Thursday, September 10, 2026 - Part 2

0:00The views and opinions expressed on analyzing this are entirely those of the on-air participants and do not reflect those of the station's board management staff or underwriters. I'm back here and analyze this and I send a song to Glenwright and it's a Caribbean song and I know those of you who know all Caribbean music from back in the day when you hear it. You will like it because it is part of that great album I don't hear me bragging about from a man called Chachot and the name of the album is ghetto vibes right and I have labeled it as one one of the greatest

1:02albums greatest Calypso albums in the history of Calypso music. Hard like a Bob Marley effect right from this standpoint that one of the things about Marley was renowned for right was that when he released the album even in I'm not like only one and two hit on it. I'll be saying them I'm not Marley album you said you have to listen to the whole album all the time and this song ghetto vibes the best album from Chachot ghetto vibes had nothing but hits on it right the beside the album had none nobody gonna run me in spite of all when fantasy and

2:05carnival 76 but this is the inside of the album the hadan I mean just hit after hits after hits arguably the greatest Calypso ever to come out of Antiga and one of the top five Calypso's about time tourist Lego number one then he had a song for Vivian Richards talking about a great quick guitar a man that in rank can who was once a prime minister Pakistan great quick guitar I don't want to refer to as a complete genius let's be very rich hands off our harmonics Poe an authority and this particular song you're laying up that one yet the name no promises and I know I'm gonna like it right oh guys I don't know me I'm glad right who they are they put on the board this morning we are T.G.R.U.T. and you don't call this Calypso music you know Calypso's been a music right and

3:10no promises I don't know. Yeah. Hey, you first on both. Then I'll be with you next time. Oh, guys. I sit on my own for my kids. Now you make me sit down whole day. For you alone, I'll be sitting still. Then I can promise you still, but... ...just keep it up. Just keep it up. Don't say why you're going to say it. Sayasetoui. No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no. Sayasetoui. No, no, no, no. You're going to say it. This is what you're going to say. No, no, no, no. You're going to say it. You're going to say it. You're going to say it. You're going to say you're not there. You said you brought that to say. You've gone down by big. Now I walk in the middle of the beach. I know such like a crazy man. But you only think I found what she'll understand. No promise me. I'm giving you a right away.

4:10No promise me. You're going to say it. No, no, no, no, no. No promise not. No, no, no, no. I'm not going to happen. No, no, no, no. You say it. You catch me in say, damn us. But I was really mad. You're the same. You're the same. I'm the same. I have. Wait. Wait. Wait. One more. Time out. You're going to say it. No, no, no, no.

5:35No promise me, I'm getting right out there No promise me, I'm okay while you're going to say No, no, no, no, no, no No promise, no, no, no, no, no And you know you've been doing nothing No promise me No promise me That's no promise, is man Are we at Cala, no, no? Good morning, Cala Good morning, Mr. Neville James Good morning, Gary Hoyo Good morning, I feel I reenough I gotta, I gotta candidate speak coming up in four minutes So talk to me fast You boy making promises, man That's what I come to know We'll never, we'll never let on over the promises But we admit, we're at Cal back next time since you have a candidate

6:36No, no, no, no We got couple minutes to go talk to coming up in another five minutes or so I say your boy making promises, man, five thousand Just like they do, just like they do, check them That were their promises, all year in 2025, they ain't reached yet, man Well never, James, you know how politics are playing on Everywhere you're going out of world, them taught promises So you know, Donald Trump is nothing different than what happened No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no! Donald Trump is different No ever tried that, he's different He claimed that he's going to dream this swamp man He could do what I came up with At the end of the day, the whole he platforms One thing is to run for office, listen to me, Gary I was always stunned at how people would say don't want none to do a politics and I was like, what politics is, retail is is is is is is person to person combat. You know engagement. How could you not want to be in politics?

