{"id":116908,"date":"2020-09-15T08:21:40","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T12:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=116908"},"modified":"2020-09-15T08:21:40","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T12:21:40","slug":"islands-apart-why-does-barbuda-want-to-split-from-antigua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/islands-apart-why-does-barbuda-want-to-split-from-antigua\/","title":{"rendered":"Islands apart: Why does Barbuda want to split from Antigua?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One of the world\u2019s favorite holiday destinations, the twin-island country of Antigua and Barbuda<\/a>\u00a0may no longer be one nation if Barbudans have their way in an upcoming parliamentary resolution on Thursday, September 17.<\/p>

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Prime Minister Gaston Browne has already described the calls by the Barbuda Council, the local administration in the other half of the country, as \u201ctreasonous threats\u201d that will fail. Browne remains sure that although the clamor for separation has been ongoing since the 1980s, the country \u201cshall remain a sovereign unitary democratic state.\u201d<\/p>\n

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