Great leaders understand that forgiveness is not weakness but a strategic choice that prioritizes national unity and future progress over personal grievances and past conflicts. This principle is demonstrated through historical examples like Abraham Lincoln, who built alliances with former rivals to preserve the Union during the American Civil War, and Nelson Mandela, who chose reconciliation over revenge after apartheid ended in South Africa. In the context of St. Kitts and Nevis politics, this thesis addresses the ongoing tensions between the People's Action Movement and the People's Labour Party, arguing that divided opposition strengthens the ruling government while unity creates possibilities for national renewal. The program emphasizes that political maturity requires compromise, discipline, and vision, and that nations do not progress through hatred or division.
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Well, yes, my straight talk family, whatever your mind conceive that you will achieve. But first of all, you just got to believe that when you hear that theme song, you know it's time for another edition of Straight Talk and time for me to say good night to the world cuz we are on the worldwide web and we reach and communicate with you all around the globe in theition vision. Ian and Caribbean diaspora.
I know that some of you are in Asia.
There are some of you in Europe.
There are some of you in Africa and there are whole a lot of you all over North America. So I am at liberty to say good night.
I'm at liberty to say good morning. And I am at liberty to say good afternoon cuz one of such greetings will be applicable to the region in which you now find yourselves.
But it's an imperative to say good night to St. Kitsen Neas. A very pleasant night yes to St. Kitsen Neas and to the entire Caribbean region. And we welcome all to Straight Talk and we thank those who share the link because whenever you do we get first timers and for the first timers just to inform you that straight talk is a public service program that facilitates and promotes free expression on all issues of national, regional and international interests, be they legal, be they environmental, be they technological, social, economic and or political issues. On street talk, you have a forum, like I said, to express yourselves freely. And on this program, we try to raise the level of national, regional, and international consciousness.
We try to raise the level of national, regional and international discourse by alerting all our people to their rights, to their responsibilities and certainly to their obligations. My name is Ian Patches Libert and I thank Almighty God for blessing me with the opportunity to join you in conversation on yet another occasion.
And my straight dog family and in particular the first timers, let me inform you that absolutely nothing is watered down on this program.
We never tried to make it more interesting by omission or by exaggeration.
Straight talk is not about sensationalism or creating excitement, especially if that has to come at the expense of accuracy because we lean on the facts as it it is my bounding duty to present what I call the unvarnished truth, the plain truth, especially when it comes to governance in St. Kitsanas or wherever you find yourselves.
on this globe because this program joins us together with people across our federation. We are joined with people in the diaspora all around the world. Some we know very well. Some we have met, some we will never meet physically, though we meet you spiritually on every occasion. Some of us will agree with the positions of truth advance on straight talk and some will disagree and that's okay. That's fine cuz we are a different people and here on this platform we entertain what I call a diversity or we entertain diverse views perhaps is the best word and if we disagree that's fine but what will sadden me is if we ever become disagreeable.
So in the meanwhile, let's thank Almighty God nonetheless for helping us to understand.
Oh, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. Let us therefore hope and pray for the day when we will all sing his praise together. Welcome again my people and thanks once more one more time for those who share the link as you bring first timers and please continue to do so. may also remind the first- timers or inform the first- timers and remind you my straight talk family that straight talk is a participative program. By that I mean we include your calls and your emails and if you're so minded calling the numbers are on your screens and there are some of you who like the cloak of anonymity as I call it. You don't want to be heard. And I understand why. Because in this temperature, political temperature, in this political uh uh uh uh area, there's something called vindiction.
People can't take the truth. So what they do? They shut you down in so many different ways.
But keep hope alive because if it's one thing that is constant my people is something called change.
A change is inevitable. They say it is unavoidable. Remember someone sang that song a change is going to come. Yes, a change got to come someday. So my street dog family keep hope alive.
And I say a special welcome as always to the straight talk junior brigade.
Young Dwayne Tristan Jasmine Shama Kevin Ru Jamal Travis Trabon Neymar my grandson Sariah Elizabeth and that special lady in St. Louis. So happy to hear your voice today. And Major Dog family, we first of all we we move into what we call our observations in review. That's the time when we present our current issues. We highlight current issues. We do some reflection. We ask a few questions. We provide updates, clarification and establish more importantly what we have learned as a people. And yes, it's all about a learning process.
And yes, we've had uh some people who have moved on. I was learning just today. Uh my dear friend Paul told me her brother died. I' never heard of that. But Plet um I I it's better late than never. So I'll extend my condolences one more time. I'm just to remind you that death is a process.
But my strength of family, all those who have lost loved ones, be strong.
Keep close to Almighty.
Our first observation relates to the destiny project.
We've been following the destiny project. We have not been saying much but we are keeping close to that tragedy or travesty that we must not allow to happen over across the narrows there in leaders.
But the destiny project according to Premier Mark Brantley is creating some difficulty for the NIA because of delayed approval from the federal government.
With such delay in my straight dog family or with such a delay I should say damage is being done and many are asking if with such a delay or will such a delay damage the relationship between St. and neas or between the federal government to be more specific and the NIA as a question being asked and it's a pertinent question I may add.
>> If the federal government continues to drag the destiny matter out and the investors pull out, how would this impact the NIA federal government relationship going forward? Thank you.
Um, Mullet, I'll get to the accomplishments in a while. Let me just say that as everybody's aware, we have sought and I have sought as premier to develop a working relationship with the federal government and particularly with Prime Minister Drew and I project. I do not believe that we could have achieved what we've achieved thus far and be within striking distance without the partnership of Prime Minister Drew and his government. I have said that there have been occasions that Prime Minister Drew has made funds available and our airport project certainly on the acquisition of the lands we have been able to leverage some of that assistance to acquire those lands. We still have an outstanding matter of a loan from Taiwan at very attractive terms for which we need a federal guarantee but we're working through on that. So in the main I think that the relationship has been a good relationship. Having said that I think that this particular issue is creating some difficulty for us because of what I consider a lack of response.
You know when I see that the length of time that it has taken for a committee to be put in place and then for the committee to come with some observations which in my opinion have absolutely nothing to do with Sin Kits or with the federal construct. The constitution is clear as to what NEAS has authority over and what Sinkits has authority over. In my opinion, what the committee or the attorney general or whoever in sing should concern themselves with is whether or not this project is constitutional.
Does it breach any provision of the constitution? And we have in NES been a painstakingly we've made every effort to say to the developers of destiny whatever you do has to be within the constitutional parameters of sinitis and neas the nean administration will not counting as anything that is outside the constitution we will not counting as anything that gives any semblance to the notion that you have some independent enclave.
It has to be subject to our law and our constitution and that has been made clear. So to my mind we at a stage and where all that I think the federal government has to do is to look at its responsibilities its responsibilities constitutional propriety and the areas that fall to federal responsibility national security international representation although that really doesn't arise all this other thing about NEAS or NEAS is not going to be as quiet as it used to be and all of those those observations are as chaff that the wind bloweth away. I don't see any committee should come back with those kinds of observations because again they have simply no jurisdiction to speak to those matters. Those are matters for the Nevis Island administration. And so you ask a very important question. I think it is for history to determine that whether this will damage the relationship. I'm hopeful that it won't because I'm still hopeful that the federal government will come back with a response within the time frame so that we can move forward with this project. This project is the biggest single investment that we would have seen in the history of the country.
Master family, you no doubt would have recognized that the question from Lisha Hulet was based on a premise or the premise or the premise that the federal government is dragging out its approval.
Interesting.
But the issue of jurisdiction was raised by Brantley.
Sometimes you wonder if he's a tantry lawyer.
But a friend of mine drew my attention to the SS legislation and the constitution which rubbishes the premier's opinion.
and he pointed me to the legislation which I share with you on your screens.
And you will note from the very last section or clause within the legislation, the SSC legislation, it applies to NEAS. Clause 10, application to NEAS. It says, and I quote, "Pursuant to section 37 subsection 3 of the constitution, the Navis Island administration has consented to this act in so far as it applies to its authority on the island of Navas."
consented can only mean agreed.
But section 37 subsection three of the St. Kits and Ne constitution doubles down on the garbage that was uttered by Mark Grantley and see section 37 subsection 3 on your screens as well.
And it reads to part two legislation and procedure of parliament.
And remember the clause spoke to subsection uh 37 subsection 3.
