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Antigua’s Carifta medal haul continues as Craig Pendergast wins bronze
Antiguan Craig Pendergast secured a bronze medal in the Boys Under 20 400m Hurdles Pendergast who attends the Calabar High School in Jamaica ran a time of 55.08 at the National Stadium The host country’s Roshawn Clarke took home the gold convincingly, clocking 50.68, with Bahamian Shamiar Bain second in 52.83 TO RECEIVE NEWS NOTIFICATIONS…
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Stubbs-Green wins another Carifta medal for Antigua and Barbuda
Antigua and Barbuda’s Ethan Stubbs-Green swam his way to a second medal in just two days at the Carifta Swimming Championships being held in Barbados. Competing in the Boys’ 13-14 category, Stubbs-Green registered a time 2:01.95 to claim bronze in the 200 meter freestyle event earlier today. He finished behind St. Lucia’s Tristan Dorville (2:01.47)…
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ICE moves to protect non-citizen Caribbean immigrants with serious mental health disorders
The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has announced new policies to strengthen protections for detained non-citizen Caribbean and other immigrants with serious mental disorders or conditions. The new guidance, which is addressed in ‘ICE Directive 11063.2 Identification, Communication, Recordkeeping, and Safe Release Planning for Detained Individuals with Serious Mental Disorders or Conditions,’ focuses…
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Pregnant Rihanna dines out with A$AP Rocky in Barbados on Sunday after friends dismissed split claims
Rihanna’s growing baby bump was back on full display as she dined out with boyfriend A$AP Rocky on Sunday evening after friends of the couple denied they had separated. The singer, 34, drew attention to herself by embracing the current trend for cut-out panel dresses during a late night appearance in her native Barbados. Rihanna’s…
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PM says his swift recover from COVID is clear indication ‘the vaccines work’
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Showering daily — is it necessary in this water-scarce country?
By Robert H. Shmerling, MD, Senior Faculty Editor, Harvard Health Publishing Do you shower or bathe daily? If you do, you’re not alone. Approximately two-thirds of Americans shower daily. In Australia it’s over 80%. But in China, about half of people report bathing only twice a week. In the US, the daily shower tends to…
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From Barbuda to the World: Love (and Peace and Happiness) in the Time of Climate Emergency
César Rodríguez-Garavito is the Editor-in-Chief of OpenGlobalRights. He is Professor of Clinical Law and Chair of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at New York University School of Law. “The future is already here. It’s just not evenly distributed yet,” the sci-fi writer William Gibson has famously said. For a peek into the…
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The water tanks that Baldwin Spencer and the UPP built at Buckleys, Patterson
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Recent hotel robbery being kept hush-hush, leading Wehner to conclude that crime is being deliberately underreported
Reports of a robbery at a hotel on the eastern section of the island have surfaced, but the matter has not been made public by the Police, to date. The official silence follows another incident at the Antigua and Barbuda Port Authority, where four barrels were stolen from a locked container two weekends ago. In…
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Timothy Harris’ government on brink of collapse
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Antigua and Barbuda wins gold at Carifta Swimming Championships in Barbados
Antigua and Barbuda won a first gold medal at the Carifta Swimming Championships being held in Barbados as Ethan Stubbs-Green registered a time of 58.22 seconds to claim the 100 butterfly in the boys’ 13-14 age category. He finished ahead of Tristan Dorville (58.45) of St. Lucia and Jamaica’s Brady Macpherson Lewison (59.24). There was…