D. Gisele Isaac Accuses Police Of Not Taking her Reports Seriously

SOURCE: Newsco

Former Speaker of the House and Chairman of the United Progressive Party (UPP) D. Gisele Isaac says the police are not taking her concerns and reports against Prime Minister Gaston Browne seriously.

Browne has been accusing Isaac and the UPP of colluding with a Russian woman to tarnish the reputation of Antigua and Barbuda.

During an outing on his radio station on March 16, Browne launched an attack on Isaac over an opinion piece she wrote in which she said there was a time to hate which was published in the Daily Observer.

In addition to using words such as nasty nature, hateful person, awful woman, wicked, cruel and evil to describe Isaac, the prime minister also noted that she will “die a horrible death”.

PM Browne furthermore claimed that Isaac was destroying people within and outside of the party, noting that she not only went after him, but his wife and son and that she could not prosper in this country.

Isaac, who views what was said as a threat against her, said she has made a report to the police, as she was advised by acting Commissioner of Police Everton Jeffers.

“I strongly believe he’s trying to get me killed. And I reported him to the police last Wednesday.”

Isaac said having made the report, the response she received from the police was not what she expected.

“The CID officer told me to ‘be the bigger person’ and I asked him what the force would have done to me if I had made the statement that ‘Gaston is going to die a horrible death?’ Would they not have come for me with the Riot Squad?” she said.

The UPP chair noted she was then advised by that officer that “someone senior to him would call me”.

However, to date, she has not received that call.

She said she was told that what was said is not tantamount to a threat “because Gaston didn’t say he was going to make me die a horrible death”.

“So, after I’m hurt or killed, I guess the cops will just brush me off.”

Browne continued his attack on Isaac and the UPP two weeks ago, accusing them of a smear campaign in which information keeps appearing on social media platforms making allegations against him and using his image.

“He keeps putting my name in things I know nothing about. I read the Discovery papers just like everybody else. He’s not acknowledging that the investigators spoke to Cabinet ministers. No. It’s all about me – because I am quoted in an AP article as saying the opposition knows only what the prime minister wants us to know,” Isaac said.

Responding to a post which PM Browne wrote on his Facebook page again accusing Isaac, Opposition Leader Jamale Pringle and another individual of creating defamatory pages with “their propaganda warfare, Isaac said, “Why can’t this beast leave my name alone???”

She continued, “I don’t know a thing about this “d…” page. Where would I know Martin DeLuca from? I haven’t been to the US since 2012! This man is just obsessed with me now! No. He’s trying to get me killed. He keeps doing it, setting me up as a target for his henchmen.”

In his post Browne said, “They are even paying vulnerable Antiguans on food stamps in the US to picket. They were at the State Department today with their mobile propaganda van pappy-showing themselves.”

Meanwhile, Observer reached out to Acting Commissioner of Police Everton Jeffers who said that the matter is being dealt with.

“I sent that information to CID, so CID is supposed to be dealing with that,” ACP Jeffers said.