CHARLESTOWN, NEVIS, Fri. Feb. 6, 2015: Elected Nevis Island Administration officials and Concerned Citizens Movement (CCM) candidates contesting the Federal Election on February 16th, showed up early today, Nomination Day in the Federation of St. Kitts/Nevis, to officially register their candidacy.
Premier of Nevis and head of the CCM Party, Hon. Vance Amory, showed up with supporters to accept his party’s nomination at the Gingerland Police Station to run as the federal candidate in Constituency Number 10, which has now been expanded under the new electoral boundary rules.
But Amory insisted that he and his Party are prepared for the election on any electoral boundary - old or new.
Deputy Premier and Minister of Tourism, Health, Gender, Social Affairs, Social Development, Youths, Sports, Community Development and Culture, Hon. Mark Brantley of Constituency District 9, was nominated at the Charlestown Police Station while Nevis Island Administration Minister with responsibility for Communications, Works and Public Utilities, Posts, Physical Planning, Natural resources, Environment, Agriculture, Lands, Housing and Cooperatives and Fisheries, Alexis Jeffers, was nominated by Party supporters at the Newcastle Police Station.
The CCM, the ruling party of Nevis, insists the upcoming election is not about boundaries but about the rights of people in Nevis, which they said are being trampled by the Denzil Douglas administration.
The CCM says the government went too far on January 16th when it hijacked the people’s Parliament and rushed a bill to change the Federation’s electoral boundaries without debate.
“The time is now to take back the power,” the CCM urged voters, while insisting that the Nevisians have been punished by the Denzil Douglas government of St. Kitts simply because they will not bend to the dictates of an administration that sees Nevis as a step-child.
“Not a dime in federal funding has come to Nevis in the past two plus years, but we have made a way against all odds even though there are several projects for construction and expansion, all of these projects are being held up by the Douglas administration and St. Kitts and Nevis' Minister of Foreign Affairs and Nevisian-born Patrice Nesbitt,” the CCM commented while urging voters to turn a page in history this February 16th and end the assult on their constitutional rights and economic progress.
ABOUT CCM
The Concerned Citizens Movement Party was founded in 1986 after a series of preliminary meetings in Nevis in July 1986 & subsequently in St. Croix USVI later that year. The CCM Party was officially launched on January 15, 1987.
