ST JOHN'S, Antigua (CMC):
THE FLU bug forced the adjournment yesterday of the Antigua and Barbuda Senate that was due to debate the 2005-6 national budget.
Senate majority leader Colin Derrick, visibly showing the effects of the flu, moved the adjournment to Monday after tabling the bills and motions on the Order Paper.
President of the Senate, Hazlyn Francis, said she had received communication from at least three Senators who were unable to attend the meeting or would be late because they were not feeling well.
Before the adjournment, two new opposition Senators, Lennox Weston and Arthur Nibbs, were sworn into office.
Weston, a former financial secretary and radio talk show host, is making his maiden appearance in the Upper House while Nibbs, who previously represented the Barbuda Council, is on his third stint.
They replace Daven Joseph, the country's former Whaling Commissioner, and Terry Ephraim, a computer technician. No reasons were given by the opposition Antigua Labour Party (ALP) for replacing the two incumbents.
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