HAITI was due to have elections on October 9 to choose a new President. Even before Hurricane Matthew blasted the …
Teachers And Leadership
AS Saint Lucia celebrates Teachers Week from October 4 to 11 under the theme: āValuing Teachers, Improving Their Statusā, letās …
Tale of Costly Twists And Missteps ā PART 2
IN my first article I presented the forensic dilemma facing the government. A collapsed service, a much too long dormant …
Donāt Disrespect Me!
THESE words resonated within and raised an alarm bell. They were spoken by Prime Minister Allen Chastanet at his first …
Heaven Help Us
ITāS worse than we originally thought. Our economy, that is. We had earlier come to the conclusion that the 2016-2017 …
Hats Off To Bay Gardens Over Coconut Vendors
COCONUT vendors were in the limelight recently. More specifically the coconut vendors located on the busy Gros Islet highway near …
Same Strategy, Same Result
THE EDITOR: I am simply dismayed by what came out of the Labour Party conference of delgates last weekend. Having …
Sandals Prepares 1,000 for Jobs In Tourism
OVER 1000 young men and women from St. Lucia have now graduated the Sandals Hospitality Training Programme (HTP), widening the …
O What a Night!
I STARED into his matted grey locks of hair. The legendary dread sat defiant on the chair. No warning threat …
Earthquakes Come And Go – Not All Are Seismic
IN politics, once, or perhaps twice in a lifetime, there are seismic events. Happenings like a great earthquake shifting the …
Of Flowers And Festivals
ITS Creole Heritage Month, launched by the Folk Research Centre last weekend, and culminating in the celebration of Jounen KwĆ©yĆ²l …
Twenty Lost Years
THE recent Caribbean Development Bank/ Eastern Caribbean Central Bank Report on Saint Luciaās economy, while it confirmed the obvious also …
IMF ā World Bank Talks a Rare Opportunity
THE October meetings this year of the World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington DC present …
Fear
ARE you one of those who has lots of unpleasant experiences, and as a result of this you become afraid …
Short Memories
THE EDITOR: Some people have short memories. The UWP and the people of St. Lucia gave Kenny Anthony two years …
Of Narrowcasting and Narrow Minds
While weāve been waxing poetic about how the world (thanks to a unifying global media) has become a global village, …
The Word Is āInspiringā
THE EDITOR: I was especially proud to be Saint Lucian on Tuesday evening during our Prime Ministerās significant press conference. …
Stop This Foolishness
I have not heard enough about the traffic disaster that occurred in Castries last Friday all because some unconscionable member …
A Tale of Costly Twists and Missteps
IN my writings on what I term āmatters forensicā I usually incorporate a local slant so as to provide greater …
Letter from America
A quest for continuous knowledge plus a liking for politics explains why the 2016 presidential elections in the USA are …