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Posted: Wednesday 4 February, 2015 at 8:51 PM

Liburd scoffs at Powell’s debate challenge; sends shredded letter back to him

By: Terresa McCall, SKNVibes.com

    BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – A letter sent by Jonel Powell, challenging the Hon. Marcella Liburd to a debate, was returned to him in more than two dozen pieces.

     

    Powell, who is Team Unity’s candidate for Central Basseterre, the Constituency for which Liburd is the incumbent Parliamentary Representative, threw out the challenge while on Unity’s political platform and sent a letter to her Campaign Headquarters on February 2, 2015.

    In an interview with SKNVibes, Powell explained that later that day a letter addressed to him was delivered to his Constituency Office. He said that on opening it he discovered that it was the same letter he had sent to Minister Liburd, but it was torn into more than two dozen pieces.

    “This is the reply from the Hon. Marcella Liburd to my challenge to debate her. It is the letter which I delivered to her Constituency office, but torn up and stuck into an envelope and delivered to my Constituency office by one of her staff.”

    Powell said he sees the return of the torn letter as a sign of disrespect.

    “I think is it disrespectful of the issues pertaining to the people of Constituency Number Two. Here is a valid challenge by her political opponent to discuss the issues of poverty, of unemployment, of crime and all the other issues that affect the constituents of Central Basseterre; let us go and debate them and let the people hear our agendas, compare them and determine who they think is more suitable to represent them over the next five years, and her response is to tear it up into pieces..”

    Powell also told SKNVibes that he saw Minister Liburd’s response as a sign of lack of confidence in her track record as the Parliamentary Representative for Central Basseterre.

    “I think she lacks confidence in her track record over the last five years and over her poor performance as a representative and as Minister of Government over the last five years. And as such, she is reluctant to come on a forum of debate with me, having seen my agenda and the substantive policies and proposals that I have for the Constituency.”

    Last evening at the St. Kitts and Nevis Labour Party’s Market Street political rally, Minister Liburd spoke of a letter which was delivered to her. While she refrained from naming anyone, she did admit to destroying a letter she received and sending the remnants back to its originator.

    “I mean this guy is so disrespectful, say he come put dung some letter on me step…some letter, say all kinda disrespectful tings in de letter and then say he challenging me to a debate. So ah jus’ tear up de letter, put it in a nice envelope wid he name an’ sen it back to him. Out of order! Dey don’t know dey place! Dey don’t know who dey playin’ wid! Completely out of order! So, and I leave them with that.”

    Powell explained to this publication that when he received Liburd’s response, he went in search of her but was unsuccessful. He said he is still looking forward to a debate with her.

    “I am still pursuing her, still looking for her. It seems as though Central Basseterre is the last place to find the Representative two weeks before the Election. This again is testament to the poor representation that we speak about in terms of what Central Basseterre has gone through in the past five years.”




     
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