Submitted by BU’s most famous Anonymous family member
Recent developments across the globe and here home in Barbados have made it necessary for one to ask the question:
Has the central role of the trade unions in Barbados changed ? and; Who is really looking out for the basic rights of the workers?
News coming out of Britain and the United states have revealed a growing protectionist mode being adopted by the recently elected Barack Obama and Gordon Brown of the USA and Britain. In Britain the phrase British jobs for British workers has been uttered by British Prime Minister Brown first at his party convention, and then repeated again and again in public.
While in the USA President Obama is openly pushing a Buy American First slogan with his new stimulus plan. America’s money he says must be used to create American jobs. Interestingly both responses go against signed declarations by the respective countries; in the case of the U.K, – the EU Treaty of Freedom of Movement of Labour, and the WTO agreements on Globalisation and open markets of which the USA is a signatory. In both of these countries the workers have had the strong and public support of their trade unions and national strikes are now on the cards in Britain.
In Jamaica we see a similar step being taken by the union there – a strong challenge to government on the matter of immigrant labour,similarly in St Lucia with the government there taking the lead,and in Trinidad where their Construction group cried out against foreign companies getting contracts (namely the Chinese) and using foreign workers.
The world as we once knew it is changing and all over the Globe,leaders are shaking off the mantle of Globalisation and wrapping themselves in the blanket of Protectionism – and all that protectionism represents. Here in Barbados we are confronted with an unusual scenario however.
We have the National Union of Public Workers (NUPW) borrowing money from China and as a Quid Pro Quo sacrificing Bajan jobs to the Chinese workers. I repeat this is a workers union albeit -representing public sector workers.
Next we have the most remarkable comments by the leadership of the Barbados Workers Union that Bajans who complain about the large influx of Guyanese workers here – whether legal or illegal – are engaging in ‘Guyanese bashing’ – and should cease and desist.
All the while the unemployment figures for Barbadian workers continue to climb,and the Guyanese workers continue to be employed. Chinese workers continue to be employed by the Four Seasons Resort and workers from all across the Caribbean,Jamaica,Trinidad,St Vincent and of course Guyana continue to pour in to this little tiny island.
Where is the outrage by the Unions?
Is the reward of the silence through the social partnership the reward of a Knighthood? Is the prime minster of Barbados also guilty of just ’empty rhetoric?’ The kindling has been laid, the kerosene has been poured and the match is about to be struck; Tell me,who is courageous enough to with hold the hand of the striker of the match?
Who is courageous enough to forget leaving a legacy for themselves,and to fight on behalf of their own people?
The answer my friend, is blowing in the wind,the answer is blowing in the wind.
Barbados Underground 
Even before the financial meltdown in the USA which has precipitated a global crisis the unions in Barbados were being placed under pressure by employers. The Royal Shop/Sandy Lane case which lingers on is a good example. Our memory is failing but wasn’t there a case on the Harbour Road where a company refused to heed the union as well despite the shouting and braying by Sir Roy and Morris on the outside?
The most recent case is LIME which is sending home Barbadians despite being LIME’s most profitable country. Couldn’t LIME executives have sacrifices pay cuts/freezes etc instead of sending home Bajans and choosing instead to open contact centres in countries have a poor infrastructure?
We have been promised an improvement in service in two months but who is holding their breath.
Whither the union indeed!
Wait sacrifice pay cuts and freezes by the big shots? I heard that Donald and the boys getting a big pay day to cut staff. Obama can holla buy American all he likes. Remember the Buy Bajan charade? Trinidadian products still outsold Bajan products because they were cheaper. When America can produce products at a competitive price to the Chinese then he can talk but until then they gonna buy by price.
Remember when Sinckler was minister of foreign affairs last year and had to complete the negotiations in Geneva,how he reported that the international reps were upset with barbados for their’buy bajan first’ slogan.
Now Obama is saying the same thing – buy american first;american money to be used for creating american jobs.
Have we given any thought to the imminent retirement of Messrs Morris and Trotman? These men we suspect can’t go on forever. So far we have not been witnessing any talent to inspire us that the trade union movement (BWU) is on good grazing. if we are questioning their role now heavens forbid…
Listen, if you send SIR Roy a letter and you do not address with SIR he does not answer you ha ha ha ha ha! What does that tell you about the man hmmmmmm!
