[Beep_Beep]

By coincidence I have just came across a site that has the Tom Adams Book in stock.
Try one of these links
www.abebooks.com
www.abebooks.co.uk
http://dogbert.abebook.com (under Alexander Hoyos)
The ISBN # IS 0333463323 Cost US $14.38

[Hende]

Tom Adams, in the news again. This should be interesting. To bad we don't have late night show comedians, to bring to life the man we all know. I did here Cyntha Forde (If anybody beside Geneveive knew Tom well she did) on cbc tv stating that person who knew Tom will be invited to share their stories. Uh wonder if Brigadere Rudyard Lewis, Vic Fernandes, the former management of Silver fox arcade, and a former CBC news reader who's name i can't readily recall, I think it was Sharon....something. Will these folks be making appearance?

Come on Adrian this is a low blow even for you. I know when Tom dead, Cinty publicly cried more than anyone , but you may have it a little wrong my brother. But could you tell me why all the fascination with a PM that was allegedly said to be an avid womaniser, drug taker, gambler , woman beater and many other things besides. What really troubles me is the continued glorification of such loose morals, and then we all complain about our youths. Are we not aware of the kind of double standards that we continue to support? Do we not take any responsibilty for the examples we set?

[Bendedknees]

Tull paints a pretty picture about Tom.

Tull: Tell us about coup rumours
Published on: 10/4/06.

A VETERAN PARLIAMENTARIAN wants Government to "open up the archives" and let the people know what happened during the Sydney Burnett-Alleyne's attempted coup in 1976.

Speaking at the second annual Tom Adams Memorial Lecture at Sharon Primary in St Thomas recently, St George MP Louis Tull said it was time to let the people of Barbados know exactly what happened during the more turbulent events of the Adams administration.

"I am asking Government tonight to open up the archives to the people of Barbados so that they can see what happened. I remember when there was a threat of armed mercenaries recruited in France who were on their way to Barbados to take over Government. I don't know why Government is taking so long to reveal this information," he said.

Tull remembered the trials they faced shortly after taking over Government in 1976.

"No Government of this country was ever confronted with such great challenges as that 1976-1981 Government. Before we could warm the seats in Cabinet, Cubana Airlines blew up," he said.

Tull also mentioned how former Prime Minister of Dominica, Patrick John, was "parked out" in Barbados waiting until the takeover so he could become president of the "Commonwealth of Barbados and Dominica".

The attorney-at-law said despite some rumours about the man, Adams was not a tyrant. In fact, he said, he was very liberal.

"Adams was the only leader who could be overruled by his Parliament. Can you imagine Owen Arthur or Erskine Sandiford being overruled by their parliaments?"

He also gave anecdotes of Adams pertaining to his stance on foreign policy, culture, home affairs and more. He said current ideas like the expansion of the ABC Highway had their origins with Adams, and he informed the audience of Adams' role in the forming of the Barbados Defence Force and Regional Security System.

"He was an astute parliamentarian, an excellent debater, a consummate team player and a regionalist. I have never met any other world leader with the intellect and world view of Tom Adams. His greatest achievement was to bring this country together," he said.

[Adrian]

I would like them to release them. Sydney Burnett in an article about 2-3 years ago gave Barbadians the impression that he was framed, and giving Toms notoriety i wasn't about to dismiss his claim. But aint this uh thing nuh. How the landed gentry keeps information from the public, who wants to know and that in the absense of information, will speculate, air that speculation that the information hoarders can hear, who never the less refuse to make the said information public only to cry foul when public perception cast them and their friends in a bad light. I say they deserve it. Uh wonder if this information gine got in anything about any illegitimate children . ha hah ha h uh could only hope. it's going to be the mother of all elections, Thompy sey so and Owen agree, so anything is possible.

