Daily Archives: Sep 5, 2018

Darren Sammy, one of Saint Lucia’s most prolific international sport stars, will join the Windies Ambassador Programme to lend his support to the Windies Women for the upcoming ICC Women’s World T20.

The recently launched petition, calling for the speedy handling of legal matters between the former executive secretary of the Board of Education (BoE) Gisele Isaac and the government is gaining traction.

Today marks the day, a year ago, when a vicious Category 5 hurricane named Irma slammed into our sister island of Barbuda and left her in shambles. It was a dark day! And in the immediate aftermath, when all communication with the outside world went dead, many in Antigua, and indeed the outside world, feared the worst. After all, our sister island is exceedingly low-lying, and what the wind and the rain could not do, there was the fear that the storm surge, reported to have been several feet high, would swamp the island, much like an earthquake-driven tsunami. Fervent prayers went up for Barbuda as the silence from the sister isle grew heart-wrenchingly deafening – as if souls were crying out from a watery grave.

Critics have burned Nike trainers and clothing in protest at Colin Kaepernick’s appointment as the face of the brand’s new advertising campaign.

The ongoing pay dispute between the Antigua Public Utilities Authority (APUA) and its workers is now before the Industrial Court. The Antigua and Barbuda Workers Union (ABWU) filed the court documents last week on behalf of the workers it represents.