Editorial
The people of St. Kitts and Nevis have been subjected to a rather rude awakening. Most of those who, over the years, swallowed the Kool-Aid served up by SCHEME UNITY, became aware of the terrible mistake which they had made. Many refused to come to grips with reality, and even continued to support them up to the time of the June 2020 General Elections. But reality has a way of setting in — for some sooner, and for others later. So it is that even those persons who have been reluctant to ‘hear, see, and understand’ have been compelled to see through the webs of lies which robbed them of their good senses.
The onslaught of COVID-19 and its attendant dangers has brought into sharp focus the grave mistakes made by our people in trusting the SCHEME UNITY lot and turning the country over to them. At a time when our country is most desperately in need of sound management, administration and leadership, at the governmental level those attributes are absent, quite literally ‘missing in action.’ The professionals who are attempting to discharge their respective functions continue to experience innumerable frustrations, and our people have become more confused. In the lines at supermarkets, grocery stores and pharmacies, many shoppers refuse to maintain social distancing. In a more general sense, many others refuse to comply with government-ordered precautions — largely due to deep distrust of the government and what it stands for. That appears to be especially true in the case of vaccinations.
There is also the general feeling that we, the people, are not being given the true facts about certain aspects of the COVID-19 situation. For example, what is the true situation at the main operating theatre at The JNF General Hospital? What has been happening to the remains of those who died because of the disease? Are we being supplied with the true numbers where it comes to those who are infected? Needless to say, glib instructions to ‘fast and pray’ only serve to make a bad situation even worse, raising the already high levels of distrust that are rampant throughout the land. Attempted comparisons with Australia are not only ludicrous, they are grievously insulting and disrespectful of our people’s intelligence. These are truly testing times for the people of St. Kitts and Nevis. We need sound leadership. Real leadership. Genuine and caring leadership. SCHEME UNITY are utterly incapable of providing our country and our people with that which is required.