Antigua and Barbuda News

Brunei has established diplomatic relations with Caribbean island nation Antigua and Barbuda following the signing of a joint communique in New York yesterday.

St Kitts and Nevis continues to chalk up an impressive report card for press freedom.

By Sir Ronald Sanders Unless there is an environment in all Caribbean Community and Common Market countries to help make businesses fully productive, they will not jump start their economies that now wallow in economic stagnation.

There are more signs that the local business sector continues to have confidence in the St.

The Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court has dismissed the appeal of more than a dozen police officers who claimed they were sent on forced vacation by the Antigua and Barbuda authorities in 2006.

Raul Castro on Sunday declared the global climate summit in Copenhagen a failure from the start and urged leftist Latin American leaders to devise their own plan on how to cope with climate change.

Your message of change will ignite hope and action in people of many countries who might still be passive in the face of inadequacies and injustice." Baldwin Spencer, prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda, in a letter to Barack Obama, Nov.

Chamber of Commerce meeting ST JOHN'S, Antigua -- A senior member of the Antigua and Barbuda Chamber of Commerce has said that the Baldwin Spencer administration's Divestment Programme could encourage Antiguans and Barbudans to invest locally.

Windward Islands Airways has responded to what it describes as "serious, malicious, damaging and deliberately orchestrated rumours geared at discrediting the airline." The airline, through its managing director, Edwin Hodge, said that the public should be aware of false rumours, which have been stating that the airline will be pulling out of ...

Opposition Leader Lester Bird has chided a group of United States senators who are moving to block Antigua and Barbuda from getting financial assistance from the International Monetary Fund , according to a report on www.cananews.net. "I don't agree with them; you might think that I might want to jump on the boat, but out of order, totally out of ...

Dear Judge Blenman: All eyes in Antigua and Barbuda are on you and also the praise of the people are with you because they are looking for justice.

AMSTERDAM a ' The Dutch navy captured 13 Somali pirates and seized a haul of weapons off the coast of Oman after the pirates attacked a merchant ship, the Defense Department reported Thursday.

Some of the region's leading intellectuals have been showering praises on the late Antigua and Barbuda premier, Sir Vere Cornwall Bird, as activities continue to mark the centenary of the national hero.

By Nasheta Richards ST JOHN'S, Antigua -- A broad range of Policy makers from across the region will gather in Antigua next week, for a Regional Poverty and Social Impact Analysis consultative meeting.

In this photo released by the Royal Dutch Navy on Thursday Dec. 3, 2009, weapons are seen aboard a dhow after the Dutch Navy from the Hr.

Eight U.S. senators want Congress to oppose International Money Fund and World Bank loans to the government of Antigua and Barbuda until that government compensates victims of Stanford Financial Group.

With several businesses reeling from the effects of this still-ongoing circumstance, business associates and financial supporters of even acclaimed and fairly entrenched events have had to trim their budgets, and the events in turn have felt the body blow delivered as a result.

Antigua-Barbuda delegation in Brussels ST JOHN'S, Antigua -- Antigua and Barbuda is set to receive further technical and financial assistance from the European Union following high level talks in Brussels by a team from St John's. Making the disclosure, National Authorizing Officer for the European Development Fund, Ambassador Clarence Henry, just ...

A ship on its way from the UK to Spain has been detained after being flooded with over 180 tonnes of water.

TRINIDAD and Tobago's economy is expected to grow next year by two percent. This was the projection given by the International Monetary Fund in its World Economic Outlook for October.