SIR Dwight Venner was finally laid to rest this week, but still the tributes to this outstanding son of the sub-region continue to pour in and we are beginning to hear talk about ways in which he can be immortalized. One suggestion that is being advanced, which we heartily endorse, is having his image printed on our EC currency.
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THE St. Lucia Labour Party (SLP) has taken issue with comments made by Prime Minister Allen Chastanet during his Thursday night press conference studios of the Government Information Service about how he could prove the veracity of an applicant for St. Lucian citizenship claiming a net worth of US$3 million or higher.
CITING the ādesecrationā of the Citizenship by Investment Programme (CIP) by government, the leader of the opposition St Lucia Labour Party (SLP), Philip Pierre, has accused the Allen Chastanet administration of attempting to turn the measure into a ācash cowā.
MAYOR of Castries, Peterson Francis, has responded to comments made via social media and elsewhere that despite making huge sums of money from managing the three-day Assou Square event, the Castries Constituency Council (CCC) did little to make the event a pleasant experience.
A confidential letter from the former administration to a prospective investor in England almost a year ago is today turning out to be a subject of debate between the government and the opposition St. Lucia Labour Party. Both parties made mention of the letter at separate press conferences Thursday. Prime Minister Allen Chastanet called it āan interesting letterā while Philip J. Pierre, SLP and parliamentary opposition leader, called it āa letter of comfortā.
KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC -The Chief Executive Officer of the Tourism Authority, Glen Beache, who has the task of trying to attract airlines to fly to Argyle International Airport says he is ātiredā of the project that started in 2008 and has missed multiple completion deadlines annually since 2011.
Caracas– The Venezuelan Government has built 1,360,621 decent homes since the creation of the Great Housing Mission Venezuela (GMVV, Spanish acronym), five years ago, Minister for Habitat and Housing Manuel Quevedo said Tuesday.
ST. GEORGEāS, Grenada, CMC ā Russia is hinting at further debt relief for Grenada after the island signed an agreement on settlement of its debt to the Russian Federation through the Paris Club in November 2015. A government statement said that the debt amounting to US$266,000 was signed on November 19, 2015, and that St. Georgeās has been assured āthat there may be even further or total relief of the debt owed by Grenadaā.
CARACAS ā Venezuelaās opposition, still smarting from its failure to remove President Nicolas Maduro last year, installed a new congress head on Thursday who demanded across-the-board elections and sought military help to end ādictatorship.ā In a renewal of Venezuelaās bitter politics after the holiday lull, the ruling Socialist Party responded that the National Assembly was in contempt of the law.
THREE persons including a student are currently fighting for their lives after taking harmful substances in apparent suicide attempts. A 16-year-old student from Choiseul is being attended to at the St. Jude Hospital after ingesting the deadly weedicide, gramoxone.
MIAMI, CMC ā The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) says the owner and operator of a Florida-based telecommunications company …
UNITED NATIONS, CMC ā A new study has predicted that if current trends continue and the world fails to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, nearly all of the worldās coral reefs, including many in the Caribbean, will suffer severe bleaching ā the gravest threat to one of the Earthās most important ecosystems ā on anannual basis.
ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC ā Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit Wednesday said that Opposition Leader Lennox Linton had lied on several occasions when he appeared on a United States television programme that was critical of Dominicaās Citizenship by Investment Programme (CIP).
DIGICEL has commenced the New Year providing customers with even more value and amazing offers. On Wednesday the company announced its āāNew Yearās Resolutionā Text to Win promotion aimed at assisting customers in setting and achieving their goals for the new year.
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PRIME Minister Allen Chastanet held his first press conference of the year on Thursday evening, addressing a wide range of issues. During the 90-minute briefing held at GIS Studios and carried live on NTN, Chastanet fielded questions from the media, including many related to the Citizenship by Investment Programme (CIP) and the Desert Star Holdings Ltd. (DSH) project…
For the past few weeks social media has been rife with complaints about the deplorable and unsatisfactory road conditions that …
Staff of the Soufriere Regional Development Foundation (SRDF) on Wednesday, December 28 distributed grocery hampers to a number of indigent …
Prime Minister Allen Chastanet will hold his Opening of the Year Press Conference this evening January 5, 2017 at 6:00 …
THE three-day Assou Square event brought out hundreds of patrons earlier this week. However, what was previously billed as a fun event in years past has turned out to be a mixed bag for many who either found the fun or found it lacking in many respects. With sporadic showers putting a damper on the event each day, many people nevertheless came out to take in the final days of the holiday season. There were lots to eat, drink and buy. But one really needed to look closely to find the fun in some cases.
ONE of the greatest injustices one can go through in life is to never experience life outside of oneās hometown/birthplace. There many factors that creep up and prove to be hurdles that are way too high for many to jump over to allow them to see the wonders that the world has to offer. But the call and yearning to explore continues to burn strong.