Monthly Archives: March, 2019
Guest Editorial
Under the leadership of the late Archdeacon Samuel Edmund
Branch, the Antigua Grammar School was founded as an Anglican learning
institution on April 16th 1884. There...
Committee to examine proposed Social Protection legislation
A five-member Select Committee of Members of Parliament has
been named and tasked with reviewing the Social Protection Bill 2019 which
seeks to improve the lives...
AG supports increasing retirement age for judges, not life appointment
Removing the age limit at which judges of the Eastern
Caribbean Supreme Court must retire is not something that Antigua and Barbuda’s
Attorney General favours.
Steadroy “Cutie”...
APUA safety procedures to be updated in wake of Burma Road mishap
The Antigua Public Utilities Authority (APUA) will look at
making changes to its safety procedures, following a worksite accident
involving its employees on Burma Road.
Last...
Chief of Staff says YIDA photos ‘misleading’
The Prime Minister’s Chief of Staff, Lionel ‘Max’ Hurst,
says recent photographs showing the destruction of mangroves on Guiana Island
are misleading.
On Thursday at the post-Cabinet...
More reviews for Environment Bill
The Environmental Protection and Management Bill (2019) has
gotten its second reading in Parliament, but a third reading and the debate
will not take place before...
Henderson Simon dies, friends pay tribute
At the age of 74, two-time Member of Parliament, educator,
businessman and well-known civil engineer Henderson Simon has died.
Close friends confirmed that he passed away...
Editorial: By faith
The many things that are not going well in our fair state
have given Antiguans and Barbudans much angst and pause. From the new Barbuda
airport...
AG called to provide recommendations on conditions at Industrial court
Attorney General Steadroy “Cutie” Benjamin has been charged
by Prime Minister Gaston Browne to provide recommendations to the Cabinet of
Antigua and Barbuda as it relates...
Road works set back by possible act of vandalism
Antigua Public Utilities Authority (APUA) on Wednesday
reported yet another act of vandalism, following the discovery of a severed
electrical cable on the Friars Hill Road...
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