WHEN SAINT KITTS FOREIGN MINISTER DENZIL DOUGLAS STIFFED HIS POLITICAL CONSULTANT FOR $400,000 AFTER THE ELECTION, THINGS WENT FROM BAD TO WORSE IN THE COUNTRY'S LOW COST HOUSING CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM

The Government of Saint Kitts announced 2 years ago they will build 2400 houses financed by a Trinidad developer. Curiously, the choice of that Trinidad developer was made despite his strong support to the Timothy Harris campaign and his total lack of experience in construction of project of that magnitude. Keep reading to learn why an inexperienced outsider got the contract, when there were qualified Kittitian companies galore available.

A few months ago,  the Deputy Prime Minister of Saint-Kitts was forced to announced publicly that the developer had failed and the project collapsed. He announced that Attorney General Wilkin was now investigating the matter. All of AG Wilkin's prior investigations of alleged misconduct have never resulted in either criminal charges, or any other enforcement action. Now a web seminar is being offered with a company called Client Referrals, to build 100 to 150 low income houses through the CBI public option.

Once again, in the middle of the CBI scandal and the pending US criminal investigation, Prime Minister Drew is forced to call on the CBI to eventually build 100 low income houses . I have a better suggestion for him, in my last article about the CBI kingpin, I mentioned the hot seat where Foreign minister Denzil Douglas is source confirmed , that with all the wealth that he has accumulated off shore ( allegedly USD$10m), Denzil Douglas could afford to preempt himself and finance and donate, himself, funding for 900 low income houses for the poor citizens of the Federation.

Will Denzil Douglas redeem himself or will he wait for the situation to collapse. Douglas, amoral to a fault, failed to pay the prominent foreign political consultant that he hired to place PM Drew in office his fee after the successful election : it was USD$400,000. No wonder nobody in Saint Kitts politics trusts him.

In any case , he is in very hot seat right now and Prime Minister Drew will be inspired to take his distance with his foreign minister.