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Letter: Where do we go from here?
Published on October 23, 2012 Email To Friend    Print Version

Dear Sir:

It was back in his younger years that veteran calypsonian “Reality” asked Vincentians the question, “Where do we go from here?” The year was 1979, as independence drew near. I remember as a boy in Bottom Town, seeing “Reality” or as I called him “Bugsy” playing a tenor pan working out the chords and phrases for his song, “Where do we go from here?” Today, this phrase rings out louder than ever in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) as we move towards our 33rd year of independence, “Where do we go from here?”

Where were the 1,000 jobs in the first 100 days? Where are the jobs for the young people? But “we are on the cusp of an economic takeoff.” The boys are still on the blocks, while others head to the hills and waters. Still, there are the Wild West posses with their hoods, masks and guns blazing. And not to forget the gold chain robbers.

The lack of job opportunity in SVG and the destruction of the farming industry have led to what was boasted as having more people on poor relief. Do they really think that people truly want to be on poor relief? Do they honestly believe that farmers want to be watchmen in Kingstown?

For the most part, Vincentians prefer to have a job than being on poor relief and lining up to get a little pittance. Farmers would rather be farming their lands and having markets for their produce. By having a job and being gainfully employed, people have self-respect and can provide for their families.

The fact that the government is spending a boatload of SVG’s money towards building an airport, shouldn’t there be a ton load of Vincentians working on the project? Vincentians can drive dump trucks, bulldozers and graders. Vincentians can do manual labour.

By so doing, more of that money would circulate within the country and ease the unemployment problem which SVG faces. At the same time help to offset the government cash flow problem.

However, slowly but surely Vincentians have begun to awaken and are seeing through the masquerade as to the reality of, “Mas ah known yo” and “St Vincent is not St Vincent again.” Thus the ringing in their ears, “Where do we go from here?”

Peace and justice and get real.

Lenford O’Garro
Washington
 
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Peter:

LENFORD O'GARRO, thanks for that, its absolutely true to fact. My only complaint is that you have gone too easy on what is really happening here. Things are far far worse than you relate to in your letter.

What you can now be sure of, and must expect, is an attack on what you write by the Vincentian MARXIST SCUM BRIGADE. People like the fraud and false name user like Horace Williams, who pretends to be all sorts of people, in self belief that it will protect him from the wrath of Vincentians when he next visits SVG. He pretends to be SIMON ANDERSON, JOHN, and on several occasions has impersonated a police officer. The man is a blagard, scoundrel and worse of all a MARXIST collaborator for financial gain.

1/ Under this SVG MARXIST regime times have got so hard that people cannot earn a living in SVG.
2/ People are frightened of the police who beat and torture admissions of guilt from people, police get convictions from forced false admissions.
3/ Rape is out of control, with even prime minister Gonsalves being accused of such.
4/ Murder is out of control.
6/ Police shoot to kill, and ask questions afterwards.
7/ It is common for women to be beaten and even chopped with cutlass by their men and boyfriends.
8/ Child rape and buggery of little boys is common.
9/ Huge amounts of cash in US dollars regularly flows into the island. to be shared by the ULP hierarchy.
10/ Hospitals commonly have no drugs, wrong drugs, no medical dressings, scanning machine and ultra sound not working, hospital dirty, more chance of dieing in hospital than out of hospital.
11/ GONSALVES and all his ministers seek hospital treatment abroad whilst other citizens have to use fifth rate medical treatment in SVG.
12/ Business’s are being opened by ULP members to launder dirty money
13/ Poor home and mental institution joined as one, homeless people having to endure living with mentally sick people. The home feeds nasty food that should only be fed to pigs. Not enough beds and people sleep on urine soaked mattress’s on the floor.
14/ People who don’t vote for the Unity Labour Party cannot get government jobs and are treated as second class citizens.
15/ Any one who speaks out against GONSALVES or conditions in SVG is subjected to political spite in their workplace, village and home.
16/ When there is storm damage only ULP members get their homes repaired.

