Comment: WHILE WE ARE DEBATING THE SUBJECT ON THE REDUCING OF THE NATIONAL DEBT.THE HON. FINANCE MINISTER WHO IS ALSO THE MINISTER OF CARICOM AND THE MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS HAVE FAILED TO ADDRESS THE ISSUE OF CARIBBEAN INTEGRATION AND FREE MOVEMENTS OF SKILLED CARICOM NATIONALS. I MADE MENTION OF THIS TOPIC AS IT IS TOURISM THAT GENERATES THE MOST FINANCE INTO THE ECOMOMY OF ST.KITTS AND NEVIS, AND PERSONALLY I THINK IN ST.KITTS AND NEVIS THE WORD TOURISM ONLY REFLECTS ON THE PEOPLE FROM NORTH AMERICA AND THOSE COMING OFF THE TOURIST BOATS OR CRUISE SHIPS. OUR OWN CARIBBEAN PEOPLE WHO TRAVELS YEAR AROUND AND MORE FREQUENTLY ARE REFERRED TO AS ALLIENS AND WHO CONTRIBUTES LARGE SUMS TO THE ECONOMY AND TO THE SMALL BUSINESSES ARE BEING HARRASSED AND VICTIMISED BY GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS. AS FINANCE MINISTER CAN THE HON. MINISTER DECLARE TO THE NATION HOW MUCH FINANCE HAVE BEEN GENERATED INTO THE TREASURY WITHIN ST.KITTS AND NEVIS FOR WORK PERMITS OF CARICOM NATIONALS AND VISAS EXTENSION IN A PARTICULAR YEAR. CARICOM NATIONALS WHO RESIDES HERE PAYS TAXES HERE AND YET FOR ALL THEY ARE RATED AS SECOND CLASS TO THE NORTH AMERICANS WHO JUST COME OFF THE CRUISE SHIPS ON A STOP OVER AND SOMETIMES WHEN THEY LEFT YOU COULD HEAR FROM THE BUSINESS PLACES HOW THEY MAKE NO MONEY SIMPLY BECAUSE NOT ALL THOSE TOURIST SPENDS MONEY ON THEIR TRIP. THEY ARE PERSONS WHO HAVE PAID INTO THE TREASURY IN ST.KITTS MONIES FOR CITIZENSHIPS AND ARE HOLDING RECEIPTS FOR AS MUCH AS NINE (9) YEARS ONLY TO BE TOLD THAT THEIR CITIZENSHIPS ARE NOT READY CAUSE THE PRIME HAVE NOT SIGNED THEM. THERE ARE OTHERS WHOSE APPLICATIONS ARE THERE FOR THE SAME AMOUNT OF YEARS AND CANNOT HAVE THEIR CITIZENSHIPS PROCESS, YET, THERE ARE THOSE WHO ARE GIVEN PRIORITY TREATMENT AT SOME SPECIAL TIMES WHO COULD GET THEIR CITIZENSHIPS A SHORT PERIODS. IF THE NATIONAL DEBT IS INDEED SO HIGH WHY ARE THESE CITIZENSHIPS NOT SIGNED SO THAT THE FINANCES COULD BEST ASSIST IN EASING THE NATIONAL DEBT. I SUGGEST THAT AMNESTY BE GIVEN TO THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE WILLING TO PAY UP LARGE SUMS OF MONEY TO UP-GRADE THEIR STATUS AND HELP TO GENERATE SOME FINANCE TO THE NATIONAL TREASURY.ITS GOOD TO HEAR THE MINISTER OF FINANCE QUOTE THE COLLECTION OF FINANCE OWED TO THE GOVERNMENT BY ITS DEBTORS BUT THE CABINET EVER STOP TO STUDY HOW THE SMALL BUSINESS MAN OR WOMAN IS DOING.SOMETIMES AS A BUSINESS PERSON YOU DONT MAKE A DOLLAR FROM BUSINESS IN ONE DAY SO HOW ARE YOU GOING TO PAY YOUR TAXES, ELECTRICITY AND OTHER OUTSATANDING BILLS AND LIVE. I HEARD MANY A BUSINESS PROPRIETORS CRIES WHEN THEY HEARD THAT GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS AND IMMIGRATION ARE HARRASSING FOREIGNERS. "LORD IF THEY SHOULD SEND ALL FOREIGNERS HOME TO THEIR NATIVE LAND WE WOULD HAVE TO CLOSE BUSINESS, CAUSE LOCALS DO NOT SPEND AS MUCH ON CERTAIN COMMODITIES" THE GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO STUDIY SERIOUS WHERE ITS FINANCES ARE COMING FROM BEFORE PUTTING ADDITIONAL PRESSURE OF TAXES TO BURDEN BUSINESSES AND RESIDENCE MORE. WITH THE UNCERTAINTY OF THE OFF-SHORE INDUSTRIES I SUGGEST THE GOVERNMENT LOOK AT THE SMALL MAN WITHIN THE REGION WHO COULD AID IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ECONOMY AND REDUCING ITS NATIONAL DEBT.CARICOM NATIONALS WHO RESIDES HERE SPENDS LARGE SUMS OF MONEY HERE,THE HELPS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF ST.KITTS AND NEVIS AND THEY SHOULD BE TREATED BETTER AS THEY ARE LAW ABIDING CITIZENS. THEY ARE NOT INVOLVED IN ANY SERIOUS CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES THAT IS TAKING PLACE IN OUR TWIN ISLAND FEDERATION. WE NEED TO HONOUR OUR OWN BROTHERS AND SISTERS." FOOD FOR THOUGHT "

