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Antigua and Barbuda

November 2024

  • Asot Michael

    Police in Antigua charge suspect over fatal stabbing of politician

  • Man in jacket and tie at lectern

    Suspected homicide of politician shocks Antigua and Barbuda

August 2024

  • satellite image of storm over water and land

    Tropical Storm Ernesto hits Caribbean and intensifies en route to Puerto Rico

    US territory shutters schools and opens shelters as storm is forecast to also near Virgin Islands and become hurricane

July 2024

  • A man and a woman look into her destroyed bedroom in a house that is missing its roof

    Caribbean leaders call for ‘Marshall plan’ to help rebuild after Hurricane Beryl

    Three prime ministers write to UK government saying islands cannot sustain debt from repeated rebuilding

November 2023

  • An image of Palmetto Point in Barbuda, showing sand mining and the destruction of natural vegetation.

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘Billionaire club’: the tiny island of Barbuda braces for decision on land rights and nature

    Hurricane Irma’s destruction of the Caribbean island opened the door for rampant development that threatens its unique ecosystems – but islanders are fighting back

October 2023

  • Dejected England players leave the pitch after another defeat in the World Cup in India.

    Brief letters
    Cricketers and Conservative MPs are praying for the end

  • Louise Edwards has been making jewellery from tamarind seeds for more than 50 years.

    Seeds of potential: the Caribbean women reviving a dying art

September 2023

  • An aerial view of a narrow strip of land in Funafuti, Tuvalu, with blue waters on each side.

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Small island nations take high-emitting countries to court to protect the ocean

  • A satellite image of a white spiral cloud on the right over blue water approaching a green archipelago to the left, between two green land masses (North America and South America).

    Hurricane Lee prompts weekend beach warnings on US east coast

June 2023

  • An idyllic white sand beach with palm trees and a turquoise sea

    Opinion
    What’s the Caribbean without its beaches? But the people are losing access to them

    Kenneth Mohammed
    Barring public access to beaches and other sites is not a model for development. Transparency and engagement are needed

May 2023

  • Mehul Choksi

    Businessman who alleges Indian kidnap plot wins Antiguan court ruling

  • Nova Peris

    Commonwealth Indigenous leaders demand apology from the king for effects of colonisation

March 2023

  • Alfa Nero

    Antigua and Barbuda to auction off $81m yacht ‘owned by Russian oligarch’

    Andrey Guryev, who has been put under UK government sanctions, claims he is not owner of Alfa Nero

October 2022

  • Workers onboard a docked boat use ropes and cables as they prepare to unload a minke whale in Kushiro, on the Japanese island of Hokkaido

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Countries push to undermine ban on commercial whaling

    Charities say calls at international meeting to lift restrictions are distraction from climate crisis and plastic pollution

September 2022

  • The paper presented to the UN calls for taxes on air travel and the most polluting ships

    Vulnerable countries demand global tax to pay for climate-led loss and damage

  • The Earl and Countess of Wessex give Antigua and Barbuda prime minister Gaston Browne a gift during their April visit. rations. (Photo by Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images)

    Antigua and Barbuda to hold republic referendum within three years, says PM

August 2022

  • A fixed point image shows the transformation of Redonda  in the Caribbean between 2016 and  2020, before and after black rats and feral goats were eradicated.

    The age of extinction
    Driving out invasive species on islands has high success rate and big benefits – study

    New research finds that eradicating non-native rats, cats, rabbits and goats is 88% effective in restoring biodiversity

May 2022

  • Prince Edward and Sophie, Countess of Wessex

    Royals, republicanism and reparations: Wessexes feel the heat in Caribbean

    Weeks after William and Kate’s controversial Caribbean tour, more nations signal plans to ditch the monarchy

April 2022

  • Prince Edward and Sophie

    Ditch the Land Rover shots: PR advice to Prince Edward and Sophie before Caribbean tour

  • Patricia Scotland speaks with Boris Johnson on Commonwealth Day, March 14, 2022.

    Commonwealth rift in Caribbean as re-election of Lady Scotland challenged

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