Opposition says Prime Minister’s ‘bad man’ language encourages crime
By Staff Reporter
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Prime Minister Dr. Hon. Denzil Douglas
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BASSETERRE, St. Kitts-THE main opposition party in St. Kitts, the People’s Action Movement (PAM), stated that Prime Minister Dr. Hon. Denzil Douglas’ aggressive rhetoric has set a bad example for the Federation’s youth and contributed to the current violent crime problem.
PAM Political Leader Lindsay Grant said at his party’s monthly press conference on Wednesday (Jan. 14) that the Prime Minister often boasts about his ‘badness’ in public forums, and that such displays sent the wrong message to same young men who are being told to stay away from violence and gang culture.
“Maybe we are reaping the world of a Prime Minister who through the years has used language and sent the wrong signals in an attempt to remain in power. The children, who in 1993, he ordered not to go to school and to disrespect their elders, those who have grown up today to be our headaches,” Grant said.
Grant cited several examples of the Prime Minister ‘sending the wrong message’ that being violent is an admirable quality in a leader.
“This is a leader who has boldly declared that he has incited and he can incite again, who has gone around from election to election beating his chest as a bad man. He said at one Independence concert that he ‘bad from he born’. He said at a public meeting in Boyds that he’s ‘ten man in one’. What do all these utterances really convey to our nation’s youth?”
The PAM leader further stated that in thirteen years in office, the Denzil Douglas administration has repeatedly sent the wrong signals, especially to the young people and that the pandering to the gang culture is having deadly consequences. ~~Adz:Right~~
“Are the chickens coming home to roost?” Grant asked. “We as a nation do not deserve this. Our elders deserve to live their retirement in peace and security. Our children must grow up in a safer society.”
He added that a PAM administration, if voted into office in the upcoming general elections, would attack crime head-on by declaring zero tolerance on criminal activity.
Grant indicated that PAM”s approach would combat the plague with initiatives aimed at “the root of the problem”.
“A government under the People’s Action Movement will empower our law enforcement agencies, and engage our youths, and bringing back hope to the society where there is hopelessness.”
