Posted on 04 September 2012.
The absence of national bodybuilding champion, Ollyn Martin, from this year’s LIME National Bodybuilding & Figure Championships has opened the gates for a new champion and according to president of the Bodybuilding and Weightlifting Federation, Sonia Allred, there is absolutely nothing wrong with that.
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Posted on 04 September 2012. Tags: ‘ganja’, antigua, attorney, Decriminalising, Dominican Henry Shillingford, dr errol cort, drug trafficking, legalisation, marijuana, national security minister
An attorney advocating the legalisation of marijuana in the region has challenged the minister of national security to decriminalise the drug as a means to protecting the country’s borders.
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Posted on 04 September 2012.
A day after the official start of the 2012-2013 academic year, ABILITY, a group which lobbies on behalf of children with special needs, is calling for more to be done to reform the country’s education system to cater to students who learn differently.
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Posted on 04 September 2012. Tags: antigua power company, antigua public utilities authority, apua, BCEG, Beijing Construction Engineering Group, Crabbs Peninsula, EXIM Bank China, observer media group, OMG chairman Winston Derrick, power trip, Wadadli Power plant, Xi’an Marine Equipment Engineering Research Academy, XMEA
Media will today finally gain a behind-the-scenes peek at the Wadadli Power Plant – a hotbed of controversy for almost a year.
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Posted on 04 September 2012.
The programme co-ordinator of the Hope Institute said that he sees the negative effects of marijuana use on the nation’s youth and is diametrically opposed to the decriminalisation of the drug.
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Posted on 04 September 2012.
Sugar Ridge SAP FC have set their eyes squarely on the Antigua & Barbuda Football Association (ABFA) 2012/13 Premier Division crown.
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Posted on 04 September 2012.
Antigua & Barbuda’s national under-19 female volleyball squad had a very poor showing in the just concluded North, Central America and Caribbean Volleyball Confederation (NORCECA) Intercontinental Under-19 Female Volleyball Championship in Nicaragua from August 19 to 26, in which they placed eighth of the nine teams.
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Posted on 04 September 2012.
The Warriors Cup Senior Championship has now reached its quarter-final stage and eight teams will do battle for a place in the next round.
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Posted on 04 September 2012.
An important news item came to light last week. It concerned the recent moves by the United States to protect the rum industry of its territories by providing subsidies to Diageo, a British multinational company, to establish a large refinery in St Croix.
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Posted on 28 August 2012.
It appears to me that a number of individuals who have contributed to the public debate evolving from the inaugural meeting of the OECS assembly seem
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