PAM Calls For Seizure of Opportunities for Positive Change in 2009

Leader of the Opposition People's Action Movement, Lindsay Grant

Lindsay Grant during his New Year’s Address said despite the economic and social uncertainties of this era, opportunities for change would come and Kittitians and Nevisians should not let those opportunities for improvement and development go to naught.

Grant’s call comes against the backdrop that political elections in the Federation are due later in the year.

“Yes, this is an era of uncertainty – where more people are losing their jobs, where crime has gotten out of hand and where we linger on the edge of a certain darkness.”
 
“But this is also an era of opportunity. Our generation has this special opportunity to say that our yesterdays don't have to shape our tomorrows.”

Grant encouraged nationals to learn from the mistakes of the past year and use that knowledge to work collectively to develop an economic system that provides greater security for the weakest in society. ~~Adz:Right~~

“We must work to find more training and job opportunities for our young people. We must work to ensure that our people are safer in their homes and on our streets.”

The PAM Leader called for fellow politicians to serve the people of St. Kitts &Nevis with diligence and to refrain from the use of political spite.

“We must take out a new contract with our people – a contract that won't be broken on the altar of petty political spite.”

The Federation is constitutionally due for election at the beginning of the last quarter of this year and Grant says, his People’s Action Movement party is the only party that could bring the change that St. Kitts/Nevis needs in this new dispensation.

“We of the People's Action Movement are offering up ourselves as the best option that is available...we have sought to take the richest and best traditions of our past, and twin it with fresh bold new ideas that can take us into the future.”

“We remain true to the richest legacies of our nation's heroes, while understanding that given our history and experience, the future must – and will – be better” Grant added.

The PAM leader says his party has never given up hope in the common decency of the people of St. Kitts/Nevis and has pledged to provide the positive change that the country is looking for once voted into office.

Though the Federation’s Election is due by October this year, speculation of rife that current Prime Minister Denzil Douglas would call it by July.

The Douglas Administration, which is seeking a fourth consecutive term in office, has been under fire from opposition for it’s high-handed approach to a number of issues namely, the high cost of living, the high cost and inconsistent supply of electricity, and the drastic increase in the murder rate in the twin-island federation. There were 23 murders in 2008 most of it were committed by youth in gang-related clashes.