BASSETERRE, St. Kitts - DEPUTY PREMIER of Nevis and Leader of the Federal Opposition, Mark Brantley has labelled the Court as the last functioning arm of Democracy in St. Kitts and Nevis.
During a Team Unity press conference held today (Aug. 7) Brantley claimed that there is not much else the Opposition can do in order to get the Motion of No Confidence among other matters dealt with.
“I don’t know what else the Opposition can do. We have done so much, we have asked people to come to the streets in peaceful demonstration. We have appealed to local civic organisations. We have appealed to regional heads. We have written to international bodies. We have drawn the attention of the world to this debacle that is happening in St. Kitts and Nevis. The truth is I do not know now that if any appeal to Dr. Douglas will yield any benefit.”
He also disclosed that formal communication to the Governor General have gone unanswered and described it as an eroding approach to governance.
“We find ourselves in a situation where any official formal correspondence to His Excellency is not acknowledged that is how far we have fallen as a Nation that is how corrosive the current approach to governance has taken us, where the Head of State can ignore formal communication from not just the Opposition but indeed the elected majority. “
Brantley then identified the Court as their last operational arm of the constitution and democracy.
“It tell you that what we have here is a destruction of all our institutions of governance. Thank God for the Court because the Court demonstrated in Nevis in the Election Petition, here in relation to the matter of the Motion of No Confidence and again in the matter of the boundaries, it is in truth our last bastion.
“The Governor General refuses to act, the Prime Minister has lost his legitimacy a parliament that has been rendered impotent a speaker that refuses to act the citizenry is left with nothing but the Court. This is the last functioning aspect of our Constitution and democracy.”
