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Prime Minister Gaston Browne is defending his track record on Barbuda\u2019s development, even as tempers continue to flare on both sides over the PLH project.<\/p>

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\u201cThere is no Prime Minister in the history of this country that has shown more interest and has done more for the Barbudan people than Gaston Browne \u2014 personally and as the Prime Minister of this country,\u201d Browne said on Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn fact, my Government has done more than any other government in the history of Antigua and Barbuda for Barbuda.<\/p>

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\u201cYou will recall that one of the things we did was to give them a concrete road from River going right into Codrington. That costs us nearly about $10 million. How many communities in this country can boast of a concrete road of several miles long?\u201d<\/p>

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The Prime Minister also pointed to the more than $50 million being spent to build a new international airport that can accommodate jet traffic.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey have a little airport there now that can\u2019t even take the smallest LIAT, and we\u2019re giving them an airport now that can take jet traffic. That too, they\u2019re trying to frustrate,\u201d Browne said.<\/p>

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\u201cWe also have a project, for example, prior to Hurricane Irma in which we are going to spend about $25 million to establish one megawatt of green energy for Barbuda plus some other ancillary services. That project is being implemented now; and here\u2019s a Council trying to present itself as though they\u2019re the ones initiating the project.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Prime Minister said that after the passage of Hurricane Irma, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela provided a $3 million grant to help with the recovery.<\/p>

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\u201cIt is me who picked up the phone and called [President Nicholas] Maduro and said, \u2018Look, I know you\u2019re struggling but right now we\u2019re on our face, we need your help.\u2019<\/p>

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\u201cImmediately after the hurricane President Maduro sent us two military aircraft to assist with the recovery, one of which we used to evacuate them. And the irony about it, they told the entire world that I took them off Barbuda so I could steal their land, when my Government took them off of Barbuda so that we could save lives; so that we can prevent any outbreak of Cholera or any waterborne disease,\u201d Prime Minister Browne added.<\/p>\n

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Prime Minister Gaston Browne is defending his track record on Barbuda\u2019s development, even as tempers continue to flare on both sides over the PLH project. \u201cThere is no Prime Minister in the history of this country that has shown more interest and has done more for the Barbudan people than Gaston Browne \u2014 personally and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nPM Browne defends track record on helping Barbuda - Antigua News Room<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/pm-browne-defends-track-record-on-helping-barbuda\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PM Browne defends track record on helping Barbuda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Prime Minister Gaston Browne is defending his track record on Barbuda\u2019s development, even as tempers continue to flare on both sides over the PLH project. \u201cThere is no Prime Minister in the history of this country that has shown more interest and has done more for the Barbudan people than Gaston Browne \u2014 personally and […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/pm-browne-defends-track-record-on-helping-barbuda\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Antigua News Room\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/antiguanewsroom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-08-09T13:47:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/10-07-Guterres-Barbuda-117.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"683\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@AntiguaNewsRoom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@AntiguaNewsRoom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/pm-browne-defends-track-record-on-helping-barbuda\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/pm-browne-defends-track-record-on-helping-barbuda\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Editor\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#\/schema\/person\/36cac05ef6398fe56ae3e6317f8535c5\"},\"headline\":\"PM Browne defends track record on helping Barbuda\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-08-09T13:47:16+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-08-09T13:47:16+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/pm-browne-defends-track-record-on-helping-barbuda\/\"},\"wordCount\":392,\"commentCount\":1,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/pm-browne-defends-track-record-on-helping-barbuda\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1024\/h:683\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/10-07-Guterres-Barbuda-117.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/pm-browne-defends-track-record-on-helping-barbuda\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/pm-browne-defends-track-record-on-helping-barbuda\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/pm-browne-defends-track-record-on-helping-barbuda\/\",\"name\":\"PM Browne defends track record on helping Barbuda - 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