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A HISTORY OF ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA by Edward T. Henry.

Antigua/Barbuda was colonized specifically as a mercantile resource for the production of sugar. No serious attempts at colonization took place until 1632 when a party of Englishmen under the leadership of Edward Warner set out from nearby St. Kitts, landed on the southern side of Antigua and claimed it for the English Crown. They established a tenuous settlement.

The rise of a strong labour movement in the 1940s, under the leadership of V.C. Bird, provided the impetus for independence. In 1967, with Barbuda and the tiny island of Redonda as dependencies, Antigua became an associated state of the Commonwealth, and in 1981 it achieved full independent status

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Published on Thursday, 29 October 2009 23:01

As the judges look over their score sheets and we prepare for the Independence Literary Arts Awards presentation to be held on Wednesday 4th November 2009 at the House of Culture, the committee is preparing for the 2010 competition.

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