BASSETERRE, St. Kitts - LEADER of the St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party (SKNLP) and former Prime Minister the Rt. Hon Dr. Denzil Douglas is alleging “creepy” developments surrounding what he is describing as sabotage of one of their charters with overseas voters that eventually cost his party the Government on February 16.
Dr. Douglas in a press conference yesterday (Feb. 26) stated that an investigation is now underway into why their flight arrived after polls were closed last week and disenfranchised voters.
“There are certain matters of great concern to the SKNLP, and these matters are under investigation as we speak. While every single plane brining supporters of PAM, PLP and CCM arrived with no complaint whatsoever, a series of highly concerning and downright creepy developments repeatedly botched the arrival of our planes here”.
“Passenger lists changed mysteriously and repeatedly right before the eyes of Labour supporters as they were waiting to board various flights to come home.
“Pre-arranged, pre-approved and completely agreed upon stops disappeared from planes’ schedules. Pilots at overseas airports were indicating to us that they had been denied landing rights for various places while those places were indicating to us directly that there were no problems whatsoever, and that the flights in question had most certainly been cleared to land.”
He then made a comparison to the Watergate Scandal of 1972 Presidential election in the USA.
“Not one of the PAM, CCM or PLP flight was tampered with in any way whatsoever. They all landed each and everyone without incident. I can say, without fear of contradiction, that had our flights as well been able to land, the St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party would now be continuing the tremendous work which has made St. Kitts-Nevis the bright spot of the region.”
Dr. Douglas also indicated that on the final flight that arrived there were no less than 99 voters in Constituency One for former Deputy Prime Minister Hon. Earl Asim Martin, who lost by a mere four votes, and another 66 for Glen Phillip, former representative for Constituency Four, who was defeated by 26 votes at the polls.
“We who stand here before you are strong! We are not easily distracted or discouraged. The facts surrounding all of these extreme peculiarities will most assuredly be brought into the full light of day and we will continue to advance the interests of this country, our country, as members of the Opposition in our National Assembly.”
Dr. Douglas mentioned that there was also a matter of the boundaries which still has to be resolved and that his part, along with their coalition partner, the Nevis Reformation Party (NRP), won the popular vote in the Federation.
“The Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis cannot and must not go into yet another election with one constituency containing almost 8,000 inhabitants with another just over 2,000. This is a matter which simply must be attended to without delay.”
Dr. Douglas also denied that his party brought in 2,000 overseas people to vote last week.
