ST. JOHN'S, Antigua, CMC - Police said one woman was killed and three others injured in separate incidents as Carnival celebrations ended abruptly here on Tuesday night. They said Rosemarie Lynch became the ninth homicide for the year after her body was found lying in a pool of blood at Perry Bay, near the capital. Police said she was stabbed multiple times during an apparent struggle with her attacker. The police and Carnival organisers were forced to call off the “Last Lap jump-up” in the capital after three people, including a 62-year-old woman, were shot.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC - The Leeward Islands Airline Pilots Association (LIALPA) says its members are not involved in any industrial action as the Antigua-based airline, LIAT, deals with a number of problems including flight cancellations in recent days. LIALPA said it had also taken objection to remarks made by the airline’s chief executive. Brunton had indicated that the cash-strapped company would not have had to further deepen its cash flow problems by, “pulling in contract crews which we may not need, if everybody puts their pedal to the wheel.”

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Chief Executive Officer of LIAT, Ian Brunton, has confirmed the regional carrier has enlisted “contract crews” to replace former Dash-8 pilots who are now flying new ATR aircraft.
The “new” hires will fly the older planes in LIAT’s fleet, but Brunton has told the travelling public that it will be another “two to three weeks” before they’re pressed into service as they have to “satisfy the regulatory system.”
“It was not an overnight thing,” the CEO, who was a guest on the Voice of Barbados call in programme yesterday, said.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Government officials are banking on the information contained in the recently released Food Based Dietary Guidelines to address the high incidences of non-communicable diseases to include obesity, diabetes and hypertension that affect residents.
The guidelines, released on Wednesday, are aimed at promoting healthy eating habits and active lifestyles in order to prevent chronic nutrition-related diseases among the population.
It was launched in an official ceremony held at the Jolly Beach Resort and Spa.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua- Antigua & Barbuda’s representative to the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) has expressed the importance of gathering data to measure the true picture of the obesity situation in Antigua & Barbuda.
“There needs to be a national survey to determine the true figure as it relates to obesity in Antigua & Barbuda,” Edward Emanuel said.
He noted that although national data is not available, information collected at clinics in 2012 indicated that among adults 20 years and over, 29. 3 per cent were overweight and 36.5 per cent were obese.