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		<title>The Coronavirus Fall-out: The way I see it</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Josie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2020 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The coronavirus pandemic gives us another opportunity to look at ourselves more deeply and objectively than the fleeting glances we spare in the mirror of our lives, whenever we choose to remember. The way I see it, we will continue to react in the same knee-jerk manner—the simple reflex reactions of the unthinking. As someone who likes politics and understands the benefits that a true and honest politician can bring to a constituency (and to people at large), I decided a long time ago that I must raise my voice whenever I think my country needs to hear it.   ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>DO OUR POLITICANS CARE ABOUT HEALTH CARE?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Josie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Feb 2020 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[To listen to the ongoing debate about St. Jude and the OKEU hospitals, one would think this was all there is to health care. The suggestion is that the completion and opening of the two hospitals would solve Saint Lucia’s health care needs. This demands careful and rigorous analysis, not reckless criticism, especially if National Health Insurance is thrown in the mix. The to-ing and fro-ing about the completion of the named hospitals over the past ten years must cease. Opposition politicians and journalists in particular, have swallowed the health care bait hook, line and sinker without demanding what’s meant by health care, as opposed to sickness management—caring for the sick.                      ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Encouraging Mission of  ‘Make It Happen’</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Josie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jan 2020 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Raquel du Boulay Chastanet]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[If someone were to ask me what was the most impactful event in Saint Lucia over the past decade, I would unhesitatingly point to the Make It Happen Foundation—the charitable organisation conceived by Mrs. Raquel du Boulay Chastanet, wife of Prime Minister Allen Chastanet—creating a better working environment for the police. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>INSPIRATION IN SMALL IRREGULAR DOSES</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Josie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Dec 2019 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Since my last contribution to this paper I have focused on other writings, albeit in small irregular doses. There are, however, two recent incidents which I’ve decided to record from my vantage point. The first is the destruction by fire of the Adjodha Building, better known as the Gaiety, on William Peter Boulevard in Castries. I was one of three students from St. Mary’s College invited by Mr. Dunstan St. Omer (later Sir Dunstan), our art teacher, to help him paint the scenic murals on the inside walls of the Gaiety. The second student was Victor Burton but, for the life of me, I can’t recall who was the third.   ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>INSPIRING HOPE . . . BEYOND POLITICS</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Josie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Sep 2019 13:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bob Marley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This week I return to a theme that has occupied my mind for a very long time, one that a small circle of friends and acquaintances will recognize. I refer to the need for a free-thinking, politically independent group of patriotic Saint Lucians who are prepared to discuss the social, political and economic situation of the island, publicly and truthfully. This thinking is not uniquely mine. It has been broached by a number of people that I respect, including the publisher of this newspaper.  ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Rapidly Changing World Demands New Thinking</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Josie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Sep 2019 13:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[constitutional reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hurricane allen]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[In my last column I hinted at the apparent stupidity that seems at times to blanket this island. I was careful to point to the knee-jerk reaction that is based on the narrow partisan politics at the root of such willful ignorance. Like those who have been trained in scientific investigation (such as my colleagues in the science of agriculture) to identify problems along the food chain and to identify suitable solutions, I have tried to apply these principles to my politics. This has led me in my active political life to search out a cost-effective path to the social and economic problems that haunt Saint Lucia. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Is politics to blame for our demonstrated stupidity?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Josie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Sep 2019 13:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Allen Chastanet]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[To judge by the misinformed talk regarding the failure to complete, after ten years, the reconstruction of St. Jude Hospital in Vieux Fort, one might be forgiven for thinking this island had been landed with more than its fair share of idiots, nincompoops and morons. Still, it prides itself as the only Caribbean island with two Nobel laureates to its name. I stick my neck out and say that we are a better than what a smart foreigner may conclude listening to local talk radio. 
