A Little Bit of Paradise Popular with tourists, pleasant weather, good people to deal with, excellent political stability, and a strong multi-cultural community.

Beaches For Each Day of The Year Including Barbuda, there are 365 attractive beaches to choose from. Partly cloudly, mostly sunny all year round weather.

World Class Communications First Island in the Western Hemisphere to install 4G LTE. Reliable telephone and faxility services available island wide, including international dialing and high speed internet services.

Antigua & Barbuda, In More Detail... Antigua and Barbuda is a small twin-island democracy located within the heart of the Eastern Caribbean archipelago. Antigua’s history can be dated to 1775 B.C. when its first inhabitants, the Siboney (or ‘stone people’) lived there. The Arawaks later settled in Antigua at about the time of Christ or the beginning of the Common Era. The Arawaks reputedly paddled across from South America and introduced agriculture to the islands of Antigua and Barbuda, bringing with them a host of goods ranging from pineapples and tobacco and cotton. Most of the Arawaks left around 1100 A.D but some stayed on to be raided by the Caribs, an Indian tribe based in Dominica. The earliest recorded European contact with Antigua was made when Christopher Columbus, on his second voyage of discovery in 1493, discovered Antigua and named it Santa Maria de la Antigua. Columbus named the island after Santa Maria la Antigua, the miracle-working saint of the Spanish city of Seville.

Except for a brief period of occupancy by the French in 1652, the island, with an area of 108 square miles, remained British until its independence. Names such as Sir Christopher Codrington who arrived in Antigua in 1684 and Horatio Nelson who arrived in 1784 are inextricably linked to the history and lore of Antigua and Barbuda. Lying 28 miles to the north of Antigua is the sister-island of Barbuda, with an area of 75 square miles. The Twin-island State of Antigua and Barbuda attained its independence from the United Kingdom on November 1st, 1981. The country is a member state of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS.), using a common monetary system the East Caribbean Dollar (EC $). Antigua is a member of the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) an economic organization of Caribbean States. It is also a member of the British Commonwealth, Organization of American States (OAS), the Association of American States (ACS), and the ACP grouping (signatories of the Lome Convention).

Antigua was one of the pioneers of Caribbean tourism from the late 1960’s, having the important components of popular tourism: a hot pleasant climate (average annual rainfall is 45 inches), good travel links, skilled and friendly tourism staff, attractive beaches (it has some 365 beaches of coral-sand giving on to clear turquoise-colored sea), and a range of hotels. Antigua possesses perhaps the most thriving tourist industry in the Eastern Caribbean and with its modern, multinational and multi-ethnic community, enjoys one of the highest standards of living in the Caribbean.

Antigua has a history of political stability with a parliamentary democracy fashioned from the British Parliamentary System. The current government led by the Honourable Baldwin Spencer of the United Progressive Party strongly supports transparent governance and “government in the sunshine” principles. While English is the official language, Prime Legal Management Services can arrange for Italian, Spanish and French speaking clients to communicate in their mother tongues.

The currency in Antigua is the Eastern Caribbean Dollar which is fixed to the United States Dollar at the rate of US$1.00 to EC$2.70.