Basseterre,St.Kitts (February 16th 2010):- Beginning on the night of Monday 15th February just hours after the petition challenging the election results in constituency #4 was filed in the High Court seven government and electoral officials including labour candidate Mr. Glen “Ghost” Phillip were all officially served.
Mr. Phillip was served on Church Street in the vicinity of Masses House at 7:13pm and according to eye witness reports such was his shock that the documents literally fell from his trembling hands into the drain.
The other officials were served the following morning. The Supervisor of Elections Mr. Leroy Benjamin and the government representative on the Electoral Commission Mr. William Dore were served at their respective residences.
The Chairman of the Electoral Commission Mr. Hesketh Benjamin OBE and the opposition representative on the Electoral Commission Ms. Myrna Walwyn were served in their law chambers; Mr. Benjamin on Central Street in Basseterre and Ms. Walwyn on Main Street in Charlestown. Returning Officer for Constituency #4, Mr. Steve Wrensford was served at his office in the Social Security building while the service on Attorney General the Hon. Patrice Nisbett was made at his office in Government Headquarters where his secretary took the documents on his behalf.
This officially begins the legal process that will examine the serious irregularities that occurred in Constituency #4 as the full weight of the Labour government apparatus was employed in the attempt to keep Mr. Grant out of office at any cost.
The people will hear testimony about the hundreds of residents from St. Pauls in particular that were fraudulently registered in Constituency #4 and then bused in by the security forces on polling day. They will hear about the shameless behaviour and intimidation by Dr. Douglas himself. The atrocious conduct of the presiding officers as well as the electoral office in producing voters ID and new lists on polling day will be brought to light.
The court will once again be called upon to protect the franchise of all those residents from Challengers to Half Way Tree who followed the law and voted overwhelmingly for the representative of the PAM only to watch helplessly as the onslaught military force of the state denied then the representative that they voted for.
This case is the most serious constitutional matter to be brought before the court in recent times because it concerns the right to a free and fair election. St. Kitts and Nevis is the only CARICOM country which enumerates the right to a free and fair election in its constitution and the illegal excesses of January 25th indicate why this is so.
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF'S NOTE: When contacted by SKNVibes, the Hon. Glen Phillip refuted the allegation of the "documents literally fell from his trembling hands into the drain". The Minister explained that he was indeed on Church Street in the vicinity of Masses House when an individual knocked on the window of his vehicle and offerred him an envelope. He enquired of its contents and was told that it came from the People's Action Movement. Phillip said he told the individual that he does not want anything from PAM and threw the envelope away.
