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I heard this man on a radio station in New York, a few years ago. He was very articulate on matters pertaining to tourism and the airline industry.
bull and more bull!!!!
Chastanet Junior, has not DEMONSTRATED that there is a lot of daylight between himself and the rest of the cabal that passed for a government during the last UWP reign.
He did not distinguish himself in any way by abstaining from a blatant attempt to leach monies from the national treasury with a Cabinet decision giving an illegal tax break to a UWP cabinet member.
Ethical behaviour and responsibility DEMANDS that would shies away from anything that even has a slight hint or semblance of immorality when dealing with the national purse.
At the testimony at the Appellate court level he did not absolve himself, nor redeem himself with any semblance of any type exculpatory behaviour.
As leader, he is going to smother the UWP AGAIN with another round of hopeless tainted leadership.
His ministerial responsibility has placed him in the balance and this has been found wanting.
He stubbornly resisted to pay any attention to the democratic concept of public accountability. Saint Lucians can ill-afford in this hard guava season, to go back there again!
He directed monies to American Airlines and very arrogantly would not reveal the cost to taxpayers.
Yet, taxpayers are the ones BURDENED with paying for financial blundering and outlays supposedly done on their behalf, and in their interest.
We don't want to go back there again!
He does not understand the suffering of the working poor.
He paid out a very large sum for a tourism report which this nation has yet to see or gain any benefit from. The expenditure was not only questionable in terms of the quantum involved, the contractor terminated even before the official end of the contract.
Yet, those who were working in Soufriere were summarily dismissed on his gaining control of the ministry.
The man cannot walk a mile in the shoes of the poor. He has the great difficulty reciting in, and speaking the mother tongue!
But this steals the cake.
If the goodly gentleman were so skilled in anything other than spending other people's money, he would have been able to turn around the fortunes of Air Jamaica where he had a long stint.
Moreover, the headhunters and management recruiters would have long ago singled him out for a job in other major airlines still afloat.
But today, he has fallen into our lap. And like the carrier he once directed, Air Jamaica, he has dropped from the skies.
You cannot speak our language patios. so there you go NO vote for you. You're fired.
"UWP needs change."
Indeed!
"He does not understand the suffering of the working poor."...Well then, how could he, when he was born with a golden and platinum spoon up his &$$?
The man do not speak, nor could he understand, St Lucia's mother tongue; kweyol.
Remember: whoever controls the foods, controls the people. Already, the Chastanets' control the food supply in St St Lucia. God Almighty forbids he becomes PM here!! Which I very much doubt would happen. St Lucia do not want to go back to Colonial times.
Why do supporters of the SLP seem so afraid of Chastanet? Or are they being too racist? Julian, when he contested the leadership of the SLP, could not speak the language. Last count there are still many non-patois-speaking people filling key positions in the public service. Chastanet is a Lucian and he understands the language and is willing to master it someday. So in a matter of time he too will be a lot more fluent
Who's afraid of Virginia Wolf? Saint Lucians are no more a gullible people. Masa Days gone long time ago. Given the opportunity this one man wrecking crew will sink the country in a matter of months.
Hey, Bozo, seems we have a real Masa now as our prime minister. He is leading our once beautiful country down the commie route. He is amassing wealth now and will soon leave to reside in tt. All the Bozos like us are doomed -considered third class, poor and mentally disabled!
...lots of blogs from people who cant add 1+1
Indeed, above. Very sad the level of our discourse!...SAD!!
Stephenson King should step down and allow Chastanet to take over.
Is it true Chastanet wants to fire Frederick?
By the way why do we have so many rejected politician in our party namely: MONDAYZOD, EASYCAL, SPIDER, EX PRISONER BRUCE TALKER
Allen Chastanet have every right as a Saint Lucian to vie for the leadership of the UWP\PM of his home land. Our people should stop all the cheap misguided talk and consider the quality of a candidate, base on his capability on the local, regional, and international stage. He seemed the best fit at this time. SLP red bugs will write and say any thing for distraction; remember Osbert? As for Stephensen King, he should bow out gracefully, NOW!!
Where was the fiduciary responsibility?
Why is the UWP so darn silent on placing a woman and untainted person at the helm?
Why is the UWP returning to its hamper of dirty clothes and offering the country "the least dirty shirt"?
Put a person who looks like most of us and a female in charge.
UWP get rid of your half-men who do the "anchors aweigh" with less than dangling powder-puffs!
Select for leader, Dr. Rigobert!
My God! UWP needs change! But I don't see any, yet.
Well! Well! Well! It's god damn nauseating!
I be damned if I could ever countenance the unmitigated gall and chutzpah of a member of that marauding group of UWP MPs with its last Cabinet of veritable social misfits, as leader of our struggling nation.
Sakway tonnerre!
Saint Lucians have such god damn short memories!
