By: Spokesman Newsroom
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts (Friday 21st May 2021) — “Dr. Harris has failed and he is asking for my help but he must be polite.” So said Opposition Leader and former Prime Minister Dr. Denzil Douglas following the SKNLP’s Constitutional Conference held on Sunday 16th May 2021 at the Marriott Hotel, responding to recent comments PM Harris made about him on the vaccination programme.
PM Harris had appeared on his weekly “Leadership Matters” programme on ZIZ on Tuesday 11th May, saying that Dr. Douglas “has done a disservice to himself to the country and to the years of outstanding leadership which the Labour Party had under Bradshaw” by finding “political space that doesn’t deny the rationality of the national agenda.”
Dr. Douglas responded: “Yes, because if he is the leader, he has deliberately kept us away from participating for political reasons. Now he is realizing he is failing; he is now saying Douglas is the cause of it because Douglas is not helping him in getting people to take the vaccination. Dr. Harris has failed and he is asking for my help but he must be polite. I wouldn’t ask him to beg but I’ll ask him to be polite.” Douglas said he would be willing to help — but not through “this big stick of threatening people.” He accused the government of politicising pandemic management from the start and excluding the Opposition. “What I hear is the cry of a failed leader asking for support because he still does not know how to do it,” he said.