7:36And you know, I'm 62 years old now. And I could see why people don't want to do a politics. Seriously. Because these type of these type of thing and this is a serious level at desperation. You know, if the republic can them win, you're going to have five thousand dividend. But if they don't win, you get nothing. Oh, God's car. I'll go with I'll go with better. We're going to say we don't agree with everything. The national treasure do. But they have things and they agree with never. So so so not everything in the door. I agree with it. But they have some things. But we're always with that on one point. Never. That Trump was needed for this moment. Minas, you know, that he needed to be different. Next hundred years. We say he was needed for the moment. America was facing a serious problem. And Trump addressed many of them. But you know, never one of the. Let me let me let me let me ask you this question. Me. I said this question.

8:39Are we better off on September 10th? 2026 that we were on January 20th, 2025 when Trump take over for the second in your opinion. With Joe Biden. Hans don't. Hans don't. We never we never will regret that that Donald Trump was needed and we're not better today. Yes, we have problems. So we agree. Never. Everything that Donald Trump do, we will never support the victims at some time. We can understand why they might do it. But at the same time, we're not at Trump any day than Joe Biden in the presidency. I didn't actually know. I asked if we better off today when you go when you're going to the gas pump and you're going to this grocery store them. Are you better off today? Then you were on January 20th, 2025, Kerry. No, you're isolated. No, you're isolated. Okay, at the end of the day, people vote. People vote. People vote. People vote. The pocketbook,

9:40Kerry. That does actually a question. A very basic question. Are you better in the value of your dollar better off today? This 10th day of September in 2026 that it was on the 20th day of January in 2025. Say yes or no? I know it's a hard question because your national because your national treasure hasn't delivered and you know that. I'm going to talk about the trade deficit and all these major issues that countries were

10:48taking advantage of this country and Donald Trump continue to emphasize and continue to address these issues. But never one thing. You know, we don't hear you talk about the politics in that island like that. I bring it on. I bring it on. I bring it on. I bring it on. I can't let it run loose. Lucy loose wrong coming on. Now, the only candidate speaks like going on to our quarter. Eventually, you know, when I released the territory, the governor race and the the delegatories, that's the October suite. That's the October suite, but you don't get it in October. You get it. Yeah, we're still. But but but but I just wanted you to know this. I want you to know this right? June 11th, 2024. Speak at the house. My Johnson said everything President Biden has touched has been a disaster. We've got what is it here? We've got to revive the American economy again. And on the same day, the World Bank said the global economic outlook has been upgraded.

11:56The impressive US economy is powering the world. Okay. The same day, you know, the same day, the World Bank says something that was 100% 180 degrees contrary to what it's speaking of the house said on the same day. That's that's politics. Do you believe that Donald Trump did anything good or everything was about it? Um, that's an excellent question. But I think I still trying to find out. Okay, maybe the border situation. I give him credit for the border situation. My respect, you know, it never respect that you finally say something. Nothing because that's the truth. No, I was I was I was I but I know one thing. And the next thing or call we're going to get into it. Um, Biden and and uh, Obama deported more people than Donald Trump. And I got it. I got a data for that. Yes. I got a data for that.

12:56I just had the bottom, but the crisis had the bottom crisis. That's a hundred. It said one, say one, say, it says a half a dozen, a one, six, a dollar. They said the same people that they were pushing back at the border are the same people that are rich people. They're more hiring to do to the walk in the construction industry and agriculture industry and all that stuff. Oh, can't have it both with anyway. Don't be a stranger. Yes, but we talk next time. Thank you very much, Kerry. Uh, let's get right to it. Um, we got the candidate speak. Uh, we got candidate, uh, Lucy Brong. She is a independent candidate for Senate, Polocto Microphone and Lady. Uh, you are number eight. That's correct. And about the, Polocto Microphone. Yes, we think directly into it. Introduce yourself. Hello, good morning. My name is Lucy Brong. I'm running as an independent. I see the need for a different mine independent for what seat, um, for Senate acid. Mm hmm. Go ahead. Um, so I'm here to answer

