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MAKEDA MIKAEL: Cannabis Is Driving Our Children Wild

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The Minister of Health needs to call an urgent meeting of Teachers and Parents of our cannabis smoking youth in an effort to remedy an out-of-control situation where our young people are killing their future with ‘weed!’

The weed brain destruction is now compounded by unscrupulous persons who are blending other hard drugs and synthetic imports with the weed sold to children.

Any given day if one takes the time out to be in St. John’s when school lets out, observing the behavior of the youth, it is clearly not just normal children being rowdy and extrovert.

There is a lot of rage even when they humorously rag each other, ticking off physical responses which can easily break into a fight or quarrel, using filthy language with knives and cutlass drawn.

When one considers that Cannabis use was decriminalized as a leg up in exchange for the Rastafari vote in the previous election, the beneficiaries of the Cannabis business laws are the foreign and monied investors.

The Rastafari community whom the laws were expected to impress, are prevented from making real money from the production of the ‘sacrament,’ which cannot be sold, and their children too are stunting their mental growth by the freedom to smoke as much ‘weed’ as they want, with legitimate production all around them.

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When the Cannabis Consultations were held by the Government, there were several serious attendees questioning the fallout impact on our youth, demanding that Licenses all have Rehabilitation Center fees built in to protect youth, and persons whose mental stability under the influence of cannabis is compromised.

Whereas discussion established the necessity, the Consultations ended without any consideration, except the Minister of Health promised that the NGOs would be given authority to establish Rehab Centers.

To this day the establishment of one rehab center is still being awaited, while several cannabis licenses have been issued to foreigners, whose cannabis farms help to destroy the brains of our youth.

Rastafari children are not exempt from the ravages of weed consumption, and their behavior in school generally appears somewhat different to their contemporaries, as they are used to seeing their parents smoking the ‘holy herb.’ This however does not lessen the impact on their juvenile brain development.

It is important to expose the additives, synthetic and otherwise, which the vendors are mixing in their cannabis, and which is resulting in madness in our youth.

 

Where smoking clean weed caused the young boys to slow down and ‘cool out’ the additives which include hard narcotics is driving the youth wild, angry, irrational and violent! Something must be done urgently if we are to save the future generations.

It is a known fact that young men’s brains do not mature until year 25, so the sooner the Minister of Health gets active to save the youth the better for all of us who care.

Cannabis must be controlled as alcohol is, preventing the young people’s access to ‘weed’ even as it is to alcohol, and moreover, those who are lining their pockets earned from Antigua Government Cannabis Licenses MUST PAY FOR THE REHABILITATION CENTERS NOW!

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2 responses to “MAKEDA MIKAEL: Cannabis Is Driving Our Children Wild”

  1. I hope the powers that be, take this serious message, very seriously!!!

  2. Please do not think I am in any way diminishing the effect Marijuana has on our young people, I do not want us to think that smoking is the root problem with our youths. The truth be told, as a person interacting with children daily, the non-smokers are just as challenging as the smokers. As a matter of fact, some of the smokers are more “layed back” than the non-smokers.
    We have removed God from the schools, we have created a culture of dependency and lowered self worth. Our educational, sorry indoctrinal system has failed our children. We have failed to promote them as dynamic people and instead train them for servitude.
    Saving our children starts in the home with support in the classroom.

REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

(CONSULTING SERVICES – INDIVIDUAL SELECTION)

 

OECS MSME Guarantee Facility Project

Loan No.: IDA-62670, IDA-62660, IDA-62640, IBRD-88830, IDA-62650

Assignment Title: Senior Operating Officer (SOO)

Reference No. KN-ECPCGC-207852-CS-INDV

 

The Governments of Antigua and Barbuda, Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, St. Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines have received financing in the amount of US$10 million equivalent from the World Bank towards the cost of establishing a partial credit guarantee scheme, and they intend to apply part of the proceeds to payments for goods, and consulting services to be procured under this project. 

The consultant will serve as the “Senior Operating Officer (SOO)” for the ECPCGC and should possess extensive knowledge of MSME lending with some direct experience lending to Micro, small and medium-sized businesses, knowledge of the internal control processes necessary for a lending operation and the ability to design and implement risk mitigation procedures. The ideal candidate should possess an Undergraduate Degree from a reputable college or university, preferably in Business, Accounting, Banking or related field, with a minimum of 5 years’ experience in lending, inclusive of MSME lending. The initial employment period will be for two years on a contractual basis. Renewal of the contract will be subject to a performance evaluation at the end of the contractual period. The assignment is expected to begin on September 30th, 2021.  The consultant will report directly to the Chief Executive Officer of the ECPCGC.

The detailed Terms of Reference (TOR) for the assignment can be viewed by following the attached link below. 

 

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The Eastern Caribbean Partial Credit Guarantee Corporation (ECPCGC) now invites eligible “Consultants” to indicate their interest in providing the Services. Interested Consultants should provide information demonstrating that they have:

  • An Undergraduate Degree from a reputable college or university, preferably in Business, Finance, Banking or related field; and
  • Minimum of 5 years’ experience in MSME lending. Applicants should also have:
  • The ability to design and implement risk management procedures 
  • Extensive knowledge of MSME lending with some direct experience lending to small and medium-sized businesses
  • Extensive knowledge of MSME banking operations
  • Knowledge of the internal controls necessary for a lending operation and the ability to design and implement risk management procedures
  • Experience developing and presenting information in public, including responding to questions in real-time
  • Experience lending to MSMEs located in the ECCU
  • Knowledge of marketing and communicating with the MSME sector
  • Ability to draft procedures to be used in a lending operation
  • Familiarity with the mechanics of a loan guarantee program
  • Exceptional written, oral, interpersonal, and presentation skills, and
  • Proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office suite.

The attention of interested Individual Consultants is drawn to Section III, Paragraphs 3.14, 3.16, and 3.17 of the World Bank’s Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers July 2016, [revised November 2017] (“Procurement Regulations”), setting forth the World Bank’s policy on conflict of interest. A Consultant will be selected in accordance with the Approved Selection Method for Individual Consultants set out in the clause 7.34 of the World Bank Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers. 

 

Further information can be obtained at the address below during office hours 0800 to 1700 hours:

Eastern Caribbean Partial Credit Guarantee Corporation

Brid Rock, Basseterre,

St. Kitts.

Expressions of interest must be delivered in a written form by e-mail by August 11th, 2021, to [email protected]

 

For further information, please contact:

Carmen Gomez-Trigg                                                            Bernard Thomas

Chief Executive Officer                                                          Chief Financial Officer

Tel: 868-620-8144                                                                  Tel: 869-765-2385

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