[Kem]

I would like them to release them. Sydney Burnett in an article about 2-3 years ago gave Barbadians the impression that he was framed, and giving Toms notoriety i wasn't about to dismiss his claim. But aint this uh thing nuh. How the landed gentry keeps information from the public, who wants to know and that in the absense of information, will speculate, air that speculation that the information hoarders can hear, who never the less refuse to make the said information public only to cry foul when public perception cast them and their friends in a bad light. I say they deserve it. Uh wonder if this information gine got in anything about any illegitimate children . ha hah ha h uh could only hope. it's going to be the mother of all elections, Thompy sey so and Owen agree, so anything is possible.

I found it hilarious that Fruendel Stuart labelled Owen Arthur worse than Tom. I was not around in the days of Tom but if even a small percentage of these post are accurate about the former leader and assuming Stuart's comparison to have some merit it speaks volumes of the character of the present.

This post has been edited by Kem: 04 October 2006 - 11:36 PM

[Adrian]

I have been meaning to ask this question. In my brief censorship and banishment, this Hende person appeared, calling my name in many of his contributions, since my return he has not been heard off or seen since. Was he real? someone doppleganger perhaps? I came back to engage him but he seems to have wilted and whithered away. Maybe i should take leave make everyone happy and have him returned. I'll just respond elsewhere.

[Beep_Beep]

I would like them to release them. Sydney Burnett in an article about 2-3 years ago gave Barbadians the impression that he was framed, and giving Toms notoriety i wasn't about to dismiss his claim. But aint this uh thing nuh. How the landed gentry keeps information from the public, who wants to know and that in the absense of information, will speculate, air that speculation that the information hoarders can hear, who never the less refuse to make the said information public only to cry foul when public perception cast them and their friends in a bad light. I say they deserve it. Uh wonder if this information gine got in anything about any illegitimate children . ha hah ha h uh could only hope. it's going to be the mother of all elections, Thompy sey so and Owen agree, so anything is possible.

My personal take is that this Sydney Burnett-Alleyne thing was blown out of all proportion, and used by the them Tom Adams to do what other leaders of the African diaspora were doing at the time, installing themselves as Commanders-In -Chief of thier Armed Forces , by hook or by crook. As we had no regular army at the time it gave Tom the oppurtunity to establish one.But alas within the Armed Forces Tom shot himself in the foot, figuretively speaking,when he created an enemy within. Here we have a small time gun runner, full of himself, making threats to a non military man like Tom. How come that Sydney never threatened the Dipper. Real mercenaries do not talk ...they do. Sydney is like the legendary Brute Alleyne ,a lot off hot air to scare the pants off you, but behind that soft as hell.

[Adrian]

Will the real Tom Adams ever be revealed???[color=#FF0000]

