Antigua labour party accuses cops of defaming Sir Ronald Sanders

Sir Ronald Sanders

The Central Executive of the Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party (ALP) has condemned the island’s police for what it calls the defamation of party officials and supporters, including Guyanese-born diplomat Sir Ronald Sanders, saying it is another chapter in the political harassment of its leadership.

The ALP’s condemnation comes in the wake of a senior Antigua and Barbuda attorney slamming a police statement naming Sanders as a person of interest in the IHI debt settlement scandal.

The Antigua police last week named former Antigua Prime Minister Lester Bird and Sanders among persons of interest in a probe into a fraud case. The police had made a special appeal for Sanders to