Daily Archives: Jun 7, 2017

The fate of six former SEMBCORP workers will be determined today at which time they will find out whether or not they will continue working with APUA. The workers, hoping to become full time Antigua Public Utilities Authority (APUA) employees, had been sent home after their temporary contracts expired on May 30.

Unseeded Latvian Jelena Ostapenko became the first teenager to reach the French Open women's semi-finals since 2007 with a shock win against former world number one Caroline Wozniacki.

The AIDS Secetariart will be attempting to test 2,000 people for HIV as it prepares to launch Antigua & Barbuda’s leg of the Regional Testing Day next week.

This past weekend saw the annual Caribana festivities occur on our sister isle, Barbuda. At the tail end of the long weekend was also World Environment Day (WED), which is commemorated on the 5th of June each year. The theme for this year is ‘Connecting People to Nature’, and the United Nations (UN), the champion of these global days of acknowledgment, implored persons around the globe to get outdoors and bond with nature - “to appreciate its beauty and its importance, and to take forward the call to protect the Earth that we share”.

Captain Steve Smith was frustrated by conditions at The Oval after Australia's Champions Trophy game against Bangladesh was abandoned.

The Antigua & Barbuda Drag Racing Association (ABDRA) has credited it’s no nonsense approach to safety and safety regulations after one driver, Bryce Marsh, walked away from a crash at the North Sound International Raceway on Sunday.

Former national and Leeward Islands player, Wilden “Polo” Cornwall, said he anticipated being named Most Valuable Player (MVP) for the just ended Cool & Smooth T20 Explosion.

Calypso is the cultural fibre that holds Barbuda’s Caribana Festival together. The people love it and take it very seriously. From what I heard, the title alone gives you all the cool points you need.

England are into the semi-finals of the Champions Trophy after beating New Zealand by 87 runs with an accomplished all-round display.

Antigua & Barbuda has taken the first step to what will likely result in an increase in taxes on soft drinks as well as food with a high sugar content in keeping with the global move to stem the increase of diabetes and other non-communicable diseases (NCDs).