Boyce has always taken note of the liberal marketing which is utilized by our Barbados Turf Club as it relates to getting people to attend horse racing at the garrison savannah.
I use the word “liberal” deliberately, I have seen ads promoting “Family Day” inviting you to bring your entire house hold kids and all to enjoy a day of racing at the garrison.
No one seems cognizant of the fact that that at horse racing the primary activity is really gambling, so if it were accurate the marketing should be, “bring the whole family out for a day of gambling….”
I saw a horse racing program on TV just this week which ends with a cute five year old girl in arms saying “see u at the races”. Isn’t that like having a child in a beer ad?
While it starts out looking like a harmless activity watching men on horses racing around a track and what’s wrong with a little harmless bet, that first bet could be an opening to falling victim to a condition which is comparable to alcohol and drug additions.

Let’s look at a definition of gambling

Gambling addiction, also known as compulsive gambling, is a type of impulse-control disorder. Compulsive gamblers can’t control the impulse to gamble, even when they know their gambling is hurting themselves or their loved ones. Gambling is all they can think about and all they want to do, no matter the consequences. Compulsive gamblers keep gambling whether they’re up or down, broke or flush, happy or depressed. Even when they know the odds are against them, even when they can’t afford to lose, people with a gambling addiction can’t “stay off the bet.”

So when you look at the possible consequences is it responsible to be taking your whole family to a day of horse racing where gambling happens? Further less using a five year old girl in the advertising.
Maybe it something Joey Harper chairman of the childcare board needs to look into and get off harassing people about children at calypso tents and cavalcades.

Big Beautiful and Happy

If you think Big is Beautiful more power to you! I read in the media that the organiser of the annual Miss Big and Beautiful Beauty pageant lamenting on the challenges and obstacles which stand in her way.

Lead by people like health professional Dr Henry Frazier, the competition has received some harsh criticism for featuring full size (aka fat) women as encouraging obesity and a lifestyle that leads to heart disease.

One of the innovations that promoter spoke of putting place was the requirement that all the “Big” women in the pageant MUST join a gym.
Now to me that doesn’t make any sense, obviously women following that advice will get smaller which seems to go against concept of being “Big and Beautiful”. If you are going to the gym how will you make that 200 lb minimum weight requirement to enter the competition?

The promoter should not sway from her principles, she needs to “screw her courage to the sticking place”
If you believe that being Big is Beautiful Stand Up for it!
If Asiba and other skinny starve out people don’t like fat girls, that’s their frigging business.
They are men out there who will do any thing for a plus size woman so who the ass are you to say they are not beautiful.
Remember Captain Sawyer 2005 calypso about how he likes them “Big and Fat and Thick”? that is the national anthem for some men.
If I was the promoter I wouldn’t change a damn thing, in fact I would be promoting my contest and my girls will be better and bigger than ever and if you don’t like that well you know what you can kiss, that’s big too!

These CNN presenters look so good then, they look like “bakes”

Have you ever noticed how beautiful female news anchors are when you are watching international TV news shows?
It’s freaking amazing, almost every single woman reading news that I have ever seen whether it’s on CNN, ABC or NBC looks like the best looking woman you have ever seen in your life.
Some times you don’t give a rat’s ass about what the content of the news is because you are so mesmerized by the woman reading it.
You know how many boring financial news programs about something called a “dow”I have watched because of beauty of the female presenter.
I am not saying that we don’t have attractive female presenters here but the international ones are something else.
I would be hard press to identify a time I was watching CNN and saw an “ugly” female presenter; it appears that it is a requirement that to land the job you must be beautiful and sexy in addition to being articulate and intelligent.
Is that being sexist? Some people would say hiring a females based on their looks is demeaning to the women.
 May be its about keeping people with shallow minds and short attention spans such as my self watching the news regardless of its content and keeping the ratings up. Plus these women are paid quite handsomely for their beautiful news reading.
Regardless of the state of the war in Iraq or the rising price of oil I will receive it more readily when it’s in news delivered by a sexy news woman…

100 lb Ingrid.

She is funny, she is enlightening and she is light. Weights only 100 Lbs. She is also back on your radio.

Blogging about the vervacious Ingrid. How many of you listen to the bmobile Hour on Bajan radio station Hott 95.3 fm? That’s where you can hear Ingrid every Saturday morning at 11. She teams up with radio DJ Bubbles and does an entertaining show which is sponsored by Cable and Wireless.

Ingrid was replaced by Nard for the last couple of months, but she was like the terminator and told me “I’ll be back!” and now she is. One of the features of the bmobile Hour is - Ingrid calls celebrities from all over the world and interviews them live. She has called Beanie man, she called Machel Montano and the biggest star ever, me!

Ingrid is also multitalented. She performed with Madd in Bacchanal Time this year. She played a school girl and she made quite a sexy one too despite the fact that P.C Broomes injured her a couple of times.

