ABLP leader says opposition will not out-promise his government
The Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party (ABLP) leader Gaston Browne says his administration will not be out-promised on the campaign trail and has signalled a willingness to adopt workable proposals from political opponents.
Speaking on Pointe FM, Browne dismissed the prospect of rival parties gaining an advantage through campaign pledges, stating, “No opposition going to out-promise my government.”
He added that his administration remains open to implementing ideas put forward by others once they are practical and beneficial. “Any promise that… makes sense, my government will implement,” Browne said.
The comments come as political parties intensify campaigning ahead of the general election, with manifestos and policy proposals expected to feature prominently in the coming days.
Browne argued that his government has already demonstrated its ability to deliver on major initiatives, pointing to ongoing programmes in housing, infrastructure and social support.
He also criticised past proposals from the opposition, suggesting that some had been unrealistic or financially unsustainable, while maintaining that his administration would prioritise feasible policies regardless of their source.
The ABLP leader’s remarks signal a strategy aimed at countering campaign promises while reinforcing the government’s record, as voters weigh competing policy platforms in the lead-up to polling day.
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Article should read, they have always “cogged” UPP good ideas and will continue to do so. But wait, these UPP suppose to be dunces; you said so! What good ideas then can they have? Why would I vote for you to implement UPPs ideas? Let UPP implement them themselves. VOTE OUT ABLP! The only ones who will lose will be the ABLP politicians but they have “self-enriched” enough.
As usual the last time you cry and say you going reduce vehicle license fee like the upp.promised and instead raise tax on vehicles license by 40%
That’s why I say you have no manifesto which is just a performative political exercise for ALP when just will say pretty things and encourage marijuana smoking and music and artist from Jamaica just to win the lottery jackpot to Antigua treasury to continue thief money in self enrichment scheme.
GASTON BROWNE instead of MATCHING or IMPLEMENTING promises of the UPP. Issues of the past, need to be ADDRESSED NAMELY CLICO/BAICO policyholders, LIAT (1974) LTD workers severance, also unpaid obligations to teachers, contractors, vendors, overtime due to workers and landlords.
Really and truly Gaston is not as creative as he wants us to believe remember he has stolen ideas from UPP already. Cogging is what he does best and pretends its his originator
Say something PRINGLE or you need an interpreter. UPP PRINGLE the BALL is in your COURT, past issues must be addressed before future empty promises are made. No political party has mentioned or campaigned how they will make retribution to these past issues namely CLICO/BAICO policyholders also unpaid obligations to teachers, contractors, vendors, overtime due to workers , contract workers, landlords, also LIAT (1974) LTD workers SEVERANCE , these issues are sensible, practical and beneficiary. Say something PRINGLE and then we will come out in numbers and VOTE and give you a CHANCE.
Everyone want their own INDEPENDENCE. Give us the money that belongs to us what is the use of TAX FREE BARRELS,FREE TURKEY AND HAM, when we can’t be masters of our individual FINANCES.
Clico crisis: ‘Regional cooperation lacking’.
THE REGION has not co-operated enough in terms of how each country regulates its financial matters, and the CLICO crisis has painfully exposed this.
This is the view of Trinidad and Tobago’s Central Bank Governor, Ewart Williams, who admitted this yesterday at the end of the one-day regional leaders meeting between the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU), along with Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago at the Hilton Barbados.
“One thing we need to recognise and we need to confess … is that perhaps there has not been sufficient regional co-operation on regulatory matters,” Williams told regional leaders and the media.
He said his own country represented at the meeting by Prime Minister Patrick Manning, who had to leave early to host a press conference on the Summit of the Americas could not escape blame, noting that “sometimes one gets the impression we are going our separate ways, not realising that in the final analysis we are one regional space”.
Williams said if there was one thing the current regional financial crisis should underscore was the need for regional states to work more closely, not only to be able to anticipate crises but to respond in a co-ordinated way anytime another crisis arose.
“There are a number of lessons to be learned from this CLICO issue, and it certainly is need for much more regional co-operation than has occurred in the past,” he added.
Williams pointed out that, even with the best regulation in the world, one could never guarantee that some institution would not face critical challenges either because of exogenous factors or excessively risky behaviour.
He added that the job of the regulator was to seek to get an early-warning system in order to quickly recognise the institution that is finding itself in trouble, and secondly, to have arrangements in place not only to deal with the specific institution but to minimise contagion within the system
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The GOVERNMENT of ANTIGUA and BARBUDA failed to regulate CLICO. However and henceforth the Government of Antigua & Barbuda is responsible and obligated in paying CLICO policyholders in ANTIGUA & BARBUDA, before making any future empty promises for POLITICAL POWER.
UPP and ABLP should ADDRESS this outstanding issue in their MANIFESTOS.
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