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Canada cancels all flights to the Caribbean
Canada’s main airlines have agreed to cancel service to the Caribbean and Mexico and the federal government is introducing new mandatory quarantine rules as they...
Three new cases of COVID-19
(Dashboard Update for January 29, 2021)
The most recent report received by the Ministry of Health, Wellness and the Environment from the Mount St. John’s...
LETTER: CMU students call for meeting with Prime Minister Gaston Browne
Dear Editor,
This is an appeal for the Prime Minister and the respective authorities to hear the pleas of Antiguan students studying at the Caribbean...
Jayelle Jarvis fined $10,000 for leaving quarantine to attend party
A returning national, who lives in the United States, was fined $10,000 for breaching quarantine restrictions.
Jayelle Jarvis admitted to the offence before Chief Magistrate...
Government to petition developed countries in its quest to source COVID-19 Vaccines
Prime Minister the Hon. Gaston Browne on Thursday announced that his government will be appealing to a number of European and North American countries...
Team Antigua Pairs finish TWAC2020
Team Antigua Pairs – Atlantic Rowers has completed the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge, The World’s Toughest Row!
The team of Travis Weste and Joseph ‘JoJo’...
BUDGET 2021: Full presentation by Prime Minister Gaston Browne
2021 BUDGET STATEMENT
By the Honourable Gaston Browne
Prime Minister and Minister for Finance, Corporate Governance and Public Private Partnerships
To the House of Representatives of Antigua...
Advancing manufacturing while supporting the Private Sector Expansion- Budget 2021
Prime Minister Browne reaffirms his government’s commitment to lend support to the manufacturing sector.
“While size and production costs prevent this sector from being a...
“Agriculture stands as a bright light in the darkness”- PM Browne
During the 2021 Budget Statement Presentation, Prime Minister, The Hon. Gaston Browne commended the growth and development of the agricultural sector during 2020.
“A bright...
Regional governments urged to help pay severance to former LIAT employees
Regional heads of government have been asked to help cover the cost of severance entitlements of over EC$70-million to former employees of regional carrier,...
Actress Cicely Tyson Dies
Cicely Tyson, the pioneering Black actor who gained an Oscar nomination for her role as the sharecropper’s wife in “Sounder,” a Tony Award in...
Nine COVID-19 patients hospitalized, two critical
Dr. Rhonda Sealey-Thomas, the Chief Medical Officer (CMO), said on Wednesday that doctors were monitoring eight laboratory confirmed cases of COVID-19 at the Infectious...
Javid Browne has to pay $700 for punching man in the face
Twenty-three-year-old Javid Browne has to pay $700 compensation for punching another man in his mouth.
Magistrate Ngaio Emanuel-Edwards handed down the sentence after Browne pleaded...