GONSALVES is considering suing again. When American hog farmers call their pigs, they call sueeeeeeeee. Well I am calling our prize pig Sueeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

In an age of genocide, terrorism, ethnic cleansing, and torture, evil threatens us in ways radically different from tsunamis and financial panics. Nature unleashes its wrath and people rush to help the victims. Evil shows its face and we are paralyzed over how to respond.

GONSALVES told us in parliament that he does Obeah for the Lord, well you cannot do Obeah for Lord Jesus or his father God, so you must be doing Obeah for Satan, the Devil incarnate.

YES FOLKS IT'S A HUNDRED PERCENT TRUE, GONSALVES SAID IN PARLIAMENT THAT HE DOES OBEAH FOR THE LORD, ITS IN THE RECORDS, CAST IN STONE FOREVER. GONSALVES HAS NEVER APOLOGIZED FOR THAT STATEMENT OR WITHDRAWN IT. THEREFORE HIS ADMISSION STANDS, HE WORSHIPS OBEAH.

WAKE UP PEOPLE AND SMELL THE SULPHUR


Simon Anderson:

So Peter, ah mean Brian Alexander, you still want to wrestle with me, eh?

I have embarrassed you time and again -- and I have made you embarrass yourself, and you still come back for more. Like you are a glutton for punishment!

OKAY, come for it!

Peter, ah mean Brian Alexander, what happened to the missing money from PH Veira?

Brian Alexander, why did the Police pick you up and question you?

Peter/Brian, what happened with the missing money from the band TOUCH?

Brian Alexander, Mitchell said he had $100 million in his back pocket for building an airport. The airport was NOT built. So Brian, what happened to the money?

Man-about-town say you thief some of it. Is that true?

BRIAN/PETER, what happened to the missing money from the Ottley Hall Project?

Brian Alexander, why does money always seem to disappear whenever you are around?

Brian, how tall (short) are you? And why are you NOT GROWING?

OH, you are fully grown...

STEVE_HUGGINS:

"QUO VADIS ?", Lenford.

Peter:
COOeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
‘SIMON ANDERSON KARL MARX BLOW YOUR HORN HORATIO WILLIAMS’

I would like to call you two faced, but you are multifaced, a fraud attempting to hide your identity to avoid the wrath of the people.

Is that repetitious crap which everyone knows is crap the best you can do.

I have whipped your arse, belittled you, exposed you and shown you for the MARXIST idiot that you are. Shown the people, with your own help and stupidity, that you are HORACE WILLIAMS.

I have exposed you as a paid MARXIST collaborator.

I have exposed you as a serial liar.

I exposed you for trying to pretend that you are a police officer.

I have exposed you as a thief.

Now lets forget my being your controller on this website, how about the following

GONSALVES told us in parliament that he does Obeah for the Lord, well you cannot do Obeah for Lord Jesus or his father God, so you must be doing Obeah for Satan, the Devil incarnate.

YES FOLKS IT'S A HUNDRED PERCENT TRUE, GONSALVES SAID IN PARLIAMENT THAT HE DOES OBEAH FOR THE LORD, ITS IN THE RECORDS, CAST IN STONE FOREVER. GONSALVES HAS NEVER APOLOGIZED FOR THAT STATEMENT OR WITHDRAWN IT. THEREFORE HIS ADMISSION STANDS, HE WORSHIPS OBEAH.

WAKE UP PEOPLE AND SMELL THE SULPHUR

In 1992 Ralph Gonsalves in an address to the Barbados Bar Association noted that

" I find the approach of both parliament and the judiciary is less than wholesome in the protection of the constitutional right of freedom and expression. Too often Caribbean legislator's go beyond the outer limits of a persons rights to free freedom of expression and they are insufficiently reproached by Caribbean judges"

Was that just a MARXIST trying to have his voice and opinions heard without interruption by the governments and laws?

Now the man is in power all those values that he voiced have been abandoned or dumped. Its what's called MARXIST manipulation.

