Comments on: Barbados school boys allegedly beaten by teacher, caught on tape

By: jakcy&jacky from Georgia, United States

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 19:41:02 +0000

umm………..im just like wtf!! :~P really teachers have no right to use corporal punishment on students.they are not the parent or guardian of that child sooo f*** them teachers!

By: Cherise Noel from Illinois, United States

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:48:57 +0000

Someone is insulting my intelligence if this is a hoax. From what I can see, they were still hit, no?

By: Ian Bourne from Saint Michael, Barbados

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 10:33:01 +0000

The Online Nation claims this is a hoax and adults were present – where are they?

By: Ian Bourne from Saint Michael, Barbados

Sun, 27 Dec 2009 16:53:45 +0000

@ Andre – wow your nerves in a jangle? Try some Panadol or Excedrin, I hear Whizz works wonders too! Nothing wrong for promoting my work, but thanks for visiting my youtube channel as well, see you again soon?

By: Andre from Saint Michael, Barbados

Sun, 27 Dec 2009 15:58:31 +0000

Are you people really replying to Ian Bourne?!!! I saw his Youtube video and he had the audacity to say that the Saturday Sun newspaper did’t even credit HIM for the news story. WTF? Everybody with a Facebook account saw this video on a teenage student’s page first!! The only difference is that other people would not be so pretentious and fraudulent as to make it seem like this was an exclusive scoop for their blog! Even the backstory was easy to glean from the students’ comments on the video. This was not ‘exclusive’ or ‘breaking news’ and certainly not limited to Bajan Reporter in any way. For Ian Bourne to make it seem so is ridiculous.

To comment on the video: This teacher is known for that but he also knows who he can do it to. Kudos to those boys for standing there and taking those lashes so subserviently and not pummeling the shit out of him. At the same time, it is sad that they believe he has the right to hit them like that, no matter what they did. If that was me, it would not have ended without a fight.

By: EC Editor from Saint Michael, Barbados

Sun, 27 Dec 2009 15:11:04 +0000

Hi Ian – it’s not a competition, is it? If it was, your comment would have been deleted.

While we don’t put personal opinions and reflections in articles tagged as ‘news’ here, we appreciate that Bajan Reporter has its audience and a very different slant.

WRT to having the story before us, while it is true that you posted the story two days before the Antillean, you would notice that we both put the video on our Youtube accounts on December 23, i.e. a day after the student posted it on his Facebook page. We just took a decision not to post this story on Christmas Eve/Christmas Day, given the nature of the video.

By: Ian Bourne from Saint Michael, Barbados

Sun, 27 Dec 2009 10:53:23 +0000

Cherise, please take time to examine my site… I do not present News in an average manner. Yes, I had it first a full 2 days before The Antillean and I added my personal experiences with Corporal Punishment to make it clear why I am against such barbarism…

By: Cherise Noel from Illinois, United States

Sun, 27 Dec 2009 04:28:57 +0000

This is assault. Plain and simple. That seriously shocked me and I can’t believe they’re in the background laughing like it’s normal. As SanMan said, this isn’t corporal punishment.

BTW: Interesting question John, my Bajan friends showed me the video on Facebook first – I guess bajanreporter wanted to seem, ‘exclusive’? And what was with the personal reflection Ian – are those, ‘details’?

By: John from Oslo, Norway

Sun, 27 Dec 2009 04:13:42 +0000

If the video was first released on FB why does bajanreporter have its name stamped on the video?

By: Will from Saint Michael, Barbados

Sun, 27 Dec 2009 04:13:18 +0000

jesus…

this is disturbing on so many levels…

lol @ ian using this site to advertise his own…