Published 20 July 2017
Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News
West Basseterre MP: calling out Defence Force a sign of escalating crime wave
BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, JULY 20TH 2017 – Parliamentary Representative for St. Christopher 3 (West Basseterre) Hon. Konris Maynard, has accused the Timothy Harris Government of not informing the nation that a Proclamation has been issued by the Governor General “calling out the St. Kitts and Nevis Defence Force with its arms and ammunition for six months.”
“This Government does not have the decency, the decorum, the leadership to inform the public that these are the steps that have become necessary in their view to help address the escalating crime wave here in St. Kitts and Nevis,” said Maynard, who pointed out that it was the opposition St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party that informed the public this week, although the decision was taken by the Cabinet on May 22nd and the Proclamation printed in an Extra-Ordinary Issue of the Gazette on June 23rd it
He took umbrage to the secrecy of the decision, pointing out that the public was never informed although there has been Post Cabinet Briefings, meetings of the National Assembly and statements from the Office of the Prime Minister.
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