Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Mara was alright in the morning!

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7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Great article Earl!!! love your play on word "bring home the bacon without having any for breakfast". I am proud of Mara and proud of St Lucia!!!.

January 25, 2011 at 10:57 AM
Anonymous said...

They stole an election between them, and you have the gall to pass this on as something worth quoting? See why Rick Wayne's book is part of the decadence corroding the very soul of St. Lucia?

Mara did not steal that election. So why must you be so darn insensitive and immature to use that quote. Call a spade a spade man! Grow up!

January 25, 2011 at 12:25 PM
armchair anonymous said...

Good grief Anon #2 - what is eating your shorts??

January 25, 2011 at 1:21 PM
Anonymous said...

Only in a highly immature and extremely corrupt political culture would the stealing of an election get such scant attention. It was stolen by one of our beloved foreigner and imported leaders.

#1 is correct. In any other proper running democracy, such a violation would be roundly condemned. St. Lucians continue to give that robbery a pass. #3 you are part of the problem!

January 25, 2011 at 1:41 PM
elvis said...

we all as st lucians must be proud of mara. she has made especially all women proud. we look forward to seeing greater things from her but shame on owen arthur.

January 26, 2011 at 6:17 PM
Caricom lady said...

Only one quibble with your piece Earl. In truth and in fact, Barbadians have never had issues voting for non-Barbadians. There is no "taboo" on it all - we elected Grenada-born Edwy Talma as an MP and England-born Peter Morgan too. Furthermore, Mara's own husband was born in England (to Bajan parents) and moved to Barbados when he was 8! Sir Arnott Cato, who as you can tell by that name was born in SVG, was President of the Senate.

Arthur was really grasping at straws. As a Bajan (with a Jamaican father and St. Lucian husband) I was disappointed in them. It did them no good at all as the final tally showed.

January 28, 2011 at 8:23 AM
Anonymous said...

Mara was the de facto MP for the area ever since her husband and PM came into office. He did the national government part. She did the local government activities. She was visible. Her self-effacing and no-airs character won for her much love in a still very class-conscious culture. But she could never have won a seat in the very nationalistic parish of St. Phillip.

January 29, 2011 at 5:23 AM

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