Bajan Tuh De Bone

boy i aint sure bout all that. the Toronto star just do an expose this weekend on how foreign workers duz come here and get unfair. I just skim it but from the lil bit I see it din suh nice at all.

For a minute there I thought you were going to say dat de foreign workers does come there and play de ass...cause I heard something like dat a while back with regards tuh de farm labour program. So by "get unfair" I suppose yuh mean money wise?

Not only money but he mean all round - accommodation, general welfare as well. Is ole news actually.
Course not all like dah - yuh got sum decent employers who duz treat dem rite but dey is too many cases of bad treatment tuh sit back & say all well & good.

Jock wrote:Not only money but he mean all round - accommodation, general welfare as well. Is ole news actually.
Course not all like dah - yuh got sum decent employers who duz treat dem rite but dey is too many cases of bad treatment tuh sit back & say all well & good.

Ok...I wasn't aware of it before.

Dem 'in de same type o' jobs de cruise ships offering? I tink I would rather tek de warm cruise ship than cole Canada.

BeachBum wrote:Dem 'in de same type o' jobs de cruise ships offering? I tink I would rather tek de warm cruise ship than cole Canada.

...me too.

Most of the problems in terms of poor treatment have been with the farm workers and nanny programs. I don't recall Canada ever before placing a job call for the hospitality sector. I hope it opens up a lot of opportunities for Bajans. My mother is in the hospital again and once again, I am struck by the large number of Bajan nurses and porters we have in our hospitals.

Sorry to hear about your mother being in hospital again PP...hope she'll be better soon.

Hey PP, hope all goes well with your Mom. Sorry to hear she is ill.

Thanks Guys I have a hard decision to make. The hospital is telling me that she really should be placed in a nursing home but honestly, I just can't do it.

PiedPiper wrote:Thanks Guys I have a hard decision to make. The hospital is telling me that she really should be placed in a nursing home but honestly, I just can't do it.

Well I'm sure you'll make a decision dat is wise and practical since you would know the type of attention that she needs.

PiedPiper wrote:Most of the problems in terms of poor treatment have been with the farm workers and nanny programs. I don't recall Canada ever before placing a job call for the hospitality sector. I hope it opens up a lot of opportunities for Bajans. My mother is in the hospital again and once again, I am struck by the large number of Bajan nurses and porters we have in our hospitals.

dey hav been workers from Bdos in de hospital sector for a few years now, dey work in Northeren Ontario, i met ah young lady on de plane last December heading home and she said she wasnt cumin bac up dey too cold & lonely


PP i wish your mother well, could imagine what you are going thru.....

Gearbox wrote:Well I'm sure you'll make a decision dat is wise and practical since you would know the type of attention that she needs.

Quite true. I think a lotta times we dat cum from a developing country does tend to tink de bess place fuh a parent, grandparent even husband or wife is home wid fambly, but dah 'in necessarily so. And of course finances got a lot to do wid it too. Of course if yuh independently wealthy, and yuh kin stan home and have all de necessary people come in to provide care, yuh all set.

BeachBum wrote:

Gearbox wrote:Well I'm sure you'll make a decision dat is wise and practical since you would know the type of attention that she needs.

Quite true. I think a lotta times we dat cum from a developing country does tend to tink de bess place fuh a parent, grandparent even husband or wife is home wid fambly, but dah 'in necessarily so. And of course finances got a lot to do wid it too. Of course if yuh independently wealthy, and yuh kin stan home and have all de necessary people come in to provide care, yuh all set.

That's right. I know dat many bajan ol' people prefer to die at home. I remember my grandmother discharged herself from de QEH and went back home to die. She was still very sick when she discharged herself but she was adamant dat she wasn't dying nowhere else but home...and a few weeks later she closed here eyes for good. While she was home my mother paid a lady to look after her (cook, feed, and keep her clean). Sometimes yuh does gotta give in tuh their wishes otherwise they might die sooner of heartbreak...but if yuh could get dum to accept de idea dat a good nursing home would provide better care and they would have other old people around to chat with, then it works out better for everybody. Unless, as you said BB, yuh rich enuff tuh pay fuh all de necessary people (doctor, nurse, maid) to come into de home.

sorry to hear that piper
thing bout the nursing homes in the GTA is that the wait lists are incredibly long so if you need to make a nursing home decision sometime in the future ya gotta at least get on some lists from now

regarding them hospitality jobs yea quite a few bajans up here already on that as walter said.

Gearbox wrote:

BeachBum wrote:

Gearbox wrote:Well I'm sure you'll make a decision dat is wise and practical since you would know the type of attention that she needs.

Quite true. I think a lotta times we dat cum from a developing country does tend to tink de bess place fuh a parent, grandparent even husband or wife is home wid fambly, but dah 'in necessarily so. And of course finances got a lot to do wid it too. Of course if yuh independently wealthy, and yuh kin stan home and have all de necessary people come in to provide care, yuh all set.

That's right. I know dat many bajan ol' people prefer to die at home. I remember my grandmother discharged herself from de QEH and went back home to die. She was still very sick when she discharged herself but she was adamant dat she wasn't dying nowhere else but home...and a few weeks later she closed here eyes for good. While she was home my mother paid a lady to look after her (cook, feed, and keep her clean). Sometimes yuh does gotta give in tuh their wishes otherwise they might die sooner of heartbreak...but if yuh could get dum to accept de idea dat a good nursing home would provide better care and they would have other old people around to chat with, then it works out better for everybody. Unless, as you said BB, yuh rich enuff tuh pay fuh all de necessary people (doctor, nurse, maid) to come into de home.

should be better care but not always the case.....

Walter wrote:should be better care but not always the case.....

Well of course it would be best tuh seek out one dat has a really good reputation.