The Opposition JLP’s new caretaker-candidate for St. Thomas Eastern, Delano Seivright, says he believes he has a ‘very good chance’ of wresting the constituency from the governing PNP.
Seivright – who’s a former President of G2K – was yesterday ratified by the JLP’s Central Executive as its new caretaker for the constituency.
Eastern St. Thomas is now represented in Parliament by PNP Vice President and Health Minister, Dr. Fenton Ferguson.
Seivright says the residents of Eastern St. Thomas have been neglected.
Dr. Ferguson – a well-known PNP stalwart – has represented East St. Thomas in Parliament since 1993, winning five elections.
But, Seivright says he’s willing to take the fight to Dr. Ferguson, if he again represents the PNP in the next General Election, constitutionally due in 2016.
Delano Seivright, the newly-installed JLP caretaker for St. Thomas Eastern.
In the December 2011 General Elections, Dr. Ferguson beat the JLP’s Dr. Patreece Charles Freeman by 4-hundred-and-73 votes.
He won 51-percent of the votes to Charles-Freeman’s 48.
