Gaston Browne Challenged to Answer Questions Instead of Deflecting

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Prime Minister Gaston Browne and Son / Instagram photo @gmoney268

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Hon Richard Lewis said: Gaston Browne, stop insulting our people’s intelligence with your weak deflection, and answer the questions I asked you.

Stop running away from transparency and accountability.

Unlike the printing of many thousands of copies of my textbook since 2001, which represents actual value for money, we still have no evidence that this suspicious arrangement with your son is anything but another creative enrichment scheme.

I will continue to press you for the answers, in the public interest, and I will deal with your inaccurate information about my textbook, in another forum.

You do not handle pressure well, and that is not good for a leader.

Your son is the sole director and shareholder of IF Antigua Inc. The property in question is owned by your son and not by an “investment group” as you claimed in Parliament. The sad thing is that you do not see anything wrong with this deal. You need to research the meaning of the word nepotism.

By the way, answer the questions that I have asked:

⁠ ⁠Was the property originally owned by West Indies Oil Company?
⁠ ⁠How did your son acquire the property?
⁠ ⁠Was the information of the proposed sale of the property by WIOC shared with the public?
⁠ ⁠Why did Government decide to rent property from your son, without disclosing that to the general public?
⁠ ⁠Did the rental go out to tender before being awarded to the your son?
⁠ ⁠Did the fact that all government offices within your son’s building fall under the Ministerial Portfolio of your wife Hon. Maria Browne influence the decision? And did your wife play a part in the decision?
⁠ ⁠Did the Government spend a fair amount on the repairs?
⁠ ⁠How could you, the Prime Minister, claim that what is owed in rent exceeds what the Government spent on repairs, yet be unable to give even an estimated figure on the cost to the tax-paying public?

Government resources must be spent in a responsible and accountable way, especially by an administration that is raising taxes left and right and center.

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