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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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3 comments:
CARICOM prime ministers cannot ever be trusted to do the right thing. Look at how the entire integration movement is flawed and moribund from inception. It was just about old pals giving each other pats on the back for having conjured a wonderfully flawed vision.
What more cogent testimony do we need to see through the farce in its greater deterioration stages, being used by these ministers in those HOG meetings as recreational downtime activities? unfortunately, the joke is on the foolish hoodwinked voters who keep on voting these majority grey-haired jokers repeatedly into office.
Look at LIAT. These jokers are running an airline and none of them has one blinking clue how to make it operate efficiently. However can any of these cardboard one-sided characters who can hardly do anything right within their own countries, do better when the situation warrants knowledge, expertise, judgement, and a vision?
Neither has any of those characteristics. Their poorly-trained advisors do not have anything to complement the canyons of ignorance either.
All around, we see a comedy of errors. CARICOM is just going through the motions, while continuously, the regional leaders do a fancy minuet around the critical issues.
Strike up the band! We need a another round! Let's do this one in honour of the dead. Triage and unplug those already on life-support. This time, what about the quick-step for a change?
Well, I see they had to bring in some experts for a change. Good. It's kind of late though. Size of market, with a monopoly and all that does not ensure success. LIAT has no competition. It has the entire market. It is still making a loss. Look at Kodak. It was number 1 in the film industry. We hardly hear about it anymore.
This only shows that CARICOM is not a democratically inspired body. That is so plain and simple to see. As principles and a resolve to follow strictly democratic principles, were not enshrined or spelt out plainly in the original agreement, that democratic element was NEVER considered important by the framers.
If it is not there, no one can refer to anyone as not working towards or abiding by the fundamental democratic principles.
It is just like the loose and flawed terms of reference given to the constitutional reform group slated to be debated in May this year.
The fault therefore lies with the starters CARICOM.
The culture and the tone of any organization is put in place by those who start it. It was darn well myopic of Barrow et al. to have constructed CARICOM as they did.
When you don't know where you are going any road will do. But chances are, you will not like it when you arrive at the unplanned destination. It may be Hell.
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