Presidents of Taiwan, Venezuela Among Well-wishers.
PRIME Minister Allen Chastanet has been spending the last two days in reflection and preparing to announce his Cabinet following Monday’s general elections victory of his United Workers Party.
Chastanet took the oath as Prime Minister on Tuesday at Government House and an announcement from the ruling United Workers Party’ s headquarters promised that a Cabinet would be announced in due course, but since then there has been no indication how soon this will be.
There was a recount of ballots in the Castries South constituency where the St Lucia Labour Party’s candidate Ernest Hilaire had been declared winner over UWP’s Mary Isaac. The recount only resulted in an addition of one vote to Hilaire’s tally.
Congratulatory messages have been pouring in for the new government. The first came from St Kitts Nevis Prime Minister Timothy Harris, within hours of the election results on Monday.
The President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro Moros, on behalf of the Venezuelan people, congratulated the people of Saint Lucia for the holding of “a peaceful and fair general election” .
“In the same way, we congratulate the United Workers Party (UWP) and its leader, Mr. Allen Chastanet, on the support and trust received from the people of Saint Lucia”, Maduro said, adding:
“The Bolivarian Government reaffirms to the new government of Saint Lucia its unquestionable willingness to continue working together in order to deepen the already excellent relations of friendship and brotherhood, relations based on the principles of mutual respect and solidarity that exists between our nations.
“This time is propitious to reassure the worthy people of Saint Lucia that our country will always extend a friendly hand, without condition, to our Caribbean brothers, as this is part of the indispensable historical legacy left to us by our Commander Hugo Chávez”.
St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, also telephoned Chastanet congratulating him on his “tremendous victory”.
“His party was 11-6 down before the parliament was dissolved and is now 11-6 up. That’s quite a turn around,” said Gonsalves, adding that he had also spoken with Labour Party leader Dr. Kenny Anthony, whom he described as his “personal friend”.
Said Gonsalves: “Anthony, of course, has served St. Lucia well but people make their decisions and you respect the decisions of the people.”
Gonsalves said he and Chastanet had a good discussion on a number of matters. He added:
“And when he is settled in, I invite him to come to St. Vincent and the Grenadines, which he said he would come, for a couple days for us to talk about several things.
“We talked briefly about the work we have to do with relation to the OECS and CARICOM and LIAT. He is a man of much accomplishment. He has come from a family which is self-made and I am quite sure that he would do well for the people of St. Lucia and he would work very well with his colleagues in CARICOM. And I believe that the relations between St. Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines would be further strengthened,” Gonsalves said.
He said he knows that people would be saying that the UWP and the opposition New Democratic Party (NDP) in St Vincent traditionally have fraternal links.
“Of course, but I have a good relationship with Stephenson King, when he was Prime Minister when he headed the government. I had a very good relationship with Sir John Compton, of blessed memory,” Gonsalves said.
Yesterday, the Taiwanese President extended her congratulations to Prime Minister Allen Chastanet.
In her letter to Prime Minister Chastanet, President Tsai noted that Saint Lucia and Taiwan shared the same democratic values and many similar experiences with national development, an area in which the two countries had become indispensable partners through close cooperation.
“President Tsai looks forward to working closely with the newly-elected government of Saint Lucia to enhance the cordial ties and friendship between the two countries”, the message said.
Premier Lin Chuen, head of the government’s Executive Yuan, also conveyed his best wishes to Prime Minister Chastanet, and said he expected Taiwan’s comprehensive bonds with Saint Lucia to be further cemented for the betterment of mutual benefits.
Meanwhile, in nearby Barbados political consultant Hartley Henry was defending the involvement of Barbadian experts in the general election campaign in St Lucia, arguing that Caribbean consultants who are recognized as authorities in their field should be embraced by the region.
Henry’s stance echoed that of Opposition Leader Mia Mottley who faced strong criticism over her possible involvement in the campaign during a visit to St Lucia, according to a report in Barbados Today.
Speaking yesterday on the radio call-in programme “Down to Brass Tacks”, Henry gave the thumbs up to the “four or five Barbadians” who had travelled to St Lucia to work on the successful campaign of the UWP ahead of Monday’s general election.
Regarded as one of the region’s top political consultants, Henry argued that political consultancy had the potential to become a thriving industry, earning valuable foreign exchange for Barbados.
The political strategist, whose services are utilized by major parties in a number of Caribbean countries, noted that 15 to 20 years ago political consultants were brought in from the United States at a time when the profession was seen as a “most revered and respected” one.
