Truth To Power

Part 3 A ntigua and Barbuda Crisis: Social and Economic Dilemma By Kwame Nkosi Romeo "....Barbuda continued without the elementary services received by even the poorest of Antiguan parishes, such as piped water or a resident physician."  -Antigua and Barbuda, an annotated critical bibliography by Riva Berleant-Schiller and Susan Lowes, with Milton Benjamin  Antigua Jean-Paul Dejoria Peace, Love and Happiness (PLH) ultra-rich real estate is aspiring to build 700 villas starting at US$6 million each, encompassing the Coco Point, Cedar Tree Point, and Palmetto Beach Hotel (PBH) on the south coast of Barbuda and PLH rejecting the hard-fought liberties and rights of citizens.  According to the plan viewed by a confidential source, PLH will make more than $5.2 billion from its investment. Along with that is the PLH's  wilful ecological destruction  of the Ramsar sites' wetland protection, facing strong opposition, according to the Barbudaful website. There is no good news;

Part 2 Antigua and Barbuda Crisis: Social and Economic Dilemma By Kwame Nkosi Romeo Protest and the Fundamental Right to Strike Prime Minister Gaston Browne's nonpayment of the Antigua and Barbuda Social Security   (ABSS)  arrears amount to US$171,851,852 million (m) (EC$464 m), worsening  the pensioners' crisis.  The pensioners' protest started on December 3 after numerous months of the government not paying benefits. Their hardship and grievance over decades of ALP wrongdoing were expressed by Browne's showing the proverbial offensive finger to senior citizens. That reaction sums up the Antigua Labour Party (ALP) government's inability to observe social security's constitutional guarantee by keeping people's economic and social rights. Second, the government mismanages the Postal Workers' strike by dismissing the excessive moldy workplace environment health hazards rather than remedying the problem, later delegating the Defence Force to carry out posta