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Read the PM’s complete statement below:
I have an unwavering commitment to empowering our people in all aspects of their development, including education, health care, housing, employment, sports, safety, cultural advancement, entrepreneurship, and broad ownership.
I believe that ownership is empowerment. That is why we established the entrepreneurial fund to support and expand business ownership.
Domestic ownership has been expanded through land, home, share, car, boat and other asset business ownership.
We subsidized the ownership of land and homes. Homes are subsidized up to $150K each.
This is a deliberate policy to redistribute wealth to the working class. Our government has also developed its economic model of capital empowerment, a capitalist model driven by strong social underpinnings.
This model also calls for an entrepreneurial state that actively engages in entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship to expand collective domestic ownership of business assets, which are ordinarily beyond the private sector’s reach.
The profits are further socialized by paying dividends into the consolidated fund to finance socio-economic development.
The model calls for greater domestic ownership, a reduction in profit repatriation, and a rapidly increased national capital formation through profit retention.
Our recent policy decision of our government, mandating the acquisition of the branches of foreign banks by domestic banks, was precisely to expand the ownership class and to empower our people, instead of allowing our economy to become an extractive economy dominated by foreign interests.
Today, the asset base and profits of ACB and ECAB have risen significantly, providing more taxes for the government and unprecedented dividends to shareholders.
The combined earnings for ACB and ECAB for 2024 were an unprecedented $ 115 M.
My administration is now making beach and waterfront parcels of land available to locals to grow the Airbnb sector and expand domestic ownership of our hospitality sector.
Housing Project
Housing remains a cornerstone of our empowerment policy.
We will ramp up home construction, which has slowed because of a lack of adequate Labour, by importing workers from our Caribbean islands to supplement the workforce at National Housing.
National Housing was born out of my vision and strong commitment to addressing the skewed distribution of wealth and empowering our people through subsidized land and home ownership.
It should be noted that in 2014, when I assumed office from the UPP administration, Antigua & Barbuda had among the most skewed GNIs in the world.
We have grown GNI per capita to just under $60K, and our empowerment policies are making significant progress in the restitution of wealth among the working class. People empowerment is a mantra by which I live.
Serving people is love.
My love for the people is so strong that I have been fighting unrelentingly to protect them, including protecting our country’s integrity from those who seek to besmirch and tear down our country.
My commitment to protect and defend our people is such that I will take a bullet fighting for them.
That’s the Rastafari love I have for our people.
Rastafari is love, integrity, inity, empathy, sharing, and caring; not smoking weed and wearing dreads.
I love to serve; I love to empower, and that is why I identify as Rastafari; seen.
Bless up,
RASTAMAN VIBRATION – JAH RASTAFARI
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Ownership sound good, but how regular people go afford land and house wid dem salary?
Empowerment can’t happen without education. Fix the schools first!
Mi tired hear bout empowerment when poor people still haffi beg to get through.
If he serious bout ownership, drop the bank interest rate dem!
Every election cycle is the same empowerment song. Me want chorus of results now.
I give credit where it’s due. The PM has kept ownership on the agenda.
Mi uncle still waiting pon title from the land program 5 years now.
Boassy! Gaston just talking! Antigua is still bad! Never the less respect to the “world boss” cause the opposition couldn’t have done any better
World Boss! Nice picture of Gaston for the article! Shows he stands for building and the uplifting of his people!! 1 gassy never 2!!
We live here all our lives can’t get one
Patiently awaiting my home. I’m from Guyana living here for 17 years and I will soon have my own home thanks for the Browne administration. Thank you
Some of you all will die with PM Browne on your heart. You mean nothing that this man does can be counted as good. Don’t allow politics to cause you to lose your soul, let alone Gaston A Browne. The housing project is a visionary and excellent one. Give him this at least. Hating someone will consume you.
What about extending the native residence, too. Pastors christened their pickney first! Some natives want to buy one of the housing projects, but their salaries ain’t enough to get a bank loan.
There’s no one who can convince me that PM Browne does not mean well for the people of this nation and by extension it’s foreign residents