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King sould have nothing to say as he did not have a clue when he was in.
Its high time the UWP get some new faces in the party and pension these dead beats.
Rufus needs to shut up as his talk is cheap. He is a comic and does not realise it.
Jobs for the boys that is what Politics in St.Lucia is we need real change.
Watch change you talking about. The only change is to ban all them political parties and have a badass president to run the joint like Singapore. If you don't smarten up, you face heavy duty jail.
Unfortunately Stephenson King completely botched the job when it was given to him on a platter.
Nothing more needs to be said about that scamp Bousquet. He is symptomatic of all that is wrong with St. Lucia. A real evil character !
King is obviously right about Anthony but this two faced character is there for another 4 years whether we like it or not. Do not expect the people to do anything not with the TUF already in Kenny's back pocket.
Kenny will also spend all he needs to survive and damn the consequences.
Poor St. Lucie!
Stephenson King is certainly not the fool the Kenny "yard fowls" are trying to make us believe.
Very impressive analysis by Mr. King. Way to go. Kenny is a bluffer and has no competence in Finance. Instead of making some attempt to learn, he pretends to know what he does not know and continues to bluff his way through, and that is how he ended up with Roachamel splattered all over his face. Yet to be able to clean up that mess.
On the other hand, Mr. King never felt or behaved like he was too big to learn. And learn well he did.
Bravo Mr. King. You also have compassion and balance that Anthony does not possess, nor is he capable of acquiring these qualities, based on his modus operandi. Kenny continues to come across as a farce.
If King knows so damn little about economics and business, the economic cretin knows more about taking documents from a law office to the registry, how on God's good earth will he ever, ever, ever know what is to be given priority when it comes to national economic matters?
King sounds as smart, and so, so very much like Guy Joseph. They must be genetically related.
Not so fast. King has given Kenny a run for his Phd.
Anonymous said...
Not so fast. King has given Kenny a run for his Phd.
January 10, 2013 4:24 PM
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How? When? Then where?
Are you or have you been smoking something? On have been taking cocaine in his constituency office?
You too blind to see that Kenny is no leader.
Economics: F-
Finance : D-
Leadership: Incomplete
Look it there... the economy is in the tank.
King gets an F in all the areas above. Beore he became Minister of Finance, he did not knew very little about the subject of Macro-economics and Finance.
When he became Minister of Finance, he was barely able to read the speeches dealing economics and far less to understand what he was reading.
When he left the ministry, he did not know what he had done or wrong regarding decisions he had made as minister.
King and Guy Joseph can shake hands, as geniuses. Both were square pegs in wrong holes.
kenny should call an election and face fact if he can not pay the people they money how the county can run we need uwp back
Dont forget King managed an economy in the heat of the global crisis and we didnt fall off the cliff. As a matter a fact we use to question whether there was actually a recession since things were running here. Having a phd doesnt not mean you are smart. I think Kenny Anthony's PHD has out lived its time just like Kenny himself.
Rochamel and Grynsberg were scandals that cost the country millions. It's a pity how Kenny was allowed to lead St Lucia again. Mind you these two scandals were bigger than Cenac's 10 thousand bomb.
Don't worry with that guy up there. Like most UWP hangers-on, it is like he going about with two flambeaus stuck in his eye sockets as eyeballs, but is too dumb to know the difference.
kiless snack ki fay sar
sorry cenac
zorte tout say flambeau sar lar say a bans vorley so pay jorl zoute lar.
Since Kenny is bold let him show his strength and call elections. Just to shut the flambeaus out. Call elections
Don't worry he won't . winning by 2 and 3 votes does not make him confident to call it now. LOL
Idiots. Elections don't solve problems. Intelligent people do.
The report says that most St. Lucians doh have too much of dat.
Most flambeaus are in that group. Therefore, the idiots will always have a greater chance at winning and putting even bigger idiots than themselves in office.
I see that the Opposition have called for the removal of the Speaker of the House.
Could not agree more.
Saw him once on TV. Arrogant know it all - like the rest of the Labour Party.
I see that the Opposition have called for the removal of the Speaker of the House.
Could not agree more.
Saw him once on TV. Arrogant know it all - like the rest of the Labour Party.
