Fact Check: ‘Nevis Says No’ Headline Overstates Reality

Let’s be honest — the headline claiming “A RESOUNDING NOOOO!” and an island-wide rejection of the Destiny Project makes for great drama. But when you actually watch the video attached to the article, it tells a very different story.

The footage from the same consultation, embedded right there on the outlet’s own website, shows a calm and structured discussion. As you’d expect in any healthy democracy, some attendees voiced their views — that’s normal and should be encouraged. But to twist that into a “public uprising” or “unprecedented rejection” is misleading at best.

What’s clear from the recording is that most of the audience listened carefully, asked questions, and reacted thoughtfully. There was no wave of outrage, no thunderous chorus of “no” echoing across Nevis — just a few individuals speaking up, as happens in any open forum.

What this article does is take that moment and inflate it far beyond reality, hoping readers won’t bother to fact check. But the evidence is right there in the video — quiet, measured engagement, not chaos.

In the end, it’s not the Destiny Project that looks bad here. It’s the journalism. Exaggerating public sentiment for clicks undermines serious debate — and frankly, Nevisians deserve better.