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126 comments:
St Lucians do not need any polls to determine the ineffectiveness of the UWP government and its crooked, criminal ministers.
It it comforting to know this is a rather unbiased poll.
Some Guys will be looking for a job.
38.5 per cent in favour of another party-other than SLP or UWP to rule the country? This is very interesting. What it means is that parties such as LPM and others stand a chance if they are able to get their act together.
You are absolutely right. What this poll shows is the fluidity of the next general elections. Anything is possible come the election. There are just too many in the country yearning for something other than the SLP and UWP. In the column of Don't know and Won't Tell the numbers when added is just too high. Neither of the UWP or SLP can take comfort from a poll like this.
Anonymous 3 and 4 take your deception elsewhere. You not fooling people writing with your right and left hand.
you're right! All of that is LPM trickery.
See what I mean?
LPM trickery? The poll don't lie.
A third party does not stand a chance.
The poll is clear if I read it right.
Yes is 38%...No is 50%..Won't say IS 2%.....Don't know is 8.9%
If you add 38 + 2 + 9 = 49%
That mean the No's of 50% is greater than the 3 others which made up of 49%
there is no room for third party
What a jackass? LOL
This person need a gogles
50 say no another 38. something say yes and there is no room? Go on fool yourself.
My 2 cents. The country is evenly divided on the need for a 3rd party.
Well done The Voice. No other newspaper can test you in St. Lucia.
This certainly is not a Kenny type poll which says everyone is coming our way. Remember his poll? We can't lie to people. We have to give them a chance to see the facts for themselves and this is what the Voice have done here.
Didn't Rufus Bousquet predict that UWP would win the next elections, at least 14-3? Wonder what he will say when he sees this.
Ironically, in a poll carried out on his own blog for Choiseul Person of the Year, Bousquet placed last.
Good to see so many comments on this story in such a short time. Many St. Lucians are now using the Internet and other social media to vent their feelings. In Choiseul we have formed,
http://www.choiseulpowerhouse.blogspot.com/
to give all Choiseulians a Voice(no pun intended) to share their thoughts and ideas with the rest of the world. Cheers!!!
A quick analysis.
I am surprised given the issues faced by and perception of the UWP that this poll shows them in such a good light.
PERFORMANCE
A majority of 55.5% give Steve a fair or above rating.
RETURN SLP
38.5% say yes but at least 60% are for the UWP , don’t know or won’t say.
ELECTIONS
40% say they will vote for the SLP vs 23.2% for the UWP but a full 35.1% don’t know or won’t vote.
From the UWP perspective if they can make a good effort on crime and point out what they have done on tourism and get the Hewanorra project off the ground then they can swing the voters on their side by the time elections is called at the end of the year. The ground in other words is surprisingly good for them.
The SLP are not as far ahead as one would have thought under the circumstances and the UWP have much room to maneuver.
King has much better ratings than the UWP which means that the negative perception of people like Richard Fredericks and Rufus Bousquet is definately a factor. Fredericks and Bousquet are the albatrosses around the UWP’s neck.
LPM are a non factor.
I am concerned that the poll does not say who will or will not vote. If those who will not say or don’t know are potential non voters then this does not bode well for the UWP.
A good poll for the SLP with room for the UWP to improve but only if they promote the Chastanets and Mayers.
Question?
What is the political makeup of the sample conducted to derive at the results obtained?
I would think that the independent sample is most critical.
Did you say promote Mayers? What does he have to show after 3 years as national security minister.
LPM are a non factor.
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I don't think they specifically ask the respondents if they would vote for the LPM. Yet 3.4 % of the respondents have already indicated their willingness to vote for an alternate party which does not bear the logo of Labour and Flambeau.
Also in that very same poll there is a whopping 33.5 percent of respondents that if elections were to be held today aren't certain which way they would vote. Imagine with all of the noise that SLP has made, yet they are unable to capitalize on UWP's lack of performance amass?
In my humble estimation the LPM party can take heart. With a well define campaign and money to back them up, they can push past the 3.4 % staring line and cause an earth quake in the country.
If Mayers and Chastanet are the bright spots of the UWP, then UWP is in a lot of trouble.
Ok wise guy. Lets assume the 35.1% is spread along these lines, Labour 10%, UWP 15% and LPM 10% what happens here? The figures don't look good for king. His own internal poll also shows similar results. They have wasted time and although a day in politics is a long time it does not appear that they will be able to recover. There are too many albatrosses around the UWP belly, rufus, Richard, Mondesir and Jeanine will all play a factor in the huge Flambeau loss.
If LPM picks up 10 % or more of the votes the possiblity of them holding on to a seat of two isn't remote.
@ above..."There are too many albatrosses around the UWP belly, rufus, Richard, Mondesir and Jeanine..."
You forgot Chastanet, whom the high court said is a liar. The one from Forestiere, the super moron and Guy Mayers should be added to the endless ropes hanging around his neck.
Read the polls well. No high court involve in that. High court spoke months ago and Kenny has been beating his mouth for years and still have his work cut out for him to win the hearts and mind of people of St Lucia. This whole elections could be a toss up. St Lucia is in for a long night before we know who win outright or who have to form coalition with whom. I must commend the people of St lucia for get wiser.
Say what you want, as long as St Lucia, in particular, and the Caribbean and wider world in general is concern, there are crooks, excons, drug lord, maleficence in the current administration...polls or not; they are there in full view of everyone; living, breathing in coat and tie...
SLP, LPM, PLP, ONE (if it's still in existence), however they are called...they are better than those in government right now.
Seems like many people still think highly of King... but that race is tight right now.
The most striking questions for me is: WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE THE RETURN OF THE SLP
YES-38.8 %
0N- 29.8 %
NOW WAIT FOR IT: I DON'T KNOW ( PEOPLE WITH MI FEELINGS ABOUT SLP'S RETURN) - 19%
ANOTHER PERCENTAGE WITH AN INTENT TO VOTE WHERE IT HURTS MOST- 13%
THIS IS DAMNING FOR SOME OF THE JOKERS IN HERE WHO THOUGHT THAT SLP HAD IT DOWN PACK.
A poll is a snapshot of the viewpoints of the respondents in a sample. For all we know, the sample may or may not be truly representative of the persons who will actually or most likely vote on election day.
we ought to be clear about one thing about the sample and that is how was it developed and from what source. How was the poll conducted is another issue. Was it a telephone poll or person to person type exercise. A ballot box approach gives the best or most accurate result if there is no high rate of no response to questions.
On what days or period the poll was taken with respect to events occurring on the ground is significant too. Was it before of after the 6-point plan speech or the GraveYard Shift?
A poll of likely voters as opposed to those on list will most likely give another perspective.
LPM is does appear was NOT in effect a part of any question asked. This bias is reflected in the lack of a follow-up question to those who responded regarding a need for a third party, but did not seem to have been given an option to express where the LPM fits into the picture.
