I seeing the convos happening but a lot of Bajans don’t even know their own history.
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Shamar Reece
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Imagine taking up MY MONEY and paying to go to a fete, only for somebody on twitter to tell me HOW I should behave at the fete. Wunna sporty.
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@lukeyism Among my current research threads is a paper on law and the "sovereign body" in Crop-Over. I'm looking at the plantation logic that persisted and its violence on the body, and how law/rules/plantation logics continue to regulate/shape Crop-Over, which is an emancipatory site.
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Crop Over would be so much greater if it leaned out of its newer tourism & capitalism roots and leaned into its older roots of freedom, subversion, survival and resistance
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@Kinthe246 @tannertz Had this told to me as well. Also had the damn ref letter drawn up for the private surgery clinic there in 3rd avenue belleville fast af too. Stupse
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She aint lie bout that wait list for years and 3-month appointments getting shift because they're not in. But visit the same specialist and take them up on that "seeing me privately is an option/choice" and quick so the surgery could be done TUHMAR...and sometimes at the same qeh
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Oh yes.. another Crop Over band using an AI video. With Trini music talking about home. And a shaggy bear that looks like a literal bear
GIF
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Shamar Reece me-retweet
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This who the government gonna hire to rescue Swifts when they drive off the flyover
Barbados Today@BarbadosToday
Barbados to have flyovers by 2028 barbadostoday.bb/2026/03/19/bar…
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@Be11OG Problem with that is that we feel a job is ours for life. Changes happen and you must be able to change as well. Things may require different eyes, skillsets etc.
What about that young person not being able to pay their student loan, get a house or car or travel?
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This topic has always been hit or miss because if someone has been doing the same job for 25 years(they’re good at it) should they just be replaced? At what about their mortgage, child’s tuition even a car loan?
Shamar Reece@SPReece_
Having a graduate in every household was a nice slogan but what is happening now is that there are no jobs for them. Also Milicent has been working in her job for 35yrs with school leavers certs and still cannot turn on a computer but she has a job or is someone superior.
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And Millicent hates young people and anything that involves improving on manual processes :)
Shamar Reece@SPReece_
Having a graduate in every household was a nice slogan but what is happening now is that there are no jobs for them. Also Milicent has been working in her job for 35yrs with school leavers certs and still cannot turn on a computer but she has a job or is someone superior.
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@BigMeeish Not when the education system doesn’t encourage it and we outsource them. Also many aren’t jumping at the opportunities to be skilled artisans
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@SPReece_ yeah but what degrees are they getting?
we need engineers, cybersecurity experts, data scientists, nurses, doctors, plumbers, carpenters, stone masons, electricians & just broadly technically skilled people.
less of the management/administrative class and more builders.
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Having a graduate in every household was a nice slogan but what is happening now is that there are no jobs for them. Also Milicent has been working in her job for 35yrs with school leavers certs and still cannot turn on a computer but she has a job or is someone superior.
CBC BARBADOS@CBCBARBADOS
Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies, Sir Hilary Beckles, says the Caribbean has the lowest enrolment in higher education in this hemisphere. tinyurl.com/yu68p53z #CBCNewsBarbados
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@MorrisMedici Oh yes we cannot forget the cronyism and nepotism as other layers of this rancid onion. You can be a political puppet/yardfowl and still get through without having a modicum of intelligence.
Our school system is one of the vestiges of a colonial administration
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@SPReece_ 2/Humans are rational; they go where things list: Why should our children enrol? They witness a plutocratic cronyocracy as the fastest growing, most powerful feature of the hustle culture of Caribbean life…destructive of any who oppose it; of which our schools are a feature!
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@MorrisMedici We sent our children off to have a better life and continued ringing it in our ears: good education, get a good job and that mantra never changed even in the modern times and the edu system never changed either.
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@SPReece_ That is because we are a people carried away by rhetoric and aesthetics: we think talking is doing. The hard work is building an economy from the bosom of a colonial plantation model we never abandoned. So we educate into an abyss, the greatest success of which is brain drain!
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@MorrisMedici This. We were long indoctrinated since Emancipation that education was the key for upward social and economic mobility. Our ancestors saw how their former masters sent their offspring off to school and how fanciful they were and we did the same without proper guidance.
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@Mello_Mel27 That’s the thing too, in Barbados it is sustainable only for a small number.
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Facts. Worse, the orange economy has taken over so no one wants to go to University and get a degree to get a job when they can become an influencer for free.
Shamar Reece@SPReece_
Having a graduate in every household was a nice slogan but what is happening now is that there are no jobs for them. Also Milicent has been working in her job for 35yrs with school leavers certs and still cannot turn on a computer but she has a job or is someone superior.
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@tetoofrass @therealmiacolt Yup and less hassle too. Milicent also got that mortgage at a good rate to buy the land an build that house.
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@therealmiacolt @SPReece_ Millicent got her job with less qualifications, thats the point.
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@AkuaWalters If Milicent working in govt she gonna complain to the Minister, her MP, the media, the union, Jesus, her hairdresser and the neighbour
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@SPReece_ Aye, mek Millicent live... as someone not superior lol
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