Page "History of Saint Kitts and Nevis" Paragraph 34

In 1978 the labour party's longtime leader, Robert Bradshaw, died of prostate cancer.

He was succeeded by his former deputy, Paul Southwell, but Southwell himself passed a few months later, in 1979.

The party then fell into a crisis of leadership.

The position of premier was then handed over to Lee Moore, who, despite being recognized regionally as a legal scholar, seemed unable to lead ( he once told a PAM heckler, on Church Street in front of Government Headquarters of Parliament that he will " root like a pig in mud " in the House of Parliament ).