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		<title>When Will Our Leaders Stop Dancing Like Trained Monkeys?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alvin Charles]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2022 13:41:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The growth of the British Empire was fueled by colonialism, and the British monarchy was instrumental in the establishment, expansion, and maintenance of the slave trade.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>PHILIP J. PIERRE: ‘MY PAST HAS BEEN HONORABLE . . . I AM NOT A RAT!’</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alvin Charles]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Dec 2019 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A recent lunchtime conversation with friends did not play out in customary fashion. Our regular news spin sessions have always been spirited and intellectual. On the other hand ideological slants were always predictable—until the recalled instance. After kicking around the usual political footballs of healthcare, education, crime and corruption, the conversation took an unexpected turn: to Philip J. Pierre’s leadership of the St. Lucia Labour Party. Imagine my astonishment when an ardent Laborite in the group broke the red line by questioning Mr. Pierre’s ability to lead. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Who Will Lift Us Out Of Our Predicament?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alvin Charles]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Dec 2019 13:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[st jude hospital]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[There are few things the two main political parties agree on. By now it’s common knowledge they do not see eye to eye on the immediate future of St. Jude reconstruction. The UWP views the situation as a dumpster fire fanned by the ineptitude and inaction of the previous administration. The SLP insists on turning out the light on the fact that it did not deliver on its repeated promise of “a state of the art hospital before the end of 2015”— while admonishing the current administration for not completing what was left undone in 2016. Both sides accuse the other of gross incompetence and self-interest bordering on corruption.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>WHY THE SLP WILL NOT WIN THE NEXT ELECTION!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alvin Charles]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Nov 2019 13:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Allen Chastanet]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The dissonant muffled percussion of political disquiet could once again be heard and felt throughout the length and breadth of Fair Helen. The ductile audience are beginning to tap their feet, nod their heads and sway their hips ever so slightly to the insidious beat on cue—like rats under the spell of an enchanted flute. There are those who have not stopped dancing since June of 2016 but these private dancers move not because of the allure of the tune or a love of dancing. Rather, they dance in pursuance of G-strings stuffed with singles. For them, any old music will do. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Father of Local Bodybuilding has Left the Building!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alvin Charles]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Oct 2019 16:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Lifestyle]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bodybuilding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Melitus Sidonie]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Iron never lies to you. You can walk outside and listen to all kinds of talk, get told that you’re a god or a total bastard. The Iron will always kick you the real deal. The Iron is the great reference point, the all-knowing perspective giver. Always there like a beacon in the pitch black. I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs . . . 200 hundred pounds is always 200 hundred pounds.” – Henry Rollins. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>CAN WE TRUST THE WORDS OF OUR PUBLIC OFFICIALS?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alvin Charles]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2018 16:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Merlene Fredericks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PUBLIC OFFICIALS]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Always remember . . . Rumours are carried by haters, spread by fools, and accepted by idiots,” Ziad K. Abdelnour.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>RAISE YOUR VOICE . . . BUT DON’T BE SURPRISED WHEN ANOTHER IS RAISED IN RESPONSE</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alvin Charles]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2018 20:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[EU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hospitals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Owen King]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The island’s lone southern hospital, the St. Jude’s Hospital, no stranger to controversy, is once again the subject of a debate, sparked by a heated exchange.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Gross Deceptive Product?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alvin Charles]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2018 18:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[GDP]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[On 14 April 2011 then Prime Minister Stephenson King, during his budget presentation, stated the following:

While the recession was still strong in the rest of the OECS member countries, all of which experienced negative growth in 2010, the economy of Saint Lucia grew by 4.4% in 2010 compared to an average of minus 3.2% for the OECS as a whole.]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">65956</post-id>	</item>
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		<title>DIFFERENT SPEAKER . . .  SAME UNRULY PARLIAMENT</title>
		<link>https://stluciastar.com/different-speaker-unruly-parliament/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alvin Charles]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2018 15:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Andy Daniel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[House]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jeanine Michele Giraudy-Mcintyre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday this week Mr. Andy Daniel was sworn in as the eighth Speaker of the Saint Lucia House of Assembly.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>FEAR GRIPS SMALL COMMUNITY AFTER MYSTERIOUS DEATHS</title>
		<link>https://stluciastar.com/fear-grips-small-community-mysterious-deaths/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alvin Charles]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2018 17:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Marigot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MYSTERIOUS DEATHS]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Doctors, nurses, police and environmental health officers, all on the ground in a small community, asking questions in the course of an investigation.]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">65724</post-id>	</item>
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		<title>READ THIS BEFORE YOU CONCEIVE A CHILD</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alvin Charles]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2018 18:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[living expenses]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[poverty]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[In preparation for writing this article I interviewed restaurant cashiers, street-side vendors, store attendants and a bar porter.]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">65541</post-id>	</item>
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		<title>NEW MAJOR DEVELOPMENT IN SAINT LUCIAN TOURISM PRODUCT!</title>
		<link>https://stluciastar.com/new-major-development-saint-lucian-tourism-product/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alvin Charles]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2018 17:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[country club]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[It seems simple enough. Hit a teed-up ball with a club; wait for it to stop moving, then hit it again, and again, until you get it into the hole.]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">65388</post-id>	</item>
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		<title>DO BLACK PEOPLE ABHOR THE SKIN THEY ARE IN?</title>
		<link>https://stluciastar.com/black-people-abhor-skin/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alvin Charles]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Feb 2018 15:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chadwick Boseman]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Wakanda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Walt Disney Studios]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ever wonder why so many black people seem to abhor their black skin and nappy hair? I imagine many of you are taken aback by the question.]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">65234</post-id>	</item>
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		<title>THE GREATEST LIE ANY POLITICIAN EVER TOLD . . . AND THE MEDIA IS IN ON IT!</title>
		<link>https://stluciastar.com/greatest-lie-politician-ever-told-media/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alvin Charles]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Feb 2018 16:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[atlantic ocean]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Just about every Monday since being elected a little more than a year and a half ago, prior to its weekly cabinet meeting, the government holds a press briefing.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>What Really Went Down At Bordelais Last Week? How Soon A Repeat Performance?</title>
		<link>https://stluciastar.com/really-went-bordelais-last-week-soon-repeat-performance/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alvin Charles]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Feb 2018 16:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Headlines]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Douglas CT Shen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hermangild Francis]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The maxim “justice delayed is justice denied” is so often heard in Saint Lucia without follow-up action, it may by now have lost its meaning.]]></description>
		
		
		
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