Comments on: Glendairy Prison To Go Under The Microscope http://bajan.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/national-geographicglendairy-prison-under-the-microscope/ bringing news and opinions to the people Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:34:14 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Gert-Jan http://bajan.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/national-geographicglendairy-prison-under-the-microscope/#comment-122441 Gert-Jan Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:31:37 +0000 http://bajan.wordpress.com/?p=7985#comment-122441 Zara, it is me again, I was not sure whether you could see my mail adress. Greetings, Gert-Jan. My mail adress is: ponty-curee@live.nl Zara, it is me again, I was not sure whether you could see my mail adress. Greetings, Gert-Jan. My mail adress is: ponty-curee@live.nl

]]> By: Gert-Jan http://bajan.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/national-geographicglendairy-prison-under-the-microscope/#comment-122440 Gert-Jan Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:30:34 +0000 http://bajan.wordpress.com/?p=7985#comment-122440 Dear Zara, Greetings here from the Netherlands. How are you? Tonight I watched the Nat.G. show "locked up abroad". I was very touched by it. Very touched. I am so proud of you, so proud that you came through all of this. Please drop me a line, I would love to hear more about you and your story. Dear Zara,
Greetings here from the Netherlands.
How are you?
Tonight I watched the Nat.G. show “locked up abroad”.
I was very touched by it. Very touched.
I am so proud of you, so proud that you came through all of this.
Please drop me a line, I would love to hear more about you and your story.

]]> By: neil http://bajan.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/national-geographicglendairy-prison-under-the-microscope/#comment-118187 neil Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:11:52 +0000 http://bajan.wordpress.com/?p=7985#comment-118187 can anyone tell me how many children Zara had in prison me and my wife watched the tv show and we are sure it was just one but her mate reckons Zara had two kids in pirson ? can anyone tell me how many children Zara had in prison me and my wife watched the tv show and we are sure it was just one but her mate reckons Zara had two kids in pirson ?

]]> By: GC http://bajan.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/national-geographicglendairy-prison-under-the-microscope/#comment-116998 GC Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:27:25 +0000 http://bajan.wordpress.com/?p=7985#comment-116998 Hi Zara, I'm from Asia and I just watched the episode and was moved by your strength and determination to reunite with your boys. Five years is a long time. Take care. Hi Zara, I’m from Asia and I just watched the episode and was moved by your strength and determination to reunite with your boys. Five years is a long time. Take care.

]]> By: Kerr http://bajan.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/national-geographicglendairy-prison-under-the-microscope/#comment-114710 Kerr Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:50:38 +0000 http://bajan.wordpress.com/?p=7985#comment-114710 how much did you get paid for making the programme? how much did you get paid for making the programme?

]]> By: Nancy http://bajan.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/national-geographicglendairy-prison-under-the-microscope/#comment-111489 Nancy Sat, 26 Sep 2009 05:37:19 +0000 http://bajan.wordpress.com/?p=7985#comment-111489 Att: Zara The book you referred to on the Facebook page entitled "The Zara Whittaker Story " is being sold on Amazon.com and many other places as well. If you did NOT participate in the publication of this book and it is "total fabrication & lies" you can certainly go after the publishers. You know the Author... Terrence Donaldson. The first page of the book (as seen on Amazon.Com) reads... "Nightmare in Barbados" by Zara Whittacker..... assisted by Terrance Donaldson. I have included the link for you.. http://www.amazon.com/Zara-Whittaker-Story-terence-donaldson/dp/1409280403 Att: Zara
The book you referred to on the Facebook page entitled “The Zara Whittaker Story ” is being sold on Amazon.com and many other places as well. If you did NOT participate in the publication of this book and it is “total fabrication & lies” you can certainly go after the publishers. You know the Author… Terrence Donaldson.
The first page of the book (as seen on Amazon.Com) reads…
“Nightmare in Barbados” by Zara Whittacker….. assisted by Terrance Donaldson.
I have included the link for you..
http://www.amazon.com/Zara-Whittaker-Story-terence-donaldson/dp/1409280403

]]> By: Christopher Halsall http://bajan.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/national-geographicglendairy-prison-under-the-microscope/#comment-111407 Christopher Halsall Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:48:09 +0000 http://bajan.wordpress.com/?p=7985#comment-111407 @Nancy: "Judy: I am not sure if everyone here wants to hear the details of what happened with Jeannie & I in 1972 I'm also not sure if everyone here wants to hear the details. But I personally (and I suspect many others) would definitely like to. Please share what you know. Kindest regards. @Nancy: “Judy: I am not sure if everyone here wants to hear the details of what happened with Jeannie & I in 1972

I’m also not sure if everyone here wants to hear the details.

