According to the latest reports by the Antigua Observer, Antigua’s Tourism, Economic Development and Investment Minister Asot Michael has been released from custody by the Metropolitan Police as of Monday October 23rd. This, following word of his arrest upon disembarking a flight in the UK.
After an emergency Cabinet meeting was called, Prime Minister Gaston Browne reportedly revoked Michael’s appointment from the Cabinet. The newspaper quotes a statement by the Prime Minister, after he had reportedly learned of Michael’s arrest through Antigua and Barbuda’s High Commissioner in London, Karen-Mae Hill.
On a return trip from Montenegro where he attended an international conference on Citizenship by Investment, Browne stated: “While I have no firm details of the reasons for Mr. Michael’s arrest, the arrest itself is sufficient for me to revoke immediately his appointment as a Cabinet member and to relieve him of all Ministerial portfolios until this matter is resolved.”
In an article posted by St. Kitts-Nevis Observer, it is reported that the reason for the Tourism Minister’s arrest remains a mystery, as there has been no official word on the cause of detainment.
Skerrit should follow suite but, then and again, it’s doom and gloom for Dominica politics.
For many years now the Patriots have been ringing the bells to alert us of the corruption and thievery that is going on in the sale of national passports, but the masses do not want to listen to them. One day the chickens will come home to hatch the eggs and I hope they will give credit to the Sons and Daughters of Dominica who has been trying against all odds to bring this to light.
The ones who benefiting with a penny bread and a pound of sugar have become so blind that not even their own cousins they raise with can tell them anything against the great El Supremo!
I am really sorry that it had to come to all this for Dominicans to open their eyes and kick out these inept leaders we have here.
Gaston is only pretending he does not know the details, and reason for Assots arrest!
I see a cover-up.
The fact that he; or let’s say the Government of Antigua was informed, by their Ambassador in England that Assot was arrested, the only she could have known that is if Michael was given the opportunity to call the Antigua embassy in England, or the police through the British Home Office dealing with such immigration matters called the Antigua ambassador, and informed her of Assots arrest.
In that case they would have to inform the ambassador of the crime he committed, if he simply detained under suspicion of committing a crime they would not have brought the Ambassador into it, that quick.
You see nation is now aware of the crooked sale of passports be it Dominica Antigua, or St. Kitts, and wherever, the radar is focus on anybody (agents) involved in that affair!
Troubling developments, small fishes seeking to play in the midst of big fish, will be devoured, the details are still hidden, but one thing for sure, the powers are bent into keeping certain miscreants in their places, CBI games have taken a turn into the negative, the transfer of vast sums of capital by by individuals representing certain bankrupt and corrupt gov’ts of the develop industrial countries, have today become taboo when the same is done by underdeveloped states. Do as i say, not as i do.