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 This past the weekend at the Württembergischer Yacht Club (WYC) in Friedrichshafen Germany, fifteen J70 class teams from around the Lake Constance area, Switzerland and Austria competed in the 4th Antigua Barbuda Trophy Challenge sponsored by Antigua & Barbuda Tourism Authority.

 After six races in conditions very different to Antigua & Barbuda, one of three competing Württemberg Yacht Club (WYC) teams battled to victory. Brothers Dennis and Kevin Mehlig, Yannick Hafner and Christian Severens were winners on Jai.  This is the third time a team from WYC emerged victorious, even though this year’s edition of the Antigua and Barbuda Challenge will go down in the books as being held during the most challenging conditions. The wind ranging from 12 – 25 knots, heavy rain showers combined with low temperatures made for tough J70 racing. The prevailing sentiment at the end of the day was “wet, cold and exhausted”. 

Leading throughout each of the races, the Jai team definitely appreciated the Grand prize which gives them the opportunity to fly to Antigua and race at Antigua Sailing Week 2023 in bareboat comfort on a Dream Yacht Charter while basking in Antiguan sunshine and navigating in Caribbean tradewinds. 

To complete the prize, regatta entry, dockage at Nelson’s Dockyard and private dedicated Wi-fi from Axxess Marine are all included during the 2023 event which is scheduled for April 29 – May 5.  

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Events and Marketing Manager Rana Jamila-Lewis and Sean Matthew from the UK Antigua and Barbuda Tourism Authority Office presenting the grand prize to team Kai

Second place went to the Swiss team Julian Flessati (RC Bodensee), Jonathan Rutishauser, Stefan Ammann and Stefan Zurfluh.  Third in this ranking were the all women’s crew from German Touring Yacht Club – Tutzing (DTYC) with Anna Seidl, Moni Linder, Laura Fischer and Ann-Christin Goliass. Their prizes consisted of KH+P Yacht Charter discounts to book into ASW 2023 should they wish to join their friends.

Anna Seidel Left and Dennis Mehlig right receive their awards for outstanding male and female skippers courtesy Locman Italy. 

Awards for outstanding male and female skipper skippers were given to Dennis Mehlig and Anna Seidel respectively. For that distinction each were presented with a Locman Italy luxury timepiece.

Mona Küppers, President of the German Sailing Association, also in attendance for the award ceremony at the Württemberg Yacht Club, said to the participants “I think it’s great that you are leaving well-trodden paths,”  she commented on the award and the “Antigua and Barbuda Challenge,” which is embedded in a ranking regatta of a on design class. “Every boat that is on the water helps make the world a little more beautiful and colorful.”

Antigua Sailing Weeks Events and Marketing Manager attended the event and commented, “The previous winners who attended ASW 2022 did a magnificent job of chronicling their  experiences and it appears to have built a genuine excitement about ASW 2023. The buzz is definitely spreading throughout their network of elite athletes that ASW is an opportunity to get away for some serious fun in the sun.”

Alongside the Antigua and Barbuda Challenge, Interboot Boat Show was taking place. Rana Lewis joined KH + P Yacht Charter on their stand along with Antigua and Barbuda Tourism Authority representative Sean Matthew. Over the long weekend there were multiple presentations made about Antigua and Barbuda by Sean Matthew and KH+P YachtCharter principal Hartmut Holtman giving visitors to the show an opportunity to learn more about the destination and Antigua Sailing Week.

 Rana Jamila-Lewis, ASW Events and Marketing Manager, at Interboot in Friederichshafen, Germany.

Today sees the Road to 2023 promotion move to the Royal Southern Yacht Club in Hamble, Uk where more than 55 boats are registered for the chance to win the third in the promotional prizes to race at Antigua Sailing Week.

President of Antigua Sailing Week, Alison Sly-Adams says, ‘It is with thanks to the Antigua and Barbuda Tourism Authority, along with our event sponsors Dream Yacht Charters, Nelsons Dockyard Marina, Falmouth Harbour Marina, Axxess Marine and Locman Italy that we are able to offer this phenomenal prize. We appreciate their support not just during Antigua Sailing Week, but the confidence to take the promotion on the road and continue to promote Antigua and Barbuda as the Yachting Capital of the Caribbean.” 

ANTIGUA SAILING WEEK

Antigua Sailing Week, considered one of the Caribbean’s most prestigious regattas, is held annually at the end of April and the 54th edition will commence with the Round Antigua Race on Saturday, April 29, 2022. Following that will be five days of competitive racing off the rugged south coast of Antigua, wrapping up on Friday, May 5, 2023.

For full details on Antigua Sailing Week and the Round Antigua Race including news, photos, videos and results, visit the official website:http://www.sailingweek.com.

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The Russian aggression against Ukraine was among issues discussed on Thursday by Prime Minister the Hon. Gaston Browne and President of the Republic of Slovenia, HE Mr. Borut Pahor on the margins of the General Debate of the 77th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) being held here in New York.