But I personally (and I suspect many others) would definitely like to.

Please share what you know.

Kindest regards.

]]> By: Nancy http://bajan.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/national-geographicglendairy-prison-under-the-microscope/#comment-111406 Nancy Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:34:31 +0000 http://bajan.wordpress.com/?p=7985#comment-111406 Judy: I am not sure if everyone here wants to hear the details of what happened with Jeannie & I in 1972... National Geo's report was on more "current" state of foreign prisons. In short summation, I was eventually found not to be guilty and my girlfriend was found guilty and sentenced to a term in Gelndairy prison. My stay was but for a few months before we went before the Magistrate together. The conditions in Glendairy Prison in 1972 were fearful for anyone/everyone. Keep in mind National Geo didn't do an expose of what it was like some 30+ years ago.... to me it appeared the prison when Zara was there was improved greatly. ... sad to say... Judy: I am not sure if everyone here wants to hear the details of what happened with Jeannie & I in 1972…
National Geo’s report was on more “current” state of foreign prisons.
In short summation, I was eventually found not to be guilty and my girlfriend was found guilty and sentenced to a term in Gelndairy prison. My stay was but for a few months before we went before the Magistrate together. The conditions in Glendairy Prison in 1972 were fearful for anyone/everyone. Keep in mind National Geo didn’t do an expose of what it was like some 30+ years ago…. to me it appeared the prison when Zara was there was improved greatly. … sad to say…

]]> By: Judy http://bajan.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/national-geographicglendairy-prison-under-the-microscope/#comment-111286 Judy Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:01:04 +0000 http://bajan.wordpress.com/?p=7985#comment-111286 What were you afraid of? I would have been 13 yrs in 1972 and I am a white, seventh generation Bajan. What were you accused of? How long were you in Glendairy? What were you afraid of? I would have been 13 yrs in 1972 and I am a white, seventh generation Bajan. What were you accused of? How long were you in Glendairy?

]]> By: Nancy http://bajan.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/national-geographicglendairy-prison-under-the-microscope/#comment-111283 Nancy Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:37:44 +0000 http://bajan.wordpress.com/?p=7985#comment-111283 I was 16 and my girlfriend was 18... they discussed having ME moved but they never did... I think they just decided it was better to keep the 2 of us together @ Glendairy Prison... both of us Canadians, blue eyed blondes....so we weren't hard to find at any time... I wouldn't want to have been seperated from her ... we would sing to each other at night when we were most afraid... until one of us would eventually drift off, of course we were separted by the cell walls but we felt less alone somehow... I was 16 and my girlfriend was 18… they discussed having ME moved but they never did… I think they just decided it was better to keep the 2 of us together @ Glendairy Prison… both of us Canadians, blue eyed blondes….so we weren’t hard to find at any time… I wouldn’t want to have been seperated from her … we would sing to each other at night when we were most afraid… until one of us would eventually drift off, of course we were separted by the cell walls but we felt less alone somehow…

]]> By: Judy http://bajan.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/national-geographicglendairy-prison-under-the-microscope/#comment-111280 Judy Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:26:28 +0000 http://bajan.wordpress.com/?p=7985#comment-111280 Were you a Bajan? I never knew you could be in Glendairy at that young an age. I thought it would be at the female equivalent of Dods. Were you a Bajan? I never knew you could be in Glendairy at that young an age. I thought it would be at the female equivalent of Dods.

]]> By: Nancy http://bajan.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/national-geographicglendairy-prison-under-the-microscope/#comment-111276 Nancy Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:58:58 +0000 http://bajan.wordpress.com/?p=7985#comment-111276 I found the Facebook page referred to in earlier notes. Reading all the articles and seeing all the photos in associated articles and the TV Documentary was a bit overwhelming. Was in Glendairy Prison 1972 when I was 16 years old. All these years later I can still remember the smells, the sounds.... and most of all the fear. Take Care all of you !! You are in my thoughts.... I found the Facebook page referred to in earlier notes. Reading all the articles and seeing all the photos in associated articles and the TV Documentary was a bit overwhelming. Was in Glendairy Prison 1972 when I was 16 years old. All these years later I can still remember the smells, the sounds…. and most of all the fear. Take Care all of you !! You are in my thoughts….

]]> By: ro http://bajan.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/national-geographicglendairy-prison-under-the-microscope/#comment-98438 ro Mon, 03 Aug 2009 01:54:25 +0000 http://bajan.wordpress.com/?p=7985#comment-98438 what happened to maggie? congrats on being reunited with your boys and God bless your mum. what happened to maggie?
congrats on being reunited with your boys and God bless your mum.

