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		<title>Machine Guns No Match For A Match!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Wayne]]></dc:creator>
		<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>WEST INDIES CRICKET BOARD PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2007–2013</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julian R. Hunte]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 20:14:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[At the time of assuming the office of the President of the West Indies Cricket Board on July 29, 2007 the West Indies Cricket Team – the performance of which serves as the very barometer by which the health and stability of West Indies Cricket is judged – had under-performed in the Cricket World Cup, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Chasing Red Herrings</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2025 11:54:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There is an old phrase that a photo or painting is worth a thousand words; I assumed the same would be true with emoji’s and how young people communicate.&#160; Last week when seeking consent to reference my daughter, I sent her a draft of the article to read in between her romance languages homework.&#160; Her [&#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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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Wayne]]></dc:creator>
		<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>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>The Media Has a Strong Responsibility to Call a Spade a Spade!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[George Odlum]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 20:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There was not so long ago the murder of a female in the Balata area that I sought to investigate when I was still a journalist. It happened just after a shoot-out on Chaussee Road, in Castries. I was particularly interested in this murder because the suspected perpetrator was the sister of someone in my [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Hilaire’s ‘silence’ at Budget Debate deeply concerning  </title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2025 18:27:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, March 25th, 2025, Prime Minister Philip J. Pierre formally presented before parliament the Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure for the 2025–2026 fiscal year.&#160; Valued at approximately $2.1 billion, this represents the largest national budget ever introduced by any administration in the history of Saint Lucia. In outlining the rationale behind his government’s expansionary [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Police Officers and Politics</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rahym Augustin-Joseph]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2025 18:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Over the past several weeks, social media has been replete with alleged actions by politicians, and the hierarchy of the Royal Saint Lucia Police Force, against &#160;officers, who have allegedly engaged in political and partisan activities. Yes, there is a difference! The first is permissible, the latter problematic! The first in this context is such [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Much Ado About Nothing?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rahym Augustin-Joseph]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 22:51:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Amendment of s.54 of the Child Justice Act of Saint Lucia During this week, there has been much ado and debate both in and outside of the House of Parliament, about the Amendments to the Child Justice Act. In this Amendment, s.54 of the principal Act i.e., the Child Justice Act, has been amended by [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Is Ernest Hilaire St. Lucia’s House Houdini?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[James Stanislaus]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Nov 2024 16:16:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It’s becoming increasingly embarrassing to witness Saint Lucia’s deputy prime minister, with responsibility for the Citizens by Investment Program, as he attempts to disentangle himself from his self-woven web of half-truths and outrageous denials. His attempts to dodge public accountability serve only to reveal of presumptuous some humans can be, and how clueless from top [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>WILL ST LUCIAN YOUTH BENEFIT FROM JULIEN ALFRED’S GOLD?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Wayne]]></dc:creator>
		<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>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>Judge, Jury &#038; Executioner</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Adéx Lava]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Aug 2024 23:48:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Have we emancipated ourselves from mental slavery? I’ve been isolated in the village of Laborie and on the eve of Emancipation day &#8211; I decided to pen this article. I’m here drinking a Guiness and trying to strike a conversation with the bar owner but she is uninterested in my queries. In essence, nothing is [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Another Great St Lucian Has Passed!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Allen Chastanet]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 2024 19:23:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It is with profound sadness that we learn of the passing of former Ambassador Dr. Joseph Edsel Edmunds, OBE, a distinguished son of Saint Lucia, who served our nation with dedication and honor as Ambassador to Washington from 1984 to 1997. Ambassador Edmunds was not only a revered diplomat but also an eminent agricultural scientist [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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