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Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves (R) meets with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in New York

NEW YORK, USA -- St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) had an active week of diplomacy, investment and Diaspora relations during the opening of the 67th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

The Vincentian delegation, led by Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves, participated in bilateral and multilateral meetings, holding discussions with representatives of fifteen countries. The delegation’s week in New York was also highlighted by meetings with international organisations, discussions with private sector investors, and a meeting with members of the Vincentian Diaspora in New York.

Gonsalves Addresses UN General Debate

On 28 September, Gonsalves addressed the General Debate of the UN General Assembly. As the first speaker on the Friday debate schedule, Gonsalves set the tone by calling for “principled and practical global action to address and resolve” challenges facing the global community.

The Vincentian prime minister discussed the ongoing financial and economic crisis, climate change, and transnational crime as areas warranting international attention and action. He also drew attention to issues of migration, regional integration, and the global war against terrorism.

Gonsalves explained to the international audience the impact of the global economic crisis on SVG and on the Caribbean region. Pointing out that “The prolonged global economic uncertainties have propelled the international economy into a dangerous new phase,” Gonsalves outlined key questions regarding the ongoing economic turmoil and transition.

He also explained the regional characteristics that demanded special attention from the international community.

“Small, highly-indebted middle-income developing countries, like those in the Caribbean, which are very vulnerable to natural disasters and international economic convulsions; have especial concerns which the international community is obliged to address properly in partnership with the people of our region,” said the prime minister.

Strengthening Ties and Exploring Opportunities: Bilateral and Multilateral Meetings

Over the course of the week, the Vincentian delegation held talks with a total of fifteen different countries from Africa, Europe, North America, the Pacific, and the Middle East (in alphabetical order: Australia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Canada, Georgia, Iran, Ireland, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Palestine, Qatar, Uganda, and the United Arab Emirates).

The Vincentian delegation and the heads of state, heads of government and ministers of the various countries discussed a number of areas of practical and political cooperation, including investment opportunities, scholarships, sports, technology transfer, and assistance in the construction of the Argyle International Airport.

The representatives of Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates all extended invitations for Gonsalves to visit their respective countries in the near future to discuss further areas for their countries’ to cooperate with SVG.

Gonsalves also participated in meetings with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Albert Ramdin, deputy secretary-general of the Organisation of American States, and William Lacy Swing, director general of the International Organisation for Migration. Additionally, Foreign Minister Slater led the Vincentian delegation in meetings of the Caribbean Community’s Council for Foreign and Community Relations (COFCOR), and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC). Other members of the SVG delegation attended meetings of the Commonwealth, the Group of 77 and China (G77) and the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS).

The delegation also participated in a number of informal engagements, on the margins of other meetings and receptions, including receptions hosted by United States President Barak Obama, South African President Jacob Zuma, and European Union Council President Herman Van Rompuy.

• Migration and Canada Relations
Migration issues featured heavily in the prime minister’s weeklong agenda in New York. In addition to highlighting migration in his statement to the UN General Assembly, Gonsalves focused on the issue in his town hall address and his communications with key countries and international organisations.

The recent decision by the government of Canada to impose visa restrictions on Saint Lucia and SVG was the catalyst for a meeting with the government of Canada. Gonsalves, as current chairman of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), sought and secured a meeting with the minister with primary responsibility for the region and immigration matters.

The heads of the OECS delegation held a two-hour meeting with a team of Canadian officials led by Diane Ablonczy, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs (Americas and Consular Affairs). In addition to being responsible for the Americas and consular affairs, Ablonczy has been her party’s leading spokesperson on matters related to citizenship and immigration.

Gonsalves stressed the disappointment of SVG at the imposition of visa restrictions, and particularly condemned the official statements of the Canadian government that mistakenly lumped SVG with other states that were assessed to have unreliable travel documents. Gonsalves stressed the quality, security features and laws protecting Vincentian passports and other identity documents, and the positive reviews that these documents and safeguards have received from independent analysts.

The concerns of SVG were echoed by Saint Lucia Prime Minister Kenny Anthony, and the other OECS member states.

Ablonczy pledged to review any official Canadian pronouncements that may have erroneously labeled Vincentian travel documents as unreliable. She also pointed out that the primary driver of the decision to impose visa restrictions on SVG was the inordinately high number of fraudulent asylum applications coming from that country.

Ablonczy pointed out that each asylum application costs the Canadian taxpayers at least CA$50,000 in assistance, fees and other costs associated with the applicant. Given that cost, fraudulent asylum applications from SVG have cost the Canadian government hundreds of million of dollars in recent decades. In a difficult economic environment, Canada was seeking to minimize the costs associated with such fraudulent applications.

The Canadian and OECS delegations also discussed other issues, including security cooperation, development assistance, and cooperation on other political and economic matters.

Gonsalves also met with the director general of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). The prime minister and the director general discussed ways in which the IOM could assist SVG in building capacities and facilitating international, regional and bilateral cooperation on migration matters. The IOM director general also proposed a number of areas in which his organization could help SVG to access and harness the enormous economic potential of the Vincentian Diaspora to advance the government’s developmental priorities.

• Argyle International Airport
Strengthening and deepening the “Coalition of the Willing” in support of the Argyle International Airport was also a priority Gonsalves and the Vincentian delegation. The representatives of the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Iran, Georgia, Bahrain and Azerbaijan all expressed a strong interest in providing new or additional assistance in the completion of the Airport project.

The president of Iran designated Ali Nikzad, the Minister of Transportation, as his country’s key driver of further cooperation on the Argyle International Airport. The emir of Qatar indicated that, even as the leaders met at the United Nations, a team of Qatari specialists were in SVG exploring investment opportunities that would benefit the airport. The emir also pointed out that additional officials from Qatar Airways would be visiting SVG in the coming months. He invited Gonsalves to visit Qatar to finalize further cooperation on the airport.

The governments of the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Bahrain also invited Gonsalves to visit their countries to solidify similar cooperation with their relevant national authorities.

Azerbaijan pledged to follow through on existing commitments of assistance to the airport project, while Georgia, which has already provided EC$1 million to the project, indicated its willingness to provide additional assistance in the near future.

• Cementing New Relationships
Foreign Minister Dr Douglas Slater played a key role in cementing new relationships with SVG. Slater and his counterpart from Bahrain established diplomatic relations between the two countries. Bahrain is a multi-island state of 1.2 million people in the Persian Gulf. The Bahrain economy, with a GDP of over US$31 billion, is one of the freest and fastest-growing economies in the Arab world. Bahrain's Foreign Minister, Sheikh Khaled bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, fondly recalled a private visit he made to Mustique and Canouan, and invited Gonsalves to visit Bahrain to explore areas in which his country could cooperate with SVG for national development.

Slater also met with officials from Kazakhstan, and opened important avenues of bilateral cooperation with that country. Kazakhstan, which is the ninth-largest country in the world by land area, is an increasing important player in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Kazakhstan is sparsely populated, with 16 million people. It has a fast-growing economy with a GDP of US$216 billion, based largely on oil and other natural resources, including copper, gold, uranium and iron. The Kazakhstan officials expressed a keen desire to invest in SVG and to explore opportunities for bilateral cooperation, particularly in the areas of renewable energy, ICT, and infrastructure.

