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July 29th, 2010 …St. Johns, Antigua: As part of the on-going UN HABITAT Participatory Slum Upgrading Programme (PSUP), the steering committee in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, Lands, Housing & the Environment will be executing a questionnaire survey, from August 4th to 6th.

This exercise earmarked for the St. John’s City Centre, Point, Gray’s Farm - Green Bay communities and All Saints Village areas is aimed at capturing the views and opinions of residents on the selected eight themes, pertinent to the living standards in the target communities.

Carnival and tourism have an intrinsic bond and the common factor is people.

And there could not be any better manifestation of this than what has been done by the organisers of the opening parade for this year’s festival to a Scottish couple.

When chairperson Dulcie Looby –Greene was thinking about someone to carry the banner under the theme: ‘Carnival uniting people’, a vision struck her.

What about that duo who have been coming to the festival for the past 15 years, dancing all-night long at Lions – the Den for Carnival dances – and making themselves happy.

Regional stakeholders in the agriculture policy process meet in Trinidad to develop a medium term strategy for the Caribbean Agricultural Regional Policy Network (CaRAPN) which seeks to support the agriculture policy process in the Caribbean.

July 28, 2010, Port Of Spain, Trinidad …The meeting to develop a Medium Term Strategy for the Caribbean Regional Agricultural Policy Network (CaRAPN) began in Trinidad with a call for an integrated and harmonized regional policy framework towards the reduction of food importation into CARICOM countries.

St John's 28th July : In February of this year the A.H.T.A. and the A.B.W.U. introduced a retirement fund for all the hotel employees covered the the AHTA Collective agreement. Realizing the importance of providing for the financial well being of hotel workers a thrift fund was set up with the ABI Bank to provide a financial cushion after retirement. Since February workers in the member hotels have been contributing 2.5% of their base salaries which has been matched by their employers.

The Mount Obama Committee will be launching its official website and logo on August 15, 2010.

Since the Dedication/Renaming ceremony of Boggy peak to Mount Obama in August 2009, the Committee has engaged in the planning and related activities needed to establish and manage the Mount Obama National Park.

St John's 26th July 2010 - RBC Royal Bank of Canada today made a donation to Crime Stoppers Antigua as part of its continued campaign to give back to the community. Kathie Antonio, Account Officer together with Robin Shaw, Country Manager for Antigua and Montserrat handed over a cheque to Crime Stoppers Antigua Chairman Neil Forrester at a short ceremony at the bank 's headquarters on High & Market Streets .