Loading ... Loading ... Loading ...Among Labour Party sympathizers in particular those who still believe that Kenny Anthony is the best choice for leader, there are those who believe the party’s loss at the last general election was the ultimate punishment for all the political sins it had committed between 1997 and 2006. Moreover, that five years on the opposition [...]
Perhaps for the first time Prime Minister Stephenson King sounded prepared to deal with the growing crime problem in the country. He listed a number of initiatives to combat the now overwhelming crime problem. The highlight of his crime-fighting speech was the sacking of the police chief Ausbert Regis. There remain few tears for the [...]
The practical application of scientific knowledge without moral considerations can have unpleasant consequences. It is now fifty years since the USA Food and Drug administration (FDA) gave the nod for the use of the contraceptive pill. The FDA’s only concern at the time was that the pill was medically safe. The church on the other [...]
Earlier this week Kenny Anthony at a public meeting of the Labour Party accused the government of being able to do one thing only: increase taxes.
He further suggested that what he had abolished to the relief of taxpayers, the government had reimposed on them: Vehicle licenses for one. Such claims should not be allowed to [...]
The 2010/2011 budget debate is now over. The upper house aside, this year’s budget debate has been another depressing episode of what passes for government in this country. The St Lucia economy remains in a very precarious position with its major driver tourism, still gripped by uncertainty in the UK and USA, our major markets. [...]
Day one of the debate he was absent. On the morning of day two, he was again absent. The question: would he absent himself from the debate in a show of contempt? But on the afternoon of day two he turned up; presumably he was using the time away from the parliament in preparation for [...]
In a small island state like ours, influential or talented individuals will invariably end up with multiple roles, giving rise to apparent conflicts of interests. Contrary to public perception, the mere existence of a conflict of interest is not in of itself evidence of wrong doing; where the law or a code of ethics specifically [...]
Several years ago Ivan Lendyl, the Czech tennis ace, at the peak of his career gave a boost to banana consumption. Lendyl declared that he was a big consumer of bananas and had a banana before every tennis match during competition, a suggestive link to his near invincibility at the time on the tennis [...]
What about us defines us as Saint Lucian? Is there such a thing as being Saint Lucian? I thought about these questions and though not conclusively, came up with some idiosyncrasies that perhaps can be described as Saint Lucian.
Let’s begin with our sense of humour; it can best be described as crude and void of [...]
Did the Labour party get it wrong again by avoiding a run-off when it selected Dr Desmond Long as the Labour candidate to run for the Anse La Raye and Canaries seat, at the next general election? The last run-off in that constituency saw Cyprian Lansiquot emerge as the Labour candidate but he lost [...]
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