Scenes of the APM Motorcade
A mass of blue and orange colours, balloons and more than four hundred vehicles altogether, with blaring horns, filled the roads of Anguilla from east to west, north and south, on Sunday afternoon, June 28.
The event was two large pre-election motorcades held separately by the Anguilla Progressive Movement (APM) and the Anguilla United Front (AUF). The AMP’s motorcade commenced on the lawn of the Clayton J. Lloyd International Airport shortly after 2.00 pm, and the AUF’s motorcade started at about 3.00 pm on the newly-commissioned parking lot at the Blowing Point Port.
Scenes of the AUF Motorcade
Both motorcades headed to the western end of the island then drove to the eastern end. There, the APM held its rally on the Island Harbour bay front. The AUF’s motorcade returned to The Valley for its rally outside the Landsome Bowl Cultural Centre.
While the motorcades were led by the Royal Anguilla Police Force, the motorists should be commended for their careful driving around corners and intersections – thus avoiding what could have been a series of accidents and delays.
The motorcades, the largest seen in Anguilla for any political event, were generally peaceful in terms of the behaviour of persons but, as expected, were filled with shouts of party slogans, honking of horns and music.
At least two Independent Candidates, Dr. Lanny Hobson and Mr. Jamie Hodge, also climaxed their election campaigning with motorcades over the past weekend.
