Dr. Kenny Anthony called it...... I wonder however....He said: “We are not developing people who are independent, people who are courageous, people who are anxious to find solutions to their problems, people who are willing to take responsibility for what they do . . . . “What has happened,” Dr Anthony told students and academics at the University of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus on Tuesday night, “is that we have created an elaborate system of mendicancy at the highest levels of decision making, percolating right into the political system at the lowest level . . . . And if you want symptoms of what I am talking about, these days you have to pay people to want to vote for you. “They tell you plainly and bluntly that if you want them to vote for you, then pass [the blinza] . . . .” The irritating cirumstance of this is that some politicians capitulate and it becomes a habit. Unfortunately, the habit, which is bound to be greater in extent, when passed from partisan incumbent to successor, continues to erode self-esteem and independence on the one hand, and political integrity on the other. To create the Caribbean Community that Dr Anthony would rather envisage, we –– politician and citizen –– must decide that this regional exercise in beggary does not and cannot serve us well, and so toss this despicable and evil habit into the garbage can of canker.
Posted on: Sun, 03 Nov 2013 16:25:33 +0000
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