Saturday, September 17, 2011

The convenient convenience of inconvenience!

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18 comments:

Anonymous said...

"Does madam Speaker know something that you and I don't?"
How did she know that Richard Frederick would become available for the post?

41% SDA,59% GAY. said...

HE WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE FOR THE POST,BECAUSE HE WILL BE IN A US OF A,JAIL.
MAY HE ROT-IN HELL.

naive ignorant lucian said...

I do not believe that the Speaker consulted with the A.G. because Doddy gets things done. By the HOOK or by the CROOK he would have found a more convenient solution. He would have taken it to Cabinet, where conveniently, there are no Hooks!
He played national hookey and still plays national poke(he)r!

NUFF,SLP LOVE. said...

ABOVE,THAT IS SO TRUE,
DODDY GET IT DONE WITH HIS GREASE HAND DEALING, AND NOT WITH HIS BRAIN.
DODDY AND THE PAST AA DR,FREDRICK
ARE BIGOTED
BILLY-GOATS,
THEIR MIND ARE SO DUFF, IT IS LACKING COUNSEL.

Anonymous said...

I listened attentively at the speaker's attempt to justify her actions. One of her defenses was that she consulted with regional and other commonwealth luminaries on the matter. What a crock! If I were in a position where I was unsure about what to do with regard to a particular matter concerning my job, I would seek the guidance of my predecessor. She had Matthew Roberts and a number of ex deputy speakers. I would then, if not satisfied, consult with an expert in the field. If David Cox, is competent enough to head constitutional reform in St Lucia why wasn't he consulted as the authority on this matter? Could it be because the speaker was searching for a particular kind of advice?

Secondly, I think the speaker (deliberately?) confused 'convenient' with 'expedient'. Convenient means 'as the time, place, situation etc allows'. There was time, and we had a situation where all members of parliament were present in the House (place).In which case, a deputy speaker could and should have been selected.
Expedient means at a time, place, situation etc that is advantageous to one person or group! And we know which group was advantaged by the speaker's decision.

Sadly, St Lucia's constitution and St Lucia itself were the most disadvantaged at the end.

Rosie, shame!

Anonymous said...

Wikileaks on Kenny Anthony. This is what the US Embassy relayed to the American State Dept about that failure Kenny Anthony who raised our National Debt to $1.6 billion and our interest payments from $16 million a year to $65 million a year. That is why St. Lucia now has to borrow so much to keep afloat. St. Lucia has had to borrow an additional $250 million in the last 5 years to pay just the INTEREST on Kenny incurred debt on TOP of the $200 million to pay for Rochamel, NCA and road cost overuns.

The Bridgetown Enbassy said:

Ҧ10. (C) Despite the positive mood of the day's events, post
considers PM Anthony AN UNRELIABLE PARTNER whose commitment
to security responsibilities consists of SELF-CONGRATULATIONS
and COSMETIC SOLUTIONS such as replacing local police
commanders with British police officers (Ref A), without
insuring the logistical or political support the law
enforcement personnel need. Post's interagency Law
Enforcement Working Group believes that St. Lucia's security
forces are actually one of the better performing groups in
the eastern Caribbean. The forces' effectiveness could
benefit, however, from the replacement of several individuals
in leadership positions. The Prime Minister has not seen fit
to make those changes.

¶11. (C) As in the matter of the delayed Article 98 signature,
PM Anthony refuses to take responsibility for realizing
security commitments while declining to delegate or
relinquish the authority needed to meet them. In observing
his interaction with his own citizenry throughout the day,
Ambassador Kramer concluded that PM Anthony is not interested
in acting locally or leading globally; his sole focus seems
to be on maintaining his position rather than providing a
vision for St. Lucia's future.

Anonymous said...

The SLP Administration of 1997-2006 has cost St. Lucia $450 million in the past 5 years (2007 -2011) because of the interest and principle payments on debt incurred due to their mismanagement inclusive of rochamel, road cost overruns, NCA and a host of other issues.

How come no one is asking for Mario Michel to come back? It is clear from his positioning that Phillip Pierre is incapable of managing himself out of a paper bag so the Labour Party needs help.

Anonymous said...

anonymous@6:41am,
Here is a part of the cable which you spun out because it was not convenient , for all readers to read for themselves.

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"PRINCIPLED STANDS" VS. INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENT
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¶8. (C) Comfortably shifting back into his former professorial
role, PM Anthony lectured the American delegation on the
perils of globalization, providing a critique on the U.S.
role in global affairs. He disapprovingly discussed the USG
response to the recent Middle East hostilities and
subsequently explained CARICOM members' support of Venezuela
over Guatemala for the UN Security Council seat as the action
of small countries that were "vulnerable." (Comment:
Presumably to the danger of displeasing petroleum-rich
Venezuela. End Comment.) He made no reference to
banana-related resentment of Guatemala as he had in an
earlier exchange (Ref C).

