Antigua-Barbuda cabinet advisor resigns

by Sarrah Hadeed
Caribbean Net News Antigua-Barbuda Correspondent\
E-mail: sarrah@caribbeannetnews.com 

Thursday,  December 8, 2005

ST. JOHN'S, Antigua: Roy Boyke, a Trinidad and Tobago-born campaign strategist who later became an advisor to Antigua and Barbuda’s Prime Minister and the Cabinet, has resigned from his post with effect from the end of November.

Last Friday, Energy Minister, Wilmoth Daniel, reportedly walked-out of a Cabinet meeting, stating that if Boyke and Minister of State in the Office of the Prime Minister, Senator Aziz Hadeed, were not removed from the Cabinet, he would not be returning.

Boyke, speaking on Antigua radio last weekend, said that Daniel seems to have some notion that he (Boyke) and Hadeed, along with popular radio talk show host Winston Derrick, who is also the president of the Lock Up Movement Party (LUMP), are allegedly in league against Daniel.

However, a Cabinet insider told Caribbean Net News that many in the Cabinet have long been upset with both Boyke and Hadeed participating in Cabinet deliberations, as neither has been elected to any office.

It has also been suggested that Daniel, who has been called the Deputy Prime Minister, even though no such official post exists, is at serious odds with Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer.

Meanwhile, in a statement following the announcement of Boyke's resignation, Prime Minister Spencer said:

“I feel a sense of personal remorse at the injustice meted out to this honourable man, who was always a counsellor, never competitor, to any member of the Cabinet or the party.”

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