Published 18 January 2018
Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News Source
Drew: Labour Party ready to present solid, visionary leadership before the next general election
Basseterre, St. Kitts, January 18, 2018 – The electorate in St. Kitts and Nevis can look forward to a team of visionary leaders for the next general election.
“The St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party will offer a very good, solid, sound and visionary leadership as we continue to roll out our candidates for the next general election,” said the SKNLP caretaker for St. Christopher 8, Dr. Terrance Drew said Wednesday.
He told listeners to Wednesday’s popular radio programme “Issues” on Freedom 106.5 FM that the SKNLP “will bring to this country, a new vision, new ideas and new ways of doing things so that our people can again enjoy a proper standard of living.”
“We will seek to restore democracy in all its forms and get rid of the existing blatant and rampant nepotism, victimisation and corruption in the Timothy Harris-led Team Unity government. That has to be eliminated. No progressive country can afford that. We will also ensure that our workers will be protected healthwise and what they earn at the end of the day,” said Dr. Drew a Cuban trained physician who was also trained in the US as an internal medicine specialist.
Dr. Drew disclosed that the Labour Party has been working on policies that will have positively enhance and impact the lives of young people, senior citizens and all nationals and residents in every sector.
“The St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party is all about the people of St. Kitts and Nevis. The people are anxious to see and hear what the Labour has to offer in preparation for the next general elections. We are ready to take this country and the people upward and onward into the future,” said Dr. Drew.
In the 2015 General Election the Labour Party lost two St. Kitts seats it held – St. Christopher 1 by 4 votes and St. Christopher 4 by 26 votes.
The SKNLP remains the largest single party in St. Kitts and Nevis, gaining 11,897 votes to the Hon. Shawn Richards’ Peoples Action Movement (PAM), 8,452 votes; Hon. Vance Amory’s Concerned Citizens Movement (CCM) 3,951 votes; Hon. Joseph Parry’s (Nevis Reformation Party (NRP), 3,276 votes and Dr. the Hon. Timothy Harris’ People’s Labour Party (PLP), 2,723 votes.
Seatwise in the St. Kitts and Nevis National Assembly, the PAM holds 4 seats, the SKNLP, 3 seats, the CCM, two seats; the NRP and the PLP, 1 seat each.
Harris’ three-party coalition is made up of the PLP, CCM and PAM.
Photo: Dr. Terrance Drew
