The long-awaited reopening of the All Saints West clinic is now within reach, with candidate Anthony Smith Jr. saying the facility could be completed within days, even as questions arise over the timing of the project so close to general elections.
Smith, the Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party candidate for All Saints West, said the clinic will offer expanded services, including dental care and a 24-hour pharmacy, once it reopens. He described the development as a major step forward for healthcare access in the constituency, where residents have gone years without a functioning facility.
“The commitment was actually for last week, so I’m very hopeful that this week the clinic in All Saints West will be completed,” Smith said, noting that he receives regular updates from contractors and Public Works officials.
The project has become a focal point in the campaign, with critics suggesting that the pace of work reflects election-driven priorities rather than long-term planning. Smith rejected that view, maintaining that the clinic upgrade was in motion well before the election season.
Work on the facility began months ago, he said, following advocacy shortly after he entered office. The project was part of a broader government plan that included upgrades to other clinics before work shifted to All Saints West.
“It’s just happened that we will be completing the clinic just around the time of elections,” Smith said, adding that delays are common in construction but that the project is now nearing completion.
The clinic’s reopening is expected to ease pressure on nearby health centres, particularly the Glanvilles Polyclinic, where many residents have had to travel for care during the closure.
Smith said the upgraded facility reflects his push to improve both infrastructure and social services in the constituency, alongside ongoing road and water projects.
With voters set to go to the polls on April 30, the clinic’s completion has added to the debate over whether visible development projects should factor into electoral decisions — or whether they represent overdue investments finally being delivered.
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Yep all west near finish demolishing you a traitor Anthony smith. So correct we voting Lovell and UPP.
Yep all saints west near finish demolishing you a traitor Anthony smith. So correct we voting Lovell and UPP.
I wish you would get a longer and stronger red tie.
Attach it to a rafter and do what Judas did.
When your eulogy is being read the balance on the six million dollars woukd also be read.
The world needs more principled men.
You are not one of them.
Even though it looks odds-on that ABLP will win the General Election (Arrrghhh!🤬), it is also odds-on that Anthony ‘Judas’ Smith will LOSE All Saints West (hooray!😁)
According to my friends that live there, they cannot wait to kick out this duplicitous UPP turncoat.
After the election Smith’s political career done; and he’ll probably end up working in All Saints anyways at the nearby KFC 🤣
But don’t worry yourself boss, I’m a good tipper 💵
🎶”WHEEEEL ME AH TELL YOOOUU…”🎶
We REDy 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 Still Legit With SMITH
And that’s right feller we mellow wit’ YELLOW 🟨🟦🟨🟦🟨🟦🟨🟦🟨🟦🟨🟦🟨🟦 Harold Lovell all the way. Yeehaw!!!
UPP also love BLUE, and the ASW people know that SMITH hasn’t got a CLUE
🎶”WHEEEEL…”🎶
AIEEEE MI AH TELL YOOOUU 🤣
YOUNG Anthony Smith Jr. will banish the LOSER DINOSAUR once and for all come April 30th.
Joanne massiah did not realize all the industrial countries that do mining and production need people with a degree in Rick and dirt, all the cell phone and battery and copper wires came from rock and dirt.
Voting Lovell and UPP.
ANTHONY SMITH gwine et trample loveLIE on April 30th. Finally the IMF, ROMANTIC RHYTHMS, WADADLI POWER CAN’T, ABIB COLLAPSER, ANTI-UWI FIVE ISLANDS CAMPUS, CAN’T PARK AT EAST BUS STATION, LOSER will be kicked to the curb like a cheating ex. He will stay in retirement for good this time!!!!
@ Vote UPP
Please leave Joanne Massiah alone. Since they all lost their deposits last election she doesn’t know whether she’s going or coming. The mistake she made after the split with UPP is that she did not do the Judas thing and become a Judes (female Judas) she would definitely be on Gaston’s ticket, he can’t say no to backstabbers
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