Daily Archives: May 11, 2017

Former national and Empire footballer, Lennie Quashie, said he is currently “weighing his options” and will make a decision shortly as to how he will handle a decision to bar him from contesting the pending Antigua & Barbuda Football Association’s (ABFA) elections

Leeward Islands and West Indies A cricketer, Rahkeem Cornwall, believes that with consistency, Antigua & Barbuda can emerge as victors of the Leeward Islands Cricket Board’s (LICB) 50 overs Competition slated to bowl off here on Friday.

The human resource, particularly the youth, is the greatest resource of any nation with respect to its potential for increased economic development and improving the standard of living and quality of life of its people. However, the old adage: “Where there is lack of vision, the people perish”, although often repeated and may appear to many as a cliché, has unfortunately become a truism that has plagued too many Caribbean states, including our own, Antigua & Barbuda.

As murder accused Mikhail Gomes is remanded to prison until July 19 for the alleged killing of Vincia James, grieving relatives of other missing people and victims of unsolved murders are calling on the government to bring in outside investigators and to set up a special cold case review team.

Three years ago, the Government of Antigua & Barbuda enacted legislation to safeguard the survival of lobster and other species which regulated the fishing patterns of local fishermen through the introduction of a closed season.

The murder trial of Errol “Errie” Barnes will be handed over to a 12-member jury and two alternates for deliberation today.

ASYCUDA world system will be “sorted in a month or two” according to its Programme Information Manager, Jules Bowen.

The murder charge filed against the ex-boyfriend of Vincia James of New Winthorpes has generated public discourse on whether or not one can be convicted if the body of the alleged murder victim is not found.

The Homicide Unit and Criminal Investigations Department (CID) are probing the “suspicious” death of a vagrant whose partially decomposed body was discovered in an abandoned building on Redcliffe and Temple streets yesterday morning.

A 12-member jury convicted Bathlodge farmer Mario Semper yesterday in the High Court for cultivating over 2,400 marijuana plants in the Potworks Dam area back in 2015.