Felix Responds To Pierre’s Invitation To Join The Cabinet

Choiseul-Saltibus MP Bradley Felix of the opposition United Workers Party (UWP) has responded to Prime Minister Philip J. Pierre’s invitation to join the Saint Lucia Labour Party (SLP) administration. Pierre announced the invitation at Monday’s regular pre-Cabinet press briefing. “The former Prime Minister (Stephenson King) is in the Cabinet, and I have invited Bradley Felix. If he wants, he can follow, once he can follow the principles of our party,” Pierre told reporters. “We’re inclusive. We want to bring everybody together—all men and women of goodwill. We have a big umbrella. Come in,” the Prime Minister declared. Felix, in response, recalled that the Prime Minister had made overtures to him at almost every House of Assembly meeting. However, he explained that he had never taken Pierre seriously. Felix recalled that he was in office as a UWP MP to represent the people of Choiseul-Saltibus. “I have no intention of joining any other party at this point in time,” he told St. Lucia Times. Felix was also confident that the people of his constituency were not worried about anything that would jeopardise their trust in him representing them as a member of the UWP. When asked whether his intentions might change...