St.Kitts Does Not Have to Be a Poor Country

St. Kitts has no cause being poor. I know this may come as a statement to be pooh-poohed by some, but on the St.Kitts we pooh-pooh nearly everything that originate with anybody who comes from among us. It is a sort of self-value deficiency that, had it emerged in the U.S.A. someone would have given it some type of official medical label as they did with ADHD or would have given it some acronym befitting our psychological deficiency and written books about it, made millions of dollars and built townhouses in Malaysia. We sap all the negatives dumped by blatantly erroneous portrayal of  American lifestyle on American television, but fail to learn from Americans how to make money.
 A woman sells sea grapes on a corner near a church in St Peters just below Bass Bakery. The bag of grapes which she picks consists of about seventy richly-purple, locally grown products that "knock dog" on the pasture "over" Frigate Bay not far from the Marriott. About two dozen grape trees are there and countless others elsewhere. What is strange is that nobody sees gold in the grapes. Nobody notices that grapes can be turned into wine and marketed world wide bringing in zillions of dollars if managed efficiently.
 I am not going to say much more about this. It is too stunning to pursue further. It will give me a headache. Plus, knowing us, I can hear some Kittitian now reading this asking sarcastically, "well Tatem, why don't YOU do something about it?"
 The irony is that grapes are not the only source of gold that knock dog on St.Kitts. There are almond trees that drop their rotting carcasses by the millions every single year, and I do not wish to mention the other products that once sprang from the Kittitian ground, and have, in the last twenty-five years virtually vanished as though they never existed.
 The sugar cane has gone but we tramp and drive trough gold while we scratch our heads searching for "easy" ways to sell other things that do not grow out of our fettle ground to hold up, (albeit temporary), our tottering economy. St. Kits is not a poor country. The problem is that we choose people with poor imagination to be our leaders.