Comments on: Open Letter to PM Pierre https://stluciastar.com/open-letter-to-pm-pierre/ Bringing the Truth to Light Mon, 07 Feb 2022 00:32:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Leon Alfred https://stluciastar.com/open-letter-to-pm-pierre/#comment-96263 Mon, 07 Feb 2022 00:32:37 +0000 https://stluciastar.com/?p=86590#comment-96263 It is narcissistic self-idolatry to think you can create your own truth based on what you feel. Government should go full throttle after the purveyor of corruption and injustice. Nobody in government should be allowed to use the state funds for personal gain. No system can hold when its constitution is used to condone the abuse of power. We are a divided nation, but we don’t need to be a nation engulfed in lies, lawlessness, and demagogic incitement.

This government can do both, hire a special prosecutor and create programs for the destitute. We need strong democratic convictions to avoid being fooled by authoritarian demagogues.

]]> By: Desmond Alternor https://stluciastar.com/open-letter-to-pm-pierre/#comment-96262 Sun, 06 Feb 2022 18:07:15 +0000 https://stluciastar.com/?p=86590#comment-96262 I have served on the Tenders Board. The government that appoints you, always causes you to sway towards a particular tender. That is why there is a clause that states,”The government does not bind itself to accept the lowest or any tender. Usually, the head of the tenders board has a good idea of the tender value most likely to be accepted, and the person or persons that the government would most appreciate winning the tender. There is nothing honest in the practice of putting anything to tender. When government vehicles are put through the tender process, it is always friends and relatives of the tenders board that end up with the vehicles. If Stephenson King advertises a tender for a particular road construction, you can bet that Rayneau would win the contract before Fresh Start. So my dear Bernard Cornibert, the direct award is the same as going through the tendering process. It just depends on which government is in power.

]]> By: Boyblue https://stluciastar.com/open-letter-to-pm-pierre/#comment-96260 Fri, 04 Feb 2022 18:35:52 +0000 https://stluciastar.com/?p=86590#comment-96260 Well articulated and thought provoking piece that I pray will be heeded. But honestly politicians are all the same regardless of the colour or party.
I recall Mr Stephenson King introduce legislation to prevent a repeat Loan guarantee by government without approval of parliament but in the same piece of legislation gave government away out to repeat to same guarantee.
So the more they shout corruption to more they give themselves licence to continue the same corruption openly, because they identified it.
That’s the philosophy in my St. Lucia where politicians are Gods when office.

]]> By: Sylvester Desir. https://stluciastar.com/open-letter-to-pm-pierre/#comment-96259 Thu, 03 Feb 2022 20:43:02 +0000 https://stluciastar.com/?p=86590#comment-96259 Quite thought-provoking indeed!!!! There will be no change. They are all the same, just a matter of different colour.

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