A Chance for Change in Constituency #3
At the public meeting on April 27, 2008, Trafalgar Village marked the Chance for Change in West Basseterre with the People’s Action Movement (PAM).
The residents of Trafalgar Village signaled interest in Change by their response to Mr. Bernard Welch. As the PAM guest speaker for Constituency #3, Mr. Welch shared fond memories of his childhood in Trafalgar Village and drew from his professional experience to speak about the persistent electricity outages in St. Kitts and Nevis.
Mr. Welch - an Engineer by training - spoke candidly about the high price of electricity due to the Labour Government’s wasteful spending of 30 million dollars for generators that have not been utilized. Mr. Welch connected this concern for the welfare of people in St. Kitts and Nevis to the broader surge of crime in the Federation. Mr. Welch noted here, that the incidence of murder over the past 13 years of the Labour Government has now surpassed the total amount of murders in the previous 40 years of the Federation’s history. To this most striking example, Mr. Welch concluded that such issues drive the People’s Action Movement and the political will to “Embrace the Change” with the people of West Basseterre.
By the measure of this political will, PAM Leader Mr. Lindsay Grant recalled the important position of Trafalgar Village in the history of workers’ movements in St. Kitts and Nevis . Mr. Grant announced that the People’s Action Movement was poised for meaningful Change with all of the residents of Constituency # 3. On the issues, Mr. Grant offered examples from the inadequate Government support to both ex-sugar workers and the industrial workers and its connection to the high cost of living, especially in the experience of female-headed households. Hailed as the proverbial “David” in the upcoming General Election, Mr. Grant assured that a new PAM Government would move with urgency to the enormity of serious issues - including fiscal mismanagement, exorbitant national debt, surging crime -now facing the people of St. Kitts and Nevis under the Labour Government.
The next public meeting is scheduled to be held at 8 pm in Molineaux. Listen live @ http://www.pamdemoc rat.org/party/