14:01questions and I guess I addressed certain things that I would like to see different. You brought bodyguards with you this morning? Yes, I did. I bought my, my friend here, put in, um, still panman. Mm hmm. I bought my brother-in-law, who is a singer. And, um, I have other two support outside my husband. My brother-in-law is, um, Anthony Brown. Mm hmm. And put in Williams. Mm hmm. And, um, I have my support outside. Why, why 2026? Why, why you stepping up now to offer yourself to be a potential member of the legislature? 2026 hit me one day when I took my husband to the emergency room. And I see the reality that my people are facing and that, um, she's arrested you is being put on my husband while he's being supposed to be taken off,

15:01but it cannot happen because we don't have the resources that we need. So from that point, I assert myself and I said I have to do something about it. So I thought about it and I said, this is the time to go into the race. Tell me by yourself. Tell me by your back. My background is, I guess I can start from the beginning. It would be that I for over 20 years I have been a housewife. No, no, no, no, no. We're coming from tell us or tell us, growing up tell us about yourself. Oh, growing up. Okay. I was born in hospital street, Gala's Bay. I came to Richmond at the age of three. Mm hmm. My neighbors in Gala's Bay was the Wailox and the McGregas. That was my grandmother property between those two places. My grandmother was from Coulabra. My grandfather was from the same area and then my other grandparents was from VIECIS. Okay. So my father migrated as a young man to the Virgin Islands. My mother was born here in the Virgin Islands. So you're a daughter of a soil? I am a daughter and I'm rooted in the

16:06soil and I believe that my place needs to be better and then my people deserve better. So you you been watching the political arena or you went to school? I went to school to Juanita Guardian. As a young person coming out from my grandmother who never spoke English barely said something like water. I could not speak English at the time up to about third grade. You? Yes. I could not speak English. So all I know was teacher and water. However, I met this beautiful slim belt teacher who shoes and bag would match and her name was Violet Connor and she made that difference in my life. And from that point on, I no longer take breaks. I stay in the classroom and she teaches me English. So I am a product of the public school. I'm a pub. How you call it?

17:07I'm a live grown citizen. I have acquired things by going places and having to do certain things. I have enough skills to do. Make things happen. Not just talk it, but I have seen a different site of life. By Languay? And by Languay, yes. Where have you worked throughout the years? At the beginning, I went to two or three different programs by Manpower. And I got trained. In your case, it would be womanpower. Yes, that's correct. So Manpower gave me three opportunities to work in government as a work study sort of thing. And it became beneficial and I opened up to me. It took some time, but it really worked. So I would encourage people that now that they have the opportunity to train and work to do so because it comes handy. After that, I work with

18:08the luxury. Hold on one second. We got candidate Los Luccibron. She's number eight on the ballot. She's seeking a seat to the 37 legislature. She is independent candidate here on the candidate's peak. We'll take a break. Come back and continue this conversation here with candidate Luccibron. We'll be back right after this.

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21:38Talk a little bit about that. Yes, that was that happened in 1983, 1984. When we returned, my husband went to the military for six years. And there I acquired some other skills while they were supporting him and doing what I had to do as a wife. I ended up having to help develop a way of income to help support my kids. So I had home care for kids at all. For the military. So military people would entrust the kids. And I would take care of them. And this was in the mainland? Yes, in the mainland in Maryland, Virginia, Washington, DC area. Okay. And it it was the friend things that I saw plus as a wife when they'd get deployed. We learn how to take care of the house until or the fort until they return home. So that means to say we have to fed for ourselves. And with that at the beginning, starting as a

22:42private income is very little. So you have to educate yourself to step up the ladder to get that money. So in the meantime, wife support is very important. I did learn a lot of a couple little skills. I learned how to make ceramic. I learned how to do detail. How to paint them. The different level of techniques. There was other things like woodcraft and different things, macro made different things. I also got a chance to head up some community services with the UFO at footmares with the USO coordinator because nothing was happening there. So I got the whole building involved and we started some programs. So my reward was to have a chance to go and see Bob Hope. So I got free tickets and before I know it, it was time to leave again. And my husband said he's not going Germany all the way. We return in home. So he was at that time wrapping up his

