March 21^st is the day Antigua and Barbuda goes to the polls.

Prime Minister Gaston Browne announced the date on saturday night as he introduced the 17 candidates of the party he leads, the Antigua Barbuda Labour Party.

This is one year earlier than the constitutional due date.

Mr. Brown says he has called an early election to protect the many projects in the pipeline that the ABLP has planned for 2019.