Local Pan-Africanists are calling for Government to strengthen ties with the African continent through the creation of a direct flight.
Public relations officer of the Pan African Coalition of Organizations, John Tifase Howell, was speaking this morning at a press launch for the celebration of Kwanzaa when he revealed that members of the Pan African Coalition believe that economic and social ties need to be fostered between the Caribbean and Africa.
“Africa is the richest continent in the world, you cannot have a major economic system unless you deal with the continent of Africa because the resources are there . . . We in the Caribbean are neglecting our legacy that we have with the continent of Africa and therefore we need to have this direct flight so we do trade and have cultural exchanges,” suggested Howell.
He said celebrations such as Kwanzaa, which commences on December 26, could only be continued if citizens, especially the youth, explore their African roots and heritage.
“It is the youth who have to continue the programme. It is about building communities and ultimately building the nation,” Howell said.
The Kwanzaa celebrations will kick off with cultural activities at Pelican Village.
Members from the Israel Lovell Foundation Pan African Coalition of Organizations, Caribbean Movement of Peace and Integration and the Haynesville Community Group are spearheading the programme.
The week will conclude on January 1 with a parade dedicated to the Haitian Independence and the 1959 Cuban Revolution in Haynesville St James.
David Denny, general secretary for the Caribbean Movement for Peace and Integration explained that the virtues of Kwanzaa were unity, creativity, faith and philanthropy. He pointed that the festival sought to encourage people to learn about themselves.
“It is a festival to help our entire family to better understand themselves, to look at the seven principles of Kwanzaa and to reflect on what they would happened during the year so it would help them to move forward in a more positive way,” Denny commented.
Sir, Caribbean Airways the airline which was operated by the Barbados Government, now only operates a Duty Free booth at Grantley Adams Airport.
I’d like to see it happen too.
I wonder how many Barbadian will migrate to Africa? This will be very interesting!
I hope we are not implying that Barbados can support direct flights to the Mother Continent. We need to view this as a regional undertaking. I think we tried it before and were left holding the price/cost bag
This is an interesting concern. I wonder how many Barbadian will actually decide to migrate to Africa? Taking into consideration that Africans are leaving that Continent of there own free will in droves. Of course, the grass always appear greener on the other side, but the fruit can be somewhat bitter!
Seriously……Popular Kendal Hill want a bigger carpark at Christmas
The men that were Seamen will tell you the Africans do not accept the Caribbean people as related to them, I am sorry most of those Seamen are dead, they are not here to give us the stories , I heard some of the stories From my late husband, wish all of you luck.
Good luck.
@ Rommel Weithers, If it came to fruition, it would give all the back to Africa movement individuals to return to their mother Continent; also, those who believe that life in Africa is a bed of roses.
Lately, everyone wants to get their face in the Newspapers.. Hey you, yes you,with the african shirt you are a politician.
@ Josephine Maccoon, They dislike Caribbean parole immensely here in the UK; and hate each other in Africa. Barbadian won’t know what hit them.
I would all BAJANS PEOPLE who want to go to AFRICA to leave Barbados…
I would hiring a plane to take them all..
Barbados would be better off without them..
Not one!
Here for it
Can we also get direct flights to all Caribbean islands while you are at it
@BELFAST,HOWELL must be eying up the old concord then he only has to get goverment to provide some of the retrenched and retrained workers to man the Airbus.I would like some of what he was drinking from the duty free booth before he made his speech.
the queen is alyuh head of state. england will not approve
I love it! Silly goose!
Do you understand that AFRICA is. very, very, very large continent that comprises at least 54 separate
and independent nations.
So tell me, Mr. Howell, where exactly in AFRICA do you want the airline to fly.
In Ethiopia alone, there is a very large fleet of a super efficient Airline flying domestically throughout that one country and flying internationally. Sure; it would be very nice to have a direct link there.
Let me help you decide, Mr. Howell. Are you suggesting to link up with Egypt, Angola, Somalia, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Nigeria, Ghana, Zambia, North or South Sudan, Comoros, Congo-Brazzaville, Congo- Kinshasa, Ivory Coast, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Guinea Bissau, Lesotho, Libya, Namibia, Rwanda, Senegal,Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Togo, Malawi, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Algeria,
Zaire, Niger, Congo, Kenya? Tunisia, I may have duplicated some countries, but I’m sure you get the lesson.So tell us idiots where in AFRICA you want the flight to land, Mr Howell?
