By Dr Richard A. Byron-Cox
A couple of weeks ago I penned in ANN, “How NDP can win come 2025.” Therein I outlined some issues inadequately addressed by the government, including what I termed, “the mother of all problems: lawlessness and criminality.” I theorised that if the Opposition were to have a laser-sharp focus on these deficiencies, they could be victorious come 2025. I thought the piece might stimulate the NDP to offer some credible -and sellable to the populace-, ideas to meet these challenges. To my horror, these unpatriotic boneheads are billboarding to the world that this country is Gotham City!
This is the most backward, unpatriotic and dangerous political organisation ever created in SVG. It facilitated the Ottley Hall theft of hundreds of millions; held 27.5 % of the population in desperate poverty; virtually destroyed a budding light-industry sector; gave away the National Public Library; said we have “breadfruit mentality”… Its list of crimes against this country is Nile long. Yet, I hadn’t considered it our resident political evil, i.e., until now. This billboard captures if succinctly, the evil nature and intent of this bunch of all-consuming maggots.
It’s outrageously sickening that they made this treasonous move when SVG is hosting the cricketing world, with camera lens from around the globe zooming in on us. This showpiece event, twinned with our major cultural festival, will bring thousands to our shores. With this billboard, the NPD doesn’t just tarnish SVG’s image, but declares that many, if not most of us are criminals! Remember, crimes are committed by people!! The message to visitors is not subliminal, “You may be murdered here! Don’t come!” If ever there was dastardly unpatriotic boldness, this is it!!
Sandals just opened the best resort in their chain, which Godwin Friday attended. Now here is his party driving fear into intended visitors. Can anything be more hypocritical? Isn’t this a spit in the face? What did Adam Stewart ever do to Friday? Let’s be clear, with reduced or no guests, there is less need for tourist services such as taxis, tours, hotels workers, agricultural produce etc.
The negative effects are incalculable, and all hotels and tourism related businesses will suffer. Oh, and Friday, the NDP’s spokesman on tourism, promises to make the airport “work”. Is this the way to do that? The reasonable must therefore ask: what have our farmers, fishermen, tour guides, taxi operators, restaurateurs, mass men ….
Done to the NDP that it so gleefully tries to engineer such misfortune on them all? Will these business people support this evil machine that so unthinkingly and unfeelingly hurts their operations purely in its self-interest? Will their misguided supporters still embrace this poorly-camouflaged Cosa Nostra that wouldn’t spare even innocent children, whose parents will not be able to provide for them once the latter become redundant? And, crime is always more enticing for unemployed youths. All this and more are what this billboard is intended to put in chain. It’s an evil attempt to criminalise and deface this entire nation?
That billboard points clearly to their skulduggery. Claiming they have the solution; it gives not a single recommendation on tackling the problem. Our intelligence is again insulted with this, another of their “pig-in-a-bag” idiocy. People forty and older know that during the NDP’s reign, criminals literally ran the prison; the drug trade exploded; the treasury and the NBC were free-for-all to international crooks like Rolla and Adameus, while foreign drug dons took up residence in the hills.
Today, some NDP parliamentarians are approached by criminals seeking finances to buy ammunition to murder citizens; are involved in threatening the police High-Command, and encouraging disobedience by rank-and-file officers; a party leader knowing that a murder was going to be committed, refused to inform law enforcement! Some want state power purely to pursue their vendetta for perceived wrongs they suffered. All this begs the question: isn’t the NDP itself a criminal enterprise?
Violent crime is a serious problem in SVG, demanding urgent attention. However, creating a billboard carrying a message willing economic strangulation on, and international blackmailing and blacklisting of this country; seeking to psychologically terrorise potential visitors; hoping to jeopardise the successful hosting of a global sporting event, and aiming to demoralise the populace at large, is no solution. It is reckless, unadulterated evil! As shown briefly above, the NDP has subjected this nation to untold wounds, pains and tragedies.
Now it has vomited its bile, seeking the county’s destruction to feast like maggots on its decaying carcass. Yes, if they can’t rule, they’ll destroy! That’s pure evil!! In the ULP we don’t have the perfect, but we do have the good! It would be madness to put evil in its stead! I rest for now!