{"id":222586,"date":"2025-01-20T12:46:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T16:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=222586"},"modified":"2025-01-20T12:54:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T16:54:48","slug":"letter-keep-wehner-out-of-your-hypocrisy-by-d-gisele-isaac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/letter-keep-wehner-out-of-your-hypocrisy-by-d-gisele-isaac\/","title":{"rendered":"LETTER | Keep Wehner out of your hypocrisy: by D. Gisele Isaac"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a><\/div>
\"\"<\/a><\/div>\n

By D.Gisele Isaac<\/strong><\/p>

\"\"<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The hypocrisy is too much to bear now.  Listening to the critics of the United Progressive Party (UPP) up to Sunday, during The Big Issues, I was forced to ask myself whether the national situation will ever be better, when some folks are so quick to strain at a gnat while they swallow a camel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It appears that the biggest thing coming out of the St. Peter by-election last Tuesday is candidate George Wehner\u2019s soldierly stand as the ballots were counted.  To hear some tell it, his party sent him on a solo flight over enemy territory and then shut down all communication with the cockpit.  What a crock!<\/p>

\"\"<\/a><\/div>
\"\"<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Retired from army duty though he is, George Wehner remains a declared soldier, a military and militant personality.  He went into the by-election a soldier and he came out of it in the same fashion.  In every outing, in every interview, Wehner referred to his training, his thought processes, and his operations in military terms \u2013 including how he would behave on a \u201csniper mission\u201d or in an \u201cambush\u201d situation.<\/p>

\"\"<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Those terms elicited great offense in some quarters, as the critics deliberately took them out of context.  I heard the implications and the insinuations, and I was reminded of the incident, some years ago, when the Browne Administration, with the complicity of the Police brass, attempted to paint him as armed and dangerous, a weapons expert on the loose.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The persecution and prosecution arose out of a months-old advertisement for his radio programme, \u201cIn the Trenches,\u201d which \u2013 as he explained on the Nation\u2019s Station \u2013 was merely political satire, a theme in keeping with his military background.  However, despite the promotion having aired \u2013 and threatened no one \u2013 in months, the political directorate decided to make it into what it was never was; and no less a person than the then police commissioner agreed to issue a \u201cwarning bulletin,\u201d alerting the citizenry to the danger he supposedly posed, and calling on Wehner to surrender.<\/p>

\"\"<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n

It was a farce.  And if the intention had not been to have him shot on sight by some citizen allegedly defending himself, I might have laughed.  But all discerning people realized that a target was being painted on the soldier\u2019s back.  Where was the outrage of these critics, then, when a manhunt was launched for this person who had done no wrong?  Who, other than his UPP brethren, kept vigil outside Police Headquarters after he voluntarily \u201cturned himself in\u201d \u2013 though he was no common criminal \u2013 and was put in a mosquito-infested cell on the compound?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only a seriously malicious person \u2013 or a fool \u2013 would believe that Wehner, all by himself, waged a brilliant, disturbing, and effective campaign in\u00a021\u00a0days to capture virtually as many votes as the party\u2019s\u00a0last\u00a0general-election foray into St. Peter. \u00a0Only a willingly deluded\u00a0person would believe that, because the soldier elected to \u201cstand and be counted,\u201d he had been abandoned. \u00a0Only a volunteer blind and deaf\u00a0smaddy\u00a0would say they did not see and hear his colleagues \u2013 from the former prime minister and the former political leader to the current leader and deputy \u2013 on the hustings. \u00a0Not to mention his colleague candidates and caretakers, seasoned and new.<\/a><\/p>

\"\"<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I know some media outlets set out to photo-propagandize, but those on the ground saw and recognized supporters from the party\u2019s 16 branches at the meetings and during the canvassing.  And I also know they recognized that the team of white-clad workers on by-election day and night were, in fact, members and executives of the UPP.<\/p>

