By Neto Baptiste Reigning bikini champion and IFBB Elite Pro, Ambassador Kimberly Percival, headlines a strong seven-member Antigua and Barbuda team to this weekend’s Arnold Classic IFBB Elite Pro World Championships slated for Seville, Spain. Percival, who won the bikini segment of the Arnold Classic in 2021, is joined by…
The Antigua and Barbuda Athletics Association (ABAA) has named an all-male team to fly the country’s flag at the North American, Central American and Caribbean Athletic Association (NACAC) Athletics Championships slated for August 19-21 in Freeport, Bahamas. Senior national sprinter Cejhae Greene headlines the selections and is joined by national…
By Neto Baptiste Despite finishing second in Group A of the International Tennis Federation (ITF) COTECC Under-12 Championships being held in Trinidad, team Antigua and Barbuda will not advance to the playoff round of the competition. This, after persistent showers over the course of the week significantly disrupted the championships,…
By Neto Baptiste Team Antigua and Barbuda got off to a winning start in the Eastern Caribbean Volleyball Association (ECVA) Senior Men's Volleyball Championship being held here at the YMCA Sports Complex. Dubbed the “Dadli Spikers,” Antigua and Barbuda recorded a comfortable 3-0 set victory over Anguilla in the feature…
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Our managing editor, Gemma Handy, described the mood as electric. Normally quite stoic and composed, she could barely contain her excitement as she filed a live report to last Thursday’s
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE (VOP) broadcast from the Antigua Dockyard, where Travis Weste and Joseph
‘JoJo’ Nunes were about to make landfall. It was roughly 1:50 pm, and the gathering was peering eagerly for the first glimpse of the rowers rounding the bend across from Fort Berkeley. Gemma spoke of the profusion of Antigua and Barbuda flags, as the proud families of our two heroic sons assembled on either side of a grand stage. She described the horns and the whistles, and our VOP guest at the time, Gladys Potter, the United Progressive Party’s candidate for St John’s Rural South, shared that she was getting goose-bumps, caught up in the rapture of it all. As were we. After all, history was being made.