So let's fast track to subsection three on your monitors there.
my SW dog family highlighted with the yellow and it reads my SWAG family and I quote, "If it is expressly declared in any law enacted by Parliament that the NAS island administration has requested and consented to the enactment in respect of the island of NEAS of any of the provisions of that law relating to any of the specified matters, those provisions shall underline shall accordingly have effect in the island of NeAs as if they had been enacted by the Nevice Island legislature and may be amended or revoked accordingly.
So you ask yourselves, what the hell is Mark Brantley saying?
because the content of the letter written by the federal government according to Brantley on April 30th, he referred to that that letter as absolute unadulterated rubbish.
his language absolute unadulterated rubbish and should not be in a letter sent to the NIA by further communication.
The NIA according to Brantley has demanded a further response within 7 days.
He's given his deadline. A further response he said within 7 days. the destiny project. Let me just report that the federal government would have written to us on the 30th of April, Miss Budgeon, and would have indicated that the committee set up in Sinitz had various concerns.
In our opinion, the majority of those concerns had nothing to do with Sin Kits or the committee because those concerns fell squarely within the constitutional authority of the Neas Island administration.
And some of those concerns we thought were how should I put it unfortunate and I use that word because one of the concerns for example they said that this community will be and I'm paraphrasing a community of wealthy individuals and that will create a sort of neas where you have some halves and have nots and I thought well that's an interesting observation to make because I don't know if you all know but there's a place in sink it's called Frigat Bay.
There's a place in Sink is called Kitanian Hill. There's a place in Sink is called Kristoff Harbor.
I wonder how many Kiticians live in Christoff Harbor.
How many divisions live at Four Seasons, Miss Budgeon? Do you know how many divisions live at Four Seasons?
Well, how come this have and have not story just coming up now as an objection to destiny? These are the kinds of things that I say are absolute unadulterated rubbish.
And we had to respond and say, "Listen, this kind of thing here shouldn't enter no letter sent to us because one, it has nothing to do with sin kits.
And two, these are arguments which are clearly contrived because you look all around the country, you have neighborhoods that people would look at as saying, well, these are affluent neighborhoods." That's the reality.
Frigate Bay perhaps is the best example in Sinitis.
So using that as a saying you have a concern about that really to my mind is not saying much at all. So we've responded and our response went out on the 8th of May to the cabinet in Sinkitz. I can tell you that today we intend to dispatch a further letter because we've heard nothing further asking whether or not we can have a response within the next 7 days. The reason I say that is because we would have sent this document with our position to the federal government on the 23rd of December. Prime Minister has said that he doesn't recognize that he got it until sometime in January. But that aside for the moment, if we count from the 23rd of December, January, February, March, April, May, it's been 5 months since this project has been over there in syncs. We got that project proposal in August if I recall in Nevice and August, September, October, November, December. Within 4 months we had had a number of town hall meetings, number of public consultations and advanced the position. It's been 5 months now that that project is sitting down in sinkits and we still don't have an answer. So we are now going to say to sink kits please can we have an answer within the next week so that we can know what we're doing because this has commercial implications and certainly this impacts the economy of the island of NAS and the wider federation.
>> Will Terren Michael Drew allow Mark Brantley to get his way? He's given him a seven day deadline.
Brantley referred to the committee's concerns cited by the federal government as chaff that the wind bloweth away meaning it is weak or without substance and according to him it should not be in any letter. Imagine that.
Mark Brantley no doubt reads his Bible as Psalms 1 verse4 reads and I quote the wicked are not so but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away but nobody could outsmart Mark Brantley according to his boss remember his idol boss my dog family when I graduated law school at the Norman Manley Law School in 1994, Mark Brantley from Henley Park and Brownill was number one in the Caribbean at Norman Manley Law School and I went to Jamaica in 1994 and I graduated number one in class. I got a certificate of merit. It was only the fourth time in the history of the Norman Mandy Law School that a certificate of merit had been awarded.
You know why I'm saying that? I am saying that because nobody could outsmart me.
Nobody could outsmart Mark Bantley according to his post.
But did the SS committee stray beyond the matters relevant to the authority of the federal government cuz he even said this my dog family.
>> Well, good afternoon Premier.
>> Good afternoon.
>> Uh Glenn Bart from Television Caribbean TVC channel 40.
uh I just want first to start with a followup on the destiny matter.
Now if it is that the committee established by the prime minister did not cannot or would not deal with the destiny development application if you want to call it that according to the constitution of St. Kiss, do you believe that the prime minister should disband this committee and have cabinet make its decision in a very quick and timely manner going forward.
>> Thank you, Mr. B, for your questions.
Um, on the destiny matter, I don't want it to be said that the committee did not, you said the committee did not deal with the application. And I'm saying what I wanted and I hope I I I was clear is that some of the observations of the committee had nothing to do with synits.
No committee set up on sinkits can seek to dictate how neas develops neas. That's a constitutional responsibility of the NIA.
The committee in my opinion therefore should have limited itself to the matters that properly pertain to the federal government and they they strayed beyond those matters.
Now you say I do not get the sense that the committee is dealing with the application. What I mean by that is it is not for the committee to make a decision. The committee is really set up to advise the prime minister and the cabinet. So ultimately it is still for the prime minister and the cabinet to make a decision because as you know Mr. B I can get your advice. I don't need to take it. I can get your advice but I can modify it but at the end of the day it is not for the committee to make a decision because the law doesn't give them any sort of authority. It is for the committee to advise the prime minister and the cabinet. And so ultimately it is for the prime minister and the cabinet to take a decision. And as I said, we would have responded to the concerns that they said the committee raised on the 8th of May.
Today's the 26th of May. So clearly that's what 2 weeks would have gone by.
2 and a half weeks since we would have responded to those concerns. So as I said, we're right today to ask the honorable prime minister and the cabinet to give us a decision. We're suggesting 7 days. We think after 5 months the federal government should know, the federal cabinet should know what they want to say in relation to this.
But did the committee stray is a question I asked one more time. Or did Mark Brantley outsmart himself when he made Destiny a federal project by the act of consent?
It's there on your screens. My straight dog family subject to the provisions of what am I reading? No. Further or pursuant to the section 373 of the constitution, the NIS island administration has consented to this act in so far at as it applies to its authority on the island of NES.
My shock family, we seem to be on a collision course.
Terren Michael Drew is afraid and rightly so to get his cabinet to approve this project.
But we will know in seven days Mark Brantley has issued a deadline.
Remember the last deadline he issued was sometime in was it April in 2022? April May no what I'm saying is April May or June 2022 or July resolve or dissolve.
Well, let's know what's happening in seven days. Terren Michael joke.
My second observation at straight dog family um relates to some defense force soldiers that were called in as hell almost broke loose at the Robert Dwelling Bradshaw International Airport a few days ago.
When You can see the soldier there's with his gun on the apron parking.
When a group of Nigerians arrive in St. kits and navies, but were denied entry in light of Ebola concerns.
And somehow these 17 or 18 passengers were all on the apron parking.
As I said, hell almost broke out. There was an Ebola scale.
But we ask the question my dog family tonight.
If travelers arrived at the Robert Dwelling Brad International Airport without prior warning that they could be denied entry, then critics would naturally ask whether the airlines were formally notified.
when the directive was issued, whether immigration and health authorities coordinated properly, and whether passengers were treated fairly and consistently.
The government of Senitis and Navy subsequently issued this release by Strait family via Zis television. The government has responded to questions surrounding its decision to deny entry to Nigerian nationals, saying the move forms part of heightened public health measures linked to Ebola concerns. In a statement, authorities said non-nationals arriving from countries considered high- risk will not be permitted entry as health officials work to reduce possible exposure to the virus. The government referenced a risk advisory from the Nigeria Center for Disease Control and Prevention, which has warned of a high risk of Ebola importation due to continued transmission in parts of Africa and travel through major transport hubs.
Officials noted that Nigeria has not recorded a confirmed case linked to the current outbreak, but said the advisory has informed local screening and border control measures. Health authorities have confirmed that there are no suspected or confirmed cases of Ebola in St. Kitad Neas and say the overall risk to the public remains low.
My talk family, the World Health Organization historically emphasized, however, that Ebola is not airborne and that the risk of transmission during air travel is generally low.
The WH previously advised against broad travel bans and insisted favored screening and monitoring protocols.
So the controversy appeared to have centered not only on the health decision itself but also on communication, preparedness, diplomacy and the handling of the passengers upon arrival.
But all is well that ends well nonetheless.
