{"id":185821,"date":"2023-09-22T09:55:31","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T13:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=185821"},"modified":"2023-09-22T09:55:31","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T13:55:31","slug":"why-is-gaston-browne-smiling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/why-is-gaston-browne-smiling\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Is Gaston Browne Smiling??"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Letter: Why Is Gaston Browne Smiling??<\/p>

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Dear Editor,<\/p>\n

I saw a photo recently taken of Gaston Browne at the United Nations (UN) in New York. Why is he smiling? Does he realise how sick and fed up the people of Antigua and Barbuda are with him and his Cabinet?<\/p>

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This government makes my back hurt. This government gives me migraines. This government gives me indigestion. Their incompetence gives me pain in the back of my eyes. The Lord sends trials and tribulations but this one is too much. I can’t take much more of Gaston Browne’s government.<\/p>

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Does Gaston Browne not realise how much of a failure his party is? The Labour Party has mismanaged this country for more than six decades. And the way ravenous Browne behaves, we might as well rename Antigua to Gastonia, and name him Emperor. Emperor Gaston I, the Inept.<\/p>\n

The place is filthy. Every public space is ridden with bush and moss and gutter filth. The capital is a complete mess. It is unfit for us as people. We look a third world backwater. Water and electricity are still unavailable to us consistently. Legal reform and modernization is dead under Do Nothing Benjamin.<\/p>

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And the economy is as stagnant as the nasty water that settles in the nation’s bush-clogged uncleaned gutters whenever it rains.<\/p>\n

The Labour Party is a philosophically bankrupt institution. Their core value is back scratching, patronage, and rewarding their members.<\/p>

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They have zero vision for this country. Their economic mantra for 60+ years has been to build hotels. That’s it. That is the sum total of their understanding of economic theory: Build hotels and everything will be fine. It is a proven failure, and yet still, they will not stop.<\/p>

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How do hotels owned by foreign magnates and local expats catapult working class Antiguans and Barbudans into the middle class? Do the majority of hotel jobs pay middle class salaries and wages???? If the answer is no, then it means you are creating employment that will keep people in the lower class.<\/p>\n

Still, they will not stop. No matter how much coastline is consumed by ravenous starry-eyed investors, they will not stop. They will not stop until all of Antigua and Barbuda is encircled by mega hotels owned by foreign investors or expats.<\/p>\n

They will not stop until every ambition of every young Antiguan and Barbudan is expunged and replaced with the Labour Party mantra: Party Before Country. Parry Before God. Self Above All.<\/p>\n

The brain drain in this country is staggering. Every generation sees hundreds who see absolutely no point in staying here to build a life in this depressed economic, stagnant sociopolitical environment.<\/p>\n

And the people who are here – the ones that aren’t sycophants, desperately looking for an ass to kiss – are totally exhausted and disillusioned.<\/p>\n

So why is Gaston Browne smiling? Is social security in good financial standing? Do we have a vibrant economy with investment into a diverse range of sectors? Is the issue of young offending and delinquency being adequately addressed with a cooridanted state and community partnership? So why is he smiling?<\/p>\n

Housing costs are outagous. Building costs are outrageous. The mix of available space for renting and leasing is poor. Urban planning for better communities is a joke. The DCA is a nonentity. Our environmental record is tragic. But he keeps smiling. About what?<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, he and his party position themselves to suck the life blood out of the country until Antigua and Barbuda is a husk. They are vampires, all of them, a party of bloodsuckers.<\/p>\n

So, why is he smiling? I am sick to my stomach of this revolting man. The Labour Party has stolen so much potential and so many years from Antigua and Barbuda.<\/p>\n

Sincerely,\u00a0– Ernest J. Farfingbottom<\/p>\n

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