"Nobody buys Dr Harris' explanation," says Jerry George

Veteran Vincentian broadcaster Jerry George who highlighted the ingratitude of St Kitts and Nevis' Prime Minister Dr Timothy Harris toward Arnhim Eustace, former Leader of the Opposition and past political leader of the New Democratic Party in St Vincent and the Grenadines is of the view that Dr Harris not only snubbed the NDP, but also lied in his explanation for being on the political platform with Vincentian Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves during a recent visit to Kingstown.

Dr Harris, while in opposition some years ago, went to St Vincent to get the attention of CARICOM leaders on the situation with the motion of no confidence in Basseterre and was given strong support from Arnhim and the NDP in mounting a protest in Kingstown, the St Vincent capital.

"I just found that it was just out of place and in poor taste. He (Harris) explained it the way he did. In fact he explained that when he asked they said he was down town and he said he had something urgent to discuss. To be frank with you, I do not think that was the appropriate place to have a serious discussion and even if he did have something urgent to discuss, I think he should have met the prime minister on the side of the stage and discuss and not bring him on to the platform," George, also a communications consultant told the St Kitts-Nevis-based Andre Huie's Voice of the Caribbean in an interview on Tuesday.

George said the people of St Vincent and the Grenadines who supported the NDP in helping Dr Harris by joining him in a demonstrating in Kingstown a few years ago are furious.

"A lot of the people when he (Dr Harris) came here with his team spent the entire day as where the conference was being held outside the city, spent the entire day standing up in protest and these are the same people who must now sit and watch that what is happening," said George.

"Nobody buys (Harris) it (explanation). No body buys his explanation to be quite frank. It just does not add up," responded George when asked if the NDP supporters accepts Harris' explanation.

George and NDP supporters took to FaceBook after the photo with Harris and Gonsalves was posted. Harris was accused of not even "having had the common courtesy to call Arnhim Eustace and tell him he was coming  to St Vincent, after all the help Arnhim gave him over four years ago."

The NDP is said to be the most vocal in the Caribbean in giving political and financial support to Harris' no confidence motion in St Kitts and Nevis between 2012 and 2015 and even helped to raise funds which were given to Dr Harris to fight the Constituency Boundaries cases.

George, who personally helped Harris while in opposition by hosting him as a guest on his regional television programme in 2014, was so outraged by Harris' treatment and disrespect meted out to Arnhim Eustace; that in a second FaceBook posting he blurted in bold letters "Ingratitude is worst than witchcraft."

"Since his (Dr Harris') ascendency to office this man has never spoken up even ONCE for Mr Arnhim Eustace or the NDP in all their struggles, this is the answer! What a man! Is this what politics really looks like? Seriously?"

That statement was accompanied by a video in which Mr Eustace mounted a protest in St Vincent at which Harris was also present while the CARICOM leaders met outside of Kingstown.