STUPSE
@ Committed Bajan, It would be especially beneficial if a direct to nowhere flight could be arrange to get all the gun men, and their secretive family and friends out of Barbados. I would also include those in Dodds
These so-called Pan Africanist, are more African than the Africans themselves,who were actually born on the continent. The biggest imposter is David Comissiong, who in his glee, let us know that indeed there is a prejudice scale within the negro race. At a BLP political meeting in Silver Sands, he declared that his cousin Mia and he come from very good stock whatever that meant. I don’t know if he meant bull cows or bull dogs, but that doesn’t say much for the rest of us. That must be why the 26 fat cats who kiss the feet of the Queen Bee, can enjoy the sweets of the Treasury, while pain and suffering is rendered to thousands during this loving Christmas season. The elitists have refused to take a 15% salary cut for the next four years, to show solidarity with the thousands of public workers being fired. It’s a darn shame for a government that says it cares. John King will soon get his plantation, and we won’t be able to question how he got it.
Am sure if it’s economically viable flights with the continent would be welcome BUT Africa? We ourselves are guilty of speaking of Africa as if it’s a single country.
@ CYNTHIA TAITT.We do not need a plane to send off these gunmen and murders to another place. We a have a less expensive piece of machinery which also flies. It is lying idle in St Philip and is commonly referred to as the Gallows.
Some years ago I met some guys at the YMCA on Pinfold street. When I enquired where there were from, they replied the Continent. After more questions I eventually was told Namibia. Knowing that Namibia was at one time a German colony I enquired if they spoke German. They looked at me puzzled and ask me why I had asked them so. Because I said we were once a British Colony and we speak English. The looks on their horrified faces were most frightening,and almost in unison they said.” Surely you are not comparing yourself to us.”
A few minutes later while they were sat eating, my mate looked at them and said ” AND THAT IS WHY YOU ARE IN THE YMCA EATING WHITE RICE.”
Yup. Bajans still waiting for the Mandela park…. Some bajans full of crap. We dont even own a plane a boat or even a helicopter. Give me a break man. We kill REDJET just to keep pouring tax payers money into liat that have never made a profit. Beewee is a skeleton of its former self and Caribbean Air ways was aloud to die
Get real. Its my hope that given time the new Barbados government will launch a Barbados own airline.there’s no reason for Africans to want to travel to the Caribbean. We have nothing to gain by flying to Africa. South and central America is right in our front yard.
@Steve Rock.
Correct, We should be paying greater attention to developing ties with countries in our Hemisphere, and learning their language. Yes Africa was the home of our forefathers/mothers, but many Africans have little regard for us from the Caribbean, and claim that we have mixed blood. It is ironic that some of us seek to clothe ourselves in the dashiki, while some Africans boldly sport the suit. What good is learning Swahili, Zulu or Berber going to do me living in Barbados. I need to learn French, Spanish,Portuguese or Dutch. We also need to start loving our Hemisphere and Barbados more, while promoting our own culture. But in the end, we all belong to the red blooded human race.
STEVE ROCK says;
{ Some bajans full of crap. We dont even own a plane a boat or even a helicopter }
Ossie Moore : bajans do own a lot of guns.
I am asking Sir Richard Branson, who owns Virgin Airlines, to make one of his planes available in Barbados, for a one way trip to the continent Africa. Sir Richard, please make sure that the plane has ALL the African meals, and extremely attractive Flight Attendants. I am also asking you Sir Richard to offer this as a free trip for Christmas, to David Comissiong, David Denny and all who claim to love Africa more than they do love Barbados.
I will bet, that even though you would be so generous Sir, none of these so-called Pan Africanists will ever accept this offer….not one of them Sir. So Barbados is will NEVER be rid of these communist clowns.
The nguzo Saba. The seven principles of Kwanzaa.
The first principle .. Umoja.. unity. To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community nation and race.
I ain’t mad at this…only because it would make trips home for me easier #Selfish
These Impostors won’t survive 4 weeks in Africa
Two brek pop down men want to go Africa
Hello it takes money to go Africa wunna looking for a free flight from Government See if Come along can help wunna he Cousin Mia give him a Job cause thee Vendors don’t want to see or hear he anymore
Two of wunna want de Lord
Repent and be save
Africa don’t want wunna misfits
howell !!when you and David Denny get to Nigeria would you be:
i..introducing Nigerians to kwanza?
ii..of a population of 191 million people would you have any success persuading 10 Nigerians to join you..by the way, the Rev Reinhard Bonnke of Germany held a crusadein Lagos Nigeria was attended by only two million people,twenty died in stampedes as they as they made they way to the alter to get their souls save.
iv..howell and David denney,please purchase a one-way ticket to the mother land.
