WATCH: Pringle Says a UPP Gov’t Will Fix US Visa Restriction on Antiguans and Barbudans

Thanks we need to go see our grand children. Some has diplomat status they are good

Chupssssssssss pure nonsense. Wishful thinking

But Pringle you have powers man?

Pringle needs to stop selling clouds to the public and be serious. There is nothing any administration can do to get Antigua’s name off the visa bond list, until at least August when the US initiates its review process. Lets be clear on the facts here. There are more than 50 countries on that list, do anyone know how many has gotten their name off since the first announcement of a visa bond or visa restriction. Effectively one. Mali. Mali did so by essentially instituting its own visa bond on the US which it could do because it wasn’t dependent on US access, was already moving toward China and Russia as its strategic allies and US businesses access to Mali natural resources was of interest to the US interest. Antigua doesn’t have the natural resources or the ability to withstand any pressure from the US government like Mali. Another thing: Despite Antigua having one of the more stringent rules in obtaining a CIP passport, we were put on the list next to Dominica. We know that the residency requirement that the US claims was the issue was already addressed in the passage and implementation of the regional ECCIRA which takes much of the regulatory power out of government hands. So unless Pringle is saying he wants to increase the regional benchmark of a 30 day residency requirement that was recently agreed to by all CIP governments to more than that, which will put our programme at a material disadvantage and cost government revenue, I doubt his claim will go far. Additionally, what relationship or influence does the UPP think it has with the Trump administration? Is Pringle planning to cozy up to the US like Kamla’s Trinidad which has become the mockery of the Caribbean or what? And if the UPP had this so-called influence in the US, why not use it now instead of claiming you need to be in government to use it. Antigua’s best-case scenario is a quiet, technocratic removal after the August 2026 review, contingent on the ECCIRA framework operating long enough to satisfy US vetting concerns and visa overstays (as weak of an argument that was from the US) being reduced. This is what happens when you have a guy whose only contribution to public policy for 8 years is to cry and walk out of Parliament and no one in the party takes public policy seriously.

Fix the restrictions on yourself first. Gaston has more links than you and you think it’s easy to come in and do such a thing? Man it’s easy to speak from outside the queue and make promises that will fail. We won’t buy this lie. LAYYYYYBOUUURRRRRRR ON ELECTION DAY

Little boy. Stop the hollering. UPP can’t do crap

Yadda yadda yadda. And I will become king of England.

Anyone who believes this is just as stupid. Seriously..
The visa restriction has more to do with US policy than with anything Antigua did. Let Mr. Pringle explain all the other countries on the list. The Opposition needs to stop this nonsense!

So wait… Jamale Pringle really saying a UPP government could just “fix” a US visa ban like it’s a broken pipe or something? Man come on. This is the United States we talking about, not some small office you can just call and sort out same day. Them decisions does come from way up—policy, security, international business—not because Antigua change government. Pringle making it sound like if he win election, he just going pick up the phone and say “hello Washington, remove that ban please” and everything good again. That not how the world works at all.This is the kinda talk that sound good on a platform, but when you really think about it… it make no sense.You can’t promise people something you don’t even have control over. That’s misleading. Plain and straight. And if he serious, then explain nah—what exactly is the plan? Who he talking to? What agreement he going renegotiate? What the US even asking for? Because you can’t just say “we will fix it” and leave it so. This not about liking ABLP or UPP you know… this just basic reality. Antigua can’t control US visa policy. No government here can. So instead of trying to score points, maybe be real with people for once. Because Antiguans not stupid—we know when something sounding off. Right now, this sounding like pure election talk.

Pringle has a point but its not anyone’s fault but Trump

Whoever is in Power has nothing to do with the US restrictions. Unless you plan on putting voodoo on the orange clown!

Pringle is very ambitious

I believe a UPP government would make life easier for the residents but ANtiguans love HARD LABOURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR