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The office is located at the Chauncey-Clare Valley junction. (IWN photo)
The office is located at the Chauncey-Clare Valley junction. (IWN photo)
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The ruling Unity Labour Party’s candidate for South Leeward, Sen. Jomo Thomas launched his constituency office on Saturday, with a call for constituents to run with him to ensure both a political and health victory.

“You will see that our theme is ‘Run With Jomo – Win With Jomo’, we want you to be part of us. You can take ‘Run With Jomo’ to whatever dimensions you want to take it, but part of the reasons we put ‘Run With Jomo’ in there is because people in South Leeward, over the past 10 years would have seen me running most mornings,” said Thomas, an avid jogger.

“I am a runner, that may help to explain the body that you see me carry around. I have been a runner for 25 years; it is an absolutely important thing to develop. We know that there are so many people in our constituency who suffer from some of the maladies of diabetes, hypertension, strokes and so on. I do believe that if we adopt a healthy diet, if we burn off our stress, if we burn off more of the calories we intake, we will live much more healthy lives. And that’s why we have part of the theme ‘Run With Jomo’.

“If you run, your victory would become not just a political victory, it would be a health victory; you become more healthy,” Thomas said.

Thomas’ office is located in the property belonging to the late Robert Cottle at the Chauncey-Clare Valley junction on the main South Leeward Highway.

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Saturday’s launch also included a fundraising barbecue.

“We know that there is a lot of work to be done, we know that many of you are desirous of proper presentation, we are absolutely convinced that this team would bring the kind if representation that is critically important to this constituency,” Thomas said.

“This constituency needs a good voice, I offer that voice, and I am hoping that with your help, with your support, your commitment, your drive, we can take this constituency and build it into something that is the most dynamic, the most organised, the most supportive of this government that has done do much,” he told the small gathering.

Thomas said that when he started his campaign in February he told constituents that he wanted to be a candidate because he was convinced that the ULP has done “a significant amount of work over the last 13 years that has brought tremendous benefits to the ordinary people of this country”.

Thomas says he wants to continue the transformative work of the ULP. (IWN photo)
Thomas says he wants to continue the transformative work of the ULP. (IWN photo)

He said the party, which came to office in March 2013, had done transformative work in education and housing and “created a new environment on which the health of this country is built”, mentioning a $10.5 million loan to help in the fight against HIV/AIDS.

“These are all critically important things,” Thomas said, adding that he wants to be part of a government that is transformative.

Thomas, who became a ULP senator in September 2013, told the gathering that he is sure that his commitment, drive, and organisation of supporters will secure victory.

“You can believe me when I say that I bring the kind of commitment to this constituency campaign, I bring the kind of commitment to this constituency. I have been living here for the last 10 years ever since I returned from the United States; I believe I am eminently qualified to take this constituency and make good representation out of it,” he said.

Thomas mentioned his training as a journalist, political scientist, lawyer, and in political economy.

“All of these I hope to bring towards better representation,” he said.

“Some of you over the last 11 months would have heard me making contributions in the national Parliament as a senator for the Unity Labour Party. You would have had a chance to appraise what I say and what I do, you would have seen me doing my newspaper column in The Vincentian for the last 14 years. I have been doing a radio programme on WE FM, some of you would have been listening to that for the last six years, seven years; others of you would have seen me on IKTV doing ‘Plain Talk’. All of this outspokenness, the commitment to real issues are what I intend to continue to do.”

He said there will be important organising meetings in the constituency — in Rillan Hill on Sept. 6, Dubois on Sept. 13, and Penniston on Sept. 20.

“And that’s the way we intend to move through this constituency, building the organisation that is critically important to meeting with you, understanding your issues and concerns, critically important in terms of making sure that all of the persons who need to be registered are registered, to hear your needs to try to respond to some of the needs of the people of this constituency.

“This is an important drive; we want you to stay with this drive, we want you to understand and appreciate what we are doing. The Unity Labour Party is a party that has an outstanding record and we want to continue that record. We are going for an unprecedented fourth term, and we know many of you have benefitted from the efforts of the Unity Labour Party and we want to get that fourth term in. We want to ensure we continue to bring the achievements, to bring the progress, the development that the ULP has offered,” he said.

An inside view of a section of the constituency office. (IWN photo)
An inside view of a section of the constituency office. (IWN photo)

Thomas also responded to critics of the office building.

