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BASSETERRE, St Kitts, Feb 17, CMC — Almost 12 hours after polling stations closed in Monday’s general elections, the state-owned ZIZ radio announced early Tuesday that there would be no more announcement of election results.

“The count in St. Kitts-Nevis has come to a halt. The Supervisor of Elections has advised that for the rest of this morning in any event, no further public announcement will be made in respect of the count.

“We wait to hear what exactly has transpired in the last hour or so that we had the delay which would have led to us being in this situation,” said the announcer on the state-owned radio and television station.

She said at the time that three seats had been declared for the ruling St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party/Nevis Reformation Party and one for Team Unity.

“St. Kitts-Nevis still stands waiting to see what the outcome of the elections in St. Kitts-Nevis will be. We continue to monitor the situation … and keep you informed,” the announcer said.

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There has been no confirmation of the statement read out on ZIZ radio and television, the official broadcaster of the election results.

Efforts to contact the Supervisor of Elections Wingrove George have so far been fruitless.

The elections had been contested between the St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party (SKNLP) and Team Unity, an amalgam of three opposition parties.

They are seeking control of the 15-member National Assembly.

Prime Minister Denzil Douglas was aiming to become the first CARICOM leader to win five consecutive general elections.

Last week the London-based Privy Council — the nation’s final court — ruled that the elections should be fought on the existing boundaries after the opposition legislators had been successful in getting it to reverse earlier court rulings that the procedures undertaken to ensure that the voting takes places on new boundaries had been followed.

3 replies on “St. Kitts suspends public announcement of election results”

  1. Blasted shameful what’s happening in St. Kitts. Won’t be surprised if documents are getting shredded right now.

  2. Ah yes, but apparently you have to have friends in St Kitts to know what is happening. What I heard was that first of all the counters ignored the Supervisor and continued the count; next that Team Unity had won; next that nobody could find either Denzil Douglas or the Supervisor; next that there was a motorcade of Team Unity on the way to Government House; finally that the count was so ovewhelmingly in favour of Team Unity that the former Deputy PM had conceded defeat – no word yet on the whereabouts of friend Denzil. Of course IWitness News has to await the official announcement. Us lowlier mortals talk to friends.

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