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The Saint Kitts and Nevis Trades and Labour Union (TLU) is a general union in St Kitts and Nevis. The union was founded in 1940, following the legalization of trade unions in St Kitts and Nevis. It was initially named the St Kitts - Nevis - Anguilla Trades and Labour Union, and focused on organizing sugar workers. Its founding president was ...
The party was founded in 1932 and was initially known as the St Kitts Workers' League. [1] It put forward two candidates in the 1937 elections, both of which were elected. It subsequently won all the elected seats in 1940, 1943 and 1946. [2] From 1946 until 1978, the party was led by Robert Bradshaw.
Saint Kitts and Nevis has a modified two-party system, which means that there are two dominant political coalitions, with extreme difficulty for anybody to achieve electoral success under the banner of any other party. Before the 2015 election the conservative People's Action Movement, the Nevis-based Concerned Citizens Movement and the 2013 ...
After the break-up of the Federation, Bradshaw returned to St. Kitts from Trinidad. In 1966 he became Chief Minister, and in 1967 the first Premier of St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla, then an associated state of the United Kingdom. Under his leadership, all sugar lands, as well as the central sugar factory, were bought by the government.
Anne Liburd MBE (12 December 1920 – 13 September 2007) also known as Ann Liburd was a Kittitian women’s rights activist and community organizer. She served as president of the National Council of Women in St. Kitts and was the first and then three-time president of the Caribbean Women’s Association.
The PLP was established on 17 June 2013 as a breakaway from the Saint Kitts and Nevis Labour Party by former minister Harris and former Deputy Prime Minister Sam Condor. Harris had been sacked from the cabinet earlier in the year, whilst Condor had been fired from his position as Head of Government Business, and had later resigned as Deputy ...
Saint Kitts and Nevis (/-ˈ k ɪ t s ... ˈ n iː v ɪ s / ⓘ), officially the Federation of Saint Christopher and Nevis, [7] is an island country consisting of the two islands of Saint Kitts and Nevis, both located in the West Indies, in the Leeward Islands chain of the Lesser Antilles.
Labour Spokesman is a newspaper published from Basseterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis. [2] It was founded in 1957. [1] As of 1972, it was published as a daily and claimed a circulation of 1,500. [3] At the time, George Lewis was the editor. [3] It is an organ of the Saint Kitts and Nevis Labour Party and the Saint Kitts and Nevis Trades and Labour ...