Labour campaign machine rolls into Tabernacle

BASSETERRE ST. KITTS (June 22, 2009) -- The sleepy village of Tabernacle was awake Sunday night (June 21) as it showed a massive and overwhelming support for its most illustrious son, the Hon Dr Timothy Harris, who was supported by the full slate of the St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party candidates for the next general elections at an open air public meeting.
 
Dr Harris, who was first elected to parliament as the representative for Christopher 7 spanning
the villages of Belle Vue, Tabernacle, Mansion, Christ Church, Phillips, Molyneux, Bourryeau, Lodge village, Lodge Project and Ottley’s in 1993, has signalled his intention to defend the seat when elections are called. 
 
He has served as a cabinet minister in various capacities since 1995 and is currently the minister of Finance, International Trade, Industry, Commerce and Consumer Affairs. During the meeting which was attended by hundreds of villagers and other supporting teams and held at the junction of Main Street and Johnson Road in Tabernacle, he said he was ready to face his two opponents at the next general elections and implored the Prime Minister, Hon Dr Denzil Douglas, who was present, to name the date for the elections.
 
“I am pleased to be here tonight,” said Dr Harris who was mobbed by the enthusiastic crowd which surged forward to shake his hands. “I want to say thank you for your votes in the past, and I am looking forward to your massive support in the upcoming elections. I am confident that you the good people will not disappoint me. I have been working hard for you and will not take your vote and your support for granted.”
 
His rallying call, which was cheered wildly, was themed on ‘I have kept the faith I have served you well I wish you well my people.’ He gave an account of how he has transformed the Constituency, village by village.
 
“I have kept the faith with Tabernacle that is why your community centre came, your day care centre came, and your post office is to come, your police station servicing the area from Saddlers to Lodge is to be built,” the Minister said of his home village. “I went all the way to Mexico to negotiate for the building of Police stations in Tabernacle and Dieppe Bay has started. Tabernacle should really have started now.”
 
He told the people of Tabernacle that in August they will complete a massive cleanup campaign in the village, drawing on Park and Beaches group, adding that all the overgrown lots and abandoned buildings that provide an eye sore will be dealt with. He called on parliament to pass legislation that allows government to do the necessary and attach cost to owners.
 
In the area of tourism Dr Harris observed that they had worked hard to change the landscape of Belle Vue, home to the scenic Black Rocks, not just by offering quality homes to the people there but established an entertainment and education centre there. The development includes a permanent stage to accommodate local and international artistes. He announced that on August Monday a local entertainer, Romeo Paris, should be organising some major entertainment there.
 
At a time when the Minister’s family was still grieving the loss of their mother, who was buried earlier this month, he announced the death by drowning over the weekend of Dwight Mc Call of Mansion, a young man who had just returned from Taiwan where he had undertaken further studies. Dr Harris called for a half minute silence in Mc Call’s memory.
 
The meeting, which was chaired by the Deputy Prime Minister Hon Sam Condor, was also addressed by Prime Minister Douglas, and all the Labour Party candidates save for Hon Cedric Liburd of Constituency #8, who was overseas on official engagement. These were Hon Asim Martin (#1), Marcella Liburd (#2), Glenn Phillip (#4), and Dr Norgen Wilson (#5). Also present was the outgoing representative for Constituency #4, the Hon Rupert Herbert.
 
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