Over the past week, three candidates and a chairperson of the People’s Labour Party (PLP) -have put on a united position in leaving that the Dr. Timothy Harris-led political organisation. Resignation letters have been written to communicate that they no longer part of Team PLP.They are all basically saying that the party -led by Dr.
Harris, the immediate former Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis, has not held up to be what they thought it stood for when they joined. So basically, the values of the political organization do not match theirs, and so their chosen path is mass resignation in sending a message internally and publicly.
Akilah Byron-Nisbett, immediate past Deputy Leader (Constituency Three-West Basseterre) – Nisbett, Nubian Greaux (Constituency Two-Central Basseterre), Andrew ‘Talbo’ Bass and Chairman Warren Thompson have all held hand so to speak and left the party together. But interestingly enough, the letters all sound united as if there was a template that all of them decided to use for this particular purpose.
Presently, this is the hot topic and many individuals are along the line of political divide giving their take on what is happening or at least sharing their insight on what they believe is happening. Well, quite naturally with this trending topic, there is a common individual at the center of this controversy, and that is the PLP Leader, and perhaps the term leader should be used loosely considering all that his happening.
Estranged colleagues of the former Denzil L.Douglas Prime Minister era are claiming not to be surprised nor shocked at this latest development because of their experience with him over the years when he (Dr. Harris) was a St.
Kitts-Nevis Labour Party government minister and comrade. There is no doubt that there is a pattern relating to Dr. Timothy Harris’ leadership. How are so many around him leaving like that? First he was fired by Dr. Douglas in January 2013, for undermining the SKNLP.
In May 2020, Sam Condor a former PLP founding member (Deputy Leader) and former colleague of Dr. Harris left the Team Unity construct. There was even a press conference. Then within months ahead of the recent elections, the Leaders of CCM and PAM broke up team Unity construct with fingers pointing at PLP Leader and then Prime Minister Dr.
Harris. Well, it quite obvious that even the outcome of the August 2022 general elections, voters publicly told Dr. Harris ‘We are leaving too.’
