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11th
March 2010
Cabinet
wants Marjorie Lambert Out
M. G. George
 (Photo)
Marjorie Lambert addresses the SLPWO.
The
attempts by the government to remove Marjorie
Lambert’s restaurant and bar on the Cas-en-bar
Beach to make way for a much larger sized development
air marked for that area is well documented.
Also well documented are Lambert’s attempts
to defy the removal order and protect what she
calls her means of survival on that piece of
beach property which she has been on for many,
many years.
On Sunday December 13th of last year supporters
of Lambert converged on the CAS en bas beach
to stand in solidarity with the local entrepreneur.
The concerned citizens committee, friends and
supporters of the local business woman back
then say they will not sit idly by while government
forces Lambert off the beach.
The protest to keep Lambert’s place from
being shut down has been strong but not strong
enough as was seen last Sunday when Lambert
herself took to the platform of the Saint Lucia
Labour Party Sunday afternoon to call on Saint
Lucians to stand in solidarity with her because
she will not give in to the government, the
developers or anyone who wants her off the beach.
The beach, she says is mine, is yours and no
one will remove her as a Saint Lucian from the
place where she has been making a living for
the past 20 years.
But Lambert is facing some tough adversaries,
the Government of Saint Lucia being one such
adversary who has shown no desire of changing
or softening its position to remove Lambert
from the beach.
She is now in possession of a Cabinet Conclusion
which states that when her lease ends in 2011
“…we are not going to renew it”.
But Lambert is not daunted. She is going to
fight that Cabinet Conclusion and is calling
on Saint Lucians to fight with her to protect
her livelihood.
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She took her
appeal for assistance to help fight the cabinet
Conclusion to the Labour Party platform last
Sunday when she addressed a gathering of party
supporters, notably women, at a Labour Party’s
Women Organization’s forum on the grounds
of the Babonneau Primary School.
“The cause I have today is not mine
only but all of ours,” Lambert said.
Lambert Sunday started amassing signatures
of people against her removal from the beach
planning to send the signatures to the government
hoping that it would change their minds.
And she is not going to give up with a fight,
that much she explained adding that soon she
will be having a march in Castries to draw
the population’s awareness to her plight.
“It is time that we stand up for our
rights. I am not going to give up. I am going
to have a rally and have everybody stand up
with me. If today or tomorrow I am not on
the beach the whole queen’s chain will
go. They want to give it to developers,”
she said, adding that she will soon announce
a date for the rally.
Lambert explained that when she got the lease
to operate where she is today it was not through
politics but rather assistance came from Saint
Lucia Heritage Tourism, the Ministry of Tourism
and even deceased Patricia Charles who helped
her a great deal.
“ I am paying my lease, I am paying
everything I need to pay. One day I see a
tractor coming, turning away the road that
leads to my place. They want me out,”
Lambert said.
Discuss
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