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- Top Travel Agents InC’da Get Awards
- S+T Fair Underway Tomorrow
- NWU Shop Stewards Off To Guadeloupe
- New CEO For LIAT
- King, Frederick No Show at Micoud
- Dam at Half Capacity, WASCO’s GM Tells Media
- CHASTANET DEFENDS U.W.P.
- AA Hit for $50, 000
- Young Golfers Get Gear Gift
- Tenderoni Transforms, Expands
- Mannee’s New Bread Line
- Haiti’s Problems Continue
- Some Unsafe Port Practices
- Police Unfairly Castigated
- Economic Decline Only Under Labour
- An Oligarchy, Not a Government
- Same Foreign Policy Questions
- Bold Move By Gov’t
- Street Lighting Bill To Be Halved, Says Fletcher
- SLNT To Develop Walcotts’ Neighbourhood
- SLASPA Upgrades Ports Pass
- Sandals Turns Out 56 More for Tourism Sector
- New Deal for Tapion Workers
- L.E.D. LIGHTS FOR ALL
- ‘Freedom Bay’ Gets Go Ahead
- Axcel Sets Up In South
- Stakes Rising In Venezuela
- Junior Tennis At George V. Park
- Boxing ‘Tourney’ Still On
- 50 Over Cricket Underway Islandwide
- TRAGEDY!
- Teddyson John In Spotlight
- Soufriere Girl Is Top French Speller
- Constitution Reform Report for Debate May 20
- Child Sex Offenders Should Account, Says ASP Desir
- Calypso Sector Prepares
- Police Credit Union Doing Its Share
- The Matter of Unemployment
- SLASPA to Ensure Yachting Safety
- GOV’T TRACKS ITS VEHICLES
- Fond d’Or Jazz
- Amateur Filmmakers Rise to the Occasion
- An Epic Moment for Sculptor
- D’can Pitches For Art
- The Anti-Democratic Stance by CARICOM
- High Stakes In Pistorius, Kartel Trial
- An Unexamined Embarassment
- Mon Repos Capture NLA 40-Over Title
- Massive Crowd At Schools Sports
- Welcome Move By U.K.
- SSDF’s New Home Cost $3.1m.
- Laborie Credit Union, testimony of true Independence
- Dead Guyana Seaman’s Brother Cries Foul
- ‘CRAZY’ A.P.D. TAX TO BE CHANGED
- A Ph.D In Geotechnical Engineering
- This WPC Is Making A Difference
- Former M.P. Supports Antigua Women
- SCHOOLS SPORTS UNDERWAY
- Queen’s Baton Stops Here
- RUSSIANS ARE COMING
- ‘Nurses for T’dad’ Raises Debate
- Gommier Crossing Boosts Ties
- Coconut Bay Upgrades St. Jude Pre-School
- Club GAR To Raise $10,000 For Cadets
- Chastanet Calls For St.Kitts Peace
- Tandi Flood -Dreaming and Achieving
- Developing V-Fort’s Tourism
- Under-15 Cricketers Prepare For Windwards Tournament
- Penalty Shootouts Decide Matches In Dennery
- Oh Dam It!
- Guyana leads on Regional Integration
- All This Yachting For Nothing?
- A tale of two Conditions
- Mother, Son held for Gun
- MORE FUNDS FROM TAIWAN
- LPM Leader Has Jobs Plan for Gros Islet
- Local PALIG Agency on Top
- CUSTODY SUITES UNSANITARY
- Big Edge For local Internet Users
- 50-Over Tourney Underway Today
- The Uniqueness of Vieux Fort
- Conversation With Former A.G. Rudolph Francis
- Unacceptable and Inexcusable
- The ALBA Brouhaha
- Oh My, How Time Flies!
- Consistency, Please
- YACHT ROBBERY MENACE
- Robbery Underscores Hospitals’ Lack of Security
- Ellis Back at the VOICE
- Banana Opportunity — P.M.
- What’s The Cost of Mental Slavery?