\"\"<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n

So why the hypocrisy now? Why, now, the fake sympathy?  Why, at this time, the insincere plaudits and commendations from folks who did not, at any other time, wish Wehner well?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What Wehner did was historic.  No other candidate, for any party, at any time, had done it. You know what else was historic in St. Peter?  He was a candidate that said, up front, \u201cI\u2019m not a bank or a banker,\u201d and so he came bearing no gifts and offering no inducements for votes \u2013 only effective advocacy for the long-neglected residents of St. Peter.  Where is the praise for that, ye critics?  And where is the credit for the party and its leadership for selecting such a transparent candidate?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the meantime, as his political opponents try to create a breach that never was, they have nothing to say about the real breaches that happened during the by-election.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Antigua and Barbuda Electoral Commission (ABEC) had claimed that the \u201cdirt\u201d of the last general election \u2013 specifically, the boast that voters were transferred, as charity<\/em>, into weak Labour seats, plus the allegation that hundreds of persons had been transferred by the late St. Peter MP into the constituency \u2013 would automatically be cleaned up.  How?  By virtue of \u201cproof of address\u201d being required for revalidation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, while the law-abiding dutifully took along their utility bill or bank statement to prove that, yes, we actually live in St. Peter, ABEC, on the eve of the by-election, took the decision NOT to require proof of address, after all, and to issue new cards on the strength of persons already being on the voters list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And why, after the longstanding practice of parties\u2019 mock stations not being allowed on the voting premises, were the dozens of brown-shirted Labour Party agents <\/em>permitted to stand or sit outside every single voting station with their clipboards and lists to identify voters?  And, why, yet again<\/em>, did the picture list have almost three dozen more names on the picture list than the other List of Electors?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The double standard stinks, and it needs to be talked about and condemned, especially since, one, all transfers are effected at ABEC\u2019s headquarters; two, specific objections to the 2023 voting lists were ignored by Commission staff; and, three, last Tuesday there was no attempt at all to address the brown-shirt brigade\u2019s activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I invite those who now claim to admire Captain Wehner\u2019s stoicism, discipline, and statesmanship, and those who have been quick to accuse and condemn his party for allowing the soldier to do the soldierly thing, to call out ABEC in similar fashion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I invite them, also, to pay attention to the other <\/em>commission \u2013 the Boundaries Commission \u2013 as a slip of the chief of staff\u2019s tongue has alerted us to which government ministers exactly will be pulling the strings of the \u201crenamed\u201d commissioners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The manipulation and the hypocrisy must be stopped.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By D.Gisele Isaac The hypocrisy is too much to bear now.  Listening to the critics of the United Progressive Party (UPP) up to Sunday, during The Big Issues, I was forced to ask myself whether the national situation will ever be better, when some folks are so quick to strain at a gnat while they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":222590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nLETTER | Keep Wehner out of your hypocrisy: by D. Gisele Isaac - 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\/letter-keep-wehner-out-of-your-hypocrisy-by-d-gisele-isaac\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"LETTER | Keep Wehner out of your hypocrisy: by D. Gisele Isaac\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By D.Gisele Isaac The hypocrisy is too much to bear now.  Listening to the critics of the United Progressive Party (UPP) up to Sunday, during The Big Issues, I was forced to ask myself whether the national situation will ever be better, when some folks are so quick to strain at a gnat while they […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/letter-keep-wehner-out-of-your-hypocrisy-by-d-gisele-isaac\/\" \/>\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=\"2025-01-20T16:46:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-01-20T16:54:48+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\/2025\/01\/isaac.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"570\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"391\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\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=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/letter-keep-wehner-out-of-your-hypocrisy-by-d-gisele-isaac\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/letter-keep-wehner-out-of-your-hypocrisy-by-d-gisele-isaac\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Editor\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#\/schema\/person\/36cac05ef6398fe56ae3e6317f8535c5\"},\"headline\":\"LETTER | Keep Wehner out of your hypocrisy: by D. Gisele Isaac\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-01-20T16:46:43+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-01-20T16:54:48+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/letter-keep-wehner-out-of-your-hypocrisy-by-d-gisele-isaac\/\"},\"wordCount\":1158,\"commentCount\":12,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/letter-keep-wehner-out-of-your-hypocrisy-by-d-gisele-isaac\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:570\/h:391\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/isaac.png\",\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/letter-keep-wehner-out-of-your-hypocrisy-by-d-gisele-isaac\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/letter-keep-wehner-out-of-your-hypocrisy-by-d-gisele-isaac\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/letter-keep-wehner-out-of-your-hypocrisy-by-d-gisele-isaac\/\",\"name\":\"LETTER | Keep Wehner out of your hypocrisy: by D. Gisele Isaac - Antigua News Room\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/letter-keep-wehner-out-of-your-hypocrisy-by-d-gisele-isaac\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/letter-keep-wehner-out-of-your-hypocrisy-by-d-gisele-isaac\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:570\/h:391\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/isaac.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-01-20T16:46:43+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-01-20T16:54:48+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/letter-keep-wehner-out-of-your-hypocrisy-by-d-gisele-isaac\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/letter-keep-wehner-out-of-your-hypocrisy-by-d-gisele-isaac\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/letter-keep-wehner-out-of-your-hypocrisy-by-d-gisele-isaac\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:570\/h:391\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/isaac.