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Please permit me to add my two cents ...Dear Jason,<br /><br />Please permit me to add my two cents to this discussion. I have no problem with the principle behind this initiative. The Arts are means of expression and viable revenue returns. I have no problem with WHAT is being done. The real matters at hand are WHO is doing it, and HOW they choose to do it.<br /><br />Beneath its glossy veneer, the SLTB, over countless decades has maintained a penchant for getting deeply involved with projects that are never financially viable. You would think that after 25 years, the Jazz festival should turn a profit. And don't give me that crap about derived benefits! If the hotels, etc. do so well and benefit so much then they ought to chip in and help foot the bill. <br /><br />I guess in some ways the Jazz festival was beneficial - to BET's Paxton Baker; who after so many Jazz Festivals laughed all the way to the bank, while Lucian taxpayers remained saddled with increasing debt. <br /><br />St. Lucians are finally waking up after a heavily induced slumber to the abject BS, incompetence, and downright thievery they have been experiencing all along. We never really had a genuine jazz festival. It was more like an R&B Festival, with muzak and elevator music that we were told, thanks to our ignorance, that this was jazz.<br /><br />And now the SLTB wants to conduct intellectual tourism. And where are the droves of academics and literature aficionados going to come from with bulging pockets to whisk St. Lucia out of its dismal economic malaise? Where is the venue? In the Mindoo Phillip Park? In the orange and white tent? The so-called Cultural Centre?<br /><br />Get real.<br /><br />I recall in 1998, one of the brilliant ideas of then SLTB Director Hilarious Modeste who stated on a DBS programme that immigration Officers should cast off their police uniforms and put on Hawaiian Shirts during the Jazz Festival season. This is the kind of dazzling BS that is typical of the SLTB!<br /><br />When I lived in St. Lucia, I told everyone that intellectual property was the way to go. Develop publishing, film, music and photography. Develop it in-house. Develop it in St. Lucia. No one listened. Has anyone ever read CLR James' "The Artist in the Caribbean" (1959). I wonder if Kenny ever did. And even if he did that, did he take heed to the utterances of James?<br /><br />Although St. Lucia has served as the inspiration for our literary greats, the profits from the work go elsewhere: the UK, USA, etc. <br /><br />Literacy Tourism sounds great; but it seems like too little too late. Will it make a big dent in St. Lucia's debt that now consumes over 70% of its GDP? Hell no. For too long the powers-that-be of the SLTB have cavorted around with an aloof an arrogant attitude because they felt that Tourism was the economic saving grace after the fall of bananas in the early 1990s. Again, blissful ignorance and a deeply ingrained dependency syndrome fueled our procrastination. The WTO rules were inevitable and St. Lucians did nothing to diversify the economy. <br /><br />I do not have a crystal ball or fragile crystal balls for that matter, but the best way to predict the future is to analyse the past. the SLTB does not enjoy a past that I am proud of. Positive revenue streams seem to be an alien entity to those in charge of handling our Tourism industry.<br /><br />I don't expect much from the "Cooyon" Tourist Board who traipse around our hotels behaving as if they are entitled to free drinks and entertainment. But then gain, you, the SLTB, now have a golden opportunity to prove me wrong. I wait to be pleasantly surprised. David CaveDave Cavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10650622351430233613noreply@blogger.com