they? We got extra for our “A” levels then and they did not have any. lol

I may be home in February next year. I will be in Jamaica for Christmas and an aunt who lives states side, whom I have not seen for a while may be going down. I will see.

I had problems at Schirpol in 1986, with the Israelis. I had business with ESA at Nordydk (?) and in the departure lounge one of the dogs fell for me. lol. But it was quickly resolved. I think they smelled the herring I was smuggling in my hand bag.

I travelled quite a bit with my jobs. I have had many as I was more of a ‘generalist’ and not a specialist. I was in London in 1996 meeting with DTI and at Ashton in the same year. But most of my business travels were in the USA.

I could have worked on APEC, but I was getting tired and stressed and was not looking forward to those long flights! Now I am retired.

I promise I will not speak for you again. I also understand why you cannot talk. I am a good reader and I picked up where you do go to Bim and was there recently. Some people when they read, see only what they want to see.

You do have a good memory. I did leave home 40 years ago. I suppose you must have left at around the same time.

It was nice meeting you again. I miss Colin Williams. He was one hell of a gentleman. Had his eyes on me ‘methinks’!

Looking forward to talking to you in the future. I will give your sister a call when I go home. Or, I may even call her from here.

Keep good. Chin Up.

All the best,

Pat.

As for making a comment, I sometimes do. Most recently, I felt that I could make a contribution to the travel agent issue. Travel (and by extension, passports) is a way of life in my profession. It has nothing to do with issues before the courts, which I cannot discuss, so I feel I have the right to blog on them. I was also somewhat surprised to discover that I had managed to slip in and out of Barbados undetected on so many occasions. Like you, I don’t do anonymous – well, neither does Anonymous, not very well anyway.

I was equally surprised that any ex patriot Bajan, with family in Barbados, was required to submit a schedule of their visits to Barbados and reasons for same.

There was a time that I held three passports and I used them like you. I recall that one Saturday back in 1992 I was asked to start filming on a theatrical ad for Inter Continental Hotels and would leave on location the following Tuesday – for Cairo, then Tokyo, then Sydney,next Aukland and an overnight flight to Argentina (where memories of the Falklands War were still green) and then on to Rio and from Rio to Paris, Amsetrdam and then back across the pond to Washington, ending up some weeks later with a severe case of jet lag and exhaustion in London.

At the time, we needed visas for many of the locations – so my UK passport was sent to the Japanese, my Barbados passport to the Ozzies and my Canadian passport to the South Americans. Some one asked me why I would send the Barbados passport to the Ozzies as it was unlikely they would ever have heard of Barbados. I pointed out that this was not true, as we were in the habit of administering a beating to them at cricket at least once a year – and by the way, had the idiot never heard of Garfield Sobers.

But that was when I was acting. These days I don’t do that any longer and in my field (businessman – with the emphasis on producing classical music events) I am unlikely to be faced with such stringent deadlines. So, I have only one passport and it contains details of my place of birth (Barbados) and my British patrial and citizenship status and, along with my Canadian Citizenship Card, I can go anywhere in the World. It also saves me quite a bit of money in passport renewal fees.

Actually, it is better that way because, also in 1992, I did a guest spot in a American CBS Network series that was shot in Eilat in Israel and we travelled from London to Israel on El Al. Even then, the security restrictions before you could board the plane makes the post 9/11 precaustions look weak. What really disturbed Israeli security people was finding my three passports during their search and the only thing I had going for me was that they were all in the same name – seems that had I been a spy, they would have been in different names.

It’s been great to talk to you, Pat. It would be fantastic to meet up after these 40 years again some time. When next you are in Bim, if you give my sister a call (she is the world-famous Deane that my counsins at Keltruth have written about) she will give you my e-mail address.

Bet wishes,

Iain

I wonder why you responded. I was having such fun speaking for you.

Funny, I have multiple passports. Depending on where I am going I decide which one or two to travel with. For instance, on a Bajan passport you dont need a visa for Egypt, while for Tanzania you pay only $25 for a visa. On my other passports, I would pay more, up to $100 for a visa. However, while travelling in some countries I always use a “first world” passport. Or, I use one to get in and another to come out.

But is it common for people to hold conversations with themselves?

Anon 3 is clearly another Iain Deane alias.

So how many times in the past 12 months have you actually visited your 90 year old frail father?

I am satisfied that it is not in any way disrespectful to those Courts for me to apprise my fellow readers of Barbados Underground (since the issue has been raised and does not relate to or impact on any pending or determined litigation) as to the amount of passports that I may or may not have and what citizenships I hold. I have also suggested the compelling reasons that make frequent trips by me to Barbados not only a necessity, but a great pleasure and I would also add that I have a sister, a nephew and great nephew who are resident in Barbados and for whom I have tremendous affection.

That is all I have to say. That is all I intend to say.

Yes, Iain, you are the executor. Mrs. Knox is a beneficiary who has not received what was willed to her by her brother.

Iain Deane

I suspect Iain has three passports – Canadian, British and Barbadian. So what else is new? My parents had the same three.

I also say, as long as I have a valid passport, money in my pocket and is not wanted by Interpol, I can go anywhere and it does not necessarily mean Bim.

He visits Barbados and I suspect he was there earlier this year, in May maybe?

Iain Deane got musee 3 or 4 passports an always goin let you know bout dem an dat he don have to live anywhey bout hey.

Iain Deane would never waste he time worrying bout Barbados.

I doubt he does even come back.

Thanks for the info. I thought Colin was Ian’s Dad.

Dont worry about who they think you are. Afterall, they said I was ‘you (BWWR)’, then they said I was BFP, then there was no way I could be a woman, that I had to be a man. So, what else is new.

I wonder why “No Name” and “Waterboy” dont go over to BFP and ask them to lay off the name calling, the aspersions, the sensationalized rants and other denigrations they are throwing out at Barbados’ institutions and populace? What is the problem with “Waterboy” and “No Name”? I will tell you, if they did, it would not see the light of day on BFP.

@David

You are right, one does have sympathy for the old lady. If only for the fact that she is not as educated as we are. However, someone or some people are engouraging her to go on with these litigations. It is true she made some mis-steps but, imho, I blame her children for not advising her and helping her out. A woman who had finished school by 17 is not as educated as those young university grads she produced. Now this Allard, the Great White, is swallowing her whole for his own ends.

If you look at the saga dispassionately, (notwithstanding the fact that Classic and Ian did nothing illegal) it really is a pity if she loses it all.

but I am not going to Hell that easy.

I’ll be around.