Source-Real News Antigua: It appears that the political authorities do not want to see Prime Minister Gaston Browne quoted about the Global Bank of Commerce’s chief executive officer, Brian Stuart-Young, as a reference to both of them were stripped from a billboard today.CLICK HERE TO JOIN OUR WHATS APP GROUP
The billboard was asking why Stuart-Young will not pay the millions of US dollars that Jack Stroll alleges he owes him.
Mere hours after it appeared, the Development Control Authority (DCA) – which falls within the ministry of Browne’s wife, Maria
Browne – executed a zero-notice removal order, stripping the message away.
It was replaced by an official notice from the agency, signed by Town and Country Planner Frederick Southwell, which claims the billboard was erected without permission from the DCA and “contains defamatory information.”
Ironically, in a legal matter that continued today in the High Court, Stuart-Young was ordered to answer questions and provide documentation to Stroll’s lawyers since a judgment against both GBC and Stuart-Young had not been honoured by either.
Accordingly, observers are asking where the defamation lies when itis common knowledge – and a fact – that Stroll is, indeed, owedmillions in United States currency.
Further, they point out that there was no violation of the DCA’svauthority by the “erection” of a billboard, since the structure was erected at least two years ago, is still standing, and continues to bear its original image.
Rather, the observers say, this is a blatant abuse of power by the political authorities, using the DCA, and an infringement on freedom of expression.
Photos of the message, meanwhile, have gone viral.
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