Submitted by Old Onions Bag
David Estwick, Minister of Agriculture
Yes Barbados, it’s all we really have and cancould be the way forward. That is if we act NOW. The Food index as predicted, rose last week. We are continually being told of a corn shortage in the future. Corn is a feed all, both people and animals. Why don’t we see stockpiling of the seed and a renewed revolutionize planting thrust in progress around the country side ? Why Why ?
We have sweet potatoes and yams. I would hope some stockpiling is going on now in times of plenty. Is this not what taking advantage of fore-knowledge is all about ? “To be fore-warned is to be fore armed.”
By now with all these warnings (for about eight months now) we are not seeing the Ministry of Agriculture engaged in the necessary action…we should be seeing purchasing of tractors and ploughing equipment (stockpiling of spares) now they are still relatively cheap. If we are wrong.. Mr. Estwick should be advising us what is being done. The silence from him and others is deafening.
Why are we waiting for the GREAT SHORTAGE to start before we act? Why? Is it that we don’t believe there will be a shortage? Predictive indicators are showing and correctly …a time of shortage is coming and not very far away. Wake up Barbados…ACT NOW ! We should be planting. Agriculture is all we have and can be our saviour.
If I wanted to find out about the history of land use in Barbados how would I go about that?
Bajans are good and a lot of talk but facts speaks for their self, it would be interested to see how much land has been taking out of agricultural use over the years in relation to population growth, And the change in size of plots being sold.
Is there some where we could find this information without making 10000 phone calls?
@readydone
The Town Planning Department is a good place to start.
All I can today is that if the whole island went organic…prices would not be more for organic….it would be natural to have organic. Michael, the organic farmer from St. Lucy, saves money by not having to use pesticides and he has beautiful produce…and it is no more expensive than what others are selling…..the organic guys can be found at Cheapside Market (under the stairs going to the Food Court – great place to eat by the way…Miss Hariette is pure yum! when it comes to her food) and Michael is at Holders Market every Sunday…..and by the way….if you would like to know a little strange stuff about organic, visit this site. Ministry of Agriculture and Ministry of Health…watch this! Very, very interesting…..
http://wakeup-world.com/2012/01/19/kirlian-photography-demonstrates-organic-uncooked-food-have-stronger-energy-fields/
Much of the formerly productive lands which are now in ” bush”, are occasionally weeded , using a D8 Caterpillar bulldozer. Along with the trees removed , goes a considerable amount of earth to the land fill or wherever, pretty soon all that will be left is the rock base. Objective achieved.
BTW. Ras Jahaziel..Mrs Rock of the Rocklyn Bus Company fame, now deceased, owned and left a chain of plantations in the St Joseph/St Andrew area, most of which are now in grass or bush. Some years ago, I was travelling in the Cambridge St Joseph area, and noticed loads of harvested canes lying in the field approaching a state of decay, and when I enquired what had happened, I was informed that the plantation had changed ownership, and those workers who previously had worked faithfully for the traditional plantation owner, now did not want to work for the man from St Philip. And herein lies one of our problems,and not only in agriculture.
So wait Buggy …you would work for anybody and evabody….even if dey treat like a dog ?
RE:
“Perhaps the clarification needed is that Barbadians own more titles to land which is separate to owning large tracts of land.”
Within that I see something called UNRESOLVED BONDAGE.
It is unresolved bondage because when a people’s existence is confined to the small space of A HOUSE SPOT IN A TENANTRY they are condemned to remain in THE SAME POOL OF CAPTIVE LABOR as their foreparents.
Even if the people wear COLLARS AND TIES that are made of cloth instead of COLLARS AND TIES that are made of metal they are still a part of that exploitable resource called CAPTIVE LABOR.
Do you know that there was a time when we were less DOMESTICATED when we would have had a problem with that?
In case anybody is wondering this is VERY MUCH a part of that topic called AGRICULTURE.
old onion bags | February 23, 2012 at 4:39 PM |
So wait Buggy …you would work for anybody and evabody….even if dey treat like a dog ?
