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I wish that we could muster that same kind of energy and determination to solve our crime problems.
Labour leaders in Saint Lucia cannot see the forest for the trees.
If we all think that forcing a payment instead of securing job protection or job retention on BOTH the part of workers and unions SHOULD NOT be the main focus now of our industrial relations, I hope we are not at all surprised when the IMF recommendation for water privatization get implemented resulting in a foreign headquartered company shooing off almost half of the current workers under a new company name.
And we still may not realize any improvement in service level or quality.
Saint Lucian labour unions have NEVER EVER showed the kind of sensitivity regarding the global issues with respect to national competitiveness.
Saint Lucian labour leaders and their constituents ... have over the years ... displayed no sense of cultural citizenship.
The overarching objective of any water company should be to provide an effective service at reasonable cost.
To force now central government to find funds in an already fiscal constraint situation is tantamount to adding the straw that may well break the camels back. It can have very serious repercussions and a very nasty ripple effect on the rest of the economy.
Couldn't the labour movement act more responsibly by renegotiating a package that will protect the "property" of the workers in some other form or fashion, since the salary benefit has already been recognized?
OK. This takes creativity.
But alas! I kid myself. Our paper-pushing and dog-ear removal labour movement representatives do not appear to have either the tools nor the expertise to come up with creative solutions!
When better cannot be done, worse will continue.
No amount of money is going to help the WASCO matter. Its a simple issue. MANAGMENT .
Pay the workers. Study the operations and restructure to keep the entity viable. No more over time pay or rather limit it.
Send people home if that is what has to be done. Its either that or let someone from outside take over and do just that. Wasco must find ways to limit their cost..Use Solar power or Water to power their pumps.
Any INNOVATIVE government of deep thinkers would have by now created even a $0.05 levy on some business and/o household transactions to fund basic infrastructural components of any modern society.
It calls for some level of sacrifice. We cannot expert our foreign-born nationalized citizens to have the political capital to do such things. Nor, have they ever risen to such noble heights.
Our "Mr. Speaker" innovation parliamentarians appear to be able to do little more but shoot this monontony and their usual rubbish in the parliament, while deepening our Third-world status with a perennial lousy water supply.
No god-damn intelligence, nor any semblance of leadership!
Now, to add insult to injury, our labour union idiots and robots are now in the news, all hell-bent on throwing the godforsaken country into the abyss of an IMF hellhole.
If WASCO is NOT generating enough revenues to fund its service expansion, PLUS the customer base at the current level of service charges is too small to create the necessary revenue intake, AND MOREOVER ... central government is in a bind in terms of financing even recurrent expenditure, where the hell is the required funding going to come from?
If you say sell the controlling interests to a foreign firm, since no such "white knight" resides here locally, there is ABSOLUTELY NO OBLIGATION on the part of that company to even maintain the current levels of service.
It can pull out and leave the company in even worse shape financially.
Its focus is would most likely be an exit strategy and a financing mechanism that would guarantee a certain return on investment or profitabilty ... even based on its working capital -- NOT an expansion of service, nor current service levels.
We only have to look at the the history of privatizations around the globe -- Britain with its rail system in particular, to understand the unmistakable idiocy and foolhardiness of BOTH our government and labour leaders to date.
Saint Lucian leaders keep playing the ass you know.
For over 30 years the UWP was in power and the jackass John Compton, never put a fail-safe potable water system in place.
Thirty years of hardship and underdevelopment. Imagine that people still have to use the rivers to bathe and to wash.
All we have is John Compton Dam crap. John Compton this and John Compton that.
The people up to now, with all this independence crap that he fooled the people with, the country still doesn't have a viable and reliable water supply.
Hooray to ignorance!
I believe that the government should call upon and discuss the future of water in st. Lucia, with a mature adult from the trade unions. This is in preference to trying to a hold a dialogue with the so many little ones that happen to have grown gray hairs on their faces and upon their heads.
Civil Servants will be next
I am in agreement with blogger at 8:16 am. They keep saying Compton is or was the father of the nation . . . is it because he took us into independence? If this is the case, I agree. For anything else, he was just another failed leader.
Tell me, what is the extraordinary events did he bring to or has accomplished? Tell me . . .
Is it the DAM? Is it the Millenium highroad? What is extraordinary about those? I think what is extraordinary is the fact he represented Micoud and Micoud is still one of the least developed communities. I can say more but later.
John Compton was such an unsophisticated moron! That unsophisticated country buck had St. Lucians indiscriminately cutting down all types of trees and plants to grow bananas.
We created several endangered species as a result. Where was the leadership?
The catastrophy he created still plagues us. Sensitive areas of our forestry and water catchment areas have become depleted.
The extent of that damage can be seen in very low levels of water flow in streams going down to a mere trickle in the dry season.
Man, if your mother brings another man into her life and into the house, from another house or another country, that man is not your father, and just like Compton,is just another beau pere.
Such dogs in heat are a dime a dozen nowadays.
They generally need five women sometimes every night to satisfy their passion, after having cut their organs to insert things into them to keep those things straight up all night. Just ask the nurses at the hospitals.
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