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13 comments:
All I want is a PM who is smarter than I am, not one who is dumber than I am. And I don't want that assessment done on the basis of having a doctoral degree alone!
Very good judgement must be associated with the ability to think in the abstract and to have more than a little bit of knowledge and experience about business, the private sector and economics.
We don't want a PM who would have as his/her closest advisors, the likes of Same Fly, Jookebwaa, and Team Pohlaywon.
Exactly. Look at Ubaldus. What is he? A Teacher--no other relevant experience. Look At Robert Lewis, What is he, a Teacher. No other relevant experience outside the class room. Look at Stanley Felix, what does he bring that is different. All the SLP can talk about is big diploma people without relevant experience to move the country forward.
The person that is paying you to look at ONLY one side of the political spectrum, is well poised to fail because that will not work. If we have to compare candidates we have to look at ALL sides. Why do some bias, hypocrite people with a political agenda are trying to bring down people who have worked hard to develop themselves by gaining an education? What do they have against education? I am not surprised because that is that culture of the UWP to keep St Lucia uneducated and ignorant, so that they could easily be fooled to get them into office. We must remember it was the SLP who made primary and secondary school education available to ALL St Lucians. The UWP have a history of presenting mediocre, uneducated candidates who are just looking for a job to us. Most of them CANNOT obtain a good job anywhere because they are not qualified. We have a present PM, who cannot be PM anywhere in the world, because he is not educated, only in St Lucia will that happen.
ha...we have you now. Working hard to get a book education is not good enough. There is a difference between being able to stand infront a class a teach a few students, and running the country because you have more than an ablity to teach maths or whatever.
OK, do you really believe you are making sense? If education is not good, then tell us what is good? You prefer to have these semi literate men we have in office today, who do not have the mental capacity to take the country forward. We have the perfect example today in St Lucia, we had some educated men who ruled St lucia, they were not perfect, but they developed the country by leaps and bonds. Now we have some semi literate men in office, they have made no progress, they have taken St Lucia to the ground. Nuff said.
Education without experience on how business is conducted means nothing. How are your fellas going to run a country, when the only experience they have is standing before students in a class room? What is their exposure on the simplest thing like running a football squard. This is my question to you. If you can show us how are their experience relevant to running a country I am going to rest my case. Nuff said on that too!
I believe that being a management consultant, being a manager in the private sector and having a business or economics degree are prerequisites for being a leader in today's global economy. Anyone can come up with a list of things that needs to be done in one part of the country or the another.
A campaign based on such a list, and being elected on a basis of wants for a particular constituency is a HUGE gimmick. The minister responsible for finance ... unless you are taking Taiwanese money ... is the one who approves and DICTATES what what money is spent where and when around the island.
Fore example, Compton was not man enough to be PM for the whole country. He literally starved and punished the people of Anse-la-Raye and Canaries for not voting UWP for almost all of the 30 years he was in office. Today, that foreigner has been made a saint.
He was so much a genius, that when the banana industry was failing, he could not even see that. The foolish people of St. Lucian ... illiterate and uneducated re-elected him on a promise to revive that industry. They failed to see that he had already come up short by throwing the crumbling economy into the lap of Dr. Lewis when he could not deal with WTO and the removal of the preferential pricing arrangement.
Kenny has several times shown great inability to apply good judgement regarding the economy he is trying to be PM of, this time again. Like a lot of people in the public service, the poor man does not understand value. As a past teacher, he too must believe that all you have to do is to go the workplace, watch the clock, wait for retirement and collect your pension.
The man has already told all of us that given another chance, he would do Roachasmell all over again. The man does not learn from his mistakes. He does not consider the loss of $45 million in that deal as a big issue.
The man showed a remarkable lack of good judgement again when he took a wet behind the ears graduate from a second rate school that nobody had heard of before, and placed her to head the main industry of the country. That person had no real business experience. She never ran anything before except her mouth. How daft a decision that was!
Kenny as minister responsible for managing the public purse allowed huge cost overruns, and babysat the NCA mess, until the fellas got tired of taking the money and the government for a ride.
Even today, Kenny with all his degrees has never said how he will correct the dumb things he did. He has never said what steps he would put in place to prevent these dumb thing from ever happening again. Doing this would be a real sign that he understand the gravity of wasting people's sweat and blood. This today is the sign of good sense, judgement, humility, understanding, and repentance that voters are still waiting for.
I believe you all have smell the coffee, because i cannot understand how people will spend so much time criticizing Kenny who is not in office. We do not have to be reminded of Kenny mistakes because we have voted him out because of these mistakes. When we have a government making a mess with the country, these same people keep quiet about the government. I do not blame them, they see a threat in Kenny.
Kenny has several times shown great inability to apply good judgement regarding the economy he is trying to be PM of, this time again. Like a lot of people in the public service, the poor man does not understand value. As a past teacher, he too must believe that all you have to do is to go the workplace, watch the clock, wait for retirement and collect your pension.
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Great point! I think this is what one of the contributors was allurding too.
The SLP continues to boast having a degree, and this is all that is needed.
We must be careful with this Kind of approach. Where is the business experience of those in the SLP who wants to lead? Other than the class room, what other skills have their aquired?
Yes continue talking about Kenny all the way to him winning the next election, while the UWP kill the country.
People stubbornly refuse, like Kenny, to do anything about past mistakes like Rochamel and NCA. That is the problem. You robots in the SLP are giving the man justification to repeat the mistakes of the past.
He fails to acknowledge the blunders, therefore there is no problem. Since there is no problem, there is absolutely nothing to change. There is nothing to fix. For him and he has said this too, nothing needs changing. Just go on and do like you did before. And that is exactly what he says he will do, if he is given the chance. Yes. He would do another Rochamel deal without any safeguards in place like he did once before.
For those squirming at the need to confront the Rochamel scandal, people have to see the need to focus on Kenny, like it or not, because the little ones in the SLP have it on record that the party cannot do without min at its head.
The man lets the people's money slip through his fingers like an sieve, yet the party faithful can see no reason confront this a get a person who is more responsible with handling the financial affairs of the country. People in the SLP must be suffering from an inferiority complex wee!
That broken record will NEVER PREVENT Kenny and the SLP from getting re elected to office to take the country forward as they started for the 9 years they were in office.
Saint Lucia after the collapse of bananas should have had a phasing out to tourism and undergone a structural adjustment in the economy.
Saint Lucia moved from sugar to bananas. Then carried the workforce to banana cultivation and employed more people to be involved in other activities involving new technologies (e.g., aerial spraying), and modes of transportation.
The banana industry collapsed and finally understood (it finally dawned on Kenny) that tourism was going to be the major cylinder firing our economic engine. All good and well,.
HOWEVER, unlike bananas -- a different sector altogether with a different mode of production could not and was unable to carry the workers from bananas to the tourism sector.
The transfer of skills there minimal to non-existent, the number of people required was smaller than the army of people employed in banana production.
The Result? Idle hands; Surplus labor; Urban drift.
This my friend is the genesis of the economics of structural adjustment of the Saint Lucian economy that neither the SLP nor the UWP has the perception nor the capacity to address, no matter how many doctors they have within or outside their parties.
LPM is the difference.
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