{"id":46781,"date":"2019-07-31T23:50:47","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T03:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=46781"},"modified":"2019-07-31T23:50:47","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T03:50:47","slug":"pm-uses-emancipation-day-message-to-highlight-new-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/pm-uses-emancipation-day-message-to-highlight-new-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Uses Emancipation Day Message To Highlight New Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"antig-906203086\" 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=\"\"  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, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1024\/h:342\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:256\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"1201\" height=\"401\"   \/><\/a><\/div><div id=\"antig-3393495111\" class=\"antig-before-content antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/medicalbenefitsscheme\" aria-label=\"ce741a73-c70c-446b-af7f-da2abe2b62bb\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1200\/h:400\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ce741a73-c70c-446b-af7f-da2abe2b62bb.jpeg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1200\/h:400\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ce741a73-c70c-446b-af7f-da2abe2b62bb.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:100\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ce741a73-c70c-446b-af7f-da2abe2b62bb.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1024\/h:341\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ce741a73-c70c-446b-af7f-da2abe2b62bb.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:256\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ce741a73-c70c-446b-af7f-da2abe2b62bb.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"1200\" height=\"400\"   \/><\/a><\/div><div>(Emancipation Day Message From PM Browne)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Fellow citizens of Antigua and Barbuda, residents, friends and visitors:<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0I invite you to join my Government and the wide array of Governments, organizations and individuals throughout the African Diaspora who are today commemorating and celebrating this day, August 1<sup>st<\/sup>, 2019, as the One Hundred and Eighty-fifth (185<sup>th<\/sup>) Anniversary of the proclamation of the end of centuries of enslavement of Africans, on the continent and here in our Caribbean.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I convey fulsome congratulations to the Antigua and Barbuda Reparations Commission for raising the consciousness of the people of this fair land, as every effort is made to inform and educate the youth. The history of denial and exclusion\u2014 practiced since 1632 when modern Antigua and Barbuda began its history\u2014came to an end in 1981 when sovereignty was achieved. The role of the United Nations in this quantum leap to freedom and sovereignty cannot be overstated.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Our islands now face threats that are global in nature, and cannot be thwarted by our actions only. Global climate change, for example, requires the efforts of all nations, especially the commitments of the large industrial states. Antigua and Barbuda\u2019s security is threatened by disasters spawned by the unreasonable quantities of unwanted gases and particulate matter which are emitted into our skies annually by these industrial states. The global climate change challenge must be met frontally.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The de-risking phenomenon in which large banks are engaging, to the detriment of small jurisdictions, cannot be ignored. There is an imminent threat to our banking system and to the financial architecture which supports our hotels, restaurants, shopping centers, tour operators and other businesses.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Despite the imminent threats, our country justly celebrates 185 years of freedom from chattel slavery and from the oppression which followed for several generations.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div>2019 is indeed a year to recall great advances. Foremost among our small state\u2019s accomplishments is the agreement to place the Fourth Landed Campus of the University of the West Indies at Five Islands, Antigua. It is a quantum leap in our development ambitions.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The leaders throughout our Caribbean civilization accept that providing access to tertiary education to youth is absolutely essential, if they are to compete globally. In its 71<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0year, the U.W.I. has achieved an ambition that has escaped it for decades; having agreed to place a landed campus on the territory of an O.E.C.S. country is remarkable.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-CARRIBEAN\">Fellow citizens, on this Emancipation Day, I again urge us all to work towards the purging of our nation \u2018of the ills of the past\u2019 and to \u2018rise up as one &#8211;\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"m_6544619417660799853gmail-m-7442406694453893713m-2216529474084153359s1\">one people, indivisible and united; as one nation, one people with a common destiny\u2019 \u2013 a destiny we share with all others who are also celebrating today this important milestone, in our quest for human development.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"m_6544619417660799853gmail-m-7442406694453893713m-2216529474084153359s1\">Happy Emancipation Day to you all.<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"antig-3439085739\" class=\"antig-in-comments_2 antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/@hadeedmotorsltd\" aria-label=\"Hadeed_WEB_Banner_MG-2\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1000\/h:250\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Hadeed_WEB_Banner_MG-2.png\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1000\/h:250\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Hadeed_WEB_Banner_MG-2.png 1000w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:75\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Hadeed_WEB_Banner_MG-2.png 300w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:192\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Hadeed_WEB_Banner_MG-2.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"1000\" height=\"250\"   \/><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Emancipation Day Message From PM Browne) Fellow citizens of Antigua and Barbuda, residents, friends and visitors: \u00a0I invite you to join my Government and the wide array of Governments, organizations and individuals throughout the African Diaspora who are today commemorating and celebrating this day, August 1st, 2019, as the One Hundred and Eighty-fifth (185th) Anniversary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":46782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46781","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) - 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