Election Day was yesterday in the states and the 44th President of the United States was named.

Nevis has a positive outlook! This was a huge historical moment as the barriers were broken.

The Presidential race was called for Barack Obama at 11p.m. on the East Coast, 8p.m. on the West. An hour later he was on stage at Grant Park in Chicago, speaking to the tens of thousands of supporters gathered there.

The Communications Unit of the St. Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister reported that the election of Illinois Senator, the Hon. Barack Obama, as President of the United States of America, “is a power of example.”

“In theory, this was supposed to have been an almost statistical impossibility,” St. Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas said Wednesday in a message of congratulations to Obama on behalf of the Government and People of the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis.

“Yet, through vision, strength of character, and resolute adherence to principle, you have won not only this most esteemed position by a landslide, but indeed the respect, support, and admiration of peoples and nations as far flung as disparate as one can imagine,” said Prime Minister Douglas to President-Elect Obama, who won Tuesday’s United States Presidential Election.

Obama is the first African-American destined to sit in the Oval Office. He is also the first Democrat to receive more than 50 percent of the popular vote since Jimmy Carter in 1976. He is the first senator elected to the White House since John F. Kennedy in 1960.

He received 52.3 percent for the popular vote to and 46.4 percent for McCain. He received 349 of the Electoral College to McCain’s 147.

Douglas hosted the election event for St. Kitts and Nevis Island as he also used the occasion to speak to the young people…

“What this young man has achieved is a clear indication that we too can achieve. From humble beginnings, (he) spent very little time with his father, but was close to his mother and grandparents. He learned what is meant to be discipline, to be focused, to work hard, respected himself and respected others.”

“We have seen history in the making,” said Prime Minister Douglas, who noted that when President-Elect Barak Obama started his race for the White House two years ago, the St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party, which has strong fraternal affiliation with the philosophy of the Democratic Party of the United States “aligned itself with Barak Obama.”

“He believed in being his brother’s keeper. These are lessons that we have learnt from his great victory, the march to great victory by Obama,” said Prime Minister Douglas.

“I am happy to be a part of this historic occasion,” many said with tears in their eyes as Obama mounted the stage to deliver his address to over 200,000 people in Chicago.

The Obama Labour Party event was also in celebration of the long fought dreams of men like the Right Excellent Sir Robert L. Bradshaw and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King.

You can read more about this Caribbean event from SKNVIBES.com.

It sounds like the majority of Nevis and St. Kitts are very happy about the election outcome!

Nevis Lover Becca Briley

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