St.Kitts is a Slow Boat

If you don't have patience you are likely to go stark raging mad in St. Kitts. Nothing moves here unless you whip it, and whip it, and whip it like an old raggedy horse.
 What I mean by whip is that you have to really want to get your business done, and turn up to glare at the people on whom you are relying to do it, or process it, or start it, or get it off the ground. Same thing.
 People here seem to want to do things when they feel like, and simply cannot understand what your hurry and anxiety of having your project moving along is all about. "Wha wrong wid dat man dere eh", or "dat woman dere eh" is rather common and overworked phrase here when you want to get your things done by some officer, or manager or lawyer here. At times all that your very important document needs is a simple signature from a person authorized to sign the blooming dotted line, but it sits in a dusty file somewhere in the office, out of sight and out of memory, and when you have given sufficient time to get the signature, which really should have taken no more than a couple of seconds, the person who is to sign it looks at you as though they don't understand why you don't understand that they are understaffed and very busy. Busy my toenail! On a tiny island no bigger than a small parish in Jamaica with a population smaller than the number of people attending a football game in New Your City?
 Mind you, not everybody and everything is like this, but for a tiny island inviting investors to spend money to get their businesses here, this should not be so, and if this is the historical, cultural and psychological make up of the people, then there is need for drastic change, otherwise we will find ourselves swirling in deepening poverty for so long that it will appear that being poor is normal.
 Our people are too easily satisfied with too little. A civil service job makes too many of us feel we have arrived and everyone else is below us and so must not question us or even harbor thoughts of doing so. And the funny thing, in St. Kitts, is that those at, or near the top, are so close and friendly with their superiors and their bigger bosses, that there is really nobody to complain to in order to get things moving. It's the nature of the beast in St. Kitts and it must change, otherwise the norm will be for people in authority, from the chief of things right down, to make promises they know they have no intention to fulfill, or to keep shoving off the responsibility for action on some other person in the ever lenghtening chain of lies.
It is no use displaying large murals at our international airport baggage collection compartment, showing tranquil, blue beaches and smiling beautiful attendants to investors, and once they have exited Customs, thinking they are going to hit the pavement running, they soon find out that their names have been changed, by the people behind the counter, from Mr. and Mrs. So-and-so, to Mr. and Mrs. wha-wrong-wid-dem-dere-eh."