23:47studies for his bachelor's and we return home. And then the manpower came in when my case started to go school and I had nothing to do. I worked a couple hours in a flower shop with my sister. And then I decided to try some other things and manpower gave me the opportunity to learn marketing and give me certain little things of being entrepreneurship. And I'm very grateful this day because it worked. You just have to put things together. And I also work in the hotel industry, which is not the best, but it also helped me to acquire my certification for CNA because you have to be able to take care of the customer and the rooms, the beds, their needs. And you have to have good coordination to be able to fulfill your job for that day because the timing is the essence on it. You actually met Bob Hope? Yes, I'm Brook Shields. It's Bob Hope as funny in person as he is indeed.

24:54Yes, it was. Yes. That's awesome. Yes, it was a great experience. He was a big supporter of the military. I am a big support of the military. Bob Hope was a big support of the military. He'd go all over the world if you have to support his support. Yes, he did some shows for them. Yes. That's awesome. When Brook Shields said, Brook Shields was there with him. It was beautiful. Wow. What time was this 80s? It was the 80s. I think it was around 81-82. And it was a real put together show. So at that point, your husband said it's time to come back to paradise. He said, once he's getting ready to graduate, he is time to go home. We have things to do. So he was a benefited GI Bill? Yes, he was a benefit of a lot of things that I can discuss. And so did I. And so do I. So he studied the postgraduate? He did college in the states? Yes, he did bachelor's in the community college and then he went off to college of the Maryland.

25:54Does the University of Maryland? Yes. Okay. And then you came back home when? I came back home in 83, two months before him to settle down so we can afford to take care of ourselves. So you were here for her? Can you go? Oh, yes. I came to nine. 1989 was a unique year that showed me that everything that I learned from my grandmother down to the military could work and make a plate of food when there is no gas. There is nothing. And I have to go and look for wooden wet steaks and make a fire and figure out how did my husband do the barbecue? Were we in your opinion? Were we better off before Hugo than we are now? Oh, yes. Of course. We were. I don't think we have moved so much. The private sector have moved a little bit because people are taking pride and bail in. But as to the government, I think back then we had more services and more help for the people of the Virgin Islands.

26:56Do you believe that the Virgin Islands has lost its way as a release to provide services for the people of the Virgin Islands? Yes, much so. Yes. No, you talk about the incident that you had at the hospital, right? Well, let's back as a catalyst, right? A galvanizer for you saying, you know, I don't want to be a complain. I want to step up and offer myself. That's what I don't want to speak for you, but that's what you said, right? Yes. Matter of fact, my husband is, is we a group, which I guess I could talk about. He has kidney disease. So I said, I'm going to join and make a support group for that area. And also for the hospital and whatever I can do because I have a lot of ideas. But I cannot discuss all of them right now because it's very long, but there is a lot of area that needs improvement. You can be general general. Your health care is a big, big part, a big part of your

27:57platform. It's the fruit number one number one. No doubt about it. This number one, it has to we need improvement. There is no community without health care. If you really love your people, health care has to be number one, two, WAPA because the hospital cannot operate without WAPA. Three education. And I had to learn the hadway, but there is now we don't have to reinvent the wheel. We can take other people's ability and we can help our youth because our youth should not have to live home if they don't want to because they cannot get a job because we can create our jobs. No, no, you're running for Senate. Right? And the Senate is a deliberative body, which means you're going to be on the floor, you're going to be in committee meetings, articulating positions. What have you? Talk about your preparedness to speak on behalf of the people that's encouraged, should you be elected on November? First of all, my area where I work, everybody has to fall in line.

