Saturday, January 26, 2013

We need to develop home-grown industries

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Anonymous said...

How can we get home-grown industries when our culture is not one based on a basic supportive environment based on creativity nor innovation?

We teach the children and examine them on how much they can parrot what they read, and perhaps on matters that they never properly understood from their instructors or their textbooks.

We 'big up' complete idiots and vote for them who go on make HUGE decisions more for themselves, and a vote-getting projects for us and our future in the largely sterile environment called a parliament.

Yet, these naffins know not much more than the persons who vote for them continuously on the sole basis of party affiliation.

Do you consider that such people will have an inkling as to how to create an environment where people begin to value such things as self-reliance, creativity and innovation?

All they have had to do is to wear the party colours and attack their opponents without any understanding whatsoever, about what it takes to lift an economy like ours off the ground.

It happened in the past with John compton, ably surrounded and assisted by retards baying refrains of hollow achievements such as 'fairty schools'. Never has there been any leadership or honest concern for developing commercial nor technological skills and diversification.

Well, it takes statesmanship. The results are not generally seen at the end of the 5-year election cycle. So, that does not get done.

Hearing some of our polticians makes me want to vomit.

Garbage in the political, economic and social subsystems. Garbage came out. So it is garbage we have with us today as a foudation for developing home-grown industries.

Do you think that this will ever work?

It is therefore nothing more than wishful thinking when we repeat these sterile calls regarding home-grown industries. Why?

The political directorate is absolutely clueless nor does it have any good intentions regarding taking the necessary initiatives to move on the changes that foster and meet even minimally, the prerequisites for economic growth and greater economic welfare.

Having conddemned this country to a future of diminishing returns on banana production, John Compton had the effrontery to re-introduce a failing primary production banana industry as the hope for the future.

Aggresively ruthless and punitive, poliical power over the years had dimmed eyesight and dulled his sensibilities regarding economic reality. Mercifully, primary production as an engine of economic growth actitivy appears to have died with him.

Saint Lucia today, is not looking for a leader, or people merely given the title of leader.

We have created, generated, and have had our fill with just too many idiots who have paraded in that role.

Instead, we need skills. Leadership skills. A very rare commodity in our neck of the woods.

So, when better is not done or being done, worse will continue.

January 26, 2013 at 2:49 PM
Anonymous said...

One of teh problems our LEADERS in offices and ministrys have is the lacking of experience in business.
If you put someone in senior positions who have proven he ever run successfully a privat company for a minimum of 10 years, I guess you will see positive results and get the job done.
Just to have a Dr.title it do not qualify anyone for any senior position.All we getting are expensive mistakes made by unexperienced highly paid persons.

January 27, 2013 at 12:59 PM
Anonymous said...

If we had just a quarter of the consumer population who thought like the presenter of this article we would have a large sector of the population supporting local products manufactured or grown by their consumption. Our failure to support local or to think foreign is better, is a mentality that needs to change. We don't patronize local because we don't want it to succeed.

January 27, 2013 at 2:38 PM
Anonymous said...

Our leaders so called, have all been vote catchers and budgetary statement readers. Half of the time, the public service writers of the speeches as just as uninspiring as those voted in. Ra-ra speeches no do not a leader make. Moreover, a title of leader does not necessary generate, nor assume that leadership skills go with with it.

Political power is not leadership. We have a lot to learn.

In our neck of the woods, it means a secure pension, a high salary, comfortable downtime at regional hot-air otherwise stirile get-togethers, which are called meetings, and leisure travel to foreign countries.

January 27, 2013 at 3:30 PM

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