Daily Archives: Aug 9, 2018

The Under-15 Benna Girls have yet to record their first win in the ongoing Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) Under-15 Girl’s Championships at the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Miami, Florida.

Heading a football should be restricted in the professional game and banned for those under the age of 18, according to one of the world's leading experts on brain injuries.

Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) president, Michael Ricketts, says he has been paying close attention to the efforts of sprint legend, Usain Bolt, to make his mark as a professional football player, and that he would fully support a call-up to the national team, if the national coaching staff thinks he is good enough.

The level of violence against women and girls in sport needs to be given "urgent attention" by worldwide sporting organisations, new research says.

The opposition United Progressive Party’s (UPP) spokesperson on Legal Affairs Leon Chaku Symister, has stated that it is the poor and vulnerable who will suffer from the recent increase in the structure of fees at the Immigration Department.

Insane Carnival will continue to celebrate their win of Band of Year and the T-Shirt Mas competition despite criticism by the public that their costumes amount to camouflage which is illegal for civilians to wear in Antigua and Barbuda.

Chairperson of the Calypso sub-committee Dion Simmons, expressed his excitement with the attendance of patrons at this year’s calypso monarch competition.

A recent research conducted in Antigua and Barbuda found that promotional models were subjected to sexual harassments and discriminatory payments based on skin colour.

The head of the National Office of Disaster Services (NODS), Philmore Mullin, is providing more information about the structure of a Canadian-funded beneficiary programme following a series of complaints from some Barbudans.

There are more than a few people who are a bit perplexed by the recent decision of the High Court judge, Justice Rosalyn E. Wilkinson, in regard to the airport issue in Barbuda. The judge instructed that all construction taking place on the international airport in Barbuda be stopped effective immediately. The basic argument in the case surrounds whether the government complied with the requirements of the Physical Planning Act.