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:570\/h:391\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/isaac.png\",\"width\":570,\"height\":391},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/letter-keep-wehner-out-of-your-hypocrisy-by-d-gisele-isaac\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"LETTER | Keep Wehner out of your hypocrisy: by D. Gisele Isaac\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/\",\"name\":\"Antigua News Room\",\"description\":\"News As It Happens\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Antigua Newsroom\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1080\/h:1080\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_1584.jpeg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1080\/h:1080\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_1584.jpeg\",\"width\":1260,\"height\":1260,\"caption\":\"Antigua Newsroom\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/antiguanewsroom\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/AntiguaNewsRoom\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/antiguanewsroom\/\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#\/schema\/person\/36cac05ef6398fe56ae3e6317f8535c5\",\"name\":\"Editor\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536?s=96\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536?s=96\",\"caption\":\"Editor\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/author\/editor\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"LETTER | Keep Wehner out of your hypocrisy: by D. Gisele Isaac - Antigua News Room","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/letter-keep-wehner-out-of-your-hypocrisy-by-d-gisele-isaac\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"LETTER | Keep Wehner out of your hypocrisy: by D. Gisele Isaac","og_description":"By D.Gisele Isaac The hypocrisy is too much to bear now.  Listening to the critics of the United Progressive Party (UPP) up to Sunday, during The Big Issues, I was forced to ask myself whether the national situation will ever be better, when some folks are so quick to strain at a gnat while they […]","og_url":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/letter-keep-wehner-out-of-your-hypocrisy-by-d-gisele-isaac\/","og_site_name":"Antigua News Room","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/antiguanewsroom","article_published_time":"2025-01-20T16:46:43+00:00","article_modified_time":"2025-01-20T16:54:48+00:00","og_image":[{"width":570,"height":391,"url":"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/isaac.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Editor","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@AntiguaNewsRoom","twitter_site":"@AntiguaNewsRoom","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Editor","Est. reading time":"5 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/letter-keep-wehner-out-of-your-hypocrisy-by-d-gisele-isaac\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/letter-keep-wehner-out-of-your-hypocrisy-by-d-gisele-isaac\/"},"author":{"name":"Editor","@id":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#\/schema\/person\/36cac05ef6398fe56ae3e6317f8535c5"},"headline":"LETTER | Keep Wehner out of your hypocrisy: by D. Gisele Isaac","datePublished":"2025-01-20T16:46:43+00:00","dateModified":"2025-01-20T16:54:48+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/letter-keep-wehner-out-of-your-hypocrisy-by-d-gisele-isaac\/"},"wordCount":1158,"commentCount":12,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/letter-keep-wehner-out-of-your-hypocrisy-by-d-gisele-isaac\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:570\/h:391\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/isaac.png","articleSection":["News"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/letter-keep-wehner-out-of-your-hypocrisy-by-d-gisele-isaac\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/letter-keep-wehner-out-of-your-hypocrisy-by-d-gisele-isaac\/","url":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/letter-keep-wehner-out-of-your-hypocrisy-by-d-gisele-isaac\/","name":"LETTER | Keep Wehner out of your hypocrisy: by D. Gisele Isaac - Antigua News Room","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/letter-keep-wehner-out-of-your-hypocrisy-by-d-gisele-isaac\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/letter-keep-wehner-out-of-your-hypocrisy-by-d-gisele-isaac\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:570\/h:391\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/isaac.png","datePublished":"2025-01-20T16:46:43+00:00","dateModified":"2025-01-20T16:54:48+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/letter-keep-wehner-out-of-your-hypocrisy-by-d-gisele-isaac\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/letter-keep-wehner-out-of-your-hypocrisy-by-d-gisele-isaac\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/letter-keep-wehner-out-of-your-hypocrisy-by-d-gisele-isaac\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:570\/h:391\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/isaac.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:570\/h:391\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/isaac.png","width":570,"height":391},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/letter-keep-wehner-out-of-your-hypocrisy-by-d-gisele-isaac\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"LETTER | Keep Wehner out of your hypocrisy: by D. Gisele Isaac"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/","name":"Antigua News Room","description":"News As It Happens","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#organization","name":"Antigua Newsroom","url":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1080\/h:1080\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_1584.jpeg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1080\/h:1080\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_1584.jpeg","width":1260,"height":1260,"caption":"Antigua Newsroom"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/antiguanewsroom","https:\/\/x.com\/AntiguaNewsRoom","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/antiguanewsroom\/"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#\/schema\/person\/36cac05ef6398fe56ae3e6317f8535c5","name":"Editor","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536?s=96","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536?s=96","caption":"Editor"},"url":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/author\/editor\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/anr-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/anr-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/anr-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/anr-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/anr-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/anr-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222588,"href":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/anr-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222586\/revisions\/222588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/anr-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/222590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/anr-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/anr-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/anr-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}