Say what???

08Aug09

Did Justice Maureen Crane-Scott really refer to statutory rape as “stealing a piece”?

Did Sir Shridath Ramphal really accuse Barbados of “intimations of ethnic cleansing”?

Domestics with a vocational qualification (my mother cleaned houses without one but hey maybe Caribbean governments will pay a few people decent salaries to rubber stamp these skills) have been added to the free movement list. Hmmm…how could “free” movement possibly have a list??? How free is it really then?? If a woman moves “freely” as a domestic does that mean she can only seek domestic work? Is this what passes as a policy that is in Caribbean women’s best interest? Will there ever been any recognition of the fact that Caribbean peoples’ reasons for moving are larger than labour?

Maybe i’ll follow up with a longer post…maybe not. So much has been said already (on migration, nobody really cares about the abuse of our girls and i haven’t even heard a twitter on the free movement of domestics) and most of it has been hateful and divisive on both sides…

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