Technically speaking, and from a market research perspective, the exercise though quite worthwhile appears to be, in several respects, very seriously flawed.
Those UWPs here spinning like joke. Come on dismiss the poll.
LPM is does appear was NOT in effect a part of any question asked. This bias is reflected in the lack of a follow-up question to those who responded regarding a need for a third party, but did not seem to have been given an option to express where the LPM fits into the picture.
Good observation.
My fellow st lucians look at the present administration their four years in office and their stewardship how has the country fair.
As far as i can see we need to vote the pittance out they don't deserve another chance.
Mr king and his administration has done very poorly and definitely slp will do a better job domestic as well as international
Lpm you all need to stop Mr prudent has no knowledge domestic as well as international We had mr king put this country in shamble and the laughing stock of the caribbean and the world and we ss st lucians cannot afford another king or other osbert.
My fellow st lucians look at what is going around the world we need to make the right choice for the future of our country and slp is the right choice
This poll has nothing for the UWP to be proud of.
That does not mean the next one that will be out they cannot do better.
I recall a poll in the last Jamaica election which similar numbers and the PNP at about 31% to JLP 33%.
That 2% lead got the JLP back into office.
In this poll it shows the SLP AT 40% to UWP 23%.
But that is not to say the road is clear for SLP as yet. We will have to await the next of polls to be release by the VOICE NEWSPAPERS.
By the way let me say the voice is showing the joker Rick Wayne how to run a newspaper.
Let me say thank you to The voice of St.Lucia for the lead in the news business.
Let's see the polls say that 77.5 % will vote. The SLP received 39%. If my math is correct that gives the UWP 38%. For a party that has wasted 4 years in office,it does not look good for the SLP. Where is the poll on the opposition Leader.Humm!
#31...so true...I am glad and proud of the Voice for showing St Lucians what the Star really is - nothing but an operative of the UWP; extremely bias towards any critics of the present administration.
Used to have so much respect for Rick Wayne and his paper. I am happy to say, I do not buy the Star anymore, nor do I read it online.
For some, they may think my dollar or two is nothing or won't hurt the Star, but rest assured, in business the difference between my dollar could be servicing loan payments or defaulting on them.
The poll is a very good try. But the questions do not reflect any rigor in terms of the questions that should have been asked. The best that can be said of the effort is that it does not appear to have any basic intent to deceive or to hide anything. Input from a reputable pollster or political scientist would greatly improve the credibility of this organ regarding polling.
Your Dr. Anthony is even more financially challenged than Mr. Prudent. At least, Mr. Prudent appears to have the humility to listen and act.
Mr. Anthony on the other hand, has been so cocky that he bypassed and ignored the civil service. He established his own contract document ... without the help of the technical people in the ministry. He lost $45 million in the process.
Rochamel proved to the world that Mr. Anthony does NOT know how to manage large sums of money in his charge. He does not know how to manage. The NCA was another crab hole. A lot of money turned into water vapour there too.
We not seen Mr. Prudent being so reckless and irresponsible regarding money under his care. Dr. Anthony PROVED IN HIS INCAPABILITY during his two terms. What? You and people like yu are prepared to reward failure with a reward? Where is your sense of values?
What this poll proves is that UWP,SLP and LPM should expect the unexpected.
ILANMAN said...
Let's see the polls say that 77.5 % will vote. The SLP received 39%. If my math is correct that gives the UWP 38%. For a party that has wasted 4 years in office,it does not look good for the SLP. Where is the poll on the opposition Leader.Humm
Well my brother 1% is a big deal in any election the last time I check.
I would like to understand what are you say about SLP 39% TO UWP 38%
Please be advised this poll was not done by SLP or UWP.
The Voice just put the inform out there for us to digest.
Poll or no poll, we St Lucians would have been really stupid to re -elect that bunch we have in office. On what basis they deserve to be re- elected?
Poll or no poll, we St Lucians would have been really stupid to re -elect that bunch we have in office. On what basis they deserve to be re- elected?
Blogger up there said...
My response- with the information before us that St Lucians are not sure what they will do, you are behaving as if the SLP has won. Take a grip of yourself and understand the numbers put out there by the Voice.
The UWP's can spin all they want.
The poll is not a good one for them at this time.
They have a lot of work on there hands. Caribbean politics have taught me, the people make a choice 2 to 3 years before an election is called.
The campaign is just a formality.
normal people will vote SLP!
Another Poll - Click here
Hmm...interesting, your website!!
Anonymous said...
What a jackass? LOL
This person need a gogles
50 say no another 38. something say yes and there is no room? Go on fool yourself.
February 19, 2011 1:03 PM
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Well good luck to you my brother if you think there is room or people in mass that will vote a third party.
The first lesson in politics you must learn is you must have a base.
Which of the third party in St.Lucia has a base.
The only third party that did well in st.lucia was Geoge Odlum PLP IN 1982. With a strong base in South Castries and South East Castries.
The North East castries base good but only in the Morne Du don to Lesile Area so it was limited.
It also interesting to note PLP as third party got more votes than SLP.
Also SLP got two (2) seats to PLP one (1) with less popular votes.
That was because the SLP had in fighting.
I think you just come to St.Lucia politics so I had no choice but to give you a short lesson on elections in St.Lucia.
This poll is not very reliable in terms of the percentages because we do not know how the sample was determined in the first place. Marketing 101 would tell you that.
Some very pertinent questions were not asked. And there no analysis of likely voters matched to the specific questions asked. Therefore, this report is replete with distortions. Those skilled in political science and marketing will have a better appreciation of the flaws underlying the reported results.
If those distortions had not been present, the percentages would be a lot more meaningful. This is because we are operating under a first past the post system. A party can will win the popular vote, i.e., get the higher or highest percentage of the votes, and still NOT win enough seats to form the government. Seats and not votes would better indicate who forms the next sitting government.
Significantly also, the resignation of Ms Compton was not even taken into account in this poll. This suggests that the poll was taken before this event, and before the Grave Yard and Grass Street operations of the UWP.
A sophisticated poll would give a less distorted picture of what is happening on the ground. Next time, the voice must go beyond the amateurish approach that has been reported here, instead of simply designing a study that only serves to reinforce the way some people would like to see the state of things remain. A little more skill and acumen would helped tremendously here.
The elections are always determined at the constituency level. The results of the constituency elections are for the most part dependent on a number of factors, not the least of which is the likeability of the candidate, the perception of the constituents of how effective the government has been in meeting their needs, the concentration of party support in each of these constituencies etc.
Thus the Voice would have had different results for a poll that was conducted on a constituency basis, drawing upon a large enough sample, (10% of eligible voters of each constituency), the population sample must be truly representative of that constituency, and most importantly, include a margin of error of 3-5% for the poll.
