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		<title>Selective Statistics and Convenient Storytelling Do Not Make an Economic Success Story</title>
		<link>https://stluciastar.com/selective-statistics-and-convenient-storytelling-do-not-make-an-economic-success-story/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Minerva Ward]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2025 22:22:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When governments selectively highlight numbers, hide methodology changes, or use seasonal fluctuations to create the illusion of success, the public is not informed they are misled.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>At the Crossroads Again: Why Saint Lucia Must Choose Progress Over Partisan Reflex:</title>
		<link>https://stluciastar.com/at-the-crossroads-again-why-saint-lucia-must-choose-progress-over-partisan-reflex/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[McHale Andrew]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2025 17:11:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Caribbean electorates often vote governments out due to frustration..]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Allen Chastanet Wins Privy Council case against Ernest Hilaire</title>
		<link>https://stluciastar.com/allen-chastanet-wins-privy-council-case-against-ernest-hilaire/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jun 2023 21:50:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Honorable Allen Chastanet wins again! Yesterday, 13 June 2023, the Privy Council delivered a landmark decision in favor of Mr. Chastanet, vindicating him one more time.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>All Along The Writing Has Been On The Wall</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[STAR Reporter]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 May 2023 23:55:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For three years it hung like an albatross around the necks of the people, and especially the journalists. The infamous Section 361 embedded in St. Lucia’s criminal code provided for a jail term “not exceeding two years” for anyone, including journalists, found guilty of spreading information “that he or she knows is false and causes [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Question of Mice and Men! </title>
		<link>https://stluciastar.com/a-question-of-mice-and-men/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Pardie Poopeur]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Apr 2023 13:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hypocrites! Parasites! That’s my personal classification of the Saint Lucia Labour Party. Too much of what’s fake and misleading and destructive make up the personality and character of the average SLP follower. From one corner of his mouth their leader calls out for national unity and peace, while from the other he implores his troops [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>McDonald Dixon reviews Rick Wayne’s Lapses and Infelicities         </title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[McDonald Dixon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Apr 2023 16:02:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Rick Wayne’s eclectic prose meanders throughout 600 pages of this book is reminiscent of the old Castries to Vieux Fort road, at a time when the journey was a butt-peeling two-hour drive. That was before crown agents intervened in the 1970s and straightened out the hairpin bends—with the exception of Morne Road at the right-angle [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Does House Speaker Francis Know He’s Aping St Clair Daniel?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Wayne]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Mar 2023 23:45:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“What experience and history teach us is that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on any lessons they might have drawn from it.” Hegel’s observation was as indisputable in his time as it is today. Consider, if you will, Wilfred St. Clair Daniel’s hagiography, conceivably designed to serve an agenda [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>PM Pierre and Romanus Lansiquot Shake Spiritual Hands!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Claudius Francis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2022 16:23:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We almost fell over with laughter when we realized we were each holding in our hands a brand new UWP tee shirt.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>“Former Customs Comptroller Must Be Given Permission to Speak!”</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Press Release]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2022 15:58:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I have already written officially to the present Acting Comptroller of Customs Mr. Sherman Emmanuel to explain the reasons for the case withdrawal.]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">86488</post-id>	</item>
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		<title>UWP Appoints New Chairman and Vice Chairperson</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[STAR Reporter]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2021 15:47:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Andy Daniel]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[At a National Council Meeting held on Sunday December 5, 2021 the United Workers filled two positions which has become vacant as a result of the resignations by Chairman Pinkley Francis and First Deputy Chairman Eldridge Stevens. Guided by the Constitution of the United Workers Party relating to any vacancy arising during any year, the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>SLP wins landslide victory!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The STAR]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2021 11:50:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Saint Lucia Labour Party (SLP) will form the next government of Saint Lucia following a landslide victory in the July 26 General Election. Led by political leader Philip J. Pierre, the SLP won 13 seats whilst the United Workers Party (UWP) only managed to cling onto two. Two seats also went to independents, and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Nomination Day: 45 to contest Saint Lucia&#8217;s General Election</title>
		<link>https://stluciastar.com/nomination-day-45-to-contest-saint-lucias-general-election/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[STAR Reporter]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2021 22:57:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Forty-five candidates have been nominated for Saint Lucia&#8217;s general election on July 26, the Electoral Department has reported. Nomination Day was held today, July 16. The incumbent United Workers Party headed by Prime Minister Allen Chastanet will field seventeen candidates, whilst the Philip J. Pierre-led Saint Lucia Labour Party, fifteen. (Earlier this week, Pierre announced [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>OAS To Deploy Election Observation Mission to Saint Lucia</title>
		<link>https://stluciastar.com/oas-to-deploy-election-observation-mission-to-saint-lucia/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The STAR]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2021 22:42:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Organization of American States (OAS) and the Government of Saint Lucia signed an agreement today for the deployment of an Electoral Observation Mission for the July 26 general elections.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>2021 Election Poll: UWP leading in 16 seats</title>
		<link>https://stluciastar.com/2021-election-poll-uwp-leading-in-16-seats/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The STAR]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2021 15:34:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The United Workers Party is currently leading in 16 seats on the &#8216;Poll St. Lucia&#8217; app — an online election poll by eMagine Solutions Inc. Launched earlier this month, nearly 3000 responses have been recorded so far. The poll shows the UWP leading in all seats except Castries North. View the results here: https://emagine.lc/voter_app_manager/insights/ In [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>SLP not contesting Castries North, Central&#8230; urges support for &#8216;patriots&#8217; King and Frederick</title>
		<link>https://stluciastar.com/slp-not-contesting-castries-north-central-urges-support-for-patriots-king-and-frederick/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[STAR Reporter]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2021 12:31:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA["We have in the past disagreed on several things but we are in one accord on the clear and present danger of this UWP administration...We call on all of you to support these patriots," said Pierre.]]></description>
		
		
		
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