Sascha Wil­son

MP for Ma­yaro Win­ston "Gyp­sy" Pe­ters has promised to build a fire sta­tion for his con­stituents with­in the first year of a Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress gov­ern­ment.

This was among sev­er­al "good­ies" Pe­ters has planned for his con­stituents once he wins his seat and the UNC is suc­cess­ful in the up­com­ing gen­er­al elec­tion. When the UNC band­wag­on rolled in­to Rio Claro Wednes­day night, Pe­ters said: "If my par­ty re­fus­es to build a fire sta­tion in Ma­yaro with­in the first year of get­ting in of­fice I will walk away from them." Pe­ters al­so promised that the Biche High School, which was built un­der the UNC gov­ern­ment, would be opened. The school was not opened be­cause the site was deemed un­safe.

He said his pleas to Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Mar­tin Joseph for a new sta­tion and close cir­cuit cam­eras to de­tect crim­i­nal el­e­ments in the con­stituen­cy have fall­en on deaf ears. He said that would change once his par­ty was suc­cess­ful at the polls. He promised to get farm­ers reg­u­larised, pro­vide wa­ter for their ir­ri­ga­tion needs, a cold stor­age fa­cil­i­ty for fish­er­men and a 24-hour health fa­cil­i­ty.

In ad­di­tion he promised to trans­form the Ma­yaro recre­ation ground in­to the east­ern re­gion­al sport­ing fa­cil­i­ty with an Olympic-size pool and a prop­er fire sta­tion in Rio Claro. Ac­cus­ing the Man­ning ad­min­is­tra­tion of mis­man­age­ment, he said a UNC gov­ern­ment had spent $60 bil­lion in six years while the PNM ad­min­is­tra­tion had spent $330 bil­lion in eight years. Pe­ters said Man­ning's rea­son for call­ing a gen­er­al elec­tion was be­cause his own peo­ple were turn­ing against him be­cause of mis­man­age­ment.