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Flights arriving and departing the V.C Bird International Airport had to be halted for about two hours on Thursday because of a chemical spill which disrupted operations at the Control Tower. The incident resulted in a shut down the tower as measures were put in place to rectify the problem. CEO of the Antigua and Barbuda Airport Authority Stanley Smith ...

The 2017 School Uniform Grant Programme is off to a good start.   According to officials, over 500 parents have received vouchers from the programme which began on Monday.   The team consists of over 40 individuals who work strategically together to make sure that the process was quick and accurate.   With the release of the Grade 6 National ...

Prime Minister the Hon. Gaston Browne is resolute that CARICOM heads must not be bullied into changing their position on the Venezuelan conflict. The Prime Minister made his position clear while speaking to the Caribbean Media Corporation in Grenada yesterday. He was responding to comments made during the opening ceremony of the 38.

In this developing story at this hour… The Antigua Distillery has accepted full responsibility for a molasses spill at its storage facilities at Rat Island over the weekend and says it is working to have the situation fully contained by this weekend. The Distillery says this spill is the first of its kind in the Company’s 85-year history and it ...

The Ministry of Health officially commissioned its mobile blood collection unit this morning, doing so fittingly on World Blood Donor Day. The bloodmobile unit which cost 600 thousand EC dollars is a donation from the Blood and Transplant Division of the National Health Service (NHS) of the United Kingdom. The unit represents a significant advance in the thrust to enable ...

Prime Minister the Hon Gaston Browne has revealed that the YIDA group has ploughed more money into its investment in this country. Prime Minister Browne made the disclosure during an exclusive interview with ABS last night. It is one of the mega projects which the government has indicated will help to drive further growth in the tourist industry and the ...

In a major development in the education sector… Work has started on the site of the country’s newest secondary school. The new learning institution will be completed in just over two months, as we hear from Garfield Burford.

We begin with news that the Office of National Drug and money laundering Control Policy, ONDCP, has been provided with a new type of technology to determine if someone is lying. The new equipment focuses on the eye during lie detector tests and will be used in the vetting of ONDCP operatives. Garfield Burford spoke to ONDCP Director Lt Col. ...

We begin with a major development this evening… The US State of Illinois has removed Antigua and Barbuda from a list of tax havens in proposed legislation. It has resulted from intense lobbying efforts led by Sir Ronald Sanders, this country’s top diplomat in Washington.

We begin with news of the launch of a major initiative that is expected to bring positive change to the lives of several vulnerable citizens.   The Ministries of Agriculture and Social Transformation have partnered on a project to get more women and youth engaged in agriculture.   Jnoure Smith reports on the launch of the programme from which the ...