{"id":186175,"date":"2023-09-26T09:13:27","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T13:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=186175"},"modified":"2023-09-26T09:13:27","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T13:13:27","slug":"letter-antigua-is-a-joke-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/letter-antigua-is-a-joke-country\/","title":{"rendered":"LETTER: Antigua is a Joke Country"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dear Editor,<\/p>

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This country and its leaders are really like\u00a0Comedy Central.<\/p>\n

PM goes abroad and\u00a0makes big speeches about global warming, protection of the sea and cutting down on the use of fossil fuels.<\/p>

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Then what does he do?<\/p>

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Dredge wildly at North Sound, dumps the dredged material and creates a new obstruction.<\/p>\n

All of this new destruction to the eco space to allow a new, huge oil tanker in to make more money for the energy family.<\/p>

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Next joke.<\/p>\n

We are sending Police and soldiers to Haiti.<\/p>

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For what? We can’t deal with crime here and we are going to help somebody else? Our security forces do not have a clue. What are they going to do, create more confusion on Haiti?<\/p>

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Refurbishing the St. John’s Police Station. First a million dollars to retrofit the Customs Offices at Dredge Bay. No tender.<\/p>\n

Then 3 million to do the Police station. No tender.<\/p>\n

We spent millions with the goodly Senator to convert the school at Nugent\u00a0Avenue to a Covid Hospital, It sits there doing nothing. Money spent. Money wasted. More joke.<\/p>\n

Ministers away every day. Huge cost. Huge per diems. What do they achieve?<\/p>\n

Is joke they joking.<\/p>\n

And we accept all of this? But none better than none. The whole raft of politicians from all sides are a waste of time. We only producing jokers because is joke we like.<\/p>\n

BIGGS<\/p>\n

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Dear Editor, This country and its leaders are really like\u00a0Comedy Central. PM goes abroad and\u00a0makes big speeches about global warming, protection of the sea and cutting down on the use of fossil fuels. Then what does he do? Dredge wildly at North Sound, dumps the dredged material and creates a new obstruction. 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