Well I am not one be quick to bash the trade union movement…at least there is someone putting up a fight on our behalf…or at least trying to. I know for a fact that these persons operating in the tade union movement have made great personal and professional sacrifices for the “cause”.. However, as a young person entering into this world of work, I am begining to loose faith, I am begining to ask myself some serious questions about the strength of Union and I wonder who they represent. Are they really representing the will and the best interest of the workers? Are they really fighting the fight as they should or are they pretending to fight?
Royal Shop, Sandy Lane and now Lime. Who’s next? Is the Union loosing power because of this Social Partnership that they try so hard to defend.
This now seemingly toothless tiger seems to be dying faster than I would have anticipated.
David,
I think we have to re-think the kind of people we are as Bajans and I think we should develop a different culture for reacting to issues.
Why are we looking for any one person or entity to dump blame on? Today’s Barbadians are certainly not what they were in years before; many are not willing to stand up for their rights against established entities. We were a much more militant people in past times.
It is one thing to call on the Trade Union but all Barbados need to understand that when an institution such as the trade union asks for support, we should all come out.
There are many issues which have complicated civil action. First, any union needs to be confident that when it calls a strike everybody is going to be willing to strike. The Unions would be foolhardy to call a strike if there is not full confidence that a strike will happen.
I think that workers who do not feel threatened or unwilling to lose their little pick and therefore not prepared to strike, are a threat to industrial relations and workers rights.
Let us talk about all those automarts that have workers slaving for them. The vast majority of those girls do not take home more than 200 dollars per week.
Furthermore, they have to work through bank holidays like Xmas and New Years, without the recommended extra pay. No inconvenience allowance for having to work through the nights. No hazard allowance for the potential threat of being robbed and even killed or harmed by the constant inhilation of gas.
These workers do not get any thanks. When the time comes and they are fired, the drama is no more than when a schoolboy unceremoniously gets sent to the headmaster. These workers have no rights and we allow this to continue under our noses.
Well, let’s see the effects of these girls not speaking up and not wanting to join the unions because of the threat to their jobs. One thing for sure, this type of environment is ripe for hiring both illegals and foreign workers. Check and see how many gas stations are gradually employing persons with foreign accents. You notice it? No! Right under our noses.
You see, so long as it is easy to get rid of these non-unionised workers, it is easy for these owners or operators to hire others.
Before his passing, I was working with Ricky Parris of the BWU to try to get these workers unionised, and I tell you, from their responses, it would be easier to create a sea in St. George.
ROK
Probably these girls cannot afford the few dollars of union dues that will be taken out of their meagre pay.
Anonymous
That is not it at all. They fear the threat that was given them the day they got the job; no unions or you fired.
@ROK
We hear you but more and more the union’s relevance in a modern world is being questioned. We prefer to think their role is being questioned. The representation of the sugar type worker is a thing of the past given the transformation of the society. The union membership is now comprised mainly and will continue to be so of the ‘collin tie’ member. The stewardship from the union must correspondingly transform.
David,
I will agree with you that sugar is no longer there but I am a bit puzzled about the ‘collin tie’ thing. The vast majority of workers in the BWU are surely not collar ‘n tie? Maybe you can say that about the NUPW but I would have my reservations about saying that about the BWU?
I think you may be referring to the image of the union and I would agree that we have different types of workers. The most important thing about any union is continuity or institutional memory. The move from sugar to other things may not necessarily drive change in the BWU leadership. The nature of the representation may not have changed.
My experience tells me that we still ave some hard-nosed capitalists who feel that workers are nothing, and resorting to the old sugar cane tactics is required. How do you deal with a Lime in today’s world when we develop this culture about not offending anybody. Suppose we did not have somebody who knows how to deal with these people despite the lack of militancy among workers?
Not that I don’t hear you, but it needs some good thinking through and you also need the experience of sitting down with some of these arrogant employers. No soft man will survive here at all.
ROK maybe you are missing that in the last decade the BWU especially has been able to penetrate the insurance and banking sectors with great success. The skilled or knowledge worker segment has been in the BWU strategy for some time now.
The Unions in Barbados require that their members be well educated about Trade Unionism, workers rights and OF COURSE -THE HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY BARBADOS, -especially as it relates to slavery and the treatment of black people during that period.
Our problems come from that period and our solutions must take into consideration what transpired during that time. Any attempt to solve problems in Barbados without taking into account the reference point of SLAVERY will fail. Racial discrimination in Barbados is still alive and well even though it could be disguised and camouflaged as something else.
