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we could have had high levels of cooperation even joining the questionable Petro Caribe mechanism of new national debt and repayment without joining ALBA.
But now we are in union with a group of largely left-wing countries, joining ostensibly, among other things to "... help shield them from the more powerful nations." I wonder who the framers had in mind here as "the more powerful nations". This to me as a familiar North Korean paranoid expression. But let's see where the supposedly economic benefits take us.
Our PM has an insatiable appetite it would seem, for signing agreements -- before examining fully, their implications for the long term economic viability of this country. Let's hope that this does not turn out to be another one of those.
Let's hope too, that the PetroCaribe Agreement is not like the other Trojan Horses for example, Rochamel, Black Bay and Grenberg, where the PM treats our national treasure like it is "OPEE-ARGE".
That's a big mistake!I don't understand how Kenny rushed into this thing.
The opposition party turned a blind eye...evil thrives when we ignore it. Both King and Kenny have failed Saint Lucians and they will have to pay the piper one day.
Opposition? You mean the Noise-position. The dumb members of the UWP cabinet co-conspirators. Yes. Noise-position. They only make dumb noises.
ALBA-tross!
Poor Saint Lucians. We've got another albatross?
Line them up! Let's see here. We have Tuck Her, The Drug Baron, Morne Dezord, The King of Puppets, Economic-Caligula ... Caesar Antonius Schizoid, and now ALBA?
kenny Anthony is a traitor against the people of St Lucia. Sackway, sell out.
Considering St.Lucia is Broke and has to borrow money to pay its workers and also has to borrow for Capital works I would have thought we all would hear about cuts being done not expansion and more loans.
Sad truly Sad.
@ 8:35 AM Make sure that the next Minister of Finance is acquainted with a little more knowledge than this one about money, money management, business, business management, economics and economic management.
This on-the-job training thing, even after full two terms in office, is obviously not working. This foolishness coming from these ignorant amateurs is cutting our rear ends big time.
Does it not follow that the longer the term of loan repayment granted, the greater amounts of interest to be derived? Oh, maybe it's just me.
@11:34 above, it depends .... Yet, you make a very significant point.
For example, taking a long-term loan on real estate, which translates into a mortgage, it is not unusual for the bank to collect twice or more of the nominal amount of the loan.
Yet, more than half of this amount finally paid out, may be in the interest payments alone!
Be sure to get take out survivor's insurance, and some arrangement to pay down on the principal each month after the stipulated interest payment has been paid.
When you have ministers with civil service experience or public service experience alone, they may never have the wits to work in the private sector.
Obviously, some blokes by their ignorant mouthings, do not shew the capacity to understand the sometimes complex financial operations that obtain in the private sector, nor the ability to think abstractly as demanded by their posts. Of their minds, it is garbage in, and garbage out.
Every five years and in between, we are treated to an enjoyable circus of clown acts on the political stage.
The chickens are coming home to roost.
They say it was a simple matter. Wow! Was it also a simplistic approach to foreign policy?
And, if there were cascading waterfalls of benefits, why weren't these trotted out as indicators of what Saint Lucians have been missing out on? Shallow and simplistic thinking?
bat chou zot.
bat chou zot????
You shameless hack!! You happy that a single man can make a whole country join an organsition they did not vote for?
Don't worry. Kenny is the one that should be afraid, not us!
You have not heard the last of it.
Is this the best foreign policy measure that the SLP can come up with at this time? Just a "me too" is all that came from the Lewis study. You guys have nothing on Chastenet then?
And the people of Saint Lucia have to pay to such spectacular and brilliant insights? Is it just SOS, but a different day?
How more confused can our policymakers get.
They get us into more long-term DEBT and make us BEHOLDEN to VENEZUELA, mortgaging our children's future.
Yet, they have the audacity to call this a strengthening of FOREIGN POLICY. LOL!
Let them fool themselves wrapped up in their own political spin.
They, like others are always free to take a '6' for a '9'.
But hey! Some people can tell the difference!
Nice try SLP! Nice try!
Our so-called political leaders should stop crapping on people's intelligence. Not all the people can be taken for fools. Stop shooting shate!
Simpletons swallowing simplistic solutions like guppies in a fishbowl. Foolish fish always get caught.
Making such a big deal of ALBA as a foreign policy achievement is like a pregnant groaning and groaning and groaning.
And for all that groaning and labour, the ELEPHANT begat a mouse!
Three recent agreements initiated by the SLP still beg for a decent explanation, irrefutable logic and plain commonsense. They are (1) Rochamel, (2) Black Bay, and (3) Grenberg.
Does the hierarchy know what the hell it is doing?
Is such an alliance or membership benefit St Lucia in any way? At this time when St Lucia is struggling economically we certainly should not be concerned in joining organizations or forming alliances which are not in the best interest of our country. Will the Prime Minister and the Governor please explain what the meaning of this current distraction is?
Leave the GG out of that. The GG is just a live parrot reciting what has been placed in front of her to read by the PM of the day. This time it is Dr. Anthony.
But imagine a numbskull giving the PM to read what he himself cannot fathom. Only in Saint Lucia does this charade continue in post-colonial times.
Saint Lucia is known for pappy-show government.
Those people are just going through the motions to collect their salaries and their pensions.
All new MPs are who have not yet put in the required number of years are simply working for re-election, but just to do the same damn thing. Thus, the crap continues. SLP, or UWP more or less the same crap. Just a different party.
Do you hear about any grand ideas to eliminate the grinding poverty?
What? You say the VAT?
Do you believe that the implementers know a fart about correctly implementing a VAT?
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