NDP elects new executive at Conference of Delegates

The New Democratic Party (NDP) has created the position of Deputy Chair and elected a new executive to run the affairs of the Party.

These changes came last Sunday at the NDP’s headquarters in Kingstown, where a Conference of Delegates was held.

A release from the party said the closed session Conference of Delegates was phase one of its National Convention and was attended by 15 constituency delegates and members of the Central Committee.
Following the constitutional amendment when the new position of Deputy Chair was created, a new executive was elected.

The new Deputy Chair is Glenford Stewart and Doris Mcintosh has replaced Margaret London as Assistant Secretary. Horace Williams has replaced Bernard Mills as Treasurer.

The remaining members of the Executive include: President Dr Godwin Friday, Chair Daniel Cummings, Vice Presidents St Clair Leacock and Roland Matthews, Secretary General Tyrone James, Public Relations Officer Lavern King, and committee members Jeanie Ollivierre, Johann Stewart, Amos Cruickshank, Clemroy Bert Francois and Maurice Horne.

Speaking on the New Times programme on Nice Radio yesterday, the Party President said things went well at the Conference of Delegates.

“The people came, they took their business very seriously. The convention was extremely well organized…once people feel that they have had a fair chance to put their positions forward and to vote on them, then at the end of it we all come together and work…,” Friday said.

He said the party’s prime objective is to form government and that they believe they are on a mission to save St Vincent and the Grenadines.

The Party President said the Conference of Delegates is important because it helps to strengthen and focus the party.

“It helps to energize the people who work…so it strengthens them in their resolve to represent the New Democratic Party and to continue to do their work when they go back to their respective constituencies to promote the work of the party.

He said the Conference of Delegates helps to get the word out that the NDP is the party of choice for the people of this country because of what is happening in the country.

“…The fall off in business, the hard times people are facing, the jobs young people can’t get, the mess that they have made of the agriculture sector,” said Friday, listing some of the ills in the country.

He said the ULP has lost its way and are only talking about ways in which to remain in power.

“…Celebrating things that have no real impact on people’s lives and raising all kind of spurious issues and smoke screens and shiny objects trying to distract people’s attention away from the real matters as to how do they make a living, what opportunities there are for their children when they come out of school; for farmers, how they produce their commodities and how they sell them….”

The Convention this coming Sunday will be the NDP’s 40th Convention and will be held under the theme ‘One Nation, One People, One Vincy’. It is scheduled to begin at 2:00 p.m. and will be held at the Greiggs Primary School. The public is invited.