http://www.antillean.org/2008/12/21/a-democracy-with-caveats-police-aggression-against-journalists-limited-free-speech-and-accountability-in-barbados/ Socially responsible news and commentary from the Caribbean region and the wider Americas Sun, 29 Jan 2012 12:22:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://www.antillean.org/2008/12/21/a-democracy-with-caveats-police-aggression-against-journalists-limited-free-speech-and-accountability-in-barbados/comment-page-1/#comment-123  Observer from Saint Lucy, Barbados Sun, 21 Dec 2008 18:19:52 +0000 http://bajandream.wordpress.com/?p=926#comment-123 Free press in Barbados is a joke. Show independent thought and your editor cuts you down in the newspaper's interest. Criticize a politician and lose your job and more tomorrow. Take photos of a policeman, get manhandled and arrested. To get by in Barbados, you play the game and keep quiet and just pander to authority figures without question. Barbados may well be Beijing. Free press in Barbados is a joke. Show independent thought and your editor cuts you down in the newspaper’s interest. Criticize a politician and lose your job and more tomorrow. Take photos of a policeman, get manhandled and arrested. To get by in Barbados, you play the game and keep quiet and just pander to authority figures without question. Barbados may well be Beijing.

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