Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates | 10 January 2026 — Hon. MelfordNicholas, Minister responsible for Energy, is in Abu Dhabi leading Antigua and Barbuda’s engagement at the Sixteenth Session of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) Assembly and related meetings, being held from 10–12 January 2026.
Hon. Nicholas is accompanied by members of Antigua and Barbuda’s delegation, including H.E. Ruleta Camacho-Thomas, Climate Change Ambassador; H.E. Theon Ali, Ambassador; H.E. Brian Challenger, Advisor to the Hon. Minister; and Ms. Karen Burton, Director of Operations & Energy, Ministry of ICTs, Utilities & Energy.
As a member of the IRENA Assembly Bureau, Hon. Nicholas met this morning with Mr. Francesco La Camera, Director-General of IRENA, to discuss priorities for Antigua and Barbuda and practical pathways for accelerating implementation across Small Island Developing States (SIDS), including investment mobilization and delivery partnerships.
On 10 January, Hon. Nicholas is also participating in high-level engagements, including the Global Coalition for Energy Planning (GCEP) roundtable and the SIDS Ministerial dialogue focused on investment pathways, regional approaches, and partnerships to accelerate the energy transition for island states.
Hon. Nicholas will chair a ministerial-level session on 11 January, reinforcing Antigua and Barbuda’s leadership role within IRENA and its commitment to building finance-ready pipelines that deliver resilient, affordable renewable energy outcomes.
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Communications Unit, Ministry responsible for Energy (Antigua and Barbuda
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Go Melford! Keep pushing for sustainable energy, our kids will thank you one day
Hope this translates into more solar panels, wind turbines, and affordable clean energy at home for everyone.
More grand photo opps with dignitaries.. 😂.
Then they will come back and use terms like “They were duped”, “They were caught off guard”, “They didn’t know what was coming”.
😂. When their crap hit the fan, this will be some of their verbage.
Set of losers..that’s all I can say.
You hear the big word they used ” Delegation”.
This is no laughing matter, but do people seriously think that replacing one energy source for the next is the answer to mankind?
The energy has always been there folks..the God of heaven and earth put it there in its creation. It’s ours. It’s not a knew concept.
The indigenous and early man has been using it for free way before greedy men came along to profit off of what God has already created for us.
When you bring me someone who have any say in how the sun shines, then I’ll start believing that these so-called energy delegations are done on behalf of the average man, and not just the rich.
All I’m asking for my people of Antigua, is a none corrupt government, that’s it.
Let’s just stay in our small space and live good clean lives, that’s it.
When greedy politicians start teaching their hands and eyes to far, then there is a cost to pay, and we are way too smart to pay that cost.
These guys are really wasteful with the tax payers monies, now they surfed the internet and saw this event and just imagine the hotel and stay and sight seeing, you just give us a break they weren’t even recognize or acknowledge in Dubai, in the white wealthy world and in Dubai at that Africans are kept there under strenuous conditions as domestic workers, melford Nicolas had no input to that meeting, as a matter of fact diplomatic norms may require he is given the chance to say his name, then he and his colleagues get their attention right back to the fine eatery’s and luxury hotel room and great sights, do you think Dubai is waiting for a little unknown place like Antigua to come and open the meeting?
This is how Gaston operates a state capture, he uses the resources of the state to buy their loyalty and then that’s the reason for the silence no matter what Gaston does wrong.
*reaching*
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