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- Ministry of Social Transformation Responds to Nati...
- LIME Restores Full Services Islandwide
- First Citizens says Thank You!
- Digicel partners with St. Lucia Red cross to provi...
- Courts provides support to flood victims
- Blue Waters St. Lucia Ltd. helps alleviate Water S...
- WEST INDIES / NEW ZEALAND ODI
- Will Kenny & Co fry Grynberg’s red herring in 2014?
- WATER AND SEWERAGE COMPANY INC
- UWP Requests Customs Exemption On Relief Supplies
- The UWI Open Campus seeks donations to support Chr...
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- Emergency response
- Bolivarian Republic Of Venezuela Ministry Of The P...
- A Bittersweet Kind Of Rain
- Like the Mythical Phoenix
- GOV’T SHOWERS PRAISE
- “Extensive & Severe” Damage
- The rights of a pregnant worker
- Saint Lucia NYC Celebrates another Year
- Releasing Stress by Raising Your Vibes Part 4
- ISSL Helps Needy Kids at Xmas
- BELOVED COUNTRY and Other Poems
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- UWP Reaches Out To Affected Families Of Christmas ...
- Update on Disaster
- The WTO Brings Gifts
- My Big and Bad Stories for 2013
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- A mickey-mouse plan for addressing desiltilization...
- CELEBRATING EXCELLENCE
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- A RUINED HOLIDAY SEASON
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- LIME Shares The Cheer
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- Launch of the Caribbean Regional Youth Council
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- Keepin’ It Simple & Real
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- APMA ends the year 2013 in grand style
- MERRY CHRISTMAS!
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- If Only
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- Finance and the Small Business
- Daily Markets Wrap Up –Wednesday 19th, December 2013
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- Water Stress
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- Is this sexual harassment?
- Invest Saint Lucia Contributes to the National Com...
- Fit4Life – The New Year Revolution cont’d
- Aiding and abetting crime on the “Inside"
- Unacceptable Abuse of power
- THINKING ANEW…and ALOUD
- The Unpredictable Shelf Life Of A Dictator
- “Love Protect Respect”
- Holidays Holier Than Thou!
- Crisis and Disasters
- Christmas cheer without the blues
- Addressing Misconceptions and Inadequacies
- A gloomy time
- INTER SCHOOLS CYCLING CHAMPIONSHIP
- The Shifting Spirit
- THE GREATEST GIFT
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- Digicel Brightened Christmas For Kids In Dennery, ...
- Digicel Has Given Away $25,000 In Cash For Christmas!
- The Abuse Of State Power
- RSLPF Refutes claims by Human Rights Advocate
- Guyana St. Lucia Association Elects New Executive
- Fear Is Always Greater Than Fear Itself
- A Christmas to Remember
- TRIBUTE TO “SMOKEY”
- Successful Year For St. Lucia Junior Golf Club
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Chastanet:
Why have you, as if by magic, instantaneously transformed from selling cheese to become an authority on civil disasters, and civil engineering?
Isn't it quite hypocritical that until December 24, 2013, you did nothing to mitigate a disasters to which you claim to have possessed all the solutions, and allowing Lucians to incur the hardships of loss of life and possessions, which spells increase in sales and profits for your pockets.
Now you want to sell us a Mickey-mouse Bridge?
What did I read about the Greedy, the Carmel, and the Eye of a Needle?
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Why just to ignore someones opinions to a problem?
I trust a opinion from a succsessful business person (who looks out of plate)more then someone who only critizise on a low level.
With listening to other you will make better decisions, not with ignoring this.
The writer has made an excellent point regarding the irresponsible use of mickey-mouse solutions for grave situations. As the Cinderellas of the Caribbean, the ‘smaller’ islands were always treated as second or even third class territories by ALL the colonial powers (old and new) and were mainly given second-rate infrastructure and buildings except when ‘they’ themselves had to use the facilities, for example, our military barracks and former Beanfield Airfield. Now, however, because of post global climate change and its associated frequency of more extreme weather-related disasters, from now on, a world-class standard HAS TO be applied to EVERY new infrastructural project constructed throughout our small and less affluent nations.
In point of fact, the strongest case for REPARATIONS would need to cover both the evil of slavery and all-round colonialism neglect. Why? Because these heinous acts of inhumanity-to-mankind were the outcome of callous greed, lack of wise foresight (remember, you reap what you sow), and out-and-out intentional wickedness.
