Three officers will face the Barbados Defence Force (BDF) internal court over the next month.
No names have been released, but the series of court martials will run between May 7 and June 6.
Lieutenant Commander, Ryan R Alleyne, Force Adjutant for the BDF noted during a press conference which took place at the St Ann’s Fort based military headquarters, Garrison, St Michael, today, that the force observes the legal principle that the accused brought before the court martial is innocent until proven guilty.
In the first case scheduled to take place between May 7 and 10, the individual is charged with committing a civil offence contrary to section 71 (1) of the Defence Act by wrongful communicating information contrary to section 2 (1) (a) of the official Secrets Act, 1911, as amended by the
official Secrets Act, 1920, Lieutenant Alleyne said.
The second case, which will be heard between May 27 and 30, the individual will face four charges. The first two relate to communicating with the enemy contrary to section 36 (2) of the Defence Act. The second is for conduct “to the prejudice of good order and military discipline” contrary to section 75 of the Defence Act while the fourth charge alleges neglect to the prejudice of good order and military discipline contrary to section 75 of the Defence Act.
The third case is scheduled to be heard between June 3 and 6. That individual has being charged with committing a civil offence contrary to section 76 (1) of the Defence Act Cap.
“That is to say the individual indecently assaulted another individual contrary to section 11 (1) of the Sexual Offences Act Cap 154,” the Lieutenant said.
The Lieutenant gave the assurance that BDF investigates all allegations of misconduct by its members and continues to demonstrate excellence while protecting Barbados with a unique body of disciplined men and women.
“The alleged offences which are currently before the court martial are serious and will be treated in such a manner,” he said.
Lieutenant Alleyne noted that there would be limited seating for persons who wish to attend the hearings. He said 20 persons from the general public would be allowed to attend, six members of the press, and other spaces would be to accommodate members of the BDF.
The names of those charged would be released next week.
anestahenry@barbadostoday.bb
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hahahaha
“””….. to communicating with the enemy”””
Who is the enemy????
The press???
Please take note how these antiquated Colonial laws are being used against only BLACK PEOPLE.
It would be really interesting to find out who white people or Indians such laws were used on in the last 100 years.
”…..official Secrets Act, 1911, as amended by the
official Secrets Act, 1920,’….””
A piece of British Colonial ANTIQUATED law sitting on our statue books with the SOLE purpose of muzzling BLACK PEOPLE????
Is this a shot across the bow of all people employed by Govt???
What do the the legal Eagles of Barbados and the Trade Unions have to say about this???
But then again Barbados does not have any Trade Unions.
@Carson Cadogan: Sometimes you seem to be losing it mate. The charges are all Militarily related, these laws are within the confines of the Barbados Defence Force. All military personnel are aware of these laws, and have committed to abiding by them when they join the military. The army therefore have the right to prosecute those who breach their guidelines.
This has absolutely nothing to do with White, Indians or anything racial, it’s simply about our military personnel breaching the code of conduct, being charged, and facing their date with the tribunal. You are simply out of your depth here mate, ‘a squared peg in a round hole’.
“Three officers will face the Barbados Defence Force (BDF) internal court over the next month.”
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Are these accused soldiers enlisted men or Commissioned Officers? If they are enlisted men, the designation “Officer” does not apply to them.
CCC. You are turning out to be a right S*** stirrer!!
GREENGIANT
You still have not told me when in the last 100 years or so the,
”…..official Secrets Act, 1911, as amended by the
official Secrets Act, 1920,’….””
has ever been used against Whites or Indians in Barbados??? A simple question!!!!!
No need for beating around the bush.
Is it not recently another Idiot came up and and charged a BLACK BARBADIAN with “”MUTINY””???
Dont you get the impression that These jokers are going back to the cave man days looking for laws that should not still be on our statue books to lock up BLACK BARBADIANS only??
When the Last Prime Minister told the Barbados Labour Party that there are Integrity laws on the statues books to deal with miscreants they laughed him to scorn.
They cited the age of the laws. Check and see when these laws are from.
A one hundred and eight old law being used against a BLACK PERSON in Barbados???
Dont you think that the Black people involved in this fiasco should hang their heads in shame for doing something like this to a member of their own race???
A person who looks just like them???
Tell me “Who is the enemy”, please. I sure will like to know.
Would it be fair to say that if this BLACK BARBADIAN was instead a WHITE person, an INDIAN person, an ASIAN person, or any other race in Barbados he would not be facing this charge????
Racial fear of other races in Barbados would act as a restraint against those charging this individual with this Antiquated law??
But a BLACK BARBADIAN is fair game, someone from their own race, someone who looks just like them???
Who the hell cares about BLACK BARBADIANS, it would seem not even BLACK BARBADIANS.
