By: FAIR SHARE FOR ALL

If the warnings of Hon. Dr Denzil Douglas and the other platform members of the St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party had been heeded, we, in my beloved federation, would not have been experiencing the hardships that exist today.
This notion, this concept, this idea of Team Unity, sounded so heaven sent, that it was not too difficult to sell it to those who thought that its creators were motivated by altruism, magnanimity and good will.
Had they recognised that the team was only united in its hatred of Douglas, as the Hon. Marcella Liburd pointed out ad infinitum, all who are bawling now would have had no reason to shed any tears.
Sometimes, when I contemplate the predicament in which we find ourselves, I get really mad at those who caused it.
I will be the first to admit that Dr. Douglas and the St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party are not flawless. But I will always hasten to add, as Ambassador Sam Condor always said, the worst Labour Party government is better than the best PAM, or in this case, the best Team Unity government.
And that is why even though Sam tried to be with them, he could never be one of them, and in quick time, he fell out with them.
When we look at what the Team Unity government has accomplished vis a vis what Labour did in the same two and a half years, it is only scandals that are making Team Unity famous.
None in Team Unity, not one of them, has done anything of which the nation can be proud.
I can understand why every single one of the inner circle jumped ship a long time ago.
Not that I condone scandals. Don’t get me wrong. But if Team Unity was involved in all these scandals and construction was booming, new big named hotels were breaking ground, jobs were going a begging and most importantly, we had money in our pockets, I might have been persuaded to look the other way.
But it seems as if the global recession of ten years ago that the Hon. Dr Douglas and the St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party Government had so skilfully managed to avoid, has finally caught up with Dr Timothy Harris and his Team Unity government.
Nothing is happening in the federation.
The Citizenship by Investment Programme that was making the federation the envy of the world was killed off the day that Team Unity took office.
I don’t know if all the critics of the programme did not recognise that the investors in the programme were listening keenly to what both sides were saying.
If I make it look as if the programme is attracting more than its fair share of crooks and scoundrels, and if I make it appear as if the programme is a safe haven for terrorists and fugitives, which right-thinking investor is going to risk his money like that?
Now so much money has to be spent to convince these same terrified investors that a St. Kitts-Nevis passport is good.
But after having said that the passports were being sold like black pudding on a Saturday afternoon, Team Unity is now trying to sell our passports like salt fish on Holy Thursday. But with the programme five and a half feet underground, attracting investors is like selling souse to a Seventh Day Adventist.
Nobody buying.
And if nobody is buying, there is no money. And if there is no money, the big projects that cost millions of dollars will not happen.
So that is why the little side walk is being built here and there. A ferry terminal is being built. The airport terminal is being refurbished. Police Stations are being refurbished. Fence around the old Treasury Building.
All to create the impressions that things are happening.
And a lot of projects are COMING SOON.
No major capital investment that will take years to build and employ hundreds of people is happening at the moment.
But have no fear. They are COMING SOON.
Perhaps the projects that have been COMING SOON for a long while will start soon seeing that elections are COMING SOON.
I heard Hon. Carlisle Powell say that projects are COMING SOON in Nevis too.
It must be a new slang. Created by politicians who made many, many promises and haven’t kept any.
So what is the electorate to do?
We have seen both Labour and Unity in action.
Far from hitting the ground running as they assured us that they would do, Team Unity seems as if they have not hit the ground as yet.
Leading up to the 2000 General Elections, Timothy Harris used to say One Good Term Deserves Another.
And he was right.
And Labour got All 8.
But I am looking to see what good Team Unity has done in this term to deserve another.
The nepotism. The victimisation. The scandals – cement, Stem Cell, Herpes. The terror/intimidation tactics. The incessant sleeping. The conversion of funds. The increased taxes. The passing of the buck. The thieving.
None of the above is good.
We need back Labour and fast too.
The time for experimenting is over.