When you put stone under pressure it turns to diamond, so when de British Government put pressure on Hubert Hughes, he got younger. Haydn Hughes (2014)
[Do not vote for Palmavon Webster whose electoral symbol is the fish]. Do not risk your vote with a piranha. Do not vote for the barracuda. Please do not cast your vote for the cavalli. People of District 1: please do not vote for no lionfish. Haydn Hughes (2014)
We cannot put women in politics because they wear a dress. We got to put women in politics who . . . know how to control their dress. Hubert Hughes (2014)
I learnt my colonial politics at the foot of the most vicious politician in the Caribbean – Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw – while I was a schoolboy in St Kitts. Hubert Hughes (2014)
I am very happy today that we have been able to get a pastor, in the form of Pastor [Hugo] Brooks, who not only pray for us – but pray for us without pay, because before he came here [in the House of Assembly] we had to pay ministers of religion to pray [at the commencement of each meeting]. And Pastor Brooks volunteered that he would pray to our God and Saviour for this country without being paid . . . There are few people in this island who have been able to resist the money factor – and he is one of them who stands out . . . Pastor Hugo Brooks . . . you will be in the annals of Anguilla as one great religious leader. Hubert Hughes (2015)
The AUM had to maneuver the ship, Anguilla, through some difficult and challenging times to keep Miss Anguilla afloat. When the Chief Minister [Hubert Hughes] took over this country . . . there was no money in the Treasury. There was no money to pay the civil servants. The ship had already started taking on water. No oil was in the engine and, of course, believe it or not, the compass . . . started to malfunction. Elkin Richardson (2015)
Pam [Webster] never looks down on you unless she looks down to pick you up. Terrence Webster (2015)
Haydn Hughes, you are a disgrace in the House of Assembly. Osbourne Fleming (2015)
The boat builder [David Carty] is no match for our Jack Spaniard . . . No match for Josie. Jerome Roberts (2015)
This is not the time for Victor Franklin Banks. This is not the time for Osbourne Berrington Fleming. We cannot resurrect the dead. Jerome Roberts (2015)
I am a young man who is capable of defending and supporting myself. I am not depending on Torpedo, I am not depending on Harold, I am not depending on Henford. I am depending on the Almighty God. Jerome Roberts (2015)
Do not vote for Curtis Richardson. For God sake, do not allow Anguilla to be gambled away. Sam Webster (2015)
The Government [AUM] that we have operating today – and I forgive the Chief Minister, he is from a different era – none of these guys even have a decent high school education that would qualify them to get an entry level job in most established companies in Anguilla and around the world. Not even the entry level requirements, but these are people who want to run our country today. Sutcliffe Hodge (2015)
[You know they say I am] being too smart a man . . . Tell them the reason why I appear to be so smart [is] because they don’t read. They don’t research. They spend more time cursing each other rather than reading. Knowledge is power, and you get knowledge from reading and researching. Sutcliffe Hodge (2015)
So evil was the design of the AUM Government for the nation that a man of God stopped having open air meetings and started political meetings. That’s how serious this thing is. This thing is so serious that a minister of religion, seeing the pending danger of these misfits in Government, had to stop pointing men to the cross and start pointing out to men that the AUM is a dangerous enterprise and has brought this country to a dangerous crossroad of damnation. Curtis Richardson (2015)
My resume, my curriculum vitae, Haydn Hughes cannot follow me. My resume is five pages at least, and his [Haydn’s]: “Came here from Barbados. Went on a little training with Cap Juluca”. Curtis Richardson (2015)
When I went to the [US] Virgin Islands to work my first job was cutting grass. I still like to do it. Whenever I hear a weed eater licking grass, and I’m all alone, I feel very good. It gives me a lot of time to meditate and reflect on my thoughts and my life. Curtis Richardson (2015)
Hubert [Hughes] does not even know how to turn his cell phone off – so he can’t record no conversation [therefore someone else did the recording secretly]. Neil Rogers (2015)
I would like to mention how deplorable it has been to see the disrespect that has been meted out to our Chief Minister [Hubert Hughes] over the past five years . . . Our Chief Minister has been attacked by other elected officials, as well as those within the general public, and I think it’s not becoming as a people. We need to respect the Office of the Chief Minister whoever is sitting in that Office . . . We should give them the most utmost respect. I’ve heard our Chief Minister being called names from being a milk cow to one who has had the talking diarrhea . . . These things are very deplorable and are unbecoming for citizens of our country. Pastor Jerome Harrigan (2015)
We are now receiving the bitter fruits of bitter politics which has been practised in Anguilla over many bitter years. Rev Clifton Niles (2015)
Very often the person who has diarrhea of the mouth has a desert in the head. Rev Clifton Niles (2015)
Vote for new blood. The old blood has not worked, and it will not work in favour of Anguilla. Rev Clifton Niles (2015)
The Honourable Chief Minister [Hubert Hughes] . . . should be put up for a knighthood – and at the end of the day I think he will retire with the distinction of [being] not only the best Chief Minister of all times, but the best Finance Minister of all times. Quincy Gumbs (2015)
In Sir Emile Gumbs’ last term – the only place we didn’t go to dig up votes was in the grave . . . Mr [Edison] Baird gave him a run that almost send him over . . . Sandy Ground cliff. Quincy Gumbs (2015)
The last Chief Minister [Osbourne Fleming] is the most disastrous person. I don’t think there will be anybody worse – ever – as a Chief Minister in this country than Osbourne Fleming . . . He destroyed the economy of the country . . . He had no administrative ability . . . The former Chief Minister was a spendthrift. He had failed at every single business he ever tried to do. There was nothing in the man that prepared him for the leadership of this country. Quincy Gumbs (2015)
As women, when we are bold and fearless enough to join the political arena I think we all need to be commended. Evalie Bradley (2015)
I have a great respect for Mrs [Evalie] Bradley. She is a good and decent woman. But Mrs Bradley is not a politician. Mrs Bradley has been dragged out of unemployment, and she is seeking employment as an elected member. Mrs Bradley – again with the greatest of respect, and again in my humble opinion – is not someone who can represent Anguilla locally, regionally and internationally. She doesn’t have, to put it bluntly, the upstairs – so to speak – to do a good job as an elected member. But she is a good and decent woman. Edison Baird (2015)
When I took sick and I was sick in St Thomas – on my deathbed – Mr [Hubert] Hughes would call me twice a day and Victor Banks never called me not even once. Remember when you have three broken ribs, when your lungs are pushed in, when you are on oxygen for over a month – and people that you ran with don’t call you and look out for you – and [when] somebody is calling you, and looking out for you, it establishes a rapport . . . And when I came back to Anguilla Mr Hughes organized a reception for me, so I bear no bitterness towards Mr Hughes. Edison Baird (2015)
The biggest deficit in the history of Anguilla was chalked up by the Anguilla United Front. Vernon Fleming (2015)
This election [2015] is the mother of all elections in this country. Leonard Kentish (2015)
