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33 comments:
So this Chastanet has stopped sucking up to a government going against his dysfunctional crony capitalist past.
I wonder why? Lol!
Kenny has only one way of governing. Borrow and tax as much as you can, throw it around like manure and hop something sticks because he does not have a clue how to manage anything!
Give up VAT? You must be crazy!
The president of the Barbados chamber of commerce has a contrary opinion sir.
@ 10:44 AM!
I SEE!
Just because this father of an I-dot-jackasssssss write his bull you think he is right about everything?
he should join his son and give Lucian politic a go.
Boy Chastanet you is a real hypocrite and S.O.B. You forgot in 1998 you fought tooth and nail to have as many items as possible taken off the Price Control list? You know items like rice, flour, sugar, etc - poor people stuff nah. You and your crooked son do not represent the true ST. Lucian. The next time that you have a Christmas or family get together, take a close look of the persons around you and tell me if you see any 'looking like' the Lucian John Public. Look at how you use, abuse and exploit the hard working employees of Super J's and what you do them after that? Kick them in their black asses all the way to the F... bank.
OMG, this is the only Lucian who has invested in sT. Lucia, provided jobs for so many looshans giving his opinion on running the economic business of the country and all u talkin bout a LAWYER called Kenny? when it comes to economics and business. Pls, the great lawyer Kenny cannot even manage our laws ppl on remand for 11 yrs. all u think he have a clue about economics. Take the man advice Kenny. Bad governance is killing our lil islands. A soiety of lawyers. ALL CROOKED
Barbados has a 17% VAT and a 9% on Hotel service. Without the implementation a few years ago, Bardados economy would be in the pits (worse off). Global recession has affected the sustainabilty of many small states, particularly those dependent on Tourism. As a matter of fact, most economists have praised the introduction of VAT in Barbados. The tightening of the belt is within the civil servants sector and depending on future policies, we can expect a rebound.
97% of Saint Lucians are as clueless about economics and business. When those who emerge from the population unfortunately and eventually selected as MPs, crap pours out of their empty heads as usual. This island of nitwits must pay the price for having nitwits as ministers and prime ministers.
If you tighten the belt of the public servants St. Lucia can reduce import duties for food as well as reduce the VAT.
The government and public servants are too numerous.
Not only here, but in most of the countries in the world.
Mr Chastenet created a lot of jobs in St. Lucia. He took a lot of risk investing so much in St. Lucia. Make it attractive for foreigners to retire in St. Lucia. They will spend there pensions here, employ people and plenty new homes can be built. Offer citizenship to foreigners if they build a home for at least US$ 350,000.- or invest in a business employing at least 5 local people. People need a job to make a living.
This is just one man sharing his opinion. There are so many others with contrary opinions regarding the VAT and tax issues. The fact that he has shared his (opinion) doesn't mean that it will actually work.
Just for thought . . . Bahamas (the only country in the Caribbean not having vat implemented) will be implementing VAT come July 1st at a rate of 15%.
Excellent idea!! to remove the VAT.
I never advocated it.The rational and philosophy behind it was apparent LOOOONNNGG ago.Pity we had to learn the hard way.
Now we need to have a long hard look at runaway population control and its negative effects on our productivity.
Excellent piece regarding the VAT Mr.Chastanet :)
Saint Lucians are really dopey. They believe very, very strongly that governments can create jobs.
Look at what Kenny has been beating his chest proudly with for two consecutive terms. STEP. The "T" in there says "temporary". Only idiots and party hacks, hungry for that political handout are fooled.
They are playing musical chairs with unemployment and everyone is enjoying the party. The party hacks especially, are defending or putting out their hands out-stretched, palms upwards for keeping everything as is. 35 years of idiocy. How grand!
Kenny does not even understand basic economics besides the words demand and supply. The people demand satisfaction of their needs. He supplies hot air. The straight-up mathematics in economics escapes his legal penchant for sophistry.
The SLP genius never knows what he is going to do until he gets into office after the votes are counted, with the power to govern. Is this kind of politics cynical or what?
WILL YOUR SON MAKE THE PM BITE THE BULLET?
PM HE WANTS!
IN HIS DREAM!!!!!!!
@7:51
VERY NICE OF you to speak the truth about yourself!
you are a very lazy bastard, son of a Mongol.
who the heck cares about what chastanet has to say?
those people are only lucians when it suits them. to the stupidooo who says that kenny only became a lawyer and chastanet a business man! you are a EFFING FOOL of the HIGHEST ORDER! people like chastanet and his father and father before him, claimed the lands of the first inhabitants as their own and kept it in the family much like the business they have now. he was not the typical st lucian with no inheritance or a path to marry into those with inheritance. race also played a part too no doubt. learn some sense before you comment!. its all about money and power for chastanet and typical black lucians like me with no parent inheritance waiting for them!