28:58Everybody has a duty. Everybody has to report. Everybody has to have something tangible to show for the time. Everybody that works with me, if they know me, I'm a a workaholic. I have my break time, but I'm always thinking. I don't only think I believe in making it happen, creating it. There's nothing that you cannot do as long as you have health and you want to. No, what do you believe does not exist in the legislature that Lucy Loosebrough bring to the table? Plana, a plana, the ability to carry out the task that is put before me. You believe that that is lacking right now in the legislature? Some of it, everybody have the interest, but I don't see it working for us, the people.

30:04And I think we need to look at that because when we run for office, they trust us to give us their vote. So now I think we need to deliver. And I think every senator should deliver something in every tenure. Every two years, something needs to be done. So they need to be able to show at the end of the two-year period. This is what I've done. And your behalf over the last 19 to 20 months. 22 months. That's correct. In even community work or something, whether it be an involvement in schools, something needs to happen. Talk about your political history. You win part of campaigns in the past? Yes, I have. I studied in the campaign area during tumble. When tumble had no support, my husband was drafted as a via, or you call it via restore hope. He became the president and I became

31:10his helper. Restore hope, pick up. And when nobody believed or trust tumble, headquarters was ready. And everything changed. The dynamics changed around at the time. It was mappance neither. And we took the ball and what they look as what's going to happen. We make it happen. And tumble had a kick off when you see people tear off the shirt and put tumble t-shirt. I was the headquarters coordinator. I was the cook because the cook run out today. So I, I became the cleaner. Yes, the Johnny Kekka and the chicken leg, which I did plan to even want to fight me for it because I was supposed to cook more rice. And tumble would come in and he would ask for his food to be taken to him. We did a lot of cumfacin. We did a lot of recruitment. We did functions. We did

32:16fundraising. Everything that we touched became gold, except for the last one. And that was what, whatever happened to via restore hope because I started over that bang in the 90s. It was supporting this night on my team originally. Oh, no, that was at the friend group. That was a different. Yes, that was on the Ira Hubson. Yeah. Yeah. And the other people. So, there were two editions of the V.I. Restore hope is what you said. Two iterations. Yes, when we came into it, if we was drafted by, I wouldn't call names, but by a general. And my husband, I guess, this is Jerry's brother talking about. Jerry's brother. Yes. So he talked to the mantel and he started running. He told me, well, when I'm at work, you need to make sure everything goes well. So I had a flower shop at that time. I had to close my flower shop and turn into campaigning. He was a DMV director. The Bureau of Motor Vehicles.

33:19I think he was. And that the police department. Police department. Yes. Okay. The Bureau of Motor Vehicles was a division within the Virgin Islands Police Department. That's correct. I got it away from that. Yeah. Along with some other people that bow for it and act with. So, so that is your, so this is the 90s into the early 2000s. What have you been doing in the last 20 years? In the last 20 years, I worked 12 years for the Virgin Islands lottery. I was the marketing coordinator and then the special manager for that area. I did many things there. Then during the last one, which was we was working for Dana Green, which was supposed to be the first woman governor. And I got fired by map because we did not support him. And I fired back after him when he attacked my husband. So this is this is 2014. This is 2015.

34:25When 2015, I got fired on the 14. I think it was all the 15 of February by map because we did not support him. He came to our house. He went on the radio. He lied. He stood out. He called my husband name and I could not hold back. So you were a political victim is what you're saying in 2015? Yes. Up to now, I'm waiting for my attorney to work on my case because I think I'm being played because people only work for you when they have nothing and when they have they get something they forget about you. So I'm a victim of governor map. But he did make some good because he gave me some time to look at other things. So I was so blessed that I had the time and the age to retire. So he did not to me. He didn't do his homework well. So he didn't harm me. My husband already had retired. He did not know anything about us. He made a bad, he would have punished me

35:27by keeping me on. No, no. Your 2026 is the first time you're seeking public office. That's correct. Did you have any ambitions, any aspirations to do so before? I talk about it but then I said no man, that's not for me because I like to work. I like to work and that seems like a lazy job. I don't think but then I say I'm completely I say no, I can do something. Things I can influence people. I can get the young people involved. The older people, I need to work for the hospital. I need to work for my veterans are suffering. They're not getting the cure that they need in this community. And a lot of the homeless happens to be veterans. No, no, we're in the middle of a prolonged recovery from Hurricane Irma and Maria and the St. Grayside who has mostly Maria. If you were to agree the recovery on a scale I want to 10, one being poor, 10 being excellent, what would that agree? I would give them a F. Why recovery should only take about six months to a year. And

