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ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – A High Court judge on Wednesday ruled that the election of three government parliamentarians, including Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer, was invalid, throwing the United Progressive Party (UPP) administration into a tailspin. However, Justice Louise Blenman has confirmed that Trevor Walker of the government-aligned Barbuda People Movement (BPM) was duly elected to lone seat on the sister island in the March 12, 2009 poll. On the other hand, Prime Minister Spencer, as well as Tourism …
TEACHERS who believe that what constitutes right and wrong changes with situations and that there is no absolute truth, may well be operating like “loose cannons”. Historian Dr Pedro Welch made this charge recently while addressing a graduation ceremony at Erdiston Teachers' Training College. In a thought-provoking speech, Welch indicated that the “post-modernist” view that there was no universal foundation for truth, morality and human dignity added another dimension …
NICHOLAS SAGE says he is sad. After living at his family home from age four months, Sage has just one week to remove his home from its current spot at Drax Hall in St George. Not only will the move displace hundreds of memories, he said, but he will be losing thousands of dollars through uprooting the house and his business next door. The decision was taken by the court after a family dispute between Sage and the owner of …
SEVEN PEOPLE are homeless after a mid-morning blaze destroyed one of two adjoining houses they occupied at Clarke's Pasture, My Lord's Hill, St Michael. They once lived quietly in the two dwellings, but at about 9:15 a.m. yesterday their lives changed dramatically. Seventeen-year-old Shanice Thomas was at home in the back of the house while four younger relatives went into the other building. “I heard the children calling for me and I could not get to them. [Afterwards] …
THE PROPOSED NEW TERMINAL at Cheapside, The City, is still in the works. Both chairman Joseph King and director of transport, Trevor Clement of the Transport Authority, gave this assurance on Monday. They were speaking to the DAILY NATION after riding the new “express” bus route from Oistins to Speightstown via the ABC and Ronald Mapp Highways. However, they said this was still a future project and they were currently overseeing more present concerns. “We were receivin …
by MIKE KING FOR THE LAST THREE MONTHS, raging high tides have lashed the South Coast, and yesterday, it was the coastline along Worthing that had such a pounding, tossing aside trees and washing away sand. Thankfully, the many tourists at the nearby resorts at Crystal Waters Guest House and Chateau Blanc Hotel responded swiftly to the beach erosion by filling more than two dozen bags of sand as a wall buffer to protect the coastline at Sandy Beach. Tourists …
Plans are well under way for the official launch of Flava Squad Entertainment’s HYPE 2K10 event to be held on the grounds of their office situated at 50 Dumbarton Avenue in St. Andrew.
GOVERNOR GENERAL Sir Patrick Allen yesterday joined the Rotary ‘Race to Literacy’ book drive by donating several publications from his personal collection to The Gleaner Company.The Gleaner, which is one of many collection…
FIVE DAYS after Minister of Finance and the Public Service Audley Shaw tabled a $499.3-billion Budget in Parliament, the Estimates of Expenditure have been moved up by nearly one percentage…
WESTERN BUREAU: The ongoing drought conditions affecting the island are having a debilitating effect on farming in western Jamaica. President of the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS), Glendon Harris, believes it is twice as expensive for farmers to produce…
