Moore confident

The Barbados Labour Party held a Mass Canvass yesterday in support of its candidate Senator Toni Moore, for the upcoming by-election in St. George North.

Gline Clarke, who served that constituency for 26 years as a Member of Parliament, but who recently resigned and is scheduled to take up a new post as Barbados’ High Commissioner to Canada, was on hand to assist, as was Campaign Co-ordinator Pat Parris, Campaign Manager Dwight Sutherland, other MPs and supporters. The Mass Canvass took off from the St. George North Constituency Office and moved into surrounding areas.

Before leaving the Constituency Office, Senator Toni Moore spoke about her strategy for the upcoming by-election in St. George North, as well as the issues identified by constituents to date, which need to be addressed. Expressing confidence that she will emerge victorious over the other candidates also vying for the position, Senator Moore said she was looking forward to working with residents in that constituency, to iron out their concerns.

“We are covering St. George North and our strategy is just to present Toni Moore to the people. Just present everything that the Barbados Labour Party has been doing for the people and allowing the people to be able to make informed choices about this campaign,” Moore told members of the media.

She added, “People don’t want just someone who is of the community. They want some person who is about the community and that is where I think that I have been getting the reception. People understand that I know what service is and what they want is a relationship. Outside of that, people want to see community projects and there are a number of things that have been identified and we are up to it. We are going to be working with them.”

Gline Clarke meanwhile noted that he is giving Toni Moore his full support. He also pointed to a number of targeted areas that will receive some attention, once she wins the seat.

“I have got to make sure that Toni wins this seat. She is number one as far as I am concerned and I am going to work extremely hard, even harder than I have ever worked for myself and I am encouraging all of my BLP people to come and give her the full support that she really needs,” he told The Barbados Advocate.

In terms of the work to be done, he noted, “We are going to start back the pavilion here at the Glebe. That was started back in 2007. The DEMS took ten years and did nothing for it. So we didn’t get any help from the DEMS in the last ten years. So we are going to start back that,” it was pointed out.

“There are also a few roads and tenantries that we want to look at in Newbury, Rock Hall and then in Airy Hill. So we are hoping that we can do some work there as well. There are also few houses, old people’s houses that we need to repair. So we will try to do our best to see what we can finalise over the next couple of days,” Clarke told this newspaper.