Thursday, March 14, 2013

CSA: “9.5% or Nothing!”

61 comments:

Anonymous said...
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Anonymous said...

Keep fighting and don't give up

TAX MAN said...

This is Mary "CARBUNCLE FACE Issac

This witch is only blowing hot air
go look 4 a decent job.

TAX MAN said...

FIGHTING WOH?
HERSELF OR 4 THE WHOLE BUNCH OF MOLE FACE MAGGOTS CALL THE "CSA"

Anonymous said...

Did you listen to the CSA's reps. as guests on RSL today? Sheldon really tried hard to corner them without success. He was so very defensive of the government's position. But, in my opinion, they presented the CSA's very well and they have my full support. The SLP Government must pay civil servants what they are demanding and no doubt deserve.

Anonymous said...

CSA: “9.5% or Nothing!”? Give it to them and put an additional 4.5% on the VAT to pay it? These people are on with the same old show, with 'ow' in the word 's-h-o-w' replaced with IT, but not your normal information technology.

Anonymous said...

I agree 9.5 percent is too much. But hey- to say they don't have the right to agitate and to call them all kinds of sick names is not called for. If the shoes were on the other side even Kenny would have been supporting Ms. Issac.

What is fair is fair. The problem is not Ms. Issac. The problem are the politicians.

Anonymous said...

I am happy somebody is finally standing up to Kenny and his communist arrogant ass. Don't give up and don't give in to the distractors you make st lucia proud. Finally. ....what happen to the men of this country??? They have no balls!!

Anonymous said...

The men are all participating in kenny's kiss ass contest!! Who Will emerge winner?? Monrose or the police welfare boy??. Go to www.demarkkk.com to cast your vote.

Anonymous said...

If the TUF wants to see how much the government can save, they would go on strike. It can then rehire only those who did not go on strike. With the government in control of the PSC it is a foregone conclusion where the balance of power is today. Sack their posteriors!

Anonymous said...

if cs like to serve the country i cant understund why to strike.
Send all home and replace them with persons who appreciate to have a lifetime save job with much to high salarys and benefits.On top of this salarys compaired to production is 1 to 0,0...
Why are this people afraid to look somewhere else for a job?

Anonymous said...

Mary Issac just want to be in the spotlight. If i were in her place i would not show my face on tv.

Anonymous said...

The Civil Servants are damn right. Let the Country collapse. The Civil Servants are not the ones to be blamed. They are the least to be blamed.

WHY? Because KENNY ANTHONY HAS WASTED TOO MANY MILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF THIS COUNTRY'S RESOURCES.

The Commission of Inquiry found just that on the ROAD WORKS PROGRAM . It said in short; POOR MANAGEMENT OF THE FINANCES OF THOSE ROAD WORKS PROJECT.

Then we have GRENBERG. As I understand it; no one in the Cabinet of Ministers were even aware of that deal. Only KENNY ANTHONY NEGOTIATED. Now the Country is being sued by GRENBERG for MILLIONS.

Then; we had NATIONAL CONSERVATION AUTHORITY. MILLIONS of DOLLARS DISAPPEARED.

Then we had the HELENITES BUILDING in NEW-YORK; belonging to people of ST. Lucia; that changed OWNERSHIP. The story on this is still not known by many St. Lucians.

Then we have the CANNELLES FIASCO. Millions gone down the drain.

ETC. ETC. ETC.

STEPHENSON KING; also had his fair share of wastage in CONSULTANTS that are really not needed; in much the same way KENNY ANTHONY HAS HIRED EVEN MORE.

Kenny Anthony must now send these so-called CONSULTANTS home. They are doing NADA and adding no worth/no value to the country's situation.

They are merely doing the work that other staff in the Ministries are already being paid to do. The Permanent Secretaries and their Deputies; are being paid to provide;
ADVICE, TO THE GOVERNMENT ON ALL TECHNICAL MATTERS, AND ARE REQUIRED TO MANAGE AND ADMINISTER the Government Departments.

They are required to conduct the necessary research, to promulgate effective Policies, and to implement, manage, administer and provide oversight on the effectiveness of POLICIES. In fact; on all Government Policies.

So KENNY ANTHONY needs to STOP WASTING MONEY. Which is already very scarce.

The CIVIL SERVANTS KNOW AND SEE EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS WITHIN THE COFFERS OF GOVERNMENT. And everyone has a good friend; who has a good friend; who has a good friend....... so NOTHING is really a secret. Some Civil Servants may choose to keep things under wraps/secrets if they wish. But someone knows everything or something that truly goes on in Government.

