By: Thinking Citizen
Some people might remember while others may not that in the latter half of the 1970’s or thereabout, the Agricultural Land Development Authority (ALDA) made plans to put down a Food Production Project on lands in the Basseterre Valley belonging to Pond/Needsmust Estates.
Dr. Joseph Christmas, who was then Head of our Water Services Department, objected to the idea of locating the Food Production Project on the said lands in the Basseterre Valley belonging to Pond/Needsmust Estates.
I cannot at this stage with any degree of certainty state the reason or reasons for Dr. Christmas’ objection to the proposal to locate the Food Production Project in the Basseterre Valley on lands belonging to Pond/Needsmust Estates. All I can say at this stage is that both Departments, the Department of Agriculture and the Water Services Department keep files. Someone should check back in those files to see if they can uncover the reason or reasons for Dr. Christmas’ objection to the site in question for the proposed Food Production Project.
In my humble opinion, the Team Unity gang has allowed its guest for money, power and position to cause it to spend millions of unnecessary dollars and make a fool of itself.
At this stage, the wisest thing for Team Unity to do is to forget its plans to build a new Basseterre High School on the Basseterre Valley Aquifer and consider going back to the old Basseterre High School on Victoria Road after the school has been adequately scrubbed and washed-down.
We must all remember that the High School on Victoria Road was abandoned not because of any sound technical or scientific reason but because it suited the personal and political plans of the members of PAM and Team Unity.
The Team Unity government has recently passed a Bill. The firearms Amendment Bill, 2017, the Prime Minister said, among other things that the Bill had just one substantive provision which is to amend the law to increase the penalty of illegal possession and use of firearms.
The effect of this amendment might very well not turn out to be what the government expected. It might only cause the criminals to be extremely circumspect where illegal guns are concerned.
CHANGES. CHANCES AND FAMALAAYYY!!!
By: FAIR SHARE FOR ALL
For how Timothy Harris and the rest of Team Unity platform used to go on, I never thought that after nearly two and a half years of them in power I would have even had to lock a window in my house.
I never hear more “if you see something, say something”. The prime minister. The deputy prime minister. The commissioner of police. The top brass of the police force. All repeating the same chorus, “if you see something, say something”.“The government cannot do it alone. The police cannot do it alone. All hands must be on deck. We must come together to solve crime”.
These sayings are becoming popular too as the government tries to shift the focus away from themselves as having failed to provide the leadership that they said they had to solve our crime problem.
Similarly, for how Timothy Harris and the rest of the Team Unity cabal used to criticise the Music Festival, I never thought that it would still have been in existence today. I never thought that I would have lived to see the day when the same benefits that Labour touted as reasons for the festival are the exact reasons that Team Unity is using to justify having it.
“Muddoh” with deception!
The deception continued with the Citizenship by Investment Programme. In fact, nothing was spared. So after having launched such a vicious attack on the programme, saying that passports were being sold like black pudding on a Saturday afternoon, I never expected that nearly two and a half years later, Team Unity would have been trying to keep the programme going.
And paying people BIGLY to try to sell our passports like black pudding on a Saturday afternoon.
So having recognised that it might be beyond resuscitation, he tried, at a press conference, to say that the programme would be phased out and replaced with agriculture which he, himself, considered many years ago, was dead.
And that is why I have serious problems with this government.
If they had really believed that they had the solution for crime, if they had really believed that something was terribly wrong with the Citizenship by Investment Programme, if they had really believed that the Basseterre High School was contaminated, if they had really believed that the Music Festival was a wasted government investment, I would say forgive them Lord, for they know not what they do.