On Sunday, March 26, 2023, Honourable Alvera Maduro-Caines, Representative for the 6th District, held her campaign launch at the Omar Hodge Fisherman’s Wharf & Park. The launch, however, took a stark turn as Maduro-Caines presented her plans to the District. The plans bore frightening similarities to Candidate Myron Walwyn's, which he had presented via social media and printed collateral just two weeks earlier. As Honourable Maduro-Caines presented, listeners under the live began to comment on the similarities. As they commented, the comments were removed by the moderator of the live Facebook feed, but not before they were screenshots and widely circulated.
 

Plans Side By Side…

1. Maduro-Caines - She will develop a plan and deliver it in four years.
   
   Walwyn - presented on March 8th: Develop a plan for the people and by the people.
    
2. Maduro-Caines - creating a platform to ready persons for jobs and to get them placed in jobs.
   
   Walwyn - presented on March 8th: Establish a Youth Employment Programme in conjunction with businesses in the district and other businesses to provide employment to young people in the district.
    
3. Maduro-Caines - Getting persons certified and accredited through the technical school and other institutions to end unemployment.
   
   Walwyn - Presented on March 8th: Utilise the Technical School as a Trade School in the evenings to provide vocational programmes to 6th District residents and the wider Virgin Islands Community.
   *The Technical School of the Virgin Islands was the brainchild of Myron Walwyn as the Minister of Education and was completed under his tenure.
    
4. Maduro-Caines - To monitor students while in school to ensure graduation rate increases.
   
   Walwyn - Presented on March 8th: Establish homework clubs in the district to assist students with homework and supplemental studies.
    
5. Maduro-Caines - To turn the district into a living, breathing tourism Mecca.
   
   Walwyn - Presented on March 8th: Ensure that the district is better positioned to benefit from the tourism sector by highlighting places of historical interest and assisting with the development of various scenic locations where commerce could be developed by residents to create new business opportunities.  

Honourable Alvera Maduro-Caines has been the elected representative for the 6th District for the past 12 years. Constituents have said that the District has been left behind, and there have been no signs of improvement for the District during her tenure. Constituents are asking questions: Why haven’t these plans been presented before? How will they now be completed in four years? What about the past 13 years?

Following the elections of 2019, Honourable Maduro-Caines, who ran under the NDP ticket for 12 years, to the dismay and surprise of her constituents, crossed the floor to join the Virgin Islands Party Government in January 2020. At that point, there were allegations that she was promised the Omar Hodge Fisherman’s Wharf & Park to cross the floor. The establishment was built in April 2021 and remains in disrepair with no real use to the District.

Alvera Mauro-Caines is running under the theme ‘Our District Gaines with Caines,’ with other campaign slogans referring to her as the great hope for the District. The Constituents are saying otherwise.