Sydney yearns for home - Sunday 17, August-2003
Will the real Sydney Burnett-Alleyne please stand up?
Is the Burnett-Alleyne of today the same person who spent several months in jail after being caught in Martinique’s waters with a yacht full of guns and ammunition, supposedly bound for Barbados to try to overthrow the Tom Adams administration in the middle 1970s, or is he the soft spoken man in Britain who recently converted to Roman Catholicism and who recently told the SUNDAY SUN that he loves Barbados and Barbadians?
Is he the same man who once vowed that the streets of Barbados would “run red with blood” if he didn’t get his way by having a government of “national consensus” to replace the freely elected administration in Bridgetown?
Now he says he has completed a Master’s degree in Canon and civil law at Leeds University and dreams of returning to the waters off Barbados, this time to be reminded of his birthplace’s beauty?
Of course, one can ask if Sydney Burnett-Alleyne has had a change of heart in his senior years, forsaking the alleged plot with Patrick John, then the Prime Minister of Dominica in the 1970s, to have the Windward Island and Barbados linked together as a republic headed by John? The Dominican leader subsequently went to prison.
Based on a recent interview in Britain, Burnett- Alleyne seems to have put the past and many of the allegations behind him as he ponders how to spend his remaining years.
“I have thought of not returning to Barbados, after all they have said of me,” said Sydney Burnett- Alleyne, the man once considered a threat to Barbados’ national security in the mid-1970s.
“They have accused me of trying to kill Barbadians, of having plans to throw anthrax in the water.
“Perhaps, I would sail around the island, but never ever go back. I am ashamed of some of the things said about me and used for political purposes. Interestingly, I was never tried by a court of law. But I was tried by the House of Parliament which, it can be said, had a vested interested.”
Burnett-Alleyne, 75, grew up in Venture, St John, but left Barbados to seek his fame and fortune in 1945 in England. He is a man of many parts, some of which he claims and others he denies.
For example, although he chafes at being called a gunrunner for African liberation groups and nationalist armies in different parts of the world, he admits to being versed in the “physics of the arms industry”, a skill from which he used to earn much of his income and which enabled him to develop lasting relationships with such leaders as the late Julius Nyere of Tanzania and Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana.
It may explain why he served as an officer in Mozambique between 1969 and 1971; worked in Angola and the Congo; and was able to produce a Brazilian passport issued in 1952.
Next is Burnett-Alleyne, the Bridgetown banker whose Alleyne Mercantile Bank operated for a time in Barbados in the early 1970s, but which was eventually struck off the register by the Central Bank after it became insolvent and he fled the country, reportedly at dead of night, landing first in Guyana, next in Brazil, and finally in New York where he lived for more than a year.
As a matter of fact, it was from New York that he first issued many warnings about his plans to invade Barbados and, according to Press reports at the time, he left New York on the yacht with the arms shortly after the change of government in 1976.
Throughout his many incarnations, Burnett-Alleyne has claimed strong friendships with two of Barbados’ most outstanding leaders and now national heroes, Sir Grantley Adams and Errol Barrow. As he outlined it in the interview with the SUNDAY SUN, he became a confidante of Sir Grantley, so much so he told the Press that Barbados’ first premier invited him to contest the 1951 general election, but, on returning home, had to flee after he was branded a communist and after plans were reportedly being drawn up to charge him with sedition.
As for his ties to Barrow, Burnett-Alleyne claimed in previous interviews a close friendship with the nation’s first Prime Minister whom, he said, had personally approved the application for the Alleyne Merchant Bank.
During the recent conversation he produced copies of the now infamous cheques for money which he had given to some top officials of the Barrow Government and which caused consternation when Tom Adams, at the time Leader of the Opposition, laid them on the table of the House of Assembly, just prior to the 1976 election which brought him and the Barbados Labour Party to office.
To this day, political observers contend the cheque issue helped to bring down the Barrow administration.
Commentators are also quick to point out that Burnett-Alleyne is perhaps the only person in the post-Independence period to have been accused of treason in Barbados’ House of Assembly.
Henry Forde, now Sir Henry, at the time Attorney-General, had introduced a motion in Parliament embodying the allegation after backbencher Dr Richard Cheltenham raised the issue of Burnett-Alleyne’s alleged plot to overthrow the Barbados Government.
Alleyne dismissed the charge as rubbish.
“Why,” he asked, “would I seek to destroy the people and country that I love. My mission had nothing to do with Barbados, and the attempt to frame me was born of a despicable act by some local politicians who were trying to get their revenge because I had previously refused to do their dirty work.”
He denies ever seeking power, asking the rhetorical question: “For what gain? It was an absurd notion that I wanted power.”
As he reflects on his life and thinks about the future, Burnett-Alleyne expresses his love of country and voiced unrestrained praise for Prime Minister Owen Arthur.
“I love my country dearly and although these people have humiliated and tortured me, I want to protect confidentiality and decency in this matter.
“I yearn to return to my homeland. I grieve that I am unable to take in the splendid views from Hackelton Cliff and Bathsheba. Why is it that Barbadians think that I am a madman or a scoundrel?”
His political views, he said, are in concert with those of most Barbadians and he says he is an admirer of Arthur.
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[Beep_Beep]

Sometime in the early 70's Sidney Burnett-Alleyne was believed to have been behind a feeble attempt to bomb the Barbados Light and Power Generating plant,the Garrison.

