I spent more than twenty years inside the health of these Virgin Islands. I stand for a country that takes care of its own, the way it once knew how. Healthcare you can reach before you are in crisis. A clinic close to home. A hospital that works. A system that meets you where you live instead of waiting for you to arrive too late.

But I have learned that health is never only about hospitals. It begins on the plate, in the pay packet, in the home. A country where the basics work – water that comes when you turn the tap, paperwork that moves, food a family can afford – is a healthier country. These things are connected, and we have governed for too long as if they were not.

I stand for the working people who pay into a system every two weeks and deserve to know it will be there when they need it. What we pay in should be honoured by what we get back.

And most of all, I stand for raising a generation that understands its own health, and a country our young people want to come home to build, own, and lead.