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		<title>DOES ST LUCIA HAVE A LAND USE PLAN?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Josie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Sep 2019 13:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Last Sunday, while on a casual drive with friends to Soufriere and Vieux Fort, we travelled along the back of the Morne Road, perchance to recapture the landmarks that were familiar before unplanned development, including rude, rusty, galvanize huts along roadsides, became the order of the day. On approaching the Cul-de-Sac valley I beheld two significant land clearings alongside the main road, each about an acre in extent, which were being back-filled with rocks and quarry waste for some sort of structure, in the name of development. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>ANOTHER ASPECT OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Josie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Sep 2019 13:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Someone whose opinion I appreciate recently convinced me that I should take a fresh look at a national school feeding programme with the awareness of its potential to organise specific farmers and fishermen, unemployed youth, professional chefs and even delinquent fathers. The idea is that these people would be organised by the Ministry of Education with other departments in government to produce vegetables, food crops, eggs, milk and fish in a project to commence possibly as early as 2020.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>CASTING THE FIRST STONE…and more</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Josie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Aug 2019 13:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When someone approached me berating a young Saint Lucian lawyer who is alleged to have run afoul of the law, I promptly shut him up with the words: “We ought not to be quick to judge, because it demeans us all. Besides, gloating over the weaknesses of others is uncharitable.” I might have kept the particular recollection to myself but for the way we judge our West Indian cricketers, especially in relation the change of name from St. Lucia Stars to St. Lucia Zouks. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How do we protect the ambitious young from the shortcomings of an earlier generation?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Josie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Aug 2019 13:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Daren Sammy]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Animble, curious mind may ponder the origin of new ideas: are they born and nourished in isolation of book learning or guidance from elsewhere? From whence spring fervent political dreamers? Is there an education threshold that leads to becoming a political fantasist, and another which moulds a political realist and worker, capable of solving problems? Should dreamers only dream or should they also work to increase national wealth?]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The day I landed a million-dollar gift!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Josie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Aug 2019 13:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Louis Boriel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[money]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[There once lived in the town of Vieux Fort a man named Louis Boriel. Vieux Fortians and persons elsewhere knew him as a self-made man who owned land, animals and other property.  Stories abound how he came to his riches. He was the grandchild of East Indian indentured labourers who had been enticed to the Caribbean from their homes when former slaves from Africa refused to work the same lands, after emancipation. I knew Louis through my mother’s father, Gaston Alphonse, who was a master carpenter in the town and who had built many large, beautiful homes, some for the Boriel family. I kept in touch with Louis after my grandfather passed on, even after I had moved to Castries. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>To mark Emancipation, an Idea worth sharing!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Josie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Aug 2019 13:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Commentary]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[emancipation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emancipation Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fidel Castro]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Finding a way out of ignorance and poverty ought to be the agenda of every Emancipation Day observance. To that end, we must learn to look at history in its deep, underlying currents, rather than superficially. In this context I’ve hit upon an idea I wish to share. To assist me, I turn to the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>PRESIDENT  TSAI ING-WEN VISITS SAINT LUCIA</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Josie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jul 2019 13:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Since achieving political independence, Saint Lucia’s diplomatic relations have been firmly established with countries of her choosing, save for Taiwan and China. At Independence, left-leaning politicians tended to favour Communist China (Beijing) whereas the right-leaning ones tended to favour relations with the Republic of China (Taiwan). The main political parties on the island never declared themselves Socialist or Conservative, Left or Right. These labels were attached for convenience.     ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A word to Philip J. Pierre on Putting Country First!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Josie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jul 2019 13:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The carnival is over. A good time was had by those who desired it. It’s now time to return to other socio-economic issues. I offer the following unsolicited advice to Philip J. Pierre, leader of the House opposition and of the St. Lucia Labour Party. I trust it is received as a beacon of hope. He has toiled long and hard in the political vineyard of this country. Few can offer friendly disinterested advice, because many fear being accused of supporting a desperate, losing cause. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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