Antigua and Barbuda

  • January 30, 2013
    903

    Calls for a regional ‘watch-list’ of deportees

    ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Caribbean countries are being urged to not only update their list of deportees, but also to share that vital information with regional counterparts. The call came from National Security Minister Dr Errol Cort, who said deportees who are not Antigua & Barbuda citizens are able to gain entry into the twin-island nation – a major concern…

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  • January 29, 2013
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    Deportees do not top list of local criminals

    ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Contrary to the belief emanating from some quarters, deportees do not head the list of crime perpetrators in Antigua & Barbuda. National Security Minister Dr Errol Cort said these individuals are not at the forefront of the criminal activities that “we are currently experiencing.” In an exclusive interview with OBSERVER Media, Dr Cort said based on…

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  • January 29, 2013
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    WTO green light for Antigua and Barbuda

    ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – The Antigua and Barbuda government said Monday it had been granted authorization by the World Trade Organization (WTO) to suspend certain concessions and obligations it has under international law to the United States in respect of intellectual property rights. “Having initially received preliminary authorization to do so from the WTO in 2007 and negotiating in…

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  • January 28, 2013
    912

    Of the extreme global downturn

    ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – There is a general cry that “things are bad in Antigua.” Some are doing well, some are not doing too well and some are “catching hell.” Perhaps we can try to emulate Dickens and say “It was the best of times and the worst of times,” but such a description of the state of Affairs in…

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  • January 28, 2013
    923

    Antigua to launch first renewable energy project

    ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – The Government of Antigua and Barbuda has successfully partnered with several international groups and countries through the regional Caribbean Renewable Energy Development Programme (CREDP) project in launching the first renewable energy project on the island. The 6-kilowatt photovoltaic power system at the Nelsons Dockyard Shirley Heights Lookout was aided by the Organization of American States…

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  • January 28, 2013
    925

    Compensation must match US $21 million award

    ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Antigua & Barbuda is unwilling to consider any monetary settlement below US $21 million annually to end the gaming dispute with the US, according to Finance Minister Harold Lovell. Lovell said a one off US $10 million settlement, which was once put on the table by the US to end the gaming dispute between the two…

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  • January 25, 2013
    922

    EPA official wants trade to be closer to home

    St. John’s Antigua- The EPA Implementation Coordinator said local businesses should not only use the Cariforum-EC agreement to market to mainland Europe, but EU countries closer to home. “We are seeing Europe as thousands of miles away, but we need to see Europe as the island just over there, Guadeloupe and Martinique,” Barbara Williams said at the launch of the…

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  • January 23, 2013
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    Barbuda being ‘left out’ of air travel plans

    ST JOHN’S, Antigua – A former Barbuda Council member has accused government of failing to pay the same attention to air travel between Antigua & Barbuda as it does to regional travel. George Burton said he is very concerned that central government is giving financial support to regional air carrier LIAT while Barbudans are left out of the loop. He…

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  • January 23, 2013
    911

    $7M profit for LIAT impossible

    ST JOHN’S, Antigua – A month after projecting it would make a “modest” $7 million profit in 2013, LIAT says such an achievement is no longer possible. The company had hinged its profit making ability on complete re-fleeting that got off to a late start, due to a lack of funds and reconstruction of aircraft records destroyed in a blaze…

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  • January 21, 2013
    963

    The unscrambling of the scramble for Africa

    ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – Colonialism and its concomitant result, slavery, has been perhaps the worst episode in human history that demonstrates the inhumanity of man to man. Whereas slavery existed for thousands of years on this earth, the European scramble for Africa produced chattel slavery. One of the by-products of this system was the listing of human beings as slaves…

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