Comment: I HAVE NO COMFORT IN EXECUTION AS PRIME MINISTER DENZIL DOUGLAS RELATED,BUT MY QUESTION TO THE HON. PRIME MINISTER OF THIS TWIN ISLAND FEDERATION OF ST.KITTS AND NEVIS. THERE WERE OTHER MURDER ACCUSE WHO HAVE BEEN CONVICTED BEFORE LA PLACE AND HAVE BEEN HOUSED AT HER MAJESTYS' PRISON IN BASSETERRE LIVING ON TAX PAYERS MONEY AND PUTTING MORE PRESSURE ON THE ECONOMY IN HOUSING AND FEEDING THESE HEARTLESS CRIMINALS, WOULD THEY BE EXECUTED ALSO OR IS IT A CHOOSEN FEW WHO WOULD BE EXECUTED.THE RETURN OF EXECUTION I THINK IS SENDING A STRONG MESSAGE TO WOULD BE CRIMINALS AND TO OUR YOUTHS. "YOU TAKE A LIFE, YOUR LIFE WOULD BE TAKEN IN RETURN" AND TOO MUCH OF THOSE CRIMINALS CONVICTED OF MURDER IN THE HIGH COURTS GOT AWAY AT THE COURT OF APPEAL DUE TO LACK OF PROPER INVESTIGATIONS FROM WITHIN THE POLICE FORCE, TOO MANY LOOP HOLES. MY SUGGESTION TO THE PRIME MINISTER IS WHEN SUCH FAULTY INVESTIGATIONS TAKES PLACE THE SENIORS SHOULD BE MADE TO ANSWER AND DEMOTED WHILE THE JUNIORS FACES SERIOUS DISCIPLINARY ACTIONS. THEY SUCH BE A A SEPARATE DEPARTMENT THAT DEALS WITH SUCH INVESTIGATIONS AS A MURDER SQUAD I PROPOSED AS IT GIVES THE INVESTIGATING RANKS MORE OPTIONS IN CONCENTRATING ON THE INVESTIGATION AND NOT BURDEN WITH OTHER PETTY INVESTIGATIONS. I WAS AN INVESTIGATING OFFICER AND THIS WORKS FOR ME WITH MY GOOD PUBLIC RELATIONS WHICH MADE MY INVESTIGATIONS EASIER AND SUCCESSFUL.YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE PUBLIC IS A GREAT ASSET TO YOUR INVESTIGATIONS AND EVEN JOURNALISM I COULD ASSURE THE EDITOR IN CHIEF WOULD ATTEST TO THIS.

Comment: JOB WELL DONE, MANY MORE TO CALL UP I WISH ALL WHO IN THERE FOR KILLING ANOTHER SHOULD BE HANGED BY NOW AND JANUARY CALL UP THE OTHERS SHOW THEM NO MERCY, THANK YOU DOUGLAS..........

Comment: It is wrong that Charles Laplace's hanging is being used as a deterent to violent crime. A domestic situation in no way compares with that of indescriminate violent gun use, knife crime and general lawlessness. These behaviours put all the citizens of St Kitts at risk, and threatens the harmony and safety of the community. Tourism also requires something be done to make the islands safe and crime free. If it means we hang, then so be it.

Comment: '' i hope this is what will happen to bengamin , i wish that all of them in there for murder can be hanged , for them young guys in the shooting in cayon i hope they learn a lesson and they now know god made all of us...... they need the electrical chair or the lethal injection... .. there shall be peace................

Comment: LONG TIME THE PEOPLE ASK FOR SOME THING TO BE DONE OF THE CRIME RATE IN THE COUNTRY AND WHEN A HEAR THAT ONE IS OFF THE HAND I JUMP OF JOY. ONE LESS TAX PAYERS MONEY TO FEED PEOPLE HOW HAVE DONE WRONG IN THIS COUNTRY BUT THIS WILL SHOW THEM OUT THERE HOW ARE PLAY BAD THAT THE ARE STILL HELP WILL THE ISSUED.

Comment: .. am so glad something have been done , it should have been in the square and i hope they continue to let them gan fellows know how it feels to be waiting on your own death... alot more to hang out ...

Comment: Honestly i don,t like the idea for hanging,but i have daughters too &i could understand how Diana,s family felt, so if it had to come to that so let it be.HANG DEM.

Comment: line up the rest! 5 a day!!

Comment: good good a dem hang all a dem