Browne Questions Opposition’s Silence on Lovell’s Alleged Odebrecht Ties
Prime Minister Gaston Browne has renewed calls for former United Progressive Party (UPP) leader Harold Lovell to address allegations over his reported links to individuals connected to the Odebrecht bribery scandal.
Speaking on the Browne and Browne show on Pointe FM on Saturday, Browne questioned why UPP members have never publicly demanded an explanation from Lovell regarding reported meetings with Brazilian agents at the Biltmore Hotel in Miami.
According to Browne, Lovell — allegedly met with representatives.
Browne described the individuals as “crooks” and said it was deceitful that Lovell later accused him of meetings that he insisted never occurred.
“I find that these people are so deceitful that I’m sure at no point within the UPP have they ever asked Harold Lovell why he met with these Brazilian crooks at the Biltmore Hotel,” Browne said. “They never asked him why, as leader of the opposition at the time, he ended up on their payroll.”
Browne said he has consistently raised the issue over the years, both in Parliament and on radio, challenging Lovell to respond.
He added that he had provided travel records to disprove allegations that he had any meetings with the individuals in question.
The Prime Minister also questioned the logic of claims that Lovell, as his political rival, would have been trusted to negotiate any deal on his behalf.
“How would you trust your political nemesis to negotiate for you? It doesn’t make any sense,” Browne said.
The allegations stem from the wider Odebrecht corruption scandal, which implicated political figures across Latin America and the Caribbean. In Antigua and Barbuda, accusations linked to the case have remained a point of political tension.
Lovell has not publicly responded to the latest remarks.
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Who is the current leader, why on earth would a competent Prime Minister tell the opposition that is vital in the government, as a check and balance, be encouraged such vital part of the legislature to stop performing their governmental duties, stop pushing the current ABLP government, and stop holding the current ABLP government accountable and focus on people not in power?
Why on earth are Prime Minister would encourage people to allow him to run the country without scrutiny from opposition and the public by demanding them to focus on those in society with no power?
Every thing sounds like guilty and corruption to me. If you are not guilty, let them come, and be humiliated when you are not guilty but when you are guilty, you demand distractions and not to focus on yourself.
All signs points to PM Browne being guilty. I understand he is not into helping Antiguans and Batbudans unless he is helping himself and his family.
Again, where are their strategist?
The Art Of Deflection.
~ Written by PM Gaston Browne
…Just show the financial receipts!
Who can forget when Tanny called in and posed that infamous question to Lovell (through the host). Sure Lovell shit in his pants
#LuisFranca
Gassy Man Browne: We the people know those in Antigua involved with Odebrecht. What has become of your Ambassador Casroy? I cannot wait to see you and others walking to Prison in Antigua. You are under the gun for Alfa NAR Go. Now you are pulling the Red Herring across the path, with Odebrecht. I do not eat Any Herrings.