36:33secondly, we as a Virgin Islands and as people working people, I think we could have done that better by ourselves. No, remember I just asked for a numerical grade. Okay, number, okay. I'll give them if one is poor and 10 is excellent. What would you do? I give them one. One. Yes. And one why? Because it seems to me that that area is like a clearinghouse. And before we get anything done really, a lot of it goes into a administrative course and it's like you have to pay for this and contracts and that and then nothing gets done. That's not the way you do you do things in phases and you complete them. You go one by one, you don't destroy tree schools, not tree schools, don't rebuild them. That's not going to work. So you believe the recovery to this point has been a failure? Yes. We here we are into a new hurricane season and we don't have a safe hospital to have a operation or meet the needs of our community. And where they have patient,

37:41they cannot remain there during a bad hurricane. No, you are aware of the fact that the the revenue, the money is there. It's about execution. 800 plus million for one. We hospital 1.1 billion for the Schneider Regional Medical Center over two billion for our hospital's territory weight. So is that a money problem? Are you saying that we failed as released a delivery? Yes, we feel we should have at least a walking emergency room. We should have had something where we can airlift our people. We shouldn't have to take the patients without these policies or companion to a strange place anywhere because it becomes hardship. I was told that if my husband is airlift at that time, he needed to be attended to. He would have been dead if I waited on them. I took him. I asked him to check him out in the how one way emergency room. We're talking with candidate Lucy Brungie's number eight on the ballot, Independent candidate for Senate. For the 37th legislature, we'll take a break. Come back and

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40:53Tune in Saturdays at 5 PM on WTJXTV channel 12. On the mic this morning is kind of loose. Lucy broke number eight to be a member of 37's legislature of origin islands. Talk about the campaign. What are you experiencing out there? What are you hearing from your constituents? We have been going to the older people homes at Flavon Boyan and also at Princess. And we have been welcome and the accent for change. In one area I kind of felt bad because something is wrong because I went to the area near to

41:58Diamond and there I experienced certain things that I didn't know exist. I didn't know that senior citizen area was also with other people that was not of that age group. I feel that when you put seniors with younger people that have music or maybe smokes I think that is a little injustice to them. I think we should have a 55 plus and don't have these kind of things happening. They were all in good spirit and they wished me well and they received me well. Some did not answer the doors. I am not sure if they were home or they were sick because some are bedridden or limited to how they can move around. But even some without having the legs they receive as well and they was very happy to see us. I do hope that I get in because these are areas that I would be visiting very often. I think we need to do better by our elders because

43:05for me it is important because once a child, twice a child because when we become a certain age or we cannot help ourselves because it can happen to a young person too. We need care. We need specialty. We need people who has a passion for people not that they go to make a dollar and don't care about the job. People that really treat people how they would like to be treated. I'm not saying that these things are not happening there but by being in different scenarios, I know there's a luck in this. I went to train at Habagreg at one point and I was so disappointed that when we go in the morning on the job training, we don't have real washcloths and we don't have real towels and we don't have soap. When I did bring a alert to one patient that I felt need to be seen by the doctor, I was told that who authorized me to do that. As a CNA, I was trained that when I see something suspicious, because we went on the job training but we did theory. When you do theory,

44:10they instruct you, they teach you and instruct you what you're supposed to report plus you read it. When I went and I told the head nurse, I think you need to get the doctor to see this patient nurse. She flared up on me like I'm not supposed to do that. Who authorized me. I said, I'm just doing what I think I got confused. Before I knew it, before the week was done, the lady was soling. She had bed sores and she had a pipe running from her private into her back with nothing but debris and blood. After that, she died. If I had to tell the family member which I met during a campaign, what I saw, maybe they would be sued today. No, you mentioned number two is water and power authority. Talk about that. Number two is water power. We should have water, a foldable water and light as a community.

