By Nathan 'Jolly' Green

Over the
last twelve months, I put together a collection of schemes and
projects that could have assisted and perhaps even been the future
saviour of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. I put them to a member
of the NDP and asked him not to use them before being elected because
Gonsalves would adopt them himself to get re-elected.

1/
Crime: A scheme that would guarantee between 25 and 50% reduction in
crime.

2/
Agriculture: A major US agricultural corporation ready to invest
knowhow and infrastructure in SVG and put every Vincentian farmer
back to work and back into the upper-middle-income class.

3/
Industrial: A light engineering assembly plant with jobs approaching
1500, some for intellectuals in the R&D department.

4/
Infrastructure: A previously pre-proven type scheme to protect the
Grenadine Islands from water inundation by climate warming and to
immediately recover and save Salt Whistle Bay.

All
these schemes will now be scrapped because SVG has proven to me they
are incapable of controlling, introducing, and mastering such
projects by the very fact that they have re-elected the ULP for a
further term of five years. Such action will put them in line to
follow Venezuela down the road to treachery and bankruptcy. I had
already warned and demonstrated to the investing corporations that
their investments would be at risk if the leadership of the previous
twenty years were re-elected. None of them will now come because they
cannot risk their shareholder's investment.

This
morning I wrote to all the players in my saving SVG scheme, they have
all agreed not to come to SVG or invest here due to this
communist-style ULP government being re-elected.

I had
wrongly believed that the Vincentian people could not be bought this
time around.

But that
was a grave mistake on my part. The pre-election bribery was in full
force again as it has been during all the previous four elections.
Lumber, galvanise, and cement was distributed to Labour supporters.
Little envelopes with $50 or/and $100 passed around the villages. A
red T shirt with a $500 note inside. A man caught having voted in a
constituency illegally. Talk of a ballot box discovered when
delivered containing pre-filled ballot papers, which means that type
of fraud probably went undetected all over the island again.

To sum
it all up, the Vincentian people who will suffer the most will be the
ULP supporters because they are among the poorest of the State. How
they could vote ULP when they and their family are hungry,
malnourished and without a job, I cannot even start to square in my
own mind. But we all know the saying, you get what you wish for, and
perhaps deserve.

Not
entirely true because the NDP supporters wished for change and
deserve better, but over the next five years they like the ULP
supporters will experience much worse conditions.

You
cannot run a country how SVG has been run for the last twenty years
and survive unless of course, Vincentians get wages like what Cubans
and Venezuelans get. Some Cuban wages are about EC$60 a week, and in
the lower jobs, they get that a month. Venezuelans are 90%
unemployed, and those working get about the same as the Cubans,
perhaps a little less. But even that is a sign of failure; many
Vincentians will not even survive the fall and downdraft of the
downward spiral during the next five years.

It is a
shame that there are so many easily bought ignorant backward people
in Saint Vincent, but those of that category will most certainly
suffer the most. This class of person is more likely to rob and be
robbed, kill, and be killed, murder and be murdered, rape and be
raped, and spend many years incarcerated. All of that will get many
times worse, violent crime is out of control. The ULP created poor
people will suffer most, such a crying shame.

The NDP
supporters are generally business owners, and most others have jobs.
I hope they can survive another five years, but unfortunately some
will fall into the pit of hell that ULP supporters just dug for the
Nation when they re-elected the ULP.

Will
Saint Vincent be recoverable after this coming next five years?
Perhaps, but I doubt it, SVG will more likely become a total shithole
country as the comrade has described some other countries. Or worse
than that it may become a mirror image of Venezuela.

I will
not be around for the next elections, so I will not be putting any
effort into bringing projects to SVG again. My time for helping has
now passed.

I cannot
accept politicians with dirty hands right up to the elbows, so those
of you who do not care about that, bad luck Karma will pre-empt your
every move during the next five years.

Bad Luck to those who deserve it, and goodbye to all others.

END

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