WHO sees COVID posing similar threat to flu this year
The COVID-19 pandemic could settle down this year to a point where it poses a threat similar to flu, the World Health Organization said Friday. The WHO voiced confidence that…
Koffee ‘is okay’ Minister Grange assures
( Jamaica Gleaner ) Grammy-winning reggae artiste Koffee “is okay” Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Olivia Grange confirmed to The Gleaner Thursday evening. Reports surfaced Thursday afternoon that the Toast singer had…
Barbados-based Ex-LIAT workers to get $75K in cash
(Nation News) — The Government of Barbados will be honouring its commitment to about 89 former LIAT workers, paying almost $10 million in cash and bonds in severance. While wrapping…
MP Bowen says speedy legislative moves to sell off Russian yacht prove that Browne regime is cash-strapped
(REAL News) — Further to their walk-out from the Lower House on Thursday, March 16, St. Phillip South MP Sherfield Bowen says the United Progressive Party parliamentarians cannot support the…
Antigua and Barbuda in talks with airlines to increase European airlift
The Antigua and Barbuda Tourism Authority is upping its presence in Germany in a drive to reinstate airlift and increase tourism arrivals from the European market. CEO of the Antigua…
Increased airlift for summer travel Between Barbados and The Region
Barbados’ tourism players are being urged to take advantage of increased airlift from across the region this summer. Prime Minister Mia Mottley announced in her four-hour Budget delivered in the…
Opposition MP’s walk out of Parliament
REAL NEWS:NMP Jamale Pringle led a walk-out of his United Progressive Party colleagues from the Lower House of Parliament, this morning, protesting the disregard and disrespect meted out by the…
Can political parties agree a social contract for national progress?
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 Fellow at the Institute of…
Water Woes Challenge Faced by the State
While the challenge of production and delivery of potable water continues to test the mettle of the Minister of Public Utilities, he has persuaded the Cabinet of Antigua and Barbuda…
Waiver of work permits
The Cabinet received the report of a Committee organized to recommend the manner in which waiver of work permits for CARICOM and Dominican Republic Nationals are to be structured. An amendment to…
