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Jamaica and US Amend Open Skies Agreement to Enhance Commerce

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Jamaica and US Amend Open Skies Agreement to Enhance Commerce

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Friday May 11, 2018 – Jamaica and the United States of America have revised their Open Skies Air Transport Agreement to further strengthen the aviation partnership between the two countries and deepen commercial and economic ties.

Under an amendment signed yesterday, the Governments have agreed to allow all cargo airlines from their respective countries to continue to third country destinations without having to return home first.

This amendment is expected to enhance business connectivity for Jamaica and the United States.

Minister of Transport and Mining Robert Montague notes that air services agreements smooth the progress of international and commercial air transport between territories.

He said Jamaica has signed such agreements with 29 countries and is actively pursuing alliance with various others.

“Indeed, our desire for strengthened bilateral relationship between the United States and Jamaica is the basis for this amendment agreement today, and arose from negotiations at the 2017 International Conference on Air Services Negotiation held in Colombo, Sri Lanka,” he said.

Minister Montague noted that air transport is a driver of growth, and the Government is continuously seeking ways to increase connectivity through the Open Skies Policy.

The policy aims to encourage competition and expansion of international air services and provide an open environment that will encourage operations into Jamaica’s airports, facilitating the development of Jamaica’s international trade, investments, tourism and all sectors of air transport.

It also provides liberalized criteria for designation and code-sharing among airlines, and the creation of balanced links and access with CARICOM and non-CARICOM carriers/operators.

Chargé d’Affaires of the Embassy of the United States, Eric Khant, who signed on behalf of his Government, said that expanding open skies agreements is a key part of United States strategy for engagement in the Caribbean, creating an environment where greater growth-inducing commerce can take place.

“Our aviation partnership with Jamaica has always been robust and mutually beneficial, so we (are) augmenting that partnership today,” he said.

Khant said as the Government of Jamaica works to build the nation as an intermodal logistics hub, this amendment will attract many new air carriers to the market, allowing them to operate from Jamaica as they serve the region and beyond.

He said several other countries in the region have already signed the agreement, including Barbados, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Martin, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago.

“Overall, this amendment represents our strong and growing economic partnership that supports Jamaica’s economic reform agenda,” he said.

 

Reward Being Offered For Cop Killer

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Reward Being Offered For Cop Killer

By: Drizel Hanley

BASSETERRE, St.Kitts (Thursday 10th May 2018) -The Royal St. Christopher and Nevis Police Force (RSCNPF) is offering a reward to the tune of EC $50,000 for any information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the person(s) responsible for last week’s shooting death of 37-year-old Sergeant Dwight Davis.

On the day in question (Thursday 3rd May) at about 7:00 A.M., police received a report of a body being found on a dirt road in the vicinity of the railway line in Dieppe Bay by two by-passers.

Reportedly, several Police Units responded and, upon arrival, found Sgt. Davis’ lifeless body of Sergeant Dwight Davis lying on the ground with what appeared to be gunshot wounds.

An autopsy was performed on the body which concluded that Sgt. Davis died as a result of several gunshot wounds.

Commissioner of Police Ian Queeley condemned the malice act and promised to utilise all resources at its disposal to bring the perpetrator(s) to justice noting that he has been in contact with regional and international colleagues and agencies seeking assistance in an effort to swiftly resolve the matter.

“The Investigative Team is working tirelessly on this case and while the evidence to date suggests that this might be an isolated case, let me make it very clear that an attack on one Police Officer is an attack on the entire organization, and by extension the State. As the men and women of the Royal St. Christopher and Nevis Police Force place their lives on the line daily in the pursuit of public safety, the Police Force will not tolerate any act of violence against them. We are determined to ensure that the matter involving Sergeant Davis is addressed swiftly, and in so doing, no stone will be left unturned,” the Commissioner said.

He further urged the public to come forward with any information, no matter how little or insignificant it may seem.

Investigations are ongoing.

