Thousands marched with the St. Kitts – Nevis Labour Party and the St. Kitts Trades and Labor Union on Monday 4th May, celebrating the traditional Labour Day in SKN on the first Monday in May. The march took the usual route through the streets of Basseterre, wending its way through constituencies 3, 2 and 1 with the representatives for those areas rallying their supporters on the loud speakers during the march.
Led by the energetic pom-pom girls the marchers waved their placards and the youths jammed to local D. J sound systems and the Nu Vybes Band.
Prior to the actual march, the leaders of the Labour Movement visited the graces of the fallen comrades Charles Mills, Fitzroy Bryant, Sir Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw, Sir Lee L Moore, Sir Joseph France, Sir C. A. Paul Southwell, Edmund St. John Payne, Fidel O’Flaherty and paid tribute to the important contributions made by these heroes of the movement to the development of St. Kitts – Nevis.
During the march Freedom Fm spoke to former Press Secretary Erasmus Williams, Dr. Vance Gilbert, Hon. Marcella Liburd and Austin Edinborough who provided updates on the issues of victimization, and social and economic injustices being carried out by the UNITY Government against ordinary workers and civil servants because of party affiliations.
The Labor Day march which climaxed at the Patsy Allers Playing Field was the first since the SKNLP lost power to the Team Unity on February 16, 2015. Party leader and former PM Dr. Denzil Douglas said he was pleased with the huge turnout and indicated that momentum will be built going forward as the new parliamentary opposition. Douglas said the SKNLP was ready to be in the vanguard of the struggle against the victimization, nepotism and corruption of the new government.