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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Xi Jinping’s New Year Message Signals China’s Next Global Chapter –
Technology, culture, climate, and the Global South converge as Beijing enters its 15th Five-Year Plan As fireworks faded across Asia on New Year’s Eve, Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered a message that…
