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It began like a usual Friday night at Agard. It was supposed to be fun. It was a bar-b-que after all. Unfortunately that festive mood was cut short when around 9pm two masked individuals emerged from under a house in the area, approached the gathering and opened fire.
One of the perpetrators was armed with a [...]
Language barriers exist throughout the globe. Even in our 238 square miles of land, miscommunication is easy with different dialects of English and Creole from our bouillon of people living and working on island. It’s difficult enough trying to function as an average person in society, but imagine the arduous challenges those with disabilities face [...]
Police are reporting headway in their investigations despite several setbacks in the August 8 Bordelais Correctional Facility breach. Four men have been arrested in connection with the historic incident but charges have not been laid. Three of the men are from the Dennery area; one has been identified as a fishing boat owner, [...]
On Monday June 25, 2007 the body of Marcia Philbert-Jules was discovered lying face down in a pool of blood at her Piat home. Her partly naked body was reportedly discovered by her boyfriend at about 6am near her bathroom. Police later reported that the 49-year-old Jules had not been raped. However, a subsequent post-mortem [...]
One trip to the fantasy that is Jade Mountain will put to rest any reservations as to why this resort is snatching the most prestigious prizes in the hospitality industry. Envisioned by Nick Troubetzkoy, the resort’s concept is avant garde. Wife, Karolin Troubetzkoy is the other half of the resort’s success as she holds the [...]
Delegates from around the OECS gathered at L’Epicure restaurant at the Royal by Rex Resorts on Thursday August 19 to witness the opening ceremony of the OECS Credit Union Summit. This is eighth annual event organized by the region’s umbrella body.
Some three hundred delegates gathered in St Lucia for the summit under the theme “Cooperating [...]
“I used to come here and talk about Mr Mayers being my schoolmate. I’m not sure I can do that again with any degree of pride. Why doesn’t the Ministry of Home Affairs investigate why the government tried to cover up perhaps criminal activity or the possibility of criminal sanctions against one of the ministers, [...]
The media, well at least yours truly, was under the impression that Saturday’s rendezvous at Jade Mountain was to acknowledge and commemorate Jade Mountain and Anse Chastanet for the many accolades it has secured since its opening. This reporter found it quite coincidental the ceremony was taking place the day before Senator Allen Chastanet was [...]
In theory, Bordelais is supposed to be a rehabilitation institution, as its name suggests. It is a vast improvement on the former penal institution at Bridge Street, Her Majesty’s Prison, where inmates were beaten, locked in dark holes and given the utmost inhumane treatment.
Bordelais’ Director, Hilary Herman, can now boast of the humane conditions at [...]
“Das a lie! Mate could never do that. Da woman have something against di mun,” one police officer said firmly. “Mate was knocking dat and she get vex with di mun,” another laughed. “I work with him for so long. I know him. That doesn’t sound like him at all. That woman has something wrong [...]
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