Alliance For Democracy Backs out of Press Conference, Seeks Peace

The Alliance for Democracy says it wants peace with U.D.P. Leader Moses “Shyne” Barrow. On Friday, the alliance called a press conference for today, after the U.D.P.’s central executive expelled Tracy Panton, Patrick Faber, John Saldivar and Beverly Williams from the party. The U.D.P., thereafter, sent out a request for applications for standard bearers in those four constituencies. Well, the Alliance for Democracy backed out of that scheduled press conference. We spent the day reaching out to the alliance to get information on the status of that press conference. Late this afternoon, a release was issued stating that it has been actively working behind the scenes to secure a retraction of the central executive’s decision. The alliance says the retraction is viewed as a crucial step, a conditional precedent, to returning to the mediation table and addressing the current impasse. The release says that considering this, the alliance has decided to stay its next course of action to give the process a fair chance to succeed. We will continue to follow.