GOD BLESS RONALD REAGAN

It’s a real shame to read the posts relating to Reagan’s passing on some Bajan forums on the Internet over the past week. There is such utter lack of respect for the dead - not to mention all the ubiquitous liberal vitriol – that I am ashamed to be identified with them. Bajans seem to have forgotten that were in not for Reagan they would probably be all now languishing in some Soviet Gulag if not pulverized by some Soviet nuclear bomb. They have forgotten and/or are downright ungrateful for Reagan’s sending American boys to get the Cubans and the Soviets out of Grenada and the Eastern Caribbean where they were setting up another Caribbean base to destabilize the entire region. They have forgotten that it was Reagan’s CBI (Caribbean Basin Initiative) that established the foundation for all the present day prosperity Bajans now enjoy. And, they have forgotten that Reagan was the very first sitting American president to set foot on Barbados underlining the importance he placed on America’s relationship not only with Barbados but with the entire Caribbean region.