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		<title>Hilaire’s ‘silence’ at Budget Debate deeply concerning  </title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2025 18:27:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, March 25th, 2025, Prime Minister Philip J. Pierre formally presented before parliament the Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure for the 2025–2026 fiscal year.&#160; Valued at approximately $2.1 billion, this represents the largest national budget ever introduced by any administration in the history of Saint Lucia. In outlining the rationale behind his government’s expansionary [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Beware the Red Zone Unit!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Concerned Citizen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 13:24:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It is indeed with heartfelt sympathy that I write to let the nation know of the agonizing plight of the several thousands of Saint Lucians now languishing in Dr. Ken’s special Red Zone while a cure is being for what is described the “En-Rouge Epidemic.” Among the suffering patients is my good friend Starry. He [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Has St Lucia&#8217;s Borrowing jumped in 2012?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Concerned Citizen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 19:11:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The St Lucia government issues 91-day Treasury Bills twice a quarter on the Regional Security Market according the schedule listed here: http://www.ecseonline.com/cal_issues.php . Each 91 day Treasury Bill issuance has a maximum discount rate set to 6.0 percent in the prospectus. See: http://www.ecseonline.com/documents/FinalProspectusGovernmentofSaintLucia27mand25mTreasurybillsdatedJune2012.pdf for the current prospectus. The figures for the 7 batches of 91-day [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A firsthand look at NGOs</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Concerned Citizen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 22:18:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I read with much interest Rick Wayne’s article about who is pushing the agenda of NGOs and it reminded me of some of the concerns that I have as a member of the NGO community, although now in a much less active capacity. I believe all NGOs have very good, ambitious intentions but the issue [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Playing Chicken with Poultry Industry</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Concerned Citizen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Dear Editor, I wish to share some of my frustrations with your readers and I hope that my point doesn’t get lost in my anger and disappointment in our Government. The world at large is sick of self-serving Government and St Lucia is no exception to that plague. I am often puzzled by many of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Here&#8217;s to better days . . .</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Concerned Citizen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:11:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It is with great caution that we welcome Kenny Anthony and the SLP team, comprising of the old and new, out of the wilderness and into the seat of power in Saint Lucia. Some of us remember all too well that the last time the Labour party was in office  the many mistakes that cost [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Will Kenny &#038; Co apologize?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Concerned Citizen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:43:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My fellow St Lucians, I know that most of you peace loving people, if not all, felt utterly disappointed and disgraced by the level of misconduct displayed by our opposition parliamentarians led by Mr Philip J Pierre and Dr Kenny Anthony at Tuesday 13th September’s sitting of the House. For some it was probably the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Did Professor Antoine get it wrong?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Concerned Citizen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Please permit me to elucidate your readers on sections of the Constitution, which in my view have been illogically and callously misrepresented by no less a person than professor Rose Marie Belle Antoine, a professor of law at the UWI when she attempted to answer questions posed to her from an online facebook questioner. The [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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