By: Spokesman Newsroom
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts (Wednesday 10th August 2022) — Newly-elected Prime Minister Hon. Dr. Terrance Drew reported that his first day in office was a busy one with tremendous progress made in relation to promises made during the campaign trail. In an exclusive interview with SKN News Line on Tuesday 9th August 2022 inside his office at Government Headquarters, he spoke about what his first day had been like and areas being looked at, including getting an MRI machine at the hospital, assistance for sick children, and lifting of COVID travel bans.
“I would say the experience has been interesting. It is, of course, a job that is challenging but I am up to the challenge. I had a lot of meetings today; meetings with critical people to get up to date on what is going on in the country, and not only that, there have been a number of things we would have promised the people to get done in the first week and I have been working on them and I have made tremendous progress on those things,” he said. He pointed to getting an MRI and the lifting of COVID travel bans as areas dealt with, noting the bans would be lifted “very shortly.” “I met with the task force and I am happy to report that based on the scientific data, we can say we are doing it safely as well,” he said. On why the SKNLP succeeded at the polls: “I think the party presented a certain sense of newness, it presented stability, it presented unity in its structure. When we look at the other side, we recognize that they had disintegrated and people had lost trust in them. We had the seven pillars of our digital manifesto that had a tremendous impact, but we also had a team which we called the A-Team and people saw our team as a competent team that was suitable to lead our country forward.”