{"id":101037,"date":"2013-08-16T11:58:53","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T15:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=101037"},"modified":"2013-12-29T13:18:29","modified_gmt":"2013-12-29T17:18:29","slug":"just-dennis-its-raining-ministers-but-we-need-new-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/features\/commentary\/just-dennis-its-raining-ministers-but-we-need-new-names\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Dennis &#8211; It&#8217;s raining ministers but we need new names"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_69216\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69216\" style=\"width: 193px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69216\" alt=\"Dennis Joseph\" src=\"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Dennis-TDN.jpg\" width=\"193\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Dennis-TDN.jpg 193w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Dennis-TDN-99x150.jpg 99w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-69216\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dennis Joseph<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u2018The more things change the more they remain the same,\u2019 is a well-known saying.\u00a0 What I hear on radio today promoted by the talk-show hosts is nothing more than diversionary chatter about the education of a proposed\u00a0 political leader Lennox Linton.\u00a0 This I find silly since it is clear that Linton is quite capable of doing this job.\u00a0 But this is not new. The same thing was said about Edward Leblanc and the Labour Party in the days when I followed the DLP as one of its most ardent fans.\u00a0 Leblanc from Vielle Case\u00a0 was called \u201can uneducated country bookie\u201d who had no university education by the opposition Dominica United People\u2019s Party (DUPP) the mother party that gave birth to the present day dwindling Freedom Party.<\/p>\n<p>Like the 99% of us Leblanc did not attend university but today the whole nation raises monuments to his greatness.\u00a0 The truth is that all the leaders after Leblanc moved the country forward with just a few ministers.\u00a0 This present so called educated-with-degrees bunch needs 16 ministers and quite clearly they must have special university degrees in how to run up a national debt of 1 billion dollars in 13 years and equally special degrees in the art of running down a country to zero growth.<br \/>\njust 23,000 people last elections voted for the rulers but all of us are paying this large crew tens of thousands of dollars each month just to come up with zero growth as reported by the Man in his recent budget address?<\/p>\n<p>A batch of 16 heavy men and women called ministers are dancing on the breastbone of our land\u00a0 enjoying themselves eating much and drinking aplenty and to bleep with how we feel.\u00a0 It\u00a0 brings to my mind a pirate song from Robert Louis Stevenson\u2019s book Treasure Island, \u201c16 men on a dead man\u2019s chest Yo, Ho, Ho, and a bottle of rum.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But it is not just the 16 is it?\u00a0 It is tons of advisers and advisors with university degrees added on plus\u00a0 party in power tricksters jumping on, schemers, plunderers loaded with degrees both local and foreign squeezing in on Waitukubuli\u2019s chest.\u00a0 It is a bane of our politics that after Election Day all those who won seats on the victorious\u00a0 side expect to be made ministers and then everybody else who supported wants to chew on the orange without waiting to peel the skin.\u00a0 Ministries are handed out like\u00a0 rice and ease\u00a0 for the pleasure of the parliamentary representatives.\u00a0 The further problem is that\u00a0 it\u2019s a question mark whether they have the ability yeah even the capability to run anything as big and involved as a government ministry and yet they still have the gall to talk about other people\u2019s inadequacy.\u00a0 Skerrit himself is minister for finance with a degree\u00a0 in-wait for it- English and still thinks he can control this unmanageable and bloated mess by pretending his best to be the super minister of all ministries.<\/p>\n<p>When I listen to the Budget Address I hear the same old song in a few different words.\u00a0 Promises of jobs, of growth, of better days are coming and beating\u00a0 on the dead man\u2019s chest boasting of marvelous achievements and deeds in the previous twelve months. I then must ask\u00a0 how did all these\u00a0 postulations of being better off than other countries end up with a zero growth scorecard?<\/p>\n<p>It may be that we now need new names. There is a growing sense that after 13 years of trying to do it this crew has not done it. Whether we have a beautifully prepared budget or not the implementation of its contents lies in the hands of the 16 ministers who we pay handsome salaries and give all sorts of perks.\u00a0 If after all these years they can come to\u00a0 the House, report zero growth and stand one after the other in support of it then the pendulum has stopped and we need new names.\u00a0 Change is inevitable and is the law of nature.\u00a0 The dinosaurs must be replaced especially when they eat too much and crap abundantly. Every organization grows to maturity and then dies except new blood is pumped into it. As with corporations, so with country and even more so with politicians.<\/p>\n<p>Quite clearly the DLP parliamentary reps are stonewalling against newness when we observe that the push by a new name to replace the old one in the Cottage constituency is met with pompous response by the incumbent. It may be why the opposition UWP is accelerating right now with new names and a coming new leader\u00a0 heralding perhaps a new era of UWP politics.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 From\u00a0 reports it appears that there is a palpable excitement coiled in the belly of the body politic.\u00a0 \u201cSlumber not in the tent of your fathers.\u00a0 The world is advancing.\u00a0 Advance with it\u201d(Guiseppe Manzini).<\/p>\n<p>Undoubtedly we are in a serious financial crisis so what comes out of the UWP Castle Bruce convention on September 1 may well be a movement of energy for radical\u00a0 change in Waitukubuli. As has been said elsewhere sometimes being radical is the only reasonable way out. Jesus the Christ showed this when he appointed Peter an ordinary uneducated fisherman to be the head of his church and people like Mary Magdalene, who the Catholic Church mistakenly once called a whore, to be the ones to go out and teach all nations.<\/p>\n<p>He knew that his leaders must be independent, act and stand firm even to death, speak openly, plainly, frankly; make defeats a lesson, and walk with active faith and courage fearing only God. It is not just about education, its commitment to a right purpose and cause.\u00a0 That is what made a Martin Luther King, a Mahatma Gandhi, a Marcus Garvey, and Malcolm X. Let us face it Waitikubuli is not going to get out of this economic hole by we the people waving rosaries at heaven rather we must be prepared to make radical change. Its raining\u00a0 ministers and we have plumb run out of umbrellas-ellas-ellas. We cannot afford a continuing rain of radio bickering and name calling, new rounds of scandals and unresolved issues, secret MOUs and strange ambassadors.\u00a0 Someone and something must stop the rain and that is why we need new names.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018The more things change the more they remain the same,\u2019 is a well-known saying.\u00a0 What I hear on radio today promoted by the talk-show hosts is nothing more than diversionary chatter about the education of a proposed\u00a0 political leader Lennox&#8230;","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":69216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commentary","category-just-dennis"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Just Dennis - It&#039;s raining ministers but we need new names - Dominica News Online<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Dennis Joseph writes bout education in Dominican politics and the need for change\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/features\/commentary\/just-dennis-its-raining-ministers-but-we-need-new-names\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Just Dennis - It&#039;s raining ministers but we need new names - Dominica News Online\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dennis Joseph writes bout education in Dominican politics and the need for change\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/features\/commentary\/just-dennis-its-raining-ministers-but-we-need-new-names\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Dominica News Online\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-08-16T15:58:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2013-12-29T17:18:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Dennis-TDN.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"193\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"290\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dominicanewsonline.com\\\/news\\\/homepage\\\/features\\\/commentary\\\/just-dennis-its-raining-ministers-but-we-need-new-names\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dominicanewsonline.com\\\/news\\\/homepage\\\/features\\\/commentary\\\/just-dennis-its-raining-ministers-but-we-need-new-names\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dominicanewsonline.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/51a62154b494e84510be75e846b1cf55\"},\"headline\":\"Just Dennis &#8211; 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