Daily Archives: Apr 6, 2017

Clare Hall Secondary School dominates the selection of the Antigua & Barbuda national under-15 cricket team set to participate in the Leeward Islands Cricket Board (LICB) tournament slated for April 7-13 in Anguilla and St Maarten

We admit it. We were premature when we proclaimed, “It’s done … time to move on.” That was the title of our piece after the Barbuda Council election. We described it as “a council election like no other” but little did we know how right we were. In another piece titled “Election … the season for giving”. we said ”The elections in Barbuda never fail to give us something new. As pure spectator sports, they are entertaining, nail-biting affairs that oftentimes leave observers shaking their heads at what they have just witnessed”. “It is part of the uniqueness and charm of Barbuda” we proclaimed. While we may have thought that it was all ‘done and dusted’, the election that was, still is, and the Barbuda election drama continues today.

For the second year in a row, a member of the Royal Police Force of Antigua & Barbuda (RPFAB) has earned the first runner-up position in a regional awards programme that highlights the professional advancement of law enforcement officers.

A regional university professor has raised concerns over part of the government’s plans to establish a University College of Antigua & Barbuda, saying that the suggested time frame is “not doable”.

Students from a number of secondary schools across Antigua will compete in the first schools’ aerobics competition slated for the JSC Sports Complex today.

Impressed with his befuddlement of West Indies batsmen in four Twenty20 Internationals over the last two weeks, the Pakistan selection panel have named teenager Shadab Khan in a 16-member squad for their upcoming Test series in the Caribbean.

Police and by-standers chased after a young man after he had snatched the purse out of the hand of a visitor to the island.  The...