I consider that under GONSALVES we are under a dire threat of a dynasty being formed, a dictatorship, with his son waiting in the wings on the fathers promise of power being handed to him on his retirement.

If you look at all the Vincentian newspapers of the early GONSALVES era, he was hated by our parents and grandparents, they described him as a Marxist, a man without God, and a worshipper of Cuba and Russia. Perhaps the old folks were right and we should heed their warnings, which in most cases are now warnings from the grave.

If you want dire ct quotes, I have all the news papers from the 60’s to present day, just as and I will print them, showing references and pages etc.

What GONSALVES needs to take credit for is the death, rape, murder, imprisonment of Christians in Iran. I believe his support of the Iranians at the UN makes GONSALVES scum.


IN 2001, GONSALVES ISSUED OR CAUSED TO BE ISSUED A DIPLOMATIC PASSPORT TO A VINCENTIAN CANADIAN MAN CALLED REUBEN MORGAN, HE WAS NEITHER A DIPLOMAT OR EMPLOYED BY THE SVG GOVERNMENT. SUBSEQUENTLY IN 2004, MORGAN WAS ARRESTED AT A LONDON AIRPORT CARRYING A KILO OF COCAINE IN HIS LUGGAGE, HE WAS TRAVELING ON THE VERY SAME DIPLOMATIC PASSPORT THAT GONSALVES HAD APPROVED OR ISSUED TO HIM.

Let there be no doubt unless GONSALVES approves of a diplomatic passport it cannot be issued.

I ENQUIRE WAS THIS THE FIRST AND ONLY COCAINE DELIVERY TO THE UK, CANADA OR ELSEWHERE BY MORGAN? THE QUESTION HAS TO BE ASKED BECAUSE HE HAD THE DIPLOMATIC PASSPORT FOR 4 YEARS BEFORE HE WAS CAUGHT.

AT THE TIME OF REUBEN MORGAN TRAVELING TO THE UK HE WAS GOING TO AN EVENT WITH A RELATIVE JUDITH JONES-MORGAN THE SVG ATTORNEY GENERAL WHO WAS TRAVELING ON A DIFFERENT FLIGHT.

In 2010, Reuben Morgan opened a Chinese restaurant with his Canadian Chinese business partner in SVG at Villa. In 2011 Morgan’s Chinese wok cooking expert said that they were going to open a casino at the new Argyle Airport, they could only do so with the blessing of GONSALVES.

The Chinese Canadian having made that statement, GONSALVES got real angry, and said he would never sanction a CASINO.

One night the Chinese restaurant closed and all the equipment moved out during the early hours of the morning. Everything was shipped out to Saint Lucia, where they have now set up business.

ISN'T THE TRUTH ANNOYINGggggggggggggggggggggg?

Peter Binose:

When GONSALVES was elected in 2001, he knew exactly wherte he was going, it was back to his Cuban masters.

September 16th 2001 - Havana, The Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Ralph Gonsalves, arrives for talks as reported in Havana, September 17 (RHC)--“The Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Ralph Gonsalves, arrived in Havana on Sunday to begin an official four-day visit to the island. Gonsalves was welcomed at Jose Marti International Airport by Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque. The prime minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines has visited Cuba on a number of occasions in the past, but this is his first official visit since taking office in March this year. Speaking with reporters upon his arrival yesterday, the Caribbean leader said he hopes his visit will advance bilateral relations between Havana and Kingston. He noted that relations with Cuba have political dimensions, with collaboration in several areas including trade and investments, health, education, sports, agriculture and industry. The prime minister told reporters that he is interested in having 20 nurses work in the hospitals of his country and also needs five civil engineers from Cuba to help build highways. On Monday, Cuban President Fidel Castro officially welcomed Prime Minister Gonsalves at the Palace of the Revolution. Following the formal ceremony, the two Caribbean heads of state held official talks and examined regional and international issues“.

Because of GONSALVES affiliation to CUBA, we have suffered for 11 years. It would be an improvment for SVG if he went and retired there.


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