Antigua & Barbuda Prime Minister, Gaston Browne, has warned the US negotiating team handling the online gambling dispute between the pair that they have one last chance to resolve their dispute before he implements copyright sanctions.

The Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, Gaston Browne, has told the Antigua Observer that they are preparing to make a final ‘counter offer’ to the US Trade Representatives in their decade-long World Trade Organisation (WTO) gambling dispute.

Antigua & Barbuda is a collection of Caribbean islands with a population of 90,000 people and a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of $1.2 billion. The United States of America has a population of 319 million people and a GDP of 16.77 trillion.

So when the pair stepped into the ring in 2003 over an online gambling dispute, it was a classic David v Goliath confrontation. The online gaming industry is the second most populous in the Caribbean Islands after tourism peaking at $90 million in 1999. Bear Stearns estimates that by the time 2003 rolled around 60% of this income was coming from US-based citizens.