The poll is indeed very simple and lacking the statistical sophistication that would give us a snap shot of what obtains at the particular time in the political landscape of the country.
We all know that a week in politics is a lifetime. This poll should not bring comfort to any of the parties al it says is that a small majority of the electorate desire change. It does not say whether that is the will of the constituents of the various constituencies.
There is still a tremendous amount of work to be done by all parties to influence the section of the voting population who swing the elections, the independents.
Not enough has been said about the methodology used in this poll to take it seriously. All politics is local. We don't know in what constituencies the poll was done or the porty affiliation of the respondents. We dont' know the track record fo the person (s) who did the poll. I don't believe we will ever have a 77% turnout at the next poll.
LuciaBoy and the commentator following show a greater appreciation of the issues involved in accepting the outputs of pollsters. Whereas the Voice must be commended for an initial good step in the right direction. The results are unusable as reliable indicators of where the country stands on the issues that matter in selecting the next government.
The commentators above must be applauded for shedding light on the short-comings of the effort of the Voice. Too much should not be made of those questionable percentages until the source of the population sample is disclosed, the way the sample was drawn, and to what extent the ballot boxes played a role (if at all) in the design of the sample. The dates or over what time period the poll was taken is also a very, very important piece of information. It tells us what events may have played a role in determining the popularity of people and parties. Yet, in the final analysis, it is the ballot box approach that will present the most valid method to give us a seat-by-seat idea of the most likely results. Or, we are just spinning our tops in political mud.
If these issues outlined above were not seriously considered, then we are not much better off, than before the poll was taken.
According to experience which bears out the theory, whenever there is a massive turnout above 75% of eligible voters, the voting public is signaling that they consider that much is (was) at stake in that election. It also signals a potential for a significant shift from what obtained in the last election.
This poll does not show any sophistication regarding any sensitivity regarding those who will have reached the necessary voting age by the time of the next general election. This too, is a significant omission.
Those now qualifying to vote and are unemployed could be expected to vote against the current administration come election time.
Well good luck to you my brother if you think there is room or people in mass that will vote a third party.
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Fool! Even when all the indicators are presented before your very eyes, your head is still stuck in the sand!!! Your mode of reasoning is still dated in the 60's and 70's.
Theer is so much work for all these parties involve to do. It's not a joke. No one can predict the outcome at this time.
Polls like statistics can be interpretd to support ones point view. This current poll from an SLP view is encouraging.From a UWP view not as bad as it could have been. And from the LPM hopeful to say the least.
What I interpreted from the Polls was all the parties still had plenty of work to do to convince the electorate of their suitability to govern.
Word of warning to Kenny don't let this poll engender over confidence and arrogance the job done mentality which led to complacency and defeat at the last election.
One question responses which was not reproduced in the voice was the question"Which party would vote for if Kenny Anthony was not leader of SLP?Answer 85.7% said they would vote SLP.
Kudos to the Voice!!! Raising the bar for print journalism. Very impressive. There does look to be room for a third party to make inroads. UWPs ratings should give them a good scare. They better get their bags packed!!!
On the question of Kenny,does that mean Kenny is costing the SLP votes. And if so what is SLP logical reason for sticking with a leader that is a potential liability in the polls
Leo,Walcott Detervillie Pierre Roberts are you all lacking the organsx2 situated below the penis?
#52 is this true? Really? Then why didn't the Voice publish this? More than 75%, you say? Man, this is staggering!
Why is this so, you ask? This number is more significant than all the stats out there put together! Pie charts of the responses would have been great too!
If this is so, then the Voice has some explaining to do. Is it that they are not confident of the methodologies used in this survey of public opinion? A few commentators have pointed to some of the technical difficulties associated with this attempt.
If the criticisms are addressed next time around, the result could be a great deal more satisfying in terms of reliability.
Do people in the leadership of the SLP have any doubts left that their current leader is very serious liability to the party winning the next general election?
The 38 % recorded, only speaks to the popular vote and not the number of seats that will be won.
If there is the expected massive turnouts in the relative secure Labour constituencies but other opposition candidates squeeze past the SLP and win those seats, winning the popular contests in secure Labour constituencies but losing to the opposing sides will not secure the victory for the SLP as a party.
Like many I have to say that this poll is a mix bag for the SLP and UWP. It proves how vunnerable they both are in the coming elections. There are too many people in the country who lack confidence in their ability to deliver change. The door as far as I am concern is wide open for LPM to kick their arse.
This poll appears to have been taken before the murder rate shot up to a rate of 4 per week, from 1 every week last in 2010. I believe that coming hot on the heels of that, and the shutting down of parts of Castries, the image of the UWP would have suffered more than improved taking into consideration the police work from the Grave Yard to Grass Street.
The departure of Ms Compton too from the UWP, would have expectedly placed the UWP in a worse light. What is not certain is her direction. Word on the ground is that she may revive the sagged fortunes of the NDM. To do this would be rather unfortunate. This could well be a serious misstep.
The question is, whether she about to help to polish a tarnished politician after being in the frying pan of the UWP hoodlums who kicked her father to his grave? Her actions would be a great deal more credible if she were to join the LPM. However, politics they say, makes for strange bedfellows!
This poll is deficient in at least one particular respect. Deliberately or not, it reinforces the norm of the two party state system, when in fact both major parties have been so wrong for the country. One has a long rap sheet of cabinet member criminality and by inserting the possibility for making deals with the Queen's Chain. The other has a deep reputation for squandamania. Rochamel and NCA are so difficult to forget. They will not die a natural death.
One thing is certain,however, with additional polls coming on in the future, the Voice may well get new overseas and local subscriptions just because of this. The Voice also erases any doubt in the minds of those who can think, which is the most responsible, credible and believable media house in the country today. It faithfully reprinted the letter of resignation of Ms Compton without attempting to distort or spin it. And now we have this survey, even if it is highly defective and unreliable as a credible compass for future direction or serious planning.
The fact that a significant percentage of potential voters do not know or do not wish to reveal who they would vote for, which is a significant percentage, given the percentage of those who clearly stated that they would vote for UWP or SLP. This indicates very clearly, that a significant number of potential voters are disillusioned with both traditional parties, and come polling day, would either stay at home, vote any one of the traditional parties, or choose to vote the new party. In effect a TOSS-UP can occur, with some surprising results.
The talk that Ausbert D'Auvergne, dares to bring himself to the people of St. Lucia, and those who dare to join him, speaks volumes of the DISRESPECT and CONTEMPT D'Auvergne holds, like his mentor JOHN COMPTON holds for St. Lucians. D'Auvergne went bankrupt with all his business endeavours, from selling of Peugeot cars, to selling of lands and houses at Bonne Terre, to numerous companies listed in issues of the St. Lucia Gazette, betwee, 1998 and 1999, as numerous creditors were calling for their pound of flesh from D'Auvergne. Then there was his ole in the infamous United Nations Scandal, and the Alcindor Jail Case in the United States, where he D'Auvergne had been named in Court papers, as having received monies from the moneylaunderer and real estate corn artist and fraudster currently in United States jail.
