You may have heard the adage that from the mouth of babes is usually the unvarnished truth. I was conscripted by friends to write on what is Saint Lucia and the wider Eastern Caribbean ...

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I would love to discuss economic development for local St. Lucians, as opposed to discussing economic extractions by foreign investors, and the fleecing of our natural resource due to local greed.

Word traveled as fast as the bullets that had torn apart Adolphus ‘Bonnie’ Clarke while he sat behind the wheel of his customized Mercedes Benz. He had perished by the sword he’d lived by for most of ...

Over the past several weeks, social media has been replete with alleged actions by politicians, and the hierarchy of the Royal Saint Lucia Police Force, against officers, who have allegedly engaged in ...

A hundred yards or so from the Winera boxing plant in Vieux Fort, not far from all-inclusive Club Med, is a garbage dump. It’s not quite the size of its more infamous Choc relative, nevertheless ...

Not since we regained independence in 1979 have Saint Lucians been so united in the ethos of a single moment, a single milestone. Yes, there have been other firsts, anniversaries, even Nobel Prizes in ...

The Sir Arthur Lewis Community College (SALCC) is delighted to announce its inaugural Writers in the Spotlight: Book and Literary Fair, taking place on January 24, 2025, as part of the college’s Nobel ...

Recently the Minister of Education, Shawn Edward, alluded to a systematic crisis, when he stressed upon an audience of scholars that he was worried and needed to see more young men in the room and on ...

Marie Emmanuel Charles Cadet was born at Castries, Saint Lucia on December 16, 1924. His father, Gerald Cadet, was an offspring of one of Saint Lucia’s early advocates of political advancement, who ...

It is said of candidates and elections that an ideal political candidate comes around once in a generation. Maybe even once in a lifetime. We have had in Barbados Errol Barrow, in Cuba Fidel Castro, ...

There are friends who occupy spaces in our lives that give value and meaning to our own existence. Their deaths bring an emptiness, a chasm, a void. How then do we fill the empty spaces that ...