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		<title>Are we included in ‘America First?’  </title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tafawa Williams]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2025 00:23:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[You may have heard the adage that from the mouth of babes is usually the unvarnished truth.&#160; I was conscripted by friends to write on what is Saint Lucia and the wider Eastern Caribbean doing, and ought to do, in response to the policy initiatives of the Trump presidency.&#160; I asked the younger of my [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Of Comrades, Incumbent Parties and Irrational Exuberance!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Wanoff Dose]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2025 20:12:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The late Errol Barrow, the father of Barbados’s independence in 1967, delivered an address at the United Nations declaring that Barbados would “be friends of all, satellites of none.” &#160;Twelve years later, in 1979, Sir John Compton confirmed a variation of Errol Barrow’s foreign policy stance that essentially suggested Saint Lucia would not position ourselves [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>JULIEN ALFRED: OF GOLD AND SILVER LININGS</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Adrian Augier]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Aug 2024 15:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Not since we regained independence in 1979 have Saint Lucians been so united in the ethos of a single moment, a single milestone. Yes, there have been other firsts, anniversaries, even Nobel Prizes in which we still rejoice. But this is different, truly global, real-time, and consequently, our greatest shared moment ever.&#160;This shining is not [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>WI T20 World Cup Squad almost perfect</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kendell Karan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2024 17:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The rest of the squad is perfect, don't get me wrong, but this was a selection that didn’t need to be tampered with]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Celebrating Strength and Resilience: A Tribute to My Mother on International Women&#8217;s Day</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Outside Contributor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2024 23:05:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“she is sedated and is on the ventilator” and even at one time it was “her prognosis is poor” and “she is in severe respiratory distress” but...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>QUO VADIS SAINT LUCIA!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr. Alphonsus St Rose]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2024 23:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Some independent thoughts on our 45th Independence Celebrations   “Quo Vadis” is Ecclesiastical Latin. Translated into English it means: “Where are you going?” It has its origin in a 1602 painting by Annibale Carracci that reflects an episode from the life of St. Peter, during the persecution of Christians under Nero. While walking along the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>At long last, a shepherd not afraid to take risks in the interest of his flock!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cockadoodle Doo]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jul 2023 14:58:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The in-depth comment coming from Archbishop Gabriel Malzaire is most commendable.  It&#8217;s good to have in the seat of local religious power one of our own who feels free to speak out. Didn&#8217;t know he had it in him. Well, better to say I didn’t know him. I am therefore impressed by his self-insertion into the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Nation Cries Out in Pain! Can our &#8220;little Black Boy from Marchand&#8221; deliver the turpentine we so desperately need?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Markus O'Reilly]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2023 20:29:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[But the popular word on the street is that the earlier-mentioned shooting and the Marigot fire are connected.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Is the Caribbean Moving in Reverse? The Political Discourse that’s Tearing us Apart!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Adéx Lava]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 May 2023 21:13:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Caribbean is a subregion of the Americas and it’s really important from the onset that I outline who I’m speaking about. Of the 44.2 million people in this region, Haiti accounts for 25.2%, the Dominican Republic for 24.4%, Cuba 24.1% and Puerto Rico for 7% of the total population. So, for the purposes of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Is the Modern Political Party Actually Opposed to the Masses of the People?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rahym Augustin-Joseph]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 May 2023 17:22:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The continuing saga over the valuation, purchasing, and selling of public land and whether the the House opposition is being marginalised, silenced, and bullied by the super-majority party is symptomatic of a political crisis confronting our country. It is best defined as a political system out of tune with our contemporary circumstances, lacking as it [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Human Rights Violations and the Fleecing of St. Lucia&#8217;s Natural Resource </title>
		<link>https://stluciastar.com/human-rights-violations-and-the-fleecing-of-st-lucias-natural-resource/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Claudius Toussaint]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Mar 2023 14:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This seems to be the practice in St. Lucia where attorneys and government officials will threaten lawsuits in order to silent public concern. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>What Would Mia Mottley Do In Kenny’s Hand-Me-Downs?</title>
		<link>https://stluciastar.com/what-would-mia-mottley-do-in-kennys-hand-me-downs/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cockadoodle Doo]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2022 13:38:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[You declared yourself Saint Lucia’s “most readied for the job of prime minister” but in less than two years you’ve proved yourself altogether unworthy.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Breaking News: Silence Does not Always Mean ‘Go to Hell!”</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Wayne]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2022 09:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It is anyone’s guess how the Royal Family feels today about the area in Castries named in honor of King George V, where recently another woman was brutally violated .]]></description>
		
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		<title>Food Security: From Talk to Action</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Basil Springer]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2022 14:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[St. Lucian Nobel Prize winner Sir Arthur Lewis posited (circa 1950) that “… in the West Indies islands, it is not the case that agriculture cannot continue to develop...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Join the Assembly Line or Else! Short Reflection on Mandatory Vaccination</title>
		<link>https://stluciastar.com/join-the-assembly-line-or-else-short-reflection-on-mandatory-vaccination/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rahym Augustin-Joseph]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2022 17:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The actions of the government, Minister of Labour, Dr. Virgina Poyotte, and former Minister of Labor and Prime Minister Hon. Stephenson King must be watched beyond the rhetoric]]></description>
		
		
		
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