By: Spokesman Newsroom
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts (Tuesday 3rd May 2022) — On the occasion of International Workers’ Day (Labour Day/May Day), Leader of the St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party (SKNLP) Dr. Terrance Drew gave his party’s commitment to improve the quality of life of workers under an SKNLP government. Speaking during his speech on Monday 2nd May 2022 at the Patsy Allers Play Field in St. Johnston’s Village following the SKNLP-organised march: “The SKNLP-led government will put in place policies, programmes and services focused on the needs of people. Workers, workers’ representatives, employers and government will sit all at the same table to decide the direction of our country,” he said.
Following a two-year pause due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the labour movement picked up its traditional ways of commemorating Labour Day. Among the officials who took part in the march were all eight SKNLP candidates: Leader Dr. Terrance Drew, emeritus Leader Dr. Denzil Douglas, Dr. Geoffrey Hanley, Marsha Henderson, Konris Maynard, Samal Duggins, Kenneth ‘Kenny’ Douglas and Leon Natta-Nelson. The annual wreath-laying ceremony was also held the day before, visiting the gravesites of fallen stalwarts of the labour movement.
Dr. Drew told workers: “They shed their blood for example at the Buckley’s Uprising so that today we can live as free men and women here in St. Kitts and Nevis irrespective of our political, religious or any other type of association, and so we owe them a great debt of gratitude which we must repay by keeping the faith, by standing up for workers’ rights every day — not some days but every day. The SKNLP is proud to be associated with our sister organisation the Trades and Labour Union.” The eleven stalwarts honoured on Sunday 1st May were: Owen Caines, Charles E. Mills, Clarence Fitzroy, Robert L. Bradshaw, Lee Moore, E. St. John Payne, J. E. O’Flaherty, Sir Probyn Inniss, Cuthbert Sebastian, Joseph N. France and C. A. P. Southwell.