The new Victoria Road Pre-School and Day Care has been completed and will be officially opened this week.
The Day Care and Pre-School is one of several public and private sector projects which were under construction when the St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party (SKNLP) Government left office in February 2015 and were aimed at placing St. Kitts and Nevis on a sound and sustainable economic development path.
An informed source said the new facility would have been named in honour of Mrs. Vanta Walters, an early pioneer of the development of modern Day Care and Pre-School system.
Leader of the Opposition and former Prime Minister the Rt. Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas in a recent issue of “Ask the Leader” noted that on taking office in July 1995, the new SKNLP Government “struggled with the economic issues that confronted his government as a nation and as a people, especially in transitioning the economy from one based on sugar agriculture to one that is now pursued on sustainable services led by tourism – hotel and cruise based; we have to give God thanks for successfully transitioning from one state of the economy to the next and from several generations of the past to generations of the present and the future.”
He noted that the SKNLP Government under his leadership had moved the cruise industry from a mere trickle of a few hundred annually to one which now sees five cruise ships in one day amounting to one million passengers annually.
Dr. Douglas thanked God for the foresight of the SKNLP in moving St. Kitts and Nevis to a phenomenal economic growth and development.
He also expressed thanks for helping the SKNLP Government to oversee the construction of the massive Marriott Resort and Royal Beach Casino, which the then PAM opposition said will never be built and after construction started added that it would become a white elephant.
Dr. Douglas noted too that construction of the five-star Park Hyatt St. Kitts and the Koi Resort and Residences, which began under his SKNLP Administration, are soon to be completed.
The Imperial Bay Resort and Residences, Silver Reef, Kittitian Hill Resort and the St. Kitts Eco Park have been completed and the Four Seasons Resort in Nevis and the Ocean Terrace Inn (OTI) in St. Kitts were renovated under his SKNLP Administration.
Construction continues on the T-Loft, Heldens, Golden Rock, The Castle, and Rendezvous projects, approved by his SKNLP Administration under the Citizenship by Investment Programme. The Embassy Suites project has stalled.
Dr. Douglas also made reference to the provision of over 5,000 homes under the aegis of the National Housing Corporation (NHC) programmes and several initiatives in empowering young people and single-parent families in home ownership and land ownership.