BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – IN its third consecutive week of “creative marketing”, the leading opposition party on St. Kitts, the People’s Action Movement (PAM), has once again taken to the streets to provide the public with what the party considers to be “valuable information to be used by voters in this upcoming political elections”.
Over the last 10 days, many onlookers witnessed an unfinished lounge chair positioned in various “key spots” in Basseterre, including the main ferry terminal and on Central Street.
According to the PAM’s lone Parliamentary Representative Hon. Shawn Richards, the chair symbolised the projects that his party accused the ruling government of attempting to “fool Kittitians into believing that said projects were for real”.
Supporting activists also rallied around the chair bearing placards with the message, “Lies, Lies, and More Lies! What will it be next? Don’t be fooled again!”
The list of development projects listed on the abandoned chair included La Vallee Greens, Kittitian Hills and White Gate Development, all of which have not yet been completed by the present government.
Richards noted that the list of projects was “by no means complete” and referenced projects including Stevia Sugar, KIA Car Plant, Re-location of the Caribbean Star Headquarters, Sandals Hotel, and the Auberge Mega Project, which he claims were announced to be done by the Labour government.
Richards said many of the plans for development have “only been fragments of someone’s imagination”, adding that the case of making promises without due fulfillment was not uncommon.
He stated that the closure of the sugar industry resulted in hundreds of jobs being lost and thousands of workers displaced, and underscored that promises made to ameliorate the domestic situation “are yet to be materialised”.
Richards invited the general public to look at the chair, but cautioned not to sit on it as “just like the many lies and broken promises that the Labour Party has used to fool our Kittitian people, [I]cannot guarantee the chair’s integrity”.
