The new leader of the Antigua Labour Party has been listing what he described as a raft of economic problems being experienced by the country.

Exasperated Rural East constituents, fed-up with the dilapidated state of their community’s infrastructure, took to the airwaves on Thursday.

The Antigua & Barbuda Labour Party (ALP) on Tuesday rejected as “completely farcical and politically-motivated” a call by Barbadian political scientist Peter Wickham for its leader Lester Bird to resign.