Posted by A group calling themselves the Vote NO committee has been formed. At a press conference called to announce the group, they stated that their mission is “to educate the Vincentian public as to why they should and must VOTE NO in the referendum on the Constitution in its current form.”
This they said they hope to do by “raising public awareness on the resolutions put forward by the “YES” committee” and secondly “to provide a detailed analysis of the flaws in the proposed document.”
The Vote No Committee is chaired by Nurse Margaret London, with secretary Venold Coombs, Public Relations Officer, Frank E. Da Silva and committee member Brian Alexander.
One of the main objectives of the group is to challenge in Court the government’s spending of reported sum of $4-million in pressing a Yes campaign.
According to PRO Frank DaSilva, ‘this is wrong and there is precedence in past referendums where both sides were given public funds for education.”
On this matter, the PRO said they will have this matter tested in the Courts and has given the government forty eight hours to respond to their request for equal funds failing which they will seek a court injunction.
The forty eight hours ends on Thursday.
Frank Da Silva PRO (left) and Margaret London Chairperson vote NO Committee
I am pleased to see that some Vincentians are taking this matter seriously. If the ULP can use Government funds for the “Yes” campaign, I do not see why the vote “No” cannot be funded from taxpayer’s money.
The Government has put the cart before the horse, if the CRC had done its job of sensitizing the public on the issues there would not have been a need for wasting millions of hard earned taxpayer’s money which St. Vincent cannot afford.
Tens of thousands of dollars were already sent by the CRC travelling all over the world talking to people who are not illegible to vote in this Referrrendum.
I am urging Vincentians to stand firm and strong and vote NO.
The huge wastage is a crime against the People of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, especially the poorest of the poor. I thought that the ULP named itself the poor people’s government. Maybe by that it meant that it would further keep Vincentians in poverty!