Nonetheless, one cannot forget that D'Auvergne actions in whatever form, will tend to influence votes away from the Labour Party and towards the UWP because the allegations of his and his wife's involvement in the DAHER BUILDING AFFAIR, and the said millions said to be involved, now must be exposed with the tracking of transactions from the Government Treasury to the Banks, to establish who received monies from that Daher Building transaction, and the amount received. Especially in light of the fact D'Auvergne was a recent Minister of Government. Knowing full well, that the Commission of Inquiry stated clearly, from the findings of Ausbert D'Auvergne's actions in the Civil Service of St. Lucia, that an individual such as him, is not fit to be in Public Office. But the demon, John Compton, sneaked him into the Government of St. Lucia. This time, he may well end up, worse than John Compton, before him. Film at thirteen!
This pole is very very biased indeed. It did not even seem to have a question (unpublished if it did) reflecting that already some four or more candidates have been announced by the LPM in the ridings of Gros Islet, Soufriere, Micoud, and Castries.
After all, this is much more either NDM, and ONE has been able to do in five (5) or more years!
Officially, the LPM has been a party for less than ONE YEAR. And during this short life, it has made more responsible statements and taken more responsible positions on national affairs than even the two major parties! In some cases, regarding the Queen's Chain and escalating crime issue for example, the two main parties, have even followed the lead of the LPM.
For the creators and framers of this amateur poll, your slip is showing! Does this represent a studied and deliberate bias against the LPM?
Please help,maybe one of many Legal eagles ,or specifically on of our experts in Constitutional Law(Mr& Mrs Anthony)could clarify this query.
Does our constitution not state that an indiviual who has a criminal conviction and moreover served a custodial sentence is barred from serving in Parliament?
If so how is it possible that the Minister of Foreign Affairs which it hasd been confirmed served a prison sentence in the USA is an MP. And if true why has no action been taken by the Electoral office, the Governor General, the Prime Minister or litigation prone leader of the Opposition Kenny Anthony.
Can someone, any one please clarify.
Even you Rick Wayne who broke the story.
What does our constitution state, or is the constitution not applicable to the ruling classes?
Though there is much LPM/UWP spin ongoing, be rest assured that the LPM might well begin attacking the SLP as they appear to be the front runnners. 40% SLP to 23% UWP is in fact a very sizeable margin whichever way you'd like to spin it. Be reminded that when you consider the figures in the last election (2006) the UWP captured only 29% of the voters on the list, vs. SLP's 27.6%. This sample represents all the voters on the list, not just who will vote, and as such a 40:23 margin is huge. It does not immediately translate to a whitewash because of our first-past-the-poll system. However, to make a point, in 1997 when the SLP won, it did get 39.9% of the total number on the list (44,200 votes out of 110,560 registered). The UWP got 23.8% in that year.
For the persons who suggested that a 10% LPM vote might translate into a seat, that's immensely touch-and-go. I'd direct you two elections back in Trinidad where the third party COP got well over 10% of the vote and not one of the 41 or so seats. In our first-past-the-post system, only a differentiated constituency-by-constituency poll will give you a precise indication of final seat count. In 2006, the UWP won 30% more seats than the SLP with only a 3% margin between it and the SLP in actual votes. What should also be pointed out in terms of the undecided vote is that a lot of people don't vote.
The highest turnout in recent memory was 67% (1997). The 2006 election bore only 58% of the persons on the list. If 77% express their intention to vote, it does not always translate to such a high number on election day, particularly among persons who are unsure to begin with. The unsure voter is chancy at best for new parties coming in so good luck with that.
We can also see a slight bit more exuberance towards the incumbent party given slightly more people saying that UWP would win vs. the number who actually say they would vote for them (23.9% vs. 23.2%). The converse is true of the opposition party.
In my estimation, it appears that more people intend on voting in this election than the last, perhaps about 63%. It would certainly suggest a swing away from the governing party and in a very big way.
The poll suggests that it is not as desperate for the UWP if they are capable of doing the things necessary to win. Unfortunaty a leopard cannot change its spots.
The persons calling the shots in the UWP are arrogant, devious (and fundamentally criminal in their conduct and attitude) and too self centered to think that anyone is capable of advising them. They would also have to change their immoral ways to make a difference.
As I said previously if the persons in this poll who "did not say" or "will not say" ae going to be non voters then the figures suggest a landslide for the SLP becaue the pro SLP voters will be off a smaller base and translate into around 63% of eventual voters putting the ti croix besides the SLP name.
Unfortunately it wil be replacing the devious with the incompetent ! Down will continue the St. Lucia slide.
Additionlly with the incompetent charalatan in the Presidency in America (Obama) you can also guarantee that the world siuation and therefore our econimic environment will get worst and -guess what- we will be depending on the biggest fiscl incompetent of all to get us out of the mess - kenny anthony !
What a hoot !
Bravo to the Voice Newspaper for the start of a good polling guide to assist the readers and voters themselves in their decision making. Rick should be embarassed that he chose to be an operative arm of the UWP and as such has lost all credibility. Could you imagine the Star commissioning such a Pol. People would not even waste their time to read and I could imagine the responses laced with accusations of biasness on Rick's part. Thats what happens to suckers!!!! Shame on you Rick!!! The VOICE is St Lucia's Numero UNO paper!! Bravo and congratulations again as I await the next poll.
Boy, there is more SLP spining here than I thought. The polls shows that the SLP under Kenny has its work cut out for it yet you bursting champagne. When are you people going to learn to be realistic?
Do you want to see the return of the SLP to office -----that response and the grim prospect of Kenny's return was very telling from the respondents. There is more that is hidden in this poll than the SLP are going to want to accept.
What St. Lucians do not want to recognize is that it DOES NOT MATTER which party comes into power in St. Lucia. Each party will borrow $100 to $150 milion each year to run the government and WASTE IT. In fact kenny will borrow $250 million in his first year back !!! National debt by 2015 - EC$2,100,000,000 or $12,700 for each man , woman and child in St. Lucia. Unemployment 20% -25%.
Neither party has persons with the philosophical outlook necessary to run a country. Only a fundamental change of course will make a difference and none have articulated anything different. Even those who think they have the answers are only parroting the same socialist, liberal garbage within the same failed parameters.
Each party has been voted in over the past 13 years AND FOUND WANTING.
St. Lucians themselves will not reocgnize they are now a dysfunctional people incapable of knowing right from wrong, good from bad and incompetence from eficiency.
Sorry St. Lucia but you are so far away from the truth it is not funny.