45:12Second, we have the cups of engineering right in National Guard. This is a civic area. They receive a lot of federal monies. We have a lot of equipment on the ground that just get ross and I don't know what happened to it if they sell it or they trade away or what. We also have phytema. We are surrounded by water. We have it this salination unit activated. Instead of going and entering to a foreign country, we have needs here in the territory. Use them, work them. We need drinking water, good water to pay. The sea is all around us. I don't see how why we have drought. We can build wells. There is wells. Things need to be analyzed better. The same thing with the current. The National Guard have trained people that can be electrician. Maybe there can be another emergency by phytema and the National Guard as a power

46:13company to help alleviate some of the pain. There was also a hovenza. Instead of bringing acid rain to our shores, why not use part of the hovenza as power and water and also transshipping to the Caribbean? What about tourism? Hospital. There is a lot we can do within our area. We just not be inside blinded to our own ideas when we have so much resources underground. And the National Guard, these are individuals. Most of them, some are good bit of them. If we have to look, do not have a stable job. We can create jobs. Federal monies are coming in to the coffers. Why not use some of those monies to help our people and our place? You mentioned number three on your platform education. Education? I think with education, there are certain things that need to address. For example, in health, if you don't have health,

47:19you cannot study, you cannot work. Health should start from the early age of cheering, not running around the building alone, not exercise alone. We need the kids to understand that you need to drink water because water is important for your kidneys and your body. When you run, you kill calories and you're also sweating. So you need to have intake of things. That's why maybe a couple of the guys that die after school or exercise, that could have been prevented because they maybe was exhausted and needed some water. Not only that, if you have, you have to have good eating habit. And know why? Why you eat the carrots? Why you eat greens? Our kids need to learn to eat right. And we need to tell them why. Because that's why we have a lot of diabetic and a lot of what you call it, high blood pressure and all these come to play. And when you have high blood

48:22pressure and diabetes, you'd have chronic kidney disease and nobody's preaching that. I don't know what is a big secret, but we need to protect our kidneys. There is things that we can do if we know what to do and be able to know the same times before it hit us down to the ground. We have a lot of people that are walking time bombs in our communities. They have kidney disease and they don't even know, they might be at a all-estage. Everybody should be tested for that. We're going to an infrastructure redo as a result of the hurricanes. Talk about that. Our infrastructure needs. We need sound buildings. As we go to hurricane, we need some buildings as for those that don't have a good home. We need to have structures like we could have used the old schools to become a place where you could store emergency

49:22items before the hurricane and also have set up for people to come in, very organized. We didn't have some of them that did not have their strong buildings. Some of them did not have to be demolished. We just need to be upgraded and add on. We waste a lot of money around here. We don't see to know how to recycle. Recycle is very important especially we live on an island. At one point, we may not see food for a long time. So when there is, let's say, much may, around that time, we should be storing things like water in our headquarters or building for when the hurricane hits if we don't have no water. It might take days or months for us to get supplies. We need to have that for our people. Emerize whatever it is, we need to count goods. We need to have a plan. It shouldn't be until the month of September or August that the

50:22Red Cross get together. The VITMA, Nashankad, should be activated to do some of that work. As we head towards November, what are you hoping to accomplish when talking to the electorate about considering voting for Lucy Loosbrough as a member of the 37th Legislature representing the district as a member of the state? I would say I am asking for your vote. It's not just a vote. It's an opening to a better government, a better Senate, a more involved Senate. I think we need to hold策meatings. I think we need to meet the people that vote as in, not close the door after we get elected. In my area, I think I will formulate an area where I have somebody that is in the resource area and also outreach. We need to outreach our citizens and find out their needs.

