Rick Wayne

The More Things Change…

Our tendency is to take the easy way out and force ourselves to forget depressing thoughts, as a survival mechanism.… Read More

1 month ago

Who Will Part Our Red Sea of Hate So We Can Escape Ourselves!

Meanwhile, who better to name STAR Person of the Year 2025? When he was still new to the mined field… Read More

1 month ago

Who killed Kimberly De Leon?

The deceased's husband has never been disciplined, or taken to the orderly room. Read More

7 months ago

Machine Guns No Match For A Match!

In a recent dispatch to a writer friend from our days of California dreaming (several years ago he too had… Read More

8 months ago

Why Won’t Kenny Anthony Allow St. Lucians to give him All the Love he Craves?

Onstage with him were a dozen or so young men and women in red shirts and black pants. By his… Read More

9 months ago

Love Gestures Can Be Lethal!

His only public comment on the Gros Islet rebuff has been: “Shaking hands is a voluntary thing.” Read More

12 months ago

WILL A NEW BREED OF SAINT LUCIANS TOLERATE A HOUSE BARBECUE?

Will we continue to tolerate government and statutory bodies that appear above the law? Government ministers who with impunity dismissively… Read More

1 year ago

15 Years Later St. Jude Hospital still up in the air!

After all, he had “inherited” them upon returning to office in 2011. They were hired by his predecessors. By which… Read More

1 year ago

WILL ST LUCIAN YOUTH BENEFIT FROM JULIEN ALFRED’S GOLD?

Lately our young people have been under heavy fire. It’s not uncommon to hear, even from mouths less than fifty… Read More

2 years ago

Kenny Schools Colleagues during Appropriations Bill Debate: Nothing Happens before its Time!

Labour Party back-bencher and former prime minister Kenny Anthony addressing parliament on April 25. Almost from the moment he opted… Read More

2 years ago

When Local Lawmakers Sought To Choke Free Expression!

MARIO MICHEL WAS THIS WEEK APPOINTED ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE On May 3, freedom-loving citizens everywhere, journalists in particular, marked World… Read More

2 years ago

When The Juice Turned Sour!

The author on the comeback trail at Vince’s Gym (circa 1980) with Carl Weathers (seated) and the maestro himself Vince… Read More

2 years ago

WILL A NEW BREED OF SAINT LUCIANS TOLERATE A HOUSE BARBECUE?

Kenny Anthony (pictured left with the Labour Party’s original leader, George Charles): For fifteen years he was Saint Lucia’s prime… Read More

2 years ago

Long before Rochamel and Grynberg there was ‘the U.N. Funds Scandal!’

Charles Flemming: Saint Lucia’s former ambassador to the UN was widely praised for his sartorial elegance, but not for his… Read More

2 years ago

So Nice To Have Known You Lou!

I remember well that May morning when a receptionist at Weider buzzed my office to let me know someone downstairs… Read More

2 years ago

St. Lucia Bar Association in a tizzy over what some are calling ‘the proposed Hilaire Law!’

Prime Minister Philip J. Pierre (L) and Attorney general Leslie Mondesir. Last June the Privy Council issued its judgment on… Read More

2 years ago

Is Current House Speaker the thorn between ‘protecting the victory’ and former PM Kenny Anthony’s olive-branch aspirations?

Prime Minister Philip J. Pierre (left), for Senate president, now House Speaker Claudius Francis (center) and former PM turned back-bencher… Read More

2 years ago

St. Lucians Looking Forward to Promised Special Prosecutions!

DPP Daasrean Greene, left, and Special Prosecutor Robert Innocent. Will they deliver on government’s promises in 2024? (Photo of Robert… Read More

2 years ago

Those who seek to take away our right to free speech violate our Constitution and are borderline fascist!

In my government I tolerate dissent—up to a point. I allow dissent because I recognize that sometimes it can be… Read More

2 years ago

THEY ASKED THE EMBASSY TO LISTEN . . . THE EMBASSY LISTENED!

Richard Frederick rages from an SLP platform while Kenny Anthony and Philip J. Pierre watch poker-faced! For over a decade… Read More

2 years ago

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