12/06/2026
The failed former Deputy Prime Minister Shawn Richards wants the country to focus on water trucks. The St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party prefers to focus on providing caring solutions.
The reality is that his Unity administration spent seven years in government doing absolutely nothing while longstanding water challenges continued to affect communities across the country. They talked. The Hon. Dr. Terrance Drew's administration got to work on day one.
Since 2022, the Labour Government has invested nearly EC$100 million in water security and resilience. That investment includes the construction of the 2-million-gallon-per-day desalination plant, expanded pipeline infrastructure, upgraded pumping systems, national groundwater exploration and drilling programmes, additional water storage capacity, and the establishment of a local water tank manufacturing facility to improve access to affordable storage tanks.
The Labour Government also drilled and brought the Cayon well into service, significantly improving supply in an area that struggled with water issues for years.
Today, St. Kitts and Nevis, like many countries, is experiencing severe drought conditions driven by climate change. In those circumstances, deploying water trucks to affected communities is not evidence of failure. It is evidence of a caring and responsible government responding to people's immediate needs while continuing to build long-term solutions.
What would be a failure is doing nothing.
The people can judge for themselves the difference between seven years of excuses and four years of investment, action, and results.