Dr Kurt Waul decision confirmed while search for new candidate continues

For the past few months Dr Waul has been tinkering with the idea but now confirmed it’s a “done deal”.

“I being the candidate for Old Harbour South is basically a done deal. It has been signed off on and approved and I’m already campaigning in the division,” he disclosed to Old Harbour News.

The medical doctor is a native of Old Harbour Bay, which harbours majority of the voting populace in the division. He will seek to unseat incumbent and fellow native Lloyd Grant of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP).

Grant, serving a third term as councillor in the division, will be no pushover, though he has weaknesses that the goodly doctor will seek to surgically exploit.

“Basically Old Harbour South is the gem of the constituency. There are a lot of spin-offs that can come from Old Harbour Bay that can affect or enhance the development of the entire constituency. I hope to tap in on that,” said Dr Waul.

The 45-year-old Waul suffered a baptism of fire in the last general elections held last year, losing heavily to the vastly experienced Member of Parliament Everald Warmington. But he told Old Harbour News that he has learned from the experience.

Currently the mood in the division is one of excitement, he said and that “people are eager to vote and prove that they are the ones with the power”.

He contends that the division has fallen to systematic “political victimization” under the leadership of Grant and the MP – a culture he intends to eradicate if elected.

“I think the entire constituency and also Old Harbour South have suffered from political victimization and I think that is what I want to remove. If I become councillor I will be the man for all the people,” said Dr Waul who is seeking to join former councillor Peter ‘Jimbo’ Davis as the only man to defeat Grant in the division. 

“I see they (JLP) doing road work and drain cleaning down the ‘Bay’  right now and funny enough you have one continuous drain, but yet still the parts that cross through PNP territory are left unclean and the parts that pass through JLP territory are cleaned. And it makes no sense. Those are things I would like to end. So just imagine in other aspects where they are using the same strategy… and it is something that we need to look into.

“In all aspects I will represent all the people. I know resources are scarce but we have to represent all the people.”

Meantime, the constituency chairman said the party is still seeking to install a representative for the Church Pen Division, a seat they haven’t won in more than three decades.

Recently the PNP confirmed Obryan Leighton as its candidate for Old Harbour Central Division, while businessman Adrian Samuda has been the caretaker in Old Harbour North for more than a year ago.

Dr Waul said all its candidates will present a detailed vision for their division which will be presented to the leadership of the party.