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Some of those countries have accumulated significant debt from the oil initiative something Minister Fletcher says will not happen to Saint Lucia.
“We have made it very clear that the Government of Saint Lucia does not intend to keep any debt where PetroCaribes is concerned; that we will be discharging our debt obligations as they become available. The last thing we intend doing now is to increase Saint Lucia’s debt burden,” Fletcher said.
He said that funds from the oil initiative will be used in the productive and social sectors of the economy.
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Are these statements internally consistent? Or are they just pure mumbo jumbo emanating from a very confused mind?
A lot of what was reportedly said in the article does not make any kind of sense at all. Either there is no understanding of business or economics or both. I wonder who is fooling whom.
Here goes Kenny again, going ahead signing things without first consulting with concerned members of the society, i.e. the total members of Parliament, the comercial sector, religious, Educational, Media, etc. we don't want a repeat of the Rochamel fiasco; but he - like his left wing cohorts, prefer to dictate to the citizens of this country, what he with his PHD believes is best for us.
Now, the Joining of ALBA without first submitting this to a Referendum goes to show what kind of respect he has for the citizens. (WITH MY PHD, I KNOW BEST)
Time will tell.
Such major foreign policy alliances have deep impacts on the future and relationships with existing partners. Why was the parliament not used as the forum for discussion?
The repeated bypassing of and disdain for the parliament for debates is typical of communist regimes.
John Compton with army of country bookie broomsticks for ministers did similarly.
We do not have a parliamentary tradition in this country and our country bookie ministers are not smart enough, sophisticated enough and enlightened enough to use the organ for which it was developed.
The PM is most definitely acting like a high-handed know-it-all dictator. The sh t continues.
I agree.pure BS designed to deceive.Will the oil from this initiative be cheaper than the oil from Trinidad? Will the oil products be cheaper as well?
If the answer to these questions is NO,then what's the point of switching suppliers and in the process damage relations with your traditional allies? Fletcher is quoted as saying that 'that funds from the initiative will be used to do certain things.The funds from the oil do not belong(minus thegovernment mack-up)to st.lucia,how can you use it without having to pay for it at a later date?That is called debt,yet Fletcher says they do not intend to increase St.Lucia's debt burden.
To think that he has a PHD.Of course there is no correlation between a PHD in Plant pathology and Public Administration including all the other Gov.agencies he is responsible for.
He is simply a square peg in a round hole.Nothing else.HE simply tries to show he is knowledgable,competent and intelligent in areas he has no competency.His PHD is of no use to him or St.lucia as far as those areas are concerned.
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You spotted the knot of confusion, I see. Indeed, what 'funds' and from where? Are these people nuts? All these people seem to be way over their god damn heads with the business and economic ramifications! They are not clear about any god damn thing. What a bloody mess!
Yeah, right! We are full members but still we do not know what we've got ourselves into? That's INSANE!
I'll tell you - we've got ourselves into deep dudu by signing blindly again to another unknown and untried bunch of (personal) deals, thanks to our learned PHD's.
Deeper and deeper into dept again? God help my grand and great grand children. When will it end? oh, I see, is that for the "better days ahead"?
God help us.
What a cruel joke this is. Clearly, the man is finding the greatest difficulty in trying to explain what he has not understood for himself. And I can tell you that is painful, but not all funny.
Am wondering if the outside world should look into the ignorance, the stupidity, that we take time to write. What will they say, What will they think of St lucians, Inspite of the challenges with the global recession we should uphold our government hands and pray for them, Considering we had a former government who was bleeding the island resources as well as draining our poor people dry.
Wondering if the outside world cares about what we write? What a wasted thought!
Look at the extent of the flow of funds as grants to the GOSL. That should be your answer.
ALBA = ALBA-tross. And it didn't take long to prove those who said so, as being so darn right. We are already see the shit hitting the ceiling.
Had we a national leader who has the necessary emotional intelligence to better grasp what should be our world view, the PM would not first, snub the US by sending his deputy to TNT and second, let that coincide with a stupid declaration of his unwavering endorsement of the communist Cuban Castro bothers.
Did he not have the sense to reason that one of the basic purposes of that "ALLIANCE" the ALBA, and that verbalizing of such strong support would mean for future US relations? Do we now realize that being a voter fly-paper and a having a big head does not necessarily mean big brains?
Officially, ALBA stands for "The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America" (in Spanish: Alianza Bolivariana para los Pueblos de Nuestra América, or ALBA)
But doesn't the word "alliance" in that new Latin American but anti-US alliance suggest a hidden, covert, or unstated "military" relationship?
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