Labor Spokesman

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Labor Spokesman is a political magazine based out of St. Kitts and Nevis . It is published in Basseterre and has existed since 1957. The magazine is an organ of the Saint Kitts and Nevis Labor Party and the Saint Kitts and Nevis Trades and Labor Union and was the only daily newspaper in the country at the time.

history

Until 1972, daily editions were published with a circulation of 1,500 copies. At the time, George Lewis was the editor. Accusations of corruption have often been made public in the rival People's Action Movement .

In the 1980s, Joseph France became editor of the Labor Spokesman . He was also Secretary of the Labor Party and General Secretary of the Trades and Labor Union. The magazine employed a full-time employee and a part-time employee reporter. Mainly local topics are published.

Since the mid-1980s it has only been published twice a week, on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Since the early 1990s, Dawud Byron was the editor and Walford Gumbs the manager. The eight-page issue sold for 0.75 East Caribbean dollars (ECD / EC $). In 2002 the magazine had a circulation of 6,000 copies. In 2007 it was published twice a week. In 2002 the 8-page Wednesday edition was sold for 1 EC $, while the 20-page Saturday edition was offered for 2 EC $.

The Labor Spokesman's offices and printing press are located in the Masses House , a building on Church Street , Basseterre, which also houses the headquarters of the Trades and Labor Union and the Labor Party.

Individual evidence

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  7. ↑ a b c UNESCO. CARIBBEAN - St Kitts and Nevis - Media Survey (1/19/02)
  8. ↑ Talking with whom? . Caribbean Institute of Mass Communication, University of the West Indies, 1987, ISBN 978-976-41-0074-4 , p. 154.
  9. ^ Nexus Strategic Partnerships: Commonwealth Education Partnerships, 2007 . Nexus Strategic Partnerships Ltd., January 2007, ISBN 978-0-9549629-1-3 , p. 306.
  10. ↑ SKNVibes.com Arson Suspected in Masses House fire
  11. ^ VS Naipaul: The Writer and the World: Essays . Pan Macmillan, March 22, 2012, ISBN 978-0-330-52936-5 , p. 92.

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