D7 needs 'cleaning up'- Perline R. Scatliffe-Leonard
“Clean up, clean up the district,” said Scatliffe-Leonard during a press conference to announce her candidacy yesterday, February 8, 2023.
'I am very passionate about our BVI'
After some 33 years in the civil service, Mrs Scatliffe-Leonard retired as Director of W&SD last month, fuelling speculation she may be gearing up to contest the 2023 elections.
Over the past months, commentator Claude O. Skelton-Cline had included Scatliffe-Leonard as one of the females in the Virgin Islands who can be considered as leadership material.
"We have been for a number of years now trying to get Perline on the scene that I am about to place myself on. I am very passionate about our BVI. I am very passionate about nation-building. My passion is big so there is no doubt that what I intend to do is something that I know God is leading me to," Scatliffe-Leonard said.
Describing herself as being very spiritual and that she prayed about her decision to get into politics, Scatliffe-Leonard said her "spirit feels calm” about it.
'I walked this district for years bare feet'
Asked what would be one of the first things she would do if elected, Scatliffe-Leonard said she would clean up the district.
“I grew up in the Seventh District and I walked this district for years bare feet. I can’t do so anymore, our district needs cleaning up.”
According to the political candidate, tourists are brought into the district on a regular, “and the condition of our district is not the best that it needs to be,” she stressed.
“We do have portraits of our leaders, we want to make sure that we tidy them up, we need to tidy them up, reframe them and keep it so.”
Scatliffe-Leonard also pointed out that the surroundings of garbage bins also need special attention.
“We need to make sure that our garbage bins are kept clean… there are things we can do to keep that situation at bay, so we want to clean up the district, that is head on.”
She insisted that the community should not have to rely on the government for some level of clean-up to take place. “PP (private Partnership), that’s where that comes in."
Mrs Scatliffe-Leonard is yet to announce a date for her first public meeting; however, she urged the Seventh District constituents to prepare for the fact that she will be visiting them.
The incumbent Representative for the Seventh District is Premier and Minister of Finance Dr the Honourable Natalio D. Wheatley (R7).
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33 Responses to “D7 needs 'cleaning up'- Perline R. Scatliffe-Leonard”
Perline Scatliffe Leonard is running on the premise that District 7 needs a thorough cleaning and she will clean it up. That is the most urgent project that she will take on to improve the lives of the residents of District 7? OMG. That is the level of insightfulness and intellect that Mrs. Scatliffe Leonard is bringing to the board? If that is the level of representation, then we have no representstion at all.
Need I say more?
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ain't progressing because instead of standing together we're divided and many times it's because of our narrow-mindedness. Even if you don't feel Perline is the best suited candidate, do we really have to speak so badly about her? Come on man, when are we going to realize that love conquers all? If it were you, your mother, father, son, daughter running, how would you feel to hear people speak so negatively about them. Not because we been doing it for years mean we must continue....when you know better, do better. Christ died for and loves us all. We all have strengths and weaknesses and have failed at things before, does this mean we'll fail at everything? Just food for thought.