BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – THE Six Elected Members of the Federal Parliament who initiated court action against the government relative to the pending Motion of No Confidence are being publicly advised to withdraw the case from before the Court.
The advice was given by social commentator and political activist Washington ‘Washie’ Archibald – who recently spoke in an exclusive and candid interview with SKNVibes.
“I believe that in the face of this delay…the six elected Members should withdraw the case from the Court and should rely on the pressure from the people. I don’t think that they are getting justice from the Courts, because the matter is an urgent one but yet – as Anthony says – they have all agreed that it would go all the way to the Privy Council which probably would take years. I believe that if it isn’t too difficult to do, the six elected people who took the matter to court should withdraw it.
“Because, it doesn’t make sense to continue with a case like that which would not be decided until it reaches the Privy Council which might take another three or four years. Cases which reach the Privy Council are not settled with any urgency…and so they would take a very long time before they are decided.”
Archibald suggested that, having removed the case from the hands of the Court, it should then be placed in the hands of the people.
“But this Vote of No Confidence is something which we want urgently to be done, and therefore the strategy in the court not to treat the matter with any urgency would not help the Vote of No Confidence to materialise. Therefore, they should take the case out of the hands of the Court because there is no justice in the Court, because justice delayed is justice denied. And they should take the case to the people and sensitise the people in their constituencies, who supported them in the last election, to the tricks that Douglas is pulling and galvanise their support to march in Charlestown and Basseterre.
“Let the people do it, not the Court…There is a limit to which the Court can go and, in this case, a No Confidence Motion is too urgent for the Court to handle.”
The Motion of No Confidence was filed by the Opposition of the Federal Parliament on December 11, 2012 and has yet to be tabled for debate.
And as such, the Opposition and others have been agitating for the expeditious tabling of the Motion, asking the Court to prevent Parliament from tabling any bill before it.
