The Labour Spokesman Editorial
Earlier in the week news was received that a judge of The High Court in Port-of-Spain had found a lawyer guilty of misappropriating a client’s funds held in trust and had imposed a jail sentence. Quite understandably people here in St. Kitts and Nevis immediately began to wonder aloud if such considerations do not apply to our country.
There were also rumblings concerning removal of persons from boards and authorities, apparently because they refused to classify as bad debts huge sums of money which had clearly been syphoned off a statutory trust fund and illegally disbursed for seriously illegal purposes around the time of the elections. To those brave souls we say: “Bravo! It is indeed encouraging to know that some of our people still have ‘back-bone’ and will stand up to evil doers.”
We have taken the trouble, time and again, to point out to you, the people of St. Kitts and Nevis, that our nation is fully in the grip of a most evil entity. From the time that SCHEME UNITY got their hands on the levers of political power, this country has been sinking ever deeper into corruption. One gets the feeling that there is no level too low for these people.
The Good Book itself warns us that corruption is a seriously destructive entity. Let us ALWAYS remember that lesson, and let us brace ourselves for the long, hard struggle to once again free ourselves from the devastating effects of corruption.