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- ARTreach Community Festivals Reach Far
- Let’s Get Down To Serious Business
- Tiger Tennis Series Hailed A Success
- St. Lucia In Dominica For Windwards Football
- JAMAICA 322 AHEAD
- HTS, LIME Bring World Cup Soccer
- B-ball Action At Vigie, Soufriere
- Gloom and Hope Together
- BANKS TOO UNDER $ PRESSURE
- P.M. Broadens Discussion on Economy
- P.M. To Miss Mexico Talks
- Kurvatour’s Curvy “Alice In Wonderland” Fashion Fa...
- Island Neighbours
- Tourism And The Environment
- Nettleford - A Model of Caribbean Excellence
- Haiti’s Financial Pressures Mount
- Client-Lawyer Relationship
- The Whole Truth.....Nothing More
- The Russians are Coming Look Inward
- Misguided Premises
- SMALL GOALS FINALS
- Sea Jays Set 8 New Marks At RHAC
- Mixed Fortunes For St. Lucia In OECS Squash Series
- Cricket Finals
- B-ball, 3 GamesTonight
- Fixing our Economy
- Taiwan Aid To St. Jude Up To EC $22m
- Surveyors Hold AGM Today
- St. Lucia Feature on HGTV Tomorrow
- New Thrust For Investment Launched
- ‘GANJA’ OUR ECONOMIC SAVIOUR
- Estimates In House Tuesday
- CSA Members Vote Wednesday
- Crisis Centre Easter Camp and AGM
- NCPC To Study Productivity Levels
- Cheaper Option to Fossil Fuels Doubtful
- A Nation In Need Of Motivation
- Wake up call to Heirs of lands
- The Changing Landscape
- St. Lucia’s Foreign Policy Confused, Disjointed
- Youth V-ballers Win In Antigua
- TYCC And PYO In 50-over Semis
- St. Lucia Are U-15 Cricket Champs
- WINDWARDS - B’DOS CLASH
- Junior Squash At Yacht Club
- Hectic Time For Junior Golfers
- Unions Speak Ahead of Talks With Gov’t
- SDA Academy Boy Is BOSL’s Math Whiz
- Not-So-Green Tone For Earth Day
- Lupita- People’s Most Beautiful Person
- Hot Couture Set For Second Strut
- Who Do You Say I Am?
- Living in a Yellow Submarine
- Simply Law, Simply A Work of Art
- My first interview with Justice Francis Belle
- ARTreach Revisited
- Kurt Maraj Leads Team To Martinique
- Another U-15 Win For Home Team
- 23 At CARIFTA Games
- CALYPSO CRIES FOUL
- Justice Regis Gets Lifetime Award In C’da
- Cannabis Movement March Tomorrow
- 15 Get Awards For Long Service
- Wind Energy No Alternative Really
- Les Brown Fired Up
- Double Occasion For ‘Scotia’
- 3 Music Icons Honoured
- Second Under-15 Victory For St. Lucia
- RHAC Invitational A Huge Success
- Golf Open This Weekend
- Choiseul Schools Show Skills In Recorder Music
- BUS FARE HIKE FOLLOWS BUDGET
- Thermal Power-Real or Pie In The Sky?
- ST. LUCIA WINS OPENER
- Cops In Regional T20 Series
- Put Out This Fire!
- Retired Scotiabanker Touts ‘Relationships’
- Kassav Buzz Boosts Sales For Soufriere ‘Big Show’
- It’s No Free For All, SLTB Tells Media
- Investigators Search Commissioner’s Computer
- Taiwan leader Woos U.S.
- My Dad, My Inspiration
- CFL, Club GAR Ahead In CVL
- 3rd Time Lucky For VFCSS
- CFL, Club GAR Ahead In CVL
- N.T.C TENNIS
- Swimming Weekend
- Who Is A St. Lucian?
- Where Are The Jobs ?
- Water Problems
- The Struggle Continues
- THREAT FROM FIREMEN
- Scotiabank - $ For V.H., Dunnottar
- Bordelais-Court Video Link Set Up
- Archibald’s Death Sad Loss To The Region
- Beaches
- Sandals Grande Honours Its Finest
- COPS NAB TWO COPPER THIEVES
- ‘Cocoland Cares’ Launched
- Poverty And The Environment
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3 comments:
The whole world has been living beyond its means for the last 60 years. Ever expanding credit has inflated assets to prices which wages can no longer support. The world population has gone from 2 to 9 billion in this time. Basic supply and demand dictates that this will get worse.
This is where st lucia can be self sustaining if its done in the right way. Basic human needs, shelter, water, food can be sustained if the population is kept at replacement rate and good management of the land. The big powers have tied themselves in knots chasing ever more growth. All that happens is everything gets more expensive with less jobs to buy things.
where are the jobs????
in-between REGOBERT'S legs???
You are right if you are simply criticising the emptiness and hollowness of calls by all the party leaders for simply more jobs or the empty promise of more jobs.
This my friend betrays the silliness and or the deceit of the parties and individuals in that disgusting practice. Why?Governments do not create jobs as such. And far less ... out of nothing.
STEP is a wealth transfer and a retention of the unemployment status quo. It is a form of 'disguised unemployment'.
STEP is 'make work' Keynesian 'priming the pump' but for the Saint Lucian economy, with a serious leak to import flows which have to be paid for largely with foreign exchange, which exacerbates our problems.
A smattering economic knowledge does not help when you are merely regurgitating stuff. No studies have shown, and no one can boast of any decent or respectable multiplier with STEP, which is the theoretical basis for 'priming the pump'.
Granted the skill levels and the trainability of STEP candidates, the basic justification of STEP with its inherent short-termism, is that it may be acting as a vent for the dampening of social implosion by the unemployed and otherwise unemployable, save the underground economy of the narcotics industry.
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