Gonsalves Warns Against Eating “The Bread of Idleness!”

Although he described himself as once a rebel and still a rebel on Sunday, the Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and Grenadines, came off sounding sometimes more like a pastor during his presentation. The event was the Saint Lucia Labour Party’s (SLP) 74th annual conference of delegates where Dr. Ralph Gonsalves was the featured guest speaker. According to Gonsalves; “the Labour family” believes and every day we reaffirm our belief in the supremacy of God and the freedom and dignity of man and woman”. “The programme of a Labour family, the philosophy of the Labour family, the policies of a Labour family, if you read the three parables in the book of Matthew, Chapter 25 you find them,” he added. Gonsalves went on to say that the first parable about the six foolish virgins and the six wise virgins saw the wise ones being prepared as they had; “put a little oil in their lamp.” “You have to plan, that is the first thing,” he said. He then referenced the parable of the talents in Matthew 25, where three men were given one, five and ten talents respectively. “Those who had more talents, they multiplied the talents put those talents...