I recommend that all readers read the entire cable. They think Kenny was out of place to challenge the mighty...

Anonymous said...

Kenny was sprouting the usual failed socialist babble that has killed tens of millions of people worldwide during the 20th Century.

Kenny is part and part of the failed progressive liberal mindset of the political intellectual class in the Caribbean where our countries go "one step forwaRD, TWO STEPS BACKWARD"

EVEN IN MONEY RICH TRINIDAD THEY HAVE A STATE OF EMERGENCY because their idea of governance is of a elite class of socialists telling the people what to do.

It is about a narcissistic intellectual cabal intermingled with the political class represented by Kenny and fools like Earl Bousquet that is destroying and will continue to destroy the Caribbean.

When last have you heard of any product of UWI like Kenny making any sense to the quality of life of our people ?

You all are in failed states going further backward and the unfortunate thing is you fail to see how backward and retrograde you are.

Anonymous said...

After Bush left , Kenny's counterpart in the United States took over and look at the turmoil the world is in. The Middle East is now a powder keg because Obama as incompetent and narcissistic as Kenny took over and following his leftist ideological path is bringing the Middle East to the brink of war.

Just like Kenny in Rochamel , Obama in his incompetence has now given US$500 million to a solar panel company that went belly up.

And you have the gall to print how Kenny tells the US Government about "the perils of globalization". It is only a dumbed down socialist, liberal fool who would dare to print that Kenny talks about such matters. The Americans in that cable were showing the contempt they had for a inept Third World socialist nutjob sprouting about things he knows nothing about.

Anonymous said...

Now we seem to have a backward thinking neo-colonialist so angry with the US for revoking Richard's visas that he is throwing stones at President Obama to get to Kenny. How silly!

King sent Janine in 2008 to get information on Richard. This must be a fact because King has not come out to refute it. So King must now come out to tell us why he did it and what was the result of the fact finding mission that he sent Janine on.

Leave President Obama and Kenny alone!

Anonymous said...

King should simply throw in the towel, and call it a day. St.Lucians have had enough of his lies and inconsistencies and incompetencies.

Anonymous said...

Some angry ???? has confirmed my point. I rest my case.

Anonymous said...

More failed socialists taking caribbean people for a ride. Kenny, Obama,Portia, Golding, Kamla, whoever it does not matter the name. Your agenda has killed many (20,000 Jamaicans killed in the last 15 years) and kept us backward.

Anonymous said...

Three cheers for the socialists Kenny and Obama. Keep sticking it to the present day Uncle Toms who resent the intellectual capacity of the black race!!!

Anonymous said...

As usual once someone of African heritage deny's the "fools gold" of black race baiting failure he/she is labeled an Uncle Tom. After 60 years of liberal Democratic Party incompetence black unemployment is at 17% double the rate for the rest of the country in the USA.

Black youth unemployment is 40% and 60% in some cities run by progressive liberal Democrats for the past 40 years. They are bankrupt also.
Who are the faces of African American and Caribbean people in the US. Race baiting fools indecent like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. Who are the other "faces" of blacks America? 50 cents, a failed Obama. A raging cursing Serena on the tennis courts. Kids with their pants hanging down around the crack in their butts -a practice copied from prisoners advertising their availability for homosexual sex in prison.

Blacks were more stable and more upwardly mobile in the 1920s than today and started to go down after liberal policies took off in the 1960s.

80% of African American kids are born outside of wedlock anf 60% of black pregnancies in New york City are aborted thanks to liberal abortion policies aimed at kiling black children.

Obama's policies are killing black communities. Clowns like you will have your black kids ending up uneducated, poor, incarcerated and looked down on by other groups because you drank and are still drinking of the liberal race baiting kool aid of the secualrist liberals of America, Europe and the Caribbean.

Poor thing !

antonius said...

'A backward thinking neo-colonialist', and a not so smart one at that, goes around all the news posting as comments a Wiki-Leaks article on Kenny where the U.S. is mad at him for not signing 'article 98' and on top of that, lecturing them on the perils of globalism.
Readers, check out Article 98, where Americans are to be exempt from the International criminal court. Of course, King signed it immediately. Don't take my word for it, readers. Check it out for yourselves. Google 'Article 98'.

Anonymous said...

This neo-colonialist Uncle Tom needs to be back on the plantation begging to be spared from the whip of Massa White man. I sense a dislike for your own self. A little bit of a pathology in there. Go see a shrink!