CORPORAL punishment in schools has been a hot topic for years. Of late, it’s been making the rounds again, and …
Talking Corporal Punishment
Time for Revamped Child Support Laws?
IWD is typically a day set out to celebrate women – their achievements and progress over the years. It is …
Family Search Ends Well – But Does it Really?
THERE’S nothing like playing a part in reuniting long lost family members – especially when their reconnection comes as a …
The Balancing Act of Raising Well Rounded People
BABIES and children are too good for this world. They come in with a clean slate, and like sponges, they …
What’s really killing us?
IRONICALLY, working in close proximity to a funeral parlour has a way of putting life into perspective. Almost daily, the …
Pre and Post-Partum Mental Health Checks Should Be Made Mandatory
BABIES shouldn’t have to go into incubators. Newborns should never have needles stuck into their backs. First time fathers shouldn’t …
Noise Pollution More Than a Nuisance
FEW things are worse than being startled out of one’s sleep in the middle of the night. Whether by indiscreet …
Order Restored in Coconut Central
DODGING coconut vendors had become the order of the day. That is, until government intervened. As of last week, regulations …
The power to combat crime is within us
THE perpetrators of crimes are getting younger. I imagine that a few of them probably sit in the classroom with …
Forty Years – One Nation
FORTY years ago, the people of Saint Lucia decided to dissolve the political bands that connected them with Great Britain …
The IMPACS Dance
NEVER would we have thought that a report on alleged extra judicial killings that took place eight, going onto nine …
Regretful Norms
THE coordinator of the island’s main human rights body was devastated to find her offices — in the centre of …
Fair in the Chair
SPEAKER of the House of Assembly Andy Daniel must be commended for his conduct of the proceedings during Tuesday’s first …
Venezuela: Let Good Sense Prevail
THE chickens are coming home to roost in Venezuela. The US has embarked on a clear mission of regime change …
Investigative and Prosecutorial Competence
THE British government and police have every reason to be concerned every time a Briton dies here in suspicious circumstances. …
Noble Causes
FOR the 26th time, Saint Lucia is again paying deserving tribute to its two greatest minds known to the world, …
Matters of Confidence
NO Confidence Motions are much in the news these days. Last year ended with the most-watched of all in the …
Diplomatic Declarations and Divisions
SAINT Lucia has started 2019 in a most sensitive regional and international diplomatic engagement. This country joined the US-backed Lima …
Are There Any Lucian R. Kellies?
The largely controversial and groundbreaking docuseries, Surviving R. Kelly, has opened the eyes of the world to abuse that was …
Building to Serve
THE virtual strike by Grenada’s lawyers over the absence of proper court housing facilities must be neither overlooked, nor understated, …