
If only the masses of the people could round up all of the politicians of expedient virtues who have walked into the offices of government in this country, be they dead or alive, including those with the impulse to pick the pocket of their Jon in the brothel, then perhaps St Lucians would finally be [...]
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If the SLP’s 2004 constituency conference in Gros Islet was a hosanna moment to parliamentary representative and education minister Mario Michel, it was also an opportunity for the party faithful to learn from their chosen experts the weak, indiscipline, vacillating tendencies of others at the key Ministry of Finance. The keynote speaker Dr Didacus Jules [...]

The Spartan Health Sciences University, School of Medicine is now celebrating a monumental achievement.
The Dean of the University, Dr Gurumurthy is pleased to announce that the New York team has agreed that the medical program at Spartan Medical School has substantially met all the requirements of the regulators of the commissioner of New [...]
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The Cultural Development Foundation (CDF) announces that all vendors or persons interested in operating a booth or tray at Assou Square 2010 are asked to attend a very mportant orientation workshop on Monday, December 28 from 5pm at the CDF office in Barnard Hill, Castries. Thereafter vendors are asked to make payments on Tuesday, [...]
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On Tuesday December 22, a total of 13 uniquely decorated boats and two IGY Rodney Bay Marina boats participated in what was, hopefully, the first of many Carols Afloat Christmas events. Certainly from this writers view point the event was a tremendous success! The boats that participated brought the joy that is Christmas spirit from [...]
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The numbers were expected to come in at 100, but were a little short, as only approximately 65 children of the La Coix Maingot community turned up for the Helen Television System/Helen Folk Dancers annual children’s party. Held at the La Coix Maingot school on Saturday, December 19, the treat attracted a special group [...]
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When St Lucia Distillers Company Ltd hosted its annual Children’s Christmas Party in the Roseau community on Tuesday December 22, the aim was to bring Christmas cheer to the young.
The grand event that was hosted in the company’s canteen treated approximately sixty children who received gifts from Santa followed with “fun and refreshments.”
The company, which [...]
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Fifty-year-old Analina Henry of Fond St Jacques, Soufriere, sustained multiple stabbed wounds to her back, chest and pelvic area, by a known individual, about midnight on Thursday December 24 at Fond St Jacques. According to police reports, Henry succumbed to her injuries. One person is presently in police custody in connection with this incident.
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We are in need of a full-time psychologist and counselors at the facility, if we are to be successful in rehabilitating the inmates and reducing the rate of recidivism,” said Victoria Alcide, deputy director of Corrections at Bordelais Correctional Facility. She was at the time addressing the closing session of the most recent Assizes on [...]
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Last weekend, the Association Saint Lucie-Martinique in collaboration with sponsors from the ministry of social transformation, youth and sports and the Gros Islet Town Council hosted two hundred and fifty (250) enthusiast and participants of the 19th edition of the Gommier Boat Race dubbed due Trait D’Union Sud.
A delegation of officials including [...]
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