FOR EXAMPLE, the structure of the civil service and the whole approach to workers rights by Employers in Barbados are deeply rooted in slavery.
I made a comment on CBC radio call in show with Andi Thornhill that (some) Employers in Barbados treat workers just like slaves. Andi indicated that people in the studio did not agree with me and he himself appeared not to agree with me. My statement was in reaction to a news story that a bajan sportsman was fired from his job because he went overseas to represent Barbados successfuly, I might add.
I would get little support in this matter for the simple reason that people dont know their History.
The whole situation with SPOUGE (which I shall spell SPOOGE) is a good example of what I am talking about. How can I make the link ?
The production of ART is about confidence in one’s self. One is confident that what one is doing has merit, has value-spirtual or otherwise. One is free to pursue one’s concepts and dreams through the expression of Art. When this pursuit is intercepted by a slave master that insists that work in the fields is the only pursuit in which you should engaged and that Music that you produce is devil music for example, you are left with self doubt.
When this is transposed to the period before independence and you are told that you have no culture, confidence is therefore undermined-you look elsewhere, you hate yourself, you copy others in dress (jacket and tie in a hot climate), in speech patterns, in music and the list can go on.
Undermining of the confidence of Black people was a large part of the strategies used to keep the Black man enslaved.
Blacks were told of their inferiority in many different ways and after emancipation this was forcibly enforced through many different avenues: the denial of education is a good example. The resulting educational structure of discrimination in education that has led to certain inequalties within the society continued the thread of discrimination and self doubt. A youngster because he did not pass for a certain school is made to feel inferior, infused with self doubt and his confidence undermined. Result he potentially becomes a problem in society.
Undermining of the self confidence of the Blacks was the main weapon used by the Slave Masters. Restoring the confidence of our people must be the strategy to move our people forward. Culture must be used as a tool of liberation: Spouge (Spooge) music can be a component of that tool. The TEACHING OF OUR HISTORY IS A MUST. Everyone including the Trade Unions will benefit from the awareness.
“I am begining to loose faith, I am begining to ask myself some serious questions about the strength of Union and I wonder who they represent. Are they really representing the will and the best interest of the workers? Are they really fighting the fight as they should or are they pretending to fight? ”
—Investigator —————————————————-The union is the members not the executive up there somewhere in a Building looking down on you reading your mind and solving your problems. You (the worker in general ) must get active.
How many persons attend annual general conferences ? How many persons bring resolutions ?
Some workers, maybe the majority have a mendicant attitude. Some of the females-(the majority) are afflicted by the Damsel-in distress-mentality and with the proliferation of women in the workplace some men have been influenced and weakened by this. The result is inertia, the fight seems to have gone out of the collective.
We need to breathe new life into people. The solution is to TEACH OUR HISTORY. People will be scared when they hear how Black people were treated and it will cause some concern but we have to get pass that. For example people would be shocked to learn that during Slavery that pregnant women were flogged by Masters who dug a hole in the ground , put the women face down on the ground with their bellies fitting into the hole and administering the whip. (Ouch !)
We cannot heal a sore by putting plaster on gangrene, we must clean out the pus , it will be smelly, it will be nasty but it will heal in time and of course it will leave a scar but it will live on with a new leash on life.
I expect some uninformed individual to come on and say that I am talking foolishness. I pity the fool !
@Asiba
I would agree that the teaching of black history is important, not only its teaching but being guided to the connecting “links” between that history and how those links have influenced present day attitudes.
The majority of our problems stem from an unwillingness to think of our “society” we think of self interest and wealth. We do not “honestly” connect with poor and destitute black people.
As a result precious lands are sold, without due regard to the societal impact. “Some” professionals see no harm in fleecing the black poor and destitute.
Most of us believe that it is impossible to do something good without financial self interest. No one wants to make any personal sacrifice for change in the future…having a good time is too important.
There is “Independence” and there is being “Independent.”
Where is Ace when you need him?
@ Asiba….
I have a legitimate reason to be asking who they represent because there are times that decisions are made by while bargaining on workers’behalf, about my future, working conditions and salary without much consultation with the workers whom they represent.
In my opinion, the union should fight for what the majority of the workers want where ever possible. Right now I am in the midst of an industrial dispute It seems to me that many times the union is fighting for what they know may be best and not what the workers want. It is operating almost like a parent acting as if they know what is best for a child without reasonable discussion with the child about what he/she wants.
