Truth To Power

Part 2 West Indies Oil Company (WIOC): The Genesis of Economic Plunder By Kwame Nkosi Romeo In Part 1, I discussed the alliance of the West Indies Oil Company (WIOC) and the Antigua Labor Party (ALP) government. In particular, WIOC privileges and never-ending monopolies—the self-interest of the few that lowered the country into the abyss of despair.  Part 2 Bruce Rappaport brings to light the joint owners of WIOC, and my hypothesis: these owners benefitted from the sale of WIOC. A continuous tradition supports ALP's unfavorable agenda of creative enrichment, land misappropriation, and collecting fewer taxes while extorting consumers at the pump. Part 2 Between 2002 and 2004, in the waning years of Prime Minister Lester Bird's regime, the Bird-Rappaport WIOC collaboration imported petroleum products valued at  CIF US$182,223,000 m. The amount of barrels of oil (bbl) is estimated to be 4,706,325 m bbl. (164,591,085 imp gal). This joint oil enterprise added 300 acres of undevelop...