by Gemma Handy Government is facing increasing calls to implement a second national lockdown, which many say is crucial to protect the country’s health care…
FORMER National Chairman of the People's Democratic Party, PDP, Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo, has said that giving the South-East geopolitical zone a chance to produce the president of Nigeria in 2023 would be "the master stroke to end marginalization and all grievances" in the zone.
Former National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo, has said that giving the South-East geopolitical zone a chance to produce the president of Nigeria in 2023 would be “the master stroke to end marginalization and all grievances” in the zone.
They dreamed and did us proud
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Our managing editor, Gemma Handy, described the mood as electric. Normally quite stoic and composed, she could barely contain her excitement as she filed a live report to last Thursday’s
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE (VOP) broadcast from the Antigua Dockyard, where Travis Weste and Joseph
‘JoJo’ Nunes were about to make landfall. It was roughly 1:50 pm, and the gathering was peering eagerly for the first glimpse of the rowers rounding the bend across from Fort Berkeley. Gemma spoke of the profusion of Antigua and Barbuda flags, as the proud families of our two heroic sons assembled on either side of a grand stage. She described the horns and the whistles, and our VOP guest at the time, Gladys Potter, the United Progressive Party’s candidate for St John’s Rural South, shared that she was getting goose-bumps, caught up in the rapture of it all. As were we. After all, history was being made.
Charges dismissed against Serpent
Media personality Algernon ‘Serpent’ Watts (File photo)
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It was good news from the court for Observer’s managing director Algernon ‘Serpent’ Watts’ today, after charges brought against him in 2019 were dismissed.
The charges surrounded an alleged fracas between the well-known radio personality, who is now the United Progressive Party candidate for St George, and former education minister Michael Browne.
Former Minister of Education Michael Browne (Photo courtesy Caribbean News Service)
His attorney, Kenny Kentish of Lake and Kentish, said all of the charges were dismissed by Magistrate Conliffe Clarke on a no-case submission.