Antigua ramps up dispute with US over Internet gaming

ST JOHN’S, Antigua—The Antigua and Barbuda government yesterday said it had established a select committee to oversee the implementation process, as the island seeks to suspend certain concessions and other obligations with the United States in their ongoing Internet gaming dispute.

The seven-member “WTO Remedies Implementation Committee” (RIC), chaired by Attorney General Justin Simon QC, is responsible for directing the government’s plan to build the framework necessary to suspend selected US intellectual property rights to the tune of US$21 million per year, effective from April, 2006. More