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18 comments:
Oh, Yes! Bravo! Cut to the chase. Now in these tumultuous economic straits, we need OUR govt. to be a servant of the BEST INTERESTS of WE the PEOPLE.
The people have and continue to trim if not dissect their paltry earnings as they now prioritize among crucial needs of daily living.
Austerity that models and speaks to an understanding of the tightening of household budgets experienced by lay citizens will go a long way in "keeping hope alive"
I hope the prime minister will recall all those diplomats he's paying big salaries to do nothing in Canada, usa and Europe.
Thanks Mr. Bishop for taking an interest in business. Let's hope you keep this as a special area of interest.
The educated population is bored stiff from those who are just interested in reporting on our ro-ro politics, lapped up by extremely and pathetically ignorant lay people who bubble to the top, who are assured of the votes of the equally ignorant in our population. We all know these representatives amount to not much else than wooden valets covered by expensive name-brand suits.
Let us see if the government is serous about belt tightening!
and penny-pinching.
First the government have to start by cutting all the reckless spending by some of its statutory-boards.
1. do away with hand-pick square pegs in round-holes (hand pick by their chairman's friends above those who are more qualified)as in the case of the general manager of the National Conservation Authority.
2. The usual quarterly banquet giving in honour of the board of directors of the National Conservation Authority, paying very high price for the catering by chief of hotels. under the disguise of: "meet the boars members"
3. The salaries being paid to two beach cleaners in Vieux Fort siting down doing sweet-nothing from 8am-12noon (both of those ladies was advice by their doctors to go on an early retirement because of their being unfit to continue at work. One have a incurable tumor (sore foot. bobo ,malenng), at the same time is very obese with the usual absent from work with led-pains, and diarrhea. The other is suffer from stomach cramps, pains and a split-disk.
4. A senior field supervisor (unnecessary post, being pain a handsome salary and traveling) who only duplicates the job of the areas field supervisors.
5.The number of rubbish bags that are being purchase by the NCA.right now is a deliberate move by some one in the so-call management position.(will not find that strange for someone to be receiving a grease hand). Bags used to be recycle (only those used for plastic bottles and rubbish will be throwaway, were as those used for leafs used to be reused because there was an area on the beach used for the disposable of the leafs. All bags right now have to be thrown away at the dump. (we are in the dry season and the dry leafs are plentiful the usages of bags are running in the hundreds daily island-wide).
6. Merge the NCA with the Town Councils. Do away with all of those highly pain useless positions in those nonprofit able statutory, they are only causing a financial disaster on the under receivables of revenue.
I always said that government can fool some of people sometimes but cannot fool all the people all of the time. They cannot lie about all those promises they made to the people about how things were going to be soo rosie, now the cat is out of the bag people have to grind their asses to survive. Crime is going to continue to escalate and there is nothing the police can do to stop it, already the police have enough on their plate being under investigation. St lucians we need to rise up, we are heading in the wrong direction the politicians don't care about us, they will run at the end of the day and live overseas with their families and leave us to catch our asses. The government is setting a wrong example for the young people, we try our best to educate our children but when they finish they cannot get a job, but yet still the government can create jobs for their friends. The day will come when the politicians will be on the receiving end, if you understand what I mean.
@12:05pm
I don't know what you mean?
tell me who will you replace this present government with?
I can see Mr.T is coming of age?
We as a people MUST completely stop expecting governments to make jobs happen. My God governments do not create jobs!
Barring S.T.E.P. which is only and most definitely recirculating the unemployed with short-term employment, governments do not create jobs! Look at what happens when alternate parties come to office? One group of party supporters replace party supporters of the losing party. That goes from overseas posts to local posts. Your loses power and you lose your job. That is the kind job creation that we vote for time and time again.
My God! Do we or do we NOT have the genius within us as a people to create jobs for our own selves? If not why?
In some countries some very, very young people are building things and making money from doing just that. What's wrong with us? What's wrong with our young people?
You are not happy? Blame our legions of very foolish ministers of education who put our young people through years of mis-education, not sparing one single thought about making them independent and creative thinkers. Laid back, we sit on our posteriors waiting for government job. Our ignorant country bookie borbolists politicians are just too happy to oblige.
Meanwhile, our young people cannot wait to get out of school fast enough, to close all their books and to get a government job, to routinely remove dog ears from files on a daily basis, and wait for salary increases in a job once their party gets into office.
Sir Arthur Lewis in his writings told us many decades ago, that the aim of governments is to continuously reduce the size of the civil service or public sector by actively increasing the size of the private sector employment.
You have to ask yourself, how governments in Saint Lucia have actively followed Arthur Lewis' advice? They won't do that. Why?Doing that does not help them directly and quickly enough to keep their political gains.
Now there you have it. Now you have a very, very clear picture just how manly political liars and real political scamps we have voted to office over the years.
The government should investigate Mr. T's allegation.
