# REDIRECT Antigua and Barbuda

Population of Antigua and Barbuda, Data of FAO, year 2005 ; Number of inhabitants in thousands.

This article is about the demographic features of the population of Antigua and Barbuda, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.

Category: Antigua and Barbuda society

The politics of Antigua and Barbuda takes place in a framework of a federal parliamentary representative democratic monarchy, wherein the Sovereign of Antigua and Barbuda is the head of state, appointing a Governor-General to act as vice-regal representative in the nation.

Antigua and Barbuda has a long history of free elections, three of which have resulted in peaceful changes of government.

Antigua and Barbuda is a member of the eastern Caribbean court system.

As head of state, Queen Elizabeth II is represented in Antigua and Barbuda by a governor general who acts on the advice of the prime minister and the cabinet.

This article is about communications systems in Antigua and Barbuda.

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The Antigua and Barbuda Defence Force is the armed force of Antigua and Barbuda.

* Antigua and Barbuda Regiment-comprises four line companies and is the infantry unit and fighting arm of the defence force.

* Antigua and Barbuda Cadet Corps

* In 1982 14 men of the Royal Antigua and Barbuda Defence Force were deployed to Grenada during the Operation Urgent Fury.

* In 1995 members of the Royal Antigua and Barbuda Defence Force were deployed in Haiti as a part of Operation Uphold Democracy.

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# REDIRECT Foreign relations of Antigua and Barbuda

The islands achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1981, becoming the nation of Antigua and Barbuda.

* Antigua and Barbuda, a small island nation in the Caribbean

The location of the nation of Antigua and Barbuda

The following is an alphabetical list of topics related to the nation of Antigua and Barbuda.

Antigua and Barbuda is an island nation made up of Antigua, which, along with its satellite islets and rocks, is divided into six parishes ; and two dependencies, the islands Barbuda and Redonda.

She was born in the city of St. John's on the island of Antigua in the nation of Antigua and Barbuda.

Antigua and Barbuda is a Caribbean nation in the Lesser Antilles island chain.

According to the 2011 census West Kameng district has a population of 87, 013, roughly equal to the nation of Antigua and Barbuda.

He scored for his adopted nation in a 5-4 defeat against Antigua on 2 November 2004.

In 1994 the Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda passed the Free Trade & Processing act, allowing licences to be granted to organisations applying to open online casinos.

The government of the island nation of Antigua and Barbuda, which licenses Internet gambling entities, made a complaint to the World Trade Organization about the U. S. government's actions to impede online gaming.

* The nation of Antigua and Barbuda gained independence from the United Kingdom.

* Demonstrators marched in Codrington, on the island of Barbuda, the smaller ( population 1, 200 ) of the islands of Antigua and Barbuda, in support of secession from the newly independent nation.

The common law constitutes the basis of the legal systems of: England and Wales, Northern Ireland, Ireland, federal law in the United States and the law of individual U. S. states ( except Louisiana ), federal law throughout Canada and the law of the individual provinces and territories ( except Quebec ), Australia ( both federal and individual states ), Kenya, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Brunei, Pakistan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, The Bahamas, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, St. Vincent and the Granadines, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Trinidad and Tobago, and many other generally English-speaking countries or Commonwealth countries ( except Scotland, which is bijuridicial, and Malta ).

Other introductions include the release on Antigua — possibly before 1916, although there are suggestions that this initial population may have died out by 1934 and been reintroduced at a later date — and Montserrat, which saw an introduction before 1879 that led to the establishment of a solid population, which was apparently sufficient to survive the Soufrière Hills volcano eruption in 1995.

Built in 1826-33 by Antonio de Echevarría in the purest Neo-classical style, this building contains within it the Church of Santa María la Antigua, which is presently used as the plenary meeting hall of the General Assemblies of Biscay.

Several hundred ethnic Carib descendants live in Trinidad, Grenada, St. Lucia, U. S. Virgin Islands, St. Kitts & Nevis, Antigua & Barbuda, Guadeloupe, Aruba as well as in St. Vincent, the size of which is not known.

The exceptions were Anguilla, Antigua, Barbuda, the Cayman Islands, the Turks and Caicos Islands ( which are all fairly flat ), and Trinidad ( which has a large mountain range in the north and a small central mountain range in the interior of the otherwise flat island ).

The Antigua Casa del Gobernador ( Old Governor ’ s House ) was probably built after San Andres received its status as an Indian Republic, which was in 1714.

St. Kitts and Nevis however opposed sharing their government funds with Antigua and Montserrat, which were bankrupt.

" This song, the tune of which is now lost, was sung by: Jamaican stevedores at a capstan in 1811 ; Afro-Caribbeans rowing a boat in Antigua ca. 1814 ; Black stevedores loading a steamboat in New Orleans in 1841 ; and a Euro-American crew hauling halyards on a clipper-brig out of New York ca. 1840s.

Sir Vere Bird was initially thought to have favoured Vere Jr. until an arms scandal in which the elder son had been found to have been involved in the smuggling of weapons from Antigua to the Colombian Medellín Cartel.

He was Chairman of the National Parks Authority, which he ran before he was nominated by the then prime minister as Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda.

Since then, in a rare case in modern day Caribbean politics, he led his party to an election victory in 1984 in which the Antigua Labour Party ( ALP ) won all the Antiguan seats in the Legislature.

The UPP lost one seat to the Antigua Labour Party at the 1999 general election, despite increasing its vote to 44. 5 per cent, after which it claimed fraud.

La Antigua also has one of the oldest Spanish structures in Mexico, the Edificio del Cabildo, also built in 1523, which seated the first ayuntamiento or city council.

It was founded in July 29, 1525 by the Spanish conqueror Rodrigo de Bastidas, which makes it the oldest remaining city in Colombia ( Santa María la Antigua del Darién was founded earlier, but abandoned soon after ).

The election was won by the opposition United Progressive Party, which defeated the incumbent Antigua Labour Party.

He defeated Lester Bird's ALP, which had ruled Antigua and Barbuda for the previous 28 years.

The Antigua & Barbuda Cadet Core ( ABCC ) is a youth program which helps to discipline children, and is a part of the Antigua and Barbuda Defense Force ( ABDF ).