BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – AN accusatory finger is being pointed directly at Opposition Leader Mark Brantley by Prime Minister Dr. Denzil L. Douglas who charges that he is attempting to sacrifice the Labour Government for his personal political gain.
On today’s edition of his weekly radio programme ‘Ask the Prime Minister’, Dr. Douglas took Mark Brantley to task suggesting that he is going to the length of destabilising the country just to ascend on the rungs of the political ladder.
“I believe to a large extent as well all this is happening because the Leader of the Opposition, who is in the middle of an electoral fight for his life in Nevis and who appears to be way behind in the polls, is trying to muscle his way – it would appear – to some type of leadership position in the race that he is contesting in Nevis. So he has decided to bring our country, it would appear, into a situation of instability in order to make his own personal and self-aggrandisement in his fight against Mr. Daniel for a seat in the Nevis local elections.”
In recent days, Brantley, on behalf of his Opposition colleagues, submitted to the Speaker of the National Assembly a Motion of No Confidence in Prime Minister Denzil Douglas. However, that was subsequently changed to a Motion of No Confidence in the Government, under the stewardship of Dr. Douglas.
The verbal jabs that were thrown in Brantley’s direction included the suggestion that he has “no good intentions for the people of St. Kitts and Nevis”, and as such is not concerned with the consequences of his actions.
“That is why I keep saying to our people that Mr. Brantley really has no good intentions for the people of St. Kitts and Nevis. He is the one who has gone on record to say his wish is to dismantle the relationship between St. Kitts and Nevis. He said he is a secessionist and he cannot work with St. Kitts if he is in government. And so I am not surprised at all with the way this matter has turned. It has been well orchestrated by Mr. Mark Brantley in order to divert the attention of losing the attention of people that he is losing his grip in the race in Nevis and trying muscle his way as some strong man in tackling the government in St. Kitts.
“But in the process of doing that for his own selfish purposes, he does not care how he hurts this country. He does not care how he drives away investors from this country. He does not care whether senior citizens who have served this country as public servants and who are retired, whether they can get their salary or not. He doesn’t care whether our hospital here in St. Kitts-Nevis would have enough money to buy medicines and so forth. As far as he is concerned, bring the activity of government to an end in order to satisfy his own personal ambition. Firstly, to muscle his way in the elections in Nevis and then hopefully thinking that that would also allow him to ascend to winning the seat in the Federal elections in Nevis.”
In issuing what appeared to be a warning to Brantley, Dr. Douglas expressed, “You have not yet seen the battle that you are into.”
