BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – PRIME MINISTER the Rt. Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas has charged that the People’s Action Movement (PAM) has intentions of getting back into power so that they could “deal with Labour people”.
“And that is why I keep saying that the People’s Action Movement wishes to get back into government office to deal with Labour people as they constantly say, to harass, to arrest and to bring confusion and turmoil in this country because people will resist if that is their attitude for getting back into power.”
Dr. Douglas expressed these sentiments earlier this week during his weekly radio programme ‘Ask the Prime Minister’.
At the time of comment, he was responding to a caller who suggested that someone made a statements on radio claiming that when the government changes Dr. Douglas would be the first to be committed to prison.
Dr. Douglas suggested that this sort of behaviour clearly indicates that the PAM’s modus operandi has not changed.
“The caller made several references to the activities and actions of the former PAM administration and a number of statements that have been alluded to PAM and their present day leadership with regard to my security if we are to leave office. I have constantly said to people that the People’s Action Movement has not changed. I am not afraid of any change in government and I know that the former PAM administration attempted to and locked up several leaders of the Labour Movement in the past.”
The Prime Minister clearly indicated that neither is he afraid of a change in government nor afraid of being arrested. And he warned that opposition parties ought not to practice harassment because should that be done, there are persons who would put up some form of resistance.
“I am not afraid to be locked up and I don’t want to say more than that. I don’t want anything I say on this programme to be a threat, so I shall not say more than that. But I want to emphasise that if an opposition party thinks that it can continue to practice victimisation and can continue to harass members of the society and of the community because they have political power, then they must know that there are others in the same community and society who will resist. I believe that needs to be made absolutely clear.”
