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Kenny Anthony campaigns during the 2006 general election which his party lost. Is he the real problem of the Labour Party
Have you noticed the way some citizens change their positions on issues that demand honesty? The issue of crime is a case in point. Where the regular citizen is concerned, can there be two sides when the issue is crime? Shouldn’t the attitude always be zero tolerance of criminality? Shouldn’t we all be demonstrating at every opportunity our determination to fight crime in collaboration with the police and the government of the day? We must all take a dim view of those who see crime as an opportunity to score cheap political points. Then there are the party people who tell their leaders to their faces what they want to hear and save the truth for when their leaders are absent. Can there be a more dangerous kind of hypocrisy?
The level of crime in this country is unacceptable and everything should be done to bring it under control. We cannot allow politics to divide us in the fight against crime. Too many young lives are being lost, two many die like frogs on our roads, either by the bullet or by vehicles in the hands of madmen. As a country we must respond in a unified way to stem the carnage on our streets and in communities. Politicians on all sides must show leadership and determination in tackling this scourge. There is no time for trying to register political points. Our police must respond to the outrage of the populace. The recent airing of unedited threats against the police on HTS was highly distasteful, if not outright dangerous and counterproductive. The police must have the support of the citizens and the government. A declining tourism sector cannot afford the obvious deleterious effects of crime. Our taxi drivers, market vendors, tour operators, hotel workers—in particular, our women who very often are on their own eking out a living for their families—are most at risk. We all need to be responsible. That is why I am encouraging the opposition to work with the government in the fight against crime. If not, we will all pay the price.
The wheels of justice are grinding much too slowly for me. Another two and half years of the same is more than I can take of this government. Something salutary needs to happen soon. I am very disappointed with the ineffectiveness of the opposition, with its leader in particular, in bringing this government to its knees. I really thought that the last saga with the public servants would have been the government’s undoing but regrettably it was not to be. I am at the stage where I think the Labour Party must become more introspective and recognize the cause of its ineffectiveness. Far too many issues are being handled at the same time and by more or less the same useless people. We are coming across as a whinging group. If nothing happens in the next six months then there should be a move to change the leader of the guard. I am prepared to be counted. We cannot afford to allow this free ride the government is enjoying.
Radio St Lucia is now back to its old ways. Banning calypsos is silly, especially when no formal explanation is given. What is the station’s policy? Where are the big defenders of free speech? Certain voices have gone all silent when they most need to be heard. Thankfully the other radio stations are more than compensating for RSL’s blockade. I am looking forward to some stinging calypsos about the government’s term in office. RSL’s latest move may well be the stimulus.
RSS
Yes! and Yes! Again. Same old faces waiting in the background. Same old Khaki Pants. Same old ideas. I agree UWP has failed but my god if the faces I see parading for the SLP is what is in store for us then good help us.
I don’t mind the SLP or any other party but please give me people with new ideas and vision and the energy to move our country forward. I don’t want to know that I am voting for so and so, but in the end it’s the same gang that will reap the fruits of my vote. Time for SLP to Change and Show the Whole OF ST LUCIA IT MEANS BUSSINESS!!!!!!
They can no longer hide behind the mistakes of the UWP and think that it’s an automatic win for them. I want fresh legs to help the country not political junkies dressed in Red and believe that this is all takes.
Rick, why are you trying to remove the MASK from Maryanna Williams’ face? Lol. While I understand your motive and appreciate the PICONG of the move, and sympathize with it, since Kenny Anthony obviously has to go, it is a CHEAP shot for you to associate yourself with such sliminess. BUT, Kenny HAS TO GO!!!!!. I’ve NEVER come across an Opposition Leader who was more SILENT in the history of Saint Lucia. His FAT Opposition Leader salary has him too comfortable. It’s also a credibility isuue; Kenny has lost credibility and therefore CANNOT lead the Party the way a TRUE LABA SOLDIER like Phillip J. Pierre can. He better LEAVE the people’s politics alone, and go back to teach at UWI where he belongs. He should follow in young Tennyson Joseph’s footsteps, and go to Mona in Jamaica to join Tennyson there. Of course if he wants to stay in Saint Lucia, without the 15,000 salary he gets as Opposition Leader, he can always ask Butch Stewart for a job…remember that they are pals, through and through, hands in glove. Michael Chastanet can also give him a job as Manager of one of his Super J supermarkets. I say let Phillip J. Pierre come out of his corner and show people the REAL LABA SOLDIER that they know him to be.
