Why then turn all their hopes to rubble with the power a Finance Minister has?
That is the Tsunami Sithanen has unleashed on many of his fellow citizens. Our Minister of Finance thinks that all the country needs is a good shake up to wake up, hence his tsunami tactics. I just met a 72 year old retired Head mistress who lives alone and she told me she was one of the new taxpayers Sithanen has discovered in our country. She spent some 35 years working in schools all round the island after the untimely early death of her father. She has helped form countless of our young professionals and was thinking of living her last days peacefully, just like Sithanen proposes for the rich foreigner elderly. Sithanen had other ideas for her and his big tax shake up has caused a huge wave effect. She now has to fill in so many forms to justify the money she has accumulated in bank from her and her husband’s lump sums plus Insurance money, pension money and some rent. What a change from her peaceful life! We would have thought she had earned her rest. Compare that to the statement
