When the inaugural session of the OECS Regional Assembly began last Friday, noticeably empty were the seats set aside for three opposition members – Dr Keith Mitchell of Grenada, St Lucia’s Stephenson King and Lester Bird of Antigua & Barbuda.

Should the Antigua Labour Party (ALP) choose to renew its no confidence motion against the country’s leader, it should consider the timing in doing so.

As Antigua Labour Party (ALP) leaders voiced their dismay at what they call the “loss of an opportunity” to debate the no confidence motion, the Speaker of the House

Opposition Members of Parliament Gaston Browne and Molwyn Joseph are in St
Lucia where they attended a meeting on the OECS Economic Union.

Opposition leader Lester Bird is calling on Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer to apologise to the people who picketed outside the Chinese Embassy for referring to them as “mercenaries and criminals.”

Illegal and misguided were descriptions used by Opposition Antigua Labour Party senators as the body debated the new version of the voting law yesterday.