Guest Opinion: Time to end Syrian conflict

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua -  In recent weeks, sharply contrasting views on how the United States should respond to the madness in Syria have emerged from two of America’s most prominent voices. Republican Senator John McCain is convinced that US intervention is the only solution to the d...
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Northeastern Caribbean rattled by earthquake

ST.JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC - Sections of the northeastern Caribbean were rocked by a 4.8-magnitude earthquake on Saturday evening. The United States Geological Survey confirmed that the tremor was felt as far north as St Maarten, as far south as Guadeloupe and across St Eustatius and St Kitts an...
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Working group tasked with monitoring FATCA compliance

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) has established a working group on the United States Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), the first positive steps taken towards compliance. A press release from the central bank stated that the Eastern Caribbean Curr...
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PM School’s agriculture programme attracts regional attention

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua - The formula being used to establish the thriving agriculture programme at the Princess Margaret Secondary School (PMS), is to be used as a module for other schools across the region. That’s the word from head of the school’s Agricultural Science Department Cra...
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OECS leaders deplore US decision to keep Cuba on terror list

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) is expressing “great concern” at the decision of the United States to continue placing Cuba on a list of “State Sponsors of Terrorism”. The leaders of Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Gre...
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Guest Opinion: America can help fix the world by fixing itself

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua - Five years into the global financial crisis, the US and global economies remain mired in a weak-growth, low-inflation, high-unemployment environment. Debt busts such as 2008-09 are hard to exit from, and recoveries are long and painful. However, three complicating factors...
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