The United Workers Party presented its candidate for the Grandbay constituency at a press conference earlier this morning in the person of Nept Pacquette.

Pacquette says that his candidacy is like that of his relative, former Prime Minister Hon. Pierre ‘Pierro’ Charles who stood and represented his people. Nept says that he is offering himself just as Pierro did. “I am humbled and challenged- humbled because of the magnitude of this decision to carry the mantle of leadership in my community and challenged because I know that the road ahead is not going to be easy. I am, however, confident that I have what it takes to succeed as a candidate and by succeed, I mean to win. I am confident in my ability, my work, my skills, my determination, my dreams and my plans, my supportive family and the goodness of the members of the entire community. I believe that we can and we have what it takes to win the Grandbay seat.”

Pacquette says that he believes in the resolve of the people of South City who know what is best for them. He says that his candidacy and eventual representation in Dominica’s parliament is what is best for them. He says that he is a true son of the soil having been born in Grandbay, attended school there, served on numerous youth groups, and has been a member of the village council.

Some of his plans for the constituency include restoring agriculture, improving farm access and introducing new innovative practices and technologies in Farming and Agro-processing. His number one mission, he says, is to entice new, younger farmers to get involved in farming. He says Grandbay will be home to an Agro Hybrid Cannabis propagation plant. He also plans to merge Tourism and E-commerce to create an online marketing community for tourism and cultural products.

Nept envisions a shopping complex and national heritage museum at Geneva Estate and also a Youth Entertainment Empowerment and Training Enterprise to form part of the secondary education syllabus at the Pierre Charles Secondary School. He asks, what does Grandbay have to show after voting for one party for over twenty years and concludes that that ‘Poto’ thing is not working and needs to be fixed.

He says that it is time to replace the phrase, ‘I poto’ with ‘come leh we go’. Pacquette invites members of the Grandbay constituency to come together and unite to empower the future generation. He asks of them to show the incumbent government that they can break the idea of ‘Potoism’ in Dominican politics.