| New Year, New Representative For Cayo North |
| Tue, November 25, 2014 |
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The New Year will start off with a bang for the voters of Cayo North - and that's because the date for the by-election has been set for the fifth of January 2015.
The Governor General has signed the writ of election - and set nomination day for 20 days from now, on Monday December 15th. The election will be held 21 days after that on Monday, January fifth.
And while that total of 41 days is fairly quick - we're told that the Barrow administration would have wished for it to be sooner - but the Christmas holidays got in the way of that plan.
That's because the UDP is already in gear with standard-bearer Omar Figueroa - while the PUP doesn't currently have a standard bearer - after Joseph Mahmud resigned from that post in mid-October. And then he made history yesterday by going one step further when he became the very first elected Area Representative to resign as a member of the National Assembly.
Why did he make this unprecedented step - and what does it say about the leadership of the PUP? A little later on in the news you'll hear what the Leader of The Opposition had to say in answer to the tough questions.
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