Antigua and Barbuda
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January 29, 2013859
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, 2013840
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, 2013783
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, 2013798
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, 2013790
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, 2013783
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, 2013771
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, 2013789
$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, 2013810
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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January 21, 20131,063
ALP leader to Vere Bird III: ‘Not on my ticket’
ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Political Leader of the Antigua Labour Party (ALP) Gaston Browne has stoutly rejected the request by Attorney Vere Bird III to contest the next general elections on the ALP ticket. Browne, in a brief conversation with OBSERVER Media, said, “Not on my ticket,” when questioned about Bird’s interest. Bird made his interest known during a branch…
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