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APUA prefers clean energy plants over solar and wind until the cost of batteries...

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Cabinet Notes: Ten experts, including three managers from APUA, three Officials from the Ministry of the Environment, two officials from the Ministry of Energy,...

PM concerned over ‘high risk’ classification

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Pointe Xpress: Prime Minister Gaston Browne says he is concerned about a recent Barbados travel advisory which has classified Antigua and Barbuda as a...

Tourism sector feeling effects of COVID’s 2nd wave

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Pointe Express: The resurgence of the COVID-19 virus in the major tourism source markets for Antigua and Barbuda is already being felt in the...

9 active cases of COVID-19 in Antigua

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The most recent report received by the Ministry of Health, Wellness and the Environment from the Mount St. John’s Medical Center (MSJMC) has revealed...

Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves, 74, has secured an unprecedented five consecutive terms in office

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IWNSVG: The incumbent Unity Labour Party (ULP) was returned to office in Thursday’s general elections with a one-seat increase in its margin of victory,...

BA suspends all flights to Antigua from Nov. 13 to Dec. 10

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IMPORTANT UPDATE: British Airways is suspending commercial flights from London Gatwick to Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Grenada and St Lucia, following the UK...

Professor Sir Hilary Beckles addresses urgent call for economic development through reparatory justice at...

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Vice-Chancellor of The University of the West Indies (The UWI), Professor Sir Hilary Beckles addressed the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Tuesday, November...

COMMENTARY: Democracy not autocracy must prevail

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (The writer is Antigua and Barbuda’s Ambassador to the United States and the Organization of American States.   He is also a Senior...

Minister denies rape allegation. PM maintains he will have to resign if charged

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Antigua News Room- Prime Minister Gaston Browne has disclosed that his Cabinet colleague who has recently been accused of rape has proclaimed his innocence. According...

British Airways suspends all flights from Gatwick and will furlough ‘many more’ staff as...

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British Airways will suspend all flights from Gatwick airport and furlough ‘many more’ staff as the new COVID lockdown bites. In a letter to staff...

Group wants Antigua to consider money transfers that would include Bitcoin

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Cabinet Notes: Ambassador Johanne Hesse invited three local businessmen and three money-transfer agents to hold a virtual zoom meeting with the Cabinet of Antigua and...

Michael Browne’s case against ‘Serpent’ adjourned for fifth time

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By Ace Vidal Antigua News Room-It has been more than a year since Media Personality Algernon 'Serpent' Watts was slapped with four charges after an...

UK Travel Ban could be bad news for Antigua and Barbuda’s Tourism

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INDEPENDENT UK – November is normally the ideal month to plan an escape from England. As autumn turns to winter and the skies darken, the...