The Labour Spokesman Editorial
On many occasions, we have tried to alert the people of St. Kitts that, as Kittitians, they and their island home are under serious threats. Those threats are of several types, come at us from many directions, persistently endanger our way of life, our mores, our system of parliamentary government, and, most frighteningly, our very democracy.
Our late historian, Sir Probyn Inniss, warned us of those facts in his book ‘Wither Bound ST. KITTS-NEVIS?’ He related the many instances in which Kittitians were compelled to leave the land of their birth, and pointed out that “the vacuum created was filled by immigrants from neighbouring islands.” He further observed that those recruited held ambivalent attitudes: “They do not mind St. Kitts as a place near to home where they gained employment and personal advancement, but at the same time they resented the fact that they had to come to St. Kitts.”
What has caused much bitter feeling in the people of St. Kitts is the extent to which, over time, a small number of carefully selected Kittitians have been used to aid and abet those who have enduring interests in destroying the unity of Kittitians. The deliberate recruitment of people from Jamaica, The Dominican Republic, and other regional countries was not a well-intentioned matter. Hundreds of people were recruited, almost at the last minute, and flown into St. Kitts and Nevis to help with keeping in place a regime which the people very much wanted to be rid of.
Dear people of St. Kitts and Nevis, some truly horrible designs are being implemented to make us strangers in our own homes. Now we are ALL in this together. We MUST all stand together.