By: Spokesman Newsroom
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts (Wednesday 12th January 2022) — “Is Mr. Grant above the law? In other countries, it is obvious that persons who commit the same infringement as Mr. Grant, they are asked to resign. Why would it be different here?” Such questions were posed by Leader of the St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party Dr. Terrance Drew during an interview on Wednesday 12th January 2022, while he protested outside Government Headquarters on Church Street in Basseterre, stemming from content of viral videos involving government minister Lindsay Grant’s encounter with police officers.
Dr. Drew, who carried a placard publicly calling for Grant to resign, is of the view that he “can’t be treated as a privileged one under the law.” When asked for his view on the chances of Grant resigning, he said: “Well, I’m looking at it and it seems thus far that there might be a slim chance because we know that Mr. Grant has a case with misappropriation of funds and nothing has been done, and it seems like it is a pattern with these scandals — nothing done. We heard about the herpes scandal, nothing done. We heard about the stem cell scandal, nothing done. Scandal after scandal and everything is just being pushed under the rug. We will not accept this. We will protest, we will write — we will do what we have to do. But Mr. Grant has to answer and the Prime Minister must know we will not sit until something is done.”
“I’m calling on Prime Minister Harris. He has to do it. He cannot be hiding anymore. The Prime Minister has to step out, and he has to do what is right and make sure he sends a strong message that he believes in the rule of law and no one who sits in his Cabinet would be allowed to violate the law in the way that it was violated,” Dr. Drew said.
Outlining the three violations in the incident, Dr. Drew cited: the breach of COVID-19 protocols by a sitting MP who helped make those rules; the use of threatening language towards police officers; and an apparent physical contact with a female officer. “If that had been a normal citizen, that person would have been arrested and charged. I therefore believe Mr. Grant should answer to what took place; he must resign. We cannot accept this. There is not one rule for them and one rule for everyone else,” he concluded.