Politics

Published 9 July 2017

Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News

BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, JULY 9^TH 2017 – Former St. Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister the Rt. Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas has called on Caribbean women to ensure that their voices are heard in lawmaking bodies when legislation is proposed and debated.

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Published 7 July 2017

Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News.

Opposition Leader Douglas blasts PM Harris for his insensitivity to the unemployed and hungry families.

BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, JULY 7TH 2017 – Leader of the Opposition the Rt. Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas has accused Prime Minister Dr. the Hon. Timothy Harris of insensitivity to the plight of persons who are unemployed with hungry families, while at the same time boasting of the millions allocated to fighting the escalating incidences of serious crimes.

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Published 22 June 2017

Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis Nevis.

Leader of the Opposition doubles down on warning to Speaker of the National Assembly

BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, JUNE 21ST 2017 – Leader of the Opposition, the Right Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas doubled down on his stern warning to the Speaker of the St. Kitts and Nevis National Assembly, the Hon. Michael Perkins that the opposition will not endure much longer the constant abuse and subjugation of its members in the local lawmaking body.

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Published 20 June 2017

Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News.

St. Kitts and Nevis Opposition tells regional parliamentarians it will no longer

tolerate abuse and subjugation of its members by Speaker Michael Perkins

BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, JUNE 19^TH 2017 Leader of the Opposition, the Rt. Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas expressed concern Monday for the stability of democracy in St. Kitts and Nevis as a consequence of the abject irrationality and callous impartiality on display in the National Assembly.

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Published 20 June 2017

Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News.

PM Harris skips CPA meeting in St. Kitts, fifth for 2017

BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, June 19^th 2017 – Absent again. The Federation’s Prime Minister Dr. the Hon. Timothy Harris was notably absent from another important regional meeting, the fifth in the past six months.

St. Kitts and Nevis is hosting the 42^nd Regional Conference of the Caribbean, the Americas and the Atlantic Region of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) with nearly 100 delegates and observers from Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Cayman Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the United Kingdom and Canada.

But Prime Minister Harris was absent from this meeting and his remarks were presented instead by Acting Prime Minster, the Hon. Shawn K. Richards.

No reason was given for the absence of Dr. Harris at the CPA conference, the first to be held here since 2000.

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