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Sometimes we do not even give our own the chance to treat us anywhere near the dog that the old plantation owners treated us like.
@RJ
Within that I see something called UNRESOLVED BONDAGE.
It is unresolved bondage because when a people’s existence is confined to the small space of A HOUSE SPOT IN A TENANTRY they are condemned to remain in THE SAME POOL OF CAPTIVE LABOR as their foreparents.
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UNRESOLVED BONDAGE also comes in the form of a mental house spot .
PLEASE OPEN YOU EYES TO SEE THE IMPLICATIONS OF CAPTIVE LABOR
ACCESS TO LAND IS A GOD GIVEN RIGHT that has been taken away by the slave master.
Agriculture…IT’S ALL WE REALLY HAVE??????
WHICH WE?
Is this the voice of THE LAND LORDS?
Is this the voice of THE LABORERS?
Which entity in the society can truly refer to AGRICULTURE as something that WE really have?
Can you fully discuss AGRICULTURE without discussing LAND, HISTORY, AND CULTURE?????
SEE
http://www.rastafarivisions.com/features/questions
Just another little push to reality:
First I want to say that if you look at the post on DECRIMINALIZATION OF HERB and this post on Agriculture there is a connection.
Now I just saw this piece below in The Nation, and it too is connected. SEE THE CUT AND PASTE BELOW.
Perhaps the moderator can start a new thread with this info below that it can be fully discussed. IT NEEDS TO BE, because IT IS ABOUT THE FUTURE OF YOUR CHILDREN.
This is something that requires you as a nation to stand down The Queen and let her know that you are not against homosexuals personally, BUT YOU ARE AGAINST INSTITUTIONALIZING HOMOSEXUALITY IN YOUR CULTURE.
ANYBODY WHO KEEPS SILENT ON THIS ISSUE IS GUILTY OF COLLABORATION.
STAND UP AND IDENTIFY WITH HAMMY ON THIS ISSUE and do not let him stand alone. Else your silence will tell us where you stand.
Protest over Royal visit
printshare5 comments Hamilton Lashley (FP)
By Dawne Parris | Fri, February 24, 2012 – 12:10 AM
BARBADOS ROLLED OUT THE RED CARPET for the Earl and Countess of Wessex yesterday, but not without protest.
Government MP Hamilton Lashley boycotted events organized for the Royal couple’s state visit, the first being the Joint Sitting of Parliament, to take a stand against Britain over its controversial Air Passenger Duty (APD) and its threat to suspend aid to countries that ban homosexuality.
Lashley told the WEEKEND NATION in a telephone interview shortly after the end of the sitting that his absence was intended “to let the British Government know that as a Member of Parliament of Barbados I am very angry at the position that they’re taking against us and other small island states, as well as other African countries”.
“Some Barbadians, particularly those in my age group that grew up like me, stupid under the Union Jack, are not going to like my actions and they’re probably going to condemn me but I have to live with myself and who I am as a Black person. Rather than just sitting down and being a recipient of the threats and the impositions by the British Prime Minister, I’ve decided that Hamilton Lashley is going to take a stand,” he said.
Read the full story in today’s WEEKEND NATION.
TO DAVID
As suggested above what about making a new topic on this issue?
IS THIS A NON-ISSUE OR IS IT AN ISSUE THAT SHOULD BE DISCUSSED?
SEE:
President Mugabe Tells British Prime Minister ‘To Hell With You’ Over Gay Rights
February 26, 2012 | Filed under: Africa,Featured | Posted by: Editorial_Staff
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President Mugabe during his birthday celebrations
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe on Saturday told British Prime Minister David Cameron “to hell with you” over his calls to respect gay rights.
“Nature is nature. It has created male and female,” Mugabe told thousands of supporters at his 88th birthday celebration at a stadium in the eastern border town of Mutare.
“You David Cameron, are you suggesting that you don’t know that or is it some kind of insanity or part of the culture of Europeans.
