Video: Independent Candidate Gavin Kennedy
Independent Candidate Gavin Kennedy — who will be running in Constituency #28 Warwick West — is holding a press conference this morning [Jan 17]. We will have additional coverage later on and in the meantime the live video is below.
Since the one seat system started in 2003, the OBA or UBP have won the seat in 3 General Elections and the PLP have won it twice. As of 2025, the incumbent candidate is the PLP’s Dennis Lister III.
Mr Kennedy is the latest person to announce his candidacy, and all of the candidates for the 2025 General Election will be confirmed on January 31st, which is nomination day.
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Why is Sir John present at every announcement of an “Independent”? Independents should run for themselves and certainly not in conjunction with another candidate, especially Sir John, as that defeats the image of being Independent.
Agreed. It’s giving “Puppet Master” vibes.
However, Mr Kennedy is a good businessman who has real stake in the Warwick constituency, with his store The Hub being in the heart of Warwick for years. He might give Dennis Lister III a run for his money.
Didn’t see John with Rolf though.
He was there. He and Ci’re were there.
Rolf will have you lossing votes if he was in the photo. Gavin is not stupid.
Why not? Sir John is the spark who has lit the resurgence of a return to Governance by independent MPs. He is a respected senior former MP and Premier, no doubt the best Premier Bermuda has ever had.
I agree with your comments, but would add in those days the UBP had a backbench who would not sit quietly but would challenge Cabinet, unlike the PLP silent majority. A good example is when Sir John blotted his legacy with his attempt to bring in McDonalds, stopped by enough UBP MPs who had spine.
…….And when they stopped Sir John over his McDonalds franchise he left the party. The UBPoba doomed themselves because black voters only voted for the UBPoba because of Sir John. Now look at you now trying to use and find more black surrogates to replace him. NO NO NO! Even SUSAN JACKSON KNOWS YOUR party is LOSSING THE NEXT ELECTION. LMAO
The attempt to allow McDonalds, and then others, was a huge mistake.
I was at the public meeting, along with a group of others in a section of the hospitality that gets to talk to visitors one on one to our visitors. These visitors told us time after time that one of the attractions of Bermuda is NO fast food, or any, chain restaurants. No chains set Bermuda apart, in a good way, from the islands to the south.
To be successful in business you have to give customers what they want or, in this case, what they don’t want.
Mr. KENNEDY’S BACKGROUND, the needs of the community and what he hopes to do. This is NOT an elementary school election where they sing A,B
C,D,E,F,G
What is he talking about with South p? This is the government that has brokered the deal to get it done. I didnt understand that.
Yes, this is the Government that claimed that the SP would be renovated and reopened by last year. How did that work our? Seen any visitors there yet.
There was a time, under another Gvernment, when the SP and other big box hotels were BEGGING Government to allow them more rooms. We were at saturation point with room availability. We had a business savy government at the time knowing that more was not better.
Now we have a Giverment that has no business savy at all. So little that the one person with finance experise had to resign himself.
Any idea when the SP will be reopened? Don’t count on the last one, oh so grandly announced?
I’ve always found Gavin to be a very likeable man, and he does seem genuine. I wish him well.
Help me im confused do we have Independents or do we have a new party called the Independent party because every time a new so called Independent Candidate is announced swan is there is swan party leader
So far looks like you are one of the few who got it.
I hope he gets in , he cant do any worse than we have now!