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8 comments:
In California with a prescription you can smoke all the weed you want. Now they heading to legalize it and tax it. St. Lucia should follow suit, because no way in hell we can burn down all the ganja plantations on the island.
No wonder Herman call those prison guards corrupt. How do drugs and cellphones get in?
Is the prison guards bringing it in. That's why they don't want Herman.
It makes sense, Herman is interupting their business.
The need for an innovative approach to the 'drug problem' cannot be argued with, however any approach must be considered and measured. Even more importantly the underlying questions of poverty and lack of opportunity will also have to be addressed. The challenge is to correctly define the problem such that the proposed strategy provides for the necessary tools, measures and resources that will assure success. Failure to do so will the evidence suggest result in continued alienation, dislocation and despair and provide the substratum that permits the cycle of violence to continue and to flourish. So the headline should read "Poverty,Drugs, Corruption & Violence" and we'd be more likely to find workable solutions
Actually, Michael Chastanet can actively play a crucial role in helping to take a bite out of crime. Michael receives a bounty on a daily basis from the St Lucian public due to the absurd and stupid false pride of many St Lucians.
Many times crime stems out of anger, necessity, desperation and hunger. Obviously crime is absolutely evil and will always be, but there are many things that can contribute to its violent existence. Michael Chastanet can change his greed and exorbitant prices program and focus on a few important factors such as a high percentage of local supply and demand.
Encourage St Lucians with the assistance of the agricultural department to plant and grow as much local foods as possible then set up binding contracts to buy the products from them. Don’t import everything. Including many foreign fruits and vegetables that are perfect for St Lucian climate. The seeds for these foreign fruits and vegetables are available all over North America dirt cheap.
Utilize as much land as possible through an agricultural program to grow foods all over St Lucia like before and better. The demand is so critical for produce that this kind of action and initiative will renew the farming workforce with employment for many citizens and will create quality produce at great affordable prices.
Great prices for quality products grown locally would boost the weakened infrastructure while providing jobs for thousands. The current system is nothing short of just plain stupidity on the part of the nation for giving up gardening, planting, growing all kinds of foods to feed their families and perhaps help a neighbour in need.
I have watched all of these people from all over St Lucia behaving like tourist and shopping at Chastanet’s stores and others at exorbitant prices and the primitive attitudes of most of the grocery cashiers.
Most of the people who operate supermarkets for Michael are some of the most unfriendly staff I have ever encountered.
The local grocery stores I remember have all but gone out of business due to everyone pretending to be tourists.
In the old days, one can dig up some Dasheen, Sweet potatoes, Yams and a few green figs just about anywhere on their land with some pigtails or saltfish for a quick meal.
I see plenty of produce at the Castries market, but for some reason not many locals are buying. Many of the local produce at the Castries market are not visible at Chastanet’s stores and other supermarkets.
The country must come together to rebuild and stabilize the foundation of proper and affordable nutrition because everyone must eat, regardless.
These days, unless you have $300.00 you cannot even fathom the idea of picking up two bags of groceries from the supermarkets.
Wake up St Lucia, it is time for you to stop pretending to be “corned beef in a sardine’s tin” Go and grow your own foods to feed your families. Buy local from your neighbours and the local markets and support each other. This will be a great start in a long journey back to regain some of your lost independence and a step in the right direction to feeding the country affordably and nutritiously again.
Dantes
1. Drugs (like alcohol during prohibition) only cause violence because they are illegal.
2. The problem is that our people have a propensity to be violent. Parents and teachers beat children way beyond what is necessary or civilised. We shout at each other over trivialities. Most countries have thriving drug trade. I think the propensity (or lack thereof) of a people to violence explains why there are differences between countries in terms of drug-related, violent crime per capita.
Is that not what the "Peace and Love Initiative is? I guess the next step is to take the gun they already have to make way for the new one's they are now buying with all that government money
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