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Cochrane: Horse racing could be ready for July return Spread the love By Neto Baptiste The Antigua Turf Club (ATC), within the next two months, will be positioned to host its first meet in two years. This is according to president of the organisation, Neil Cochrane, who said that various material and equipment needed to upgrade and maintain the Cassada Gardens Race Track is now on island. “We will be ready to go from the end of July at the latest. Our container with the new rails arrived already and that’s at the race track. “We have the harrow or the race track conditioner already at the race track and we’re just finalising bringing the sand over from Barbuda so everything is basically in place for us to start the construction by, latest, the second week in June. We estimate it is going to be about a month for that to be completed,” he said. ....
Numerous sexual offences cases set for trial in July Spread the love The month of July will see several sexual offences cases being called in the High Court for trial. Yesterday, many men were arraigned and told the court that they did not commit the sexual offences that they are charged with. One man, represented by Attorney Leon Chaku Symister told High Court Judge Colin Williams that he did not have sexual intercourse with a 15-year-old as the indictment claims. His trial was set for July 5. Also, on that day, another individual will appear for trial after he pleaded not guilty to two counts of indecent assault and one count of serious indecency. ....
Lady Nugent weeps Spread the love The Nugent name is synonymous with Antigua and Barbuda. Much has been written about their involvement with the Skerretts aka Clare Hall and Follys estates. They were connected to the Antigua Grammar School (AGS) and Archdeacon Samuel Edmund Branch who founded it in 1884, and was its headmaster from that time until 1927. The AGS was first located at the top of St Mary’s Street, before it moved to the old treasury building near the Bryson’s Bottling Plant, across from the General Post Office at the bottom of High Street. That building also housed the Public Library upstairs. It was severely damaged in the great earthquake of 1974 and abandoned. ....