THE EDITOR:
I was just about losing my patience with my MP ‘Spider Montoute’, who promised us hundreds of jobs as a result of the new Sandals hotel since earlier this year.
Months have passed and nothing and I was beginning to wonder if this was another politician up to his tricks. Lo and behold I am looking at the news Monday night, only to learn that the project has been stopped because Landings has filed some sort of legal action.
They said it was a trespassing issue. Well mwentevlesav!
The worker I met on site — and this was no Sandals official by the way — said it was really a minor thing, something about a fence being in the wrong place, but that all the efforts by Sandals to try and resolve the matter Landings and their attorneys, I understand, just didn’t want to hear.
In fact, the guy said Sandals offered to remove the fence and pull it back – but these Landings folks rather shut down a project like this.
So, am I to believe that these people at Landings (who, mind you, contribute very little or nothing to the economy because half of those apartments empty and with a skeleton staff really to man the rest of the compound) decided to shut down a project that will give young men in my family a job for the next two or three years?
That is not the action of people who have the interest of this country at heart. These big shots, who have to want for nothing, would rather pull bread out of the mouths of people in Gros Islet and all over St. Lucia, instead of trying to find a solution.
And where is the government in all of this? I want to know what the government has to say. You have a multi-million-dollar project hung-up for over three months.
Once more, a case of big people playing games with the lives of little St. Lucians.
This rubbish must stop.
If, God Forbid, that project gets cancelled, I will take my entire family down to Landings and see if those stopping the project will be prepared to pay them a salary for the next two years.