ST JAMES NORTH MP Rawle Eastmond was missing in action yesterday, as two men battling to replace him as the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) candidate entered the last lap of their campaigns, both declaring satisfaction with the voters’ list that the incumbent denounced as tainted.
Candidates-in-waiting Edmund Hinkson and Douglas Skeete have downplayed allegations of an impure list and the controversy over whether Eastmond, the representative since 1991, should have to contest the nomination as the incumbent.
Despite Eastmond’s strong objections to the “padded list” which he alleges contains the names of deceased individuals and people who did not apply to become members, the man he had endorsed as his successor told the SUNDAY SUN he was not worried about the roll.
“I have to play with the hand that I’ve been dealt with. I have been to every single member on those lists that can be identified and located within the constituency and I am confident that I will win the nomination, whatever list is there,” Hinkson said.
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