Isn't this one of the main characters that sat in a Cabinet meeting, -- a deliberating body of government, a deliberating body, mind you! -- and gave illegal concessions to a fellow cabinet member?
Where was the darn honesty and integrity then?
The OECS Court of Appeals looked askance at the testimony given by one of the principal witnesses answering to the charges to this unquestionable and HIGHLY unprecedented IRREGULARITY.
The Court ruled against and recorded for posterity, this UWP nauseating and unprecedented BETRAYAL of trust, and travesty!
For someone seeking leadership of a country, where was the integrity? Where was the character? Where was the expected moral compass?
I refuse to be blind-sighted or idiotically bask in the reflection of any skin colour, family name, or family wealth. That's only for those happily cursed with a slave and colonial mentality.
Moreover, the records show, absolute ministerial irresponsibility and gross mismanagement of money and expenditure, plus an absolute revolting and arrogant DISDAIN for taxpayers during that UNELECTED character's short stint as Minister of Tourism.
Who the hell in Saint Lucia wants to give more power to anyone with such a record of characteristic financial waste? Futile boxing promotion, Dr. Cripple's un-deliverables, the "air lift" of empty seats, etc.
Who in Saint Lucia is a succour for more pain and such callous insensitivity, as with the summary dismissals of the working poor in Soufriere?
Do we in Saint Lucia have the testicular fortitude to say "no" to very bad rubbish?
"Fool me once. Shame on you!
Fool me twice. Shame on me!"
When the heyana is gone the dog begins to bark.
Is this the reason why the UWP is little more than a menagerie?
To put Dr.Rigobert into the race??
It will be the same mistake what SLP did when she put Dr.Anthony up for leadership. Mr.Julian Hunte as a proven businessman would never made this costly mistakes as leader.
A Dr.degree do not automatically qualify you as a responsible leader,in most cases in our government the Dr.'s are not proven business men,they look for a job in goverment because there they can make mistakes but it do not affect there private account like in the private business.
To put Chastanet as leader is put another fox to guard the henhouse.
See with the others, how they used a Cabinet Decision to award to line the pockets of another UWP mafia-type to benefit from illegal concessions?
See how these UWP goons bastardized and subvert legal procedure undermining Saint Lucia's fledgling democracy?
A leopard does not change its spots.
Air Jamaica went down. So you want Saint Lucia go further along on this same flight path?
If these UWP jackasses had any strategic sense at all, they would be selecting a new HONEST face, that could inspire some confidence that UWP was at least interested in turning the page on its ragamuffin and goonish past, and the caricature they had passing for a government the last time around.
Some honest and DECENT people hopefully might have been attracted.
These UWP idiots have absolutely no sense of political capacity building, and political infrastructure development. They have no sense of strategic planning!
Who wants the fox to continue to guard the henhouse? They almost got away cleanly the last time, drug baron and all!
Up to now, the UWP remains the flagship of Saint Lucia's quintessential co-co marcaque political behaviour.
@11.23
you can work for a airline,but when it comes to financial decision, this is made by shareholders/board who deceides what way to go.
Therefore if you not a member of the board you can advice but have no executive function.
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Chastened by the defeat in the last elections and the damning revelations from the Town and Village Councils report any visitor to UWP central office in Castries should have encountered the above sign on the door.
This would have indicated to the party faithful and the electorate at large that the UWP still wants to be considered as a major and important component of the country’s political infrastructure. In addition, it would announce to the country that they are willing to engage in serious introspection that would allow them to honestly confront the issues that undermine their legitimacy and possibilities to govern in the near or distant future.
Instead the party leaders made an official response to the audit report that can best be described as a non-denial denial and plunged head long into a meaningless leadership confrontation. Essentially giving the middle finger to the electorate and confirming my suspicion that the party hierarchy has a strange take on reality.
The missive published in the Voice newspaper earlier this month, in response to the damaging charges of corruption in that report sought to do the following things:
· Educate us as to what constitutes a forensic audit. – We know now. Thanks. However, are the charges true?
· Remind us that it was the Taiwanese government who demanded that the monetary aid be kept in the custody of the leadership of the various councils. – Could have told them how we do things here.
· The Taiwanese never found any evidence of malfeasance hence they continued to disburse funds, except in one case. - I suppose that must have been the most egregious.
· Government used civil servants in pursuit of their vendetta against the UWP. – Who should have been used? Expensive foreign lawyers?
· It was the fault of Kenny Anthony, then Leader of the Opposition and Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, for not convening a meeting of the committee. – The money never touched the consolidated fund.
· That the whole thing was a well orchestrated diversion to mask the SLP government’s nonperformance. – Again, not a denial.
· They will have their experts review the report and tender a report of the report sometime in the future. – Yeah right!
In that classic piece of sophism the UWP blamed everyone and their momma and refused to take one scintilla of responsibility for what could arguably be the biggest corruption case since Rochamelle.
