Truth To Power

I wrote the article  'The Failure Of Leadership' on June 16, 2000 , giving an overview of Antigua Labor Party (ALP) prime minister Lester Bryant Bird's politics of spite that disempowers local business people. Members of Parliament (MP) silence gave Bird the impetus to crush local people's enterprises and destroy the economy. At the same time, other government officials saw no evil during the tenure of Bird's autocracy. Our business, La Casa Del Habano, got crushed two years later because of politics that I knew long before it was confirmed by a senior ALP Member of Parliament (MP). According to the MP, the people involved were Lester Bird and Asot Michael, and in the plot was a former ALP Minister of Finance. I was shocked when given the individual's name about two years ago, but I had no reason to doubt the information. I weep when revolutionary martyrs die but celebrate when despots fall - Bombshell. By Kwame Nkosi Romeo The Failure Of Leadership "When t

Tourism Without Benefits and the Blue Economy By Kwame Nkosi Romeo People's power can assure actual change with a new vision of empowerment for the people of Antigua and Barbuda. Simultaneously, the people's revolution must obliterate dictatorial control over lives and livelihood and reorganize that power into the people's hands for a legitimate democracy and decent future to arise! It is time to end the political coercion and regain control of people's destinies by transforming the oppressive system. The masses' vote is a powerful representative for a promising future that can end the political cabal's autocratic control. This unchecked institutional power must be terminated for sustainable livelihood to survive and thrive.  The Antigua and Barbuda regime's indifference to people's needs is responsible for growing unfairness, inequality, and deprivation. Soaring poverty is a crisis as the government seeks to retreat from one of the most critical Sustain