The business community has suffered one of its worst years. The St. Lucian farmer knows a deep despair from being unable to sell his produce, from a Minister and Government that doesn't care and from not knowing what tomorrow holds. Of those in the tourist industry, a great deal are not seeing many benefits. In the last year roughly 2000 persons lost their livelihood. So it is that the effects are being felt throughout St. Lucia .
Persons are unable to pay bills, banks are foreclosing, people are desperate.
Add to all of this the negative effects of some television and pop music where foul language and disgraceful behaviour are the norm, general indiscipline and drugs and we have the perfect recipe for disaster. It doesn't need a farmer to remind the intellectually astute Attorney General of that adage. The ripples he and some of his colleagues made and hoped would meld into total control have proved to be rather the tidal wave of disaster. He and some of his colleagues made a much more meaningful contribution to St. Lucia in the teaching service and not as lawyers and definitely not as ministers of government. It is time for St. Lucians to find their voice and speak out.