The Campaign to Victory train rolled into Baker’s Corner in the heart of East Basseterre on the evening of Wednesday 24th for a pre Music Festival “Poor Cant Take No More” rally. The People’s Action Movement brought the overwhelming momentum of the message of CHANGE to this community as well as the returning nationals who are back for the festival and the election that will soon follow. The whole corner ...

It is widely accepted that the constituency boundaries will be changed during the next sitting of Parliament on Thursday 2nd July. This has been looming since 2004 when we were threatened with invective from the Labour Government platform that “de boundaries gon change; all de boundaries gon change!” Yet I doubt that even the worse cynics expected that the changes would be rammed down the throat of an unsuspecting public without any public discussion at all. It has been the signal disappointment of this entire electoral deform process that civic society has lent credibility to the many abuses and outright crimes that this Labour government has committed. Despite the clear constitutional provisions outlining the procedures for a changing of the boundaries and despite the fact that this Labour Government has ignored each of them; we are still awaiting any substantive criticism from the legal or church communities. To recap the Constitution requires that a Boundaries Commission be set up to review any boundaries. This Commission is to delegate the responsibility of gathering the necessary demographic data to a body of its choosing not the government but the Labour Government has done just that in appointing the Boundaries Technical Committee a whole year before convening the Boundaries Commission.

One afternoon while accompanying my dear colleague Mr. Roy Fleming on a walk-thru in constituency two, we met a middle aged lady who complained bitterly about her Labour Party and its leadership. She was apparently upset about the hotly debated issue of boundary changes and stated vehemently to us that “If they move me, I voting P.A.M.”. The lady was expressing a sentiment that is widely shared by many supporters of...

St Kitts and Nevis sprint icon Kim Collins registered his first international win of the season at the IX European Athletics Festival. Windy conditions messed up the sprinters' times as Collins stopped the clock at 10.48 seconds in minus 2.8 metres-per-second wind. Collins along with Laverne Jones of...

Those who follow English football will know that Christiano Ronaldo, who played for Manchester United in the just-completed English football season, is likely to be sold to the Spanish football club Real Madrid for a fee of £80 million (that’s about US$130 million). Sir Bobby Charlton, the Manchester United legend, recently described the size of this fee as “vulgar”. VULGARITY There is, of course, no shortage of vulgar utterances from our own Prime Minister. Not least of these, is his bizarre and disrespectful comment that President Barack Obama is so attractive that he, Dr. Douglas, wants to compete with Michelle Obama for the President’s affections, apparently in the manner of Monica Lewinsky and former President Clinton. But Vulgarity can take several forms: § How vulgar is the Labour Party’s accumulation of some THREE BILLION DOLLARS of crippling National Debt - that’s approx. 182% of GDP.

As the date for the next General Election fast approaches concerned citizens are again expressing their concern about the kind of electoral process that will confront them on polling day. At this late stage when there are only weeks left before an unsuspecting Kittitian and Nevisian electorate will have to navigate an unfamiliar, murky and in many instances downright biased electoral process serious questions linger unanswered about its most basic rules. Is the new Voters ID Card or National ID Card or whatever the new card is absolutely necessary to enable a voter to cast a ballot on polling day? This issue remains one of the most controversial going into the 2009 General Election. From the very beginning of the confirmation process senior government officials including the Minister of Information declared that no one would be turned away from the voting booth and “denied their franchise” without this card yet the Federation underwent the admittedly futile and expensive exercise to create the ID card.