[3][6] As of the early 1970s, Outlet and Standard (which appeared on an irregular basis) were the sole opposition newspapers in the country.

It argued that the Vere Bird government was guilty of lax control of casino businesses, peddling passports to non-Antiguans, mismanaging foreign loans, and using Antigua and Barbuda to launder arms shipments to South Africa.

[4][10] On 26 July 1982, a break-in at the office occurred, and equipment worth 8,000 East Caribbean dollars was stolen.

[10] In 1984 accusations of corruption and maladministration published by ACLM pressured the government to call fresh elections.

[13] The office of the newspaper was targeted by arsonists, following a November 1998 article in Outlet charging the government with secretly having imported weaponry for half a million dollars.