‘NDP must be changed next election by ballot not bullet’- Rajah A. Smith
In fact Mr Smith, who has become a trailblazer in keeping the NDP’s feet to the fire, described this theory as “rubbish” when he was speaking on the VIP radio talk show ‘Let’s Talk’ on Wednesday, February 18, 2015 on local radio station ZBVI 780 AM.
Change by ballot will not affect business
Mr Smith, now dubbed the Virgin Islands ‘Youth Master’ said the idea that if the government is democratically changed next elections it could detour both local and foreign investment was “rubbish written for you from the NDP’s overseas consultants”.
He told radio listeners that “in my research, it shows that what businessmen and women want, whether local or foreign, is a healthy democracy and that is what attracts them to invest in your country.”
The VIP potential At-Large candidate Smith stated “ladies and gentlemen, the business community wants to see government change at the ballot not through bullet but by the ballot and once you go to the polls in the next few months and change your government, which you must do, it will not, and I repeat, will not affect the business community.”
Business will come once democracy is healthy-Smith
In convincingly dismissing the notion that a change in government next election will scare away business investment, Smith, himself a businessman, told the public that “they will come to the Virgin Islands because they see we have a mature and healthy democracy, for we know this government is not working in our interest, and is not friendly to the business community, we know how much this NDP gang hates Biwater and Digicel that we must change it via the ballot box”.
Mr Smith warned the public not to be fooled. He said, “do not allow them to fool you and try to frighten you in keeping the NDP in power, claiming that when we put the NDP out of office come next election the business community will not like that. The business community loves democracy and we know the NDP’s history on their undemocratic practices.”
The NDP has sent many of their supporters on radio talk shows to claim that if the government is changed, it will frighten the business climate, however, this idea has now been dismissed by Mr Smith and the Virgin Islands Party.
The show on February 18, 2015 was hosted by Virgin Islands Party President Carvin Malone and included the VIP Chairman Honourable Julian Fraser RA (R3) and former party boss and Premier Honourable Ralph T. O’Neal OBE (R9).
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Bullets? Oh dear!
Prayers for Myron especially and an incident free Election season.