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Julien Alfred did Saint Lucia proud when she captured gold and silver in the 2024 Paris Olympics. Hopefully, the favor will be returned by our elected representatives, whose policies determine whether ...
For over a decade his relationship with U.S. Immigration has occupied the Saint Lucian imagination. At any rate, since Jeannine Compton let drop her stink bomb during a September 2011 television ...
Not since we regained independence in 1979 have Saint Lucians been so united in the ethos of a single moment, a single milestone. Yes, there have been other firsts, anniversaries, even Nobel Prizes in ...
The Eastern Caribbean Alliance for Diversity and Equality (ECADE), today announced the launch of five legal challenges to the remnants of draconian laws of our colonial past. The claims, all expected ...
There is an old phrase that a photo or painting is worth a thousand words; I assumed the same would be true with emoji’s and how young people communicate. Last week when seeking consent to reference ...
The recent announcements by Saint Lucia’s Prime Minister Philip J. Pierre and the president of the Caribbean Court of Justice, Mr. Justice Adrian Saunders, have signalled our accession to the ...
On February 28, 2023 the Philip J. Pierre government officially offloaded the Privy Council as Saint Lucia’s apex court in favor of the Caribbean Court of Justice, established in 2005 and ...
I would love to discuss economic development for local St. Lucians, as opposed to discussing economic extractions by foreign investors, and the fleecing of our natural resource due to local greed.
The Countess of Wessex during her visit to Morne Fortune, a Saint Lucia National Trust site, where she was shown the monuments to St Lucian Nobel Laureates, Sir W Arthur Lewis and Sir Derek Walcott ...
A hundred yards or so from the Winera boxing plant in Vieux Fort, not far from all-inclusive Club Med, is a garbage dump. It’s not quite the size of its more infamous Choc relative, nevertheless ...
On the unforgettable late afternoon of April 21, 1996, he had started his acceptance speech with a passage from Shakespeare’s Henry VI. Barely audible for the sustained, enthusiastic shouts of ...
The integrity of the Eastern Caribbean judicial system is under the spotlight as the Honourable Mark A. G. Brantley, Premier of Nevis and Leader of the Opposition, issues a strong call for action, ...