I do agree that the way some of these big corporations are operating with core principles that are deeply rooted in slavery. One should read Willy Lynch’s “How to make a slave” and you would notice some striking similarities to your current working environment.
My problem with the union in many cases that they fail to make their presence felt as they should. With this LIME fiasco, they should have walked weeks ago. All talk an no action gives the execs. the impression that the union is just that…”all talk”. Yes people are reluctant to strike, mainly because at the end of the day when bills can not be paid because you lost a weeks / month’s by fighting for your rights, in these times that is not an easy decision to make. I know if I were to strike for a month my rent could not be paid and my family would not be able to eat.
What I believe that the union should do is make their strike action severe and impactful so that the length of time would be minimized while the effects would be so detrimental that resolutions come about as swiftly as possible.
THE PROPHET // February 2, 2009 at 8:09 am
It is Monday Morning, and despite stern warnings from the PM about them not following due process, LIME has closed the doors of their Contact Centre. Despite the fact that on December 24th 2008 they agreed that they have not followed correct procedure and that they promise to do so…they have refused to continue the process with the union and have repeatedly lied to the press saying that they are still confident that themselves and the union can come to an agreement knowing full well that they have not been meeting with the union since December 24th.
On Friday LIME sent press releases to the various media houses announcing the sacking of the 115 employees who were employed by the Centre. According to my calculations they have another 135 workers to sack in the coming weeks. No procedure followed before and no procedure will be followed now.
We as Barbadians must come together to protect our jobs. There must always be some discussion about Job retention in these economic times, especially when sending home numbers like 250.
How long do you think our economy can survive if unemployment rates continue to soar?
FELLOW BARBADIANS…ITS TIME TO WALK WITH LIME !! I AM READY TO WALK ARE YOU???
In today’s U.K. News,1,000 construction workers have gone on strile and there are plans for a sympathy strike today.
According to the News the European Court made 2 rulings recently which allowed foreign companies to come in Britain,get contracts and hire foreign workers and pay them less.
Sounds familiar?
To my mind the barbados workers union has never been strong in their condemnation of the large influx of guyanese workers who have been the main culprit along with to a lesser extent the chineese workers.
They have only asked that the employers pay the guyanese the same as the bajans.
It will be interesting to see what will happen as this recession continues to bite and bajans continue to lose their jobs.
……… One should read Willy Lynch’s “How to make a slave” and you would notice some striking similarities to your current working environment.
I would like people to please do some research on this Willie Lynch letter.
I bought the paper back book in NY last September and was angry at what I read.
After doing some research on the Net, It seems that this letter is a fraud.
This is only my opinion and I would like to know if any one had the same opinion.
I am not saying that the methods were not used but the letter itself SEEMS to be inacurate.
Anonymous
I would like you to read the book
“Let’s Save The Children” by the late Barbadian Dr.Ashton Gibson.
That book has in a lot of information on Willie Lynch.
Anonymous many of our people are still stuck with the colonial mentality that is why we have the minorities whites,Indians & now the Chinese ruling our economic,financial & even our political landscape.
This system has thrown up token Blacks like Leroy Trotman,Bobby Morris,the nuisance Mathew Farley,the traitotr Owen Arthur & the windbag David Thompson.
Until we rid ourselves from the shackles of slavery and dismantle all of the institutions that have in bondage we will always be a conquered people.
Some might argue that this letter or PERSON don’t exist my response is REALLY …… pleaseeeeee
He exists in everyone of us
#1 FEAR, mothers guarding their sons and not allowing them to be men! Fear that the master might pop their husbands in four and FORCE us to watch! Taking away our men who had their damn role and causing us to forget our identity!
And don’t lets forget the
#2 COLOR – BRILLIANT Mr. Lynch! People saying”you better than me cause you read an got sweet curly hair” lol! And he got a sweet complexion!
Willie Lynch exists oh yes he exists
popey fools!
I’ve lost faith in the union and therefore my next place of employment no dues will be paid , I wont see the point!
@ Firstlady
Not only have I lost faith in the union but I have lost faith in the process.
It is about time the members of the union who pay the salaries of the big boys there,really take them to task for their lack of leadership.
At the end of the day trotman and bobby still got their job while royal shop,sandy lane and now lime workers are out of work.
Non nationals are still getting work though.
@ Anonymous
The thing is what type of “work?”
I have been a member of the Union for a while now……
However, I am SERIOUSLY contemplating to pull out! roy oops Sir Roy aint doing nothing for he pay!
