Petra, Author at Petra the Spectator

Road to Glory: Schools Secure Places in Inter-Schools Finals

Semifinals Results by Spectator Sports Watch Antigua Girls High School (AGHS) booked their place in the final of the Cool & Smooth, Joma Interschools Under-16 Girls Football Competition with a dominant 5–0…

Petra January 12, 2026

The Sunday Spectator

News That Makes You Think, and Smile

Visa Lines, Loud Stands, and the Geography of RealityThe thing about local football matches is that you come for the game but leave with sociology. There I was, minding my…

Petra January 10, 2026

Spectator Sports

Atlantic Endgame: Leaders in World’s Toughest Row Nears Antigua

As the lead boats make their final push west, Spectator Sports turns its attention to the wider Atlantic campaigns now unfolding, the annual rowing adventure from San Sebastián de La…

Petra January 10, 2026

Spectator Sports

2026 Sports-Tourism Calendar Sails Off with the RORC Transatlantic Race

January 2026 will quietly but decisively mark one of the most valuable sports-tourism moments on Antigua and Barbuda’s calendar, as the RORC Transatlantic Race makes its historic Caribbean finish in…

Petra January 6, 2026

The Sunday Spectator

My Lover, Calypso – Celebrating My 10 Plus 2 Favourite Calypsos of 2025

What many see as a weakness, I claim as one of my greatest assets: I love Calypso.All of it. The classics. The dramatic. The quiet and reflective. The witty. The dubious.…

Petra January 6, 2026

The Sunday Spectator

What Venezuela’s Shock Means for the Caribbean and the Global South

Venezuela has entered the most dangerous and revealing moment of its modern history. The removal of President Nicolás Maduro by U.S. forces has not produced democracy but a vacuum in…

Petra January 5, 2026

Spectator Sports

Rai Benjamin Ignites Antigua’s Next Generation

When Olympic gold medallist Rai Benjamin steps onto the track at YASCO, it does something a stopwatch cannot measure. The surface is the same, the heat still sits on your…

Petra January 4, 2026

The Sunday Spectator

Thousands Stranded as Venezuela Crisis Grounds Antigua Flights at Tourism Peak

Sunday 4 January 2026 - Antigua and Barbuda’s vital air bridge to the United States was abruptly severed on Saturday after U.S. military action in Venezuela triggered temporary airspace restrictions…

Petra January 4, 2026

The Sunday Spectator

Eye on The Economy 2025 in Review: How a Weakened US Dollar Shaped Small Island Livelihoods

How a weakening greenback reshaped prices, tourism, and Caribbean economic life The US dollar did not collapse in 2025. But it lost something just as important: its bite. After years…

Petra January 4, 2026

The Sunday Spectator

EYE ON THE ECONOMY – 2026: The Year We Stop Acting Small

As I read Prime Minister Gaston Browne’s New Year’s Address, I felt a philosophy of leadership that sat quietly beneath the words. It was not the script of a government…

Petra January 1, 2026