
Fire Grill’s launch of its new “Baby Grill” has everyone talking and grilling! This memorable event held last Thursday was witnessed by specially invited guests and representatives from local hotels. The newly opened baby grill section now allows patrons to choose, marinate and grill their own food. The menu offers a variation of meats, vegetables, [...]
March 12, 2010 | Posted in
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Usually it’s honeymooners that are bringing the business to St Lucia resorts.
But recently it’s a single guy that is generating interest in this Caribbean island and its many upscale properties.
Last week, America tuned into “The Bachelor: On the Wings of Love” to watch Jake Pavelka and his final three bachelorettes be whisked away to Saint [...]
March 1, 2010 | Posted in
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For the girls at St Joseph’s Convent, the Carnival Princess pageant is one of the most anticipated events of the school year. The pageant is to students, what the National Carnival Queen pageant is to St Lucian society, with an almost equal level of glam associated with it—well, at least where students are concerned.
On Friday, [...]
February 26, 2010 | Posted in
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A paradise of health, fitness and beauty—that’s the best way to describe this new, well-stocked, luxurious store—one of the most ‘international’ stores you’ll find in St Lucia. It’s an organic grocery shop—the only stop for anything you need to facilitate a healthy, natural lifestyle. Why did I specifically highlight ‘international’? Because there’s a huge product [...]
February 16, 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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LIME has kicked off its regular annual disaster awareness and preparedness programme this year by giving over twenty of its technicians and office staff the opportunity to participate in a one-day course in basic First Aid with the St John Association.
The training was held last week at LIME Corinth under the guidance of First [...]
February 5, 2010 | Posted in
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Three awards at the business awards last week; “Marketing Excellence,” “Exporter of the Year,” and “Business of the Year,” awards. Quite easily Windward and Leeward Brewery Ltd could have been named the largest private sector employer, with 117 direct employees and a further 80 indirectly across the island or the leaders in social responsibility and [...]
February 1, 2010 | Posted in
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You are free to go to sleep,” he joked with St Lucia’s Laureate Derek Walcott near the beginning of his address. “An 80-year-old man is entitled to doze off.”
But Nigeria’s Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka had them hanging on his every word.
The annual Derek Walcott lecture attracted hundreds of people who spilled out of the [...]
January 29, 2010 | Posted in
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Close to a dozen pineapple farmers responded to an invitation from the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) and the Banana Industry Trust (BIT), to be apprised of the findings of a rapid assessment of the Pineapple sector. Conducted by Mr Steve Maximay and Mr Colin Paul and commissioned by IICA and BIT, the [...]
January 25, 2010 | Posted in
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On Friday January 22, The Derek Walcott square will be transformed to an Arts and Craft market in the heart of the city, as plans are to ensure that a cross section of the visual, literary and performing arts sector play a role in the observance of Nobel laureate Week this year.
Co-ordinator [...]
January 20, 2010 | Posted in
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