Shas­tri Boodan

With stu­dents prepar­ing for the Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) on Thurs­day, the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) has pledged to re­duce cam­paign noise in the com­ing days to en­sure a qui­et en­vi­ron­ment for study.

UNC Deputy Po­lit­i­cal Leader and Cou­va North can­di­date Jear­lean John made the an­nounce­ment dur­ing a walk­a­bout in the com­mu­ni­ties of Chan­der­nagore and Ed­in­burgh Gar­dens Phas­es 1, 2, and 3 on Tues­day.

“Our can­di­dates will be mind­ful of young stu­dents,” said John, em­pha­siz­ing that the par­ty’s cam­paign ac­tiv­i­ties on Wednes­day and Thurs­day would be scaled down to sup­port stu­dents’ fo­cus and con­cen­tra­tion.

John, who is con­test­ing the seat against the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM), urged con­stituents to vote based on per­for­mance and ac­count­abil­i­ty.

“I de­liv­er,” she stat­ed con­fi­dent­ly, high­light­ing her track record of hard work and com­mu­ni­ty en­gage­ment.

She not­ed that res­i­dents have been ask­ing for ba­sic in­fra­struc­ture up­grades, and she re­mains com­mit­ted to ad­dress­ing those needs if elect­ed.

When asked about her ap­proach to tack­ling school vi­o­lence, John stressed the im­por­tance of rein­tro­duc­ing core val­ues in­to the ed­u­ca­tion sys­tem.

“Ba­sic hu­man val­ues have to re­turn to the school,” she said.

John al­so re­port­ed pos­i­tive feed­back from con­stituents dur­ing her com­mu­ni­ty vis­its, de­scrib­ing the re­cep­tion as “very en­cour­ag­ing."