PM Douglas unaffected by ‘Wind of Change’
By Stanford Conway
Editor-in-Chief-SKNVibes.com
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| Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis the Hon. Dr. Denzil Douglas |
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – Prime Minister of the twin-island Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis, the Hon. Dr. Denzil Douglas said he would not be affected by the proverbial wind of change currently blowing across the Caribbean region.
When asked by the media last week Wednesday at his Monthly Press Conference what were his views on the wind of change that symbolised the unseating of many Heads of Government in the Caribbean region, Dr. Douglas said he is not former Prime Minister Mitchell.
“First of all, I would say congratulations to the winning party in Grenada. And
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| Leader of the People’s Action Movement Lindsay Grant |
for those who may think that there is some discomfort on my part, in fact, I am very pleased in the sense that the person who had organised the victory in Grenada is the same guy who organised my three victories.”
The Prime Minister told members of the local media that St. Kitts and Nevis is a different country to the others, whose former Heads are now Leaders of the Opposition.
“Previously, to be frank with you, I was very, very encouraged and, whether the wind of change is blowing in the Caribbean I don’t know, but St. Kitts and Nevis is a different country…Douglas is not Mitchell.”
Lindsay Grant, Leader of the People’s Action Movement [PAM], however has a different view.
In a release the day after the Keith Mitchell Administration was unseated in Grenada’s General Elections, Grant said his loss signified a very relevant development in the wind of change that has been sweeping across the Caribbean.
He noted that the fall of Mitchell’s Administration follows the removal of incumbent Administrations in Antigua and Barbuda, Jamaica, St. Lucia, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Montserrat and Nevis in recent times.
~~Adz:Left~~ The People’s Action Movement has consistently maintained that similar change is due and imminent in the Federation.
“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,” he said.
Grant said the PAM has vigorously protested the pollution of the current re-confirmation process over which Dr. Douglas has taken full control and is in violation of the constitution and electoral law.
His party congratulated the Grenadian people on the conduct of their elections, which he noted was free and fair, and free from fear, and called on PM Douglas to “follow the example of fairness and democracy in action our OECS and CARICOM sister nation has just demonstrated”.
