title: 2021 in Antigua and Barbuda
text: # 2021 in Antigua and Barbuda
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * Monarch: Elizabeth II
  * Governor-General: Rodney Williams
  * Prime Minister: Gaston Browne
  
  ## Events
  
  Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in Antigua and Barbuda
  
  * April 21 – The Sri Lankan government expels an Antigua-registered cargo ship docked at the Magampura Mahinda Rajapaksa Port after authorities discovered undeclared uranium hexafluoride bound for China. The government pledges to take legal action against the ship's owner.
  * November 3 – A lawyer representing the governments of Antigua and Barbuda and Tuvalu says that a new commission is being formed to sue big polluters and claim damage reparations for climate change effects on those nations before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea.
  
  ## Death
  
  * August 9 – Sir Lester Bird, 83, politician.
  