REAL NEWS ANTIGUA: Residents are asking what excuse Prime Minister Gaston Browne will be offering this time around, as another sum of money
reportedly was donated to the Barbuda Council for hurricane relief but never delivered.
This was the revelation made by Barbuda MP Trevor Walker during his debate of the 2024 Appropriations Bill, in The People’s Parliament, on Thursday, January 18, at Freedom Hall.
Walker told a packed auditorium that he recently had been contacted by a government source, who informed him that US$550,000 had been donated by a diplomat to the Central
Government – for the Barbuda Council’s hurricane-relief efforts in
September 2017.
Walker says the funds reportedly came from Spain.
Speaking about other donations that were intended for the Barbuda Council, Walker recalled that, during the 2023 Budget Debate, it was discovered that two containers containing lumber and other equipment for Barbuda had been consigned to a
Government senator – but had never reached the sister-island.
Earlier this week, the Barbuda MP made a revelation about the US$1 million that had been donated by British philanthropist Steve Morgan of the Steve Morgan Foundation, but never
transferred to the Barbuda Council.
