
PM Douglas Delivering Silver Jubilee Speech
Photo By Erasmus Williams
Basseterre, St. Kitts – Nevis
September 22, 2008 (CUOPM)
As St. Kitts and Nevis continues to celebrate 25 years as an Independent Nation, the twin-island’s Federation’s Prime Minister says the future will demand “vision and determination, self-awareness and self-mastery, courage, conviction, competence and compassion.”
“Nothing less will do,” declared Prime Minister Douglas as he delivered the Silver Anniversary Independence Message to thousands of nationals including visiting dignitaries attending the traditional Ceremonial Parade at the Football Stadium at Warner Park.
The St. Kitts and Nevis leader pointed out that at this stage of the Federation’s development, “we must now ““ all of us ““ place as much emphasis on developing our intangible assets as we have been on developing our very important, tangible assets ““ our physical infrastructure. We must do so because it is the powerful intangible assets like discipline and determination; initiative and perseverance; fair play and integrity; respect for self, and for others, that determine the fate of a nation. It is these powerful intangibles that determine which societies realize their potential ““ which people truly become masters of their own destiny.”


