Today was Deposit Day and the two candidates — Mara Thompson, carrying the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) ticket and businessman Hudson Griffith flagbearer of the Barbados Labour Party (BLP), firstcomers to elective politics, are both ready and raring to compete in the January 20 by-election in St John.
The two each paid their $250 deposits at the Government Treasury, and those receipts will be taken to The Lodge School tomorrow, with completed nomination papers that will ensure their names are on the ballot papers on January 20.
Then, the next big stop for Mara, widow of former Prime Minister David Thompson, will be the Gall Hill Community Centre on Thursday night, while Griffith, a former student of The Lodge School, will be heading to Edgecliff as the political party machinery gets into full gear for the platform launches of the respective parties.
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