Thursday, December 12, 2013

DIRECTOR GENERAL UNTIL DECEMBER 31

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Anonymous said...

The OCES should NEVER have placed this in the hands of St. Lucia; because I am very certain a St. Lucia Labour Party Hack will be the one chose; and it will have nothing to do with the competence or integrity of that person.

The OECS Council of Ministers made an error there. They should take note of the negative vibes pervading St. Lucia and its government at this time. And only getting worst by the second.

December 12, 2013 at 1:22 PM
Anonymous said...

Then you go ahead and suggest a UWP hack who you think has the competence. You put up or shut up 1:22 pm

December 12, 2013 at 4:57 PM
Anonymous said...

This institution must pivot to a much more activist developmental posture to justify the budgeted cost of its annual maintenance.

Steeped in its extremely bureaucratic culture from inception, it is culturally hidebound to do a lot of nothing very, very efficiently and effectively.

This institution is tasked with very few quantifiable goals which very much reflects our very unaccomplished revolving platform of politicians in the OECS.

Very characteristic of these bumbling -- even educated and credentialed idiots is speech- making and empty rhetoric.

It would be heart warming to see meaningful change in the direction of effecting changes that make a qualitative difference in the lives of what should have long been considered, its constituents. This is in contrast with just favouring our very boring, but revolving clutch of clueless and unimaginative professional political fly paper called politicians, but oftentimes mistakenly culturally assumed to be positively useful leaders.

December 13, 2013 at 6:32 AM
Anonymous said...

Well, I may agree with you, 6:32AM, but you sound so much like them:-

"Very characteristic---bumbling---educated and credentialed speech making and empty rhetoric idiots."

Check that Beam in your eye, guy.

December 13, 2013 at 8:47 AM
Anonymous said...

The US has followed the Japanese who put their idea of Kaizen, or "Continuous Improvement", as a cultural norm -- the way they do things today, within their organizations.

We, in our neck of the woods, would do well to abandon our usual dysfunctional small-island pettiness, and emulate this common cultural aspect of these two different countries, Number One and Number Three in the world economically speaking, in eventual recognition of our own socio-economic development, not as a destination, but as a journey.

December 13, 2013 at 12:30 PM
Anonymous said...

Actually the idea of Kaizen originated in the US but the Japanese took the idea and perfected it. I work for a US Multi National organization who lives and breathes the principles of Kaizen-our managers go through the Kaizen training at the Toyota facility in Japan.

December 14, 2013 at 1:26 PM
Anonymous said...

Indeed, Kaizen is the Japanese equivalent of the notion of "Continuous Improvement".

However, the Japanese responsibly and correctly culturally adapted it, from their imported American gurus who brought it over from the US, after managers there in the US had at first rejected it.

Clearly, Kaizen was incompatible with the militaristic business culture of the "need to know" of
command and control, top-down communication, and the centralization of decision making.

Gurus like the US prophet Edwards Deming found no honour in his own country, until the TQM ideas and philosophy made Japan #1, in the world for quality and reliability.

Only then, US managers sat up and took note, as Quality-driven companies such Toyota and Honda ate the supper of US-based companies like Ford and GM, significantly toppling industry leaders in the US as they lost significant market-share at home.

Some US companies are still doing damage control as we speak. Instinctively, some consumers still regard some Japanese products as naturally superior.

Japan went on to reward Edwards Deming for his contribution to Japan's economic success with a national quality award, called the Deming Prize.

Local product manufacturers struggling to get into the global export market might be aware of this with its oblique reference to the ISO standards.

Are there any similarities and learning points with respect to the Baron brand name?

December 14, 2013 at 2:52 PM
Anonymous said...


" It is necessary to try to surpass one’s self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life. ”

— Queen Christina

December 16, 2013 at 6:34 AM
Anonymous said...

Kenny Anthony has staffed this OECS Secretariat with all his political hacks; who once worked for him in the civil service.

Such as Darrel Montrope; Jimmy Fletcher; and Severin etc.

So what exactly does that mean? SIBERIA?

December 16, 2013 at 8:54 AM
Anonymous said...

It has and continues to do a whole lot of NOTHING. Hence the reason why the OECS and its people are in this quagmire.

We need to disband this central bank; and each of our countries issue their own currency. Handle their own affairs. Dollarization for each small economy is the way to go; says the experts.

December 16, 2013 at 8:57 AM
Anonymous said...

We must be very clear about what we asking for.

Our Civil Saurus is so outdated and incapacitated that it could not even produce a good "gestimate" of our GDP figure only just recently. But now, someone is asking for a central bank?

Tell us, how many economists are walking the streets? Or happier, how many are operating even as square pegs in round holes in our government entities? The private sector generally has little use for such talent.

But, how can one, in the same breath, speak about an independent currency and talk about "dollarization" at the same time?

Dollarization is generally regarded as making the US dollar as the replacement for domestic currency or the legal tender.

The Bahamas, with 1:1 dollar peg, is closest to accepting such an economic policy.

There are most definitely upsides to such a move. But there is hardly a prima facie case to be made regarding denominating our future manufactured exports (an undeveloped area) in terms of the US dollar.

Our tourism export services, still have a significant market in Europe. (Witness how increases in the value of our dollar-pegged EC currency hurts our intakes of foreign exchange with agreements denominated in the Euro when the dollar significantly appreciates in value against the Euro currency.)

Unless the Euro and the Pound Sterling significantly appreciate against the US dollar, the downsides would hurt our economy.

The potential impact on the CARICOM export market does not appear to be something that will hurt us too much.

Transactions denominated in Pound Sterling or the Euro need to be studied, before going on such an excursion.

All in all, the comment is commendable and worthwhile about the currency issues, especially if can be lifted from here, and can generate the kind of interest that would place Saint Lucians closer to the economic realities or myths regarding "economic independence".

December 16, 2013 at 10:20 AM

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