Rihanna: The Wrong Cultural Ambassador To Barbados?

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Rihanna was pictured at Jean-Paul Gaultier’s Store in Paris, France few days ago.Many Barbadian journalists and residents of Barbados are asking themselves if the Barbados Prime Minister David Thompson made the right decision in appointing Rihanna to the position of Cultural Ambassador to Barbados.Eric Lewis, who is a writer for the Barabados Advocate wrote an article questioning the firing of key cabinet officials to make room for Rihanna $6,000 a month salary. According to the article:

Other journalists question whether the 20-year-old is even ambassador material at all.But how susceptible to dishonor does a country become when its celebrity ambassador goes haywire?,Imagine Brittney Spears becoming the ambassador of America in her pop-princess days?I have to agree. Recent photos of Rihanna lying between the legs of her BFF Chris Brown in a suggestive manner as he nuzzles her neck, are not the type of images Bajans want to see of their Cultural Ambassador.
It’s embarrassing enough that her supposed boyfriend is still allegedly carrying on an illicit affair with his older manager behind closed doors while he conveniently makes out with Rihanna in full view of the cameras.

Bajans are proud people who frown upon public displays of affection by anyone, much less an official who is being paid by taxpayer dollars.