I am the best man for the job says ULP South Windward candidate

UNITY LABOUR PARTY (ULP) candidate for South Windward, Darron Rodan John has declared his commitment to education, youth empowerment, and infrastructure renewal in the constituency he is contesting in Thursday’s general elections, stating that he is the best man for the job.

John, a first-time candidate, speaking at a ULP rally in Biabou on Sunday night November 9, 2025 described his vision for South Windward, as “real love”, with “credible and realistic plans” to uplift its residents.

He pledged a range of development projects across the constituency and noted that if elected in the November 27, 2025 general elections, he will prioritize projects in south windward.

He spoke about several key road projects, a new police station, refurbishing the Biabou clinic, and fixing and upgrading sporting facilities in the constituency.

“Comrades, I may be young, but I ain’t just come…whether you are NDP or ULP, I will show you love.That’s how we have always lived.You will prosper under the Unity Labour Party and with Darron as your representative.”

John, a lecturer at the St Vincent and the Grenadines Community College (SVGCC), added that the NDP, in his opinion, does not like young Vincentians.

“That is why it’s six straight. Let me prove this to you. After 25 years in opposition, you want to tell me that they couldn’t find any young person in NDP to run for them?

“After 25 years of failure, that even one of them is willing to step aside and give a young person a chance? “They do not want to bet on us young people, they want to take all the chances for themselves,” John claimed at the Biabou rally.

He added, “you mean a 30 something year old, bright university graduate couldn’t have replaced Daniel Cummings? They don’t have any young, qualified candidate that they could have selected? The NDP is afraid of young Vincentians.”

John claimed as well that members of the NDP seem to be more concerned about their salaries, starting a Citizenship by Investment (CBI) programme, and privatizing the port and the hospital, adding that the party has “foreign friends” who are funding their campaign and they are not willing to bet on young people.

“…look how they pulled down our young engineer, Lenski Douglas and pulled down our minister Benarva Browne, who are telling them ‘we got this, we train in this, we are building the modern port because the comrade invested in us, in our education and as children of the education revolution’… the problem they had with Lenski and Benarva, is that the NDP believes that they are too young to lead…,” John charged.

He said too, that at every point when the NDP has had the opportunity to show that they care about the youth, they fail.

“…their records show at every turn where there’s an opportunity to support you, they bad-mind you…. “They bad-mind the education revolution, they badmind our university scholarships, they bad-mind the YES and SET programmes and they bad-mind young children in the Grenadines… and even when I speak my little mandarin, them go crazy, bad-mind me….”