Richie Rich Sports & Leisure

13/06/2026

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09/06/2026

A great opportunity for our kids in Antigua Barbuda.

06/06/2026

Congratulation, Christopher Taylor on your International Men’s ODI debut at Sabina Park👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿 We are very proud of you👍🏿

22/05/2026

Beachside cocktails taste even better when shared with your girls. Meet us at The Lazy Pelican Bar at The Verandah Antigua. 🍹🌊✨

22/05/2026

A brooch is not a weapon of war. But in diplomacy, symbols are never just symbols. They condense meaning, test boundaries, and reveal who is willing to look away. Brooch diplomacy is not entirely new. A friend reminded me that Madeline Albright (former US Foreign Secretary) wore a snake pin when meeting with Iraqi officials after Saddam Hussein's poet-in-residence described her as an "unparalleled serpent". Vladimir Putin is reputed to have confined to Bill Clinton that Russian diplomats routinely checked to see which brooch Albright decided to wear.

When Venezuela’s acting president, Delcy Rodríguez, appeared at official engagements wearing a brooch that depicted the Essequibo region as Venezuelan territory, she committed a small but precise act of political theatre. That it happened on Caribbean soil, in the presence of CARICOM leaders, and while the Guyana–Venezuela border controversy remains before the International Court of Justice, turned a piece of jewellery into a statement of state policy. Guyana was right to object and CARICOM was right to insist that its platforms must not be used to legitimize claims under active judicial review.

Yet the incident raises a difficult question, why did CARICOM need such a visible provocation to reaffirm a principle that should have been automatic?

Read more: https://abstvradio.com/the-brooch-the-blind-spot-and-caricoms-strategic-reckoning/

22/05/2026

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🏏🇦🇬 Young Antiguan cricketer Matthew Miller is making a strong impression in England as the first recipient of the Antigua & Barbuda–Bede’s School cricket scholarship.

So far this season, Matthew has scored 463 runs, including a century, while also taking 15 wickets — showcasing his all-round talent on the international stage 👏

High Commissioner Karen-Mae Hill praised his progress, noting that his success reflects the importance of creating opportunities for young Antiguans and Barbudans through sport, education, and international partnerships.

Matthew continues to represent Antigua and Barbuda with pride in the UK 🇬🇧

21/05/2026

The state must lead. But no government, alone, can rebuild what families, communities, markets and politics have allowed to crumble.

By Prof. C. Justin Robinson, Pro Vice Chancellor and Principal, UWI Five Islands

On the night of 14 April, in a quiet gap off Spruce Street in Bridgetown, a family was singing happy birthday. Daquan Roberts's grandmother had just turned sixty-three. Daquan was twenty-six, a final-year UWI Cave Hill law student bound for Hugh Wooding. A white van slowed. Several shots were fired. Daquan ran with his father down the gap before he fell. His grandmother watched him die on her birthday.

By the time you finish reading this column, somewhere else in the Caribbean another family begins the same ritual. This is the everyday arithmetic of a region, paradise, one of the deadliest stretches of inhabited earth.

Read more: https://abstvradio.com/a-coffin-in-every-ward-the-reconstruction-we-owe-the-dead/

21/05/2026

Some villas have a sea view. This one has the sea. The stunning 5 bedroom Rock Cottage at Blue Waters.

21/05/2026