MP Richard Lewis Cries “Murder” Over Proposed Licence Fee Percentage

MP Richard Lewis why are you so nimble off your feet to respond to issues affecting the country? Is it because you can write your own articles etc and do not have to wait on the Chair Giselle Isaac of the UPP? That is leadership and leadership matters. While Jamale Pringle is a nice gentlemen he really does not have what it takes to lead the UPP. Harold, Giselle and all the others in the leadership hierarchy fail to see that and only the general elections results ultimately will make them see that. Yes leaders the world over have advisors, but for a leader having to wait to be given speaking notes and press releases and cannot function on his own independently is a travesty. Convention results or not the UPP is really in a bind with its present leader. Time alone will be the judge.

Was this clown 🤡 around when Tessa Barthley was shot?

Poor fool. Just remember to stay in your lane because Pringle not choosing you to run on his ticket next election.

Gaston go whip us until we run back to Richard and tell him to bring his Jamaican wife!! Murrrdah!

MP Lewis is right to call it out—this hike seems excessive.

I get that revenue needs to increase, but why such a drastic jump?

At this rate, soon we’ll be paying just to breathe!.. HMMMM

MP Lewis is making noise, but does he have an alternative solution?

Government needs to find a better way to balance the budget.

How does this compare to other countries in the region? Just curious.

You are 100% correct. Richard Lewis is neither wanted, needed, loved, liked or accepted by UPP.

Pringle does not trust him. Man Cow can’t stand him and her WOMENS FORUM will follow her lead and REJECT Richard Lewis again and again. Not to mention Richard big sin was that he dared to even put forth his name for leadership. But the BIGGEST UNFORGIVABLE SIN COMMITTED BY RICHARD WAS “MARRYING A FOREIGNER” WORST OF ALL A YARDEE.

No forgiveness
No reconciliation
No water under the bridge

Nothing can get UPP’s “LEADERSHIP WITHIN THE LEADERSHIP” to accept Richard Lewis as long as he remains married to the “kind” that upp despises!!!

I love jamaica best caribbean country….jamaica is the foundation for the caribbean..that’s why they name yardies even in antigua politics talk jamaica name has to call

Wweeelllll! It looks like my little weekend supermarket $160. gone a gwassa! MURDA!! What next? Enrichment on steroids! Pay attention!

Political Observer you got it right. He doesn’t have to wait for someone to write and he just reads even if the person wrote his death announcement. That’s one of the qualities of abgoid leader the can stand and speak at a moments notice. That certainly cannot be said of Jamal Pringle. He doesn’t know the first letter in the world leadership. It is not Harold. It is Giselle and the Women’s Forum. They have a hold on the geriatric who form the majority of the UPP. I don’t know ifnit something the put in the pig tail and brew.

Were you around when Mama was swinging around like a monkey on a branch or is that how she got you and neither you nor she knows which other monkey is your daddy?????

Why can’t this clown 😒 allow the DULY
ELECTED LEADER of the Opposition to be the one to make these statements??? Let Mr. Pringle go first and then all the other MPs can subsequently release theirs.

Convention results still stand!!!

We are crying bout every tax implementation why. We would like to see these fees reduced instead of increase while we are the same ones who call for good roads etc

Who is the fool? What do you call Mama when she doesn’t know who your daddy is? If you had a quarter of the intelligence of Richard Lewis you would be a millionaire. For now you are just a gutter snipe.

Damn excessive! For persons making in excess of $10,000 per month, it may seem like a drop in the bucket. This, however is NOT the reality for most Antiguans. For the first time in my life, I fully supported Richard Lewis’ stance on this matter! Gaston, do not punish us for your government’s failure to maintain a proper network of roads. 40% is just unconconsionable!!

A pack of donkey’s just brayed above! Idiots I say! The poor ones like me have to deal with rising cost at the supermarkets, on electricity and soon on water, and NOW forty percent on licensing fees? Aren’t you affected by these rising prices and taxes, or is Gaston footing your individual bills so that you can brsy without thinking for him? Mr Lewis is pointing out the injustice meted out by an unconscionable government, and you want to play loyal to a party that is squeezing the life out of your body! Well then, enjoy! At least the Americans who voted Trump had a gall to bawl when they saw how he is treating them! You, well? No gall there!

