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	Antigua and Barbuda legislative election, 2004 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Legislative elections were held in Antigua and Barbuda on March 23, 2004.
		The elections resulted in the defeat of the Antigua Labour Party, which had been in power since independence in 1981, by the United Progressive Party.
		Remark: Voting for the seat representing Barbuda was held on ended in a draw between Barbuda People's Movement (an ally of United Progressive Party) and the Barbuda People's Movement for Change (an ally of the Antigua Labour Party), which both got exactly 400 votes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Antigua_and_Barbuda_legislative_election,_2004 (456 words)

	Background Notes Archive - Western Hemisphere
		Antigua and Barbuda has a bicameral legislature: a 17-member Senate appointed by the governor general--mainly on the advice of the prime minister and the leader of the opposition--and a 17-member popularly elected House of Representatives.
		Antigua and Barbuda is a beneficiary of the U.S. Caribbean Basin Initiative.
		Antigua and Barbuda is strategically situated in the Leeward Islands near maritime transport lanes of major importance to the United States.
	dosfan.lib.uic.edu /ERC/bgnotes/wha/antigua9704.html (2087 words)

	Antigua and Barbuda (11/03)
		As head of state, Queen Elizabeth II is represented in Antigua and Barbuda by a governor general who acts on the advice of the prime minister and the cabinet.
		Antigua and Barbuda has a bicameral legislature: a 17-member Senate appointed by the governor general -- mainly on the advice of the prime minister and the leader of the opposition -- and a 17-member popularly elected House of Representatives.
		The prime minister is the leader of the majority party in the House and conducts affairs of state with the cabinet.
	www.state.gov /outofdate/bgn/a/34674.htm (1527 words)

	History of Antigua and Barbuda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Antigua was first inhabited by the Siboney ("stone people") whose settlements date at least to 2400 BC.
		The Antigua Labor Party (ALP), formed by Bird and other trade unionists, first ran candidates in the 1946 elections and became the majority party in 1951 beginning a long history of electoral victories.
		To address these problems, the U.S. and Antigua and Barbuda have signed a series of counter-narcotic and counter-crime treaties and agreements, including a maritime law enforcement agreement (1995), subsequently amended to include overflight and order-to-land provisions (1996); a bilateral extradition treaty (1996); and a mutual legal assistance treaty (1996).
	www.historyofnations.net /northamerica/antiguaandbarbuda.html (451 words)

	Antigua and Barbuda. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Antigua is a hilly island with a heavily indented coast, while Barbuda is a flat coral island dominated by a large lagoon on its western side.
		Antigua was sighted by Columbus in 1493 and named for a Spanish church in Seville.
		Antigua, with Barbuda and Redonda as dependencies, became an associated state of the Commonwealth in 1967 and achieved full independence within the Commonwealth in 1981.
	www.bartleby.com /65/an/AntiguaN.html (354 words)

	United Progressive Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For the main governing party in Antigua and Barbuda, see United Progressive Party (Antigua and Barbuda).
		For the historic party in Bangladesh, see United Progressive Party (Bangladesh).
		For the short-lived party in New Zealand that was reconstituted as the Christian Democrats, see Christian Democrat Party (New Zealand).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_Progressive_Party (151 words)

	Comparative Criminology \| North America - Antigua and Barbuda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The prime minister is the leader of the party that holds the majority of seats in the House; the opposition leader is the representative, appointed by the governor general, who appears to have the greatest support of those members opposed to the majority government.
		The elected Council for Barbuda is the organ of self-government.
		Marijuana is grown to a lesser extent in Antigua and Barbuda and in Grenada.
	www-rohan.sdsu.edu /faculty/rwinslow/namerica/antiguabarbuda.html (5265 words)

	Antigua and Barbuda (08/05)
		Antigua and Barbuda has a multiparty political system with a long history of hard-fought elections, three of which have resulted in peaceful changes of government.
		Antigua and Barbuda's service-based economy grew by 5.2% in 2004, with tourism, financial services, and government services as the key sources of employment and income.
		Antigua and Barbuda's currency is the Eastern Caribbean Dollar (EC$), a regional currency shared among members of the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU).
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/2336.htm (2034 words)

	Caribbean Net News: Antigua & Barbuda
		MARBLE HILL, Antigua: As Antigua and Barbuda marked its 24th Independence Anniversary on Tuesday, the nation's police force is faced with strong criticism and charges that they are losing the war on crime, especially in the light of last weekend's attack of the President of the Senate, in which she was allegedly raped and robbed...
		MARBLE HILL, Antigua: Police in Antigua are at this moment carrying out investigations into a crime which has shocked and further angered the nation when it was revealed by local media early Friday morning that the President of the Senate, Hazelyn Francis, was attacked while at her home, where she was reportedly raped and robbed...
		MARBLE HILL, Antigua: As investigations continue in Antigua into the attack on the President of the Senate, in which she was reportedly raped and robbed in the small hours of last Friday morning, the country's Justice Minister, Senator Colin Derrick joined Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer and other government officials in condemning the attack...
	www.caribbeannetnews.com /antigua/antigua-barbuda.htm (5183 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Americas \| Country profiles \| Country profile: Antigua and Barbuda
		Antigua and Barbuda is considered to be one of the Caribbean's most prosperous nations, thanks to its tourism industry and offshore financial services sector.
		For decades Antigua and Barbuda's politics was dominated by the Bird family, with Vere Bird being the country's prime minister from independence in 1981 until 1994, when he was succeeded by his son, Lester, who spent a decade in office.
		Antigua and Barbuda, once described by the US as a centre for money laundering, was recognised by an international task force in 2001 as being "fully cooperative" in the fight against the activity.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/country_profiles/1191111.stm (491 words)

