The Tribune

By LAMECH JOHNSON

Tribune Staff Reporter

ljohnson@tribunemedia.net

REGISTERED voters in the Nassau Village constituency have been urged by a fringe political party official to select a representative from their community who will represent their interests.

Aaron Cox, administrative chairman of the Bahamas Constitution Party (BCP) and candidate for Nassau Village, told The Tribune yesterday that the successive administrations of the two major political parties have let down Nassau Village.

“It is my solemn desire to represent the Nassau Village constituency in the House of Assembly,” Mr Cox said.

“I want to work for you. I want to represent you. I cannot do that without your support and your help. By both of us working together we can make a stronger community, a viable community and a more healthy community for us to live,” he said in a plea to his community.

In the 2002 general election, the tour driver failed in his bid to win the Golden Isles constituency for the now disbanded Bahamas Democratic Movement, which won only 414 of 130,000 votes cast that election year.

The BCP won 96 votes of the 155,000 plus votes that were counted in the 2012 election after a decade’s absence when it won 12 votes in 2002.

In the 2012 election, Dion Smith, on the Progressive Liberal Party ‘s (PLP) ticket, secured the Nassau Village seat with 2,262 votes from the Free National Movement’s (FNM) Basil Moss, with 1,518, and Democratic National Alliance (DNA) Deputy Leader Chris Mortimer, who won 834 votes.

Though Mr Cox initially supported the DNA bid to defeat the two main parties in the 2012 general election, he joined the BCP in 2015 after receiving no reply from the DNA on becoming a candidate for it in his community.

While Mr Smith was ratified by the PLP, the FNM and DNA have selected Halson Moultrie and Mario Lockhart respectively to vie for the constituency.

“I’ve been a resident of Nassau Village for the past ten years,” Mr Cox said yesterday.

“I’ve seen the decay in our country. I’ve seen the decay in our community and I’ve seen the decay in my neighbourhood. I want to help represent you in Parliament. Working together as a team I believe that we can make a stronger community that works for us. We live here.

“We’ve given the FNM and the PLP an opportunity to run our community and they have not done it properly. Let’s not rely on them anymore. Let’s work together as a team and let’s build a stronger community, you and I. Let me take your concerns to Parliament. Let me take your fears, your dreams, your goals, what you want to happen for your community (to Parliament).

“The time is now,” Mr Cox concluded. The election is May 10.