Members of the SCHEME UNITY Government and their apologists are suddenly behaving like persons who have stumbled into nests of stinging-ants, and those of the red-hot variety at that.

For many months now they have been running all sorts of devious ‘games’ on the people of this our beloved country, both at home and abroad. They have been ‘getting away’ with misleading our folk about their true intentions, or so it seemed to them.

Our recent disclosures of their real intentions to dilute the voting power of you, the people of St. Kitts and Nevis, and of Kittitians in particular, appears to have driven them over the edge.

What has been particularly galling to them is our constant reminders that PAM were the ones who introduced ‘overseas’ voting into our electoral system, that they were quite ‘OK’ with it when it served their agenda, but now that it is working against them they are finding out that so much is ‘wrong’ with the system which they themselves instituted.
As we have pointed out time and again we remind you that utterances and writings of SCHEME UNITY have absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with truth, objectivity, fairness, democracy or the interests of you the people.

Rather it has to do with their getting into political office and staying there, with having access to the people’s money in the treasury, with being able to gallivant all over the globe, using the costly flights, staying at the most expensive hotels, partaking of the richest meals, and guzzling the daintiest and most rare vintages of wines.

To them, dear people, this is just another orgy, but one to be enjoyed at your expense.
Faced with the fact that time is fast running out for them, coupled with the knowledge that you the people have become fully aware of their insincerity, deviousness, unsurpassed propensity for lying, and most outrageous corruption, each day they become more terrified that their end ‘draweth’ nigh.

Do not doubt it, dear people, they know that you have found them out, and that you are patiently waiting to deal with them, as well they ought to be dealt with. Indeed, it is desperation time for one and all of them. Having to face your wrath is for them a terrible prospect.

So it is that, in their efforts to stave off the inevitable, they have resorted to that which they know best, namely lying, deceitfulness, hypocrisy, graft, more bobol and other forms of corruption. And, have no doubt, dear people, as each and every one of those antics fails and falls flat, they will resort more and more to threats, intimidation and physical abuse.
That, dear people of St. Kitts and Nevis, is who they are, what they are, and what they all about.

And you, dear people, having been made fully aware of their real intentions, must, needs be prepared to fight most strenuously to preserve our hard-earned freedoms and system of parliamentary democracy.

Amongst many other things what we are now facing is the very real prospect that, once again, a set of ill-intentioned persons found a way to get themselves into office, even though they represent a minority of the people, and a substantial minority at that, and use that as some sort of mandate to deprive the true majority of their very real political power.
In 1980 that is precisely what PAM did. As a minority the managed to get into power and, the next thing that the country knew was that they were effecting all sorts of very far reaching constitutional changes, and without any mandate of the people to do so, ‘entrenching’ in constitutional arrangements all sorts of devices intended to perpetuate themselves in power, while deceitfully attempting to lend ‘credence’ to the numerous lies and distortions which they dredged up about our people’s political intentions, as well as to cover up the real reasons why they have NEVER ever been truly popular with the people of St. Kitts in particular.

More than anything else, it is the constant realisation that they are not really loved by the people of St. Kitts in particular, which drives them crazy and compels them to always seek to dilute the voting power of Kittitians, while at the same time ’empowering’ those who seems hate us and have little or no real use for us.

Those kinds want what we have, spare themselves no effort or expense to get it, all the while perpetually seeking to use and abuse us simultaneously.

Question: For how much longer will Kittitians stand for such abuse?

From time to time our party leaders have explained the state of our nation’s affairs, just how we got to where we are, and they have always sought to alert us to, and keep us reminded of, the true intentions of those in government and just how they will attempt to go about holding on to power.

We of this newspaper call on ALL of our people to remain constantly vigilant and prepared to take back that which is rightfully ours.

On our side we have the clear majority of the people in the country. We must not allow SCHEME UNITY and their adherents to succeed in using any sort of artifice, legislative or otherwise, to continue in their quest to rob us of our true democratic rights.

It bothers them greatly, and causes them to lash out, as they have been doing, at anyone or anything which shows them up for whom and what they are.

The recent public browbeating of public servants and others is but one small example of how the pressure is building up and driving them off the rails.

But we need to be extremely careful. In dealing with these people we simply cannot afford to let down our guard, not even for the briefest of moments.

Always remember, dear people, that animals are at most vicious and dangerous when concerned.

So it is with the SCHEME UNITY lot. Having to face you openly, fairly and squarely, is the very last thing that they will ever want to do. Thus it is that they will seek to use any and every trick, known and unknown, to mess about with the register of voters and, in particular, to seriously weaken the voting power of Kittitians.

Should they succeed in their dark and devious designs, it is the only way in which they can remain in office and hold on to power.

Our fight for adult suffrage was a long, hard one. Our forebears made huge sacrifices, in blood, sweat and tears, to secure those rights for us as a people. We simply CANNOT afford to let them down. They MUST NOT have sacrificed for us in vain.

It is our enormous responsibility to do whatever is necessary in order to ensure that SCHEME UNITY fail in their attempts to undo what those who went before were so successful in achieving for us.