Posted on 16 February 2013.
Four weeks ago Minister of Tourism John Maginley sounded a positive note in announcing new aircraft leases for our embattled airline, LIAT.
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Posted on 15 February 2013.
Sometimes it’s the most unbearably sad occasions that can also be the most inspiring and uplifting.
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Posted on 14 February 2013.
There is a tradition in the United States that many, especially in the media, look forward to each year, for it provides fodder for the editorial mills, grist for talk show hosts and punch line material for comedians.
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Posted on 13 February 2013.
The eulogy delivered at Winston Arnold George Edwin Derrick’s Funeral, celebrated at Spring Gardens Moravian Church, St John’s, Antigua, Tuesday February 12, 2013
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Posted on 13 February 2013.
“All the world's a stage,
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Posted on 12 February 2013.
Prime Minister Freundel Stuart of the Democratic Labour Party (DLP), Barbados has eventually called the long-awaited date for general elections in his country and the citizens go to the polls on February 21.
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Posted on 11 February 2013.
There is a saying in classical Roman literature that “ Whom the gods love, die young.”
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Posted on 09 February 2013. Tags: abatement, airfares, antiguan, average salary, brunton, caribbean destinations, caribbean islands, economies of scale, financial burden, flights to the caribbean, flights within the caribbean, fuel costs, fuel prices, haul destinations, household income, inter island, island flights, Liat, ordinary people, package holiday
For what can only be described as inequitable, unfortunately there really is no such thing as a cheap or competitive flight price on flights within the Caribbean, or to the Caribbean these days. Whilst fuel prices are increasing, regional taxes account for 50 per cent of the cost of regional fares and for individuals visiting from the United Kingdom, there is the financial burden of the astronomically high Air Passenger Duty (APD) tax to take into account.
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Posted on 08 February 2013.
Why are so many poor countries stuck with huge economic problems? Why, for example, are there so many unemployed young people in Egypt – 41 per cent of 19-24 year-olds? The poor state of British housing can help answer these questions.
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Posted on 07 February 2013.
“Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away” (James 4:13 -14).
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