ABLP Sets April 12 Convention

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Full House At ABLP Executive Meeting In February 2025/Photo by Wayne Mariette

The Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party is preparing to shift into campaign mode with a national convention scheduled for April 12, a key event expected to lock in candidates and signal the party’s next political move.

Among those set to be formally endorsed are Dr Philmore Benjamin in St Mary’s North and Kendra Beazer in Barbuda, completing an important phase of candidate selection ahead of a potential early poll.

Political sources suggest the convention may serve as more than a routine gathering, with indications that a general election could be called soon after. If that scenario unfolds, the meeting would effectively mark the starting point of Labour’s election push.

The ruling party heads into this period strengthened by its recent by-election victory in St Philip North, a result widely viewed as reinforcing its organisational strength and voter support.

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9 COMMENTS

  1. I’d be interested to know what percentage of ABLP members were former UPP associates when this convention takes place?

    Could it be 10%, 50% or maybe even 90%?

    Yes, I jest, but the amount of former UPP defections is troubling for our democracy to function properly.

    Hopefully a new ABLP leader emerges from this.

  2. Brixtonian, the convention is been schedule now because the leader knows he has enough UPP political prostitutes on his side . No way chet or anyone else dear to challenge him. How many years now the ABLP haven’t called a convention? Gaston has all the balls in his court ,so the time is right. . You realized there were no primary in st.Mary’s North? The flip flopper was hand picked by Gaston over all the entrenched laborites. Them people have no shame !

  3. Amen to that. U think Gaston stupid. Form his own party using labour party but not thinking of using a single soul out of that organisation to form it.

  4. WHICH OF THE MEMBERS HAVE THE “COJONES”TO RUN AGAINST GAS-MAN BROWNE FOR LEADERSHIP OF THE PARTY? NOT A ONE,KNOW NOT ONE.THEY DO NOT HAVE THAT INTESTINAL FORTITUDE TO DO SO.THIS SO CALLED CONVENTION IS A SHOW,SIMILAR TO A CIRCUS,IN MY OPINION.THE MEMBERS WOULD BE FALLING TO THEIR KNEES TO KISS THE RING OF GAS-MAN BROWNE.

  5. I know @Straight Talk, the original members of the ABLP are a bunch of wimps, and they know it too! They haven’t got the kahunas to challenge Gaston Browne; and you only have to witness how Chet ‘Grissal Back’ Greene was disrespected by him in recent times when his position was snubbed with the Antiguan Ambassador recently.

    And also look how former UPP members have usurped them into higher positions since they defected?

    Bunch of MILKSOPS the lot of them…

  6. Say whatever you want about Gaston. For me the dude is probably the greatest CHARLATAN ever, even miles ahead of Trump, but he knows how to play politics, he has the ABLP Party so constructed that no one dares to challenge not even someone as accomplished as Chet Greene. Who he hasn’t turned into matchstick men are jellyfish. NO FRIGGING BACKBONE

  7. You guys been pushing Chet for years, but whether it’s Chet or any other member, going up against the PM and present leader is a loosing venture, and guess what! This will now become a blite in the ABLP, headline news, talk of the town, and big political drama within, but I guess this is what most are hoping for.

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