Roseau, Dominica– April 15, 2010……… In a statement to the Nation on Wednesday, Prime Minister, Hon. Roosevelt Skerrit delivered a comprehensive report to the country on the progress made by his government in many areas in the first 100 days since the new Cabinet was sworn in on January 4th 2010.
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Statement by the Hon. Lester Bird for April 12th, 2010 in response to Mr. Spencer’s National Address
Statement by the Political Leader of the ALP
Hon. Lester B. Bird, To The Nation
In response to Sunday’s address by Baldwin Spencer
Monday, April 12, 2010
My fellow Antiguans and Barbudans, Residents and Friends: Last Wednesday evening, following the decision by Judge Blenman in the election petition cases, I was unable to address you on the state-owned and taxpayer-funded ABS-TV and Radio. There is a standing and illegal order by the minority UPP regime to keep the Leader of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition off ABS-TV. The minority UPP regime has unfettered access to ABS-TV and has exercised its monopoly without shame.
Continue readingJudge grants leave for judicial review, halts Spigelman Commission on IHI debt
St John’s, April 14, 2010 – High Court Judge Justice Errol Thomas today granted two Antigua Labour Party members of Parliament their request for Judicial Review of the Baldwin Spencer administration’s July 2009 decision to appoint a Commission of Inquiry into what is popularly known as the IHI Debt Settlement matter.
Continue readingEnergy Minister Hon. Rayburn Blackmoore to attend Energy Ministerial Meeting in Washington, D.C.
Roseau, Dominica – April 14, 2010……. The Honourable Rayburn Blackmoore, Dominica’s Minister for Energy, left the State yesterday to attend a meeting of Energy Ministers of the Americas, Civil Society and the Private Sector at the Energy and Climate Ministerial of the Americas in Washington D.C.
Continue readingM.P from Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Swaziland branch visits Dominica
Roseau, Dominica– April 12, 2010…… Hon. Marwick Khumalo, a Member of Parliament of the Kingdom of Swaziland and a member of the Swaziland Branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) paid a one- day visit to Dominica last week as part of an effort to explore areas of cooperation and expand dialogue between the African region and the Caribbean region within the CPA.
Continue readingPEACEFUL WORLD MOVEMENT, AND PEACEFUL DOMINICA INITIATIVE TO BE LAUNCHED TODAY IN DOMINICA
PEACEFUL WORLD MOVEMENT, AND PEACEFUL DOMINICA INITIATIVE TO BE LAUNCHED TODAY IN DOMINICA AT TRAFALGAR COMMUNITY CENTRE, AND CONTINUES IN OTHER DOMINICA COMMUNITIES UNTIL APRIL 20TH 2010
Contact Person: Dr. Peter K. B. St. Jean Company Name: Quality of Life Solutions, Inc. Telephone #: 767-616-3297 (Courtesy of Dominica Academy of Arts and Sciences (DAAS) Email Address: peter@qualityoflifesolutions.net Web site address: www.stjeanpeacefulworld.com
Continue readingWritten Ministerial Statement by the Home Secretary
Today my right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (David Miliband) and I are announcing the final stage of the UK’s first global review of visa regimes in relation to the seven countries of the Eastern Caribbean – Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia and St Vincent and the Grenadines.
Continue readingEXPULSION OF LENNOX LINTON FROM ANTIGUA WAS UNLAWFUL
Government sued
A High Court judge has ruled that the expulsion of former Observer Radio talk show host Lennox Linton from Antigua over two years ago was unlawful, and has awarded damages to the journalist.
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