Turning Out The Lights, The Party's Over!

Having hounded and driven out the editors of Caribarena.com amid death threats, cyber-attacks and intimidation, and having jailed the internationally recognised local journalist Ian "Magic" Hughes on trumped up charges, the Government of Antigua & Barbuda has now turned its attention to the Observer Media Group.

The Group is the only remaining independent provider of news to and about Antigua, by way of its Observer Radio and what used to be a daily newspaper, The Daily Observer.

With non-payment of invoiced notices, and "suggestions" to private entities to stop advertising with the Observer Media, the government had already succeeded in reducing the publication of The Daily Observer from its usual six issues a week, to three.