Renewable Energy High on Delegation’s Agenda

In addition to meeting with countries and international organisations, the Vincentian delegation also held meetings with potential investors and private sector entities. High on Gonsalves’ agenda was the exploration and exploitation of SVG’s potential in areas of renewable energy, particularly geothermal energy. The discussions highlighted the Vincentian government’s commitment to finding more affordable and environmentally-friendly sources of energy to improve the competitiveness of Vincentian industry and reduce electricity prices for households and businesses.

Gonsalves held talks with two key energy companies, Emera, Inc. and Reykjavik Geothermal Ltd (RG). Emera, based in Nova Scotia, Canada is a key player in the Caribbean energy market, with significant holdings in The Bahamas, Barbados, and Saint Lucia. Reykjavik Geothermal, based in Iceland, is one of the world’s leading geothermal development companies. RG expressed a strong interest in seeking to explore the geothermal potential of SVG, while Emera is interested in partnering with RG on geothermal exploration while also potentially investing in solar and wind-based energy projects.

Both Emera and RG will visit SVG in the near future to hold further talks with the relevant technical officials.

Gonsalves also included institutional partners in his energy discussions. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) participated in the discussions with Emera and RG. Additionally, Gonsalves held substantive discussions with the Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI), which seeks to cut costs for renewable and energy efficient technologies. Ira Magaziner, the former senior advisor for policy development to President Bill Clinton, and current high-ranking official in the Clinton Global Initiative, represented CCI in discussions with Gonsalves.

The CCI expressed an interest in partnering with SVG in sourcing funding and negotiating the relevant agreements with potential renewable energy investors.

Lively and Informative Town Hall Meeting

A highlight of the prime minister’s visit to New York was his annual Brooklyn Town Hall meeting with the Vincentian Diaspora. Hundreds of Vincentians filled the Friends of Crown Heights Community Center beyond capacity to hear Gonsalves and Slater discuss current developments in SVG and other matters of importance to the Diaspora.

Gonsalves brought the standing-room-only audience up to date on a number of issues, including the ongoing impact of the global economic crisis, the fallout of the regional collapse of the CLICO/BAICO insurance companies, and SVG’s recovery from recent storms and natural disasters.

Gonsalves also outlined the development of important infrastructure initiatives, including low-income housing, road-building, and the Argyle International Airport. A number of Vincentians were inspired to make small contributions to the Airport project. The prime minister also discussed migration matters, including the impact that Canada’s new visa restrictions would have on US-based Vincentians.

As is his tradition at the Brooklyn Town Hall meeting, Gonsalves answered questions from the audience in detail, and outlined his vision for future national development. Slater, for his part, used his address to the Diaspora to call for greater unity and patriotism, and a reduction in partisan divisiveness.

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Peter:

Gonsalves told us that he is here to finish the work of Grenadian Marxist Maurice Bishop, he convinced the Grenadian government to rename Grenada's airport 'The Maurice Bishop International Airport'.

In return he paid Vincentian taxpayers money to the Grenadian government, $5 million to pay their employees pay rise. Can that be right when our public service workers are being underpaid, even paid late, sometimes weeks and months after due date.

He promised to pay a 3% pay rise to the VINCENTIAN Public Sector in January 2010. Told them on four occasions he did not have the money. Yet he had $5 million dollars to subscribe towards finishing the work of Maurice Bishop.

Is this the way MARXIST's work? Is this what the working people of SVG expect, is it what they deserve. After supporting him in three general elections, do they deserve such treatment?

In 2010, a bag full of cash, US dollars turned up at the NCB bank, a million US to be exact, or there about. The bank was asked to change the money into EC$s, after due consideration the called his relative and told him to take the US$s away, refusing to change it. Days and weeks afterwards ULP relatives and friends began turning up at banks with smaller sums of US money and banking it. ULP government official walked about with a huge roll of US$ bills in his pocket, removing it occasionally to pay bills in bars and shops.

If you banked large amounts which you do not usually bank of US cash, the bank would call the police on you.

Is this the way MARXIST’s work? Is this what the working people of SVG expect, is it what they deserve. After supporting him in three general elections, do they deserve such treatment?

There are children unable to go to school because they have no food, no bus fares, no uniform’s, no books, WHY? because their parents have no money. Yet all that money being shared between people who already have money and jobs, that million dollar share out.

Is this the way MARXIST’s work? Is this what the working people of SVG expect, is it what they deserve. After supporting him in three general elections, do they deserve such treatment?

He signed a contract with teachers union, told the teachers it was the best contract they ever had. When teachers tried to enforce parts of the contract he told them it was unconstitutional and therefore unenforceable.

He told the teachers they were only a few and if the didn’t vote for him it would not affect the outcome of any election, ULP would still be elected.

Is this the way MARXIST’s work? Is this what the working people of SVG expect, is it what they deserve. After supporting him in three general elections, do they deserve such treatment?

Rape accusations against St Vincent and the Grenadines PM dismissed
29 May 2008 in Rape and Sexual Assault, South America.
Two sexual assault cases against the prime minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines were dismissed summarily, spurring critics to say ‘old boy’ networks trump the rule of law.
http://womensphere.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/rape-accusations-against-st-vincent-and-the-grenadines-pm-dismissed/

WAKE UP PEOPLE AND SMELL THE SULPHUR

Simon Anderson:

Peter, ah mean, Brian Alexander, "BRAVO!"

I have commanded you to display your ignorance by writing long nonsensical rants, and here, you have not disappointed me. "Good Boy!" Here is a bone.

Brian, I want the readers to see how phenomenally ignorant you are -- and the more you write, the more the readers would see how incredibly stupid you have become.

Peter, ah mean, Brian Alexander, your local politics are jaundiced, and your international political views are HOLLOW.

In other words, Brian Alexander, you know nothing about political systems.

So Brian, you could either quit while the time is right -- or -- continue making a complete fool of yourself.

VINCYPOWA:

Peter, after READING your RUBBISH of a post, I am suggesting that you take a break from posting on the Internet, because you are literally losing it.

You have stated that Ralph Gonsalves CONVINCED the Grenadian government to change the Point Salines International Airport to the Maurice Bishop International Airport. Do you have any EVIDENCE of this?

Of course, you do not, but I am sure you will come up with another LIE in response.

You know what; I am not going to waste time responding to the LIES and IGNORANCE seen in your post. Instead, I will let Dr. Gonsalves address most of your delusions seen in your post.

