{"id":353526,"date":"2025-12-09T16:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=353526"},"modified":"2025-12-10T06:34:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T10:34:46","slug":"pastor-rodney-throws-his-hat-in-political-ring-says-its-time-for-servanthood-in-governance-not-self-aggrandizement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/homepage-carousel\/pastor-rodney-throws-his-hat-in-political-ring-says-its-time-for-servanthood-in-governance-not-self-aggrandizement\/","title":{"rendered":"Pastor Rodney throws his hat in political ring; says it&#8217;s time for servanthood in governance, not self-aggrandizement"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_353528\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-353528\" style=\"width: 430px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-353528 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Pastor-Randy-Rodney-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"418\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-353528\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pastor Rodney<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After what he said was some deliberate introspection on his part, Pastor Randy Rodney has made a decision to offer himself for political office under the umbrella of the United Workers Party (UWP).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He made the remarks recently during a program on Q-95 Radio.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAfter prayerful reflection, thoughtful consultation, and honest searching of my convictions, I have made a decision. One that I believe is not about ambition, but about assignment. Not about position, but about purpose. And that decision is that I offer myself for political office, because I believe our nation needs leadership rooted in servanthood and guided by a genuine mandate to lift people,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rodney emphasized that he is stepping forward\u00a0because\u00a0he\u00a0believes\u00a0the\u00a0nation is standing at a crossroads.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe are facing challenges that require not just policymakers, but servant leaders,\u201d he remarked. \u201cNot just representatives, but individuals who understand the moral weight of stewardship. So, ladies and gentlemen, my assignment, my mandate is simple. It&#8217;s to serve with integrity, to lead with transparency and to champion the well-being of every citizen, regardless of class, community, religion, or background.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He continued, \u201cFrom the very beginning, I have understood leadership to be a call to serve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to him, true leadership is not built on titles, applause, or personal elevation. It is built on sacrifice, accountability, and a willingness to labor where others may overlook.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cQuite honestly, I have seen the struggles of our communities,\u00a0\u00a0I have listened to the concerns of our youth, our families, our workers, our elders,\u201d Rodney stated. \u201cAnd ladies and gentlemen, I cannot simply observe. I can&#8217;t simply watch from the side when I know that I have the capacity, the compassion, and the conviction to make a difference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Furthermore, he went on to add that this decision is not made lightly, \u201cIt is one born out of a burden, a burden to see justice strengthened, opportunities expanded, and unity restored.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He added, \u201cIn other words, we have to stop as a nation fighting each other, \u00a0biting each other, \u00a0simply because we have differences of opinions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rodney believes that differences of opinion should never lead Dominicans into a fight, \u201cbut we are fighting because there are forces and spirits that are propelling that fight and reducing the productivity of our nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moreover, Rodney promised to listen to the concerns of Dominicans and to act.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cCertainly, I&#8217;m not perfect, and I do not promise perfection. I promise presence,\u00a0I promise to listen, and I promise to act,\u201d he noted. \u201cAnd you ask how I plan to do that?\u00a0Well, \u00a0I have decided to do that through the aegis\u00a0of the United Workers&#8217; Party. And why the United Workers&#8217; Party?\u00a0 Because I believe in the motto of the party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He pointed out that the people come first, \u201cpeople before party, people before things, people before self-aggrandizement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He is of the view that the constitution of the UWP affords one the maintenance of rules and practices that intend to keep leaders honest and accountable.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe constitution of the United Workers Party does not allow for a dictatorial leader to remain in office for any length of time because they are answerable to the people,\u201d Rodney stated. \u201cIn a democracy&#8211;and gentlemen&#8211;the leaders must be accountable and answerable to the people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He continued,\u00a0\u00a0\u201cWe are living at a time where it is quite apparent that our leader is not answerable to anybody but himself, not even our ministers and our parliamentary representatives seem to be accountable to the people. It is United Workers Party because the level and the standard of discourse and the balance between the people, their talent, their skill, and the exercise of integrity and honesty is what attracted me there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rodney claims that this is a decision borne out of a burden to see the lives of the people of Dominica change for the better, so that there is a reduction in partisan politics and cronyism in order to get to the place where the bread and butter issues of the average Dominican person is addressed, not fooled, \u201c by promising them some money or even a house that they don&#8217;t own, but that their interests are taken into consideration seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSo that every person and every family can build a future for themselves and their family as it used to happen in days and years gone by,\u201d he asserted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He leveraged that for almost two decades, there has been impoverishment, calculated decisions to take bread away from people, and calculated decisions to ensure that most of the money of the state is either in the pockets of a few in Dominica, or mostly in the pockets of some outside of Dominica.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI give myself a service in that regard, and I look forward to working with every one of you for the good of the lovely Commonwealth of Dominica,\u201d Rodney stated. \u201cI look forward to the delegates&#8217; conference next Sunday, and I am hopeful that the people of Dominica, the delegates of the United Workers&#8217; Party, will think again and elect leadership with a servant heart, with compassion, and with a burden for people.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After what he said was some deliberate introspection on his part, Pastor Randy Rodney has made a decision to offer himself for political office under the umbrella of the United Workers Party (UWP). 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