“Absolutely naïve” and “unacceptable” is how Opposition Leader Lester Bird described the response he received yesterday from Governor General Dame Louise Lake-Tack to his request for a commission of inquiry into the fences and power plant matters.

A day after attorney for Stanford Group of Companies Hugh Marshall Jr said he was instrumental in getting former employees closer to receiving their retirement fund, another attorney involved in the matter said that Marshall was not the one responsible.

Decentralisation allows people to take ownership of actions to improve their own communities. It remains a dream unfulfilled as far as governance in Antigua & Barbuda is concerned, but All Saints West MP Chanlah Codrington is taking steps to do just that on a community level.