Antigua government may call in Scotland Yard
Friday, April 9, 2004
ST. JOHN'S, Antigua: Antigua and Barbuda's
new Prime Minister, Baldwin Spencer, has indicated that even though his
administration does not have any immediate plan to seek outside assistance
from any foreign investigative agency, the government is not ruling out the
possibility of seeking assistance from Britain’s Scotland Yard, as
investigations into the tenure of the government of the former Prime Minister
Lester Bird continues. Mr. Spencer pointed
out that his administration has had a setback of sorts when it came into
office. A number of government files have reportedly gone missing.
Spencer, who became Antigua and Barbuda's third Prime Minister following his
United Progressive Party's convincing 12 to 4 seat defeat of the Antigua
Labour Party at the polls in last month's general election, said his
government will be pursuing the case of the missing government files in full.
"We need to probe into this matter and we need to get to the bottom of it."
Prime Minister Spencer said he feels it is necessary that his 17-day old
administration, "proceed along the lines of getting to the truth of this
matter, although we have not made any decision with respect to Scotland Yard
or any other investigating team outside of Antigua and Barbuda, we certainly
will not rule out that option," he said.
Prime Minister Spencer broke the news of the missing government files from the
Office of the Prime Minister as he took up his position for work as Prime
Minister on Thursday March 25th. He has since
ordered a full police investigation into the matter.
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