It is better to be safe than to sorry than to be sorry.
And the third observation observation my family I thought I would take it as an observation in review since I saw it after I ended my program last week Thursday.
It's an email that I received from one James M. Gascal and his content forced me to make it an observation and I intend and I therefore read his content.
For those who know James Gascal, I've never met him before, but over the years I I followed his his his writings and very interesting, highly intellectual gentleman.
And this email reads, and I quote, "Brother Patches, is there anything left of you, the courageous patches who last week railed against corruption in St. Kitsan Levis?
I followed you since the public launch of the Levis's destiny project with admiration and respect.
Today you are to be found at the court of the most corrupt administration in the history of the United States on a podcast with Dean Keane, a Trump and Israel worshipper.
Apparently, it continues, "You are not there to probe or question.
Is said to be a nodding jenny.
You look uneasy in the task." He continues, "This is extraordinary, disappointing, and sad for your earth's wild key supporters.
I cling to the hope that the objective journalists in you will soon prevail.
To maintain journalistic standards within the Washington swamp, you may need a crash course in current year's politics and the misinformation put out by the White House and its psychopans.
You seem excited to tell us that you were going to Israel where you expected to meet important people.
You need a counterbalance to Aden Kaine who calls Trump a fantastic president and declares himself a great supporter of Israel.
A daily email called letters from an American by historian Heather Cox Richardson would set you right on the facts and information on Israel, Iran, and the Middle East can come from many sources.
You did not query Mr. Kaine saying that Iran was the main or sole cause of upset in the area and that this had been caused for 47 years.
Unmentioned was a coup organized by the US and Britain in 1953 which snuffed out their democracy and brought back the sha.
Unment mentioned was the conduct of Israel, his occupation of Palestine and the continuing genocide in Gaza and the complexity of America in the crimes against the Palestinians.
The link I am following refers to a book by Avi Slim, a history professor at Oxford.
If you go to Israel, your host, your handlers may keep you away from critics.
Try Gideon Libby of Harlets or Oi Goldberg in the US.
Speak to Professor Armier Bal at Brown University.
If you stop in London, try Daniel Libby, US Middle East project, a former Israeli adviser and negotiator.
Best might be to start in Washington.
Steve Clemens, editor at large of the Hill and the host of the bottom line on Alazera.
I trust that if we ever meet after you return to the federation, you will be proud of the legacy that you leave for your grandchildren.
The nature of this legacy may depend on patches goes to Washington. The rest of us hope that the true patches will survive as a voice of reason among the fraudsters and white supremacists you will encounter.
Forgive me for saying all this, but you are a public figure who has earned great respect for integrity and to find you apparently now comfortable with the message of Mr. Dean Kaine is a moral absoluteity.
I will be surprised if you can stand it for long. I wish you luck and a good conscience.
best sign James MG Mills Gascal and in response my street family I note that Mr. Gascal referred to me as brother patches.
Thus, I will take the liberty to address him as James.
Suffice to add, however, that western powers and elites often speak today in the language of morality, democracy, and human rights. Yet many of those same civilizations accumulated wealth and geopolitical dominance through colonial conquest, slavery and imperial control.
From that standpoint, I question whether contemporary critiques come from descendants or beneficiaries of those systems should be presented as morally unassalable.
At the same time, there is also a counterargument worth recognizing to it. Modern individuals, my straight dog family, are not automatically personally responsible for every crime or injustice committed by their ancestors of former empires.
Nevertheless, political legitimacy today is usually judged by the strength of arguments, facts, and conduct in the present.
James, I find it imperative though to highlight the tension which is one of the historical memory versus contemporary moral positioning.
And I asked these questions. Can postc colonial societies be lectured by representatives of former imperial cultures without acknowledgement of history?
Can modern political criticism be separated from colonial legacy? And who gets to define morality in a world shaped by empire?
Those are legitimate and enduring Caribbean political questions that need to be addressed, my James. And by the way, a world shaped by empire therefore means the modern international system did not emerge on equal terms.
Power accumulated unevenly through conquest and colonization.
and many present day in inequalities, conflicts and alliances still carry the imprint of those historical forces.
But for Caribbean thinkers, this idea is especially powerful because the region was one of the central laboratories of empire built on slavery, sugar, shipping, and strategic control of the Western Hemisphere.
James M. Gascal, your derogatory statement, and I quote, "Apparently, you are not there to probe or question, instead to be a nodding jenny."
Attempts to insult my intellectual independence or courage is a clear reflection of pure ideological position regarding Trump, conservative American politics, Israel, and global nationalism.
But history does not support the simplistic political propaganda that attempts to brand only one American political party as the author of racism while ignoring the documented record of the other.
The truth is far more complex, James, and for decades, many ideological activists deliberately distorted that history for political advantage.
James, it was the Democratic Party in the American South that defended slavery before the Civil War, resisted reconstruction after emancipation, and enforced the system of segregation known as Jim Crow. Do you recall, James, that many of the lawmakers who opposed civil rights legislation in the 1950s and 1960s were southern Democrats?
The Krook clan also found much of its early political protection and influence within Democratic strongholds in the south. Meanwhile, the Republican Party was founded in the 1850s on an anti-slavery platform.
It was Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican president, led the Union during the Civil War and issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
Historically, James, Republicans were also instrumental in passing the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments, which abolished slavery and expanded constitutional protections for formerly enslaved people. Together, these amendments fundamentally reshaped the United States after slavery.
13th Amendment ended slavery. The 14th Amendment established citizenship and equal protection and the 15th Amendment protected voting rights regardless of race. They remain central to debates about civil rights, equality, citizenship, and constitutional law in the United States today.
James, I have concluded that based on the views you advance and the ref references cited that you are anti-American, anti-Israel, and perhaps even pro- Cuban.
James Gascal, I'm simply the opposite. I do not support communist ideologies. I see Islamist movements as a serious danger to the Christian world. Gaza is controlled by Hamas, a terrorist Islamist organization.
Cuba has been run for decades by an oppressive communist regime.
You're entitled to your opinion and I respect your right to hold it. Have you heard of Gaesa group the administr research that? However, I am surprised that when you represent your version of history, you criticize the United States and Israel, but failed to even mention that Mother England itself was the source of many conflicts in the Middle East. That's where you came from. As for my mission in Washington, DC, it operates on several levels.
I do not want the hemisphere where I live to become dominated by communist influence or controlled by China and I chose to help to challenge that what I see as Marxist propaganda.
Two, our small island ne has become the other like the other islands in the western hemisphere a harbor for criminal offshore banking and offshore cooperations.
I will will expose narot terrorists and those using offshore structures for criminal purposes.
Governments in the federation have refused to tell us how many Chinese, Iranian or Russian nationals have obtained citizenship through our CBI program and what happened to the billions generated through the CBI program.
The team at Proud American Studios has given me access to data and documents so that I can make up my own mind.
They gave me access to top policy makers in Washington DC. They do not lecture me on what I should say or do. They give me the respect to see me as a man with a mission to discover the unvarnished truth. I respect that you failed to give me.
I have earned the right to be free, James. And you have every right to your own opinions.
What I'm doing in Washington takes courage. And the content of your email message is perhaps the clearest indication that my decision to think freely is the right path to trod. And incidentally, incidentally, James, there's a new addition to our team. Keith D. Bilot.
Keith is a retired DEA supervis supervis supervisory agent, beg your pardon, with special responsibility for the Caribbean.
James, those are my people. Those are my observations for tonight. And I move right into my thesis which I've titled Great Leaders Choose to Forgive Their Enemies.
My Straight Talk family, I have long held some strong views privately about the possibility of our opposition parties coming together again, but I have never expressed them publicly.
However, just last week, I heard a well-known businessman and political activist, and I dare call him my friend, Austin Kok.
And those of us who know Austin are well aware that he is never out of words.
And to put it mildly, he is very assertive and never afraid to say whatever is on his mind.
Last week I heard Austin say this sham. My name is Austin Coker.
I am a I a proud Sandy Pointer.
And whether you like what I'm going to say or you don't like it, I just have to speak my mind.
I am a strong supporter of the people's action movement and I'm also a financer in number four.
If you would tell me as Koka that after Timothy came into Sandy Point and call you mumu and you are now saying about a collision I don't have a problem with a collision you know but say straight straight forward you know sh Timothy has no leader you know are you free to say it you know because he come on the air and he say fire six and he call you mu This not going to work. You know this not going to work. Anybody else you could join with whoever you want and join but the leadership must fall under the pal umbrella. Straight forward straight forward.
