WALCOTT DELIBERATELY DENIED
NANNY LEGAL STATUS JUST TO PAY HER LESS THAN MINIMUM WAGE
So now, not
only does St Lucia’s Consul General in Martinique have a nasty reputation that
eclipses her stature as a diplomat, she’s a breaking the law of France, too.
Yasmine
Walcott has broken the law of France and only her diplomatic immunity is
protecting her from prosecution.
The longer
Prime Minister Kenny Anthony and foreign affairs minister Alva Baptiste take to
fire Yasmine Walcott from the foreign service, the more they will be to blame
for the house of cards she is running in Martinique.
Last month,
The FLOGG reported on the management and human relations nightmare that is Yasmine
Walcott’s leadership of the Lucian Consulate in Martinique.
Her former
housekeeper was suing her, her driver was suing her, her secretary is not
speaking with her, her cultural attaché wants no one in Martinique to associate
him with her professionally and her private indiscretions and personal
reputation have totally eclipsed her stature as a representative of the
government and people of St Lucia.
Last
weekend, The FLOGG confirmed that Walcott fired her closest, most intimate
staffer, a woman who was her own Nanny as a child as well her own offspring. The
FLOGG also confirmed that Walcott never applied for a work permit for her
personal nanny, opting instead of exploit the woman as an illegal labourer
while representing St Lucia in a foreign country.
This week, The
FLOGG has confirmed why Walcott wanted to keep her nanny illegal.
In France,
there are minimum wage laws. If Walcott had applied for a work permit for her
nanny, she would have to pay her about 1500 euro a month. She would have to do
social security and health insurance co-pays. She would have had to dip a
little deeper into her half a million dollar a year compensation from the
foreign ministry to pay the woman who cared for her children.
But Walcott
did not want to do that.
She preferred
instead to pay the nanny about 800 euro a month. She preferred to break the law
of France knowing her diplomatic immunity would protect her from prosecution.
She preferred to treat the woman who was her childhood nanny as something like
a slave.
And then,
when the woman talked to French workers and found out that the meager salary
Walcott was giving her was considered an ILLEGAL form of HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE,
Yasmine Walcott did the only thing Yasmine Walcott does successfully.
She fired
her.
When the
poor nanny went to authorities for recourse, she found that she was all alone.
She found that she had been working in the country illegally. She found that
Yasmine could not be prosecuted. She could not even be reprimanded.
Meanwhile,
in St Lucia, the prime minister and the foreign affairs minister continue to be
at loggerheads over what to do with Yasmine. Kenny Anthony, aware that his
party is bleeding political capital fast, wants to throw Walcott under the bus
and start the rescue of his party.
But foreign
minister Alva Baptiste would rather lose the next election than fire Yasmine
Walcott. You see, whether Labour wins or not, Alva will win the Laborie seat. A
Labour loss would actually help clear the way for Alva to become the leader of
the Labour Party. It would make it so much easier to get rid of Kenny Anthony
right now.
While Kenny
vacillates and Alva continues to mock the prime minister, Walcott is preparing
to go on an all-expense paid vacation to Cannes.
How long can
the prime minister can continue to cower before the foreign minister before the
waste, the fruitlessness and the corruption of the foreign ministry help bring
down his government and tarnish his already stained legacy forever?
How long
will Kenny let Alva think that he’s the boss?
Alva is
nothing. Laborie will vote Labour with or without Alva.
But Kenny
Anthony has always been susceptible to unreasonable political fears. That’s why
he screwed up Rochamel. That’s why we don’t decriminalize ganja. That’s why we
took too long to join Petro-Caribe. And that’s why the State Department of the
United States of America will continue to deny St Lucian cops training and
visas, until they see him riding his dirty little horse into the political
sunset.
' Laborie will vote Labour with or without Alva '...Point
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