Waste of time!
I am looking to see how thompy will treat those limey executive rats when they met tomorrow,after their insult to his office by their action
WHAT ARE YOU DOING FOR THE UNION ?
THE UNION IS THE MEMBERS AND THERE IS – N-ON WITHOUT U AND I-
RE- MEMBER THAT
You people are so controlled by the mendicant approach to life that it is always a case of “thee union aint doing nothing for me”
The UNION is like a motor vehicle: park it and does not nothing for you.
You have to involve yourself with the car: you have to get iin it, start it , put in gear and steer it. You have to gas it, air it (tyres), water it and maintain it.
If you get into the car -do nothing but sit down and nothing happens, please do not blame the car.
Debbis Clarke, Bobby Morris and Sir Roy cannot read minds , they dont have a big long telescope to look into every nook and cranny and determine that Mr X has a problem. What is a problem for Mr X might not be the same for Mr Y.
Workers need to get involved and get militant and if a problem is affecting your brother , pay some attention and show some interest and do something.
We need to stop acting like slaves AND OF COURSE WE NEED TO LEARN OUR HISTORY: WE NEED TO TEACH OUR HISTORY
@ Asiba
But when you clearly state to the union what you need…not want, and the heads of the union tell you, no, we can not argue for this, we have to argue for that…what are we supposed to think?
The BWU…Just as sour
Dem tell we don’t take de severence money come to work and stand up outside alone. The PM met with the execs yesterday, who agreed, according to the press, that they will meet with the union again on the matter. Up to now the union has not gotten back to the employees to tell them what to do. In fact they have told the employees nothing at all!
Will they still argue for jobs? The staff have accepted the fact that the Centre WILL CLOSE! 60 Persons have gone already. It is time now for the union to be realistic in their bargaining and fight for the next best thing! If not jobs….better packages. As they have done before! But Sir Roy is saying this is not on their agenda, so tell me who is the Union fighting for????
As for this whole contact centre mess…
60 staffers accepted their packages leaving some being kept and only 41 left awaitng the conclusion of this mess. The 41 that are left are now tired…especially now since they have been asked to come outside a closed work place every day, feeling some what humiliated and angry at the company, also angry at the union for not being realistic and fighting for what they really wanted in the first place.
The numbers are dwindling in the heat of the day and the workers sprit have been broken. Those strong in the union accuse the others of giving up without a fight but somehow I feel the union knew that the workers were going to leave and this is probably what the union wanted.
They knew they could not fight for jobs but they kept fighting for jobs that were already gone, the staff wanted better terms of seperation, knowing that most of them would be going home with “change” to say the least but no the union wanted to prolong it as long as possible. Every day the staff compliment got less and less until most of them left. The union looks like valiant protectors of JOBS and the staff were f**ked royally! By BOTH THE UNION AND THE COMPANY !!
Devil’s Advocate // February 5, 2009 at 3:08 pm
“The union looks like valiant protectors of JOBS and the staff were f**ked royally! By BOTH THE UNION AND THE COMPANY !!”
This is the much vaunted social partnership at work, again.
I could not stop reading the comments posted on this site,particurly the lack of service from Lime, and the plight of the staff. I nhave given a lot of thought to the UNION and its effectiveness or really the lack of it.
My opinion is that there are not enough unions in the island. The idea of an oversized union with a detached head, I mean figurehead, only serves to make the said figurehead walk around with a permanent erection,in the knowlege that he can bring the island to a stand still at any time of his chosing. I propose smaller more purposeful unions like a Communications union, focussed on all aspects of the industry,and therefore uniquely placed to disrupt or streamline the industry. Similar collectives like Hotel workers, Transport workers with an affilliation to th Petro-Mart workers can be more relevant to their causes, and can therefore be more impactful.
In the event that conditions or grievances can not be resolved at that level, I would suggest a team of legal independent minds, or may be a collective appointed by the Labour Ministry, to mediate.
I do not want to go on, I would appreciate a reply from you, and would welcome the opportunity to share some of my more radical thoughts, or have them shot down in flames.
P.S. To your contributor who feels that Sir Roy Trotman is uniquely qualified to suck up to arrogant CEOs, it only bears out the point that he has not yet unshackled his mind.
@ Geoff February 6, 2009 at 3:50 am ………….” The idea of an oversized union with a detached head, I mean figurehead, only serves to make the said figurehead walk around with a permanent erection”.
