By Makeida Antonio makeida.antonio@antiguaobserver.com Authorities are awaiting the result of an autopsy on a man who was found dead in St John’s yesterday. By-standers looked on in shock when the Browne’s Avenue man, believed to be in his 60s, reportedly stopped breathing on the steps of a house near a…
By Makeida Antonio makeida.antonio@antiguaobserver.com Police are investigating what appears to be a horrific premeditated attack on a schoolboy. The Antigua Grammar School student sustained chop wounds following a violent attack with a cutlass. It remains unclear how many wounds were sustained, as he was promptly taken to the Sir Lester…
Shamar Harrigan has been missing since Monday afternoon Concern for the safety of a missing teen with special needs continues to grow more than three days after he was last seen at his Willikies home. Distraught relatives and friends of Shamar Harrigan of Willkies say the young man, who has…
By Makeida Antonio makeida.antonio@antiguaobserver.com One of Antigua and Barbuda’s young professionals is representing the country at COP27, the United Nations climate summit being held in Egypt from November 6-18. This is 29-year-old Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) Fellow Zachary Phillips’ second time as a member of the national delegation,…
The Antigua Public Utilities Authority (APUA) has released a statement notifying the public that a fault on its 69 KV line between Crabbs and Lavington was the cause of an island-wide outage on Monday. The company said although the affected section of the network was isolated, all online generators tripped…