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- Fight over Stanford assets in UK
R. Allen Stanford's liquidators from Antigua were awarded control of 120 million pounds ($240 million) in UK assets seized in a fraud probe in a London court battle with US receivers. Liquidators appointed in the US and Antigua failed to agree on who
- Hurricane Leaves Trail of Destruction in Caribbean Isles
The most powerful hurricane to roil the Caribbean in six years skipped across a necklace of resort islands today, leaving houses flattened, hospitals damaged, airports closed and power and communications lines hopelessly grounded. The most widespread destruction seemed to be on Antigua, where officials estimated that the vast majority of houses had been damaged or destroyed, said Paul Bell, coordinator of the Latin American and Caribbean region for the United States Office of Foreign Disaster A...
- Official: Antigua arrest in Stanford case
(AP)
AP - Antigua's former chief financial regulator surrendered Thursday to face U.S. charges that he aided an alleged $7 billion swindle by Texas billionaire R. Allen Stanford, according to a government official.
- Antigua fires finance regulator
Antigua and Barbuda fires its chief financial regulator, accused of accepting bribes from Texan billionaire Sir Allen Stanford.
- Ecuador joins ALBA this week, announced President Chavez
Ecuador together with the Caribbean islands of Saint Vincent and Grenadines and Antigua and Barbuda will be joining the Venezuelan sponsored Bolivarian Alternative of the Americas, ALBA, during a summit this week in Venezuela, announced President Hugo
- Venezuelan president hails ALBA's expansion
CARACAS, June 21 (Xinhua) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez stressed on Sunday the importance of the expansion of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA), with the formal accession of Ecuador, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Antigua
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The Siboney were the first to inhabit the islands of Antigua and Barbuda in 2400 B.C., but Arawak Indians populated the islands when Columbus landed on his second voyage in 1493. Early settlements by the Spanish and French were succeeded by the English who formed a colony in 1667. Slavery, established to run the sugar plantations on Antigua, was abolished in 1834. The islands became an independent state within the British Commonwealth of Nations in 1981.
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