The Mount St John’s Medical Centre’s (MSJMC) accreditation as a training hospital will end the more than three-year-old controversy between the Medical Accreditation Board and Cuban trained doctors over the internship issue.

One of the Caribbean’s leading statesmen and author, Sir Fred Albert Phillips, died at home Sunday night after a period of illness that left him confined to bed for several months.

A leader of the local Rastafarian movement has argued that the religious movement is not in decline in the country.

Antiguan historian Angela Black is currently in research stage for a book she is compiling on Antigua History, with the hope that the textbook would be used in schools around the island.

Men of Antigua and Barbuda have been told that they must give up traditional notions of power and control as a first step in addressing their social challenges.

FirstCaribbean International Bank will be sponsoring the first ever memorial lecture named in honour of the late Professor Rex Nettleford, former vice chancellor of the University of the West Indies.

Antigua & Barbuda’s World Championships fourth place finisher Daniel Bailey opened his 2011 season, but not the way he would have liked, at Saturday’s Queens/Grace Jackson Invitational at Usain Bolt’s track at University of the West Indies.

David Bradshaw’s trip to Montserrat, via Antigua, late last year, wasn’t just a return to his roots (he was born just outside Plymouth, the pre-volcano capital, and grew up in Amersham, in the 1950s).

Trinidad is the region’s capital when it comes to earthquake monitoring, and that capital has issued a bleak warning, which is being picked up in St John’s.