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All public schools will remain closed on November 6, the Ministry of Education has announced.<\/p>

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It said in a memo to school administrators that the decision was taken in light of the referendum on that day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many public school will be used as polling stations as the nation votes in its first ever referndum.<\/p>

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The vote is to determine whether Antigua and Barbuda remains with the London-based Privy Council of switches to the Caribbean Court of Justice as its final court of appeal.<\/p>

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