devaronbruce

Political Scientist | Educator | Writer | Consultant 🇧🇧

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I remember the good old days when stupidity got you canceled.

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First trailer for the ‘HARRY POTTER’ series.

Releasing this Christmas on HBO.

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I’ll be joining Brass Tacks Sunday on VOB 92.9, Sunday 22nd at 11:00 am. 🎙️We’ll be diving into the 2026 Budgetary Proposals—breaking down what they mean, the impact on you and the wider Barbados economy, development and society. 📻 Tune in and be part of the discussion

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@heyroshanna @PotterDSteffy The question still remains. Will parliamentarians be more or less willing to critique their party with this legislation. I think the answer is clear. We don’t legislate behaviour, but we legislate to influence behaviour and the attempt to influence is clear.

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@heyroshanna Representation has very little to do with a party. Elections and representation are not the same. I can perfectly represent my constituency without a party banner, so are we talking elections or representation. This legislation wants you to represent party.

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@heyroshanna @PotterDSteffy What the provision of expulsion does is create a threat against parliamentarians. The question becomes, from a reasonable expectation, will a parliamentarian be more or less willing to break the party line with the threat of expulsion included in the legislation?

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@heyroshanna I’ve never heard “duly elected member under a mandate, philosophy, or banner”. I’ve only heard the constituency being mentioned. I’m not denying the role of the party in an election, yet, there is greater public good in prioritising the representation of a constituency over party

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Fact this needed to be said shows the obvious goes undetected in DLP camp.

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The continued engagement by members of the DLP with The Marcia Weekes Show tells me all I need to know.

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In political strategy one must always ask why the introduction of a new player onto the board. The rest is yet to come.

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Coldplay concert at the world's largest stadium in Ahmedabad, India

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Procedural democracy - a system that provides you with the right to make a request.

Substantive democracy- a system that is concerned with producing the outcome of that request.

What I see here is a lot of preoccupations with procedural democracy.

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An elective dictatorship?

Some quick thoughts:

1. Calling a free and fair election an “elective dictatorship” because one party won all the seats confuses outcome with oppression. Democracy is about choice, not forcing balance.

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Sometimes I wish I had the energy to respond to these Twitter engagements. It still amazes me though how we in the Caribbean are so caught up with procedural concepts of democracy and not substantive.

[Roshanna Trim @heyroshanna]

An elective dictatorship?

Some quick thoughts:

1. Calling a free and fair election an “elective dictatorship” because one party won all the seats confuses outcome with oppression. Democracy is about choice, not forcing balance.

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@the_jefferymead Do you stop ?

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A leader should be able to say thanks but no thanks and rise above certain things.

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It’s how everytime I leave my house I end up in at least one 40 minute conversation with a stranger.

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@JohnDoyle What’s hilarious is the story is about parks and not segregation..

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@TheOnlyDSC Truly is something to watch people be racist for no reason and somehow think so highly themselves. Fascinating really.,

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@GuntherEagleman Wow. You people are actually just stupid. Alaska is 50 miles from Russia..

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@cantcancelmimi @TheCharlesDowns A white coat Karen, a white coat.