Lets not waste any more time on this non-issue, they seem to say, we have our party leadership contest to worry about, what I consider to be analogous to appointing a captain as well as shuffling the chairs on the deck of the Titanic.
Their own diversion if you ask me.
Given the non-leadership of Stephenson King as party leader and Prime Minister, it strains credulity that he would be considered a candidate in that race. He is the one who pretty much oversaw the feeding frenzy and if that assertion is disputed it then means that he was clueless about it – both compelling reasons why he should not be entrusted with the leadership.
We have not even mentioned the dithering that characterized his entire term at the helm of the government.
Having said that, it is the rank and file of the party that will ultimately determine which one of these two gentlemen is best equipped to renew, restructure, revive, reawaken, and mend this obviously broken party.
It is this Herculean task of revive, revamp, and renew that should have engaged the attention of the party hierarchy, not this unraveling episode of bad blood.
LuciaBoy cont...
There should have been a series of consultations, or retreats where all issues should be fully fleshed out and questions like the following answered:
1. Why didn’t any one of us have the integrity and courage to call for moral restraint on the unbridled insatiability voilative of every tenet of decorum and probity during our term?
2. How do we exorcise the perception that permeates the consciousness of the average Saint Lucian that the government we ran was a kleptocracy?
3. What do we do about the undesirables in the party, and do we possess the audacity and moral authority to take disciplinary action against them?
4. How do we regain the trust and respect of the electorate?
5. Are we collectively sufficiently remorseful, and how can we communicate that to the electorate and get back in their good graces?
6. Who will be, going forward, the face of the party? Who among us can represent our newly reformed party in the public – it’s values, it’s philosophy, and policies?
7. How do we modernize and reposition this long-standing political institution and increase its appeal to the youth and other Saint Lucians who may become disillusioned with the SLP?
8. This one comes with a disclaimer- for entertainment purposes only: How many of us who harbor the people’s money is willing to return it and offer a sincere apology in the process?
Such a cathartic would be very important to refocus members on the party’s raison d'etre, its core values, its philosophy and rededicate to letting their actions be the embodiment of that philosophy.
Once all these questions are answered with candor and members are all bought in to the rebirth of the UWP a genuine leader will emerge.
If one should ask why should we give a hoot if the UWP goes to hell, I would begin my response by stating the obvious. Politics, and by extension, political parties, and elections are the main vehicles and infrastructure available to us to advance the public good. Thus good politics makes for good governance – a prerequisite for socioeconomic development.
The ideal is for us as a people to have genuine and legitimate options every election. Conversely, wouldn’t it be depressing if we had to settle for the least corrupt or the lesser of two evils at every poll?
When we have candidates who are favored by the majority of a constituency by virtue of superior expertise and skill set, their ability to work and deliver, integrity, performance (if up for reelection) etc. aren’t all the better for it?
When we can vote a party into office because their platform - their team, their policies and plans are better than the others we increase our odds of good governance. Barbados is currently at this stage in its political development where either party is always ready to govern and do their best without much corruption or social disruption.
@June 28, 2013 at 1:23 PM,
Board members are brought on into the directorship because of their officer titles, and/or their technical knowledge or expertise in the industry area of the operations of the company in question, to guide that company's strategic direction, plans, etc.
Of course! It depends LARGELY on your title or technical/industry expertise whether or not you are invited to become part of the Board of Directors of a company? No?
But unless you have solid proof that the actor in question did NOT have a title that automatically placed that person on the board, or was brought into the company as a board member from another company or from another board, then one MUST conclude that the actor was just another ordinary marketing manager? No?
Today's complex world makes it difficult for all leaders to master all the finer points of Finance, Management, Business and Economics. However, a doctorate does suggest potential for the candidate to master some of the issues when backed by balanced advisors who are technically skilled enough to explain and lay out the ramifications of certain policy options.
In this respect, I believe that a new face like Dr. Rigobert will do the UWP a world of good. Besides, she is not besmirched, to any extent like the members of the UWP's last cabinet.
my fellow lucians st lucians are not for sale, the kind of people we elect will be a reflection of who we are as a people or nation.
lets not forget chastenet and his past record even as tourism minister. they some of the uwp delegate wants to elect him as political leader, then have Stevenson king as opposition leader In the house, mr chastenet has plans to fire Frederick and bousquet in the uwp.[coming from delegate word]
now should he mr chastenet win, we st lucians have to ask him and ourselves had question even up to our children's future here in st lucia.
a. how much money from tourism did he paid to the fcca in October of 2009 when the conference was held at almond grove
who foot the bill for the fcca after each delegate paid from $900.00 to over $1000.00 food ,transportation, and entainment,
shouldn't he tell us after these how much millions he gave to them.
how much money did he receive from Taiwan for his campaign in Soufriere,, how much did he paid third world for playing three songs at the Soufriere stadium
did all the money spent, who was the beneficiary,
moneys was taken from the foundation by litten who was then chairman, did he used Taiwan money, the foundation money or what to aquire lot opposite cool breeze on behalf of chastenet,
there was so many bobol going on by litten at the foundation along with pinnock to bolster chastenet. I guess litten owe chastenet after his near bankruptcy please there are so many you all decide and be the judge he is phony don't trust him.
