If the United States wants to help the hurricane-ravaged island of Barbuda, it could do so by paying a $273 million debt over online gambling that started accruing in 2007.
The island of Barbuda was 95 percent destroyed by Hurricane Irma, with TK,000 residents displaced. Its government would really like to collect on old debts. (Image: The Independent)
Antigua and Barbuda has called on the US to pay money that the World Trade Organization says it owes.
Ronald Sanders, the dual-island nations ambassador to the US, told NBC News that the payment would help to rebuild Barbuda, which was literally flattened by Hurricane Irma.
The eye of the hurricane passed directly over Barbuda, destroying 95 percent of its buildings, and forcing the islands 1,…
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