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  Politics of Antigua and Barbuda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
Antigua and Barbuda has a multiparty political system with a long history of hard fought elections, two of which have resulted in peaceful changes of government.
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 antigua and barbuda 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Antigua and Barbuda is an island nation located in the eastern Caribbean Sea on the boundary with the Atlantic Ocean.
Antigua and Barbuda are part of the Lesser Antilles with the island of Guadeloupe to the south, Montserrat to the southwest, Saint Kitts and Nevis to the west and Saint Barthélemy to the northwest.
Antigua and Barbuda is a Commonwealth Realm and the head of state is Queen Elizabeth II, who is represented in Antigua and Barbuda by a governor general.
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 Encyclopedia: Antigua and Barbuda
Antigua and Barbuda are part of the Lesser Antilles archipelago with the archepelago of Guadeloupe to the south, Montserrat to the southwest, Saint Kitts and Nevis to the west and Saint Barthélemy and Saint Martin to the northwest.
Main article: Politics of Antigua and Barbuda Government The Queen of Antigua and Barbuda 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.
Saint Mary is a parish of Antigua and Barbuda on the island of Antigua.
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 Antigua and Barbuda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Antigua (pronounced An-tee'ga) and Barbuda are located in the middle of the Leeward Islands in the Eastern Caribbean, roughly 17 degrees north of the equator.
Antigua and Barbuda are part of the Lesser Antilles archipelago with the archipelago of Guadeloupe to the south, Montserrat to the southwest, Saint Kitts and Nevis to the west and Saint Barthélemy and Saint Martin to the northwest.
Antigua and Barbuda is a member of the Caribbean Community, United Nations, Commonwealth of Nations, Organization of American States, Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States, and the Eastern Caribbean's Regional Security System.
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The people of Antigua and Barbuda are mainly of African descent, their fore-mothers and fathers were brought as slaves in the 17th and 18th centuries from the West Coast of Africa.
In Antigua and Barbuda, co-education is the policy in primary and secondary schools, both public and private, and the teaching staff is mixed, both male and female.
Antigua and Barbuda's national sports include cricket, football and dominoes which are male dominant and basketball, tennis and netball are played by both sexes.
www.un.org /esa/gopher-data/ga/cedaw/17/country/Antigua/C-ANT1-3.EN   (5889 words)

  
 Antigua and Barbuda Article, AntiguaandBarbuda Information
Antigua and Barbuda is an island nation located inthe eastern Caribbean Sea on the boundary with the Atlantic Ocean.
Antigua and Barbuda are part of the Lesser Antilles with the island of Guadeloupe to thesouth, Montserrat to the southwest, Saint Kitts and Nevis to the west and Saint Barthélemy to the northwest.
Antigua and Barbuda is a Commonwealth Realm and the head of state is Queen Elizabeth II, who is represented in Antigua and Barbuda bya governor general.
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 Antigua and Barbuda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Antigua and Barbuda are part of the Lesser Antilles archipelago with the island of Guadeloupe to the south, Montserrat to the southwest, Saint Kitts and Nevis to the west and Saint Barthélemy to the northwest.
The small country's main town is the capital Saint John's on Antigua; Barbuda's largest town is.
Antigua and Barbuda is a member of the Caribbean Community, United Nations, Commonwealth of Nations, Organization of American States, Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States, and the Eastern Caribbean's.
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Antigua and Barbuda is an island nation 9 located in the 7 eastern Caribbean Sea on 6 the boundary with the 4 Atlantic Ocean.
Antigua 9 and Barbuda are part 5 of the Lesser Antilles 6 with the island 0 of Guadeloupe to the 6 south, Montserrat to 1 the southwest, Saint 9 Kitts and Nevis 0 to the west and 1 Saint Barthélemy to 8 the northwest.
The Siboney were the first 1 to inhabit the islands 2 of Antigua and Barbuda 4 in 2400 BC, but 7 Arawak and Carib 2 Amerindian tribes populated 1 the islands when Christopher 8 Columbus landed on his 5 second voyage in 1493.
