Labour Spokesman

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| foundation = 1957

| political = Saint Kitts and Nevis Labour Party

| language = English

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| headquarters = Masses House, Church Street, Basseterre

| circulation = 6,000

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| website = {{URL|http://thelabourspokesman.com/}}

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| publishing_country = Saint Kitts and Nevis

| publishing_city = Basseterre

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Labour Spokesman is a newspaper published from Basseterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis. It was founded in 1957.{{cite book|author1=Timothy L. Gall|author2=Jeneen M. Hobby|author3=Gale Group|title=Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations: Americas|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-ZcRAQAAMAAJ|year=2007|publisher=Thomson Gale|isbn=978-1-4144-1089-0|page=446}} As of 1972, it was published as a daily and claimed a circulation of 1,500.{{cite book|author=John A. Lent|title=Third World Mass Media and Their Search for Modernity: The Case of Commonwealth Caribbean, 1717-1976|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hv25dy0K1DAC&pg=PA102|date=1 January 1977|publisher=Bucknell University Press|isbn=978-0-8387-1896-4|pages=67–68, 102, 199, 208}} At the time, George Lewis was the editor. It is an organ of the Saint Kitts and Nevis Labour Party and the Saint Kitts and Nevis Trades and Labour Union. At the time, it was the sole daily newspaper in the country. The newspaper frequently published allegations of corruption in the rival People's Action Movement.{{cite book|author=Vincent K. Hubbard|title=History of St. Kitts: The Sweet Trade|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NMcnAAAAYAAJ|year=2002|publisher=MacMillan Caribbean|isbn=978-0-333-74760-5|page=155}}

History

As of the 1980s, Joseph France served as editor of Labour Spokesman, whilst serving as secretary of the Labour Party and general secretary of the Trades and Labour Union at the same time.{{cite book|author1=Stuart H. Surlin|author2=Walter C. Soderlund|title=Mass Media and the Caribbean|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jzyf1kaLihkC&pg=PA110|year=1990|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-2-88124-447-6|pages=105, 110}} At the time, the newspaper had one full-time reporter and a part-time reporter. The newspaper is mainly dedicated to local issues.

As of the mid-1980s, it was published on Wednesdays and Saturdays.{{cite book|title=Talking with whom?|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0pHhAAAAMAAJ|year=1987|publisher=Caribbean Institute of Mass Communication, University of the West Indies|isbn=978-976-41-0074-4|page=154}} By the early 1990s, Dawud Byron served as editor of Labour Spokesman and Walford Gumbs as its manager.{{cite book|author=[Anonymus AC00945912]|title=The Europa world year book: 1994|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I6MNfReWiwwC|date=July 1994|publisher=Europa Publ.|isbn=978-1-85743-006-6|page=2531}} An 8-page tabloid, copies of Labour Spokesman were sold for 0.75 East Caribbean dollar (ECD).{{cite book|title=Caribbean Media Directory: With Profiles of the English-speaking Caribbean Countries|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0jXVAAAAMAAJ|year=1990|publisher=Jamaica Institute of Political Education|page=50}} In 2002, it claimed a circulation of around 6,000. As of 2007, it was reportedly still published twice weekly.{{cite book|author=Nexus Strategic Partnerships|title=Commonwealth Education Partnerships, 2007|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ID5XqeV4q10C&pg=PT306|date=January 2007|publisher=Nexus Strategic Partnerships Ltd.|isbn=978-0-9549629-1-3|page=306}} As of 2002, the 8-page Wednesday issues were sold for 1 ECD, whilst the 20-page Saturday issues were sold for 2 ECD.UNESCO. [http://www.unesco.org/csi/smis/siv/Caribbean/carsurvey.htm CARIBBEAN - St Kitts and Nevis - Media Survey (19.01.02)]

The offices and printing press of Labour Spokesman are located in the 'Masses House', a building on Church Street, Basseterre that also functions as the headquarters for the Trades and Labour Union and the Labour Party.SKNVibes.com [http://m.sknvibes.com/news/newsdetails.cfm/76261 Arson suspected in Masses House fire]{{cite book|author=V. S. Naipaul|title=The Writer and the World: Essays|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_-cC4yhWvykC&pg=PT92|date=22 March 2012|publisher=Pan Macmillan|isbn=978-0-330-52936-5|page=92}}

References

Category:Newspapers published in Saint Kitts and Nevis

Category:Newspapers established in 1957