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Chastanet:
It tantamount to a form of diabolical hypocrisy never witnessed on these shores, with regards to your perpetrating this illusion of objectivity while pretending to address solutions to the weather related problems on the Island.
It is no secret that your only objective is to install your incompetent boy into the office of the Prime Minister, where as your puppet with your strings attached, can insert your fangs even deeper into the pockets of an already impoverished and ill informed population.
Answer this Question Michael! Who do you want to be the Government of Saint Lucia, Labour headed by Anthony, or U.W.P. headed by your boy Chastanet??
Let me suggest that it would behoove whatever is left of your dignity Mike, to abstain from offering unsolicited advice to the Labour Government of Dr. Kenny Anthony, when your ulterior motives are obvious, selfish, and self-serving.
I am aware that many Lucians think because of your pale skin tone, you some how occupy a place of intellect within the society, but after reading one or two of your irrational opinions my perception is totally different, leaving me to wonder how much do you pay this Newspaper to publish the illogical propaganda that oozes from your mind, where senility is well established.
You may utilize the souls of your imps like Peter and Jeff, to continue your strangulation and oppression of Lucians with the tool of white Supremacy, but that ship has sailed and all your propaganda and slickness will never bring back the days of Slavery with all the White trimmings, Miss Daisy and all.
Can we not for ONCE; appreciate the points a person may make; and if it turns out to be useful and valuable; then support it.
Supporters of the St. Lucia Labour Party must STOP dragging their party to such low levels.
We are all St. Lucians and we must all work together for the GOOD of this country.
Isn't the Christmas Eve flood not enough of a sign to wake us all up?
GOD who created the Heavens and the Earth; and everything on it; is the ONLY TRUE POWER.
So therefore "Son-Of-Man" please for mankind sake; PAY HEED!
WOwsay to quote our southern cousins in el norte.
First, I really appreciate the anonymous writer who referenced reparation & inferior colonial infrastructure frameworks. Secondly, I respect the Chastenet's for giving me my very first experiences in a modern multi purpose shopping center. . The circa 60's M& C did prepare many of us for metro life in Europe or N America, oui? Here or now is not the place for our political frustrations. Deep down we all love the Helen of the West, n'est pas. Our membership in Capitalist markets dictate that we give Mr Dhastenet full membership in all things StLucian. His idea of tranfer oof silt is a GREEN ecological bonanza. I I would add that COMPOSTING reduction via all media apps be made available to general public-note maypr bloombery ny propoasal for recyling compost materials 4 nyc. .
The bridges idea need some advance remodification Major bridges may need the kind of flow bypass designed for salmon spawning in N America. We need bypas around bridges that could be se in motion when major precipiation is expected. That way logs and other debris can flow past bridges without lending their turbulent force X mass plus other accumulated debris to destabilize the structure.
Now is the time to be all altruistic about a most beautiful place called Saint Lucia, n'est pas? And I am quoting visitors who remark to me -outside of the Caribbean, oui!
Who was the mickey-mouse advisor who advised Kenny Anthony not to go ahead with a hotel in Vieux Fort and develop the area.
Today, it is a ghetto,an eyesore an flood damaged.
Go to hell!!!
What did I say about Hypocrisy and Incompetence of Chastanet?
Press Secretary to the Prime Minister (Saint Lucia) · 1,887 like this
about an hour ago ·
PRESS RELEASE
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For Immediate Release
December 31, 2013
UNNECESSARY AND MISGUIDED
The Government of Saint Lucia has noted the public request by the United Workers Party to the Prime Minister, Hon. Dr. Kenny D. Anthony, “requesting exemption from Customs Charges including Value Added Tax (VAT) specifically for relief supplies.”
Try as it might, Allen Chastanet’s UWP cannot resist the temptation to engage in cheap partisan politics especially at this time.
It is alarming that the UWP does not know, understand or care to understand the laws of the country. There was no need to make any such public request to exempt relief supplies from the Value Added Tax (VAT) because the Value Added Tax Act makes an exemption for relief supplies. Relief supplies qualify as exempt imports. Section 16 of the Third Schedule of the Value Added Tax Act provides that imports of relief supplies qualify as exempt imports. It says:
“Goods and services imported during a threatened disaster alert or after a disaster emergency where the authorized signatories of the Office of the National Emergency Management Organisation(NEMO) or the Cabinet Secretary certifies that those goods are urgently required for dealing with the threat or emergency. These goods are not for resale.”
