The LIAT pilot found guilty of smuggling drugs into Barbados last year was, yesterday, fined EC $337,000 and is expected to be deported to his homeland by today.

Former accountant at Medical Benefits Scheme (MBS) Elmeade Jarvis was this morning sentenced to two years on each of three counts of fraudulent conversion, a sentence that will run concurrently.

Three months before this year’s national festival, the Carnival Development Committee (CDC) is waiting for Cabinet to approve its proposed budget of $2.5m, the same as last year’s.

The members of Antigua & Barbuda Athletic Association (ABAA) are all excited as they received news this week that four business establishments have come forward and offered prizes to weekly winners at the ABAA Development Meets at YASCO Sports Complex.

Sickness benefit is a weekly benefit payable to an insured private sector employee or self-employed person, between the ages of 16 and 60 who is absent from work due to a certified illness other than that caused by employment injury.