From early results last night from the Meadow Bank-Agricola area, 90-year-old James Samuels looks set for a seat on the Georgetown City Council after yesterday’s Local Government Elections.
From eight Statements of Poll counted by Stabroek News, Samuels was handsomely defeating his two constituency 15 rivals Philip Inshanally, representing the People’s Progressive Party/ Civic and Georgina Lewis for Benschop for Mayor.
In the First-Past-The –Post voting, Samuels had gathered 694 votes compared to Lewis’s 154 and Inshanally’s 135.
Samuels, a former tele-communications worker, had said in an interview with Stabroek News last week he would push to make his constituency the hub of computer technicians and telecommunications. He said that such a programme would create opportunities for employment.
