Fireworks erupted in the Lower House yesterday, when each opposition Member of Parliament summarily walked out – protesting the Citizenship by Investment’s Bill’s re-introduction in the current session.

Faced with a rejection of his request for an independent investigation into the Wadadli Power Plant, Chairman of Antigua Labour Party (ALP) Gaston Browne has vowed to take his party’s fight for an inquiry to the streets.

As Lone Wolf protestors continue to picket the controversial Wadadli Power Plant deal, the group is taking issue with the silence of some senior members of the opposition Antigua Labour Party (ALP) on the issue.

Bus drivers plying Route 22 from West Bus Station to Old Road parked their buses yesterday in protest of the Transport Board’s relocation of their loading area.

The man in charge of the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) is being accused of forcing the hand of the Antigua Trades and Labour Union (AT&LU), which was threatening renewed industrial action as a result yesterday.

The union representing airport security workers said yesterday that it had received confirmation that overdue salaries, which prompted industrial action this week, have been paid.

Finance and Economy Minister Harold Lovell says the proposed US $100 million hotel development at Long Bay will be accompanied by an improvement of public facilities in the area should it receive the go ahead.

Protesters opposed to the Rendezvous Bay development are refusing to budge even after investors committed to spare no effort in preserving the environmentally sensitive area.

It was billed as a peaceful, democratic exercise but things got tense during the Antigua Labour Party-led “White March.”