It sound like things are not to right at the N.C.A. as unseal. is history repeating itself at this government statutory again.
Cleaning the Dam is not as expensive as being made out to be. It has taken 29 years or so for the Dam to silt up and what needs to be done will have to be done over time. WASCO has to do it. Its is not as complicated as is being made out. Not sure why neither Government wants to tackle it ? But is a very slow period in St.Lucia and I see it getting harder. Cuts need to me made starting from the Top...CSA will show them who is boss...
Some of the above comments clearly indicate that ordinary St.Lucians have solutions to our present economic hardships. It begs the question as to why the reliance on the Government.
Governments approach these issues through the lense of additional taxes by whatever description oblivious to the fact that money in the hands of the citizen inevitably leads to productivity and economic growth. Here are practical solutions if only the Government can trust the People.
1) Reduce VAT to 10%
2)Do NOT reduce the salaries of public servants
3)Remove taxes on Pensions. This would enable pensioners to enjoy a decent living, creating room in the workforce for YOUNG educated and skilled persons .
4)More money in private hands inevitably leads to surplus funds in the BANKING SYSTEM, such funds being available for on-lending for business development.
5)Increase corporation tax by 3%. This is hardly a disincentive to production and productivity.
BUT WHY AM I WRITING THIS? OUR PEOPLE DO NOT READ ENOUGH TO PUT PRESSURE ON GOVERNMENT AND GOVERNMENT KNOWS THIS.
There needs to be an emergency budget which reduces the pay of top civil servants and redirect the savings to infrastructure works. I have just been on the island and the roads are worse than ever. Why not concentrate on maintaining the island's ring road and tolling it? Concessions for busses. That will be self financing and might also disrupt some criminals if the checkpoints are manned.
Stop the jobs for the boys and stop promising the ignorant that they will be living on milk and honey if only they vote for de party. Lucians can enjoy a good quality of LIFE if they stop chasing an American lifestyle. You will never afford it. You have fish, fertile soil and nice weather for the most part. More than enough to live on but you can't sell coconuts and expect to drive a BMW.
I see 30th may at 12.05 is so true. criminal activity here is most definately on the rise and is being kept hush hush! by the police but why?
it was 30th of april sorry!
have the Russians already landed??
i like the toll road. please add
strategic solar powered traffic cams
speed zone cameras
speed bumps near schools other high pedestrian traffic.
DWI laws
mandatory additional penalties for crimes committed with the use of any vehicle separate from weapons.
lease the old penal colony at devils island french guiana for felonious criminals... all their court hearings could be skyped
still waiting to hear what ideas we have to reduce the deficit. I am for the an IMF solution.
2 MANY useless politicians do like the bees, isolate the politicians from the working class's ration at meal time until the economy things change 2 the better.
or better yet send all of them to dig graves at choc cemetery when a poor-man die from starvation.
Reduction can be INTERNAL as in local- in the spirit of volunteerism:
VAT + WAGE Concessions as in freeze wages but cut back length of work day and or break shifts into smaller units so that a larger pool of employees get a "taste"
Freeze suspend ALL "pork barrel" pet projects as non essential at this time.
Introduce a 4 day work week.
MAINTAIN streamlined POLICE HOSPITAL SCHOOL allocations.
Increase sin taxes-booze, smokes,
Protect major revenue sources
Tourism-agriculture-fisheries and all manufacturers
IF not-
We shall pay even more dearly at the Marble Cold altar of IMF /World Bank etc.
These Cold as Choc Cemetery marble agencies take no prisoners and are known to convert some fiesta addicted states (who maintain Explorer or Tahoe SUV guzzling tastes)to daytime economic "zombies".
We must remain optimistic that the cup is half full and that on this Simply Beautiful Isle WE must initiate our own renaissance.
Denial -displacement as to the participation of ordinary folks in the past decades of wanton spending-especially imported lux items is fruitless. Govts generally follow the herd- as in the speculative land grab at the Oklahoma stampede!
Personally, I am saddened at the official countenance of our fine Lady on the Morne. I recall earlier days of her official duties (Photo ops) when she radiated a true representation of "Fair Helen". Here was a lady I would volunteer to defend her and her states honor -- at the drop of a scarf.
Now, I sense that she is all alone at the (ethical)top of the ship of state
-worried about its economic list to port instead of starboard-
-its tackless responses of the rudder.
is there a smooth ample sandbar instead of submerged rigid coral reef to safely run aground -if all else fails.
Is this the tropical doldrums preceding the strong NE trade winds that unfurl our sails out of this economic stagnation. We need to revisit our classic lady -in order to invigorate the renaissance-
Look to her for exemplary poise, respect, determination, service, duty to country, self sacrifice -ad infinitum.
Like Helen and Churchill said when the overwhelming forces of doom & destruction came bearing down on the the fortifications of Troy and England" we shall fight- we shall never surrender"
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