What has Kenny done that is so bad, that he needs to go? Please tell me. What make you believe Pierre is a better leader than Kenny? Prove that for me. The slp delegates
see kenny as their leader, that is why they voted for him.
YES THE SLP DELEGATES VOTED FOR HIM, BUT DOES THE COUNTRY AS A WHOLE SEE KENNY AS THEIR LEADER?
AH HAH! THAT’S THE QUESTION!
In 2.5 yrs. he will be our leader again, to continue developing the country where he left off. Now the country see him as opposition leader. So what is your point?
Kenny Anthony is not the problem! The SLP is a party , not an individual showcase. And, just compare St Lucia under the UWP in the last few years with the SLP Government. Once you do so you will realize immediately St Lucia needs Kenny and the SLP.
2 ½ years is not guarantied to no MAN. For all you know in 2 ½ years a lot can change on the ground and in the life of Kenny Anthony. A day in the life of politics is like a thousand years.
Only a hack will believe that tomorrow is promise to them! Those of us with a eye on reality know how to prepare for the unknown.
The SLP is an individual showcase just as the UWP and Compton was. Given the way in which Kenny governed the last time I have seen nothing to convince me that it isn’t so. Kenny has one of many things in common with Compton. They just don’t know when to call it quits. Power is something they can’t leave without. The UWP without Compton has become a big Zero and the SLP wihtout Kenny will become a big fat egg.
St. Lucia cannot afford another Kenny Anthony term.
Bravo Gros Islet, i have been preaching that to St Lucians for a long time, some of them who do not take time to study the affairs of St Lucia, and what has happened under the slp, and what is happening in St Lucia now, they still support a party and not the better one for St Lucia.
Boy, boy, boy kenny has a big back, he is being blamed for everything. Kenny was in government doing his best developing the country, he did not only try, he did a great deal. He was being blamed every ill of the country, if someone was killed it was kenny, if a tourist was robbed it was Kenny etc, etc, all his mistakes was constantly being highlighted in the media on a daily basic, paving the way for an incompetent government. Now we still blaming Kenny because we want him to relieve us from a government we wanted in the first place. We do not know what we want, in the beginning we were saying, Kenny do not accept defeat, he should wait for 5 yrs, he is too aggressive, he should let the government work etc, etc. As if Kenny was stopping the government from working. Now they find him to quiet, the same way all the media had tagged against Kenny when he was doing better job than the uwp is doing today , should do the same today, but they will have to wait for elections to change this government. They cannot expect Kenny alone to do it for them. Kenny did not ask them to put this government in office anyway.
JJ, you are so wrong,you do not know what you are talking about, slp is so different from uwp, there are many people in the slp who are intellectually prepared to become leader of the party, i could count them one by one. All the uwp could have come up with was one with a secondary school education, Compton surrounded himself with mostly semi illiterate men, compared to Kenny. I though Kenny was the problem of the party all along ,now you saying the party is a fat egg with him. Explain to us how did Kenny governed that convinced it was a one man show? What you are telling me is that all these educated professionals that was in the slp government, Kenny had them like mo mos. Therefore i will give kenny a lot of praises for undertaking so much work in St Lucia on his own.
You can place a mouse at the helm and he will lead and guide you through troubled waters as long as his intentions are pure, but if he’s only after the cheese then all hope will be lost and you’ll have a Titanic situation.
John
Stop the BS!
Kenny Anthony is the best thing that ever happen to St.Lucia. Kenny Anthony was do more for St.Lucia than JOHN GEORGE MELVIN COMPTON did in 30 years. KENNY ANTHONY and the St.Lucia Labour party will take St.Lucia back in a few years to come.
