Council Candidate Campaigns on Education, Equality, and Empowerment
With the Barbuda Council elections just days away, returning candidate Jacqueline Frank is stepping into the spotlight with a clear message rooted in education, equality, and empowerment. A former council member and long-time advocate for the island’s youth, Frank is once again offering herself for service under the banner of the Barbuda People’s Movement (BPM).
Frank, who was born in Barbuda but raised in the United Kingdom, brings a unique perspective shaped by her overseas education and professional background in special education needs. Her experiences abroad—and her decision to return home—have fueled a deep commitment to building a future that works for all Barbudans.
“I didn’t come back to settle for anything less than progress for Barbuda,” Frank said during a roundtable discussion streamed live from Quadrant. “I came home to work, to contribute, and to help guide the next generation. Education is where we must start.”
Frank’s passion for education is personal. After completing her studies in the UK, she sought opportunities to work in Barbuda but was told her paperwork had mysteriously disappeared. Rather than wait, she turned to public service, successfully winning a seat on the Council in 2019.
Now seeking re-election, she’s advocating for stronger educational infrastructure, better support for children with special needs, and broader access to training and opportunities for young people.
But Frank’s platform extends beyond the classroom. As a woman in politics, she has faced questions about her identity and legitimacy—despite being born on the island. “One of the first challenges I faced was people questioning whether I was truly Barbudan because of my accent,” she said. “But I know where I come from, and I carry that proudly.”
She believes women bring a vital and often overlooked perspective to political decision-making. “We are deeply connected to our families and our communities. We push hard because we’re thinking about our children, our grandchildren, and the future they deserve,” Frank said.
Campaigning alongside her fellow BPM candidates, Frank has met with residents across political lines. “We take no prisoners,” she said with a smile. “We go to every gate. It doesn’t matter if you’re BPM or Labour—we speak to everyone because this election is about more than party politics. It’s about land, legacy, and leadership.”
She’s particularly concerned with the direction in which the central government is trying to steer Barbuda, especially in terms of land use and development. “People here understand what’s at stake. They know that once we lose our land and our autonomy, we can’t get it back. That’s why this election matters.”
Frank is confident that her record and her resolve will resonate with voters. “I’m ready to continue the work,” she said. “Barbudans deserve a future shaped by their own hands—not by policies imposed from outside.”
As the election approaches, Frank is one of five BPM candidates hoping to secure a mandate from the people—a mandate rooted in resistance, resilience, and a renewed commitment to Barbuda’s future.
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Empowerment she said? Is Trevor aware of that? Doesn’t she know that the plan is to keep Barbudans dependent. Trevor did you endorse this?
Barbudans please ensure that the land grabbing labour party has no say in your island. If you make the mistake you will all be forced to live in one corner of the island and the rest of the island will be off limits. Do not forget what they did in the middle of hurricane Irma. They forcefully evicted you and and whike you were on the mainland they were subdividing land. Fool me once shame on you..fool me twice Shane on me.
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Barbudans free yourself from this reprobate!!!!
Save that recycled convo for those whom you have convinced are direct descendants of that white conman, Codrington who loved and cared for them so much that he left a whole island, to which he had no legal claim, dir his beloved slaves. Your poor forebears drank and pissed themselves to death or talked themselves into oblivion and irrelevance, with the same FAT LIE that your and your renegade colleagues continue to spew on the simpletons in Barbuda. It’s a pity that our caring Prime Minister keeps (proverbally speaking) keeps casting pearls to swine. But ebrey dawg ha’ ‘im day, ebrey puss ‘I’m four o’clack!
Take that recycled message to your fawning supporters. By Barbudan standards you are a front runner.After all you spent years in the so-called Motherland albeit as a nobody. But here at home you have reasonable expectations of being a somebody among a simple, God-fearing/rum drinking, electorate. Sooner or later ypu will come to your sense and hopefully not follow the examples of your forebears Hilbourne who ended his journey as nothing more than a pissy drunk and the other more-English- than-the -English impressionist whose only qualification was the absurd English accent which he insisted on parading, prattling himself into irrelevance and obscurity. Just be reminded though, that ebry darg ha’ ‘im day, ebry puss ‘im four a’clack!
Education is powerful but goes with economy, tell the people that their equal share of beach front will be assigned to all indigenous barbudans that have at least 3 generations under their belt. Empower them, that education is service industry oriented to go look for job with PLH and we don’t want that we want to own our own beach front as the white man got sanctioned from Gaston to do, the education make Trevor a softy pop himself because under my watch them foundation wouldn’t come out a ground.