Pat Brown, a Stalwart of the Saint Lucia Labour Party has taken the Saint Lucia Labour Party To task.

1.
PAT
BROWN
OF
THE
SAINT
LUCIA
LABOUR
PARTY
RIPS
HIS
GOVERNMENT
APART:
AS
I
SEE
IT
By
Pat
Brown
Regarding
my
article
on
the
11
million
dollar
bridge,
as
a
diehard
Labour
Party
supporter,
my
adulation
was
expected.
But
my
comments
were
not
directed
at
anyone
but
at
the
Labour
Party,
whose
habitual
performance
is
to
isolate
its
supporters,
and
go
about
its
merry
ways
as
soon
as
an
election
is
won.
Historically,
the
Labour
Party
leadership
cannot,
as
deceased
Sir
John
Compton
could,
claim
to
have
led
the
Party
into
its
first
election
victory
without
the
support
of
professionals
and
technicians
in
their
several
fields
of
endeavour,
and
the
red
mealy
bugs
whom
the
Labour
Party
discarded
immediately
after
the
election
victory.
After
the
16-­‐1
landslide
victory,
instead
of
uniting
a
Party
which
remained
in
the
wilderness
for
over
fifteen
years,
they
divided
it
in
twain
with
the
introduction
of
New
Labour.
They
discarded
Old
Labour,
and
did
not
extend
a
hand
to
the
youth,
the
“red
mealy
bugs”,
or
Rastafarians,
but
kept
UWPees
in
senior
positions
in
the
civil
service,
which
contributed
to
the
Party’s
decline,
culminating
in
the
loss
of
one
seat
in
the
following
general
elections.
In
the
next,
Labour
Party,
even
with
a
cadre
of
Doctors
of
Philosophy,
legal
and
economic
experts,
were
put
to
route
by
a
sickly
octogenarian
who
passed
away
some
nine
months
later.

2.
What
followed
was
a
government
whose
leader
was
appointed
by
the
octogenarian,
and
whose
accomplishment
was
overshadowed
by
the
troika
who
controlled
his
Cabinet.
The
rest
is
a
subject
of
history.
But
even
with
a
weak
and
not
entirely
honest
government
fighting
the
following
general
elections,
the
Labour
Party,
with
their
“An’
rouge,
en’
rouge”
chants,
managed
to
edge
through
with
an
11-­‐6
victory,
with
two
seats
still
being
contested.
It
may
be
said
that
the
“en
rouge”
chant,
coupled
with
assistance
of
Party
faithful
and
the
relentless
efforts
of
the
Party’s
secretary
had
a
lot
to
do
with
this
last
election
victory.
Yet,
after
almost
mid
term,
no
Labour
stalwart
has
been
seen
to
be
enjoying
the
spoils
of
victory,
except
for
a
single
UWP
civil
engineering
firm,
and
a
single
contractor
whose
allegiance
is
doubtful,
who
is
singled
out
for
civil
and
structural
engineering
consultancy,
and
a
single
contractor
who
is
handed
all
contract
work.
On
the
other
hand,
this
is
where
Sir
John
has
to
be
remembered.
He
led
the
UWP
into
every
election
victory;
his
last
effort
was
as
an
octogenarian,
when
he
defeated
the
Labour
Party.
Additionally,
Sir
John
always
rewarded
his
supporters,
even
to
the
extent
of
him
calling
Mr.Lubin
from
retirement
and
appointing
him
Deputy
Governor
General
after
his
last
election
victory.
The
present
state
of
the
economy
and
unemployment
do
not
guarantee
the
Labour
Party
a
smooth
ride
into
the
next
general
elections.
Doubt
as
to
its
leadership
was
created
by
the
frequency
of
the
absence
of
the
prime
minister
from
the
State
immediately
after
the
election
victory.
His
preference
in
meeting
President
Rawool
Castro
in
Cuba
instead
of
Vice
President
Biden
in
Trinidad,
the
present
decline
in
assistance
to
our
police
by
the
United
States
as
a
result
of
human
rights
violations,
the
aired
choice
of
Dr.Hilaire
in
preference
to
Deputy
Prime
Minister
Phillip
J
Pierre
as
our
next
Leader
by
Jeff
Stewart
on
prime
time
television,
notwithstanding
that
Mr.
Stewart
no
longer
carries
any
weight;
but
these
signs
cannot
be
ignored
while
the
new
UWP
junta
is
busy
undermining
the
government.
Politics
today
relies
more
on
a
“modus
operandi”
which
generates
public
confidence
in
the
administration,
the
slightest
decline
of
which
must
be
arrested.
Hence,
a
massive
public
relations
mechanism
must
be
put
in
motion
at
once,
to
revert
the
present
trend.
The
Labour
Party
cannot
continue
with
business
as
usual
when
the
electorate
is
showing
signs
of
distrust
and
lack
of
confidence
in
the
government.

3.
The
prime
minister,
and
by
extension,
the
Labour
government,
has
enemies,
the
primary
ones
being
the
troika,
voicing
their
non-­‐stop
destructive
crusade
in
weekly
articles
in
the
Voice
and
the
Star
news
papers
for
the
past
twenty
years.
Coming
back
to
the
11
million
dollar
61’0
span
bridge,
notwithstanding
the
circumstances
which
required
that
the
Eastern
Division
Corps
of
Engineers
vet
that
project,
the
powers
that
be
should
always
secure
the
input
of
the
University
of
the
West
Indies,
through
its
engineering
faculties
at
Mona,
Kingston,
Jamaica,
St
Augustine,
Port
of
Spain,
Trinidad
and
Tobago.
and
the
University
of
Guyana
in
any
such
endeavour.
The
university
has
trained
and
graduated
enough
engineers
to
engage
in
any
possible
engineering
exercise.
No
external
firm
will
export
their
senior
engineers
to
the
colonies.
With
personal
experience
as
structural
engineer
on
record
at
the
Jalousie
Plantation
Resorts
development,
I
recommended
that
the
roads
throughout
the
Resort
be
of
a
rigid
pavement
type,
whereas
Wallace
Evans
and
Partners,
the
consulting
engineers
for
the
project
required
a
flexible
pavement.
The
Resort
accepted
my
recommendation,
but
Wallace
Evans
insisted
that
their
engineer
be
sent
from
London
to
supervise
my
work.
The
only
engineer
with
my
qualification
as
a
Fellow
was
Wallace
Evans
himself,
so
the
engineer
the
firm
sent
at
a
salary
of
$20,000.00
per
month
compared
to
my
$7,500.00
was
one
with
no
idea
of
the
mix
of
a
grade
B
concrete.
I
had
him
deported.