Daily Archives: Apr 13, 2018

National shot put athlete, Jess St. John has apologised for a social media post in which she had criticised those officials charged with managing the country’s team at the ongoing Commonwealth Games in Australia.

For the past few months, marijuana has been a hot topic of conversation, ever since the push for legislation has been met with some degree of agreement by the administration. Earlier this year, a law allowing the private use of up to 15 grammes of cannabis came into force in our bit of paradise following passage of the Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Act of 2018 in the Lower and Upper Houses of Parliament and the subsequent publication in the official gazette of Antigua and Barbuda, which actually was an electronic posting on gazette.gov.ag.

Leader of the Democratic National Alliance (DNA), Joanne Massiah made a public declaration that the Royal Police Force of Antigua and Barbuda “needs to be cleaned up,” after news broke about one of its senior officers being investigated in St. Vincent and the Grenadines in a possible fraudulent passport racket.

Another bad review of the integrity of the Citizenship by Investment Programme (CIP) appears to have forced the government of Antigua and Barbuda to change the way the programme is managed, albeit by implementing a change it had thrice argued was totally unnecessary.

A deposit of $5,000 had to be made out of his $30,000 bail to facilitate the release of Daiquan Martin, who is now no longer on remand, after that requirement was met.

District Emergency and Disaster Coordinator for the Salvation Army, Major Nana Agyemang, collected the keys for six new fishing boats, on behalf of Barbudan...

Calvin Donaldson, one of two men arrested earlier

Thirteen Antiguans are, this week, receiving new and modern prosthetic limbs.

Accused fraudster, Martin Dimitrov Dachenski, who absconded from Antigua, was last night returned from Barbados where he was caught on Tuesday, to face trial here.