{"id":212488,"date":"2024-09-26T07:42:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T11:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=212488"},"modified":"2024-09-26T07:42:01","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T11:42:01","slug":"letter-government-treasury-empty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/letter-government-treasury-empty\/","title":{"rendered":"LETTER: Government Treasury Empty"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With the Government scratching for money and emptying the pockets of all of the Statutory bodies including APUA, Airport & Port, all who do not support the ignorance going on are being victimized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Government has normalized not answering correspondence, not answering telephone calls, employing persons who block all queries and persons who question the integrity of the operations of government and their corrupt officers.<\/p>

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V.C. Bird used to say, \u2018where you tie, you eat\u2019 which is now the mantra of all those who have power of the government purse, sale of Antigua\u2019s lands, and convertible assets. The same people doing favours for each other, monetizing every aspect of government operations.<\/p>

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The island is being buried in overgrowth, while all the heavy duty equipment owned by high ranking officials sit waiting to be paid, refusing to put their equipment to work for government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The entire system is rigged for rip-off. Housing has supplied many house supplies bound for the site, to \u2018change of address\u2019 without explanation. Entire building complexes built right in front of everyone, in prominent places effected by rigging the same departments which officers oversee. Much of this is done in trade with rich business patrons and partners in crime.<\/p>

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With the monied companies and their owners trading and bartering the people\u2019s assets, very little is left over for the Treasury. All those waiting for their invoices to be honored by the Treasury are the Black people of Antigua, who have nothing to barter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Namco (Nyamco) seems to have gone into oblivion with its chairman, and the CIP is one of the cheapest in the region, as low as $40,000 for an Antiguan passport. Even our Airport re-application for Category 1 is being jeopardized by the insistence on calling Barbuda International.<\/p>

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Finally the Treasury is making an asinine overreach for continued funding from Japan, by telling the world that 108 sq ml island of 100 thousand persons who don\u2019t do whales except for watching, will fight all of them together supporting Japan to hunt and kill whales.<\/p>

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Suffering Local<\/strong><\/p>\n

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