I see that the Opposition have called for the removal of the Speaker of the House.
Could not agree more.
Saw him once on TV. Arrogant know it all - like the rest of the Labour Party.
You see Kenny have time for all those who talk all sorts of crap. You all should feel ashame of yourselves because you are just neighing and braying. You just write things down for the idiots like yourselves to have a good laugh. Kenny and his collegues do not have time to waste to come and read all your crap.
They don't have time and as early as this morning PiP, Robert and every minister are sending out PR black and white to the media. There will be plenty of fire for SLP to put out they just start.
Happiness ca fan chu nou. Better days are here.
I find this response to be very naive for a former prime minister. It demonstrates the lack of vision that perpetuated during his tenure. He seems not to understand the enormousity of the crisis.
BARKING DOGS!!!!!!!!
Happiness ca fan chu nou. Better days are here.
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LOL
I find this response to be very naive for a former prime minister. It demonstrates the lack of vision that perpetuated during his tenure. He seems not to understand the enormousity of the crisis.
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Tell me you mean Kenny because when in he was in opposition this was he exact position.
What happen SLP love St Lucia only when they are in power?
Zot toot bo aba ah enrouge ca fan choo zot sa boa poo toot makak ke vote by mal wat sala. I'm out of there I have nothing left in that cess pool bring it on I couldn't give a rats ass what you all post.
Cenac lar kee pwan chou mamam-ou.
Pay the civil servants. And shut your snoutt.
Suspend all the pension payments and gratuities to Parliamentarians from the date of the last election.
This will go a long way, in setting a show of real leadership, dedication and loyalty to country and a big help to the Budget Deficit.
Demonstrate this Anthony if you say you are a true leader who love your country.
Good point. Kenny must suspend any new pension payments and gratuities to Parliamentarians.
Their per diem for the numerous travels takes care of that already, coupled with their huge salaries.
Compare their allowances and salaries and per diem with the rest of the OECS.
Yo car fan choo St. Lucie. Soo-Coo!
Sou-Cou!
The VAT is increasing the poor and indigent at an alarming rate, according to Reports around the country.
Prices are unbearable. One sweet pepper at the market is twenty dollars.
So the civil servants must get their increases.
The truth of the matter is that King engineered the disaster facing the country with the unreasonable increase he gave the the employees in the public service.
Next, and quite rightly he reacts. And that is about all he can do because up to now, he and the idiots who praise him cannot fathom the extent of the damage of his incompetence stemming from his inability to understand the dynamics of the economy.
You don't get the hang of this by stumbling readings of speeches prepared for you, especially at budget time.
To those who have something more than a superficial knowledge of economics, it is obvious to them that King has, never in his entire political life, made a statement outside of what was prepared for him that showed he understands the transmission and dynamic forces at play in the economy.
The cycle of poverty will continue because the government has been paying salaries to themselves and employees in the the public sector, wages and emoluments are beyond what the economy can sustain. They have never matched either the nominal nor the real growth rate in GDP.
Still nobody talks about matching public sector wage settlements in keeping with national productivity. King has no clue. Kenny and the public service technocrats have no interest. So, the devil takes the hindmost Saint Lucia.
It seems to me we are yet to appreciate the sad situation we are presently faced with. This is not the time to protect anyone but, to demand good service from our elected servants/gods.Please remember our politicians collect a hefty salary every month, while most of us struggle to make ends meet.Yet instead of demanding good service we fight our neighbour over the vultures.
Dr. Kenny Anthony is a Barnard by blood and is still bleeding the "Barnards" lost of the Sugar cane plantation to the workers. Remember who owned most of the plantations? Remember what happened to the small farmers who benefited from the fall of the large sugar cane farms? Why are we not connecting the dots? TUF, too much politics in your veins. Public servants screwed.
Like a dog with an open tin of corned beef can stuck to its jaws retrieved from the garbage, the UWPs are going about and here singing the same tune on each comment, like they have two damn
flambeaus sticking out of in their frigging heads for eyeballs, but are too dumb to know the difference.
This assinine approach of most Saint Lucians from so-called party leaders down to rank and file, replacing party with principled positions based on values, a word that is absent from the vocabularly of the shysters in politics today, is costing us dearly. A society without a moral value system is decadent and will continue to fail.
