DLP names three candidates

Three names have been added to the political landscape of this country as the ruling Democratic Labour Party (DLP) has named three new candidates to face the polls in the next General Elections, constitutionally due in 2018.

This is according to a release from General Secretary of the Democratic Labour Party, George A.Pilgrim, which followed a Councils selection and ratification of candidates at a meeting held on April 13th 2017.

For the past three years , the party involved itself in robust analysis and three years later and after some 82 plus meetings over the period candidates have been decided.

Henderson Williams will be the new DLP candidate for the City of Bridgetown. Williams is a product of Chapman Lane in The City, a former Deputy chairman of Rural Development Commission, CEO and Corporate Secretary Needhams Point and a proud Father of three. He is also a graduate of the University of the West Indies in Social Sciences – Accounting, Management and Physiology. Williams holds a Masters from Surrey in Management.

Henderson is currently serving as President of the City of Bridgetown Credit Union. He is a businessman in the hospitality sector located in The City and a Director of the City Development Foundation which is also located in that constituency. He will face off with incumbent Barbados Labour Party (BLP) M.P. Col Jeffrey Bostic, who won the seat in the 2013 General Elections, when he defeated Patrick Todd, who was the incumbent at the time.

Nicholas Alleyne will be the DLP’s candidate for the St Michael East seat. Alleyne, a product of Licorish Village and an employee of Barbados Public Workers Cooperative Credit Union who is currently a Credit underwriter is a proud father of two, an undergraduate student of Banking and Finance UWI, a former national football player who currently manages Benefica Football club located in the constituency of St Michael East and Chairman of the St Michael East Sports Culture and Development Foundation. He will face incumbent BLP M.P. Trevor Prescod, who won the seat in 2013 from the DLP’s Kenny Best.

Finally, Rodney Grant will contest the St Michael South East seat. Grant is a product of Regent Hill located in the Pine. He is currently serving as CEO of Pinelands Creative Workshop, a NGO involved in culture social and economic in Barbados and across the region and is a husband and father of two children. He also sits on the Board of Caribbean Policy Development Centre.

Grant is qualified in Project Management and Post Graduate certificate Business Administration He is pursuing studies to obtain an MBA.

He will face BLP incumbent Santia Bradshaw, who narrowly won the seat in 2013.