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Governor General Sir Rodney Williams prorogues parliament
Prime Minister Gaston Browne has advised Governor General Sir Rodney Williams to prorogue Parliament as of Friday, December 16. The proclamation from the Governor General is expected to follow shortly. Proroguing Parliament refers to the act of discontinuing a session without dissolving it. There is heightened speculation the announcement of the date of the election…
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Travel within the Caribbean in crisis
By Sir Ronald Sanders (The writer is Antigua and Barbuda’s Ambassador to the United States of America and the Organization of American States. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London and Massey College in the University of Toronto) The closure of LIAT in 2020, without establishing…
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PM Browne set to fly the gate on Monday
Prime Minister Gaston Browne is set to announce the date for general elections on Monday, highly placed sources have confirmed. It is expected that the elections will be held early in January. Meanwhile, Information Minister Melford Nicholas had this to say as he responded to a question Thursday morning on whether the announcement could come…
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Twitter suspends journalists who reported on Elon Musk
Twitter on Thursday suspended the accounts of journalists who cover the social media platform and its new owner Elon Musk, including reporters working for The New York Times, Washington Post, CNN and other publications. The company hasn’t explained to the journalists why it took down the accounts and made their profiles and past tweets disappear.…
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Liberta men arrested on suspicion of drug-related offenses, while sympathetic magistrate lets off Clare Hall man lightly
Two men appear to have been operating a drug-distribution enterprise from their house, after a search warrant executed by the police revealed drugs and related apparatus. According to reports, officers went on duty in Liberta on December 12, at about 5 a.m. They executed a search warrant on the premises of a 26-year-old Table Hill…
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Disgusted Rural East resident pulls Maria Browne’s file; Gives her performance as minister and representative a failing grade
A “disgusted [St. John’s] Rural East voter” is calling on MP Maria Bird-Browne to fix the plethora of issues affecting the constituency, while taking umbrage at statements made by the representative’s husband, Prime Minister Gaston Browne. Browne declared recently that his wife deserves more credit than she has received from the Antiguan public. He said…