Sub-regional leaders who met in Grenada on Monday for the 52nd meeting of the OECS Authority have agreed on a firm date when the Revised Treaty of Basseterre will take effect in all the member territories.

One good turn deserves a next, and if not reciprocity then gratitude, right? Neither is the case for released convict Rosaline Conway, who following her Independence pardon has sued the government.

The High Court denied deposed Antigua & Barbuda Electoral Commissioner Chairman Sir Gerald Watt’s request for immediate interim injunction that would have seen him resume

Newly appointed High Commissioner to the Caribbean for the Republic of South Africa, Mathu Joyini, presented her credentials to Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer last week, during which the prime minister expressed his desire to deepen relations with the African country.

Dr David Dorsett, legal counsel for embattled former chairman of Antigua & Barbuda Electoral Commission Sir Gerald Watt QC has defended his “without notice application” to the court last week when he applied for leave for judicial review of Sir Gerald’s recent demotion to an ordinary commissioner.

An application by former Electoral Commission chairman Sir Gerald Watt for an ex-parte hearing was yesterday denied by a High Court judge.

A date for completion is still up in the air, but Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer has categorically stated that “the Public Library must be completed and operationalised by 2011, whatever the situation.”

Despite opposition noises to the contrary, government enjoys popular support for its plan to divest State Insurance Corporation (SIC), according to Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer.

The battle is joined. Confirmation reached our newsroom late last evening that Sir Gerald Watt QC has acted on his threat to challenge his demotion from the post of electoral commission chairman and yesterday asked the High Court to review it.

He called no names and insisted that he didn’t want to get personal, but when Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer