Comments on: The $300 million question: Is Pierre Brave Enough to Venture into the St. Jude Cesspool? https://stluciastar.com/the-300-million-question-is-pierre-brave-enough-to-venture-into-the-st-jude-cesspool/ Bringing the Truth to Light Fri, 27 Jan 2023 13:20:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Lincoln https://stluciastar.com/the-300-million-question-is-pierre-brave-enough-to-venture-into-the-st-jude-cesspool/#comment-96299 Sun, 22 May 2022 14:03:32 +0000 https://stluciastar.com/?p=87218#comment-96299 Your slant is so obvious, that it’s almost comical. Have no problem with this piece except for these seems to be geared almost exclusively towards one party. I’m a big fan of your opinion pieces for its history and disregard what seems to be the bias that seems to infiltrate your pieces towards either one individual or party. Maybe…just maybe, you will see it fit to investigate what lots of St. Lucians think are very obvious decisions made by politicians and parties that drastically effects; either our security in terms of limiting movement, or using the people’s money on issues that are not well thought out. Your last paragraph speaks volumes, for this could have been written possibly four years ago. One might want to start with investigation of the Pearl of the Caribbean or St. Jude’s. People are still hungry for information and in the dark on these. You are a great investigative journalist…you need to put your skills to better use and be one for all the people. Try to be more fair and balance with your opinion pieces. This will go a long way in mitigating what your last paragraph suggest. It should be beyond the conscience of both parties that we are still debating St. Jude’s. We are asking for better standards while we do not have, or do not follow the policies presently in place to even maintain the standards we already have for some of the present day buildings that serve specific needs. We need to think of simplicity and not get tied up with the high tech stuff that we as a nation cannot support. Your St. Jude’s idea is very typical. Something so simple, inexpensive and meets the basic requirements for giving the people of the south some measure of hope and not constant despair. As Edwards Deming once said “In god we trust, all other must give data”

]]> By: John Joseph/Joe Johnson https://stluciastar.com/the-300-million-question-is-pierre-brave-enough-to-venture-into-the-st-jude-cesspool/#comment-96298 Sun, 22 May 2022 06:11:09 +0000 https://stluciastar.com/?p=87218#comment-96298 The more things change the more they remain the same. What can we expect? As a people we continue to elect and reelect the very people who have failed us time and time again. The fingers that point to the opposite side have their own fingers also pointing back at themselves. None in our present elected “leaders” are untainted. Now I am ashamed of the lame responses given by the PM and the other Minister, who tried to deflect the question by answering a totally different question than the one asked. It is too glaring to even warrant excuse for it.
As a country we can do better, but in order to do so what must change is our political culture of acceptance of inept politicians under the of party support, and the blind loyalty to the party mentality that has being cultivated and the dependence on politicians for handouts and for solving issues that they have no business in. We need to begin to inculcate in the next generation a sense of integrity, and an overall sense of responsibility for nation building. A very tall order, given the composition of our present generation, but not an impossible mission.

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