@ June 28th, 6:39pm
The politics of personalities, again. Since you suggested Dr Rigobert, perhaps you should also advise that she stop the political theater. At this point, people are turned off by the act--or should be.
No one genuinely serious about national progress cares for that high-pitched, highfalutin oratory that leads to nowhere. Simply state the facts--problems and solutions--so they can be easily dissected. Reserve the flowery language, emphatic gesturing, and feigned foreign accent for the Broadway by Conway.
This may have worked in Odlum's era but no more. A similar proviso ought to have been issued to the new SLP PRO. Drop the emphatic act--the PM's press secretary should be her guide. Tone down the rhetoric.
@ June 28th, 2:05pm
Is the term "ordinary" qualifying the man or the position?
@June 29, 2013 at 2:12 AM
There are MBAs and there are other MBAs.
To me, the discussion there was neutral enough to suggest that an attempt was being made to carefully remove the personality out of the picture. The direction of thought too, was about (a) titles, (b) recognition of responsibility and associated authority, and (c) the influence of all that on the strategic direction of a company.
Chastanet may have the right message, but sure bet, in terms of credibility he is obviously and most definitely the wrong choice.
His past behaviours do not inspire confidence in his leadership skills -- if he does have any.
He did not display at Air Jamaica. He most certainly showed that this was alien to his nature when he sided with those who, purportedly he wants out of the picture today.
Saint Lucia is at a very serious juncture of economic marginalisation and global political irrelevance. And yet, some seem to want us to return to the past of political entertainment on the platforms, instead of an education and elucidation on what we need to understand and master, to forge a concrete and meaningful path in a world of dog-eat-dog globalization.
Note the emerging counter-trend of a reversal by companies "reshoring" or repatriating jobs back to their home bases, or to the countries where they are headquartered.
Sniping idiotically and continuously at people who wish NOT to dilute or make light of some very serious and critical issues facing this "one-trick-pony" economy that we have called tourism, is to welcome a return to our slave and colonial past.
The pattern continues today.
They constantly give us their usual happy, disarming talk, a la Chandelle Molle, while they and their families rake in the money and enjoy the good life, by controlling our institutions and our high places, and of course, the softened malleable target created -- our extremely abused minds.
Lucia Boy! You rock!!
Yeah, agree, Lucian Boy rocks - and rocks quite hard at that.
But Lucian Boy, do you seriously believe Stephenson King could actually take "disciplinary action" against those undesirables elements in his party? To begin with, King himself is undesirable, isn't he - mem bette mem pwell?
Great logical writings. Keep 'em coming!!
WHEN THE TIME COMES FOR DEMONIZING AN OPPONENT, YOU CANNOT GET A BETTER LOT THAN THE S.L.P ATTACK DOGS.
They don't want Chastanet to lead the U.W.P because he is a more effective and persuasive leader than King.
It is amazing what the fear of one man can do. (better days ahead?)
ENROUGE TO YOU.
Try allan,he is better than Kenny the trator.
UWP dived into the stinking dirty clothes hamper and surfaced with its leader, THE LEAST DIRTY SHIRT.
Is not this candidate a member of the rogue cabinet of the last UWP so called government? Are saint Lucians therefore being given a choice of holding their collective noses in selecting from the least gangrened and offending UWP reprobate candidates within their party's bosom then?
Chastanet is a holdover from our SLAVE past. Saint Lucians do not have any further uses for such reminders. Damn it!
Articulate????? Or nice "white" accent?
SLP supporters are not racist...how could they be, Allen Chastanet is black not white, let him visit Mississippi and he will know what time it is.
ST. Lucians please DO NOT and I repeat DO NOT make the mistake of electing Allen Chastanet. We cannot afford to SELL the country to these ppl - they already own all the retail stores, half the steel supplies stores and they Still want more....NO TO CHASTANET
Only the larger 90 percent majority of the masses of ignoramuses herded and mentally abused of the two main political parties in Saint Lucia believe that BOTH Chastanet and Kenny are of the Caucasoid race. Idiots!
A slave and colonial relic like John Compton, this Chastanet is. Such relics belong to museums!
Don't let the hordes of UWP idiots put us back into SLAVERY.
UWP needs to change.
Once you start by evoking the memory of one John Melvin Compton, without acknowledging his mistakes entitled high-handedness, cruelty, viciousness and vindictiveness as regarding the people of Anse La Raye and Canaries, man, you are already on the wrong foot.
I am already beginning to feel sorry for our sorry @$&## if you become leader.
Since revamping UWP in order to win is all you have, and that Vincentian bait-n-hook fishing villager extraction is your frigging guiding light, boy, with you, Saint Lucians' sorry @$#%%$ will get well $$%$#d.
UWP proves daily that it is a party of ignoramuses, by ignoramuses and for ignoramuses.
Only cursed nitwits and retards would allow themselves to be taken down the garden path again.
I think the uwp should come back the slp are killing people every day the gangsters shooting people and not coming to they ad
Most Saint Lucians think like savages. There is no khaki-coloured man standing in front of them that they don't firmly believe is their true white God and Saviour.
George Hoodlum thought as much and genuflected.
Senile Compton was heaven sent.
The fools cowed, bowed and prayed. And the poor accordingly got their sorry 'what you might call it' repeatedly shafted.
Give this one a shortened term. He does not know patios, but he knows that 'revamping' in Saint Lucian English means fire their tails.
Soufriere workers, I am sorry.
UWP stop insulting the people of Saint Lucia. You have given us your imperious demi-god Saint John Compton.
Now you want to give us someone who does not look like the majority 90 plus percent of the population, cannot speak nor understand the people's tongue, a callous spendthrift, and a marketing neophyte. No positive results from his efforts.
Down with all this foolishness!
Who the hell are you trying to fool with this idiot?
Guess which family name stands big and tall, in blocking the aspirations of Saint Lucians of darker hue?
The office located in the corner of the public buildings in alignment with A. F. Valmont & Co was a hotbed for social mischief.
Available scholarships only came to light and revealed when the children of the same, or lighter complexion or those of a prominent family were of age to benefit.
Some of the victims do remember the operations of the Planning Unit under reign of Blessed Saint John Compton.
After reading ALL the comments above, filled with racial slurs, rumours, half truths, ignorant rantings of "yo dee" ... do any of you really KNOW the man? It was really shameful to read the above comments - most of them, I am sure, without merit.
This has made me see that politics in St Lucia is really an abominable disease!!
Before the man is even at the helm of the UWP he is being crucified - with all his clothes on!! Get to know the man first, and what he is about. A lot of you are jumping on an ignorant and racist bandwagon of slurs and unfounded lies.
Am I for Chastanet? No - because I personally DO NOT KNOW the man!! Am I defending him? No - because from what I see and read, he is displaying his valour as a St Lucian. Only when, and if, he takes up the helm of the UWP he will have to prove his worth to St Lucia - like everyone else. He has A LOT of courage, and A LOT of chutzpah to prove to his fellow St Lucians.
Give the man a break - either let him hang himself, or prove he is a saviour. Then, you can talk.
There are many other successful St Lucian business families, besides the Chastanet's ... if I can point them out, so can you!! They have hotels, own half of the buildings in Castries ranging in the millions of dollars - yet, I never hear other St Lucian's bringing them down because of their wealth (thankfully, they stay out of politics) ... and the Chastanet's have much less than them if one has to count and point fingers.
"Only when, and if, he takes up the helm of the UWP he will have to prove his worth to St Lucia - like everyone else..."
Are you serious, making this above statement?
Reference blogger @June 29, 2013 at 6:42 AM...that is Chastanet's worth!!
MASSA is a thing of the past in St Lucia...ain't no introducing it back.
"Am I for Chastanet? No - because I personally DO NOT KNOW the man."
Your own words. So you know now that you do NOT know. So what's your point again?
Now from the good book. It says this much in Matthew 7:15-17.
"Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
16. You shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
17. Even so every good tree brings forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree brings forth evil fruit. …
Now turn the short HISTORY of the man in Cabinet government. See the good fruits regarding:
1. being in collusion with others on that fatal Cabinet Decision to give illegal concessions to a cabinet member, and the associated testimony before the Court of Appeals when the judge shot it down, with issues of veracity being made public. Good fruit? And is a moral compass on show here?
2. about "revamping" the workers in Soufriere where he summarily fired the suffering workers, but went on hire a consultant who fired the job before its end, and we have not had the report tabled in the parliament up to now, nor its recommendations. More good judgement? More good fruit?
3. then about more wasteful spending on a boxing promotion fiasco. What did we get for that financial outlay? More good fruit?
4. then about paying by way of "secret agreement" American Airlines to bring empty seats, with his so-called "airlift" [Yeah! Right! Lots of air got lifted.] and when asked to reveal to taxpayers what it was costing us, he stubbornly refused. Old chap, more good fruit?
So, are you still banking on your continued studied ignorance and lack knowledge of some of our felt-entitled "who's who", and the litany of the egregious blundering, stupidity and revolting arrogance of our khaki-coloured and slave plantation holdovers in our midst, as a credible excuse for the dastardly perpetuation of the status quo?
Yeah, hide behind your "good book", sacre hee-po-creete, and quote what is convenient to you and your cause.
Only reprobates and miserable sinners run into difficulties with the good book.
What? You can't deal with it? You can't deal with the truth?
A deep sense of foreboding has overcome the hopeful that once thought that the UWP could offer as leader, something less akin to diving into its stinking clothes hamper and emerge from there waving its least dirty shirt.
CHASTANET IS A BLASTED WASTE. HE WILL NEVER BE A PRIME MINISTER IN THIS COUNTRY.
HIS FATHER KEPT HIM FAR AWAY FROM HIS BUSINESS. WHY? BECAUSE HE'S A WASTE.
A WHOLE LOT OF TALK; AND TALKING WITH A HOT POTATO IN HIS MOUTH. HE'S A COMPLETE TURN-OFF.
DESPERATE FOR POWER. HE WILL NEVER GET IT.
ALLEN CHASTANET LIED TO THE OECS COURT OF APPEAL, TRYING TO SAVE MON-DAY-ZOD WITH HIS CROOKING OF CUSTOMS DUTIES WITH RESPECT TO THE NOTORIOUS TUXEDO VILLAS.
AND HE WAS ABSOLUTELY SHAMESLESS AT DOING THAT. AND THE COURT STOPPED SHORT OF TELLING HIM GET OUT OF THESE COURTS.
CHASTANET LOOKS LIKE A DEVIL IN THIS PICTURE. WATCH HIS DIRTY LYING EYES.
TRAITOR. YOU ARE CHASTANET.
At least Chastanent has invested his money and therefore provides JOBS for hundreds of looshans. Name one other politician who has done such or even another looshan. I hear Fletcher is sitting on millions and versed in Agriculture yet still he not providing JOBS thru investment or even helping our banana industry. Give the guy a break.
Why to get so exited on a blog?
If you dont like the man be become as prime minister just vote a other party when election comes. Thats what respect each other all about is.
If yo want to be respected you have to respect others too. Get it?
Jackass @June 30, 2013 at 9:48 PM, if you had any god damn sense, and any real brains between your friggin ears, you would have known by now that Chastanet, the father, would have used his business sense to use ROBOTS instead of human beings, if their services were cheaper to buy and maintain than human beings.
The consumer protection agency in Saint Lucia has no friggin balls!
And dumb ass, it is not the father who is managing the business, that is running for office.
It is THE SON THAT IS FRONTING FOR HIS DAD, to finally corral the ENTIRE business sector and economy of Saint Lucia.
Blood is thicker than water! You
idiot!
You think like, and you sound just like our very famous and deceitful, but extremely backward country bookie idiot MP!
You must be that retard from out there in the country.
If yo want to be respected you have to respect others too. Get it?
Where did you learn English? From outside the school gate?
Respect does not mean accept.
Jackass get a proper education!
UWP stop insulting Saint Lucians! Give us a sound leader with integrity who looks like 90 plus percent of the Saint Lucia population.
Khaki-coloured people are wealthier because of slavery, colonialism, and close-knit ethnic support, but are not necessarily smarter than black people!
Black people may betray other black people. But Khaki-coloured people have shown repeatedly here in Saint Lucia that they take care of their own first and foremost.
No khaki-coloured person has ever shown himself or herself to love a black person more their own kind. Not here in Saint Lucia, nor anywhere else for that matter.
It is time to get over your sorry #$#@ colonial and slave management model.
Saint Lucians are going to pay a very heavy price if the UWP hangs yet another UNPRINCIPLED albatross across the neck of fair Helen.
This is the same ole same ole. this does not represent change PERIOD. Moving on
UWP needs sweeping changes! Get rid of your freaking tiefing politicians if you want to get them elected as a government.
Wipe the f--inn slate clean!
Wow, absolutely amazing. I'm amazed at how backward our people are. No wonder politicians treat St Lucia as their ATM. Instead of coming together and being analytic and proactive about issues, most of you choose to slag each other off. Calling each other names, because of differing opinions. Some say that they're not for going back to slavery. Guess what? You've enslaved yourselves already. You don't need a politician to do that. Allen Chastenet's bread has long been buttered, many times over. Him and his family do not feel the pinch that you do. Whether he is a good candidate or not, the maypwee gets us no where. Wake up St Lucia, wake up.
"Allen Chastenet's bread has long been buttered, many times over. Him and his family do not feel the pinch that you do. Whether he is a good candidate or not, "
See what a brainwashed SOB you are?
It does NOT matter whether he is a good candidate or not. His bread is buttered already. Give him more.
The MV Michael David fleeced the malayway using the vessel to send things to Barbados.
Guess the name of the family that hid scholarships until the offspring of other khaki coloured and others of lighter skin were of age to get them. Ask those who sat in offices next door like the Ferdinands, the Cadets, the Merle Alexanders and the Pilgrims if they could or would talk.
You bloody house negro! They have cornered the food distribution chain. Now give them control of the whole damn government and the economy so that you can bow and pray to your new khaki God. Sacre couyon!
