The Prime Minister has made it absolutely clear: no heinous crimes are being pardoned. Yet the opposition has seized the opportunity to twist facts, spread fear, and mislead the public for political gain.
Their chief spokesperson is a convicted pedophile. That alone should disqualify them from speaking about justice or public safety.
But it gets worse. One of their sitting Members of Parliament is a convicted killer. He took the life of a young woman. They forgave him. They endorsed him. They ran him as a candidate and proudly sent him to Parliament. So let us not pretend they are concerned about accountability. Their record proves they are not.
The HAPPI programme is not a free pass. It is built on structure, supervision, hard labour, discipline, and skills training. It gives offenders a real chance at redemption, not through handouts, but through meaningful work. These individuals are learning trades, giving back to society, and earning a future through effort.
To paint this as some reckless giveaway is both dishonest and irresponsible. But dishonesty is nothing new for those who are only interested in political survival. If they cared about protecting the public, they would not be fronted by a convicted child molester. If they cared about victims, they would not elevate a man who killed a young woman.
This is not about justice. It is about power. It is about denying others the opportunity to change so they can score cheap political points and stay relevant.
This government is offering a responsible, transparent, and disciplined path to reform. That is what true leadership looks like. The people of this country can see through the noise. They know who is building solutions and who is spreading fear. They know the difference between real progress and hollow rhetoric.
Minister of Social and Urban Transformation Rawdon Turner
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Well said, Minister Turner. Well said. The UPP is made up of a ragtag of dishonest, visionless and unethical persons. They are do-do stirrers. Nothing else. So many of them will eventually end up in His Majesty’s Hotel, so they should be glad for a programme like this of forgiveness.
Mr. Minister, don’t waste your time on scum – pedophiles, convicted murderers, gan̈ja smokers.spiritual backsliders, hypocrites – the whole rotten bunch. Continue to do your blessed work for your country. You have been blessed and will continue to be blessed. Keep up the fine work.
Turner is the worst mp in the ablp and i hope to God he dont win the seat next election, we done tired of him
Bird people are sick. Instead of deporting the criminals, they want to give them jobs that should rightly go to indigenous Antiguans. Antigua people ar’u vote fu dat.
Wait ah tru, UPP Deputy Political Leader is ah convicted murderer. He shot and killed his pregnant side piece. Dat de much much much worst than de Prisoners in HAPI program. Lakka only UPP supporters deserve forgiveness
Here listening to some Buju Banton to relax. Currently playing track 3
MURDERER
BLOOD IS ON YOUR SHOULDERS
Kill I today you cannot kill I tomorrow
MURDERER
YOUR INSIDES MUST BE HOLLOW
HOW DOES IT FEEL TO TAKE THE LIFE OF ANOTHER?
Minister Turner, it seems that once you get into politics you get your license to go dirty……
When will you laboRATs raise the bar and not get personal even when people make genuine mistakes….
You have attached a man and identified him as a pedophile………..
Who or what is a pedophile????????
If you changed a child’s pamper and twenty years later you think she is grown and have a relationship with her WHAT DOES THAT MAKE YOU???????
When a competent and higher court quashes a conviction against a person it is not an act of forgiveness………..
It means that you are not guilty……….
It means that according to law and recognized principles your earlier conviction was wrong………..
So when you referred to a convicted killer and didnt identify him identify him you were very smart………….
You intentionally didn’t identify him…………
Know that he could have hauled you before the court which convicted him in the first instance for slander…………
I dare you to identify that person………..
Can you blame the people for being skeptical of the actions of this government??????????
Please do not forget that this government released several prisoners including a convicted killer who has served less than half his sentence and had to round them up again……..
A minister took unto himself powers constitutionally given to the governor general……..
Don’t forget that this government had to keep up to its end of the deal and as a result a killer spent his days at Fiennes Institute until his death………
So when you are throwing mud be careful that much of it doesn’t splash in your face………..
When you point fingers see how many are pointed back at you…………
UPP has a thing for PEDOPHILES and KILLERS
“Ms. Barthley was shot in her neck on 16th December 2003 outside Bowen’s office at Nevis Street”
IAN MAGIC HUGHES IS A CONVICTED PEDOPHILE who VIOLATED his DAUGHTERS FRIENDS
All them money Turner Walk with from boy training school and a talk bout convect ppl, what about the criminal u have running boys school. he too remember how he there in the first place . Ppl them want what’s theirs
Well said MP Turner. UPP people are like that bitter lady who asked King Solomon to cut the baby in half. With killer and Child molester aboard, they are the pot calling the kettle black. Its telling reading one of their supporters crying about foreign criminals, yet in his party’s 2023 manifesto it states it hope to:
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Work diligently to introduce alternative sentencing in particular community service — for youth, first- time offenders and non-violent offenders.
Give qualifying former inmates access to scholarships to pursue tertiary education and
technical/vocational education and access to entrepreneurship programmes
Create a Department of Immigrant Affairs that is guided by a board of directors
composed of prominent persons including from within immigrant communities.
Under the “One Caribbean” Act, effective 1st March 2023, the new UPP Government will waive all work permit fees for nationals of Caricom and the dominican Republic, who have been working and resident in Antigua and Barbuda on or before January 1st 2023.
Undocumented immigrants who came to this country as minors and have lived and attended primary and secondary school here, and consider Antigua and Barbuda their home, will be fast-tracked on a pathway to citizenship upon attaining the age of 18, as part of the “One Caribbean” Act.
