Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
However, we reserve the right to remove any comment considered inappropriate.
About Me
Blog Archive
-
▼
2009
(3714)
-
▼
June
(349)
- St. Lucia’s Bartender Gets Bronze Medal Internatio...
- Siotage Fashion House of Advance Models Company gi...
- Menell Shows Love
- LIME Launches Lenovo Netbooks
- LIME and CCTA Donate To Holy Family
- ECFH Turns Eight and Celebrates its Customers
- Thanks For The Memories, Mike
- Joint Communiqué of the Embassies of the Bolivaria...
- I Say Hang Them and High Them High
- Giving up is not an option
- SLYC Prize giving
- Digicel brings cricket to St. Lucia on July 3rd an...
- Blackheart Champions
- “Best I Have Bowled For A Long Time” – Rampaul
- SWINE FLU HITS
- LUCELEC Lunches with Retirees
- Columns will stand!
- Calypso Semifinalists
- Bisee Youth Stabbed to Death
- Dreams
- CRACKHEAD
- Ambassadors ‘Quarters’ Tonight!!
- The Appearing Of The Spirit In The Body
- Faith is the evidence of things not seen”
- Daily life as a Muslim
- 6th of the Sixth Month (Elul), 2072 LEADERSHIP
- When life hands her lemons . . .
- US$10,000/everyday: last stop to Heaven
- Sagicor: Sixth Annual Meeting of Shareholders
- FirstCaribbean Daily Markets Report
- Ensuring a Financially Safe Holiday
- Crime and the Consumer-Part2
- CMMB Market WRAP
- Think beyond Crisis, ECFH Head Urges Business Sector
- The rights and duties of partners
- SLASPA – Enriching its Workforce
- Saint Lucia National Trust Southern Membership Gro...
- Quality Education: a medium for Change
- Piton Beer Supports St. Lucia Carnival 2009
- Life
- ECFH Renews Commitment to CARE
- Digicel Sponsors Vieux Fort Carnival And St. Lucia...
- Digicel Gives Away The First Of 50 Golden Tickets
- Cricket Fans In With A Chance To Win US$10,000 Cas...
- Carenage Art Gallery Opens
- Archaeological Lecture
- Anatomy Of A UWI Survivor
- 8 Win Big in LIME Blackout Friday
- Strange Facts
- Carnival Schedule Changes
- Women Twenty20 Inter District Cricket starts today
- Windies Cricket comes to Karib Cable Channel 82
- OECS Cyclists to Pedal 114 Kilometres on Sunday
- ECFH Shows Support for Local and Regional Cycling
- BLACKHEART FINALS
- BeachVolleyballers head to Jamaica
- Athletes Action Enjoy Mixed Fortune in Volleyball ...
- 16th Squash Open on Monday June 29th
- Police Destroy Marijuana Plantation in the South
- DEAD AT 50
- Australia to strengthen ties with St. Lucia
- “Yes we can,” says June Harkness of the Internatio...
- Treating the System . . .
- Resident vehicle passes
- Registration of Architects in Denial
- Rebellious Caribbean Youth!
- Politicians are In a League of Their Own
- Pay now, prime minister
- Nab Them Now!
- Justice is Served
- Ending violent crime with the stroke of a pen
- Disclose costs and contract details
- Caricom leaders must move the Region forward or pa...
- 1000 Words
- LUCELEC Ventures Into Hedging
- South Tent Beyond Quarters
- FirstCaribbean Daily Markets Report
- 19 To Get Groovy With Herb Black
- Warning about U.S. Diversity Immigrant Visa Fraud
- The RSL Calypso Ban
- LIAT ticket taxes again
- Saint Lucia and the CSME
- Strong Team for OECS Cycling Championship
- Low Key Championship
- Local Boxing President Disappointed
- Castries Youth Football in Good Hands
- 2009 Blackheart difficult to Predict
- SLP says put police, not politicians in charge of ...
- Police Vehicle Stolen, SPC Suspended
- Police News
- More loyal customers are rewarded with $1000 cash ...
- Men Released in Connection with Anse-La-Raye Shooting
- Calypsos Banned
- Pageant Beauties Tour LPC
- Groovy Soca Monarch Second & Final Preliminary
- Budding Environmentalists
- Take Back the Schools
- Fitness a must for Local Referees
- Blackheart Wide Open
- 94 Boys Successfully Complete SSFFP
-
▼
June
(349)
6 comments:
For chrissake, we still don't even know the full details of the Rochamel affair.
SLP not making any sense. Endless boring press releases demanding this and demanding that. Take a hike before you point fingers at others.
We live in a democracy. As such, the opposition has a right and a duty to be heard on public issues. To the degree that it is correct for the UWP to point out suspected improprieties of the incumbent government when they are in opposition, it is equally correct for the present SLP opposition to point out suspected improprieties of the incumbent UWP government.
Equally, any incumbent government errs gravely in not appropriately addressing legitimate concerns raised by the opposition of the day.
It must be borne in mind that, in any case, the funds at issue are neither the private property of the SLP nor the UWP. In both cases, the funds at issue belong to the St. Lucian public. Regardless what party is currently in power, or what past infringements perpetuated against the public trust may have been committed by another party, neither party has a right to justify suspected violations of its fiduciary obligations to the St. Lucian public by pointing to alleged violations of public trust on the part of a previous administration. Two wrongs do not make a right.
The government should answer the questions and publish the relevant facts so that the public may be reassured that its public servants are indeed acting in the people’s best interests, as is their sworn duty. If they have done nothing wrong and have nothing to hide, there can be reasonable justification for denying the public its right to know.
The government should answer the questions and publish the relevant facts so that the public may be reassured that its public servants are indeed acting in the people’s best interests, as is their sworn duty. If they have done nothing wrong and have nothing to hide, there can be no reasonable justification for denying the public its right to know.
... which is why we need an Opposition with some credibility, to ask such questions.
The credibility or lack thereof is in the facts of the case, not in subjective opinions of the opposition, or the government, for that matter.
If the question has no merit, then the government should prove this by explaining the facts of the case. However, without a credible response to the concerns raised by the opposition, one is left to speculate - a condition that is against the interests of the country.
Post a Comment