Camille McEach­nie

The Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) Good­wood/ Belle Gar­den West can­di­date Box­ill Bai­ley says he saw a vi­sion of the PNM win­ning the 12 To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) seats in the Jan­u­ary 25, 2021 elec­tions.

The par­ty ac­com­plished that feat in the 2014 THA elec­tions.

Speak­ing at the Belle Gar­den Mul­ti­pur­pose Fa­cil­i­ty on Jan­u­ary 6, Bai­ley said he had the vi­sion af­ter at­tend­ing the par­ty's church ser­vice on Sun­day.

"We had a church ser­vice at Sig­nal Hill, and sit­ting the pas­tor said I saw 15, 10,10, three...My broth­er and sis­ters, this morn­ing I woke up, said my prayers...and some­thing just came to me."

An­a­lyz­ing what he 'saw' by the pas­tor's words, he said the PNM's West and East Mem­bers of Par­lia­ment Sham­fa Cud­joe, Ayan­na Web­ster-Roy, re­spec­tive­ly, and Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley along with the 12 THA rep­re­sen­ta­tives com­plet­ed the num­ber 15.

Stretch­ing his hand to the par­ty's can­di­date in the near­by Belle Gar­den East/ Rox­bor­ough/ De­laford elec­toral dis­trict Neil Beck­les, Bai­ley said, "vic­to­ry will be de­liv­ered in (the dis­trict)".

Speak­ing of his plans for the area, the new­com­er is propos­ing the ex­pan­sion of the fish­ing, agri­cul­ture, and agro-pro­cess­ing in­dus­tries.

He said the area was known for "the best smoke fish in the world," and he pro­posed earn­ing for­eign ex­change through its ex­pan­sion.

He said the tourism sec­tor should be en­cour­aged to sup­port the smoke fish in­dus­try so that the sec­tor stake­hold­ers' busi­ness­es will grow.

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