Kenny wil lbe the only one at the moment with political background, economical background, and the experience. No one can match Kenny right now, and who thinks that the Labour party does not want Kenny they are wrong. We elect our political Leader by the SLP constitution. Every year the SLP holds it annual conference where at one of the close sessions we have a vote of confidence. For the past 10 years it is always at 99% in favour of KENNY ANTHONY.
People so if you do not know what you are talking about then get your facts.
KENNY Anthony will be the next Prime Minister of St.Lucia.
We definately can’t afford another term of kenny
jah know
I am surprise to see the amount of UWPs still supporting the UWP. Somethings never change. I get the sense that it’s not going to be a cake walk for those who think dem flambeaus are going to go down easy.
2.5 years is promise to no man. A lot can change in the live of Dr. Anthony, the SLP, PM King and the UWP. I would not be so arrogant as to call a victory for the SLP 2.5 years from now. A single day in the life of politics is like a thousand years.
KENNY HAS DONE ALOT FOR ST.LUCIA THE ONLY THING IS LUCIANS DON’T SEE THE CHANGES HE MADE AS GOOD ONES HE WAS TRYING TO MAKE THE COUNTRY MORE ECONOMICALLY VIABLE FOR BUSINESS BY INCORPERATING EXTERNAL ORGANISATIONS INTO THE COUNTRY. THIS WOULD OF DECREASED THE AMOUNT OF POWER LARGE ORGANISATIONS LIKE POWER AND WATER COMPANIES HAVE OVER RATES BECAUSE THEIR WILL BE MORE COMPETITION…. COULD GO ON ALDAY BUT WILL NOT KENNY LET HIM BACK IN CUZ RIGHT NOW THE ISLAND IS DIEING TELL ME THE LAST TIME YOU DID NOT COMPLAIN LOL
King is the best prime minister the country has ever seen. When every one thought the government would break down, he skillfully managed to hold everyone together. He is completing some very nice capital projects right now and is preparing the country to recover from the recession. I think by the end of his term the economy will be the best it has been in years.
Compton did a good job, but even he did not lead the country through the kind of recession we are having now. King is a masterful leader. Look at the guys he have around him all of who are very well educated, proven leaders and brilliant patriots. SLP does not have the candidates who can do near as good a job as UWP is doing right now.
Anyone who thing King will not be re-elected is wrong. Just like he is strategically managing all sectors of the country, his political strategy will make him win by an even larger margin.
All the people who are saying we cannot afford another term of Kenny, have never said why, I am waiting to hear why. They are right to a point, because i do not believe St Lucia will ever be able to afford that type of development, kenny did in St lucia, in such a short period of time. We Lucians must blame our selves for stopping the development of our country, by electing an incompetent group to lead us.
While some of you are busy crticising whether Kenny can or cannot be leader, I would let it be known that the record of the SLP even under Kenny Anthony speaks for itself. A prime minister is in a sense hired to do a job which is to run the country and frankly, as a st lucian, I could not careless about how likeable he may or may not be, as long as he could perform. But I guess understanding such a basic premise comes with some level of intelligence and st lucians have shown since December 2006, that intelligence is not necessarily their strong forte. And as they say-people get the government they deserve and st lucians have gotten precisely what they deserve. This is not necessarily coming from a supporter of the SLP, this is just being honest and telling it like it is
L Albert your second sentence says it all and I am neither UWP or SLP.I am a democrat in the USVI the past thirty five years.
comrade blame has raised a very interesting point. A ll the people who say they do not want kenny back never give u a compelling argument why. I happen to think that one of the main reasons for the vilyfying of kenny from the other side is fear of his return. Mind u not a fear that he would ruin the country because they know kenny wont and besides by the time he returns there might not even be a country still, it would have already been ruined. The FEAR that they have is that Kenny will be coming back to take his revenge for voting him out. It is a real FEAR that even Kenny must come to terms with and that we underestimate as a political reality. Kenny Anthony is by far the best among our existing crop of politicians with the capacity to navigate this country out of the mess that it is in. But Kenny was rejected by the people and even if deep down they know it was in hindsight a mistake, they know too that it is etched in the mind of Kenny Anthony and wonder if he intends to settle the score upon his return. It would be political suicidal for him to do so and i suspect he won’t but as he begins to prepare for his return he must be mindful of this dynamic and pay more attention to style. He must temper his prosecutorial approach with a calm, sunny disposition, almost reaganesque, with a sprinkle of no drama obama. In these depressing times u need a leader who is an antidote to the darkness that now prevails in St.Lucia. A chopping off of the rough edges ala market steps would do him well. He needs not to flog a dead dog. King’s government is a gone case.The last hurdle Kenny has to clear before he takes the oath is himself. He has the ability to do it.
