Month: April 2010

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.

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Judge 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.

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M.P from Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Swaziland branch visits Dominica

swaziland-mp-and-alix-two.jpgRoseau, 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.

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PEACEFUL 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

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Written 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.

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