MINISTER of Foreign and Caricom Affairs Sean Sobers on May 10 challenged statements made in a Newsday editorial dated May 7, which he says suggest he may have interfered in the internal affairs of Antigua and Barbuda following the disappearance of 21-year-old Trinidadian Thomas Vasquez.

His statement came just hours after Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne posted a strongly worded statement on Facebook the same day, criticising Sobers for comments regarding the disappearance of Vasquez.

“Let us be unequivocally clear: at no point did Minister Sobers instruct any action that would constitute interference in the internal affairs of Antigua and Barbuda,” the ministry’s statement read.