Barbados Labour Party candidate for St Michael North West, Neil Rowe, has appealed to his constituents to look past any perceived shortcomings in his representation and to re-elect him to continue to work on their behalf.
Rowe, who is making a bid for a third term, said: “Tonight I stand before you to present my report card on the developments across this blessed constituency of St Michael North West,” he told supporters during a political meeting at Deacons Farm Thursday night.
“I wish to remind you that despite all of the adversities that I had to endure during my second term, please be reminded that I have never stopped working for the good people of St Michael North West and there are not many men who have the mental, physical and spiritual strength to endure all that I had to endure and remain committed to the good people of St Michael North West.”
In January, 2025, Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley announced to the nation that a decision had been taken to rescind Rowe’s appointment as Deputy Speaker, a decision she said was taken “so that Parliament could be removed from being embroiled in a member’s private issues.”
Rowe was then fighting a rape accusation in the law courts and was subsequently acquitted of the rape charge and later re-appointed Deputy Speaker.
“I want to assure the people tonight that when I am re-elected I will beg and ask the Prime Minister kindly to put the finances in the Ministry of Youth, Sport and Community Development to renovate that centre and I want to rename it after the late Lawson Weekes and the late Mark Williams,” Rowe said. (GC)