"Letter From Ralph Gonsalves To SVG's Public Service Union Re: Assistance To Grenada
Posted By Dr The Hon. Ralph E. Gonsalves On Tuesday 18 September, 2012, 9:48 PmPage Views: 1070
Open Letter from Ralph Gonsalves to St Vincent Public Service Union Re: Assistance to Grenada
September 19, 2012
Dear Sir:
I am dismayed that the leadership of the Public Service Union (PSU) unreasonably criticised my decision to permit Grenada to use part of the allocation for St Vincent and the Grenadines available for it at the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB). They ill-advisedly referred to it as a loan by St Vincent and the Grenadines to Grenada in the sum of $5 million. They then compounded this profound misunderstanding of my decision by enveloping it in opportunistic distortions or falsehoods, namely: That Grenada pays its civil servants better than St Vincent and the Grenadines does; that I lent Grenada money to pay civil servants; and that this is the money which I should be using to pay Vincentian public servants their due increase.

Let me, for public information, explain the process by which the government of St Vincent and the Grenadines permitted the government of Grenada to use a part of its allocation in the recent past.

At the beginning of each fiscal year the ECCB allocates, on the basis of a formula, access to financial resources for each member country with very clear limitations and conditions as set out in the ECCB Agreement. When countries reach that limit they can only have access if another country or countries make(s) available a part to the country in need. The country which receives the allocation has to replenish it as soon as possible but definitely by the end of the fiscal year before new allocations are made.

This facility has been in operation since the establishment of the ECCB in 1983, and has been used by countries with a pronounced short term volatility in revenues, which affects their cash flow and liquidity. This is part of the normal operations of a central bank in a currency union; that is, mutual assistance to maintain monetary and fiscal stability

The government of St Vincent and the Grenadines never "lent” Grenada any money. I never sent any money to Grenada from the Consolidated Fund (the Treasury) or from any entity owned by the government of St Vincent and the Grenadines. Last year, September 2011, the Minister of Finance of the government of Grenada requested permission from me the use of $5 million of St Vincent and the Grenadines' allocation at the ECCB. I gave permission for this to be done on the undertaking that the monies be replenished in five months time; the replenishment was done by Grenada. In July 2012, a similar request was made of me by Grenada in the sum of $4.5 million to be replenished before the end of October 2012. I again acceded to Grenada's request.

The only real risk to St Vincent and the Grenadines attendant upon my decision to assist Grenada as aforesaid is that if the government of St Vincent and the Grenadines were to have urgent need of those funds, prior to Grenada's replenishment, they would not be available for the use of St Vincent and the Grenadines. The idea that Grenada would fail and/or refuse to replenish is unthinkable for members of the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU). In any event, at the end of each year, when accounts are rendered, the replenishment will occur as a matter of course.

Grenada is not the first or only member-state of the ECCU to which St. Vincent and the Grenadines has extended a helping hand in their time of extreme fiscal distress. I had never, hitherto, made such help publicly known since I consider it to be a solemn unspoken obligation of solidarity with other member-states of the ECCU. That is part of what a currency union is about! It embarrasses St Vincent and the Grenadines that its prime minister is virtually coerced by the leadership of the PSU, who ought to know better, to proclaim publicly its fulfillment of such an unspoken solidarity commitment. By so doing, the leadership of the PSU has cheapened our country and sullied its Christian grace in being "our brothers’ keeper". I feel sure that the overwhelming majority of public servants are at one with me on this matter; they ought to make it known to their PSU leadership. Remember this: Today for you; tomorrow for me. That is the principle of mutuality established in the Currency Union.

Incidentally, I should point out that the Director General of Finance and Planning in the Government of St Vincent and the Grenadines, Mr Maurice Edwards, has advised me that the salaries of public servants in Grenada are lower, not higher as asserted by the PSU leadership, than the comparable salaries for public servants in St Vincent and the Grenadines. But even if this were not so, my decision in the circumstances would have been no different. Mean-spiritedness is not in the make¬ up of the government and people of St Vincent and the Grenadines.

More broadly, my government seeks always to uphold the precept and practice of a committed and mature regionalism as a vital matter of public policy. Its record is clear and unequivocal in this regard. Moreover, this is not the first publicly-known case of specific assistance by St Vincent and the Grenadines to our Caribbean brothers and sisters. Vincentians would no doubt recall the $3 million, low-interest loan which St Vincent and the Grenadines made to Dominica in 2002 when that country was about to enter the temporary clutches of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). So, too, the $10 million loan to Belize by the National Insurance Services of St Vincent and the Grenadines shortly after that country was struck by a hurricane, in particular the area known as Dangriga, the home of the descendants of our ancestral Garifuna forebears. These cases were publicised at the time because they involved actual loans of monies from St Vincent and the Grenadines.

Grenada, like all Caribbean countries, has a very special place in the hearts, minds and souls of Vincentians. We have been selfless to Grenada; and Grenadians have been selfless to us. For example, at the time of Hurricane Ivan in 2004, when Patrick Manning, then Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago announced that he was making an initial grant of $10 million in the aggregate, available to Grenada and St Vincent and the Grenadines in equal sums, I advised him to give it all to Grenada since our sister-island was completely devastated while St Vincent and the Grenadines was merely “badly damaged". Manning, in acknowledging St Vincent and the Grenadines' selflessness, gave the whole of the $10 million to Grenada, but still provided $5 million for St Vincent and the Grenadines. That is solidarity!

In the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Ivan, Vincentians poured out their hearts, souls, and wallets in generosity to Grenada even though St Vincent and the Grenadines was badly damaged. Several organisations, including a flotilla loaded with relief supplies, spearheaded by Sir James Mitchell, came to Grenada's aid. Our schools opened their doors to Grenadian students, free of cost. Indeed, one such visiting Grenadian student who excelled at the CAPE/"A" Levels Examinations received a special university scholarship from the Government of St Vincent and the Grenadines in the name of the Grenadian-born Vincentian, Sir Sydney Gun-Munro, who toiled selflessly as a surgeon in the vineyard of St Vincent and Grenadines and who became our country's Governor-General.

Grenada and Grenadians have been most helpful, too, to us in St Vincent and the Grenadines. Examples abound. I shall list only a few. Sir Sydney Gun-Munro, trained at Grenada's expense as a medical doctor, served for most of his working life as St Vincent and the Grenadines' only surgeon. I feel sure that many parents, grandparents and great-grandparents of members of the PSU, including its leadership, were attended to, often free of charge, by Sir Sydney. Further, every week, Grenadian and Vincentian fishermen help one another at sea. In the Southern Grenadines, residents of Union Island and those of the Grenadian territory of Carriacou, interact daily to their mutual benefit. Additionally, at this very moment the Grenadian government is assisting the Ministry of Agriculture of St Vincent and the Grenadines with the re-introduction of cocoa cultivation in St Vincent and the Grenadines.

I urge public servants to view the issue of the promised salary increase to them as quite separate and distinct from any assistance by the government of St Vincent and the Grenadines to Grenada through the ECCB or otherwise. Please, let us not demean ourselves further by traversing a path, wrong-headedly prepared, with selfishness, a lack of regional solidarity, and plain falsehoods.

