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16 comments:
Note that we are already past the second quarter of 2014. The production of the report going back to 2011 is therefore noteworthy.
If there is no expectation of increased discipline by voted parliamentarians (Some are being selected to the Senate, made into Ministers with little quality differences.) to educate themselves, as to how an efficient country works, we will remain mired in the froth and vacuity that passes for intelligent discourse on good governance. We are therefore, at the rate we are going today, to remain a Third World Banana Republic.
Astutely, a mature leadership would not copy hook, line and sinker, because of cultural differences especially, all the elements of the NYC recovery model. But there are elements there worth putting into place.
However, I must hasten to ask you to curb any enthusiasm that you may have. Sorry.
The decision makers currently in charge in Saint Lucia lack the academic substrate to build upon any learning points from the NY experience, PhD or no PhD. The froth and blather can only fool the ignorant and the low information processors, especially those in STEP.
This is the same dilemma to be faced by the USA when they dump the charlatan Obama.
When the St. Lucian politicians who, with selective amnesia forgot that we have in this country the WestMinster style of Government; and stop bringing in persons in the civil service who cannot add to the well being and enhance the quality of life of the people of this country; in other words, appointing persons whether as consultants or otherwise in positions in the public service as a pay back for political reasons then this blasted country will be doomed.
This is where efficiency comes from. The right persons with the COMPETENCE (note I did not say qualifications; because we can all go to some institution; cram stuff and pass exams) to perform effectively and ADD VALUE to the country and QUALITY to the standard of life of the people then we can see VISIBLE RESULTS.
Otherwise you will just be spinning top in the mud.
Yes we need people with competence but let us be truthful to ourselves. Our civil service is and has been for the past 40 years ,packed with people only looking after themselves who have cost us hundreds of millions and bankrupted St Lucia.
These people only looking after themselves are, as we learnt in university, simply 'paper pushers' who 'make work' until they retire or move on to some regional or international organization where they do the same on more taxpayers money but only on a bigger scale. You see some of them on Facebook boasting of where they have been , what big hotel they stayed in - all on taxpayers money while doing nothing to help a deteriorating world.
The lower echelon normally work another job outside of the civil service and we know what 'service' we get when we go to government buildings! Lol!
The incompetence is so the norm that when we get a public servant who does what he/she is paid to do we jump up and make big noise to praise them when in fact this is the kind of work ethic we should expect from all of them.
But it is not a joke. Our country is on a downward spiral from a clueless political class, incompetent public servants and a stealing mentality. We place blame on individuals but are reluctant to look at the overall picture and lack leaders with the vision, moral backbone, sense of self sacrifice or courage to make a difference.
We also note that under successive Administrations that the Public Accounts Committee has done nothing for the past decade. This means that Kenny Anthony, Stephenson King, Philip Pierre , Montoute bousquet hippolyte fredericks joseph and the whole lot of them are part of a political class ignoring even the simplest of transparency and accountability required to run a country!
It has been clear that we have lost billions over the past 18 years from theft incompetency mismanagement and legislative borbol but we continue the political game playing on both sides.
Based on what we know almost every present politician in the House should be disqualified if not brought to court to answer for misdeeds but instead they will be going up for reelection in 2016!
We also note that under successive Administrations that the Public Accounts Committee has done nothing for the past decade. This means that Kenny Anthony, Stephenson King, Philip Pierre , Montoute bousquet hippolyte fredericks joseph and the whole lot of them are part of a political class ignoring even the simplest of transparency and accountability required to run a country!
It has been clear that we have lost billions over the past 18 years from theft incompetency mismanagement and legislative borbol but we continue the political game playing on both sides.
Based on what we know almost every present politician in the House should be disqualified if not brought to court to answer for misdeeds but instead they will be going up for reelection in 2016!
One clarification on the public servants. The one group that stands out for their work ethic are the nurses in this country.
Many could easily get more lucrative work outside St Lucia but they stay here under appalling conditions and work well and for long hours.
The mass media is still wallowing in mediocrity. The real issues have escaped the kinds of perspective that would encourage positive social and economic change.