This is so true! I agree with your comments but there is also some danger when many trade unions are in operation, especially in a small island such as this. For example, in Jamaica, the workers at C&W are being treated much worse than the workers here but there are so many unions are operating in this one company they can not seem to agree on a course of action to take against the company.
“The staff have accepted the fact that the Centre WILL CLOSE! 60 Persons have gone already. It is time now for the union to be realistic in their bargaining and fight for the next best thing! If not jobs….better packages. As they have done before! But Sir Roy is saying this is not on their agenda, so tell me who is the Union fighting for????”
Sir Roy is being silly..the contact centre will/is closed and will not be reopened, he should have been fighting for better packages for the workers not to keep them in jobs. The workers willl be paid for another month but in the end they will be on the breadline…my advise take the money as others have done, set it aside and look for another job and move on with their lives as others have done. Think of others who have been left with little after the companies they were working with just up and left!!
Question:
Who or what is the UNION ??
@ Natas
They should stay until the fat lady sings. The dont have to go and ask for a package to move on with their lives. But I bet the fact that the company had to pay them for doing nothing is just pissing the company off. GREAT!
I am sure many of the workers there have moved on, no sense in going for unemployment in Jan when you can wait till march.
to the contact centre staff , ” paid leave ”
I LOVE IT ….ENJOY !!!!!
Hope it last until April at least……
Negroman you wrote “I would like you to read the book
“Let’s Save The Children” by the late Barbadian Dr.Ashton Gibson.
That book has in a lot of information on Willie Lynch.”
You know that the late Dr? Ashton Gibson was a big able fraud?
Negotiations with LIME a JOKE
I have had the privilege to sit in on these negotiations between the 2. We have been instructed not to speak to the press on the issue but what I can say is that I can clearly see why technician made the points he made previously on this BLOG. This is a PR exercise for the Government and the Union and the Union is all too willing to lay down and play dead throughout this entire process. Interesting to say the least but when It is all over I will be sure to update my fellow bloggers.
The late Ashton Gibson, was my father and whilst he had many faults. He spent most of his adult life trying to educate people about the negative impact of racism on Caribbean family life. Aspects regarding the way he lived his life I personally struggled with, however, many of his messages and written work, have strong messages about the need for us as black people to manage our own affairs and understand the impact racism has had on us and our family dynamics. So please do not dismiss his written work, I believe they hold lessons we can still learn today.
http://www.nationnews.com/story/Workers-in-trouble-FRONT-PAGE-OTHER
“Workers across Barbados must clearly understand how vulnerable they are and they must become unionised. The BEC has demonstrated that there is very little, if any, in the Protocols for the workers,”
The workers had suspected this from the beginning.
Why are you now prepared to confirm this?
Did the workers representatives sign the protocols in agreement with the other social partners?
Are you now also admitting that the unions were not working in the best interests of workers, when the protocols were negotiated?
After all that has transpired recently, do you still believe that the ordinary workers have faith in the current leadership of the trade unions?
Look a GT woman was showing off on us bajans yesterday. I went studying by a friend of mine and she said that when Trotman was outside blocking for the workers at Sandy Lane. He called her and asked her if she want a job at the very same Sandy Lane. I am a member of this ‘great establishment.’
Anon
Haven’t you noticed that trotman and the BWU do not criticse the illegal guyanese problem,nor the problem of bajan workers being fired and replaced with guyanese workers?
Every now and then he makes some kind of token statement about jobs for bajan workers and then nothing further.
Then he tells the bajan public stop bashing the guyanese,or don’t get vex with the guyanese workers who here working (or in other words taking bajan jobs).
Maybe he is investing in the guyanese hairy bank.
According to JC these guyanese women who full with disease flinging their puss here there and every where.
The BWU members have to be bold and take a public stand against trotman and the union for not standing up for them in a real way,and for not demanding that government deal with this illegal worker problems here in barbados.
If you don’t represent yourself publicly you will not get represented.
Imagine trotman calling that guyanese woman for the job at sandy lane though.
Bobby morris on the People’s Business tonight talking bare shite!
This man seems to talk from both sides of his mouth and when he is finished you got more questions than answers.
Tonight he is saying that barbados can take in more people yet in the same breath he says no one so far has been able to tell us what is the carrying capacity of barbados.
Right now he seems to be excusing cable & wireless for making profits yet laying off staff at the same time.
Lord help us!