My government remains committed to pay the promised increase of salary. The public servants have done very well under the ULP administration and they can continue to trust us to do well for them on an ongoing basis. It is the ULP government which has provided for public servants, among other things, the following: Meaningful salary increases up to the end of 2010; a series of annual bonuses; the reclassification exercise; 100-percent mortgages for housing construction; exceptional educational and training opportunities; better conditions of work; enlarged freedoms; and good governance generally.

Did the Bible not tell us to cast our bread upon the waters? Did it not say we will get a return “ten fold"? Is this not happening to St Vincent and the Grenadines through other countries’ generosity and solidarity?

Dr The Hon. Ralph E. Gonsalves
Prime Minister
St Vincent and the Grenadines"
http://www.weefmgrenada.com/article.php?newstype=1&newsid=3951

Peter, I am suggesting that you go and take your MEDICATION, because it seems like you have been under the weather too long.

Peter:

BAHRAIN NEEDS SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES VOTE AT THE UN.
BAHRAINS SHIA PEOPLE SOLD OUT BY RALPH GONSALVES FOR A FEW SHECKLES TOWARDS HIS NEW INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011%E2%80%932012_Bahraini_uprising
Bahrain 2011-2012: The Bahrain police are described as "brutal" they crackdown on peaceful and unarmed protestors, including doctors and bloggers. The police have carried out midnight house raids in Shia neighborhoods, beatings at checkpoints, and denial of medical care in a campaign of intimidation. More than 2,929 people have been arrested, and at least five people died due to torture while in police custody.
The report was released on 23 November and confirmed the Bahraini government's use of systematic torture and other forms of physical and psychological abuse on detainees, as well as other human rights violations. It also rejected the government's claims that the protests were instigated by Shi’a Iran. It has been criticized for not disclosing the names of individual perpetrators of abuses and extending accountability only to those who actively carried out human rights violations

BAHRAIN IS HOLDING THOUSANDS OF POLITICAL PRISONERS.

IS THIS ONE OF OUR NEW ALLIES AND FRIENDS.

GONSALVES, HOW LOW WILL YOU STOOP?

Peter:

AZERBAIJAN NEEDS SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES VOTE AT THE UN.
AZERBAIJAN POLITICAL PRISONERS SOLD OUT BY RALPH GONSALVES FOR A FEW SHECKLES TOWARDS HIS NEW INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT.

http://www.hrw.org/world-report-2012/world-report-2012-azerbaijan
WORLD REPORT 2012: AZERBAIJAN
Azerbaijan’s human rights record deteriorated in 2011. The government cracked down on all forms of protest and imprisoned dozens of youth activists after sham trials. Although the number of government-initiated criminal and civil libel cases against journalists decreased, the atmosphere for journalists and other critics remained hostile. The government’s so-called beautification campaign in central Baku, the capital, resulted in forced evictions and illegal demolitions. Restrictions on freedom of religion and torture and ill-treatment in custody also persisted
Freedom of the Media
The Institute for Reporters’ Freedom and Safety, a local media monitoring organization, reported that more than 50 domestic and foreign journalists were harassed or attacked in 2011. In March six masked men abducted and beat Seymur Haziyev, a journalist for the pro-opposition daily Azadlig, warning him to stop writing articles criticizing the authorities. In April, three unidentified assailants kidnapped Azadlig reporter Ramin Deko, held him for eight hours, and warned him against using social media to criticize the government. Police failed to effectively investigate the attacks.
Despite repeated calls from Azerbaijan’s international partners for the government to decriminalize libel and refrain from using criminal and civil libel charges against critical voices, officials initiated seven libel cases against journalists and others in the first half of 2011; at least two resulted in imprisonment.

Human Rights are next to non existent, Prisons are full of political prisoners and torture is prevalent.

IS THIS ONE OF OUR NEW ALLIES AND FRIENDS.

GONSALVES, HOW LOW WILL YOU STOOP

Peter:

GEORGIA NEEDS SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES VOTE AT THE UN.
GEORGIAN POLITICAL PRISONERS SOLD OUT BY RALPH GONSALVES FOR A FEW SHECKLES TOWARDS HIS NEW INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT.

http://www.epdig.eu/mediaroom/300/25/Prison-torture-scandal-Georgian-govt-tries-to-blame-political-prisoner
Georgian Dream, 20 September 2012 - Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili is struggling to keep his party’s election campaign on track amid damning testimony that suggests his government was lying when it pinned blame for videos of prison beatings and rape on a political prisoner linked to the opposition coalition (...)
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili is struggling to keep his party’s election campaign on track amid damning testimony that suggests his government was lying when it pinned blame for videos of prison beatings and rape on a political prisoner linked to the opposition coalition.
When the footage first aired on national television Tuesday night, government officials accused Tamaz Tamazashvili, the father-in-law of a senior adviser to Georgian Dream leader Bidzina Ivanishvili, of orchestrating the attacks, which have drawn hundreds of protesters to the streets.
But a prison guard who says he shot the footage and smuggled it of the country denies having any links to Mr. Tamazashvili, a decorated former police general now serving a three-and-a-half year prison sentence on trumped-up charges.
“It's a lie, it's slander,” said the guard, Vladimer Bedukadze, in an interview with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. “I have no relationship with General Tamazashvili, nor have I ever been a member of any opposition parties.”
Mr. Bedukadze told the Financial Times that he filmed the brutalities – which included a rape with a broom – on the orders of his direct superior and senior Interior Ministry officials in 2010 and 2011. The ultimate instruction to film the abuses came from Interior Minister Bacho Akhalaia, Mr. Bedukadze told RFE/RL.

Human Rights are next to non existent, Prisons are full of political prisoners and torture is prevalent.

IS THIS ONE OF OUR NEW ALLIES AND FRIENDS.

GONSALVES, HOW LOW WILL YOU STOOP

Peter:

In 2001 a man called Morgan, a Vincentian Canadian, was granted a diplomatic passport by prime minister Ralph E. Gonsalves. Morgan was neither a diplomat nor worked for the SVG government. In 2004 using the same passport he was arrested at a London airport carrying one kilo of cocaine in his luggage.

Prime Minister Ralph E. Gonsalves was accused of sexual crime by at least five woman, which included rape. Yet has never been before a court to answer some of these accusations that actually resulted in charges being brought against him. One of the women was a Canadian human right attorney, she said Gonsalves locked his office door and attacked her. Since these accusations Gonsalves has never been to Canada, previously he had been a frequent visitor.

Peter:

IN 2001, PRIME MINISTER RALPH E. 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.

I believe only GONSALVES would approve the issuence a diplomatic passport.

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 ST.VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES 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 he and Morgan were going to open a casino at the new Argyle Airport.
They could only do so with the blessing of GONSALVES. It must of been discussed somewhere along the line.
The Chinese Canadian having made that statement, GONSALVES got real angry, and said he would never sanction a CASINO at the airport.

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.

Peter:

KAZAKHSTAN NEEDS SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES VOTE AT THE UN.
KAZAKHSTAN POLITICAL PRISONERS SOLD OUT BY RALPH GONSALVES FOR A FEW SHECKLES TOWARDS HIS NEW INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT.

