“The Institution is not a Building, the People Are” 

Following the U.D.P. convention on Sunday, participants have expressed their views on the legitimacy of the event and the removal of Moses “Shyne” Barrow as party leader. This raises the question of the future of the building on Youth for the Future Drive, which has long served as the U.D.P. headquarters. The Albert Area Representative, who was named interim party leader at the convention, stated in an interview with News Five that the building is not the U.D.P. but rather the people.

 

Marion Ali

“The headquarters and the  elected executive, as they were, are still in control of the UDP headquarters. So in terms of getting the business off the ground.”

 

Tracy Taegar-Panton, Area Representative, Albert

“There’s a there’s a fixation, I believe, on this building. The institution as I maintain is not a building. The people represent the institution. If you talk about that workspace, I have a workspace, Patrick has a workspace. Our chairperson has a workspace. If we’re looking at the workspace, I know the headquarters may be symbolic in terms of the institution, but it’s not the institution and we will give it no greater importance than that.”