By Neto Baptiste Liberta Blackhawks continued their unblemished run in the Cool & Smooth T20 Explosion on Tuesday when they outclassed Pigotts Crushers by eight wickets at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium. Led by West Indies and Leeward Islands spinner, Hayden Walsh Jr, Blackhawks did well to restrict Crushers to…
Debts topping US$28,000 a week are being accrued by the Alfa Nero superyacht as government awaits the lifting of US sanctions to facilitate its sale. The eye-watering figure - disclosed by the Prime Minister in Parliament yesterday - for keeping the 267ft luxury vessel docked in Falmouth Harbour does not…
Residents turned out for a black march and vigil last night in tribute to the African migrants lost in the March 28 boat disaster. The event was attended by members of the clergy along with concerned local residents. The dangerously overcrowded fishing vessel ferrying migrants from Antigua to St Thomas…
By Robert A. Emmanuel robert.emmanuel@antiguaobserver.com As hundreds of public sector teachers gathered on the lawn of the Antigua and Barbuda Union of Teachers headquarters, a shirt worn by one aptly described the day’s events 'TLM: Teachers’ Lives Matter’. As the Cabinet met yesterday to discuss matters of national importance, teachers rallied…
By Robert A Emmanuel robert.emmanuel@antiguaobserver.com The Antigua and Barbuda government has taken a significant step in its efforts to remove a vessel, which has been moored within the Falmouth Harbour, from the country’s waters. The Alfa Nero, a 267-foot vessel stranded in Antigua for more than a year with an…