Opposition legislators in the Senate yesterday failed in their bid to muster enough support to strike down a Bill, which would increase taxes at the V C Bird International Airport.

Minister of Finance & Economy Harold Lovell has revealed the government attempted to avert the ABI Bank takeover by making approaches for funding to China and the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB).

Head coach of Sugar Ridge Sap FC, Charles Weston, has described the team’s success in staving off automatic relegation from the Digicel and OBSERVER Media Group Premier Division as a huge ball and chain being removed from his feet.

Host of the ZDK programme Uncut Lennox Weston has averted a lawsuit by publicly apologising to the Education Minister Dr Jacqui Quinn-Leandro for slanderous statements he made on the radio programme last year.

Government will be relying on data collected during Census 2011 and upcoming amendments to Antigua & Barbuda Labour Code to accurately tabulate unemployment levels in the country.