Is­sues of crime and pub­lic safe­ty were in full fo­cus for can­di­dates vy­ing for Tu­na­puna, as they shared their vi­sion and ex­pec­ta­tions af­ter fil­ing nom­i­na­tion pa­pers for the Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

For­mer se­nior po­lice of­fi­cer and the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress’ can­di­date Roger Alexan­der was the first to com­plete the nom­i­na­tion process, as he ar­rived at the Up­per El Do­ra­do Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­tre, on Col­lege Road, just be­fore 9 am, flanked by sup­port­ers and mu­sic trucks with drum­mers.

Speak­ing with re­porters, Alexan­der said he in­tend­ed to “lift the clouds” of un­cer­tain­ty which he said lin­gered over Tu­na­puna and sought to give all arms of the pro­tec­tive ser­vices the as­sur­ance that re­sources to do their job prop­er­ly were on the way, once his par­ty won.