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Dennis Joseph<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On\u00a0 a visit to London , I boarded a bus, one of the double floored\u00a0 red beauties that colour the London traffic and\u00a0 charms you into stratospheric delusions when you sit on the top floor. But I was soon brought down to earth in a hurry without a parachute.\u00a0 The bus signs clearly indicated its route so I sat back expecting to get to my destination with a lot of time to spare, right? Wrong!\u00a0\u00a0 I jumped in on a promise but\u00a0 along the way the driver announced that he had been instructed to make the next stop his last stop and so everybody jump out.\u00a0\u00a0 I was in the middle of nowhere being a visitor and in the dark of night had to find an expensive taxi to bail my way out.\u00a0\u00a0 This is something like what happens to we the people when the promises of politicians suddenly meltdown and we are on our own in the dark feeling our way.<\/p>\n

Waitikubuli called Dominica by Columbus, is an established democratic republic a little matter that is almost never noticed, that is why we end up with a President rather than a Governor General.\u00a0\u00a0 It takes finance ministers more than an hour\u00a0 and sometimes more than two , goblets of water\u00a0 and a\u00a0 ton of\u00a0 \u201cMadame Speaker, yes Madame Speaker \u201c to report on the state of the Republic on Budget Day and at the end of it the main thing we the people are interested in knowing is whether there are any new taxes.\u00a0 No new ones? OK, let God deal with the rest and then usually find a section of the Bible that agrees with their attitude.<\/p>\n

In my view the state of this Republic is reflected in the quality and quantity of its human resource base.\u00a0 If mediocrity is in the seed, mediocrity is in the lead which means disorder eventually triumphs.\u00a0\u00a0 How high is the sky? Well a society that cultivates individual achievement raises its sky level significantly. For this reason I agree with the PM\u2019s publicly stated goal of a graduate in every home, however, to get these individuals to come home and stay home is the challenge of governance.<\/p>\n

A cursory analysis does show that it is the more educated that are leaving and the common thought coming from them is that the promise of the political directors has soured and\u00a0 offers little to learned folk. What happens when they return?\u00a0 They are mostly sent back to the same old desk they thought they had left behind under a head or a boss who may suffer from a serious complex of personal under-achievement.\u00a0 Then frustration shows up blighting their productive capacity and enthusiasm.\u00a0\u00a0 It does not end there, because many of them cannot find a job and\u00a0 so join the skilled workers\u00a0 taking a trot out of here\u00a0 without even waiting to put on their sneakers. Our musicians, artists, and entertainers seek answers elsewhere and only doctors and lawyers find\u00a0 it a fruitful ground just healing and suing and even running away after ripping-off the rest of us.\u00a0 There are those who wish to start their own businesses and find the political mountain too high to climb and just give up and head for our commuter airport at Melville Hall hoping LIAT will show up on time.<\/p>\n

While more hotels can bring in jobs for the waiters and cleaners, there will be very few for those who have spent their parent\u2019s money as well as their sparse little, to get themselves equipped for nation building outside the legal and medical professions. So in this overflow of bleakness striving to place a graduate in every home will only be adding to this general spill of our human resource into other markets..<\/p>\n

So in addition to loud Independence speeches we should get to work solving problems.\u00a0 We can reshape our civil service for a start.\u00a0 A credible task force should be set up to immediately look into ways and means of causing this huge pool of talent to be more productive.\u00a0\u00a0 A lean, mean working machine that with quality inclusions could enhance our movement to a more enlightened working force and\u00a0 would reshape the quality of advice and the substance of decision making.\u00a0 But truthfully there are civil servants who could do more but do not.\u00a0 There are others who have been given political appointments and just feel \u2018nobody can touch me\u201d because they \u201clove their PM\u201d and he loves them back.\u00a0 One thing is certain if we continue the way we are\u00a0 without paying much attention to our human resource and our capacity to produce and just feel comfortable\u00a0 thinking we can exist only on donor\u00a0 handouts we have an alarm clock set to blast off soon and the wake up call will be too loud for us to bear.\u00a0 But I have said that before haven\u2019t I?<\/p>\n

I have been gratified by your responses whether for or vigorously against and in particular the positive words to me personally on the effort to use vocals for those who are visually challenged.\u00a0 This column is my last in this series and I hope again to engage your thoughts and very penetrating comments on matters sensitive to us all\u00a0 in a new series in January\u00a0\u00a0 Meditate this Independence season and have a good one.<\/p>\n

Listen to audio version of column below.<\/p>\n

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