Broken Echoes: Knight@Knight Exposes UPP Leadership Failures and Observer Radio’s Fake News

CLICK HERE TO JOIN OUR WHAT’S APP GROUP

In a scathing on-air rebuke, veteran broadcaster Dayne Knight, host of the popular Knight@Knight show, has pulled back the curtain on what he calls a crisis of incompetence, hypocrisy, and media manipulation within the United Progressive Party (UPP) and its uneasy entanglement with Observer Radio.

Knight, known for his forthright style and piercing political analysis, has issued a bold call: both UPP Chairman Gisele Isaac and Political Leader Jamale Pringle should step aside for the party to stand any real chance of relevance or resurgence.

His message was clear: the UPP, under its current leadership, is out of step, out of ideas, and dangerously comfortable in opposition.

“The party is lacking a competent strategist,” Knight declared. “The methods are old, the tactics are antiquated, and the leadership appears more committed to maintaining control than to achieving victory.”

The show peeled back layers of dysfunction within the UPP’s public messaging and internal operations.

According to Knight, the voices the party puts forward—its so-called media surrogates—are “uninspiring,” devoid of urgency, and incapable of stirring either the base or the broader electorate.

“They speak, but say nothing but chupitness,” Knight remarked. “No passion, no fire, no message—uninspiring.”

Knight also didn’t mince words in his takedown of certain UPP loyalists.

Popular party mouthpiece “Rass I” came under fire for what Knight described as a duplicitous history of attacking the very party he now defends, particularly on rival platforms such as ZDK and Pointe FM.

“People have short memories,” Knight warned. “But I remember Rass I pulling down the UPP on every microphone he could find. Now he wants to rewrite the past.”

Knight says he is going to get the recordings!

Even more damning were Knight’s revelations about the behind-the-scenes relationship between the UPP and Observer Radio itself.

In a rare instance of self-reflection, Knight accused his own station of news manipulation—twisting headlines and softening coverage to favor the UPP.

“I see Observer Radio deceptively spinning stories to accommodate the United Progressive Party,” he stated, fueling growing suspicion about the network’s editorial independence.

But the revelations didn’t end there.

In what many see as a bombshell, Knight accused the UPP of failing to pay for political advertising aired on Observer Radio leading up to the 2023 general elections.

According to him, not a single red cent was paid despite heavy airtime—an allegation he attributes to senior director and station manager—and owner, Dave Lester Payne.

If this claim is true, it would raise serious ethical and financial questions about both the party and the media house that carried their message.

Knight didn’t just call out the past—he offered a roadmap for change.

He argued that the party needs a complete leadership overhaul and a new, strategic alliance with the media, particularly Observer.

He suggested that the UPP can’t win elections with stale leadership and boring spokespeople, and that the party needs fire, vision, and an effective way to reach the people.

But the underlying message of Knight’s tirade was not just political—it was cultural.

He painted a portrait of a party stuck in a cycle of mediocrity, surrounded by sycophants who are “nonsensical and stupid,” addicted to the theater of opposition while unable or unwilling to do the hard work of governance.

“They want to remove the ALP,” Knight said, “but the truth is, the UPP is not good for Antigua and Barbuda. Not in its current form.”

The monologue has triggered shockwaves not just among party faithful, but across the media and political landscape. For some, it’s a long-overdue wake-up call.

For others, it marks the brutal end to a fragile alliance between a media house and a party once seen as its ideological partner.

What remains undeniable is this: the illusion of unity between the UPP and Observer Radio has shattered.

And with Knight turning his formidable platform against both, the future of Antigua and Barbuda’s political discourse may be entering a new—and far more honest—chapter.

CLICK HERE TO JOIN OUR WHAT’S APP GROUP

CLICK HERE TO JOIN OUR WHAT’S APP GROUP

CLICK HERE TO JOIN OUR WHAT’S APP GROUP

CLICK HERE TO JOIN OUR WHAT’S APP GROUP

CLICK HERE TO JOIN OUR WHAT’S APP GROUP

CLICK HERE TO JOIN OUR WHAT’S APP GROUP

CLICK HERE TO JOIN OUR WHAT’S APP GROUP

CLICK HERE TO JOIN OUR WHAT’S APP GROUP

Advertise with the mоѕt vіѕіtеd nеwѕ ѕіtе іn Antigua!
We offer fully customizable and flexible digital marketing packages.
Contact us at [email protected]