WATCH: ABLP Candidates says Renaissance Manifesto speaks to constituents’ concerns
Four Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party (ABLP) candidates are taking the Renaissance Manifesto directly to their constituencies as the campaign moves into its final nine days before the April 30 general election.
Michael Joseph, Lamin Newton, Randy Baltimore and Rawdon Turner each spoke about how the 100-page document, launched Monday at the American University of Antigua, connects to the issues they say residents have raised on the ground.
In St. John’s Rural West, Joseph placed the planned expansion of the University of the West Indies Five Islands Campus at the centre of his pitch.
Lamin Newton, the candidate for All Saints East and St. Luke who is campaigning under the slogan “No Excuses”, said the constituency has long been viewed as neglected, and described a door-to-door approach that pairs party plans with what residents in each village identify as their top concern.
Randy Baltimore, the sitting MP for St. Philip’s North, said his campaign effectively never stopped after he won a March by-election and the manifesto speaks directly to entrepreneurship and the youth.
Rawdon Turner, the St. Peter representative and a Minister of State, framed his Renaissance pitch around delivery over the past 14 months.
He will officially open a new community centre at Pares Village on Thursday at 4pm, a facility he said grew out of a door-to-door request from teachers who wanted a space for after-school homework help and adult literacy classes.
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