IS THERE A HIDDEN REASON WHY ANTIGUA'S PM GASTON BROWNE HAS CALLED A SNAP ELECTION?

If you are following unfolding events in Venezuela of late, you know that the Caribbean's most notorious money launderer, the Colombian ALEX NAIN SAAB MORAN, been in the news, due to several stories about his detention, under austere conditions by the country's premier intelligence service, and his reported imminent extradition to face the music, again, in the United States. Old Caribbean hands are aware of Saab's prior relationship with Antigua's dodgy Prime Minister, GASTON BROWNE, who appointed him Economic Envoy, know about the two offshore banks Saab owned in Antigua, and his extensive dealings with the former insolvent GLOBAL BANK OF COMMERCE. If Saab, who has a history of being an artful negotiator, finds himself in a Miami Federal courtroom, and looking at Life Imprisonment Without the Possibility of Parole, (as the U.S. has abolished it), most observers believe he will throw PM Browne, and a number of his senior officials under the proverbial bus, if push comes to shove. Would that be one of the reasons why Browne is now being so hasty in seeking a Snap Election, the other being he fears that even more restrictions are in store for Antigua, courtesy U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Is Browne nervously trying to insure that he remains in office, and seemingly immune from imminent indictment by the US Attorney in the Southern District of Florida, as a sitting national leader, due to a well-placed fear of what Alex Saab might choose to deliver, regarding evidence of money laundering, fraud and corruption, on a grand scale? The clock is ticking.