Threat to kill PM, Wehner charged

May 09, 2017 in Regional

[caption id="attachment_17913" align="alignleft" width="300"] Captain George Wehner[/caption] George Wehner, an aspiring politician for the opposition United Progressive Party (UPP), has been accused of intimidation and threatening to kill several parliamentarians from the ruling Antigua Barbuda Labour Party, including Prime Minister Gaston Browne. The charges, which had not...

18 years for repeated sex with daughter

May 08, 2017 in Regional

A desperate cry to relatives to be rescued from the sexual abuse of her father was made for several years before an adolescent girl was able to get the police involved and her abuser imprisoned. The 44-year-old father of six pleaded guilty to having sex with...

Cops identify body with head cut off

May 05, 2017 in Regional

[caption id="attachment_17884" align="alignleft" width="300"] Police officers at the scene in Ste Madeleine on Thursday.[/caption] POLICE believe they know the identity of the body found in Ste Madeleine on Thursday, with the head cut off. Relatives of Davidson Charles Leben, of 66 St Croix Road, contacted police on...

PM: Kamla opposing because of her ‘mansion’

May 04, 2017 in Regional

Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has accused Opposi­tion Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar of having a personal interest in opposing pro­perty taxation because she “mysteriously built” and now owned a mansion. By contrast, the Prime Minister said he also owns property, but he would be “in the forefront...