Truth To Power

Part 2 Too Many Crooks Trigger Crumbling Infrastructures By Kwame Nkosi Romeo Part 1 relates the seriousness of water shortage, rickety fire trucks, and the ALP's inadequacy of priority and urgency in emergency crises. Part 2 connects our present-day dilemma to ALP's past failures in not establishing an adequate water supply and self-sufficiency of Antigua and Barbuda power generation sovereignty. Antigua Public Utilities Authority's (APUA) decrepit environment at Crabbes shone a dreadful light on Antigua and Barbuda's dilapidated infrastructure: A failed infrastructure of rusting tanks and an out-of-commission US$33 million Japanese-manufactured Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Company Limited (IHI) power/desalting plant. ALP commissioned this plant on March 1, 1985 .  This infrastructure failure results from IHI corruption involving the Antigua Labor Party (ALP) government ministers, detailed in George Wehner's Real News investigative report. (Lindquist Forens...