Thus, all the Opposition has to do for the supplies it receives is to seek the signatories of either the Director of NEMO or the Cabinet Secretary.
The Government of Saint Lucia never charges duty or service charge on relief supplies.
Finally, the United Workers Party is reminded that the power to grant exemptions of VAT resides in Parliament and not the Prime Minister or the Minister of Finance.
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Just one more. Helen was never a machismo society. The dignity and grace of our current gover general is adequate historical proof. St lucians circle the wagons -island style- when forces greater than our motal selves, threaten. Political innuendos are always tantalizing -borrowing a Mighty Sparrow reference- but we must put on a united front regardless of our political persuasions or frustrations- thou shall not throw out the baby with da baby water, non? I have pale skin blood relatives in Choiseul , Laborie and who knows where? I have relatives who look like they sepped out of a boat from Calcutta, India, yet I would pas as anative in Darkest Uganda. Your words create divisiveness at a time a nation seeks supplication from the Divine. Have you read of studies in Brazil that found more Euro genetic material in a charcoal blacck citizen and more afro genetic material in a "pale" colored citizen. To base your frustrations on superficial epidermis is a ver losing rhetoric especially to the very young modern children who we prepare to inherit this mantle of nation building- God save St Lucia from the ravages of racial indifference. Finally, remember that the greatest difference in all the world's religions - the one where a GOD bestows the POWER of REDEMPTION- and that is a personal belief too, n'est pas?
I am seriously concerned that reasonably educated persons can bait the race card a la O J Simpson-for a "blame it on God Calamity". St ST.Lucia and especially the "hardest working" ones deserve better than this ALL genocidal infatuations are UNGODLY- regardless of creed. PURE Logic- if GOD created a rainbow who are we mere mortals to criticize his design. Unless of course we do not believe (as in infidels) that there is a DIVINE power greater than the porous imaginations of mortals and greater than the sum total of all universal understandings across All galaxies -known or yet to be known. Have we not learned from Nigeria's Biafran civil war (oh by the bye it was mostly the WHITE world that helped to put an end to the humiliation of the IBOS from their own black persecutors, rawanda ethnic cleansing (black on black!)Serbias episode -muslim minority saved by HITE NATO. Let's go back a trifle would EMANCIPATION happen if not for the engagement of WHITE abolitionists whose main stance was spiritual or intellectual. Until the Hague Court decree I bet few of us Knew of ethnic cleansing going on -most recently -on a national scale-in our backyard-Guatemala. We as humans must object to the race card because of its connections to most vile and insiduous mechanisms of wicked manipulation that can be assigned.NO MORE seig heil-ever!
Charlee, what Race card, OJ is a creation of White America, NFL, Holywood.
He thought like Chastanet a White woman trophy wife would enhance his image in the Black community, until Nicole cornay mate with her lover, and he ped tet le, killing all of them. now Oj is saved and found Jesus in Jail where he weighs 500 pounds.
@ 7:38AM
sing the song of your masters.
as 4 me u can quote all you want. I share the sound-proof/agreements and the conviction that the SON OF MAN provide.
In order 4 those who have been misled 2 begin 2 see correctly they must have a clear analytical understanding of the origin strategies, mechanisms purpose and method of the device that has blinded them in the first place.
U are still blinded by your white master's brain wash history of our black ancestors liberation.
we fight they aszzzzzzzz on the plantation/city's at every opportunity. we bleed and die 4 our God's given freedom. The fight 4 your sharba/ black ace-of spade's colored ass is still on in the country where u are living at this very moment.so don't give me your bull. come back when u are liberated from mental shackle.
U should want no part 2 do or want 2 hear about "REPARATION"
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One can tell a great deal about the level of brain damage/washing a person has suffered by their choice of language.
I would NEVER use the term of white supremacy, "Fair Helen" as a compliment to the beauty of our Island.
Who the hell is this pale skinned Helen that would have to come and get sun-burnt to look healthy?
All the beautiful Black women in the world, you Negroes think it a compliment when someone tells you, "You look like a pale/white woman? Helen of the West like Hell! "Fair"? my Fair Lady? what is wrong with you Africans who still pray to a white man nailed to a piece of wood as your God, and hate your beautiful Chocolate self, with your fine figures and the angelic voice.
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