Hon Anthony Smith Jr said: This is truly a sad day for the Caribbean. It is deeply disappointing to see our nation and our regional neighbours included on a list of 75 countries worldwide now facing an indefinite pause on immigrant visa processing.
The relationships between Caribbean nations and the United States have been built on mutual respect, cooperation, and shared values. Our people-to-people connections run deep, with strong family ties, educational exchanges, and economic partnerships that have benefited both sides. To now see Antigua and Barbuda, along with Barbados, the Bahamas, Jamaica, St. Lucia, St. Kitts and others subjected to this blanket policy, is disheartening.
What troubles me equally, however, is how quickly this developing situation was seized upon for political gain here at home. Instead of being patriots who offer constructive recommendations, the United Progressive Party used this issue as a political football to attack the Prime Minister. It is now even clearer to all right thinking citizens and residents that this matter was not in any way caused by our government’s policy positions or actions. It is clearly a unilateral decision by the United States that affects numerous countries across the globe.
At a time when we should be standing together as a nation to respond to this challenge with one voice, we instead saw opposition politicians rushing to assign blame and score political points. Yet their partisan attacks did absolutely nothing to serve the interests of Antiguans and Barbudans.
Right now, we need unity and measured diplomacy, not divisive rhetoric. Our focus should be on working through diplomatic channels to understand the rationale behind this decision and to advocate for our citizens, not on exploiting this development for domestic political advantage.
I urge us all: Let us stand together as Caribbean people and as Antiguans and Barbudans during this challenging time.
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HYPOCRITE—SHUT U DAM JUDASISTIC MOUTH…..ABSOLUTELY NO ONE WANTS TO HEAR FROM A HYPOCRITE LIKE YOU, as much as Gaston is not liked, it it was coming from him I might have blessed your words, BUT FROM U COMING FROM THE BIGGEST JUDAS ANYONE HAS SEEN.
IT IS BECAUSE OF YOU WHY THE ABLP IS STILL IN POWER SO PLEASE SHUT UP MAN AND GO HIDE. U HAVE NO SHAME.
Not in Antigua. All news portal; blogs online have made it into a political circus.
they come out quick boyyyy. lol what a calamity
You are looking relevance so you have found something to speak on..
Did you speak voluntarily and consciously or were you programmed?
How do you feel being in bed and being a part of those who have brought this on us?
Is the ALP and Gaston Browne still the ANTITHESIS of good?
Have you been sanitized by yhe labour party?
Have you apologized to the people of All Saints West for selling their vote to a party which you claimed was the maker of corruption?
Did you share the $6 millions with anyone from All Saints West?
Boy, go way!!!!
” A sad day for the Carribean” huh?
I didn’t know that Antigua and Dominca was the entire Carribean?
This happened to Antigua and Dominca you joker, so go get a real brain and figure out why.
But many of us out here know why “Antigua and Dominca” were singled out, so sit there being blind.
But what else you expect from a Judas, it’s his blindness that cause him to sell his soul for 30 pieces.
Anthony Smith,You should be he last person on earth.To speak about things being Political and should not be politicised.Who the hell do you think you are. To tell us what we should and should not do.The people of ALL SAINTS WEST SHOULD PISS ON YOU AND YOUR POLITICAL SELL OUT TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER.GASTON BROWNE DID SAY. THE DAY AFTER THE ELECTIONS YOU WERE AT HIS HOUSE.DISCUSSING THE MOVE OVER TO HIS PARTY FROM THE UPP.YOU ARE A HYPOCRITE,YOU DIRTY HYPOCRITE.YOU ARE GOING TO PAY THE PRICE COME NEXT ELECTION CANNOT WAIT.
You political prostitute, please” shut up “. You were kne that use to xslled the ABLP immoral, and corrupt. Now you are at the draught drinking like a camel.
Islanman26 this is different that visa suspension this visa free is delt to everyone of CARICOM except Trinidad it seems
@islandman26 The visa bond is on Antigua and Dominica, but the indefinite pause is on green card for all Caricom countries except Trinidad, Guyana and Surinam. The pause is on 75 countries in all.
@Young.
I understand that, but bond and other restrictions were not put on those islands, it was only freeze to look at things.
Antigua was put on a blacklist with some of the harshest conditions since the trump administration start clamping down on its immigration system.
Some are trying to draw the coalition to Trump’s being racist as to why specifically Antigua and Dominca was signalled out, and that’s not the case.
I know why Antigua specifically was signal out for those harsh visa conditions, and it’s because of our dirty CIP, and GB trying to play all sides.
Well he was found out by Trump.
That’s all I’m saying.
This policy current freeze is a broader effort to sort out the US immigration system (which is a mess by the way) but the specific Sanctions that were targeted towards Antigua in the December proclamations were about safety and corruption.
Again..The president of the WIOC was not stopped, detained and searched because Trump hates black people.
This latest freeze is not new, it happened before, most notably 9/11. Trump did not invented immigration.
Think young man,think.
Look who’s talking. JUDAS. The worst of the worst the man who smiles with you today then bad play you the next day. Boy just go and hide u self. You not supposed to give anybody advice
Quarkoo look a muddy. Satan trying to correct sin, when he is the ultimate sinner. Antigua is a unique place, we have more Judases than any place on earth and a friend of mine said we were too small to be #1 at anything
Gaston strategy will cost him at this point, lots a monies. Gaston is going to have to pay the UPP turn court to give him credibility and that’s among the local Antiguans who are semiliterate as we all are, because English is not our language, we all have to refer to a dictionary, it’s a tricky language, so tabor and Mansoor and Dr Philmore and all the defectors is going to be called upon and paid handsomely to speak to the populace, including pastors who are religious mercenary for hire.
Anthony smith is very clever and realize his value in the present scheme of things to legitimize Gaston where he could make lots of monies because he was not involved in all the previous schemes that got us into this mess, but he is also fully responsible for foisting this Gaston gang on us, and I now see that asot death is a mysterious fate, because these two seats was critical , Gaston tried his best to get shuggy as robin yearwood health was dwindling and could have triggered a bi-election that would have changed the government, similar happenings like this in the past with comrade Williams death in a swimming pool did mysteriously happened.
But it doesn’t matter how much the police govern it shall crumble, because the police commissioner share the prime ministerial mantle also too, that’s why he is busy pushing his subordinates to act upon the citizens in a repressive way threatening the barbudans life for their lands and denying UPP the rights to assemble for protest or marches, the police commissioner is campaigning and protecting the prime ministerial powers he shares with Gaston.
No politician can fully rule over the people without the police or military and the church, they invoke their rulership as gods will, and get the paid pastors to parrot such claims
Smith, do you consider betraying your colleagues and constituents as political? Evil begats evil my friend and once you take the loot, there is no turning back for you.
Mercy me! Why doesn’t Anthony ‘Tergiversate’ Smith give up on politics and become a spy? He’d make a damn good one too.
He’ll look you in your eyes and tell you what you want to hear to draw you in and … boom 💥 he’s got you hook, line and sinker; and before you know it, every promise he mek has been broken.
Don’t believe me???
Then just ask the constituents of All Saints West
Anthony Smith, Representative of All Saints West has to be the most shamless Politician in the history of the Caribbean. The part about it that hurts is that I used to like him so much and was out of my mind with joy when he won his seat. His betrayal I still can’t get over
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