By Stanley Collymore
I have no problems with
Barbados governmentally, societally or professionally in all constructive
regards forging closer and positive links on all mutually beneficial fronts
with Ghana, an ancestral African country from which many of our Black kith and kin
were barbarically and enforcedly removed to the Caribbean, and Barbados
especially so, during the infamous Transatlantic Slave Trade, which, for those
of you unaware of this fact, was started by Sephardic Jews and their Dutch
allies in Barbados itself, and which subsequently became an entry point for all
slaves throughout the Caribbean and the Americas.
However, in terms of
nursing, Barbados has not only over the several years that followed its
independence from Britain developed an absolutely first rate, comprehensively free
and a commendably universal, at all points of entry, National Health Service
rated amongst the best in the world, but has also at willing public expense
produced a plethora of highly trained, assiduously well qualified and a very
much in demand efficient nursing system, many of whose nurses unfortunately,
consecutive Barbadian governments have then short-sightedly allowed
unrestricted recruitment teams from Rogue State USA to snap our nurses up and
take them back to that country.
And so, if there is a
shortfall of Barbadian nurses at home at this time, it’s not because Barbados
lacks the dynamism, skills or the capacity to provide the requisite nurses or
their numbers that Barbados needs but rather because of what I see as a marked
reluctance on the part of some government ministers responsible for our
National Health Service (NHS) to step in and roundly do something about this
carpet-bagging practice of Rogue State USA And which, in effect, simply boils
down to the effective poaching of our Barbadian nurses whose training they
don’t pay for, or contribute to, in any way whatsoever. And consequently, are
getting these highly skilled, exceptionally qualified and professional Barbadian
nurses of ours on the cheap, and very much at the expense of the Barbadian
taxpayers.
And while having nurses
in Barbados from Ghana have a number of societal and cultural benefits to both
Barbadians and Ghanaians, effectively robbing a country like Ghana of its own
trained and nursing professionals that are necessarily needed in Ghana to help
in the ongoing process of healthcare in that country and, de facto, its own
further development, is very much, from my personal perspective, on an equal
par to what Rogue State USA is doing in respect of Barbados; by standing back,
not financially contributing in any way to the training of Barbadian nurses,
arrogantly and perversely snapping our nurses up on the cheap, and doing so
after Barbados and its citizens have conscientiously forked out for the
training and in demand skills of our excellent Barbadian nurses. Something that
should first and foremost be at the disposal of Barbadians who have freely and
commendably paid for them.
After all, we Barbadians
have from bitter experience known what it’s like to have our hands bitten in
nasty and racist ingratitude and ourselves markedly humiliated in the process
in the wake of the treatment of our Windrush Generation and its abysmal
treatment by consecutive British governments, the British National Health
Service and other UK sectors when they quite arbitrarily, arrogantly and
ungratefully racially, having initially invited and thereafter recruited us in
the first place as British citizens from the Caribbean colonies to come back
and help rebuild their country, Britain – after we’d previously, courageously
and altruistically fought their bloody internecine European war against Germany
in conjunction with its Nazi and Fascist allies and subsequently returned home
to the Caribbean - post this European
war they grandiosely refer to as World War II, and just as we’d done in
so-called World War I.
However on getting back
on their feet had no compunction, whatsoever, in deceitfully and ungratefully
deciding that both we and our invaluable services to them were now superfluous
to requirements, as far as they were racially concerned. And the subsequent and
still ongoing disgraceful treatment of the Windrush Generation is still
omnipresent for all with eyes, and who conscionably wish to do so, to see.
And from the likeminded
history and mind set of Rogue State USA and its legislation against
Afro-Caribbean immigration to that country going back to the 1950s, no
respectable Afro-Caribbean person should trust this white run North American
entity with the same customary and racist mind set as every other white
Caucasian run country. And just as the Barbadian authorities in the recent past,
as well as Barbadians themselves, have contemptuously rejected - in the wake of
Enoch Powell’s, disingenuous Rivers of Blood speech, the Windrush saga and
other highly offensive actions against Afro-Caribbean Blacks - British
recruitment overtures to Barbadians, to forget the past and specific racist
experiences of Afro-Caribbeans in Britain and provide valuable service AGAIN in
the UK’s health and educational sectors, Barbados and Barbadian professionals
should likewise do the same with Rogue State USA.
So let’s keep our
Barbadian nurses at home and warmly welcome and financially reward them there.
At the end of the day, I’m
not that worried about Barbadian nurses or other professionals living and working
in other countries, or the nationals of other states doing the same things in
Barbados, so long as there’s mutual respect of each other at all levels, and
our highly gifted and experienced Barbadians professionals are automatically
treated with the due respect and courtesy that they properly deserve, and not
arrogantly or racially used by white run countries like Britain and Rogue State
USA as convenient “Niggers” to serve, and or to satisfy, their immense shortfalls
in the skills that, either through rank stupidity, short-sightedness, or their conscious
acts of general national concern for their Plebeian populace, that they
markedly lack.
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