NDP VIEW- Vincentians need NDP to govern SVG

Now that Vincy Mas is behind us, we turn our focus back to the journey towards the 2025 General Elections. The campaign momentum continues to build as candidates and other members of the New Democratic Party (NDP) continue to work tirelessly to share the message of change and hope with the people of St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
The NDP has a comprehensive development plan for St. Vincent and the Grenadines that centers on four key economic pillars: agriculture, tourism, the blue economy, and the new economy. Together, these pillars form a holistic approach to building a more prosperous and sustainable future for the people of the country.
At a recent public meeting in North Leeward, Political leader of the NDP, Honourable Dr Godwin Friday, delivered an effective message to the people. He said: “Last election, more people voted for the NDP than they voted for the ULP. That tells you that the people wanted change. So, we have put together a team to deliver for the people of this country. This is why Dr. Shallow has been ‘hurting up the head’ of fellow on the other side. This is why Conroy Huggins is shaking up things so much in Central Leeward. All these young professionals have a bright future ahead of them, have said, I want to be a part of this vehicle that we call the New Democratic Party that will bring about the change that the country needs.
Wherever I go, all over the country, people are crying out for something better. They feel the hardship when they can’t put bread on the table. When the young people come out of school, they can’t find work. It isn’t easy. So, we have put together a team of people who will deliver from day one in government because we have studied the challenges that this country faces and we are prepared to meet them, not with sweet talk and lies and all this kind of mamaguying people. No, we are going to look at the problems that the farmers face and present to them solutions that will make them more productive. We will redevelop the agricultural sector.
The new economy; this is an area where we are going to look at all the things that we tend to put by the side before: sports, arts and crafts, the creative industries and information technology. Things that we can look at, in which we can generate jobs; generate businesses; generate wealth that will improve the livelihoods of our people. That is what we want. We want people to be able to provide for themselves and they don’t have to swallow their pride or do worse indignities in order to go to a politician or somebody in senior office to beg them for a favour as if the country is theirs and not yours. We have to change that.
We have in this country; some people who are doing fantastically well. Some of them are becoming millionaires before they are thirty. Some people are doing very well. But who are they doing well from? They’re doing it on the backs of the people of this country. And that is what we are facing. You ask yourself; can we go back into that? We have a choice. Can we go back into that for another five years? Absolutely not. All over you go, that’s what people are telling me.
You know what gives me the greatest hope for this coming election is that the young people are the ones who are now saying, I am going to take the responsibility, Dr. Friday. We are going to join with you to bring the change in this country and we are going to hold you to the promises and the hope that you have helped us to keep alive in our hearts. We are going to hold you to that to make sure that you deliver and I say to them all the time, I don’t expect anything different because we put together a team because we intend to deliver for the people of this country. And we know that it will happen.
We have so much potential in St Vincent and the Grenadines. Our farmers, they need roads. They want to get there efficiently where they could drive and carry things in and bring things out. If the farmers have to pay somebody to put produce on his head to bring them out that’s costing them more money. By the time the farmers go to sell they can’t make any money. They haven’t built any new feeder roads, and those that they met they allow grass to grow on the roads so you don’t have access.
The NDP built a fisheries centre here in Chateaubelair. When they came into office; it was a brand-new facility. The only thing I was told that they ever used was the ice machine. And when the ice machine broke down, the whole thing ‘mash’ up.
Last sitting of parliament, I asked a question on behalf of the fisher folk in North Leeward. ‘When are they going to fix that facility to make sure that the fisher folk can use it?’ And they had a bold face to say that they did all kind of studies, that they’re going to fix this one, and not only that, they’re going to fix the one up in Owia, and why I didn’t ask about the one down in the Southern Grenadines and the one in Bequia because they’re going to fix all of them too.
They will come with all kind of things now. Every pothole they will say wait tomorrow, we’re going to fix it. But we know that all of that is just the old tricks of trying to mamaguy people. Election is coming, and they feel that the people of this country are gullible.”