By 2015 the interest on national debt will be over $100,000,000 annually or over $2,000,000 PER WEEK and you all will still be paying kenny a pension of $150,000+ per year plus perks !
BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR BECAUSE YOU MIGHT GET IT !!
It is clear to any but the most obtuse and made more apparent with this poll that the problem with the UWP Administration falls squarely on the shoulders of Richard Fredericks and Rufus Bousquet. Their venal and immoral behavior has cast a pall over St. Lucia and given the failed Kenny Anthony the opportunity to further destroy St. Lucia. They have contributed nada, zilch, nothing to St. Lucia’s development but havemorally corrupted the political process.
The poll shows that Stephenson King is given some slack by the people of St. Lucia who do not have a particularly bad impression of him. The UWP per se as a party still carries the image and aura of the great Sir john Compton.
It is the presence of the ex-felon, criminal, jailbird, and the bulldozing classless characters who have given this administration a bad name.
Fredericks in particular basks in the admiration of the failed characters with which he surrounds himself believing that their support and their lifestyle represents “normal” behavior. He walks into rooms with decent people and does not realize that they all are repulsed and revolted by his presence. Generations of St. Lucians have strived to be civilized and we watch as this buffoon barrels into polite and respectable company thinking that he is accepted because he has one cell phone on each ear while he gobbles down food with his mouth open.
Education has failed to tame this character, neither the assumption of political power bestowed upon him by St. Lucians.
The UWP and Stephenson King could do much better by calling Jeannine back into the fold, firing the ex-felon and the buffoon and moving on with St. Lucia’s agenda.
We know it will not happen therefore the UWP will go down to political defeat within the year along with the two debased characters that now sully the party of Sir John Compton.
Amen, above, how thoroughly correct you are...you said it like it is!!..."that disgusting man" makes me vomit to say his name, and Rufus Bosquot will be/are the final nails in the UWP coffin.
Dr. Anthony appears to be equally disgusting to some people. Perhaps if the SLP removes him as leader then the party can gain a landslide. In any case, the people of Vieux Fort hold all the cards. If they vote in Dr. Anthony, then he becomes PM. If not we will have some very interesting days post-election night.
This poll leaves just too many questions unanswered to be of great value at this time. A more serious effort would have taken into consideration the existence of ONE and LPM. To have ignored them is a great disservice to the cause being embraced by the Voice. Yet, the medium must be congratulated as it towers head and shoulders above the unmentionable rag sheet which has become the mouthpiece and organ of the cabal that is the UWP. Since its obvious bias, I have since ignored that newspaper.
Bousquet was on TV tonight trying to discredit the VOICE poll.
Why didn't he speak to his own poll where he placed last.
For the blogger above.
We all know who Bousquet is and what a scamp he is but stop trying to foist upon us this biased and quite frankly stupid poll you allude to on your Choiseul website.
It is this allegince to failed characters of BOTH parties that gets us into trouble.
The website you send us to is simply a politicl ploy and site for your SLP candidate. This candidate is a flawed arrogant character which is so unfortunate considering who his parents are.
Yes we know that Bousquet is lazy, a scamp, an ex felon who has not changed his spots but do not try to get St. Lucians or Choiseuleans to have to think of your SLP flawed and damaged candidate as a substitute.
Any poll on a website like your would have 90%+ pro SLP viewers so stop trying to do to us what all these corrupt politicians do.
I would suggest that no one votes in Choiseul in the upcoming election.
The candidates prove that the WHOLE political process is morally corrupt.
It is so sad to see that a country that produced two Nobel laureates would have such a mass of semi-literate voters voting for such tarnished characters as MPs. We have the Don, the jailbird, the doctor selling his patients private medical records, an MP running away from the police. Another lied before the Court of Appeals. Yet another under-invoiced imported goods and had the officer sent to the gulag.
And the people are so well conditioned to voting for these scoundrels and scamps! For example, even the framers of this survey are trying to give us a self-fulling prophecy that just two parties are in play here. They failed to include a question that would reflect that the LPM, just about one year old, has some four candidates in the field. ONE has none.
If the poll does not ask about that party, it would mean that it is not considered significant by the framers. Yet, part of the results shows that nearly 40 percent of the people want a 3rd party. Is this a deliberate oversight or a colonial mentality behind all of this?
Heard Rufus questioning the legitimacy of the poll. He was asking for the sample size and which areas were tested. In my opinion the UWP should use this poll and focus on the issues that are of concern to the voters and not try to discredit it.
The poll result mirror closely the results on 1997.I'm not surprised at the results.
The poll speaks clearly in favor of the SLP; however, that should not signal complacency in the SLP camp. Approximately 21% are unsure of voting and that figure should be a major focus for any party (UWP or SLP) wishing to take a majority lead at the next election.
Clearly, St. Lucians are expressing their concerns about how the country is being governed. As a loyal St.Lucian with the interest of St. Lucia at heart and not party; I am quite pleased to see quality leaders emerging although most can be found in the SLP. Persons like Dr. Ubaldus Raymond, Dr. Lewis, Emma Hippolyte,Alva Baptiste, Musa, Lorne Theophilus, Pierre, Jeanine, and Dr. Kenny Anthony.
It is my hope that St. Lucians will be bypass party and vote the most competent to govern St. Lucia.
I hold no brief for the man. However, anyone who has done any type of survey research will definitely see some obvious problems with the reporting, the questions and the resulting analyses. Some of the issues are intertwined.
The question of the sample size is legitimate. Larger sizes improve accuracy. Cost may be a major constraint.
Next is the sampling frame. The report did suggest a list, perhaps the last voters list or perhaps an updated one. To extend any great amount of reliability regarding the results, this has to be clearly stated.
Another issue is stratification. Were men and women proportionately represented according to what obtains in the voters list. What about the constituencies? Which ones were chosen and on what basis? Purely SLP or were neutral constituencies chosen? What about the age cohorts? If younger voters who tend to be the less likely voters formed the bulk of the respondents, were they disproportionately included?
Still there is the issue from whom those answers were coming from/ Younger voters or older voters? More from the women or more from the men?
And if the framers knew their politics and did not have an obvious bias, when party leadership has so much to do with the perception of who will lead the country, why were no questions asked about the leadership of more than just the two major parties?
As someone pointed out above, the LPM was kept straight out of the picture. 40 percent of respondents at the time of this poll was taken were in favour of a 3rd party. Yet third parties were kept out of the picture completely!
The crosstabs are still there from the raw data, I suppose. They just were not done.
This poll results too, are not so relevant. The poll was done ahead of two major political events. One is the resignation of Jeannine Compton and the other is the UWP cleanup campaign in the Grave Yard. Both events would have had some impact and important implications for the UWP. The trend could well have been greater in favour of the SLP and the other parties.
