With most, if not all, of the candidates vying for political representation and leadership in Anguilla being followers of the island’s mainstream religious persuasion, they have undertaken to embark on a truce during the current electioneering campaign.
Their so-called ceasefire on the platform is in response to a request from the Anguilla Christian Council to observe the sacred and peaceful Lenten Season – the run-up to the Biblical account of the passion and glory of Christ’s crucifixion.
In view of that observance, all candidates and parties suspended their public meetings and campaigning on the rostrums with effect from Ash Wednesday this week, February 18, the commencement of the Lenten Season. During this period, extending into Holy Week, there will also be special services in a number of churches.
For the time being, the political candidates and parties have agreed, with the Christian Council, to continue their house to house campaigns – while staying away from the noise and tumult of the public address systems, horn-blowing and the like.
No one is expected to be a truce breaker.
