St Kitts-Nevis Labour Party promising 'society without discrimination' if elected

The leader of the opposition in St Kitts and Nevis has promised to return the country to a society without fear of discrimination if his party forms the next government.

Laying out the vision of the next Labour administration at the party’s annual conference, St Kitts-Nevis Labour Party (SKNLP) leader Denzil Douglas is promising opportunities for people to “realise their ambitions”.

These ambitions, he added, can relate to employment, entrepreneurship, and the pursuit of a trade, profession, or vocation.

“A society bustling with economic activity from which our people draw sustained and substantial increases in income and in the quality of their lives over time,” Douglas told the crowd yesterday afternoon.

“A society in which our businesses can operate freely without having to pay protection money to protect them from criminals or to pay bribes to give them a chance of surviving in the face of unfair competition from entities associated with the friends and families of the members of the government.”

The four-term prime minister, who led the country from 1995 to 2015, is also promising a society in which all citizens respect the law and none is held above the law.

“My vision is also for society in which our people could go about their business without fear of violence by criminals. Without fear of our female students leaving home to go to school and not returning for days and weeks. Without fear of our students being recruited by unscrupulous dealers to peddle drugs in our schools.

“A society without fear of discrimination by government or by any other person.”