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...
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Part 1 of 2 Too Many Crooks Trigger Crumbling Infrastructures . By Kwame Nkosi Romeo Seems like we going backward Things really going from bad to worse And it is we, the people Who really getting the part that hurts? Cry for a Change- King Short Shirt The fire truck incident at the VC Bird International Airport (VCBIA) on April 5, 2021, ended in the driver's death, firefighter David Roberts on April 23, 2021. Roberts was test-driving a malfunctioning vehicle that set the Easter Monday fatality in motion, heartrending to the family and the citizenry as the dawn of another Easter Monday nears. Two hundred sixty-three days later, on January 10, 2022, 16-year-old Dequan Cummins became a casualty in the Nut Grove devastating house fire. Due to the negligence of fire crews, Cummins seemingly scorched body was left much like the next day's trash amidst the three homes' rubble and discovered eight days later, marked by a massive outpouring of sadness. Coming after was the long-del...