ANTIGUA-COURT-Former PM says buses were not a government to government donation

Former prime minister Baldwin Spencer says three buses donated by the government of South Korea “were not considered property of the government of Antigua and Barbuda directly,”as the trial of three former ministers accused of embezzlement continues here on Wednesday. Spencer, 73, who led the United Progressive party (UPP) to victory in the 2004 general elections and served as the country’s third prime minister until 2014, told the High Court that “it was not a situation where the request for this endeavour was to be a government to government. “That clearly was not the arrangement,”he added. …

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