Doh worry wid that country bookie. Him sound like de MP from country bookie town, Forrestierre.
Responsible users of this blog ought to use a new modus operandi: completely ignore those who name-call and curse. They are bereft of depth and cannot be engaged in any meaningful discussion without insult. Immaturity should be discouraged.
@July 1, 2013 at 1:54 PM
Sacre soutweyez de vice.
Joll ou tay bien fermay l'heure les voleurs UWP tay kar voleur l'argent pepp et l'argent government. Mais actuellement, ou vlais dire qui ni bon messe et qui ni vieux messe? Sans honte!
There will always be those disgusting reprobates who would try to cover their own tracks, and those of fellow scumbags, slime-balls and downright vagabonds in elected government.
Dump your scumbags, UWP! Give the god damn country a chance to breathe away from the stench of your last cabinet and administration. Clean up your act.
UWP, shut down your party, a latrine!
I sorry that I can't contain myself because of the information I am receiving regarding the status of the land of my birth. How is it that all the newly built Police Stations and Fire stations in St Lucia are owned by Trinidad and St Lucia is paying rent to them. Why are St Lucian allowing this to happen. St lucian wake up before it's too late.
Why would anybody bother to vote for the vomit that the people of Soufriere spurned? Pass on loads of toilet paper for Allen to wipe from the corners his mouth, the remnants of turd that he spewed up there.
If anything, you folks amuse me. When will all this online angst and protest reap tangible rewards, though? When will your hot-tempered activism become visible on a national scale? Tomorrow? Next week? Next year? Anytime this century?
What has complaining bitterly on here achieved? Anything? Are you waiting for the Public Order Act to go digital, in the form of the expected Responsible Computer Use Act? There must be a reason why rising inflation, allegations of corruption, and a rise in basic commodities have only elicited complaints.
Errant politicians are on to you: Saint Lucians talk loudly but do nothing. In the end, there are no consequences for ineptitude or misbehavior in public office because the people are passive and "powerless". What's a couple insults going to do? Keep typing into oblivion; it'll get you far.
UWP stop going to your toilets and picking pieces of shit as MPs and your leasers.
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If anything, you folks amuse me. When will all this online angst and protest reap tangible rewards, though? When will your hot-tempered activism become visible on a national scale? Tomorrow? Next week? Next year? Anytime this century?
What has complaining bitterly on here achieved? Anything? Are you waiting for the Public Order Act to go digital, in the form of the expected Responsible Computer Use Act? There must be a reason why rising inflation, allegations of corruption, and a rise in basic commodities have only elicited complaints.
Errant politicians are on to you: Saint Lucians talk loudly but do nothing. In the end, there are no consequences for ineptitude or misbehavior in public office because the people are passive and "powerless". What's a couple insults going to do? Keep typing into oblivion
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All I know is that Saint Lucians if ignore the ruling of the OECS Supreme Court, they will do so with bitter regret and to their peril.
Saint Lucians may never ever again be given another chance to seek or get justice against a government made up of only scum, goons and crooks.
The party, the party, the party. If these are the words reverberating in Mr. Chastenet's vision for overhauling the UWP, then mothers send your sons to hide in the fields and tie your daughters to the leg of the table. Has not the narrow-mindedness of party bossmanship done enouth damage to solidarity of purpose in a united vision for the progress of St.Lucia?
If, indeed, there is need for re-construct of representation for the people, it seems that the visionary should view a wider scope of national development than simply the telling declarations of party bossmanship.
There is valuable merit in the saying, it takes two hands to clap. Mr. Chastenet, by listing all the good things his new UWP will bring to pass in St. Lucia attempts to pretend that he has forgotten that the leader of the nation must serve the good, bad and ugly in measures that he may not even have considered.
National stability, as is apparent in one "falling-down government" after another - cannot be gained at the behest of party bossmanship. Successful national leadership requires solidarity. There must be a meeting of the minds of those who seek political leadership. The hands of all must clap about the enhancement of the human condiition. Dignity must be returned to the people; not to the party. This often run at cross purposes with the myopia of party bossmanship
Can Mr. Chastenet find the guts to parley with the Labor Party and collaborate on what is good for our St. Lucia?
Where are the PEOPLE in all this noise?.....they will decide come election time. A bunch of 3:am tin cans, don't matter!
like bob dole said of the republican party that they need to put a sign and say shop is close just so the uwp needs to do he same
The real problem is that Mr. Chastanet is no different than the persons he thinks that he wants to replace. When fellow cabinet members were colluding to rob the public purse in the Tuxedo Villa Affair, all the hollow talk that some are ascribing to him regarding courage, Mr. Chastanet showed none of that.
Cabinet government mandates, the minister related to the Cabinet Paper under discussion behave not like the other ministers, whose ministry are not related, nor touched by the subject matter of the Cabinet Paper in question. You may not sleep during the session like the others normally do and side with the PM. Neither may not excuse yourself.