Stephenson King is not Kenny's 'yard fowl' is true as a blogger said above but that does not mean he is competent.
As Prime Minister and as a leader he is clearly out of his depth which is why we ended up back with Phillip and Kenny who were failures as leaders.
King was only interested in staying in power and that seems to be his main strength i.e. getting to positions of power but unable to function at any level. He has no principles and no ideological backbone and just does what is good every morning for him to survive.
King has no administrative skills and his financial acumen seems to be no better that Kenny's voodoo tax and spend economics.
We know about Kenny and Tony but King would tell you something this morning and in the afternoon he would do the opposite on the advise os someone else.
From what I see on the ground in each constitutience the people are more and more fed up with the SLP in a big way but they are simply going to 'suck it up' until the UWP can offer us an alternative.
I have never seen so much disgust as I see with the SLP in such a short space of time - not even with the first failed SLP Administration that Kenny was part of as Minister of Education.
The civil servants should have never been given the huge increase that King gave them. Dr. Anthony was supporting them back then, even when he knew it was bad for the country. What they are asking for now is not reasonable, now Dr. Anthony is asking them to make sacrifices, when they were demonstrating against King, he did not ask them to make any sacrifices. He should lead by example and make some sacrifices himself. Politics in St. Lucia is a joke!
Aside from the rank inability of our politicians to run St. lucia competently we at least know one thing.
That this site is probable the most active blog discussing St. Lucians affairs today.
So aside from having the #1 Newspaper we should congratulate the Voice on also having the #1 blog !
Congratulations to The Voice that over 150 years after it first hit the streets it is the No 1 in the digital era!
Even robots can read and recite meaningfully, and far less the puppet king.
Very impressive analysis by Mr. King.
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Another of our idiots showing off how gullible Saint Lucians are.
Why not ask why he was incapable of writing even this level of crap while he was in office.
More importantly, where was the analysis that informed significant changes in the quality of life of Saint Lucians? Do you care to unearth and release it?
He tried to borrow from Dove, the latter's Quadrant Development Plan.
Jackass, why your genius King was incapable of doing ... not much more than just read it haltingly ... in one of his presentations?
You are just as dumb as he. Birds of a feather?
No doubt, you are part of our glorious Saint Lucian mutual adulation society for idiots!
Can anyone tell me, what is the fundamental difference between Labour and UWP? In my opinion, I don't think there is any difference aside from each side claiming to be able to manage the country better.
On the point of managing better, what does the UWP's suggest as being the solution to our economic problems? Answer: We must put things in place to minimize spending. How is this an answer to the question? What are the "things that must be place"? Answer: Uh . . . Cut wastage and cut the press secretary's salary.
Cutting wastage will only get us about $1,000,000 (I am guessing, but I don't think it will be so much greater than that) while Jadia's salary may add another $4,000 or $5,000. Question: How can $1,005,000 be the solution for our financial crisis. I really do not know.
Many of us want a whole lot from our government but have yet to realize that government must get the money to provide those things. How? Through taxation!! Taxation of a very small taxable few. There is so much taxation that the few can support. If not, taxation will drive or has driven the middle class to the new working poor. I am one of them who is included. Our population is just too small for the kind of development we want to experience.
What? you may ask . . . we used to grow by leaps and bounds before. Yes, but understand this occurred when we were getting aid from the north, south, east, and west. Today, we are getting absolutely nothing. Oh, I forgot Taiwan. How much do you think we get from Taiwan like that? A few hundred thousands here, a couple (2) millions here . . . nothing to significantly alleviate our circumstance.
I hear people talking nonsense such as "Taiwan is a country like ours and they are growing. Why can't we do likewise? My answer is "Taiwan is nothing like St. Lucia." It is 13,900 sq miles (about 59 time larger than St. Lucia), it has a population of 23,000,000 (135 time larger than St. Lucia). Their taxable population is so much greater than ours and also it is easier for them to achieve economies of scale than it is for us.
As far as I am concerned, we cannot fend for ourselves by ourselves. Look at the rest of the region, Barbados, Grenada, St. Vincent, Jamaica, Antigua, and others are experiencing the same problems as we are and they do not have the answers also. We must come together (economically, politically, and every other area we can think of) or else, as one Vincentian journalist puts it "we may all become failed states".
