(PLTM) - Many persons who are eligible to vote believe that all candidates in the upcoming general elections are the same.
Myron Walwyn, Sixth District candidate for the National Democratic Party (NDP) said that persons are simply saying that the BVI is not working out for them.
“Even as I speak to them, ‘Myron the country isn’t working for me’. And so when you hear people say they are not voting and you go a little deeper and you ask them why you are not voting, they say to you ‘you all are all the same thing, nothing is happening for us’. And it’s not that they don’t want to vote, they just want some hope,” he said last evening, April 18 during a political rally held in Hope Hill.
Walwyn said: “And I am here to say to you tonight that you can put your faith and trust in the National Democratic Party, you can put your faith and trust in me as your district six representative and you can put your faith and trust in Marlon Penn.”
The former Education Minister said that when issues such as the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) is brought up to residents they say: “how you expect me to sit and talk about these issues and I cannot make a living. I am busy trying to pay my rent, feed my child.”
He reminded persons that under the NDP government the economy was strong.
“We have to make the BVI work better for everybody…the issue of cost of living, we have to come up with ideas to address those issues, we have the ideas…we have done the things before. Whenever the NDP is in power the economy is stronger, the information is there,” he stressed.
No Water To Bathe
Meanwhile, as he spoke about the infrastructural issues in District Six including water woes, he said the biggest mistake made was not taking the loan guarantee offered by the UK government.
“One of the biggest errors that we have made was not taking that $400M loan guarantee that the British government put forward because if I would have put my finger on the principle reason for the infrastructural issues that we face in 2023 would be that,” he said.
Walwyn added: “you go through so many areas in this district all sort of issues, even simple things as a street light, the place is so dark. Water running all over the place and even the issue of water running in the streets, and people cannot get water in their homes.”
He said residents are complaining bitterly, “people are saying to me that can you imagine there is a reservoir next to my house and I cannot get water for me to bathe.”
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