Posted on 05 February 2011. Tags: abdf, ABDF Warriors, basketball championships, big banana express, buju, bundy, cash prize, deciding game, defence force, double titles, giant step, invitational championships, kareen, kelvin, league crown, move closer, sandals, shuggy, vivian, winning team, x man
Big Banana Express are just one win away from completing the double in this year’s Sandals Foundation Rockersville/Grays Green Invitational Basketball Championships.
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Posted on 05 February 2011. Tags: antigua labour party, bombast, chief engineer, comic relief, edmond mansoor, effluent, former news, heart of the matter, letter writer, mansoor, melford, ministers, misuse of power, observer reporter, of toilets, ond, Permanent Secretary, principal assistant secretary, station managers, top brass, unnamed member
The notion that Fridays are free-for-all days, particularly in the public sector, took on a new twist yesterday when Minister of Information, Edmond Mansoor, summoned the department’s top brass and reporters to respond to a letter in this newspaper about ABS.
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Posted on 05 February 2011. Tags: admonition, alp, back off, censure, collective head, criminal matter, defence force, government house, governor general, guy thomas, inflammatory remarks, junior police officers, labour party, living in england, manoeuvres, paul chet greene, police chief, police commissioner, police force, private radio station, street protests, tells, upper house
Police Commissioner Vere Browne has been put on notice to restrain his officers during street protests that the opposition Antigua Labour Party has vowed to unleash beginning this month.
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Posted on 05 February 2011. Tags: airline, barbados, caribbean, chairman, cheap, co founder, flights, hot dog, jet planes, just a dream, Liat, london bridge, low airfares, redjet, robbie burns, shareholder meeting, take to the skies, ultra, waiting game, whole truth
As the entire region waits to hear when REDjet airline will get off the ground with its promised US $9.99 fares, Antigua-based LIAT seems not to be expecting it to stay very long in the air when it eventually takes off.
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Posted on 05 February 2011. Tags: Baldwin Spencer, barbuda, capital expenditure, caribbean development bank, cash management, cdb, debt management strategy, fiscal performance, implementation, international monetary fund, international monetary fund imf, lauded, nest plan, Social Transformation
The Caribbean Development Bank has credited the Antigua & Barbuda government’s National Economic and Social Transformation (NEST) plan for what it said was a significantly improved fiscal performance last year.
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Posted on 05 February 2011. Tags: 12th year, association president, bank staff, corporate communications officer, cricket association, enoch, john archibald, kenneth benjamin, kiddy cricket programme, launch, roland holder, scotia bank, scotiabank, territorial development, test cricket, west indies cricket, west indies cricket board, WICB, winston williams
West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) and Scotiabank have launched the 12th series of the Kiddy Cricket programme in Antigua at the Scotia Bank High Street branch on Thursday.
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Posted on 05 February 2011. Tags: abfa, Antigua and Barbuda, assessment, caribbean cup, caribbean islands, coach william, deficiencies, domestic football, failure, football association, football development, hiring, ivor ninja luke, mcewan, midfield, national coach, new td, rush, sidelines, technical director, technical directors, wants
Ex-senior national coach Ivor “Ninja” Luke said that Antigua & Barbuda Football Association (ABFA) should identify the problem affecting the development of the sport before hiring another technical director.
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Posted on 05 February 2011. Tags: amier, antigua grammar school, baptist academy of antigua, barrows, brann, clare hall, division champions, inter schools basketball league, Island Academy, junior boys, kareem, margaret school, michael burton, schools basketball, sports complex, st anthony, steven mcdonald, unbeaten
Baptist Academy of Antigua have continued their unbeaten run in the senior boys division of the Cool & Smooth Inter-Schools Basketball League.
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Posted on 05 February 2011. Tags: barbuda, british virgin islands, business campaign, cautious approach, erica henry jackman, free for all, free movement, marketing manager, migrants, nationals, nevis anguilla, oecs, personal opinion, sales and marketing, st kitts and nevis, st vincent and the grenadines, tourism office, youth ambassador
A daughter of the soil has warned the country to take a cautious approach towards free movement in the region.
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Posted on 04 February 2011.
Sanctuary, that amazing Caribbean choir, has been given three months … to return to Virgin Gorda, or else.
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