High Court Jurisdiction Ruling Places UPP Executive Members Inside the 80-Defendant Sovereign Case — Party Faces Legal, Political, and Financial Implosion Ahead of the Commonwealth Reckoning

UPP PARTY SET TO SHUT DOWN — JANUARY 16th, 2026

The Day the Commonwealth Legal Order Resets

Antigua High Court

The Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court in St. John’s — where the fate of 80 defendants will be decided on January 16th.

JANUARY 16th — THE COMMONWEALTH RECKONING

At 9:00 AM on January 16th, 2026, the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court will convene the most consequential hearing in modern regional history. Justice Rene Williams will rule on jurisdiction and enforcement in ANUHCV2025/0149, the sovereign lawsuit naming 80 defendants across politics, media, law, finance, and foreign influence networks.

Among those named are members of the United Progressive Party (UPP), placed under judicial scrutiny for their alleged involvement in foreign-coordinated lawfare against Antigua & Barbuda. Multiple filings indicate their collaboration with US law firms now themselves sued for misconduct and inducement.

The Court’s ruling may determine whether the UPP leadership can legally continue to function as a political entity — or whether January 16th marks the party’s systemic collapse.

Diplomats now refer to January 16th as the day the “old Commonwealth order dies, and the new one begins.”


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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.