So what your are saying CCC,is that in the Indian Army they do not court martial Indian soldiers, or in the Chinese Army they do not court martial martial Chinese Soldiers, or in the German Army the do not martial white US soldiers.
BELFAST
Answer me if the Armies you are naming ever dredged up old, Caveman, British, Colonial, Antiquated,SLAVE, laws one hundred and eight year old to use against any of their own people????
I await your response.
You know better than anyone, that in Barbados there is one law for BLACK BARBADIANS AND ANOTHER law for all other races.
In officialdom at all levels in Barbados there is GREAT FEAR of WHITE PEOPLE, INDIANS, and all other minority races in Barbados.
These people can do as they like and get away with it.
Not so BLACK BARBADIANS, the book is thrown at them.
Now we are seeing a one hundred and eight year old book is being thrown at a BLACK PERSON in Barbados. That would never be done to anyone of any other race in Barbados NO MATTER WHAT THEY DID.
PROVE ME WRONG BELFAST.
@Carson Cadogan: The laws in the military applies to all. Whether commissioned or non commissioned officers.
So if the B L P, and D L P neglected to change the antiquated laws it’s not the fault of Solutions Barbados, the U P P or any of the other parties. This would mean that the same party you support has facilitated the demise of the black populace for decades.
So pray tell me if you are so strongly minded about this issue. Then how could you still support the party you support?
GREENGIANT
I have been saying for a long time that they are countless Colonial ANTI BLACK PEOPLE SLAVE LAWS on our statue books and they are still active.
And as we are seeing now very capable to be used in this day and age against BLACK BARBADIANS. And they are even some of these ANTI BLACK PEOPLE SLAVE LAWS that are even worse than this one which is being used against thIS BLACK BARBADIAN.
And no BLACK GOVT. since our Independence has done anything to remove them from our statue books. I have asked about them and I have never been given a proper answer FOR WHY THEY ARE STILL THERE ON OUR STATUE BOOKS.
“”No other crop required so much animal- and human-power, so much fuel and care, so much capital and labor. And nothing sold better in Europe. By the 1650s, the planters had used their profits to replace white laborers with black slaves, a generation before this “great transformation” on the mainland.
The working conditions were nightmarish. One slave was usually stationed a few steps back from the cylinders, machete in hand, ready to chop off any arms or legs jamming the machinery. After twenty-four-hour shifts over hot fires, slaves in the boiling houses often fell into the cauldrons.
After the initial sugar boom deforested the island and carried off its topsoil, work in the cane fields worsened. Following the latest scientific advice from the Royal Society, the planters forced their slaves to spread urine and feces for fertilizer. Exposure to waste infected many with parasites, reducing their absorption of food and leading to high rates of miscarriage and still births.
Dental records indicate persistent metabolic crises among Barbadian slaves. The planters called these “starving times” and shrugged that some of their “hands” would expire even as they gorged on beef, fruit, and wine. Dental records also show pronounced decay along the sides of slaves’ mouths: they survived by smoking pipes and sucking sugar cane, held tight in their jaws so that their hands could keep working.
“The more and cheaper we have Negroes,” one planter explained to his creditors, “the more and cheaper we will make Sugar.” As such they had no patience for imperial rules about where they could buy slaves or from whom. Indeed, Barbadians kept doing business with Dutch merchants even as England and the Netherlands fought three wars in the late 1600s.
This insatiable demand for disposable humans reached hundreds of miles into western Africa, and even around the Cape of Good Hope to Madagascar, where drought and war meant plenty of people for sale. By the eighteenth century, Africans who had never seen the ocean knew of a place called Barbados, where white people were said to eat black people.””
THIS IS THE BARBADOS WHERE COLONIAL ANTI BLACK PEOPLE SLAVE LAWS still on our Statue books, were enacted to protect the Plantation class.
“he Barbados elite pioneered anti-black racism as well as all-black slavery. According to a 1661 statue from the island’s assembly, blacks were a “heathenish, brutish” species, more like lions than cattle and not at all like “Christian” servants. This law was the first of its kind, and it spread as white Barbadians sought new frontiers in the Caribbean and the mainland. By the early 1700s, the island’s law was the basis for slave codes in Jamaica, South Carolina, and Virginia.
Pushed to the limits of human endurance, the Barbadian workforce still tried to fight back. In 1692 — the same year that a Barbadian woman in Salem, Massachusetts began a witch hunt — the authorities uncovered a “conspiracy” among the island’s blacks, who now made up over 70 percent of the population. In response they paid a woman to castrate forty-two slaves. Dozens more were burned or crushed to death or “hung out to dry,” hoisted on a meat hook and left to bleed out in the sun.”
oh, by the way, that 1661 statue is still on our statue books and active.