Antigua's Toxic Cocktail: Fact v Fiction

In a culture where gossip is news, where questions are met with indignation instead of answers, and where, by law, the Ministers' definition of "public good" cannot be questioned, facts and fiction are readily and frequently intermingled in the Government's announcements and news releases. 

As a corollary, a number of Government moves remain cloaked in total silence.

The two-party system in Antigua operates on just such a basis. Both parties are made up of individuals who, while publicly fighting for power, do so through a battery of obfuscation, misrepresentation and outright lies.

Their goal is the same – personal financial gain, and they resent any time during which one side has the advantage of being "in power" over the other. Each wants to be first in line at the trough.