Thursday, October 17, 2013

WE SCORE BIG...AGAIN!

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

O.K. we get it - we score big.
but who benefit, the Hotel owners or
the natives?
They come here, employ some low paid workers, monopolize our beaches, prevent us
from accessing the same beaches our parents once used for us to play and swim at.
Then you say, 'We score big'. How big is low wages and VAT to contend with?
We are giving away too much, and to rub salt in the wound,
we have destroyed a plantation for HESS to make his hundreds of millions over the years
in exchange for what? some poorly paid workers? utilizing a natural harbour which could be used for better purposes?
Wake up, St.Lucia.

Anonymous said...

@ 11:20 AM.....You are on point, thanks for a masterpiece.

Anonymous said...

No. We should be grateful.

Karolin Troubetzkoy make us what we are. No access to the beach, maybe, but what would there be otherwise? Dirty sand.

Karolin bring the blessed dollars and pounds, sometimes a little is spent in Soufriere. What else do we have? Nothing.

Thank you Jade Mountain.

Anonymous said...

Be grateful! Could be worse in these rough economic times in both Europe and America - usually our biggest customers.
St Lucia is still doing much better than Barbados and very well compared with the other big tourist islands. The stats show it!

Anonymous said...

We should be grateful for the acolades. I will never understand when people despise the tourism industry so much when it is this very industry which swe depend on for survival. Our own -people are not making substantial investments in their country but this is left to foreign investors to do then we sit and criticize and complzain. I'm not saying that the workers shouldn't be paid more or conditions should are acceptable around the board, but lets not focus so heavily on that aspect and ignore everything else. A matter of fact if we are so dissatisfied let us put our money into commerce and business and create these lucrative jobs foor our people so that they could be treated "fairly"

Anonymous said...

psychologically it is very hard after several generations of slavery for the mind of some to climb to a level of acceptance, equality co-ownership or ownership.
We as a nation are not blessed with the vision necessary to look through the eye of anyone, least of all, the present-day foreign economic colonizer.
No one came here because they want to be nice to us, there is money to be made - and we should demand PARTNERSHIP not just a job and damn it, no more TAX FREE HOLIDAYS for your Hotels, especially the REX. Which Administration with the necessary balls to tell the "REX" owner - "YOU HAVE OCCUPIED A PART OF THE BEST BEACH ON THE ISLAND WITH THE WIDEST EXPANSE OF THE UGLIEST, LESS EXOTIC HOTEL AND IT'S HIGH TIME TO invest some of your MILLIONS TO UPGRADE, REDESIGN, REBUILD, modernize OR ELSE, SHIP OUT."
NO MORE MR. NICE GUY - NO MORE TAX BREAKS, YOU WANNA STAY, PAY TO STAY. I'm (Oct. 17, 2013 @ 11: 20 AM.)

Anonymous said...

O.k, so with all these accolades, why do we have to spend so much money to market this place? Why so much on Jazz to get people here? I'm not saying we shouldn't market but with the island's beauty etc, one would think less would be spent on getting people to come here.

Anonymous said...

Anon @10:39AM.
Tourism doesn't work like that. In these times EVERYTHING in BUSINESS is about MARKETING, no matter how beautiful your island is. Competition worldwide is too great. If you're not selling your product 24/7 no one knows you exist and no one comes to buy whatever you're selling.

Anonymous said...

St. Lucia is no doubt a very beautiful country.

Only the wretched crooks (politicians) spoil it.