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Pierre Admin to Pay 20 Mil in Back Pay and 2.6 Mil in Stimulus This Christmas

Office of the Prime Minister – In December, the government will disburse in excess of XCD 20 million in back pay owed to public servants. More than XCD 2.6 million will be invested in the economic stimulus programme that will benefit all of Saint Lucia’s seventeen [17] constituencies by creating new jobs, improving access to local government services and beautifying communities.

Prime Minister Philip Pierre


Currently, public servants are benefiting from a 1% salary increase and are getting paid more than they did in 2021. NIC pensioners are receiving an additional 4.2% on their monthly payments and to offset inflation, duties on price-controlled goods have been suspended.

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71% of local businesses are on track to make more money in 2022 than they did last year. Major infrastructure projects are creating jobs and private sector investors have begun expanding operations in Saint Lucia.

And, despite global economic challenges, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean [ECLAC] is projecting 9.5% GDP growth for Saint Lucia in 2022.

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  • Kenvil Atkins / Lewis December 8, 2022 At 3:08 pm
    BEULAH LAND
    Oh beautiful St. Lucia Island in the sun
    I did not leave because I hated thee
    You are dear to me like a cup of cool
    Clearwater
    But the pioneer spirit would not let me be
    It’s in my blood and pushes me onward
    But I vouch someday to return my love
    Today my soul mourns for thee seeing your
    Dying ambers
    The young and old have been taken, hostage
    Rule by a government of weak hearts
    There is a brewing cancer governed by a nest
    Of scorpions and vipers of all kinds
    For a few trinkets, they come by the shipload
    To your shores
    Recking havoc on a then our peaceful nation
    Of God-fearing people who live by the rules
    Now it is too late your birthright has been stolen
    Sold to the highest bidder
    By the very same people you love and protect
    They open your door to strange people with
    Strange custom intending to dominate
    Placing a choke hold around your neck force
    You into submission slavery
    Some came bearing gifts making us a gluttony
    People rotten fruits at that poisoning this
    Generation for gain and security
    Now they openly bear arms against us killing
    Our people at random
    Our loving citizen of the sun Island will soon be no more
    The killing has become a way of life a vice adopted
    By devels and passing it on to our youth
    For a mere trinket
    While our leaders twirl their fingers looking for another
    Bribe another dollar of useless infidels
    Our creole heritage is soon to become a thing
    Of the past
    Replace it with Twanise jumbo Mombo or Chinese
    Chin Chung
    Our land of peace our beautiful St. Lucia has
    Become a vipers paradise
    Fellow brothers and sisters beloved of St. Lucia
    There is no time left for slumber
    Open your eyes to the destruction around you
    The degradation and dysfunction of warm people
    I am not at present with you but urge you to
    Harness your God-given birthright
    And rise to a new beginning a new dawning
    Arm your selves with integrity love and fellowship
    Trod on the belly of the snakes and shout upon the
    Rooftops a call to arms
    Cleanse the land that gave you birth the land of
    Hills and valleys Farest Isles of all the earth
    I came back to see you live among you
    But you plunder my resources and left me wanting
    Nevertheless, I love you like my brethren’ mind and body
    The die is cast now is the time to root out evil in your
    Community your villages your cities and yourselves
    May the glory of Jehovah whom I served shine upon
    You as you fight the good fight
    The age of killing must stop now and only you can
    Accomplish this if not prepare yourself for a mass
    Burial of a once peace-loving creole people
    I now leave you to summon up your courage as
    People of St. Lucia
    Once a force to reckon with alas our true leaders are gone
    The poet
    Kenvil Atkins/ Lew

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