ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Government will be seeking to establish a centralised system to track the number of people accessing its social safety programmes.

Following the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) approval last Monday of Antigua & Barbuda pursuing sanctions against the United States, there has been a flurry of media coverage internationally.

Government’s 2013 agenda includes making a concerted attempt to more seriously tackle the country’s rising violent crime problems.

Government has pledged to set up a temporary facility to house and treat the six troubled teenaged girls currently locked away in Her Majesty’s Prison and two boys recently placed in the Boys’ Training School.

Powerful US congressmen have drafted legislation that will bring the gaming dispute with Antigua & Barbuda to an end – but will also lock the nation out of the industry.

Government officials in Montserrat are preparing to offer assistance to the grief-stricken families who lost their loved ones in Sunday’s fatal plane crash at the VC Bird International Airport.

Government officials in Grenada say they hoping to convene talks with the regional carrier LIAT over its decision to cut four flights from the island’s itinerary.

Government is utilising social media to attract public interest as it prepares to host Caribbean Agriculture Week (CWA) for the first time.

Government’s inability to meet its $18 million debt to disgraced financier R Allen Stanford is said to be the main hold-up for severance payment for hundreds of employees in Antigua.

Government’s indebtedness is more of a worry to the Stanford Group of Companies than the 110-year-sentence its founder and sole shareholder Allen Stanford was meted in the US on Thursday.