Will Shyne Kick Out Other UDP Standard Bearers?  

And as we saw on Sunday, there were quite a few U.D.P. standard-bearers who are now supporting Tracy Panton and the Alliance for Democracy. The possibility of those individuals, including Queen Square Stand Bearer Godwin Haylock, being kicked out of the party is quite real. So that’s what we asked Barrow today.

 

Moses “Shyne” Barrow, Leader, U.D.P.

“One thing I will give them is they are few, but they are loud. But being boisterous doesn’t make you right. So, again, if Mr. Haylock was a member of the UDP, then he would be bounded by the UDP constitution to not criticize the party or the party leader.”

 

Marion Ali

“Would you say that he has also, quote unquote, constructively resigned?

 

Moses “Shyne” Barrow

“No. He is, he’s a member of the…everyone that went to the Alliance Event have become members of the Alliance.

 

Marion Ali

“So you’ll be looking for new standard bearers?

 

Moses “Shyne” Barrow

“We don’t know who the delegates are because, you know, we could we could not ascertain that but we have seen the standard bearers Edmond Castro all of them Boots Martinez.

 

Marion Ali

“Will you be looking to replace all of them with new UDP  standard bearers?

 

Moses “Shyne” Barrow

“Yes, in due course, we will address that.

 

Marion Ali

“So, Godwin is gone.

 

Moses “Shyne” Barrow

“In due course, we will address that. We will address that as a party. We will address that the NPC will meet. I will wait for the chairman to convene a central executive, an NPC meeting, and we will discuss the way forward as far as what we will do in those instances. I don’t want to get ahead of myself. I want to follow the procedure and let the party chairman. The party chairman will be available next week. But it is, it is my opinion, right? I don’t want to get ahead of the party but it is clear, and that has been the discussion before this happened that those that want to go and be a part of the Alliance for Democracy Party event, it’s just as if you went to a PUP event, then you become a member of the PUP. it is not as if they went there and they said nothing, they went there and they proclaimed their support for their leader of the Alliance for Democracy Party. So I don’t see how we can proceed with them as UDP standard bearers.”

 

Marion Ali

“That would be quite a number of people the UDP would have replaced.”

 

Moses “Shyne” Barrow

“Only seven because remember, the four were already expelled. So there is only seven and, and of the seven… but I don’t want to get into who could win or who can’t win, but I mean, Haylock is the only seat that is a sure seat, but it is not a decision for me to make. And so I want this to be clear to say that is a decision for the party to make formally, but it occurs to me that anyone that went to  a convention for another party and voted in that convention would with immediate effect relinquish their position in the UDP. It occurs to me.”