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..

If I were a decent person I would almost apologize but I am not, so I wouldn’t. I have not written any thing new on Boyce Voice for the past few days as I was totally consumed in the production of Madd’s 25th Anniversary Show “The Best of Barbados Gone Madd”.

In this production not only did I take part in writing producing directing and acting but also I had to serve drinks and clean up after rehearsals were done. I was doing every thing so I was stressed out. Any ways, the production is done and Boyce is back! so look for regular postings beginning from today, like what you are reading now.

So keep logging on. We have good some good stuff happening like…. well I don’t know as I have not written it yet, but it’s going to be good!

Congratulations to the teacher of the year Mr. Lett English Literature teacher from Alexandra School. Mr Lett as he is respectfully called by my two sons who both go to that school, recently won the CLICO/Nation Barbados teacher of the year at an event held at the prestigious Frank Collymore Hall.

Why Boyce Voice is mentioning this outside entertainment achievement is that the same Mr. Lett is also Leslie Lett previously keyboardist from the group Krosfyah.

I would like to think that Lett’s background in entertainment would have played some part in him being such an effective teacher. I would also think that his knowing me also had something to do with his winning and I would like him to remember that when he is deciding how to spend the $10,000.00 that came with the award. I am going to have to start listening to my son Ramon, he has been telling me for years that Mr. Lett is one of the best teachers at Alexandra School and he was right. Maybe he can tell me who will be running Crop Over next year as the government does not seem to know….

Below you can click to see Mr Lett aka Leslie Lett from his Krosfyah days in the hit music video “Pump Me Up”

I have come to the conclusion that I am must be one of the biggest liars in Barbados and probably the world, I could work at the NCF then.

Recently I have been going around telling lies not only on the Government but on our honorable Prime Minister and Minister of Culture Mr Owen Arthur. Allow me to elaborate….

Remember the infamous government consultation with the entertainment industry that we had on the 21st August 2007. I recall our Minister of Culture Mr Owen Arthur stating that in response to queries raised about his “Festival Events Bureau” by persons at that meeting, the formation of this entity would be delayed for three months, in order to convene a committee including entertainers to examine the possible effects of its operation on the industry.

Since then you know what has happened? Nothing! And 3 months almost gone. It is like the consultation never happened and the statements were never made. I cannot imagine that our Honorable Prime Minister would stand in front big people and prevaricate with empty words and hollow promises. The Prime Minister cannot lie as Honorable is part of his title, and honorable men can only do honorable things.

So therefore I have come to the conclusion that the liar would have to be me, who is telling lies on our Honorable Prime Minister. I am such a liar then, I need to be rebuked!

One of these days I want to be honorable like our Prime Minister, instead of who I am now.

Peter the Liar….

Boyce voice recently celebrated the milestone of achieving our 100,000th page load. A page load happens when ever you click to read a post on this site so it is a good way of measuring readership stats. We are only able to achieve this because of people like you, who keep logging on all the damn time.

Boyce Voice first started in April and continued through Crop Over. As usual, because of the NCF and Government, we had a festival verdant with controversial issues and the lies that we could expose. The challenge was that after Crop Over, what would Boyce Voice be saying?

Well we are proud to say that we have been able to meet that challenge head on…

As you peruse our archives you’ll see that we have dealt with diverse subject matters, from the reviewing of the latest movies, classic movies, Dickey books, racial issues, gay issues, President Bush, girls who cover themselves in chocolate, curse government and your favorite subject, Rihanna. Apart from our Rihanna articles which you read constantly, our most read and commented story has been Admiral Does Not Like Newkey!

Our diverse topics have resulted in the higher page loads than we even had during Crop Over. That’s quite an achievement for a blog that was expected to be only Crop Over oriented. Regardless of the topics we address we have constantly maintained a Bajan perspective in order to remain unique.

Notice I keep saying “we”. Well “we” includes the site administrator and editor – Darron Grant. I like to call his name some times so the government can know about him too and not blame me for everything. Where do we go from here? Well I don’t know about you but when I finish this I am getting some sleep as it is 3 am..

But seriously, Boyce Voice has some big plans in store for you. From November look for a brand new look, an improved site with all sorts of fancy features that Darron is working on. The site will be even more attractive almost as good looking as me.
So brace yourself!…
A new improved Boyce Voice Coming soon to a computer near U!

How many times have you read on Boyce Voice about the ignorance the government has done, is doing or is about to do? How many times have we stated that government needed to be cursed and proceeded to curse them too, or called the NCF “nasty stinking liars”. And do you know what has happened? NOTHING!

Now when I say nothing I mean Nothing in a good way. I am highlighting the privilege that we Barbadians enjoy,where we can be openly critical of our government with out fear of victimization. Well aside from the stinking NCF (see, I did it again) you can pretty much speak your mind with out fear of reprisal.

Look at what is happening in Yangon Myanmar with the government’s violent crack down on peacefully protesting monks. That is an example of the price some people pay for daring to speak out. In Myanmar Government forces have even cut off the internet to stop news of their brutalizing the monks from being broadcast to the world.

So in the midst of us complaining about government this and government that, we must also take time out to be thankful for the privileges we do have: A government which tolerates the voice of dissent, a government which tolerates the Voice of Boyce.

Next time I go to the barber I will sweep up every strand of my cut hair off the floor and sell it on eBay. All the big Stars are doing it in United States now, and we are big stars too! Wouldn’t you buy Alison Hinds used lipstick or Lil Ricks sweaty shirt he won party monarch in this year? No? Well you need to get with it!

Stars are now generating extra revenue by selling used personal items in an effort to off set the decline of DVD and CD sales due to piracy. You can now buy Britney Spears’ used chewing gum (eewe) she probably sold all her panties too that why she was seen getting out a car with out any a couple of months ago. (Wanted to put the picture but Darron wouldn’t let me)
So I am looking to see how much money I can get for my hair. Next time I visit the barber look for “Boyce” hair available for bidding on eBay

If this hair selling thing takes off I would done with this entertainment thing. I would just spend my day sitting at home watching TV and concentrating on getting my hair to grow so I can harvest it. I would become the first ever hair farmer!