PM Browne: Antigua and Barbuda Will Not Host Foreign Military Assets

1. Gaston then tell us why are China making these strategic military moves on Antigua physically?
   The Chinese Embassy alone contradicts your statements.

2. Exactly on point. Fortress is more like it.

3. Ok my prime minister, I don’t have to be on your political side, but I salute you this day for the stance you have taken on the people of Antigua and Barbuda behalf this day.
   The next thing I want is that if those crazy royal family coming here to preside over our independence celebration, make me a dignitary been invited to sit up front , so I can jump up and shout reparations now for genocidal slavery, you got to order your policemen to respectfully escort me away if I become too boisterous.
   But salutes are in order to Gaston.

4. Then what do you call that Chinese fortress in Marble Hill, complete with 20 million cameras and electric fence? I’m sorry, but I’d take a US passport over a chinese social credit score any day

5. And I concur with the comment concerning the Chinese embassy!!!!!!!!

6. I do not envy the Prime Minister for having to make these tough decisions and believe it or not, they are decisions that carry enormous repercussions one way or another. But I believe that his decision not to entertain any talks about hosting any military hardware and personnel is the right one. It does come with some consequences and impact I am sure and knowing the US, Antigua and Barbuda will pay for not helping them.

7. @Piky Head and the Devil: You guys appear to be very off key – an Embassy and a military facility are two complete different things. Didn’t the Prime Minister openly welcome the USA to set up an embassy in Antigua and even said he had the land available?

   Mr. Prime Minister, I know you would have made the right decision. I am in agreement 100%.

   Venezuela has stood with us in rough times even though Venezuela had its internal struggles. Much gratitude should should be given to the government and people of Venezuela. If they decide to join BRICS, it is their call – they should not be invaded.

8. When India and china gets cheap oil from russia, they dont give a damn about the genocidal war he is waging against the ukranians, rather they protect putin and funding the war for the gain of the black gold.oil is used as a weapon of control by putin

   Maduro doing the same, you ppl getting oil from venezuela and seems you want to protect that dictator and oporessive regime. Have you all ever thought about the millions of venezuelans that have fled their home country,scattered all over, destabilizing the region,the thousands of political prisoners, the collapse of their economy, well majority of venezuelans want a regime change.you are either part of the problem or solutuon. Stop protecting dictators .time to clean that mess

9. Mr. PM are you still interested in having an US embassy here? Just asking for a friend.

10. Hegemony is like ball and chains restrictions, while under the gun. The foolishness is to transfer one form for the next: instead of relinquishing all forms and vestiges of that tyranny; of which we have gained nothing! but subjugation and quasi independent autonomy as consumers of cheap manufactured products. What have we gained from all the years of the American Air Base being here-till they up and left when it is convenient for them to do so, and fortify their s
    Soputhern Pasific bastion: thus, giving way for the encroachment of Chinese Hegemony to fill the breach, with offerings of infrastructural enhancements long denied by the platitudes of Eurocentric dominance and pittance of third-world accolade accommodation so asidiously
    fractured with assembly of national wannabe intrest vounching for scraps; fwhile hitched to the illusionary European ascendency. And, Independent From What! with coined Eurocentric names etch in mind from their vocabulary.

11. @Gad – Has Russia been classified as commiting genocide against the people of Ukraine? You are so off Key. How is Putin using oil as a weapon? Did Putin carry up the price of oil or stop selling oil to countries? Or, was it the case where SOME countries decided that the putting a CAP and an embargo on Russian oil?

    Who is really creating the hardship for the Venezuelan people, is it Manduro or the embargos that have been placed on Venezuela by SOME countries? Which country has the bigger dictator, Venezuela or the USA? Who is sending their military to bomb and kill an another country citizens in international waters (whether they carrying drugs or not) without due process?

    Wake up Gad and liberate your mind from slavery.

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13. @Dion Pelle: Are we going to loose our soul for the sake of an embassy here? If Antigua has to be slave for the sake of an embassy, then do we really need it?

14. @JBF. It’s not about what we need, it’s about being prudent. This man just huff and puff then turn around and do something totally different…that’s the problem here..trying to play political chess with these very powerful sensitive nations. Pick a side and stand on whatever morals you have, but instead he has all this bluster on his Radio show.

    Let me say this..Gatson Browne ain’t no big dawg in this picture, sorry he’s not, and to not put the best interest of his people in front of his ego is the alarming travesty here.

    I speak in plain turns, and if you ever get a chance to study the very fickle psychology of most humans , especially those who are your enemy or friend, you better be very precise and consistent in your motive.

    This PM is all over the place, and he cannot be trusted, because he is a small dog who is trying to put smart everyone.

    His cunning ways will not bode well for Antigua in the long run.

    Pick a damn moral side and stick with it..stop with the B’s about “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” that only works if you have something to offer.

    It’s like telling a woman/man he/she owns everything you have because they simply married to you, while you are the one who built everything. If you have nothing to offer, pick a side and be loyal to your choice. You can’t have multiple wives/husbands.

    We have being married to the US for 100 of years now, they spend more money on Antigua than any other country in the history of Antigua, and now you want to divorce over the so-called next big thing?

    That’s this man’s problem..he’s like a whore who is all over the place just for the $$$.

