BASSETERRE, St. Kitts - "I want to send a message to the Commissioner of Police tonight and the message for the Commissioner of Police tonight...you must be fair. The message for the Commissioner of Police tonight is that you must be fair because the tax payers money, Labour taxpayers money, PAM taxpayers money paying your salary when the month comes."
This was the message sent to the Commissioner of Police Celvin ‘CG’ Walwyn by candidate of the People's Action Movement (PAM) for Constituency Four Lindsay Grant last Thursday (May 2) while on the platform at a public political meeting in Old Road.
He was to the issue of the Main Road not being blocked from traffic to allow the smooth flow of the public meeting.
Grant expressed his disgust with the fact that the roads are allowed to be blocked off whenever the ruling St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party would have its meetings, but such liberty was not granted to PAM.
"Just like Labour could block off the road, why can't they block off the road for the People's Action Movement. Every time they got meeting, they want to block off the road 2:00, 3:00 and 4:00 in the afternoon, but when we write to them, as we did, for permission to block off this road here, we can't hear back from them."
He said they tried to inquire the reason for not receiving a response to their request but was unsuccessful and were not pleased with what they were told.
"...when we called the office this afternoon to ask them what happen to the response about blocking off the road, they said the Commissioner of Police ain't there and the Deputy don't want to touch that. Well, why should they don't want to touch that when like it's something we're begging? Labour get it so PAM could get it too!"
Grant warned that should they not be given permission to have the road blocked off the next time around, they would take matters into their own hands.
"But next time, Mr. Commissioner of Police, if you don't block off the road when we ask for permission to block off the road right here, we going block it off weself.
"This kind of nonsense must stop; all of we paying VAT in this country. This kind of nonsense must stop! So that message is for the Commissioner of Police...so take it back to him."