Vat is an opressive Tax on the poor. Let the Customs collect the correct duties. Forget VAT forget Sales Tax.
For all the years of ruling under the united workers party What did they do in order to have good mechanism in place for the people of st lucia If there was proper management or stewardship with all the moneys that was coming in to our shores, and put them into good used for the people of St Lucia, Maybe today we would not have been in this mess, What we have seen that the most corruption which has taken place has been under the united workers party from sir john[may his soul rest in peace] to all of their ministers who have serve as UWP has robbed this island left right and center with no one being arrested, or paying back.
Others countries who used to help they to need help. So where does that leave this government with a workforce, plus Millions that was borrowed by the former Administration, Lucians think, and don't let the writer believe they have an answer nor The new political leader has it too. Don't forget he contributed to this mess by his $50,000 phone bill plus much more.
Dr. Worrel is a monetary economist with his forte and writings having a focus on exchange-rate policy. But beyond that, Dr. Worrel actually worked at the IMF's Washington DC Office.
Unlike Dr. Anthony who worked at the CARICOM Secretariat and did not shew any acquaintance with the Dr. Girvan's CARICOM Guidelines member government contracts with MNCs, nor engagement in economic discussions related to small-island economies, I am reliably informed that Dr. Worrel was known to have influenced national discussions in various economic seminars and symposia.
Moreover, the greatest and biggest economy in the world the USA, operates without a VAT but with numerous specific local state and municipal sales taxes.
IMF recommendations such as the VAT, as conditionalities for economic support for distressed economies are oftentimes little more than mere nostrums.
Witness the fate of Argentina, the poster-child of IMF-recommended economic policy initiatives. Did it prevent that country's failure where it had to dump its national currency? No.
Knowledgeable economists will enlighten on the imperative of differentiating between structural imbalances and/or short-term liquidity issues, when challenged by economic downturns like what Saint Lucia is now facing.
To prescribe for example, cough medicine when the patient is really suffering from a heart condition is a recipe for failure.
It is quite easy to discern that the current situation is way above the head of this and especially the last administration, to make any significant turnaround headway. So, with so many underqualified persons in so many critical areas making key decisions, the current administration perfunctorily goes through the necessary motions with largely ceremonial and repair projects, as it coasts to the next general election.
Michael the P M should bite off your white balls. lol
Yes, Anthony unveiled the statue of Compton,but he hasn't 'come to grips'with the problems of the State; enough reason for St.Lucians to retire him to the cloister of UWI, where there is an abundance of pompous political caricatues!
Chastanet u are an ARSE. Tell your crooked son return the $38k he used to campaign, the money both he and another white mofo called Heppner stole and our the over $1.8m in telephone bills he used up 50 × 12 ×3, then u can talk. You da mm massa minded f..k..r.
St. Lucia do not let these so called white pieces of shit rob us again. They do like black - especially dark skinned ppl. How many times have u seen Allen or Michael Chastanet socializing with black ppl? I ain't talking about campaigning or working for them, - socializing. The answer never. Look at M CHASTANET f mates - all are white. Look at his daughter feolla, allen and their mother -all lily effing white. Look at Allen Chastanet's wife and children - lily white. So what the f..k are we entertaining these people for?I worked for this gentleman MC for 13 years and he treated me and other black workers like crap. He constantly cursed us, constantly insulted us and was always unapproachable. Ask any of the super j employees. This family cannot be allowed to rule our beautiful island
Should be don't like black ppl...
That was too personal when the issue is the grave matter of whether the correct policy has been implemented regarding our very economic survival as a nation.
A lot of racist comments. The successful people in St. Lucia are white, coloured, Indian and Syrian. Nothing to do with race, but hard work, planning and organising.
Not drinking, sex, food and pleasure after collecting wages on Friday, spending it in the weekend. Look around. Too many woman with children and the fathers do not care. Of course there are exceptions and very serious Lucians. In a government you need successful businessmen who have already plenty of money and not career politicians who want the job to fill their pockets with false promises to the people. Look at Panama with only 4,1% unemployment. The president is a rich businessman like Chastenet and also the owner of a very large supermarket chain.