Marchers Give Views On Worker’s Day

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Marchers Give Views On Worker’s Day

By: Spokesman Newsroom
BASSETERRE, St.Kitts (Wednesday 9th May 2018) –For this year’s Labour Day (Worker’s Day) march-organised by the opposition St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party and the St.Kitts-Nevis Trades & Labour Union, this media house interacted with a few participants in getting their views on the march experience this time around.

Here is what they had to say:

Curtis Crooke

“My impression on the march today is that all of the years that I’ve been coming to the Labour Day march, today was a wonderful march. Why I say that –it’s the first time that I see a Labour march begin with a crowd; I have never seen it before. The people who organised in having the gospel concert and on top of that we had breakfast and that was a plus. Also by laying the wreaths on Sunday was even a massive plus in terms of time so for that I have to give the organisers a lot of credit. Concerning the march also, it’s good to see the turnout of people.”

 

 

 

 

 

Hermia Morton-Anthony


“The Labour Day march today, I think it was a great turnout. It indicates that quite a lot that people were saying with regard to the fear of coming out, it did not happen because the numbers were great. I believe that workers here in St.Kitts and Nevis have to find solidarity with workers around the world to recognise that there are still a lot of injustices especially for workers in underdeveloped countries and more so in St.Kitts-the glaring anti-labour and anti-student activities that are happening.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mildred Francis (right)

 

 

“The march was wonderful and how the march looked, it look like we are going to win all eight seats next election. Labour all the way!”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Big Steve


“This time around, the march was a clear message to Team Unity…that the people get fed up and people are not scared anymore; they (civil servants) were on the side walking but they were in their numbers. This was a marvelous march, a massive march. I am proud of what I’ve seen-the young people and not only that we had persons who switched sides last election come out in their numbers also and I want to thank the people for coming out. I feel proud in my heart for what I’ve seen because people have definitely gotten fed up of this government.

I had a sign that says Unity ‘You Corrupt’ because this is what going on ….all they care for is just their friends and family. The things they have said to get in government, they never once retrieve what they said so that’s the problem I have with the government right now with the corruption, violence, the jobs that people are losing. They told people when they get in, $500 they would be given but up to now poor people can’t see it and so his wicked government must go and the only government for poor people is under Dr. Denzil Douglas with the St.Kitts-Nevis Labour Party and so this is my message to the people we have to go out in the next election and put back in the Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas alongside the Labour Party for this country to move forward.

I want to send a clear message to those (Party supporters) that left and went with Team Unity. I want to tell them to come back home. I want to send a special come back home message to the Hon. Sam Condor, Terry Adams, Douglas Wattley, Clecton Phillip and my good friend don’t forget Gene Condor because they need a home because Timothy Harris don’t have no use at all for you guys so come back home to Labour. Labour is the way forward and you know Labour is the way forward so we want you to come back home. So once again, Sam Condor come back home; the Labour Party loves you, the Labour Party forgives you.”

Sheila

“The march was really a success. The people of St.Kitts are really fed up of this nonsense; poor people are catching hell under this government and we need to make a change.”

 

 

 

 

 

Inside Scoops

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Inside Scoops

• When Idi Amin call to tell de PAM people dem to say dat he on he way to de convention, dey mek every single body come inside to try full up de room cause in dere did scant, scant.

• When Idi Amin call to tell de PAM people dem to say dat he on he way to de convention, dey mek every single body come inside to try full up de room cause in dere did scant, scant.

• Dey tell everybody to tek a plate a sandwich before Idi Amin come because dey know once he reach, de food was gon done.

• Dey say dat Idi Amin tired buse when he see is only some sandwich dey had to give de people dem.  He tell dem dat he still have food left back from he convention.  If he did know dat dey carn feed de people dem, he coulda tek out some food outta he freezer dem and thaw it out and bring it.

• Through is only sandwich de PAM people had to eat, Idi Amin ain stay long at all.  He tek two plate and tell dem dat he have a previous engagement and say he have to go to some church service.

• But people in de know say dat Idi Amin did done decide dat he not going to de people dem convention.  But Ole Mother Hubbard tell him dat it not gon look good for him to be here and don’t go.  So he went but ain say nutten and ain stay long.

