tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37949944.post6054489653678826530..comments2023-05-05T07:13:41.889-04:00Comments on Corruption-free Anguilla: GovernorsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37949944.post-80681106215436606502009-04-23T11:39:00.000-04:002009-04-23T11:39:00.000-04:00Speaking of Indian construction "expats" far from ...Speaking of Indian construction "expats" far from home: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/the-dark-side-of-dubai-1664368.html<br /><br />It makes me wonder how many passports are currently in the "possession" of employers on Anguilla...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37949944.post-23766897433798970072009-04-23T08:20:00.000-04:002009-04-23T08:20:00.000-04:00He also said, and I am quoting from his remarks pu...He also said, and I am quoting from his remarks published at http://www.anguillalife.com/news/stories/local/12243.php. Very interesting times.<br /><br />"I started by talking about history. The first Governor of Anguilla William Watts went down in the history books with the judgement that, "he exercised no effective control of events in Anguilla". I obviously do not want that kind of legacy. So I pledge sincerely to devote myself throughout my posting here to the service of Anguilla and of its people."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37949944.post-87478454674865637762009-04-22T23:07:00.000-04:002009-04-22T23:07:00.000-04:00WELL IF WE LISTENED TO HE GOVERNOR'S SPEECH Y...WELL IF WE LISTENED TO HE GOVERNOR'S SPEECH YESTERDAY HE SAID HE WOULD NOT BE THE BOSS & THE HON. CM WOULD NOT BE THE BOSS EITHER ... WHAT DOES THAT SAY TO US. LET HE WHO HAS EARS I HOPE HE HEARD... AND HE WHO HAD UNDERSTANDING I PRAY THAT THEY UNDERSTOOD.<br /><br />EVERYTHING IS GOING AWRY ... AS GYPSY SAID "CAPTAIN THE SHIP IS SINKING, CAPTAIN THE SEAS ARE ROUGH" WHETHER IT BE CAPTAIN GOVERNOR OR CAPTAIN CHIEF MINISTER ... THE SHIP SINKING!!!<br /><br />WE WILL BE AND ARE LIVING IN VERY EXCITING TIMES ... GOD SAVE THE QUEEN AND ALL HER HEIRS AND LOYAL PEOPLE.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37949944.post-87079023293161486562009-04-22T17:19:00.000-04:002009-04-22T17:19:00.000-04:00I'm sorry, but I can't help a little "be careful w...I'm sorry, but I can't help a little "be careful what you wish for", here. <br /><br />Does Anguilla really *need* copiously-educated, insightful, articulate, career-driven *bureaucrats* telling it what to do in such exquisite, and inevitably minute, detail? <br /><br />It's like the old libertarian joke: "I'm from the government, and I'm here to *help* you!" <br /><br />"Help" can be such a, heh, fungible, verb. Like the late and now-prescient Gerry Ford once said, any government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have...<br /><br />On the other hand, and to mix metaphors like a dead horse :-), maybe Don's right, they're just sending in a ringer from the varsity team to jump-start .ai's constitutional ground-game. <br /><br />Either that, or they're sending a starting pitcher down to the minors for a little practice on that occasionally errant fastball... ;-)<br />.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37949944.post-30422078528450581682009-04-21T22:56:00.000-04:002009-04-21T22:56:00.000-04:00To Anonymous at 11:34
And, 35 Chinese at Flag, de...To Anonymous at 11:34<br /><br />And, 35 Chinese at Flag, despite the promises of the Chief Minister that they would be gone by now. <br /><br />His contractor friends need the Chinese to do their tiling and finishing work. They only charge US$10 per hour. Cheap, and four times the productivity of an Anguillian tiler.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37949944.post-55065793821632232822009-04-21T21:47:00.000-04:002009-04-21T21:47:00.000-04:00"Elections are due next year for the latest, more ..."Elections are due next year for the latest, more likely in a couple of months' time. <br /><br />And, then, there are the miscellaneous minor matters of a dysfunctional education system, a demoralized public service, a divided and paralysed governing political party; a mortally wounded Health Authority ..., the collapsing economy..."<br /><br />Sounds like Britain to me from the last time that I read the British Newspapers!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37949944.post-48812465219974264202009-04-21T11:45:00.000-04:002009-04-21T11:45:00.000-04:00"We reiterate our conclusion of March 2006 th..."We reiterate our conclusion of March 2006 that the FCO should bring itself into line with the rest of Whitehall, by recruiting more professionally qualified, experienced people to top and middle roles in management and we recommend that in its response to this Report the FCO set out what it is doing or will do to achieve this."<br /><br />House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee<br />"Annual Report 2005–06 on the Foreign & Commonwealth Office"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37949944.post-81237160003804622212009-04-21T11:34:00.000-04:002009-04-21T11:34:00.000-04:00It's not all bad, Don. There are 695 happy constr...It's not all bad, Don. There are 695 happy construction workers from India working at Viceroy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com