I take those words very deep because Sandy point and if he call you mu he mean that mim. So you don't play na eve step on the airway that Tim will not be the leader.
>> Well I serve in a cabinet with Sean Kenneth Richards now Dr. Richards, I think he got his PhD in was it creative government and I forgot it. I should have made a note of that.
But nothing like like uh the slow student by family. This is a real PhD.
But I have said some things about Shawn and he has said some things about Patches.
But I will go on record tonight and state that. But I believe that Sean Richards is a pragmatic politician.
And as a political leader, I believe that Sha focuses more on achieving practical results than on rigid ideology or personal grievances.
What other interpretation can derive from his response to Austin Koko?
>> What are your views? because you were involved more than anybody else in in in this arrangement. So what are your views in regard to uh another partnership with the People's Labor Party? Are you for it? Are you against it? If you are for it, what would that look like for you?
I have said to the leader of action movement that PAM is in the process of rebuilding. Each and every single PAM candidate need to go out there and do work. They must work work.
It is only after they have done the work and you're satisfied that you've done your best. If you need to look at a collision, then you do so. In any event, if you decide to go into a collision, the coalition is only as strong as the candidates within the coalition.
If the candidates are not doing the work, the coalition cannot win. So the focus must be at this particular point in time on doing work.
Until you do the work, you do not know what the prospects of the party will be.
And so the candidates must do the work.
When you have done the work, then you do the necessary assessments to determine if it is necessary to have a coalition in order for you to get back in government. Of course you can do scientific polls to help you to gauge that particular decision. But again, even if you do your scientific polls and the work is not being done, where does it leave the collision? And so while there appears to be some focus on whether or not there is going to be a collision, the focus at this particular point in time ought to be first and foremost on doing the work in all of the constituencies.
Even if you go into arrangement, then some of the that you have to look at is who is best suited to win a particular constituency.
If you don't have candidates in the doing work, then you sort of stabbing in the dark, you need to have some indication as to which candidate is most likely to gain the confidence of the people. And so the candidates again must go out and do the work. And so that must be the priority of the people's action movement at this particular point in time.
If after doing all then you feel is the for coalition then you begin to look at that particular that is my view in terms of coision at this time and my family the view of a man who is fresh with a PhD in creative leadership in innovation and change and Sean Richards is right.
You have to do the work for him to win five successive elections in San Point.
Sean Richards had to be an astute politician as well as one who knows that parties contest elections to get in to government.
However, I'm also confident of the fact that no political party really and truly wants to be in opposition.
Every political party, I mean the goal of political party is to be in government to improve the of living for the people of the country and my family. Of course, of course he is human.
So he will not forget what he was called.
It is a sentiment that is often expressed by the people's action movement in regards to Timothy Harris and Timothy Harris wanting to lead any government in the future. He went into Sandy Point and he called me momo. And that is something I have not forgotten. And it is something I will not forget because I gave my poll support to Timothy Harris in 2020.
And I'm sure that Sean will give his support to Timothy Harris again because just like the candidates have to do their work, Sean has to to to determine whether he as a leader can win the elections.
Remember what happened in Trinidad and Tobago.
But history provides many examples of leaders who acted pragmatically.
Think about Abraham Lincoln who built alliances with former rivals to preserve the Union during the American Civil War.
Think about Nelson Mandela who chose reconciliation over revenge after a path ended in South Africa.
Think about Winston Churchill who worked with ideological opponents during World War II because defeating a greater threat mattered more.
So in practical terms and in my humble opinion, a pragmatic politician may believe that and I said this before that there are no permanent friends or enemies in politics, only permanent interests.
Critics sometimes accuse pragmatic politicians of being opportunistic or inconsistent.
Supporters, however, argue that pragmatism is necessary for governance because politics is ultimately about solving problems, maintaining stability, and advancing the public good.
Politics is not a game for the weak-hearted, nor is it a place where emotions alone can guide national destiny.
Politics is ultimately about leadership, sacrifice, maturity, and above all the future of the people.
Today, our beloved nation of St. Kitsen Neas stands at an important crossroads.
Many citizens are frustrated.
Many are disappointed.
Many are asking when will the present administration truly deliver on the promises made nearly 4 years ago.
They promised my straight dog family 2400 houses. Yes, they did. I want to take this opportunity to highlight the minister of housing because we made a promise to the people of St. Kitson Neas that we will build 2,400 houses. We said to them that the houses will be stronger, that they will be able to withstand category 5 hurricanes.
We said to them that they will come with the opportunity for you to extend.
We also say that they will come with basic appliances and cupboards and good tiling and all of the other amenities that would make a home fitting for you, the people of St. Kitsen Neas. And we were doubted because if you were not in our position, you would doubt as well.
If you were not in the position of East Coast, you would doubt as well. So those of us on the inside, even though the storm was w raging on the outside, the storms of doubt and the storm of talking innuendos and the accusations that this is not possible, we did not respond in kind. We said that at the right time, the program and the houses will speak for themselves.
Well, these houses has taken a long time to speak for themselves.
Where's the smart hospital? Where are all the capital projects due promise?
>> The capital project. I will say, let me go through them for you if you don't mind.
Smart homes on their way.
Right. On the way.
The hospital on the way as well. The school on the way as well.
The solar plant or solar farm on the way as well.
There are some others I will mention not yet but they are definitely coming on the way. We have about two other major investments. one will be an agriculture major investment that will also come. We have an investment for the hos for the port that is advancing um significantly as well. I'm saying that when in the next few months I'm almost certain that we'll run out of construction workers here.
Remember he promised that 600 workers will be for this agricultural project Tabasco.
>> Madam Speaker, we have calculated that every 10 acres, every 10 acres will produce 30 jobs. So 100 acres will produce 300 jobs and 200 acres will produce 600 jobs. Madam Speaker, for those who are in the agricultural field, we are going to mix it with other crops.
What I'm simply saying here is that we're going in back into large farm production of peppers and other crops so that it can add to our revenues and also help with our food security and also make sure that sinkits become a net exporter of certain crops instead of a net importer. Madam Speaker, >> and the promised to Bastia High School in 18 months, my street dog family, >> because students have been waiting for over 10 years, and in a mere 3 and 1/2, 4 years, this government was able to prove to them that something is in fact happening. It might not have happened or look like it was happening based on how we wanted to be looking at it. But what I can say, Nina, being an expert, I didn't realize so much work must have been put in place even before we get to you seeing even a piece of steel. And from all reports, the project is on its way. And as we indicated, 90% of the workers would be from the Federation.
And then we heard that this wonderful school is being manufactured in Barbados.
>> As expressed by the minister last year, June, construction had commenced with the excavation of the site. This rank concurrently with the rendering and molds, design plans, etc. being prepared and tested at the factory in Barbados.
As of now, the Basia High School is fully designed and pre-casting and molding works at the factory has already begun with the first foundation kits.
Four containers full to be specific have already being loaded for shipment from Barbados to sink kit and being shipped out on the 10th of March with subsequent shipments almost weekly. The foundation kits are pre-built reinforcement and prepared structural components so that once they arrive in sink kit and foundations are installed, the next phase of the structure can follow in sequence which is the assembling of the pre-casted panels which are already being constructed as well and will be shipped subsequently. So the answer is yes. Construction has started and is actively on the way. The full build of the project is expected to run for just under two years beginning this month, March 2026.
>> Where are the containers that should be arriving weekly?
I went to Barbados, recall, and I can tell you what a lie. And I can go on and on to report on this do nothing government.
across communities.
There is growing concern about the direction of the country, the state of the economy, the rising cost of living, and the absence of confidence and momentum that our people desperately need.
Yet, even in moments like these, the opposition faces a difficult reality of its own.
There are still wounds from the past.
But let us be real, that's nothing new in politics.
Even Brantley confessed that when he got into office with team unity that the relationship between Sit and has never been better.
>> It is the best.
It is the best that we have seen.