• Dey say dat it had some people from Sandy Point dat did cooping to give him some good wordmanship.  But he take off before dey coulda handle him.

• Is shame de chamber and dem shame what mek dey not saying nutten bout all de wickedness dat Idi Amin and he gang doing to de Labour Party.

• Dey say dat whenever dey have dey meeting dem all a dem saying de same ting – dat if anybody did tell dem is so Idi Amin woulda tun out, dey never woulda do anyting to help him win.

• Dey say dat some a de NGO dem dat had de most to say when Douggie and Labour was in power done meet Idi Amin and tell him dat he behaving like a little girl.  Dey tell him dat if he don’t start behaving like a big man, dey gon ask him back for dey money what he beg from dem and stash way in de St. Martin bank account.

• Through de Marriott man and he rich friend dem ain get through wid dey plan to jack up de rent sky high and run de vendor dem from off de strip, dey say dat he planning to mek another strip on a beach in de countryside to bust de one in Frigate Bay.

CHANGE. REAL CHANGE AND FAMALAAYYY!!!

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By: FAIR SHARE FOR ALL

For all the disparaging comments that Timothy Harris used to allow, perhaps even encourage his supporters to make about Dubai and the Citizenship by Investment Programme, I never thought that Team Unity would now be running to the same Dubai to look money.

Nothing good was in Dubai. Nothing good could come out of Dubai. In fact, Team Unity, while in opposition went to far as to say that Prime Minister Hon. Dr Denzil Llewellyn Douglas had gone to Dubai to negotiate with the authorities there to bring and dump their human faeces in our federation’s sea water.

Now the same Dubai that was ridiculed by Timothy Harris and his gang of misfits has become the financial cornerstone of the Government Treasury.
And if we were to examine everything that Timothy Harris and the rest of them made an issue when they were in opposition, they have made complete one hundred and eighty degree turns and are saying and doing everything that they had previously condemned.
I cannot be convinced that Timothy Harris did not know that he would have changed his position on every matter that was a platform issue for him.

The Citizenship by Investment Programme.The Sugar Diversification Fund (SIDF).The Land for Debt Swap.Crime.Just to name a few.

Timothy Harris fully well knew that the programmes that the Douglas-led Labour Party administration had introduced to bring money into the country or to reduce the debt were sound but they could not afford for the electorate to recognise this.

So Dubai was the worse place in the world to go. When one bad apple managed to slip through among the thousands of good apples that invested into our programme, which was the envy of the whole world, Timothy Harris and his first responders made it seem we were selling passports like black pudding on a Saturday after to foreign crooks and criminals.

Now where did Timothy Harris travel to as part of his England trip? And who travelled with him? And how come selling passports is no longer an undesirable activity to the extent that family members have now set up companies to do the very same thing?

The hypocrisy is suffocating. The deception is overwhelming.

Timothy Harris and his gang were to “done wid” the Citizenship by Investment Programme as soon as they got into power.

Three years later, all of us are still waiting.

Timothy Harris and his gang were to put the money from the SIDF into the consolidated funds.

Three years later, all of us are still waiting.

Timothy Harris and his gang were to “done wid” the Land for Debt Swap as soon as they got into power.

Three years later, all of us are still waiting.

Timothy Harris and his gang were to end crime as soon as they got into power because crime was happening because Douglas was in charge.

Instead, the commissioner of police has been told that the “buck stops with him” because Timothy Harris and his gang knew all the time that they had no clue how to end any crime.
So three years later, Douglas is not in charge, but there is no end in sight to crime.

On ISSUES with the St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party, Dr. Drew made an interesting observation. He said that all the persons who had assisted Timothy Harris and his gang to form the government, once they had any difference of opinion, any disagreement, they were called the most derogatory names possible and discarded like used toilet paper.

He went on to warn that if Team Unity could treat who had helped them in such a disrespectful manner, that concoction was to be avoided at all costs.

