Daily Archives: Jun 12, 2018

St. Paul’s pulled off an impressive victory in the Antigua Commercial Bank (ACB)/Dave Joseph 35 Overs cricket competition over the weekend, beating Freetown by 104 runs on Saturday.

Scotland head coach Grant Bradburn has urged the International Cricket Council to review its decision to cut the Cricket World Cup to just 10 teams.

The Ministry of Health is dismissing claims that a violent viral video of what appears to be an employee attacking and beating a patient took place at the country’s sole public mental institution.

Stakeholders in the field of veterinary medicine are meeting here this week to look at common issues of concern affecting the health of livestock within the region.

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of LIAT has described regional airports’ use of taxes to generate revenue as “counterproductive”, and has made a proposal for the removal of one of these taxes.

The region may face several challenges in helping countries that are recovering from Hurricanes Irma and Maria, to prepare for subsequent hurricane seasons.

The administrative employees of the Ministry of Sport were sent home yesterday before noon after they were forced to retreat outside due to a foul odour in the building located on Utility Drive, Cassada Gardens.

The Government of Antigua and Barbuda has released the official document outlining the agreement for the controversial Chinese funded Antigua and Barbuda Agricultural Technology Cooperation Project. You know, the one that caused the uproar with the local farming community because the leaked draft agreement indicated that 4,000 acres of land was to be allocated to the project. The one that saw the Minister of Agriculture, Dean Jonas, get so worked up that he condescendingly referred to the concerned farmers as “the so-called farming community,” a description that he later walked back. The same one that Prime Minister Browne said “did not indicate anything about farming 4,000 acres of land,” when he signed it in late 2017. You remember now?

The contract between Chinese-based Yuan Longping High-tech Agriculture Company (LPHT) and the Government of Antigua and Barbuda was officially released to the media last Thursday. However, the coordinator of the National Coalition of Farmers (NCF), Fitzmorgan Greenaway, feels that the association is being disregarded by the government as, to date, the umbrella body has not received a copy of the document.