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Posted: Saturday 5 April, 2014 at 5:40 PM

Time for new direction

Team UNITY Communications Press release

    BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, APRIL 3RD 2014 (TUCOM):-  Things are falling apart. Our people are either in pain or in mourning.  Our workers are crushed with bills which overwhelmed their meager wages.  Our poor can hardly afford food and medicine.   The insensitive outgoing government pressures them further with Vat at 17%. Everywhere our people and our small businesses are up to their eyes in debt, rather than offer real solutions to deal with the socio-economic problems, the illegal Prime Minister spends our money like a drunken sailor man.  

     

    Recent tragedies point to serious deficiencies in health and safety standards and protocols in our tourism plant.  Equally the contamination of the labs at the Basseterre High School and the inadequacy of the vehicles available to the Police, all point to a government in disarray, out of touch with the suffering of the ordinary people and lacking in ideas and vision.The tragedy is made worse because heading the government is a man who shows no respect for democratic traditions, democratic norms, our constitution and the rule of law. 
     
    The outgoing Prime Minister seems more and more delusional each day as he talks irrelevancies in relation to his betrayal of our beloved country and his blatant disrespect for our constitution.  In the face of Justice Ramdhani’s judgment, that his right to govern has been invalidated by his failure to command the support of the majority of elected members of Parliament and inspite the fact that in 1993 he argued against a minority government being in power, Douglas shamelessly holds on to power as if he could not live without it.
     
    Douglas says he won 60 percent of the votes.  The truth however is that the percentage of votes received is irrelevant to the Motion of No Confidence.  What is relevant to the Motion of No Confidence is where the majority of elected members of Parliamentstand.  They stand in support of the Motion of No Confidence.  The majority of elected members of Parliamentstands solidly in support of Dr. the Hon Timothy Harris as Prime Minister. No one man should prevent the proper functioning of Parliament by blocking the Motion of No Confidence.  Douglas is showing a desperation and power hungriness which represent a danger to our democracy.
     
    When leaders of government become corrupt, arrogant, and disrespectful of the constitution and the rule of law; when leaders in government lie pathologically and flip flops like Douglas, it is time to save the country.  After 25 years in elective politics, the Douglas brand is being defined as politics without morality, politics without ethics, and politics without constitutional basis.  Clearly it is time for Douglas to go.
     
    A Team Unity government will usher in a new sense of confidence and pride in our people and in government.  We will lead a disciplined, transparent and competent government fully engaged in implementing our agenda of shared prosperity for all.
     
    We will create jobs that provide our citizens and residents with decent wages and salaries.We will ensure that the economy grows in a sustainable manner thereby providing the necessary choices for our people and in particular for our young people to use their talents, skills, expertise and experience.  We will build a vibrant Tourism sector, interlinked to agriculture, fisheries and our cultural and entertainment industries.  As the economy grows, our people will achieve more and they will make successes of their lives.  We will revisit the manufacturing sector and build a truly local indigenous subsector that compliments the export enclave that now dominates the manufacturing sector.
     
    We will introduce Constitutional Reform.  We will inspire confidence and trust in the electoral system by among other things, the appointment of competent independent citizens of known integrity and stature to the Electoral Commission as Supervisor of Elections, Registration and Returning Officers.  We will introduce in term limits for the office of the Prime Minister, Integrity in Public Life and Freedom of Information Acts.  Our parliament will be restored to a place of decorum, respect and accountability.  Our people deserve a better way and a better democracy.
    For a new direction, Vote Team Unity!

     

     

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