WINSTON BROWN, PNP
BOROBRIDGE DIVISION, St Ann Municipal Corporation
Winston Brown has been Councillor for Borobridge Division in South West St Ann since 1998. He says he has accomplished most of his mission but a few things remain on his action list. He rattles off achievements of successful representation that have helped meaningful changes to the lives of the people, from opening abandoned or closed roads to bringing piped water or other infrastructure to areas that never had any. He says he has made a lot of difference from the time he took charge when the Cave Valley Market had two pit latrines to now having modern sanitary convenience. Mr Brown, as Minority Leader in the most recent administration of the SAMC, was the man from the Opposition side who was most on his feet raising questions, highlighting questionable issues and batting for Borobridge, at General Council meetings. “When I took up representation of the Division there was no running water. I put in a major system at Wildcane. There was darkness at night on most of these streets, now the Division is the most well-lit in St Ann,” he says. He says the Wildcane water System supplies Bohemia, Bingham Hill, Bottom Cascade, Irish Hill and Yankee. He also mentions a minor water supply system put in at Hoggs Run, Cascade. Mr Brown says some roads that had been closed for years, including Billy Pit, Yankee to Bohemia, and Cave Valley to Higgin Town have been rehabilitated and reopened through his work. Major rehabilitation has been done on John Reid to Cascade, Borobridge to Cuffie Ridge, Debtors Road in Cave Valley, Cedar Valley Road, Hoggs Run, and Frank Hall Road among others. He says some of these roads have fallen into disrepair, mainly because of the lack of funding. Mr Brown says one of the projects of which he is proudest is the building, with the help of the Faith Fellowship Church, of a basic school in Davis Town and the rehabilitation of the nearby playfield. A multi-purpose court has been constructed at Cascade Primary as one of his projects directly benefiting young people. He said the car park he helped set up at Cave Valley continues to facilitate a growing taxi business serving thousands of people in the parish. “The mission is not yet accomplished. The people are the ones asking me to go back,” Mr Brown says. “I am aiming for this to be the greatest majority ever.” ON ELECTION DAY, February 26, 2024 VOTE WINSTON BROWN, VOTE PNP |
MARLINE THOMPSON KENYON, JLP
BOROBRIDGE DIVISION, St Ann Municipal Corporation
Twenty years after she sought to represent the people of the Borobridge Division in the St Ann Municipal Corporation, in the 2003 Local Government Election, Marline Thompson Kenyon is in the race again. This time, she says, she’s winning it. Mrs Thompson Kenyon says she is entering, after all these years, because she believes the work being done by the JLP Administration needs to be replicated in the districts across Borobridge Division. She says the man she lost to in 2003 and who is again contesting has done little for the Division. “Nothing is happening here… You should see the roads all over the Division,” she says. She believes she can do a better job improving roads, water and other local Government infrastructure for the people. Mrs Thompson Kenyon, popularly called “Muffett”, says it is the people of the Division who have called her to contest the Elections. She says she still hears the slogan from even before she stepped into the race formally, “No Muffet: No Vote”. She says that if elected, she can count on the support of the MP Zavia Mayne who has been improving the lives of the people. “Really and truly it’s the parochial roads that are bad, Top and Bottom Yankee, Cascade, Frank Hall, Cedar Valley Road in Clarksonville, Freedom Street in Mount Moriah, Green Town, Gravel Road in Battersea, Salt Lane in Clarksonville, Bigham Hill in Mt Moriah, Cuffie Ridge…We would like to see my road in Irish Hill looking good,” she says. Mrs Thompson Kenyon runs Gwendolyn Literacy and Numeracy School. It caters to all ages, from the early childhood level. Mrs Thompson Kenyon says she takes the school’s lessons into many homes of young men especially, who need literacy skills even if they are to go on the Farm Work programme. “People have been treating me like a Councillor, they call me ‘Councillor’ so why not take up the job and the title?” She says the people will come out in their numbers. She says that after 25 years as a Councillor, her opponent is still asking for time. Mrs Thompson Kenyon says: “He is all over the place now, running up and down trying to get votes. By now, after 25 years he shouldn’t need to go to people. His work should speak for him.” ON ELECTION DAY, February 26, 2024 VOTE FOR MARLINE THOMPSON KENYON, VOTE JLP
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