Pointing out that as many as 13 Barbadians had been on the ground in St Lucia during the elections of 1997, 2001 and 2006, the political consultant expressed surprise at the negative comments expressed by detractors.
Henry disclosed that over the past 15 years every manifesto and every poster for elections in the Eastern Caribbean had been printed by a Barbadian company, adding that the theme song for the UWP campaign this year was penned and sung by two-time calypso monarch John King, with Barbadians as the backup singers.
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I have long realized that the worship of a Naked Caucasian male as God by the people of St. Lucia has caused extensive damage to the psyche of the people of African Ancestry in St. Lucia. I thought Kenny Anthony was an intelligent, and progressive leader of our country who made Lucians proud. Was he perfect, of course not, but today I am sadden to see our island now being occupied by a gang of oligarchs and Colonial settlers.
On the other hand I am happy to see the last of scumbags like Peter Foster, Lacorbiniere, and Claudius Francis, but however, I will now have to deal with an International Embarrassment named Allen Chastanet and the parasites like black Pete Josie, and the White supremacist Michael Chastanet who hates the African people of St. Lucia referring to them as NIGGERS from whom the Chastanets have sucked their blood, even as they now openly advocates the extermination of Black men in St. Lucia.
This is the kind of Evil White supremacist that Negroes like Black Pete Josie, Ezekiel Joseph, John Wayne, Sarah Flood, Mary Isaac, and the litany of selfish, power-hungry, Self-hating Negroes, who see themselves as House Negro Slaves, willing to keep all the people of the island under the feet of their Caucasian God and Masters.
You self-hating Lucian Negroes are the most disgraceful people on the Planet today. You have demonstrated to the world what you think of yourselves and your little Black children. First you feel no shame worshiping a naked white man as your God, and the result of this abomination is you have made the babbling idiot Allen Chastanet, suffering from a severe case of Dyslexia your leader and white god, a man and his family who has hated and despises your Culture, seeing you as inferior savages and Niggers, that of all the beautiful Black women, that racist found the only witch on island and you worthless savages made Tarzan, Jane and boy your First Family. You people make me nauseous and I must THROW UP the contents of my gut.
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Do you retarded Lucians who made this man Allen who hates you and your culture, ruler over yourselves, your wives and children; do you think that this nincompoop has the mental ability to “REFLECT”? PLEASE, spare me the frigging nightmare.
These Negroes in the UWP who sold you Lucians back into slavery, are really being ruled by Papa “Dem-mooh ah mem” in the person of Michael Chastanet. Allen Chastanet is mentally challenged incapable of reading Tee-ABC WITHOUT BEING ASSISTED by his Racist Mother and Father, who brought this man up to hate and call you Lucians NIGGERS.
This man is an international disgrace surrounded by a demented group of black Sambos, who hate Black people. Self-hating Neg-gwess Sarah Flood, Mary Isaac, the bald”Tet Kalbas” Gale Rigobert who hates herself to the point of trying to sound like she is more Irish than that the racist who gave birth to this idiot Allen Chastanet, and taught him to hate us and our Culture.
This man and his minions lied boldface to you dumb and retarded worshipers of so-called white people, who taught you and your children that God is a White Man, with a White Mother that looks down on you at the entrance of the Church on Micoud Street, and that this Caucasian woman gave birth to a white boy named Jesus, reincarnated as Allen Chastanet?? “Sort se moon ki MOE DEEE”
You son of a bitch take your head off your a
You son of a bitch take your head off your a
You Son-of-a-Bitch take your head off your a@# already,you are a looser in all ways deal with it stupid. No more hand out for you bye sucker.
23 already
You have no shame!!! reel and do not come again. Enough of you and your crap.
so sad when we as black people cant be emancipated from mental slavery as the Great Bob Marley advised and rather than help get out of the gutter and not disregard the truth and evils of slavery just remain slaves .The writer of this article clearly shows he/she is a slave unwilling to recognize his freedom and live successfully in 2016.
Caribbean politicians like our reversed holdovers from plantation slavery are two-faced, schizoids. They say one thing at regional meetings and say quite the opposite of do the very opposite the very moment they set foot in their respective countries.
The trust that the CARICOM region placed in one of these is clearly obviously misplaced. Some are even catapulted to the highest institutions in the region and given roles incompatible with their real but often undisclosed intents ions. This election more than underscores this, and speaks of the patent duplicity of some of these regional actors. They just go through the motions.
And to think that such are voted for as representatives of their countries at the highest levels? What messages are we sending to the world about our level of maturity, of our national character, of our readiness for national development and of our capacity to take our place in the real and not a fantasy world?