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5 unusual facts about Antiguan


At the Bottom of the River

It explores the mystery and danger of an Antiguan night from the perspective of an adolescent girl.

Kareem Valentine

Kareem Valentine (b. 11 October 1992) is an Antiguan swimmer.

Kool DJ Red Alert

Red, who is of Antiguan heritage, also had a small hip hop management company in the late 1980s called Red Alert Productions, which managed the careers of Native Tongues acts such as the Jungle Brothers, A Tribe Called Quest, and Monie Love.

MV Cita

The incident happened just after 3 am when the German-owned, Antiguan-registered 3,000 tonne vessel hit Newfoundland Point, St Mary's.

Studiation Brown

James "Studiation" Brown was an Antiguan businesss man and political activist who played a leadership role in the labour unrest in Antigua in 1918.


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Great Bird Island, Antigua

As well as being the last refuge of the Antiguan Racer, it is also home to a variety of other endangered creatures including the rare lizard Ameiva griswoldi, Brown Pelicans (Pelecanus occidentalis), West Indian Whistling Ducks and Red-billed Tropicbirds (Phaethon aethereus).

Molwyn Joseph

Despite a scandal surrounding donations he had received from Texan businessman Robert Stafford, Joseph was selected to contest the seat of St Mary's North in the 2004 Antiguan general election, in which the ALP lost power, being replaced in government by the United Progressive Party (UPP) led by Baldwin Spencer.

Monarchy of Antigua and Barbuda

The current Antiguan and Barbudian monarchy can trace its ancestral lineage back to the Anglo-Saxon and Merovingian periods, and ultimately back to the kings of the Angles, the early Scottish kings, and the Frankish kingdom of Clovis I.

Vere Bird

The Antiguan author Jamaica Kincaid compared the Bird government to the François Duvalier dictatorship in Haiti in her politically charged narrative A Small Place.


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