Antigua and Barbuda News

After Foreign Minister Hctor Timerman lodged Argentine protests over British military deployment in the South Atlantic to the United Nations Security Council, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged Argentina and Britain to "avoid an escalation" in the dispute over the Malvinas islands after expressing "concern" over the "increasingly fierce verbal ... (more)

National consultations were held in Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Montserrat, Saint Lucia, St Kitts and Nevis, St Vincent and the Grenadines and Suriname in the context of the Caribbean Regional Aid for Trade Strategy.

The national and regional interests of Commonwealth Caribbean countries would hardly be served by backing Argentina in its long-running dispute with Britain over the Falkland Islands.

Development economist, Professor Norman Girvan, has urged the Caribbean Community to sit up and pay attention as the Hugo Chavez-led Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America continues to make rapid advances.

Reacting to entrepreneurs' complaints that the influx of Chinese businesses was posing a threat to their survival, St Lucia's foreign minister Alva Baptiste said on Monday that his government would help local entrepreneurs become more competitive rather than give them protection.

Vernon Jeffers has been appointed General Manager at Jolly Beach Resort in Bolans Village, Antigua and Barbuda.

An eight-nation bloc of Latin American and Caribbean countries agreed on Sunday to deposit 1 percent of their international reserves into a jointly administered development bank as they seek to deepen economic cooperation.Officials announced the decision as Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez hosted leaders of the Bolivarian Alliance bloc, or ALBA, at ... (more)

The progressive Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas backed Argentina on Saturday in its long-running dispute with Britain over the Falkland Islands.

Deborah Mae Lovell , the Ambassador of Antigua and Barbuda to the United States visited Lehigh University on Tuesday to finalize plans and conduct an information session for the Lehigh-sponsored SummerSERVE trip to Antigua this summer.

Job and route cuts are on the horizon as LIAT charts a course to keep its planes in the sky and return to profitability.

The former boss of the Royal Bank of Scotland, Fred Goodwin, is to be stripped of his knighthood, the British government said Tuesday, amid wide anger in Britain over bankers' bonuses.

Today is D-DAY for Prime Ministers Freundel Stuart, Dr Ralph Gonsalves and Baldwin Spencer, meeting at Hilton Barbados to chart the way forward for financially-troubled LIAT Limited.

Gibraltar's Chief Minister Fabian Picardo has met with the UK Minister for Tourism & Heritage, John Penrose, to question the rationale behind the UK government's plans to introduce a licensing regime for remote gaming operators, contained in the Remote Gaming Bill which may soon be tabled before the UK's parliament.

From Caribarena Antigua, about the conservative Republican : "The Antigua & Barbuda government has secured the services of a lobbyist who will be its voice and ears in the corridors of power in Washington DC, the US capital, when matters of interest to the country are being discussed.

Jonathan Rohr, the accomplished triathlete and American University of Antigua medical student who died suddenly last November, will be commemorated this weekend by the Digicel-Jonathan Rohr Memorial Tinman International Triathlon.

Caribbean leaders are meeting with the United Kingdom in Grenada to discuss trade and issues of mutual interest at the Seventh Meeting of the United Kingdom Caribbean Forum.

A study has found that an Eastern Caribbean fiscal insurance mechanism could provide shock-mitigation benefits for countries of the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union .

New Delhi: Tightening the noose around pesky SMS senders further, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India Friday issued a directive to telecom companies to block international SMSes as per the rules applicable to SMSes originating within the country.

In the mid 80s, the Japanese described New Zealand's nuclear-free policy as the " New Zealand disease " which had to be prevented from spreading throughout the South Pacific.

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