Anguilla Opposition Party won in landslide victory! Is VI next?
The Opposition Anguilla United Front (AUF), who lost power in 2010, returned in grand style and took 6 out of 7 seats. The other seat was won by an independent candidate.
The Chief Minister Elect Victor F. Banks of the AUF will be sworn in as Chief Minister later today, according to our news room’s correspondent in The Valley.
The defeated party, AUM, was headed by a medical practitioner, Dr Ellis L. Webster.
More Anguilla elections results will come later.
Winds of change in the Caribbean
Over the past two years, every Caribbean island has changed its government except Dominica. There have been election changes in Antigua & Barbuda, St Kitts & Nevis, The United States Virgin Islands, Anguilla, Grenada, Montserrat and St Martin, among others.
Many political pundits have spoken to the similarities of the now ousted Anguilla United Movement to that of the National Democratic Party (NDP) in the Virgin Islands. They had been anti-UK in calling for independence like many Ministers in the NDP, and their concept of austerity was about saving all the money in the reserve and not injecting any money in the economy of Anguilla for development.
NDP like the losing party in Anguilla
The defeated AUM in Anguilla had also been accused, just like the NDP, of being out of touch with the ordinary person and reportedly handing out contracts only to friends, families and cronies, according to both the NDP and AUM critics.
What is again so similar with both the NDP and the now defeated AUM is that when outgoing Chief Minister Hughes took office in 2010, he told the people of Anguilla that the AUF had left the country broke and that he needed to build the reserve fund. This is the same script of the now NDP about the VIP.
The AUM, leading up to the elections, had also been involved in election spending just like what the NDP is being criticised for.
However, the Governor of Anguilla Christina Scott had placed a hold on election spending in what she described as good governance. The current Governor of the Virgin Islands, John S. Duncan, has been labelled as having gone ‘AWOL’ on the practice of good governance.
47 Responses to “Anguilla Opposition Party won in landslide victory! Is VI next?”
why the electorate did such a thing to them. He claimed that he had pondered and search for answers as to the
reason; finally stating that the only thing he cam up with, was that "They were to Advanced" of the people.
Well, When you are not listening, and when you do, it is to the guys on the 300-acre estate in eastern VG, the
other guy on Mosquito/Necker Island and the one on Guana and Cooper, you would Understand and know why.
In this day and age of dwindling real estate and you signed a 99-yar renewal lease over at Nail Bay, you will know
why.
When you have a former permanent Permanent Secretary, along with his boss from the 300-acre estate in eastern
VG giving out laptops in the 9th, the Doc will know why. While I am at it, wouldn't it be prudent and respectable
to the electorate of the district to be notified and have an input in the discussion of any new investment development, (including lease renewals), especially where acreage is 50 acres or less?
We got news for the Done Deal Doc
Other issues. Unemployment a huge discomfort for the country tripled under NDP reign. NDP not only had no solution but I remember reading an article some time back where the Premier said no job was secure. Now with a nation looking to you, with children to feed, is that anything to tell the people? And then have the gall to have a family impression as the NDP party logo. While we are talking home truths - the social welfare system that has come about by way of goodness of the people donating food to the Family Support Network so families right here in this country can eat. This was what 3 years of NDP rule reduced the country to. Poverty. You talk about stability. In 3 years the country had 3 accountant generals.
Every time you turn around this person in, this person out. NDP is unstable as water.
The quality of living in the country declined under NDP. Just a general sense of disenchantment. People have left and others leaving the country for better - just getting out of Dodge. NDP intimidation tactics, victimization mentality and bad governance are bad recipes for a thriving country,
In the BVI VIP will be on their way back!!!! now take that to the bank
Now Let's Do This Ting and D.I.N (Do it now) X out VIP!!!!
Now all the work they have going on they should be on a high so why they still fearful of calling the election/ it tells you something.
We will never return this corrupt government to power NEVER...They in for such a big surprise
Moreover, is the wind of change gusting with hurricane firce in the Anglophone region? Which country will brake the chain, Guyana (May 11) or VI (July 7 ?)? Here is a list of countries with new governments: Anguilla (Apr 15), Antigua & Barbuda(Jun 14), St. Kitts & Nevis (Feb 15), Montserrat (Sep 14), Grenada (Feb 13). Additionally, USVI (Nov 2014). Further, Dominica Labour Party was returned to power in Feb 15 and Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and St. Vincent are due for elections this year.