Truth To Power

Part 2 Economic Corruption: Unfair Trading Practices & Neo-colonialism By Kwame Nkosi Romeo Power is the ability to make things happen for ourselves. We possess the means to enable the transformation of our living conditions by controlling the strategic sectors of the economy. -Alvette E Jeffers Part 1  scrutinizes the deterrents of local investments within the economy, unfair trading practices to the disadvantage of black-owned businesses, and the misuse of public office for private gain. Part 2  continues the Antigua Labor Party (ALP) government's absence of transformation and misuse of public office, bringing about miserable living that culminates in apathy.  The past accounts for our civilization, struggle, sacrifice, and commitment to transforming the system and overthrowing the systemic bias against local empowerment. People's power must quash politicians driven by economic plunder and insatiable greed, giving away our national patrimony while abusing our human rights

Part 1 Economic Corruption; Unfair Trading Practices, & Neo-colonialism By Kwame Nkosi Romeo       "Some of us seem to accept the fatalist position, the fatalist attitude, that the creator accorded us a certain position and condition, and therefore there is no need trying to be otherwise." - Marcus Garvey.   Labor Day in Antigua and Barbuda is a travesty of justice. Labor Day has lost its resistance to unfair employment policies and partisan politics. This day was an excellent time for LIAT (1974) Limited workers to assert their influence by organizing this vital moment with placards and speeches, assembling other workers with similar difficulties, and having one gigantic rally. On this critical day, the working class could proclaim solidarity and the beginning of needed change. But that was not to be! As affirmed by Karl Marx," Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." Chains imprison the workers' liberation and surrender the po