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Corporate Profits, Minimum Wage and Employee Protections:
The federation’s corporations are reporting their highest profits ever. 

• At $320 per week, the minimum wage in St. Kitts & Nevis is the highest in the OECS.
• The minimum social security pension payment has been increased 100% under Labour. 
• Before Labour, government auxiliary workers never received a pension, paid vacation, or paid sick leave.  They do now.
• Labour is currently negotiating for private sector employees to receive a gratuity if they retire after 10 years of employment.
  

Poverty Reduction:

• The Caribbean Development Bank reports that persons living in extreme poverty in St. Kitts have reduced from 11% to 1.4% since 2000.
  

University Loans:

• We have provided young people with $75 million in student loans over 14 years.  The other party provided the nation’s youth with $1 million in 15 years.
• Civil servants wishing to advance by studying at UWI [after 5 years employment] are assisted by a $1 million budget allocation under Labour.
  

Skills Training – the YES Programme:

• More than 1,000 young people now being trained in areas from metal work to nail art; plumbing to pastry making and many more fields. 
• Trainees are taught life management skills and paid a weekly stipend. 
• Some former trainees have already opened their own businesses.
  

• Labour created 3,891 new homeowners in 14 years.  The other party created 250 in 15 years. 
• Labour’s Special Land Initiative is providing land to 5,000 formerly landless persons.
• Labour is selling land to minimum wage earners at $2.95 per square foot. 
• Labour is offering tax relief to commercial banks that ease credit terms to first-time minimum wage purchasers, but a $10 million standby facility is being established at the Development Bank in case this offer is not accepted.
  

Establishment of Commercial and Industrial Parks:

• Labour has established commercial and industrial parks in Lime Kiln, Sandy Point, St. Pauls, Phillips’, Cayon, Canada Estate and St. Peters. 
  
  Promotion and Guaranteeing of Political Freedoms

• Labour has approved more newspaper and radio licenses than any government in the history of the federation.