Police question bar owner over suspicious activities allegedly taking place at the business establishment

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POLICE QUESTION BAR OWNER

Police are questioning a bar owner in connection with certain suspicious activities allegedly taking place at the business establishment.

Around 5 pm on Sunday, December 1, Police and Immigration Officers searched a property at St. Georges Street and found 17 fowls, along with other items and paraphernalia, suspected to be used for cockfighting.

A total of 52 people, including 5 females, 42 males, and 5 juveniles, between ages 10 and 16 were taken into custody.

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The bar owner and four others remain in police custody, while three persons were detained by immigration.

The remaining persons were released pending further investigations, including the juveniles who were released in the care of their parents.
Cockfighting is a blood sport involving the use of domestic fowl, which is illegal in Antigua and Barbuda.

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Anyone involved in such activity is committing an offence under the Protection of Animals Act, Cap 349 of the Laws of Antigua and Barbuda.

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Members of the public are warned to desist from these illegal practices and to report such inhumane behaviour to the police without delay.

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16 COMMENTS

  2. How about dog fighting? Is that not a blood sport? It’s been going on for decades and the Police know who’s involved and where fighting occurs. They have turned a blind eye to it for a long, long time. Some say the Police themselves are involved as there is a lot of money being made. It’s disgusting!

  4. COCKFIGHTING AT BAR…! …WHAT THE HELL…?

    Interesting bit of news-‘…COCKFIGHTING AT BAR!’

    Really – 17-FOWLS, with ‘…52 SPECTATORS!’

    They may have been really ‘…BOOZED.’

    QUESTION:

    Just ‘…What they may have been fighting for- ‘…BLOODY MARY: or …WHISKEY?’

    NOW:

    If the ‘…COCKS’ were inappropriately dressed, and ‘…Fighting,’ in a ‘…PUBLIC PLACE,’ then they might be properly Charged with:

    (i) ‘…DISORDERLY CONDUCT BY FIGHTING: and

    (ii) …INDECENT EXPOSURE.’

  5. Ahh come on. Maybe they were have a chicken party and those aspirin for when they get head ache from eating the chicken, also any substance must have been the seasoning for the chicken. 🤣🤣

  6. So the police go on Popeshead street and the only illegal activity they can find is cockfighting? What a joke. This like when George bush went into Iraq and all they found were horse-drawn rocket launchers.

  7. A very big kudos to the police.
    Please continue to do this. Happy to know that it’s against the law.
    Any kind of animal abuse is despicable. Bravo 👏👏👏👏👏👏

  8. Big gambling business in the Santo Dominican community.
    Prostitution is a blood clath sport too and it’s illegal in Antigua. So why punish the COCK and not the PUSSY that sells for the cock?

  9. Antigua not too civilized to still be getting into these barbaric treatments of animals? If this is how they treat animals, no wonder they treat the people like such shit

  10. It’s sad to think that animals are being exploited in such a cruel way Hopefully, authorities will take strong action to prevent any further harm to these poor creatures

  11. Cock fighting is not an antiguan sport of entertainment, this is more of an spanish entertainment and gambling event in their culture. And antigua is much more civilized than alot of these serounding countries..

  12. Wow, I can’t believe they found that many people involved in cockfighting. It’s really concerning that activities like this are still happening, especially when they’re illegal and harmful to animals. I wonder how the bar owner is involved in all of this and what will happen next. It’s good to see that the authorities are taking action, but it’s frustrating to think about how often these things go unnoticed. Hopefully, the community steps up and reports any suspicious activities to prevent it from happening again.

  13. Dear “Joke town Antigua”, chief clown, you don’t need a slap. We are kinder than that especially to the refugees like yourself who have taken up residence here. All you need is an immediate deportation order. We need to purge our much loved, small-island country of ” human” pollutants that we allow to settle here. Get out!
    As for Senora Alexandria where is your commonsense?. A cockfighting ring has been exposed. The authorities quickly jump into action, bringing an end to this illegal, foreign activity. Yet the first thing to come out of your refugee mouth is a nonsensical attack on Antiguans criticizing us and as being “not too civilized” for cracking down on this uncivilized activity!!
    Come on, Mr. PM, time to follow the Trump lead. We need to put a cap on immigration from certain places. Just listen to their intellectual sparseness. In a very short time, they will dumb down the entire intellectual capacity of real Antiguans and become the mouthpiece of all of Antigua🥺 Get them to hell out before it is too late! Antigua has indeed changed, but not for the reasons you think!
    I’m sooo fed-up.

  14. Dear Faithful National I’m from Antigua and it’s still Joke Town Antigua to me. Your such an idiot and I’ve proven my point that Antiguan people are really DONKEY BUTTS and your the main one.

  16. I know of POLICEMEN involving in DOG FIGHTING. So Police, you are just pick and choosing…may be because it’s a Spanish sport…? hmmmm…Discrim…erm

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