The Human Rights situation in Kazakhstan has been an area of concern for many outside governmental and non-governmental observers. Observer group FREEDOM HOUSE ranks this former Soviet state with a 6 in Political Rights and a 5 in Civil Liberties (scale of 1-7; 1 is the highest), denoting it as "Not Free."
The website of the US Embassy in Kazakhstan notes that in 2004-2005 the Kazakhstan government's human-rights record "remained poor," and "the Government continued to commit numerous abuses."
Kazakhstan's political structure concentrates power in the presidency. Current President Nursultan Nazarbayev was elected to a 7-year term in a 2006 election that, many observers note, fell far short of international standards. The legislature and judiciary, as well as regional and local governments are not independent from executive control, and changes or amendments to the Constitution require presidential consent. No opposition parties are represented in the Lower House of Parliament. Corruption remains systemic.
While civilian authorities maintained effective control of the security forces, members of the security forces are reported to have committed human rights abuses. On some occasions, members of the security forces, including police, tortured, beat, and otherwise mistreated detainees; some officials were punished for these abuses. Prison conditions remained harsh; however, the Government took an active role in efforts to improve prison conditions and the treatment of prisoners. The Government continued to use arbitrary arrest and detention and to selectively prosecute political opponents; prolonged detention was a problem. Amendments to several laws governing the authority of procurators further eroded judicial independence. The Government infringed on citizens' privacy rights.

Human Rights are next to non existent, Prisons are full of political prisoners and torture is prevalent.

IS THIS ONE OF OUR NEW ALLIES AND FRIENDS?

GONSALVES, HOW LOW WILL YOU STOOP?

Peter:

KUWAIT NEEDS SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES VOTE AT THE UN.
KUWAIT POLITICAL PRISONERS SOLD OUT BY RALPH GONSALVES FOR A FEW SHECKLES TOWARDS HIS NEW INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT.

On January 11, 2011: Mohammed al-Maimouni al-Mutairi, a citizen arrested on charges of alcohol possession, died in police custody after security officials allegedly tortured and beat him. The government conducted multiple investigations and brought criminal charges against 20 officials in connection with his death. This incident contributed to Interior Minister Shaykh Jaber Khaled Al-Sabah's decision to tender his resignation later in January, according to press reports. The trial continued at year's end.
In March a Bangladeshi expatriate worker died in the Kabad police station after allegedly being tortured by three citizens and security officers. The expatriate was being held on suspicion of theft and arson. The case was referred to the public prosecutor. No further information was available at year's end.
The government stated that it investigated all such allegations of abuse and punished some of the offenders; however, in most cases the government did not make public either the findings of its investigations or any punishments it imposed.
Prison and Detention Center Conditions
Some detention facilities lacked adequate sanitation and sufficient medical staff. Prisoners had access to potable water. There were reports of security forces abusing prisoners. In September a member of parliament alleged that security forces at the deportation center in Talha had abused prisoners. The center was severely overcrowded for much of the year and had poor sanitation.
The Central Prison Complex houses the country's three prisons: a low-security men's prison, a high-security men's prison, and a women's prison. There were approximately 200 inmates in the women's prison and 4,100 inmates in the men's prisons. Inmates reportedly lived in overcrowded conditions. Prison conditions for women were not worse than those for men. The Talha deportation center had a capacity of 1,000; official overall prison capacity was unknown.
Prisoners had reasonable access to personal visitors and were permitted religious observance. Ombudsmen may not serve on behalf of prisoners. Authorities permitted prisoners and detainees to submit complaints to judicial authorities without censorship and request investigation of credible allegations of inhumane conditions.
The Ministry of Interior permitted independent monitoring of prison conditions by international and local human rights groups, the media, and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), in accordance with ICRC's standard processes. The ICRC visited all three prisons and the detention center during the year. The government allowed representatives of the leading human rights nongovernmental organization (NGO) Kuwait Human Rights Society (KHRS) to visit prisons and prisoners during the year.
d. Arbitrary Arrest or Detention
The law prohibits arbitrary arrest and detention; however, there were reports that police arbitrarily arrested individuals during the year.
Role of the Police and Security Apparatus
The police have sole responsibility for the enforcement of laws not related to national security, and State Security oversees intelligence and national security matters; both are under the purview of civilian Interior Ministry authorities. The military is responsible for external security.
The police were generally effective in carrying out core responsibilities. There were reports that some police stations did not take seriously the requests of complainants, especially foreign nationals. In cases of alleged police abuse, the district chief investigator examines abuse allegations and refers cases to the courts for trial; there was some evidence of police impunity.
Security forces sometimes failed to respond effectively to societal violence against family members or domestic workers.

Human Rights are next to non existent, Prisons are full of political prisoners and torture is prevalent.

IS THIS ONE OF OUR NEW ALLIES AND FRIENDS?

GONSALVES, HOW LOW WILL YOU STOOP?

Peter:

QATAR NEEDS SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES VOTE AT THE UN.
QATAR'S CITIZENS SOLD OUT BY RALPH GONSALVES FOR A FEW SHECKLES TOWARDS HIS NEW INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT.

QATAR
The principal human rights problems were the inability of citizens to peacefully change their government, they want to and can't, restriction of fundamental civil liberties, and pervasive denial of workers’ rights. Despite the constitution’s establishment of the right of association, the monarch-appointed government prohibits organized political life and restricted civil liberties, including freedoms of speech, press, and assembly and access to a fair trial for persons held under the Protection of Society Law and Combating Terrorism Law.

Other continuing human rights concerns included restrictions on freedom of religion and movement, as foreign laborers could not freely travel abroad. Trafficking in persons, primarily in the labor and domestic worker sectors, was a problem. Legal, institutional, and cultural discrimination against women limited their participation in society. The unresolved legal status of “Bidoons” (stateless persons with residency ties) resulted in social discrimination against these non-citizens.

IS THIS ONE OF OUR ALLIES AND FRIENDS?

GONSALVES, HOW LOW WILL YOU STOOP?

Simon Anderson:

Some folks are way TOO IMMATURE to understand that true independence is a myth.

What is important in any situation or relationship is "INTERDEPENDENCE."

What the Comrade has always done is to "be friends of all, and enemies of none." As a result, the Comrade does not hold malice with any country. NO-ONE, PERIOD!

This enables him to obtain support and aid from almost country world-wide. Obviously, one has to reciprocate, BUT WITHIN REASONABLE LIMITS.

The challenges he frequently experiences here are simply from persons who have political axes to grind. In fact, some individuals have actually regressed to the point of actually becoming "Ralph Haters."

This is sad since Dr The Hon Ralph E Gonsalves is highly regarded by all and sundry. It maters not, whether those individuals are from the IMF, the World Bank, other regional Prime Ministers, international officials, and Caribbean citizens.

Here is a man who holds a PhD, is a Political Scientist, was a University Lecturer, an experienced Lawyer, Prime Minister and political activist with over 40 years of experience.

Who could ask for a better resume?

