Observer Story – False and Misleading
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, E. Paul Chet Greene, categorically rejects the article published on page 14 of the Antigua Observer on January 5, 2026, which alleges that a student visa was cancelled as a result of Presidential Proclamation 10998 and contrary to assurances given by the Government that visas issued before January 1, 2026, would be respected.
Following direct inquiries, United States authorities have confirmed that the case described has nothing to do with the Presidential Proclamation. The applicant did not qualify for a visa under Section 214(b) of U.S. immigration law.
As is standard practice, an indication of approval at the interview does not constitute final U.S. visa issuance. All applications undergo mandatory post-interview vetting, including checks routed through Washington, D.C. It is during this process that applications may be refused if statutory requirements are not met.
No visa was issued in this case. Had the application been refused under the Presidential Proclamation, the applicant would have received a different refusal notice expressly citing that legal basis. That did not occur.
Additionally, the photograph published in the article—purporting to show a cancelled visa—was examined and found to be entirely unrelated. It depicts an application from India for an H-1B work visa, not a student visa, and bears no connection to the alleged Antiguan case.
The Ministry is therefore compelled to conclude that the article is false and deliberately misleading, constructed to suggest—maliciously—that visas approved or issued prior to January 1, 2026, were not being honoured.
The Government of Antigua and Barbuda stands by its statements: validly issued visas are respected. The article’s claims are not supported by facts and should be treated accordingly.
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Oh my word, Chet you are so quick to correct Observer, but silent as a church mouse when Gaston humiliates you. We in St. Paul might have rethink our decision, you only have strong for the weak. Don’t you realize with all his fat chat Gaston sees you as a threat to the Leadership and he is scared stiff
Watch out! that Chinese background might not please our US masters! You would not like Gaston to end up in a NYC court, would you?
Chet you find your voice to attack an article on Observer but you can’t respond to Gaston. You’re a spineless jerk pork.
Chetty, any comment on Gaston Browne throwing you under bus with [sic] Ron Sanders in regards to the two of them excluding you in recent talks on foreign affairs even though you are the country’s Foreign Secretary?
Surely you’ve heard the recent radio commentary from the man himself…
And this guy should be the presumptive leader of Antigua if GB is gone?
Yeah right.
We clearly see that the standards has to be up lifted in Antigua. Anyone that bows to any man, is no leader, but a follower.
Leaders blaze their own path, not be subservient to any man, child or dawg!
Chet don’t have to come public to address nothing Gaston Brown says, what, phone calls doesn’t work anymore
Hmmmmmmm……let’s see what’s up next …GOD SAY NOTHING WILL STAY HIDDEN
“26 Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known. 27 What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops. 28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. ”
Matthew 10:26-28 KJV
https://www.unfeignedbible.app/Matthew.10.26
CHET,YOU HAVE BECOME A SPINELESS MAN OF STRAW. GASTON BROWNE COULD WALK ALL OVER YOU LIKE A DOOR MAT.HE WOULD PISS ON YOU.THEN YOU WOULD TURN AND SAY IT SMELLS LIKE CHANEL BLEU.GROW A PAIR AND SOME BACKBONES.
UPP trying to make Gaston and Chet fight but Chet is not failing for it. LMAO
Rampant lack of patriotism in this country poses a serious risk to everyone. When all is said and done, politics will be irrelevant. The beast from the North will care nothing about our divisions only use it for his own advantage.
More lies to always defending truth
Let us negotiate with the US not only to get our Visa privileges fully restored, but this is the perfect opportunity to push the case to get a US Embassy. We have historical and economic ties to the US. Let us continue to work closely with them as the government is presently doing.
Come on @John Rhoden, you are now using the same playbook as the ABLP and Gaston Browne by blaming all their own mistakes on the UPP.
Come on John!
This Gaston Browne maneuver on Chet Greene is virtually duplicating a similar pattern of when the late Asot Michael was verbally attack also. It started as a few undermining and underhanded words and then escalated to terrible insults when Asot Michael was canvassing for votes as an independent candidate.
Come on John!!!
So does anyone really know if any students visas were really cancelled?