Trevor Walker, MP for Barbuda, says that Prime Minister Gaston Browne is attempting to dilute the voting process on the sister island.
On the weekend, PM Browne gleefully announced that Walker is on his way out, since the Antiguans working on Barbuda will be registered there and will not be voting for Walker.
However, the Barbuda People’s Movement (BPM) Leader says his Party has been closely monitoring the voters list and the daily registration to ensure it is in keeping with the law.
Based on the BPM’s vigilance, Walker says, the situation on Barbuda is quite normal, at present, and he sees nothing to support the Prime Minister’s claims.
“At the end of the day, [no one], including the Prime Minister and members of the Labour Party, [will] dilute the democratic process in Barbuda to a point that it tilts the balance of power in a particular way,” Walker declares.
According to the law, legal residents are allowed to register to vote at age 18. However, to qualify to vote in any constituency, a person must be an ordinary resident in that constituency for six months.
Based on this requirement, Walker says, persons cannot just rent a house and then, two months following, decide to get registered to vote in that constituency.
The Barbuda seat has proven difficult for the Antigua Labour Party over these years. While it captured the seat in 2014 when Arthur Nibbs ran on its ticket, he was unable to retain it in the elections of 2018.
This time, Browne says he is confident that, with Antiguans voting on Barbuda, Senator Knacyntar Nedd will ensure a Labour Party victory on the sister-island. — REAL News
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Oh you frighten now…You taking it court and then privy council? You cant win by no one vote now but will rather loose by hundreds.
For TEN YEARS he sat in Cabinet under the “sunshine government” and did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!!!!!! 4 Barbuda other than cuss and criticize them!!! Did he sponsor any school teams as a corporate citizen/gas station owner? This 🤡 is a political Jim Jones in a jacket and tie brainwashing some people.
He start shit in his boots!! He perhaps realizes that his dynasty is now beginning to fall like London bridge
“Member of Parliament (MP) for Barbuda Trevor Walker yesterday LASHED OUT at Barbudans for their DEPENDENCE on the Barbuda Council. Walker ACCUSED BARBUDANS OF NOT DOING ENOUGH FOR THE SISTER-ISLAND while RELYING TOO HEAVILY ON SUBSIDIES FROM THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT IN ANTIGUA. “It’s so amazing to me that 1,500 people cannot get together to try and organise themselves in a way that they can help themselves, and I take blame for that too,” he said.
“All that we do is to go to this broke Barbuda Council that has no money, borrow everything that we want, and the same Barbuda Council depends on the central government every week every month for transfers. It’s just not sustainable.”
“At the end of the day, we cannot have it both ways. We cannot want to live the Antigua life and want to have the Barbuda lifestyle”
“However, to qualify to vote in any constituency, a person must be an ordinary resident in that constituency for six months.”
“Based on this requirement, Walker says, persons cannot just rent a house and then, two months following, decide to get registered to vote in that constituency.”
The first statement is quoting the law. Nothing wrong there. That is what the PM also said.
But why would Walker introduce the second statement? Certainly, that is not lawful. And people should know that as well. The registration clerk would not even consider your application. But that is how they are trying to spin. The Barbuda electors list keeps growing and it has signaled the end time for Walker. This is what the BPM was always afraid of. That is why they do not want any development in Barbuda. Cause they are an incestuous community. And therefore vote according to family line. That is soon coming to an end
Gaston has a plan, like many other plans, to manipulate the voters lists. Like rushing to build houses in certain constituencies and moving in supporters. This is nothing new for the Labour Party. One of V C drivers told me that VC would transport Haitian garbage collectors to Cedar Grove to vote for him. If h
Gaston is so loved, why the manipulation?
Take a read of the REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE ACT and quit peddling lies and rumours!!!
Do you know anything about the Claims and Objections process?
Do you understand the role of a Scrutineer?
READ, READ, READ and tap pappyshow ya self with lies and rumours!!!!
Anything can happen in Antigua. The Labour Party just have to pay the right people. I have no financial gain in the outcome of the election, but maybe you have plenty to loose.
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