A recent fire has reportedly set back efforts to recharge the Body Ponds water shed area.

Employees at Antigua Public Utilities Authority (APUA) can confidently say it wasn’t us in the Yorks squatters’ whodunit drama.

The findings of the probe into illegal utilities connections at Yorks Extension and subsequent action should not take an inordinately long time, Chairman of the Development Control Authority (DCA) Leon Chaku Symister said.

Parliamentary representative for St John’s Rural North John Maginley has accused the Antigua Public Utilities Authority of dragging its feet on actions against squatters in Yorks New Extension.

The construction of a multiple lane highway to connect English Harbour with St John’s city is one of a number of projects included in a national land use plan that will be discussed at consultations today.