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Lightning kills 2 aboard jetskis near southern Puerto Rico
Two people aboard jet skis were killed by lightning in waters along southern Puerto Rico, police said Monday. Authorities said lightning first struck a 36-year-old man driving a jet ski and then made contact with a 26-year-old woman who was a passenger on another nearby. The driver of that watercraft was not injured. Police said…
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Road fatality victim ID’d as Greta Barton, 85
Police have confirmed the identity of the country’s 8th road fatality. She is 85-year old Greta Barton better known as ‘Dolly’. Barton succumbed to injuries sustained at around 3:20AM Sunday when she was hit by a vehicle traveling from South to North on the Friar’s Hill Road. The late woman’s family had issued an alert…
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PM says woman runs unaccredited programme at Hope Centre to help non-nationals get more time in Antigua
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Antigua PM doubles down on taking T&T PM Keith Rowley to CCJ to recoup US$60M in CLICO matter
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Changes to traffic flow starting today
There will be traffic interventions affecting the flow of traffic on some project roads under the Government of Antigua and Barbuda Second Road Infrastructure Rehabilitation Project. The following points do not list any road closures for this week but these points provide a general outline of how traffic flow will be interrupted along some sections…
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UPP: Govt’s $1 gas reduction will not reduce hardship, amid stagnant wages and rising food costs
The ABLP Administration has failed to tackle the rising cost of living in a meaningful way. The unrelenting rise in the cost of goods and services, coupled with stagnant wages, has eaten into the wallets of citizens and residents in Antigua and Barbuda, leaving them with significantly reduced spending power. Inflation in the cost of…
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Liz Truss wins Tory leadership race to become Britain’s next PM
The Guardian: Liz Truss will become Britain’s next prime minister after beating Rishi Sunak in the bitterly fought Conservative leadership contest. The foreign secretary, who won 81,326 votes (57.4%) of Tory members to the former chancellor’s 60,399 (42.6%), takes over from Boris Johnson, who was ousted by his own MPs earlier this summer. But the euphoria…
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Serpent responds to backlash. ‘It goes way deeper than that’
Observer: Controversy surrounding on-air comments about a government minister has been called an “isolated issue.” That statement was made by United Progressive Party (UPP) candidate for St George, Algernon ‘Serpent’ Watts, who defended comments made towards St. Mary’s South MP, Samantha Marshall on August 29. Residents responded with heavy backlash, describing the comments as ‘crude’,…
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Friars Hill accident claims life of pedestrian, feared to be missing Yorks woman, 85
REAL News: A still-unnamed woman became the country’s latest road fatality after she was struck by a vehicle on the Friars Hill Road on Sunday morning, September 4. While walking on the road at about 3:20 a.m., reports say, the woman was struck by the vehicle, which was traveling from south to north. The Police…