{"id":13151,"date":"2018-03-06T13:06:18","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T17:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=13151"},"modified":"2018-03-06T13:06:18","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T17:06:18","slug":"pm-says-hell-implement-all-upp-promises-that-make-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/pm-says-hell-implement-all-upp-promises-that-make-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"PM says he’ll implement all UPP promises that make sense"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In direct response to many of the promises made at the United Progressive Party\u2019s (UPP) campaign launch\u00a0on Saturday,\u00a0<\/span>Prime Minister Gaston Browne has said that \u201canything that is doable that the UPP promises, that I will do it\u2026 my government will do it.\u201d<\/p>

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PM Browne, who already released his Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party\u2019s (ABLP) manifesto last Thursday, admitted that \u201ceven though [the promises] are not in our manifesto, since [the UPP] promised it, we will do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Prime Minister vowed that as of the next meeting of Cabinet\u00a0this Wednesday<\/span>, that he will formalize many of the \u2018doable\u2019 UPP promises into policy directives that will be, \u201ceffective immediately.\u201d<\/p>

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UPP Chairman D. Gisele Isaac lashed back at Browne saying that, \u201cit’s ironic that the UPP leadership is dumb but the Finance Minister is rushing to implement our ideas. Why cog from a dunce?\u201d<\/p>

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\u201cIf he can’t run the country, give the job to Harold Lovell.\u201d<\/p>\n

In his statement, however, Browne did outline that there were several promises of the opposition party that were \u201coutlandish and cannot happen.\u201d<\/p>

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\u201cWhy is it that anything to benefit the majority, the working class, is outlandish\u201dIssac asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is outlandish is government buying a failing cinema and bailing out a failed paint company and a private bank with questionable ownership. What is outlandish is one billion dollars in CIP revenues and going across the world to beg US$1 million.\u201d<\/p>

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\u201cWas water with School Meals outlandish, too? I thought outlandish meant Antigua spending CIP money on Jamaican films,\u201d the chairman said.<\/p>

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In direct response to many of the promises made at the United Progressive Party\u2019s (UPP) campaign launch\u00a0on Saturday,\u00a0Prime Minister Gaston Browne has said that \u201canything that is doable that the UPP promises, that I will do it\u2026 my government will do it.\u201d PM Browne, who already released his Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party\u2019s (ABLP) manifesto […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"\nPM says he'll implement all UPP promises that make sense - 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-says-hell-implement-all-upp-promises-that-make-sense\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PM says he'll implement all UPP promises that make sense\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In direct response to many of the promises made at the United Progressive Party\u2019s (UPP) campaign launch\u00a0on Saturday,\u00a0Prime Minister Gaston Browne has said that \u201canything that is doable that the UPP promises, that I will do it\u2026 my government will do it.\u201d PM Browne, who already released his Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party\u2019s (ABLP) manifesto […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/pm-says-hell-implement-all-upp-promises-that-make-sense\/\" \/>\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=\"2018-03-06T17:06:18+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\/2018\/03\/GastonCityEast.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1366\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"768\" \/>\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=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/pm-says-hell-implement-all-upp-promises-that-make-sense\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/pm-says-hell-implement-all-upp-promises-that-make-sense\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Editor\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#\/schema\/person\/36cac05ef6398fe56ae3e6317f8535c5\"},\"headline\":\"PM says he’ll implement all UPP promises that make sense\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-03-06T17:06:18+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2018-03-06T17:06:18+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/pm-says-hell-implement-all-upp-promises-that-make-sense\/\"},\"wordCount\":273,\"commentCount\":18,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/pm-says-hell-implement-all-upp-promises-that-make-sense\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1366\/h:768\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/GastonCityEast.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Politics\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/pm-says-hell-implement-all-upp-promises-that-make-sense\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/pm-says-hell-implement-all-upp-promises-that-make-sense\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/pm-says-hell-implement-all-upp-promises-that-make-sense\/\",\"name\":\"PM says he'll implement all UPP promises that make sense - 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