Antiguan receives prestigious political award

ST JOHN’S, Antigua- Greenbay resident Victor Richardson II is the first Caribbean national to receive the prestigious honour of the US-based Campaigns and Elections Magazine’s Rising Star award for political consulting. The 2013 awardee experienced elation on hearing the news. He said h...
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ANTIGUA-FINANCE-Fiscal performance improves in first quarter

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC - The Baldwin Spencer led administration is boasting a 500 per cent improvement in the fiscal performance for the first quarter of 2013 compared to the same period last year. Finance and Economy Minister Harold Lovell said this was largely due to an almost 24 per cent...
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CARIBBEAN-AVIATION-LIAT introduces security charges

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – The regional airline, LIAT, which is in the process of acquiring a fleet of new aircraft, Wednesday said it was increasing the cost of its tickets to include a security surcharge. A statement from the Antigua-based airline said that the surcharge on tickets i...
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ECCB announces monetary protection plan

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Bank depositors in the sub-region can look forward to a greater level of protection after the announcement that an Eastern Caribbean Deposit Insurance Corporation will be created. Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) Governor General Sir Dwight Venner revealed that...
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St Kitts PM condemns shooting of bank manager

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – A prime minister for one of the sister islands in the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) has condemned the shooting of a bank manager that occurred during an attack one of the bank’s branches in Antigua Monday night. St Kitts & Nevis Prime Min...
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Good news on the information front

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua - We could not be happier as we witness what appears to be a serious attempt to bring Antigua & Barbuda fully into the information age. A highly important plan to make information available to the public, at little or no direct cost, has been in the news recently. The p...
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Cash Flow Woes At LIAT

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Following last weekend’s fanfare and celebration surrounding LIAT’s acquisition of the first of eight new ATR aircraft, cash flow problems resulting from the re-fleeting exercise have surfaced. LIAT management warned staff that June salaries may be paid ...
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A&B ready for take off of open data

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – An assessment team from the World Bank said Antigua & Barbuda is poised to become the regional leader in Open Data, but that government will have to lead the way. “This really is an all of government effort and so it requires political backing from an over...
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Antigua’s opposition alert

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - THE parliamentary opposition Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party (ABLP) has alerted the secretariats of both the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the Organisation of American States (OAS) to what it views as a serious threat to constitutional, democratic governance in that tw...
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Spencer touts benefits of OECS integration

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Chairman of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer said being a part of the union helped member-states weather the global economic crisis, and that the future of the union looks bright. “One shudders to contemplate w...
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