	The UPP Party - Government in the Sunshine
		(St. John's Antigua, Friday July 02, 2004) - Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda and Chairman of the Caribbean Community CARICOM, the Hon.
		Alfred North Whitehead once said: “The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.” ‘Change’ is therefore the watchword of progression.
		It is against this background that the United Progressive Party outlined its Agenda for Change in the 2004 Manifesto, designed to usher in Government in the Sunshine and which provides the foundation for the Budget of 2004....."
	www.uppantigua.ag (446 words)

	EUROPA - Development - Countries - Antigua and Barbuda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		On the regional front, Antigua and Barbuda is a member of CARICOM (the Caribbean Community) and the Association of Caribbean States (ACS), as well as CDERA (Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency) and the OAS (Organisation of American States).
		Antigua and Barbuda is also a member of the OECS, having established a single monetary area, a common currency (the Eastern Caribbean Dollar) and a common central bank (the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank).
		Antigua and Barbuda is a known destination for European tourists.
	europa.eu.int /comm/development/body/country/country_home_en.cfm?cid=ag&lng=en&status=new (1366 words)

	BBC Caribbean
		Antigua goes to the polls on Tuesday March 23 and BBC Caribbean Service spoke with Baldwin Spencer, the leader of the opposition United Progressive Party which is challenging the ruling Antigua Labour Party headed by Lester Bird.
		The Antigua opposition leader is confidently predicting that his party will win 12 of the 17 seats in the election.
		And that is one of the issues here, the whole question of whether Antigua and Barbuda's economy is being properly managed with a EC$2.6 billion debt and with a number of other things not operating in the best interest of the people of Antigua and Barbuda.
	bbc.co.uk /caribbean/news/story/2004/03/040319_antigua-spencer.shtml (1232 words)

	The High Commission of Antigua and Barbuda. Tourism, travel, business, politics, finance and investments.
		My party’s election on the 23rd of March, this year, ended the rule of a universally known family dynasty that had ruled Antigua and Barbuda for fully 28 unbroken years for an aggregate of fifty odd years.
		The United Progressive Party was swept into office with more than 55 percent of the popular vote and with an overwhelming majority of the seats in parliament.
		An adequate response from the United States to the plight of these two disaster areas would be a quantum leap to recovery and reconstruction for Grenada and Haiti and the best option to ease the suffering of the battered and distressed people of those two countries.
	www.antigua-barbuda.com /business_politics/prime_minister/pm_Speech_USCongress.asp (831 words)

	ANTIGUA & BARBUDA'S HISTORIC SITES
		The tropical islands of Antigua and Barbuda are located in the heart of the Caribbean about a thousand miles to the east of Jamaica and half that distance from Trinidad on the coast of south America.
		Antigua boasts the largest expanse of freshwater in the whole of the Caribbean with a lake nearly two miles long by a mile wide.
		Redonda is a remnant of a volcanic cone and is one of the smallest islands in the chain of the Lesser Antilles.
	www.antiguamuseums.org /Historical.htm (7104 words)

	Antigua and Barbuda -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The Antigua Labour Party (ALP) was swept out of office in a historic general election in March 2004 and replaced by the United Progressive Party (UPP).
		Even ALP leader Lester Bird, whose family had ruled Antigua and Barbuda since independence in 1981, lost his seat, with the UPP grabbing 12 of the 17 electoral districts.
		A constitutional monarchy and member of the Commonwealth, Antigua and Barbuda comprises the islands of Antigua, Barbuda, and Redonda in the eastern Caribbean Sea.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9398280 (754 words)

	Foreign & Commonwealth Office Country Profiles
		In 1967, with Barbuda and the tiny island of Redonda as dependencies, Antigua became an associated state of the Commonwealth, and in 1981 it gained independence as a unitary state, despite a strong campaign for separate independence by the inhabitants of Barbuda.
		Antigua and Barbuda is also a member of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) which is in the process of establishing a single market and economy.
		DfID gave Antigua and Barbuda a £3 million grant in 1997 to fund development projects for education and health services, in recognition of the strain imposed by the estimated 3,000 Montserratian refugees (now believed to be about 1200).
	www.fco.gov.uk /servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1007029394365&a=KCountryProfile&aid=1019233966230 (1760 words)

