Cheers for Mara

To loud cheers from students of The Lodge School, Democratic Labour Party candidate for the St John by-election Mara Thompson arrived around 10:45 this morning to hand in her nomination papers.
Thompson arrived at the nomination centre at the school minutes after Prime Minister Freundel Stuart.
Also present were Minister of Housing and Lands, Urban and Rural Development Michael Lashley and Minister of Transport and Works John Boyce.
The Nation’s John Sealy reports that two of Thompson’s daughters, Misha and Oya, as well as her mother in law Margaret Knight, were also at the nomination centre.
Barbados Labour Party candidate Hudson Griffith is expected to hand in his papers later this afternoon. (CM)