THE 2016 – 2017 Veterans In Sports Inc in collaboration with the Saint Lucia Football Tournament Association continues this weekend at the Phillip Marcellin Grounds in Vieux Fort with four exciting matches as teams vie for places in the semifinals of the main draw of the Caribbean Alliance Cup.
WITH Saint Lucia set to host the Caribbean Netball Tournament later this year, the Saint Lucia Netball Association’s wheels are in motion with plans to host its first event for 2017 dubbed “Independence Club Championship” scheduled to commence on Saturday, January 28.
All is set for one of the Saint Lucia Hotel and Tourism Association’s (SLHTA) most anticipated events on its calendar, …
THE Department of Youth and Sports and the newly-elected executive of the Saint Lucia Athletics Association will host a meeting and training session for all technical officials, today at the George Odlum Stadium starting at 10:00 a.m. The activity is geared towards sharpening the skills of technical officials as the 2017 track and field season begins in earnest in the coming weeks.
TOMAS Regalado, the Mayor of Miami – long a hot bed for Cuban exiles – has described as a “parting gift” the decision of the waning Obama administration to end the U.S. ‘wet foot-dry foot’ policy toward Cubans seeking entry to the US. The question is: a parting gift to whom?
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AS we discussed the soul of our nation in Part 1 last week, we reminded ourselves of the reasons for objecting to the sale of our passports no matter how immaculately that sale was packaged and promoted to us. Those reasons were firstly the loss of our identity, and then the social mayhem that the CIP will unleash.
THE Judge at the local District Court house, having heard the evidence in a case for theft of a bunch …
WHEN Ronald Reagan – from behind the “Iron Curtain” in East Germany – called on Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down these walls”, the imperial and ideological dreams of the Soviet Union (an Ivinghoe beacon of despair), began to wink like a battery-drained flashlight in a horror movie. Nikolai Khrushchev’s “We will bury you” threat in the 1950s began to ring hollow as political history unfolded.
THE DSH project for the South is an opportunity which the SLP deliberated upon for over two years and never entertained the idea of sharing the concept with the public. More importantly, Invest St. Lucia spent over two years of expensive man hours with the concurrence of the St. Lucia Labour Party, simultaneously making empty promises to the investors – a practice which cost them the elections. St. Lucians simply had enough of an administration who could not or were terrified of making decisions based on their poor judgements like Rochamel, Grynberg, IMPACS and the Lambirds fiasco to name but a few.
FOR the staff of the maternity ward at St Jude Hospital, 2017 has started with double the excitement and double the fun. The hospital delivered two sets of twins in two days in the first week of the New Year. “We’ve never had two sets of twins being born at St Jude Hospital just one day apart,” said midwife and maternity ward charge nurse Julia Vitalis. “Twins usually come weeks or months apart so the entire ward was absolutely ecstatic.”
SAINT LUCIAN Professor Dr. Mary Alfred has received one of the highest accolades in the United States for adult education. Dr.Alfred who hails from Choiseul, was inducted into the International Adult & Continuing Education (IACE) Hall of Fame for her scholarship and leadership in the profession. She was one of 13 leaders from around the world to be inducted at the ceremony in Orlando, Florida.
Comical, insulting and ridiculous. These were just a few of the words the various presenters at a town hall meeting …
ONE month after announcing the National Housing Corporation’s inability to pay its debts and reeling in a state of bankruptcy, Chairman Timothy Mangal is today painting a healthier financial picture of the company. This is not to say that the Corporation’s financial position is still no longer dreadful, a month of cost cutting measures and taking certain decisions resulted in the healthy financial picture Mangal paints.
PEEPAL Tree Press (UK) has announced on its website the forthcoming publication of John Robert Lee’s Collected Poems 1975-2015. The book will be published on April 3. In 2008, Peepal Tree had published Lee’s “elemental: new and selected poems.” Peepal is the leading publisher of Caribbean literature. Several St. Lucian writers are on their list, including Garth St. Omer, KendelHippolyte, Jane King, Vladimir Lucien, Adrian Augier and Earl Long
THE Folk Research Centre, in association with the Nobel Laureate Festival Committee will present Dr. Paul Breslin, a Walcott scholar, who will speak on the “St. Lucia Oral History : Dunstan St. Omer” on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at the FRC Headquarters, Mount Pleasant.
FORMER Member of Parliament for Soufriere, Attorney J. Baden Allain has made a contribution of some 250 books from his personal collection to the Soufriere Library. Allain told THE VOICE that the gesture was intended to encourage the townspeople, especially the young, to do more reading. He said the collection covers a wide range of subjects by some outstanding West Indian authors like George Lamming, Walter Rodney, Eric Wiliams, Franz Fanon.
THE Gemstones Theatre Productions, in association with the Nobel Laureate Festival Committee and the Folk Research Centre present a new “folk-lypso” drama titled “Twisters” on January 28 and 29 at 7.30 p.m. at the Folk Research Centre. A special staging will be presented for students of Theatre Arts at 3:00 p.m. on Monday January 30th at the same venue.
ROSEAU, Dominica, Jan 13, CMC – The Governor of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB), Timothy Antoine is urging Caribbean governments administering Citizenship by Investment Programmes (CIP) to be more transparent and not to use the funds collected for recurrent expenditure..
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Jan. 12, CMC – Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi on Wednesday revealed that there have been over three thousand child marriages in the last 20 years in the twin island republic. Al-Wari made the disclosure in Senate as he piloted the Miscellaneous Provisions Marriage Bill 2016 – that seeks to raise the age of marriage to 18, as recommended by the United Nations..
ST.GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – A 54-year old captain of a boat was jailed for three years on Wednesday after he pleaded guilty to being in possession of 80 pounds of marijuana seized by police during an operation on Monday. The police said that they also seized a speed boat, which they intercepted on Marquis Bay and arrested Victor Charles. They gave no value for the goods seized.