Renewed calls for Emancipation Day to be a national holiday | Antigua Observer Newspaper
By Shermain Bique-Charles Shermainbique.charles@antiguaobserver.com Well-known cultural expert and Chairman of the Antigua and Barbuda Reparations Commission Dorbrene O’Marde is renewing calls for the government of Antigua and Barbuda to make Emancipation Day a national holiday. Antigua and Barbuda celebrates Carnival on and around the first Monday of August each year, with…