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A resounding no confidence motion has been filed against the Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office Reverend Atherley by the D.D.A (Diss De Artiste) dept of the National Cultural Foundation. The head of the DDA presented the motion to Prime Minister and Minister of Culture Mr. Arthur highlighting several areas of concern as it relates to the actions of the Minister of State in the Prime Ministers office. The D.D.A is most concerned of the frank and fair methods utilized by Minister Atherley while transacting the business of cultural affairs during the just concluded Crop Over season.

It is alleged that instead of treating members of the entertainment industry like the nobodies they really are, Mr. Atherley has on several occasions treated them with respect and even allowed entertainer Dwayne Grazzette to speak at a meeting and responded to his concerns as though he mattered.

A specific incident was identified at a meeting where NCF attempted to renege on a previous agreement reached with cultural industries, instead going along with the attempt to diss de artistes, Minister Attherley stood on the side of the Artistes and honored the previous agreement . It was a most disgraceful action by a government minister.
DDA called the performance of Minister Attherley one of the most shameful acts he has seen for some time. “He refuses to go along with any concocted lies “It is like talking to a priest” the DDA head stated disgustedly.

It is also reported that Minister Attherley not only communicates with Peter Boyce of the cultural evil Madd group but accepted an invitation to attend Bacchanal Time during Crop Over and actually attended and appeared to have fun. Photographic evidence was presented to support this accusation. (see above)

“It is unacceptable” the Head of D.D.A Stated “that after all the progress made by NCF to disrespect local artistes as much as possible that Atherley has been reversing the process” We will not stand for it, it is time to send Atherley packing!
The head of DDA has issued an ultimatum to the Minister of Culture that if Atherley is not withdrawn as Minister of State that ….. Well something bad will happen don’t know what but it will not be good!

Attempts to get a comment from Minister Atherley up to press time proved futile.

Eric Lewis from Madd brought this one to my attention. In the newspaper last weekend an ad for a born again Christian singers ONLY calypso competition. I have been told by the NCF CEO that I am sorta slow. So some times I need help figuring stuff out, and this Christian thing is one of them.

As I recall we allow Christians to enter our “Sinful” Pic o de Crop competition. We allow Christians to have their own “Experience Tent” and participate in Crop Over. But Since the Christians are laying down stipulations that you must be born again to enter their own Calypso competitions, maybe we need to put some in ours as well.

So in order to participate in the Pic o de Crop “sin”competition you must qualify by providing evidence of at least two extramarital affairs and must have had a confirmed curse out with somebody over the last 6 months. Also at some point in your life you must have done at least some shop lifting.

I do not think these criteria would omit anyone who currently participates so it should be no problem. If the Christians have stipulations in their competitions it is only fair that we should reciprocate. What do you think?

What the hell possesses a man that he can write a song entitled “Move Bitch”?

I am talking about the writer and performer of the “Bitch” song, North American rap artiste Ludacris who is called by the right name because when you examine the lyrics of the song, they are ludicrous.
The song contains lyrics about busting tha bitch in her mother f***ing head and threatening to run the bitch over with a bus. Ok then, let’s just pause a minute and absorb the violent intensity of those words. Have you paused? Good now lets move on…..

The people that say calypsos are a negative influence need to listen to some of these rap songs. The author of this bitch tune is obviously very misogynistic*. Doesn’t Ludacris have a mother or a sister? Or by now has a woman that he is regularly intimate with and wants to remain in her favor. I would like to think that at some point in time he would have come into a positive contact with a female that might have changed his mind on writing such a song. After reading the full lyrics of the song I came to the conclusion that some woman must have “horned” him and broken his heart pretty bad.

The irony of the “move bitch get out the way” song is that statistics are proving that women are now the gender more getting ahead utilising educational opportunities and holding down the big high paying jobs. In America where Ludacris is from, the young black males are in crisis falling victim to the negative culture of gang warfare drugs and ultimately prison.

The way things are going now with women progressing, it is more the women that should be telling the men to move and get out of their way!

It should be:

Move dog

Get out the way

Get out the way

Move dog!

And you know the bad part? The men would like that song. They already call themselves dogs!

I am outa here dog…

Misogynistic that’s a fancy word I got from my girls that means you don’t like women.

After writing this I guess that’s the last time the fellows will ask me out for beers.

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

I am here in the supermarket shopping and I just remembered you guys…. What does my visiting the supermarket have to do with entertainment business? Keep reading and I will tell you.
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Where does our Royal Barbados Police get off get off grabbing reporters cameras and deleting their pictures whenever they feel like it? This happened to a news photographer on the scene of that tragic accident at Joes River down East Coast on Party Monarch day.

Nation photographer on the scene Rawle Culbard had his camera “grabbed” by the Police and the photos he had been taking deleted. The Police also took his phone from him to check it did not have a camera he could delete those pictures too.

Where does the police get off grabbing peoples cell phones and checking if they have cameras so they can delete photos? What part of the Barbados law are they operating on which gives them the right to infringe on the rights of press or of any one on the scene who might choose to take pictures for that matter? A lot of bureaucratic crap happens in this country and then we sit to ass down and do nothing and then it becomes the accepted norm.

