Better roads and adequate water and power supplies are among the promises being made to residents of the Mabaruma Sub-region, in Region One (Barima-Waini), who will today vote to elect the new municipality’s first town council.
With no independent candidates contesting the First-Past-the-Post elections, candidates drawn from the country’s two main political groups, the APNU+AFC and the PPP/C, will be going head to head at today’s polls in Mabaruma’s six constituencies, which will see in one case a father contesting against his daughter.
During interviews with Stabroek News, the need for road rehabilitation and improved water and electricity supplies in the varying constituencies emerged as common areas of interest for a majority of the candidates.
All of the candidates who spoke with this newspaper expressed confidence as they prepared to head to the polls,