Tuesday, March 2, 2010

YOUTH SUMMIT

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7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Tell Montoute stop stealing people's ideas. The guy knows how to make people's idea's his own.

Anonymous said...

I wonder if provisions are in place for the winners to have their ideas patented. Just curious, cause I've heard of unethical practices going on with young struggling youths presenting their ideas to loan officers, or to seek permission to rent a space in the mall and then they get declined only to find out the idea is passed onto one of their peers to capitalize on the stolen idea.

Anonymous said...

This is a load of crap.

First of all. What young people need are parents, leaders, adults to act in a responsible manner to provide examples and guidance to show them the way forward. In St. Lucia what we have are corrupt politicians, a corrupt police force and adults who dirty roads with litter, drive badly, engage in sexual activities outside of marriage, do not pay their lisences and insurance and on their cars, work on a government job while having another job on the side and it goes on and on. Our bus drivers are ill desciplined, our public service a mess. Our adults talk but do the opposite.

Secondly. Young people want direction and not the job of telling adults what to do. We already provide them with free education up to secondary school. If children were desciplined and brought up well they would study, pass their exams and move on to further education or a good jod that they would keep if they worked well. Instead we turn a blind eye to sex and drugs in school, quarrel if the tracher disciplines our children and also turn a blind eye to the teachers who are rotten in the system.

Children and young people are there to learn. One on one they have nothing to teach adults. They are YOUNG, have NO EXPERIENCE, are heavily influenced by dangerous character destroying America liberal culture that they absorb from all the garbage on television and in movies.

It is all part of the liberal fantacy that everyone is a victim of life and must have their say.

This is a wast of time, political correctness run amock and just a political stunt because in the end not one iota of this will be applied or be of any value.

Youth Summit ? What a joke.

Get off your backsides, give them a sense of direction by example and fix the country.

Anonymous said...

By the way :

Did this whole piece on a dysfunctional, dead end "YOUTH SUMMIT" appear on the front page of the Voice Newspaper ?

Ras Creation said...

This is a good point made by Amnonymous III and that is the youths need parents and leaders who are good role models. This so called summit is really posturing by the government officials and an attempt to impress and decieve the public into thinking they are serious about working on a solution to the problems facing the youth. This is ludicrous, utterlly absurd having a summit bringing the youth in a room with officials, some of which the youths are aware of use their power and trust for personal gain and asking them what do they want and how to get it done. It's like a general asking his/her soldiers who lack disipline, "What is it you want? I'll let you have it if you promise to improve your behaviours." Who is incharge here, the youth or the government?

My advice to the government is to initiate island-wide programmes organizing morally responsible people who are respected citizens and good role models (Retired Teachers, entrepreneurs, Police, Correction Officers, Lawers, Civil Servants, Former Business Executives etc.)to volunteer their time or be paid a travelling allowance and going to the schools in their communities to lecture in their respective fields thereby motivating the young people, who are the future of St Lucia with what I call an educational stimulous.

The above programme and social sciences should be made a mandatory part of the cirriculum in all the learning institutions including the correctional institution. In the case of the correctional institution inmates doing time for minor crimes or first time offenders can be sent to do this course by a judge and if completed don't have to serve time resulting in lessening overcrowding in the prison system.

The Ministry of Education can aggressively upgrade the Adult Education Programmes in St Lucia with an emphasis on courses in social sciences so our Customer Service Reps, Taxi Drivers, Mini Bus drivers, Sales Clerks, Civil Servants, Police, Tour Guides and other proffessionals who serve the public can improve their social skills. It should be made mandatory for these proffessionals to complete a couse in social sciences then granted a certificate, diploma or a four year permit to be elibible for employment in their respective fields. The Ministry can also grant licenses to qualified persons interested in conducting private classes in various genres of education resulting in a new form of business and creating employment. I do not have all the answers to the problems. I thimk we are all concerned for we love St Lucia. We don't only have to criticize, we must also give advice to the authorities, it does not matter which party rules, it's about improving the social conditions of our nation.

Now let's do this! Go St lucia Go!

Anonymous said...

AS A UWP HACK I MUST ASK MY GOVERMENT AGAIN NOT TO PUT THEIR FOOT IN THIER MOUTHS. GENTLEMEN YOU HAVE ALL THE PLANS AND NATURAL RESOURCES TO ADDRESS THE NATIONS PROBLEMS INPLYMENT THEM BEFOR THE COUNTRY TURNS ON YOU, IF YOU DONT THE TRUTH WILL COME OUT AND HUNT YOU. MINISTER SPIDER YOU BETTER CHECK OUT DOCTOR KING HE UNDERSTANDS THE PROBLEMS OF THIS NATION, GIVE HIM WHAT HE NEEDS THE DEVELOPE THE YOUTH AND OUR COUNTRIES SOCIAL ISSUSES.

Anonymous said...

AS A UWP HACK I MUST ASK MY GOVERNMENT NOT TO STICK ITS FOOT IN ITS MOUTH, GENTLEMEN YOU HAVE THE HUMAN RESOURCES AND ALL THE PLANS TO ADDRESS THE ISSUS THAT WE ARE FACES WITH, ACT NOW OR THE TRUTH WILL COME OUT AND HUNT YOU ALL. MINISTER SPIDER TALK TO DOCTOR KING HE KNOWS BEST HE IS THE FATHER OF OUR YOUTH HE HAS GIVEN YOU ALL ENOUGH PLANS LETS GIVE HIM WHAT HE NEEDS, LETS GET TO WORK.