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Sunday, July 6, 2025

UNC flags go up in Beetham

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UNC flags erected in Beetham Gardens, a traditional PNM stronghold.

UNC flags erected in Beetham Gardens, a traditional PNM stronghold.

Gail Alexan­der

Bright yel­low UNC flags which have been fly­ing on the north and south bor­ders of Beetham Gar­dens in PNM-held Laven­tille West may be fol­lowed with “sis­ter flags” in PNM-held Moru­ga by to­day.

This, as the Op­po­si­tion UNC re­in­forces lob­by­ing in PNM held seats. Last week­end UNC bill­boards and flags went up in the con­stituen­cies held by the UNC such as Point-a-Pierre can­di­date David Lee’s area and al­so at two points near walkovers on the north and south bor­ders of Aranguez, in UNC-held San Juan/Barataria. UNC’s Ahloy Hunte al­so has a huge bill­board on the west­ern cor­ner of PNM-held St Joseph.

In Laven­tille West, UNC’s can­di­date Rod­ney Stowe said UNC flags were plant­ed on the north­ern bor­der near the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route re­cent­ly and oth­ers at the end of a street, souther­ly, near the high­way.

“It’s a sign UNC’s on the move on up in Laven­tille West,” said Stowe yes­ter­day.

“The first flags went up on the north­ern side a few weeks ago. More were put up on the south­ern side re­cent­ly,” he said.

“I was born and grew up in this area...still liv­ing on Pic­ton Road. I used to sup­port PNM, but I’ve been with the UNC for al­most three years now. Why? Be­cause PNM just don’t do any­thing for this area. I was around them since Mor­ris Mar­shall days. I know, I see,” said Stowe.

A for­mer Works Min­istry em­ploy­ee and a cur­rent foot­ball club coach, he said he’s done a lot of work with youths, played pan with Des­per­a­does and seen the im­pact which sport­ing and cul­tur­al ac­tiv­i­ties can have on the ar­eas if done right.

“We know what works for this area. We have plans - hav­ing com­put­er sta­tions at com­mu­ni­ty cen­tres, skills bank to store re­sources and man­age how to chan­nel peo­ple in­to jobs, home­work cen­tres for chil­dren to take them off the streets. Many par­ents here work two jobs. We had a ‘No Bor­ders’ plan to deal with crime which at one point dropped the rate to two a month,” he said.

Mean­while, UNC’s Moru­ga can­di­date Michelle Ben­jamin said UNC flags were sched­uled to be erect­ed last night in parts of the con­stituen­cy from St Mary’s to Lengua.

“We’re cov­er­ing ground. Those flags show it. I know we’re suc­ceed­ing as cer­tain peo­ple are at­tack­ing me.”

‘’Peo­ple don’t pelt green man­go, so I know I’m mak­ing an im­pact. PN­Mites are com­ing ‘across’ even with some of the big ’guns’ that are work­ing that par­ty’s cam­paign. I wel­come any con­tes­tant from any­where. My cam­paign is sim­ple - it’s these peo­ple in Moru­ga who are im­por­tant to me,” she said.

UNC leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is ex­pect­ed to par­tic­i­pate in a mo­tor­cade in San Fer­nan­do to­mor­row and will al­so speak at a meet­ing. PNM leader Kei­th Row­ley is ex­pect­ed to speak at a meet­ing to­mor­row at Mt Lam­bert.


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