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PM Browne’s message to Antiguans and Barbudans as Hurricane Tammy threatens
Get the news delivered directly to your phone. Click here to Join our WhatsApp Group Distinguished citizens, residents. Once again, our nation is facing the prospect of severe weather conditions with Hurricane Tammy, the high is right on our doorstep. With the memories of the ravages of Hurricane Irma in 2017 and the devastation on…
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Antigua closes V.C. Bird International Airport as island under hurricane watch
Get the news delivered directly to your phone. Click here to Join our WhatsApp Group The V.C. Bird International Airport in Antigua and Barbuda will be closed to all commercial traffic starting from 5:30 p.m. ET Friday due to the approaching Hurricane Tammy. The airport is expected to reopen on Sunday at 3 p.m. ET.…
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Antigua and Barbuda receives US$2.8M insurance payout for TS Philippe
Get the news delivered directly to your phone. Click here to Join our WhatsApp Group CCRIF SPC made two payouts totalling US$3.4 million to the governments of Antigua and Barbuda and the British Virgin Islands following Tropical Storm Philippe. Philippe made landfall on Antigua and Barbuda on October 2nd and passed near the British Virgin…
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NODS ensuring that all is in place for Hurricane Tammy
Get the news delivered directly to your phone. Click here to Join our WhatsApp Group The National Office of Disaster Services (NODS) is ensuring that everything is in place on the national and community level considering the pending weather associated with, now upgraded, Hurricane Tammy. Antigua and Barbuda along with several other islands is now…
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LIAT cancels flights as Tropical Storm Tammy approaches
Get the news delivered directly to your phone. Click here to Join our WhatsApp Group LIAT wishes to advise passengers that due to the impending passage of Tropical Storm Tammy that some scheduled flights on Friday October 20 will be affected. The airline has cancelled flights to/from the following destinations: LI 392 from Antigua to…
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Antiguan diplomat completes successful term as Chair of global energy agency
Get the news delivered directly to your phone. Click here to Join our WhatsApp Group Antigua and Barbuda’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Tumasie Blair left a sobering yet inspiring message with the members of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) as he brought his tenure as Chairman formally to a close during…
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Man comes face to face with intruder who stole his Play Station console and controller
Get the news delivered directly to your phone. Click here to Join our WhatsApp Group (REAL News) — A Gilpin Avenue, Grays Farm, man came face to face with the thief who robbed him of his gaming console and controller, after having broken into his house and stealing the items. Officers from the Grays Farm…
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DeFreitas predicts that fractures within the ALP and a loss in the SMS by-election will force Browne to call a General Election
Get the news delivered directly to your phone. Click here to Join our WhatsApp Group (REAL News) — Rumours of dissention within the ranks of the Antigua Labour Party and resentment of Prime Minister Gaston Browne could result in a General Election being called, Franz deFreitas, the United Progressive Party (UPP) caretaker for St. John’s…
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Tammy to strengthen into Atlantic’s next hurricane near northeast Caribbean
Get the news delivered directly to your phone. Click here to Join our WhatsApp Group (AccuWeather) — Tropical Storm Tammy developed in the central Atlantic on Wednesday evening, becoming the 19th named storm of the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season. AccuWeather forecasters say that it will impact the islands in the northeastern Caribbean as a strengthening…
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Tropical Storm Tammy: 11 p.m. update. Hurricane Watch in effect
Get the news delivered directly to your phone. Click here to Join our WhatsApp Group Tropical Storm Tammy Advisory Number 7 NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL AL202023 1100 PM AST Thu Oct 19 2023 … TAMMY SLOWING DOWN AND REORGANIZING… …TROPICAL STORM CONDITIONS AND HEAVY RAIN EXPECTED TO BEGIN TOMORROW FOR PORTIONS OF THE…
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Tropical storm conditions expected on Friday
Get the news delivered directly to your phone. Click here to Join our WhatsApp Group Tropical storm conditions are expected to begin in portions of the Lesser Antilles beginning Friday, where a tropical storm warning is in effect. Tropical storm and hurricane conditions are possible elsewhere in the Leeward Islands where hurricane and tropical storm…