Daily Archives: Jul 17, 2018

With just two rounds of matches remaining in the Cricket West Indies Under-17 Championships, the Leeward Islands sit atop the standings following the completion of the third round of matches on Saturday.

Sir Lester Bird, Former Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, has called for the parliamentary representative of Barbuda, Trevor Walker, and investor Robert De Niro, to sit down and come to terms on the way forward for Barbuda.

Doug Beazer, senior fisheries officer in Barbuda, says that he may be giving up his post due to the stress and tension surrounding the fisheries debacle on the sister island.

The union representing the workers at St. James’s Club is expressing fresh concerns after receiving information that staff members were asked to take up duties as independent contractors.

The Barbuda Fisheries Complex was the site of the recent closing ceremony of the Antigua and Barbuda China-Aid Post Disaster-Roof Restoration Project, dubbed the “Building Back Better” project. Everyone there was all smiles and expressed satisfaction at the work completed on the restoration of 250-plus roofs in Barbuda. Among the special invited guests were Prime Minister Gaston Browne, Chinese Ambassador Wang Xianmin and his wife, and Stephen O’Malley, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Resident Representative to Barbados and the OECS.  

Coach of the Antigua and Barbuda team to the recently concluded Caribbean Union of Teachers (CUT) Games in Bermuda, Jamille Nelson, has commended the 12 young athletes who represented the twin-island state at the bi-annual competition.

Rastafarian Elder Franklyn "King Frank-I"  Francis said that governments should provide reparations to the Rastafari community for the condemnation by the international community of the rastafarians' call for the legalisation of cannabis.

The Association for Persons with Disabilities is taking a firm stand against people who insist on occupying parking spaces designated for these individuals.