That was a good attempt. However, some technicalities ought to be reported and the framers should not allow their biases to creep in and distort what otherwise was a significant departure from what we have had in the past.
The poll result mirror closely the results on 1997.I'm not surprised at the results.
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oh papa LOL/ Someone has concluded the poll indicates SLP is going to win 16 seats. LOL
Zackway Sort!! LOL
So what if SLP win 16 seats, all that will happen is St Lucia will be back on it development streak, putting us back to work, as was done for the 9 years SLP was in office. That means we will get rid of a semi literate PM who can only read honey coated speeches written for him, full of promises which never come into fruition.
Stop dreaming. SLP was never the kind of government you wish to portray it to have been. Under the SLP St Lucians saw the worst kind of arrogance and victimisation ever.
And can I inform you? Please stay in your section because 16:1 with Kenny as the boss of SLP can never happen again. Stop the blindmind and midnless politricks. Read the poll and learn.
Please, Please, Please, i am begging you to explain or tell us, how was the SLP arrogant and what victimization took place when SLP was in office? I am waiting for you quick response. If you cannot do that, may you forever hold your peace. I like people who can produce sensible facts to their statements.
Your leader up to now is NOT a people person. He does not even try. He is always quarreling with people, talking down to them, and is aloof. When he is on the market steps in his red shirt, he behaves and speaks like a plantation overseer talking to field hands. Mate even looks down at people who were his classmates at school, since he went into law. He does not even acknowledge them when they are in his presence. It is as if they do not exist at all. Seems that he only wants people who will sing his praises and lick his boots.
Well, it is not difficult that if the leader behaves like this, his followers will be tarred with the same broad brush.
Please, Please, Please, i am begging you to explain or tell us, how was the SLP arrogant and what victimization took place when SLP was in office? I am waiting for you quick response. If you cannot do that, may you forever hold your peace. I like people who can produce sensible facts to their statements.
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In words: OUT OF OFFICE!!!
lol
60 % OF sT St Lucians don't have a favourable view of Kenny Anthony. Do you want to see the return of Kenny and SLP to office.....read my lips....it's like a bitter pill to most St lucians.
This is the first time i am hearing that, Who are the people Kenny is quarreling with ?You believe by repeating that nonsense about Kenny will work this time? It worked very well the last time, your incompetent UWP blamed Kenny for everything, now they are in government, they are non performers. Good try anyway, but we are not stupid in believing you, because KENNY has built schools all over St Lucia to give us an education, so that one day we could be as educated as him and nobody will have to look down on us. How can some body who have won TWO elections, with the biggest majority ever and have won his seat three times is not a peoples person, then who is a people person? I am still waiting on your version of Kenny VICTIMIZATION, give it a good try, because your best short on arrogance did not work.
Where did you get your 60% statistic from? Go to the City of Castries on sunday afternoon and you will see for yourself the amount of people who follow Kenny. I know you will be quick to say people at rallies do not transform into votes, but why should people leave their homes to listen a man who they hate who is not even in government?
I will take an arrogant, educated leader with vision over a semi illiterate, incompetent, follower.
KENNY KING
Leader.......Follower
Educated.....Semi illiterate
Competent.....Incompetent
Visionary..... Blind
I will definitely vote for Kenny this time around because I have done my research.
So just want to see the UWP bring the country to the dogs before you vote SLP this time around. I am happy you realize yourself.
Alright. Dr. Anthony is head and shoulders above King in terms of certified capacity to understand complexity and think abstractly. But we must be realistic. For granted what has been just said here, Dr. Anthony made some very egregious mistakes! It follows that however smart you are, you can make some very bad mistakes in your decision making.
One of the major weaknesses of Dr. Anthony is that his over-reliance on the law as his problem-solving tool, all other aspects of any problem before him do not appear important and are overlooked. Yet, even his knowledge of the law did not permit him to gain any superiority over the con-artist who inveigled him to pass over $45 million without getting anything in return! It was like stealing candy from a baby!
As was stated above, King just passed an expenditure ruling. But it shows his limitations. Like somebody said the other day at the bar, King cannot see the forest for the trees!
Where did you get your 60% statistic from? Go to the City of Castries on sunday afternoon and you will see for yourself the amount of people who follow Kenny. I know you will be quick to say people at rallies do not transform into votes, but why should people leave their homes to listen a man who they hate who is not even in government?
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It was the same set of people following him in 2006 and he could not win. Go check the satistics in terms of how well they helped his lot.
Again look it.
Would you like to see the return of "Kenny" and the SLP---Yes 38.8 % ----No 29.8 %-----I don't know--people with conflicting feeling about Kenny and SlP @ 19%---I won't tell because I intend to f..k Kenny up----12-3% LOL
It's not Kenny they are fucking up - Kenny's bread is properly and well buttered. It is people like me, or perhaps you too (unless you are a person of means and your commitments could be realized without headaches), that will be getting f*****.
It is your right to vote whomever; I choose Kenny any day over King and his bunch of miscreats; their only interest is to fatten their pockets and continue to dig a hole for St Lucia.
Are you happy to have the likes of dons, excons, etc, etc. to represent you?...
First to begin with we are not in 2006, this is another election. We in St Lucia have a chance to compare and check the performance of the TWO alternatives we at our disposal. We cannot talk about the LPM because they cannot win a seat, they cannot even field 17 candidates. Any honest person will see or knows that the SLP is by far the better of the TWO parties. The SLP is not perfect, they made mistakes, but there is not one perfect party in this world, all parties will make mistakes. Even the great USA with all their intelligence, is now in recession because of mistakes by politicians, so who is Kenny he cannot make mistakes. As a matter of fact we have a UWP government now in office, who have been making mistakes constantly from 2006 up to now, their for-par has become a habit.
Some of you want to dwell on the fact that SLP lost the last election. We all know that SLP performed better than any government in the past, in-terms of developing the country, that is a fact.
They made mistakes, but which government who has not made mistakes?
SLP lost the election because.
(1) ALL the media bombarded their mistakes everyday on the airwaves,that includes radio, print an television, because of their selfish personal agenda, All the positive works the government was doing was never highlighted.
(2) UWP capitalized on that hip to blame Kenny for everything wrong happening in the country, even crime, the prices of goods etc, and they promised us all kind of things, some people fell for that. Now they are in government they have achieved nothing.
(3) People forgot who Compton was, so they saw him as a savior at 82 years, i do not know what he was expected to save us from, because he could not have saved his own life.
Nobody could F..k up Kenny, Kenny is a rich man, Kenny is living comfortable, Kenny is making enough money, Kenny is not the one who cannot send his children to school, Kenny is not the one WASCO is threatening to disconnect his water supply, Kenny is not the one that is unemployed, Kenny is not the one suffering. It is the POOR PEOPLE in St Lucia who are suffering under an incompetent government. So bring in you all you statistics and continue voting for some fellows who cannot even land ANY decent job because they are not qualified. Continue giving them a job, because you love them and you do not want St Lucia to go forward. Can somebody tell me which decent job can our PM King get because of his qualification?
