The Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party (ABLP) has categorically rejected a letter circulating on a recently created website as false, malicious, and deliberately deceptive. The document purports to seek action by the United States Attorney General against the Government of Antigua and Barbuda and members of the ABLP.
The letter claims to have been issued by an entity calling itself the Caribbean Anticorruption Association. No evidence exists that any such organisation is real. The ABLP describes the document as a concoction of recycled accusations, wild assertions, and politically motivated falsehoods that leaders of the United Progressive Party (UPP) have advanced for years.
The letter's own errors expose it as a fabrication. It lists Ambassador Linda Taglialatela as a copied recipient in her capacity as U.S. Ambassador to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean — a post she vacated at the end of December 2023, more than two years ago. The ABLP says that basic factual error alone demonstrates the authors were dealing in fiction rather than fact.
The website hosting the letter is equally suspect. It bears the name mariabirdbrowne.com, yet carries material attacking Maria Bird Browne, her husband Prime Minister Gaston Browne, and others. The ABLP argues that no reasonable person could believe Mrs Browne would create or host defamatory attacks on herself and her family, and that the use of her name is plainly intended to mislead the public and manufacture a false appearance of authenticity.
The ABLP notes that many of the allegations contained in the letter have already been aired publicly and tested in courts in Antigua and Barbuda and in the United States, where they have been dismissed as without merit. Official inquiries to the Office of the United States Attorney General confirmed that no such letter has been received. That office does not act on submissions from unverifiable persons or organisations.
The party described the document as a calculated lie from beginning to end, and said it forms part of a deliberate attempt to deceive the Antiguan public during the general election campaign. The ABLP argued that the opposition, unable to challenge the ruling party on record, performance, policy, and leadership, has resorted to anonymous propaganda, invented organisations, and fabricated credibility.
In a statement signed by Chet Greene on behalf of the ABLP, the party posed a pointed question to voters: if a political party is prepared to lie in order to gain office, how can it be trusted to govern truthfully, honestly, or responsibly?
The ABLP said it remains focused on the country's future, its record of achievement, and its plans for national progress. The party urged the public to reject the letter entirely and treat it with the contempt it deserves.
