WHAT a week it’s been. In the past seven days we’ve seen, heard and felt everything from the fallout across …
A Week to the Day
Levern and Serena
WHAT do Levern Spencer and Serena Williams have in common? Their sizes differ by miles. One’s bashful, the other simply …
Testing the National Pulse
Thousands of Saint Lucians on Sunday joined the protest march organized by the Saint Lucia Labour Party (SLP). Just days …
Reading the Writing and Righting the Wrong
Today is International Literacy Day, but you’d hardly know that. With our daily emphases on the Now, we tend to …
Lowering the Din
GUN violence is a high-velocity problem that’s been plaguing Saint Lucia for longer than we’d like to remember. It’s a …
Old Fruits, New Missions!
JUST when we thought we knew everything about mangoes, here comes an Annual Mango Festival to teach us so much …
Addressing Issues
GOVERNMENTS are elected to govern in ways that always put people’s interests at the center of all things. Of course, …
Who Eats Coconut Oil?
It may sound like a crazy question, but it’s one that makes sense to ask after Harvard Professor Dr Karin …
Example worth Emulation!
THE accompanying story on this page is about a successful Guyanese Grade One student. But it’s also easily a report …
Until The Earth Shakes Again…
DISASTERS live with us. We can’t get away from them and we can’t get rid of them. Most come without …
Honeymoon Over!
THREE months after the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) completely routed the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) in the May 24 poll, …
Way to Go!
THE announced weekend agreement by Saint Lucia and Venezuela to work together to combat drug trafficking and the illegal arms …
Deadly Words and Figures
WE can be remembered more for the things we say than what we do; and more for how we said …
(Dis)Respecting National Symbols
IT’S uncertain how many Saint Lucians will have seen, live and direct, on TV or online, the official ceremony at …
Awards, Rewards and Afterwards…
LEVERN Spencer has done it – yet again — this time sealing her position as the top high-jumping woman in …
Doctors Calling – Again!
The island’s doctors are again crying out loud, this time after the death of an OKEU dialysis patient. The St. …
More Solar, Less Surcharge?
SAINT LUCIA has long been in search of ways and means to tap renewable energy sources to reduce and hopefully …
Another Board Bites The Dust!
ANOTHER government-appointed board has come to the end of its road, this time the Board of Governors of the Sir …
Importance of Regulation
WHEN the framers of our laws came up with the idea or establishing the legal mechanisms to regulate public utility …
Long Live Levern!
FOR reasons not sufficiently well known, sports items hardly ever make front page news. But there are times when this …