St Johns, Antigua, 1st September 2010 – The Caribbean Business Awards is a business recognition awards program based in the Caribbean for the Caribbean focused on emphasizing the often overlooked business acumen of the region in the global market place. Supported by the Caribbean Association of Industry and Commerce (CAIC), entry is open to all businesses; it celebrates excellence, achievement and innovation in the Caribbean business world.

BRADES, Montserrat -- From November 12-14, 2010, literary enthusiasts will come to Montserrat for the second annual literary festival, the Alliouagana Festival of the Word.

With the theme Discovering New Worlds Through Words, the three-day event will bring together acclaimed writers and readers from the Caribbean, North America, United Kingdom and Australia.

Confirmed speakers include award-winning poet and author Kwame Dawes as well as screenwriter and novelist Eric Jerome Dickey.

BRADES, Montserrat (August 31, 2010) – Struggles of the heart, faith and troubled pasts abound in Church Affairs, the debut novel by Montserrat native Theo Semper.

“Church Affairs doesn’t read like a novel from a first time author,” says Jeevan Robinson of mnialive.com. “Semper handles the story like someone with two or three books already under his belt.”

The 300-page book delves into the lives of three ambitious young women Jynene, Shivon, and Stephanie whose journeys become intertwined as they help each other deal with their troubled pasts.

Our youth in Antigua and Barbuda are under tremendous fire, with the negative influences that exist in our society, more should be done to occupy their time positively. August Rush Productions is proud to introduce its newest programme, the Young Poet’s Society of Antigua & Barbuda (YoPoSAB). The purpose of this new initiative is to use poetry as a means of self-expression to help free the restless soul of our youth, while affording them the opportunity to define themselves through the individual creativity of their own words.

Antigua & Barbuda will become the co-ordinating hub for hospitality and tourism in the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) with the establishment of the OECS Centre of Excellence for Hospitality and Tourism training. Executive Director of Antigua & Barbuda Hospitality Training Institute (ABHTI) Calvin Ambrose said the proposal was finalised at an inaugural meeting of the OECS Tourism and Hospitality Task Force in St Lucia recently.

In recent times, the police have expressed satisfaction with the relationship between themselves and the public and this year it is evident in their theme for Police Week, ‘Rising to meet the challenges in partnership with the community.’