The best that we have seen. It is because of the closeness of that relationship that I could stand here tonight in Molino and speak to you, speak to you as a national of this country as part of the team unity administration and if Vance Amry was here he would have done similarly because we are now bound together in a very tangible and important way as we advance the interest of the country. Now in NEAS for the first time people are not seeing those age old distinctions that we used to have. If you want a job and a job is at park hired people going park hired to work wherever work is in the country people are saying I am a national of this country and I'm taking advantage of that. People of sinkits are taking advantage of opportunities in the US and vice versa. So you know why ultimately we are two islands one paradise. two islands but one country and we need to continue to ensure that all of our people benefit from all that we have to offer as a country. I thank the honorable prime minister. I thank team unity and the vision that went into this. I have said so many of times writing sink kits that we come from desperate places and desperate backgrounds. When I was in opposition, another man used to talk as hard to me as Timothy Harris when he talking from over there. Talk hard. I used to frame him big.
So to come from there to where we are now >> says to you that we were able to PUT AWAY THOSE THINGS AND come together.
PUT AWAY THOSE THINGS AND COME TOGETHER.
But can they put away those things again and come together?
Because there are supporters who remember harsh words, political attacks, insults, betrayals, and divisions between former coalition partners.
Some say they can support unity but not certain personalities.
Others believe all political battles should never be forgotten.
But we were able to put away those things and come together before. Why can't we do it again? Why can't we?
But history teaches us something powerful.
Great leaders do not allow personal feelings to destroy national opportunities.
Great leaders understand that forgiveness is not weakness.
Forgiveness is strategy.
Forgiveness is maturity.
Forgiveness is patriotism.
Around the world, nations have advanced because leaders who once fought bitter political wars eventually recognized that the greater mission was bigger than themselves. They understood that people or the people mattered more than pride.
The country mattered more than ego. The future mattered more than all quarrels.
And so the question before us is simple.
Do we remain divided and guaranteed and guarantee political defeat? Or do we unite with wisdom and create the possibility of national renewal?
Those who oppose cooperation between PAL and PLP must understand one fundamental political truth.
Divided opposition always strengthens the ruling Terrence Michael Drew incompetent do nothing government.
Every day spent fighting each other is another day. The Labor administration benefits from opposition fragmentation.
No matter what you hear people say.
Take my word. This is not about personalities.
It is not about who insulted whom years ago.
It is not about political vanity or emotional revenge.
It is about the survival and advancement of St. Kits and Navis.
If coalition politics once succeeded in removing what many considered an entrenched administration, then coalition politics can again become a vehicle for change, but only if leaders and supporters alike rise above bitterness.
The people of this country are not demanding perfection. They are demanding leadership. They are demanding unity of purpose. They are demanding courage. And courage sometimes means shaking the hand of a former adversary for the greater national good. No serious political movement can move forward while chained to anger or to the anger of the past.
Nations do not progress through hatred.
Countries do not develop through division.
Political maturity requires compromise, discipline and vision. Let us therefore reject the politics of permanent enemies. Let us embrace the politics of permanent national interest. Because at the end of the day, governments are not changed by emotion alone. Governments are changed by organization strategy, coalition building and the willingness to put country above self or before self.
Great leaders forgive enemies not because they forget the past but because they understand that the future is more important.
And if Senis and Neas is to move forward, then all those who truly desire change must now decide whether they love victory more than division, whether they love country more than conflict, and whether they possess the political wisdom to unite for the benefit of generations yet unborn.
May wisdom prevail. Great leaders understand that bitterness may satisfy emotions for a moment, but forgiveness builds nations, movements, and history.
Nelson Mandela emerged from prison, not preaching revenge, but reconciliation.
Abraham Lincoln called for healing with malice toward none was his words. Even in the facest political struggles, visionary leaders recognize that division weakens a people while unity strengthens a cause. Today we too stand at such a crossroads. We can remain prisoners of past insults, betrayals and political wounds or we can rise above them in pursuit of a greater national purpose. Forgiveness does not mean forgetting the past or surrendering principles. It means placing country above ego and future above resentment.
It means understanding that the people demand leadership, maturity and courage, not endless political warfare. History will not remember those who held grudges.
History will remember those who had the strength to unite, the wisdom to reconcile, and the courage to place the interests of the nation above personal animosity.
Great leaders choose not revenge, but responsibility, not division, but destiny, not hatred, but hope. And when the future of a country is at stake, great leaders choose to forgive their enemies. And that's my story tonight. And I'm not going to change it. I'll open the lines and entertain your calls and your emails.
And before I do so, momentarily, I anticipate that we or I implore you, I should say, to respect others. And to achieve that, we must first respect ourselves.
Let us try to build goodwill and better friendship.
Let us be fair to all concerned and in in the saying and doing the things we utter tonight. Let us strive to build a kinder gentler Stitz Anas. With that said, I go to the lines and say good night at 19 9:00. Good night to my first caller. Caller you live. Hello caller.
>> Good night m Good night Mr. Liber.
>> Good night. Uh uh my quotations I recognize that >> great leaders are aware of their weaknesses.
>> Mhm.
>> Honest about them >> and find strong people to fill these gaps.
and some people to fill these gaps.
Yep.
>> I repeat, great leaders are aware of their weaknesses, honest about them, and find strong people to fill these gaps. Have a great evening.
>> Have a great evening as well. My street family always provide our thoughtprovoking uh quotations and as well as relevant ones to the discussion coming from across the narrows there in Ne.
Never met this lady physically. We have met spiritually but great leaders as she said are aware of their weaknesses, honest about their faults and find some people to fill these gaps. Hope I got that one right. that faults would find some people to fill their gaps. Forgot to write that word. But my talk family, yes, the lines are open and we are entertaining your calls. It's 9:21. I thought it was very important that I take some time to advance this very important uh thesis tonight.
Great leaders choose to forgive their enemies.
And my straight dog family, let me hear from you. Let me hear what you think.
Is that true or is that false?
Yes, we can forgive.
Not saying you must forget, but we can forgive my straight dog family.
Let me take some emails in the meantime while I I wait on your calls.
DJ Marisha reads this email.
I must commend you for the excellent work you are doing in journalism in keeping the federation informed and up to date with current issues.
We do appreciate the hard work you are involved in.
Now DJ, your program yesterday was very intriguing and informative.
You invariably do your research. You go out on a limb putting yourself in very tough positions to get information for all of us, which is highly appreciated and commendable.
I like the way you conduct your investigations, ensure that your reporting is is very accurate before release. Also, I like the way you have DW cornered. He did not challenge the veracity of your messages.
Thank you for reminding us about his political evaluation percentages as to who were in the one, two, and three brackets. This man is just a fraudster Moraish. This man can only deceive and mislead Sam who has to depend on him for everything. Poor Sam had to ask him to write a resignation letter for him.
Let's go back to the lines and thank this caller for holding. It's 9:24.
Caller, you're live. Hello caller.
>> Mr. Streak.
>> Abracadabra.
>> Abracadabra. How are you my brother?
>> I am peaceful my brother from another mother. I am peaceful.
>> I was on my church service tonight but I get a little um someone inform me that you are up here. That's true.
>> I am somewhere.
>> Good. That's all I want you to know. But they just they just tell me that that you know. So I says, "Okay, let me just call you and and and and let you know that you just do what you got to do because this is not my Thursday night.
I'm I'm at my church service. So I just want to say hello to you and and we're going to stay in touch. I just wanted to do what you have to do." And you hear what the code lady says, good leaders, >> you understand?
>> They know what they have to do.
>> So they find strong people to help build them up. You understand? And that's where you comes in to put out the message and we will listen.
So just continue to do what you have to do. I just want um you to stand up strong and just do what you got to do. I tell you to um if you can check the school. So did you did you get time to go there >> to Barbados?
>> The Barbados high school um go up there and see what was going on up there and give us a report. I haven't gone back to Barbados yet. Uh but I my my putting it down.
>> Nothing is going on. Nothing is going on. You you know >> that's why was telling you just go up there not to go Barbados man. Just drive up there and take some picture and let us see what's going down.
>> But you know what? I'm I'm getting there. So I would I would go myself any time God help me to reach there. I going to beg my brother take me there because I don't know where it is. You're not going to see a thing. It's all propaganda. All propaganda. The same with keep telling you that that they say that they going to build 4,000 um 400 house in one year. And we saying but >> 600 there's no way they could build these houses in that that year when they start one as yet. So we was all agreed.
>> Yeah. There was to hire 600 workers as well for Tabasco peppers. Right.
>> Okay. Smart that also too. I tell you to go and go check the Tabasco papers. What happened to them? We don't know what happened.
>> They never come.
>> They never join.
>> I don't know what happened. So So ain't right as yet. They still grow.
>> They move down to to bal.
Yes. Right.
>> So So they're going to set up the new batch at Bio.
