Health Minister Fuad Khan at yesterday’s post Cabinet briefing.     Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar is expected to announce her decisions with respect to the reshuffling of Cabinet this evening, Foreign Affairs and Communication Minister Suruj Rambachan said yesterday. People’s Partnership sources yesterday described the move as a “shake-up” of the PM’s team, with several ministers—including Labour, Legal Affairs and Attorney-General—remaining untouched, but ...

  The majority of palms in Antigua are currently being affected by an agent (or agents) that have caused the death of some plants to date and yellowing in others.   The Plant Protection Unit and the Pesticides and Toxic Chemicals Control Board in the Ministry of Agriculture, Lands, Housing and the Environment recently enlisted the assistance of a palm expert. Samples of ...

Allen Stanford   Last Thursday, Allen Stanford, the flamboyant Texas-born, Antigua-based billionaire, was sentenced to 110 years in prison for defrauding investors around the world, including some here in T&T, of more than US$7 billion over two decades. On Friday, a former Goldman Sachs board member India-born Rajat Gupta, was convicted of three counts of securities fraud and one count of conspiracy ...

   FRAY... has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia THE family of jailed hijacker Stephen Fray is making a last-ditch effort to have his 20-year prison sentence overturned, with the filing of an appeal with the United Kingdom's (UK's) Privy Council. Earl Fray, Stephen's father, told Observer West this week that they had initiated the process after Jamaica's Court of Appeal upheld the guilty ...

  PRIME MINISTER Freundel Stuart. Barbados’ accountants want the Government to cut expenditure on university education and public transport. Free education up to university level and subsidized public transportation – including free bus rides for schoolchildren and the elderly – have become important planks of the island’s vaunted social policy, but the accountants said cuts in these areas had to be made ...

Local law enforcement authorities are receiving assistance from a Forensic Arson Investigator from Barbados as they continue to investigate the June 10th, fire at LIAT’s Hangar. Speaking in the Upper House on Wednesday, Minister of National Security Hon. Dr. Errol Cort says a two person team lead by Barbadian Inspector, Roderick Walcott arrived in Antigua last night and has already met ...

West Indies all-rounder Dwayne Bravo is off his feet to play into the off side during hisknock of 77against England in the Second ODI the Oval, in England.     LONDON, England – Dwayne Bravo and Chris Gayle lashed half-centuries but captain Alistair Cook’s fifth One-Day International century condemned West Indies to a demoralising eight-wicket defeat and another series loss at the Oval ...

  Early-morning horror in Caura Police officers conduct investigations at the scene of yesterday’s accident in El Dorado where five people were killed when a car ploughed into them while sitting in a bar.       A 25-year-old mason remained at hospital under police guard last night after his vehicle ploughed into a group of limers at a bar in Caura yesterday morning, killing five ...

(L to R) - Keri-Anne Bramble-Browne (Outpatient Clinic Supervisor), Eunetta Bird (President of Breast Friends), Curma Joseph (Oncology Nurse), Joycelyn Phillip (Oncology Nurse), Moret Montana (Oncology Nurse) and Michel Lynch (Member of Breast Friends). Last week, local cancer support group, Breast Friends donated food supplies to the MSJMC Oncology (Outpatient) Unit.   President of Breast Friends Eunetta Bird said, “It’s a real highlight ...

Manoj Tiwary (62) falls leg before wicket to fast bowler Kevin McClean who bowled very quickly yesterday afternoon.     GROS ISLET— Pacers Delorn Johnson and Kevin McClean produced devastating spells to rock India A and put West Indies A in sight of victory in the third and final unofficial “Test” here yesterday. Both bowlers picked up three wickets apiece as India A, ...