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The anti-Government Coalition has been loud and clear in its assessment that the Tourism Sector has declined significantly and that its contribution to the national economy has decreased seriously.
The Ministry of Tourism has challenged such an assessment and has provided the relevant data.
The partisans of the anti-Government Coalition wanted to ensure a decline in the Tourist Industry. And so they used their influence to effect what turned out to be a hold-up at gunpoint on November 14, 2010 of 17 cruise passengers on a tour bus at Brimstone Hill.
The action of these misguided criminal buffoons is not atypical of those who wish to destroy the economy of St. Kitts and Nevis. We saw such a dangerous action on the night of June 0, 1967. On that night a number of political opponents of Premier Bradshaw joined with a gang of dissident Anguillans in an effort to overthrow, by force of arms, the lawfully elected Labour Party Government.
During the 1960s and 70s, the Sugar Industry, which was the mainstay of our economy, was in deep trouble. The Labour Government set-out to shore-up the failing Sugar Industry by initialling a Project called The Sugar Industry Rescue Operation (SIRO). While the Labour Party Government was trying to rescue the Sugar Industry by means of SIRO, the political opponents of the Labour Party Government were trying to destroy the Industry by setting fire night after night in one cane field after another.
The next attempt by political opponents to destroy the economy came after the Labour Party Government acquired the Basseterre Sugar Factory.
The enemies of the Labour Party Government engaged in significant acts of sabotage which were visited upon the Sugar Factory. Operations of the Sugar Factory were virtually trouble-free while the property was privately owned. As soon as the Sugar Factory was taken over by the Government, all sorts of strange and unusual breakdowns began to occur to the machinery, engines and equipment. The saboteurs were at work.
We must not forget also that in the 1970s a leading member of PAM organised a taxi drivers strike while one of the largest cruise liners was riding at anchor in the Basseterre Roadstead. This senseless and dangerous act was nullified by the quick and patriotic action of Earle Clarke who mobilised a group of private motor-car owners to accommodate and entertain the cruise passengers.
We still remember that during the latter half of the 1960s the Hon. C.A.P. Southwell was negotiating the implementation of the INDELCO Project. The INDELCO Project was a multi-million dollar project aimed at the comprehensive tourism development of Frigate Bay Estate.
Now what was PAM’s reaction ? The PAM Party arranged for a certain poor taxi man to take out full-page advertisements in the world’s leading newspapers, warning would-be investors not to put their money in any business venture in St. Kitts.
So whether we influence a couple of dunce-head fellows to attack a tour bus or pay to publish negative advertisements about St. Kitts in the world’s leading newspapers, the intention is all the same. That is to destroy the economy of St. Kitts and Nevis.
We all knew that there would be a political response from the enemies of Labour following the attack on the tour bus at Brimstone Hill on Sunday, November 14. We also knew what form the response would take. The response would, in a large measure, put the blame for the attack on the Prime Minister, Dr. Denzil Douglas and his Labour Party Government.
The general public by now has become quite accustomed to that form of response. The political opposition always say to their partisans : Of course, we must blame the Prime Minister, who else ? He is the one whose seat we want to win. He is the one whose government we want to fall.
We learn from SOCIOLOGY about Socialisation which is “The process by which new members (children) of a society are instilled with the fundamental elements of their culture.” We also learn that the agents of Socialisation are as follows, namely – the Family, the School, the Church, the Peer Group, the Work Place, the Mass Media and the State (Government).
The 6th Commandment says “Thou shalt not kill (murder).” The 8th Commandment says “Thou shalt not steal.” Who is to instil in our children the fear of God, the love of neighbour and respect for those two Commandments ? Is it Dr. Douglas or is it the Parents, the school and the Church ? And does Dr. Douglas go about encouraging children and young people to lie, cheat, steal and murder ?
For PAM, the CCM/PAM Coalition and the Democrat, politics is not an activity engaged in by civilised human beings. It is an activity without rules or boundaries or ethics. As one well-known PAM member once put it, Politics is like stampede Wrestling. Anything goes.
So the PAMites and their partisans sacrifice everything, morals, ethics, scruples, compassion on the altar of political expediency. Nothing is too sacred to violate or too holy to trample upon.
These people therefore would spread false and nasty rumours about an imaginary robbery at a famous restaurant in Basseterre and also about a US$91.0 million cheque sent to Dr. Douglas by the Italians. These sons of Belial also used their influence to cause people to engage in unlawful and anti-social acts detrimental to public safety and to the stability of our country’s economy.
The attainment of political power is all that matters to PAM. And PAM uses its political power to satisfy its own greed, selfishness, cupidity and rapacity