15. @JBF…de Flames Debble Rhythm and English Harbour Rum 190 proof got you behaving like Raycan, pulling his rancid Red herring all over the place trying to drown the smell caused by crooked politicians and their sheeeeeeet.
    Any building can be established as a War Room where any war is coordinated from. Even homeless tents are used by some spies in places like Washington DC, New York etc. Not only is spying from any vantage advantageous, the more inconspicuous you are the least likely you’ll be tagged. If you get a chance to visit the Spy Museum in DC, please do because even though the tools of spying on display have been obsolete for decades they’ll make go Hmmmnnn.
    It’s a great stop for kids as they tour the Mall of America’s selected history.
    The spy pigeon military base was a COOP on some roof, so go figure. If the State Department puts out any negative press release about Antigua especially with its escalating crime, guess what?

16. That’s the right call. We don’t need to get dragged into anybody’s wars Antigua should stay neutral and peaceful.

17. While I get the peace argument, having some level of defense cooperation could strengthen our security.

18. Thank you PM Browne. Let’s not get wrapped up in these people affairs

19. AMEN

20. I hold my hands 🤚🏾✋🏾 up to a previous post where I mentioned that (and I’m paraphrasing my comments here) “we’ll find out what Prime Minister Gaston Browne’s is made of, and if he’ll kowtow to the Americans …”

    The Prime Minister stood his ground and wants to keep Antigua & Barbuda 🇦🇬 NEUTRALITY from USA’s overwhelming military influence (as we are now witnessing in the Caribbean region).

    Well done sir, MIGHT isn’t always RIGHT.

    Browne stepping up at long last …

21. @ The Devil : A drunkard is not necessary a fool, sometimes the alcohol just make you get something off you chest, lol. I would repeat, an embassy and a military facility are separate things. Our government did offer welcome to the US government intention to bring back the embassy here.

    You are wondering what the Chinese is doing at their embassy, if the USA built an embassy here, would you be wondering as well? Don’t you believe they would be doing intelligence gathering as well? Also, do you see Chinese military aircrafts and equipment on their embassy compound?

    For you information, those countries do NOT need a physical building to be spying on us. With or without an embassy or a military presence, they are spying.

22. In life you have to pick a side. I’ve picked mine and it’s not China.

23. @islandman26 : I don’t write from a political perspective and which ever PM was in office, my view would be the same. I do not think that we would want Antigua to sit on the wrong side of history, we must stand for some principles. There are times when the PM may have to make some political moves, let us face it, Antigua is no match to the USA.

    I am NOT in any way suggesting that we should be against the USA but we should not have to follow them blindly into something that we consider to be wrong. Do you think that if a group of Americans were on a boat filled with all drugs that Venezuela could have gone and bomb that boat in international waters?

24. @JBF. Stand up to US about what?
    Isn’t this the same PM who guaranteed that the Antigua will get back a US embassy?

    So which argument is he having..that’s my point here. Stay consistent dude, that’s my problem with this man..he’s all over the place.

    Are we with America or not? That answer needs to be concise. Antigua cannot afford the backlash of America, and being indecisive does not help.
    You smile in my face and then stab me behind my back is not the way to win this race.

25. We are raising a peaceful community and we should never give 1 an idea/ideas that they can deloy there military attilaries here to threaten the peace it’s normal life which was so before we was born and have reduced tremendously by or regular force, who obey and respect the country for what it stands. for no1 will and I said accept no1 to bribe you into any form of war or support any form of war .they have been always watch tell them keep watch but leave the peace so we can focus in or daily jobs, children at school, babies are being born, plz sir don’t allow it no way or form okay thank to you …the Last Job . because he needed some1 strong and he put you there you are our general and we respect you that all for the people.

26. They are not asking us to…..If they were they would come with $$$$$$$ and I think the response would be different….The Admiral is here to tell us plenty big ships that make things go kaboom is gonna be around the place…

27. @Gad October 15, 2025 At 9:23 am
    Why are you so miss-informed. The USA has placed sanctions about doing business with Venezuela. Therefore Antigua cannot buy any oil from Venezuela. We cannot even pay them for the shipments they have given us in the past and we are to pay them back in 23 years. Therefore their monies are just sitting here. If we violate the sanction we will be in deep shit. China and India are bigger countries and can do what they want they do not answer to the treats of the USA. The even buy oil from Iran.
    The USA has turned out to be the biggest Bully on Earth. The do whatever it is they want. Bomb who they want, kill who they want when they want. And no one can do anything about that.

28. You all seems to forget that the same dictator Maduro was just about to attack Guyana because of same oil. Which country is Caricom going to rely on for defense when that happens? Signing a piece of paper is not peace and the absence of war is neither peace, conflict is always lurking around just human nature.we have to be vigilant to defend our liberty and freedoms everytime, choosing an ally is critical. Is like bashing the police everytime yet the first place you call for protection.Every superpower is a bully including the US, the soviet union/Russia and even todays China. All the caribbean island states are 90% dependent on the US not China/Russia or venezuela. So pick your poison wisely. There is a consequence for every action or decision.

29. @gad: why don’t we shut our mouth about this oil affairs that we don’t understand, these foreign corporations that are in on the oil in Guyana us paying to stoke war to control Irfan Ali and Trinidad and get the oil price down low as can be, and are still not satisfied that they have ask their president to still go after Venezuela oil because if they get the government overthrow, they won’t have to buy Guyana oil anymore, and Guyana will have oil in poverty worse than it is now, and such large reserve of oil captured by military might will neutralize Russia and the middle east as oil producers.

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