Listen out for all 100 lbs Ingrid every Saturday at 11 am bmobiling on Hott 95.3 fm. You can tune in over the internet!

Ingrid as 100 lb school girl with P.C Broomes in Bacchanal Time

Is’nt it the most beautiful car you have ever seen in your whole life? Its the kind of car that would fit in on the beach or in Iraq..

Its also the kind of car that stands out. It makes a statement and when ever you drive it the Barbados police will stop you and ask what that statement is as camoflauge is illegal here..

You would not see Darron Grant driving a car like this, he is a wimp, it takes a strong man to defy the law and authorties by driving this car, or an idiot..

That idiot could be you..

Would you be idiot enough to drive this car? I would! it matches with my socks..

Thanks to FyahKros for sending me the car pic, next time send the car.

Photo of vicious Pirate lady awaiting her next victim

Well I promised and I always keep my promises, except when I don’t! The following is an actual encounter with a DVD pirate which happened to me in Bridgetown this weekend. Here is a ball by ball account of what transpired. The following happens around 2.15 pm Saturday 15th December outside Cheapside Vendors market Bridgetown Barbados. (Say it like the “24” TV show opening)

I am walking along just outside Cheapside vendors market, passed a woman of Guyanese-Indian descent aka. Pirate Woman, standing by a car with an umbrella…

Pirate woman: Psst! We have African DVDs selling 3 for $10.

(For my own protection I will just refer to my self as “me” to hide my identity).

Me: Not interested. Do you have American DVDs?

Pirate Woman: Ssh! Yes, but got to be careful, the police just short there! (Indicates police standing near by)

Police standing near by

Pirate Woman: Go to back of car and wait.

(I went to back of car and waited for 2 minutes while woman checked coast was clear and then came back. She opened the trunk of the car revealing a display of copies of DVD covers of American movies plus some African ones.)

Me: How much for the American movies?

Pirate Woman: 3 for $25.

Me: But I only see one I want.

Pirate Woman: Well that would be $10. (she is like Ali Singh.)

Me: Ok, I will take this one.

Selected a movie and paid $10. Was given movie as plain DVD without printed cover.

And that’s how I went undercover and bought an illegal DVD in Bridgetown on Saturday.

What does above encounter prove?

1. Despite the best efforts, Piracy remains in Bridgetown and we must always be cognizant of its existence.

2. Unlike previous years there is more a fear of Police enforcement and that’s a good thing. Several years ago a Pirate would not have been wary of the Police. In recent times there hhas been a proliferation of Piracy cases in our courts and that becomes an effective deterrent. (Or detergent in that it helps to clean the streets.)

3. Guyanese need to do their home work. Who in their right mind sells Peter Boyce a pirate DVD? Obviously that would be destined to end up on Boyce Voice.

The good news is, I was not thrown out, the bad news is, I am sitting here at the COSCAP Annual General Meeting at 11.40 am 8th December and everyone is being given voting slips, except me. Maybe I ate too many fish cakes during the break, maybe because I was seen talking to the infamous Darron Grant a known undesirable in the industry. But whatever the reason they are passing out voting slips and ignoring me.

Maybe it’s because I wrote in Boyce Voice in support of Darron and Ronnie so they are making sure I don’t vote.
Know what? I will ask a question…. I just hollered for Gail of Coscap and she walked right pass me. Maybe I am invisible and don’t know it, maybe I got in an accident on my way here and died and I am really a ghost, like Bruce Willis in the movie “6th Sense”.

Ok, I just got Gail’s attention. Apparently I am not dead, worst, I cannot vote. She told me you can only vote after you have been in Coscap for 2 years and I am only joined last year. Don’t know how come Coscap CEO Erica Smith did not inform me of this little significant fact, think I will call and buse her 1st thing Monday morning! Why wait, I will go and speak to Erica now, I had a brief moment and accosted her on how I had bathe and put on my good clothes and now I got here couldn’t vote.

She gave me some corny comment about my presence there should be to show an interest in the business of the Coscap, I was about to buse her but I saw Sach Moore looking at me nasty so I decided to sit down.

Ronnie Morris talking to Omar McQuilkin, Phil Philips backing (Thats his good side)
There is some confusion over voting methods whether to go by show of hands or ballot. That went on for 30 minutes I was very concerned, all the refreshments had been used during the break, hence there was nothing for non voters like me to snack on during the debate. Finally that was settled and voting was on the way.

Darron Grant just smashed a glass probably in an effort to sway votes, he is either violent or clumsy I am not sure.

Darron in pensive mood after he broke the glass

At one point there was also a heated exchange between 2 members as it relates to the length of time one could remain on the board, I am sorry I did not have my video camera it would have made a good movie, it was quite exciting.

Chairman Andre Woodvine did an excellent job of chairing the meeting, he was as cool as a cucumber or a banana (I think bananas are pretty cool too).