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 Elections in Antigua and Barbuda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Elections in Antigua and Barbuda gives information on election and election results in Antigua and Barbuda.
Antigua and Barbuda elects on national level a legislature.
Antigua and Barbuda has a two-party system, which means that there are two dominant political parties, with extreme difficulty for anybody to achieve electoral success under the banner of any other party.
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 Antigua and Barbuda - Government and Politics
In defining the territory of Antigua and Barbuda, the Constitution includes not only the territory as recognized upon independence but also other areas that may in the future be declared by an act of Parliament to form part of the territory.
The elected Council for Barbuda is the organ of self-government.
Although the labor union and the political party that stemmed from it were considered to be democratic, power was concentrated in the president, the general secretary, the treasurer, and the eight-member executive council elected at each annual convention.
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 A short history of Antigua and Barbuda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Antigua is first inhabited by the Siboney whose settlements date at least to 2400 BC.
After Spanish and French attempts to settle on the island, England establishes in 1632 the colony of Antigua, which is from 1671 to 1816 and from 1833 to 1960 part the Leeward Islands.
This is followed by internal self-government when Antigua becomes a part of the British West Indies in 1958.
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 BBC NEWS | 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.
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 Antigua and Barbuda History - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, ...
The islands of Antigua and Barbuda form a small nation whose strategic importance is greater than its size.
The Antigua sugar industry was severely jolted in the 1930s, as the dramatic decline in the price of sugar that resulted from the Great Depression coincided with a severe drought that badly damaged the island's sugar crop.
During the period of associated statehood (1967-81), Antigua saw the rise of a second labor union and its affiliated political party and the beginnings of a secessionist movement in Barbuda, as well as the replacement of sugar by tourism as the dominant force in the economy.
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 ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Antigua and Barbuda, or simply Antigua, as the country is mainly known, became independent from Britain in 1981.
One source states, however, that the fertility decline in Antigua was not about education so much as "the conjunction of new educational and employment opportunities for women...", itself part of the structural transformation in the Antiguan economy, freeing women from dependency on their children and on men.
While the Antigua government report states, rather dismissively, that "non-marital unions are mainly to be found in the lower socio-economic strata...,"29 children born outside of registered marriage constitute a majority of the population, and it is precisely this equation between illegitimacy and subordinate status that the legislation seeks to redress.
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 VERE BIRD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Former Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Vere Cornwall Bird, who died here on Monday evening, was a member of an elite group of militant trade unionists who blazed a trail through colonial times up to or near political independence of the Caribbean countries.
The union entered electoral politics for the first time in 1946 and Bird won, in a by-election, a seat in the legislature and was appointed a member of the Executive Council.
Out of the split, the Antigua Workers Union was formed and later the Progressive Labour Movement (PLM), and Bird was forced to resign as president of the ATLU on the grounds that he could not hold that post and still be premier.
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Antigua and Barbuda and Dominica were seen to be the worst performers in the region, thus, it was recommended that the IMF would have to be engaged in serious investigations, before a stabilization programme could be introduced.
Frances Beazer, chairperson of the BPM, the political leader of the UPP Baldwin Spencer and the BPM's candidate on Barbuda Trevor Walker.
Political pundits have pointed to a noticeable silence in the country, given the fact that general elections is a mere weeks away.
www.worldcaribbeanlink.com /antiguapoliticsD03toF04.htm   (17625 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 became independent as a unitary state, despite a strong campaign for independence by the inhabitants of Barbuda.
Antigua and Barbuda has had uneven economic performance for several years, largely because of recurrent large fiscal deficits which resulted in a build-up of arrears and continuing loss of access to external financing.
Antigua and Barbuda is also a member of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) which is in the process of establishing a single market and economy.
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 Antigua and Barbuda
Antigua and Barbuda is a multiparty, parliamentary democracy and a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
This radio station, operated by the owners of the Observer newspaper, is accessible to political and religious groups of all persuasions, and is utilized occasionally by the Government.
