BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, Jan.09.18 – LEADER of the St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party, Dr. Denzil Douglas told a large gathering of party supporters, members of the diplomatic community and others, that his party is preparing to return to form the next government.
Speaking at his party’s New Year’s Gala on Friday (Jan.5) at the St. Kitts Marriott Resort, Dr. Douglas said that they are hearing the cries of the people on a daily basis that “things are hard. Things are not what they use to be before”.
The former prime minister explained that opportunities that abounded in the past three, four, five years,no longer exist Further lamenting that the economy continues to decline.
“Yes, minimal growth, significantly reduced from the seven percent GDP growth of three, four years ago to a mere two percent,”
Douglas stated that it is important they return to form the next government because they “intended to ensure that we can lift ourselves and look towards the future with hope, aspiring that things would change and asking that there would be continued protection and shelter from the continued deterioration in the quality of life of the people of St. Kitts and Nevis.”
The outspoken former PM also called for an immediate overhaul of the health sector, He and his party members have often criticized the Team Unity Administration’s handling of this area.
“As someone said recently, health is in the ICU and we need to take it from the ICU and give it life and energy as we would want to do overall with the economy and the other sectors here in St. Kitts and Nevis.”
According to Douglas, there is a seriousness by his organization of returning St. Kitts and Nevis “to the heights that it used to be just four and five years ago. I challenge you to recognise that there is a fundamental change that is going to come.”
He challenged young people to become actively engaged in the process, get registered and become involved in the party of the people.
“I call upon those who are in business to join with us as we have reached out to you and we are saying here that just as we partnered with you over the last 20 years of this administration of building this country, so too, we want to emphasise that the partnership will continue under a new Labour Administration, and move our country to unprecedented heights that we have never seen before.”