Chairman Andre Woodvine talking to Winston Alleyne in break

Here are the elections results of the Directors voted on to Coscap board and remember you read it on Boyce Voice first.

Producer Director
Starchild Music re Sonia Mullins

Publisher Director
Treasure Music re Derek Wilkie

Writer Director

Ronnie Morris

Performer Director
William Smokey Burke

Peter Adonijah Alleyne

Sach Moore

Phil Philips
Still Remaining from last year
Colin Reid
David Piggot
Stedson Wiltshire

Congrats to all the Coscap board members, even Sach. Boyce Voice is quite pleased that Ronnie Morris and Phil Philips got on the board. As for Darron who lost to “Smokey”, I think his mistake was when he tried that “smash the glass” man thing, it just didn’t work. That concludes my report, after reading this Coscap will have another reason to put me out next year.

I get buse so bad then, by Mr Darron Grant.
In case you did not know Darron is who administrates Boyce Voice, he rebuked me for not mentioning that not only should we vote for Ronnie Morris at upcoming COSCAP AGM but Darron himself is up for re election.

Darron is a stickler for reading up on rules and abiding by the constitution.
Sometimes he is so straight he gets on my nerves, and that is exactly the kind of people we need on the board.

So COSCAP members come out in your numbers tomorrow Saturday 8th December,10 am at Almond Bay Resort Hastings Christ Church and participate in the voting.
Make sure Ronnie AND Darron are high on your voting list.
Good, so hopefully Darron can stop cursing me now!

To FyahKros, no you cannot vote on line unfortunately you must make it out to the meeting.

Received the below email from Ronnie Morris who is an entertainer and director of the Timeless production team of Barbados Music Awards….

Dear all,

Please come out and vote for me, as I am attempting to become a member of the Board of COSCAP. I think that as a young person in the industry, it would be good to have representation for young artistes on COSCAP’s Board. The meeting to vote will be held this Saturday at Almond Catering (in same building as Opa!) in Christ Church at 10AM sharp. I need your support on this one.

Refreshments will be served.

Regards,
Ronnie Morris

We entertainers need to throw our support behind Ronnie in his quest to be nominated to the board of COSCAP (Copyright Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers Inc). With vibrant young talents like Ronnie on the board it will be a new opportunity to bring new direction and vision to the agency. So I want to encourage all COSCAP members to come out and participate in Saturday’s Annual General Meeting instead of stopping home and complaining when the voting is done and the same old people are reinstated.

Of course while I encourage you to be there and I am hoping to be there too, I am being optimistic as I was unceremoniously ejected from last years AGM under the guise I was not a member despite joining up several months before.

Let’s see what happens this year..
So come out and support Ronnie at COSCAP AGM this Saturday if not for the sake of making our industry a more viable place to do business, for the sake of the refreshments….

Take a look at the pictures above; you would never guess where those were taken…You see landship ladies and costume vendors and you are thinking this is probably at one of those events like Plantations Bajan Roots and Rhythms dinner show. Well you would be wrong, this was the scene at First Caribbean Bank in Rendezvous Christ Church as they hosted customer appreciation day yesterday.

When I stepped into the Bank I was sort of lost. It looked like the bank had been taken over by cane cutters and market vendors, I thought maybe a robbery was in progress. Then I saw what appeared to be a Kadoment female reveler in a Power by Four costume coming out of the vault that added even more to my confusion. It’s pretty easy for me to get confused for as you know I am pretty ignorant. I didn’t know whether to put my hands in the air and hand over my wallet or start dancing.

When I got to my bank teller friend she explained to me that for customer appreciation day First Caribbean had taken on an independence theme and so all the Bank employees were dressed representing various Bajan characters and vocations.
Hence there was a Mother Sally, calypsonian, a dreadlocked Rastafarian and a male teller was walking about in straw hat jean pants and slippers as a cane cutter, there was not a tie anywhere to be seen, Asiba would have been proud. Instead of taking out my phone to call the police, I took it out and started snapping pictures.

I told my teller friend I felt over dressed, if I had known I would have worn my Ali Singh costume to the bank that day. Let me not forget to tell you that this was all done to the accompaniment of 100% Bajan music! Gems like Cheryl Hackett’s “Beautiful and Unspoilt” Carolyn Leacock, Richard Stoute, Fern Trail, Lord Radio all emanated from the bank’s sound system.

(I noticed they did not play rassole Madd but let’s not address that) It was a truly unique Bajan banking experience, I am sure any tourist who visited the Bank that day would have been thrilled. I know I was and I live here. Now that was what you call a real “First Caribbean” Bank, they should do it more often.

Busy Caribbean Bank Workers

Cricket was also included, I feel she would improve the performance of the west indies team

My Banker Friend Yvette

I thought Nurse Betty was quite fetching so my hand shook when I think took the photo, I felt the need to get sick and have my temperature taken..