There are no impediments to participation by women in government and politics; however, the percentage of women in government and politics does not correspond to their percentage of the population.
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 Barbados   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Antigua and Barbuda is considered one of the Caribbean's most prosperous nations, thanks to its tourism industry and a growing offshore financial services sector.
For nearly four decades Antigua and Barbuda's politics has been dominated by the Bird family, with Vere Bird being the country's prime minister from independence in 1981 until he was succeeded by his son, Lester, in 1994.
Antigua and Barbuda has also been described by the US as a major center for money laundering by drug traffickers and Russian criminal gangs.
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 Fan The Flame by Leonard Tim Hector   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
There were two changes of government in Antigua and Barbuda for all of its history.
In Antigua, the stunning growth of wages in the 60's and early 70's came to a halt in 1973 to 1976.
The reality of Antigua and Barbuda, shows that there is not a single class which is affected by politics.
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 Antigua and Barbuda
Antigua and Barbuda was invited by the Community of Democracies' (CD) Convening Group to attend the November 2002 second CD Ministerial Meeting in Seoul, Republic of Korea, as a participant.
The Antigua and Barbuda Human Rights Association, chaired by a lecturer at the University of the West Indies, met sporadically.
There were two major trade unions: The Antigua and Barbuda Trades and Labour Union (ATLU) and the Antigua and Barbuda Workers' Union (AWU).
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 Caribbean Net News: Politics at the Crossroads in Antigua and Barbuda
JOHN'S, Antigua: The political landscape in Antigua and Barbuda appears to be at the crossroads as the people of the twin-island nation seek to put into place a government that does justice to the country as a whole.
When quizzed by sections of the media, on the appointment of the new ministers, Spencer's response was, "we are looking for effectiveness and we are looking to ensure that the people who were given the opportunity to be elected and others who can make a contribution will be given the opportunity to do so.
On the other hand, political observers are of the view that the ALP would have to move and do so quickly to get its house in order, since the party was knocked a sunder in the last election.
www.caribbeannetnews.com /2005/01/10/crossroads.shtml   (629 words)

  
 Politics and Government in Antigua and Barbuda.
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.
Elections must be held at least every 5 years but may be called by the prime minister at any time.
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.
www.antigua-barbuda.com /seo-antigua-barbuda/politics-government.asp   (184 words)

  
 Fan The Flame by Leonard Tim Hector   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
That is why he is the alternative leader of Antigua and Barbuda, posing an opposite style, urging morality, that is, accountability in public affairs.
He decided that one thing Antigua and Barbuda could not afford in the nineties, is the polarisation of this society, into two mutually hostile camps.
V.C. Bird on his retirement after 50 years - 51 to be exact - in the politics of Antigua and Barbuda, for better or for worse, went out on a note of national unity, with the opposition joining in the acclamation.
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 Antigua and Barbuda - Unipedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 Antigua and Barbuda News
Antigua and Barbuda News continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
Windward Islands Airways International Winair re-commenced twice-daily one-stop flights via Antigua to the British dependency of Montserrat on Monday morning, heralding a new chapter for the island, as it is...
A Stamford artist who was facing deportation can stay in the United States because a forced move to Antigua and Barbuda would create extreme hardship for his family, a federal judge...
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 Antigua and Barbuda - RSCI, The Science Classification Index   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Antigua and Barbuda - RSCI, The Science Classification Index
The islands of Barbuda and Redonda each enjoy dependency status.
CIA - The World Factbook -- Antigua and Barbuda (http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ac.html) - CIA's Factbook on Antigua and Barbuda
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 Antigua and Barbuda page
A good example of a small political entity ruled by a dominant party: the Antigua Labour Party.
On independence the leading trade unionist, V.C. Bird, became prime minister and remained in office, except for a five year gap, until 1994.
Antigua may refute this, as the actual experience is spectacular corruption and what is known there as "dirty politics", though the political violence typical of Jamaica is not reported.
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