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UK authorises Merck antiviral pill, first shown to treat COVID

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Britain has granted a conditional authorisation to Merck’s coronavirus antiviral, the first pill shown to successfully treat COVID-19. It is the first country to...

3 new cases of COVID-19

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(Dashboard Update for November 4, 2021) The most recent report received by the Ministry of Health, Wellness and the Environment revealed three (3) new laboratory...

FAO and IICA keeps buzzing with training of beekeepers in Antigua

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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) is creating more buzz with...

LETTER: Is Transport Board going from bad to worse?

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To whomever it may concern,     I would like to express my disappointment, in the Antigua and Barbuda Transport Board, and it management team of the...

LETTER: Fed Up of The Situation At Social Security Board

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Dear Editor,   I am hungry, anxious, and heavily depressed in the current state of finances I am in currently. I have not gotten a pension...

AOSIS Ministers finalize COP26 Decisions

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As climate-vulnerable countries continue to push for meaningful outcomes from the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) taking place in Glasgow, Scotland, representatives of the...

Couple loses everything in fire weeks before wedding day

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A couple might have to re-think their wedding plans after a fire destroyed their home in Seaview Farm.   Nadira Singh said she and her fiancé...

ECCB Governor says vaccination is a key tool to help bring the COVID-19...

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Governor of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB), Timothy N.J. Antoine, says he believes vaccination is a key tool in the global arsenal against...

LETTER: Our Courts are broken and Justice denied

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Many of us have heard Government's Chief of Staff in recent times practically bragging taking Government matters to Court will not be heard for...

U.S delivers 23,400 doses of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to Antigua and Barbuda

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The Ministry of Health, Wellness and the Environment received a shipment of Pfizer vaccines from the United States Government on Wednesday. "The United States is...

Ministry distributing face masks to schools

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Ten additional schools became beneficiaries of the government's Masks for Schools Initiative.   After Monday's event which saw seven of the country's educational institutions receiving boxes...

OECS Congratulates the Commonwealth of Dominica on 43rd Anniversary of Independence

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The Commission of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) extends to the Government and people of the Commonwealth of Dominica warm congratulations on...

AUA says incident did not take place on campus

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Dear Editor:   It has been brought to our attention that a news article was published by the Antigua News Room on its website www.antiguanewsroom.com on...