We like it so.Wĥere are the conscience of the people Running Antigua/Barbuda. When will the people stand and say enough is enough.Some of the idiots who think it’s ok to raise vehicle license by 40% don’t have a licence. This is not about politics now, it is about The level of hardship this will cause a lot of us.After this,Bus drivers and taxi going to strike for increase.Who is going to feel it? Some of us idiots who are eating from the Crumbs of Gaston Table and is satisfied.

I continue to say, we migrate to other countries and oay their taxes, to live in a country where we were not born. Go a Barbados and try not to pay. Go to America and try not to pay. These taxes affect us all, but I need the good roads, so I can live with the fee, as it’s not a monthly charge, but a yearly charge.
We cannot expect government to do it all and that’s how some of us sound. I remember Education Levy and how some complained “dem nah hab none picknie a go a school, so wah mek dem haffu pay it?”
This too shall pass, and I guess we will be better for us.
I await the update to dem horrific roads. Especially Buckley Line and All Saints Road.

V for Vendetta are you an idiot. How is Pringle going to go first when he cannot write anything for himsel. By the way I know that for a goddam fact. That is the problem of the UPP with Pringle as the leader. I heard some one on Progressive FM saying he did so well of getting the Party 6 votes from winning the 2023 general elections as if he was the leader. The credit for that as Tabor made clear goes to Harold, himself, Derede Whitlock, Mansoor and the diaspora progressives. Not even Giselle Isacc had anything to do with that success. The UPP needs to face reality and stop being so delusional.

My 1, you are a bigger jackass than those that eat grass, you obviously eat the crumbs from the Labour Party table but think before you write

Does this apply to Donkey Cart, Bicycle, scooter, grung-cart? They’re gonna bring back licensing TV’s, radios, dogs, cats, horses, fowl, soon too.
When are they gonna license Sex Workers?

@Patriot

You are so wrong!! You sound very spiteful and vindictive. Credit must go to the Chairman and good DAME Mrs. Arrindell

You may not like her or her strong leadership style, but no denying that she has backbone and more testicular fortitude than the likes of Loser Lovell.

We talk about gender parity in politics, but have a problem with a “Strong Black Woman” chairing a political party.

Better wake up and face reality!!!

V for Vendetta what BS strong black woman you are talking about. She is a strong black woman that cannot deal with strong black women like Joanne Massiah, Dr. Cleon Athill, Rachal Collis and Jermaine Edwards. These are all strong black women that she cannot deal with. Do you want me to go on. The success of the party in the last general elections had nothing to do with the Chair Giselle Issac but the work of people like Derede Whitlock, Damani Tabor and the diaspora progressive. The Chair it was said was actually sidelined by Harold in certain matters because she was more of an obstacle to progress. She is the main stumbling block to UNITY in the Party. Her walking out of a RETREAT that was called to foster UNITY is a perfect example. I agree she has much testicular fortitude that she uses on Valerie Hodge and other women in the party. You can figure out how she uses it. I am not spiteful and vindictive. I have many friends in the UPP and have an idea of what is going on. If you do not know, I will make it clear Giselle Isacc is a cancer in the UPP that was allowed to spread by weaklings like Baldwin Spencer and Harold Lovell. She will be the downfall of the UPP in the next general elections even more than Pringle.

” She is the main stumbling block to UNITY in the Party.”

SURVEY SAYS OTHERWISE!!!! Reality check. The MAJORITY VOTED FOR GISELE ISAAC AT CONVENTION. You sound like a sore loser who never learned how to accept defeat and be gracious in defeat. You may not like the final results of the CONVENTION, but NUMBERS DONT LIE – PEOPLE DO!!!

As they say in queen show and calypso show: the judges decision is final! The convention delegates decision is final. Put that in your pipe and smoke it!!

P.S. Jermain Edwards is a whipper snapper and a “just come”. How dare u even try to put her on par with the good DAME.

Now, please let go of the envy and badmind and work with the Chairman to further strengthen the party.

Egg prices gone up. Vehicle license fees and you’re whining because you didn’t get your way at convention.

Better stay focused on who your real enemy is, because it’s not the esteemed Chairman.

