Prime Minister Gaston Browne said residents in parts of St. Philip’s North are now receiving improved water supply after concerns were raised during a recent town hall meeting in the constituency.
Speaking on the Browne and Browne show on Pointe FM, Browne said the issue of inconsistent water pressure was brought directly to government officials during the public forum and was addressed within days.
At the meeting, which he described as well attended, Browne said constituents were invited to openly raise concerns.
“One lady in particular… wanted to raise the issue about water,” he said, noting that she spoke candidly about the challenges residents were facing .
Browne said he later received a call from a resident who had previously complained about low pressure.
“I had a call this morning from one of them who was actually complaining a few days ago,” Browne said. “And said, ‘Look, the water pressure… I’m up here so I’m powerful now.’”
He said residents are now “happy” and confirmed that water is flowing in the area.
According to Browne, the responsible minister had committed to ensuring water was restored by Saturday and to provide a more consistent supply. He said the quick response underscores the importance of direct community engagement.
“And this is why these engagements are very important — for us to reach the people, to go to them,” Browne said, adding that such forums form part of the government’s accountability efforts.
The improvements come amid campaigning in St. Philip’s North ahead of the March 16 by-election, triggered by the retirement of longtime MP Sir Robin Yearwood.
Browne said the town hall allowed residents not only to show support for the governing Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party but also to press ministers on service delivery issues affecting their communities.
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Of course it does, especially with the St Phillip’s North by-election dey bout, this goes without saying Prime Minister. Everything is going to be working for now, ain’t it!
I’m surprised that the ABLP aren’t delivering leftover ham and turkeys from Christmas as well.
Gaston funny so till… 🤣
Wait! People this gullible? Because an election in that constituency you are now getting water. Water that you were promised i2014 in 14 days ,only now your concerns are been met. If this is acceptable by our electorate ,then antigua done .
And then right after the election the water is off.
You have no respect for the electorate. Stringing them along on promises of water. Any government should be ASHAMED to have water delivery in this age, as an election promise.
Utter BS!
When by-election done, wata tun aff again!
So why water was not running before that lady cried out.There are several Desalination Plants on the island of 108 square miles.So why are people,not getting water regularly and or daily.That is such bull chit.VOTE THEIR GREEDY HORESES ARSES OUT OF OFFICE,NOW.
No surprise here. It takes election to bring water and to make other things happen. After the polls its back to normal programming.
Gaston Browne and ABLP will bring Heaven down to earth just to win this by-election. They are as desperate as it gets. After 50 years of neglect by ALP/ABLP we have become so important. We can even get them to come and clean our yards for free. We are done with you
You the people of that Constituency deserves better. No water all along.Now it is Election time water flowing through the tap.Then after the Election back to no water. You deserve much better than you have been receiving.The days of abuse are over.
These gangsters are just so disrespectful to Antiguans and Barbudans. For fifty unbroken years, one man sold out the residents of St. Philips North. He annexed their lands and then made deals with some foreign interlopers and his successor has since promised them that his purpose is to continue the raid and plunder but come March 16, we will know where they stand.
Gaston is the Ultimate CHARLATAN some just say Con Artist. He has no respect for our intelligence. Only now showing up to pretend he cares. Baltimore is not any different he even knows Gaston better than the rest of us, they are two peas in the same pod
These politicians really have the people on strings like puppets.
One reason why the entire island doesn’t have water consistently is because to do so will kill their water trucking businesses.
The people of St. Phillip’s North in particular the youths have the power in their hands to stop the seed of evil from continuing to grow among their flowers like thistle and stifling their beauty.
Well! Well! This is something else, willikies and the constituency never get this kind of attention yet, because of Alex win, power hang in the balance of anything happens in the ALP government.
For all the 50 years robin in power, he carry his white mentality and think of the black people of the village as inferiors, he responds to is as how his dad Percy had our fore parents like slaves on his plantation, lots a elderly people today in the village is illiterate because they had to come out of school a break time and lunch time to go weed bushes from Percy yearwood farm while young robin watched on and been addressed as master robin. So you can look at his condescending views of the villagers in his 50 year reign of personal upward mobility, only he one get rich with lands and everything else. He never give a scholarship from his hotel or health assistance, he never made anyone from his constituency a senator, the UPP has made two person from willikies senator, and senator govia parents are from willikies but she lives Johnson so she becomes senator under ALP because she was in the vicinity.
For the time randy behind him, he never considered randy good enough to be made a senator.
Since I was young I looked at the villagers celebrating robin who did nothing for the area and realized they were conflating love for ALP and v.c bird with love for white people, because on the 1930’s the three set of white family living in willikies were privilege, they went about and have the best girls in the village or anything, our parents had to work on their plantation as slaves condition.
Robin enjoyed white privilege to this day from the villagers, because the white people on the area was the employers, robin later went to work for a white woman name miss gay that own Antigua horizons hotel, a company name he kept to this day as you would notice hos wholesale distributors trucks going around with the nomenclature.
The willikies young people had have robin institutionalized in their psyche inculcated by the parents, and should now try to break that bondage, realizing for themselves that their parents failed them, that’s the reason why robin was able to take all the waterfront land for himself and his white colleagues, even civil bridge national park he took.
Well! Well! This is something else, willikies and the constituency never get this kind of attention yet, because if Alex win, power hang in the balance if anything happens in the ALP government.
For all the 50 years robin in power, he carry his white mentality and think of the black people of the village as inferiors, he responds to us as how his dad Percy yearwood had our fore parents like slaves on his plantation, lots a elderly people today in the village is illiterate because they had to come out of school a break time and lunch time to go weed bushes from Percy yearwood farm while young robin watched on and been addressed as master robin. So you can look at his condescending views of the villagers in his 50 year reign of personal upward mobility, only he one get rich with lands and everything else. He never give a scholarship from his hotel or health assistance, he never made anyone from his constituency a senator, the UPP has made two person from willikies senator which is Shawn Nicholas and Alex brown, senator govia parents are from willikies but she lives Johnson so she becomes senator under ALP because she was in the vicinity down west, if she was in willikies she would have been unknown.
For the time randy behind him, he never considered randy good enough to be made a senator.
Since I was young I looked at the villagers celebrating robin who did nothing for the area and realized they were conflating love for ALP and v.c bird with love for white people, because in the 1930’s the three set of white family living in willikies were privilege, they went about and have the best girls in the village or anything, our parents had to work on their plantation as slaves condition.
Robin enjoyed white privilege to this day from the villagers, because the white people in the area was the employers, robin later went to work for a white woman name miss gay that own Antigua horizons hotel, a company name he kept to this day as you would notice his wholesale distributors trucks going around with the nomenclature.
The willikies young people had have robin institutionalized in their psyche inculcated by their parents, and should now try to break that bondage, realizing for themselves that their parents failed them, that’s the reason why robin was able to take all the waterfront land for himself and his white colleagues, even devil bridge national park he took.
BRIXTONIAN….The following is the results for general election 2026.
ABLP will win all 17 seats.
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