]]> By: queenam http://bajan.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/national-geographicglendairy-prison-under-the-microscope/#comment-97054 queenam Mon, 27 Jul 2009 02:23:51 +0000 http://bajan.wordpress.com/?p=7985#comment-97054 The story was great but i did not like some of the portrayals of Barbados. QEH was called I think, st. michael general hospital and was a red brick building. the magistrate's court too was laughable. As highly developed as Barbados is, some countries still seem hell-bent on wanting others to believe that our development can not be compared to theirs. In watching the story, it seems that Zara was caught because Customs had been observing the older lady all along. She had told Zara that she had brought drugs from Barbados 12 times before. however, I like the fact that zara was reunited with her sons. she was very young and naive. i hope she does not let that deter her from visiting Barbados as a tourist some time in the future. The story was great but i did not like some of the portrayals of Barbados. QEH was called I think, st. michael general hospital and was a red brick building. the magistrate’s court too was laughable. As highly developed as Barbados is, some countries still seem hell-bent on wanting others to believe that our development can not be compared to theirs.

In watching the story, it seems that Zara was caught because Customs had been observing the older lady all along. She had told Zara that she had brought drugs from Barbados 12 times before. however, I like the fact that zara was reunited with her sons. she was very young and naive. i hope she does not let that deter her from visiting Barbados as a tourist some time in the future.

]]> By: kingman13 http://bajan.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/national-geographicglendairy-prison-under-the-microscope/#comment-97047 kingman13 Mon, 27 Jul 2009 01:16:43 +0000 http://bajan.wordpress.com/?p=7985#comment-97047 did the other woman went to jail with u zara did the other woman went to jail with u
zara

]]> By: kingman13 http://bajan.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/national-geographicglendairy-prison-under-the-microscope/#comment-97045 kingman13 Mon, 27 Jul 2009 01:13:07 +0000 http://bajan.wordpress.com/?p=7985#comment-97045 wait barbados had a prison who glendairy i thought dat bun down so where de other priosn wait barbados had a prison who glendairy i thought dat bun down so where de other priosn

]]> By: Georgie Porgie http://bajan.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/national-geographicglendairy-prison-under-the-microscope/#comment-96659 Georgie Porgie Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:32:07 +0000 http://bajan.wordpress.com/?p=7985#comment-96659 Must agree with your additional observations Themis. Producers of the show could easily have got these things correct. As though they seemed to project as twits. I dont particularly care about the story or two stupid English women who tried to smuggle drugs out of Barbados. But I do care about Barbados being portrayed acurately. Must agree with your additional observations Themis.

Producers of the show could easily have got these things correct.

As though they seemed to project as twits.

I dont particularly care about the story or two stupid English women who tried to smuggle drugs out of Barbados.

But I do care about Barbados being portrayed acurately.

]]> By: Themis http://bajan.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/national-geographicglendairy-prison-under-the-microscope/#comment-96624 Themis Fri, 24 Jul 2009 01:19:05 +0000 http://bajan.wordpress.com/?p=7985#comment-96624 I can corroborate that, GP. I found that the message of the show got through...avoid being a mule. But the package was laughable at times...the laughter of the Customs officer when the drugs were discovered, the presence of the male policeman during the strip search, the insistence on "what do you have to declare", the removal of the bags without reason... I can corroborate that, GP. I found that the message of the show got through…avoid being a mule. But the package was laughable at times…the laughter of the Customs officer when the drugs were discovered, the presence of the male policeman during the strip search, the insistence on “what do you have to declare”, the removal of the bags without reason…

]]> By: Georgie Porgie http://bajan.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/national-geographicglendairy-prison-under-the-microscope/#comment-96615 Georgie Porgie Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:03:18 +0000 http://bajan.wordpress.com/?p=7985#comment-96615 The other ridiculous thing about the show was the scene with the sentencing in what one presumes to be a magistrates court Having given evidence in every court in Barbados, I can assure you that that "court room scene " was very bogus and not representative of any court in Barbados. The other ridiculous thing about the show was the scene with the sentencing in what one presumes to be a magistrates court

Having given evidence in every court in Barbados, I can assure you that that “court room scene ” was very bogus and not representative of any court in Barbados.

]]> By: Carson C. Cadogan http://bajan.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/national-geographicglendairy-prison-under-the-microscope/#comment-96577 Carson C. Cadogan Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:59:08 +0000 http://bajan.wordpress.com/?p=7985#comment-96577 It was a tip off. It was a tip off.

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