Antigua excels in gutter politics, and the LaboRATS went to some special university to perfect the art. Antigua is so much poorer because of this
Look deep within your party and you will find a pedophile..
When you have a job and a car and you like
Trying to talk to, and basically going after a child whose in secondary school you are a
Pedophile, it’s called grooming..
When you are thirty something and she’s 15 or 16 you are a pedophile..
You are basically messing around with a minor..🫤
Shame on you!
That’s exactly why she looks soo young
And you look really old.😅
Ps. Everytime you have a cabinet meeting
You see him.
Hint hint.
nobody is buying what you’re attempting to sell. Google “Ian magic Hughes Antigua” and the,links that come up won’t be rumours or hearsay, but FACTS!!!
UPP’s obsession with PEDOPHILES is disgusting. A CONVICTED SEX OFFENDER as Spokesman?
“Steelframe” must be rolling over,in his,grave.
Wait…People are not getting Jobs from so long due criminal record and a convicted pedophile is part of Parliament? Nahhhh That can’t be true. I don’t believe it. If lot of business here ask for Police Records and if you have one you are disqualified automatically. But being part of high position in the Government is Fine? Unacceptable.
I guess it is within the right of the state to pardon prisoners as they see fit. So whether they be working on the Happi or Sad program, the state can issue pardons. I am quite sure though that there are far more prisoners within the prison facility that deserve a pardon than these violent and savage prisoners some of whom was convicted of rape and other heinous crimes. Furthermore, any foreign prisoner who has served time at His Majesty’s Prison, for whatever crime, they should be removed from the state once they have finished serving their sentence.
WELL………….. I thought that I have read and heard it all, that nothing from the mouth of politicians red, blue or green could shock or DERAIL me. I WAS SOOOOOO WRONG…
Our nations head of government said “NO HENIOUS CRIMES ARE BEING PARDONED……”
LETS LOOK AT THE FACTS NOT OUR FEELINGS THE FACTS….
Each one of these men ( NO women) where given a fear and just trial before a judge and jury of their peers FOUND GUILTY…. didn’t plea GUILTY, which means that for the pedophiles among the robbers, murderer, drug trafficker made their VC stand in court and give sorted details of the attack and violation(s)….
1) Did my PM STOP to think about how this will impact the VC’s? Their recovery and safety?
2) Did he look at other legal, safe non-political means to so called reward them for work done outside of prison?
3) Was he MADE aware of the many breaches and violations they have committed while supposedly doing good works ah road?
4) Does he know the REAL among of time spent on their JUST sentences? AND DOES HE FEEL IT’S ENOUGH TIME SPENT FOR WHAT THEY DID TO THOSE CHILDREN?
5) Did the prison administration enlighten him on how many times a lot of those same inmates boldly broke and breach prison security while on happy not outside but inside the prison?
They are NOT MODEL INMATES MUCHLESS CITIZENS (GG)…. THEY ARE NOT REHABILITATED AS IS EXSPECTED. They are a set of violent offenders, who’ve managed to pull the table cloth over your head with the help of some of your favorite political prostitutes masacrading as Friends and supporters.
They have long since collected their 30 pieces of SILVER…
Gaston…. find another way NOT THIS WAY…. SHOW THESE VICTIMS THAT YOU HAVE SOME HUMILITY YOU.
LOOK AT YOUR HANDSOME SON PRINCE AND THAT LITTLE PRINCESS YOU DOTE ON AND TELL THIS NATION YOU WOULD PARDON ANYBODY WHO WILLINGLY VIOLATE THEM….
YOU ARE THE FATHER OF THE NATION. A FATHER’S DUTY IS TO PROTECT HIS FAMILY WITH HIS LIFE AND LIBERTY…
I REST MY CASE ………. JUSTICE PARDONED IS JUSTICE DEINED ….
I dear not criticize the happi program pardon to inmates, there are grieving families on both side, and some us glad to have a brother, a son a father or mother back in their arms, politics if used throughout all circumstances in life could be very abrasive.
TO the Bashers of Caricom brothers and sisters. Please be advised that 92% of prisoners at 1735 prison are Antiguans and Barbudans. I call on the Head of the prison to publish the numbers and nationalities of those in the prison. I have the information but if I publish, you will say it is fake news. Cutie Benjamin has a responsibility to also publish these figures.
Did I hear of Pedophiles and Murderers? A few decades ago, there was a Premier who later became the very first Prime Minister of a very small island nation who took to the country’s parliament to simply reduce the then age of consent from 16 to 14 years, to legitimize his relationship with a 14 year old, because the organization called the Christian Council highlighted the sordid act. Antigua under the ALP, had the very first and only Bruck Foot Industry up till this day. Question to the Unfaithful National and Tin Man; who MURDERED Asot Michael? The guilty will never suffer from dementia
I am happy to see when other ministers come to the aid of their Prime Minister. For too long they have been standing on the SIDE LINE watching the leader taking all the heat and fighting the fight all by himself.
Proud of you jumping into the fire Mr. Turner.
Best comment of all.
I am no legal luminary, but I think that when a higher court overturns a conviction “on a technicality or technicalities”, that doesn’t mean that the one convicted wasn’t guilty. The conviction was not overturned because the defendant was innocent of the crime!
It means that somewhere along the line, somebody or bodies failed to follow the law/rules/procedures, and thus the outcome was successfully disputed.
What cannot be disputed however is that the pregnant woman was shot and killed by her lover, on the street outside said lover’s law offices.
Two lives ended, one deadly action!
Just my opinion.
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