Had Prime Minister Gaston Browne been forthcoming with information last September on the Alfa Nero sale, he wouldn’t be in the present scandalous situation today,
This “delayed transparency,” as MP Richard Lewis argues in an interview with Observer media, is costing the country.
“Lewis referenced a September 10, 2024, parliamentary exchange where he directly questioned the Prime Minister about plans to present details of the sale to Parliament,” the Observer reports. Browne said that the information was “already in the public domain.”
It wasn’t of course, which is why Browne – and the whole country of Antigua and Barbuda – are in trouble today.
“You silence people by presenting the truth. You don’t have to get upset and quarrel and call names and go down in the gutter. Just present the truth,” Lewis argues.
Browne denies any wrongdoing, instead accusing his critics of “promoting sedition” and committing treason by colluding with “foreign forces to destroy the reputation of the country.”
