Harris’ must now “fast and pray”

PRIME MINISTER DR. TIMOTHY HARRIS’ OFFERED RELIGIOUS SLOGAN for sound economic policy and human compassion when insisted the nation must “fast and pray” when his predecessor, Dr Denzil Douglas, pleaded for drastic measures to help combat the onslaught of the ongoing deadly COVID-19 pandemic.

“How can someone be so cruel and inhumane that if you are suffering and help is requested from them…he callously telling you that you must fast and pray, is he real?” asked Douglas rhetorically.

“Fast and pray…fast and pray that is what he telling people. Big businesses dismissed a whole heap of people, no compensation and he ah say that the big businesses have a right to decide who dem want on dem job, whether vaccine or no vaccine. No compassion for the people, none whatsoever for the people,” Douglas bemoaned.

In the Biblical narrative, Harris offered stones for bread and scorpions for fish to his endangered nation.

Douglas, a former prime minister who spent 20 years at the helm of the St Kitts-Nevis government, lashed out at Harris’ heartless comments, blasting them as “callous, inhumane, wicked and selfish”.

“Such an individual should never be allowed to manage the affairs of the people,” Douglas counselled.

He noted while Harris and his cronies continue to enjoy life, there are still many unemployed Kittitians and Nevisians who are unemployed and devastated by the pandemic’s onslaught. He said the country has sufficient resources to help struggling nationals, but the embattled PM is clueless.

Harris, who also doubles as the country’s Finance Minister, is facing severe backlash for his insensitive and callous comment from an outraged nation currently preparing to go to the polls a week from today.

Douglas assured the next SKNLP administration will implement very strong labour policies and measures and provide robust systems to protect workers interests.

The former PM chastened PM Harris for weaponising his government’s response to the pandemic, employing it as a tool to punish perceived and known SKNLP supporters.

SKNLP, when in government, will correct the excesses of PLP’s 7-year calamitous tenure, Douglas said.

Reminding his listeners at a public rally to think back on the atrocities of Harris and his three-party coalition, Douglas counselled that voters should not trust former Team Unity Ministers, which were drawn from the three parties because they did nothing to relieve their suffering but instead, filled their pockets, helped relatives and their friends, made life difficult for non-nationals and sought to implement policies and programmes that negatively impacted the country.

According to Douglas, Harris continues to humiliate nationals trapped overseas since the pandemic’s outbreak more than two years ago, using it as cover to demand they write him personally for permission to return home,

Meanwhile, the PM, his family and friends of his coalition Peoples Labour Party (PLP), Peoples Action Movement (PAM) and the Concerned Citizens Movement (CCM) parties are allowed to travel ‘willy nilly’ with no action being taken, Douglas complained.

He stressed the Harris administration is deadly afraid of nationals returning to vote him out of office at the August 5^th polls.

“That is why I want to make it absolutely clear we must not allow him to keep our people locked out of St. Kitts and Nevis. Our people must come home. Come home and make sure you participate in this historic election,” Dr. Douglas encouraged.

Harris must now “fast and pray” for his political salvation.