GOV’T BOUGHT
MILLION DOLLAR SHREDDER INSTEAD OF MAKING MILLIONS SELLING TIRES TO TRINIDAD
Is Sustainable Development Minister Jimmy Fletcher TRYING to kill us?He has used tires on his face. Around his waist. Everywhere.How is that sustainable? |
See those
million tires giving breeding to chikungunya’s mosquitoes? They’re worth
millions to St Lucia. And the government knew it for years and years. And the Solid
Waste Management Authority knew it, too.
They knew.
And they still put us in the mess we’re in.
So why did
they spend money to shred used tires instead of making money by exporting that
garbage? Are they doing it on purpose? Who could possibly profit more from spending
hard-earned Lucian tax dollars than from making Trinidadian trade dollars?
The answer:
Only the people in politics.
It’s a
question that the Solid Waste Management Authority and the Minister of Talking
Garbage Dr Jimmy Fletcher will need to answer at some point.
Here are
some wonderfully toxic details:
Alberton
Richelieu, Jr is a young St Lucian entrepreneur who has made almost all his
success by making use of other people’s garbage. Used metals, old batteries,
Albi can sell it all.
Albi Richelieu, Jr, Young entrepreneurScrewed over by his own government for no good reason |
A few years
ago, he got in contact with some Trinidadians who needed radial steel the way
zombies need crack. They would pay for all the used tires in St Lucia is
someone, anyone, would just collect them all and put them on a boat to Trinidad.
Albi wrote
to Solid Waste management with a proposal. He thought it was a done deal
because, seriously, who turns down an offer to get paid for the garbage they
didn’t want?
Months
passed. No reply.
He wrote
another letter begging for more speedy consideration. Not only were used tires
a health hazard, time is money and the delays were costing St Lucia its garbage
dividend. No reply.
He wrote
another letter, trying different tactics to persuade Solid Waste Management to
answer him whether it was yes or no.
They
replied.
They had
considered his proposal, but they had decided on a ‘better’ idea. Instead of making millions of used
tires, they would spend millions on it and still be left with tons of toxic
waste.
Solid Waste
Management and Dr. Jimmy Fletcher, in their infinite wisdom saw it fit to buy a
$1.2m shredder which would need paid labour and would leave tons and tons of
shredded waste on the island.
How anyone
with a brain couldn’t see that this was a far better idea than selling the
tires to Trinidad, making millions and NOT GETTING CHICKUNGUNYA, is still a
mystery to Dr Jimmy.
Of course,
the shredder broke down. And no one here knows how to fix it. (Because, of
course, Solid Waste and Dr Jimmy do everything with foresight and planning. They
make sure that they are prepared for NOTHING that could possible happen.)
But that’s
all water in the tires now, isn’t it? Let the past be the past and let’s move
on.
You would
think that now, the government and the Solid Waste Management Authority would
find Albi Richelieu’s number and revive the idea of selling used tires to
Trinidad.
But nooooo…..they
have a better idea.
Which is
basically the same idea they had the last time. Fix the shredder or buy a new
one.
Spend more
money on a problem we should be MAKING MONEY ON.
Brilliant.
Fucking genius, Jimmy Fletcher. I can’t wait for Kenny to retire so we cn make
you Prime Minister of THE FARTHEST POSSIBLE PLACE FROM ST LUCIA, you useless,
wasteful, pompous, overeducated brat.
Before we
end, let us count the number of things that went brilliantly, wonderfully
wrong, here:
1. You elected to spend money instead of
making it in a bad economic time.
2. You elected to buy a machine you
couldn’t fix and neglected to put the skills to maintain the useless machine on
the island. Talk about great planning. That university education really paid
off.
3. Your broken shredder created optimum
conditions for mosquitoes to breed as they have never bred before in modern St
Lucia.
4. You had no plan B for what to do if
the shredder broke down for a couple of weeks. You knew that the tires were a
health issue as well as a solid waste issue, but you had no co-ordination with
the health ministry to mitigate things if the shredder went bad.
5. You still want to go and buy another
shredder for the same shate to happen again. What’s another word for genius? I’ve
used it too many times in this article.
6. Your face keeps getting fatter and
fatter. You cheeks jiggle and make a ruffling sound when you speak. It’s
disgusting. It reminds me of the pigs in Animal Farm. (But then, I see how
appropriate that is. Flambeau might be the Jones, but the St Lucia Labour Party
of the 21st century are goddam pigs.)
In
conclusion, I will avoid the cliché about how doing the same thing over to get
a different result is insanity. You are not insane. You did the wrong thing
with your right mind.
You are
wicked. And your leadership has brought a literal plague on our island.
You and your
genius prime minister need to take your genius somewhere else.
Because this
genius is killing us. Literally.
That broken
shredder you bought is giving us chikungunya. And you, sir, are not even
halfway ready to admit the error of you ways.
Please, I
beg you, sell the tires to Trinidad. Do something right. Or get the fuck out of
our government and take Alva Baptiste, Leo Clarke and Yasmine Walcott with you.
Even mosquitoes know that the Labour government is not on your side. |
Now here's a situation, yea, even a person [if as described,] deserving of your acerbic vitriol.
ReplyDeleteI wish you would tell us more about his worthiness of the privilege...
DeleteNow, now, how good would I be at that. Lets not ignore 'if as described'.
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