Small business owner cites the need to reinvent the tourism industry and address income inequality
Gavin Kennedy, Independent candidate for C28 Warwick West. Photo: Ra’ees Tankard
“We need to put our country back in order.”
Words from Independent candidate Gavin Kennedy, who rolled out his campaign in C28 Warwick West this morning at Warwick Playground.
Mr. Kennedy, a small business owner from the constituency, said he has been talking to people in the area where more and more of them are relying on hand-outs.
He stressed the need to reinvent the tourism industry and improve management of government finances.
He said he sees “new faces at the food lines, the lines are getting longer. We need to make a change and give youth more power to vote when they’re not on the island”.
On his decision to run as an Independent, he said as a former PLP voter and growing up in a UBP household, he believed in both parties but hasn’t seen much of change in the past ten years.
Following his remarks, Bermuda Broadcasting asked what specific issues are of greatest concern in the constituency; many people, he said, have concerns about the economy.
Mr Kennedy said the economy is going well but regular people are not feeling it as more and more rely on hand-outs.
Sir John Swan, who is facilitating the Independents, said he feels the time has come now for a beginning and a new era for Bermuda , in which party politics is taken off the table.
The PLP’s Dennis Lister III won the seat in the 2020 General Election, taking 60% of the votes and defeating the OBA’s Dwayne Robinson.
