Archive for March 26th, 2009
43 candidates set for battle
(CNS): At the close of nomination day on Wednesday, 35 men and 8 women had put their names forward as candidates in election 2009. Across the six districts the only real surprises came in West Bay where three previously unannounced candidates turned up to offer themselves to the electorate. With four candidates on the Sister Islands, three in North Side, two in East End, ten in Bodden Town, 11 in West Bay and 13 George Town, the total is only three down on the 2005 field of 45 candidates. (Left Ormon Morgan one of West Bay’s eleventh hour surprise candidates.)
Once the nomination process was closed the information was brought to the FamilyLife centre in George Town where Election’s Office officials collated the information, verified the spellings of names and began the night-long operation of printing ballots. With only eight weeks to go before polling day, Supervisor of Elections Kearney Gomez said that there was lots of work now to be done, especially given the fact that this year polling day will not only be a General Election but a national vote on the constitution as well.
The process of nominations went very smoothly and most candidates had been declared by lunch time. In all but one district the candidates were already anticipated. However in West Bay three surprise candidates emerged and two of them with only minutes to go before nominations closed. Dora Ebanks, Ormon Morgan and Woody DaCosta made a late entry to join the four UDP incumbents and four other independents in what has been considered a UDP stronghold since the party formed.
The candidates for Election 2009 are as follows;
Sister Islands: Juliana O’Connor Connolly; Moses Kirkconnell; Lyndon Martin; Maxine McCoy-Moore
East End: Arden McLean; John McLean Jr
North Side: Ezzard Miller; Joey Ebanks; Oswell Rankine
Bodden Town: Anthony Eden; Charles Clifford; Osbourne Bodden; Mark Scotland; Dwayne Seymour; Sandra Catron; Gilbert McLean; Theresa Pitcairn; Justin Woods; Vincent Frederick
West Bay: Mckeeva Bush; Rolston Anglin; Cline Glidden; Cpt Eugene Ebanks; Bernie Bush; Choppy Delapenha; Paul Rivers; Lana Mae Smith; Woody Da Costa; Ormon Morgan; Dora Ebanks
George Town: Kurt Tibbetts; AldenMcLaughlin; Lucille Seymour; Alfonso Wright; Mike Adam; Jonathan Piercy; Pearlina McGaw-Lumsden; Ellio Solomon; Dr Frank McField; Burns Connolly; Walling Whittaker; Bo Miller and Eddie Thompson.