REAL NEWS – All Saints West MP Anthony Smith, Junior is calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Gaston Browne.
He made the call from the platform on Monday night, at a rally held in support of his colleague, St. Mary’s South candidate Kelvin “Shugy” Simon.
It was Simon’s resignation from the House of Representatives that paved the way for the by-election slated for October 24.
But Smith says Simon should not have resigned on June 7.
Instead, the resignation should have come from PM Browne and his administration, since they have been such big failures.
Smith charges that they have messed up the economic fortunes of the country, among several other missteps that have left the people struggling.
He notes that living in Antigua and Barbuda today is hard for even members of the business community, for whom things continue to decline.
In fact, the MP says, everyone – the poor, the middle, and the upper classes, included – is trying to make ends meet on a daily basis.
According to him, after making payments on their mortgage and car loans, among other debts, many in the middle class have no money to save or invest in a worthwhile venture.
Smith points out that the less fortunate are faring the worst – having to decide whether to pay their bills or to buy food, or to buy food and have their utilities disconnected.
Further, he says, he has spoken with operators who have shared the true financial state of their businesses, since, as he notes, there is “no money stirring.”
Many of them, he says, are owed millions of dollars by the Government, and they are having challenges to be paid by the Treasury.
MP Smith notes that the private sector should be the engine of growth in any country, investing and creating employment; but it is unable to do so when the Government is crippling their businesses by not offering incentives.
In the meantime, Smith says that public servants continue to cry, and when they decide to take action they are met with threats of retrenchment from a leader who needs to resign from the Government.
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The Honourable Prime Minister resigning is not going to happen any time soon. I have a feeling that he is going to leave on his terms and when he is ready. There are differing views on the state of the economy. The administration seems pretty proud of the job they have done so far and this is backed up by international lending agencies and the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank. Elections is due in 2026? The people get to decide that one.
A honey dem a feed you with. You don’t feel the squeeze because you living the life. How can you even think that the country is stable economically because International entities agreed? They are reporting falsely. The government owe people millions including me and everyday treasury saying no money there. So wey de money garn? If you know please tell Gaston to pay us because “alpha nar go” (alpha nero) no place in a hurry.
No water; no financial accountability on CIP, NAMCO and YIDA; no independent investigations into the 2-3 airline fiascos; the road infrastructure leaves a lot to be desired; St John’s is an eyesore; delays in payments in wages, overtime and pensions; rape; gun crime and home invasions on the rise; and cost of living spiralling out of control.
Yet, according to Sharon Lycorish, everything in THE ABLP’S GARDEN IS ROSEY.
NO WONDER GASTON BROWNE CAN SIT BACK COMFORTABLY WHEN THERE ARE SO SO MANY WAYWARD SUPPORTERS LIKE THIS AROUND. MERCY!!!
@Sharon Lycorish
Sorry to correct you, but elections are due in 2028, not in 2026
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Dis LIKKLE BOY JUST COME WHIPPER SNAPPER need fu sit his little punk arse down. Wah he a watch the PM fah??
He need fu avert de war boiling btwn he WIFE and he MOOMAH. Why can’t de 2 ooman in he life get along?
Why de wife nah warnt he moomah fu touch she pickney???
Gwarn mine neargah bizniz and fu he a get way 🤣 🤣 🤣
He newly married. He betta kip wifey happy b4 he end up single!!!
You sound so stupid as you probably look
What does his personal life has to do with political pronunciation?
MOST ANTIGUANS ARE LIVING IN POVERTY…. ITS TRUE STATEMENT THE UPPER CLASS ARE HURTING FINANCIALLY
DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY PPL THE GOVERNMENT OWES BESIDES PENSIONERS
AS SOON AS YOU ALL KNOW PPL BUSINESS YOU ALL CANT REASON LOGICALLY what the hell do oes his personal life has to do with the political
ANTIGUANS are low minded low vibrations……that’s why you all can’t reach nowhere
De likkle boy nah ready! Looking lakka wan donkey ketch in headlights!!!
Antiguans not hungry. Datta de narsee dutty lie Observer and BANKRUPT FRANZ DeFreitas G-R-E-A-T-F-U-L lying baxide try fu peddle, but de ppl REJECT UPP LIES!!!!
If you hungry, gwarn go down a de soup kitchen go get fatten up.
Antiguans hab FOOD, CLOTHES, HOUSE AND VEHICLE can’t done. Traffic tight bad fu all dem VEHICLES in Antigua thanks to the PM GASTON BROWNE ADMINISTRATION .
Now as fu de likkle boy, tell he muss careful he married life nah mess he up
The wife seems to be a classy lady. Hilleen on the other hand behaves like a vagabond! Ask anyone in Sea View Farm about his mother. She not easy to get along with at all. Hope he is man enough to stand up for his wife
Yet another one singing doom and gloom for the country, while all outside agencies, be it ECLAC, IMF, ECCB and CDB saying Antigua and Barbuda have done remarkably well and is poised to grow at least 5% by some and 9% by others. And when you look at local spending one only needs to look at the Carnival Celebration. This year was even bigger than the year before. And all the so-called poor people were spending monies at all the fete’s. And one ticket for a fete is about $300.00. And all the fetes were sold out.
Now when you have political clowns coming to tell you how bad things are in this country when you cannot get any free construction workers standing on the corners looking for a job. I really don’t know what is wrong with these guys. They have a script and cannot divert from it, even though the script makes them look stupid.
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