Daily Archives: Mar 17, 2017

Candidates for the Antigua & Barbuda Football Association (ABFA) election have reacted to news that the anticipated vote had been suspended from its original date of May 13.

KINGSTON, Jamaica (CMC) — Batsman Lendl Simmons has backed his West Indies teammate Andre Russell to bounce back strongly following his one-year anti-doping whereabouts ban.

We do not like to comment on other countries’ affairs unless they impact us. We take the stance that we live in Antigua & Barbuda and we do not have any standing to criticise other countries on their domestic issues and policies. We do, however, believe that we can comment when policies affect us and the world.

The Political Leader of the United Progressive Party (UPP) Harold Lovell has admitted to working for former Honorary Consul Luiz Augusto Franca, who is now one of the key men involved in the Odebrecht scandal, but dismissed the revelation as an irrelevant red herring in the wider scandal facing the country.

A 2017 US State Department report that gave a scathing assessment of Antigua & Barbuda, has been fiercely rebuffed by Prime Minister Gaston Browne.

The prime minister has issued a stern reminder to potential heads of the Citizenship by Investment Unit (CIU) that they do not own the unit and that the programme is led by a “ministerial” mandate.

In a peculiar and almost historic occasion, Member of Parliament for the All Saints East & St Luke Constituency Joanne Massiah was yesterday named an independent candidate - the first female politician to ever bear the title.

The most recent Cabinet report has revealed that for over two days earlier this week, “fresh water production across the nation was at its lowest level it has ever been”.

The government said it has arrived at a settlement in the matter involving irate souvenir vendors at Horsford Hill and the National Parks Authority (NPA).

The rules on wildcards handed to players who have been suspended could be reviewed in the wake of Maria Sharapova's return from a doping ban, says the head of women's tennis.