July 22 at 3.00PM and 3.10PM above; you have said it all so well. How sad for our dear country.
Thank you for the kudos. I have written consistently for years on the fundamental issues affecting our country and have had numerous persons saying that my views appear to be an oasis in a sea of insanity.
While it may be good on the ego it is extremely frustrating knowing that there are answers that others recognize but that the majority of our people are so ignorant and our leaders such parasitical moochers that no cleansing light can get through the fog.
Only a major upheaval can change the paradigm but I even have questions about that as Haiti will attest. In spite of all our cellphones and computers we use on a daily basis, we are closer in mentality and character to that country than Miami!
The battle is also more dangerously poised than we realize. A friend recently presented comments to some regional newspapers that were CENSURED because he showed the dangers and destruction caused by the liberal agenda in the Caribbean and the nexus between the liberals/socialists at UWI, in government and in the media. This unholy trinity is bent on continuing their destructive dominance and crony capitalism on the backs of citizens and their tax dollars and no one has pinpointed their fraud at the top echelon of our society.
As they say 'much ah go on' but we continue at the circus with the alcohol, sexual indicipline, freeness and tv, smartphone, tablet electronic coma that keeps us in slavery.
Only a revolution will do !
Miami, is a 3rd World state. Ask the blacks who have moved on to more civilized parts of the world.
Well said blogger above at July 23 at 7.33AM MIAMI is a third world state with the distinct cultures of Haiti and the latin American countries dominating. Well said.
Sad.
What is needed in St. Lucia as a start; is to have panel discussions on the radio with persons in the community knowledgeable on the inner workings of GOVERNMENT but with no known POLITICAL AGENDA or known as 'political puppets" in our society; to educate the populace on exactly what is going on in the country; in ALL areas of the operations of Government.
Enlightenment and exposure in clear analytical methods which everyone can understand; so that a mass awakening of the minds of the people can take place.
You would be amazed to know, that even key leaders in the private sector who have invested so much of their money in the country; do not have a clear appreciation of the MESS that passes for GOVERNMENT in this country.
@6:27 AM. True. So true. So vey true! This goes especially for the last paragraph.
When I read the remarks of the head of the Chamber of Commerce regarding the last budget, I was stunned.
I became sadly convinced that for those in the upper echelons of this entire country, the much-needed economic recovery would remain essentially chimerical.
The PM went to the recent Heads of Government CARICOM meeting for help with his problems. The sub-text of his repeated "We are all in this together" can safely be interpreted as an acknowledgement of not knowing what to do. A rephrased "Help me here" would most certainly have sufficed.
Needless to say, on that matter, the PM returned, just as expected, empty handed. The country today is therefore on leaderless auto-pilot.
Of course he would come back empty handed.
Let us exam our Caribbean reality.
For political leadership we largely depend on the output from UWI or someone from the roots with excellent personal connection with people who can parlay it into political success. Not that that individual will necessarily do anything constructive but like Kenny he can manipulate the environment for political longevity.
But going back to UWI. With their liberal/socialist parasitical(me first, second and third)training what can we say that in the economic, legal , social or political fields any significant
number of graduates from the 1960s have made a real difference.
Many have mostly gained recognition for longevity in their field or maybe some intellectual output but mostly it has not translated into the COMMON GOOD. The intellectual output has not actually progressed our people and no one can name something of significance that created jobs, increased productivity, stemmed the crime or alleviated the societal and moral degradation.
To a large extent we recognize people in the Caribbean environment for their ability to work the system within the liberal elite class without actually changing anything.
What little desperate middle class we had as a result of a once moral society in under serious pressure from the demands of the elite moochers on the top and the mendicancy class at the bottom both feeding off the taxation and borrowing teats of government. As a consequence we are bankrupt demoralized and spiralling downward.
So when Kenny goes to CARICOM meetings it is just for the elite political class to get a temporary respite , pat each other on the back, get ideas to continue fooling the voters and spend more taxpayers money.
The system is rigged irrespective of the party in power and we refuse to look outside of the politically correct liberal ideological failure since Independence.
Only revolution or a sudden burst of intellectual clarity or the proverbial paradigm shifting leader will make a difference.
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