BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, FEBRUARY 10TH 2015 (CUOPM) – Next Monday’s general election is to ensure continued economic growth and development in St. Kitts and Nevis.
“This is about who has the competence, the skill and the expertise to maintain the number one ranking – regionally - that this Government has successfully produced for us all, and who has the proven ability to open doors for those who have been locked out, while working with those who are strong to continue to flourish and grow,” said St. Kits and Nevis’ Prime Minister the Rt. Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas.
In what was his last live radio call in programme “Ask the Prime Minister” on Tuesday, the St. Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister, who is seeking a fifth consecutive term in office said the February 16th 2015 General Election “ is a most special moment in the life of any democracy.”
“We, in this tiny nation will go to the polls next week, as we have with impressive regularity, as we have throughout our existence as an independent country. This is indeed a lot to rejoice about. There is a lot to think long and hard about as well. Because whatever may have been said and not said, done and not done, by politicians, voters, pundits, supporters, government officials, agitators, opponents, defenders, and everyone else over the past five years, the time for calm, clear thinking is here,” said Prime Minister Douglas.
He told listeners there is no longer about mere political arguments about political sparring and one-upmanship and about who can make which point on which call-in radio show or who gets along best with whom.
“This is about what will happen to St. Kitts and Nevis after February 16, 2015. This is about the hands in which our blessed Federation will be placed and the minds we will count on to steer and protect this nation – whatever the future might hold. Our vote, in the final analysis, must be about who has the expertise, the intellect, and proven intestinal fortitude to wrestle with and calm whatever dangers – social or economic, domestic or global .may pose a threat to our country,” said Dr. Douglas.
He opined that opposition politicians do not exist simply to use up oxygen and produce carbon dioxide.
“They exist because they wish to replace governments that the people have chosen. Their number one task, therefore, is to undermine the people’s faith in their government and to excite, throughout the public, the belief that the opposition would indeed be a superior choice to the elected government,” said Prime Minister Douglas, who celebrates 26 years as a parliamentarian in March.
He referred to the dramatic and convincing assertions of the Concerned Citizens Movement (CCM) in Nevis in recent years, that there were well-funded and eager investors, just waiting to flood Nevis, if only the voters would get rid of the Nevis Reformation Patty government.
“The voters believed. And Nevis has been in the doldrums ever since. Opposition politicians also believe that the best way to break the bond between the government and the people is to go after the leader of the government in question - to demonize that man or woman in every way possible. Birds, animals, and fish, after all, can survive awful gashes to their bodies, but the loss of their heads is a different matter. That is why opposition politicians focus so intently on heads of government and on those most likely to succeed them,” said the Prime Minister.
He called on the electorate of the twin-island federation over the next few days to think calmly about what they want for St. Kitts and Nevis, and who is best equipped to get them there.
“Let us calmly look around the Caribbean – and indeed around the world – and then prove that St. Kitts and Nevis is #1, not only in economic growth, foreign direct investment, social safety nets, skills training for youth, highest minimum wage and so on, but in the ability to think as well. Let us prove that we are #1 in discerning the true motivations of political operatives,” Prime Minister Douglas told listeners on the programme syndicated live on KYSSFM, Choice FM, and ZIZ Radio on Tuesday morning and rebroadcast on Freedom FM on Wednesday afternoon.
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