Six candidates, including a sitting member of the city council, a pastor and an optometrist are going head-to-head in a fight for the Stabroek-Wortmanville-Werk-en-Rust seat at the March 18 local government elections.
In the First-Past-The-Post (FPTP) race for the seat are Orin Phillips 27, of a Nation Building Corp; Gregory Fraser 54, of APNU+AFC; Lurlene James of the PPP/C; Denise Dey, 51, of Team Benschop for Mayor and individual candidates Wendell Jeffrey and Don Gomes, 58.
Dey and James are also on their groups’ proportional representation list meaning that they