Barbudans

China offers scholarships to Antiguans and Barbudans as students commence studies after.

Fortunately, not many Antiguans and Barbudans were fooled by the loud protestations.

The Antigua and Barbuda Progressive Society (ABPS), the longest-surviving organisation of Antiguans and Barbudans in New York, is excited to unveil its latest initiative that will solidify its commitment to help uplift the community.

The matter goes to the heart of an ongoing conflict over land between many Barbudans and the central government, which was reignited in the wake of 2017’s catastrophic Hurricane Irma.

Mr Walker, said he feared that Barbudans were losing their traditional way of life while the economic benefit of their island was reaped by foreign developers.

Prime Minister Gaston Browne appealed to Antiguans and Barbudans to continue to be patient as there will be an increase in testing of residents for Covid-19 as of this week.

Anyway, our own embattled Minister of Education was due to make his contribution to the Income Tax Amendment Bill (2019) in parliament yesterday, and Antiguans and Barbudans were waiting with bated breath.

The minister said the agreement creates an “unwarranted and unwelcomed burden” on generations of Antiguans and Barbudans “yet conceived and unborn”, while “it paralyzes” existing generations in related career fields.

Barbudans have been promised the freeholds to the leaseholds of their houses and plots of land for a nominal sum, bearing in mind though that this is Hurricane Irma destroyed most of the islands residences.

He also disclosed that “it has always been a challenge to get a good number of Barbudans at these workshops as they would have to come across to Antigua.

Is this designed to frustrate and further demoralise the Barbudans?

Scores of Barbudans were engaged in a five-hour standoff with police yesterday over access to the Fisheries Complex, intermittently chanting “no retreat, no surrender” as they vowed not to hand over the keys for the building to anyone.

The government is being accused of “breeding a new type of youth offender” as it continues to subsidise Barbudans living in Antigua.

The ruling was in favour of Barbudans, John Mussington and Jacklyn Frank, who, through their attorney Leslie Thomas QC, filed an application for leave for judicial review of the government’s decision to construct an airport in Barbuda.

Work on the facility was halted on August 2, 2018 when Barbudans John Mussington and Jacklyn Beazer were successful in filing an injunction in the High Court to stop the construction.