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Gaston Browne Gambled with St. Mary’s South Constituency and Lost
Wayne Mariette Photo Get the news delivered directly to your phone. Click here to Join our WhatsApp Group DEAR EDITOR: In a shocking display of arrogance and disregard for the democratic process, Prime Minister Gaston Browne of the governing Antigua Barbuda Labour Party made a bold and ill-advised gamble by replacing Samantha Marshall, the chosen…
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Audley Phillip | Bribery In Voting – Can We Ever Solve it? Election Fraud is A Serious Problem!
Get the news delivered directly to your phone. Click here to Join our WhatsApp Group As we head into the much anticipated by election in St. Mary’s South, there has been much talk about political inducement or bribes and the role it is playing in this all important seat for both the ABLP and the UPP.…
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Sir Ronald Sanders | UN action needed urgently to end Israel-Hamas violence
The attack by Hamas on civilians in Southern Israel on 7 October 2023 was as stupid as it was cruel, brutal and inhuman. Get the news delivered directly to your phone. Click here to Join our WhatsApp Group Whatever the purposes – and there were many – behind a slaughter of 1,200 persons, including children…
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Ramesh Lutchmedial | Caribbean Airlines Expands Fleet, Antigua Protests Intra-Regional Moves
(Trinidad Newsday) — In delivering TT’s 2023/2024 national budget, Finance Minister Colm Imbert announced that the Caribbean region has been exhibiting strong air transport demand. According to Imbert, to meet this growing demand, Caribbean Airlines Ltd (CAL) intends to expand its fleet through the lease of additional ATR-72, B 737- MAX 8 and Embraer E-175…
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Arvel Grant | CAL Alone or CAL and LIAT? Fair Competition or Fearsome Fighting
Get the news delivered directly to your phone. Click here to Join our WhatsApp Group Last week, I read (with some delight) that the IMF is signaling support for a resurgent LIAT. That could then signal possible interest by the World Bank and network of regional institutions, including the Caribbean Development Bank. A few…
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Keeping Cattle on Public Land Is Bad for People, Cows, Wildlife, and the Planet
By Erika Schelby When conservationist Aldo Leopold persuaded the U.S. Forest Service in 1924 to establish the nation’s first federally approved wilderness of more than 500,000 acres around the headwaters of the Gila River in southwestern New Mexico, he did not anticipate that this priceless pristine land would be invaded by cattle. This problem would…
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Dr. Oswald Thomas | Mental Health and Suicide
The global community is focusing on mental health awareness and suicide prevention this month. Most unfortunately, Antigua and Barbuda have seen a rise in suicide and suicidal attempts over the years, and police involvement with the mentally ill has not always ended well. Taken together, these factors suggest that lawmakers need to change our laws…
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Do Caribbean countries need a new social contract?
Recent findings by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) ring alarm bells for the global community: democratic governance is under threat, with an increasing number of people subjected to authoritarian regimes that bluntly infringe on human rights and freedoms. CLICK HERE TO JOIN OUR WHATSAPP GROUP FOR NEWS UPDATES. While authoritarian regimes…
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The Caribbean should ban lethal autonomous weapons
By Sir Ronald Sanders Autonomous weapons pose a clear and present danger to the Caribbean. Action to ban them should be seriously considered now. CLICK HERE TO JOIN OUR WHATSAPP GROUP FOR NEWS UPDATES. This is one of four recommendation that I made in an address to a conference on September 5, organised by the Caribbean…
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MAKEDA MIKAEL | Liat’s Two Companies, North & South
Once in LIAT’s lifetime it operated efficient two companies in the black! One in the South and one in the North, Four Island Air & Inter-island Air, and their fleet consisted of Britton Norman islanders and de Havilland Twin Otters CLICK HERE TO JOIN OUR WHATSAPP GROUP FOR NEWS UPDATES. These aircraft kept the Northern…
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Haiti: a peaceful multinational approach, not a warlike force
Аdvеrtіѕе wіth thе most visited news site in Antigua and Barbuda ~ Wе оffеr fullу сuѕtоmіzаblе аnd flехіblе dіgіtаl mаrkеtіng расkаgеѕ. Yоur соntеnt іѕ dеlіvеrеd іnѕtаntlу tо thоuѕаndѕ оf uѕеrѕ іn Antigua аnd аbrоаd via our One Signal push notifications! Соntасt uѕ аt [email protected]. ——————————————————————— By Sir Ronald Sanders Haiti needs “to get its political…