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Hurst Reports on Cabinet of Wednesday January 20 2021
HURST REPORTS ON CABINET of Wednesday, January 20, 2021
The Cabinet of Antigua and Barbuda met both face-to-face and virtually, three members deciding to use...
Social Security introduces new pension payments plan
The Antigua and Barbuda Social Security Board (ABSSB) has announced the introduction of a new pension payment arrangement as it adopts measures to cope...
Biden returns US to Paris climate accord hours after becoming president
President Joe Biden signed an executive order to rejoin the U.S. into the Paris climate agreement on Wednesday, his first major action to tackle global warming...
Gaston Browne, as Chair of AOSIS, sends early message on climate change to US...
In an early communication immediately after Joseph Biden was sworn in as President of the United States of America, Antigua and Barbuda’s Prime Minister,...
Joe Biden is sworn in as the 46th president of the United States, Harris...
President-elect Joe Biden was sworn-in as the 46th president of the United States Wednesday shortly before noon, amid a devastating global pandemic and the threat of possible domestic terrorism.
In...
Man steals TV from Halcyon Hotel as payback
A John Hughes man has been fined $1599, the cost a 32" flat screen television he nabbed from the Halcyon Cove Hotel.
Thirty-year-old Ronald Silencieux...
Businesswoman and several others fined for breaching curfew
Several people were convicted in the St. Johns Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday for breaching Covid-19 protocols.
Ingrid Jennings of Kentish Road, the owner of Chippies...
Smith sentenced to 18 months in prison for receiving stolen items, breaching curfew
Joshua Smith of Green Bay was sentenced to 18 months at Her Majesty’s Prison, after pleading guilty to a charge of receiving stolen items,...
Sexual offences against minors dominate day one of criminal assizes
SOURCE: Daily Observer — The first person likely to be tried next month during the January Criminal Assizes in the High Court, is a senior...
Man scammed in ‘land deal’ still waiting for his 60K
A man who was a victim of fraud many years ago, is yet to receive justice for the crime committed against him.
Kevin Simon claims...
Biden to propose 8-year citizenship path for immigrants
President-elect Joe Biden plans to unveil a sweeping immigration bill on Day One of his administration, hoping to provide an eight-year path to citizenship...
‘Walsh likely caught virus in Caribbean’
Dr Akshai Mansingh, a member of Cricket West Indies’ medical advisory committee, believes leg-spinning all-rounder, Hayden Walsh Jr, contracted COVID-19 before he left the...
LIAT ex-workers again plead with Govt for help
SOURCE: Barbados TODAY — Former LIAT employees in Barbados and the rest of the region have again cried out for financial help for them and...