During the height of the cricket world cup frenzy we were constantly bombarded with talk of how prepared we,as a country would be for any mass casualty situation.We also heard talk of the legacy that such a program would bring with our significantly improved strategies and structures.That is why it is so sad to see how we are bungling a situation where a family is trapped in an apartment building.I understand that the incident occurred sometime around five o'clock this morning and now at 1:54pm nothing of any significance has been achieved.We have really got to do better than this.
Today more than ever before, the ways of the Carib are to be laughed at and ridiculed; the dirty, heathen savages who are to be shunted away and have no rights but to die far away. The colonization of Barbados is one of the darkest events and evil stories of modern history. Four centuries ago Spanish and Portuguese slavers started to kidnap, kill and drive out the thousands of peaceful Indians found on the islands the Indians called Ichiroganaum. The exact location of the island was a carefully kept secret but Spanish and Portuguese sailors knew the island only as the barbarous island, “Los Barbados” where brutality and crime could be committed with immunity. The island lay just outside the Caribbean and far away from watchful eyes. Look out for this and other books by Gary and Angela Cole…
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