And people are just pissed-off with what is going on. Because they see and they know. And the worst thing KENNY ANTHONY allowed was for Stephenson King to expose him with the rare truth about the civil servants who had not been paid in over twenty years.

As I see it; KENNY ANTHONY is incapable of leading the country and he should leave. The majority of St. Lucians do not like him; they don't trust him; they just want to see his back. Remember he won on a very slim line. And all that has been happening; where he made St. Lucians believe [falsely] that he would make a big difference; they have come to realize that he was PLAIN TELLING A BIG LIE. It was just not possible. So why should he have attempted to FOOL the people.

In the end it all comes back to hunt him. Now the only thing left; is for him to go. What a disappointment. What a disgrace.

Anonymous said...

This is not Mary "Carbuncle Face" Isaac. You idiot. She represents the MAJORITY of Civil Servants who know what is going on in Government. They see and witness what is going on everyday.

The CUSTOMS staff see much. They are going to CLOSE this Country DOWN. That is the only real remedy for POLITICIANS like KENNY ANTHONY.

That maybe the ONLY WAY they MAY LEARN.

Anonymous said...

MARY ISAAC is not a witch, blogger.

KENNY ANTHONY is a Wizard.

By the way can you tell us who has been hosting Witches Conferences in St. Lucia since 1997?

Anonymous said...

The CSA are not the MAGGOTS; you stinking wretches/you damn idiots. You are blinded by POLITICS.

Everyone and the grandmothers know that the real MAGGOTS are the POLITICIANS who keep swelling-up Government Expenditure with HUGE SALARIES, ALLOWANCES AND OTHER PERKS For their POLITICAL PARTY HACKS and YARDFOWLS; under the DISGUISE of CONSULTANTS/ADVISORS.

The Civil Servants are privy to almost everything unless it does not have to go through the TREASURY or the PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION; or the MINISTRY OF THE PUBLIC SERVICE.

So there you have it. You fools barking for the Politicians without understanding what you're barking at.

Anonymous said...

A blogger above may well be right. Is it really the COMMUNIST/SOCIALIST traits of KENNY ANTHONY that makes him believe that he is MASSA?

Or is it his PLANTATION DAYS EXPERIENCE?

His attitude as someone who wants to lead just STINKS.

Something stinks to high heaven; in the State of Saint Lucia.

Anonymous said...

Yes; I agree the Civil Servants are making St. Lucia very proud.

Anonymous said...

Sack their posteriors my black ass.
You idiot; that is when you would see SHIT flying. Worst than when Kenny Anthony was the leader in flying shit in 1979.in the Boulevarde.

Anonymous said...

IS MS MARY ISAAC SEEKING REVENGE FROM THE SLP FOR NOT BEING SELECTED THE CANDIDATE FOR CASTRIES SOUTH.

Anonymous said...

The CSA is being unreasonable. The country SHOULD NOT be held hostage by a few irresponsible individuals.

Anonymous said...

IS MS MARY ISAAC SEEKING REVENGE FROM THE SLP FOR NOT BEING SELECTED THE CANDIDATE FOR CASTRIES SOUTH.
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Now that's ridiculous!!!
Why turn on the lady because she sees things different from the SLP. I have always thought the SLP and its supporters are their worst enemies. When you demonise people you disagree with you are only hurting your own party and your cause. The person who disagree with you on an issue could well be siding with you later. But when you demonise them you only make them more resistant to the SLP.

Anonymous said...

Oh so that is why she wants to keep noise. It is a pay back thing for not being the selected candidate for Castries South? It is so true that the labourites are the ones who will destroy their own. They are a bunch of trouble makers.

Anonymous said...

We don't know that to be true. I don't know why the idiotic elements in the SLP don't just shut up. I agree with the poster that say that SLP idiots are the party's worst enemies. They chase more people away than they can bring people in. A prime example is Frank Charles. What a loser.

Anonymous said...

That little grown girl in the picture needs to learn a thing or two about negotiations. First, it is not best conducted in the media. Second, you need to know that 100 times nutten is nutten. What a loser!

Little children should not be doing or be given big people's work. Jenn-y ass!

Anonymous said...

I guess she can only be considered an "adult" when she listern to the Kenny Anthony "St lucia"s plantation owner and master."? Right ?
Listern the lady does not live under an SLP dictatorship . In your small mind you would love to believe that. Sorry , it is not so. It is one thing to say the country country does not have money to pay. It's another thing to attempt to silence others because you fear it hurts the image and standing of Kenny Anthony.

TAX MAN said...