I.am trying to understand why do Jamaicans always vote ABLP when ever time I read they have something negative to say about NO Lewis wife.

@Patriot

.https://antiguanewsroom.com/d-gisele-isaac-we-are-not-stepping-down/

V for Vendetta I now see that you are joking. Please cite the SURVEY that says D. Giselle Issac is not a problem for the UPP winning the next general elections. Also with Pringle as the leader the situation gets worse. You are just as DELUSIONAL as the leadership of the UPP. Convention results mean nothing. What is important is how the vast majority of the electorate views the Party and its leadership. The point is dem nar move. The electorate when it speaks will move dem.

V for Vendetta the REAL ENEMY is Gastron Browne and the Labour Party. That is clear. The point though is because of the present leadership of the UPP and the weakness and ineffectiveness of OPPOSITION it cannot win the next general elections. If the Party does not address its problemsit it might be wiped out.

I guess that I am missing out of something I didn’t know. But, I know that we have been driving on these Buggy Cart roads before and, after England server her umbilical cord, and said we were an associated state. And, that we have paid for the inheritance of these roads 100 times over; without any meaningful infrastructural enhancements without a beg, and borrowing overture from some foreign government or institutions.
I am cognizant that the roads are in dire need of enhancements: but I am distraught to think that it is not a lack of funding, but rather, a fact of governance priorities gone awry when, the fact that I pay more to register my vehicle than I pay for insurance. This is downright a disingenuous ploy perpetrated on the sleeping driving public, and the public at large, when.the governance keep grandstanding about how the country economy is in peek performance, and the GDP is of exemplary standard. Is it because of the fact that the expenditures is not directed to where tangible effect is manifested? Like the enhancement of the road and our Capital Town-desiring of becoming a City? While good money is being lavishly spent on frivolous feel-good- moment; like One Nation Concert, excessive overseas travel for MPs and entourage, that yield no tangible benefits- but the soundbite and, photo- op!
While bragging buffoons bray about being the Caribbean Power House of puppets pauper’s partisan pipe dreamers, who are oblivious! and not realizing that we are being collectively shafted because of our gullible inclination to put party above country. Those who fall for the ploy offerd, like a carrot on a stick. Reaching but never touching., or tasting the honey from the rock, and suffering from pride of affiliation-not rationalizing that forty percent increase across the board for roads improvement that has already being paid for is extortion-like highway robbery by governance and, should not be tolerated in silence. We owe it to our collective conscience to take an aggrieved stand against the intolerable injustice of governance, whereas, a sliding scale adjustment on vehicles registration might have been tolerable and palpable: But this increase reeks of hostage plunder for the convenience of privileged few that was voted into governance. And just like the inconsiderate ABST. There is no pity for the poor, the marginalized or, the needy- that exist in the hearts of the gluttonous and greedy elitist governance.
But It’s the bottom that keeps the top-on-top. Eh!

This man y’all have as PM keeps milking the citizens for money and more money, because the hard truth is that he is a swindler, just like Allen Stanford. This man took his financial acumen from the likes of such crooks, who’s only way to get rich is to swindle hard working people out of their earnings. The lie this man tells are palpable. If this country was doing this great as he says, and the debt to GDP is lowest in the history of Antigua, well why pressure the people and put them in further debt with all these tax increases?

The answer to that, is that all his speeches are lies and fairytales, and that this government is way more broke than they are projecting. Thats the only thing that makes more sense here, is that this man is lying about his hyped debt to GDP that he keeps tooting about.

We still owe the Chinese millions for the seaport and all the other projects they have invested, and those people don’t play when it comes to their money, so what GB does, tax the people more and more, telling them it’s for their own good. lol. what a man. This what y’all voted for, damn shame.

No increased taxation without ACCOUNTABILITY.

How are the funds currently being collected by transport board being used? Where are the audited statements?

Is there a project plan for the roadworks? Or will Public work continue to go around “patching” roads “according to priority” without an engineer in sight?

What is the exact budget for the project? What are the expenditure items? Who are getting the contracts? The figure quoted was “ABOUT 100 million”

What mechanisms will be put in place for MAINTENANCE!!!

ITS OUR MONEY AND WE WANT TO KNOW EXACTLY HOW YOU INTEND TO SPEND IT!!