Posted on 09 April 2013. Tags: antigua trades and labour union, at&lu, back on the job, Barbara Streete, SDC workers, stanford development company, without salary
The 65 Stanford Development Company (SDC) employees who downed tools over non-payment of salaries, last week, are back at work despite not receiving a dime of the three months outstanding wages and salaries.
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Posted on 09 April 2013.
A suggestion to scrap the Queen of Carnival in favour of a Miss Antigua & Barbuda show held ahead of carnival has gained favour with National Director for Miss Universe and Miss World Calvin Southwell.
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Posted on 09 April 2013.
Central Marketing Corporation (CMC) said yesterday that it was awaiting response from the Government of China after submitting a US $2 million proposal meant to end farmers’ storage woes.
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Posted on 09 April 2013. Tags: chairman Errol Aaron, engineers’ dispute, grounded, Leeward Islands Aeronautical Engineers Association, LIAT plane
LIAT staff told OBSERVER media on Monday that an ongoing industrial dispute between the airlines engineers and management did not affect the airlines flights from the VC Bird International Airport.
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Posted on 09 April 2013. Tags: agriculture minister, Cabinet, hilson baptiste, poultry farmers, Siboney Poultry Farm
Agriculture Minister Hilson Baptiste will be leading a delegation of poultry farmers to meet with members of the Cabinet today to discuss the proposed US $75 million Siboney Poultry Farm project.
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Posted on 09 April 2013. Tags: abssb, Actuary Derek Osborne, everett christian, social security scheme
Despite ongoing debate surrounding the solution to the nation’s faltering Social Security Scheme, the chairman of the Board, said a May 1 implementation date is “expected.”
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Posted on 09 April 2013. Tags: agriculture minister hilson baptiste, antigua public utilities authority, apua, farmers, pay less, water
Farmers who have long complained about the cost of doing business may soon pay less for water provided by the Antigua Public Utilities Authority (APUA).
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Posted on 09 April 2013.
By the end of this week over 20 households in the Herbert’s East community should have running water.
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Posted on 08 April 2013.
Former Antigua & Barbuda Prime Minister Lester Bird believes that the late Margaret Thatcher was most befitting of the tag “Iron Lady” – a name she got for the way she operated as Britain’s prime minister.
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Posted on 08 April 2013.
Facilitator of a rehabilitative programme for inmates at Her Majesty’s Prison is calling on society to support the initiative.
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