@7:01/7:02/7:06 u are an u are a blind bat.
u all c/servants are very lazy,greedy and are the damn arses with no brain.

very soon the CSA will b asking the government 4 12% 4 the OBESE/OBSTACLES/GRRIATRIC OF THE N.C.A,

Anonymous said...

In all seriousness and with all politics and personal demonising aside of the Prime Minister or Ms. Isaac, tell what do these civil servants do on a day to day basis to demand their high salaries when theirs in many instances are much higher than the private sector? they get to show up to work late, leave early, choose to serve the public when and how they please, they take days off when their kids are sick or on holidays or just to do their business without being on vacation. EVERYONE in St. Lucia is facing tough economic times and many do not have the level of steady income civil servants have. Many can't come to work when they want , take long lunch breaks, do little to nothing and then leave. How can they insist on 10% increase? by what standards?

Anonymous said...

Send them a little signal. Feeze all hiring today. ATTRITION has never been so useful.

Anonymous said...

You all better behave. It is possible that these people can criple the government. I would not try to beat down on them the way some of you all have. This government is not as strong as some of you would like to believe. A mass strike that last for weeks could weaken any government. My advise, reach out to the CSA and find a compromise.

Anonymous said...

@3:44, Idiot they will not be crippling any government. They will be crippling the country.

The government is not that strong. But the country is even weaker.

Let the demagogues and jackasses go pass the tipping point.

Isn't it true that Saint Lucia is idiot country?

Let them. In the end, Haiti would feel like Paradise. Happily, as the new wave of Caricom economic refugees, Saint Lucia will be able to go to Guyana and Haiti to live. Idiots!

Anonymous said...

Blogger above, let them kick their own faces; and throw the baby out with the bath water. Do not alert them. Let them be fooled in believing that this Government is strong. So that they can get a bigger shock, a better blow and a rude awakening.

Let them fool only themselves.

Anonymous said...

March 15 at 4.06 PM. What do you have to say about all those many millions gone down the Treasury drain under Kenny Anthony. That's the real issue.

And the IMF and World Bank know it.

Thank you very much.

Anonymous said...

PITY SO MANY ARE BLINDED BY POLITRICKS.

COST OF LIVING HAS RISEN AND WILL RISE MORE WHEN WATER RATES GO UP.

THE PEOPLE NEED MORE MONEY.

DO YOU REALISE MORE MONEY THEY ARE PAID MORE GOVERNMENT COLLECTS BACK IN VAT.

SO PLEASE STOP DESTABILISING THE COUNTRY PAY THE PEOPLE MORE.

UWP NEED TO REPLACE THE KING AND GET A GOOD TEAM IN PLACE TO TAKE THIS COUNTRY BACK.

Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
March 15 at 4.06 PM. What do you have to say about all those many millions gone down the Treasury drain under Kenny Anthony. That's the real issue.

And the IMF and World Bank know it.

Thank you very much.

March 15, 2013 at 4:16 PM
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Don't act like a simpleton. Neither the IMF NOR the World Bank cares a fig about wastage under any government past or present.

Read that statement above again, just in case you missed the point.

If you make your errors as an independent country and have to come to them for economic support, the prescriptions will be the same.

The decision makers have to understand the dynamics of their own economies. Look. In the recent past, Argentina was the poster child for IMF recommendations.

Their economy imploded following in lock step all the IMF prescriptions.

Perhaps the most bouyant economy in the world, that of the US does NOT Operate with a VAT.

It is the idots in the UWP who selected King who barely understands the fundamentals regarding demand and supply who supported the inevitabl increase in the domestic inflation rate with that last and large public sector salary increase.

The idiots in the SLP made someone who has no real understanding of complex financial matters to lose $45 million, the Black Bay joke for an investment and now has over $260 million in potential liabilities and legal fees for litigation of the Grenberg Affair.

Who the hell do you think pays the cost and the price of those avoidable mistakes? The prime ministers?

We have people who only know how to come to work and straighten out dogs ears with two-hour lunch breaks as an indicator of conscientiousness and productivity. None of them can fashion a program of economic recovery because they don't know how. They never learned even the basics at the university level. They only know what the same Civil Servants tell them.

Do you think that the civil servants are going to put them on track to hurt their own self-interests.

If you don't know the theories, and you don't know the theoretical assumptions behind the advice being given, then you will not ask the right questions. You may as well, as is often the case, base your judgement and decisions on the opinion of the last person, consultant, or confidant you spoke to.

Therefore, we are now paying the huge and painful price for our continued national acceptance of mediocrity and pathetically low-level prime ministerial leadership and management skills.