And Dr. Drew couldn’t be more correct.

If their creators, their first responders, their foot soldiers, their inner circle are all now like dirty “pampers” to Team Unity, Team Unity is to be avoided at all costs.

The St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party is not perfect, but we exist “For the Good That We Can Do”.

Many who left us want to come back and we must welcome all back with those caring hands of Labour.

I Applaud You Brother Mark Brantley, But!

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BY: EARLE CLARKE, April 21st, 2018

“If you work for a man, in heaven’s name, work for him, speak well of him and stand by the institution he represents. Remember, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. If you must grunt, condemn, complain and eternally find fault – resign your position and, while you are outside, damn to your heart’s content – but, as long as you are a part of the institution, do not condemn it. If you do, the first high wind that comes along will blow you away and probably, you will never know why?” Elbert Hubbard.

Dear reader, the other day Brother Mark Brantley made some statements which triggered a lot of negative responses, but, were we to really sit down and analyze and parse what the Brother said, we will totally agree with him, for, didn’t our Independence Motto admonishes us to always place our country above self? If we work for the Government, even though we do not support it, we owe it a duty to carry out the policies of that particular Government. We are not expected to divulge the happenings of the Government to any outside agent or to go on any social media to criticize the Government for which you work. How can you perform such a treacherous act? How can you march with a placard decrying the Government for which you work and return next working day to work for the same Government you just marched against? The Government, for whom you work, should automatically become the Government of the land – your Government. If you do not relish is policies, resign pronto and go in search of employment elsewhere where you can criticize to your heart’s content but do not work for it and still stab it in its back?

Brother Mark Brantley is so correct when he called for loyalty to the Government of the day for whom you work. He was so correct when he asked that you give a full day’s work because this is what you are employed to do – “TO WORK!” Not to gossip, not to waste time or you will be drawing your weekly or monthly wages or salaries under false pretences. You come to work, you are paid to work, “SO WORK!” What Brother Mark was brave enough to expound was what every Government should have asked of all those in their employ – “Give Service For Monies Received.”

Another interesting feature about the Brother is the way in which he treated his leader, the Honourable Vance Amory. Mark bided his time the same way Sir Vivian Richards of West Indies Cricket bided his time and waited until Clive Lloyd his Captain was willing to abdicate the Captaincy of the Team. The man can be referred to as a born leader, for born leaders await their turn – they bide their time, for they are fully aware that it has been already prophesized for them to lead. Mark realized that it is the people who elect the leader of the party and that the voice of the people is the voice of God. It is far better to await the decision of the Captain or Leader to step down, than to cause rancor in removing him before the people have agreed to do so.

There has never been any instance foretold that he ever urged Vance to turn over the leadership of the Party to him. There have been no instances known or unknown when he confronted Vance to turn over the leadership to him, because he is there too long. Brother Mark Brantley’s grandmother must have scolded him well when she told him that “GOOD THINGS COME TO THOSE WHO WAIT!” And she has been proven correct, for he is now the Leader of CCM and the Party is in Contact; there is no acrimony between he and Vance and between he and any member of the Party which continues to run smoothly. Brother Mark is fully in control.

He is a man to be respected. A man who is to be admired. A man, who is a very brave Leader; a man who is not afraid to demand what he wants from those who work for his Government. And so, the island of Nevis and its residents have much to feel proud about. They have a Leader who does not have any negative adjectives describing him.

Whilst Brother Mark is surrounded by all these accolades heaped upon him above, he has forgotten to adhere to William Shakespeare’s quotation – “To thine own self be true and it must follow as the night the day; thou canst not then be false to any man.” He has sidestepped the Motto of his AL-MA MA-TA, the BASSETERRE HIGH SCHOOL, which is “PRINCIPIA NON HOMINES – Principles, not men!” How can the Brother display all the attributes of a Good Leader in Nevis, but turned around and joined Political Forces with a person who has done the complete opposite to him in St. Kitts? How did he get this done? Where was his Brimstone Hill Fortification when he let down his guard, when he sold out his Principles to join forces with such an agouti of a man?

