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- COMMERCIAL LEAGUE ON HOME STRETCH
- Soufriere and Canaries in Blackheart Semis
- Gros Islet Masters continue unbeaten run
- Canaries vs Courts Jets In Basketball Finals
- Tom Chou-St. Lucia’s Good Samaritan
- Revisiting the King/St. Catherine Saga
- Opposition leader and UWP congratulates Darren Sam...
- 13year old Justus Monrose of Marchand is still mis...
- 1000 Words
- Statement by Chairman of CDF On The Planning and P...
- Three left nursing gunshot wounds
- Police Officer Charged
- Expo Saint Lucia to Broaden Horizons
- CARNIVAL LAUNCH SUNDAY
- Branding Is Key, CEDA Official Says
- PURE DOCTRINE: Lies, Liars, Deception, Deceivers, ...
- Faith: “Faith is the evidence of things not seen” ...
- Continuity Of Revelation
- Hidden Artistic Talent Discovered
- Dreams
- ECFH Financially Speaking
- Daily Markets Wrap Up – Thursday, May 24th, 2012
- The Bay Gardens Family Wins Big at SLHTA’s Preside...
- Sandals Foundation lends support to National Readi...
- NAKAMA Festival held at Comfort Bay Senior Citizen...
- LIME Gives Away $500,000!!
- Jamaicans in St. Lucia get ready for biggest “fund...
- ECFH Group Announces New Directors to Board
- CIBC FirstCaribbean opens at the Mardini Building
- Wick: the last 7 days in 16 (19th to 25th May 2012)
- Where Do We Go From Here? The Journey After the Sc...
- Speaking Out & Up
- Registering your business name
- Parenting: Best Practices for Raising Children
- Meet Drucilla Benoire, Sergeant - Port Police
- Lethargy in the Civil Service
- Fit4Life – The New Year Revolution cont’d
- Protective Services Out To Play On Monday
- Olympic qualifier High Jumper Darvin Edwards and P...
- JUVENILE CHAMPIONSHIPS TOMORROW
- Blackheart showpiece day 4 and 5 this weekend
- Basketball semi’s tomorrow
- 6 St. Lucians For OECS Squash Tournament In BVI
- Wishing Mexico’s President well, but not holding a...
- The Side Effects of Religious Beliefs
- The ides of June
- Southern Entrepreneurs Lead The Way!
- So What’s Really New
- More disappointments with budget
- Let the Freedom Voices Sing
- Government’s role in enhancing engineering capacit...
- Not the Best of Decisions
- Recent Downgrade Of Cdb’s Rating, A Cause For Concern
- National Workers Union Made Official Bargaining Agent
- Government Called to Assist in Preparations for VAT
- EXPO 2012: EXPOSING TOP QUALITY
- CDB Called To Be More Responsive
- Carnival Launch Postponed
- Ambassadorial Appointments
- Daily Markets Wrap Up – Monday, May 21st, 2012
- POOR TURNOUT AT ATHLETIC MEET
- POOR TURNOUT AT ATHLETIC MEET
- Management Systems Manager Ellen Antoine
- A Girl Like Me
- 2012/2013 Debate on Estimates
- NWU Writes Public Utilities Minister
- Government Must Deliver On Election Promises And S...
- Free Wi Fi and Internet Safety
- Scotiabank appoints former Country Manager to lead...
- Police Escort Parents off School Compound
- Medical Students Pursuing their Dreams at Spartan
- Expo 2012 All Set For Grand Opening
- Consolidated Foods Ltd puts $34,000 into phase thr...
- ACP HENRY: BRIT’S DEATH “SUSPICIOUS”
- Daily Markets Wrap Up – Friday, May 18th, 2012
- “A creative mind is an intelligent mind”
- 2012/2013 Debate on Estimates
- Saint Lucians want to hear from Kenny on the Grynb...
- Prime Minister On Duty Abroad
- Piton Soca Starz 2012 Kick Off
- A statement from PANCAP Director, Ms. Juliette Byn...
- Wins for Vieux Fort North and Desruisseaux
- CHAMPIONS OUT
- Of Themes and Teamwork
- Outlining Strategies for Crime and Violence
- The Secretary-General Message on the International...
- Police News
- KING WANTS INQUIRY
- Justus Monrose-Missing
- XS Neo presents “The Legend X-perience”
- Just Us Kids portrays “Earth Song” for Mas 2012
- De Soca-Lypso Revue Doing It Well
- A Rising Star for Junior Calypso 2012 from the Cic...
- Win big with Brydens and Huggies
- UWI Open Campus Students set to host Kiddies Carni...
- Digicel delivered a great Jazz Experience!
- Digicel gave away EC$10,000 on Jazz Sunday!!!
- The Prime Minister’s Budget Speech
- Market Watch
- Expo 2012 To Create An Unforgettable Experience!
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14 comments:
Your internet presence is a major step forward.Your goal should be to attract as many visitors to the island for the expo,just as is done for the jazz festival. Success is your oyster! Congratulation!!
Export expo was a great idea, but didn't see any representation by the creative industries. Books, magazines, music, videos, etc. As the closest thing to a book publisher on the island, Jako Productions wasn't even aware of the expo, much less receiving an invitation. This is odd when we have a new government in power going to great lengths to stress their emphasis on the creative industries.
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To be fair, such an exhibition to be well executed NEEDS A LEAD TIME OF AT LEAST ONE FULL YEAR!
This administration has been in power for just a few months now. It is therefore NOT fair to cast blame when it was NOT fully in charge from start to finish.
All charges of failing to include the creative industries should be laid at the door of the planners.
