Daily Archives: May 2, 2017

West Indies’ hopes of an automatic World Cup spot suffered yet another blow when they slid even further in the latest ICC One-Day International rankings released Monday.

The country’s top police officer has promised to make his own assesment of the case surrounding Vincia James who has been missing for more than three weeks, with a view to make a determination as to the way forward.

When we heard that someone was proposing the introduction of monopolies on staples like rice and sugar, we were shocked and somewhat amused. Our expectation was that such a hare-brained scheme could never even hit the Cabinet agenda. Then we heard that Cabinet would review and debate the proposal and we began to get worried. How could we, as a nation, be considering monopolies in 2017? It gave us unpleasant flashbacks to the days of the monopolies in things like aggregates, petroleum and telecommunication services. Although we seem to be in a petroleum monopoly with the government-majority-owned West Indies Oil Company (WIOC), but that is for another time.

Political Leader of the United Progressive Party (UPP) has assured workers in this country, that when the party is returned to office, the first order of business would be to pass the Protection of Equity Act.

Attorney General & Labour Minister Steadroy “Cutie” Benjamin heard a plethora of burning issues from union leaders on Monday as he joined the Trade Union Congress (TUC) Labour Day rally at the Thirty-Niners Square/ Westerby Memorial in St John’s.

Urlings defeated Mahico by seven wickets when the teams clashed in the ACB Sir Richie Richardson’s 35 overs competition at Mahico on Saturday.

West Indies proved their own worst enemies as their indiscipline allowed Pakistan’s openers to survive the post-lunch session on the second day of the second Test at Kensington Oval here Monday.

Manager of the Antigua & Barbuda men’s boxing team, Khalid Shabazz has called for both the sport’s governing body and the Ministry of Sports to be more supportive of boxers who represent the twin-island state abroad.

The government has been warned to brace for “serious” challenges if it does not formulate a clearly thought out plan for the proposed construction of a new airport runway on Barbuda.

The Liberta Blackhawks have retained the Antigua & Barbuda Cricket Association’s (ABCA) Two-Day title, following a massive innings and eight run thrashing of newcomers Rising Suns Spartans over the weekend.