Many residents are expressing the hope that Antigua & Barbuda will see a change of government, after St. Lucia’s main opposition party racked up an overwhelming victory at the polls on Monday, July 26.
After one term in opposition, the Saint Lucia Labour Party (SLP) won 13 of the 17 parliamentary seats and will form the next government of that country.
The incumbent United Workers Party managed to win only two seats: Those of outgoing Prime Minister Allen Chastenet and Bradly Felix.
Two independent candidates – Stephenson King, a former member of the UWP, and Richard Frederick, a self-proclaimed “Independent Labour candidate” – also emerged victorious at the polls.
Some political pundits believe that Chastenet’s handling of the pandemic might have caused his Party’s demise at the polls. Others have opined that he, himself, was not above board with his political dealings.
Meanwhile, across the Eastern Caribbean, many people are commending St. Lucians for their courage and for doing the region a huge favour by getting rid of Chastenet, to whom one person referred as an “Uncle Tom sellout of a prime minister.”
Here at home, Prime Minister Gaston Browne has hinted broadly at early elections; and, following the St. Lucia results, a number of people sent him this message: “GASTON BEWARE!”
And, like those who picketed the Prime Minister’s Office on Monday, some residents are asking Browne to “Call de election now.”
“Antiguans and Barbudans waiting to get rid of you and your bunch of renegades,” was one comment online.b(REAL NEWS)
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What abou those comments that #HFWL and his #LLC’s will never run Antigua.
Wash an’ Basin July 28, 2021 At 9:55 am
This article is vacuous and without real substance. The article speaks of “a number of people sent him this message: “GASTON BEWARE!” Yet, no real attempt is made to substantiate that statement.
Secondly, there is a feeble attempt to equate the situation in St. Lucia with what is happening on the ground in Antigua. This is lazy logic; there is no one-to-one correlation between what took place in St. Lucia and what is happening in Antigua. If one were following the political pulse in St. Lucia, it would have been clear that there was mass discontent with the UWP long, long before the advent of COVID-19. One only has to look at the reasons Stephenson King (a former PM and leader of the UWP) gave for exiting the party.
Oh, and by the way, a little regarded fact that Real News and the UPP seem to be missing: It is a Labour Party that won in St. Lucia. Take a look throughout the Eastern Caribbean and you will see that it is Labour Parties that are taking control because of their very strong philosophical foundation of being defenders of the grassroots. Labour Parties have demonstrated their capacity to provide strong, reasoned, and decisive leadership. They have shown a willingness to make tough decisions, even when not supported by popular sentiment. What often happens is that in due course, the masses see that the decisions are in the best interest of everyone. This is something that cannot be said of the UPP and Harold Lovell, in particular. He is a dithering, indecisive, and weak leader.
I therefore caution the UPP and its followers to be careful what you ask for. You want an election? You may just get it, and much more than an election; you may very well be asking the PM to hasten the end to Harold Lovell’s political career and the possible implosion of the UPP.
WHIOCH ANTIGUA???? NO WAYY
oh plz! Gisele Isaac expressed similar sentiments leading up to the last election. And BAM! look what happened. The UPP got a deadly ass-whooping. Come next election will be another ass-whooping for the UPP led by Harold Lovell.
The problem is LOVELL point blank period!
This article is vacuous and without real substance. The article speaks of “a number of people sent him this message: “GASTON BEWARE!” Yet, no real attempt is made to substantiate that statement.
Secondly, there is a feeble attempt to equate the situation in St. Lucia with what is happening on the ground in Antigua. This is lazy logic; there is no one-to-one correlation between what took place in St. Lucia and what is happening in Antigua. If one were following the political pulse in St. Lucia, it would have been clear that there was mass discontent with the UWP long, long before the advent of COVID-19. One only has to look at the reasons Stephenson King (a former PM and leader of the UWP) gave for exiting the party.
Oh, and by the way, a little regarded fact that Real News and the UPP seem to be missing: It is a Labour Party that won in St. Lucia. Take a look throughout the Eastern Caribbean and you will see that it is Labour Parties that are taking control because of their very strong philosophical foundation of being defenders of the grassroots. Labour Parties have demonstrated their capacity to provide strong, reasoned, and decisive leadership. They have shown a willingness to make tough decisions, even when not supported by popular sentiment. What often happens is that in due course, the masses see that the decisions are in the best interest of everyone. This is something that cannot be said of the UPP and Harold Lovell, in particular. He is a dithering, indecisive, and weak leader.
I therefore caution the UPP and its followers to be careful what you ask for. You want an election? You may just get it, and much more than an election; you may very well be asking the PM to hasten the end to Harold Lovell’s political career and the possible implosion of the UPP.
Well said. The lesson is really for the UPP because they pretty much have the same problems as the UWP in SLU. The party’s inability to deal with differences of opinions causes many divorces. When you have a senior man like Stephenson King, a former PM, abandoning ship, and base supporters following him you know there is something rotten in Denmark. Alas the UWP like the UPP prefer to ignore the stench, and lie to themselves that their party is not rotting. It is labor just like in A&B that has embraced those who parties fooling themselves that are united have rejected. Congrats to the SLU labor party for showing the strong franchise labor parties are. These parties have a real reason for being, while the so called united ones exist out of hate for labor. Hate can’t sustain.
I await the likes of Tabor to respond to this…I can imagine the lump that was formed in his throat after reading.
JUST SAYING what is there to respond to. The St. Lucia Labour Party (SLP) has handsomely won the election in St. Lucia. The SLP and the Antigua Labour Party (ALP) emerged out of the same historical conditions. They are sister parties. The SLP has defeated the Chastanet led UWP in St. Lucia. The same objective conditions such as corruption and mismanagement that caused the St. Lucian electorate to get to rid of the UWP, are the same objective conditions that will cause the Antiguan electorate to give the ALP the boot at the next general elections. You, TENMAN, FROM THE SIDELINE, PETE, CARSON B and all the others can glow in the success of the SLP and believe that the ALP will have similar success. Stay fixated on the name Labour Party in your puerile rationalization.
@ CARSON B.
Tabor DO NOT take adivice from CARSON B. Let Harold stay as Leader of UPP forever. HAROLD might be PRIME MINISTER IN 2048.
Lovell should take note that Chastenet still won his seat besides the landslide lost. And baldwin always won his seat. Maybe he should start with convincing the smaller population in his own constituency that he deserves the job before trying to convince the country.
UPP will never listen!
HAROLD HAS TO GO…..well others too, BUT HAROLD NEEDS TO GO!!
Only then will they stand a chance.
In dreamland’s icy mountains will Harold Lovell ever become PM in this country.
Get rid of the elitist elements in the UPP. That’s the beginning of cleaning the cesspool.
Well said. The only way people will consider UPP again is if Mr Romantic Rhythm aka Mr IMF and his elite club go🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@ CHARLESWORTH TABOR
Please be honest with HAROLD LOVELL and let Him know that He is doing the UPP TOTAL INJUSTICE…The ELECTORATE DO NOT want Him. Tabor as an ADVISOR to HAROLD you are very DISHONEST.After election 2023 the UPP will IMPLORE…
@ CARSON B.
Tabor DO NOT take adivice from CARSON B. Let Harold stay as Leader of UPP forever. HAROLD might be PRIME MINISTER IN 2048.
I was glad of the choice St. Lucians made in the recent general election. In selecting the St. Lucia Labour party to govern the country. I don’t know much about the politics of St. Lucia but I know a bit about Stephen King, a former PM. I think I can trust his vision for St. Lucia.
I think we need a new way of thinking in the English speaking Caribbean about who we really are as a people and to shake off the shackles of colonialism and create our own future as one people of the Caribbean. Yes, we borrow the good ideas from North America and Europe and elsewhere. But foremost we must do things for ourselves as black Caribbean people. Let us work within the framework of CARICOM. We have the University of the West Indies. We have the West Indies cricket team. We need good transport services to get around these islands. An integrated approach to Caribbean development. Not just petty politics. We must take a long view of politics and where we black Caribbean people want to go and what kind of Caribbean we want to leave for our grandchildren.
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