@ 4: 59 AND 4:15 PM
I SAY 2 YOU 2
KISS-MY BLA!@#@****AZZZZZZ!!!!!
U 2 ARE NOTHING BUT.....COONS AND MOP-HEADS.
Some Saint Lucians are thorough asses. How can you ever compare Panama's economic performance with Saint Lucia's, when the two economies are evidently structured so differently?
To make such completely asinine comparisons on employment rates is to reveal your abysmal ignorance, like most of the elected MPs, of the subject matter of economics.
The mainstay of Panama's economy is its waterway the Panama Canal. Earnings can be distributed in each and every way the government feels.
It can have welfare, income and wealth transfers like STEP, where people might go through the motions of repainting the surface of little-used roadwqys every 24 hours.
At one time, in recent history, the oil-producing country of Kuwait, another male-dominated country where the women remain at home, the males there did not even have to work. Therefore, that country had absolutely no unemployment. Income from that country's oil wealth was redistributed as household income.
Some countries in Europe today are considering extending a certain basic level of income to every person in the country, without the necessity to work for it.
We have no natural resources nor the home-grown talent to export anything that will afford us that kind income or luxury.
We have allowed mediocre minds and downright buffoons and incompetents to lead us into believing that there is a future in once inflated price for a protected banana export market, by harvesting and selling of ripe fruit.
Not for the love of Christ will Saint Lucians come to terms with reality, or can be dissuaded to see that they were repeatedly and selfishly misled.
Then the whole country has bought into the myth reinforced by even more abysmally ignorant talk-show hosts, greedy politicians, and our shysters in office that governments create jobs.
Do PROUD and STEP really represent job creation, or are they vote-catching magnets, and wealth transfer exercises created by borrowings by the central governments to their yardfowls? Tell us.
St. Lucia is just an elitist and subtly racist society...look at all the so called success stories - chastanet, deveaux, monplasir, etc all or most of them are half white descendants of slave owners. It is not because they worked hard or are wiser than the average Joe. They had a huge head start - they are now benefitting from the ill gains of their forefathers. Now in all this why would the average Joe or Janet go back and vote these people into office? It's like being robbed twice - full stop.
"St. Lucia is just an elitist and subtly racist society"
It is. Why would so many Looshans firmly believe that a family that has never contributed to, or mingled with the down-trodden in society, that they would benefit from the father's newly-discovered goodwill in words only, by having his SON voted into office as prime minister of this country?
Whereas, those who know something of the regional shipping business would tell you that the Michael David was the vessel with the costliest freight rates to the malaway sending goods to Barbados?
Those who want to know the truth can find survivors of the Morella family to confirm that the MV Steadfast, the Dearwood, the Potomac, the Lady Joy, the Missey Wallace, did not seek to fleece the poor speculators as the Michael David did. So, all of a sudden Chastanet has had a change of his rabid capitalistic heart, then?
@ 7:38
I can remember writing about the way M. Chastanet treated his sailors working on his slave ship "the MICHAEL DAVID"
I was a little boy when my uncle used to come home and cry like a baby to my father (his elder brother)about the rotten Irish potatoes and blue-chicken backs for lunch every day (because he never wanted to fix the freezer on board or buy food for the sailors). Those two men used to hug and cry, asking God to deliver my uncle from this slave ship,. The wages could not even buy a nip of white rum for the two to fire "one". My uncle left and was working for one of the merchants, until his retirement.(deceased). My uncle used to be his first mate.
MR. "T"
Since you have been writing here, you have never had a good thing to say about Chasanet, so why should anyone believe you.
Once again you invoke the old racist chant, "slave ship" of course, you and others here are part of an agenda to attack Chastanet as often as you can, as the old saying goes, " if you tell a lie as often as you can, the people will believe you".
The thing that I as a St. Lucian am concerned about, is not Chastanet with his money or his political beliefs, or what SLP operatives think or who pays them, I am very concerned about the poison being spread for the young to digest, for the youth to grow up believing that white Lucians are or were slave masters and the rich blacks among us are survivors of slavery.
As you and I know, that's a lot of bull. You "MR. T" and other paid operatives here are indeed the very slaves, working for your weekly pittance from "De Party" and life goes on; so go fire one and eat your chicken back.
Better days ahead.
@ 10 :08
From the time you were conceive your ma was in doubt as to you true father!
she try her very best to cross her legs when giving berth to you, because you came through the fornication rout. (bomm)
I do not have to sing 4 my supper!
I do not have 2 make up stories.
I paid your "maaaaaaaaaaa" for her service!
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