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LISTEN: Choksi releases statement after return to Antigua
After 51 days of custody in neighbouring Dominica for illegal entry, which Mehul Choksi’s lawyers claim was a kidnapping plan, the fugitive diamantaire has...
Antigua Cruise Port Welcomes First Passenger Vessel Since Pandemic Pause
— Let the sailing begin! Antigua Cruise Port welcomed the Star Breeze, its first passenger cruise ship since March 14, 2020, to the country...
Here’s how The UWI plans to address its financial sustainability
On Wednesday, July 14, Vice-Chancellor of The University of the West Indies (The UWI) Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, leading the University’s Executive Management Team...
Cuba could help US normalize relations
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...
VIDEO: Chinese community in Antigua vaccinated with their home-made vaccine
Embassy of China in Antigua:
Thank you for the chinese vaccine's arrival in A&B and wish our motherland more stronger.
Vaccination of China-made vaccines for local...
One new COVID-19 case, one new recovery
(Dashboard Update for July 15, 2021)
The most recent report received by the Ministry of Health, Wellness and the Environment from the Sir Lester Bird...
CARICOM Climate Change Negotiators Conclude Their First COP26 Preparatory Meeting
(City of Belmopan, Belize) Following three days of discussions, CARICOM Climate Negotiators closed their meeting on Wednesday with presentations to Ministers with responsibility for...
VIDEO: Car found dangerously close to the edge of Devil’s Bridge
https://youtu.be/7M18QC8go6c
Farmer Browne venturing into manufacturing. Sweet potato fries coming
Farmer Browne: Reaping the first two of over thirty banks of orange potatoes.
First reap goes to constituency feeding program. Balance to make sweet potato fries.
Farmer...
No WHO approval but Sputnik V to be used in Antigua and Barbuda
https://youtu.be/i0tR16iWy3Q
The government promised at the start of the year that only WHO vaccines would be used on the local population.
https://antiguanewsroom.com/antigua-barbuda-will-use-only-vaccines-approved-by-who-paho/
Fully vaccinated returning nationals and residents must still use airport taxi to get home
Fully vaccinated residents and citizens returning home will have to utilise an airport taxi.
Information Minister Melford Nicholas says the protocols governing this has not...
BREAKING: Rapid testing at the airport ends Friday after only days of operation
IMPORTANT NOTICE:
15th July, 2021
The Antigua and Barbuda Airport Authority wishes to advise that it will be discontinuing the operation of its Rapid Antigen Testing...
Lawyer rubbishes suggestions that Choksi is faking illness
Mehul Choksi’s lawyer Justin Simon QC denied suggestions that his client was feigning sickness to delay court proceedings.
Simon called the suggestions “nonsense” and said...