THE Rio Olympics are now history and while the athletes who represented us did not exactly shake up the world, …
The Option Of Sports
Cutting The VAT By What?
IT remains to be seen just how successful this government can ever be in reducing the national debt, which Minister …
Neglect In Education
IT looks like every year around this time, our country goes through anxiety over the state of our schools, given …
About Those Textbooks
REPORTS this week that one of two young men was caught while allegedly breaking into a Castries-based secondary school serves …
Transparency And Debate
IT is time we begin to develop in St Lucia a culture of orderly discussion and debate on issues of …
Let’s Raise The Standard
SAINT Lucian authorities should understandably find themselves scratching their heads following the island’s inclusion on a list of Caribbean territories …
The Question of Poverty
ONE of the social problems confronting St Lucia that does not get talked about or debated enough is poverty. In …
Soufriere Needs Real Development
SOUFRIERE will today play host to a delegation led by Prime Minister Allen Chastanet in the new government’s attempt to …
Our Diplomat Service
WITH a new government in office, one expects that pretty soon, it will begin to pay some serious attention to …
Not So Common Entrance
THIS year’s Common Entrance results should serve as a wake-up call for local education ministry to make a few minor …
Challenges for Gov’t
NO incoming government in St Lucia has faced the mountain of issues that the five week old administration of Prime …
What’s Really At Stake
AMONG the central themes in this week’s Throne Speech, two of them really do stick out at us. not that …
The Issue of Vote – buying
IT seems that every time the St Lucia Labour Party loses a general election it resorts to crying foul and …
Brexit Get Up and Get
EVERY time there is a major international development that threatens to adversely impact the Caribbean, we tend to wallow in …
Still Resistant To Change
THE recent change in government has resulted in several changes, including the seemingly slowed pace as it relates to the …
The Case For Agriculture
THERE was no thorough ventilation or assessing of the content of the manifestoes of either major political party in the …
Let’s Choose Diplomats Wisely
THE question of Saint Lucia’s foreign policy played a crucial role in the last general elections. So much so that …
Trust And Performance
THE general elections are over and the new Allen Chastanet government has wasted no time getting its act together. Before …
Let Democracy Prevail
TEN days after Saint Lucians went to the polls to elect a new government, one would have thought that the …
Olympus Has Fallen
ON the eve of the general election of 2011 Dr. Kenny Anthony made an impassioned plea to St Lucians in …