Thursday, March 22, 2012

St. Lucia, A Future In Agriculture

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Anonymous said...

St. Lucians farmer are lazy-minded idiots. Everywhere around the world countries are making the effort to capture the value-added that comes from bottling, canning and converting fruits and vegetables into finished consumable products.

The Compton-inspired farmers know only how to farm. Nothing more. So they allowed that senile Vencie to convince them that there is a bright future in still producing only banana fruit. Idiots. Let them stay there.

Our idiotic ministers of government past and present still insist on providing yesterday's solutions to present problems of wealth creation from our limited resources. And the foolish voters in yellow and red t-shirts keep on putting in more foolish country-bookie minded politicians into office. These don't have a clue about anything that is happening around the world or how poor comes drive themselves out of poverty.

Labour again has just come into office this time again without a comprehensive plan. Five years were wasted creating legal embarrassment for the UWP without shaping a concrete plan for when it would take office. How more idiotic can we St. Lucian get?

St. Lucia's attractiveness as tourism destination will keep some income flowing from tourism. Don't look to those idiots with a beer belly and in a mental fog and a near drunken stupor to do too much more than they are doing now.

March 24, 2012 at 7:47 AM
Anonymous said...

Banana industry was tolerated, not really needed.
Take the banana now and stick it high up deep inside.

March 24, 2012 at 8:02 AM
Anonymous said...

Peter is on target but we have many issues to face.

For one many of our people expect something for nothing.

I recently talked to a local agricultural entrepreneur who produces a product based on an agricultural product that can be grown here. Unfortunately the greed od St. Lucians who expect "something for nothing" means that the local farmers look at this businessman's retail price and base their inputs prices to him on this retail price. They ignore his cost of production.

We used to have the problem of banana farmers placing rocks in banana cartons to increase the weight and hense the price they got.

We have a big problem with pradeal larcney.

Our Ministry of Agriculture does nothing to move agricultural production forward. Many of them there have second jobs and their govt job is just a base salary and they care nothing about the functioning of the ministry.
This is part and parcel of the massa mentality with govt being "Massa" that we must milk for all it is worth.

These problems are not just today but our laziness and "something for nothing" attitude is a historical fact.

Govt spends hundreds of millions annually to pay civil servants and we do nothing about improving their efficiency and we can expect nothing form this government to deal with this problem. Everything we earn in St. Lucia in taxes now goes to paying civil servants and interest on government debt.

March 24, 2012 at 10:14 AM

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