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  The eroded section of the Sandy Park Gully behind the St Michael’s Riviera apartment complex. JUNIOR Transport and Works Minister Richard Azan says the eroded section of the Sandy Park Gully will be repaired urgently. Azan, during a tour yesterday of the informal community of Sandy Park — where about seven families live on a gully bank which runs off Liguanea Avenue, said the threat posed by the erosion was dire and ...

CHRISTIE… demits office next month HOPEWELL, Hanover — Opposition Leader Andrew Holness says he is in favour of the impanelment of a broad-based committee to choose a replacement for Contractor General Greg Christie, who is expected to demit office next month. "To ensure that we do have a contractor general in which everybody can have faith, and believe in the integrity of the contractor general, we should have a process where a ...

 Former Prime Minister Edward Seaga (front left), his wife Carla (front centre), as well as former Prime Minister P J Patterson and Seaga’s sisters Fay Tortello (centre second row) and Jean Anderson are tickled by a comment made during yesterday’s Parliamentary tribute to Seaga. At right is Seaga’s younger daughter Gabrielle. FORMER Prime Minister Edward Seaga yesterday warned Jamaicans against willingly accepting imported solutions, including the dictates of the International Monetary ...

   Industrial unrest at the port has forced a cargo vessel, loaded with goods destined for Antigua, to leave the island without off-loading.   Manager of Antigua Maritime Services, Frank Schwartz, confirmed that the weekly visit by the Tropical Shipping Lines vessel was affected by the industrial action when all categories of workers downed tools to protest the late payment of September salaries. Sources at the port said the workers declined to work on ...

    Recent television coverage of Antigua and Barbuda on FoxCT/CT1 Media is expected to boost tourism marketing efforts in the US . During the past month, the airing of an episode of Northeast Living, featuring Antigua and Barbuda has helped to increase destination awareness among viewers in the New England states of Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Vermont.    Mar Jennings, host of the Emmy-nominated lifestyle show Northeast Living, visited Antigua and Barbuda ...

  Cabinet in its weekly meeting decided to accord an official funeral to the late Dame Gwendolyn Tonge, better known as “Auntie Gwen.”According to Chair of the Funeral Planning Committee Education Minister Dr. Jacqui Quinn Leandro; the committee held its second meeting today at which it was decided that the Service of Thanksgiving will be held at the Deanery on Thursday October 11, 2012 at 1:00p.m. According to Quinn Leandro the Deanery ...

  Antigua and Barbuda is prone to long periods of low rain fall and the resultant drought. Despite scattered showers for the past week, local authorities say that the water reservoirs have been diminishing and at present, only one contains the liquid sustenance. Acting Water Manager at the Antigua Public Utilities Authority (APUA) Mr. Ian Lewis says the country is down to its last source for surface water. Lewis sited a lone ...

  Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer and Members of the Citizenship by Investment Taskforce, on Friday, presented the details of the policy to representatives of the local press. The meeting with the media at the Office of the Prime Minster comes ahead of a series of public consultations due to begin on Thursday, October 11. The Citizenship by Investment Programme, Prime Minister Spencer said, is in keeping with the homegrown National Economic and ...

CTUSAB president Cedric Murrell (FP)   The Congress of Trade Unions and Staff Associations of Barbados (CTUSAB) needs another partner. A financial partner, to be exact. CTUSAB president Cedric Murrell is bemoaning the umbrella body’s current financial position and has revealed that it will soon be approaching Government to have its annual subvention increased. Murrell made the revelation during a Press conference yesterday, as he gave a synopsis of CTUSAB’s fifth biennial delegates ...

(FP) Security will be increased in and around Kensington Oval from later this week for the country’s most expensive football tournament, the Lime/Pelican Football Challenge. This comes after a shooting involving two men that occurred just outside the venue Sunday night. Two 20-year-old youths were treated at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) for gunshot wounds received in the incident and discharged. Germaine Harte, of St Matthias, Christ Church, was shot in the right ...