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9 comments:
OK in the Heat of the tropical outdoors i full suit and tie-
minus the eloquent form generated by
sxchool master "Red Head" brain stimulating "impromptu speech" on demand to wary students @ St Aloysious Boy's
Well we can chalk this one to a verbal slipo as in a typo
But a a forfeit of Zaboca at lunch /dinner for a week is sufficient contrition - for not consulting with Madam PHD -the elected opposition leader-
-with brain data links that can tap back to the holdings in the ancient libraries at Alexandria and Timbuktu.
The real literary charge on the you tube video was bad use of an ALLEGORY
It is obvious he read his copy of Plato's Allegory of the Cave
but he would have batted a finer wicket if he had piggybacked an allegory off his essential reading of "Fire from Monkey Hill".
Possible double entendre galore with this realistic fiction- current unrest at fire dept etc.
but for the moist luscious Nubian lips of Madam PHD on these parched tongue...... was that a bugle alerting our minutemen?
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An article with a title like that, from John Peters, recent appointee to the mandated National Vision Commission, I must say I was expecting much more. There's hardly anything that could be classified as scientific, profound, analytical and direction-giving.
Michael Chastanet could have done better.
This is a classic one sided analysis of a more complex scnerio. The writer totally ignored the other failing sectors which would have constrained the performance of GDP.
There are also the other contributing factors of rising costs which have to be taken into consideration. But if the objective is to liken Tourism to the Plantation economy, as tempting as it is to see with jaded eyes, why doesn't to writer propose a practical alternative. To merely be theoritcally prescriptive doesn't advance anything.
John: diversity! diversity! diversity!...GDP is an anachronistic tool and plans to jettison this yard stick are on the way.
Almost 65% of the economy depends on tourism. Very bleak future for St. Lucia, due to the world recession as well as huge competition of other nations in this area.
Many resident foreigners are leaving the island due to the very high cost of living. Piles of homes are for sale, especially in Cap Estate and Rodney Heights. I lived here happily 11 years but I am leaving for Panama.
If this island is not rapidly diversifying it's economy it
will have a very bleak future. Too many civil servants and bureaucracy, which are a burden on the income of the average Lucian Citizen with 15 VAT and very high import duties on food, machinery, parts and
vehicles.
Can tourism save our economy? not unless our government, police force and justice department don't get their act together and sort out the mess with the justice system and do their work for st lucia to their best! not what they are doing at the moment. The way people are being killed and their deaths not being followed up properly is not acceptable! nobody brought to justice is unacceptable! corruption! in all areas is unacceptable! tourism will not save our economy will these problems go on.
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An article with a title like that, from John Peters, recent appointee to the mandated National Vision Commission, I must say I was expecting much more. There's hardly anything that could be classified as scientific, profound, analytical and direction-giving.
Michael Chastanet could have done better.
May 4, 2014 at 5:11 PM
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To the initiated the boatload of bunkum inserted up there is representative to the cluelessness of our key actors and the majority population regarding the tourism sector. If we were to benchmark instead the metrics of Caribbean economies we have just joined as tourism dependent economies, we would be looking way beyond arrival numbers as indicators of tourism's contribution to our economy. But we don't seem to be going there yet ... and not any time soon.
Matter-of-factly, the vast majority of Saint Lucians from the top of the society to the very bottom, are not acquainted with not even a smattering of knowledge about the economics of tourism. That's the unembroidered truth.
Quite obviously, we have had a parrot, or a verisimilarly scratched vinyl record for a tourism minister, drawing on only that individual's association with the airline industry, repeatedly talking ad nauseam about airlift and its associated arrival rates. By the way, with a starkly spectacular failure, with the associated carrier dropping out of the skies and the business, one wonders what were, or what have been that individual's learning points, if any.
Just like this article is reinforcing with the decline in GDP juxtaposed against seemingly good arrival figures, plainly the answer is just not only arrivals, nor airlift, unless you are just stubbornly dumb.
UWI has failed miserably, save medicine, in its mission and at several levels. Regional Architects like CARICOM'S William Demas, saw the Caribbean future with the UWI that we have now inherited and are enduring, as one with lowered scholarship for UWI graduates in order to stem a perceived "brain drain".
The results have been embarrassingly spectacular. Ministers and permanent secretaries are clogging up the input-process-output systems in the region who are totally clueless about the ministries which they are supposed to give forward and future policy guidance. Nothing, from nothing.
We have just seen another one- such episode in our latest budget show. The PM went on to recite the usual recitation called the budget, without full comprehension of the implications and assumptions of its critical sectoral impacts. He appeared not to know enough about, or did not seem to understand enough to explain what he was doing, or where he is supposedly taking the country. The permanent secretary filled in. Wearing two financial hats both at one, this, with some very negative implications regarding insights and balance, that individual was called upon to do the explaining.
Never mind John, when juxtaposed against our seasoned political tribalism, which sits congruently with our lack of vision, inherited from our slave forefathers and a culturally innate political system steeped in Africa's tribal culture, our situation is more than likely to get worse before gets better. We, the people, still firmly believe in benevolent political dictators, some hardly rising above being two-faced undisciplined scamps. We deify these and make them gods. Likened to the wandering tribes of Israel, we even worship them with graven images.
@5:11 uum that was quite a volley. Your scalpel is quite sharp and sturdy.
Wow!
correction not @5:11
Instead kudos to 7:41's expository critique
your literary jabs echo the serious jabs of Joe Louis
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