Former prime minister calls for Opposition Leader to step down

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC – The founder of the main opposition New Democratic Party (NDP) and former prime minister Sir James Mitchell has again called on Arnhim Eustace, the man he handpicked to succeed him as leader of the party, to step down.
“My party needs to re-evaluate itself. It needs to understand in all honestly where they are,” Sir James, who retired from politics in 2000, said of the NDP, which he founded in 1975.
“When the people keep rejecting you and have rejected you three times at the polls, be careful. It sends a clear signal to you. And, the party has to understand first of all and fundamentally, there is a difference between leadership of a party and leadership of the Opposition,” he said on a local television programme on Sunday.