Caribbean & Central America - March 2015 (ISSN 1741-4458)

*** INGLORIOUS END TO DENZIL DOUGLAS. The now ousted prime minister of St Kitts & Nevis, Denzil Douglas, spent the last two years of his fourth term avoiding a no confidence motion that he and his centre-left St Kitts & Nevis Labour Party (SKNLP) could not win due to defections. He finally met his fate on 16 February, but even then the controversy didn’t end as it took two days for the election results to be declared and more than two weeks for the official results to be released. It was an inglorious end for Douglas, and a poor advertisement for Caribbean democracy given that St Kitts & Nevis has an electorate of only 30,000 people.

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