“Some person have already attacked us and say that our office looks trashy, but I want to tell you that we bring substance over form. We are here to bring a place in the constituency where you can meet with us and talk with us and as we go forward we are going to make changes that will help to make things even better. But the critically important thing is that we respond to all of the needs of the people of this constituency. With you, we are certainly going to be victorious, we know you want to see this community develop, we know that you want proper representation in this constituency.

“And when you stack us up against what’s on offer, we know that as we explain to you and you begin to know even more of who Jomo Thomas is and what he represents, we believe that the choice will be clear. And when we stack up the Unity Labour Party with the NDP (New Democratic Party), we believe that the choice will also be clear. And when we combine the candidate Jomo Thomas with the Party the Unity Labour Party, we are sure that come next elections, you will make the choice that will bring this constituency back to the Unity Labour Party,” he said.

7 replies on “Jomo promises more than political victory in South Leeward”

  1. Thomas, the people of South Windward do not need a nanny to lecture them about their health. They have been dealt so much spite and malice and hatred from the ULP that is where you should start, start by apologising to the constituents,

    Then go and see Wun Phat Prat and tell him about diet and running, then put him straight about how to treat others as well as himself.

    Tell the people about how the country has been bankrupted by the ULP, how the government stole the NIS money and when caught out they had to borrow from the NIS to replace the money they stole.

    Tell the people in South Leeward about the US$1 million was hawked around Kingstown whilst they suffered hardship.

    Tell them about the man who was given a diplomatic passport, he didn’t work for the government and he was not a diplomat. He was caught at London airport carrying a kilo of cocaine whilst using the diplomatic passport.

    Tell them about the out of control corruption under this Marxist led government, a government the you support and are part of.

    Tell the people the truth, they are sick to death of all the lies they have been fed for the last fourteen years.

    As for you thinking these are qualities “political scientist, lawyer,” that we are seeking in a canditate you are wrong, its those qualities in your leader that should be the reason to preclude you from running anywhere in SVG on that ticket.

    “The Unity Labour Party is a party that has an outstanding record and we want to continue that record”. They have been a dismel failure and they have done nothing for the farmers except bring them and their families ruination.

    1. James the lion monroe says:

      peter, don’t forget to tell them about the people who have disapaired and have not been accounted for, when they critized this regime for it’s wrong. Is this a country of free speech or a dictorship.

  2. “I do believe that if we adopt a healthy diet, if we burn off our stress, if we burn off more of the calories we intake, we will live much more healthy lives.”

    Fella, all those things are symptoms of hard times, and pressure. You believe people in SVG these days could pick and choose a proper diet? What is wrong with this guy.

    And you said the ULP has a good record, good record of what? The ULP has been spending the people’s money for the last 14 years, that’s all. Any government can do that, it’s the easiest thing in the world to do. Just imaging you send your children to shop to buy something and when the come back you tell him that he is the best for buying you something, wouldn’t that be stupid?

    Well guess what, that’s essentially what is happening here, the ULP has been spending our money for 14 years and people are thanking them for doing it. Empty the treasury and broke the country, bad spending our money and somehow that makes them a good government. Sometimes I just have to laugh.

  3. I have no doubt that Jomo will be successful, and I wish him God’s speed.
    @ Peter Binose:
    Peter there is a song that says “everybody is somebody’s fool, everybody is somebody’s plaything”… I asked you before and I’m asking you again, whose fool are you?
    I told you already “I’m a fool for Christ”, again whose fool are you?
    Oh! by the way change your name to “Tellus Alie”.

  4. Vinciman….you sounding more like a fool for the ULP. Nice try but you need to go and bath between the fresh and salt.

  5. As a non registerd voter i see lots of positivness within this individual you have a very good theme and no doubt you are a winner.one point for Jomo RUN WITH JOMO WIN WITH JOMO people must love this one

  6. So, South Central Leeward has been loaned one of Snow Whites Seven Dwarfs. Which one of the dwarfs is it “Dopey” or “Grumpy”?

    Now what we need to know will he be wearing a silly red trilby hat like Snow White recently wore? or will he be wearing a very! very! very! silly red top hat, similar to that worn by President Abraham Lincoln, its called a ‘Stove Pipe’ hat.

    Now if he could also get a pair of red Elton John style ‘Platform Shoes’ he could very well be what may well be described as a total pratt.

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