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		<title>The More Things Change&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 15:55:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Our tendency is to take the easy way out and force ourselves to forget depressing thoughts, as a survival mechanism. But even as we fool ourselves]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Who Will Part Our Red Sea of Hate So We Can Escape Ourselves!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 14:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Meanwhile, who better to name STAR Person of the Year 2025? When he was still new to the mined field of local politics, he had learned that the best politicians seldom decorate newspaper covers.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Who killed Kimberly De Leon?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2025 16:47:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The deceased's husband has never been disciplined, or taken to the orderly room. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Machine Guns No Match For A Match!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2025 23:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In a recent dispatch to a writer friend from our days of California dreaming (several years ago he too had returned from L.A. to his native Calgary, Canada, to become, among other cool things, a happy husband and father, a successful advertising executive and award-winning photographer) I bemoaned the passing of such as Norman Mailer, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Why Won’t Kenny Anthony Allow St. Lucians to give him All the Love he Craves?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2025 22:44:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Onstage with him were a dozen or so young men and women in red shirts and black pants. By his own account, they are his most trusted constituents. He described as “unusual” their meeting on a recent Wednesday evening in Independence Square. Kenny Anthony was still Saint Lucia’s prime minister in March 2014 when he [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Love Gestures Can Be Lethal!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2025 01:52:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[His only public comment on the Gros Islet rebuff has been: “Shaking hands is a voluntary thing.”]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>WILL A NEW BREED OF SAINT LUCIANS TOLERATE A HOUSE BARBECUE?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Feb 2025 01:52:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Will we continue to tolerate government and statutory bodies that appear above the law? Government ministers who with impunity dismissively react to important press questions?]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>15 Years Later St. Jude Hospital still up in the air!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2024 20:04:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[After all, he had “inherited” them upon returning to office in 2011. They were hired by his predecessors. By which he seemed to say the Stephenson King administration is to blame for the current situation.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>WILL ST LUCIAN YOUTH BENEFIT FROM JULIEN ALFRED’S GOLD?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Aug 2024 13:47:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Lately our young people have been under heavy fire. It’s not uncommon to hear, even from mouths less than fifty years old, that “our youth are lazy, irresponsible, without ambition, criminally inclined. They care not a damn what tomorrow may bring. All they do is hang out in William Peter Boulevard all day long, smoking [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Kenny Schools Colleagues during Appropriations Bill Debate: Nothing Happens before its Time!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2024 00:16:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Almost from the moment he opted to become a back-bencher, immediately following the 2021 general elections, Kenny Anthony’s contributions to House debates have tended to leave his party colleagues in a state of apoplexy. On more than a few occasions the former prime minister had not so subtly reminded fellow parliamentarians that some of them [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>When Local Lawmakers Sought To Choke Free Expression!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Wayne]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2024 01:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On May 3, freedom-loving citizens everywhere, journalists in particular, marked World Press Freedom Day. Here in Saint Lucia the day was mentioned by just one news outlet. Not unexpectedly, there were no good wishes from local politicians. Relations between our elected representatives and the press have never been other than cordial, at best. In more [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>When The Juice Turned Sour!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Wayne]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2024 20:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The O.J. Simpson I knew was a fellow member of Vince’s North Hollywood gym, just off Ventura Boulevard, in Los Angeles. He was one of the most affable people I ever met. So was Carl Weathers, who in 1976 played the role of Apollo Creed opposite Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky Balboa. Both had been football superstars. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>WILL A NEW BREED OF SAINT LUCIANS TOLERATE A HOUSE BARBECUE? </title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Wayne]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2024 00:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In 1995 Pat Brown, arguably Saint Lucia’s most respected structural engineer and a cherished contributor to the STAR newspaper, wrote the following: In 1972 the day’s prime minister was obsessed with the idea of making Rodney Bay a no-go zone for mosquitoes. Moses Matalon [a Jamaican famous for having conceptualized the reclamation of land in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Long before Rochamel and Grynberg there was ‘the U.N. Funds Scandal!’</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Wayne]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2024 20:41:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Dr. Charles Flemming has died. According to reliable overseas sources, the former Saint Lucia ambassador to the U.N. passed away recently and was interred at Kenisco cemetery in “the hamlet of Valhalla,” Westchester, New York. Flemming, especially remembered for his sartorial elegance, was also widely admired for his oratory and his wit. He was the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>So Nice To Have Known You Lou!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Wayne]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2024 20:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I remember well that May morning when a receptionist at Weider buzzed my office to let me know someone downstairs wanted a word with me. I told her I’d be down in a minute. It happened often. Bodybuilding fans from all over the world were always dropping by the Weider Building on Erwin Street, Woodland [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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