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Social Security Director Confirms UPP Added $127M to Arrears
Antigua and Barbuda’s Social Security Director says arrears owed to the scheme grew sharply under the United Progressive Party (UPP) government’s first term, rising by $127 million between 2003 and 2009.
Appearing on the Browne and Browne Show, David Mathias explained that by October 2003, just before the UPP came to office, the amount outstanding stood at roughly $366 million.
By 2009, that figure had increased to nearly $494 million.
Prime Minister Gaston Browne, who was also on the program, calculated that the difference amounted to $127 million in arrears added within the UPP’s first five years in office.
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Mathias agreed with the assessment, confirming that the arrears came from unpaid premiums, including deductions taken from employees that were not paid over to the scheme.
By 2010, the UPP government consolidated the debt into a Memorandum of Understanding with the Social Security Board, creating a liability of $550 million that combined unpaid contributions, loans, and penalties.
The confirmation underscores the long-running accumulation of arrears across administrations and highlights how the UPP period added substantially to the scheme’s financial burden.
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ABLP continue to live in the past and the constant vilifying of UPP (even though they haven’t been in office for 12-13 years); and, in particular the return of the Most Honourable Harold – who celebrated his 70th birthday the other day. Marvellous!
The fact that this written piece of utter garbage 🗑 has a picture of Harold Lovell (I mean why so?) and not of Baldwin Spencer who was the leader of the UPP at the time highlights the fear and foreboding the ABLP still have of the recent return of Mr Lovell.
As a political commentator, I expected this negativity about his return, but I never expected in a month of Sundays that all the so-called ills would be an avalanche placed on his head. Pure nonsense!
Without doubt the ABLP apologists are making themselves look more stupendous each and everyday.
These written “hit” pieces are now so predictable
MR LOVELL DEM ‘FRAID AH YOU BOSS …
The habit of using Board members and government employers to try and politicize things must stop. The point is, successive governments over the years have not been as prudent with Social Security funds as they should have been. And that is why we have to correct that going forward and ensure that every cent of social security funds are paid over to the Board on a timely basis and those funds can be accounted for by the Board who was appointed to look after the interest of the contributors, not the government. The politization of all these boards are regrettable and does very little to protect, preserve and safeguard the interest of the contributors.
So eleven years after the UPP was removed from office is the first time such information came to the attention of the director??????
Mathias has been on numerous programs.
He has spoken at length on issues related to debt owed to Social Security.
Never has theat I formation been made public.
Suddenly like a rabbit out of a hat that information is headline news.
Are our public officials ballsless and programmable? What js Mathias’ motive for “concelaing”that information and “releasing” it at this moment?
Is he about to throw his hat into the ring?
Has he taken a dose of the red “dang-ger”?
Beware of King Liard, HarOLD Love-ill. Seeking a new lease on life at age 70???? Time to retire your useless self in the public interest.
@Straight Shooter, this is obviously a coordinated attempt to attack the UPP. The fact that these political pr%st$tut#s have to resort to so-called issues of the past smacks of utter desperation of the LOWEST order.
Somethings afoot, and I can’t quite put my finger on it at present – but I will -, maybe an early General Election is on the horizon when these duplicitous basket cases finish the recent works they started earlier in the year (and promised way back in 2014).
Did David Mathias ever come to the public and advise us that the present A.L.P. Government is not paying consistently into Social Security?
Did David Mathias tell the public when this practice began?
David Mathias, go to hell. In my opinion, you are a political prostitute.
wow! No wonder Limpy Joe retatins the name KING LIYADD. The Worst Finance Minister this country has ever seen. The Worst Tourism Minister this country has ever seen. The IMF Pimp. The man who DID NOT RECEIVE PARLIAMENTARY APPROVAL to purchase those “new” engines that TAXPAYERS ARE STILL PAYING FOR!!
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Ladies and gentlemen please note that the HON. LARS JAMALE PRINGLE had nothing to do with this. His hands are clean. He is the ONE AND ONLY DULY ELECTED LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION.
You can trust that he has your best interest at heart.
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What does the caption have to do with Harold Lovel? It’s quite customary for the ABLP to use Public Servants as porns in doing their dirty works. There’s absolutely no reasons for the Public Servants to used in such disrespectful manner.
loveLIE was the FINANCE MINISTER during the era of the WICKED “SUNSHINE GOVERNMENT”. It has everything to do with him! He plunged our country into economic latrine pithole.
Yes! Plaster he face all over this article. Remind Antigua ppl of the mess he put dis country through. #NatHeAgain
@naked truth.
And the ABLP government came and make billions according to you guys, but yet still we can’t see it in Antigua’s infrastructure. ABST was raised, vehicle fees were raised, port fees were raised, and yet still with all that windfall of money that the ABLP claim they made, people’s lives are still in the pits in Antigua, and the island is still 15 years behind when it comes to infrastructure.
Have you no shame?
a little 2% ABST u complaining over?? UPP KNOCK YOU WITH A 15% ABST in one fell swoop. UPP ALLOWED SANDALS TO HOLD ON TO YOUR ABST MONIES (the same wrecker in the photo above this article)
No wonder Jonathan Joseph sides with Labour Party in his last Senate Debate about the Jolly Beach investment. The UPP mash up everything, mess up everything and has no vision for anything
I believe. Matthias was suffering from amnesia all these years, how come only now he is bringing these things to the public, my brother you go bun in hell, as the saying goes liar, liar, pants on fire
careful you no already condemn yourself to hell!
@Al Capone
The FACTS are just the FACTS whether you like it or not.
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