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Tropical Storm Irene approached hurricane strength and barreled toward Puerto Rico early Monday after hitting St. Croix, packing heavy rains and winds that closed airports and flooded low-lying areas in the Leeward Islands.
A pristine stretch of beach in Antigua and Barbuda once frequented by Princess Diana and her young sons will soon bear the name of the late British royal, officials said Wednesday.
A Caribbean appeals court ruled Wednesday that Antigua and Barbuda's prime minister and two other ruling-party lawmakers were properly elected last year, apparently ending attempts to call fresh elections.
A judge ruled Wednesday that Antigua's prime minister and two other lawmakers were improperly elected last year, a decision potentially threatening the governing party's narrow hold on power in this Caribbean country.
A 24-year-old man from Dominica has been arrested as a suspect in the killing of a San Francisco woman during a cruise stopover to celebrate her sister's wedding, police said Sunday.
Disgraced Texas financier R. Allen Stanford is being stripped of his knighthood in the Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda, the head of the government panel that approves the awards said Monday.
A lawyer for the former Antiguan financial regulator who is accused in the alleged $7 billion swindle by Texas billionaire R. Allen Stanford says his client has been released on bond.
Antigua's ruling party will stay in power, but with a narrower margin in parliament, the Electoral Commission said Friday, following an election shadowed by U.S. fraud allegations against R. Allen Stanford.
Antigua's Senate voted Friday to seize R. Allen Stanford's property, setting up a possible showdown with a court-appointed receiver who is securing the billionaire's assets for investors in his allegedly fraudulent offshore bank scheme.
Antigua's prime minister says parliament will reconvene to deal with fallout from allegations of fraud against R. Allen Stanford, the country's largest private employer.
Caribbean leaders said Saturday that they will push regional banks to provide more loans to builders and exporters, boosting jobs and trade to counter the world economic crisis.
A man and a teenager were charged Monday with the murders of a British couple who were shot in their resort cottage on the last day of their honeymoon, police in this Caribbean island said.
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