BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, December 9th, 2009 (The Labour Secretariat) - In many constituencies island wide, so far, on almost all of the lamp posts, campaigning boards have been mounted by the opposition party, the People’s Action Movement (PAM).
Following an investigation into the matter, many persons found it inconsiderate of PAM and are asking where would other political parties find room to put their respective campaigning material.
The Labour Party candidate for Constituency #2, Marcella Liburd believes PAM is being unfair.
“All over they have these yellow (boards); they are hogging all the lamp posts, front, back and side,” she said at a Labour Party public meeting in Sandy Point on Sunday night (Dec. 6).
Liburd said had it been the Labour Party selfishly populating the lamp posts with its campaigning material, there would have been wide spread criticism about the party, demanding a level playing field for all political parties on the island.
But she is of the firm view that regardless of PAM’s action, the victory in the upcoming general elections will be dependent upon the masses-not the boards.
“They can take the lamp posts because we of the Labour Party are going to stick to the people because that is what we are here for. Lamp posts don’t vote so they can take all of them,” she said.
Speaking to the public relations officer for the United National Empowerment Party (UNEP), Walford Arthurton, he said "it is good that PAM has the money to put out so many boards and it is good that they have put up so many boards but boards don’t win elections, it is the votes...."
Asked whether or not UNEP has sufficient space to place their own campaign boards, he said the island is big and that if there is not enough room on the lamp posts, with the permission of homeowners, UNEP’s boards can be placed on houses as one option.
Arthurton said that if PAM has two boards on one lamp post, UNEP would simply nail one of theirs and leave the other.