Peter:

UGANDA NEEDS SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES VOTE AT THE UN.
UGANDA'S CITIZENS SOLD OUT BY RALPH GONSALVES FOR A FEW SHECKLES TOWARDS HIS NEW INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT.

UGANDA

WORLD REPORT 2012: UGANDA, EVENTS OF 2011

Freedom of Assembly and Expression
Security forces’ unjustified use of lethal force remains a significant problem. In April military and police shot and killed nine people—six in Kampala, the capital, two in Gulu, and one in Masaka—during demonstrations. None of the dead carried weapons or posed a serious threat. At least two were shot in the back as they fled and two, including a child, were inside buildings.
The protests began in April when Activists for Change, a non-profit group, called on the public to “foster peaceful change in the management of public affairs.” The first action was a “Walk to Work” to protest rising fuel and food prices. The government argued that these walks constituted an unlawful assembly.
The government responded by unleashing security forces on the protesters. In some instances protestors were aggressive, throwing stones and setting debris alight. State forces failed to distinguish between individuals actively participating in violence and those uninvolved, firing randomly into crowded areas and throwing tear gas at people or into houses. Passersby were forced at gunpoint or on threat of violence to clear burning debris. Security forces beat or shot at over 30 journalists, confiscated audio recorders and cameras, and deleted images of the violence. Several opposition politicians, including two former presidential candidates, were violently arrested and charged with unlawful assembly and inciting violence. All charges were eventually dropped.
In mid-October at least 27 members of Activists for Change were arrested and charged with incitement to violence, concealment of treason, or treason as the group planned more protests to highlight corruption and inflation. Opposition leader Kizza Besigye was arrested several times throughout the year while walking to work and held in “preventative detention” at his home.
The government has not conducted effective criminal investigations into the April killings and other state abuses, although there was one arrest for the killing of a child in Masaka. In some instances, the government paid families money following cursory inquiries. The government has a history of not holding state actors to account for the unnecessary use of lethal force. In protests in September 2009 at least 40 persons were killed, but there has been no meaningful attempt to investigate and prosecute those responsible.

Torture, Extrajudicial Killings, and Arbitrary Detention
The Rapid Response Unit (RRU), a section of the police created to combat armed crimes, continues to arrest and in some instances torture criminal suspects. RRU frequently illegally detains people without charge beyond the constitutionally mandated 48 hours in its headquarters in Kireka, Kampala, and other locations. RRU officers routinely use unlawful force during arrests, including beating suspects, using torture during interrogations to extract confessions, and the alleged extrajudicial killings of at least six individuals in 2010 alone.
No one has been charged for the May 2010 killing of Henry Bakasamba while he was in RRU custody, or for four suspects who were gunned down by RRU operatives on the Kyengera-Natete road in January 2010. In a positive step, three RRU officers were arrested for the August 2010 killing of detainee Frank Ssekanjako, though the trial has not taken place. This case could be the first time that RRU officers are held criminally accountable for murder. In past incidents, alleged perpetrators have been arrested only to be granted bail and never brought to trial.

Due Process Violations
Uganda’s military court system violates international standards on fair trials and due process by its infrequent sessions, painfully slow processes, lack of adequate defense preparation, and lack of legal expertise among the army officers who act as judges. Suspects have waited in some cases up to nine years for trial resolutions. Some await trial for periods exceeding the maximum sentence for their charges. The military court has in the past admitted into evidence confessions extracted by torture. Suspects on remand often feel they must plead guilty to conclude their case. In contravention of international legal standards and Ugandan constitutional law, military courts have routinely prosecuted civilians, particularly for gun possession, although there were indications during 2011 that this practice would end.
The slow pace of the civilian justice system also violates human rights law. Fifty-five percent of the Ugandan prison population is held on remand, though international law requires pre-trial detention be an exception and as short as possible. While the donor-driven Justice Law and Order Sector program has made progress in reducing the case backlog, detainees are still in custody for several years, pending trial. Most detainees, including those accused of serious crimes and face long remand times, lack legal representation or the practical ability to apply for bail without counsel.

Health Care and Forced Labor in Prisons
Uganda’s prisons are at 225 percent of capacity. Thousands of convicted and remanded prisoners are forced to work long hours on prison farms, private land, or prison staff’s fields, and are brutally beaten if slow. The funds raised from prison labor are never fully accounted for, fueling corruption. A lack of basic necessities, as well as the use of abusive corporal punishment, remained widely reported, in contradiction of international standards.
A 2008 survey found HIV and tuberculosis rates for prisoners approximately double those in the general population. Meanwhile, only 63 of Uganda’s 223 prisons have health workers, and only one prison hospital provides comprehensive HIV and tuberculosis treatment. Medically unqualified officers routinely assess the health needs of prisoners and deny access to care.

Freedom of Assembly and Expression
Security forces’ unjustified use of lethal force remains a significant problem. In April military and police shot and killed nine people—six in Kampala, the capital, two in Gulu, and one in Masaka—during demonstrations. None of the dead carried weapons or posed a serious threat. At least two were shot in the back as they fled and two, including a child, were inside buildings.
The protests began in April when Activists for Change, a non-profit group, called on the public to “foster peaceful change in the management of public affairs.” The first action was a “Walk to Work” to protest rising fuel and food prices. The government argued that these walks constituted an unlawful assembly.
The government responded by unleashing security forces on the protesters. In some instances protestors were aggressive, throwing stones and setting debris alight. State forces failed to distinguish between individuals actively participating in violence and those uninvolved, firing randomly into crowded areas and throwing tear gas at people or into houses. Passersby were forced at gunpoint or on threat of violence to clear burning debris. Security forces beat or shot at over 30 journalists, confiscated audio recorders and cameras, and deleted images of the violence. Several opposition politicians, including two former presidential candidates, were violently arrested and charged with unlawful assembly and inciting violence. All charges were eventually dropped.
In mid-October at least 27 members of Activists for Change were arrested and charged with incitement to violence, concealment of treason, or treason as the group planned more protests to highlight corruption and inflation. Opposition leader Kizza Besigye was arrested several times throughout the year while walking to work and held in “preventative detention” at his home.
The government has not conducted effective criminal investigations into the April killings and other state abuses, although there was one arrest for the killing of a child in Masaka. In some instances, the government paid families money following cursory inquiries. The government has a history of not holding state actors to account for the unnecessary use of lethal force. In protests in September 2009 at least 40 persons were killed, but there has been no meaningful attempt to investigate and prosecute those responsible.

Torture, Extrajudicial Killings, and Arbitrary Detention
The Rapid Response Unit (RRU), a section of the police created to combat armed crimes, continues to arrest and in some instances torture criminal suspects. RRU frequently illegally detains people without charge beyond the constitutionally mandated 48 hours in its headquarters in Kireka, Kampala, and other locations. RRU officers routinely use unlawful force during arrests, including beating suspects, using torture during interrogations to extract confessions, and the alleged extrajudicial killings of at least six individuals in 2010 alone.
No one has been charged for the May 2010 killing of Henry Bakasamba while he was in RRU custody, or for four suspects who were gunned down by RRU operatives on the Kyengera-Natete road in January 2010. In a positive step, three RRU officers were arrested for the August 2010 killing of detainee Frank Ssekanjako, though the trial has not taken place. This case could be the first time that RRU officers are held criminally accountable for murder. In past incidents, alleged perpetrators have been arrested only to be granted bail and never brought to trial.

