The Origins Of “Mr. Boyce”
People are surprised some times when they are in my company in public with the regularity that members of the public call me Mr. Boyce…
I don’t think Edwin is called Mr. Yearwood or Lil Rick is called Mr. Reid as often as I am referred to as Mr. Boyce. When I first started out I was called mostly by the popular character I play “Ali Singh”. Then as time progressed I became known for being involved (some people say instigating but they are liars) in controversial issues. People started calling me Peter Boyce, trouble 3 and like I said before Madd ass Bitch. I was also called “Batman” for a number of years when I was the president of that organization. I liked the Batman name as it made me sound like a super hero.
What resulted in the “Mr. Boyce” being used on a regular basis was what happened in the controversy of 2002. The Madd vs Gymnasium Ltd case over the cost of their VIP section dominated Crop Over ‘02. So much so that the Prime Minister Owen Arthur went on Voice of Barbados’ radio call in show Tell it Like it is to speak to the nation on the issue. When the Prime Minister spoke of me it was not really in glowing terms but throughout the course of his radio submission he referred to me as “Mr. Boyce”.
From the next day it appeared that the general opinion is that if you are important enough that Prime Minster could calls you “Mr. Boyce” well Mr. Boyce it is then. From then on I found that the “Mr. Boyce” title stuck,coupled with the fact that when I am highlighted in the news it is by my last name.
So then “Boyce” became like another one of my alter egos. I much prefer when people call me Peter, Mr. Boyce makes me sound old. The latest name I am now called is Boyce Voice, from people like you who read the blog. The truth of the matter is I am known by so many names that sometimes I don’t know who the heck I am!
*I would like to give you the list of names I hear I am called by government and NCF behind closed doors, but then I would have to rate this article X. I’ll give you one of them though: Since 2004 I was known as “the C—t who F—ked up Crop Over”. Is that funny or what? No wonder they are called clowns.
If during the reading of this blog there is any thing I might have written which might have incensed or offended you, GET OVER IT! There are many things I read and hear in the media on a daily basis that I don't like either. SO DEAL WITH IT! You are welcome to leave your comments though. Make sure and come back yuh hear !!!...
October 13th, 2007 at 11:31 am
Hey Peter
add another name—Bobby BROWN
You look like the ‘its my perrogative’ man -Bobby Brown -Mr.Whitney HOUSTON
Whats with the tie though ?
I usually associate ties with clowns
BUT I certainly DO NOT associate you with CLOWNS
In a tropical place such as Barbados , a tie is inappropiate and if you happen to add a jacket to that -OMG !—DISASTER
When I see a man being touted as the best dressed man and I see that he is wearing a European suit and tie-I cringe every time
Worse yet if he is a calypsonian at Crop Over time –
Crop Over is a SUMMER festival and I find it quite ridiculous and inappropriate to be dressed in a jacket and tie unless we are ridiculing the said mode of dressing
October 13th, 2007 at 12:24 pm
You are just jealous Asiba, or are you trying to say something about government ministers
October 14th, 2007 at 5:04 pm
lol
Not saying anything about government ministers (lol)
although i do have something to say about them and the wearing of jacket and ties and that is that I would like to see it stopped.
I think Barbados needs a national dress code and I believe that the pretty shirt(tropical print)should be part of it. I remember quite well when the shirt jac suit was a big part of what ministers wore to the house of assembly and if you check out old photos of the members of parliament you would see them in their finest shirt jacs suits: Errol Walton Barrow, Tom Adams, Erskine Sandiford,Harold ‘Bree’ St. John,Frank Walcott, Branford Taitt, Evelyn Greaves, Phillip Greaves, Louis Tull-to name a few
All of a sudden, actually for some years now, I am seeing this dominance of European style jacket and tie and I dont like it. It is an affront to me -a culturalist- and I am sure than my good friend Elombe Mottley would agree with me when I say that this present crop appears to me more colonial than the older guys who fought the colonial thing tooth and nail. Just the other day at the garrison I saw a man in a suit sweating like a coal pot because outside was hot hot hot. I asked him to take it off before he dehydrated. He told me that he could not because it was required dress for where he was going–i think the grand stand – pure crap that is what it is.
I really do associate clowns and ties -seriously because whenever I see a circus clown or a clown anywhere he/she is usually dress in a jacket and tie -this is a childhood thing with me.
I can tell you that the Europeans laugh and make fun of us when they come to Barbados and see us wearing ties. I deal with them on a regular basis and they always ask why people here would want to wear tall boots, sweaters, trench coats and jacket and of course jacket and ties. Take note of how they dress when they come to Barbados.
Anyhow!- Lets burn the tie in much the same way that women burned the bra in the 1960s