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LABOUR looks back - and goes FOWARD

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PM DOUGLAS ON MANAGING CHANGE THE PRIME MINISTER SPEAKS OUT

ON WHAT’S IN STORE FOR

ST . KITTS & NEVIS

IN THE YEARS AHEAD

LAND OW

NERSHIP

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etter

Com

munities

EDUCATION

Employmen

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TOURISM

Health

LABOUR now ROLLING OUT the

MANIFESTO FOR CHANGE

10 REASONS TO VOTE LABOUR

WINDS OF CHANGE?

No more than a blast of hot air from the CHICKEN LITTLE gang!

http://FriendsOfStKittsAndNevis.comDecember 2009

Seasons Greetings from the Friends of St. Kitts and Nevis

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Let the jackasses bray, but

PAM and Brantley have to get

an ‘A’ for trying - They are asking

Justice Belle for another injunc-

tion on spurious grounds.

Brantley realises that the

Boundaries Commission can op-

erate without his two men and

Shawn wants more time. For

what? People are already fed up

of their time-wasting. Even the

Judge is reluctant to grant an-

other injunction. So what’s left?

A green card for Brantley too?

Maybe the three Mosquitoes will

move on to try their sting op-

erations where people are more

gullible?

If they can’t organise a march

properly, how can they manage

a government especially during

a global financial crisis? PAM

called a march and got a hand-

ful not hundreds. Their promise

to shake Church Street like an

earthquake never materialised.

The Richter Scale registered it as

a minus ten. So it’s the CHICKEN

LITTLE gang quaking now

INSIGHT

EDITORIAL

WINDS OF CHANGESurely the winds of change are blowing right into the faces of Chicken Little and his Lieutenants.

They themselves summoned those winds so they can’t complain now that they are feeling the force.

In many countries of the world, rich and poor alike, this Christmas is going to be bleak. Right next door to us, several of our Caribbean neighbours are seeing a massive drop in both cruise ship arrivals and hotel occupancy. The mainstay of their economies, tourism, has become a victim of the global recession.

Our country, the Federation of St Kitts and Nevis, has surpassed previous all previous totals for cruise ship tourism. Our hotels are doing well considering the situation in the other countries. Our economy is on an upswing. More airlines will be coming to this country and others, like British Airways, are expanding their flight schedules.

The Labour Government has introduced new programmes to facilitate youth self-employment and create more opportunities for tertiary education and scholarships.

The process of land redistribution and opportunities for small farmers to contribute to the increasing demand for local food products are part of a massive focus on agriculture and food security.

The Federation of St Kitts and Nevis has been able to improve its social services to the youth and the elderly. It has put additional resources into better health facilities and services.

Additionally, it has improved both physical and electronic communications as part of creating the infrastructure that will open up the country in many directions and dimensions - for agriculture and housing development, for improved financial services and for positioning this country securely and successfully

on the global information super-highway.

These positive developments have not happened by chance. When the winds of change blow with hurricane force they topple any structure that does not stand on a firm foundation. Had the ship of state not been properly secured, had its moorings not been sturdy enough to withstand the fury of the global gale, this country would have been like Iceland – bankrupt and battered.

What has saved us is good governance. What has helped us through this period of despondency and depression is foresight backed by superb judgment.

What will take us through this storm intact and best prepared for the new world that will emerge, is the ability of the present government to maximize its resources and seize the opportunities that inevitably lie in the heart of crisis.

Visitors from the other Caribbean countries invariably comment on the prosperity of the Federation compared with its neighbours. The level and pace of activities in tourism, construction, agriculture and infrastructure absolutely astonish them when compared with the sluggish and declining economies of their own countries.

They tell their Kittitian friends that we have a lot here in our country to be thankful for. I understand that some Kittitians are even helping their families in the United States who are without jobs, making up for those times when many of our people depended solely on remittances from abroad to keep body and soul together.

While we exercise charity and fellowship to our Caribbean brothers and sisters, and pray for their situation to improve, we must give thanks to God for the tide of prosperity that is now improving the fortunes of our Federation. We are quickly moving from one University graduate in every household to several. We are seeing the possibility that our children will have their own plot of land on which to build, farm and live.

This is not the time to sacrifice our country’s future to the arbitrary power of the winds of change. This is not the time to change horses – we are still in midstream and can easily drown in the deep economic currents from which we have not yet completely emerged.

This is the time to value safety, stability and sustainability. This is when we need to take stock of our national situation and cling to those who have secured us against those winds from the outside which have already done more damage to the Caribbean than Hurricane Ivan did to Grenada.

My countrymen, this is decision-time. Will you hurl yourselves, your families, your future and that of future generations into the merciless and uncaring hands of the winds of change? Or do you stay in the calm, clear waters in which your ship of state is berthed, testing the waters and staying far from the chaos and confusion that come with change that is unplanned and unmanaged?V VOTE WISELY. V VOTE LABOUR. V VOTE FOR DR. DENZIL DOUGLAS TO CONTINUE TO LEAD US INTO THE FUTURE

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