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		<title>Boo Hinkson: We must take our history more seriously</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2018 13:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[dropcap]T[/dropcap]his weekend, the Mabouya Valley Parade of the Bands will bring the always contentious carnival season to an end for 2018. Which gives us one more opportunity to reel the minds of Saint Lucians on what carnival means to us as a country and as a people— until next year. To say the least: government’s [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Saying Goodbye to Her Majesty!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2018 20:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It was St. Patrick’s Day in New Zealand and I was about a pint and a half deep with a stomach coated of bacon and eggs at 10:00 a.m. when I checked my email inbox.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>While doing her ‘delicate little dance’ with SALCC board did Rigobert step on the wrong toes?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2018 16:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It was Monday morning when Cabinet sat down with the Board of Directors from Sir Arthur Lewis Community College for an “emergency meeting” regarding a 100 per cent fee increase for the 2018 school year.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Government has New Proposals for Sargassum</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2018 14:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Saint Lucian government says it’s planning to implement new strategies for handling sargassum seaweed.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Ministry Opens up about Beanefield School . . . Kinda!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2018 17:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ministry of Education representatives spoke this week about short- and long-term solutions to the Beanefield dilemma.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Remembering Arsene James, Educator and MP</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Venn]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2018 15:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Mr. Arsene James, the former minister of education and MP for Micoud South, unexpectedly died on Saturday.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Activist Aaron Alexander: We Are Lost Until We Discover Who We Are!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2018 22:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[These new plantations by the sea; a slavery without chains, with no blood spilt—just chain-link fences and signs, the new degradations.”]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Minister of Education Continues to Dodge Questions about Beanefield</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2018 18:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Following last week’s STAR report on the elongated confusion between Beanefield and the reticent minister of education, Gale Rigobert persists in being tight-lipped about what will happen at Beanefield Comprehensive Secondary Schoo]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The secretary who dared publicly to wish for a better Saint Lucia</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Venn]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2018 07:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It has been over 20 years: have Saint Lucians’ wishes come true?]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Chastanet Dismisses Opposition’s “Childish Games&#8221;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Venn]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2018 15:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Following a jostling match at Tuesday morning’s sitting of Parliament, Prime Minister Allen Chastanet defended his recently minted visa policies for Chinese nationals travelling to, or passing through, Saint Lucia, even though that’s not what the day’s meeting was about.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Education Ministry Has No Further Answers for Beanefield</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Venn]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jul 2018 15:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[After a week of dysfunction from the Ministry of Education and backlash from communities in the south, the 60 students previously accepted to Beanefield Comprehensive Secondary School will now be granted entry, come the new school year. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>King Arthur has the Hearts of Mothers across Saint Lucia</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Venn]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jul 2018 18:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Soca Monarch competition lit up on Sunday evening with exuberating performances, trancing the crowd into a near seven-hour long party.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The King of Soca includes St. Lucia in His Kingdom</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Venn]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jul 2018 20:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Soca music has been an integral part of Caribbean culture since it began to sprout from the roots of calypso centuries ago.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Part Choice, part Circumstance: Bexon Residents&#8217; eternal Dispute with Mother Nature, Themselves and Government</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Venn]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jul 2018 17:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Bexon residents have the profoundly unlucky circumstance of living in one of the most flood-prone areas in all of Saint Lucia and, judging by the volume of memes floating around the internet, maybe even the Caribbean.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Soca artists deserve better than current ISA</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Venn]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jul 2018 18:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Maybe it was the hype. Maybe it was the luxurious Sandals Grande venue. Or maybe it’s the fact that the ISA is the only supposed notable award ceremony for soca artists; I had formed the impression the award for soca music was, in the Caribbean, the equivalent of a Grammy.]]></description>
		
		
		
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