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Prime Minister Gaston Browne has strongly rejected suggestions that government officials are keeping international investigators out of the country as a means of \u201ccover up\u201d in the Nigel Christian murder investigation.<\/p>

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Describing the suggestions as \u201cunfortunate,\u201d the Prime Minister said the irony about it is that there are some unsuspecting people out there, innocent people who believe this type of foolishness \u2014 which is said is being spread by United Progressive Party Leader Harold Lovell.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe FBI have been unable to come because of the COVID situation,\u201d the Prime Minister said on\u00a0Pointe FM<\/b>.<\/p>

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\u201cWhat they have done is they have asked the Royal Antigua and Barbuda Police Force to actually send all of the pieces of evidentiary material for them to do the necessary testing and so on.<\/p>

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\u201cThis is something that is ongoing. And I don\u2019t know why Lovell would want to deceive the public into thinking that there is some cover up.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Prime Minister said if the UPP Leader has information and he knows there\u2019s a cover up, and he knows exactly who the players are, who these criminal elements are who may have committed a crime directly or indirectly, \u201cthen Harold Lovell has an obligation to make the information available to the police or to law enforcement generally.\u201d<\/p>

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\u201cThis type of cheap politics, when you know you have an innocent family that is mourning the loss of a son, of a brother, it is just totally ridiculous.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Browne said as officer of the court and someone who is supposed to be a potential leader, and the leader of a major political party in this country, he is at a loss as to why Lovell would want to politicize this issue and to suggest by innuendo that there are certain officials in the government that have information and are withholding information and that justice is not being done.<\/p>

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