barbados was in real trouble. and barbados received a visit from the international monetary fund, known as the imf your barbados at that point in time also had what's called a fixed exchange rate, much like the countries in the euro zone rates. it was that at a certain value, in this case 1.7 barbados of dollars to the u.s. dollar. the imf said, your country has become very uncompetitive. in the same way that countries in much of europe today have become uncompetitive. wages have gone up. what to do. the imf said, well, we think you should be valued your currency. devalue your currency will make your exports cheaper, will make imports more expensive, that will allow your economy to readjust. it will make you more competitive. the barbecue leadership said -- the said we don't think so. we don't like the idea. if you move from 1.7 to two u.s. dollars, that's essentially cutting without considered the prime minister said we're going to convene a discussion. we want to bring the together private sector, the unions, an

barbados was in real trouble. and barbados received a visit from the international monetary fund, the imf. barbados at that point in time also had what is called a fixed exchange rate, much like the countries in the eurozone. a certain value. in this case just over one-half billion dollars. the imf says your country has become very uncompetitive in the same way that country's in much of europe had become uncompetitive. rages -- wages have risen more quickly to much faster than productivity. cost has risen. what is the deal? they said, well, we think you should devalue your currency which would make your exports cheaper and imports more expensive which will allow your economy to readjust and making more competitive. the said we don't think so we don't like the idea of cutting wages without the people's consent which, in fact, is what a devaluation is because you move from 17 to two u.s. dollars and the prime minister was concerned and said we want to convene a discussion. we want to bring together the private secto

in barbados dementia national monetary fund. barbados had what's cled a face to exchange is case the billion dollars. the country command the same way the value in the currency. making it cheaper and more expensive there will allow you to read just. the said, we don't think so. we don't like cutting wages. that's what a devaluation is. a deletion from one person. that is essentially. and the prime minister also said , we want to convene a discussion. we want to be able to give the private sector, the unions man the government and we want to talk about this. and over the course of the next several months there was a very heated discussion. the alternatives are laid out. the leaders said, we have a choice. we could either do with the imf says or we can cut wages. but we have to do something. alternately the discussions got to a very difficult place. the government consulted with the private-sector a the ins. agreed. 9 percent. people were very unhappy. roughly 35%. that is the equivalent of roughly 40 million people marching on wa

was born in barbados as a young man, six years old, ira member maggie thatcher's campaigns before she became prime minister. she was a racist. i am a black man. wanted to chase us back to the sugarcane fields in jamaica and the serengeti plains. my father, who worked in transport, he would talk about her talking about if you are 30 and still taking the bus -- guest: i think it is tremendously important as a point. i would argue that she was not racist, certainly by the time she was prime minister, you did not see racism on her. she certainly had some very important moments where she was insensitive toward race anyway that was -- at a time in an intense disquiet. there was a very bad riots in a very poor area of south london were a lot of jamaicans and caribbean migrants lived. this clearly caused a public cry they found out it was rightly insensitive policing by a white police force. instead of going down, looking for a consistent, trying to understand what led people to riot, she decided it was a criminal matter. she went and stood next to local shopkeepers and sympathized with their

and values that my grandparents brought with them home with the great -- from the greek island of barbados. i spent many of my formative years in an island that was populated by a immigrants. these people understood the importance of family and constantly reinforce the value of tolerance and respect. these principles are reflected in this justice department. they will continue to guide our work to fairly adjudicate immigration cases and to hold accountable employers who knowingly hire undocumented workers or engage in illegal or discriminatory practices. and they drove the administration just last member to just last summer to announce certain young people brought to this country by their parents would impose no risk to public safety or national security and to enrich the nation may now la seek relief from removal and apply for deferred action for childhood arrivals process. [applause] because of many others in the legal community, many young people were given the basic information and legal assistance they needed to come forward and request relief under this process. their dream must be o

i was born in barbados. i first migrated to england in 1964 as a young man, six years old. remember maggie thatcher's campaigns before she became prime minister. she was a racist. she called us scalia walks. i am a black man. ywogs.ll in theer, who worked transport, would talk about the bus. if you are 30 and so they gave us -- she hated you. guest: i think it is a tremendously important point. i would argue that she was not racist, certainly by the time she was prime minister, you did not see racism on her. she certainly had some very important moments where she was insensitive toward race anyway in anas -- at a time intense disquiet. there was a very bad riots in a very poor area of south london were a lot of jamaicans and caribbean' migrants lived. this clearly caused a public cry out. instead of going down, looking for a consistent, trying to understand what led people to riot and caused for minister's, and causelly -- disruption, she basically stood next to global stock keepers and sympathize with their losses of their stock in their broken windows. to ignore any of th

that's called cancun or barbados.rn, in addition to some of the motivation, apparently the older brother did buy some of the gun powder that they used in at least one of the bombs, we don't know if it was one detonated at the event -- at an outfit, essentially a fireworks super store called phantom fireworks. he went to seabrook, new hampshire, and eventual low got three pounds of black powder out of a couple of the lock and load reloadable mortar kits that sells for 200 bucks. he bought one, he got another one for free. what's ironic is that the times square bomber, faisal shah sad went to the same company in may of 2010 in matamoros, pennsylvania and got the stuff that he used for his pressure cooker bomb from the same company. >> gretchen: apparently they empty it out from the fireworks. the store manager, a little uneasy right now knowing that that guy was in her store. but the other guy who is a vp of the company says hey, i don't know if it was just these fireworks that went into these bombs. >> he asked her to