Here is his boss in the Federal unity mirage who stabbed his way to the leadership of the mirage by betraying a whole organization and its supporters instead of waiting patiently like how he waited and he I now pally, pally with him? How did you get this do Brother Mark? Couldn’t you have advised him that this is not how it is done? Couldn’t you have pointed out to your boss how you did it? What was your rush to enter into such an arrangement with such a treacherous person? Didn’t you know that you become like those with whom you associate?

What you have done is like unto the proverbial cow which, having supplied a pail of milk, turned around and kicked it down. All those attributes which you so positively displayed to become the Leader of the CCM are now lying on the grass having been kicked down by you. Another transgression I wish to point out to you Brother Mark is your call to the Civil Servants in the Nevis Island Administration to perform their duties to the Government. When they come to work, they must perform such duties from 8 am – 4 pm with one hour for lunch. Now Brother Mark, you are getting 10 Thousand Dollars per month to be the Premier of Nevis and 12 Thousand Dollars to be the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Federal Government ($22 thousand in one month). I do not begrudge you if it was honestly and earnestly earned. Pray tell Brother, which one of these institutions do you supply with seven or eight hours of work daily? Remember that I supported you in demanding that when Civil Servants come to work that they should work. If I were to demand the same of you, would you be honest enough to point out which one of these institutions you have been short changing? Remember – Example set, example followed.

Do you see the faked person that you are Brother? Is it your policy that the Civil Servants must do as you say but not as you do Sir? Is it any wonder that Nevis, the land of my mother and my grandmother and grandfather by my father’s side which once prided itself as the place of tranquility, where people from St. Kitts journeyed over on a weekend to enjoy peace, comfort and relaxation and to unwind to return on Monday fully enthused to work, have now become a place of unease? When a youngster takes a gun and holds up a resident, he is taking the short cut on the grass just like you. He does not have to work for no seven or eight hours because he sees it being done by the politicians, for no man can work for the Nevis Island Administration for seven or eight hours a day and still work for the Federal Government for the same amount of hours per day. One of these institutions has to be short changed. I would like the Honourable Brother to answer me on his weekly radio programme – “ON THE MARK!” Mind you, I say reply to my questions, not to abuse me, please. Tell us how possible it is to serve the Federal Government and the Nevis Island Administration at the same time? I anxiously await your answers!

The other day, there was a post going the rounds of which I took a stance in your favour, for I AM NOT A HYPOCRITE. I prefer to be an honest sinner than a hypocrite Christian; I asked your accusers which one of them is without sin, kindly raise their hand. I did not receive any comments from anyone. The crime rate is escalating in our twin island Federation and it is going to get worst; the short cuts we are taking in order to become rich, are not good examples set for the younger generation to copy. The Good Book begs the question – “What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?” In order to get into power, your Al-ma Ma-ta was turned into a political football and the future of generations to come jeopardized and you have joined forces with such persons to form a Government. What do you stand for Brother Mark? Is there anything right or wrong in today’s political world? Ellen G Whyte the Founder of the Sabbath Faith said in a quote, “The greatest want of the world today (And this includes our Federation of St. Kitts – Nevis) is the want of Men: Men who are not afraid to call sin by its right name: Men who cannot be bought or sold: Men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall: Men whose inmost souls are true and honest:

Where do you feature in this quotation Brother Mark Brantley, for, were you to be featured in it at all, you would not be in the company of those who destroyed your Alma Mata? You would not be in the company of traitors and back stabbers. You would not be in the company of a man who was caught on camera selling the patrimony of the people when he was not so authorized to do. You would not have joined forces with those who claimed that the LAND FOR DEBT SWAP to our local National Bank was such a dreadful piece of Legislation because Dr. Douglas intended to sell the Land to foreigners, yet turning around and selling the same lands of which you and they accused the Douglas led Administration of doing.