I agree with all your observations, above. Let them "look at Kenny" and not the interests of St Lucia!!
Every month ends, I debate which bills I will pay a portion of, which I will ignore until the disconnection notices arrive. None of the statutory boards have any competent chairman, chairmans chosen (to do their nasty biddings) by the same incompetent, unemployable ministers.
Kenny can meet all his financial obligations and can pay his bills and can afford his grocery bills. Can the regular St Lucian do likewise under the King administration? NO?
Huh, tell me where else can Guy Joseph get job, if not to drive trucks. The same goes to even the Prime Minister...the man was only a messenger at some law firm, attend only high school, graduated with a c- or a D+ at best. Is someone with such an academic credential understands the complexities of government and globalization?
We are talking about the immediate and future survival of St Lucia; and King and company cannot govern.
Now that election is near, the Taiwanese are busy doing crappy projects, tennis court here (give me a break, will the youths of Babonneau, Bexon, Odsan, and other will ever get access to this tennis court, look who is the chairman of this court, there goes), half arsed projects here, there and everywhere.
Gets me sick to my stomach!!
I wander if these people who is talking all that nonsense on this board about Kenny know what is really happening in St lucia, as the two previous contributers who presented the facts?
Talking about scrappy work just before election, we all know that is the way UWP have operated for as long as we can remember. They have have won elections with that in the past, but we should never allow that to happen in our country in these modern times.
We know exactly what is happening in the country, namely:
1). dons as minister
2) ex con as minister
3) liars, under oath, as minister, etc.
4) buying a useless bldg. from their friends for $34,000,000 while social services are going to the dogs
5) renting luxury office space at the tune of $1.6 million dollars for an excon
6) promised of 7,000 jobs a farce, a lie
7) promised of 50% crime reduction, a lie
8) uwp ministers getting arrested left right and centre for breaking the laws
9) ministers aligning himself with questionable characters, even putting them on national tv as role models.
10) tuxedogate ref. mondeisir
11) ministers importing under valued luxury goods
and the list goes on and on - these are what's happening in St Lucia.
Anyone help with the ills I may have left out and or forgotten at this moment. Thank you very much!!
Garson if we have to half of the nastiness this UWP government has bestrode on us in St Lucia we will NEVER finish today. I am sup-prize that any sensibly would wake on election, leave their home and ever waste a vote for these fellows.
Can a UWP supporter tell me, what has gotten better since the UWP got into office?
Deal with the people's opinion of Kenny and the SLP. It's right there for you to see and stop repeating your papishow about how St Lucians need Kenny more than Kenny needs them.
Just like St lucia moved on after the Compton Era it is able to move on without Kenny. We don't need God like figuires to kick the youths around. We need real leaders who understand their place and the responsiblity of why they were elected. Not men who think that we owe them a vote because of their education.
Who are the real leaders, you are talking about, name them for us and ask them to put themselves up for election. Which people who has opinion of Kenny, because there is no leader anywhere in this world with 100% support. Not even Jesus had 100% support when he was on Earth. So what you talking about.
How can we move on without Kenny when Kenny is the current leader of the opposition and he is an elected member of parliament and the elected leader of the main opposition party? Do you see any sense in even mentioning that nonsense.
How can we move on without Kenny when Kenny is the current leader of the opposition and he is an elected member of parliament and the elected leader of the main opposition party? Do you see any sense in even mentioning that nonsense.
Yes i am very happy with a God like figure like Kenny (if that is what you want to say) to kick the youth around to a school place for ALL OF THEM TO GAIN AN EDUCATION. I suppose they are also very pleased to have a God like figure like him.
@ PARTY HACKS who cannot see beyond color.
Wake up and smell the coffee this PM and his Goons are not fit to lead and will not win because they did not perform. Rick and his bias newspaper will not save them this election.
ALL THE SLP MINISTERS WHO WON THEIR SEATS LAST ELECTION WILL WIN THEIR SEATS THIS COMING ELECTION.
GUY JOSEPH, MONDESIER, BOUSQUOT,AND RICHARD CANNOT WIN.
DO THE MATH AND TELL ME UWPEEES WHICH
I am glad you did not add Ubaldus etc to the list of SLP's that are going to win.
But tell me.....
Who is there to beat guy Joseph, Modesir and even Richard??? You see Stanley Felix doing that. I don't. And Lorne??? You must be a joker to think that Lorne is a good guy compared to Bousquet.
GUY JOSEPH, MONDESIER, BOUSQUOT,AND RICHARD CANNOT WIN.
Here are my list of other SLP candidates that is bound to loss: PIP--- Robert Lewis---Emma Hypcrite---Dalson----the christian girl that does tremble when she talking----you want me to go on and on.......
don't waste you'll money on the persons above.......if they have not already gone down in smoke....smoke have gone done with them...........
That does??
Am i haring some St Lucians clearly? After we had to endure a none performing, scandalous, corrupt for 4 years now, we still have people saying they will win an election. No wander St Lucians are considered to be one of the dumbest people in the world. On what basic UWP need to be re elected?
Typo, AM i hearing some St Lucians clearly? corrupt government
Please anonymous Feb 24@2:19, don't insult Saint Lucian's,only a few vote for the wrong reasons. Do you believe the people will vote for these criminals? Tell them to call election and you will see.
The person who said they do not want Ulbaldus to win, that person do not want St Lucia to progress. Who is Ulbaldus going against? It is time we get rid of ALL the semi literate job seeker in government off our backs. These same bias people are saying Kenny do not know economics, and we need good economist to run the country, now we have a qualified economist coming into the fore, they are the same ones rooting for a semi literate, who is qualified in nothing against him.
For the stupidity that passes here for constructive comment, it is truly saddening for St. Lucians. Why are those semi-literate and sometimes schooled persons on these blogs, heebent on seeing issues in party colours? When are you folks going to learn.
Kenny Anthony deceived the people of St. Lucia. That is a fact. The conclusions of the reputable individuals who served in the RAMSAHOYE Commission of Inquiry, said it clear. The FINANCIA AFFAIRS of St. Lucia under Kenny Anthony was badly managed. We all know that Kenny is lousy, nada when it comes to quantitative matters. He is blank. Stephenson King on the other hand cannot distinguish between a liability and a contingent liability, or between an asset and a liability. So in St. Lucia right now, neither of the current Party Leaders are worth anything. Imagine Kenny Anthony's Attorney General, Petrus Compton, said at a Public Rally that the Agreement on the Roachamel Transaction with the Trinidad & Tobago Bank WAS NOT WORTH THE PAPER IT WAS WRITTEN ON. Do you forget that statement. This is very significant up to today.
