Daily Archives: Feb 24, 2018

Antigua and Barbuda will be going to the polls on March 21st.

LJ Northside Stingerz continue to defy the odds in the Antigua and Barbuda Basketball Association (ABBA) Division one league, as they pushed their unblemished record to seven straight wins on Thursday night at the JSC Sports Complex.

Antigua Grammar School (AGS) suffered doubles losses in the Cool and Smooth Inter-School Basketball league on Thursday afternoon.

WestHam and Police kept hopes of automatic promotion into the First Division alive with comfortable victories in the Antigua and Barbuda Football Association’s (ABFA) Second Division on Thursday.

The United Progressive Party (UPP) on Thursday hosted members of the business community to roll out its policy on how it intends to increase local investment and related issues should it boot the incumbent Antigua Barbuda Labour Party (ABLP) from office.

Political hopeful Dr. MaChesney Emanuel said court documents naming him as a defendant who failed to pay back U.S. $100,000 to a banking official in the United States has nothing to do with fraud.

Tyrone Theophile stroked a high class hundred while all-rounder Kavem Hodge produced an electrifying all-round effort to stun Guyana Jaguars and thrust Windward Islands Volcanoes into Saturday’s final of the Regional Super50.

The John Hughes community group, seeking to start construction on a U.S. $50,000 development at the Wallings Reservoir, is now seeking an audience with Prime Minister Gaston Browne to discuss the future of the project.

Antigua and Barbuda is being urged to review its investor incentives in order to tie them to performance instead of having them wholly frontloaded.

In a recent report from the United Nations Office of Disaster Risk Reduction, the conclusion was that coastal communities in the Caribbean need to start implementing plans to be self-sufficient for up to three weeks if we are to cope with the fallout from climate change and the severe weather that accompanies it. The observation was made in light of the level of intensity experienced during the 2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season.  Basically, the expert opinion is: two or three days will no longer suffice.