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Mother reports 16-year-old son missing; boy ‘checked the time’ and left home three days ago
(REAL News) — The mother of a 16-year-old boy has reported him missing to the Police, even as the search continues for 18-year-old Kevin Millett of Grays Farm. The Bishopgate Street woman went to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) on March 29 and reported that she had not seen her son for about 24 hours.…
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Antigua and Barbuda at Seatrade Cruise Global
Seatrade Cruise Global, the premier cruise tradeshow, wrapped up its March 2023 edition bringing together more than ten thousand cruise industry attendees, eighty cruise lines, five hundred exhibitors, and representatives from over eighty five destinations attended the cruise industry’s leading business to business conference and tradeshow at the Greater Fort-Lauderdale Broward Convention Center for optimum…
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Antigua and Barbuda wants to tax homes valued at EC$3 million and more
CABINET NOTES: The Cabinet invited the Commissioner of the Inland Revenue Department (IRD) and three of his IRD colleagues to determine how best to impose the property tax to be imposed on homes valued at EC$3 million and more. The IRD Commissioner informed that the tax year commences in November each year; consequently, the expanded…
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West Indies Rising Stars Under 15s Championship to be played in Antigua April 4 to 12
Cricket West Indies (CWI) today announced the match schedule for the West Indies Rising Stars Under 15s Championship which will be played in Antigua from Tuesday 4 April to Wednesday 12 April. The tournament will feature the six regional teams who will each play five rounds of 50-over matches at three venues: Sir Vivian Richards…
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Young Senator ‘viciously attacked by a UPP supporter,’ Cabinet says
CABINET NOTES: Cabinet invited the youngest Senator now on the floor to appear before Cabinet in order to applaud him for his intervention in the Budget Debate. He was viciously attacked by a UPP supporter following his intervention. The Cabinet explained that the political institution which appointed him to the Senate had three separate generational…
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UN climate justice success should encourage small states to act together
By Sir Ronald Sanders Efforts by small states to seek justice for damage and existential threats to their countries, caused by the world’s major environmental polluters, moved a step further at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on March 29. By consensus, the UNGA adopted a resolution seeking an International Court of Justice (ICJ) advisory…
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Inmate does disappearing act and then reappears in his cell block after police officers fail to locate him outside
(REAL News) — Prison officials and the Police are investigating an incident in which an inmate escaped the confines of His Majesty’s Prison, but returned hours later as if nothing had happened. Reports say that, on Wednesday, March 29, at about 2:40 a.m., the Police acted on a tip and conducted a search for 31-year-old…
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4 girls and 1 boy detained by police following fight at CHSS
(State Media) — Five Clare Hall Secondary School students, four of them girls, were taken into police custody, following a fight at the school shortly after 11 on Friday morning. Police say a mop stick and a piece of 2×4-inch board were used in the fight. Law enforcers say the fight started inside the auditorium,…
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Teacher arrested for ‘raping male pupils’ as young as 10
A teacher has been arrested on suspicion of raping male students as young as ten and forcing them to have sex with each other as he watched in a shocking case that has rocked Brazil. Mateus Jose Mendes, 50, is alleged to have raped at least four students in Nova Iguacu de Goias, in the…