Antiguan Calypso icon Sir McClean ‘King Short Shirt’ Emanuel will be the country’s lone recipient of an honorary degree from the UWI Five Islands campus, as part of the wider UWI’s upcoming Class of 2023 graduation ceremonies, starting next month. The announcement came on Saturday afternoon in a media statement from the UWI, in […]
By Canute Lawrence On Saturday, September 16, Antigua and Barbuda will showcase the Canadian premiere of its HaMafilm’s ‘‘Deep Blue’’ at the 18th Annual COMMFFEST Global Community Film & Arts Festival at the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, 27 Front Street East at 7:30 PM. ‘’Deep Blue,’’ dubbed an environmental love story is HaMafilms’ […]
Stephen Murphy is a champion of Antigua’s contemporary art scene, with work characterized by bold colours, dynamic forms, and thought-provoking emphases. Upholding the belief that a single piece of art possesses an extraordinary capacity to convey a multitude of emotions, narratives, and ideas, each artwork produced by Murphy is exclusive to you and you alone. […]
JOHN’S, ANTIGUA – Anticipation is reaching new heights in the twin-island Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda as Keisha Schahaff and her daughter Anastasia Mayers prepare to embark on an unprecedented journey – a space travel odyssey that will etch their names in history. This remarkable mother-daughter duo is set to become Antigua and Barbuda’s […]
First Secretary at the Antigua and Barbuda Mission to the United Nations, Asha Challenger, was elected to serve as Vice President of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) on Plastic Pollution. Challenger was elected to the role unanimously during the second session of the INC, which concluded in Paris France last Friday, a statement from the […]
A 25-year-old man is Antigua and Barbuda’s first murder victim for 2023. Roudi Shamarly was shot in broad daylight by an armed robber at Pick ‘N Mix Mart on DeSouza Road last Monday. Shamarly was in the adjacent Chicken Hub and reportedly rushed into the Mart where he was shot at point-blank range. He was […]
Trinidadian calypso legend David Rudder provided the soundtrack to rally West Indies cricket fans around the team and now that he’s preparing to end his performing career, a few West Indies legends presented him with some tokens to say thank you. Sir Andy Roberts, Sir Richie Richardson, Sir Curtly Ambrose, Jimmy Adams and Ambassador […]
Minister for Housing, Land, Works and Urban Renewal, Maria Browne, said private property owners are breaking the law when they prevent members of the public from having access to beaches near their land. Browne made the comment as she responded to reports that developers at the Pearns Point luxury housing site are placing restriction on […]
How did more than 600 Cameroonians come to find themselves stranded on a Caribbean island that many of them had never heard of? Daniel fights to hold back the tears as he recounts the day his two younger brothers were shot dead by militia during a trip to the market in his native Cameroon. They […]
Caribbean cooking shares a lot with West African cuisine, through ingredients like cassava, certain peppers, sweet potatoes and plantains and spices such as ginger, cinnamon and allspice that are commonly used in both cultures. That’s something Los Angeles-based celebrity chef Ameera Muhammad noted after a visit to Ghana and a subsequent visit to Antigua. “There […]