>> That's what they said to us. But I can't believe >> this is I got I I I just um I thank you for doing everything that you're letting us know what's going down. So it's a blessing. Like I said tonight, I just want to say good night to my wonderful niece there Abigail and her husband Johnny.
Mr. Stark, I'll see you when I see you.
Take care of yourself. We going to talk.
Okay.
>> Yes, my brother. Bless you, man. All the best you >> and pray for all of us. My brother says he's coming from church. During the COVID period reads this other email in the federation. There was a task force managing the operations of COVID for the government of T immunity headed by the prime minister with Harris Dr. Prime Minister Harris Dr. Cameron Wilkinson Dr. laws and Abdia Samuel were the prominent members giving the government advice as how to proceed carefully along the way.
Dr. Harris was highly commended for following the advice of the medical team and safely brought us out of CO.
Drew, Martin, and Dwer made a lot of noise after the task force gave Harris the green light to open up the country.
These three men of straw criticized Harris for opening up the country too late in their ignorance. They said the status suggesting that Harris should ignore the advice of the task force and open up the country to make money. Now today, with the arrival of these suspected Ebola Nigerians that were refused entry into the federation, it was very intriguing to hear this Labor government declaring that the Nigerians were denied entry on the advice of their medical team. Hypocrites and parasites, all of them raise this other email.
This email reads, "Mr. McMahon, last week on freedom radio, you were very critical of the statements made by the palm pro, Mrs. Lavon Kanes and Deputy Leader Sha Richards.
You said that Lavon can't prevent people from giving their commentary on political matters." and Sean who knows better went on to low withd you giggled and agreed according to you whom you read Kenny Douglas let's get to the lines and say good night to this caller thank you for holding caller you're live >> hi pis good night >> good night my dear >> and how are you >> I am peaceful you I'm peaceful too.
>> Good. Good to hear. Good to hear.
>> Everybody keeps saying and running away with the word that Harry say call Sean Mumu. Did anybody stop and ask why did he do it? Why did he call him that? I don't think nobody stop and ask the question. And Sean, I don't even know Sean asked himself why did he call me so. But my assumption is that when Sean get up and on and the E and talk about how much things he accomplish one caller had call him call him and say what you want to say since you get in government these are what you accomplish right that's one the second thing that is why I think I could be thinking wrong I could be thinking right the second one they all was agree for two term And in the second year, the second term, the first year and the second term, there is when they start to get on and that's why the party break up. Anybody stop and ask this question? Eh, so that's why because Sean know all about these things and that's why he call him mu and me will joy with him and said my grandmother will say he doish.
He doish because the thing is it that you don't know many you already talk about what's going on and you going to wait until the first year in the second term and start to make confusion. Oh, he said this and he said that. Just wait and like ride it out. Write out the storm. H and number one he had no call on the ear talk about what you accomplish.
People say Douglas have this and Douglas have that. The Douglas Denel Douglas company say yes I got it. He let you assume keep you assuming he ain't come out and say yes I have it.
No ministers will come out and say them accumulate. You just let the people assume and that is why you say call it stupid because you going to come out and talk about this and that he ask himself the question why you call him mama.
That's all I have to say for right now.
>> Okay. Thank you very much my my straight dog family. Uh well, it's something as I mentioned in my thesis that it's it's unavoidable. I I I can say because we will find I don't know if political banter is the right term, right?
But you'll always have that in politics.
And people cannot, as I said, demand perfection.
People must demand leadership and not perfection. But let's go back to the lines. Caller, you're live. Hello caller.
>> Yes, Pes, good evening. Pes, good evening, man. How you doing tonight, man?
>> Uh, feel mumu.
>> I'm peaceful, my brother. I'm peaceful.
Take that back. I take that back.
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um, you know, some of this stuff is real serious, man.
>> Mhm.
>> If it wasn't for such serious magnitude, a lot of this stuff will just come down to comedy.
>> Mhm.
>> What we what we will probably have to look at is the timeline when that word was thrown out about Sean W, which is I'm thinking the lady that just called is partially trying to pivot um pinpoint you know the timeline was that word thrown out before the second election of 2020 because as we know I believe Shawn himself went back to giving Timothy the support when there was some wranglings about you know trying to break up the unity structure. So, I would just say one thing to that. Let me get a timeline and let me see if Sean really took that word to heart or not. Anyway, the incident at the airport with the Nigerians them coming in. What I will say about that is our government, they're not proactive enough.
The health department wasn't proactive enough.
The prime minister himself being the minister of health, he wasn't proactive enough. Remember all these trips that they go on and remember the halabaloo that we had about Nigeria, the Nigeria trip. If he knew these Nigerians was coming in, he should have been proactive enough to prevent that public display on the tarmac up at the airport. Because no matter what we say patches, that's going to be looked at in in a bad way for the federation of sinistas. And here we have him trying to build a relationship with Nigeria and the same Nigerians now are being rejected.
>> Whether it's a health scare, whether it's a health scare or not, we should not have that public display like that to tarnish the federation of sinis neighbors and the relationship that he's embarking on trying to build with Nigeria.
They should have had a um a contingent plan and how to deal with those Nigerians if they're so concerned about the Ebola scare, but the Ebola been in the news for weeks now. They knew that this flight was going to come. Antigga took the action to reject the flight.
Why did the flight end up in Wait, why did any transit flight end up in Sinkis from Barbados? they weren't proactive enough to either reject them from the getgo so that they don't land on that tarmac or or put the contingent plan in place and what become of those Nigerians where they are now they did send them back and what became of the passengers the other passengers that was on board are would are those passengers quarantined because if they're concerned about the health scare suppose they had one or two persons on board which was infected Betty, those other passengers who stayed in sink as if they were locals, they would need to be quarantined.
Let me move away from that real quickly and I'll let free up the lines, man, and try to come back in. The wranglings is back between Sinkis and NAS, particularly the federal government and the NIA government.
Really and truly, we cannot ignore it.
It's a public display between the premier and the prime minister over that destiny project. And it's it's so ironic that they're going back and forth with this stuff when they both are the ones that table that bill in parliament and facilitated that law. If both of them still think that that project is so good for NEAs and the wider federation, they should have had their act together.
Man, Dr. you the buck stops with him. He doesn't have to beat around the bush. He didn't have to create that ad hot committee. You know, if the patches man put a constitution and all these things that you put up on the the screen tonight, if Mark Brantley, he probably technically made a mistake. He should have tried to get that project going and let it let the NI NIA be the last author authoritative to to to to push that project forward. Don't let it be that you have to depend on the federal government. I don't know if that's already like how it is with the Constitution based on those um points she was making tonight, but >> give consent.
>> Yes. Yes. Yes. That that's is specifically what I'm pointing to. Yes.
Thanks for that. If he if he really, you know, sometimes he makes some political blunders, he should not have give that consent to the federal government. He should have find a way to get the NIA to approach the federal government. Whether it's whether it's in the constitution or not, they could have tried to maybe make a legislation or something to let the final be underneath his hand. If he's buttering up you like that, they got the majority in the parliament to do such, isn't it? I mean, this stuff, man, is unbelievable. What's going on in Sinis Neas? The place is so dysfunctional.
sink and ne is a dysfunctional state.
I'm going to say it loud and clear on here plain and simple. The place is dysfunctional.
The judicial system is is is is whacked out >> man the place is man the place man I don't know what else to say about this man sink is a dysfunctional state persons don't want to do the work to clean up the mess in order for real progress and real advancement to happen changes must happen if we're not making no changes in the constitution or bringing no reforms The place is going to stay like this forever. We're going to be on here for another 42, 43 years complaining and talking like this.
The place is not moving forward as it should as a small state. We had the money. We mismanage the money and now we we paying for it. Man, these politicians of the day and the ones of the past, they feel to themselves that the only persons who should get this money in their pocket to themselves. What happened to the working class?
