America’s National Urban League President tells hundreds “Labour’s set back is a set up for a comeback”

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Photo Caption: Guest Speaker at the SKNLP 17th Annual Gala, The Hon. Marc Morial and former Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis Hon. Dr. Denzil Douglas

BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS – The Hon. Marc Morial, President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Urban League, the largest civil rights organisation in the United States, has expressed confidence that the St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party (SKNLP) will return to office.

The entrepreneur, lawyer, professor, former legislator and mayor was the guest speaker at the 17^th Annual New Year’s Gala hosted by the Right Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas, Political Leader of the St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition at the St. Kitts Marriott Resort.

Suggesting that he is an honorary Kittitian and an honorary Nevisian, Morial, who has been recognised as one of the 100 most influential Black Americans by Ebony Magazine, urged the nearly 800 guests to “continue your work in this country.”

Calling for a rebuilding of the St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party, the former Louisiana State Senator and ex-Mayor of New Orleans, to a resounding round of applause said: “In politics and in leaderships, sometimes absence makes the heart grow fonder.”

Photo Caption: Guest Speaker at the SKNLP 17th Annual Gala, The Hon. Marc Morial

“And in politics and in leaderships sometimes people don’t know what they have until it isn’t there no more,” he said to another thunderous applause.

“But I also say that every time there is a setback, it is a set up for a comeback. The Labour Party will be back. And it will be back because it represents the progressive, forward leaning, ideals that put the interest of people first. And while you fight and work here in St. Kitts and Nevis, we will be working and fighting in the United States,” said Mr. Morial.

The 85-year-old SKNLP, led by Dr. Douglas formed the government from July 3, 1995 to February 16, 2015.

Although losing the 2015 general elections the SKNLP, led by the Rt. Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas, is still the largest single party in St. Kitts and Nevis, gaining 11,897 votes to the Hon. Shawn Richards’ People’s Action Movement (PAM), 8,452, the Hon. Vance Amory’s Concerned Citizens Movement (CCM) 3, 951 votes; the Hon. Joseph Parry’s (Nevis Reformation Party (NRP), 3,276 votes and Dr. the Hon. Timothy Harris’ People’s Labour Party (PLP), 2,723.

Seatwise in the St. Kitts and Nevis National Assembly, the PAM holds 4 seats, the  SKNLP, 3 seats, the CCM, two seats and the NRP and the PLP, 1 seat each.