Head of the University of Antigua & Barbuda Development Committee Juno Samuel has a message for Attorney General Justin Simon: “get with the programme” or recuse yourself from the process.

The Antigua Labour Party has threatened to take to Caricom the government‘s decision to refuse the University College of the Caribbean (UCC) permission to set up a local campus.

The commonly accepted adage “it takes a village to raise a child” was put to the test – and failed in many instances – yesterday.

Antigua Trades and Labour Union (AT&LU) and management representatives negotiating cost cutting measures at the Free Trade and Processing Zone (FTPZ), a statutory corporation, want to settle their dispute in about three weeks.

There is no end in sight to strike action at the Free Trade and Processing Zone (FTPZ), as workers stayed off the job for a fourth day yesterday to protest the plan to shorten their work-week next year.

Indications at the time of going to press were that disgruntled employees of the Free Trade and Processing Zone will return to work today after two straight days of strike action.

Staff ended their three-day industrial action and returned to work at Antigua and Barbuda International Institute of Technology (ABIIT) yesterday.

What may have been the ‘last straw’ that precipitated a three-day strike at The Antigua & Barbuda Institute of Technology (ABIIT) — the presence of inmates from the Boys’ Training School on the institute’s compound

It would seem that there are several reasons for the strike among staff members at Antigua & Barbuda Institute of Technology.

The end to the strike taken by workers at Antigua & Barbuda International Institute of Technology (ABIIT) did not come yesterday as anticipated. Instead, the staff is expected to return to work today, after three days of industrial action.