Page 8 - The St. Kitts-Nevis Observer Issue-1158-06012017

Page 8 The St. Kitts-Nevis Observer. Friday January 6, 2017 LOCAL NEWS

Parry reveals 10 party plans if elected
Decriminalizing of cannabis not one

By Monique Washington plans he noted the impor- additional hotel to Nevis
tant matters his party will “to match the Four
The leader of the Nevis seek to fix, restore and Seasons”.
develop if elected.
Reformation Party “Projects will include
The first set of plans another hotel to match
(NRP) the Hon Joseph involves a plan called the the Four Seasons and
“three prong attack” on working with the owners
Parry this past week crime in Nevis. of Four Seasons to
restore its hotel to its old
announced his party’s “A three prong attack on state of glory. This
crime, we will work with expansion will also
plans if they are elected the police to protect include the development
every resident on the of the seaport, which will
in the upcoming Nevis island of Nevis 24 hours be treated as a priority
a day. We will create and we will move quick-
Island Administration jobs for the most vulner- ly to develop health
able persons to keep tourism once again on
Election in January 2018 them off of the streets the islands,” he said.
and out of trouble. The
but with no mention of school system will be Third is the upgrade of
required to work with the Alexandra hospital
the decriminalizing or parents to solve the prob- with equipment to assist
lem of poor discipline, in improved medical ser-
legalizing cannabis. delinquency and every vices and the introduc-
sign and early sign of tion of a dialysis unit at
In the past, the leader and criminal behavior. Put in the hospital within the
some members of his place integrated program first 12 months in office.
party revealed plans to of investment and devel- Forth will be the effort to
support the decriminal- opment that will create turn around the education
ization if elected to gov- jobs that will provide program.
ernment. Party member funds to run the govern-
Hensley Daniel said at a ment in Nevis,” Parry “Teachers will be spon-
panel discussion last year said. sored at home and abroad
at the Red Cross and a battery of incen-
Building in Charleston, Second on the party’s tives shall be instituted to
“In government, we are agenda is to bring an promote and support our
going to decriminalize
marijuana.” However
the party’s leader made
no mention of it this past
week.

The “party of hope,
action and deliverance,”
were the words Mr. Parry
used to describe his
party. In revealing his

The leader of the Nevis Reformation Party (NRP) the Hon Joseph Parry

teachers to be effective the party will seek to Last will be the removal
and comfortable in the build up the NIA to a of all practices of the sur-
workplace,” he said. level where the people of rogate system.
Nevis when they are
Next will be the strength- ready can hold a referen- He defined this as “when
ening of the NIA to have dum to determine their people are paid from the
more power in the min- destiny and future. public treasury for doing
istries of health and edu- nothing, when the peo-
cation. Eighth will be to put into ple’s money is used to
place a “Public Account buy political patronage
Sixth, Leader will seek to Community” and estab- and support and when
maintain a working rela- lish an opposition office. wrong doing is not
tionship with the federal addressed because gov-
government. Ninth relates to salary of ernment is compro-
Parliament and ministers mised.”
“We will ensure that of government.
monies belonging to the According to Parry all “This is what we plan as
people of Nevis come to government ministers a government to do in the
Nevis. However we will and Parliament salary next dispensation. There
not be a part of any must be determined is hope for 2017, hope
extortion or blackmail through dialogue with for the future. The Nevis
that seems to be a part of the people of Nevis who reformation party is
the present arrange- “elect us all and finance ready for this country
ment,” he said. the NIA with their again,” Parry said.
taxes,” he said.
Seventh on the agenda

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