Daily Archives: Jan 10, 2019

They are half–way home, and we can exhale some and declare, “Thitherto hath the Lord helped them.” As of 3:00 p.m. yesterday, Team Antigua Island Girls was located at 18.1 degrees N, 41.4 degrees W, and moving in a westerly direction at 2.4 knots. In the 24-hour period prior, they had travelled a total of 51 nautical miles and are currently in 13th place. They have another 1,149 nautical miles left to travel, and, based on their current speed and direction, they will arrive home on February 1 at 4:50 p.m.

The Ministry of Education is making extra classes available to students of two core Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) subjects that will begin next week.

Antigua and Barbuda’s passport has fallen one spot in the 2019 Henley & Partners Passport Index/Global Ranking produced annually, even as the number of countries to which the passport has visa-free access remains the same as it was last year.

The Scotland Yard detective who was extradited to Antigua last year to face a rape charge has been committed to stand trial in the High Court in the upcoming January Criminal Assizes.

Management at the General Post Office in Saint John’s say they have provided a bit of relief to businesses affected by the ongoing closure of the building located on lower High Street.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) of India, one of the central agencies investigating the alleged Rs 13,578-crore Punjab National Bank scam, is mulling the idea of sending a team to Antigua and Barbuda for fraud-accused billionaire, Mehul Choksi, who has been living here for about a year.