THE 2016 Chairman’s Reserve Cocktail Challenge Bartenders’ Competition was held at The Royal St Lucia Resort &Spa last Saturday. This exciting cocktail Challenge is an annual “Drinks Mixology” competition organized by Barbay Limited and fully endorsed by the St. Lucia Hotel & Tourism Association. With a hiatus last year, the participants for this year’s competition were very excited.
ROSEAU, Dominica, Nov 25, CMC – China is providing more than US$21 million in grant aid to Dominica. The two agreements on economic cooperation provide funds to be to be used for the West Coast road project.
ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, Nov 25, CMC – Prime Minister Dr. Keith Mitchell has promised a post mortem examination of Thursday’s referendum where voters rejected all seven bills that would have resulted in a reform of the 1974 Constitution.
THE new price structure to come into effect January 1 for the Sulphur Springs and Gros Piton Nature Trail is not meant for locals, according to the Soufriere Regional Development Foundation. These two areas, which over the years have developed into premier tourist attractions in Soufriere have recently undergone extensive upgrades and enhancement.
A double presentation took place at SNL’s head office at the Gablewoods Mall yesterday when winners walked away with as …
ONE lucky Saint Lucian will be driving off in a brand new Suzuki Vitara from JQ Motors thanks to Sol’s ‘We have a Vitara with your name on it!’ promotion. Sol launched the promotion yesterday and customers have a chance to win the vehicle over a period of twelve weeks.
COMPUTER programmers are expected to avoid making mistakes in their work. Of course, we know that does not always happen since words like “debugging” are used to describe part of the role of a programmer. Fortunately, many errors are obvious and are easily avoided because they prevent the programme from running.
Q: DEAR REGINA, My dad has late stage dementia and has been bed-ridden for approximately a year in NY. My sister has been his primary caregiver. She does have help with other family support and hired help. My brother and I here in St Lucia provide the finances for the hired help. We both feel so disconnected and helpless. Is there any support groups out here in St Lucia to help us cope with long distant care support?
OCTOBER was breast cancer awareness month and in St. Lucia there was a sustained campaign to help those affected by breast cancer through early detection, education and other support services.
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Nov 23, CMC – Evin Lewis struck his first ODI century but his knock was in vain as West Indies panicked in the death overs to hand Sri Lanka a nail biting one run win in the fifth game of the Tri-Nation Series at Queen’s Club here on Wednesday.
ST. JOSEPH’S Convent Egrets continue their good run on form in the 2016 Shamfest Netball Fiesta being played at the Vigie Multi-Purpose Sports Complex. On Monday, the Egrets defeated Sir Ira Simmons Secondary 24-3 to secure another victory while Toughest edged out Northern Arrow for their first win.
THE Saint Lucia Tourist Board is hosting a group of British journalists. The Fleet Street Exiles is made-up of senior journalists from major British media outlets who tour abroad playing local cricket sides and writing about many aspects of the countries they visit.
THE southern zone completed their preliminary round of matches in the Saint Lucia Football Association / Vision Super League Inter District Under -21 tournament when the final two games were played at the Phillip Marcellin Grounds on Tuesday evening.
VIJAYAWADA, India Nov 22, CMC-West Indies Women defeated India Women by 15 runs to complete a three-nil sweep of the T20 International series at Vijayawada here on Tuesday. A solid half century opening partnership between Hayley Matthews and Captain Stafanie Taylor laid the foundation for West Indies 139 for four in 20 overs after they won the toss and elected to bat.
“SERVE now your Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not and the years draw nigh when thou shalt say I have no pleasure in them.” I have given over a decade of my life to politics and the one thing I knew from the start was that it was not a sprint, more like the longest marathon ever run in the world.
POLICE are reporting no arrest so far in an incident in which prominent attorney Marcus Foster was beaten with a baseball bat about his body sustaining a broken leg in the process.
PARIS (CMC) – St. Lucia has signed the Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters that will enable the government to automatically exchange information.
A welcome ceremony hosted by the Saint Lucia Tourist Board to mark the start of Karibik Trophy Regatta was held on Monday evening at the Pigeon Island National Landmark. The Regatta consists of 20 boats with 120 participants including members of famous sailing clubs, individual sailors and Press.
SANTIAGO, Chile November 23:– China’s President Xi Jinping is inviting journalists and media houses in Saint Lucia and the rest of Latin America and the Caribbean to join their Chinese counterparts to do more to better cover growing ties between China and the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region.
The UWI Open Campus Saint Lucia will on Tuesday, November 29 host a public lecture entitled “The Evolving Culture and …