YOUR USUALLY erudite Tuesday columnist Dr Tennyson Joseph went “over the top” this week by casually interchanging “revolt” with “reject”.
Here in Barbados, we’ve changed administrations frequently and without fanfare since Adult Suffrage in 1951. I’m not aware of any revolts.
We simply change them when we think they’ve had enough – or when we have had enough of them; when they fail to deliver on what they promise; or when they start to get too big for their boots.
Dr Joseph did not convince me that to change a government is to revolt against it. Sometimes, we go back to the very same people we rejected five years earlier. It’s usually six of one and half-dozen of the other.
I wouldn’t call that revolt. He himself identified it as musical chairs. It’s more like merry-go-round to me.
– Carl Moore
