Daily Archives: Oct 17, 2017

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, Oct 17, CMC – The main opposition St. Lucia Labour Party (SLP) Tuesday welcomed the victory of the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) in Sunday’s gubernatorial elections.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Oct 17, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago government Tuesday received a 600-page Police Manpower Audit Committee Report with a warning that it contained recommendations to counter the “business as usual” within the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS).

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, Oct 17, CMC — Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves Tuesday pledged his government’s support for police officers who use reasonable force when confronting gunmen in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

Staff at the ministry of information site on Sir George Walter Highway have walked off the job. OBSERVER media’s Tameika Malone tells us the employees...

Consumers may soon have to pay more for eggs. The Antigua & Barbuda Poultry Farmers Associations says the ban on Styrofoam egg boxes is likely...

KABUL (Reuters) - Taliban suicide car bombers and gunmen attacked a provincial Afghan police headquarters on Tuesday, killing at least 33 people, including the police chief, and wounding 160, in the deadliest of a series of attacks across the country, officials and militants said.

RAQQA, Syria (Reuters) - U.S.-backed militias said they had defeated Islamic State in its former capital Raqqa on Tuesday, raising their flags over the jihadist group’s last footholds in the city after a four-month battle.

The cartoon in yesterday’s DAILY OBSERVER and the editorial, HALLOWEEN COME EARLY, from that same issue, said it all: a down-and-dirty race to the very bottom by the various prime ministers overseeing the prices of their Citizenship by Investment programmes. In other words, with the CIP well drying up, especially in light of the Canadian visa requirement for Antiguan passport holders, (visa-free access to Canada no longer a selling point) our government appears desperate to keep the spigot flowing. St. Kitts and Nevis had already slashed its prices, ostensibly to fund a recovery effort in response to hurricanes Irma and Maria, never mind that that twin-island state had largely escaped both hurricanes unscathed. At the rate that our CIP-addicted governments are going, it appears as though we are in for a full-blown price war, and it will not be long before they give the CIP passports away for free. Or well, with a kiss, a handshake and a promise!

A new airline is set to ply the Toronto-to-Antigua route on a weekly basis.

The Board of Directors and management of the State Insurance Corporation (SIC) averted prolonged industrial action by workers yesterday when they met with the disgruntled party’s  bargaining agent,   Antigua Trades and Labour Union (AT&LU).