And just what is valuable about folks like Philip Pierre or Emma Hippolyte? You Lucians must examine the track records of these folks carefully.
When twenty-one percent of voters say, they are not sure who they voing for, and another significant percentage say, they are not saying who they voting for, that is significant. In other words come election day, people in large numbers voting at the LAST MINUTE for a person, not for a party. I smell a coalition coming. COALITION COMING.
One thing I am looking forward to, is the bankruptcy proceedings of the PRESS Organ of the United Workers Party and I by no means mean the VANGUARD, nor the Voice or the Crusader newspaper. Film at eleven!
Sacre sans honte, above, you have the audacity to even put Emma Hippolyte and Phillip J Pierre in the same bracket as your UWP's crap as an ex con, a don, a truck driver, a liar, etc, etc.
Tell me, what is so great about your Rufus Bosquot - an ex con, R. Frederick - a don; Guy Joseph - a truck driver; Allan Chastanet - per the high courts, a liar and a cheat; Mondeisir - a tax cheater and evader etc etc.
Abe bon...you need your head examined; maybe you could have your Mondesir; A VERY "ETHICAL" EYE DOCTOR does the examining- how about that!!
JUST READ THIS FROM CNBC about US becoming 2 largest economies in 2020 - First In Business Worldwide. (thought it's important for King and his gang of misfits and miscreats to understand what is going on globally).
Willem Buiter, chief economist at Citigroup.
"For poor countries with large young populations, growing fast should be easy: open up, create some form of market economy, invest in human and physical capital, don't be unlucky and don't blow it. Catch-up and convergence should do the rest,"
You hear King, "INVEST IN HUMAN AND PHYSICAL CAPITAL...don't blow it"...
http://www.cnbc.com/id/41775174
You mean there are people who really believe that EMMA Hypolite can win a seat in a place like Gros Islet.
What's wrong with those jokers blogging in here. Save you'll money for charity because she can't win!!!
There are economists and there are economists. Then there are development economists. The discipline of economics is very broad. Let's here what UBaldus' specialty is before we jump on the bandwagon and put yet another square peg in a round hole.
Interestingly, to date, none of the proposals on the SLP's website indicate any firm grasp of the issues that relate to our young population, and what to do about the annual outpouring of secondary school graduates who cannot find work. We have yet to see anything that the SLP would do differently this time around, to address the problems of the drop-outs from the highly-touted free education that he introduced.
There you are. Another of our politicians who cannot see the forest for the trees. Obviously, the SLP does not show any acquaintance with management skills.
If Ubaldus and Kenny had a firm grip on economics, by now they would have long realized that in economic reasoning and decision making, somethings are necessary but insufficient to effect necessary outcomes.
Just like before, we have to wait for the SLP to get in there, then to evaluate what its real plans for St. Lucia will be. Another chasm in management skills and the realities we face and how to address them. SLP lacks any idea of proactivity in management of uncertainty.
Send the SLP back to school.
Are thy prepared to give us another round of typical on-the-job training just like Ms Rambally had?
Build another wing to Bordelais. We need somewhere to house those UWP crooks and scoundrels for 1,000 years!
Yes you what you are, Miss Rambally is the only you could remember that had on the Job training? Where did your so called PM King got his training? I am not even mentioning the others.
SLP is a party of pretenders!!And to the person that say that only UWP should go Kenny's Five Star Hotel, I think you should make a room there also for the prison that bears Kenny's finger print all over it. If I had my way and if St Lucia was not a country of appeasers Kenny Anthony would be lock behind bars of the magiee he did with out 45 million dollars.
You only talking about 45 million dollars, but you cannot see what is happening right under you nose. This UWP government has borrowed and has doubled our debt and they have NOTHING to show for all the money we will have to pay back. You never seem to remember doing nothing positive with our borrowed money is worse than throwing away our money.
When I think of where we are today in terms of Crime--I think of the sLP...
It was under Kenny that the murder rate first became alarming.
When I think of useless spending of our tax payers money I think of Rochamel, DCA and cost over run...it was there that politicians first learn in a big way to disregard protocol in government procedure.
When I think of the comments of take me to court, I think of Kenny Anthony and the SLP. It was a time when everybody felt afraid to challenge Kenny Anthony on perceived wrong deeds and injustice.
When I think of victimisation and a party voting at a convention to deny other St Lucians empployment until George ODlum stepped in to stop this madness I think of Kenny Anthony and the SLP.
Don't think our memory is that short!!!!!
Well, well, well you really have a selective memory, you only choose to remember a specific period of time, that is 1997-2006. Hahahahahaha, i have to laugh, because you have completely forgotten the 30 years of the UWP, maybe you might say you are to young to remember. But i know you are not to young to remember the disaster we have passing for government today. You itemized some of the mistakes of the SLP, i know if you have to even attempt to list the scandals and corruption of this so called government, this page would be not enough. But still you pretend not to remember one scandal, what you tend to forget is, the poor people of St Lucia have not forgotten, remember that. You even remembered the Saint called Odlum, a man who campaigned for 5 years straight to remove Compton and the UWP which he and most St Lucian saw as an evil regime, and that same man fought hard to destroy his government and return that same Compton to office. He tried again to destroy the Kenny administration, but he failed that time,
So many good things that happened under Kenny and the SLP administration, you pretend to forget all and you tend to dwell only on the negative. That will never work because all government make mistakes, but we have a government today whose mistakes, scandals, and corruption overshadow any positive they have done. We are not blind in St Lucia. Go to the City on sunday and hear what the people have to say.
this newspaper just dont learn lol. i have the 2006 edition of this paper just before election giviing labout 13 of the 17 seats lol
well there are criminals on both side. one side has rapist, father of murderers, thief C17, (why did the young child die?) remember that calypso? who was the culprit? crook ( stole a brief case of US went to shit and it disappeared lol) so tell me politics is dirty
In order for the uwp to have gotten back into power they had to call back an 80 plus man whom they defied and turn back and kill him and still these followers are brain dead and can't see those who are running the uwpees are fraud, incompetent,corrupt and blind in getting st lucia to be the headand not the tail around the carribean and the world.
Oh, this explains why SLP is hoping to take a page from the UWP handbook by retaining as its leader a political reject! There is no one in the SLP they can find suitable enought to lead the SLP. Don't mention PIP because he don't have what it takes. Don't mention Robert Lewis because he is a soft as icecream. He just don't have what it takes to be a leader. Who do they have left? Maybe Dalson? LOL
What a shame that st lucia is heading the wrong direction domestic and internationally and these party pouppers can't see What a shame What has accomplished the last four years NADIR Unless this person knows where his bread is coming from tomorrow Go round st lucia and put your feet in their shoes and your way of thinking will change if you are sincere and stand for principle
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