UPP Stages Protest Against YIDA Agreement and Social Security Investment; Wehner Joins Call for Accountability
The opposition United Progressive Party (UPP) staged a protest this week against the government’s handling of key national investment initiatives, drawing attention to the controversial YIDA project and the use of Social Security funds in the Jolly Beach Resort.
George Wehner, UPP candidate for St. Peter, joined party members on the picket line, expressing strong opposition to what he called the “failed” US$2 billion (EC$5.4 billion) YIDA development. He called for the immediate revocation of the project’s licensing agreement, citing a lack of tangible benefits for the people of Antigua and Barbuda.
“The people of St. Peter and greater Antigua and Barbuda deserve transparency and results — not broken promises,” Wehner said during the demonstration.
He also criticised the government’s decision to invest Social Security Trust Fund resources into the financially troubled Jolly Beach Resort, warning that the fund needs “an injection of liquid cash, not a debt swap of a failed asset.”
The protest, held under the banners #RevokeTheYIDALicensingAgreement and #HandsOffSocialSecurityTrustFunds, comes amid growing public scrutiny of the government’s financial management and economic priorities.
The government has yet to issue a formal response to the protest or the demands raised.
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I love how you guys say UPP and there are always less than 20 persons
a LIE dem LIE just like the man in the middle. Neargah nah hab time fu waste with them jokerz
Pearl “FOOTS” Quinn
George “RENT House” Wehner
Harold “ROMANTIC RHYTHMNS, IMF, OLD ENGINES” lOVELL
@ Karl Davis
Because fool it is a picket.
mercyyyyyy look a people! What a MASSIVE CROWD!!! 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
As usual Richard Lewis BOYCOTT UPP activities and then he expects to be magically supported for party leadership. Richard Lewis is NOT a teamplayer!!!!!!
Again, UPP leading the way in protesting how the ABLP continually finds ingenious ways of wasting taxpayers money; and it’s people like Karl Davis who will always allow the unaccountability (in financial matters) of Gaston Browne to continously misuse treasury funds.
Maybe Karl doesn’t live here like Dr Dave Ray.
Antigua must be one of the few countries to allow a Person to hold the office of Prime Minister and Finance Minister. Why oh why?
This is a conflict of interest, and to the detriment of Antigua & Barbuda as a whole. Haven’t the ABLP got a muvh better qualified cabinet member to handle our finances separately from Browne?
Gambling with taxpayers money has been an absolute disaster over the last 10-11 years.
Soooo happy to see that Antigua people are not stupid like the opposition seems to think. This piss poor shitty “turnout” speaks volumes. Compare it to the WHITE MARCH Labour Party had against the UPP taking the country to the IMF under Harold Lovell and his wicked “Sunshine government”. Proud of my people jack.
People are not stupid. UPP stupid!
lol, Harold Lovel stated in 2015 he was going to legally challenge the government over the Yida issue during a visit to the Snakepit.
But denies his administration wanted anything to do with Yida as they felt he did not have the resources; but the UPP Cabinet granted Yida Zhang the required aliens land holding license need for the land purchase from the Stanford liquidator!
Oh, and then the Browne administration waived all the associated stamp duties etc worth about us$5m .
The ecocide game continues ………….
@Brixtonian
I just left Antigua last Sunday after spending 6 weeks there. Did you show up to the picket this morning? That would have increased their numbers to 16 picketers. If Lovell showed up, it would be 17 strong voices.
@Dr. Dave Ray,
Be sure to have your immigration documents in order.
Trump administration has just announced it will looking into green cards files, and marriage files that looks like arranged marriages.
You can bet your last dollar, that when Zohran Mamdani becomes Mayor of New York City; the National Guard will be on the streets of New York if not before.
Those with naturalized citizenship means those are the files to be targeted, for there was a ton of fraudulent marriages in the Bronx.
I know you are one of them. But they are grabbing innocent people.
Get your house in order Dr. Ray, and heed the advice of Brixtonian.
Your ability to rundown for Carnival and back snd coward may be curtailed.