“In their newspapers, that’s one of my sins. That I called (gays) worse than pigs and dogs because pigs know there are males and females. It’s even in the Bible that you create through the system of marrying.
“That’s how we were born, so we reject that outright and say to hell with you. I won’t even call him a dog because my own dog will complain and say, but what have I done.”
Cameron said at the Commonwealth summit last year that countries receiving British aid should respect human rights, including gay rights.
The issue has re-emerged as Zimbabwe drafts a new constitution, with debate on whether to follow neighbouring South Africa’s model and include gay rights in the charter.
Mugabe urged youths to reject any provision for gay rights in the new charter.
“We won’t accept that,” he said. “There are other countries who have accepted that and put it in their constitutions.”
“Please, young men and women, you don’t have the freedom for men to marry men and women to marry women. You have the freedom for men to marry women. That’s God’s freedom. That’s what created you and me.”
Mugabe has for decades have stood firm against the white homosexual agenda.
His latest remarks on the non-issue came as UN Secretary General and European puppet Ban Ki-moon repeated his demand that African countries respect gay rights, during a visit to neighbouring Zambia.
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@Ras
What specifically would you like raised in a new blog? The issue of Barbados operating under a constitutional monarch?
NO MAN. That can be discussed some time later, but what I am talkiing about is the fact that THE SAME COLONIAL POWERS that invaded Africa and put Black people in slavery and took away their lands, and their language, and their names, and their culture and impverished them are now trying to go further in IMPOSING THEIR GRECO-ROMAN WORLD VIEW ON AFRICANS.
See what Muguabe is saying. ALL AFRICAN COUNTRIES PLUS THE CARIBBEAN, that means Black people throughout the world are being PRESSURED to follow the MAN MARRYING MAN CULTURE.
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR THE FUTURE OF YOUR CHILDREN that we always talk like we are so concerned about?
This is a step by step thing. Your children will soon be taught that if boys feel like girls there is something normal with that, and if they feel that they should come to school in dresses, there is something normal with that.
Cant you all see how THE WHORE OF BABYLON is trying to make alll nations drunk with her abominations?
I am thinking that none of us can afford to keep silent.
The church and everybody should be speaking out.
But this is tied in to what we were talking about earlier: CAPTIVE LABOR.
All of those collared and tied men that laid out the red carpet are showing you how COLLARED AND TIED they are.
They have lost their manhood and cannot STAND UPRIGHT and let the Greco-Romans know that we as Africans have a different world view.
If there must be silence about this issue then forget about talking about HOW THE YOUTHS GET SO.
How come nobody is standing up and strengthening Hammy on this issue?
Is it as he said because of being STUPID UNDER THE UNION JACK where the white man has to be your master continually?
So this should be the discussion. HAVE BAJAN SPINES TURNED TO JELLY, so that they can continue to bend you, shape you, and rearange you in THEIR IMAGE?
Why is everybody loosing their voice and clearing their throats now that it is time to speak up?
@Ras Jahaziel | February 27, 2012 at 5:41 PM |
“So this should be the discussion. HAVE BAJAN SPINES TURNED TO JELLY, so that they can continue to bend you, shape you, and rearange you in THEIR IMAGE?”
The die has already been cast! These people have already been moulded in the image as determined by their masters. Thanks to religion and a Victorian-age education system. Just look at those “educted’ black men attending the functions recently held for the British royals. All straight jacketed in ill-fitting cloth and tie inappropriate for a Tropical climate and looking most uncomfortable. Don’t expect to see in your lifetime any change to Bim becoming a republic with any severed ties to the British Monarchy. That talk of republican status soon is all hot air and neigh impractical.
@ Cornel Buggys
Sometimes we do not even give our own the chance to treat us anywhere near the dog that the old plantation owners treated Cornal Buggy
Buggys boy sometime we own does treat we worse. How a man we put to represent D people cud …do them policy \pensioners so ? Look when you go work for a company after 2 year they does take out pension (not your choice of investing)and lodge it wid a company..think it is fair a PM could set up plans to help thief it…ya own breds