Dean B. Fahie & Dr. Arlene L. Smith-Thompson are VIP candidates for D3 & D8
Former Deputy Comptroller of Customs and businessman Dean B. Fahie will be the district eight candidate for the VIP and is expected to be confirmed by the VIP 76 Member Congress when they meet this Saturday September 29, 2018.
Mr. Fahie holds a Bachelor's Degree in Human Relations and will come up against incumbent Honourable Marlon A. Penn (R8) who is the Junior Minister for Trade and Consumer Affairs.
All district will have VIP
In the third district, former Acting Permanent Secretary Arlene L. Smith-Thompson will take on Hon Julian Fraser RA the former VIP standard bearer who now has his own political party called Progressives United. Mrs. Smith-Thompson holds a Doctoral Degree in education and is a retired civil servant and businesswomen.
It means that the VIP has one district slot left to fill and that is District two. The incumbent National Democratic Party (NDP) member is Honourable Melvin M. Turnbull (R2).
Who is in?
Thus far, the VIP candidates are: Hon Andrew A. Fahie who is the VIP Chairman and will contest District one, Director of Culture, Mrs. Luce Hodge-Smith for the 4th District; Commissioner for the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), Mr. Kye M. Rymer - 5th District; - Former member of the Public Service Commission (PSC), Acting Permanent Secretary and businessman Mr. John Samuel - 6th District; and H. Lavity Stoutt Community College’s lecturer, Dr. Natalio D. Wheatley aka ‘Sowande Uhuru’ for the 7th district and Mr. Vincent O. Wheatley, for district nine, a former Sister Islands Programme Coordinator.
The next meeting of Congress will be to address the four At-large candidates according to the same source.
23 Responses to “Dean B. Fahie & Dr. Arlene L. Smith-Thompson are VIP candidates for D3 & D8”
Thumbs down if you don’t like these candidates
- Do you remember what Georgie Gill looked like prior to Hon. Penn taking office
- Sewage constantly running on the streets in Greenland
- The fisherman’s dock at Red Bay
- Greenland Field
- What the grounds where the Football Stadium looked like before the new field
- The Flooding in Both parhamtown and Greenland are both things of the past because of new infrastructure.
Use another argument not that he hasn’t done anything. Please try another argument. You people obviously have short memories.
Thumbs down if you want Marlon for district 8 again
Thumbs down if you voting ndp