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		<title>Why Return to the Classroom, Maybe it&#8217;s Time for Automated Learning?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2021 15:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In a 2013 article in the St.Lucia Star, I lamented the fact that the global education system was the least evolved sector on the planet. I noted that while a...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Constitution has NOT served us well</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2015 07:19:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Quite a few have said that our present constitution has served us well. At least one of those that I have heard making the claim cared enough to offer an explanation. According to him, we have not had a crisis that the constitution could not deal with. Of course the commentator completely forgot the 1979/82 [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Government no longer into job creation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2014 18:15:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On the heels of the grand promise of jobs, jobs, jobs, the government convinced the country that it has the found the Holy Grail to create those jobs in the establishment of the National Initiative for Creating Employment (NICE). Didn’t the government know that NICE STEPS could not create the kind of jobs that the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Buying crumbs with money  that could have bought the loaf</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Oct 2013 15:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Undeniably, governments are put in place not for the pursuit of what’s expedient for them, but rather for the purpose of pursuing the country’s best interest.  Additionally, governments should know that they are not the only ones capable of determining what is in the country’s best interest, and should at all times be ready to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>IDEA FOR GROWTH:  Efficient Public Service</title>
		<link>https://stluciastar.com/an-idea-for-growth-make-the-public-service-more-efficient/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Amatus Edwards]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 15:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It is no secret that Salaries and Wages is the fattest head in our country’s recurrent expenditures.  It is also no secret or rocket science that if we continue to spend more than we earn, we would inevitably burrow a hole of debt that we may never live to fill.     Given the amount of our [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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			<slash:comments>23</slash:comments>
		
		
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		<title>Change STEP to Small Business Help Program</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 13:21:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In its current form, the Short Term Employment Programme (STEP) forces me, every time I see those workers in action, to recall the sordid stories of our fore-parents toiling in the hot plantation sun, sweating like pigs only to be paid with morsels off their masters’ tables. Of course the poor brainwashed forced immigrants thought [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>An idea for Growth: Replace school books with PCs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 18:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It is indisputable, and Sir Arthur Lewis did tell us a long time ago that the cure for poverty is education. However, that cure will remain elusive to the poor if they do not have effective access to it. How will get a pill for that poverty malady if they can’t afford the expensive books [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>An idea for growth: Government Owned and Subsidized Public Transport System</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Amatus Edwards]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 20:41:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Given the current global economic realities, it would be foolhardy of us to wait or rely on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) to help us deal with our fiscal and economic challenges. This is largely due to changes that are now taking place in the traditional sources of FDI like the US and Europe. Those countries [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Government should mandate filtered Internet Service Options</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Amatus Edwards]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 18:04:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Who can argue that the internet has not become a fixture in our lives, all of our lives; whether you are a priest, pastor, businessman or student.   It is amazing to see my four-year-old go through the vast expanse of educational and recreational content on abcmouse.com. Of course I would to continue to provide him [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Government strategy for crime needed</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Amatus Edwards]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 20:51:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In a previous article, I sought to convey the point that there is nothing intrinsically wrong about the politicizing of crime.  The point was made that governments were invented for the realization of two basic functions on behalf of the people; that is the prevention of anarchy and the provision of good life.  That is [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Is Sugarcane Ethanol Haiti’s Salvation?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Amatus Edwards]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:22:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Haitian crisis will continue to be a problem for this Hemisphere unless Haiti can become economically sustaining in a way that would ensure that its huge lower class gets to share in the spoils.  Supply-side economics interventions that promise a trickling down of the benefits to the lower class simply will not work.  For [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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