Antigua and Barbuda | Good News For Humankind

Island states win historic climate case in world oceans court

By Peter Schulte / July 21, 2024

Nine small island states have won a historic climate change case at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, which ruled that all signatories to a United Nations treaty on marine activities must do more to protect the world’s oceans from climate change. The tribunal found that signatories to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea’s responsibilities to prevent marine pollution extend to greenhouse gas emissions, which harm oceans by altering the earth’s atmosphere.

Remote Caribbean island of Redonda transformed into huge nature reserve

By Peter Schulte / October 2, 2023

It’s one of many remote islands around the world’s seas that, with a helping hand, have rid themselves of invasive animals and plants and returned to supporting the land, water, and air around them.

Caribbean court strikes down gay ban in Antigua & Barbuda

By Peter Schulte / July 6, 2022

The Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court found that Antigua and Barbuda’s 1995 Sexual Offenses Act “offends the right to liberty, protection of the law, freedom of expression, protection of personal privacy and protection from discrimination on the basis of sex.”

Antigua and Barbuda achieve full independence

By Peter Schulte / October 24, 1981

The islands achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1981, becoming the nation of Antigua and Barbuda. However, it remains part of the Commonwealth of Nations, and remains a constitutional monarchy, with Queen Elizabeth II as Queen of Antigua and Barbuda.

The Antigua Trades and Labour Union is formed

By Peter Schulte / October 24, 1939

Poor labor conditions in Antigua and Barbuda persisted until 1939 when a member of a royal commission urged the formation of a trade union movement. The Antigua Trades and Labour Union, formed shortly afterward,

English settlers found St. John’s in modern-day Antigua and Barbuda

By Peter Schulte / October 24, 1632

St. John’s is now the capital and largest city of Antigua and Barbuda, part of the West Indies in the Caribbean Sea. With a population of 22,219, St. John’s is the commercial center of the nation and the chief port of the island of Antigua.

Saladoid culture thrives in modern-day Venezuela and the Caribbean

By Peter Schulte / July 28, 1002

Saladoid culture is a pre-Columbian indigenous culture of territory in present-day Venezuela and the Caribbean that flourished from 500 B.C.E. to 545 C.E. Concentrated along the lowlands of the Orinoco River, the people migrated by sea to the Lesser Antilles, and then to Puerto Rico.

Humans settle Antigua for the first time

By Peter Schulte / December 28, 1001

Antigua was first settled by archaic age hunter-gatherer Amerindians called the Ciboney. Carbon dating has established the earliest settlements started around 3100 B.C.E.