What has emerged perhaps is the lack of skill and talent in the people in charge of planning this event.
I don't know that Event Planning is taught at SALCC or at Munroe. Such a course bundles specialist marketing skills that have not quite arrived on our doorsteps.
OK. It is the government's duty to fill the needs gap ... and quickly too. That is if it is to remain relevant to the crying needs of this country.
I congratulate Kenny on this initiative.
It is good that manufacturing is in the spotlight; it clearly has a bright future here (vs. tourism which does not with Lorne the court fool rather than expert Chas).
This is a poorly organised excuse of a trade show. A great idea, but obviously one which needs to go back to the drawing board. Move forward St Lucia, stop repeating the same old thing year in year out. Aim high, go for full international exposure.I know of a manufacturer who's invested millions in his business, he only found out about this a day before it started. Wheres the marketing behind this. How does a company become part of it. All the companies mentioned are already market leaders in their various sectors, shouldnt the new, up and coming ones get the same opportunity? That exhibition was a farce. It will make no substantial contribution to St Lucia's economy. It was just another 'big lime'.
For the few bloggers who cried that they were not aware of such an event produced by the OPSR - obviously they do not READ, LISTEN and LEARN of St Lucian events on radio, TV and the newspapers.
This EXPO was advertised on radio, TV and the newspapers full blast!!
So if you would get in front, and get off your behinds to read, listen and learn, then you would know what is happening on YOUR OWN home front.
Also, now this is going to be an annual event - please contact the OPSR, and find out if you qualify to partake in such an event - and in the meantime, educate yourself about it!!
A manufacturer can invest millions of dollars in his business, but is he export ready?? Does he have the business sense and know how of how it is done?
To David ... your ignorance slip is showing, big time!! My advice to you is to enter the OPSR office and learn a few things about the exhibition, and what you can reap from it; instead of sitting outside hurling stones. Think of your business' future instead - think positive!!
Yes, I knew about it. Yes, I attended. Yes, I attended the workshops OPSR hosted for exporting services. Yes, I was satisfied. A 'big lime'? Not really, I had a fantastic time networking with other St Lucians, and got more business for my business.
Where were you?? Oh yes, outside hurling stones.
Where were you?? Oh yes, outside hurling stones.
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People learn. Organisations with people who are learning people, also learn.
We have to start somewhere. 'It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.' – Chinese proverb.
We as a country will make much more progress, if we see the opposite of the glass being always half empty.
We should learn to work with it and regard it as being what it is, half full.
Armchair anonymous??? Did you help to organise this joke of a trade show? You were networking with other St Lucians? Why do you need a trade show to network with other St Lucians?? My point exactly. You were there for a 'big lime' and that false sense of importance. You obviously have no idea of business on an international or regional level, if you talk this much smack. When you begin to turnover a few million dollars a year on the back of that exhibition, then I'll eat my words and even apologise. Until then, aim high and try to move away from the mediocrity that you seem to be consumed by.
They must take a trade show like this to New York..well organized, of course.
It is quite likely this fair was badly organized. Too many times things like this are organized in St. Lucia just for "show" with no positive reprecussions and follow up with govt support or a hard look at the manufacturing environment in St. Luica.
there are a handful of well run manufacturing companies that do St. Lucia proud. It is expected that in a country of 165,000 that a few businessman will stand out.
Unfortunately with our abysmal work ethic, the level of theft in the businessplace and a lack of governmental understanding of business this is spinning top in mud.
We have been having these fairs for 40 years with no result.
No leader in the country wants to talk about the poor state of the workforce or how we do not call a spade a spade in terms of our poor productivity.
If the environment was right we would have hundreds of strong businesses not just a handful and this EXPO is an exersize in futility because we do not want to face our real problems.
The Labour Party has also been the main contributor to the lawless nature of our people for the last 50 years. They have promoted a lack of personal responsibility in our people and have actively acted like vagabounds throughout our history.
The bandit manner in which the last few SLP Administrations and this one have raped the government coffers and borrowed money like mad and spent like fools has contributed heavily to promoting lawlesness in St. Lucia.
We are only going backwards every day with Phillip Pierre and Kenny around causing more and more problems every day.
I'm not sure what some people expect of a trade show. For starters, an idiot called me ignorant for questioning how the the fair was marketed. Armchair anonymous (idiotic name)made mention of the adverts being on tv, radio and in the print media. To begin with, a trade fair is not necessarily advertised, especially not in a place like St Lucia. Manufacturers should have been INVITED. I recently attended three trade events in the UK and none were advertised.Those were huge fairs with businesses that have net worths of tens of millions of pounds and euros. Relevant parties were invited via email etc. The same way the govt sends the tax bills to business owners in st lucia every year, so too should they invite them to display their products. Not before other st lucians, who claim to network during trade fairs, but before regional and international audiences. St Lucia, STOP MESSING ABOUT. GET SERIOUS.
What the above blogger said shows that at least SOMONE is thinking.
Most times St. Lucian public servants just copy others without any analysis of the results requires. This is why we waste hundreds of millions a year paying them to do nothing useful. Yet Phillip Pierre and the Labour Party keep on hiring more and more of them.
So instead of target marketing by assessing who they want at the FAIR to make it successful - they just waste money at the established media.
As the blogger intimated above - so what if you use the general media and 10,000 St. Lucians come but not one of them contract to buy your products in the long run ?
A complete waste of time.
But you see St. Lucians are show. It is about "look me" we are doing something even if it is not at all relevant.
This FAIR/EXPO or whatever you call it is the same failure as it has been for the past 40 years.
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