Due Process Violations
Uganda’s military court system violates international standards on fair trials and due process by its infrequent sessions, painfully slow processes, lack of adequate defense preparation, and lack of legal expertise among the army officers who act as judges. Suspects have waited in some cases up to nine years for trial resolutions. Some await trial for periods exceeding the maximum sentence for their charges. The military court has in the past admitted into evidence confessions extracted by torture. Suspects on remand often feel they must plead guilty to conclude their case. In contravention of international legal standards and Ugandan constitutional law, military courts have routinely prosecuted civilians, particularly for gun possession, although there were indications during 2011 that this practice would end.
The slow pace of the civilian justice system also violates human rights law. Fifty-five percent of the Ugandan prison population is held on remand, though international law requires pre-trial detention be an exception and as short as possible. While the donor-driven Justice Law and Order Sector program has made progress in reducing the case backlog, detainees are still in custody for several years, pending trial. Most detainees, including those accused of serious crimes and face long remand times, lack legal representation or the practical ability to apply for bail without counsel.

Health Care and Forced Labor in Prisons
Uganda’s prisons are at 225 percent of capacity. Thousands of convicted and remanded prisoners are forced to work long hours on prison farms, private land, or prison staff’s fields, and are brutally beaten if slow. The funds raised from prison labor are never fully accounted for, fueling corruption. A lack of basic necessities, as well as the use of abusive corporal punishment, remained widely reported, in contradiction of international standards.
A 2008 survey found HIV and tuberculosis rates for prisoners approximately double those in the general population. Meanwhile, only 63 of Uganda’s 223 prisons have health workers, and only one prison hospital provides comprehensive HIV and tuberculosis treatment. Medically unqualified officers routinely assess the health needs of prisoners and deny access to care.

Human Rights are next to non existent, Prisons are full of political prisoners and torture and political murder and massacre is prevalent.

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GONSALVES, HOW LOW WILL YOU STOOP?

Peter:

December 2004, London:
Reuben Morgan, the holder of an SVG diplomatic passport was held by British police for having one kilo of the drug cocaine on his person, having arrived in London enroute from Canada to attend the funeral of a family member.
Reuben Morgan is the uncle of SVG’s Attorney General Judith Jones-Morgan, she was also attending the funeral.
Reuben Morgan has no official ties to SVG’s Foreign Affairs Department or Diplomatic Missions Overseas and Morgan has never had any diplomatic standing.
The SVG diplomatic passport which was issued to Morgan in November of 2001, following the victory of Dr. Ralph Gonsalves' and the Unity Labour Party (ULP) at the polls.

Peter:

The airport is way behind in being finished in 2013/14. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is broke and has not got the money to finish it, they are scrambelling and scrounging from every dirty crap rogue state possible. The coalition of the willing as Gonsalves called it, turned out to be a coalition of the unwilling. The Cubans are being paid just under $400,000 a month, so they are not doing anything for nothing. Cuban workers are being paid three times that what a Vincentian gets. That money goes back to Cuba to feed the Cuban economy, it does not benefit SVG economy. That amount of money circulating through Vincentian business’s every month would provide untold employment and other benefits for SVG.
There are Vincentians and regional workers and expert Vincentians in the Diaspora who could of done this work as well or better than the Cubans. The Cuban thing is a political thing by Gonsalves, he is feeding his own communist ego to the land of the Marxist Caribbean Kings, the Castro’s.
The airport has so far been built based on the sacrifice of Christians and others in the Middle East. States like Iran have been paying SVG millions of dollars towards the airport. In return we have had to vote with them at the UN, that is just what we have done with them and other states such as the former president of Libya, North Korea, Venezuela and all sorts of crap countries who need protecting from the UN’s humanitarian and crimes against humanity against them. If you just take a look at the voting record of SVG for any vote against these countries you will see that we have always voted in whatever way it benefits them, abstention, voting for, voting with, whatever.
If you check the internet you will find that Iran persecute, rape, murder, torture, execute their citizens for being Christians. Then we go and vote for them at the UN to try and stop UN sanctions etc. That is why the airport at Argyle is being branded with the name ’The Christian Blood Airport’ [CBA]. Some in SVG are now saying that the airport carries a curse, and all those who knowingly support the project with the knowledge of the blood and filth money are perhaps also cursed.
The money that we have been paid by these states is Christian blood money, filth money. We take this money because no one else will give us money for an airport that does not make financial sense and will never be able to pay for itself.
Julian Francis told us that his cousin Gonslaves had assured him that when the airport is finished it would of cost the Vincentian citizen nothing, and there would be no debt left for the country to service. That turned out to be a diabolical lie, so far building the airport has bankrupted the country. Forced the sale of the state bank, almost bankrupted the countries National Insurance Service, forced the sale of the government supermarket. Because all our revenue has been pushed into the airport we have a general Hospital with no drugs, dressing and at time no bed clothes, sheets, mattress, pillow case. All the machinery broken down, no money for repairs or maintenance. No x-rays, scans or such like. Waiting for up to 16 hours in emergency department. 50 percent of the countries roads are becoming undriveable and some even unwalkable, because we have no money left to repair small holes which become big holes, which is ending up with the total destruction of many roads.
To service this airport it will need to have at least two big jets daily, that can never happen. There will never be enough visitors to fill such aircraft. Vincentians who think that they can get on an aircraft and fly direct to SVG have been deceived, in almost all case’s you will not be able to do so. The wind studies to date show that the airport will be closed for at least four weeks in any year. Not four consecutive weeks, a day here, a few days there, a week here etc. Aircraft destined for SVG will always be liable to detour, that makes the destination unreliable for airline and raises the destination cost to an unrealistic level.
Barbados and other regional airports paid airlines up to a $100 US, for every passenger that is landed. We are already bankrupt how will we be able to fund that?

Get real people, in most cases you will never be able to fly direct to Saint Vincent, that is just a political lie, a deception by whoever told you so. A continuing deception to keep the Unity Labour Party in power.

Simon Anderson:

Four consecutive responses, all written by PETER, ah mean Brian Alexander.

Bwoy, you are a real clown. What's up with that? Do you just love seeing your own name in print?

Simon Anderson:
PETER, AH MEAN, BRIAN ALEXANDER, you have missed your calling.

Have you ever tried being a professional CLOWN?

Brian, do us all a favour (yourself included), re-read this entire article and the several responses.

You don't have to tell me or anyone else, but you would know the answer for yourself. "WHAT DO YOU THINK OF ALL THE PERSONS WHO RESPONDED TO THE ORIGINAL SUBMISSION?"

Soon to OFFICIALLY become your Brother-in-law.

