The Federations former Prime Minister Dr Denzil Douglas, has taken the new Team Unity government to task for person who have been elected to serve on the Board of Directors of the St Kitts Nevis Anguilla National Bank.
Last week the government announced that the Board Directors are:
1. Mr. Howard McEachrane (Chartered Accountant and Former Director of TDC)
2. Mr. Analdo Bailey (General Manager, Eastern Caribbean Home Mortgage/Banker/Pastor)
3. Mr. Alexis Nisbett (General Manager, St. Kitts Biomedical Research Institute)
4. Mr. Theodore Hobson QC (Lawyer)
5. Dr. Cardell Rawlins (Medical Doctor/Surgeon)
6. Mr. Wallis Wilkin (Business Executive/Marketing Manager –Horsfords Group of Companies )
7. Mr. Lionel “Benjax” Benjamin (Businessman) 8. Ms. Talibah Byron (Lawyer/Youth Activist)
9. Mrs. Elrether Simpson-Browne (Customer Service Manager, NHC)
The Chairman is Mr. Howard McEachrane. Mr. Analdo Bailey is 1st Vice Chairman and Mr. Alexis Nisbett is the 2nd Vice Chairman. Mr. Stephen Hector has been retained as Corporate Secretary.
On Sunday in Old Road, while issuing a plea to party faithfuls to participate in the traditional Labour Day march, Douglas commented on the new Directors and laid charges of corruption and nepotism at the feet the new Unity government. administration. Douglas explained that whilst in office his administration had a specific criteria when appointing persons to serve. He question the criteria that is now being used.
Meanwhile also speaking in Old Road on Sunday night the SKNLP chair person the hon Marcella Liburd explained that the labour day march was an opportunity to stand in solidarity with the working force in St Kitts and Nevis. Providing examples of victimization, Liburd said that there are currently many attacked by taken against the workers by the new government.
Liburd who was a Minister of Gender affairs when the then SKNLP administration had passed and gazetted legislation to provide persons who had given an extended period of service to the private sector with a gratuity payment on retirement expressed outraged that the new government had stooped these payments.