I m down for this..
Lol…. if these “Pan clowns”, with their buddy Commisong, had put their energy into helping Barbados over the years… instead of yearning for the mother country…. they would be taken seriously. This whole Pan African Coalition movement don’t have a clue about today’s Africa. I am sure none of the 50+ countries that make-up the continent of Africa, give a hoot about Barbados….. and the majority of Africans don’t have a clue about Barbados.
Let the Pan Africans & Pan Brits, among us, buy their one-way tickets……… Barbados comes first!!!
We just had a african king come barbados, when the article was post one of the leading emoji was the laughing face. We suggest a flight to africa and the laughing face is back and all the negative comments. If you want confirmation on our miseducation look no further . Self hate is a real thing
Another scheme by this organisation,can’t even get proper airlift between Caribbean islands but talking crap about direct flights with Africa sounds like a David Comissiong bad idea.By the way the airlines need to be on board with this because they need to make money and this ain’t going to be no money maker guess Barbados taxpayers would subsidize it.
SERIOUSLY, is that how business works? Is there a market for direct flights to Africa? Because someone fancies it an airline should fly it? When are we going to grow up and understand how BUSINESS.works?
How about working on some direct flights TO Barbados?
Direct flights to Africa from Barbados once or twice a wk …it cost less to fly to the USA/Canada than throughout the Caribbean .. SMH
Africa is Not a Country it’s a Continent… stop being selfish. Some of you are bad minded just like the POTUS. D.T.
Every one in Africa is trying to leave AFRICA and the only people in the world that wants to go back to AFRICA is BAJANS…
@ Junioe Leon Parris, Gosh; you’ve hit That straight on the head. I guess there are some Bajans who would like to experience tribal wars, have their hands and legs chopped off if they are lucky, plus all the other gruesome unnatural events that takes place on that Continent. I guess they don’t know what a starving pot belly child dying from malnutrition look like. I say give these individuals a one way ticket and they will soon discover How wonderful their lives were in tiny Barbados.
That’s the right way to go
Direct to West Africa “Senegal, Ghana and Sierra Leone” from the Caribbean is a must.
This will mean countries like UK, USA and DUBAI will have to miss out on the landing fees as they made sure of the route .
We are now asking for more trouble , many African countries don’t even think much of each other …….Wasn’t something with Nigeria was tried before, that didn’t last much time did it……….
We see in the UK Thousands of Africans would give an arm and a leg and many in many cases loose they lives, fleeing from the African continent…………
But then again, CARICOM can’t even get LIAT going for a decent price for a 20 minute hop, skip and a jump from one Island to another. The fare to Africa will be sky high that not many will be able to foot the cost.
Let KERRIE go speak with EMIRATES Airlines. South Africa got a good tourist thing going on.
Be patient. Wait until these fields and hills of marijuana start to produce. Bajans will become so damn high. Just fit some feathers up their backsides and point them in the direction of Africa.
As the USA farmers moving away from “tobacco” and planting more “hemp”.
Up. up and away.
The “Sugar Cane” will slowly give way in BIM.
No way
“Time & History shall tell”.
“Ham: The youngest son of Noah, born probably about 96 years before the Flood; and one of eight persons to live through the Flood. He became the progenitor of the dark races; not the Negroes, but the Egyptians, Ethiopians, Libyans and Canaanites.” – Zondervan Bible Dictionary.
See if u can figure out why this hole pan African movement is a WOT. This also answers all the lot who said that the African do not relate to so called Caribbean peoples, along with the lot who trying to hook this people to the NON negro. This people was mis-educated for a reason. And in case you did not know u people of the Caribbean are the so called NEGROES.
Happy Kwanzaa guys. Shalawam.
EX ALLEYNE says :
The “Sugar Cane” will slowly give way in BIM.
Ossie Moore : Wow ! ! ! Is there still sugar cane in BIM . . . so you mean to tell me that there are still ” cane Butts ” around ?
I remember how ” watchman ” stupid old man Chrissy Gibbs ( RIP ) used to chase the young boys through Holders Hill and Norwood just because they “brek ” out a juicy cane from the white folks cane ground.