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Richard Frederick rages from an SLP platform while Kenny Anthony and Philip J. Pierre watch poker-faced! For over a decade his relationship with U.S. Immigration has occupied the Saint Lucian ...
On the unforgettable late afternoon of April 21, 1996, he had started his acceptance speech with a passage from Shakespeare’s Henry VI. Barely audible for the sustained, enthusiastic shouts of ...
A hundred yards or so from the Winera boxing plant in Vieux Fort, not far from all-inclusive Club Med, is a garbage dump. It’s not quite the size of its more infamous Choc relative, nevertheless ...
Word traveled as fast as the bullets that had torn apart Adolphus ‘Bonnie’ Clarke while he sat behind the wheel of his customized Mercedes Benz. He had perished by the sword he’d lived by for most of ...
He glanced at the Speaker, suggested he ignore his watch. He had earned the right to more than the usual allotted hour or so, he said, before returning to the day’s menu. “We are concerned with the ...
Foreign Policy, Globalisation, & Soft Power Ultimately, the national agenda of Small Island Developing States (SIDS) has invariably remained economic development. As such, the objective of foreign ...
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 ...
The Caribbean Court of Justice, situated in Port of Spain, Trinidad. To also ensure that the CCJ was insulated from retraction of financial resources, the CCJ ensured, that there was an independent ...
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 ...
Recently the Minister of Education, Shawn Edward, alluded to a systematic crisis, when he stressed upon an audience of scholars that he was worried and needed to see more young men in the room and on ...
For all right judgment of any man or thing,” observed Thomas Carlyle, “it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing his bad.” George Odlum was a politician, and for most ...
He has engaged in eminent leadership roles as a distinguished past president of the Kiwanis Club of Castries, as well as a past president of the St. Lucia Medical and Dental Association. Many would ...