Photo – Mr. Everton Elliott
WASHINGTON, DC, USA – A Washington, D.C-based Nevisian is of the view that the three-party Team Unity Government of Prime Minister Dr. the Hon. Timothy Harris and the Concerned Citizenship Movement (CCM), its Nevis-based coalition partner has failed the island of Nevis.
“Nevis has gone backwards in its advancement since CCM has sold out to Kittitian politicians with this Team Unity experiment,” blogged Mr. Everton Elliott, a former IT Applications Engineering Manager at Computer Sciences Corporation, former Senior Manufacturing Engineer at General Dynamics and a former Aircraft Design Engineer at Boeing Company.
He pointed out that since the 22-month-old marriage between Harris’ People’s Labour Party (PLP, Shawn Richards’ Peoples Action Movement (PAM) and Vance Amory’s CCM, Nevis has been turned into a dependent colony of St. Kitts.
Photo – Hon. Vance Amory
“More than any time since the 1970s, Nevisians have to bang water to and from St. Kitts to catch a flight since they have virtually killed the Nevis airport (which Premier Vance Amory named after himself.),” said Elliott, who added: “The airport service has gotten worse since Team Unity.”
“The airport is so dead that bandits went in there and stole a whole ATM machine which they can’t find after about 3 weeks and guess what, the airport had no security cameras which means nobody give a dam about it,” said Elliott, who also lamented that Nevisians now have to travel by boat to St. Kitts for basic common health services such as giving birth.
Photo – Hon. Mark Brantley
“Health services have worsened in Nevis since Team Unity. I’m sure if you do the stats probably more Nevisians have born in St. Kitts in 2016 than at any other one year time period since the 1970s,” Elliott said.
He referred to a statement in his 2017 Budget Address made by Premier Amory, who is also Minister of Finance, and who heads the Nevis Island Administration (NIA) in Charlestown and also holds the portfolio of Senior Minister and Minister of Labour and Ecclesiastical Affairs in Basseterre, being paid two salaries monthly, one by the Nevis Administration and the second by the Federal Government headed by Prime Minister Harris.
“That his job growth proposal is to depend on jobs from the new Park Hyatt hotel being built in St. Kitts. I remember the days when Kittitians use to come to Nevis to look work in the hotel industry now, just like the 1970’s and before Nevisians have to bang water to St. Kitts to find a job to make a living,” Elliott said.
“We all know that cricket has always been a hallmark of Nevis with worldwide recognition, but guess what? Nevisians have given up cricket dominance to St. Kitts so much so, if you want to see a decent cricket game you have to bang water to St. Kitts,” he added.
Elliott declared: “Team Unity has turned Nevis into a dependent colony so much so, Nevisian politicians brag about the few dollars they get from St. Kitts, like beggars thanking you for giving them a dollar.”
That reference is in relation to the EC$2.5 million that Mr. Amory says his NIA gets monthly from the Federal Government in Basseterre as “budgetary support.”
Photo – Dr the Hon. Timothy Harris
Elliott also pleaded with Prime Minister Harris to ensure that both Mr. Amory and the Hon. Mark Brantley, Deputy Premier and Nevis and Minister of Tourism and Health in Nevis and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Aviation in St. Kitts and Nevis, do not take home over EC$60,000 each.
“Tim Harris please shame de devil and say no to quadruple salaries, especially for the failed Nevis minister during your Budget address on Wednesday (December 8th 2016,),” said Elliott, who further called on Prime Minister Harris to “reject greed and ravenousness and make decency and good governance great again in St. Kitts and Nevis.”
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