The chickens are coming hoome to roost.

Those familiar with economic history know that correcting the economic mistakes of economic cretins, with other credentials and worse still, those without can be irksome and very painful and can stretch for as many as 50 years!

A change of leadership is necessary but not sufficient.

Anonymous said...

Women love money; and when the majority of civil servants are women, it's trouble in paradise.

Where in the world, today, are people getting 9.5% salary increases? It's unheard of. They should consider themselves lucky just to have a job.

Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
Women love money; and when the majority of civil servants are women, it's trouble in paradise.

Where in the world, today, are people getting 9.5% salary increases? It's unheard of. They should consider themselves lucky just to have a job.

March 16, 2013 at 4:17 AM
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Indeed! See why all the noise about independence is just that? Nothing is behind it, like patriotism. It's just song, hollow speeches, and dance.

Evidently, that grown up idiot girl with her obnoxious scandalous self is plainly out of touch with the realities of the real world.

She probably doesn't read anything that will help her self-improvement.

All of this lends credence to the observation that the civil service is now largely a parking space for underachievers, with a secure job, and a pension with two speeds and two gears for removing dog ears from files.

Glacially slow and stop. She wants 9.5 percent increase for that kind of work performance while the rest are busting their tails paying taxes for the government to give her the 9.5 percent transfer.

Saint Lucia is idiot country!

Anonymous said...

Insulting her does not mean diddly !
The biggest idiot here is yourself. Some of the good points you stated here is completely null and void.
You really don't understand a thing about humility or your own people.

Anonymous said...

Listen smart ass @ 5:28 AM, I graduated from the civil service. "Been there and done that"!

If that grown-up little girl wants to demagogue the situation like so many of our official nincompoops and our nincompoop officials, let her claim her fame.

That does not change any of the outcomes as we continue to screw up, from top to bottom in the society. The most vulnerable will still always pay the price of our laughable deep-seated ignorance.

I'm not in it for the money! See? My brand of patriotism does not extend to suffering fools gladly!

Anonymous said...

You just proved my point. It takes an idiot to recognize another.

Now let me see your jackass ranting and useless pontificatiom take wings and fly from this blog. It dies right here. I rest my case.

Anonymous said...

It would seem that Saint Lucians are so god damn naive and ignorant that the only insults that their cognifive processes can perceive would be names. How sad!

When Holy Saint John Compton was promoting as candidates and surrounding himself with complete idiots to show himself up as superior, the majority did not have the faintest intelligence to recognize that as a capital insult.

You do not run a modern society with clowns at the top of it. The available resources are too meagre. The mistakes too costly.

That is the legacy we are paying for now. We are a society conditioned to accept shit from whosoever is in authority.

First, it was slave masters. Then it was the British. Now it is any nincompoop country bookie who can win votes.

Whoye! You people are such jokers! You make me laugh.

Anonymous said...

I think that the government should be looking for substitutes to re place those arrogant and nonproductive soon to be strickers. Like a previous blogger ask, Where in the world do anyone private or public get such an increase on wages? I would hope that the government, if it were to give in to their demands, would layoff a bunch of these nonessentials and increase the work load of the remainder to make up for the increase in wages. This is actually what is happening presently the world over even without any increases in wages. Those laidoff workers would find themselves without a job as there are none in the private sector, and I would gradually hire them back only if they would accept the 4% they had been offered. My guess is they would gladly accept. Who feels it knows it. Ask the 50% who have been unemployed all their lives. I plead to the government not to be held hostage. Find your way around them.

Anonymous said...

Can someone call Dr. Rixbi. LOL

Anonymous said...

Bitter days are here!! Kick that product of rape to the curb. This man was given this country on a platter, and look at where we're at now! St Lucia is not the laughing stock in the Caribbean now??

Anonymous said...

St Lucia is not the laughing stock in the Caribbean now??

How is that so?

Anonymous said...

March 15 @ 6.48PM I wasn't referring to what the IMF/IBRD cares or don't care about.

I specified that they are AWARE of the financial resources that were looted off the Treasury in more ways than one; and hence the reason why they will teach the Government a lesson or two and take them where they ever wanted to take them. For a long, long ride on the back of the IMF Tiger, with St. Lucia in the Tiger's belly; and a big, large GRIN on the tiger's face.

Look out. With all his pomposity; Kenny Anthony may not even be aware that the FUND/IBRD recognizes that when it comes to a Country's financial and economic management; Kenny Anthony does not understand or know one fart.

LOL.

