Tim Hector News Today

IT was a sucessful day at the Annual Christmas Fatstock Show and Sale in Frome earlier this week.

There’s an air of excitement here in Antigua and Barbuda as the United Progressive Party (UPP) celebrates its thirtieth anniversary. Wow! It’s been three decades full of risks, rewards and challenges, and at every turn, the Party has stayed the course and risen, in a most admirable way, to the…

A £5/kg deadweight beef price and the approach of spring have bolstered interest in rearing stock, putting up to £100 on second-quality rearing calves in

On December 12, 1970, the National Joint Action Committee (NJAC) hosted a march to rededicate the nation to the creation of a “new and just society.” This was three weeks after the lifting of the 1970 State of Emergency (SoE) which had been in effect from April 21-November 20. NJAC supplied the following information in

Every November, there are official ceremonies on what is called “Remembrance Day” in honour of those who died during the two world wars. The emphasis is on those who fought and died but we must always find time to remember the tens of millions who suffered and died as a result of fights not of their choosing and in which they did not participate. We should also broaden our perspective …

By Robert A Emmanuel robert.emmanuel@antiguaobserver.com Antiguan and Barbudan youth would benefit by learning from past political activists like Leonard ‘Tim’ Hector, local commentators say. Following the recent headlines related to the Antigua and Barbuda Gospel Music and Media Awards (ABGMA) and an award for social activism given to social media…

By Robert A. Emmanuel robert.emmanuel@antiguaobserver.com The Leonard Tim Hector Memorial Committee and Hector’s family have expressed their fury with the presentation of an award to popular social media influencer, J’Truth, which bears the late activist’s name. Last week, J’Truth received the Leonard Tim Hector Impact Award for Social Activism from…

The Renwick Rose’s three-part article entitled, “Our Approach to Independence”, has given me cause to reflect on the leadership of SVG’s first Prime Minister – Robert Milton Cato, at the time of achieving full statehood in October 1979. Aloof and Elitist? The Milton Cato of whom I heard talk, was portrayed as an aloof leader, more aligned to the planter and mercantile classes, rather than to the working people of …

By Renwick Rose Though we are all aware that the ravages of time will eventually bring our time on earth to a close, yet we cannot help but express profound sadness at the passing of one dear to us. This feeling is even stronger when that person has made a significant contribution to the lives of his brothers and sisters, not only in his own homeland but of oppressed peoples …

Every now and again, I indulge in a binge fest of Viv Richards. It’s therapeutic. Maybe it was triggered by his 70th birthday on 7 March, but it was such an intense submersion that I felt compelled