Man, we see it. The last point I'm going to make on here is the premier is now giving Jew seven days, an ultimatum. And if Jew is the real prime minister of Sinkis San man, I dare him not to give a response in seven days and let's see what Bley going to do on the NEA side and let's see what this relationship between Sinkis and NEAS is going to be in the near future going forward because at the end of the day the election is a poor chance and they're scrambling to try to get these projects moving but they cannot fool nobody in the last year of the occupancy of these government officers. Man, the people of Sinkis Neas need to come together and make a statement to these politicians man it would disappoint them to see how team unity implode and if these politicians don't mature and put their ego aside man is when the next election comes up chaos is going to break out in past there like you say yeah it's good that we can forgive but at the end of the day man if you want that labor government to move out of there all the oppositions and the and including within the independence. They got to rally together because you think Labor is weak, their man ain't weak like how you all think and you think it's easy to take out the incumbent government. It's not easy at all. So, by any means necessary, if you want the man out in there, you're going to have to come together and don't miss the opportunity because if you don't take that Labor government out now, they're going to get a chance to cement down in the government and they will be there for 20 years. I leave it there, patches, man. And I wish Sanas the best, but the citizens of Sinki Sanas, they got to wake up. Thanks a lot, patches, man.
Have a good night.
>> Have a good night as well, my brother.
Very uh passionate about your uh points and we go back to the lines. I I I I I put on your monitors that that uh last section of the SSC legislation which a friend of mine brought to my attention just today. And you see it's very clear that the Navis Island administration has consented uh to this act in so far as it applies to the authority on the island of NeAs and the constitution uh referred to in 3737 section 37 subsection 3 that too is pollucid as my good friend would say um very clear and it reads in 373.
If it is expressly declared in any law enacted by parliament that the NEAS island administration has requested and consented to the enactment in respect of to the island of Nevice of any of the provisions of that law relating to any of the specified matters. Those provisions shall accordingly have effect on the island of NeAs as if they had been enacted by the NES island legislature and may be amended or revoked accordingly.
Matt is too smart. Caller, thank you for holding your live. Are you there, Caller?
>> Yes, sir. Good night, our humble servant.
>> Good night, >> Mr. Ian Pach's library.
>> Good night my brother.
>> So far moving forward I have acknowledged all the knowledge and utterance you have brought to me and the whole wide world.
Let it be known to each and everyone.
You are indeed one of the world most humble servant.
Moving forward, I must say condolences to Mr. Marisha and his father's passing.
That is a process no one can escape.
As I heard you stated, moving forward based on the promises before this administration made during their campaign until now.
They stated that all these mention of anticipation are on the way or on its way. Mhm.
>> I am still here wondering and asking the question where are they?
What is the delay?
Now election is one year and couple months from now. Where are these promises that you promise to us?
Well, I'm tired of waiting and people are tired of waiting.
in making a sound statement.
I rather work with a new set of people who are willing to do the due diligence to the federation.
You have now passed your time. Your time has been expired.
We need actions.
We need deliverance.
So I will say in short order now I rather work with any new political party except these current forgery false fake phony leaders so to speak.
I am looking forward to collaborate.
Should I win my seat to work with any other leaders of any political party apart from these people who try to make us fools, promises or comfort for fools.
So there are no room, no space offer you now.
Enjoy the rest of the time that you have. But you shall you shall indeed be moved.
I will close on that for now and I will leave for others to inject their perspective.
That's all I have to say for now.
>> Thank you very much my dear brother for your uh contribution.
Uh we go back to the lines and say good night to this caller. Caller, you're live. Mr. Lro mantly acting like his parents left NEIS the island of NIS for him and his family he don't want to tell anybody what he doing when they ask him question he don't come up with no answer he act like Nis belong to him >> true what said well said my my dear my the lady I I don't think I I read all of this email.
I overlooked a section here. Mr. Magmahorn, last week on Freedom Radio, I'll read the entire email. You were very critical of the statements made by Pam Pierro, Mrs. Lavon Kanes, and Deputy Leader Sean Richards. You said that Lavvern can't prevent people from giving their commentary on political matters and Sean who knows better went too low with DW.
But you giggled and agreed according to you when you read Kenny Douglas Douglas's post that Shawn is out there looking after his green card while he Kenny here looking after Constituency 5's business. You then remarked that you found what that what Kenny said very interesting and was supported by the two paid panelists and we know why they are being paid for constituency.
They are being paid beggy pardon for their strong support of government. What I want to say is that Lav and Sha was were right in their behem defense of pal. Pam don't need no advice from Derer. So rightly denounced by Sha as a hypocrite. Uh and by the way Mr. Magmahorn you defending Der because you're looking friends and company but Der don't have you as any friend when the attorney general told the federation that you Magahorn hates the Labour party with a passion. Der did not utter one word in your defense. I just want to say to Lavon and Sha, you both did an ex excellent job in defending your party.
Sha isn't a man to interfere with people first, but if you trouble him, prepare to feel his full weight of retaliation.
Thanks again, Sean, for bringing back up the court case with him and the way he tried to rip off his family. Caller, thank you for holding you live. Hello, Caller.
I am peaceful my brother yourself.
Likewise. Likewise, I am peaceful. God has been good to me.
What about yourself?
Sure. You're entitled to that on straight up.
What would they would do to help the country?
What are the motive? the rightful political motive that they can shove more better handiworks on these people who are in power now than those who was in power in the past. All they does is criticize but no substance and they they don't persuade me because they full of critic criticism.
There has no there has no politic proper political message to give to the people to entice them and they got to train the tool man. They got to come with a message. You have a message. You don't have your discret your your your criticism about the government and sometime you make sense.
Sometime you don't make sense but you sometime you on the point who like it or who don't like it. That's them. But these other guys man they are so negative.
They try to bring the government down to nothing. But what are they offering?
What are they offering? And sometime you need to be more dialogue with them. What are they bringing to the people to say they want to be leaders to help the people in St. Kit they negative and I'm I'm going to be honest with you Patrick.
The labor is sweet. They're going to win the government again because these guys are calling to you show. They have no substance in their conversation. They have no p they cannot persuade the people.
>> Well, you have not you have not >> you a lot. You I'm be honest with you. I give you the credit for that. You you're like a sharp serpent that you try to destroy.
>> Okay.
>> But these guys is you can they're here with me and I'm letting them know they are not ready.
>> Okay. My brother, >> they need to go and come again and leave the government alone because labor is sweet.
Labor is fact.
>> But you know, you know though, right, that you're you're entitled to your opinion. You agree, right?
>> That's true. That's true.
>> Don't you think they're entitled to the opinion as well?
>> Yes. Yes. But they need they need to have some substant. have no they calling to your show every every week Monday Thursday they have no substance man they need some money man >> but all you said is that labor is sweet is that sub substance >> you're running from the reality but many people talk about these guys man >> people talk about these guys >> okay >> the poor >> okay my brother okay well I got you loud and clear my brother have you >> yeah find some substance manical prostitute man. That's what they are.
>> Okay. Thank you.
>> Thank you. That's coming from my brother there in St. Thomas, man. St. Thomas caller, thank you for holding your live.
>> Yes. Good evening. Um that young man who was on a few minutes ago, I remember was about 16 years when I was living in St. And I heard someone election time and someone said his grandfather was labor, his dad was labor, and no matter what labor did, he will always be labor.
Bab Marley sing a song and he it was about mental slavery and hearing that young man speak a few minutes ago.
I would like someone to remind him this is the year 2026 and ask himself how many years Douglas is the leader of number six and I would like him to take a tour of number six.
go down where the post office used to be in deep bay and ask himself is it okay for a man like that to be in power for almost 40 years mental slavery. Good night.
>> Good night my dear brother. uh short and to the point and that is substance as you have uncovered the facts of a man of 40 years in office and you made mention of the post office.
Look at the the old health center I think it was there on Gibbons's pasture.
Look at look at uh other structures in St. Paul's St. Paulians will complain about the lack of roads, good roads in the housing projects, all these dirt roads.
Good evening, ambassador reads this email. I've not spoken to you in a minute. The jail now has a media mogul, a doctor, carpenters, electricians.
All the need now is a lawyer and politician that served in the house and we will be set patches do means no don't touch me means just that just that to your new shoe in Washington is highly rated. Let them take that and put it in their pipes and smoke it. God bless and keep on keeping on. Stay safe. And June 11th is a half holiday. The street is telling me keep those cooks and outlaws feet to the fire. Reads this email.
This other email reads the Jew administration. Uh, let me take this call before I take that email cuz it's a bit long. So, I'll take this call. Caller, you're live. Hello.
Caller.
>> Yes. Yes. Mr. Bible man. It sounds like >> good night.
>> Good night, sir.
Psalm 41.
Yes, sir. Your road match.
>> Your road match.
Blessed is heless.
Psalm 41.
Blessed is the man that considerth before in the time of trouble.
The Lord shall deliver him.
Psalm 117.
