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04th
March 2010
Nine-Day
Syndrome
If
there is one thing for which St. Lucians
are (deservedly) infamous, it is the tendency
to lack following up on almost everything
… especially promises to pass into
action in order to remedy whatever it
is that happens to ail us at the time.
The saying is that no matter how serious
the situation, how great the crisis, how
titillating the roro, nine days later
we will have forgotten all about it and
will be looking at something new that
has managed to grab our interest.
It is bad enough when the Alzheimer’s
disease just happens normally and it is
actually nobody’s fault that something
important was not done … even though
we may turn out the worse for it; but
when there are those who seem to deliberately
set us up by making promises that they
do not intend to keep, just to pull the
wool over our eyes in order to avoid dealing
with situations that affect us adversely;
and to manipulate our opinion about their
ability to deal with those situations,
such action is definitely deceptive and
dishonest.
When a Government under pressure from
the public over the country’s financial
situation resorts to making a public statement
that the members of Cabinet will take
voluntary pay cuts in order to help the
situation and set an example to the other
citizens, we expect to one day hear a
public declaration that they have done
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Otherwise,
it looks as though, preying on the knowledge
that we shall succumb to the nine-day syndrome
and forget the promise, they make it, having
no intention to follow through … and it
does not matter if, a year or two later, things
have somehow gotten better (as they will always
will eventually) … the offer should not
have been made if it was intended to be empty.
Too many incidents of that nature would tend
to undermine public confidence in the trustworthiness
of their elected representatives; and in the
case of the present administration, which has
begun to show that it does have the qualities
to get things done, a diminishing of confidence
is something it can ill afford.
By the way, when is the recently-promised Cabinet
reshuffle to take place? Have the “nine
days” elapsed since that announcement
was made?
Discuss
Story
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