{"id":137266,"date":"2021-09-13T17:48:39","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T21:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=137266"},"modified":"2021-09-13T17:48:39","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T21:48:39","slug":"pm-says-he-was-not-body-shaming-300lbs-sister-of-opposition-candidate-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/pm-says-he-was-not-body-shaming-300lbs-sister-of-opposition-candidate-video\/","title":{"rendered":"PM says he was not body shaming 300lbs sister of opposition candidate  (+VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"antig-2676891773\" class=\"antig-ecab antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/discoverflow.co\/web\/antigua\" aria-label=\"ANU CVP Digital Broadband 1200x400_1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1201\/h:401\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"  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wanted to make the point that members of the opposition are undermining the vaccination process using subterfuge.<\/p><div id=\"antig-2496850364\" class=\"antig-content_4 antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/discoverflow.co\/web\/antigua\" aria-label=\"ANU CVP Digital Broadband 1200x400_1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1201\/h:401\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1201\/h:401\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg 1201w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:100\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg 300w, 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Browne told Pointe FM that he was merely trying to make the point that obese people are at serious risk of dying from COVID-19. He said he also wanted to make the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":137267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>PM says he was not body shaming 300lbs sister of opposition candidate (+VIDEO) - 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-he-was-not-body-shaming-300lbs-sister-of-opposition-candidate-video\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PM says he was not body shaming 300lbs sister of opposition candidate (+VIDEO)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Prime Minister Gaston Browne said over the weekend that his comments about an opposition politician&#8217;s sister was not meant to body shame her. 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