Former Prime Minister Lester Bird says there is a positive side to the matter of economic citizenship and the country needs to consider whether it should go that route.

Although he did not win damages in all five areas of his defamation lawsuit against MP Molwyn Joseph, the secretary of the Free and Fair Elections League George Rick James said he is satisfied with the award of $7,500 in general damages as compensation for injury to his feelings.

Leader of the Opposition Lester Bird has sent off letters to two diplomats here and an unnamed overseas agency to find out whether the generators at the China-funded power plant at Crabbes Peninsula are new.

Attorney-at-law Steadroy “Cutie” Benjamin said his law firm will be appealing the judgment that awarded two government ministers defamatory damages for statements made on ZDK radio.

A public quarrel between the two top leaders of the opposition Antigua Labour Party (ALP) has led to fresh speculation that there is a widening rift between the ALP’s chairman and its political leader.

Self-titled Minister of Helps, Eugene Humphreys has less than a week to appeal the police chief’s denial of today’s protest that sought to pressure government to hold a Commission of Inquiry into the fencing of sporting facilities.