51:30We need to start to gather information. We might not be able to cover everything at once, but at least we can start because we need to have a formula to reach our people. Or maybe again, it could be something of this district. Jaina Harikin or a certain thing, assign a senator to a certain district. That might be another way to do it. Are you talking or advocating for some type of election reform, where senators have more specific responsibilities for different areas on St. Croix? Yes, I do. I do. I think it's much needed because senators legislate and the interview personnel division heads. But I think we get some sidetrack on that and we don't really deal with the issues on the ground. I think during a time of disaster, we need to be more involved

52:31and we also should be held accountable to something tangible where we make a difference. Give me a closing remark, tell the people your name, your number, and what you're hoping to accomplish if elected in November. My name is Loose Brung. I'm number eight and the ballot. I am requesting your vote of confidence. I would like to accomplish at least that I am responsible for a certain area within my community. I'm in the Richmond area. I would like to see my area to grow and be much better. I also have a lot of concerns about having a right next door and we're not knowing what is going on. We need to have some meetings, not secret meetings, involvement and we need to know what is going next door. Because in certain states, you don't put a next door a residential area. Number. Number eight on your ballot. Thank you very much.

53:31Lucy Loose Brung. Nice talking to you. Just wanted. Thank you. I'm good luck with the campaign. Thank you, sir. You got it. That's Candidate. Lucy Loose Brung. She is number eight running as an independent candidate. Correct? Yes. For a seat in the 37 legislature representing the district has been crowned. I want to thank you two bodyguards for taking an easy out of me this morning. You know what I'm saying? Yes. Thank you. I know he I know me. I'm free to he. You know what he I know me. I know me. I got a boyfriend. We were back when he was there with me my very first time seeking office back in 2004. So tomorrow we have I believe one candidate tomorrow. The first candidate that missed my Francis. I think we have we we scheduled her. She's going to be coming I believe on a 24 but tomorrow I'll be milking. It's going to be turning us here in the studio and the campaign continues. We'll be keeping an eye on it with 54 days away from November the third

54:34but we're actually a little closer than that because early voting starts on October 16th. Right? So Mrs. 16 and today 36 days. Yeah, we got 20 more days in September. So on the 6th under 30 60. Yeah, yeah, five weeks on Monday as it starts on a Friday. October 16th. That's when the early voting window will commence that will last until Halloween. October 31st. So we got 16 days of early voting. Then they'll take two days off so that they could transition to the different polling centers because early voting takes place at the election system office in the respective districts. Right? And then we got five polling places. I'm St. Croix five five ones in town. Four and same Thomas two and St. John. Okay. Guy Benjamin and Julius Pro in St. John in St. Thomas. They hope to be at the red can but if not it'll be at the

55:40the but the shelter also they will be they're also looking at the two park mile Charter Mali high school and the edges Blake sports and fitness center. That's the four areas in St. Thomas and St. Croix as I mentioned earlier with Mr. Haynes. Canne Gator. What was St. Dustin which is now Montessori. Central high school. St. Joseph. High school. The Catholic high school and Claudo Marco. So that's the 11 in the territory. I don't forget it's a gubernatorial election cycle. Right. I know come you big at this year and they normally is in the non-gubbernatorial election cycle that we pay attention to everything from a detailed standpoint. Right. I'm sure that the electorate is informed. Right. Going into the voting window. Finally and most importantly right in order to participate you must meet the registration

56:46requirements and you must register the vote if you're not registered by now 30 days before the November the third date. So October the fourth is the registration deadline. Okay. You got 27 more days and I told you after that and then three days. Uh, uh, uh, in November that's the 30 day window. So election deadline is October the fourth 2026. Okay. And then early voting start on the 16th of the 31st and the election did itself in November the third. Anyway, thank you very much for listening today. Thank you very much to Samari Hansen who spoke with us in November one in the Canada speak and thank you to Miss Lucy Brong number eight on the sanitorial ballot. Uh, who was with us on the Canada speak here in the 9 o'clock or be good and be safe. Talk to you tomorrow. The views and opinions expressed on analyze this are entirely those of the on air participants

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