Lindsay Grant, Leader, Peoples Action Movement, Statement on the Grenada Election

Lindsay Grant, Leader, Peoples Action Movement

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts-Yesterday’s General Election in Grenada was a very relevant development in the wind of change that has been sweeping across the Caribbean.

The fall of the Keith Mitchell administration follows the removal of incumbent administrations in Antigua and Barbuda, Jamaica, St. Lucia, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Montserrat and Nevis in recent times.

The People’s Action Movement has consistently maintained that similar change is due and imminent in the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis.

Now, more than ever, we are convinced that the bell of change is about to toll for the Denzil Douglas administration.

Former Prime Minister Mitchell was making a bid for a fourth consecutive term in government; as was former Prime Minister Owen Arthur in Barbados earlier this year; and as Dr. Douglas will be doing in the coming General Election in this country.

It is instructive that the conduct of the Grenada election has received high marks from the Deputy Secretary General of the Organisation of American States; which had had a team of election observers on the ground well before the elections. ~~Adz:Right~~

OAS election observers had earlier called for reform of the voter registration system, with the OAS assisting in the preparation of the new voters register.

PAM has vigorously protested the pollution of the current re-confirmation process, over which, in violation of the constitution and electoral law Prime Minister Douglas has taken full control.

I have, this morning, sent communication congratulating Grenada’s new Prime Minister on his party’s convincing and inspiring election victory.

The People’s Action Movement congratulates the Grenadian people on their example to the region and to the world the conduct of model elections that were free and fair, and free from fear. This is the model St. Kitts and Nevis must follow.

We call on our Prime Minister to follow the example of fairness and democracy in action our OECS and CARICOM sister nation has just demonstrated.