Former Jamaican MP says Kittitians not happy with Team Unity Government BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS – A former Junior Minister of Tourism and Entertainment in Jamaica, Damion Crawford said the people of St. Kitts and Nevis are not happy with the direction in which the Team Unity Government is taking the two-island nation.
Crawford, the Guest Speaker at Sunday’s 84th Annual Conference of the St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party is a former PNP parliamentarian and currently a lecturer at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus in Jamaica.
Crawford, who arrived on St. Kitts a few days before the conference toured the island and disclosed that his investigations and the feedback he received, persons are unhappy with the direction in which the Federation is heading. “…When I am on the road and talking to the people, they don’t know that I am not from here and they telling me all of the things that they are not satisfied with. Therefore, you should be ready because anytime soon,” he said.
Crawford congratulated former Prime Minister the Right Hon. Dr Denzil L. Douglas for the achievements in St Kitts and Nevis during the Labour Party’s near 20 years tenure in office and called on the government to recognize the opposition St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party and give credit for the past achievements and progress that the country has made during its term in office.
He condemned the Government’s failure to invite the Opposition to last Friday’s opening ceremony of the Timothy Hill Tunnel; one of several projects which started under the St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party (SKNLP) administration with Dr Earl Asim Martin as Minister of Public Works.
He said he was also appalled at the Opposition’s absence from the 2016 Tourism Awards Ceremony held on the previous day, leading him to conclude that “things are done different here.”
“I went yesterday to a function for the Tourism Board and I saw nobody from the Opposition. I was looking for Ricky Skerritt (former minister of Tourism and) I didn’t see him, I was looking for the boss (The Right Hon. Dr. Denzil Douglas) and I never see the boss. In Jamaica, the Opposition is automatically invited because, if it is that Government is divided, and Government also includes those in who are also Opposition, then they will take advantage of the people.”
“When the tunnel was being opened, Bro Dr Asim Martin being the initiator of the road project was not invited,” said Mr. Crawford.