Anonymous said...

BLOGGER OF MARCH 16 AT 8.05AM you have me falling out in stitches. Everyone is wondering what is having me LOL so.

Please call Dr. RIXBI for the idiots. I second that motion.

Anonymous said...

Look out. With all his pomposity; Kenny Anthony may not even be aware that the FUND/IBRD recognizes that when it comes to a Country's financial and economic management; Kenny Anthony does not understand or know one fart.

LOL.

March 16, 2013 at 5:55 PM
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I second the motion we have a whole lot of idiots in our high places.

Anonymous said...

No one has mentioned the fact that the upcoming Budget 2013 should be especially interesting. Can we give credence to it when so many civil servants are in absentia during crunch time - whilst their proposed salary increases hang in the balance? Can we even trust the information provided by disgruntled or skeletal staff?

I hope the Finance Ministry, at the very least, remains fully staffed. Or can we expect an indefinite postponement of the Estimates of Expenditure?

Anonymous said...

Guesstimates of expenditure you say? These are never accurate anyway. To me, those figures are just window dressing.

In the day of computerization, the strike will most certainly show up the lack of productivity in the service. Show us where to cut, sweetheart.

The kind lady is doing us a very good deed. She needs a national service medal.

Anonymous said...

It does not matter now that Kenny may be a constant factor in ridiculous level of our national debt with no significant assets to show for it.

He is transferring wealth from the Treasury to his followers.

We have to persuade our friends in the Labour Party to get rid of King Midas in Reverse, first. This before we can ever see sensible management of this extremely fragile economy.

Not even this demagogue seems to have a darn clue about the precariousness and the abyss facing this country. Patriotism should trump ego.

We have such extremely bogus leaders.

Anonymous said...

Typical Civil Servant Work Day

9am - Walks into office after dropping kids off at school.
- Chats with co-workers until 9:30am
10am - Leaves office in search of dahl or float and cheese.
- Returns 20 minutes later and munches for another 15 minutes.
12pm - Leaves office in search of lunch.
1:30pm - Returns to office (add a half-hour if immediate supervisor is on vacation.)
2:30pm - Leaves office to pick up kids from school.
3pm - Returns to office.
4pm - Calls it quits and packs up.

*Repeat daily for minimum results.*

Anonymous said...

Stop voting for half-ass country bookies to parliament. The first step in getting us out of this mess.

Anonymous said...

Stop voting for persons who scrunted all their lives; save for the time their entered politics and consequently Government.

Stop it we are paying a very high price, voting for SCRUNTERS.

Anonymous said...

9.5% or nothing? NOTHING!!!!

Anonymous said...

Fire their asses! Quickly!

Anonymous said...

Bring in more holy scabs very quickly. Give the 40% unemployed work at last. They will at least in the short run understand why the CSA membership is a waste of the people's money.

Bring on more substitutes please. Let that unon demagogue see the difference those who work hard and those who are hardly working.

Anonymous said...

Mr. Prime Minister, call a 90-DAY limited state of emergency. Do rapid training especially for all the revenue collection agencies.

Head each one of those by a senior but trusted law enforcement person or reserve.

Move to automate all revenue collection as fast as possible and as far as practicable.

We the people will all have no other choice but to settle down in about THREE WEEKS TIME to adjust to 'the new norm'.

Extend the limited state of emergency to a further 90 DAYS, if more RAPID training is required.

It is a beaucracy that we are dealing with. Unless critical files are hidden or destroyed, the way to proceed is all there in those files for reference. The precedence is all there starting from the 1948 Castries fire.

Please don't have this country face the prospect of ever having to follow in the footsteps seemingly being led by Cyprus today.

Anonymous said...

I second the motion. Sack em all for better days.

Anonymous said...

Cyprus? The real story behind Cyprus is where all the billions came from; led by the lawyers on behalf of the Russians.

Are you putting this Country in a similar light? Interesting.

When Lawyers pretend to be leading in the financial world, that's the result, and that's where a Country lands. ON ITS BACKSIDE with its two legs stretched up in the air? With all its private parts hanging out.

Lawyers turn finance gurus. Look out. DISASTER around the corner.

Anonymous said...

Lawyers don't fix anything except their fees and their salaries. It does not matter who suffers.

See what he did as soon as he came from the Guyana paper-pushing job? Up his salary.

See what he did with the VAT? Put it on medicine.

Boy mate is so sensitive to the people the pretends to be the leader of, that it hurts to think that so many Saint Lucians could be hoodwinked so many times. What a pathetic bunch of idiots we have running about the place.