tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37949944.post7118687337198720916..comments2023-05-05T07:13:41.889-04:00Comments on Corruption-free Anguilla: OTCCUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37949944.post-86357861966445395142008-11-02T10:20:00.000-04:002008-11-02T10:20:00.000-04:00To SOSThe ruling elite of any country, whether it ...To SOS<BR/><BR/>The ruling elite of any country, whether it is the UK or Anguilla, accept democracy like they accept religion, as a given. It is part of the background noise. There is no need to emphasise it in a good governance document. <BR/><BR/>If you are a politician, you swear to your belief in democracy even as you rip off your supporters and take shares in investors' businesses that you are licensing. <BR/><BR/>If you are a Christian politician you swear to your belief in democracy even as you beat your wife and seduce your neighbor's wives and daughters on your way to church. <BR/><BR/>That is the nature of the beast, whether British or Anguillian. <BR/><BR/>Why do we expect more from any of them?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37949944.post-49953221521326417262008-11-02T06:16:00.000-04:002008-11-02T06:16:00.000-04:00PROMOTING DEMOCRACY The word "democracy" is not us...PROMOTING DEMOCRACY <BR/><BR/>The word "democracy" is not used anywhere in the document. How can the British avoid use of the word democracy when referring to the British overseas Territories/colonies? <BR/><BR/>Chagos?<BR/><BR/>Excuse me while I puke.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37949944.post-25617792795599262542008-11-01T20:42:00.000-04:002008-11-01T20:42:00.000-04:00I agree with the first poster. But unfortunately,...I agree with the first poster. But unfortunately, the new ones and their misleading, deceptive claims worry me more than the old ones. <BR/><BR/>Haydn said on the radio Thursday that a minimum wage would be a win-win situation. It would be good for employers because they would know the minimum to pay people.<BR/><BR/>That kind of populist pandering to the uneducated reveals to me the kind of politician who would do or say anything for a vote. <BR/><BR/>This is the same man who wrote a song about joining CARICOM and how great it would be if alla we in the Caribbean were brothers. But when he found out all them brothers could move to Anguilla and live in shacks and marry our daughters, he claimed he had always opposed the idea, he just happened to write a song about it. Oh please...<BR/><BR/>Haydn, we have spoken to your mother. We know everything.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37949944.post-80672163082644942322008-11-01T17:31:00.000-04:002008-11-01T17:31:00.000-04:00They think we do not remember 2000. It was not on...They think we do not remember 2000. It was not only our disgust at Hubert's hate filled Friday press conferences that made us vote for the united front government. It was also the promises that they made whenthey said in tehir 2000 manifesto that their objective was to<BR/><BR/>a) Strengthen participatory democracy and the empowerment of the people of Anguilla through:<BR/><BR/>i) Expanding press freedom; and<BR/><BR/>ii) Promoting and supporting efforts to increase access by the people of Anguilla to the various forms of the media;<BR/><BR/>b) Return Anguilla to political stability;<BR/><BR/>c) Re-establish good governance and excellence in the operations of the various institutions of the Government;<BR/><BR/>d) Ensure that the principle of collective responsibility is observed by the members of the ANA-ADP United Front Administration and that the Ministers of Government operate as a team;<BR/><BR/>e) Achieve the political and constitutional advancement and maturing of the Anguillian political system particularly by:<BR/><BR/>i) Undertaking a major review of the Anguilla Constitution and electoral system; and<BR/><BR/>ii) Increasing the level of national and community consciousness, pride commitment and unity;<BR/><BR/>f) Increase the degree of transparency, openness and accountability to the people of Anguilla; and<BR/><BR/>g) Strengthen commitment to the basic principles of democracy in the wider community.”<BR/><BR/>That is what we voted for. Everybody has been waiting and watching since then. No good governance. No excellence in the health sector or immigration. Education mashed up. Environment gone to the dogs. No constitutional advance. No social cohesion. No transparency, openness or accountability. <BR/><BR/>I agree they gave us political stability and economic advance. That was not so difficult after Hurricane Hubert. But what does it really mean? A few getting richer while most of us are getting poorer. Why? <BR/><BR/>We just felt we could have got so much more integrity, transparency and accountability. We were fooled.<BR/><BR/><BR/>It is time to give the old ones a rest. They did their best. Soon it will be time for a change.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com