BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS – The sanity of Prime Minister Dr. The Hon. Timothy Harris continues to be questioned following not only his continued actions but also his statements.
“It is the narcissism and the megalomania that persons have come to identify and associate with Timothy Harris as a human being who clearly something is wrong with him when Timothy Harris on Tuesday goes to Dieppe Bay of all places or any place in St Kitts and Nevis or any place in the world and claims that the government which he leads has done more in 18 months than what the Labour Party Government did in 20 years.
Then you know that something is wrong with his head,” said Labour Party senator Hon. Nigel Carty, who added that persons have come to recognise that Dr. Harris just cannot help himself.
“He is helpless and hopeless where his narcissism and megalomania are concerned. He is absorbed in himself and does not even have the basic level of respect, not one iota of respect for people’s intelligence,” said Carty on Wednesday’s “Issues” programme on Freedom FM.
Mr Carty went on to say that Dr Harris has not outlined any of the accomplishments that he has been talking about except that his government had given out 84 houses. He recalled the posting by Harris’ own PLP chairman, Douglas Wattley who stated that if the new government is taking credit for having given out 84 houses, it tells of their ability to think forwardly and progressively.
“That seems to be the main plank of their achievements over the 18 months that they were able to give out to their cronies 84 houses which they met being built and ready for distribution. That is their accomplishment and it tells you what this government has in store for you. This new government has not been able to do anything on their own,” said Carty.
He said it is clear that the pattern of dishonesty and deception continue in this government and further pointed to the statement this week Tuesday by the PAM candidate, Vernon Connor, who lost to the veteran politician, statesman and former Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas.
Connor stated in the presence of Dr. Harris at Tuesday’s town hall meeting that he does not know how he lost the election on February 16th 2015, because “something was wrong with the numbers.”
Connor, who also lost his deposit, polled 200 votes to Dr. Douglas’ 1,969 votes in St. Christopher 6. In fact, although losing the election, the St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party remains the largest single party on St. Kitts gaining 11,897 votes to the People’s Action Movement (PAM), 8,452 and the Peoples Labour Party (PLP), 2,723.
“It just tells you what goes on at these meetings, they are just comedy shows and an abuse of persons and a waste of taxpayers’ money to propagandize and insult people’s intelligence and an attempt to hog the media at taxpayers’ expense,” said Mr. Carty, who again expressed concern of the undermining of the democracy in St. Kitts and Nevis.
He said Tuesday’s sitting of the St. Kitts and Nevis National Assembly again highlighted the lack of respect for justice by the Speaker and the members on the Government side.
“What we saw in parliament is a serious attempt by the Government to deceive the public into believing that what was happening in relation to the Small Estates Administration Bill was positive for the small persons in St Kitts and Nevis,” said Carty who pointed out that St. Kitts and Nevis is the only nation in the region that has removed the involvement of the judge in signing off on Wills and Probates filed with the High Court.
“The reason this amendment came to parliament at this time is because the Registrar (Janine Harris-Lake) is the sister of the Prime Minister Harris. You can imagine that a lot of these matters which ordinarily would have been decided by the Judge of the High Court, will now be decided by Timothy Harris’ sister.
This falls into the same pattern that we speak about all the time, where his sister is the Registrar, another sister is a Magistrate, other sisters and brothers and nephews are in top positions and now you take the Judge out of the decision making process in relation to the administration of small estates,” said Carty.
He again reiterated that the decision to remove the Judge and leave the investigation, reporting and final determination or decision to the Registrar “is a retrogressive step for democracy and as my colleague Hon. Konris Maynard said in parliament yesterday, ‘is an undermining of justice’.”