
Remarks made by the President of the Saint Lucia Hotel and Tourism Association (SLHTA), Anthony Bowen during the closed session of the organization’s 46th annual general meeting last Wednesday, has drawn the ire of Sean Mathew, the General Manager and CEO of SLASPA at whom some of the remarks and accusations were leveled. As we [...]
March 5, 2010 | Posted in
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St Lucia Hotel and Tourism Association president Anthony Bowen can be counted on to make news almost every time he speaks to an audience. Yet, he is not ranked among the great orators of our times. His popularity has more to do with the brazen way he drops his words, often telling it like it [...]
March 3, 2010 | Posted in
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While some fishermen from Laborie were counting their luck when they were able to haul some cargo from a ship which sunk in St Lucian waters Sunday, local authorities have warned that it is illegal to tamper with or remove goods from the partially submerged vessel off the southern coast of Saint Lucia.
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February 26, 2010 | Posted in
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All controversy was set aside when pop superstar and multi platinum and award winning American performer Beyonce Knowles took to the stage at the Queen’s Park Savannah in Port of Spain, Trinidad, Thursday evening. Ahead of the event, however, the show, which was presented by the island’s main telecommunications company TSTT through its bmobile [...]
February 23, 2010 | Posted in
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Even though it was carnival and “palancing” fever in Trinidad and Tobago all of last week into Mardi Gras on Tuesday February 16, there was no stopping the fever of the diva herself. We are talking of course of Beyonce who will be performing in Trinidad and the Caribbean for the first time this Thursday, [...]
February 19, 2010 | Posted in
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Darnley Lebourne, Press Secretary to Prime Minister Stephenson King, inherited a mountain of public relations calamity when he took up the position sometime last year. In the past administration Kenny Anthony’s army only had to deal with a minor Claudius Francis resignation as their first press secretary, Ernest Hilaire as the political attaché, Roger [...]
February 16, 2010 | Posted in
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After yet another dramatic end to Monday’s episode of the Bachelor on ABC Jake told the final three bachelorettes hoping to win the final rose and his heart, to pack their bags and get ready to head to Saint Lucia. “It is one of the most beautiful places on earth that I know,” Jake said [...]
February 12, 2010 | Posted in
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This Friday, 24 competitors will be aiming to wrest the crowns from the head of the 2009 Power Soca Monarch and Groovy Soca Monarch—Faye-anne Lyons Alvarez. But the reigning monarch says she is all set for the competition, will be putting her best foot forward and is not taking the competition lightly.
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February 12, 2010 | Posted in
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We did a double take when we heard the comments made by Soufriere MP Harold Dalson on NewsSpin Wednesday. The MP said he would love some Taiwanese money! We soon came to our senses and realized what might have been the trigger.
After all, we are in the season of love where it was really [...]
February 12, 2010 | Posted in
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She hands me a silver chain with a crucifix pendant, as I stooped over her cot which serves as a bed for this three-year-old and her mother Madame Velázquez. She is in pain, the look on her face shows it, her amputated left foot tells of what the earthquake did to her. I use the [...]
February 8, 2010 | Posted in
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