Chairman of the University of Antigua & Barbuda Development Committee Juno Samuel has publicly criticised Attorney General Justin Simon for slowing the process towards setting up a national university.

Frustrated by scholarship winners not giving back to Antigua & Barbuda, the Board of Education’s head plan to mount a campaign agitating for a change in government policy.

Antigua & Barbuda’s top junior cyclist, Jyme Bridges Jr will leave tomorrow for Cuba where he will undergo training in his discipline until August 2012.

Newly appointed Chinese Ambassador to Antigua Liu Hanming is promising to explore more scholarships for Antiguan students to study in China for the next academic year.

A shortage of trained mathematics teachers is one of the issues the Ministry of Education will be seeking to address as the nation’s students once again performed poorly in the subject at the CSEC exams.