Comments on: The “Running Water” Challenge https://stluciastar.com/the-running-water-challenge/ Bringing the Truth to Light Sun, 31 Aug 2014 18:27:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: John Joseph https://stluciastar.com/the-running-water-challenge/#comment-94123 Sun, 31 Aug 2014 18:27:27 +0000 https://stluciastar.com/?p=40474#comment-94123 …..accountable and return them to servitude; and we take our duty as custodians of our constitutional rights seriously, abandoning the party concept in pursuit of effective representation by worthy representatives through our demonstrated will; being justified by action supportive of our role as the Masters who have the power, we are doomed to suffer repeatedly these intolerable injustices by the institutions which are to serve use equitably..

]]> By: John Joseph https://stluciastar.com/the-running-water-challenge/#comment-94122 Sun, 31 Aug 2014 18:26:09 +0000 https://stluciastar.com/?p=40474#comment-94122 This is not a water company problem. This is a national disaster and a government problem. The fact remains the Government of St Lucia has ceased to hold the company accountable to any degree, and turns a blind eye to these kinds of atrocities, In fact I will go as far as saying that successive Governments has repeatedly bilked the public through active cooperation with the company in raising cost to consumers without a viable plan for improvement in water supply to communities across the island. Indeed no mechanisms are put in place to even ensure the implementation of promised improvements far less to penalize the company’s executive for failure to provide what is rightfully the consumers’ justifiable return on their investment of higher water rates. The reason for this lack of accountability is simply based in the cronyism and nepotism that is customary to every statutory body and agency for which Government has direst responsibility. This happens because St. Lucians have failed repeatedly to hold to the highest standards those they elect to represent them choosing rather to blindly hide themselves in party colours, Hence as Rick Wayne has often reminded us “a people gets the Government they deserve” and therefore the woes of the people are actually that which they by their collective action has brought upon themselves. Until we begin to hold our political masters (hey let’s face it, they are not servants by a long stretch even if they mouth it repeatedly)…

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