In 2001, was Michael Gaspard bribed to make room for Finisterre?

St. Lucia Star Online: "Point out to them their abhorrent behavior and straight off the bat their response will come back at you: “He who is without sin” blah-blah-blah. Small wonder that we have developed in St Lucia—as Sir Louis Bom-Cooper so aptly put it—“a culture of studied indifference or, at the very least, inattention to the practice, even the concept of public accountability, a cultural climate in which administrative torpor is often the consequence, and malpractices in government (including corruption) can thrive, unhampered by detection or, if and when uncovered, by disciplinary action . . .” "