You have been weighed in the balances and found to be woefully wanting. What do you really stand for Brother Mark Brantley? You are featured as the ROLLING STONE which does not gather the MOSS of RESPECT, because it does not stay long enough in any one position to do so! What is REALLY your STANCE BROTHER? What do you REALLY BELIEVE IN, Brother?

PLP and SKNLP Should NOT Be Compared

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By: Thinking Citizen

In these modern and enlightened times, there are certain propagandists who claim in effect that the real Labour Party is the PLP that is the People’s Labour Party.

They claim that the PLP is the real Labour Party simply because it has People as part of its name and the St. Kitts and Nevis Labour Party does not.

Those dim-witted persons do not use logic or common sense nor do they go back in history. A short travel back in history would show the true roots of the St. Kitts Nevis Labour Party and the fact that it came into being to improve the lot if the common ordinary man and woman in the street.

The PAM Party like the PLP has people as part of its name that is The People’s Action Movement, but just like the PLP, the PAM cared very little for the people during the PAM’s time in Government.

A reading of the Commission of Inquiry Report by Sir Louis Blom-Cooper would reveal some of the most important of the tricks practised by the PAM Government against the people of St. Kitts and Nevis.

It must be remembered that PAM was not formed to protect the rights, benefits and privileges of the working class people, but to stop the Labour Party from being able to do so.

So the word People in the name People’s Labour Party is of no real significance except as a propaganda item inserted in the name just to fool the gullible and the uninformed.

The PLP knows that the greedy and corrupt persons within our society who love wealth and riches would do anything for the sake of money and so the leading members of the PLP sought out those greedy and corrupt persons and fooled them into believing that the word People in the name of People’s Labour Party means that the PLP would provide greater and better things in Government than the Labour Party did.

The country is now suffering as a result of the gullibility of those greedy and corrupt individuals in our society who expected Heaven on Earth from the hands of the PLP. The PLP has offered only Hell on Earth to the people instead.

People’s Labour Party or no People’s Labour Party, the St. Kitts Nevis Labour Party has been the greatest political party to govern the country of St. Kitts Nevis since 1952.

The St. Kitts Nevis Labour Party has excelled in the areas such as in the fields of Political Development, Constitutional Development, Financial Development, Economic Development, Agricultural Development and Social Development.

We cannot forget that it was a Governing party with the word PEOPLE in its name that raised strong objections to the liberalisation of Secondary Education, the introduction of Social Security and move to the Independence of St. Kitts and Nevis.

Let US Remember Those Who Made Sacrifices For Us

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Members of the SCHEME UNITY Government and their apologists are suddenly behaving like persons who have stumbled into nests of stinging-ants, and those of the red-hot variety at that.

For many months now they have been running all sorts of devious ‘games’ on the people of this our beloved country, both at home and abroad. They have been ‘getting away’ with misleading our folk about their true intentions, or so it seemed to them.

Our recent disclosures of their real intentions to dilute the voting power of you, the people of St. Kitts and Nevis, and of Kittitians in particular, appears to have driven them over the edge.

What has been particularly galling to them is our constant reminders that PAM were the ones who introduced ‘overseas’ voting into our electoral system, that they were quite ‘OK’ with it when it served their agenda, but now that it is working against them they are finding out that so much is ‘wrong’ with the system which they themselves instituted.
As we have pointed out time and again we remind you that utterances and writings of SCHEME UNITY have absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with truth, objectivity, fairness, democracy or the interests of you the people.

Rather it has to do with their getting into political office and staying there, with having access to the people’s money in the treasury, with being able to gallivant all over the globe, using the costly flights, staying at the most expensive hotels, partaking of the richest meals, and guzzling the daintiest and most rare vintages of wines.

To them, dear people, this is just another orgy, but one to be enjoyed at your expense.
Faced with the fact that time is fast running out for them, coupled with the knowledge that you the people have become fully aware of their insincerity, deviousness, unsurpassed propensity for lying, and most outrageous corruption, each day they become more terrified that their end ‘draweth’ nigh.

