Have you ever had one of those gut wrenching pukes where you feel you are going to bring your whole stomach up?

Well that happened to me at the Barbados Hilton on 21st August when the Government announced their plans about establishing a Festival Events Bureau (FEB) to run Crop Over. I got as sick as a dog and had to leave the event early. It was not that announcement that made me sick, even though I have some serious concerns about this FEB, what made me sick was CEO of NCF Ian Estwick.

In fact I would rephrase that, it was what Ian Estwick SAID that made me sick.. When the NCF CEO had the guts to get up on a stage an announce the Government’s intention to release another Crop Over DVD I just started to feel queasy in my stomach. Up to now NCF has not compensated some artistes including Madd for the unauthorized DVD they released two years ago.

Well they paid out monies to their favorite people but you know we would be never on that list. It’s the standard victimization treatment we have become accustomed to. But when the CEO Estwick had the big guts to announce the authorities are again planning not only releasing DVDs but cds as well I started to feel sick to my stomach. I tried to control it but eventually I ended up running to the bathroom and puking like a dog.

Even the sight of pretty NCF Communications lady Penny Gomez waving at me from across the room at one point could not sway me from my sickality* I was so repulsed then. When my friend Santia asked why I had left the Government meeting early I did not have the guts to tell her the truth. Well at the time I had no guts as I had left it in the Hilton’s bathroom. I lied and told her I had to leave for business reasons, I can lie quite well now I learnt it from the NCF.

I would advise the government next time they are going to drop any revolting news tell us in advance so we can bring barf bags.

One of the points that Starcom Network announcer Dennis Johnson made in his presentation was that the same hundred and fifty million dollar Hilton we were meeting in had only been recently built and it yet had no entertainment facilities. Well that might be true Dennis, but I can tell you for sure, they have some nice bathrooms!

*Sickality; I mek up that word yuh idiot, and you looking to see wha it means too…? stupes

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