BPM candidates walk out of Council

The four new candidates for BPM have refused to participate in the setting up of the new Council after all available positions were allocated to two new ALP members in the first meeting, in spite of four BPM members having been elected by the people of Barbuda. The notion of power-sharing here is clearly not on the ABLP agenda. This disappointing and embarassing stalemate has forced MP Arthur Nibbs to look at other ways to continue his stubborn dictatorship of Barbuda. Meanwhile BPM Councillors continue to work on the issues that they were elected to pursue, outside of the imposed Council restrictions until such time as proper participative democracy is returned to our island.