In general, discussion of the matter of a Cabinet Paper is normally delayed if the responsible ministers
are out of country.
Therefore, to go before the OECS Court of Appeals and testify that you were not present at such a meeting is dereliction of duty. It is abdication of ministerial responsibility. It is absenting yourself from the job for which you are being paid.
If you cannot prove yourself a responsible person with just ONE ministry, are you up to snuff, being supervisor of all the other ministers in the cabinet?
You do not set an example of having leadership qualities when you can not find the time to do the job you are being paid to do. Saint Lucia needs leadership not figureheads.
But wait a minute!
Wet behind the ears, that novice doing OJT (on the job) training was not aware of the mechanisms in place. He did not realize or forgot that an official record is made of those who attend meetings of the Cabinet whenever it meets.
That is why, the ruling from the bench in the Tuxedo Villa Case found extreme difficulty with the veracity with the statement regarding presence and absence at that meeting deciding the illegal transfer of national resources to fellow government minister. The recording clerk had that name as one of those being present at that meeting.
"To be or not to be? That is the question."
Two things stand out here. First, by the principle of the Collective Responsibility of Cabinet under our constitution, all, not just one of the Cabinet Members are EQUALLY guilty by virtue of membership of that said cabinet, of aiding and abetting the illegal granting of tax concessions to a fellow cabinet member.
Mr. Chastanet could have shown his mettle and alleged courage then. He could have shown all the courage that some claim that he has, by distancing himself from that Cabinet Decision -- basically -- in one two ways.
Abstaining from the vote and/or voting against the measure were principled stances that could have been taken, demonstrating leadership when it mattered!
He could not talk AGINST the Cabinet Decision in public -- a third option -- without having first making the decision to face the consequence of being left no other choice but to quit the cabinet, because of "the collective responsibility of cabinet" principle.
And he could well have exercised this third option!
He is wealthy enough to sacrifice the income coming from the remainder of the term, expose the corruption in his party, and stoutly defend and shore-up this country's dwindling resources of honesty and social responsibility.
The choice he made then? None of the above.
But to him, the leadership of the party is a much bigger prize. The country could go by the tail. That return to the sickening focus on control of the party betrays deep suspicion of personal goals. Still left untouched are the burning issues of pervasive corruption and unanswered ethical questions going back to failed leadership from 30 years and counting.
Can the UWP not find new, young, and untainted characters who look much more like the 98% of the Saint Lucian population to help it turn the corner and rebuild capacity and decency away from its sordid past?
Must this country always have to return to, like a dog, only to lap up its own vomit?
O - My - Goodness!!! And I do mean "My Goodness!!!
After reading most of the above comments chockfull of RACISM, IGNORANCE and POLITICAL mischief!!! (RIP)
RACISTS - crucifying the man for his skin color.
IGNORANCE - for just that - ignorance.
POLITICS - that infestatious disease (is there such a word?).
What can anyone of you bring to the table - truthfully? Only saloptay and maypoui rumors.
Let anyone without sin, cast the first stone ... Shame on my fellow St Lucians!!! SHAME!!
You above, could cry blood instead of tears or until hell freezes over...WE DO NOT WANT YOUR CHASTANET...we want someone who look like us (not like the .9 or 1%), feel like us, talk like us (creole), behave like us, et al.
You would be well advised to take note of anonymous at July 3, 2013 at 11:22 AM. He has just dissected and analyze your your Chastanet in his logical and truthful blog.
TOO FHAY!
Dr. Rigobert has talked the talk.
She is female, and a very welcomed demographic, representative of over 50 percent of the resident population.
She is black. As such, she represents over 98 percent of the Saint Lucian population.
I believe that she has a much deeper understanding of 'putting bread on the table' if said by her in our very native creole.
UWP needs new blood.
She is young. She can most certainly attract new blood, and better relate to our very important segment and significant demographic in our distinctive youthful population.
Now UWP, stop recycling your extremely tainted, ignorant, visionless, and remarkably and disgustingly corrupt 'has beens'!
Show that Saint Lucia is not a Moslem culture shrouding its women in the background or in plain sight.
Chastanet is 'spoiled goods'.
Chastanet is from your dirty clothes hamper, and from there, your remarkably 'least dirty shirt'.
Dr. Rigobert can talk the talk. Now give her, a very progressive female, a real opportunity to rebuild the party, and to 'walk the talk'.
Let anyone without sin, cast the first stone
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Only God Almighty is in the business of repeatedly forgiving sinners 70 times 7.
Recividists are for our Bordelais hotel facility. Some are too moneyed, too big, too powerful or protected by too many of the dead and silenced, to ever go there.
That's the sick, sleek, sickening smile of a con-artist.
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UWP needs change and they are turning to the diseased, stinking gangrened parts of the party for that? Are you people serious, or seriously sick?
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