A day after the La Soufriere volcano erupted in St Vincent on April 9, Uncle Joe’s daughter, her children and her husband started packing bags to vacate the Red Zone. Nothing much was said to Uncle Joe, 67, but he figured he should start packing too,...
“Do not travel to Antigua and Barbuda due to Covid-19.” That’s the first line of the US State Department’s latest travel advisory for the twin island nation, issued yesterday. This advisory comes despite the significant reduction in the country’s new reported infections, amid the loosening of...
Cuban leader Fidel Castro vowed to build a biotech juggernaut in the Caribbean, advancing the idea in the early 1980s with six researchers in a tiny Havana lab. Forty years later, the communist island nation could be on the cusp of a singular breakthrough: Becoming the...
The Director of Education has expressed confidence in the plans of school administrators to fully reopen schools for students at all levels today. Clare Browne said that principals in the public system will be following the same guidelines they worked tediously to put together for the...
[caption id="attachment_3163" align="alignleft" width="300"] Antigua & Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne[/caption] While the number of Covid-19 cases continues to decrease, the government is being cautious about how it impose relaxed protocols in different spheres of the country. Last month, the government gave restaurants the greenlight to open...