NDP candidates turned off by blow horn noise

THE LOUD SOUND coming from blow horns was too much for Vice President of the New Democratic Party (NDP) St Clair Leacock, when he approached the microphone to speak at a party meeting North Union last Saturday night, November 8,2025.

The meeting, held in the South Central Windward constituency, was in support of the NDP candidate, Israel Bruce.

The enthusiastic crowd welcomed Leacock when it was his turn to speak, but he was not prepared to contend with the noise from their blow horns.

“You have to make up your minds whether you want to hear me or not,” Leacock told the crowd.

“If you’re not going to hear me, I can go back to my seat. I can’t compete with this,” he stated, as he turned and began walking back to his seat.

The rally was paused for a while, but continued after the MC, Colin Graham, appealed to the crowd to lessen the noise.

“Hold it with the horns please,” Graham urged.

When he returned to the podium, Leacock said, “there are some people who want to butter their bread on both sides”.

The NDP candidate for Central Kingstown told supporters that 24 years ago, the ULP wanted to cut short the life of the then NDP administration and now, that party wants to bring its “warriors” on the streets should the NDP regain power.

“Let me be crystal clear, this country has no fear under the New Democratic Party. Once we win, we will rule in the interest of the people of St Vincent and the Grenadines,”he declared.

“You cannot have a government that is like a bandit, doing what they like,” said Leacock, who is the NDP’s shadow minister for National Security, and has stated publicly on several occasions that he will be the Minister of National Security in a NDP administration.

General elections will be held in St Vincent and the Grenadines on November 27, 2025. Leacock said the upcoming election “is the most serious in the history of St Vincent and the Grenadines.”

“It is an election that assures you and ensures you that democracy will reign,” adding, “this our blessed land, can be, will be, and must be a better place for all Vincentians.”

He said after November 27,2025 this country will become, “The United States of St Vincent and the Grenadines”.

Leacock told supporters “ We are marching to Zion, and victory is assured under the New Democratic Party”.

Leacock was not the only NDP candidate who took issue with the noise from the blow horns- a new feature of the 2025 general elections among supporters of the two main political parties. At the same meeting on Saturday, the party’s candidate for West Kingstown, Daniel Cummings, similarly demanded of supporters to discontinue sounding the blow horns so he could be heard.