While the quality of a political party’s leadership is an important factor in the effective managing of a political economy and overall good governance of the country, the quality of the followership (in that case the caliber of people coming into office with him) is critical.
Kenny Anthony, in all honesty, is more charismatic, more learned, inspires more confidence in the people, and has more gravitas, than our present Prime Minister. However, without a strong supporting cast he would have to be chief cook and bottle washer, just like John Compton in his heyday.
The problem we have with this government is lack of leadership coupled with the most lackluster group of ministers in the history of St. Lucia. This motley crew, which constitutes his supporting cast, does not inspire confidence, lack imagination and capability, and it seems like the Gods conspired against us that they occupy office at a most challenging time in our history.
I am not a card carrying member of any party, and I was also very critical of the Labour government when they squandered the country’s meagre resources, and exhibited some hubristic tendencies.
The country is now on auto pilot as it relates to economic advancement. We would do well to experience 0% growth this year. The economic forecast for the next couple of years look bleak. I dare say that crime will not be abated and we will experience greater social turmoil as a result of the contraction in the world economy.
St. Lucia will only fulfill its greater potential when all its people are in one accord. When national pride increases, when individual industriousness and Ingenuity is fostered, when we engender an entrepreneurial spirit in our people, when people are less selfcentered and more selfless in their dealings with each other.
It’s laughable when you see persons already celebrating the SLP “Victory”. You can tell some fools never learn. Isn’t that the same approach that got the SLP in toruble the last time. They were so convinced that they couldn’t lose only to find out on the morning of December 12th, 2009 that they had lost.
People, stop making fools out of yourselves. As someone said above ” a day in the life of poltiics is like a thousand years.”
SLP had to bring Kenny in, and remove Hunte for them to win. UWP had to try Vaughn, remove him, try Morrella, remove her, try Vaughn again, and finally replace him with Compton for their victory.
Can’t you see that in all the bad things that SLP is saying about the UWP no one is rising up to remove them? Listern to the voice and mood of the people. Yes they are not convinced that the UWP has done well, but going back to the SLP is not a fully sold idea either.
While the SLP is already counting their eggs before they hatch, watch if u see the UWP don’t pull a rabbit out of a hat.
The reason we don’t want Kenny back is because in his 9 years as PM, he increased St. Lucia’s debt by over $1 billion dollars ($1,000,000,000.00). Tell me what did we get for that $1billion? List what we got and put a value beside it and see if it adds up to $1billion. Anybody can come on here and say that Kenny was a good PM, charismatic, more learned and all that bullshit, but charisma does not pay even $0.01 of the interest on that debt.
Until somebody proves otherwise,
WE CANNOT AFFORD KENNY ANTHONY.
Where de money go, Kenny? Where de money go Philip J. Pierre?
FOXTROT, Who is we? Speak for yourself. It is obvious you are not in St lucia and you do not avail yourself with what is happening in St Lucia today, or you just want to be make a mockery of the situation, or take it for a joke. Now we have no time to make jokes, St Lucia is in crisis. I have explained to many times how better we are in St Lucia because of Kenny and what he did with the money. You must go to St Lucia and see for yourself, if you cannot see, which i will never believe, you must ask somebody to show you. About the debt you are talking about. Please tell me which country who want to develope in this day and age, where aid has dried up world wide, will not have to take loans? Ask the great USA how much they owe? In the first place if Compton had provided school places for us, Kenny would have to borrow to do it, if Compton had provided proper sporting grounds Kenny would not have to borrow to do it, also prison, police stations, fire stations, health centers, roads and the list goes on and on, THAT IS WHERE THE MONEY WENT, do not ask Kenny and Pierre, go and see for yourself. This government has just $250 million added to what they have borrowed before. How much interest we pay on this debt? People let us be fair.
