Meanwhile........Back to a former outburst in parliament and the recent appointment of one Mervin Paul.......Read....News article: “I will not be part of any primary” warns Reginald Austrie Parliamentary representative for the Cottage constituency, Reginald Austrie, has sent a strong warning to all would-be challengers that he intends to be the labour party candidate for that seat in the next general election. “I want to sound a warning that anybody can come, everybody can come, Madam speaker. It’s a democracy, you can come. I have no problem with that,” Austrie stated during his contribution to the 2013-2014 budget debate on Tuesday evening. “When I read my report card, you read your report card and I want to tell you something Madam Speaker, I not in no primary, I graduate from that already. I not in no primary, Madam Speaker. I graduate from primary school, I graduate from secondary school and I graduate from college in Guyana in the jungle. That’s where I went to school, Madam Speaker – in the jungle. So, I shall not be part of no primary. I can tell you that, Madam Speaker.There are powers that can decide otherwise but I will not be part of any primary in the Cottage constituency,” the government minister stated. Reports surfaced recently that Government Senior Information Officer, Mervin Paul, was interested in becoming the labour party candidate for Cottage in the next general election. Paul has not denied those reports saying instead in a recent media interview, that it’s a matter for labour party supporters in Cottage to decide. But Austrie has made it clear that any one who wants to challenge and beat him in the Cottage constituency has to “come strong; you have to come really strong.” “Everything that happen in that constituency, me that do it, for the last fifteen years…everything, Madam Speaker, everything,” he argued The minister listed a number of projects that he had undertaken in the constituency including sea defence works and other infrastructural development projects and admonished potential challengers to steer clear of criticizing his performance. “If men going to fight me by bad talking me, then we have a problem. You come there clean and so on, you can come, anybody can come. I have no problem with that but if you want to come in there and dirty me, Madam Speaker, then I’ll send some dirt back at you, Madam Speaker and is who can dirty more,” he warned. The message from the 15 year veteran parliamentarian was emphatic. “I’m the duly elected Parl Rep. I intend to contest the next election and I intend to win the next election for the Dominica Labour Party ticket.” DNO WAS MERVING PAULS APPOINTMENT AS MANAGER OF DBS A MEANS OF MAKING EVERYONE HAPPY INSIDE THE DLP CAMP?
Posted on: Fri, 16 May 2014 13:44:05 +0000
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