In Antigua and Barbuda’s January 2023 general election, the ruling Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party of Prime Minister Gaston Browne eked out the narrowest win possible, a simple majority of 1 seat. Out of seventeen seats in the Lower House of Representatives, Browne’s Labour Party has nine to eight spread across the Opposition. 

Forty-four years after the Grenada Revolution, the biggest lesson for Eastern Caribbean political leaders is the following: a revolutionary government is not feasible.