BLAME, we are not talking about “this day and age”. We are talking about 1997 to 2006.
List the cost of the police stations, fire stations, etc. We already know about the prison - $50 million for 500 inmates = $100,000 per inmate at a time when new 3 bedroom houses could be bought for about $60,000.
We also know about the cost of the south coast highway. Over $100 million. 3 times over budget. I watched them build that highway. They would do some work on a section and then abandon it for months only to return later and do the same work again. IMHO, it was MEANT to look like a bigger job than it really was. Where de money go?
When people borrow money, SMART people borrow it to invest for a future payback. What is the payback we are getting from Kenny’s ” investment ” ?
Foxtrote? Let me give my two cents on this one.
Blame. In the same vain of WE. When you come with your ridiculous partasan line of what a great party SLP is and how esteem Kenny is in your opinion, speak for yourself. There are thousands who simply don’t give a damn about Kenny and the SLP. To people like me he is NOTHING BUT A POLITICAL CON ARTISTE.
MICOUD, i will start with you first, I never said slp was a great ,maybe you might believe that, but what i said is, with all the slp faults any blind man can see it is a much better party than the uwp, that is a fact. In the slp term St Lucia was the envy of the caribbean, because even Babados nationals use to came to St Lucia to work, which was a first in the history of our island. Most people of the other caribbean islands were so socked when we Lucians made that mistake and changed the government. If you are from Micoud as you said, you will know, that anything of note that had happened in Micould of late was done by the labour party, after decades of supporting the uwp . We must also remember uwp only won by a few thousand votes, and a lot of people voted uwp because they wanted a strong opposition, never believing uwp could have won.
FOXTROT, Talking about day and age, There is not much differences between 1979 and now in terms of technology. Are you an architect, Engineer or quantity surveyor in any case? I see you quoting prices, here and there. As you are so qualified, PLEASE tell us how much the prison should have cost. How can you compare the cost with a prison with to a simple dwelling house? The government do not price projects, it is done by professionals, most ministers do not have these qualifications. I do not believe you understand anything about road construction but you want to criticise the way work was done. I cannot understand what you mean by “borrow smart and pay back form Kenny investment for future pay back” You must tell me if the $250 million borrowed by the present was a smart borrow, and what pay will we get from that? So what you are saying is by building schools, hospitals, roads, forensic lab, a proper prison, police stations, fire stations, health centers, proper sports stadium etc, etc, we will not get any pay back from these investments, I know in your mind you do not believe what you wrote.
I forgot to ask you, who has Kenny coned?
You make laugh. Go and ask Errol Barrow what Bajans thought of St Lucia under Sir John. Our best years were under Sir John and there is no doubt about that. Kenny thought in nine and half years he could surpass Sir John. NEVER!
With all the money Kenny received from the Chinese what he did with it. Hey, our best years are behind us. No Kenny, no Raramore, No Beecan can make us feel the way we did when Sir John was PM.
In this day and age we can criticize anyone but it will be more informative and convincing if we can support our position with evidence. In 9 years SLP was in government our country grew by 1 1/2%. How much did our country grow under UWP’s reign with Sir John? If any one has the answer to that question I will embrace it fully. My point here is that we have to look at politicians’ contribution to our country’s development. In doing so we will find the loopholes that reveal their unethical behaviour.
Changing of what old guard??? Yesterday what transpired in New York sent a very powerful message to all. The UWP has all but conceeded that its over. Yesterday, although Kenny did not even try to meet with St Aimee, St Aimee found himself at our SLP gathering in New York. He was doing his best to kiss up to our dear leader Dr. Anthony. Why change Dr. Anthony when St Aimee demonstrated that finally he is returning home to Labour.
LOL
Just spoke to some of my people in the big apple last night.
Silence falls over York as Kenny departs. Big Show of support
never materialsed.
Tell us what transpired in New York, in terms of numbers in attendance etc.