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		<title>Section 361: Capitulation or Entitlement?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2018 15:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Year after year after year we have heard allusions being made with regard  to Section 361 of the Criminal Code 2001 which, incidentally and erroneously, no longer forms part of our criminal jurisprudence.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>DSH and Saint Lucian Patriotism</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Mar 2017 12:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hat has come to the fore in relation to the DSH project in Vieux Fort is that this country is embroiled in a crisis of patriotism. What is alarming is that Saint Lucians are unaware of, or oblivious to, this crisis. There is an aetiological nexus between the ubiquitous dysfunctionalities in our society and the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>WHY IS MADAM SPEAKER ALLOWING HERSELF TO BE IGNORED?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2017 12:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[dropcap]T[/dropcap]his issue in its holistic perception bothers me since I am of the firm opinion and belief that the position I have taken in the matter of the Deputy Speaker is the correct one. I am bothered because of the bland and ubiquitous acceptance of the status quo. Why hasn’t the former Prime Minister, as [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Laws Do Not Stop or Prevent Crime!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2016 15:52:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n November 28,1997 the Parole Act (No.12/1997) became the law of the land. Its birth and seeming demise coincided with that date for up to the time of the writing of this article, yet this piece of legislation has never been operationalised. As a Bill the Parole Act, and at second reading, had been debated in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>THE SACRIFICIAL LAMB CONSUMATED</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2016 14:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The totality of our three articles on this subject (and this is our third and most persuasive) provides the template upon which the resolution pertaining to the Deputy Speaker absurdity reposes. So far we have focused some attention on Section 35 of the Constitution and elaborated upon Section 36. What necessarily and crucially should be [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>THE  SACRIFICIAL LAMB  REVISITED</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2016 14:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[With the seemingly obdurate position taken by the Parliamentary Opposition in relation to the election of a Deputy Speaker, the government is in a predicament which it could have avoided, and which was unnecessary. With its 11-6 majority in the House would it have vitiated its executive and legislative potency and possibilities as a government [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The New Paradigm</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Apr 2016 05:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We are in the “silly season” and with it the prostitution of our democratic ethos: the template upon which our franchise, contextually speaking, is being given a perverse expression in a dubious quest for responsible national governance. Election time approaches and partisan politics rears its ugly head. And the amazing thing is that there is [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A HISTORICAL AND METAPHYSICAL CORRECTION</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2016 05:41:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” – Lord Acton As I see it this quoted statement is ontologically incorrect and philosophically asinine. If absolute power corrupts absolutely, then God, the Uncaused Cause, who is and has absolute power, would be the Devil—whoever that is and whatever that means. God would be the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Former Justice says hang ‘em high! (Continued from last Saturday’s STAR)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2015 05:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[With regard to the issue of corporal punishment, a trip down memory lane is necessary. The place is the village of Laborie; the time my infant and primary school days. I attended the St. Anthony Private School, run by Jesse and Olienne Medouze, former principals of the Laborie Girls’ Primary School. Subsequent thereto I attended [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Former Justice says  hang ‘em high!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2015 05:19:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[From the onset I wish to make it abundantly clear that I subscribe to the view that capital punishment can be a deterrent to the commission of homicidal crimes; and that corporal punishment can be an effective means of disciplining children between the ages of five years and fifteen years. Undoubtedly the posture assumed in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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