Published 27 July 2017
Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News
Crooke highlights hypocrisy of PM Harris
BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, JULY 27TH 2017 – Community activist, Curtis Crooke mounted another demonstration outside the offices of St. Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Dr. the Hon. Timothy Harris on Thursday.
Crooke contends that it is hypocritical for Dr. Harris, while to opposition to make disparaging remarks about persons born in St. Kitts and Nevis, who are citizens through marriage to nations.
“Dr. Harris brought (retired Major General Stewart) Saunders of Jamaica to be National Security adviser, but this is the same Dr. Harris who some years ago accused and criticised our born here Commissioner of Police CG (Walwyn) saying he must go back where he came from as CG has a foreign accent. Dr. Walwyn was born here. Dr. Walwyn grew up in St. Croix and the US, but for Harris, CG’s American accent disqualified him from being our Commissioner of Police.”
“Saunders has a foreign accent. Saunders has a Jamaican accent, but for Harris as Prime Minister, he is qualified to be an advisor, but CG was not qualified. It is hypocritical. He (Harris) also said lawyer Anthony ‘bang water come here.’ Anthony is a Caribbean man and married to a national. This is hypocrisy. And I am demonstrating a second time to show how hypocritical and dishonest Timothy Harris is,” said Crooke.
The newly-appointed national security advisor was involved in the Tivoli Gardens Massacre in Jamaica in 2010 that killed at least 73 civilians and wounded at least 35 others.
Four soldiers/police were also killed and more than 500 arrests were made, as Jamaican police and soldiers fought gunmen in the Tivoli Gardens district of Kingston.
In 2013, the government of Jamaica announced it would set up a commission of inquiry to investigate and report on the operation. The commission, informally known as the Tivoli Inquiry, started sitting in December 2014, chaired by Barbados judge Sir David Simmons.
Photos 1 to 3 – Curtis Crooke demonstates
Photo 4 – PM Harris (left) and Stewart Saunders
