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Over the past couple of weeks there have been whispers all over St Lucia about the “real reason” behind a recent gang clash that has left a string of dead bodies in its wake. It didn’t matter where you went everyone “knew” a part of the story and had a new version they wanted to [...]
The head of the National Emergency Management Organization Dawn French returned three days ago from earthquake-ravaged Haiti. After spending one week in Jamaica working in the disaster office and two weeks in Haiti, French came home on Sunday, February 7.
Like anyone else who’s seen the aftermath of the January 12 quake first hand, the NEMO [...]
When you keep thinking something bad is going to happen, it just might. Well, that’s how the saying goes anyway. And people in the Caribbean have definitely had earthquakes on their minds ever since the devastation in Haiti last month.
St Lucia had its very own startling quake in 2007 and it’s something that up until [...]
Business development in St Lucia, particularly in rural communities on the island, is set to get a major boost as the Office of Private Sector Relations, (OPSR) steps into high gear with their just launched STRIDE program.
STRIDE is the acronym for Strengthening Trade through Rural Investments and Development of Entrepreneurship. With a concentration on small [...]
The year 2009 is gone but not forgotten, and neither are the tragic accidents that made the year one of the worst in terms of road accidents. Those affected the most appeared to be young people.
An accident on November 21, that claimed Amya Nicholas and her nanny Sharon Mathurin caught the attention of the [...]
Things of historical significance rarely capture the attention of students for extensive periods of time. As fascinating and necessary as the facts may be to the one trying to drill the information into young minds for, “their own good,” the bulk of the most informative lectures is most times lost with the ever dwindling attention [...]
Shooting claims life of youth! Student fatally stabbed! Singer shot dead! The haunting headlines scream from every newspaper and news broadcast and the first words out of the mouths of St Lucians on island and abroad who have heard news of the like much too often are along the lines of, “Nowhere is safe. What [...]
“There he is.
There— twinkling like a silver coin amongst the coppers. He hurts brighter than a punch in the face. What a meal. What a drug. God help me. He’s drawn me out like a crack dealer attracts stinking, wild-eyed cats. I’m squeezed blue by love, sweating like a runner, breath shallow, chest a cave [...]
Police have charged a 16-year-old from New Village, Micoud, for the murder of 18-year-old Cindy Mandy La Corbiniere, a form five student of Micoud Secondary School. Mandy La Corbiniere was fatally stabbed on Sunday, January 10 near her home in New Extension, Micoud.
The 16-year-old appeared in court on Monday, January 18, where the matter was [...]
Earthquake experts are warning that the devastating quake that struck Haiti on Tuesday could be the first of several in the region. They say historical records suggest that not all the energy that has built up in the faults running through the Caribbean region was released in this week’s tragedy.
Their fear is that enough energy [...]
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