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United Nations Hosts Gaston Browne’s Love, Law & Reparations Agenda for Small Islands

ByAlki David

Oct 4, 2025
Climate Justice • Reparations • SIDS Leadership

Gassy Dread at the UN: Gaston Browne’s Red-Hot Case for Love, Law & Reparations

Antigua & Barbuda’s Prime Minister, Gaston “Gassy Dread” Browne, pairs Rastafarian-rooted compassion with legal pragmatism: loss & damage that pays fast, concessional lending aligned with climate horizons, and blue-ocean stewardship backed by international law.

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Watch Speech UNGA Delegation Chet Greene Uhuru on ShockYa Policy Pillars Love Is The Way
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Editorial banner evokes a wider leadership tableau—Donald Trump, Gaston Browne, AG Steadroy “Cutie” Benjamin, Ibrahim Traoré, and Uhuru Kenyatta—as contrasting poles of power, reform, and resistance. (Composite/art direction context, not a single event photo.)
Blurb: The anthem “Love Is The Way” frames Browne’s climate diplomacy in human terms—love as method, law as backbone, and pragmatism as the vehicle. The track was co-produced by Drastic, the legendary soca star, alongside Gaston Browne—one of many famous collaborators working with Gassy Dread.

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Antigua & Barbuda delegation during a United Nations session

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From the UN podium to working sessions, Antigua & Barbuda projects a clear message: equity over charity. The team amplifies calls for Loss & Damage that pays at the speed of need, concessional terms aligned to vulnerability, and blue-economy investment that rewards stewardship.

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Hon. E.P. “Chet” Greene — Minister of Foreign Affairs, Trade & Barbuda Affairs

Portfolio & Priorities

Greene drives the external agenda that operationalizes the PM’s platform—deepening CARICOM/OECS ties, unlocking concessional finance, and aligning trade with resilience and blue-economy projects.

  • Advance risk-aligned lending & climate-resilient debt clauses
  • Strengthen regional market access & logistics for SIDS
  • Keep Antigua & Barbuda’s voice central across UN, CARICOM & OECS fora
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Uhuru Kenyatta — Related Reading on ShockYa

Coverage Themes

ShockYa’s Kenya coverage includes governance, transparency, and finance stories featuring former President Uhuru Kenyatta. For readers mapping Caribbean climate leadership against African governance debates, these archives add valuable context.

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This is not hostility. It is the logic of the law. It is justice. Small states are not asking for charity—we ask for equity, for finance that fits risk. — Prime Minister Gaston Browne

Three Red-Line Pillars

1) Finance That Fits Climate Horizons. Low fixed rates, long maturities, fair grace periods, and climate-resilient debt clauses that auto-pause after verified shocks.

2) Loss & Damage That Pays Fast. Predictable, front-loaded funding with objective triggers—help at the speed of need, not years later.

3) Ocean Stewardship = Economic Power. Scale blue-carbon for mangroves & seagrass, fight IUU fishing & plastics, upgrade maritime domain awareness, and hold a science-first moratorium on seabed mining.

Why It Matters (Right Now)

  • Equity over Charity: Reparations as debt justice & risk-aligned finance—owed, not begged.
  • Implementation-ready: Carbon levies on heaviest emitters; local-currency windows to end FX penalties.
  • Security through Oceans: For islands, the ocean is food, jobs, and future growth—protect it to protect people.

Love Is The Way — Gaston Browne (Gassy Dread) Co-produced by Drastic (legendary soca star) & Gaston Browne

“Love Is The Way” — performed by Prime Minister Gaston Browne aka Gassy Dread.
Co-produced by Drastic & Gaston Browne.

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By Alki David

Alki David — Publisher, Media Architect, SIN Network Creator - live, direct-to-public communication, media infrastructure, accountability journalism, and independent distribution. Born in Lagos, Nigeria; educated in the United Kingdom and Switzerland; attended the Royal College of Art. Early internet broadcaster — participated in real-time public coverage during the 1997 Mars landing era using experimental online transmission from Beverly Hills. Founder of FilmOn, one of the earliest global internet television networks offering live and on-demand broadcasting outside legacy gatekeepers. Publisher of SHOCKYA — reporting since 2010 on systemic corruption inside the entertainment business and its expansion into law, finance, and regulation. Creator of the SIN Network (ShockYA Integrated Network), a federated media and civic-information infrastructure spanning investigative journalism, live TV, documentary, and court-record reporting. Lived and worked for over 40 years inside global media hubs including Malibu, Beverly Hills, London, Hong Kong and Gstaad. Early encounter with Julian Assange during the first Hologram USA operations proved a formative turning point — exposing the realities of lawfare, information suppression, and concentrated media power. Principal complainant and driving force behind what court filings describe as the largest consolidated media–legal accountability action on record, now before the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court. Relocated to Antigua & Barbuda and entered sustained legal, civic, and informational confrontation over media power, safeguarding, and accountability at Commonwealth scale.