Needed: Collaboration, not Confusion

To say the least, it boggles the mind. One of our schools receives a donation of a computer and because of the effects of partisan politics, the media is inundated by reports of what can only be described as a bickering match, as a result.
Not a bickering match between two fishwives at adjoining stalls in the market trying to establish a pecking order and territorial rights over the space that has been made available and that each would like to claim as her own … but listening to what is going on, if you were to happen to think so, you would not be far wrong.
No. The bickering is between the two men that successive governments have chosen, over the last ten years, as the most appropriate to oversee the matters concerning Trade, Commerce and Industry in St. Lucia.
While the citizens of this country are groaning under the weight of the most exorbitant prices and the fastest-rising costs of commodities ever experienced in our history, while we all feel throttled and suffocated by our inability to afford the most essential items of food and services necessary for our survival, while we wake up every morning desperately looking for some kind of succour in this crisis situation we find ourselves,

the two men to whom we are most supposed to look in our hour of need, from whom we could expect some solutions, are prolonging a senseless and futile dirt-slinging quarrel about who should be donating what computer to which school?
Politicians make a career of presenting themselves to the public with the baseless assertion that their only interest is to exert their efforts in the service of the populace, whose well-being, they say, they place even above their own.
At a time when the country needs their talents so much, should not these two men, regardless of political colour – since they have been judged (and each in turn given the top job) as most qualified to govern in the area where we need all the help we can get – put their heads together and do what they profess they desire to do … serve the people?
When will some politician, somewhere, live up to the propaganda they constantly shove down our throats?
The people need you both, desperately. Please put an end to the pettiness and address the issues that matter.
Prices keep steadily rising … or didn’t either of you notice?