18th Feburary 2010
No money no love, could your daughter be next?
By Randall “Lion I” Mondesir

No money no love, unfortunately this statement has become the detriment of our sociological demise, this statement has brought down many young women and men to their knees, and it is creating monsters out of many St Lucian youth.
There used to be a time when our nation stood tall and proud, we shared, we laughed, we loved, but most of all we respected each other, and we got back respect. These where simple times and when I say simple, I mean when people’s needs did not supersede their wants. Why have things changed might you ask, well the answer is evident, we simply do not market good family values. Our governments in the past were always too quick to invest in certain organizations that have not produced modernize methods, along with experienced thinkers that understand that we need to embrace all our human resource in order to stimulate our people’s behavioral patterns in order to produce a more sociable and acceptable environment for our children. The elite of our nation must want to amass the fortitude to challenge and change our youth for the better. We desperately need to financially invest in a committee that will be able to market an awareness campaign directed to improve moral, integrity, principle, patriotism and good family ethics. The problem stems directly from the top, our leaders (officials, managers, business owners, etc).
Leaders both past and present have not ceased the malpractice of immature promiscuous behavior. You would think that these grown men have established the fact that they are no longer commoners in society, but they are our role models. If we do not market proper social behavior, there are entities out there that will pray like vultures on our young, innocent, fragile, and very venerable women. Some of these elite men subject our young women to performing sexual acts of sodomy too gruesome to mention. We allow ourselves to be fooled by men who have a higher authority, and look at them as respectable individuals. But instead, these men after acquiring top positions in society aspire to be rock stars and not role models. They tend to spend exorbitant amounts of their cash to impress the opposite sex, making this new form of prostitution sociably acceptable. This trend is used to seduce our women and they have developed an attitude of cash for comfort or friendship. This new found way of life has led our youth to very dangerous encounters which would leave a very bad taste in any one’s life. The cycle is horrific. Would you believe that many young women today do not label as good a man because he may provide a good future, a stable life style, or show them a high level of respect. Instead our young women look for a man that can constantly put raw cash in their hands. They are not the only ones to blame, most of the time their own family members encourage them into this life style in order to facilitate material goods for themselves as well. The objective is to round up two or three of these men so they may acquire a steady flow of cash, and for what you may ask? For unnecessary rubbish, hair extensions, nails, an unnecessary amount of clothes, shoes, and cell phones.
These young women have no regard for the men they get this money from, but as long as it is flowing in they seem to be satisfied. This is where their problem begins. Ladies, as long as a man is going to give you money for love without a doubt eventually he will begin to see you as an object and he will treat you like one.