Saturday, January 19, 2013

“My oh my, what a mess”

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Anonymous said...

Why are we not seeing -- up to this point and stage in our national development -- any rational decision making as part and parcel of the governing process?

Froth and blather has been the staples of those who we have considered to be our leaders.

Egregious blundering is taking place and vociferously defended with a great deal of damage control being done by the government media outlet as the accepted norm.

For example, why is there no special mention, nor a serious concern for the renewal of the 15 percent guarantee?

Which sane business entity in the world would not have made this a particular issue, or would not make that a special and constant focus?

Why are the so-called leaders of this poor nation never concerned or seem sensitized about getting value for money, or tax-payers financial contributions respected by looking at the productivity of capital?

Isn't about time that we make general, managerial and cost accounting very commonplace in this country, if we are honest and ever to be seriously and deeply engaged in national development?

The ignoramuses that we continously vote into government are pathetically clueless about the technologies associated with business, management, and financial management.

Yet, with such a deep lack of the above technologies, and these technologies not being commonplace, we foolishing buy into the empty rhetoric and the hot air of mostly clueless politicians spouting out great expectations of competitively attracting offshore business and FDI.

Which companies will relocate here, or form joint partnerships with other companies locally, when the absoptive capacity of the leaders, the working population at large, and business units is so low?

Our leaders in government and in our tertiary educational institutions, both past and present, with their hapless displays of a lack of creativity and innovation, are at the deep end, when it comes to formulating an efficacious national strategy to get us out of our deepening and frightening, but largely self-inflicted poverty trap.

January 19, 2013 at 11:53 AM
Anonymous said...

In total agreement with the writer of this article. As Business man who imports regularly, I have always wondered why one of the biggest revenue collection agencies hasnt been audited by any government and talking of paying fair share there is talk of internal corruption scandal by senior personel in this department. As a responsible individual, i am conducting my own investigation and interviews to ascertain the veracity of these allegations of corruption and if this were to be true, then it will be a matter of who is guarding the guards. Furthermore, government need to find ways to try to curb spending and reduce our debt not add to it

January 20, 2013 at 6:27 AM
Anonymous said...

By any chance do you all forget Invader song? They are all in cohort 4acut soon pretty soon lots of them politician will be going down for treason grand theft, bribery, embezzlement you name it they are all as crooked as a freaking sixpence they are not honest hard working for the people politician none of them from the Prime Minister downwards shame on them all and I'm talking about both parties,once they are in power it's all about themselves families and friends sad situation.

January 20, 2013 at 10:13 AM
Anonymous said...

Word on the street is that Kenny D Anthony doesn't know how to lead and what to do. I say untrue...he simply doesn't care because it was obvious that he did better during his first 10 years in office. However, since he has allowed persons like Fletcher, laCorbenierre and others to do what they want things have gone awry.

January 20, 2013 at 11:30 AM
Anonymous said...

In the sophisticated world of globalization an effective leader in our neck of the woods is going to have to be one who has a little more than a smattering of knowledge about Economics, Business or Finance. Line up the last and present cabinets, only one person qualifies. Both administrations are out to sea on financial matters. The people holding the title of leader were promoted way beyond their abilities. Vote catchers? Excellent! Management and leadership skills? They suck.

January 20, 2013 at 7:55 PM
Anonymous said...

What we need is a leader with commom sense, who cares about St. Lucians and has a value system which includes things like honesty and prudence plus some management skills and who is brave and strong under pressure.

Neither Kenny or any in his Cabinet come anywhere near to showing any of these things.

With common sense and a concern for people a good leader when presented with options by economists, businessmen, etc - he/she will make good decisions for St. Lucia.

The present bunch only make decisions depending on how it suits their pockets and political careers.

You can get any amount of PHDs in government. As long as they do not have a proper value system then you just end up with another morally corrupt Kenny and Phillip with their party hacks.

January 21, 2013 at 10:33 AM
Anonymous said...

You do not need to have a PHD to be very knowledgeable about Finance and Business or even Accounting.

But with very complicated matters of Business, if you do not have an innate understanding of the ramifications of a particular policy initiative, your supporters and advisors can FILTER out (leaving out key data items or data sets), or downplay some key or important downsides.

In the private sector, the CEO of large organizations, generally has an intimate knowledge of the business he or she is in, or depends on specialist lieutenants, allowing them to ask what has been left out, what has been verified, what is verifiable, or the heuristics and rules of thumb involved in most policy decisions.

For example, the civil service acts as the advisor (in part) to the government. That is its job.

Yet, its representatives at the negotiating table, have this same civil service as their constituents in negotiating exercises with governments.

Is it that there may well be, at least, a small possibility of the representatives providing self-serving advice, downplaying, or filtering out the impact of certain decision outcomes?

Now, without an innate knowledge of at least some of the related sub-issues, how and when will the government policy maker, know what to ask, and what to ask when?

January 21, 2013 at 2:23 PM

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