TA number of persons representing Civil; Society, Non Governmental Organizations and various Political parties in St Kitts and Nevis have condemned St Kitts and Nevis Labour Spokesman reporter Lesroy Williams.
They have all issued a passionate appeal to the Leader of the St Kitts and Nevis Labour Party, Dr Denzil Douglas and Williams employer, the Hon Nigel Carty to immediately address the situation noting that Williams has and severely continues to abuse and bypass all the various decency and tenancy of basic journalism.
A joint statement issued by several media practitioners issued independently stated, “We fellow media operatives of St Kitts Nevis, Antigua and Barbuda, St Maarten, St Lucia, Grenada and St Vincent and the Grenadines are shocked, horrified and saddened at the notorious and reprehensible unethical conduct of Lesroy Williams who should be operating as a journalist, they said in a statement sent to the St Kitts Nevis Insider last evening.
The media practitioners reiterates that such behavior is a stranger to what is usually and acceptably practiced by media workers here and throughout the region and in no way speaks to its character, the statement said.
A number of representatives from various political parties including the Peoples Action Movement (PAM), Nevis Reformation Party (NRP) and the Concerned Citizens Movement (CCM) have indicated this utter disgust and dissatisfaction by the relevant persons in cautioning Williams over his unprofessional conduct.
A number of persons from civil society have called for immediate action to be taken by the Government and more so, the St Kitts Nevis Labour party and urged that the party undertake rigorous internal scrutiny to prevent the reoccurrence of such behavior by Williams and or any other individual in the employ of the party.
Meanwhile, contrary to continuous reports being peddled by Williams and the St Kitts Nevis Labour party, the Peoples Action Movement (PAM) wishes to categorically state that the allegations being made against two of its candidates in Ronald ‘Lui’ Williams and Roy Fleming stating that they are holders of triple and dual citizenship respectively are false and without substance.
The party wishes to state that neither Williams nor Fleming has veer held or currently holds citizenship for any other country outside of St Kitts and Nevis. In the past, operatives of the St Kitts and Nevis Labour party has publicized, printed and circulated information which sought to misguide and mislead the public deliberately.
This, the party said was done despite the lack of evidence to support their reportage. Though requested, there was no retraction or end of those reports by the Public Relations team of the St Kitts Nevis Labour party and some of its candidates.
Once again, PAM wishes to reiterate that the Labour Spokesman and Lesroy Williams are misleading the public through the publication and dissemination of information, which is totally devoid of any evidence. The party wishes to reiterate that both Williams and Fleming does not hold triple or dual citizenship and therefore under the circumstances, PAM is requesting that the Labour Spokesman and Lesroy Williams prints and disseminate a full retraction of the scurrilous information in the article.
