Nordeen McKenzie has taken the “bold move” to rectify what she says has gone wrong in the Bath Division of the St Thomas Parish Council.

The 45-year-old will be vying for a chance to represent her community at the local government level come November 28 — election day.

“Well, I’ve decided to do this because I’ve been living in Bath for all my years and to me right now, I consider Bath to be dead. It’s just flat. Nothing has been done,” said McKenzie, who is running on the ticket of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) said.

“The Bath that I am used to, compared to now, my God it’s a shame, it’s a disgrace. So I take a very bold move, to move forward to attack the problems that are facing Bath,” she said.

The first-time candidate confessed her ignorance to the political arena but is determined to make a change.

“I wasn’t an activist, as a matter of fact I only worked as presiding officer. I know nothing about politics and I just take up the challenge and I am ready,” McKenzie told the Jamaica Observer.

“The youth on the road, nothing has been done with them; the only thing I see is that they are on the corners. The road is bad, the community centre is not being fixed up, we have a park, the garden — nothing has been done and the Bath that I know that I am born in, I can’t sit back and allow that to happen,” McKenzie told the SundayObserver.

But Ludlow Mathison, the incumbent councillor for the division, is unperturbed by his opponent and is confident of victory.

“Up to now I don’t even know who a compete against me because I hear all different type of names. The way the Bath Division fix and set fi di People’s National Party I don’t know who confirm fi run against me, an it don’t matter who want confirm,” he said.

Though he was unable to speak of his work in the community, the man who has served for eight years as councillor noted that his work guarantees him re-election.

“If I should name the things what I do in the division it would take up the whole time. But I have done a lot of things in regard to the Bath Division,” he told the Sunday Observer.

Speaking of his certain victory, Mathison reasoned about the number of supporters he brought to the nomination centre to highlight his certain victory.

“If when on Nomination Day at a local government election and I can bring out 50 vehicles from the division, that tell you enuh, that tell,” he said.

There are 10 divisions in St Thomas. Seven of the 10 seats were secured by the PNP in the 2012 election.

The Bath Division is located in St Thomas Eastern, the constituency of Member of Parliament Dr Fenton Ferguson.