POLICE QUESTION BAR OWNER FOR SUSPECTED COCKFIGHTING ACTIVITY
Police are questioning a bar owner in connection with certain suspicious activities allegedly taking place at the business establishment.
Around 5 pm on Sunday, December 1, Police and Immigration Officers searched a property at St. Georges Street and found 17 fowls, along with other items and paraphernalia, suspected to be used for cockfighting. A total of 52 people, including 5 females, 42 males, and 5 juveniles, between ages 10 and 16 were taken into custody.
The bar owner and four others remain in police custody, while three persons were detained by immigration. The remaining persons were released pending further investigations, including the juveniles who were released in the care of their parents.
Cockfighting is a blood sport involving the use of domestic fowl, which is illegal in Antigua and Barbuda.
Anyone involved in such activity is committing an offence under the Protection of Animals Act, Cap 349 of the Laws of Antigua and Barbuda. Members of the public are warned to desist from these illegal practices and to report such inhumane behaviour to the police without delay.
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Comments (8)
Alexandria December 2, 2024, 1:36 PM
Anonymous December 2, 2024, 1:51 PM
Anonymous December 2, 2024, 1:58 PM
Joke town Antigua. December 2, 2024, 3:29 PM
Yanick December 2, 2024, 3:45 PM
Faithful national #1 December 2, 2024, 4:26 PM
As for Senora Alexandria where is your commonsense?. A cockfighting ring has been exposed. The authorities quickly jump into action, bringing an end to this illegal, foreign activity. Yet the first thing to come out of your refugee mouth is a nonsensical attack on Antiguans criticizing us and as being “not too civilized” for cracking down on this uncivilized activity!!
Come on, Mr. PM, time to follow the Trump lead. We need to put a cap on immigration from certain places. Just listen to their intellectual sparseness. In a very short time, they will dumb down the entire intellectual capacity of real Antiguans and become the mouthpiece of all of Antigua🥺 Get them to hell out before it is too late! Antigua has indeed changed, but not for the reasons you think!
I’m sooo fed-up.
Joke town Antigua. December 2, 2024, 10:16 PM
Sue James January 6, 2025, 5:17 PM