By
Nathan ‘Jolly’ Green, early March, 2020

Saint
Vincent and the Grenadines United Liars Party ULP.

I
the year 2001, he told the countries working people if they voted him
and the ULP party into power, every one of them would get an
immediate 30% wage increase. That was among the first of the
fraudulent statements. It never happened; it never happened. It
never happened.

He
told us that he was bringing us an education revolution. That turned
out to be a World Bank scheme that was offered to every Caribbean
country and many other countries in the World. Only he repackaged it
and pretended he was bringing us a revolution. It was all rubbish.

The
NDP put forward a scheme to give the children computers; he ran with
it and pretended it was his idea.

He told the people of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines that he was going to build a new international airport at Argyle. We were told it would cost us nothing because there were many friendly countries which had formed what he called a coalition of the willing.

Willing
to pay, willing to pay for the trucks, machinery, and equipment.
Ready to supply all the cement, to provide all the blacktop products,
too, supply everything including workers and experts. We were told
that the Venezuelan government would pay the wages of the supposed
airport builder workmen and specialists as long as they were Cuban,
they did not, SVG paid those wages, multi-millions of dollars. They
promised to pay for all the plant and equipment. They bought us about
10 million dollars worth of second-hand repainted undersized
inadequate equipment. SVG purchased and paid for the rest of the
stuff more than $80 million. He told us when the airport was
completed, we would have no debts; that was a massive untruth. It
turned out there was no coalition of the willing, SVG paid for
everything. And we have a debt obligation which will take a hundred
years to repay.

He
told the people who owned the land at Argyle that when it was
acquired for the airport, they would be paid promptly and fairly.
There are still sixty landowners who have not been paid; their land
is now built on, agricultural income lost, they remain unpaid.

The
airport project was a three-year project which took the Cubans nine
years to finish.

The
whole thing was built on fraudulent statements and promises. So
instead of paying the Cubans wages for three years, we paid them for
nine years, lucky Cuba, poor little SVG.

He
told the people we were most fortunate to have the Cubans build us a
new Diagnostic Center at Georgetown. Another three-year project that
took the Cubans eleven years to build. SVG just kept on paying
through the nose to employ second rate Cubans who were light years
behind some of the skills of Vincentians.

We
were told the diagnostic center was world-class and the best and most
modern in the Caribbean. Partially manned by Cuban doctors and nurses
while our people fly kites at Brighton beach and twiddle their thumbs
doing crochet for the baby clothes. According to his actions,
Vincentians are merely useless and worthless when compared to Cubans,
great for Cuba, dreadful for poor little SVG.

But
like everything else, there are more cons than pros. The center is
built within striking distance of La Soufriere volcano. When it last
erupted in 1979, boulders as big as microwave ovens flung high in the
air crashed through house roofs in that very area. If there is
another eruption, and some say one is due.

A
real volcanically preserved person.

Poisonous
gasses that will kill those patients may be released, killing them
where they lay. Its also possible a heat blast so powerful is carried
on a wave of escaping gasses and molten particles of glass that it
will turn people instantly to rock.

That
happened when the volcano erupted at Pompeii, Italy. People, dogs,
cats, horses, goats. All instantly preserved forever.

So
perhaps we can look forward or even backward to the folly of building
a medical clinic within the danger zone of a volcano.

The
local people of Georgetown live there because they choose to do so.
The patients are there because they have no choice in the matter.

Now
a world-class medical diagnostic center must be able to analyze and
report a diagnosis based on symptoms and clinical and laboratory
evidence. But not this one, because World class does not currently
mean World-class in SVG. This clinic cannot, for instance, diagnose
the new CoronaVirus. So why did we overpay the Cubans to build and
staff such a facility, that took an eight-year overrun in costs,
which every Vincentian paid for? If the patients and staff had to be
rescued and evacuated, how would that be possible? Cut off perhaps
by lava flows. Cannot flee North towards Sandy Bay because they will
have their problems. No escape possible by sea, it's too rough there
for any boat to land. Will they be walking running, carried, or in
pushchairs. Rocks and boulders may be falling from the heavens;
there will not be any coaches or big busses for them? During the
uproar, the Cubans will probably be gone; they are not paid enough to
stay.

So
what sort of a mess are we in? Well, we are bankrupt. The three
hundred million found in the treasury in 2001 is now a debt fast
approaching two billion. We lost our National bank several years ago
because the same actors borrowed so much money from it; we had the
option of selling it or let it be acclaimed broke.

We
owe the NIS millions, money that belongs to the people for their
pensions when they retire. Unless we are careful, the NIS will go the
same way as the bank.

The
roads and all infrastructure are falling apart through mismanagement
and underfunding. There has been more than one allegation of bad
things happening when awarding contracts for building and engineering
works.

People
do not have work or employment, and unless their relatives send them
money each month, they will starve.

Everything
they touch flops. Now they are building hotels with government
borrowed money in places that will guarantee the funds invested will
be lost, as they once more build failures in and on the black sand of
the mainland.

The
fat flopping flop creator spends time in luxury villas in Mustique
and Canouan or travelling the world, poking our noses into other
people's problems instead of concentrating on our own. We have become
a nation of scroungers and UN wheeler-dealers in voting with and for
rubbish regimes. We are selling our votes to protect human rights
violators and thieves of their own people's assets—nasty murdering
scoundrels like Maduro and other such rubbish political leaders.

Now
to cap it all, we find that he has merely been playing us all for
fools while ignoring or reinventing the meanings of our sacred
constitution.

Every
political pretence of good carried to the extreme as everything has
been for the past eighteen years, must be a product of evil.

It's time for someone to say “get thou behind us, Satan.”

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