Antigua and Barbuda News

A Jamaican woman was recently severely reprimanded before being ordered deported when she appeared in the St John's Magistrates' Court.

The Caribbean's small island states ride out hurricanes year after year, but they are fighting to stay afloat in a global economic storm that is battering rich and poor nations alike.

THIS WEEK'S 30th Summit of the Caribbean Community in Georgetown could well determine whether the region's economic integration movement goes forward with its strategy for a single economic space, or flounder on a sea of troubles for which the political directorate cannot escape blame.

The following countries will send representatives on a tour conducted by U.S. Sen.

A delegation of the Communist Party of China left Beijing on Saturday for good-will visits to Chile, Brazil, Peru, and Antigua and Barbuda.

Eds: APNewsNow. By ANIKA KENTISH Associated Press Writer ST. JOHN'S, Antigua An Antiguan official says the island's former chief financial regulator has surrendered to face U.S. charges that he aided an alleged $7 billion swindle by Texas billionaire R. Allen Stanford.

Ecuador, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Antigua and Barbuda formally joined the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas on Wednesday, local media reported.

Ecuador, St. Vincent & the Grenadines and Antigua & Barbuda join Bolivarian Alternative for Our America CARACAS, June 21.a ' Ecuador, St.

Another Antigua and Barbuda flagged vessel was hijacked last Friday. The Maritime Administration of Antigua and Barbuda was advised that the Antigua and Barbuda flagged cargo vessel the MV Charelle had been hijacked by eight pirates 11 miles off the coast of Omani near Ras el Had, some 20 miles SE from Muscat.

Jamaica is the first member state in Caricom to benefit from three special microscopes donated by the Government of Spain to boost capacity to detect early signs of cervical cancer.

Visiting Antigua and Barbuda The warm trade winds that ushered Admiral Horatio Nelson to Antigua in 1784 now cast their spell over visitors to this Leeward Islands nation.

Antigua and Barbuda has suspended the financial regulator who was indicted on charges of collaborating in an alleged Ponzi scheme run by Texas billionaire Allen Stanford, the Caribbean nation's attorney general said on Friday.

Texas billionaire Allen Stanford will appear in federal court in Virginia Friday to answer allegations he orchestrated a massive fraud through his Antigua bank that bilked investors out of millions of dollars.

The United States has placed three Caribbean Community countries on its 'Tier 2 Watch List' and one on its 'Special Case' list in its ninth Annual Trafficking in Persons report.

Grantley Stephenson, managing director and chairman of Kingston Wharves Limited Twenty-five security professionals operating in the Caribbean maritime sector were last week trained and certified under the International Maritime Organisation's port facility security officers certification programme, a course offered by local security company, ...

Somali pirates have struck in Omani waters for the first time. The 2,800 gt Antigua and Barbuda flagged general cargo ship Charelle was hijacked Friday afternoon some 60 nautical miles south of Sur on the Omani coast and was headed for Somali waters under pirate control before NATO warships could intervene.

NATO officials say that pirates have seized an Antigua and Barbuda-flagged cargo ship off the coast of Oman in the first recorded attack in its territorial waters.

A cargo vessel from Antigua and Barbuda has been seized by pirates off the coast of Oman, the first such attack in the area, a NATO spokesman said on Friday.

Shondell Glasgow's face is battered and bruised almost beyond recognition and she could barely speak more than 24 hours after an ordeal which she said she hopes no other woman in Antigua and Barbuda would have to endure.

What's left over when a high-flying investment house goes bust? Step into the Tamarac warehouse of AMC Liquidators to find out.