Antigua & Barbuda has dodged a US six million-dollar bullet, as the nation’s motion to dismiss a breach of contract lawsuit was granted last week by a US District Court.

In a blow to the victims of Allen Stanford’s $7 billion Ponzi scheme, a federal district judge ruled on Tuesday that US securities regulators cannot force an industry-backed fund to start court proceedings so that victims can file claims.

Margo Kitsy Brodie was confirmed Monday as a Brooklyn Federal Court judge, becoming the first Afro-Caribbean-born jurist to sit in US district court.