So, we can keep calling each other names, yard fowl, comic, etc; we can blame this guy and that guy for the state of the ecomomy but in this dispensation, there is not a whole lot any side (red or yellow) can do but to hope some country will hear them and inject a very large sum of money (hundreds of millions) into the economy and this will not happen. The price small countries pay for becoming "middle income economies".
With all the hard times our people are taking I was glad to see on E-bay some postcards of old time St. Lucia.
Really brought back memories. A much simpler time.
We never had as much but our quality of life was in some ways better.
You can't stop time but sometimes moving "forward" is moving "backward"!
we can never compare St.Lucia to Taiwan!! their cost of living is much lower than ours by far eg. tooth paste we will buy at Super J for 12.00 , Taiwan has 3 tubes at 6 US.
Furthermore certain salaries need to decrease in order to pay for the civil servants salary like Jamaica's former PM Bruce.
Small countries can achieve significantly more if the following were in place:
Leadership and leaders who care about a people and have the capacity for governance. Who are careful with our money. Who look for feedback and efficiency.
Policies other than the socialist, liberal "freeness" mentality that compeltely dominates our culture. Government is not there to just give out goodies to victims.
A people who are hard working, prudent, judicious. A people who respect themselves and their bodies and whose children are not bringing weapons to school,are NOT having sex at the age of 12 and 13 and instead are studying. A people who respect life and who do not abort their children at ever increasing rates. A people who get married instead of having the highest out of wedlock birthrate in the world according to the UN.
Policies and ideas to attract investors and tourists. We cannot do it with some of those lazy socialist oriented civil servants who have no clue as to the reason for their employment in the civil service. We cannot do it with fatherless youth brought up by single mothers who end up with guns waiting to terrorise tourists. We cannot do it with crazy bus drivers acting as if they own the road.
But we can do it with a country with courteous civl servants, a law abiding people and safe roads.
It can be done but we do not have the politicians or people to do it.
Very well said, blogger above.
Is it true that Richard Frederick is getting his visa back?
Tanto, Tanto.
I do agree that small countries can achieve a whole lot . . . but at what cost? Since we have no "clout", investors would require from us (small countries) our "guts" for them to invest. They will require outrageous tax incentives (Research Antigua and the poultry farm investment), the Vieux-Fort lands, and the "bribery" payments to Airlines to do business in our country. These are just a few. And you know what? We can do nothing about that.
Antigua had a thriving online gaming industry (which I do not support) and the US slammed down the hammer and today that industry is just about dead. Recently, they (Antigua) took the matter to the WTO which they won. The US was to pay to Antigua US$20,000,000 (i believe) every year but two weeks ago, the US told Antigua that they "should not" pursue getting this payment or else it will "not be to their interest".
Most of us base our arguments on sentimentalism, morality, and ignorance. Please, perform some research and fact checking and we will see we are woeful situation. What can UWP or SLP do? Not a whole lot except to stretch out the hand and beg with the hope someone will be gracious enough. They can argue all they want, there is no fundamental difference between UWP and SLP.
What we need is for the islands to come together. This will give us a better chance of surviving or we all will become failed states!
ou fou. Richard getting his visa back. That mal mama cannot set foot on US Territory at all.
What was bigger, Roachmel, Grynberg, or the former Prime Minister John Compton who wrote to the Canadian Consular Officers pretending his fifteen year concubine, was his daughter.
Get real you shit-heads. Roachmel and Grenberg are much, much bigger, because they came from our Treasury. Our hard earned taxes.
Not Kenny and Tony's personal funds. So get a life. I mean a good life and enjoy.
Yo car by Frederick Visa veeway.
Me roro. Avec Frederick car fait mayhem ler sa fete.
Is it true that St. Lucia is known to have one of the highest illeteracy rates in the World after Haiti?
No wonder, how sad. Noting what is discussed on those blogs.
Pure ignorance and stupidity.
Sar say en mal rat poo vrais.
Nous Daccord.
Take that picture of King out of there. It makes him look like a mal maman.
Blogger you meant his fifteen year old concubine.
Yes, I understand clearly.
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