	BBC Caribbean (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		But the main opposition United Progressive Party, who filed the lawsuit against the Antigua and Barbuda Electoral Commission, says it was not their intention to bar the potential voter from exercising their franchise.
		Lawyers representing the United Progressive Party say they want a judge to determine if the supervisor of elections, Lorna Simon, was right in her interpretation that the names of 1,056 people could be included on the voters register.
		Meanwhile, the governing Antigua Labour Party says it's bewildered at what it termed "appalling arrangements" made by the electoral commission for people to collect their voter ID cards.
	www.bbc.co.uk /caribbean/news/story/2004/03/printable/040319_antigua-caseadjourn.shtml (376 words)

	UHSA :: "New" Medical School in Antigua (Life or Memorex?) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The position of the new ruling United Progressive Party government in Antigua regarding Mount St. John’s Medical Center (the proposed new hospital) differs to that of the previous Antigua Labor Party government.
		Wilson Baldwin Spencer was sworn in to office as the new Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda on March 24th, 2004.
		The new ruling United Progressive Party government would need to look into the signed executive order as well as the background of the owner of the "New" medical school, in an effort to protect the reputation of Antigua and Barbuda that has been tinted by fraudulent activities from various investors.
	www.uhsa.ag /oic/auamed/comments-03-26-04.htm (927 words)

	Caribbean Net News: Antigua Labour Party says Opposition Leader "may be living on another planet"
		ST JOHN'S, Antigua: According to a statement released by the Antigua Labour Party, the Leader of the United Progressive Party (UPP) Mr Baldwin Spencer insulted the people of Antigua and Barbuda in his weekly broadcast on Sunday by suggesting that they were little better than Haitians.
		The Antigua Labour Party said this wild claim by Mr Spencer does not stand-up to scrutiny and is an insult to the people of Antigua and Barbuda for which he should apologise.
		"The reality is that Antigua and Barbuda performed well this year with economic growth of almost 4 per cent, low unemployment, relatively high wages, low inflation and a stable and democratic environment with lower crime than elsewhere in the Caribbean", the Labour Party said.
	www.caribbeannetnews.com /2003/12/31/alp.htm (425 words)

	Antigua and Barbuda
		Antigua is the largest of the Leeward Islands; Redonda is an uninhabited island of volcanic rock rising to 305 m/1,000 ft
		Tel: 462 0008/9; fax: 462 2806 Chamber of commerce Antigua and Barbuda Chamber of Commerce and Industry Ltd, Redcliffe Street, POB 774, St John's.
		The country is made up of three islands — Antigua, Barbuda, and the uninhabited Redonda.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/countryfacts/antiguaandbarbuda.html (380 words)

	BBC Caribbean
		United Progressive Party (UPP) leader Baldwin Spencer has been sworn in as Antigua and Barbuda's prime minister after defeating Lester Bird’s Antigua Labour Party (ALP).
		For the better part of 10 years this government has had to be borrowing money to make up the wage bill for the public sector because of that it has not had enough funds to deal with the infrastructure and the reconstruction of the social services," Mr Grant said.
		Scandals in recent years have centred on allegations of bribery, misuse of and missing funds in the national health insurance plan, and a 13-year-old girl's charges that Mr Bird and his brother used her for sex and to procure cocaine.
	www.bbc.co.uk /caribbean/news/story/2004/03/040324_antiguaresults.shtml (539 words)

	Antigua & Barbuda
		After progressing through the islands most to windward, which came to be known as the Windwards, these ships rounded off their voyages with the islands most to leeward--Montserrat, Antigua, Barbuda, St. Christopher (hereafter, St. Kitts), Nevis, Anguilla, and the Virgin Islands, among others.
		The political parties that grew out of unionism came to dominate government in the Leewards, especially after the granting of universal adult suffrage in 1951.
		Although the power of the laborbased parties was eventually diminished by factionalism and the rise of middle-class opposition groups (especially in St. Kitts and Nevis), their political influence has endured.
	www.onlinelearning.net /instructors/smurr/LatAm/Carib/antga&barda.html (3532 words)

	Antigua Sun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Among the losers would be Prime Minister Lester Bird of the ruling Antigua Labour Party (ALP), who would relinquish the St. John's Rural East constituency to Dr. Errol Cort of the United Progressive Party (UPP).
		Across all demographic variables, when asked if election were held today which party the respondents would vote for, the ALP has at this point a lead only in Barbuda for the 12 constituencies.
		This is also borne out in a progressive increase in the main opposition support in the 1994 and 1999 elections over the ALP when compared with the same and preceding elections,(see figure 9).
	www.antiguasun.com /paper?as=view&an=472142096011202003&ac=Local (2054 words)

	Budget Address 2004
		Madam Speaker, this is the Antigua and Barbuda we have inherited.
		It is our intention through dialogue and moral suasion to encourage the commercial banks in Antigua and Barbuda to allocate a more substantial proportion of their loan portfolio for risk financing, especially in the areas of agriculture, agro-processing and small business development.
		The United Progressive Party Government will govern the affairs of this country in an open, transparent and accountable manner, in keeping with the provisions of the Constitution of Antigua and Barbuda.
	www.cmatt.com /sunshine_news/budget_address_2004.htm (5143 words)

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