I have heard the same police warning people that they should watch out for cell phones snatchers so when they grab a persons cell phone to check for pictures with out his permission aren’t the same police breaking the law? What about when you just take it upon your self to delete pictures from a persons camera which might include not only photos taken at that scene but photos taken before which you have no authority to destroy.

What are the police frightened for? Why do they go on a scene of a tragedy and instead of looking to assist people look to delete pictures? Usually it is the opposite. When an incident happens the police usually request people who might have taken photographs to come forward so the photos can be used to reconstruct the scene. Not we police; they delete delete delete.

I looked in the newspaper just recently and saw photos taken of the results of the Cubana airline tragedy which occurred back in 1973. If we police of today were around back then, those photos would have been deleted. From September 11th 2001 there is that infamous footage of the planes crashing into the World Trade Center buildings, if we Barbados police had happened to turn up on that scene first they would have deleted that footage.

The point that I am making is the present actions of our delete police will have serious effect on the historical recording of events which occur today that we would want to have records of in the future.

To be honest with you people, I did come across one example which would justify why we police delete pictures. United States back in 1991: An amateur camera man caught 8 police officers beating a hand cuffed Rodney King they were in the process of arresting. You know how much trouble they ended up in for that.

If we Barbados police would have been there they would have known what to do, they would have deleted the footage..
I guess now we know why they do it…

Well tell them to delete this and……

…..Article was brought to a premature end as Police deleted it, plus it was going on to damn long anyway!

>”Why can’t we all just get along?”Rodney king

I know what you are thinking, who gives a rat’s ass about you having a cold? You think that some body care bout you? Yuh idiot”! Well let me tell you why I am proud of having a cold at this time, so proud that I am writing about it in my blog.

For all Crop Over I was busy as heck pushing my self to the max. I was getting up at 2 and 3 in the morning and working straight through until the next day, organizing Bacchanal Time shows, recording radio and TV ads and meeting government on UAB & BATMAN business. And I still had to go to the supermarket and drop my sons to the cinema. My body went through all of that plus controversy and waited until the end of Crop Over exactly right after Kadoment to come down with a cold. That is what you call a corporate minded body, I am so proud of it that it doesn’t get sick when revenue is being generated, it waits until after.

Some times I have to remind our employees of the Madd Company Policy. You are not allowed to get sick during Crop Over. Just last week I noticed our Akila in the office with a cold and I sent her a memo instructing her to turn up next week with out it and then resume it after Kadoment. Akila did not comply and I am looking to terminate her ass next time she sneezes. Instead of “bless you” it will be “you are fired”!

I believe in leading by example that’s why as managing director of Madd I have caught a cold only now I can afford to, at the end of Crop Over.

P.S; It was Lee who gave every body at the Madd Office a cold; stay away from her she is lee-thal!

Yea you read it right; Coming up is an exclusive interview I had with our Bajan singing sensation Rihanna.

I will relate it to you word for word how it went down. Just click on Link below!

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Bacchanal Time Calypso Tent 2007 opens its doors today Saturday 23^rd June, 8.30 pm. at the George Street Auditorium.

Above you can see one of the best looking tent managers in the business (aka) me delivering the feature address at our Bacchanal media launch which took place earlier this week, you also see my associate Kevin Hinds of Madd.

In my address I spoke to the issue of (“spoke to” is fancy language that I want to use) should children be allowed in calypso tents. As you know that has been a bug bearer ^{(1) to the public for some time.}

In my opinion many of the negative influences which affect our children originate in the home.

For example; have you checked what children have access to on the internet? Just type the right word into the search engine and a proliferation of porn activities ranging from bondage to bestiality⁽²⁾ becomes available for their perusal.

Have you checked the level of violence in the video games your children are playing on the X Box? Gone are the days of Pac Man and Space invaders, kids now play “Grand Theft Auto” a game where you accumulate points by robbing people and shooting policemen; now you even get sexual favors of an oral nature as bonus treats.

Have you seen what children watch on television recently? Every prime time television show now starts with an act of violence to attract the audience. Murder of human beings is now being disseminated as entertainment.

Have you heard the negative foreign music your children are listening to in those cute little mp3 players that seem permanently attached to their ears? (Last time I had a conversation with my son was in February of this year). Whilst we are debating as a national issue whether Spin Pooch is singing about an old key or new key, your children are listening to rap music blatantly calling women bitches and whores and dance hall music promoting use of the gun and the killing of human beings because they have a different sexual preference to you.

Lyrics are promoting “F” ing ⁽³⁾ women, impregnating them and being proud about abandoning them for the next piece of c_____ ⁽⁴⁾ .

So after all that you will state you do not want to bring your children in Bacchanal Time because Edwin might wuck up or K B Kleen might do a saucy joke?

You prefer to leave your children at home being indoctrinated in how to rape and kill? I say no. Get their tails into the tents! Bacchanal Time opens its doors today Saturday 23^rd June 8.30 pm at the George Street Auditorium. Come and bring your child!

1 Look it up on the internet yuh idiot, all you want to do on the internet is read Boyce voice and listen to music?

2 Sex with animals, when you hear some people say they like dogs, they really mean they like dogs!

3+4 ______ you should know what those words means yuh idiot read “to curse or not to curse”

Disclaimer: I was not really as passionate on this topic at the media launch; I expanded on it here for your edification!

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