Reginald Wayne Scott, chief technology officer at Logic Communications and cousin of Premier Alex Scott, was yesterday announced as the Opposition?s newest approved candidate for Constituency 27, Warwick North Central. Recounting yesterday how, as a boy, he would ride to school on the bus and watch men sitting on the wall, Mr. Scott said he often wondered ?why would they do that??

Ten or twelve years later, he said, he himself was sitting on that very same wall watching schoolboys riding by on the bus ? and suddenly he thought: ?What the hell am I doing? This is not my life and I?m going to do something about it. I was heading in the wrong direction,? he explained ? so he turned it around.

Now, he feels Bermuda is in the same place he was: heading in the wrong direction. But: ?I?ve been there, done that ... I made the choice, so I believe it is possible, I?m one of the many examples.?

The son of Reginald and Minna Scott, Mr. Scott is also the nephew of former UBP parliamentarian Irving Pearman.

He spent his early years in Massachusetts before returning to Bermuda, growing up on Spice Hill Road near the Warwick Holiness Church and later on Khyber Heights Road.

Graduating with a BSc in Computer Science from Atlantic Union College and then with a Master?s in Finance and Management in 1997, Mr. Scott has been employed at Logic since 2003. His time living both in Bermuda and overseas has equipped him with an open mind, he said.

As for why he chose to align himself with the UBP, Mr. Scott said there were good people on both sides of the political divide, and people on both sides who some believe should not be there. However the UBP?s plan, he said, continues to go from strength to strength.

At a press conference at Warwick Bowl yesterday, UBP Leader Grant Gibbons described Mr. Scott as ?a real asset? to his party. As Opposition, he replied, ?one issue we have to face is we have to be ready for an election at any time?. Mr. Scott was chafing at the bit, he said ? ?so we said why not??

Former Constituency 27 candidate Yvette Swan, he said, has ?found a higher calling? ? she is going into the ministry and the party needed to find someone to replace her.