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A People Betrayed

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One can only imagine how, and to what extent, they at all such times spare no opportunity to maximise their subsistence and per diem allowances.

What do they care about the peoples’ suffering? As far as they are concerned let the people suffer and pay for their gullibility, naivety and foolishness. It is the ‘good times’ for UNITIM and they will rake and scrape all that they want to.

Indeed several of them have taken to boasting, quite openly, that they will never have to work again, no matter how long they may live for after this. Some have put it even more crudely: ‘when I finish with St. Kitts I am going to be set for life’.

Dear people of St. Kitts and Nevis, it is not the intention of this newspaper to cast aspersion on you in any way, form or shape. We simply wish that you carefully observe, record and learn from the devilry of SCHEME UNITY. What they are doing to this country MUST NEVER be forgotten. We owe it to ourselves, our children, and to those as yet not born.

Please, do remember that well in advance of the February 2015 general elections, for months on end, over and over, and over again, The Labour Spokesman reminded you about the history of those who were then in opposition and seeking, most desperately, to enlist your help with removing the Labour Party from office, the organisation which came into being for the sole purpose of championing the causes of the ordinary and working classes of this country, a mission and purpose to which it has always been faithful and deeply committed.

Indeed the history of our movement speaks for itself.

We also warned you that they were trying to replace us for purely selfish reasons, that they had no genuine interest whatsoever in you, yours or your well-being. Rather regrettably some of you fell for their deception. At this juncture we commend to you the words of our young Comrade Dr. Terrance Drew and suggest that you ask yourself the question: “Are you better off now under [SCHEME UNITY]?”

What we are all witnessing and experiencing firsthand is the deceitfulness and outright, blatant lying of those who promised you ‘the earth and moon’, but who cannot now and will not deliver on anything, for the very simple fact that it was never their intention to do so in the first place.

It always was, and will ever be, ALL about themselves, their offspring, their siblings and, occasionally, their friends. WE THE PEOPLE do not really matter to them at all.

Those who genuinely believed in them are now suffering very deep remorse, and that is quite understandable, for those who know UNITIM for who they truly are have also experienced their wickedness on numerous occasions in the past, and that is why we were able to warn you about them and what they really intended for you, the people of St. Kitts and Nevis.

We know that deep feeling of severe hurt which you are feeling, because many of us have felt it in the past.

But, fear not. Every so often in life, we have to learn and relearn some things the hard way.

Today, we are all A PEOPLE BETRAYED. Let us resolve to NEVER allow this to happen to ourselves ever again.

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