Pringle Says St. Philip’s North By-Election Marks Start of ‘National Change’
Opposition Leader Jamale Pringle has declared that the upcoming St. Philip’s North by-election will signal the beginning of what he described as “national change,” as voters prepare to choose between the United Progressive Party’s Alex Browne and the Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party’s Randy Baltimore.
The March 16 contest follows the resignation this week of long-serving Member of Parliament Sir Robin Yearwood, setting the stage for a closely watched political battle in the constituency.
Addressing supporters at Wilkes on Tuesday night, Pringle said the UPP had mobilized its candidates and caretakers to launch what he called a focused but determined campaign.
“As we organize and mobilize to get Alex Brown elected as the next MP for the area, we have a short campaign. But we come with a long vision that will reclaim the future,” Pringle said .
He told supporters that “the road to national change begins in St. Philip’s North,” adding that voters on March 16 would “help put the final set of nails in the coffin of the Gaston Brown cabal and his self-enrichment policy” .
Pringle accused the governing United Progressive Party’s rival, the Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party, of presiding over what he described as cronyism and underperformance, saying the current administration had “long run out of ideas in regard to the development of Antigua and Barbuda” and was “now, indeed, running out of time” .
Framing the by-election as a choice between competing visions, Pringle said Browne “understands and subscribes to the politics of empowerment and decency,” adding that he lives his faith and believes in doing “unto the least of these” .
He urged supporters to view the vote as “the people’s time to draw a line in the sand” and called on them to organize and turn out on election day .
The by-election pits Browne of the UPP against Randy Baltimore of the ruling ABLP in what both parties have framed as a pivotal test of political momentum ahead of the next general election.
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Boss UPP supporters haffu pan crack if they really feel you and the bunch of losers in UPP can solve any issues in this country without the tug of being pulled into a blackhole…2008 financial crisis or not the UPP would of still FAILED like I know they will yet again if given the chance to govern…Gassy and ABLP don’t always get it right I question and critique them quite often but they are still the better option than this clown Pringle who will embarrass and sink us badly…
Hear nuh, say something that have some passion and that the people in St Philip could hear and get fired up about.
What did you say in these bare words you give here? Not a thing to make people go out and want to vote for Alec Browne.
You see how important it is for you to be able to write your own speech?
Where is the passion? Where is the fire? You think anybody out there could repeat what you just say?
Lawd, gih me fate wid this likkle black boy.
Primgle I doubt the UPP will win the by-election in St. Phillip North, but even if they did UPP cannot win the general election under your leadership. That is the problem that the UPP has to solve.
After 50 wasted years, 50, these ABLP supporters are still as ass backwards as they get. Yes I say it, and I say all week and twice on Sundays.
If voting in this constituency is truly about who have or will do the best job, well you all have 50 wasted to look at for that answer.
This has got to be the most blatant form of political neglect in any form of government ever.
This is just atrociously bad.
50 long years, and not even one thing to look at and be proud of, not one.
But hey, I keep saying, give a man a fish, or give him the tools to get his own fish, well even that is a choice.
Choose at your own discretion.
I cant take this guy seriously at all.
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