ST JOHN’S, Antigua - The treatment and rehabilitation of drug users is a major part of a new, holistic strategy Organization of American States (OAS) member are putting in place to address widespread drug abuse.
Head of the Office of National Drug and Money Laundering Control Policy (ONDCP) Colonel Edward Croft said demand for the drugs must be reduced and education at school level is an appropriate approach to begin combatting drug use.
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua - Many years from now, Caribbean people will recall where they were, on Friday, October 4, 2013, when the Caribbean Court of Justice ruled that Jamaican national Shannique Myrie should be compensated for the embarrassment, pain and hardship she suffered at the hands of Barbados immigration officials when she was deported from that country.
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua - The United States always sells itself as the ultimate in the democratic process in the world. So much criticism has been levelled at African, Mid-east and European countries that have found themselves in electoral turmoil that the impression has been given that in the process of good governance, nothing could ever go wrong in the United States.
ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Director of Education Jacintha Pringle is hoping that the OECS Education Sector Strategy (OESS) to be launched here next week will include special provisions for children with special needs.
Speaking at the official launch of a week of activities to mark Special Education Week, Pringle said “adequate structures should be in place for students who fall in this category.
“Children who are having particular difficulties in one area or another must be given extra assistance or different lessons to help them to succeed,” the director of education said.
UNITED NATIONS, CMC - Antigua and Barbuda Ambassador to the United Nations, John Ashe has called for “new and innovative” sources of financing to supplement decreasing official development assistance (ODA) developing countries.
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders had lamented the paucity of ODA in their respective presentations at the just-concluded 68th Session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) Debate.
Ashe, who is also UNGA president, said there was need for greater private funding and more international trade to sustain economic growth and fuel sustainable development.
JOHN’S, Antigua- There is no cause for panic in Antigua & Barbuda following reports that Barbados has confirmed one death as a result of the H1N1 flu (swine flu) while St Vincent has recorded several cases.
Medical Officer of Health, Dr Oritta Zachariah yesterday said since H1N1 was discovered in Antigua, the virus has never left.
“It is not anything uncommon to us,” Dr Zachariah told OBSERVER media. “We have different strains of the flu virus and H1N1 is one of the few strains that cause influenza, and we have seen that in Antigua since it was first confirmed here.
UNITED NATIONS, CMC – President of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), John W. Ashe is urging the international community to find common ground in crafting a new global development agenda integrating economic growth, social inclusion and environmental protection.
ANTIGUA AND BARUDA - Antigua & Barbuda is looking pretty good on the international front right now. Good things are just happening for the country in rapid succession. Just recently, a crew from US reality television show, The Bachelorette, which is said to attract approximately eight million viewers worldwide, was in the country filming its season finale. It meant the beauty of the country’s tourism product was exposed to those millions of viewers.
ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Chairman of the Council of LIAT Trade Unions Chester Humphrey has said the board will have a difficult time replacing CEO Ian Brunton and warned LIAT could collapse if re-fleeting is derailed. “There are some crucial issues of survivability which I am assuming at this point is what is taking up everybody’s attention,” said Humphrey. “If the re-fleeting is interrupted and significantly derailed this airline wouldn’t survive,” he added.
NEW YORK, CMC – Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer says the collapse of the Trinidad-based insurance conglomerate, CLICO, and the Stanford Group of companies, has resulted in more than EC$400 million (One EC dollar = US$0.37 cents) “disappearing like a puff of smoke from the economy”. But Spencer told nationals residing in North America over the weekend that Antigua and Barbuda continues to be in “steady and safe hands” under his leadership.