- Pardon Marijuana Convicts
- P.M. Says 2014 Year of Growth
- EYES ON ‘LADY ZAI’
- Anglican Infant gets A Computer Lab
- 4 More Schools Get Help From LIME
- Welcome Back, Tamara
- Queen’s Baton Here March 16
- Lazarus Soccer kicks off in Dennery
- Castries Who Is Responsible
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11 comments:
yachting??????????
all this 4 nothing?
run your mouth 4nothing?
Don't forget the hundreds of people who support their families from work in that industry. The attitude of the people should be: if you take the bread off my table, you will pay a high price for your actions!
@ 9:27
ALL NOTHING FOR WATCHING YACHTING!
Lucians have some real thick heads on them..
You may have no interest in yachting, but for a holiday island it would be in your interest to have the facilities to encourage it. it's wealthy people who do it, and have the ability to drop a few coins in bars/restaurants/shops/hired help etc.
If you can't see that then you have no hope. If they wont get robbed/murdered in Barbados they will go there and the Bajans will get the money instead. It's not difficult to understand.
What really alarms me is that someone,somwhere is buying this stolen property!
If only we could get more honesty from the general poulation of St Lucia, the money would dry up for the thieves and rogues.
Who knows the thieves?
Shop them to the police!
I do not live at home but I have always followed what's happening there. Cuthbert Didier happens to be my most admired person on the island. The guy is always looking at the bigger picture and trying to incorporate benefits for the poorer folks. In a country loaded with myopic and shallow people he is a standout.
It is sad to observe that the island has still not geared itself fully to address the security problem. Instead, persons in charge deem it wise to face the problem in an oblique fashion such as anti-gang law. Very difficult to prove gang membership even in the USA where vast resources are available. Cuthbert is again sounding the alarm about impending dangers. Why are we so reactive?
Unless we are able to protect our borders and what's within, we are ill prepared to accommodate an influx on immigrants from the OECS and the Caricom community in general. Do we have a system in place to sift out the undesirables.
Duuuuuhhhhhhhh
What does that mean?
And what do OECS incomers have to do with the theft from yachts?
Well at last someone has removed the rose tinted glasses, unlike the Tourism minister, who at the time of the murder of Mr Pratt, implied tourism would not be affected by the murder of the yachtsman. Of course there has been bad publicity, largely outside of SLU, and lots of it.
So is it time to look at the justice system? The place is lawless, there are no deterrents. If the people see that the courts are dealing effectively/efficiently with cases of theft, murder etc perhaps people might think twice about offending. A safe environment is a fair expectation of both residents and visitors.
These offenders are biting the hands that feed them.
So right!
The certainty of detection and rapid punishment is the best deterrent to criminals. But in addition, let us tattoo repeated offenders on the forehead so that they will always be under suspicion wherever they go.
Mind you, rapid justice seems to be an alien concept in St Lucia.
On the subject of ministers' utterances you can hardly expect honesty in such circumstances!
Ah! As in the case of the protected Banana market (Europe) the "exoctic" Southern Caribbean" is steadily being eclipsed by the Greater Antilles and Smaller "friendlier" northern Caribbean isles.
Facts:
The nuevo upper middle class US /Canada first time yachters peruse internet travel blogs in their charting plans. (Bad publicity and we are off their charts). Only the most seasoned veteran yachts person with viable entourage to deter criminals may ply our waters -now and in future.
The proximity of the northern Caribbean to North America is a geo fact that "Fear of criminal activity" will ratchet the knee jerk reaction to stay close to home ports.
- The way of life & cultural familiarity is more accessible in Northern Caribbean ports (e.g., Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Puerto Rico etc.. The Bahamas trades its dollar as the equivalent of the U.S. Dollar.
Cuba will enter the tourism market with the U.S. (I predict via Mexico's tutelage vis-a-viz NAFTA). Cuba has the total package to wrest the Lion's + gorilla's share of the total Caribbean tourism pie -especially new -first timers and marginal disposable income watchers.
Then, our HYENA minded incivility will come into full vogue - the scraps of the Caribbean Tourism rib cage is all that will be left to scrimmage over and about.
Survival hint: Learn the ways of Andean culture - especially that of the Incas- Evolve into Condors in the age of the Hyenas.
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