Do not doubt it, dear people, they know that you have found them out, and that you are patiently waiting to deal with them, as well they ought to be dealt with. Indeed, it is desperation time for one and all of them. Having to face your wrath is for them a terrible prospect.

So it is that, in their efforts to stave off the inevitable, they have resorted to that which they know best, namely lying, deceitfulness, hypocrisy, graft, more bobol and other forms of corruption. And, have no doubt, dear people, as each and every one of those antics fails and falls flat, they will resort more and more to threats, intimidation and physical abuse.
That, dear people of St. Kitts and Nevis, is who they are, what they are, and what they all about.

And you, dear people, having been made fully aware of their real intentions, must, needs be prepared to fight most strenuously to preserve our hard-earned freedoms and system of parliamentary democracy.

Amongst many other things what we are now facing is the very real prospect that, once again, a set of ill-intentioned persons found a way to get themselves into office, even though they represent a minority of the people, and a substantial minority at that, and use that as some sort of mandate to deprive the true majority of their very real political power.
In 1980 that is precisely what PAM did. As a minority the managed to get into power and, the next thing that the country knew was that they were effecting all sorts of very far reaching constitutional changes, and without any mandate of the people to do so, ‘entrenching’ in constitutional arrangements all sorts of devices intended to perpetuate themselves in power, while deceitfully attempting to lend ‘credence’ to the numerous lies and distortions which they dredged up about our people’s political intentions, as well as to cover up the real reasons why they have NEVER ever been truly popular with the people of St. Kitts in particular.

More than anything else, it is the constant realisation that they are not really loved by the people of St. Kitts in particular, which drives them crazy and compels them to always seek to dilute the voting power of Kittitians, while at the same time ’empowering’ those who seems hate us and have little or no real use for us.

Those kinds want what we have, spare themselves no effort or expense to get it, all the while perpetually seeking to use and abuse us simultaneously.

Question: For how much longer will Kittitians stand for such abuse?

From time to time our party leaders have explained the state of our nation’s affairs, just how we got to where we are, and they have always sought to alert us to, and keep us reminded of, the true intentions of those in government and just how they will attempt to go about holding on to power.

We of this newspaper call on ALL of our people to remain constantly vigilant and prepared to take back that which is rightfully ours.

On our side we have the clear majority of the people in the country. We must not allow SCHEME UNITY and their adherents to succeed in using any sort of artifice, legislative or otherwise, to continue in their quest to rob us of our true democratic rights.

It bothers them greatly, and causes them to lash out, as they have been doing, at anyone or anything which shows them up for whom and what they are.

The recent public browbeating of public servants and others is but one small example of how the pressure is building up and driving them off the rails.

But we need to be extremely careful. In dealing with these people we simply cannot afford to let down our guard, not even for the briefest of moments.

Always remember, dear people, that animals are at most vicious and dangerous when concerned.

So it is with the SCHEME UNITY lot. Having to face you openly, fairly and squarely, is the very last thing that they will ever want to do. Thus it is that they will seek to use any and every trick, known and unknown, to mess about with the register of voters and, in particular, to seriously weaken the voting power of Kittitians.

Should they succeed in their dark and devious designs, it is the only way in which they can remain in office and hold on to power.

Our fight for adult suffrage was a long, hard one. Our forebears made huge sacrifices, in blood, sweat and tears, to secure those rights for us as a people. We simply CANNOT afford to let them down. They MUST NOT have sacrificed for us in vain.

It is our enormous responsibility to do whatever is necessary in order to ensure that SCHEME UNITY fail in their attempts to undo what those who went before were so successful in achieving for us.

Occupational Safety and Health

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By: Joseph Jones

Workers! At times I feel the need for tears. Emotionally moved by the unsafe practices by you at the workplaces, I am overwhelmed by some of the conditions the images of devastation and hardship by some of you in St.Kitts-Nevis is heartbreaking.

It shows how you the worker have to perform without safety gears, my mind could not process the suffering of you so my heart is crushed, teared poured from my eyes, my reaction is understandable.

It is said sometimes crying is the only appropriate response to the conditions at work and workplaces to the suffering encountered.

