An­tigua and Bar­bu­da Prime Min­is­ter Gas­ton Browne said yes­ter­day that the in­for­ma­tion which led im­mi­gra­tion of­fi­cers to make “fur­ther in­quiries” of for­mer T&T prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley did not orig­i­nate in St John’s.

He told the Caribbean Me­dia Cor­po­ra­tion (CMC) that im­mi­gra­tion of­fi­cials in An­tigua and Bar­bu­da treat­ed Row­ley with re­spect and act­ed on the in­for­ma­tion in the same way they would have, had the “no­ta­tion” been about any oth­er trav­eller.

On Ju­ly 21, Row­ley, who stepped down from ac­tive pol­i­tics in March, said he was de­tained on Ju­ly 14 dur­ing a stopover in An­tigua be­cause his name had been placed on a watch list of the Paris-based In­ter­na­tion­al Crim­i­nal Po­lice Or­gan­i­sa­tion.