Yesterday,another monkey succeeded in doing more damage that Sidney. It closed down the entire island electricity ntework ,for up to 7 hours, according to BL&P , by breaching power lines in the St Michael area. Could this monkey be Sidney returned to complete the job he bungled so many years ago

[foska]

Sometime in the early 70's Sidney Burnett-Alleyne was believed to have been behind a feeble attempt to bomb the Barbados Light and Power Generating plant,the Garrison.

Yesterday,another monkey succeeded in doing more damage that Sidney. It closed down the entire island electricity ntework ,for up to 7 hours, according to BL&P , by breaching power lines in the St Michael area. Could this monkey be Sidney returned to complete the job he bungled so many years ago

HAHAHAHAHHAAHHAA

[Adrian]

Sometime in the early 70's Sidney Burnett-Alleyne was believed to have been behind a feeble attempt to bomb the Barbados Light and Power Generating plant,the Garrison.

Yesterday,another monkey succeeded in doing more damage that Sidney. It closed down the entire island electricity ntework ,for up to 7 hours, according to BL&P , by breaching power lines in the St Michael area. Could this monkey be Sidney returned to complete the job he bungled so many years ago

You don't cease to amaze me. Let me ask you, are you insinuating that that Sydney Burnett Alleyne a Black man, is a monkey? What were your views of the shooting that you referred to that took place in Blumesbury, or Doomsbury? where a White man shot a black person that he thought was a monkey? was that a plausable defense? uh mean de white man say he "mistook" de boy for a monkey, but you seem very sure that Sydney is one, am i correct? Needless to say i will ignore your insistance that i am engaging in racism when i seek to use the term "Coolie". The spirit of King Dyal lives on. ha haha haha

[Beep_Beep]

You don't cease to amaze me. Let me ask you, are you insinuating that that Sydney Burnett Alleyne a Black man, is a monkey? What were your views of the shooting that you referred to that took place in Blumesbury, or Doomsbury? where a White man shot a black person that he thought was a monkey? was that a plausable defense? uh mean de white man say he "mistook" de boy for a monkey, but you seem very sure that Sydney is one, am i correct? Needless to say i will ignore your insistance that i am engaging in racism when i seek to use the term "Coolie". The spirit of King Dyal lives on. ha haha haha

Man lighten up, for christsake!

[Adrian]

Man lighten up, for christsake!

So wait, am I to believe that you are Christ? oh you meant for your sake anyway um is your cross to bear, that you would seek to defend others from derogatory labels while doing so to your ownkind, so don't expect nuh help from me I wid de crowd that prefer to add weigth to your burden with a flogging.

[Beep_Beep]

So wait, am I to believe that you are Christ? oh you meant for your sake anyway um is your cross to bear, that you would seek to defend others from derogatory labels while doing so to your ownkind, so don't expect nuh help from me I wid de crowd that prefer to add weigth to your burden with a flogging.

Go ahead, my back is broad and my arse is made of teflon

[Confucius]

Go ahead, my back is broad and my arse is made of teflon

2B, don't you feel that you should rethink your offer. Perhaps you will after you feel the effect.

[Adrian]

Go ahead, my back is broad and my arse is made of teflon

....ha ha ha ha i will have to reconcider, it is no fun to flog an accepting and willing recipient.

BB I was to asked you, why is it that even in short sentences one still has to enquire of a Diplomat what it is they mean?

[Beep_Beep]

....ha ha ha ha i will have to reconcider, it is no fun to flog an accepting and willing recipient.

BB I was to asked you, why is it that even in short sentences one still has to enquire of a Diplomat what it is they mean?

Like your personal secretary ,diplomats are trained to lie like you average cheap chinese watch. That why the Indian, sorry ,Native American has coined the phrase "forked tongue".