Hello! As you encounter the inhumanity, suffering that will wreak havoc you must respond by identifying the occupational safety and health problems by giving the best idea how the work can be done after all what changes can be made.

You would agree with me I believe that workers are familiar with the daily process of production and any problem involved.

Hello! This approach is important because it stimulates the “Awareness” and involvement. Of course this approach is important. However tactful a Safety Representative may be, there will always be some workers who do not want to want to know. Now let me look for example at two serious surveys.

1. The effect of chemicals at work may be hard to trace this way-it may not occur to workers that headaches, dizziness or skin rashes are linked to substances they work with. Many long term chronic effects-loss of breath and tiredness may simply be put down to “growing old. Alternately, symptoms may not appear clearly until permanent damage has been done.

2. Noise- This is serious. I wrote about it already and I am doing it again. Listen now-Loss of hearing is one of the most common of all industrial diseases in the world and we in St.Kitts-Nevis is no exception. The construction industry, airports, textile industry bottling plants are just some examples of local industries where workers are likely to be exposed to high noise levels.

Workers! Keep this in your head. Prolonged exposure to too much noise not only causes deafness but it can affect other parts of the body giving rise to physical and psychological stress.

Additionally, please to remember that noise also contributes to accidents by making it impossible for workers to hear to warning signs. I hope you are listening and reading.*NOTE WELL*Trade Union Education is still our number one priority and elsewhere in our document in our leadership just as we fight for comfort in the workplaces of workers that this Union represents. As you would have heard time and time again ‘Prevention is better than cure.’

Thank you.

Workers’ March Sends ‘Fed-up’ Message-Labour Party

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Workers’ March Sends ‘Fed-up’ Message-Labour Party

By: Spokesman Newsroom

BASSETERRE, St.Kitts (Monday 7th May) – Earlier today scores of workers from all walks of life flooded the streets of Basseterre for the yearly observance of Labour Day (International Workers’ Day).

Over the years, the worldwide holiday on a local scale has been organised by the St.Kitts-Nevis Trades & Labour Union and the opposition St.Kitts-Nevis Labour Party in highlighting that the social and economic progress of workers in the Federation is credited to both the Union and Labour movements.

Notably, the 2018 Labour Day march is being hailed by organisers, participants and onlookers as being one of the best to date with a noticeably increase of participants including civil servants who are said to be unsatisfied with the poor management of the nation’s affairs under the present government.

Labour Day-observed on the first Monday in May and also commonly known as May Day- largely speaks to the economic and social accomplishments of the working class people.

On the political side of things in addressing labour (work) related matters as it relates to St.Kitts-Nevis, participants of this year’s Labour Day march shouted phrases and carried placards while Party officials gave speeches in dishing out sentiments directed at the low approval ratings of the three year old government.

Addressing the crowd gathered at the Pasty Allers Play Field following the march, Party Leader Dr. Denzil L. Douglas shared his observation that there were “thousands of people marching through the streets of Basseterre shouting to the heavens ‘Coming soon is the fall of the Unity government of Timothy Harris’.”

He added: “Oh how pleased we are, oh how much we thank you. We of the St.Kitts-Nevis Labour movement- the St.Kitts-Nevis Trades & Labour Union and the St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party.”

Dr. Douglas, the immediate former Prime Minister, indicated that people are fed up of the current government.

“The people have in fact spoken loudly with their feet. They have spoken very loudly as they came into this play field as they were saying ‘bye bye Timothy, bye bye Unity, your time has come to go’. The people are fed up of this government which has no respect whatsoever for the workers of this country and so our people are now waiting with a bated breath for that day when the election is announced and Labour again will form the government for the people of St.Kitts and Nevis.

He continued: “We believe that the people have had enough, the cost of living is too high, far too high for you and your children to enjoy a quality of life here in St.Kitts and Nevis. All of the support system that Labour had put in place for you the workers and citizens of this country, they have been dismantled by an uncaring coalition government led by Timothy Harris.”

 

 

 

 

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