Editorial
Saturday 17 April marks exactly one year since The Labour Spokesman began carrying the paper exclusively online, constrained to do so because the ongoing pandemic caused the closure of flights between St. Martin, where the paper is printed, and St. Kitts and Nevis. We thank our readers and advertisers sincerely for their understanding and continued patronage, and look forward to returning to print at the earliest opportunity.
Our people have been expressing serious concerns about the government’s apparent intentions to use a failed foreign business entity to provide solar energy via our power generation utility. That entity has been a financial failure for in excess of five successive years, racking up losses amounting to more than US$300,000,000.00 over the last nine years. By any standards those are enormous losses. Are they going to be using our natural resources to lift themselves out of that pit? On the surface it does not appear to make good business sense, and one is led to wonder what is really going on and what we are not being told.
Could it be that members of the regime are set to reap certain benefits by way of funds deposited to their overseas accounts? Remember the Marriott affair. Remember also the petrol station in the Cayon region. In any case, this whole solar generating matter has all the appearances of being yet another corrupt, racketeering enterprise, another massive rip-off. The few will benefit, thousands will pay for it very dearly, and the country will suffer very, very badly.
It is only quite recently that a United States agency raised a number of red flags concerning lawlessness, corruption, and disrespect for democracy here in St. Kitts and Nevis. Clearly SCHEME UNITY could not care less about what any country, authority or person thinks about them and their carryings-on. They have their personal goals and they do not intend to swerve from them, not one iota.
People of St. Kitts and Nevis, our beloved country is currently in the grip of some very evil powers. For a fact, we are in a very bad way. For the good of ourselves, our offspring, and that of generations as yet unborn, we do have to find ways to take back what is rightfully ours — namely ST. KITTS AND NEVIS.