A few weeks ago, President Pahor communicated great interest in meeting Prime Minister Browne to urgently discuss the state of play of global peace and security, sustainable energy and the food crisis created by the Russian/Ukrainian war.

During the meeting, Prime Minister Browne took the opportunity to raise the issue of blacklisting and the unilateral measures on CARICOM countries.

PM Browne strongly advocated that consultations should be held with CARICOM,  before measures are imposed on small island developing states of the Caribbean Community.

The country’s leader also called on President Pahor for Slovenia to advocate for Small States, especially Antigua and Barbuda,  within the European Union.

He also made a call on Slovenia to advocate within the EU for the use of a Multidimensional Vulnerability Index (MVI).

Many SIDS have persistently had issues in accessing concessional financing for sustainable development and to build resilience, due to the application of criteria based solely on GNI per capita by financial institutions. GNI is simply incapable of accounting for the external environmental and socio-economic vulnerabilities SIDS face relative to the rest of the world.

President Bahor assured PM Browne that Slovenia will advance support for the use MVI and support for the 4th International SIDS Conference, which Antigua and Barbuda will host in 2024.

The Slovenian President also called for Antigua and Barbuda’s support of Slovenia’s candidacy for a seat on the Security Council for the term 2024-2025.

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La alcaldesa de Loíza, Julia Nazario, informó en RADIO ISLA que la comunidad Villa Santos en su municipio permanece inundada debido a la apertura de las compuertas de la represa Carraízo tras el paso del huracán Fiona por Puerto Rico. 

“Yo tengo una comunidad, Villa Santos, que no tiene luz, no tiene agua, pero está inundada sin que yo pueda succionar esa agua y ya hay peces muertos en esa agua”, expresó la primera mandataria municipal.   

Julia Nazario explicó que Villa Santos “es una comunidad que, detrás de ella, pasa un caño. Por ese caño es que entró el Río Grande de Loíza, las aguas que bajaron cuando abrieron la represa en Carraízo”.   

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Minister Xiomara Maduro a accentua:

ORANJESTAD (AAN) – “Pago di overtime den gobierno” tabata e tema cu Minister di Finanzas y Cultura, Xiomara Maduro, a trata den conferencia di prensa di Diahuebs 22 di September ultimo.

E mandatario a cuminza bisando cu siman pasa Minister Presidente a anuncia un maneho pa loke ta pago di overtime den Gobierno. Esaki ta necesario, e dignatario a accentua, ya cu gobierno a bin ta baha gasto den gobernacion, y den e gastonan aki, un tercer parti ta gastonan di personal.

Manera ta conoci tin un debate publico riba esaki, pero tambe hunto cu e Supervision Financiero Caft, reportenan financiero tambe ta toca e tema aki, di  gastonan di gobernacion, specialmente locual ta regarda personal dentro di Reino, y ademas tin un protocol cu Hulanda, pa atene na dje, pa asina aki por realiza e bahada den gasto di personal, pasobra, e ta reitera, esaki ta forma un tercer parti di e gastonan den gobernacion.

E dignatario a trece dilanti cu den locual ta gastonan di personal tin un parti cu substancial, cu ta pago di overtime den gobierno. Pesey, recomendacionnan cu a wordo duna door di diferente instancia cu a investiga locual ta e parti aki ta indica cu ta bon pa atende cu e gastonan aki.

“Mas ainda, siman pasa Minister Presidente a informa tambe cu locual cu tin presupuesta e aña aki na overtime pa full gobierno, esaki ta mustra cu e por bay surpasa e suma aki, y pesey e ora ey a wordo atendi riba esey cu mester tuma un medida pa no surpasa e fondonan aki, pa motibo cu e ora ey lo no tin fondo, lo no tin likidez, pa por bay paga e parti extra aki”, e dignatario a splica.

El a sigui bisa cu pa aña 2022, tin 21.1 miyon florin presupuesta pa gasto di overtime pa full gobierno, y na e momentonan aki te cu Augustus ya caba tin 14.1 miyon cu a wordo realiza na e gastonan akinan.

Pesey Departamento di Recurso Humano a pidi Minister Presidente pa pasa un circular pa defini e oranan cu por traha na overtime, y algun otro rekisito mas, entre otro, cu e leiding tambe mester traha un plan con ta bay midi e gastonan aki te fin di aña, Minister Maduro a relata.

E mandatario a referi tambe na e hecho cu siman pasa sindicatonan a bin dilanti, entre otro Sindicato di Polis, cu a bisa cu mester bay tira un atraco pa asina nan cobra overtime.

“Mi ta bisa cu mi ta lamenta masha hopi e expresion aki cu no ta uno bon na bienestar di comunidad. E dignatario a bisa cu gobierno ta pagando overtime y sigur na KPA pa e trabao importante cu nan ta haci, pa mantene e seguridad di Pais Aruba. No ta asina cu a stop di paga overtime, of cu no ta bay paga, pasobra tin un suma cuantioso di cual mitad di esaki ta bay pa  paga overtime den Cuerpo policial”, Minister Xiomara Maduro a señala.

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