>> Oh, give thanks unto the Lord for his good, >> his mercies, >> for his mercy endured forever.
He shall let the redeem of the Lord whom he had redeemed from the hands of the enemy.
That is there is a Psalms 112.
I want to read it from the Bible.
Hold on.
Now I am going to read Psalm um 37.
Now hear the word of God in Psalm 37 because of evil doers neither be envious doer of iniquity.
Now page when when they when things touch people and they start to go on bad just leave them alone.
But the word of God not yourself because of evil dos.
Do not set yourself with people which are the truth.
the truth that hurt and some people go on with all kind of things.
Now here here 112.
He shall not he shall not be of evil or him.
because his heart is fixed on the Lord.
Now here 9 say he shall not be moved for endured the righteousness and shall not his righteousness shall Forever be ever remember.
>> Okay. Thank you very much my dear brother.
>> So >> yes that is it.
>> Thank you very much >> for your Yeah. your spiritual intervention Mr. Bible man. It's now what? It's 3 minutes past the 10:00 hour. Oh how time has flown tonight.
Let me get rid of these emails. The Drew administration, a drew administration's handling that should be of the Nigerian passenger issue is beginning to look less like second or less like sound public health policy and more like a desperate political charade designed to create fear, distraction, and the illusion of strong leadership.
If these travelers truly represented a serious Ebola threat, then the government must explain why the other passengers on board were reportedly allowed to enter the country and move around freely without quarantine, isolation, or any visible emergency health protocol.
That contradiction completely destroys the credibility of the administration's narrative.
You cannot claim there was a dangerous contamination risk while simultaneously treating everyone else on the aircraft as though nothing happened. Ebola is not political theater. If authorities genuinely believe exposure was possible, every passenger should have been treated as a potential contact under internationally accepted public health procedures. Instead, what the public witnessed appears to be selective enforcement targeting African nationals while the government attempted to score political points through fearbased optics. The administration now finds itself trapped by its own inconsistency.
The people of St. Kids and NES deserve better excuses for answers, not propaganda, emotional grandstanding or policies that collapse under the weight of basic logic and common sense reads this email.
Let's talk straight.
There are a few things in play that are as clear as day. I suspect as everyone does, elections are upon us and I don't believe there will be a decision on destiny before the election. You cannot chance it. That situation will be held over Mark Brantley as leverage to ensure that he doesn't align himself with anyone against the Labor Party. The destiny, if allowed, it will hurt this federation. Brantley keeps reminding us that he cannot be outsmarted. He has already been outsmarted. The destiny people looked around the Caribbean for the weakest and most corrupt leadership and it was seemingly found on the matter of the upcoming elections. The there are many independent persons and parties popping up. I am convinced that Labor is even supporting this. They are strategic as this will dilute the voting pool.
Labor will have another term as I personally don't see either party in opposition strong enough to individually contest the next elections. May the God may the good Lord help us read this email and my street family. Yes, we are now winding down tonight's programming and tonight our thesis we presented tonight great leaders choose to forgive their enemies.
And I made the point my straight talk family about the pragmatism of Sean Richards.
Remember I started with this comment or question from a strong pamite and as he claimed a financia as well of the party.
His name Austin Cooker who said this sh my name is Austin Cooker.
I am a bar I am a barn proud sandy pointer and whether you like what I'm going to say or you don't like it. I just have to speak my mind.
I am a strong supporter of the people's action movement and I'm also a financer in number four.
If you would tell me as Koka that after Timothy came into Sandy point and call you mumu and you are now saying about a collision I don't have a problem with a collision you know but say straight straight forward you know shimothy has no leader you know are you free to say it you know because he come on the air and he say fire six and he call you mu This not going work. You know this not going to work. Anybody else you could join with whoever you want and join but the leadership must fall under the pal umbrella. Straight forward straight forward.
I take those words very deep because Sandy point and if he call you mu he mean that minimum too. So you don't play naive step on the airway that Tim will not be the leader.
>> It is a sentiment that is often expressed by the people's action movement in regards to Timothy Harris and Timothy Harris wanting to lead any government in the future. He went into Sandy Point and he called me momo. And that is something I have not forgotten and it is something I will not forget.
because I gave my full support to Timothy Harris in 201 and 2020 and of course he's human so he will not forget but as I conclude tonight's programming I make reference to history that provides many examples of leaders who acted pragmatically.
Think about Abraham Lincoln who built alliances with former rivals to preserve the Union during the American Civil War.
Think about M. Nelson Mandela who chose reconciliation over revenge after a pathide ended in South Africa.
Think about Winston Churchill who worked with ideological opponents during World War II because defeating a greater threat mattered more.
So in practical terms and in my opinion, a pragmatic politician may believe that and I said this before that there are no permanent friends or enemies in politics only permanent interests.
critics. My straight dog family sometimes accuse pragmatic politicians of being opportunistic or inconsistent.
Supporters how however argue that pragmatism is necessary for governance because politics is ultimately about solving problems, maintaining stability and advancing the public good.
Politics is not a game for the weak-hearted.
Nor is it a place where emotions alone can guide national destiny. Not at all.
Politics is ultimately about leadership.
sacrifice, maturity and above all the future of the people.
Today our beloved nation of St. Kitsan stands at the important crossroads.
Many citizens are frustrated.
Many are disappointed.
Many are asking when will the present administration truly deliver on the promises made four years ago.
This is a do nothing government.
across communities. There is growing concern about the direction of the country, high debt, the state of the economy, the rising cost of living, and the absence of confidence and momentum that our people desperately need.
My street family, some say they can support unity, but not certain personalities. Others believe old political battles should never be forgotten.
But we were able to put away those things and come together before. Why can't we do it again? Why can't we?
History teaches us something powerful.
Great leaders do not allow personal personal feelings to destroy national opportunities.
Great leaders understand that forgiveness is not weakness. Forgiveness is strategy. Forgiveness is maturity.
Forgiveness is patriotism.
and my SH dog family around the world.
Nations have advanced because leaders who once fought bitter political wars eventually recognized that the greater mission was bigger than themselves. They understood that the people mattered more than pride.
And so the question before us is simple.
Do we remain divided and guarantee political defeat or do we unite with wisdom and create the possibility of national renewal?
My shock family, those who oppose cooperation between PAL and PLP must understand one fundamental political truth.
Divided opposition always strengthens the ruling.
Terrence Michael Drew incompetent do nothing government.
It's not about personalities.
It's not about who insulted whom years ago. It is not about political vanity or emotional revenge. It is about the survival and advancement of St. Kits and Neas.
I swear family nations do not progress through hatred.
Countries do not develop develop through division.
Political maturity requires compromise, discipline and vision.
Let us therefore reject the politics of permanent enemies and embrace the politics of permanent national interests.
And if St. Kits and Neas is to move forward, then all those who truly desire change must now decide whether they love victory more than division, whether they love country more than conflict, and whether they possess the political wisdom to unite for the benefit of generations to come.
Great leaders understand that bitterness may satisfy emotions but for the moment but forgiveness builds nations movements and history.
I made mention of Nelson Mandela. I told you about Abraham Lincoln who called for healing with malice towards none. Even in the fiercest political struggles, visionary leaders recognize that division weakens a people while unity strengthens a cause.
We can remain prisoners of past insults, betrayals, and political wounds or we can rise above them in pursuit of a greater national purpose. Forgiveness does not mean forgetting the past or surrendering principles. It means placing country above ego and future above resentment. It means understanding that the people demand leadership, maturity and courage, not endless political warfare. History will not remember those who held grudges. History will remember those who had the strength to unite, the wisdom to reconcile, and the courage to place the interests of the nation above personal animosity.
Great leaders choose not revenge, but responsibility, not division, but destiny, not hatred, but hope. And when the future of our country is at stake, great leaders choose to forgive their enemies. And that's my story tonight.
And I am not going to change it. I must thank almighty God for guiding our conversation tonight. As always, I must thank you, the many viewers, our listeners, those who sent emails, and those who call. Just remember you are the ones who make straight talk and for that reason I say a big big thank you.
I am Ian Pastor Liber and God spare until we connect on Monday. Have yourselves a wonderful weekend. Be good to all whom you meet and remember that whatever your mind conceive that you will achieve. But first of all you must believe. So when you wake in the morning, thank God for the morning light. Thank him for taking you through the night and my dog family. Keep moving on. Bye-bye. Until we connect on Monday and I wake in the morning.
I thank God for the morning light.
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