The Governor General was not slighted in her absence from Friday’s inauguration of the OECS Assembly, regional and local officials sought to explain yesterday.

Word that between 20 to 30 Antigua-based employees of American Airlines are in the pink slip zone caught the workers and their bargaining agents off guard yesterday.

The former Chevron employees at the VC Bird International Airport said Friday that they remain utterly in the dark as to their current employment situation and who their new employers are.

Sojourner Truth, a slave from the American South, is credited with posing this famous question at a women’s rights convention in 1851: “And ain’t I a woman?” Today, we are “amending” the question and putting it to the Honourable Members of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition: “And ain’t she a woman?”

The rule of law is the fundamental keystone to proper governance in any state that aspires to be in the forefront of the comity of nations that claim to contribute to the general pool of international civilised behaviour.

The newest member of Antigua & Barbuda Electoral Commission (ABEC), Anthonyson King, has joined those condemning nascent disrespect for Governor General Dame Louise Lake-Tack.

Adelin Medical Centre has decided to permanently sever the contracts of six employees who the company temporarily laid off three months ago