Truth To Power

The National Consciousness of the Nation: In Solidarity with NewsCo-Observer and Mr. Dane Knight By Kwame Nkosi Romeo "...Any attempt to stifle or fetter such criticism amounts to political censorship of the most insidious and objectionable kind." Lord Bridge of Harwick, Privy Council I wrote the following piece 20 years ago concerning press freedom in Antigua and Barbuda; still, the practice of repression is consistent under the Antigua Labour Party (ALP) regime, including recent NewsCo-Observer events. Despite decades of barefaced oppression of Antigua and Barbuda's media, Outlet Newspaper and the combative Tim Hector were unequaled free speech forces. Hector opposed former ALP prime minister Lester Bird's regime that violated and muzzled freedom and the constitutional right of free speech. Hector took issue with the draconian Public Order Act, which said, 'The truth is no defense' in 1990. Legal luminaries of the Privy Council in England, in a landmark deci