Regards,
Simon Anderson


PS: "Man talking to them-self, and they answering too! He must be mad no rass!"

Peter:

Its all very well writing GONSALVES said this or said that, or wrote this or wrote that. What we must keep in the forefront of our minds when analyzing the GONSALVES uttering's and writings. GONSALVES tells lies and he puts his name to written things that that he knows are untrue. He is a self confessed liar. Therefore how can we believe anything that he says or writes. I certainly do not believe anything that he says or writes.

He told us he tells lies, he told us that himself and there have been lots of evidence that he is indeed a serial liar.

We have seen him put his name to a written document, fully well cowing it was unconstitutional and therefore unenforceable.

Now these things are not something that I have made up, its what he has admitted to us himself.

GONSALVES is an educated man with amazing charisma, unfortunately he is also stupid, it is possible to educate an idiot, unfortunately they remain idiots. He runs off at the mouth and often says things he later regrets. But besides that you cannot rely on a liar in any shape or form.

Thank you for reading this and I assure you the readers I always try and be diplomatic, truthful and honest in what I write about someone. What I write or say are without spite or hatred of any kind. They are my opinions and written without malice.

1/ Why did at least 5 separate women accuse Gonsalves of sex crimes, yet he never went to court for one?

2/ Where did the US$1 million in cash come from?

3/ Where did the bundles of US$s cash come from that leading ULP and family members deposited and spent around Kingstown?.

4/ Where did the wealth come from that a member of parliament now has in the way of several houses, several cars, several women, several children?
The from rags to riches in 11 years syndrome

5/ Why did Gonsalves give a Diplomatic Passport to a man called Morgan, who was not a diplomat, never worked for the government or any government owned organization?
The man was caught at London airport using that very same diplomatic passport whilst carrying a kilo of cocaine.

6/ GONSALVES has said on several occasions that he is here to finish the work of MAURICE BISHOP, well according to public records in Grenada and Maryland USA, Bishop gave instructions that people should be sent to Cuba and Russia to learn how to keep two sets of books, to cook the books to enable Bishop to commit fraud against the IMF and WORLD BANK and others.
Has Gonsalves specifically excluded this part of Bishops work?
We should all remember that days and hours after the Grenada revolution, GONSALVES was there riding in Bishops car and helping to write his speech's.

7/ Who had a big house built by the Buccament people not far from Harmony Hall?

Simon Anderson:

PETER, AH MEAN BRIAN ALEXANDER, why did the Police come back to your job and take you away?

Brian, what did they question you about?

Did they ask about the missing money from PH Veira?

Peter:
COOeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
‘SIMON ANDERSON BLOW YOUR HORN KARL MARX HORATIO WILLIAMS’
MARXIST scum of the ULP, liar extraordinaire, deceptionist and fraud.

Almost every word that that write is a lie.

Gonsalves lied to the people about how he was going to give them a deserved 30% pay rise, he stirred up the ignorant with lies and brought about new elections by being involved in a revolutionary process where he promised to make the country ungovernable and brought the country to a standstill organizing strikes and blocking roads. A typical Marxist strategy. Gonsalves in my opinion should have been arrested, tried and imprisoned at that time.

The hospital at the time of the NDP administration was well managed, clean, well staffed, well maintained and exemplary in the Eastern Caribbean. Since the ULP regime took over, the hospital has fallen into disrepair, is under funded, understaffed, its dirty and unsanitary. To the extent that GONSALVES or his family and other regime members do not use it, choosing to fly elsewhere for health care and treatment. Supplies to the hospital have been stopped at times because of failure to pay bills for drugs and dressings. People's families are forced to bring their own drugs, dressings, and some times even sheets and pillowcases, soap. toilet paper etc. Machines are broken down most of the time, including the new scanner machine, because the suppliers and maintainers are not paid on time or in some cases, at all.

When you write of wage increases, Gonsalves only promises to give wage increases, and then fails to pay them saying there is not enough money in the pot. The 30% that he promised in 2001, never ever appeared, most people's pay since 2001 have not increased in time with inflation, and this in some cases has resulted in the value of some peoples wages being worth 30% less today than in 2001.

There are more poor people on poor relief today than ever before, so there must be more poor than ever before.

I am sorry but I do not believe any of this governments figures since GONSALVES told us he is here to finish the work of Maurice Bishop, knowing myself from Grenadian public records that Bishop had instructed that state figures should be falsified in Grenada.

Almost all of the new schools built were paid for the EU and the contracts were negotiated by the NDP and built during the ULP reign. The ULP are great pretenders and like you ANDERSON dishonest with the truth.

About 14% of children that should be in school, and are recorded as being at school, cannot attend school because their families cannot afford school books and uniforms. Your 100% of teenagers attending schools is a downright lie. In many of the schools this year exam results showed a less than 5% pass rate. A handful of schools that have always done well are still doing well, and that no thanks to the ULP policies, that's in spite of ULP policies.

Under the NDP lots of our young people went to universities. Granted not as many, but the whole world has moved on, and this would of occurred whoever was in power, its a natural process of more countries offering places for poorer countries students.

There has been more embarrassment caused to students since 2001 under the Gonsalves regime, students locked out of class because their fees were in some case's two years behind in payment. This situation is immensely worse today than yesteryear. There have been articles in the press from time to time so its not a secret.

Simon Anderson:
14 MORE STUPID RANTS FROM BRIAN ALEXANDER WHO CALLS HIMSELF "PETER."

When STUPID was sharing, BRIAN took ALL of it!

Is this guy for real, or is he just a total numbskull?

I have met liars on this thread. I have met a Jailbird here as well, but Brian Alexander is simply the BIGGEST FOOL there is....period!

Peter:

COOeeeeeeeeeeeeee! ANDY PANDY SIMON ANDERSON KARL MARX HORATIO BLOW YOUR HORN WILLIAMS, 3rd rate realtor and top rate liar and deceptionist, MARIST collaborator and member of the SVG organized internet scum brigade.

Got any safe houses for all those foreigners using dodgy Vincentian passports in the US and Canada? Are you part of that organization? Do you offer safe houses to people the Homeland Security should be informed about?

Here is some more information on our scum Iranian friends.

HUNDREDS OF CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 10 MARRIED IN IRAN.
Iran has experienced a dramatic growth in under-age marriages that has seen the number of girls being wed before the age of 10 double in the space of a year, officially-compiled figures have revealed.
Sharia law states that females can be married as young as nine, a 2002 ruling by the powerful Expediency Council laid down that girls below 13 and boys younger than 15 could only wed with their father's consent and the permission of a court.
"We must regard nine as being the appropriate age for a girl to have reached puberty and qualified to get married," Mr. Asfenani, chairman of the parliamentary legal and judiciary committee said. "To do otherwise would be to contradict and challenge Islamic Sharia law."

Nine year old girls married to men of 50 and 60 years of age, are expected to have sex and have babies, many immature girls die during childbirth.

IS THAT OK WITH ALL YOU SCUM BAGS THAT SUPPORT THE GONSALVES IRANIAN FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY.