Browne Says EC$11 Million Being Invested to Prepare Deluxe Property for CHOGM
Prime Minister Gaston Browne says the government has committed more than EC$11 million to refurbish and equip the Deluxe property as a key venue for the upcoming Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in November.
Speaking on his Browne and Browne radio programme, Browne said approximately EC$7 million has already been advanced toward preparing the facility, with an additional EC$4 million recently approved to outfit the building with seating, electronics and related infrastructure .
He said the upgraded venue is expected to accommodate close to 1,000 people and will be used to host the official opening ceremony of CHOGM, which is expected to draw dozens of heads of government and senior delegates from across the Commonwealth.
Browne said the availability of the Deluxe property has proven critical to Antigua and Barbuda’s hosting plans, noting that constructing a new facility of that scale within the available timeframe would not have been feasible. He said the government opted instead to repurpose and modernize the existing structure to meet international conference standards.
The prime minister added that beyond CHOGM, the facility is intended to serve as a permanent performing arts and cultural center, forming part of the government’s longer-term investment in the creative industries and national infrastructure.
He said the project reflects the country’s capacity to deliver major international events while ensuring that public investments leave a lasting legacy beyond the summit itself .
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Why would they want to bring the summit in town and disrupt traffic further? Somebody is not using their head. Traffic is already congested on normal days and you know they are going to block off High Street and the route the heads of countries will be using.
This is just crazy. I hope I’m on vacation when that time comes so I can avoid the city. Smdh
It is a stupid decision. Have the appropriate experts been consulted? What about traffic flow..parking arrangements, etc..sounds to me that this idea should be put to the Experts to evaluate…this event will put Antigua under the spotlight..for heavens sake Mr. PM..let us do it right..
Well! Here I was thinking the same thing……so we can consider town closed for however long this summit is! Security protocols, parking restrictions……what peabrain came up with this? Isn’t this supposed to be the purpose of the Multi Purpose Center.? That too could use some work before it completely turns to DUST
They found the perfect justification to wrong invest Public funds.
We already have a big Multipurpose Center. With 11 million EC is enough to bring Multipurpose center shine again. But noo. Let it deteriorate more, and more and wasting this money in a trashy building in the middle of St. John’s that is complete unpractical for meetings and others activities.
Who decided this? Black free people in Charge of a Government funds.
Who to blame if this doesn’t work? Racism and slavery card ready to pull up, and/or UPP members, maybe Trump also is going to get some blame. Who knows.
Just who is the JACKASS that came up with this idea. Are they just going their to try and justify giving our money to Max. This is some crazy shit and could only come from someone with mental problems
Antiguans really have been bamboozled by these political kleptomaniacs, as they keep pissing on them shouting, enjoy the showers of blessings.
Over the past several years haven’t millions been allocated in the budget to convert this building into a Cultural arts center?
Where did those millions go to?
What about AUA? Didn’t they just build that for the government’s needs?
All because Gaston had to compensate the ALP blue eye elites for lost a revenue when the Baldwin Spencer administration free up the media and offer other license for cinema and radio station that was stymied by the bird family and ALP dictatorship, which caused that old rundown shack deluxe cinema to fold in because it don’t have the amenities and comfort of modern era cinema.
Gaston paid the Fernandez family for lost of income just like when white people were compensated because emancipation proclamation meant that we are not property anymore but human, the same way this Caucasian family had the tax payers who are children of former slaves pay them because the UPP liberated our country from white monopoly capital domination .
The multipurpose center is a bad idea, since we have the all powerful Spanish Santo Domingo people came to Antigua and took over perry bay water front with some unsightly shacks for our view and tourist ship coming in to the harbor, and none of the two political party ALP or UPP have the balls to move them, because they all playing our country sovereignty for the Spanish votes, and the thing that hurts me that these Santo Domingo people don’t identify with Africans even though they are black, they believe they are Spaniards and loved their slave master culture, as we all can see how Santo Domingo people hate the Haitians that identify as Africans.
The both party and the grace farm people allowed the Spanish people to come in and take over those reclaim lands at perry bay, the people that had the sea water at their homes in the past should have been the one to be compensated with extra reclaim lands for the property depreciation they suffered. But I guessed that these Spanish people were able to conquer the both political party because they are predominantly patriarchal, so the Spanish woman charm the the politicians who are mostly men along with Antiguan men who seek validation from these Spanish woman who are usually light skin and act more obedient to the foolish Antiguan men because it’s an economic relationship. So with that said, the environs around the perry multipurpose center is unsightly to host that event.
This is the most ridiculous idea ever invented, and even more so retarded, coming from the mouth of the PM. Parking, security and the flow of city traffic will definitely come into question.
This man economic numbers just doesn’t make sense at all.
Are people still listening to this guy about anything? Everything he comes up with smells fishy, because they just don’t make sense.
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