BARBADOS’ AMBASSADOR TO UNITED NATIONS PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO UN’s SECRETARY-GENERAL
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon
Barbados’ Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Joseph Goddard, presented his credentials to United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki Moon, in a short ceremony at United Nations headquarters in New York.
Following the ceremony, Ambassador Goddard and Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon exchanged pleasantries and held brief discussions on matters of mutual interest.
Witnessing the ceremony were Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, United Nations Secretariat, Lyn Pascoe; Deputy Permanent Representative for Barbados, Joyce Bourne; and Counsellor, Permanent Mission of Barbados to the United Nations, Selwin Hart.
Ambassador Goddard, a former General-Secretary of the National Union of Public Workers, assumed his duties at the Permanent Mission of Barbados to the United Nations on September 1, this year. (DATA COURTESY: BGIS)
SEPARATION EVENT’S PRELUDE
Have the walls been built?
Fear God!
Have the forest places been inhabited?
… Extol His Greatness!
Have man conquered the earth to completion?
Fear God!
Those who know the time
May publish the sign…,
Each line
A seal
For every 200 miles.
Fear God,
Raise His praises
So HIGH !
ANOTHER LONG WAY AHEAD
E be like say
Dis drama
we dey act here
Don dey near its end…
De stage itself
Don dey flicker
Like say
Its sets don dey slumber…
E be like say
Dis drama
We dey act here
Na complete dirge in suspense…
De major actors themselves
Don dey ‘facebook’
Like say
Dem no know what’s up…
E be like say
Dis drama
We dey act here
Don reach time we face out the real…
De costumes and its designers
Don dey go orgy
Like say
Time no go ever end…
E be like say
Dis drama
We dey act here
Have got two sided receipts to recover…
E no matter say
Na tay-tay we’ve been waiting,
De koko be say
Dis drama we dey act here
Have just begun…
It’s another long way ahead.
The make-up like a set-up
Is creating a timeless worktop
Where speed, space, love and time
Will wallop against every sweatshop…
It is an unspoken hop.